Chapter 94 - The Power of OS Points (1/2)

While Kurohana was brought to the Hall of Greater Divinity by Phatia, one of the Immortal Verdict Wielders, to accomplish 3 Seven Star Primordial level missions as her punishment, and in the midst of Aurus fighting against another boss of another experience haven…

Well…even before all of that. Just after Aurus told Horell to tell Herellia about him hunting outside the alliance.

”I will be leaving the alliance,” Horell could finally say these words filled with intense pain to Herellia, who could only stand there dumbfounded at the words spoken by him.

It took a while for Herellia to digest the statement, hastily thinking of it as a joke as she stifly chuckled. ”I knew you were serious kind of person, but to think that you can joke like that. C-Come on, Horell, don't scare me like that out of the blue.” Of course, Herellia had a nagging feeling that something bad was going to happen.

”Since you know me very well Herellia that I do not joke around, why would I joke about me leaving?” Seeing that Herellia just brushed his words off, Horell could only radiate a serious expression as he replied, his body slightly trembling.

This time, Herellia could only become silent as she stared at Horell's body for a bit, noticing the slight trembling of his body as he tried to maintain a calm façade in front of her. 'It seems…that there's reasons to him leaving.'

Letting out a soft sigh, Herellia then asked, ”What could possibly be the reason for your leave?”

Hearing from Herellia's words that she was somewhat accepting his leave, Horell pondered over his words for a bit before replying with, ”I can feel that my time to evolving into an Animate is coming close. Of course, we all know how dangerous it is, seeing that the trial Zelefaire went through wreaked havoc onto our base.”

With these words coming out from Horell's mouth, Herellia could only shudder at the memory of the first and last Animate to ever come out of the Tempest Branch Alliance, Zelefaire.

A genius tree of his time, Zelefaire was regarded as one of the sturdiest Pillar level members of the alliance, as he chose the path of becoming a Magnus Fortressi, an extremely rare variant that excelled in defending something until the very end.

And of course, as long as an Inanimate was genius enough to know how to transition into an Animate, they would eventually become one. But for Zelefaire, due to his variant being extremely rare, the ordeal that he had to go through to transition into an Animate was multiple times harder than a normal Inanimate transitioning into an Animate. It was so hard that almost 90% of the base of the Tempest Branch Alliance became ruins.

In the end, due to the damage caused by Zelefaire's damage, Herellia had no choice but to kick Zelefaire out of the alliance, with Zelefaire understanding Herellia's train of thought fortunately at that time.

Following that train of thought, Herellia knew that Horell wanted to leave the alliance in order to keep it away from the trial he was going to go through. And with that, she gave a few words of encouragement, telling Horell, ”I wish you the very best of luck in becoming an Animate.”

Radiating a slightly happy expression, Horell thanked Herellia with a few words before leaving her alone in the secluded area she usually stayed in. She maintained a cheerful and encouraging expression for a few moments before changing it into a serious one after making sure that Horell had finally left.

”Haah…it seems that any of our members cannot be trusted fully after all.”

”To think that you harbored those motives, even going so far as to ally with the enemy we've sworn to kill.”

”All for the sake of greater knowledge huh…”

…

Let us now go back to the present time, not focusing on Kurohana's missions, but rather, on Aurus' current situation.

Fwoosh! Fwoosh! Fwoosh!

”Sword of Gluttony! Sword of Pride! Sword of Greed!”

”Combine as one!”

”[Sword of Infinite Sin]!”

At the moment, Aurus floated in midair as he was currently fighting against the boss of a place he wanted to go to, but was changed with the Tempest Cliff, the Greater Experience Haven.

As the three swords made out of his Anima fused into one, the energy radiated by the fused sword was increased by a significant amount after being blessed by the energy radiated by Staff No. 1. With that boost, Aurus did not hesitate to fire it towards the boss, making a downwards slash on the body of the boss.

Swish!

Just like a sharpened knife cutting through tomatoes, the body of the boss was cut in half in an instant, easily dealing devastating damage to the boss wherein it could not even comprehend and perceive the danger the sword brought, or even the fact that it had died under Aurus' blade.

Wooooooshhh…

Of course, with every death of an Inanimate, the body of the boss gradually dissipated into thin air, transforming into a bunch of green and red particles that hastily darted towards Aurus' body, only to be absorbed not long after.

Ding!

Looking at the notification screen that appeared in front of Aurus' field of vision, Aurus could not help but radiate a cheerful aura as he muttered to himself, ”Alright! Another OS Point! It was definitely worth investing into the [Artificial Intelligence] option of the Existence Evolution System.”

Wait…[Artificial Intelligence]?

Ah, that's right.