Chapter 58: The Rich’s dilemma

Just before reading this book, I was wondering what I should do with the precious time left for me in the system space. I even thought of using this time to perform another skill combination & integration. However, at this point, these mere thoughts disappeared. The process of combining other mastery skill is not necessarily as easy as the first one, besides if I had another blackout like the last one, who knows if I would wake up in the stomach of a monster or even never wake up again.

On the other hand, now I had a much more important task to fulfill, setting up my elemental foundation! A very critical task that even the smallest interference would ruin, this space made a perfect location for this task.

But first, I had to make up my choices, I, unlike others who struggled to get even one practice method, had two paths of elemental practice at hand…..

After reading through the first chapter of 'Lightning Cell', I strangely recalled the memories left behind by the nameless thunder lion, and surprisingly, from the 2 sets of info, one of them was a monster practice method. Normally, even if I modified it into a beast art which wouldn't be too hard for me using my superior knowledge of biology and using 'Lightning cell' as a reference, it would still be a 'Beast Art', a method that had deficiencies which outweighed the benefits.

However, it wasn't a normal monster practice method, it was a dual element method that could be used by one element holders…..

It allowed thunder lions who had the attributes of thunder to be capable of lightning control, any normal thunder attributed monster would reach the peak easily if he had that method with enough resources to support it.

When such a method is turned into a 'Beast Art' it might even be slightly superior than 'Lightning Cell'!

But, why would I a lightning attributed human, who couldn't practice this method, be excited over this?

Simply, because it was still a simple monster practice method, if I were to truly use 'Lightning Cell' as a reference, I can reverse the cycle or even completely change its structure!

In much fewer words, the thunder lions practice method is like a one direction train trail or a small circle which has no borders to connect both its ends backwardly. The 'Beast Art' produced by me and the insights of the nameless 'Lightning Cell' writer would bend this train trail into a one direction infinity ∞ shaped trail or just close the circle.

The point of that is, I would be able to practice lightning and thunder, which would be interconnected together. Making the deficiencies small when compared to these benefits.

So I had two choices to choose from with one being the path of the tempting beast art that still isn't created, and two being a ready for practice method which is somewhat inferior compared to the beast art in some aspects.

A skill combination would be the most perfect choice here…. However, these weren't even considered normal skills, even after reading the whole first chapter and having almost a complete understanding of it, it didn't appear in the skill acquisition list. That was to be expected, after all even talents had their limits. Even supposing they were recognized as skills, it wouldn't have been possible to combine them using 'Omni-Mastery' as only one practice method could be used for each element, how could I combine a theoretical skill with a practiced one?

Obviously, the fact that I decided to set my foundation in within the next 10 hours, meant that the 'Beast Art' option was dismissed, I was already having a late start, according to the book, practitioners normally started practicing before the age of 10, I was behind by more than 6 years of progress. Sure, haste led to waste, but who knew if I would even live to practice the still theoretical art?

On the other hand, 'Lightning Cell' was an art that allowed for much faster progress than normal elemental arts, which could compensate for my lateness.

However, it also wasn't a normal art just like the extraordinary thunder lion's method, and provided that it would be quite a loss to abandon the tempting beast art, I was once again provided with two new methods to choose from....

Could this be another example of the rich man's dilemma?[1]