Chapter 85: Warming Up
Zarian hadn’t lived a great life before the Infinita Star System.
He’d grown up in the worst end of the foster care program. He’d existed as an outcast at school. He’d left the Marines with a bad conduct discharge. He’d lived on the streets for a while, with a little sister only he could see while his dark magic was emerging, all of which could’ve been made up or part of his craziness.
Months after opening a portal to another world, Zarian was having the time of his life. He was a legendary Level 60 Madness Wizard, jam-packed with aura circulating inside and outside of his body. His mysticism was outrageously high, greater than the rest of his stats combined.
Mysticism enhanced the control of magic. It heightened magical ingenuity. It quickened the regeneration of aura. His Aura Channeler and Basic Aura Manipulation traits worked better when he had higher Mysticism, enabling him to apply more of the brute force method with his aura.
Hell, he even had Void Mysticism, a trait that elevated void-based abilities by partially scaling with Mysticism. Void abilities mainly scaled with Wonder, so even there, Zarian’s Mysticism was king.
Not all of his abilities were optimized to run on Mysticism.
Adrenaline Jolt was the worst offender as a skill that only scaled with Agility, and it was already weakened as a Level 0 beta skill. But Zarian had aura manipulation, and in a roundabout way, he could push all of his skills to their limit by having a huge foundation in Mysticism.
Would he always choose Mysticism over everything else?
Not always.