Chapter 44 - Absurd Upgrades (2/2)

'Experience +160'

'2 Genesis Points have been obtained.'

While Aurus was looking at the notification screen that came out after every wave, another notification screen appeared behind the notification screen he was reading, prompting to move the current notification screen away and look at the other notification screen with surprise.

Ding!

'Congratulations! Aurus has leveled up.'

'Aurus has reached the MAX level.'

'Aurus has not yet met the necessary requirements to evolve.'

At first, he was ecstatic to see that he had finally reached the maximum level for his current grade as he only needed to grind his skills in order to obtain a better evolution. But after reading the final statement, he saw that he still needed to do something else.

”Huh? Why can't I evolve?” Aurus thought to himself. After a while, he realized what he was missing. ”Ah. Life and Will points.”

Indeed, the points that could be exchanged for temporary power were also the requirements needed in order to evolve. For Saplings, it was Life points. For Branch Formosii, it was Will points.

”I'll have to grind some Life and Will points later,” Aurus muttered as the disembodied voice started to talk again.

”The sixth wave is starting.”

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

In an instant, 32 clones where 4 of them were strong clones while 28 of them were the normal clones, appeared in the center of the green jade hall, positioning themselves towards Aurus' direction as they were about to fire their nut tridents and walnuts.

”Oh no, you don't! I'll go first!” Aurus couldn't help but shout as he knew that with his current movement speed, he would be cornered by all of the tridents and walnuts. He could use his movement speed boosting skills and spells, but he wanted to use them only for strong enemies, which he had a feeling that would pop up next round.

Hastily forming a Spirit Spear, he shot it out towards one of the strong clones as he shouted, ”[Spirit Spear: Acceptance].”

Whoosh!

The Spirit Spear was shot out like normal, darting towards the direction of one of the strong clones as they were still unaware of the Spirit Spear heading towards them.

At that instant.

Weeeennngggg...

The Spirit Spear froze in place. The clones also froze in place as well, as if...everyone was stuck in time.

Aurus, who was not affected by this, looked at this weird situation and felt a looming destructive aura gradually envelop all of the clones. Not long after, like they were not there in the first place, the bodies of the clones disappeared into thin air as any remnant of the clones being there wasn't even left behind.

Ding!

'[Spirit Spear: Acceptance] has been used after [Spirit Spear: Depression], allowing the former's properties to be boosted.'

'[Spirit Spear: Acceptance] has been upgraded to [Spirit Spear: Truth], turning into a skill that attacks every enemy seen by the user and deals damage that is equivalent to 25 times of the user's Attack stat (multiplier increases as the level of the skill is increased).'

...

On another green jade hall.

Herellia finally broke through the second illusion world after wasting multiple minutes finding the exit. As a branch at heart, she didn't know the meaning of being mentally exhausted, using her soul to the limit as she continued to find the exit to each illusion world using logical and rational thinking, and of course, brute force.

Being a leader of an alliance, one must not only be the strongest, one must also be wise.

Letting out a sigh of relief as she saw the green jade hall for the first time, she couldn't help but complain about her trial. ”This illusion thingy is definitely confusing. It forces me to use all of my soul to think up of ways to escape.”

With her complaining about the difficulty of her trial, she couldn't help but think about Aurus and how he was faring. ”I wonder how far Aurus has gone in his trial.”

While thinking about Aurus, the disembodied voice that didn't care about what Herellia felt, continued to resound throughout the green jade hall.

”The third world, Longevity, is now being casted.”

Remembering that there were still 7 more things like these after this one, Herellia finally snapped and couldn't help but say as she sighed.

”Ah shit, here we go again.”