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Chapter 292: Two Eyes for a Win
🕑 Added 2024-10-27 04:10:21 +0000 UTCA bit of a delay, so I’m moving the next chapter up to tomorrow to balance things out!
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“I’m the one who taught him the double tap,” Jasmine boasted as the boss exploded under Priam’s assault. “With the nasty undead plaguing Oasis, you can’t be too careful.”
“Mmm.”
“Something wrong?”
Kazuki watched the aftermath thoughtfully. “Relying on a single attack is dangerous. Especially one so easy to dodge.”
A Breath was like a tunnel of flame racing at twice to thrice the speed of sound. Priam could guide it with a turn of his head, but it was far from inevitable.
“He knows about that weakness.” Jasmine was quick to defend her boss. “Besides, even without Promesse, he could’ve won.”
“How?”
“During our midnight dates—”
“Your outings to hunt undead.”
“—he showed me an experimental move,” she continued, ignoring the interruption. “If he slices his forearm bone at a bevel, the System recognizes it as a spear. Once boosted by his Mastery, Conquest Aura, and kinetic control, it becomes a destructive weapon. After he breaks his opponent’s defenses, a quick strike with [There is No Heaven] finishes the job.”
Kazuki stared at her. “I lack the words to describe the sheer stupidity of that technique.”
“It’s a last resort, obviously! But it works—he one-shotted a Tier 3 with it.”
“... Let’s assume that Priam is without his Mist Concept. Why not freeze his blood to create a spear?”
“Because he’d lose out on his constitution. Right now, his bones are tougher than Promesse.”
Kazuki opened his mouth, then thought better of it. He groaned as he got to his feet.
“Going somewhere?”
“I withdrew from my fight with Zelgius when it became clear winning would be a pyrrhic victory. I don’t regenerate like Priam, so I didn’t want to return to Elysium wounded if we were attacked. But if he is throwing caution to the wind, I won’t hold back, either.”
“Just admit you don’t want to lose to him!”
Kazuki pretended not to hear.
Jasmine glanced at Priam one last time before standing up herself. She would have to take risks if she didn’t want to get left in the dust.
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The smile faded from Priam’s face as the beastman’s ashes drifted to the floor. Much as he relished surprising his foes, Zelgius had just shown him that Breath wasn’t all-powerful. While his new Concept, Conquest Aura, and Pyro could supercharge it, these were merely quantitative boosts, not qualitative changes.
“If I want real versatility, Promesse and a legendary offensive skill are the clear paths,” he mused.
Still, there had been progress. The purification of his bloodline had enhanced all his draconic talents. Beyond Breath, his instincts and parallel thoughts were proving invaluable.
[Draconic Vivacity: You possess multiple (two) streams of thought, each powered by 88% of your vivacity. Base: 73% +15% from Chimera.]
One percent from bloodline purity, and five percent for every upgrade in Chimera. Soon, Priam would double his effective processing speed, capable of simultaneously viewing situations from two perspectives. Maybe that was part of why dragons were so feared…
The gong echoed as Priam stretched. Around him, the dark fog receded, revealing a perfectly white, cube-shaped chamber. With its metal walls, rather than padded ones, he was reassured he wasn’t in a psych ward. Every boss has its own environment.
The arena, as long as two Olympic pools, had a spherical opening in the ceiling. Through it, a bronze cube descended heavily to the ground.
The object unfolded, revealing a kind of humanoid clockwork figure. Standing three meters tall and made of a bronze-like alloy, the boss studied Priam with multiple lenses. Briefly stretching, it used hundreds of gears and cogs to move its body. Steam hissed from its torso, giving it a steampunk aura, though the runes etched across its surface made it clear the machine was also magical.
Priam frowned as [Identification] returned an error.
“Clock the Cursed, boss of the eighty-fifth wave,” his opponent introduced itself in French. Its voice was that of a child, oddly contrasting with its mechanical bulk. “May I know my opponent’s name?”
Clearly, [Ciphered Record] was working overtime.
“Priam Azura. How do you know my language?”
“I know what the System wants me to know.”
“... Were you a gladiator once?”
“As a Duke, I fear my freedom to speak is limited,” the boss apologized. “Shall we proceed?”
“What else could we do?”
“I have permission to wait until your condition is no longer critical.”
Priam frowned, inspecting himself. A quick [Diagnostic] assured him he was in peak condition, so why did the boss think he had an issue?
“What problem are you talking about?”
“... Shall we proceed?”
Was the boss lying to make him doubt himself? Priam wondered momentarily if his opponent was waging psychological warfare, then shrugged.
“Yeah, let’s begin.”
The gears in Clock’s right hand shifted, forming a protective violet sphere around it, while its left hand aimed at Priam. Feeling his newly honed draconic instincts screaming, the warrior sprang backward. He wasn’t fast enough to avoid a purple ray piercing his eye. Already resigning himself to the loss of sight, he was caught off guard by a searing agony erupting in his pupils.
The world lost its color as Hecate New Moon stirred awake.
The headache of the decade didn’t stop Priam from recovering quickly. He turned directly toward his adversary, and was surprised to see a hundred purple projectiles frozen midair. A second later, they dissipated, erased by the suppression field of the mythic mutation. In the background, Clock watched the scene in silence.
Seeing his foe content to wait, Priam placed a hand over his right eye, wincing as he realized the mutation refused to deactivate. A kind of violet magical parasite was forcing his meridians to keep it fueled. Not only was it rebelling, it was draining a terrifying amount of aether to maintain a monochromatic zone that… Priam wasn’t exactly sure what it did. According to [Ideal Aether Perception], the ambient aether was oppressed.
Priam had acquired Hecate New Moon as a limited Colosseum reward. While potent, it was difficult to control. Its few activations had cost him his sight, which his regeneration couldn’t restore. Only his resurrections could erase the damage caused by his own ability.
As his eyes burned, Priam realized his opponent had forced Hecate New Moon to activate, seeming quite pleased to watch him self-destruct. The mutation would render him blind and drain his aether in moments.
[Aether Reserve: 87%
57 seconds until depletion.]
Gritting his teeth, Priam sprang into action. One parallel thought attempted to force his aether to bypass his eyes—with limited success—while he conjured a fireball to hurtle toward Clock.
The attack vanished after three meters, snuffed out by Hecate New Moon like a candle on a birthday cake.
Rolling his jet-black eyes, Priam lunged forward. Though [Kinetic Control] was sluggish, his powerful muscles let him close the distance between himself and Clock. The mechanical boss fired crossbow bolts wreathed in purple energy. The magical part of the attack dissipated in the suppression field, and Priam narrowly dodged the supersonic projectiles. Then, his sharpened instincts screamed, and he raised his elbow in front of his face.
BOOM!
The room shook as the bolts exploded.
“Argh!”
Priam landed with a roll, grimacing as he felt a weakness in his arm. Hundreds of shrapnel shards were embedded in his flesh, turning gray and violet. [Poison Body] was useless to neutralize the damage: something else was at play. Clock the Cursed, right?
Raising his head, Priam noted that his opponent had retreated to the far end of the room. Despite its clockwork appearance, the boss was some sort of curse mage. It wasn’t a resistance Priam owned, which meant that waiting around was playing into his opponent’s hands.
[Aether Reserves: 61%
Estimated depletion in 40 seconds.]
“Fuck,” Priam muttered, leaping forward. As Hecate New Moon’s influence encased Clock, faint cracks began to spider across its shield. Judging by their slow crawl, Priam would need to triple his energy reserves to have a shot at breaking through like that.
Only one option was left. Close and personal.
Unfurling his phoenix wings, Priam dodged two volleys of enchanted bolts, surging ahead at a speed that left the explosions in his wake. The air thundered as he broke the sound barrier, reappearing just in front of his enemy. Flexing Micro and every muscle in his body, Priam delivered a titanic punch against the shimmering violet energy shield.
A crack echoed. Priam winced as the impact left his hand numb. While he ducked a blade that whistled dangerously close to his neck, half of his attention was analyzing the fight. Clockwork wasn’t defenseless in close combat. Priam pulled back slightly and summoned an ice spear… which dissolved before it could solidify. His own mutation was crippling him.
“The curse in your eyes is terrifying,” Clock complimented, a rune glowing on its cheek.
A heartbeat later, a violet wave enveloped Priam. Micro detected no physical damage, but a huge chunk of his vitality vanished. The rest felt locked down, and Priam was left gasping, like an asthmatic old man after a marathon.
Dropping to one knee, Priam pressed his hand to the shield’s cracks, ready to unleash Pyro. He nearly growled as Clock stepped back. This coward! Come back here!
Opening his mouth, Priam began to channel a Breath. The ambient aether resisted, trickling toward him at the speed of a centenarian on the highway. Hecate New Moon’s suppression clashed with his draconic attack.
A fact that would be useful in the future but disappointing right now. Out of options, Priam fed his own aether into his dragon lungs. His energy reserves now dangerously low, it was do-or-die.
[Aether Reserves: 12%
8 seconds before depletion.]
Focusing on Clock, Priam activated his draconic talent when another violet wave rippled across the arena. As though he had lost control of his body, Priam’s mouth snapped shut. Even with Micro’s aid, his jaw refused to budge, the Breath welling up inside him.
Priam’s eyes widened, and he swallowed the attack. Letting loose a Breath with a closed mouth was a fast way to blow his head off.
As Clock continued its unrelenting analysis, anger surged within Priam. Flexing his formidable willpower, he dissipated the forced command. Still, he didn’t try releasing the Breath directly—no point when the cursed boss could just pull the same trick again.
The realization hit him: Clock might actually be stronger than him. It had used Hecate New Moon to turn Priam’s own power against him from the start. The clock was ticking, and all Clock had to do was wait until Priam ran out of aether to finish him off. Its defenses were terrifying, its magic unbeatable for now.
Still kneeling, Priam looked down at his hands. They were steady, with no trace of fear. He had faced stronger foes than him from the Tutorial’s outset, and most were dead now. Partly because Priam was hellishly hard to kill and partly because he was willing to do whatever it took to win. There was a reason his Patron had chosen him.
Priam rose slowly and grabbed his eyes without sparing a glance for his opponent. Then, with a sickening squelch, he wrenched his eyes from their sockets.
Hecate New Moon, deprived of a medium, finally halted—and with it, the siphoning of his aether.
“Round two.”
Without waiting for a response, Priam summoned a thick cloud of mist with the aether he had left. Fog shrouded the chamber, and he spread two liters of his blood into it. Enhanced by [Ciphered Record], the blood would warp his opponent’s perception.
A thousand crossbow bolts exploded in every direction, proof Clock was now truly blind. Priam dodged them easily as the mist’s perception was his.
Riding his Concept to keep his opponent lost, Priam opened his mouth, reawakening the Breath confined within. [Phantom] and his mist concealed him until the final moment. The aether explosion finally caught the boss’s attention, but it was too late. A tunnel of energy engulfed Clock.
As the laser died down, the sound of shattering glass rippled through the fog: the boss’s shield had finally cracked. Without hesitation, Priam teleported into range. Out of aether, with no Promesse, he had only Pyro and [Kinetic Control] to end this. Flames wouldn’t do much against metal in a short while, so he swung a slow punch. His hand struck Clock’s torso, doing nothing.
“Futile,” Clock remarked as his gears latched onto Priam’s arm.
Trapped in the gears, Priam grinned. “I don’t think so. With my resistances and constitution, my bones are tougher than your metal.”
The gears screeched, straining to shred the reinforced body of the Juggernaut. Before Clock could release him, Priam channeled every ounce of kinetic energy. His trapped hand exploded, sending bone, phalanx, and nail flying like shrapnel at supersonic speed.
The flesh grenade tore the clockwork boss apart.
Blind and missing a hand, Priam smiled as he heard Clock collapse to the ground. Once again, he had triumphed.
Reward: Perfect fight (Clock the Cursed).
Select one of the abilities that could have defeated your opponent.
Observe how you could have defeated him in the most optimal way.
Aether Manipulation
Kinetic Control
Pyro
Spear Mastery
Chimera
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Which reward do you prefer Priam to choose? It’s up to you!
Comments
Abbots Foley
Chimera after he gets it to Sephardic level
James Faulkner
This makes the offering way different. I’d say even split between Chimera and Aether Manipulation. It seems pretty vital to make sure that he knows how to use a talent he’s about to upgrade to Seraphic
Opal
I say Chimera. It's a vision that shows the perfect use of the chosen skill to win in this situation. Priam doesn't even know where to begin with Chimera, but it apparently has the power to have beat Clock. He shouldn't sleep on it.
Opal
It's not getting upgraded though. The reward only shows him a vision on how he could have beat Clock perfectly using the chosen skill. Considering how broad the scope is for Aether Manipulation, there is a high chance it just shows an extremely niche, or hopelessly complex application of the skill that wouldn't really improve his overall power.
Zaim İpek
This changes my answer completely. Kinetic energy is the ability that he understands the least how to effectively apply. If he could get some inspiration for the possibilities, that would be a huge help. My second choice would be Spear Mastery or Aether Manipulation. Both are good choices. But again with Pyro, he already has more than enough inspiration for that. He just needs to apply.
James Faulkner
Maybe something near perfect aether manipulation?
PriÀm
Oops. Fixed, thanks Luke!
Luke Scheffe
READ THIS! There is a line missing from patreon. In the PDF is explains that this is not an upgrade, but instead a vision of an ideal battle using the ability.
Pievalley
From the title “perfect fight” i’m assuming if he picked spear mastery he wouldn’t use the cut-arm-into-spear technique and with how underpowered his actual spear is and the assumption they wouldn’t just freeze an ice spear because of hecate’s moon So if he picked spear mastery he’d have to use promesse to break that super tough shield that clock had and that could be super insightful on how to upgrade his offense While seeing a perfect fight done by aether manipulation leaves so much freedom on how it could go it could just be priam matrix dodging for 10 minutes while he manipulates ambient aether into a hopelessly complex ritual to oneshot clock, which would be cool to see but impractical to put into practice and priam needs power right now to beat the next 5 waves
thisisniall
Gotta be Aether Manipulation for sure
Justchillin
This colosseum reward will show a perfect run of Priam's fight against Clock where he will use the selected ability to do it, not an upgrade. Even just better mastery of Chimera's currently clearly underutilized abilities will be a major boon, nevermind the Token combined.
Strider K Zimmerman
But I’m also scared that it might not give him the ideal, and could just tell him how to shut off aether siphons and how to deconstruct curses
Strider K Zimmerman
I really don’t want it to be, as I don’t think it is an actual viable offensive option for Priams build, and it like actually hurts my soul to say this but aether manipulation purely because of the difficulty of getting it otherwise
TheCommensuratePup
Aether manipulation
Strider K Zimmerman
DHe doesn’t have to use the token on chimera though no? Isn’t an always an option to save it for another ability later
aaab1422
Aether manipulation seems like the best choice
Auber
There is a line in the PDF that is not in the Patron post about what the reward does. I’m more favouring Chimera.
Fred
Chimera. Any inspiration on how to wield that would be a big gain, and the others he can learn in other ways.
Shadow Korosu
Like most others seem to be saying, I agree with Aether Manipulation. It seems the most widespread in terms of utility and power, and though the actual meaning of the reward is a bit vague, it *must* be a truly valuable reward for the 85th wave of the colosseum. Priam has been very determined to have a perfect foundation at his beginning, and Aether Manipulation is a vital piece of having a perfect foundation, but is supposedly impossible to reach Ideal levels for. If this reward could possibly assist him in reaching that, I think it's far too important for him to snatch up any knowledge or improvement possible, to waste it on anything else. Chimera is already being handled by his own body adapting and evolving right now, and he's using a token to evolve it, so I don't think it needs any help from this reward. Kinetic Control, Pyro, and Spear Mastery could be interesting but he has options for improving those later on, and none are quite on par with the devastating primordial power of Aether Manipulation.
Justchillin
That's an upgrade token, this is to improve Priam's mastery of his current abilities with it.
Naasir Smalls
I’m leaning towards Aether Manipulation
Oluwaferanmi Fayehun
He has a token for chimera already, talk about wasting a reward if he uses it for that
Derze
I’m so happy! I’ve been waiting for a Curse Mage for a while, and it was everything and more. Priam got humbled ! Very interesting use of powers too. Priam also got to learn some of his kit can be used against him. He gets very creative when he is desperate. Badass move to blind himself. As for the choice… he needs to build of an offensive skill. Aether seems to be the most valuable out of all the options, as it could apply to anything. But I feel like aether manip would just show him how to cut the flow of Hecate, and probably how to cleanse the curses. After that it’s a straight forward fight. Kinetic should get an evolution with Pyro as soon as he stops to meditate about the prior fights and reach unity proper. So if that’s the vision it seems like an useless reward. Chimera would be an easier pick if it told him how to use the eye without interfering with his own abilities. Or anything really, he has no way of learning that without testing himself. With Chimera already upgrading, could have a lot of synergies. Maybe even use phoenix and dragon together. Very useful Weirdly enough I think Spear Mastery could fill in for the pre-requisite he needs to build a legendary ideal combat skill. It’s also the one he clearly knows less about, but also something he could learn (somewhat) given time. Would pick Spear with hopes of not only getting a good skill, but the understanding of having that skill also upgrading Promesse to at least gold. It’s also the one that he has the least “actual skill” with. For being the most deviant. Would pick Spear.
Justchillin
Chimera. Aether Manipulation may be primordial, but he has a lot of more potential sources of information on that, unlike Chimera. Which he could have apparently actively used to defeat Clock somehow.
Eivind Aabakken
It's gotta be between Aether Manipulation, Chimera or Kinetic Control. Spear Mastery should be left alone until poor Promesse catches up, and Unity with Pyro is in the works. I think it would be more satisfactory if Priam is the sole author of Kinetic Control's further progress, as it feels like 'his' skill much more than Chimera or Aether manipulation does. Like the latter two are mostly necessary/external/not core build (yet). Kinetic also requires 20 more levels and hopefully an ideal evolution, yet is a really solid contender for the legendary offensive skill. So if I've gotta choose between the unknown (maybe circumstantial) Aether Manipulation and Chimera which could give insight into Hectate, has synergies with Homo Elysian and is paramount for bloodline progression, it's gotta be Chimera. Ahhh this is impossible! I changed my mind, Aether Manipulation has limitless potential, so a perfect fight has got to be extremely valuable.
Lion Heart
It has to be aether manipulation
pukeofhurl
If he needs chimera at seraphic before tribulation then he probably needs too get whatever he can for that. Otherwise aether manipulation is always needed.
Oluwaferanmi Fayehun
He has a token for chimera, Kinetic becomes ideal legendary when he unites w pyro, Unity w pyro is inevitable, Spear mastery just needs him to work for at most 72 hours. Nothing is more important than aether manipulation. Considering Priam is aiming for a perfect foundation it’s a no brainer option
Oluwaferanmi Fayehun
I’m really surprised why everyone is going for anything else other than Aether manipulation- It is a PRIMORDIAL skill that has been further praised and emphasized about by the pheonix prince and if it becomes ideal while in Tier 0 elevates his talents on a whole level. Every other than option can be achieved through effort except aether manipulation in tier 0. If he had the ideal skill in this match his moon effect would have been subverted
Lijwent
I'd say kinetic control, it's his first ability and has stayed not advancing for too long Or aether manipulation, after all, it's the base for everything
starvires
Aether Manipulation or Kinetic Control since Chimera is currently passively upgrading.
BelligerentGnu
I mean, it's hard to say without a better explanation, but aether manipulation is core to everything.
Narcoleptic Jellyfish
If (and its a big if) experiencing a perfect battle with chimera lets him more effectively use his Hecate mutation it will be very worth it. On a meta level, Priam (author) wouldn't put it down as an option if they weren't thinking of some interesting ideas for all of the options.
_mori
Only every 5th wave
_mori
He does some of this already, particularly the spear stuff, and he can freeze air, or his mist at least. But not much else aside from agitating or slowing things down.
Tyrone Jason
Idk why so many people are suggesting chimera when it’s already being upgraded passively and he has a upgrade token waiting for it. Aether manipulation is by far the most valuable pick from the list and it isn’t even close.
James Skinner
Aether manipulation.
Art
What was the reward for his previous battle? Or was there none?
Custus
Thanks for the chapter! Aether manipulation or kinetic control, as you wrote in the chapter he needs some sort of legendary offensive ability and those two would be the fastest way to acquire one.
Andrew
Thank you!
GreatCabbage
Gotta be chimera or Aether manipulation. Probably Aether manipulation, as chimera is already in the works, and he is extremely limited in ways he can qualitatively push his Aether manipulation
IdolTrust
Priam is still fighting like a human. He should be using physics to make freeze air/moisture with mist concept to make one time use spears to abuse his spear mastery and his kinetic control to turn his movement speed into raw power kind of like the flash.
Wanderer
Aether Manipulation, no contest
IdolTrust
You right. There should have been his spear as a choice. Because there was a blank bullet point.
Satanael
Aether manipulation for sure
John Anastacio
Aether manipulation. Probably the most difficult to upgrade and therefore the most valuable boost.
Akshay Avala
probably aether manipulation or kinetic control. would’ve said chimera if it wasnt already improving on its own + token. Spear mastery seems the hardest for priam to upgrade himself but aether manipulation has such a wide range of applications and is also extremely difficult to improve at tier 0. this is assuming it’s for ideal aether manipulation. Kinetic Control also has so many applications and it’s his first skill that took him really far in the beginning. Would be nice to see an upgrade for that.
Raikazzen
Kinetic control
Luke Scheffe
If it’s a vision of a fight using those particular methods, I’d say chimera is the obvious choice. For all the others, it’s simply a matter of practice. But he doesn’t have any idea where to begin with using chimera actively.
Druick
Aether Manipulation I choose you!
Zaim İpek
Obviously Chimera. With that he gets better control of hecate new moon and his bloodlines, and everything else working together more perfectly. Seems like the obvious choice. The rest of his tempering will also probably become much easier by raising Chimera. If Chimera wasn't on the list Aether manipulation would be a fantastic choice. The other choices are not even close to being as good as those two. And for Pyro especially, I think it's important he realize the Unity level on his own. He already has affinity that is more than good enough. It would be silly to use a colloseum reward for what he should really do on his own.
CherMi
He has a token for chimera, already ready to move to unity with pyro and his spear is currently broken. Between kinetic control and aether manipulation, I vote for aether manipulation. Maybe this reward will count as one of ideal prerequisites and he could get it to ideal without using tier 1 ace title. This forceful activation of his curse is clearly a weaknesses, one he absolutely has to fix before tribulations. I guess it was said chimera will help there, so upgrade token will patch it up.
Quyan640
Spear or Aether are relatively the hardest for Priam to improve so either one of thoses.
_mori
@Priam could you give a bit of an explanation on what the reward does? The list of selections doesn’t really help in narrowing down since there’s a passive talent, concept, supremacy, and even a skill. None of them have similar progression so it’s hard to judge what the reward itself aims to help him accomplish
Zarek21
Chimera
Narcoleptic Jellyfish
Aether Manipulation - The perfect upgrade for this was beyond Priam's reach before the rewind, but presumably an improvement won't hurt, and aether seems to be important to the setting. Kinetic Control - this has deserved attention for a long while. It got him very far at the start. Pyro - he has shown that he advances quickly in this. In the future I suspect it will lead him to the wonderful concepts of annihilation, wrath, purity, star, more exotic and adacent things, the really fun stuff. My memory is warning me that advancing concepts too far too early forces tier up or something like that? There is also the issue of the danger of being influenced by the 'gestalt' of other users of the same concept which will likely clash with Priam's goal to be free. Spear Mastery - With his other abilities, I sometimes feel like Priam holds himself back in a losing battle to keep the spear relevant. Tribulation piercing spear implies that the spear will be an important tool for when the rest of his arsenal fails him, but at the moment spear's main function is to conserve aether while dealing with parity and weaker enemies. I am overly critical of it here when really it has acted as an enhancer for his other concepts so I think I will reserve further judgement. Chimera - Likely to be his bread and butter as he progresses his bloodlines. We already have the goal to bring this high enough to safely use the Seraphic token.
_mori
If it’s a lesson in using his abilities, I’m really curious to see how Chimera can be used in any active capacity. Despite being legendary rarity, it’s only very good mediator between his bloodlines. But the possibility that it could’ve helped him win this fight is intriguing. Still, Priam’s offense is too inconsistent. I’d go for either Mastery of Kinetic Control. Probably control since it seems to be the one with the bleakest future currently, despite it hiding a well of potential.
Auber
What will this reward do? I’m going with Aether Manipulation in the hope that it will get Idealised.
IdolTrust
Chimera or aether. But chimera would be the best bid because of the synergies between dragonic and Phoenix bloodlines.
_mori
What is the reward supposed to do? There’s a talent, a concept, 2 skills, and a mastery in the list. It’s clearly going to enhance them somehow, but how. If it gives him an ideal replay of the fight using his selection since it says “perfect fight” it’d seem too underwhelming a reward. For a similar reason as to why Priam chose not to view a perfect run of his first set of tribulations. Hindsight is 20/20. So I’m assuming that the reward intends to enhance his selection. Only, leveling his skills isn’t really a worthwhile reward. Perhaps remaking it into an ideal version would do. For Pyro, maybe the concepts could give him insight or help him achieve unity without danger of going mad. Chimera is pretty obvious, but considering that his racial talent is already pushing it up to mythic rarity, it seems a monumental waste (though this would no doubt speed things up). The last is Spear Mastery. I thought the concepts couldn’t help with the supremacies? Maybe this reward then would just give him a thorough education on spears? Even if it could help increase the tier of his mastery, we know Priam would not pick it. A much simpler reward would be the concept showcasing a very high level application of his mastery/concept. It isn’t lost on me that Sphinx’s 7-stack tribulation could’ve only manifested a t0 entity, with t1 concepts and masteries at most. So if this reward is going to teach him how to use his tools, it’s probably going to be a level of application that Priam hasn’t touched upon.
Captain_Joule
Aether manipulation is king!
Ihsan Gunay
Aether manipulation ftw
Jared Jobbins
Oh god, I guess he needs Chimera. But otherwise Pyro to help with the next evolution. Or my absolute favorite, kinetic control
Noah Steinberg
Chimera
PaperMache7
Aether Manipulation
Amari Charles
Aether Manipulation would be cool but given the circumstances it seems like he has to pick chimera
GallantRage1 .
Chimera
Portalop
I guess Chimera would be the obvious choice? If not then perhaps showing the perfect of aether manipulations could teach him alot
Sir Sloth
Tftc! Chimera for more adaptation, woooo.
