Chapter 83 - Flux (1) (2/2)
”[Wrath of the Spiritas], [Unyielding Spiritas], [Blessing of the Tempest], and the three remaining Life and Will skills.”
”I'll grind the Life and Will skills first, then the Spiritas related skills, then the [Blessing of the Tempest].” This plan was formulated in an instant after seeing the six unevolved skills.
”Oh, I'll also level up [Branch Benevolence] while I'm leveling the others as well.”
”Fenrir!”
”Yes, Master!” Hearing its name being called, Fenrir hastily replied, eager to wait for its master's orders.
”Alright, I'm ready. Hit me as hard as you can!”
”Alright then! I won't hold back, Master!”
Whoosh!
”[Blooming Vitality]!”
Ding!
Bang!
”[Branch Benevolence]! Man, that's a lot of damage!”
…
And so, a few minutes have passed since the start of the grind. Thanks to the low experience requirements of the skills, and the fact that Aurus had a lot of Life and Will points, Aurus was able to easily max out the three Life and Will skills, not hesitating to evolve them not long after.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
'[Blooming Vitality] has been evolved to [Blooming Vitality+].'
'[Indomitable Will] has been evolved to [Indomitable Will+].'
'[Sentience] has been evolved to [Sentience+].'
Looking at the new names of the three Life and Will skills, Aurus could not help but feel a little nostalgic. ”Ah, it's been a while since I've seen a plus sign on a skill.”
He then placed this thought at the back of his head as he looked at the three remaining skills on his skill screen that were of C-grade. ”Two of these skills have long cooldowns while one is a passive skill. I guess I'll just use the two whenever they're off cooldown as I train this passive skill.”
Bang!
As he was still formulating his next step, Fenrir hit Aurus with the full strength of one of its stubs, making Aurus collide with one of the sturdy stone walls of the secluded room.
Instead of getting angry at being interrupted in his thoughts, Aurus knew that he could not afford time to get angry as he only gave himself 2 weeks of seclusion. Then again, why would an Inanimate ask for 2 weeks of seclusion if they did not even have to do anything important for multiple days?
Nonetheless, Aurus was going to stick to his limited timeframe. He casted [Branch Benevolence] onto himself, which netted him a level up of the skill from Level 3 to Level 4 due to the amount of heals he has used these past few minutes. Afterwards, he told Fenrir that whenever he wanted to raise his healing skill up, he would shout the word 'Hit' out. Being a loyal pet, Fenrir followed Aurus' commands and lied down on the floor, waiting for Aurus' next shout of the word 'Hit'.
As for Aurus, he stood on the center of the secluded room, closing his sense of vision as he tried to sense the Wind energy particles surrounding him with his body. After a few minutes, he was able to sense little tiny specks of green light floating around his body. He then urged these specks of green light to coalesce and gradually form a tornado as he willed more and more specks of green light to enter the tornado.
What was Aurus doing? Just like how Herellia manipulated the Wind energy particles around her to make a Wind Flame, Aurus was manipulating the Wind energy particles around him to create a tornado, the easiest thing to form that was related to the word 'Tempest'. That's right, Aurus was leveling the [Blessing of the Tempest] skill up.
Ding!
'[Blessing of the Tempest] has leveled up.'
Hearing words come from the system since his sense of vision was closed, Aurus was slightly startled from the speed of leveling up. ”That was fast.”
After that, another ten seconds passed by, resulting in another notification sound from the system. This time though, there was a slight surprise.
Ding!
'[Blessing of the Tempest] has leveled up.'
'[High Wind Affinity] has leveled up.'
'[Blessing of the Tempest] has reached the MAX level.'
'[Blessing of the Tempest] has met the necessary requirements and is ready to evolve.'
”Eh? [High Wind Affinity] leveled up?” Hearing these words come out from the system prompted Aurus to stop manipulating the Wind energy particles and open his sense of vision.
This occurrence got him thinking for a bit. After a while, he realized that it was natural for [High Wind Affinity] to evolve. ”Since [Blessing of the Tempest] is a passive skill related to Wind, it would make sense for [High Wind Affinity] to level up as well.”
With that in mind, he closed his sense of vision once again, formulating a crazy plan that would definitely hit multiple birds with one stone.
”It seems I won't stop at B-grade for [Blessing of the Tempest].”
”Since the rate of leveling is quite fast for both skills, I'll just level them up to X-grade, while making sure to max out [Wrath of the Spiritas] and [Unyielding Spiritas]!”
”It's settled then!”
”Evolve [Blessing of the Tempest]!”