MAGIC TRAINING MONTAGE!!!

After a little debate the decision is made to head to the Wild Deep to test out and train the various new spells and abilities the team had acquired. First however they decided to go test a small theory. The rest of the group stayed back and watched as Yulia slowly made her way deeper and deeper into the dream. After a bit it became clear that she was not falling asleep and the mist was in fact still present. With that answered they went into the Wild Deep. The first step was to test out some of the various questions about the Blizzard spell.

The first use of the spell confirmed that it seemingly has no effective range in terms of meters. It effects the entirety of the area the spell is cast in, but does not effect anything outside the area, which does also confirm that testing it in Aresque would have potentially had devastating consequences. It also showed that Yulia's allies are not automatically safe from it's effect as they were buffeted by the blizzard. Subsequent attempts proved that Yulia could with some minor effort augment the spell to not affect people she chose. This also revealed that if she so chose she could choose to affect herself with the spell as well although none of them could come up with a reason why that would ever be useful.

One semi-negative of blizzard is learned though, it's not a very good offensive spell on it's own. It's debilitating and makes it harder for enemies to fight while being buffeted, but it doesn't do much in the way of actual damage, requiring secondary damage dealing methods to make proper use of it. In other words it does not in fact make Icicle redundant since Icicle is still Yulia's only major damage dealing spell at current. After a couple more uses of it and some fun watching Cherchiel break Stalagmites with her fists the group return, rest at Isalia's and then head back into the Wild Deep. Now casting blizzard primarily just to get it mastered the group accidentally trigger a fight as the blizzard disturbs a lurker that had been hiding on the ceiling.

With Blizzard and a single opponent the fight is simple and the group decides to use it as a chance to try out Divine Grace Boarchiel. This proves to be an amazing level of overkill as Boarchiel is able to splatter the creature entirely with a single punch and also it seems capable of now crushing Stalagmites with simple pressure without even having to punch. Soon Blizzard is mastered and the group turn their attention to Life Drain instead. The spell does not appear to be castable without a proper target and it's eventually decided that Yulia will cast it on Cherchiel while Goma heals Cherchiel to ensure that there's little chance of Cherchiel taking too much damage.

Isalia points out that logically for them to properly test it, Yulia would have to be pretty badly hurt so they could find out exactly how actually effective it is at healing her. Yulia and Cherchiel are both somewhat concerned about this concept and Yulia vetoes the idea after a bit, deciding that the idea of either seriously injuring herself or having one of her friends seriously injure her is not something she really wants to deal with mentally at the moment. A few more rest trips and soon Life Drain is fully mastered as well. Cherchiel describes the sensation of being drained as surprisingly pleasant in a sense. It doesn't feel good, but it feels, restful almost. It left her feeling sluggish until being healed, but the actual moment of being drained almost felt like she was falling into a gentle sleep.

With the spells fully mastered they take another rest and then they head into the Alveare. The first noticeable thing about the Alveare is that it's large and absolutely covered with spider webs. Passage through the area is likely to be very difficult as they will have to be very careful not to step in any of the webs. The area is similar to the entrance, dense foliage on otherwise hard rocky cavernous ground, but all of it misted with strands of sticky webbing. Some of the Spiders are also openly visible. Either lying in wait in the trees or near large webs, some simply moving around.

"Alright... Avoid getting caught in webs... Try to avoid getting jumped by the actively hunting ones and make for... that," Yulia says pointing to the other end of the cavern where a massive tunnel has been seemingly dug out by what must have been a truly massive creature.

"I can't say I'm looking forward to this..." Isalia states and Goma looks nervous.

"Goma scared..." she mutters.

(Health: 100%

Mana: 100%

Equipment: Ceramic Beaked Mask, Reinforced Monastic Scapular, standard bra, Standard Panties, 3 poison gas grenades, 3 healing kits, 1 syringe of poison, 1 syringe of adrenaline, 1 syringe of poison antidote, 1 sewing kit, 1 vial of strong aerosolizing aphrodisiac, 8 days worth of rations, 3 two liter water jug, 1 health potion, 5 mana potions, A boar mask, 4 vials of sticky white liquid, Ornate Rapier (-3), 4 arrows, Quiver, God's Favour (Halo. Prevent **** one time), 1 sack of cooking ingredients (Apples), Bone Spear (-1), Ash's Quiver, 6 charm arrows, Smithing Ingredients (6 steel ingots), 1 sack of cooking ingredients (Vegetables), Grenade Launcher, Empty Bandolier, Silver Staff (-2 added to the effect of all spells), Spidersilk gown, Smithing Ingredients (3 silver ingots), 10 silver throwing knives, twenty feet of Spidersilk rope, 1 sack of Cooking Ingredients (Fish), an Onahole.

Spells known: Great Heal (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 25%)

Great Cure (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 15%)

Energize (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 25%)

Icicle (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 15%)

Unlock (Lvl 1, Unmastered, Cost: 15%)

Repair (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 5%-20% depending on factors)

Undermine (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 25%).

Life Drain (lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 2% per 1 Hp healed)

Blizzard (Mastered, cost: 5%)

Fetish: Bondage Rank: 2, Masochism Rank: 1, Lesbian rank: 1, Submission Rank: 1

Status Effect: Permanent increase to physical attribute. Combat level raised to medium

Atrophied: Permanent Decrease to Physical Attribute. Combat Level lowered to weak. (Countered previous Permanent Increase)

Psychosexual Break: In order to deal with her trauma, Yulia has begun to subconsciously fetishize her experiences.

Deflowered: Virginity Lost, sexual experience changed to: Inexperienced, non-virgin.

Marked by The Abyss: Found You.

Companion: Cherchiel, Goma, Martin, Isalia.

Cherchiel Equipment: Ultra Durable Spear( -5, -10 with Boar Mask), Ultra Durable Shield (-5, -10 with Boar Mask), Solanium Reinforced Bodysuit (add -1 to all physical actions).

Cherchiel Status Effect: Divine Grace. Combat Level raised to High

Goma Equipment: Runed Dagger (-2), Hunting Horn (-2 for each ally affected), Reinforced and Nethicite Augmented Thick Hide Outfit (Negate most physical damage)

Goma Mana: 100%

Goma spells known: Heal (Mastered, 15%)

Isalia Equipment: Isalia's Sword (-3), Isalia's Shield (-3), Black Leather Armor

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