Chapter 153 - Unexpected
[ You have obtained an Inheritance tag (Thunder Runner) ]
[ You have obtained an inheritance fragment! ]
[ 'Omni-Mastery' lv4 unlocking +9% (43%) ]
‘That was unexpected…’
To think that TR Ian was truly just a runner?
From the very start of his appearance he did nothing but run far from me, which gave me quite a surprise…
I originally thought that he had some speed fighting style ability that relied on thunder, especially when using all the tests I had so far, but it turned out to be so… easy.
When looking at the general capabilities of most elemental masters and weapon users, speed was the hardest aspect to improve on, so this test may have been the hardest of all the previous test considering that the speed of TR Ian was quite impressive.
He was also able to break the sound barrier with his speed, and him running constantly made him almost an impossible target, most people would eventually choose to give up such a test…
Unfortunately for him, the one he met was me, who already developed his speed to a certain extreme both intentionally and unintentionally!
The reason for his extreme speed was because unlike LD Ian, TR Ian had his bones as a conductor, and not exactly all of his bones, it was only the bones of both his legs, allowing him to achieve the feat of being a super coward quite excellently.
But for me, all it took was activating my ‘Body of Elements’ partly to overtake his speed and run my sword through his neck, it felt even easier than when I dealt with Sword Ian…
Nonetheless, unlike the actual TR Ian, his inheritance wasn’t useless at all.
[ ‘Thunder Runner Inheritance Fragment’ (Special***)
Description: the key to the will left behind by a nameless pacifict who hated fights and wanted to run to the end of the world until he found peace of heart.
*Grants a 30% increase to the inheritor’s speed when Thunder elements are in use (Upon use)
**Grants a 20% decrease to the inheritor’s air resistance. (Upon use) ]
Air resistance reduction!
Unlike speed increase boosts which actually decrease in effect as they stack and get higher, decrease in air resistance was something else.
The actual reason that speed was hard to develop the faster one is falls down to air resistance!
In this game world with different laws and effects, the air reistance’s effect was a bit less than the real world’s but it was still in effect, it was basic physics to say ‘the faster an object is, the more air resistance that it would have to face’, which in turn slows the object, the same applies for humans.
While there was ways to decrease it such as lowering the surface area,... etc, these were hard to achieve as unmodifiable living beings, so it was taken for granted that speed was one of the hardest aspects to raise, even in this supernatural world.
Unexpectedly the easiest class I was able to obtain had such a great ability, and even though it was only a 20% it was much better than a 100% speed increase boost as this would not only increase my current speed by a notch, it would also smoothen my path on developing my speed even further!
In my heart, I already made a choice that if there weren’t another similar class at the next level, and leveling ‘Omni-Mastery’ (if possible) won’t give me a better choice, I would use this inheritance tag without any hesitation.
‘Well, let’s see what’s on the next level first…’
One mere test already gave me two unexpected surprises with everyone of the two being the opposite of the other, so making choices right now may leave unneeded regrets.
“To the next level.”
[ Choice confirmed! Initiating transfer… ]
[ Initiating revitalization… ]
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[ Searching for suitable Level 3 Inheritance… ]
[ Suitable Level 3 inheritances: … ]
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How is thunder an element
It's just sound of lightning breaking the sound barrier
@Kid_Kayor it's like a variant sound-element, the concept of elements in the lost realm is wide that main elements deviate to branches (for example, how there is lightning element even though it's just light, but there is still light and lightning element)
@Kid_Kayor Why do you have an issue with thunder as an element but not fire(a type of chemical reaction), water(a molecule), or shadow( an a Absence of light on the surface caused by partially blocking the light’s source)?
@lmnocat because authors usually explain it as a different kind of lightning and they never really explain it. For example, in martial world the MC was absorbing lightning and thunder, how do you absorb thunder it's a freakin sound
@Lightning_Asura That's because lightning and light are very different, lightning is like a slower and hotter version of light. Light is made of electromagnetic waves and lightning is a flow of charged electrons.
@Kid_Kayor thunder isn't the worst offender when it comes to absorption, or especially the creation of an element. Dark and shadow are both fundamentally the ABSENCE of light, which makes absorbing them make less sense than absorbing sound, and of course, creating Dark is the same as destroying light, which violates conservation of energy. It is important to remember that this is a piece of fantasy writing, it only works as long as you accept that it happens somewhere with fundamentally different laws of physics; While we know what lightning, thunder or darkness are in our home universe this story does not take place in it.
@Kid_Kayor I do actually get triggered by that fact, that thunder (sound) gets explained as another lightning (light), it's basically why I but so much differentiation between the two, as for why it's an element, it's because this world has elemental particles containing all aspects, and if you read ch57, it says the same, there are wide and have lots of variety, as for dark and shadow, they are actually an extreme variant of light. All that because this isn't normal earth where all physics and laws apply (this chapter mentioned that as well >.>)