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Chapter 156
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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Calyn had walked this hallway between the rooms on the fifth floor of the airship several times over the past cycle. However, it had never felt so long as it did today. She had been brought up in a clan of body enhancers. Sparring sessions could get extremely brutal. Blood and broken bones weren't an aberration on the training field but rather a commonplace part of it. Far from causing them to stop, those of the Sydrak clan were expected to go on fighting through the pain. Your enemies will not stop when you want them to stop, the cold elders who oversaw their training would always quote this whenever someone was hurt badly and wished to end the fight. Unless the injury was life-threatening, or held the possibility of permanently crippling the injured party, then you were expected to push through the pain and keep fighting for another half an hour or more, depending on how sadistic your instructor was that day. This was the kind of training she'd been subjected to all her life and Caly
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The conviction behind every attack she launched was of someone who wished to end the fight with that particular hit. Unfortunately for her, she hadn't been taught how to keep her body from betraying what she intended to do next. Greg himself couldn't exactly claim to be an expert at it. Olivia had punished him for being too obvious enough times that he was slowly starting to learn a thing or two. But even more than being able to hide his next move, Greg had grown really proficient in reading his opponent. This is part of what made this fight so unfair. It was like a duel where one party kept calling out their next move before they made it. One fighter was out in the open whereas the other was hidden in the shadows. A stark imbalance that meant that inevitably... Smack! Greg's palm once again landed on Calyn's delectable posterior. Greg had to duck low immediately as Calyn swung her leg like a lumberjack's ax in a roundhouse kick that would have more than likely knocked him out cold
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