Timothy stepped back into the room, unconcerned with how exactly he worked his magic.
With no electricity, the heat hung heavy in the air, making it hard to care about much else.
"It's back to you, Gray," he muttered.
His next task was to test the full range of the new skill.
"A skill that has other skills under it?" Timothy rubbed his chin. "It's like a master skill? Hmm… no, that doesn't sound right. Since its growth depends on both me and my companion… it wouldn't be wrong to call it a parent skill."
Five termites were still in the room, and the little ones seemed oddly fond of his table.
He focused on the first sub-skill and read its description aloud:
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[Mana Hibernation: Allows a limited number of Termites to enter stasis within your Mana signature, reducing upkeep drastically. Upon re-summoning, they appear in the exact state they were in before dormancy (unless killed).]
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Mentally, he activated the skill the usual way.
A prompt appeared before his eyes:
