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Chapter 158
Olivia's words hit Greg like a ton of bricks as he realized that he'd fallen into a boxed mode of thinking. The possibilities had always been there before him, but because she'd only ever taken the form of a human body, he'd baselessly come to assume that this was all she could do. It was a bitter lesson in underestimating one's opponent. Had she been his enemy, Greg would have been at her mercy, his life in her hands. Bitter a pill as it was to swallow, it was a lesson best learned here in training than out on the battlefield. Greg's doubts, however, were answered. It wasn't that she'd been holding back some of her strength, instead, she'd just used her ability to manipulate mana to compound the force behind her attack. "It's staggeringly mana expensive," Olivia continued with a slight grimace. "In my normal body, I can fight you for hours on end. If I maintained this transformation continuously, however, I'd only manage about five minutes of fighting. I can stretch out the time by
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A part of him still thought that he should have taken a break, but that would be failing the task set before him by Olivia. Any random guy out there could sit back and let the fear abate before trying a second time. To Olivia, the fear was the challenge. It was a way to sharpen Greg's focus and willpower, so that even when he was flirting with disaster, he could compose himself and forge ahead regardless. Given how much weaker this new armor was compared to the first one, flawed as the first one had been, Greg found himself agreeing with the familiar. Letting fear take hold had led to this piss poor result. If he allowed the same to happen when he was facing an enemy, chances are he wouldn't live long enough to regret it.Covering his body in scales wasn't just a matter of creating hexagons that would fit together. Greg had to figure out how to keep his joint armored without impeding his movements. A task that was proving to be much harder than he'd initially thought it would be. With
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Greg called on his mana, directing it all into his skin. He didn't have any spells for softening stone, but he wasn't worried about that. All his focus was on infusing the mana with the will to turn his now diamond skin, soft and pliable, and capable of being quickly affected by the counter-petrification potion. Luckily for Greg, he didn't have to dig deep to find the will. Right then, everything within him wished for his skin to once again revert to normal and the mana carried this intent as it infused his diamond skin. This plus the stonebreaker's tonic made it so that Greg found himself on his knees, palms on the floor before him as he gasped for sweet air! "Get up," Olivia instructed after about three or so minutes had passed. She had given him time to get his breathing back under control and push through the worst of the lightheadedness. Greg, however, couldn't help but look up at her incredulously. Having trained under her for years now, this wasn't the first time Greg had b
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In the worst way possible, Greg found himself introduced to the key difference between a casual spell and one that was infused with will. When Greg had been pouring his will into the spell that would harden his skin, he'd thought of making it so that no matter how it was attacked, it wouldn't yield to the attack. Greg had thought that he was just adding to the hardness of his skin and nothing more. Given the fact that a tier-three potion was struggling to undo the effect of his spell, however, that intent was still having an effect despite the mana being expended. At the rate that the potion was working, Greg suspected that it'd take about seven to ten minutes for it to fully undo his skin's petrification. With that amount of time, however, they might as well not have bothered. If he was remembering correctly, his brain would start dying after four minutes of being deprived of oxygen. There was a real possibility that his reinforced body might be able to survive for longer without oxy
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He was suffocating.Breathing is one of those things that people rarely give any thought to ninety percent of the time. And even in those few instances where it did rise to conscious awareness, people rarely gave thought to the processes that made it happen. Greg had, unfortunately, put himself in a situation where he was forced to think about that exact process. Ironically, with his skin having turned almost transparent, and his body rendered immobile, Greg hadn't noticed that his chest was no longer rising and falling as it should. Greg's attempts to make his skin impervious had essentially created a hard and immovable shell around his ribcage. He hadn't fully inhaled or exhaled at the time, so Greg was caught in a limbo of having some air in his lungs, but not enough. And even what little air he had, was quickly getting used up by his body.Even worse than his skin being a shell that wouldn't allow his ribs to expand beyond a certain point, was the fact that those very ribs were at
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Olivia rolled her eyes. "I can if I want to, but there's only so many times I can watch you try the same thing over and over again before it gets boring. So no, I'm not always paying attention when you're in there," she said. Greg's mouth opened, instinctively wishing to argue that he wasn't boring. But after a second, he quietly closed it as he remembered just how stubborn he was. He'd usually follow a specific path over and over again trying to solve the dungeon his way rather than be forced onto other paths by past failures. The more he thought about it, the more he realized why eventually, Olivia would stop watching his every attempt. "But that's beside the point," Olivia declared when Greg conceded with a slight tilt of the head. "You managed to augment a spell with your will?" She questioned a second tone, her tone relaying that this was a big deal."That's what I wanted to test," Greg answered. "After taking the life order promotion elixir, I broke into the resonance stage of t
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