Chapter 129 - Calamity (1/2)
Whoosh!
It didn't take long for Aurus to appear outside the inheritance, arriving a decent distance away from the gray magic circle that served as the entrance for the inheritance.
Aurus was still quite angry at the Ruler of the Void as he still had a few questions to ask him regarding the void and whatnot. But for some reason, the Ruler of the Void thought it was already good for him to obtain the lowest rank possible and the skills that came with it.
Nevertheless, with him outside the inheritance, he had no choice but to just accept what he had and go back to the alliance.
Weng...weng...
Just as he was about to prepare to head back to the alliance, a sound that was nearing the level of being incredibly annoying resounded throughout where he was, grabbing his attention in an instant.
”Where the heck is that sound coming from?” Aurus could not help but ask himself as he looked here and there in his current position, finding a conspicuous magic circle not long after.
As he stared at the magic circle, he could not help but wonder as to why it was here. He came closer to it and could suddenly feel an aura incredibly familiar to him, an aura of someone he knew very well.
”Herellia's aura? What's it doing—oh. I see.” While Aurus was pondering as to why Herellia would put down a magic circle, he easily got to the conclusion, unlike the position of Ruler.
”She put down her aura here to tell me that she had already left the inheritance and had gone back to the alliance. She's the leader, so it's understandable for her to come back first,” Aurus said to himself as he continued to look at the magic circle. A mote of light that stood out among the inner workings of the magic circle could not help but catch Aurus' eye, using his tendril to tap on that mote of light.
Ding!
Surprisingly, the mote of light triggered a notification from the system as the system asked, 'You have received a stored message from Herellia. Would you like to read?'
”A message from her...” Without thinking twice, Aurus accepted the prompt as an influx of information entered his mind, followed by Herellia's voice ringing in his sense of hearing.
”Hey Aurus, if you've received this message, first of all, congratulations!” Herellia said to Aurus through the message.
Since Aurus knew very well that it was a message meant for him, he did not respond to it subconsciously, but just listened as Herellia continued to talk.
”Since you've passed the inheritance, I'm very sure you've gotten an inheritance leaf. Is it Soaring grade? Unshrouding grade? Whatever it is, it'll definitely help out in grinding skills.”
”Heheh.” At this point in time, Aurus could not help but chuckle at Herellia's statement. He had obtained a Transcending Comprehension Leaf, a grade above what she had expected. But then, Herellia said something that made Aurus turn serious.
”I'm very sure you obtained a key from that inheritance. I'll tell you more about it once you get back here. It'd be better if you come here as early as possible since we don't know what could happen while you're listening to this message.”
”How does she know about the existence of the key? Is this why she wanted to join me in clearing this inheritance?” Aurus could not help but formulate a few questions in his mind, only for him to put them at the back of his mind. ”Then again, she's correct. I have to get back to the alliance as fast as possible. The faster I get back there, the faster I can create a human clone.”
Even though Aurus had obtained a ton of information regarding Rulers, the thought of making a clone to relive that feeling did not disappear at all. He was still going to do it.
”I'm definitely sure that after I evolved Anima Creation to C-grade Transcendent level, I have obtained more than enough SP to create a clone.”
”No wait, it's called FP now.”
Whoosh!
At the very instant Aurus was finished talking to himself, he activated [Void Gale Spirit Shift], teleporting to a position 2 kilometers away from where he was, leaving no traces of him being inside the inheritance. As he appeared in that position, he then activated all of his movement enhancing buffs and started to zoom towards the alliance.
”I wonder if [Movement of the Void] would help me move faster.” As he continued to zoom through the landscape, Aurus could not help but wonder how potent a buff from the Ruler of the Void was.
”[Movement of the Void].”
Fwoosh!
At the next instant, his movement speed, which was already fast for someone at the Inanimate level, was enhanced by at the very least 5 times, achieving a speed unseen in Inanimates before.
”Holy shit! This speed!”
”And what the fuck? I can turn it on and off whenever I want?”
”I guess the Ruler of the Void is right.”
”This might just be all what I need!”
...
While Aurus was heading back to the Tempest Branch Alliance at a speed unimaginable to any Inanimate, one of the alliances governing over the Tempest Cliff renowned for their Energistus Branches and Saplings, the Verdant Nut Alliance, was being pummeled by a party known by many.
Crash!
A great chunk of the alliance's base was destroyed to bits as a blade made out of extremely condensed Wind energy particles cut through said part of base. Unlike the Tempest Branch Alliance's base, the Verdant Nut Alliance's base was very open, being situated in the center of a large forest within the Tempest Cliff. But thanks to that though, their alliance had a poor defense.
”Aaaah! Stay away from me! [Verdant Beheading]!” One of the mages from the Verdant Nut Alliance seemed to have snapped thanks to extreme fear, casting an offensive spell on the enemy. Normally, it would be ideal for the mage to cast a spell on the enemy, but it wasn't any normal enemy they were fighting against.
In an instant, a blade made out of wind condensed above the enemy's head and fell down like a meteor, cutting the head's open...or at least, that's what was supposed to happen.
Clink.
Rather than hearing something being torn apart, a sound foreign to these mages was heard, instilling more fear into them as they looked at what they were fighting against.
It was a wolf that had smooth green fur all over its body. Its body seemed to exude the aura of being one with nature, specifically the nature of Wind.
This wolf was none other than Chonk.
”Heh, you thought a measly blade could injure me?” Chonk could not help but laugh at the futile effort of the mage that shot the blade out. He then look at the direction of the mage and swiped his front paw down, creating a vortex of wind that easily mangled the branch mage into pieces.
Crack! Crack! Crack!