53: Elemental shock, time barrier

Lin Ye opened the interaction interface, which showed his relationship…

“Life-and-Death Confidant”

A friendship beyond intimacy, unreserved trust, willing to entrust one's life, valuing the other's importance above one's own, and unwavering until death.

“1000 points of favorability, truly impressive,” Lin Ye exclaimed in his heart.

He wondered if it could still be increased in the future.

It was probably very difficult.

Having reached this stage, what level of quest or action would be needed to further improve the relationship?

They had already entrusted their lives to each other.

Even if he saved her with his life, it wouldn't exceed the 1000-point favorability range…

If it didn't exceed the limit, he wouldn't gain any points, and thus couldn't double it again.

Hmm…?

Lin Ye seemed to understand how this favorability system worked.

There was only one chance.

For NPCs he needed, he only had one quest opportunity to gain their favorability.

Just now, Lin Ye did try to increase his favorability.

But it was just a verbal promise, similar to giving her things she liked.

This was the most basic interaction.

It yielded 10 points.

It was probably because Avinia truly loved the Eternal Empire's technology and knowledge that she got 10 points; otherwise, it would usually only be two or three points, right?

In the future, if he wanted to increase favorability, he couldn't choose this basic interaction method from the start.

Within one opportunity, he had to gain the maximum possible favorability.

For example, attacking the Earl immediately yielded 30 points, though negative, the value was high.

So, if positive favorability could exceed 30, 50, or even 100 points in one go, then it might be possible to obtain over 10,000 points of favorability.

“Thinking about it, negative gains seem simpler, don't they?” Lin Ye pondered.

As long as he killed an NPC, the starting gain was 30 points.

But for positive gains, you had to give gifts, cater to their preferences, maintain daily relationships, and complete various quests. It would take at least a week or two to even accumulate 30 points, and it wouldn't be a one-time gain.

It's difficult.

He wouldn't consider it for now.

He would just use the gift-giving method less in the future and try to focus on quests to get more points at once.

1000 points should definitely be enough for an NPC relationship.

They could even entrust their lives to each other.

So, asking her for something he needed shouldn't be a problem, right?

Avinia naturally took Lin Ye's hand, a happy smile on her face: “Come, I'll show you my new research.”

Inside the tower, various books and magical tools were piled high.

Avinia led Lin Ye to the basement, where various arcane spell experiments were conducted, along with numerous magical tools whose functions were completely incomprehensible.

The basement's area was far larger than the ground floor.

And it wasn't just a few times larger; looking around, there were over a dozen experimental fields, each spanning a thousand square meters, not to mention various materials and sealed rooms…

No!

This should be a separate space, right?

It was normal for an Arcane Master to control space.

“Do you see it?”

Avinia pointed at a burning crystal ball on the experimental table and touched it with her finger.

Crack!

An inch-long arc of electricity was released from her fingertip, hitting the crystal ball.

Bang!

The flame instantly doubled in size under the lightning's stimulation.

Then, Avinia's fingertip released water currents and wind blades. In an instant, the four major elements gathered around the crystal ball: wind blades swept ice and fire, lightning crackled wildly, and the power surged by several times.

“Amazing!”

Lin Ye didn't understand, but he was greatly shocked.

Even the simplest elemental spells could unleash such power in her hands. An Arcane Master, truly living up to her reputation.

After all, her specialty was Arcane, not magic or elements.

“Isn't it fun?” Avinia tilted her head slightly, somewhat showing off: “Elements are in a non-harmonious state in nature; occasional collisions either weaken each other or stimulate each other.”

“Due to the natural repulsion of elements, we often cannot use two elements simultaneously alone. We can only rely on a mage group composed of multiple people, who, after training, master certain elemental magic superposition effects.”

“A while ago, I excavated an elven ruin and obtained their research on elemental affinity. Now…”

Avinia paused, releasing ice, fire, wind, and lightning simultaneously from her palm.

Boom!

A violent instantaneous explosion erupted in the laboratory.

Looking closely, the shockwave actually contained sharp wind blades, scorching flames, ice spikes, and lightning snakes simultaneously.

The four major elements did not cancel each other out; instead, they generated even greater power.

Lin Ye seemed to understand.

“You mean, you can now simultaneously cast spells and skills of the four major elements?”

“Uh-huh, isn't it fun?” Avinia hummed twice, like a proud child.

Heh heh~

Lin Ye smiled and nodded readily: “Amazing, amazing, worthy of being an Arcane Master. I've truly never heard of this.”

Hehe~

Avinia, receiving praise, smiled with the innocence of a child.

“Do you want to learn? Although this skill has just been developed, if cultivated to the later stages, it will definitely be very powerful, especially for those with excellent talent and enough attributes to master more elements.”

Huh?

Lin Ye straightened up and said, “The skill, let me see.”

【Ding~】

【You have obtained the legendary skill · Elemental Oscillation.】

A prompt popped up in front of Lin Ye.

He directly chose quality.

【Ding~】

【You have obtained the epic skill · Elemental Unification.】

【Elemental Unification】

Quality: Epic

Requirements: Wind, Fire, Lightning, Ice, four elemental damage exceeding 1000 points

All elements no longer conflict with each other and can be released simultaneously.

All elemental resistances +20%

All elemental attack power increased by 100%

All elemental abnormal status effects increased by 100%

Each time an elemental skill is released, the elemental forces oscillate with each other, which can additionally trigger a unification state, lasting up to 1 second, stacking up to 20 layers.

(Unification: Increases elemental damage by 1%, abnormal status effect by 1%)

“Passive skill, not limited by profession?”

Lin Ye was overjoyed.

Hahaha, a skill developed by his own people is so easy to use!

Not bad, not bad.

But there was a problem.

Lin Ye said somewhat awkwardly, “I'm an Archer and haven't even changed professions yet. And it requires so much elemental power; even with a second profession change, I probably can't gather enough, right?”

Avinia gazed deeply at Lin Ye, a flash of inspiration in her eyes: “But your Wisdom attribute is very high, so you can learn Arcane Aura.”

Lin Ye was slightly stunned.

“I'm not a mage, nor an Arcanist. Can I still learn such a specialized aura skill?”

“Others might not be able to…”

Avinia's lips curled into a smug smile: “But if I make a move, then it's no problem. Come~”

Saying that, she pulled Lin Ye, and with a spatial flicker, instantly teleported to the top of the tower.

What was placed here were books with profound magical auras and ancient texts entwined with arcane secret patterns.

There weren't many books.

But each one seemed to be her prized collection, extremely rare.

The two walked to the center.

Unlike the shimmering ancient texts around them, on the largest table in the center lay a tattered old book, its pages already decayed, and judging by the cover, the material didn't seem to be of high quality.

“From the forgotten Eternal Empire, a secret tome that initially mastered time!”

“This is my secret to becoming an Arcane Master in just a few years~”

Avinia didn't mind revealing her biggest secret at all.

“Ordinary adventurers can also learn cross-profession auras, but that requires strong attributes and extremely diligent effort, research, and experimentation to potentially achieve a balanced state.”

“Otherwise, once the aura is activated, the magic power will immediately become chaotic, and all skills will be unusable.”

“Now, you have the attributes; all that's left is diligent effort.”

Avinia opened the book, forming an arcane hand seal with both hands, while simultaneously chanting complex incantations.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh~

The surrounding pages suddenly fluttered in unison, and Avinia's hair danced without wind.

“Time Barrier, open!”