Chapter 210 - Aint I Too Broken? (2/2)
”Alright…” Phoria said before taking in a deep breath through her body. A few seconds later, a small ball of light appeared in front of her body before expanding into an array of flowers made out of light.
”[Luminous Bouquet]!”
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Since it was Phoria's first time activating the skill, although the appearance of the skill was somewhat dazzling, the impact it had was not that much. Of course, since all of the beings around her were her Allies, every one of them complimented Phoria, saying things along the lines of how beautiful the skill was, how she could do better, and so on.
But Phoria seemed to have ignored these words of praise, radiating an aura of shock, which was a stark contrast to Eu beside her. Noticing that Phoria was acting weird, Eu went ahead and asked her, ”What's wrong, Phoria? Are you okay?”
Hearing Eu's voice, Phoria was snapped back to reality as she responded, ”I'm fine…but…”
”But?” Eu asked her so she could continue with her words. Unsurprisingly, Phoria's words did not just shock Eu beside her, but Terrence and Marielle as well.
”I'm fine but…for some reason, just that single activation was enough to increase the level of my skill by a lot. It's only a couple of levels away from reaching the max level…”
”What? That's impossible!” Marielle could not help but say in response to Phoria's words. She then voiced out her opinion, saying, ”Normally, skills would take a ton of activations before they would be able to reach the max…level…”
Just as she was about to finish her sentence, her sense of vision gradually focused on her master and asked him, ”Master…is this the reason why you asked us to raise our skills to the Transcendent level?”
”Of course,” Aurus responded to Marielle's words, adding on, ”Why would I ask for something impossible if I don't have a way to circ.u.mvent the problem?”
He then continued, ”I don't know how much is carried over, but my comprehension speed is at 40 times the normal speed. One activation of your skill would probably be more than enough for you four to grind all of your skills to the Transcendent level within a few hours.”
”I do wonder if you're up for the test though?” Aurus soon asked the four this question, letting out a playful chuckle in the process.
Surprisingly, Marielle was the one who took the initiative to respond to Aurus's question, saying, ”I won't just grind all of my skills to the Transcendent level, Master. I'll even surpass it and reach the peak of the Transcendent level!”
Whoosh!
After that, she then turned around and headed towards one of the corners of the room they were in, instantly covering that corner in a slightly intense aura of frost. As for the remaining three, they looked at each other for a bit before looking back at Aurus. Noticing what they did, Aurus said to them, ”You don't have to reach the peak of the Transcendent level just like Marielle. As long as you reach the Transcendent level, that's more than enough for me.”
”That would just be akin to tarnishing your goodwill, Master.” Terrence took the initiative out of the three to respond to Aurus's words, saying, ”Plus, it would make us weak when compared to Marielle, who has the greatest potential out of all of us. Don't you think so as well, Eu? Phoria?”
”We may not be able to beat her in terms of potential, but we could stand on an equal level in terms of skillfulness,” Eu responded to Terrence's question before adding, ”Let's go ahead and grind our skills as well.”
Just as Terrence and Eu and Phoria headed towards the other remaining corners of the room, covering their corners in an intense aura of the earth and light respectively, Phoria's voice faintly resounded throughout the room, saying, ”But I don't wanna work hard…”
”Pfft.” Hearing Phoria's words, Aurus could not help but let out a short chuckle. Around this time, Fenrir and Charisa made their way towards Aurus, with Fenrir asking Aurus, ”I presume you've tasked them to do the same thing as us before the war, Master?”
”Exactly,” Aurus said in response to Fenrir's question, letting out a slight chuckle in the process. He then asked them, ”Are you two jealous?”
”Why should we be jealous, Master?” Charisa responded to her master's question with a chuckle. ”If anything, the task you made us do back then would give us a headstart right now if we decide to grind our skills as well.”
”To be honest, I was actually going to give you the same task as them,” Aurus said not long after, radiating an aura of slight awkwardness. He then added, ”Of course, you can go ahead and opt to not grind your skills as well and that'll be fine, but I'm going to go grind my skills pretty soon in preparation for my evolution.”
This was what Aurus had in mind all this time before being distracted by the sudden thoughts. The next part of the third step had something to do with him grinding all of his skills to the X-grade Transcendent level, which would now take a slightly longer time since a decent amount of the skills he had were now at the C-grade Mortal level thanks to the mass fusion. Nonetheless, after all of those skills have reached the X-grade Transcendent level, the power he could command would be far greater than before.
In response to Aurus's words, Fenrir and Charisa looked at each other for a bit before radiating an aura of slight elation. After that, Fenrir went ahead and said, ”It's fine if you want us to grind our skills, Master. It's kind of boring in the system anyway.”
”Plus it feels like we're growing stronger alongside you when grinding skills, Master~” Charisa continued where Fenrir left off, a cheerful giggle resounding from her soon after.
Listening to their words, Aurus let out a sigh that said 'It can't be helped' as he radiated an aura of happiness before saying, ”Alright then. If you two want to grind your skills as well, go ahead. Only one corner is left in this room, so which one of you will be beside me while I grind my skills?”
”Ooh! Me! Me!” At the very instant the two of them had processed Aurus's question, Charisa was the first one to answer to his question, wanting to beside Aurus while he grinded. Hearing Charisa's eagerness, Fenrir let out a chuckle before saying, ”I guess it has been chosen. Charisa will be the one grinding beside you. And before you say anything, Master, I don't mind this at all. Go ahead and reach a new level of power, Master.”
”Thanks, Fenrir,” Aurus responded to his words before adding, ”I'll make sure to make up for this in the future.”
”I'll be waiting then,” Fenrir said with a slightly playful tone before making his way towards the remaining corner of the room, instantly covering the corner with the aura of great winds…well, a great portion of the room to be more exact.
Looking at Fenrir's body for a bit, Aurus then focused his sense of vision towards Charisa as he said, ”Let's move to the center so we don't clash with the others in terms of auras.”
Letting out a sound of approval in response, the two of them soon made their way towards the center of the room, with Charisa taking the initiative to say, ”I'll be grinding my skills now, Master! You'll surely be blown away after I'm done with this!”
”I'm quite eager to find out,” Aurus said in response to Charisa's words as an intense aura of flames soon radiated from Charisa, covering a great portion of the room as well, just like Fenrir. With him being the only one left unoccupied with something, Aurus took in a deep breath through his body before muttering, ”It's time to grind my skills as well.”
Not long after that, Aurus soon went ahead and closed his sense of vision, allowing the acuity of his other senses to greatly improve. Just as he was about to go ahead and grind the C-grade Mortal level skills he had on his skill list, a thought came to his mind, prompting him to communicate with Theresa through his mind as he commanded it, ”Theresa, bring up my status screen in my mind. Just the HP, FP, and stats.”
”Understood, Master,” Theresa's voice soon resounded in Aurus's mind as a notification sound resounded not long after Theresa's voice. It was soon followed up by a slightly corporeal screen filled with numbers, prompting Aurus to take a look at it…only to be left at a loss for words, amazed at how much three Ally skills could do to his stats.
Nonetheless, a question popped up in his mind as he looked at his current stats.
”Ain't I too broken?”
Ding!
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[Aurus]
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[HP]: 6,979,114/6,979,114
[FP]: 557,614/557,614
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[Tenacity]: 372,438
[Vitality]: 476,834
[Spirit]: 812,785
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