Chapter 453: The calm before the storm (1/2)

Apart from the girl's finding a cause in trying to break through the walls protecting Aiden's heart, the group kept up with their training, solving several of the hardest ongoing challenges posted on the Guild's Mission Board.

As such, each member of their group, Aiden included, gained several advancements in their skills and have grown considerately stronger.

For Aiden, the growth was quite obvious, just from looking through his status page on the System.

For the main page, the change was already quite obvious.

[ *Status* | Lab | Domain |  Activities ]

[—Status Screen — ]

[ *Main* | Skills | Analysis | Inventory ]

[Name: Aiden Vordragon

Race: Primal (Evolver)

Current Form: Ancient Dragon (Human)

Level: 15

Condition: 100%

Resource: Soul Power (Level 2) : 1250 SP / 1250 SP

System Points: 18450 EXP

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Attributes:

Might: 40

Agility: 39

Spirit: 45

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He gained a boost to all 3 of his attributes, growing even stronger, faster and through the increase in his Spirit, had an even closer, more stable connection to the Spiritual Pool of the universal energy.

Though the changes weren't huge, they still earned him a substantial increase to his Soul Power reserves. Unfortunately, however, there seemed to be some unknown hurdle, thwarting him from breaking into the 3rd level, making his current progress being stuck at 99.9%.

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Resource: Soul Power (Level 2 - Progress: 99.99%) : 1250 SP / 1250 SP

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He tried, meditating for multiple nights, spending and wasting away hours upon hours making absolutely no progress. Strangely though, it seemed that neither the system nor Enya, his guide seemed to be bothered by his struggle, and did not give any hints or input on the matter.

Well, at least not until the 3rd night, when finally they either felt sorry for him or maybe just some hidden restriction was finally lifted.

Either way, in the middle of the 3rd night, his session was suddenly interrupted when the system's notification sound rang inside his mind, pulling him out of his meditation.

Taking a look at the newest message, Aiden was surprised to see a new quest arriving on his screen. After days and days of system-generated side quests that were just carbon copies of the missions they accepted from the guild, it was a fresh sight to see something new.

Not to mention, the type of the quest seemed to be something new, or at the very least something Aiden had no memory of ever seeing. Not Main Quest, Not side quest, not even Evolution or Fusion related, but of the new category of System Quests.

*Ding!*