Chapter 33: “Perceive Coordinates”
After learning all the elemental magic types for the [Enhance Follower] skills and boosting all her stats, Rare had more XP than she knew what to do with and was thinking about how to spend it. She could just keep dumping it into her stats, but that could be done at any time. It would be better to only increase stats based on what was needed at the moment and instead improve her countermeasures for others’ skills.
That said, she didn’t feel like investing in weapon skills. Not only was Rare not planning to ever participate in close-quarters combat, but also weapon skills would be taken by regular players already, so there would be buzz on social media about any skills that were especially good. She could just wait to learn them until after that information spread.
She was also reluctant to get any more crafting skills. The engineers were already constructing a factory, but Rare had no confidence in her own creativity. And good tools required good design.
So what Rare decided to learn was a type of magic she hadn’t yet: [Space Magic].
This element of magic required [Enchantment Magic], [Wind Magic], and [Earth Magic] to unlock. These requirements were discovered during the closed beta, so a lot of players probably had it already.
This type of magic was powerless on its own; the skills in its tree assisted other types of magic. It was similar to the way [Bind Soul] improved [Summon].
With the [Space Magic] spell [Perceive Coordinates], you could change the casting location for spells. When mastered, you could be face to face with an enemy and cast a [Flare Arrow] behind them and have it hit them in the back. However, this didn’t affect the spell’s power at all. While it was incredibly useful to use for surprise attacks and bluffs, there were also a lot of conditions in order to learn it. If you really had all the XP to learn it, you’d be better off directly improving your combat strength. Since most players thought this way, [Space Magic] tended to get a bad rap. [Perceive Coordinates] was also limited to your own perspective, so in general you were limited to your own field of view.
To start, Rare wanted to test stuff like whether the [Summon] location could be moved to a specified position. She had already learned all the prerequisite skills, so she only had to pay for the cost of learning [Space Magic] itself. Since Rare had already acquired quite a number of skills and fulfilled a lot of conditions, she was excited to see if she unlocked anything in the [Space Magic] tree beyond [Perceive Coordinates], but nothing new appeared.
As she hoped, it was possible to designate the [Summon] location, but it really was dependent on her own limited vision. Since Rare’s vision was bad, even though it was a magic skill, she couldn’t really use [Perceive Coordinates] to its full potential. She started to think this was a wasted purchase, but then she realized that, conversely, [Space Magic] itself could have fulfilled some prerequisites for other skills, so she decided to check her other skill trees.