Chapter 13: Spending Money, Feeling Great! Advancing in Wind Magic! The Flight Skill!
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When Lin Yi first acquired the talent "Gift of the Gods," he noticed a note attached to it. It stated that as his experience or strength increased, more functions would be unlocked. It seemed that becoming wealthier also counted as an increase in strength. Regardless, this new feature immediately caught Lin Yi’s attention.
After experiencing the thrill of leveling up by instantly defeating enemies with high-level skills, the wait for skill points to be granted each second had become somewhat unbearable. This new feature was like a timely boon.
Spending money to buy skill points was essentially spending money to buy time! Everyone knew how valuable time was. Paying for convenience felt exhilarating!
It seemed he should prioritize earning money from now on. Without hesitation, Lin Yi decided to spend all the money he had, leaving only a small amount as a reserve. After all, this money was earned by chance and would increase as his strength improved. Earning another hundred thousand or so should become easier and easier.
Lin Yi opened the talent interface and chose to spend money to purchase offline rewards.
“Consume 10,000 Daxia Coins to buy 24 hours’ worth of skill point income?”
Without hesitation, Lin Yi confirmed.
*Ding!* You have gained the “Gift of the Gods” 24-hour offline reward: 86,400 skill points!
At the same time, Lin Yi’s phone vibrated in his pocket, notifying him that 10,000 Daxia Coins had been deducted from his account.
He continued.
*Ding!* You have gained the “Gift of the Gods” 24-hour offline reward: 86,400 skill points!
*Ding!* You have gained the “Gift of the Gods” 24-hour offline reward: 86,400 skill points!
*Ding!* You have gained the “Gift of the Gods” 24-hour offline reward: 86,400 skill points!
...
Lin Yi lost track of how many times he had clicked until he was finally told his balance was insufficient.
Like many rubbish idle mobile games, the option to spend resources to buy offline rewards kept increasing in price. The first purchase cost 10,000 Daxia Coins, the second 15,000, and the price rose even more sharply afterward.
Flipping through the purchase records, Lin Yi saw that his last purchase cost over 40,000 Daxia Coins.
Hissing...
He hadn’t felt the sting before, thinking accelerating his skill advancement was worth it. But seeing his six-figure bank balance drop to just three digits in a flash brought a painful ache to his heart.
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Here it was again—the familiar life of poverty had returned.
Lin Yi could only turn to his personal panel. Fortunately, the skill point balance gave him great comfort.
Current unallocated skill points: 425,821!
He still had over four hundred thousand points left!
Opening his skill page again, Lin Yi saw that advancing the seventh-level Celestial Flame Dragon Breath to the eighth level required 500,000 skill points—clearly out of reach. Besides, he felt the seventh-level Celestial Flame Dragon Breath was already sufficient, so these skill points should be invested where they mattered most.
He opened the wind-element skill he had just learned yesterday—Wind Blade—and began the all-too-familiar process of allocating points.
Click, click, click, click!
Then the familiar *ding ding ding ding* notification sounded in his mind.
Consume 500 skill points: your Wind Blade skill has advanced, unlocking a new spell: Rending Wind Slash!
Consume 2,000 skill points: your Rending Wind Slash advances, unlocking a new spell: Gale Nine-Strike!
Consume 5,000 skill points: your Gale Nine-Strike advances, unlocking a new spell: Storm Cyclone!
Consume 10,000 skill points: your Storm Cyclone advances, unlocking a new spell: Wings of the Gale!
Consume 50,000 skill points: your Wings of the Gale advances, unlocking a new spell: Swift Wind Flash!
Consume 100,000 skill points: your Swift Wind Flash advances, unlocking a new spell: Thousand Waves Shattering Storm!
In less than half a day, Lin Yi’s wind skill set had expanded from one to seven spells.
Looking over these skills, he immediately realized the defining features of wind magic. If fire magic was simply about high damage, wind magic combined speed, multi-hit attacks, minor crowd control, and some support abilities. The most obvious traits were speed and multiple hits.
For example, the third-level fire spell called Triple Flame Spear summoned three fiery spears from the sky to pierce and burn enemies. Within the fire spells Lin Yi knew, it already had one of the highest number of damage segments—three.
However, the seventh-level Celestial Flame Dragon Breath had only the single high-damage breath and the lingering burn damage afterward.
By contrast, the third-level wind spell Gale Nine-Strike unleashed nine swift wind blades in just 0.5 seconds. The seventh-level Thousand Waves Shattering Storm could unleash over a thousand hits per second on all targets in its area of effect.
What surprised Lin Yi most were the two new skills at levels five and six.
Wings of the Gale
Type: Active Skill
Level: Five
School: Wind
Cost: 500 mana per second
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Casting time: 1.5 seconds
Cooldown: 5 minutes
Effect: Gather the power of wind elements to envelop your entire body, making it impossible for others to discern your true form.
The wind elements also form a pair of wings, granting you the ability to fly at high speed.
At the same time, the gusts surrounding you can block three ranged attacks.
Note: The gusts can only block attacks up to level four in strength. Once the three blocks are used, the flight ability disappears.
Remark: The fierce wind gathers, lifting me to the clouds!
A flying skill!
The flying skill Lin Yi had long dreamed of!
As a human, who didn’t dream of soaring into the sky?
He hadn’t expected wind magic to truly have a spell allowing mages to fly without relying on flying mounts or beasts.
Though the five-level threshold was quite high, it was already very exciting.
Other classes reportedly needed to reach at least the sixth rebirth before their class skills granted flight.
As for the other effect of this skill, Lin Yi felt it was familiar—blocking ranged attacks.
Wasn’t this basically the Wind Wall from Brother Suo?
Bring it on, Gale!
The sixth-level skill Swift Wind Flash had an even stronger swordsman vibe.
Swift Wind Flash
Type: Active Skill
Level: Six
School: Wind
Cost: 15,000 mana
Casting Time: Instant
Cooldown: 1 hour
Requires melee weapon
Effect: With a violent surge of wind elements, your speed and melee weapon attack speed are maximized, allowing you to dash rapidly in one direction.
During the dash, your dodge chance increases by 100%.
At the end of the dash, you deal 99 melee weapon attack hits to all targets along the path, each hit additionally dealing one instance of wind elemental cutting damage.
Maximum dash distance: 10 meters
Maximum dash speed: 10 times the speed of sound
Remark: Watch closely—this strike will be spectacular!