Omni-Mastery

"Meowwww…"

'Sleeping with Light sure was a great idea…'

Since I was just taking a light nap during the night, I decided to finally sleep along the small ball of fluff known as Light, which boosted the re-energizing effect of sleep by a few times for some reason.

"Purrr…"

Patting Light as he seemed to enjoy it a lot, I started to recount what Wind told me as I considered my options.

After finishing our conversation yesterday, he had asked one of the servants in the Wind Pavillion to help me reach the central division where I was supposed to stay as a member of the 'Elemental Blade Sect'.

While the Central Division's plot of land itself wasn't as big as other divisions', it was big enough to hold 10 whole separate courtyards with only 4 of them being occupied, so it wasn't hard for me to choose one of the rest for my own accomodation with the help of the servant.

As all the paperwork was also done by him, and none of the other residents of the division left their own courtyard, not much fuss was made as I had already obtained my identity tag as an official member of the sect as well as limited ownership of the courtyard I chose.

The luxury that the residents of the Central Division received made it seem like they were treated as well as division masters, but it was all but a fake impression. After all, we still needed to obtain tomes from divisions with the permission of these division masters, and even resort to them to guide us. As such, the only benefit of being in such a division was the wide selection you could choose from without any obstacles standing in your way as well as the special accomodation.

Naturally, the selection wasn't just being capable of obtaining different technique tomes, but it also included the ability to ask division masters for guidance using achievement points and other privileges that normal apprentices wouldn't be able to get even if they had the points required for it. This whole explanation was ear-fed to me by the overseer of the Central Division who seemed to be quite enthusiastic about the division gaining another member...  

After everything was settled, I knew I wouldn't be able to take much action in the same day so I just spent the rest of it analyzing the info that Wind had dumped into me, as well as thinking about the most ideal, quick and efficient way for me to achieve my target.

My target was to achieve groundbreaking results in the 'Tower of Trial' to get enough of an excuse to have a serious discussion with the sect master as soon as possible, and the way to doing so was mastering as many techniques as possible.

The tools in hand were two tome 'passes' and another token that could allow me to obtain another two or could be exchanged for mental guidance sessions. 

Spending the token on mental guidance sessions didn't seem like a bad idea, but just spamming them to obtain enough points wasn't going to give me the attention I wanted, and unlike how I was at the very beginning, trying to lay low, at this point of time, I wanted to stand out instead!

As such, I needed to perform excellently using normal means instead of cheating my way to it, only then I could consider the possibility of my plan working.

The result that I came to after yesterday's casual thinking was to make use of both fields. I had to learn more than 2 techniques, and possibly use the mental guidance but without overdoing it.

What followed was me deciding the elements of the techniques that I would choose to learn, since I naturally wouldn't pick randomly.

The main point regarding my choice was that I could only choose two new elements to fuse into my 'Weapon Mastery' considering the fact that I was naturally trying to benefit from this opportunity and raise my weapon practice int to the realm of '3rd stage' as well, and according to the information that I had and my experience with with elemental practice…

'Fusing more elements directly after I reach the 3rd stage wouldn't be plausible…'

Following this thought process, and if I wanted to go beyond 2 techniques, I would have to learn a technique for an element that I already fused into my 'Weapon Mastery' as well.

'Mhm, these three should do it.'

In conclusion, I decided to go with Wind for the already learnt element, Earth & Ice for the two new techniques and use the rest of the token's achievement score to exchange just one or two mental guidance sessions for each technique.

The reason behind my choice of Wind wasn't that hard to understand as it was the only fused element that I already displayed, and considering the fact that I was also planning to add Earth to my collection of my revealed elements, using Lightning or Thunder might be also overdoing the 'standing out' part.

Not to forget that I didn't even have a proper Wind element technique, 'Swiftness' was barely capable of performing as a trigger for the fusion of wind elements and weapon energy, a very lacking yet convenient technique.

As to why I choose Earth & Ice instead of Fire & Water?

'They are useless…'

First of all, Fire was simply another offensive element, that lacked novelty in comparison to an element like Lightning, which was both swift and lethal, so it was already out of the pool as I wouldn't waste one of the two slots on it.

As for water, it lacked proper use other than the concept of fluidity, and considering that the last two options were Earth & Ice, with Ice being a better version of water when it came to use in battle, reaching a final answer didn't even require much decisiveness.

Having already taken my daily shower and changed into a new set of clothes, I exited my courtyard as I headed towards the gate of the division with Light hanging on my shoulders...

'Now let's go see Wind and put the second step in motion!'

"Meow!"