The Scientist of Monster Creation, forcefully Hired

35. Strengthening



Chloe continued to Practice Sorcery. 
She has her Snow Sorcery now at three, while her Mana Manipulation and Sense hover at ten. 
She feels that this two skill need more of a push then that. 
But besides that, she as good results.

Dendrite Snowflakes, double as big as an head and Razor sharp. 
Half-dendrite Snowflakes which look thicker then the one before. 
And a Plate shaped one, only having small gaps, but in turn looking vicious.

This three are her projectiles, for either just throwing or guiding like said in the Book, with teetered them. 
The first one is cutting/piercing, depending on how used. 
The second one is blunt force, but not in a sense like the Mace. 
Chloe can properly conclude that snowflake are to light, but those are still heavy enough for some knock back.

Especially since the can fly low and the up, throwing someone in the air. 
The last one is more for blocking, or rather intercepting attacks. 
She doesn’t trust that thin thing to be the only thing standing between her and a potential lethal attack.

Next would be something she tried stupidly, and worked. 
The Snowflakes would only cool a bit, like a giant snowflake would. 
But she can make an indistinguishable one which absorbs head and can explode.

Depending on design, the snowflake can hold more heat, more plate-like equals to more storage. 
On the other side, contact is needed to absorb heat, so the shield on isn’t really made for it. 
And when the maximum is reached or it’s teetered and she triggers it, all the heat will be released.

When she has it teetered and stuck inside someone’s body, she even can make it explode at the part inside the body. 
A truly vicious Weapon. If it works. 
She never tested it on someone, so she doesn’t know if there is some kind of defence against things like that.

But what she can do in one way, why not the other? 
She can create a Snowflake which does the same thing in reverse. 
It needs to be charged beforehand, not being able to absorb cold, until exploding after a Time, trigger or impact.

Like before, the one looking like a plate has the most impact.
It can be used as a Mine or deterrent for CQC.
Or to catch someone off-guard.

 But opposed to the heat one, this one can be more easily distinguished with Mana Sense. 
The Heat one, one the other Hand, is barely different for Mana Sense. 
It gets especially tricky since the actual design is never the Same, so it can be mistaken.

Her Defense spell, an actual wall, is many interlocked Snowflakes. 
They are clearly distinguishable, but only thump-sized, when compared to the previous one. 
She also can create normal sized snow, but not in a height appropriate for a wall. 
She can still make normal snow pretty resistant to outside influence.

On the other side, it seems to be easy to break when someone can infuse Mana inside and break the spell. 
It isn’t some kind of formations, but the Mana should still be in a form with the intend. 
On the other side, someone has to either touch the sharp Flakes or infuse it from the distance. 
Neither being something Chloe would try in a battle, and she tried.

She doesn’t have any form of Teleportation. 
There is a sensation when covering something in snow and trying to teleport it. 
But it’s weak, and she didn’t have it much more attention after trying a bit around. 
She know it’s stupid to neglect, but not having any idea in which directions the effort should go would make it useless.

On the other Hand, Domain and Sense go well, but only hand i hand. 
She has an hard Time to have snow up for sensing when not using a Domain. 
Conversely, not trying to Sense makes her loose control of her domain fast.

She can conclude that she doesn’t concentrate at the right things, but it won’t fix the problem from now to then. 
So she can only continue to train it, especially since her Radius is a bit less than a metre. 
She feels it’s inadequate for a proper spell.

Next is her Barrier. 
She has a Tiny would be Barrier. 
But instead of blocking, it just “debuffs”.

Meaning, it would freeze Magic, Mana or fast projectile. 
It can’t protect her, but give her a time to react. 
Especially since the sensation is pretty obvious when something happens. 
It feels like someone took a Horse-brush and brushed down her neck after dipping it in slightly to hot water.

Slightly to hot like the reaction when one changes from cold water to hot one to fast. 
She doesn’t know when it progressed that far, but the more and consecutively she uses sorcery, the more her body temperature drops. 
It seems like it gets higher with Time without using sorcery and doesn’t effect her surroundings heavily. 
As if the Coldness is contained inside her Body. Conversely, things don’t warm up when she holds them for long.

And she has a spell with effects she can’t properly discern. 
What it does is actually simple.  
She creates a blast at which snow is created and everything is getting colder.

But what effect it really has, she can’t say. 
She created the spell, but she just overpowered a cooling spell. 
And it does seem to have potential, but in which direction she has to go down with it, she doesn’t know.

Well, that is it for the Introduction to Chloe’s new trick. 
Chloe showed remarkable potential to shape thin threads of Mana. 
Some can do it, some not. In magic is it negligible. 
But in Sorcery is it important in which shapes you can form Mana easily.

It allowed Chloe to guarantee sharpness for her flakes, which is impressive. 
But her Flakes are severely lacking durability. 
The are generally a bit fragil and not very flexible. 
That something is really durable means also it isn’t to rigid, but the crystal one nature of snow exactly does that.

And who thinks it is overpowered what I wrote her. 
Yes, it is a bit. But is much less powered then one would think. 
A dendrite Snowflake of her can do as much damage as a Butterknife against wood.
A Butter Knife which ramm with full speed, but still. 


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