Chapter 105 - Moving Up The Ranks (2/2)

This sensation lasted for a bit before dissipating, with the light radiating from the crystal and the magic circle dissipating as well, leaving only a powered up Aurus and a nonchalant looking Herellia within the insides of the lobby.

Aurus closed his sense of vision for a bit before opening it once more, trying to get accustomed to his newfound powers. It was a rare occurrence for him to obtain a great spike in his stats, hence the need to become accustomed.

It took him a few seconds to get accustomed before he hovered towards Herellia and got near her as he said, ”I feel…stronger.”

”Well, of course you do,” Herellia could not help but sense the majestic aura surrounding Aurus and chuckle for a bit. ”With your new standing, I'm quite sure that you can defeat the other Pillar level members, and also fight me to a standstill if push comes to shove.”

”Well, we can't say that for sure, since I still have to use a lot of skills to even out the playing field,” Aurus thought that it was laughable for Herellia to tell him that he could evenly fight against her. ”Unlike you, you only need to use the better version of your originally strong [Sanguine Art] to toy around with me.”

”Who says I'm not relying on skills as well?” Herellia could not help but have the urge to tell Aurus her skills. ”Since you're still S-grade, I presume that you're quite lacking in passive skills, yes? Well I don't, I got tons of 'em.”

Sensing the somewhat arrogant aura popping up from Herellia, Aurus had the urge to put Herellia down a peg. ”So what? I have a lot of active buffs, when combined with my passive skills, would allow me to attack at the same level as you!”

”Oh?” Herellia could not help but radiate a mischievous aura as Aurus felt a nonexistent smile creeping up her body. ”Do you want to fight it out, then?”

Whoosh!

In an instant, a blood red tendril was formed over Herellia's body, making Aurus shudder as he said, ”No, no, no. There must be another way to measure this…right?”

Without giving any time for Aurus to breathe, Herellia chuckled as she waved down her tendril.

”Nope.”

Bang!

”Ahhh!”

…

A few minutes later, the one-sided fight between Herellia and Aurus finally came to end, with Aurus being beaten to a near pulp. Thankfully, Aurus had his own healing skill that allowed him to have no injuries at the end of the fight. He also took this time to talk about their respective systems since they both knew the existence of both anyway.

Fortunately, Herellia was not privy to this since this was the first time she had someone to share her system with, with others not even knowing the existence of the system she and Aurus had.

After a hearty talk that lasted around half an hour, Aurus and Herellia were finished talking about their systems, leaving them dumbfounded by the other's system.

”Man, I can't help but feel jealous when I think of your system,” Herellia could not help but look at Aurus as they stood by the entrance of the alliance lobby. ”Not only do you have the most basic form of the system, you also have other systems to help boost your power more, Ally system, Weapon system, Artificial Intelligence system, if I had that, then I would have been an Animate by now!”

”It's not like your system ain't overpowered as well!” Aurus could not help but refute Herellia's words. ”Sure, we both have the most basic form of the system, but you can nurture a weapon through your body and create Blood Contracts that's basically akin to my Ally system. Not only that, you can learn skills extremely quickly!”

After their long talk, the one that Aurus found out from Herellia was that she could easily max out the skills she learned within minutes, the longer only taking hours at most. As for Aurus, although he had still not peered into the full capabilities of the Learning Module, it would take him days or even weeks of grinding to raise his skills to max level.

”Don't you have the Learning module to solve that problem?” Herellia could not help but recall this portion of Aurus' system.

”Although it's quite useful, it could only nurture one skill at most. That would just leave me one less skill to grind,” Aurus could not help but sigh at this thought. He could not help but think at this time as to why he got addicted to a game such as Infinite Stick Evolution.

”You do know…there's a way to reduce the grind…right?” Deciding that it was for the better for the alliance, Herellia finally talked about what was on her mind after a moment of silence.

”Eh?” Aurus could not help but exclaim as he looked at Herellia. ”There is? Do I have to fiddle with the system to speed it up?”

”No, not at all,” Herellia radiated an aura that basically said no to Aurus' question. ”It's an item that you use to max out your skill's level, and enhance your skill learning speed process by a bit. Though it's a bit rare to obtain.”

”Can you tell me about this item?” Since Herellia was able to pique his interest, even if it could be a bluff, he would try to find out about this to the bitter end.

”Sure, I can even tell you where to get one.” Herellia did not mind Aurus asking about this as her aura became cheerful. ”Although they come in many forms and grades, they're only known through one name.”

”Comprehension Leaves.”