Chapter 223 - Flame Spirit Inheritance (1/2)

Ding!

Hearing the notification sound resound in his mind after what seemed to be a very long time, Argentum wondered as to whether this notification would be the last notification he would get that was related to what he was doing all this time. Commanding the system to open up the notification screen in his mind, he soon skimmed through the latest notifications he had received, letting out a sigh of relief as he muttered, ”Ah, finally. The grind is now over.”

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

'The amount of copies you have of [Incredibly Inferior Flame Resistance] is now sufficient to fuse as one and form into [Lower Flame Resistance]!'

'Congratulations! Your 2 copies of [Lower Flame Resistance] have fused as one and transformed into [Flame Resistance]!'

'[Flame Resistance] has now reached its maximum level of upgrades.'

After closing the notification screen, Argentum then went ahead and opened up the description for the newly upgraded [Flame Resistance] skill, making sure that it was a bona fide skill meant for resisting the Fire element, not like the [Incredibly Inferior Flame Resistance] skill that gave an infinitesimally small boost to his resistance.

Ding!

Skimming through the words on the screen that had just appeared in front of his field of vision, Argentum let out another sigh of relief as he lightly chuckled, saying, ”I guess there are some upsides to grinding as well.”

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[Flame Resistance] (Lv. 1/10)

Grade: Mortal (C)

A skill that increases the user's resistance to the Fire element. This is the most common variant of the skill, which could be upgraded and evolved in order to increase the user's resistance to the Fire element even further. Due to the effort exerted by the user to obtain this skill, a small bonus has been added to the skill.

> Increases the user's resistance to the Fire element by 50%

> Reduces damage taken from Fire-based attacks by 10%

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In total, it took Argentum around eight hours to upgrade [Incredibly Inferior Flame Resistance] to the [Flame Resistance] he was currently looking through, with the latter upgrades taking up most of the eight hours that he spent killing Fire Slimes. Recalling the great number of Fire Slimes that he had killed during those eight hours, Argentum could not help but shudder a little bit as he muttered, ”I really don't want to do something like this ever again…”

”Then again, that's what I do for the skills I already have so…” It did not take long for Argentum's emotions to come back to normal as he remembered that grinding made up a great portion of his power. ”Anyways, is this skill enough to negate the damage I obtain from the Inferno Plains' atmosphere?”

Surprisingly, even though Argentum's resistance to the Fire element increased whenever his [Flame Resistance] skill upgraded to a higher tier, he still obtained the same amount of damage at the same interval, prompting him to heal himself every once in a while. Although this allowed him to evolve the skill to the next grade since it had already reached the Master level of mastery, he found it somewhat peculiar that he still obtained damage from the environment even when his [Flame Resistance] skill was called [Lower Flame Resistance], the previous form of the skill he currently had.

With that in mind, he then went ahead and waited for the notification from the system to come, which would inform him that he had taken damage from the environment. After a couple of minutes had passed, Argentum had not received any notification from the system, bringing his hopes up that this skill was what he needed to barely negate the damage from the environment, but he decided to wait a bit more, thinking that the interval between the notifications had increased due to him obtaining better resistance against the Fire element.

Eventually, thirty minutes had passed since Argentum pondered as to whether he would still take damage from the environment. Unsurprisingly, after all that time, Argentum had not obtained any notification from the system regarding damage from the environment whatsoever, making him let out an inward sigh of relief as he did not need to heal himself up every once in a while anymore.

Ding!

”Oh no…” Just as he was about to go ahead move towards the original location he had in mind for this trip to the Inferno Plains, a notification sound resounded from the system, making Argentum automatically think that he still obtained damage from the environment, albeit the gap between them now was incredibly long.

Hoping that that was not the case, Argentum went ahead and commanded the system to open up the notification screen in front of his field of vision, radiating an aura of slight nervousness as he slowly read the latest notification he received. Surprisingly, as he read through the latest notification, his nervousness gradually transformed into relief, which then soon transformed into elation.

��[Flame Resistance] has reached the MAX level.'

'[Flame Resistance] has met the necessary requirements and is ready to evolve.'

”I guess I can rest assured that I won't obtain any damage from the environment then,” Argentum said as he let out a light chuckle before commanding the system to evolve [Flame Resistance] to the next level, changing its name to [Intermediate Flame Resistance].

”Wait what?” At the very instant Argentum had evolved the [Flame Resistance] skill, his feeling towards the surroundings had significantly changed. Before, he would feel a lot of pain thanks to the environment, which he would not feel since he actively concentrated on ignoring it. But now, he felt like he was in an area that was familiar to him, as if the surroundings did not hamper him in any way. Wondering if this was an illusion, Argentum went ahead and stopped thinking of ignoring the pain from the surroundings, eventually radiating an aura of elation as he found out that the pain he felt was now at the level of incredibly tolerable.

Although he was not expecting [Flame Resistance] to solve his problem of feeling pain from the surroundings, it was still a welcomed addition to him as his mood became better. After that, he then went ahead and moved the map, that was on the rightmost part of his field of vision, towards the center of his vision. He then removed the marker he had set for the area he was currently in before setting a marker towards the area he originally intended to go to.

Whoosh! Whoosh!