Chapter 209 - Future Plans and Surprises (2/2)

Not expecting to get this sort of question, it took a while for Aurus to come up with an answer. At the moment he came up with one, he let out a slight chuckle before replying with a slightly confident tone, ”It went very well. Not only was I able to reach the maximum limit of 30 times, but I've gone and exceeded it as well.”

”Eh?” Listening to Aurus's response, Herellia could not believe what she was hearing. In response to his words, she asked him, ”You exceeded the limit? By how much?”

”I'm at 40 times the normal comprehension speed right now,” Aurus replied to her question, his tone gradually becoming more confident…and somewhat complacent. ”You wanna know how I did it?”

Before Herellia could even say yes to the question, Aurus went ahead and answered it, letting out a proud laugh in his mind as he said, ”I've absorbed the Comprehension Leaf that comes after Transcending.”

”What?!” Herellia was in utter disbelief over what Aurus said. Although she knew that there were higher grades of Comprehension Leaves after Transcending, she did not know that these higher grades existed in the Comprehension Leaf inheritance as well. Taking in a deep breath, Herellia went ahead and asked him with a tone of curiosity, ”Can you perhaps…tell me…what its name is?”

”All-seeing,” Aurus briefly replied. He then added, ”I also know the name of the grade that comes after All-seeing, but the inheritance doesn't have it. It's called All-knowing.”

”All-seeing…All-knowing,” Herellia muttered a few times, trying to commit these names into her mind. As she committed these memories into her mind, a spark of inspiration flashed in her mind, prompting her to ask Aurus with slight eagerness, ”Hey, Aurus…could you uh…accompany me to that inheritance and uh…get me some of those All-seeing Comprehension Leaves?”

”Well…” Listening to Herellia's request, Aurus could not help but be in favor of declining it since he was going to evolve soon. With that in mind, he asked her, ”Are we going to go right now?”

”It doesn't have to be right now,” Herellia responded to his question before adding, ”It could be after your evolution.”

Seeing that Herellia did not care about whether it was before or after his evolution, Aurus let out a sigh of relief before pondering as to whether he would accompany her or not. It did not take long for Aurus to come to a conclusion as he remembered that he had partial ownership over the inheritance.

Letting out a small chuckle, he soon said, ”Alright, I'll accompany you to the inheritance after I evolve. It's up to your abilities to get an All-seeing Comprehension Leaf, though.”

”No worries,” Herellia replied to his words before adding, ”I believe I can get them after what I've gone through.”

Just as Aurus was about to continue his conversation with Herellia, Theresa looked at Aurus and said, ”Master, all three Allies have now reached the X-grade Inanimate level. Not only that, but I've maxed out their levels as well.”

Hearing those words, Aurus could not help but say to Herellia in an apologetic tone, ”Ah, I apologize Herellia but it seems I have to cut our conversation short. I still have some important stuff to do.”

”Ah! Was I disturbing you?” Herellia soon replied to Aurus's words with a question before continuing, ”No need to reply, I understand you're preparing for your evolution. I hope you evolve to an incredibly great species.”

After that, the connection between the two had been cut, ending their conversation. In response to that, Aurus could not help but let out a short sigh before muttering, ”After I evolve, I should probably try my best to get her at least one All-seeing Comprehension Leaf. I guess that's a decent apology for what I just did.”

”Anyways, it's time to look at these—woah.” At the very instant Aurus focused his sense of vision towards the newly evolved Allies of his, he was left at a loss for words, greatly surprised by how different they looked from their B-grade Inanimate appearances.

Eu & Phoria, who used to look like two flowers with grass on their roots, now looked like two exquisite sculptures made out of vines, appearing as two beautiful women in cheerful poses with a red and yellow flower on top of their heads respectively. Noticing that Aurus was looking at them, Eu & Phoria went ahead and introduced themselves to him, with Eu saying, ”Let me introduce myself properly this time, Master! My name is Eu Lucerna!”

Not long after Eu was finished introducing, Phoria went ahead and introduced herself as well, talking in a less timid tone, ”I share the same last name as Eu, Master. Phoria Lucerna…at your service!”

”Glad to have you two protecting me,” Aurus said in response to their words. Just as he was about to move on to Terrence, a thought popped up in his mind, prompting him to ask the two, ”Eu. Phoria. I have a question.”

”What is it, Master?” the two of them asked simultaneously, to which Aurus responded, ”Can you two split up and move in different directions?”

Pop!

Accompanied by a popping sound, the two of them separated from each other, moving in opposite directions before saying, ”Indeed, we can, Master!”

”That's good to know,” Aurus soon said in response to their words. With his curiosity now satiated, he then focused his sense of vision towards Terrence. At the very instant he laid his sense of vision towards Terrence, Aurus could not help but say, ”You're very handsome.”

”You must be jesting, Master,” Terrence said in response to Aurus's compliment. Terrence's current appearance was a stark contrast to his B-grade Inanimate appearance, being an exquisite sculpture made out of a fine piece of stone. All of the areas on his body were chiseled to perfection, with the special area covered by a large piece of rock. Nonetheless, that did not hide the aura of exquisiteness that he was radiating.

”Let me introduce myself properly, Master. My name is Terrence Castras,” Terrence said not long after, to which Aurus replied, ”Castras, quite a good last name.”

”Thank you for the compliment, Master,” Terrence said in response to Aurus's words. After that, Aurus then moved ahead and focused his sense of vision towards the Ally that had undergone the same level of drastic change as Terrence, saying, ”You're quite beautiful, Marielle.”

”That is something to be expected, Master,” Marielle said in response to Aurus's words before letting out a light chuckle. She then went ahead and bowed, shocking Aurus as she introduced herself to him, saying, ”As you know, my name is Marielle Glaciesta. But at this current evolution of mine, I have obtained the title of Marchioness, awakening the great Glaciesta bloodline. Please greet me according to my title, Master.”

Although he was quite surprised that Marielle had obtained a title, it was something to be expected from how high her potential grade was. What surprised Aurus the most was the fact that she could move like a living being. Considering her current appearance, which was basically a humanoid form but made out of water with great facial features, the only thing she needed was the right skin color and she would probably fit in with the Animates.

”She looks more like a Pseudo-Animate than an Inanimate to me,” Aurus muttered to Theresa before asking it, ”Does it have something with the bloodline she was talking about, Theresa?”

”That is indeed the case, Master,” Theresa responded to his words before explaining, ”All Allies that are of SSS-grade potential and higher have bloodlines. If you have two or more Allies that have the same bloodline, a resonance shall form between the two of them, creating a fusion attack that has power surpassing normal fusion attacks.”

”I see,” Aurus said after going over Theresa's explanation in his head a few times. He then went ahead and looked at the three of them as a whole before asking them, ”Eu. Phoria. Terrence. Marielle. Do you have any problem with me checking your Ally skills?”

In response to his question, the four of them responded simultaneously, ”No problem at all, Master!”

”Glad to know,” Aurus chuckled as he replied to their words. He then looked at Theresa and commanded, ”Theresa, open up their Ally skills. Oh, and also, open up Fenrir and Charisa's Ally skills as well.”

”As you wish, Master,” Theresa soon acted upon Aurus's request as five decently sized screens filled to the brim with information appeared in front of his field of vision not long after.

Whoosh!

After reading through all of their Ally skills, only one thought entered Aurus's mind as he took in a deep breath from awe.

'Holy f.u.c.k.i.n.g shit.'