Chapter 33 - Forced to Submit (1/2)

After fighting against Exos, Aurus decided to just hit his future enemies with the hardest hitting skill he had, which was the Acceptance form of the [Five Melancholy Spirit Spear]. If his enemies didn't die under the combination of [Spirit Energy Augmentation] and the Spirit Spear's Acceptance, Aurus would then use the second hardest hitting skill he had, the [Spirit Wind Ball].

Using this tactic, he was able to kill a bunch of S-grade branches and trees without difficulty, obtaining their Life and Will points in the process. Of course, the experience gained wasn't meager in amount since Aurus was killing beings that were one grade higher than him. After killing all of them, he gained 3 levels and was already close to maxing his current grade, being at Level 9.

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Only a few hundred meters remained between Aurus and the Tempest Ruin as he could make out the place he was going to head to. The Tempest Ruin was an old building destroyed by the raging winds as the dust created from the rubble was scattered all throughout the ruin. Not only that, the rigidity of the walls were basically obsolete, only needing one push of a finger for it to fall over.

Of course, Aurus didn't head straight into the Tempest Ruin as he knew that some of his skills leveled up along the way. Since he was fighting, he muted the notification screen that popped up whenever his skills leveled up, only to let the feature be disabled. Not long after, a small bunch of notification screens appeared in front of Aurus' field of vision.

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

'[Five Melancholy Spirit Spear] has leveled up.'

'[Low Spirit Spell Core (Wind Variant)] leveled up twice.'

Of course, the first notification screens to pop up were the offensive skills leveling up. It would be unusual for them to not level up after upgrading the [Level Up Synchronization] feature on the system's OS, right?

'[Supreme Purity Spiritas SP Vessel] has leveled up.'

'[Condensed Spirit Energy Core (Wind Variant)] has leveled up twice.'

After the offensive skills were the skills that had something to do with SP. All of his skills used SP so it would be unusual for them to level up.

'[High Rejuvenating Fruit Creation] has leveled up five times.'

Aurus looked at this and couldn't help but lightly chuckle. ”I almost forgot about this one. I wonder how much SP I can hold now?”

The reason why [High Rejuvenating Fruit Creation] was able to level up five times was due to the fact that Aurus felt that the attack power of the Acceptance form wasn't high. Since the attack power of the form was proportional to the amount of SP he had, he decided to grind some levels on his Anima creation skill since that skill gave him the highest boost in SP amount.

Opening the details of the skill, he muttered, ”After getting the Anima creation skill to Level 6, the maximum amount of Animas I can make has been boosted to 35 and the amount of SP each Anima can hold has been boosted to 22. Sweet.”

Of course, the notification screens weren't over as there were a few more. These notification screens were expected by Aurus as they had something to do with...

Evolving.

'[Spirit Energy Augmentation], [Treader of Two Paths], and [Life and Will Vessel Manipulation] have all reached the MAX level. All of these skills have met the necessary requirements and are ready to evolve.'

Taking a bit of his time to look at the triangle hovering his body that showed the distance between him and the place he set a marker to, he noticed that there were only around 200 meters left. Since that was the case, Aurus commanded, ”Evolve all of the evolvable skills.”

Well, even if he evolved them all one by one, nothing would happen since he was sure all of these skills had a direct skill evolution path unlike the other skills he had.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

'[Spirit Energy Augmentation] has been evolved to [Spirit Energy Ascension].'

'[Treader of Two Paths] has been evolved to [Inheritor of Two Ideologies].'

'[Life and Will Vessel Manipulation] has been evolved to [High Vessel of Sentience].'

After removing those notification screens, he then formed 5 more floating Animas as he had to be prepared at all times, expanding his maximum SP by a small margin. He then took a glance at the floating triangle and saw that there was only 150 meters left. He then opened the details of the three skills while simultaneously casting [Spirit Detection (Wind Variant)] around his surroundings every once in a while.

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[Spirit Energy Ascension] (Level 1/10)

Grade: A (Mortal)

The exchange of SP into power has reached its limits yet the Spiritas still needs more power. In the end, the Spiritas found a way to exchange more SP into power by condensing it and releasing it at the crucial moment, allowing the tides to turn around at battles.

> Conversion rate: 1 SP -> 1% boost in all stats

> Current limit: 100% boost in all stats

> [Spirit Ascension] skill can be used once limit has been reached, increasing the limit by 50% for 2 minutes (Has a cooldown of 1 hour)