Billy sighed in relief because he knew that while he could protect himself from killing the girl, the fireball would explode anyway and kill many of the elementalists while gravely injuring others. He made a mistake in taunting the girl…

”I guess this is your loss, ” Billy shrugged. ”In any case, instead of telling me what you don ’t understand I want you to show me Zen in action. ”

The girl thought that she would be punished in some way and was ready to beg to let her family out of that. Still, then she heard something unbelievable… no one aside from the most powerful and skilled members of her tribe knew about that skill. It was impossible that others knew that… even those who had the skill and lost battles fought until their deaths to keep that as a secret.

”What is wrong? ” Billy asked. ”Show me Zen. ”

Billy thought that Zen was just an ordinary skill like the others, perhaps one level or two above Meditation. Still, considering how silent the area became after he mentioned the name, it seemed that he had made a mistake… When he joined the guard, he saw several elementalists with that skill, but it looked like only a few of them had it. He used Appraisal on the girl and then Analyze on Zen without any other choice.

Zen

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It permanently increases your mana by ten points per level, and it also increases your control over if, granting the power to use more mana at the same time to increase their power.

Billy frowned when he read that… it was a bit different than he had expected. Still, the effects were pretty good. Both passive and the later one was basically what he wanted… a means to control mana.

”Well now… what should I do? ” Billy thought.