Monk

[Monk]

How did you convince

that monk to teach you

Spiritual Bestowment? It'd

be nice to popularize both

of our specialty skills, but the world may not be ready yet.

To begin, Excruciating Palm

is performed by taking your

inner strength and making it

into outer strength. Then, you

focus all of that into your palm. You'll explode if you do it wrong.

This skill truly causes

excruciating pain, consuming

20 SP and even 10 HP. It will

knock back monsters with the

chance of stunning them, but only the targeted monster is damaged.

If you use this skill on

other players, it will cause

a certain amount of damage,

but it won't knock back other

players near the original target. Does that make sense?

Anyway, keep practicing

these principles and you'll

master Excruciating Palm.

You should definitely be able

to do it since you've learned

Spiritual Endowment.

Well, we've completed

the lesson. I hope you

use your new skills to

fight for justice and

combat evil. Goodbye

for now, my friend.

What's that...?

You've learned the

Spiritual Bestowment

skill? I assume that you

wish to learn Excruciating

Palm next. Am I correct?

Hm. Well, you are strong

enough to handily defeat a

good number of Mandragoras.

All right. You seem to be ready. Come back in a little while so

that I can finish preparations.

As I mentioned to you

before, you must subjugate

Mandragoras to prove that

you are qualified, in terms

of strength and compassion,

to learn Excruciating Palm.

Fight to protect those

innocents terrorized by

the aggressive Mandragoras.

If you bring me 20 Stems and

3 Shoots, I will be satisfied with this proof of your ability.

Do you understand now?

Have you come to learn

Excruciating Palm? If only

that were possible. There

are two obstacles we face

in fulfilling your request.

Firstly, you must learn

the Spiritual Bestowment

skill beforehand. It will be

difficult to get that monk

to teach it to you, if not

outright impossible.

Secondly, you will need

to pass my little test of

strength, so that I can be

use that your body can endure

the awesome power involved

in using Excruciating Palm.

Mm. I know that Mandragoras

have been menacing travelers,

so if you can prove to me that

you've been hunting them, you

will prove worthy of learning

Excruciating Palm.

If you can somehow convince

that monk to teach you how to

perform Spiritual Bestowment,

I shall then ask you to bring

20 Stems and 3 Shoots from

hunting Mandragoras.

Of course, completing

my test is meaningless

if you do not first learn the

Spiritual Bestowment skill.

I wish you luck with that...

There is a pacifist monk

living in seclusion that

can teach the Spiritual

Bestowment skill. However,

he is stubborn, and has refused many who wish to learn from him.

It would be good if

you can convince him

to teach it to you, as it is

impossible to learn how

to perform this skill alone.

It's really quite a pity...

Power without justice will

not last. Justice without

power cannot be upheld.

Power does not equate to

justice, but true justice can

be the means to power.

Always remember this truth.

Justice and power, compassion

and strength, wisdom and action. These are all complements that

go hand in hand and must always

be harmoniousy balanced.

So it is with some skills.

I have developed a skill

that is the pure manifestation

of power, Excruciating Palm!

However, it is useless without

its complement to balance it.

The complement to my skill

is a skill known as Spiritual

Bestowment, which can only

be taught by one Monk. However,

he refuses to teach it to others, believing they are unworthy.

Although I've let him know

that he should popularize his

teaching of that skill, I must respect his decision. Still, you

may try talking to him if you wish to try to learn some new skills.

To find him, simply seek

out the monk who always

preaches the empty meaning

of fighting. That will be him.