《Start With Contracting Sprites》Chapter 17: Two Unique Skills
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That night…
Su Hao sat in front of the computer table, tapping on the keyboard. He was searching for information related to unique skills.
A sprite that didn't master a unique skill wasn't a passable sprite.
Old Chen had also said that when a sprite's spiritual force reached 30, it cοuld try to learn unique skills.
Yet the classes related to unique skills at school would only start in late October.
Fortunately, the Internet could help with anything.
The categories of unique skills, their brief introductions, and strengths and weaknesses could all be found online.
Like sprites, unique skills were categorized by element.
Usually, sprites could only have unique skills from the same element. If they learned across elements, the difficulty would increase drastically. Also, the powers when they used them would decrease drastically.
Of course, it wasn't absolute.
For example, the final evolved form of the Little Stone Elephant, the Elephant General, was famous for being able to learn unique skills from multiple elements.
Elephant General could also learn Non-Earth-Element unique skills, such as Fiery Breaking Hits and Icy Blade Dash.
Su Hao had long had plans on what to let Silkworm Baby learn—unique skill: Charging.
Charging didn't belong to any element. Instead, it was a universal unique skill. Any sprite had the ability to learn it, and it was also one of the easiest unique skills to learn. And it wasn't weak.
Presently, Silkworm Baby's main fighting method was hitting.
Its speed was pretty fast, its hitting force was rather good, and its skin had even been strengthened. Once it learned Charging, its battle power would definitely make a big leap.
"The learning of unique skills is also a way for sprites to deepen their use of spiritual force. It's best to start from the easy ones."
Aside from Charging, Su Hao also wanted Silkworm Baby to learn Roaring.
Roaring was similarly a universal unique skill. It was a way for sprites to make roars to scare their enemies. Unfortunately, the practical battle effectiveness of Roaring was far inferior to Charging.
Su Hao wanted Silkworm Baby to learn it because, based on it, it could learn the more advanced unique skill, Stunning.
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On top of using spiritual force, Stunning also had some mental attributes. It would help Silkworm Baby evolve to Reverie Butterfly in the future.
"It's decided. We'll learn Charging and Roaring at the same time. In any case, these two unique skills have different directions, so they can totally be trained simultaneously…"
Charging and Roaring were both common unique skills. The ways to train the sprite could be found on the Internet.
"The first stage of the learning of Charging is to make the sprite combine speed and strength and reach a certain standard.
"The second stage… In the process of high-speed running, use spiritual force to increase the speed of the sprite.
"The third stage… Familiarize with the usage of spiritual force and attach to the sprite a protective layer to release spiritual force at the instant of collision…"
It seems to be clear, logical, and organized.
But in fact, there were no detailed instructions on how to combine speed and strength, how to use spiritual force, how to attach a protective layer, and so on.
Whether or not the unique skill could be successfully learned was solely based on luck.
That was all that he could find on the Internet. More detailed and effective training methods would be core knowledge that only high-level Sprite Trainers, sects, and schools would possess.
It wasn't impossible to try to find a way based on the vague and incomplete methods on the Internet. Yet it was too ineffective.
Su Hao wouldn't choose it.
Ask the school? Ask his form teacher, Old Chen?
It was actually workable.
An City First High was, after all, the best high school in An City. It had to have a detailed learning method of basic unique skills like Charging.
Su Hao thought about it and still decided against asking Old Chen.
It was not that he wanted to conceal his abilities.
Silkworm Baby's strength right now had indeed surpassed many of its batchmates. But as compared to real rich kids or those with even better backgrounds, it was just so so.
It took a whole month to improve Silkworm Baby's 5 points of battle power to more than a dozen points.
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It was ordinary.
It was normal.
It was far from notoriously outstanding. Medium-good at best.
There was nothing worth concealing.
Asking Old Chen for help could allow Su Hao to gain the learning method of Charging, and Old Chen would like him more.
However, after he got the method, was he to practice with what Old Chen gave him, or with the plans unlocked with Intelligence Points?
Su Hao chose the latter.
"So asking Old Chen is giving myself trouble. Never mind."
The interface appeared in front of Su Hao's eyes.
On the top right corner, his Intelligence Points had already accumulated to 66 points.
The "(6)" in the cultivation plan, which earlier on he hadn't met the unlocking conditions—after he went online to search the rough learning methods of Charging and Roaring—had already become:
[Cultivation plan:
(1) Basic cultivation (Unlocked) <click to view>
(2) - (5): …
(6) Unique skill learning <click to open subsection>]
Among the unique skills that could be unlocked right now, there were two.
Charging (Unlock with 1 Intelligence Point)
Roaring (Unlock with 1 Intelligence Point)
Surprised, Su Hao found it cheap.
This was also the reason he didn't plan on asking Old Chen for help.
It's so cheap, why should I give myself extra trouble?
"Ding-dong!"
2 Intelligence Points were deducted. Instantly, some information rushed into his mind.
I see. It seems that… It's also not very difficult to let Silkworm Baby learn Charging and Roaring?
Lake East Hill, at the back side of the hill…
Su Hao felt very familiar like he had come home. Only Silkworm Baby was sullen and unenergized. It could no longer play with those familiar sprite friends.
"Silkworm Baby, let's continue training for the unique skill Charging!"
"Gurgle~" Silkworm Baby replied with little energy.
At first, Su Hao had actually taken Silkworm Baby to train in school. But he couldn't stand it that Silkworm Baby's hitting broke many trees in the school woods… Even though those woods were for sprite training in the first place, Su Hao still felt embarrassed.
He was still too thin-skinned.
There was also an open training field at school, but Su Hao felt that when Silkworm Baby was practicing Charging, it wasn't a good practice if it didn't find something to hit.
In the backside of the mountain, Su Hao cleared out an empty space about 20 meters long. At the end of it was a tree three to four meters tall.
Silkworm Baby slowly moved to the empty space and prepared to start training.
Su Hao looked and felt that this wouldn't do.
This Silkworm Baby is too unmotivated.
Though it practiced obediently under his intent gaze, it had no initiative. How many years would it take before it learned Charging and Roaring?
This won't do!
"Silkworm Baby, so long as you learn to do Charging, I'll bring you for a feast."
"Gur- gurgle?"
Silkworm Baby's body shook. It turned around suddenly and looked at him with big, watery eyes.
Rea-really?
I've never had a feast, gurgle, gurgle!
"Of course, have I ever lied to you?"
Silkworm Baby thought about it.
It seems that he really hasn't.
It was immediately filled with motivation. Its fat body shook a little, bent slightly, and the light yellow figure rushed out instantly.
Its speed got faster and faster.
A layer of pale green halo formed with dispersed Wood-Element spiritual force appeared on the surface of its body.
Silkworm Baby's speed got faster again.
Su Hao's eyes brightened.
Indeed, under the lure of the feast, Silkworm Baby made a new breakthrough. Its usage of spiritual force became more advanced. It's not far from really learning to charge.
Bang!
Silkworm Baby didn't stop itself in time and bumped right onto the thick trunk of a tree more than 3 meters tall.
At the moment that it hit, the pale green halo on its body broke first. Then, its fat body squeezed forward, like it was pressed into a pie, and bounced back suddenly.
It bounced off a bit too far, flying out high.
Su Hao hurried to run up and catch it. Soon, he and Silkworm Baby rolled onto the ground.
"Gur- gurgle~(@[]@)~"
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