Chapter 51 - Illusion (1/2)

Twenty two hours have passed since Aurus started traversing the extremely long corridor that was originally a green jade hall.

In the midst of his journey to the end of the corridor, he decided to grind all of the skills he could possibly grind while making sure that he was using [Gale Hover] and [Tempest Burst] at the exact time they were off cooldown.

”[Spirit Spear: Bargaining]!”

Bang! Bang! Bang!

In an instant, a few Spirit Spears were shot in front of Aurus' field of vision as he could finally see the end of the corridor, which was a wall of green jade.

”Oh god. Finally! The end! I'm glad this spell is off cooldown. [Gale Hover]!”

Consuming 100 points of his SP bar, Aurus gradually hovered off the ground and zoomed towards the end as the sides of his field of vision were cluttered with multiple notification screens.

Of course, since he was using [Gale Hover] and [Tempest Burst] once they were cooldown, then it wouldn't be weird for Aurus to use his skills at the instant they were off cooldown too, right?

Nonetheless, with the amount of notification screens on the sides of his field of vision, Aurus was bound to have his strength go up even though he was still in the same grade.

Whoosh!

Landing on the ground and touching the green jade wall, Aurus couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief as he emanated a cheery aura. He was finally done with this monotonous trial.

Not long after touching the wall, the disembodied voice that usually announced important things to Aurus, resounded throughout the long corridor.

”The second trial, Speed, has been completed.”

”Time taken to complete the trial: 21 hours 45 minutes. Score grade: A.”

”With an above average score on this trial, the inheritor shall now receive a special reward from the inheritance.”

”Reward is being rolled by the inheritance, please wait...”

”Reward has been rolled. The active skill [Flash] has been obtained.”

Ding!

After the consecutive statements from the disembodied voice, it was followed up by the notification sound from Aurus' system, opening up a screen in front of his field of vision.

'[Flash] has been obtained.'

Surprisingly, the details of this skill were shown beside the notification screen, making Aurus looked at the skill screen with surprise. ”Wait... isn't this...? Isn't this the other evolution for my movement skill?”

How could Aurus possibly forget. The [Flash] skill, one of the two choices of skill evolution for the C-grade [Roll] skill. It exchanged the constant rate of movement for a long distance being traversed in a short time, but with a long cooldown.

”This is definitely a good reward. If I can't fight against the enemy I'm up against with, then i can just use [Flash] to escape!” Aurus thought up of the possibilities of [Flash] in his fights. But as he was in the midst of his thinking extravaganza, a notification sound resounded once more, prompting Aurus to snap back to reality.

Ding!

'The skill [Flash] is not compatible with the user's current form.'

'The skill [Flash] has been changed to the skill [Spirit Flash].'

'The skill [Spirit Flash] has great compatibility with the skills [Tempestuous Spiritas Glide] and [High Wind Affinity].'

'The skill [Spirit Flash] has been transformed [Spirit Gale Flash] thanks to the help of the compatibility of the skills.'

”...” Aurus was speechless. In an instant, the simple [Flash] skill was turned into a skill that had an extremely cool sounding name. And you know what they say, skills with cool names have great effects.

”What...?” Aurus instantly snapped himself back to reality through force and looked at the happenings before [Flash] transformed into the latter.

”So first, it adjusted the skill to fit my current form, which is understandable. Then, it had great compatibility with my first movement skill and my elemental affinity skill...”

”Is it because they all tackle the element of Wind or something?” Aurus thought that this hypothesis was plausible, but he had no evidence to consider if it was true or not.

”Ah whatever. I'll just accept the gift for what it is,” Aurus said to himself.

After the inheritance gave Aurus a special reward, the long corridor, which Auris traversed within 22 hours, shortened at an extremely fast pace until it became a place that Aurus was extremely familiar with.