Chapter 26 - Arogancia (1/2)
”Are you ready to become my stepping stone?” Aurus said as he sniggered. As usual, he forgot that the branch he was facing was at S-grade Inanimate, an Inanimate that has a pretty solid soul.
Hence he was shocked to hear words come out of the Young Tree as it said, ”Oh? A measly inferior stick dares to fight against me, Arogancia who is almost at the level necessary to evolve to greater heights?”
”Eh...?” Aurus truly didn't expect to see the enemy in front of him talk. After a while, he stared at the Young Tree with his [Soul Perception I] skill as he slapped himself back and forth with his nonexistent hands.
”Why do you always keep forgetting that your enemies have some sort of sentience? Do you want to look like a fool in front of them?” Aurus slapped himself multiple times as he burned this statement in his mind.
After a while, he stopped slapping himself and looked at the Young Tree in front of him with a deeper gaze.
”[Species Analysis],” he commanded.
[Species Analysis], a skill forged from the combination of the system's identification skill and the [Ally Appraisal] skill he got after unlocking the Ally system. This would be the first time he would see its prowess.
Ding!
And he would surely be shocked.
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[Arogancia (Young Tree)]
Existence Level: Inanimate (S)
Level: 18/20
HP: 1050/1050
SP: 300/300
Stats:
[Toughness]: 103
[Thickness]: 128
[Root Rigidity]: 110
Skills:
Uncheckable due to the [Species Analysis] skill's low level.
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”...” Aurus was dumbfounded at the Young Tree's status screen that was in front of his screen. Although he knew that S-grade Inanimates were incredibly superior when it came to stats thanks to a better Class Seed, it still shocked Aurus.
He then closed the screen, exactly at the moment that the Young Tree named Arogancia started to talk once more.
”Eh? You're not saying anything? Are you that eager to offer your life to me? Then...”
In the midst of Arogancia's talk, it charged towards Aurus with its roots sticking out of the ground. It was travelling at a speed that was fast when compared to other sticks, but that was only compared to other sticks.
”Submit!”
Whoosh!
At that moment, Arogancia commanded one of its roots to dart towards Aurus' important part, the SP Vessel, which was also known as the SP Storage.
If Aurus lost this, he wouldn't be able to attack Arogancia at all!
”Heh.” Aurus looked at Arogancia's attack and smiled as he used his movement skill to dodge the root. While Arogancia was still immersed in controlling its root, Aurus went closer to Arogancia as he prepared a lance made out of Anima.
In an instant, the Anima lance exuded an aura of intense sharpness as if it could through anything. Not long after, Aurus shot it out towards Arogancia's unprotected trunk.
”[Spirit Lance: Judgement]!”
Bang!
Since Aurus was already near to Arogancia's trunk and all of his skills were imbued with the Wind element thanks to his new Spirit Energy Core, the time needed for the Anima lance to hit Arogancia was already near instant!
Ding!
'You have dealt 178 HP damage to [Arogancia].'
Aurus looked at this amount of damage and couldn't help but let out a sigh of amazement. Even though it only removed around 1/10 of Arogancia's HP, the amount of damage he dealt would already be able to deal with most A-grade Inanimates within 2 shots of this.
”Gah!” Arogancia was caught in a daze after realizing that Aurus wasn't struck by its root and it was attacked by the one it tried to attack.