Chapter 82 - The Grind (2) (1/2)
”[Stick Regeneration]!”
Whoosh!
”Fenrir, hit me one more time!”
”Haah…got it, Master!”
Over ten minutes have passed since Aurus decided to level up his skills in preparation for his evolution to S-grade. The first skill that he decided to level up was [Stick Regeneration], remembering that it was an extremely important skill to his survival. It took him a few minutes of coercing Fenrir for Fenrir to give up and follow Aurus' whims of letting it hit him in order to level [Stick Regeneration] up.
Bang!
With one swipe of Fenrir's stubs, Aurus was sent flying for a few meters towards a nearby tree. Of course, Aurus would take Fenrir's attack head-on since it would damage him, but for some reason, he did not want to take collateral damage from his surroundings.
”[Spirit Barrier].”
Whoosh!
As only a few centimeters remained between him and the tree in front of him, a faint gray barrier covered Aurus' body, easily making an imprint of Aurus' body on the tree while him receiving no damage at all from the impact.
[Spirit Barrier] was a spell he obtained from the [Middle Spirit Spell Core] after it reached Level 10, thanks to him killing over 130 X-grades.
After a while, Aurus was able to budge himself out of the tree and land on the ground as a notification screen appeared in front of his field of vision.
Ding!
'Aurus has received 135 HP damage from [Fenrir].'
”Fenrir, could you attack lighter next time?” Aurus could not help but say as he activated [Stick Regeneration] a few times, bringing his HP back to max.
Ding!
Unsurprisingly, another notification screen appeared in front of Aurus' field of vision. Aurus glanced at the information on the screen for a bit, only to release a cheerful aura afterwards.
'[Stick Regeneration] has leveled up.'
'[Stick Regeneration] has reached the MAX level.'
'[Stick Regeneration] has met the necessary requirements and is ready to evolve.'
Just as Fenrir was about to reply to Aurus' plea, Aurus interrupted Fenrir before it could speak out, shouting out, ”Finally! I can evolve my skill!”
Aurus glanced at Fenrir and pondered for a bit before saying, ”You know what…never mind. Rather than making your attacks lighter, attack me with your strongest power!”
At this moment, Fenrir did not know whether it was going to follow the former or the latter due to confusion, but it was able to understand Aurus' wishes, releasing an affirmative aura as a reply, letting Aurus know that it understood.
Aurus nodded inwardly to Fenrir's non-verbal reply as he commanded inwardly, ”Evolve [Stick Regeneration].”
Ding!
In an instant, a screen appeared in front of Aurus' field of vision, giving Aurus two possible skill evolution choices to [Stick Regeneration].
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Please choose the skill that you want [Stick Regeneration] to evolve to:
[Branching Healing Aura]
[Branch Benevolence]
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”Identify the two skills.” Of course, since Aurus had no idea as to which one suited him better, he decided to check their details and decide from there.
Ding!
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[Branching Healing Aura]
Grade: B (Mortal)
You are the conductor of nature and life, bringing vitality back to withered beings and souls. Because of that, you have the ability to radiate this vitality towards a certain extent, rejuvenating multiple beings at once, including yourself, within this radiated vitality.
>Radius of aura: 5 meters
>HP healed per second: 25 + (Attack stat * 0.1)
Duration: 1 minute