31 Training, Testing, Timing
Tigra yawned before reaching her destination right as she finished a ration bar.
She did not withhold the grimace from the taste. The closest she came to describing a ration bar to a non-horde member would be the texture of cardboard, the hardness of stale chips, and it tasted like she licked a rock.
While she could get better food, the ration bars provide a lot of nutrients that her body needs to offset all of the work and training she goes through a week. Rose stated that she needs to eat nearly 3x more than most others in the Horde, just to offset her physical training.
With magical training? That's nearly boosted to 4x. Thus, she needs to eat these ration bars in order to get the needed amounts.
Rose told her that 2 of these should be eaten alongside her usual food arrangements with other soldiers. The problem is that they're hard to stomach and leave a bad taste in her mouth for the next half hour.
She walked into the training room she set aside for the next few hours. She made her way to a terminal and put in a few commands.
A few seconds passed by before the floor a bit away opened up. Two robots appeared from the hole and locked onto her.
She continued towards them before stopping a good amount of distance.
She looked both of them over.
[EKS Age: 5 days]
[LV: N/A REP: 0]
[HP: 22,500/22,500]
'Bit stronger than the last time Entrapta had me fight them.' She determined.
She snapped her fingers before their purple lenses narrowed.
One of the eyes turned red.
Tigra jumped into the air to avoid the laser fire and created a Fire Spear in her hand. She then channeled Fire Step through her feet, shooting small bursts of fire out of them.
She flew across the room, avoiding more lasers before pulling her arm back and throwing her spear.
It soared through the air before piercing one of the EKS bots.
18822*0.5=9411 fire damage inflicted!
Tigra's mouth turned down slightly before remembering that Entrapta mentioned how she realized that the heat could interfere with their electronic parts.
'So she made them more fire resistant.'
She created two more before throwing one at each of them. The one that had already been hit was struck while the other had managed to move just out of the way.
9411 fire damage inflicted!
As for the one that managed to avoid the strike, it extended one of its legs towards where she would be.
It swatted her down and she landed on the ground.
500*0.228=114 damage taken!
She rolled her wrist before dashing forward, quickly getting close to the unharmed EKS.
She slid underneath it before turning around as heat started to pool in the middle of her chest.
She opened her mouth before flames came out of her mouth and covered the EKS.
She kept it up for about two seconds before jumping away from a laser blast from the other EKS.
6280*2*0.5=6280 fire damage inflicted!
Tigra saw something coming from the side before shooting fire out of her foot for a second, bringing her just high enough to avoid another swipe at her.
She landed before looking them over.
[EKS #1]
[HP: 9503/22500]
[EKS #2]
[HP: 16220/22500]
'Their regenerations are also slightly faster. If I had to guess, they regenerate about 10% of their HP every 6 seconds.'
Tigra smirked before 4 fire arrows surrounded her and bombarded the one with more HP.
6299*0.5*4=12,598 fire damage dealt!
The EKS #2 started to spark before Tigra watched as it drug itself off of the battlefield.
Tigra had asked Entrapta to put a failsafe into her training bots to drag itself out of harm's way after it had taken too much damage. So that she doesn't accidentally destroy it and have to put up with waiting for another training bot.
Now, it would only be a matter of waiting for it to fix itself and get back into the fight.
Meanwhile, EKS #1 seemed to learn that Tigra could easily dodge its laser but may have been having trouble up close.
So, it charged forward at a high speed, which Tigra matched through Dashing.
When she got close though, she jumped on top of the EKS this time before feeling the heat in her chest once more.
Her mouth opened once more before blue flames came out of her mouth for a second, quickly turning the, once silver, metal a light orange.
She cut it off quickly though as it was quickly going through its HP.
12560*0.5*1.5 [seconds] = 9420 fire damage dealt!
[EKS #1]
[HP: 83/22500]
The EKS sparked and whined before falling to the ground, unable to move itself away as it needed to focus on fixing itself more than movement.
Fire Breath gained 15700 [Damage] * 8 [Pyromaniac, Spell book, Genius] * 4 [Princess of Fire] = 502,400 EXP!
Fire Breath leveled up! LV 1 → 71
Fire Spear gained 18822 [Damage] * 4 [Pyromaniac and Genius] * 4 [Princess of Fire] = 301,152 EXP!
Fire Spear leveled up! LV 8 → 50
[Fire Spear LV 50 (3702/12500) - A spear made of fire that will do 2247 damage along the body and 24,766 at the end points. MP: 138]
Fire Arrow gained 12,598 [Damage] * 16 [Pyromaniac, Genius, Princess of Fire] = 201,568 EXP!
Fire Arrow leveled up! LV 71 → 84
For reaching 80, you can now fire 9 arrows at once instead of 8.
Physical Resistance gained 500 EXP
"Man, no wonder I heard that there are few combat mages. After all that I just did and with my multipliers, fire arrows still only leveled up 13 times. Fire breath though, it reached 70 on my first go." She muttered, looking at the notifications.
"I'm not too worried about the combat spells as they could easily be mastered in 2-3 skirmishes at most. However I also need to be thinking over the course of the next few months as well. I need another element. I'm caught up on Armor spells at the moment."
Tigra's eyes landed on one thing.
[Raiju - Allows you to triple your movement speed, but you take 3x water damage dealt to you while increasing your lightning damage by 100%.]
"Realistically, I should work on Water next in order to get rid of a downside, learn a new armor, learn a new clone, and improve my resistance. It is also the next highest at LV 18."
She did stop at Shadow Resistance before rolling her eyes and activating Shadow Armor through her HP at maximum and applying heal.
"Probably should look more into non-elemental magic soon as well. I'm still stuck on Weight."
It would take another 30 minutes before she released Shadow Armor.
[Shadow Resistance LV 99 (0/1) - Decreases damage taken through Shadow/Dark magic by 99%. Due to Steel Body, this has increased to 99.4%.]
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[Trait Shop - Shadow Magic: Open (3 trait points available)]
[Shadow Proof- grants 1 EXP to Shadow Resistance. Immune to all ill attacks through shadow/dark attacks through normal or unnatural means]
[One with Darkness - Shadow/Dark Magic spells require 25% less than their regular MP cost]
[Umbramaniac - All shadow/dark spells gain 2x EXP]
[Fade to Shadows - All Dark/Shadow spells do 50% more damage]
[Grimm - Your sclera becomes as dark as the shadows and gains blood red pupils. You are covered in white armor that decreases damage taken by 75%. Your regenerations are increased by 200% but Light based attacks deal 3x their regular damage. Works for 30 minutes a day]
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Tigra hummed to herself as she looked at those before choosing Shadow Proof.
Shadow Proof purchased for 1 trait point.
Processing…
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Shadow Resistance has been evolved into Shadow Proof!
[Shadow Proof - You can't be hurt by shadows through natural or unnatural means with ill intent]
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Quest [More than Resilient] revisited!
Objective: Increase one of your Resistances to Level 100
Reward: 1 trait point
'Trait Shop open.'
[Trait Shop Open (3 points)]
[Electromaniac - Multiplies EXP for Lightning spells by 2]
[Cryomaniac - Multiplies EXP for Ice spells by 2]
[Umbramaniac - Multiplies EXP for Shadow/Dark spells by 2]
[Unimaniac - Multiplies EXP for Non-Elemental spells by 2]
[One with Ice - Ice spells require 25% less MP than usual]
[One with Darkness - Dark/Shadow spells require 25% less MP than usual]
[One with Magic - Non-Elemental spells require 25% less MP than usual]
[Charging the Connections - Damage inflicted through Electric attacks are increased by 50%]
[Freezing in Ice - Damage inflicted through Ice attacks are increased by 50%]
[Fade to Shadows - Damage inflicted through Dark/Shadow attacks are increased by 50%]
[Yuki-Onna - Your body exudes such low temperatures, direct contact with water can instantly freeze it. Touching something on fire instantly extinguishes it. Touching something with HP will do INT * 100 ice damage per second. Can be used for 10 minutes a day]
[Grimm - Your body becomes as dark as the shadows and gains blood red eyes. You are covered in white armor that decreases damage taken by 75%. Your regenerations are increased by 200% but Light attacks deal 3x their regular damage. Works for 30 minutes a day]
'Yuki-Onna and Grimm are interesting. Grimm could be good for a last resort where I need my regens as high as I can get. Yuki-Onna straight up removes water magic from hurting me while also doing an insane amount of damage per second .'
She looked at her INT and saw 283.
'With Yuki-Onna, I would be doing 28,300 ice damage a second.'
[Grimm] and [Yuki-Onna] have been purchased for 2 trait points. 1 trait point remains.
"I'll have to test both of them in a bit. In the meantime…"
EKS #1 and #2 were back up and ready.
Tigra smirked before creating a Fire Falchion and a Fire Dagger.
She dashed towards them.
*1 hour later*
[Total HP over time of both of the EKS bots together: 1,890,000]
Fire Falchion gained 105,000 [damage] * 16 [Genius, Pyromaniac, and P.O.F. (Princess of Fire) = 1,680,000 EXP
Fire Falchion Maxed out!
[Fire Falchion MAX - With this, you will do (DEX * 2.1 + STR * 2.3 + INT * 2.7) * Blade_Bonus in fire damage. Damage: 24,624. MP: 20 to create. 5/m after.]
For mastering this spell, WIS increased by 5 and Magic Control increased by 5%.
Blades gained 105,000 EXP!
Blades leveled up! LV 69 → 83
For reaching 70, 75, and 80, DEX increased by 3 and STR by 2.
Fire Spear gained 115,000 [Damage] * 16 [Genius, Pyro, P.O.F.] = 1,840,000 EXP
Fire Spear maxed out!
[Fire Spear MAX - Damage: [INT * 3.4 + WIS * 2.4 + DEX * 1.8] * Spear_Bonus * Mag_Control * (0.2 or 2)
Damage: 3597 along the body, 35,974 at the points
MP: 20 to create, 5 to maintain]
For mastering Fire Spear, WIS increased by 5 and Magic Control increased by 5%.
Spear gained 115,000 EXP!
Spear leveled up! LV 5 → 40!
For reaching 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, & 40, DEX increased by 7 and STR increased by 4
Fire Dagger gained 105,000 [Damage] * 16 [Genius, Pyro, P.O.F.] = 1,680,000 EXP
Fire Dagger maxed out!
[Fire Dagger MAX - Deals (BASE_DEX * 1.8 + STR * 1.5 + INT * 2) * Blade_Bonus in fire damage. Cost: 5 MP/m
Damage: 21,451 fire damage]
For mastering Fire Dagger, WIS increased by 5 and Magic Control increased by 5%
WIS 250 milestone reached!
[Patient] has evolved into [Meditated]
[Meditated - During battle, your MP regen is increased from 5% to 15%]
Blades gained 105,000 EXP!
Blades leveled up! LV 83 → 95
For reaching 85, 90, & 95, DEX increased by 3 and STR by 1
Fire Arrow gained 120,000 [Damage] * 16 [Genius, Pyro, P.O.F.] = 1,920,000 EXP
Fire Arrow Maxed!
[Fire Arrow MAX - You can fire 11 fire arrows at once, each dealing 6836 fire damage. MP: 50]
For mastering Fire Arrow, INT increased by 5 and Magic Control increased by 5%
Fire Breath gained 80,000 [Damage] * 32 [Genius, Pyro, P.O.F., Spellbook] = 2,560,000 EXP!
Fire Breath maxed out!
[Fire Breath MAX - You breath out fire so intensely, it can melt metal. Damage: 14,407 fire damage. MP: 30/s]
For mastering Fire Breath, INT increased by 5 and Magic Control increased by 5%]
Flame Dive gained 300,000 [Damage] * 16 [Genius, Pyro, P.O.F.] = 4,800,000 EXP!
Flame Dive Mastered!
[Flame Dive MAX - By channeling fire into your feet while in the air, you can deal 23,334 fire damage. MP: 20]
For mastering Flame Dive, INT increased by 5 and Magic Control increased by 5%]
Physical Resistance gained 7500 EXP
Physical Resistance Leveled Up! LV 62 --> 63
Hand To Hand gained 1,065,000 EXP
Hand To Hand reached LV 200!
Prestige?
[ Y /N]
Converting excess EXP
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[Hand-To-Hand LV (2)73 (10044/29200) - increases H2H damage by 73% * 2 * 2^2. Increases damage by 584%]
Due to massive level ups, STR increased by 15, DEX by 5, and CON by 8.
Quest [Mistress of Fire] completed!
Objective: Master 15 fire spells [16/15]
Reward: 20,000 EXP, [Mistress of Fire] Trait
Leveled up!
LV 60 → 62
30 attribute points and 6 skill points awarded
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15 points placed into DEX and 15 into WIS, 10 skill points turned into 2 trait points
DEX 500 milestone reached!
[Eagle - When moving at full speed, you can now run on air as long as you are left uninterrupted]
[Mistress of Fire - You can now freely control your fire magic after it is used. You could adjust a spell's trajectory or halt its movement after using it.]
Total Rewards: STR + 22, DEX + 33, CON + 8, INT + 15, WIS + 15, Magic Control + 30%, [Meditated] Milestone, Eagle [Milestone], [Mistress of Fire] trait
Tigra breathed out heavily as she headed over to the terminal and turned off the EKS bots.
The floor under the bots lowered until the sparks and heavily dented bots disappeared underneath the floor.
"That…that was a great training session." She huffed. "Mastered 6 fire spells, reached two new milestones, and obtained a new trait. I also have enough Skill Points at the moment to learn maybe 2 or 3 new magic branches enough to potentially get their armor spells, assuming the needed amount of mastered spells stay the same. Went a bit too far at the end though. Entrapta will likely have to fix them herself."
She headed back to her room to take a shower before using 2 skill points.
[Bubble] and [Breeze] purchased for 2 skill points.
[Bubble LV 1 (0/50) - The beginning of Hydromancy. By channeling your magic to your hands, you can create small bubbles made of water to float out of your hands. MP: 20/m]
[Breeze LV 1 (0/50) - The beginning of Aeromancy. By channeling magic to your palm, you can send a light breeze outward that is strong enough to push objects up to 3 pounds. MP: 20/m]
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Tigra created a lightning clone to wait outside her bathroom door in order to level it up while she took the shower.
"I need to look more into the Familial Book for more spells. If they're fire based, I can learn the spell in maybe a day at most, if they are combat based. To think, Entrapta could only spare me enough First One tech to create two of those. If I could have even 5 of them, I feel like I could genuinely fight She-Ra and win more than lose."
She lost herself in her talking and cleaning until she heard an alarm going off outside her door.
"Half an hour until you need to get ready for your class." Her clone warned her.
"How? That meeting shouldn't be for another hour or two?"
"You've been in there for over an hour."
"Well, damn."
She turned off the shower before activating heat gently. The last thing she needed was to dry out her fur and make it irritating or hard knots.
"I mean, I do think I could defeat She-Ra now in a no hold bar on my end." She muttered as some steam started to come off of her.
"The problem is dealing with her strength. I have to be going maybe half my top speed to match her strength, which she mentioned a while ago that she was holding back. That's not accounting for how she can somehow only take half damage from my attacks." She muttered, pulling on her new clothing.
"Can't forget what makes her a dangerous opponent to me."
"Her ability to nullify my Regenerations."
"Without that, I wouldn't need to worry too much about her. It is one of the bright sides to being one of - if not - the fastest people on Etheria. Makes it hard to be hit. The good thing? My resistances are practically immunities when I try my best."
"Ice Armor at best will give me a 75% reduction, Grimm will give me another 75% reduction - except for Light attacks, and Steel Body sets even my lowest resistance at 40%. So at my best, my lowest resistance with all of those combined is just over…96%."
She whistled lightly as she finished getting dressed.
"With 5680 HP , that means for me to get one shot, I'd need to take ~120,000 damage in one go. But I'd have more HP using Lava Armor as that can boost my HP up to 30x. Even then, I found out that I can use two armor spells at once, giving me that 96% resistance along with that massive HP bonus. With both of them activated at their best, it's actually closer to…4.6 million."
"I really can fight She-Ra now, can't I?" She realized.
She spent the next half hour getting ready for her classes before her alarm to get going to the meeting went off.
Shutting that off, she stood up and headed out.
Lightning Clone gained 1200 [MP use] * 90 [minutes] * 2 [Genius] = 216,000 EXP!
Lightning Clone leveled up! LV 5 --> 35
For reaching LV 30, you can now create 3 Lightning Clones.
*1 week later*
[Of your 91 magical students, 47 of them have mastered Flame, thus your Magic Control increased by 47%]
[Of your 125 magic students, they have leveled up H2H 96 times and Dash by 91. H2H leveled up 19 times [273→292] and Dash leveled up 18 times [287→305]
STR increased by 4, DEX by 2, and CON by 2 by H2H
CON increased by 8 and DEX by 6 by Dash
Would you like to prestige?
[ Y /N]
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[Dash LV (3)05 (0/1531) - Increases DEX by 50% + 5 * 2^3. DEX increased by 90%]
DEX will increase by 4 every 10 levels instead of 3.
Tigra rolled her neck as she prepared herself for the next hour or so.
She had moved about 3 miles away from the Fright Zone due to not wanting to create a continuous sonic boom within the kingdom.
"Dash is too low to be effective right now."
She glowed orange for a moment before lightning started coming off of her and sticking to her form.
"With Raiju, Lightning Armor, and Dash going, I should be able to go 60 miles in a minute. So I'll gain 18,000 EXP for Dash every minute for the next half hour."
She crouched down before darting forward, leaving a boom behind her.
*2 hours later*
Dash gained 1,073,749 EXP!
Dash leveled up! LV (3)05 → (3)87!
[Dash LV (3)87 (9224/25725) - Increases DEX by 50% + 87 * 2^3. Increases DEX by 746%]
Due to massive increase in level, DEX increased by 24 and CON increased by 32.
Tigra stopped as she finally took a break and breathed slightly harder than normal.
"Man, my stamina is insane. I can run at top speed for just over 3 hours now."
Tigra smiled as she felt the wind rush through her fur before sighing.
She activated Fire Step through her feet and righted herself, just a few seconds before she would have slammed into the ground.
"Running is one thing, but running in the air? That feels so freeing. If I wasn't a cat, I feel like I would have been a bird."
She landed on the ground before looking at her base DEX: 566.
"Movement Speed."
DEX/9: 78.6 MPH at top speed.
Tigra whistled once more.
"Not too long before I can move as fast as a Skiff in my base speed. Full Power Hand To Hand using these stats."
Normal Attack at full power using current stats: 5,035 physical damage
Attack using your Claws with your current stats: 11,012 physical damage
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"I remember when I needed to use everything in my arsenal to do damage around that high. Now I can do that normally."
She frowned lightly after though.
"But my opponents are starting to be able to reduce the damage I inflict through means I don't fully understand. They aren't wearing or doing anything differently, but She-Ra now reduces my damage by half. Could she also be getting stronger but in a defensive way like I did early on?"
Her tablet beeped.
"Hey Tigra, Entrapta wanted to speak to you regarding the trip up North. Apparently she wants to get moving as soon as possible now. Something about a time table being moved up."
Tigra turned off speaker mode before putting it near her ear.
" Alright, I'll be there in a few minutes. Remind me to pick up a heavy jacket before we leave though."
"If I don't, you'll be frozen in a block of ice before you melt your way out."
"Yeah yeah. Make sure you bring something as well."
"See you in a bit."
The call ended before Tigra put the tablet back up.
"If I am leaving to accompany them, I'll need to leave some instructions for the students to pair up into groups to practice. I should also tell them to practice either near an open water source or a fire extinguisher." She muttered.
She zipped away, unaware of a shadowed figure in the trees watching her.
The figure waited before leaving the area, yellow eyes being the only source of color on them.
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Tigra
Age: 18
Level 62 (905/15500)
HP: 6720.....HPR: 3024
MP: 6000.....MPR: 3641
SP: 3360...SPR: 1512
STR: 131.....DEX: 566
CON: 336...INT: 300
WIS: 270...CHA: 108
Skill Points: 3
Trait Points: 3
Upgrade Trait Points: 0
Speed: 78.6 MPH
Magical Control: 194%
Skills:
[H2H LV (2)92], [Run LV 74], [Dash LV (3)87, [Blades LV 95], [Spear LV 40]
[Dodge LV 41], [Reading LV 75], [Writing LV 105], [Sneak LV 48]
[Phys. Res LV 63], [Light Res. LV 4], [Air Res. LV 2], [Water Res. LV 18]
[Magic Res LV 42], [Earth Res LV 4]
[Program. LV 35], [Security LV 18], [Hacking LV 27], [Strategy LV 61]
Spells [Tigra still uses]:
Fire Step, Fire Clothing, Fire Breath, Flame Dive, Flame/Lava Armor, Flame Charge,
Flame Fists, Fireball LV 23, Fire Dagger, Fire Arrow,
Fire Falchion, Fire Spear, Fire Clone, Fire Augment
Lightning Armor, Lightning Claws LV 11, Lightning Clone Lv 35
Chill, Ice Armor
Darken, Shadow Mask, Shadow Ball LV 1, Shadow Spy LV 45, Shadow Armor, Dark Pulse LV 19
Breeze Lv 1
Bubble Lv 1
Haste, Heal
Traits:
[Night Vision], [Magical], [Obsidian Claws], [Huntress], [Primal Instincts]
[You are the Weapon - Multiplies H2H bonus by 2]
[Lightning - Multiplies final DEX by 1.5]
[Smart - Multiplies final INT by 1.15]
[Wise - Multiplies final WIS by 1.15]
[You are Speed - For two minutes a day, your DEX is multiplied by 3]
[Omni-Regeneration II- Multiplies all Regens by 3]
[Pyromaniac - EXP for Fire Spells is doubled]
[Unburnable - You can't be hurt by fire or heat through fire]
[Electric-proof - You can't be hurt by electricity through natural or unnatural means with ill intent]
[Ice Proof - You can't be hurt by ice through natural or unnatural means with ill intent]
[Shadow Proof - You can't be hurt by shadow/darkness through natural or unnatural means with ill intent]
[Phoenix - Once a month, if your HP is reduced to zero, you return to 75% HP once with a 25% increase in stats for the next 10 minutes]
[Raiju - Multiply your movement speed by 3x for 90 minutes within a 24 hour period. Lightning attacks do 100% more damage but water damage hurts you thrice as much as normal]
[Grimm - Decreases damage taken by 75%, regenerations increased by 200% but Light attacks deal 3x their regular damage. Works for 30 minutes a day]
[Yuki-Onna - Touching something with HP will do INT*100 ice damage per second. Can be used for 10 minutes a day]
[Fueling the Fire - Increases Damage for Fire attacks by 50%]
[One with Fire - Fire spells take 25% less MP than normal]
[One with Lightning - Lightning spells take 25% less MP than normal]
[The Myth is Real - You have 8 spare lives and will restore you to 50% HP, MP, and SP upon resurrecting 5 seconds later]
[True Heir - Allows you the ability to connect with the Runestone of your home kingdom, or a Runestone should there not be one]
[Over Killer - Due to your ability of overkilling, your threats are more likely to succeed as warnings towards enemies]
[6th Sense [Catra] - You now will know when your fellow Chosen(s) are in trouble]
[Recovery - Your Regens are increased by 50%]
[Control - Allows the use of 4 continuous spells without causing pain]
[Princess of Fire - Multiplies MP by 2, MPR by 1.5, and Fire spells gain 4x EXP]
[Azure Flames - You can use 50% more MP to increase a fire spell's power by 100%. Doing so turns your flames into a brilliant blue]
Milestones:
[Genius - All EXP for spells is doubled]
[Brilliant - All spells do 25% more damage]
[Hare - Increases movement speed by 25%]
[Cheetah - For 30 seconds every 2 hours, your DEX is increased by 50%]
[Eagle - You can now run on air as long as you remain undisturbed]
[Steel Body - Decreases damage taken by 40% after resistances]
[Meditated - MPR remains active at 15% while using spells continuously]
[Confident Aura - Those around you will think you know what you are doing]
[Strong - Increases non-magical attacks by 10% and carrying capacity by 25%]
Weapons:
Dark Flame - A Jian that can channel fire magic to increase its power ~ 4800 damage
Shadow Piercer - Dual Daggers dark enough to be hidden in shadows ~ 2186 per dagger
