Chapter 218 - Great Hauls and Unstoppable Urges (2/2)

Whirr…

As a faint whirring sound resounded throughout the surroundings, the ball of blue light gradually intensified in its brightness, its light eventually enveloping every part of the corpse before…

Whoosh!

In an instant, every inch of the corpse had been transformed into motes of white light, all of which made its way to the ball of blue light to be absorbed. A few seconds later, this ball of blue light soon headed towards Argentum's body before being absorbed by him soon after as a notification sound resounded in his mind.

Ding!

”The user has obtained half of the Power Baptism Energy needed to undergo a Power Baptism.” Accompanying the notification sound was the system's voice informing him how much energy he had obtained from the corpse. Hearing that he had obtained half of the needed energy to undergo a Power Baptism, Argentum could not help but let out a light chuckle before going ahead and moving onto the other corpses in the area.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Thanks to the system, it did not take long for the corpses to be converted into energy for a Power Baptism. The system had also informed him that he now had twice as much energy needed to undergo a Power Baptism, asking him as to whether he was going to keep the energy in its current form or transform it into a form that he could use.

Wondering what the system meant by a form of energy that he could use, he responded to the system's question, telling it to convert the excess energy into the latter. A few seconds later, he had obtained a notification that he had obtained a decent amount of experience points from the converted excess energy, increasing the number of unused experience points he had.

”I wonder if the original body has a use for this?” Argentum could not help but ask himself this question. Due to the difference in their existence levels, the amount of experience he had obtained from killing an Animate was actually 100 times more than what it was supposed to be. At the moment, he had around 100,000 unused experience points from killing those 7 Animates.

After converting the excess energy into unused experience points, he then made his way back to the corpses of the first three humans he killed, utilizing [Tempest Awakening] to get there as fast as possible, lest any more energy dissipates in the process.

While he was heading back to their location, Argentum could not help but realize what the system had truly done, asking the system soon after, ”System, is it possible for you to convert my unused experience points into energy that could be used for Power Baptisms?”

Surprisingly, it did not take long for the system to respond to his question, its voice resounding in his mind as it said, ”Unfortunately, that isn't possible. Only energy coming from other objects can be converted into other types of energy.”

”Hmm…” Argentum pondered over the system's words after that, feeling that a thought in his mind was stuck but wanted to surface. Unfortunately, before that thought could surface, Argentum had already arrived in front of the three corpses, his train of thought hastily changing into that of looting all of their equipment and siphoning their energy.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Due to his experience on the four corpses from before, it only took a few minutes for the three corpses to disappear off the face of Erudinia, the number of items in the system's inventory increasing while the amount of energy Argentum had for undergoing the first Power Baptism exceeding yet again. This time though, he did not tell the system to convert the excess energy into other forms of energy as he had a feeling that the excess energy he had was more than enough for him to undergo a second Power Baptism.

Nonetheless, with all of the corpses now off the face of this world, Argentum could not help but let out an inward sigh of relief as he remembered that he could be tracked by other Animates thanks to the attacks he shot at them. But with the system absorbing their bodies completely, Argentum did not have to worry about such a problem anymore, allowing him to head towards Verdant Breeze Town without the threat of Animates following him at the back of his head.

”Should I go ahead and do the Power Baptism now…or should I delay it for now and undergo it once I get stronger?” Argentum soon asked himself this question as he had no experience with Power Baptisms from his previous life. He had only heard of them from other players, with all of them telling him that it was quite difficult to clear. Even Erea, the one who transformed into a Super Animate in ISE, told Aurus, the original body of Argentum, that undergoing a Power Baptism, even the first one, was incredibly hard unless one was prepared for all possible circ.u.mstances.

With that in mind, two opinions had formed in his mind, one opinion that was the epitome of logicality and rationality, telling him that it was better for him to save the Power Baptism for later, and the other opinion that was the epitome of impulsiveness, telling him that he should at least experience the Power Baptism right now, allowing him to prepare for it in the future.

Now…guess which opinion won in his mind.

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”System…”

”Use the energy I've amassed to undergo a Power Baptism.”