Chapter 114 - Unforeseen (2/2)

Of course, Aurus placed this matter in the back of his mind, continuing to grind as much as possible.

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”The two hours are now over. The Trial of Comprehension is now over.” While being fully engrossed in levelling [Essence Refinement] to higher grades, Aurus heard the voice from before resounding throughout the stone room, prompting him to stop his grind.

”The inheritance shall now check the progress of the skill and will allocate rewards according to the inheritor's effort.” As he heard these words come from the disembodied voice of the inheritance, he could not help but become anxious towards the results. Will he get little rewards after expending so much effort in grinding?

Of course, only the inheritance would tell.

Time ticked as the voice remained silent. Seconds started to tick away before turning into minutes that ticked away. Thankfully, the inheritance only took around two to three minutes before arriving at a conclusion.

”The inheritance has seen that the inheritor has enhanced this C-grade Mortal skill into an S-grade Transcendent skill within the span of two hours. Not only that, the inheritor has also mutated the skill to Special grade, increasing the power of the skill.” Hearing the voice that resounded throughout the room, Aurus could not help but be proud of what he did.

Though S-grade Transcendent level did not seem all that powerful, one would always remember the effects of another S-grade Transcendent skill, [Spirit Clone].

”Due to this being unforeseen, the inheritance has hastily made a decision to reward the inheritor with the skill it has expounded upon without reverting it back to its original level...” As the voice continued to talk, Aurus' mood turned better, his aura radiating sheer excitement. But as the voice continued to talk, Aurus could only stand in place.

”...As well as allowing the skill to mutate to a higher grade. Not only that, the experience required to level the skill has eternally been halved until it reaches the peak grade it could possibly reach.”

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While Aurus receiving the fruits of his labor from the inheritance, Herellia was still going through the Trial of the Sanguine Ruler, maintaining the same position she had all this time.

”Haah...haah...” At this moment, Herellia's body looked like a branch that was about to snap apart...a bleeding branch at that. With the red engravings on her body being broken, a viscous red fluid started to ooze out of the broken paths, making Herellia seem like a branch that was used for killing people.

Nonetheless, the aura she emitted was vastly stronger when compared to her previous aura before entering the inheritance.

Ding!

'After absorbing the remnant blood aura from your enemies, the skill [Sanguine Aura (Lesser)] has transformed into the skill [Sanguine Aura (Greater - Impure)].'

Hearing that the skill she obtained many battles ago had transformed into a stronger skill, Herellia extended the blood red tendril she used to fight outwards as she commanded, ”[Sanguine Art: Blood Rebirth].”

Whoosh!

In an instant, the blood red tendril turned 180 degrees to charge towards Herellia's body before enveloping it as a whole. Not long after, the blood red tendril started to radiate a red light as the red engravings on her body gradually fused up, repairing itself at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.

A few seconds later, the blood red tendril retracted itself to revealed a fully healed Herellia that was still covered in the viscous red fluid. Nonetheless, the viscous red fluid would not hinder her at all.

”I wonder how many more waves I would have to clear before ending this trial,” Herellia could not help but mutter to herself in annoyance as she had already faced against 20 waves of enemies from the start of the trial until now.

And it seemed like there was no end.

”Candidate, it seemed that you have a will that is unwilling to give up and is yearning to the see everything to the bitter end,” the voice that talked to her before started to resound once more as Herellia kept her silence.

”Thankfully, a few waves remain before the first part of this trial is over. Once you clear through all of it, you shall obtain the [Condensed Sanguine Aura], allowing you to fight against enemies of a higher level without being at a disadvantage, that is not to say that you're not already strong. Making it this far is already a sign of your strength.”

”I wish you the best of luck and may the blood rain down from above.”

After that, the voice did not resound anymore, leaving Herellia all alone as she waited for the enemies to manifest.

It was at this time that a certain being popped up in her mind, the one being that allowed her to have the chance to go through this trial. If he was not used as an excuse, she would have not been able to enter the trial in the first place.

Chuckling in a mocking manner, Herellia could not help but say, ”I feel like I've done something wrong. But I can't turn back, now can I?”

”I wonder how Aurus is doing?”

”Knowing him very well, I'm sure he's blazing through the inheritance.”

”As for me though...hehe...”

”I just might die from this.”