Chapter 106 - Transcending, Fleeting (1/2)

”Comprehension Leaves?” After hearing Herellia mention it, Aurus could not help but commit it to his memory, not even daring to put it at the back of his head and forget it. ”What do these Comprehension Leaves do?”

”As I've said before, these leaves help you max out a skill's level as if it was maxed out in the first place. Not only that, it also enhances your speed in comprehending skills, basically giving you the feeling of learning skills at half the effort, but twice the result,” Herellia explained to Aurus without holding anything back. ”Do you want me to go through the grades of Comprehension Leaves as well? If you used a high-ranked one without knowing it was a high-ranked one, you would surely regret it once you knew what grade it was.”

”Sure, I don't mind,” Aurus nodded with his nonexistent head as he radiated an affirmative aura. ”How many grades are there, and how heaven-defying is each grade compared to the previous one?”

”As far as I've seen, there are 3 grades of Comprehension Leaves, but from what I've read up on other places, there are 5 grades of Comprehension Leaves. I'll only tell you about the first 3 since I've used the highest grade out of the 3 already,” Herellia replied.

”The first grade of Comprehension Leaf is called the Soaring Comprehension Leaf. Once you use it, it will give you the temporary feeling of flying along the clouds, as if you could see the whole world with just a single glance. Once you use this leaf, other than the fact that it maxes out a single skill, it increases your comprehension speed by twofold, basically making your comprehension speed thrice as fast than before.”

”The second grade of Comprehension Leaf is called the Unshrouding Comprehension Leaf. From the name itself, once you use it, you get the temporary feeling as if you could peer through everything, to its smallest particle, as if everything was laid upon your bare eyes to see, hence the word Unshrouding. Compared to the Soaring Leaf, it maxes out five skills, and increases your comprehension by sevenfold, allowing you to max out a skill eight times as fast than before.”

While listening to the details of the second Comprehension Leaf, Aurus could not help but ask, ”Do the comprehension speed buffs stack on top of each other?”

”Yes…and no,” Herellia had a conflicting aura about her body. ”I'm only telling you about the effects of the first consumption of a Comprehension Leaf. Once you consume two or more leaves, the effect they give out in terms of enhancing your comprehension speed would probably not even reach one-tenth of the first leaf.”

”I see,” Aurus radiated an affirmative aura to show that he understood Herellia's words. ”What about the last one?”

”The last one, the one that I was lucky to have consumed, is called the Transcending Comprehension Leaf. If Soaring allowed you to see the world with one glance, and Unshrouding allowed to peer through the minute substances that make up the world, then the Transcending Leaf allows you to not only peer through the minute substances, it would even show you the connections between the substances, may it be tangible or intangible, corporeal or incorporeal. Consuming one of these things would allow you to max out 10 skills at once, as well as increase your comprehension by 14 times, allowing you to max out skills 15 times as fast!”

”That's…” Aurus was incredibly dumbfounded from the effects of the last Comprehension Leaf, left at a loss for words. It took a while for him to snap back to reality, remembering the words Herellia said earlier. ”You told me that there were 5 grades of Comprehension Leaves, right? Although you told me that you would only tell me about the first 3, with the 3rd grade already being that powerful, I can't help but ask about the last two grades!”

”I wish I could tell you about these last two grades,” Herellia could not sigh after seeing the eagerness radiating from Aurus. ”But these two leaves are so rare that even I do not know about their effects. All I can say is…they're bound to be many times better than the Transcending Leaf.”

Seeing that Herellia did not really know about the effects of the fourth and fifth Comprehension Leaves, Aurus decided to leave it at that, committing the first three grades to memory before asking, ”If I remember correctly, you also told me about the place where we could obtain Comprehension Leaves, right?”

”Yep, and it's an incredibly dangerous place for a normal S-grade,” Herellia could not help but look at Aurus with a serious aura, only for it to be replaced with a cheerful aura as she chuckled. ”Then again, you're no normal S-grade. Do you really want to obtain a Comprehension Leaf?”

”As long as it allows me to reach the level of Animate faster, then of course,” Aurus replied without hesitation. Although this reply might seem normal from the surface, Aurus replied this with the idea of hastily evolving to become an Animate before his current body would befall the danger, like what Kevin told him. He would only use [Spirit Clone] if he was left with no other choice, though he knew that with the help of his [Spirit Aura] skill, he could already cast the skill without a problem.

He did not know why, but he did not want to cast this skill at this moment. He had the feeling that he was better off living as a stick rather than a human just like his previous life.

Taking the chance to contact the other Pillar level members while Aurus was engrossed in his thought, Herellia then said to Aurus, snapping him back to reality, ”Alright, I've contacted the other Pillar level members about us leaving the alliance in their hands for a bit, so we now have time to head towards that place.”

”Eh?” At first, Aurus heard Herellia's words as if they were an incoherent mix of words. It took him a while to fully understand Herellia's statement before saying, ”Well that's fast.”

”As a leader of a big alliance, you need to take the initiative, leaving them no choice but to agree,” Herellia could not help but chuckle. After a while, Herellia started to hover off the ground, to which Aurus started to hover off the ground as well.

Whoosh!