Chapter 33 - Forced to Submit (2/2)
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[Inheritor of Two Ideologies] (Level 1/5)
Grade: B (Mortal)
As a Spiritas, you tread the two paths of Life and Will. With this, you gain knowledge of both paths and know how to use them to your advantage, thus granting you more power.
> For every 10% of the Life and Will bar being filled, user gets a 2% boost in stats, maxing out at 20% at full bar
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[High Vessel of Sentience] (Level 1/5)
Grade: B (Mortal)
As a Spiritas, you tread the two paths of Life and Will, thus gaining knowledge on how to use both paths efficiently. During this process, you obtain a feeling that the two paths are lacking in their peak, thus deriving an expansion to their rumored peak.
> The maximum amount of Life and Will points that could be stored has been raised to 110
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Just at the nick of time, Aurus finished looking at the skill details and was able to focus at the path in front of him with the gap between him and the Tempest Ruin being around 50 meters. Aurus couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief as he tried to remember the information that's needed for him to obtain the [Blessing of the Tempest] and [Stick Regeneration] skill.
At this moment, when only 10 meters separated Aurus from the Tempest Ruin, a large branch and a tree barred Aurus' entry to the Tempest Ruin as a gust of wind blew towards Aurus' direction.
Aurus, of course, noticed the two entities standing in front of him as he dodged the gust of wind before coming back to his previous position, which was in front of the two entities.
Not knowing who they were, Aurus asked the question, ”Who are you?”
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A few minutes prior to Aurus' current situation, a branch and a tree were hastily travelling towards the Tempest Ruin as they slightly hovered about the ground. The branch and the tree were none other than Horell and Loran respectively. They were tasked by Herellia to ask the Spiritas they saw to join the Tempest Branch Alliance.
As they were still heading to their destination, Loran, the tree, asked Horell, ”Why do you think Herellia wants that Spiritas thingy to join the alliance? Does he want the guy for his weird magic? If so, we already have weird magic since you're here Horell.”
Being entities of the S-grade and X-grade, they were able to classify themselves through the genders of male and female, which was a sign of becoming sentient.
Horell, the one Loran just mentioned for having weird magic, couldn't help but blurt, ”Weird magic? Just because you don't understand Higher Level 1 Magic doesn't mean it's weird! If it was really weird, then why would I cast [Flight] on both of us if it was a Higher Level 1 magic spell?” The way Horell spoke was calm and elegant, yet had hints of sadness between them.
Loran sensed Horell's sad expression and sent one of its roots to pat Horell on its body. ”You know what? I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. I'll make it up to you by having fun with me later.” From this statement alone, one could infer that Loran was female and Horell was male. Horell, not losing sight of the task Herellia gave them, then said, ”I would love to but let's focus on the matter at hand. We must make sure that this Spiritas thing should join our side no matter what it takes.”
Of course, Loran agreed to Horell's statement. There was a time where a branch of the alliance didn't fulfill Herellia's mission, that branch wasn't heard of afterwards, with the rumors of it being absorbed by Herellia sprouting within the alliance.
In the nick of time, Horell and Loran landed 10 meters before the Tempest Ruin just as Aurus was almost at the Tempest Ruin. Since Aurus wasn't paying attention to his surroundings while checking his system, he wasn't able to perceive Horell and Loran's landing, assuming that they were already there by the time they met.
Horell looked at Aurus before looking at Loran, who nodded as a signal. Afterwards, Horell conjured a small magic circle that packed a punch as it sent a gust of wind to Aurus.
”[High Breeze]!” Horell chanted inwardly.
Contrary to their expectations, Aurus was able to dodge the skill and went back to his previous position as he looked at the two and asked, ”Who are you?”
At this moment, Loran stepped forward and instantly exuded an aura that inspired fear into anyone and looked at Aurus, who showed slight fear towards Loran. Loran then said in a mighty tone...
”You don't have to know who we are.”
”For we are here to be your masters.”
”Join the Tempest Branch Alliance or die.”