Chapter 76 - Prelude to the Madness (2/2)
And just like that, the place where Herellia was training was now left vacant in just a few seconds.
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”Herellia? Herellia…” Even after a couple of hours have passed, Aurus did not stop shouting Herellia's name, subconsciously using the [Gale Hover] spell every time it was off cooldown. If one were to calculate the distance Aurus has traversed throughout these past couple hours, it would equal to the distance a normal person would walk in about one and a half hours or so, around 7.5 kilometers to be specific.
”Herellia? Herellia—” In the midst of his crazed shouting, Aurus stopped where he was hovering from and noticed an ever familiar silhouette that was covered in red engravings. In an instant, the aura Aurus emitted changed from crazed into a cheerful one as he flew towards her while he shouted, ”Herellia!”
”…” On the other hand, sensing Aurus' cheerful expression, Herellia could not help but stay silent as she waited for Aurus to get closer. It only took Aurus around a few seconds to decrease the gap between them to a few meters, prompting Herellia to ask, ”I heard from Horell that you were searching for me these past few hours. What's wrong?”
”Haah…” Aurus let out a sigh as only now did he realize that the actions he did these past few hours were a bit too overboard. Although he was a human at heart, he was currently a stick, hence emotions did not affect him that much unless it reached a certain threshold. Composing himself, he then replied, ”Let's go somewhere private.”
Although saying that in his previous world would elicit some disgusted looks from women, since Herellia took Aurus' words literally, she replied with ”Okay.”
Whoosh! Whoosh!
A few minutes later, the two of them hovered under a tree that was somewhat far away from the alliance's base of operations. Aurus looked at the surroundings for a bit before muttering to himself, ”I guess this is a good place.”
Of course, Herellia could not help but look at the surroundings as well before asking, ”So…why'd you want to find me?”
”Hehe.” Aurus could only let out a stifled chuckle. ”I just wanted to know how to obtain Alliance Points since I obtained 1000 Alliance Points from killing Connor back then. I don't know any other way to obtain them to be honest.”
”Wha—” Herellia was dumbfounded. She did not expect that this was the reason why Aurus wanted to find her. Composing her emotions, she asked, ”Did you unlock the Alliance Tech and Alliance Shop feature perchance?”
”Yeah, why?” Aurus did not hide anything from Herellia since this had something to do with the alliance anyway.
”Well…I figured as much,” Herellia could only softly sigh as she replied. ”Anyways, there are multiple ways of obtaining Alliance Points. You could either do Alliance missions, kill members that have malicious intentions, or…”
”Kill a lot of Inanimate beings.”
”Wait…what?” Now, it was Aurus' turn to be confused. He did not expect that the one of the ways where he could earn a ton of Alliance points was something he used to do before entering the Tempest Branch Alliance. Lightly coughing after Herellia's response, he then asked, ”What's the fastest way to earn a lot of Alliance Points then?”
”Killing Inanimate beings,” Herellia instantly replied without hesitation.
”Do their grades give out different amounts of Alliance Points?” Aurus asked as a follow-up question.
”Yep,” Herellia replied. ”C-grades give out 1 Alliance Point each, B-grades give out 3 Alliance Points, A-grades give out 5 Alliance Points, S-grades give out 9 Alliance Points, and X-grades give out 15 Alliance Points.”
Hearing that he could obtain 15 Alliance Points for every X-grade Inanimate he kills, Aurus could not help but feel his motivation rising up to great heights. In his previous life while playing Infinite Stick Evolution, he would usually go and do PvP with other players, which was surprisingly the reason why he felt his motivation rise up.
Letting out a cheerful aura, he then said, ”I see. Thanks Herellia. I'll repay you for this information once I get back.”
”Alright then,” Herellia replied before instantly putting the thought at the back of her head. The only thought that occupied her mind currently was the fact that she had to level up and evolve both skills that were related to the Tetraelemental Tempest. Seeing that her job was done, she turned around and hastily went back to the alliance base, leaving Aurus alone under the tree.
Normally, the boy would become sad when the girl left him alone. In this case, Aurus was ecstatic to see Herellia hastily leave.
”Fenrir, come out!”
Whoosh!
A few seconds later, a stick that was larger than Aurus with two protrusions on one of its end, appeared in front of Aurus as the small twig on the other stick's end started to sway left to right.
”Master!”
”Fenrir.” Aurus could not help but feel happy that he was finally able to utilize Fenrir in a real situation. ”It's time for you to get stronger.”
”Stronger…” In an instant, the aura around Fenrir turned into an ecstatic one that was filled with hints of ferocity in it. ”Yes! I get stronger so I protect Master!”
”Haha.” Aurus could not help but laugh after hearing Fenrir's response. He then turned his body towards a certain direction before looking at Fenrir and asking, ”Are you ready to start getting stronger?”
With Fenrir's bloodlust being ignited by Aurus' previous words, Fenrir could only respond with, ”Yes, Master!”