BXBX NOVEL Chapter 272 A Talk About Summons
"It is rare. Classes that inflict status effects and specialize on them are usually incredibly weak to compensate. And often times monsters have varied status effect resistances. But if what you read is right, then that skill ignores status effects resistance and only applies a certain, fixed chance of inflicting sleep." Said Titan.
"Wait, so it ignores the status effect resistance? Woah, Terra you\'re amazing!"
"Maaahh…"
Terra always looked like she was yawning.
"Terra always had this ability." Titania said. "She had the power to make to create spores that calmed the hearts of furious beasts and made them fall asleep. She was a pacifist most of the time, fending off beast without killing them by making them calm down."
"I see, so she drugged them up." Said Rita while nodding.
"No, dummy, that\'s not it!" I sighed. "Drugged up sounds a bit weird…"
"Anyways, I didn\'t knew there was this thing about Familiars, can I get my own? Planta and Achlys got so many!" Lily said.
"Yes you can, Lily." I said. "I think that within your own Skill Tree there should be something for it, right? Something about Summon."
"Ah!" Lily found it. "There it is… It says Earth\'s Guardian Summon. But it costs 10 SP and I have no more… I spent it all recklessly into leveling my other Skills, ugh."
"Well just wait until you level up and then you can get it." I said with a smile. "A Familiar is always a nice companion to have around. I\'ve also got the whole Mushroom Brigade, they\'re a bunch of Mushrooms with their own Jobs, they\'re very useful. There are magicians, alchemist, chef, architects, knights, archers, and so on…"
"That\'s a lot to keep up with!" Lily said.
"I wonder if I could summon anything, but I think my class specializes more into alchemy and concoctions, and bombs! I guess… Though I recently saw in the Skill Tree something about an Alchemy Spirit, or something?" Wondered Acorn.
So Acorn got that Skill too!
"Maybe you could get it, it might prove to be useful." I said.
"Hm, I\'ll think about it. I am saving SP to use when I am really in a pickle." Acorn said.
"This whole Skill Points and Stat Points thing is quite confusing to me yet…" Nieve sighed.
NPC were unable to use Stat Points and Skill Points before, learning Skills automatically over leveling up, and leveling their skills automatically too. Bonus stat points seems to exist, but they were also applied automatically, usually to their highest stat, or second highest randomly.
Now that these two have the Player Title, they can administrate Skill Points and Stat Points manually, and also have access to their Skill Tree, something very unique and new to them. Acorn had a lot of time to get used to this system but Nieve only a few days. I guess it is normal that she\'s still confused.
"I don\'t know if I have a Summon Skill, though having some new Familiars to aid me in battle would be rather amazing, and useful." Nieve said. "Let\'s see… Oh! Maybe this? Frost Familiar Summon…"
"How many Skill Points do you have?" I wondered.
"Err… over 200?" Said Nieve.
"You\'ve really not spent them at all yet, huh?" I sighed. "Well, even as I\'ve spent mine, I still got tons left. Titan do you know what to recommend her, seeing you\'re more of an expert than us?"
"I am not an expert, I just read stuff in the forums." Sighed Titan. "Nieve is a frontliner that uses fast attacks. She\'s not a good tank at all nor should take damage, so she\'s a swift fighter that deals a lot of damage with consecutive blows. Her ice magic is also amazingly strong and can even freeze targets. Probably try to focus on your magic power and variety with Ice Magic, and also increase the power of your Rapier Techniques, the more you got the better. Lastly, Summons sounds nice, if they can cover your weaknesses, that\'s for the better. You tend to like to fight independently and don\'t cooperate as much with us despite being in our Party, having a Summon following you around would be good."
"Ah… Sorry, I guess that\'s my fighting style. I\'ve always been kind of a Loner myself." Sighed Nieve.
"Big sis\'s not a loner, she\'s a nice person, you just fear hurting others with your ice, right?" Fiere wondered.
"Well, you got me." Nieve sighed. "Since I was a kid that my Ice Powers were dangerous. Nobody else in the Fairy Country has been born with Ice Magic, and I had it exceptionally strong at that. Without proper control I often hurt people… I was kind of afraid of myself. Even now, I guess I\'ve not completely overcame that fear."
"Big sis…" Florie sighed, hugging Nieve.
"Nieve…" I sighed. "Well, you don\'t have to fear using your magic with us. We are strong enough to resist it no problem!"
"Hahah, that\'s reassuring." Said Nieve.
"You\'ve become an amazing knight Nieve, be more confident." Said Titania.
"Nonetheless, keeping a good distance is still my thing. I\'ll cooperate more, but I\'ve sharpened my fighting style a bit too much in this direction, it is hard to change it out of the blue." Sighed Nieve. "But well, I might as well acquire this Skill and this one too… enhance my Magic Rapier Techniques and Ice Magic… Oh, I suddenly got a lot of Spells and Techniques!"
"Nice!" I said.
"I think I could also summon Plant Companions, but I am trying to max my Elemental Beast Spirits first than anything. Plant Companions sounds like a lot of job." Said Titan, he seemed to prefer the temporary summons than to raise his own little group. "It is also a bit confusing if we get too many, right? And I am not all into babysitting them."
"Eeeeh? You\'re just boring." Said Achlys. "I also leveled up my Summon Skill to level 10 just now and got two more Summon Slots! Let\'s see what I can get!"
FLASH! FLASH!
Suddenly, Rita summoned two more Dark Familiars.