Chapter 221 - How to Survive the Heat (2/2)

”It seems I'm going to have to go on a detour,” he muttered with a chuckle as he looked at the map he had and placed a marker on a certain part of the Inferno Plains. This place was not far away from the place he needed to go to, plus it did have the thing he needed to obtain [Flame Resistance], so he did not hesitate to activate all of his movement boosting skills and spells and dashed towards the area in an instant.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

As he dashed towards the area he marked on his map, he could not help but look back at the memory he found in his mind, muttering to himself, ”Although the original body only did it in areas where he had the advantage, I'm pretty sure the same principle applies, right?”

The solution that Argentum had obtained from rummaging through his shared memories was in fact, quite logical when thinking from a game perspective. He just needed to kill monsters that resided in that area, obtaining loot that was local to the area. In other words, he had to kill the native beings of Inferno Plains to obtain the [Flame Resistance] skill.

In the memory, Aurus had to kill at least a thousand of those monsters in order to get the skill, to which Argentum hoped that it would not happen to him since time is of the essence when improving strength as fast as possible. Alongside this, Argentum could not help but wonder if these native beings also dropped equipment, just like in ISE.

Well, it was ultimately something he would have to find out himself.

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It took around four hours for Argentum to reach the area he marked on the map, the moon hanging in the sky now close to its peak. Surprisingly, even though it was somewhat late at night, the Inferno Plains was still bright, which was all due to the flames and lava that was prevalent across the area.

Taking in a deep breath at the very instant he was finished running, Argentum soon took in a good look of the area, wherein he could see a vast area thanks to his [Keen Vision] skill. He then lightly smiled as he muttered, ”Fortunately, I can still rely on my memories for places like these. The bane of all starting close combat players of ISE, but is well received by all of the mages in ISE. Not only that, they're the weakest beings in the Inferno Plains.”

”The [Fire Slime].”

Boing! Boing! Boing!

Akin to a huge piece of red gelatin, these Fire Slimes moved about in a hopping manner, their bodies jiggling every time they landed. Not only that, if only looked closely, one would see a solid red orb inside these slimes. To everyone in ISE and Argentum, these red orbs were the things they needed to hit in order to kill them without a problem since the red orbs were their cores.

”Hmm…which one of these slimes would become my first target?” Argentum muttered to himself as he let out a low chuckle, taking into consideration the auras they radiated. Although all of these slimes were at the lowest rank of the Animate existence level possible, there were still some slimes that exuded an aura a few times more powerful than their other slime brethren.

Healing his HP with [Grand Breeze Rejuvenation], Argentum eventually found a suitable first target, which was a slime that was not that far away from where he currently was. Not only that, but this certain slime was also a decent distance away from the other slimes, allowing him to focus on attacking this slime without alerting the other slimes in the process.

”You know what? Now that I think about it, this is also a way to test how strong I've become after the grind,” Argentum said to himself with a chuckle as he activated [Zephyr Ascendance+], increasing his stats by a few times. Not long after that, Argentum then activated [Lower Tempest Magic+], conjuring what seemed to be a blade made out of condensed Wind energy particles.

After that, he went ahead and made sure that the blade would hit the red orb inside the slime, calculating its trajectory in his mind before going ahead and firing it.

”[Lower Tempest Magic: Zephyr Cleave]!”

Whoosh!

At the very instant he shot the wind blade towards the slime, it was only then did it occur to Argentum that the power behind the blade might not be enough due to the elemental disadvantage. Fortunately, just as he focused his sense of vision towards the blade nearing the core of the slime, expecting that the blade would only be able to critically injure the slime rather than kill it…

Swish!

Akin to slicing through butter, the wind blade split the red orb inside the slime in two without a problem. Not only that, but the gelatinous body of the slime had been split into two halves as well, eliciting an expression of disbelief from Argentum as a notification sound resounded in his mind.

”Eh…?”

Ding!

'Congratulations! You have obtained the passive skill [Incredibly Inferior Flame Resistance]!'

”…”

”…”

”…Eh?”