Chapter 282 - A True Sand Elementalist! (1/2)

30 minutes later...

Felix had finished the integration smoothly without fainting. The process was painful alright, but 5% was manageable for his pain tolerance. As always, he immediately went for a shower after he was done.

Shortly after...

Felix exited the bathroom and went to get dressed. After putting proper clothes on him, he sat in the bedroom and closed his eyes shut with an eager expression. 'Please be something good.'

The moment Felix dove into his memories and noticed the unlocked information, he couldn't help but raise an eyebrow in surprise after reading an unfamiliar name for a passive. The other one he already had clue about it.

”Absolute Sand Defence?” Thoughtful, Felix opened his eyes while resting his chin on his hand. He never heard of such a passive before and especially one that had 'absolute' in it.

Felix knew that those abilities were named personally by the Sphinx, and for her to add Absolute in an ability only meant that it was the real deal.

”Let's see if it lives up to its name.” Felix closed his eyes again and dove back, wanting to read the rest of the ability's details.

A few moments later, he opened his eyes with clear agitation on them. ”Automatic sand defense? This is f*cking nuts!”

Felix might have only seen how the ability worked, but it was enough to blow his mind!

Without a second delay, Felix laid on the bed and requested the Queen to log him in. He was too eager to test out the ability's bold claim!

...

In the Measurement Center, in a VIP room...

Felix had just closed the door behind him before getting greeted by the room's AI. Felix walked to the center of the small white room and requested an Elemental assessment.

Soon the room was split into the same four areas. Felix went to the defensive area where he would be subjected to all kinds of attacks. Whether elemental, physical, or mental.

After standing before a silver machine, that resembled a canon with a screen on top of it, Felix requested, ”Please switch to different abilities from different elements periodically.”

”Understood.” The AI asked, ”Do you want to upgrade the strength of the abilities gradually or just fixated on a single level?”

Felix thought about it for a second before choosing the first option. After so, he relaxed his muscles and held his hands behind his back. He looked at the mouth of the canon and smirked, ”Fire!”

Whoosh!

Felix narrowed his eyes in focus on the approaching ice spear and simply kept thinking, 'Any moment now, any moment no...F*ck me!'

Alas, by the time Felix realized that something was wrong, the spear was already in front of his face.

Boom!

The icy spear penetrated Felix's forehead and disappeared right after, leaving behind it a bloody hole that showed Felix's mushed-out brain matter!

He died instantly...

Plop!

His body fell to the ground as it couldn't keep on stranding like this without support. However, a second later, Felix broke into light particles and rearranged again in a healthy state.

”Should we carry on?” The AI asked.

The moment Felix was hit directly, she stopped the following attacks.

”Give me a second.” Felix murmured while massaging his forehead.

Although there was no pain, Felix's mind kept repeating the same experience over and over again, making him feel like his forehead was aching.

”I can't believe I just went from being immune to peak 1st stage bloodliners' abilities to get one-shotted by them.” Felix sighed in dejection, ”I am missing my superstrength passive already.”

Obviously, the moment Felix unlocked those two sand passive abilities, he lost his superstrength and poison immunity.

When Felix still had his super strength, his body defenses were able to withstand elemental abilities fired by even a peak 1st stage bloodliner. But after it was replaced with one of those two sand passives, he lost almost 40% of his strength.

Now? He was barely immune to abilities fired from Sylvia!

For his body to be this shitty, Felix knew that he wasn't going to survive the upcoming gold game as a single ability would turn him to dust.

Thus, he felt extremely happy when he read the description of Absolute Sand ability. But, it somehow failed him against this attack, and Felix was currently thinking deeply about the reason.

After a couple of seconds, Felix slapped his forehead, ”I am a f*cking idiot.”

He realized that his eagerness to test the ability made him ignore a huge requirement for the ability to work.

Felix didn't waste more time berating himself as he swiftly requested, ”AI, please create a field of sand around me.”

The AI did as she was told obediently, manifesting a wide area of sand around Felix. After feeling that he was rising slowly, Felix requested for it to stop.

Felix bent down and lifted a handful of sand. He opened his palm and looked at the golden shimmer of the grains with a hint of fascination.

He might have reached 100% sand affinity two days prior, but this was actually the first time Felix was near sand created by elemental energy!

”Let's try again.” Felix dusted his palm and stood with his hands guarded in front of his face. His c.o.c.kiness had been taken away with that spear attack.