Chapter 87 - New Features (1/2)

Within the Celestial Plane.

For these past few days, Kurohana was focused on strengthening her grasp over the law of reincarnation as she noticed that Aurus was going through a massive grind in his skills. Kurohana, seeing this, decided to grind her skills and stuff as well as she did not really want to watch Aurus grind...although she was fine with watching Aurus' mundane life.

Ding!

All of a sudden, a ringing sound resounded through Kurohana's ears, which prompted her to open her eyes that were closed all this time.

”Eh? Something interesting happened to Aurus?” This was the first thing to come out of Kurohana's mouth. Why? This was because she created a miniature Artifux [1] that would attend to the orb, alerting her in the case that something happened to Aurus.

She stood up from where she sat cross-legged, circulating the parts of the law of reincarnation she just learned through pondering and assimilated it into her body before hovering towards the orb, where indeed, something interesting happened to Aurus.

She snapped her fingers, creating a chair out of the white material that covered her surroundings and sat down on it, looking at the change that happened to Aurus with full enthusiasm, only to frown in the end.

Within the orb that allowed her to view Aurus' life, she was currently looking at a green cocoon that nurtured and reinforced a half corporeal branch that was in this case, Aurus.

She could not help but click her tongue after seeing this. ”Tsk. To think that the change that happened to him was him actually evolving. Why can't he be used as a weapon material after he reached the peak of A-grade?”

To be honest, although living for hundreds of millions of years, Kurohana was someone who was impatient, wanting to get things she wanted in the shortest timeframe she could. This was a stark contrast to her profession, being a craftswoman, which needed intense patience and perseverance for a great work to be produced.

Realizing that her other side was coming out, she took in a few deep breaths before muttering to herself as a consolation, ”Then again, if he's used as a weapon material as an S-grade Inanimate, it would give me a weapon that's possibly a grade higher than what could be crafted when he could be used as a material as an A-grade being.”

Gradually, her thoughts became jumbled and let out a long sigh, looking at the orb where Aurus' future body laid. She looked at it for a bit then got a spark of inspiration, which made the corners of her mouth curve up as she knew that the idea in her mind was feasible.

”I can still afford to wait for a year or so, that's the maximum time I'll allot for Aurus to become a weapon,” Kurohana lightly said to herself as she waved her hands in the air, in front of the orb, releasing her mastery over the law of reincarnation to its limit.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

A few seconds later, the sound of wind breezing could be faintly heard throughout the white space as a few strands of golden energy formed in midair, before charging straight towards the orb as the cocoon's aura slightly intensified. To an outsider, no one would notice this difference at all.

After doing what she did, she could not help but pant as she muttered, ”Haa...haa...controlling a part of a stronger law than yours is definitely...taxing.”

Not long after, she could not help but chuckle.

”Then again, this would hasten Aurus' fate a bit.”

”Congratulations Aurus for reaching S-grade, I hope you'll like the gift I gave you before you become my weapon.”

”Hehe.”

...

Erudinia, XXXX Continent, Tempest Cliff, Tempest Branch Alliance Base, Sparring Tower, inside a certain secluded room.

After waking up from his evolutionary process, the first thing Aurus did was to look at his surroundings. Realizing that he was still in the same place, Aurus could not help but inwardly let out a sigh of relief.

”Hah... I'm officially an S-grade being,” Aurus said to himself. He then looked at his new body from a third person's perspective, which slightly surprised him.

”Eh? I look more like a wooden human than a branch? Wait... don't I look extremely smooth?” This was the first thing that came to Aurus' mind after looking at his new body. When he peered at his body from a close standpoint, he could see that his body was truly wooden...well made out of Animas that were previously made from wood.

But when he looked from afar, it seemed that Aurus' body was made from one piece of marble, or a material that was extremely smooth. It was at this moment that he realized something, he could peer into the internal makeup of each and every Anima of his body, which was something he could not do before his evolution.

”Open status screen,” Aurus commanded, taking a quick look at his status screen before closing it, confirming something that was on his mind. ”Yep, my synchronization rate has increased by 20% once more.”

After doing that, a question formed in his head regarding his body. ”Can I move the 'limbs' on this body of mine? Or is it something aesthetic?”

Hence, he looked at his right upper limb and willed it to move upwards.

Whoosh!

”Woah, it can actually move.” Aurus' right upper limb moved upwards, albeit in a stiff manner due to him being an Inanimate...well, False Animate. He then tried to move his other limbs, in which they moved accordingly as well. After that, he tried to move his head and other parts of his wooden body, only for it to fail.

”Well...my four limbs can move, that alone is enough for me to do things that the others can't,” Aurus consoled himself as the four moveable limbs did offer him a wider range of freedom.

”But I just can't seem to get used to it.” Aurus could not help but feel that he was not him due to his body being different. And so, he decided to...

”Morph!”

Fwoosh!

In an instant, Aurus' humanoid body gradually flattened and rounded out, returning to the look he had as an A-grade, a big branch.

”Ah, that's better.” Aurus had his mind filled with peace after he morphed back to his previous form. Aurus knew that this form would limit him a lot, but there was still a lot of time, he would get used to his humanoid body sooner or later.

He then decided to look at the notifications that popped up during his evolution, which made him slightly shocked as a lot more features became available to him.

Ding!

'[Aurus — Wind Walnut Spiritas (Rare)] has evolved to [Aurus — Tempest Walnut Spiritas Flux (Rare+)].'

'The resource 'Flux' has been unlocked thanks to a specific evolution path.'

'The passive skill [Flux Vessel] has been created due to the 'Flux' resource being unlocked.'