massive boost to power

I sighed slightly and extended a hand towards them, preparing myself to put them out. But just before I called Suryasta to make the attempt, a thought struck me and I paused before checking on Adam. He was behind my now and far from the line of fire, so I contemplated it for a moment longer before smiling.

Why not, I thought a moment before I gather light into my hand. The night darkened as Lux Aeterna sprang to life, every source of illumination drawn into the mighty stream of power, from the stars above to the flames below. For a moment, the world was pitch-black but for the attack itself, but when the light returned, the flames of Agneyastra were gone.

As was, uh, pretty much everything else in front of me. There was a path of destruction through the city that ended in a melted mountainside that had been cratered and slagged by the blast. Admittedly, I was fairly close to the edge of the city anyway, but…wow.

I frowned down at my hand, flexing my fingers absently. It hadn’t taken anywhere near as much energy this time, thanks to the cost reduction from Totality and the damage increase I’d gotten from that same skill partially explained the increase in power, but not entirely. My eyes were good enough that just by looking at the after math I could say that it was more than four times as powerful as any of the ones I’d hit the Leviathan with, and even the power it had drawn from Agneyastra didn’t explain that difference. Which must mean…

Ah.

Gevurah (Passive) LV1 EXP: 0.00%
The Severity that brings judgment; the throne of strength and the seat of fire. Though it is brother to Love and Mercy, Gevurah is the power that gives one the strength to enforce their will on the world. In the end, it is the will to act and overcome ones enemies that allows for the existence of Mercy, instead of mere surrender. This ability represents the heightened presence of Gevurah within the soul of the user and through its strength, gives them the power to both protect and destroy.
100% increase to the effectiveness of all skills that assist or create attacks, as well as all skills that directly reduce the power of an opponent.
100% increase to experience gained by all such skills.

I whistled slightly under my breath. That would do it, I suppose—and between this and Totality, the strength of all my Elemental attacks had just gone way, way up. I suppose it wasn’t really all that surprising, remembering how much my power grew every time I hit the benchmark of one of my skills, but still. With an increase like that…

Gevurah had pretty much doubled the power of every attack skill I had. Yesod had done the same to many of my passive skills, including pretty much all the ‘normal’ skills I had like Sword Mastery and the stuff I’d nabbed with Psychometry. Tiferet gave me the power to create new and powerful abilities, or would once I improved a few more of my skills. And now that I was looking for it, I could feel the other changes in the skills I’d recently reactivated. I was vastly stronger now then I’d been even just this morning and I was starting to learn how much. I’d need to go over the rest of my new skills now that I wasn’t worried about freaking out but I’d grown a great deal. I’d come a long, long way from where I’d been.