Chapter 274 - The Origin Trials (2/2)

”It is,” Eleanor unhesitatingly replied, leaving Felix at a loss for words. The only sound he could eke out in response after that was, ”Eh?”

”You're thinking too much, Felix,” Eleanor said soon after before letting out a light giggle that resounded in his mind. A few seconds later, she responded, ”To convert Pseudo-Animates into energy particles…”

”You just have to kill them.”

”I see…” Felix said with a tone of uncertainty before cutting off their connection, pondering as to whether Eleanor's words were true or not. After mulling over it for a bit, he eventually concluded that it was indeed true, recalling the memories he had when he was still fighting against a great number of Pseudo-Animates at once. Whenever they died, their bodies would disintegrate into particles of various colors before being absorbed by the world.

Thinking about those particles, he could not help but think that they were condensed particles of a certain element since they were visible to the n.a.k.e.d eye. Although he wondered if that would speed up or slow down Argentum's comprehension over [Earth Affinity], he could not help but think that doing it would truly help Argentum out.

Noticing that Felix was silent for quite some time, Argentum went ahead and asked him, ”So…can you do it?”

”Yeah, I can,” Felix nodded as he responded. Soon after, he gestured with his hands as strands of energy soon appeared in front of his body, conjuring into a blue magic circle that allowed five silhouettes to appear in front of both Argentum and Felix.

It did not take long for the appearance of the five silhouettes to be fully seen by Argentum and Felix, with the energy making up their bodies being a shade of light brown. Unfortunately for them, just as they were about to ask why they were summoned, a glint of blue light was the last thing they saw as their bodies were cut multiple times, transforming into multiple motes of brown light soon after.

Sensing the connection he had towards the brown motes, Argentum unhesitatingly went ahead and absorbed them while he recalled the information regarding [Earth Affinity] in his mind. After he had absorbed all of the brown motes in a matter of a few minutes, an aura of elation and surprise soon enveloped Argentum as he found out that his understanding of [Earth Affinity] was now three-fourths of the way there.

Noticing that Argentum radiated an aura of excitement, Felix could not help but ask, ”Was it effective?”

”Yeah!” Argentum could not help but shout his response excitedly. He then told Felix, ”If you do that a few more times, I think I'd be able to obtain [Earth Affinity] after ten minutes or so!”

Hearing Argentum's words, Felix could not help but let out a sigh as he silently prayed for the souls that were inside the Earth-based Pseudo-Animates he would kill to have a better life.

And just like that, quite a substantial amount of Earth-based Pseudo-Animates had been transformed into motes of brown light, their method of death akin to chickens being beheaded while they were unaware. Although Argentum finally felt bad after the second batch of Earth-based Pseudo-Animates had been converted into motes of brown light, he continued with his process of understanding [Earth Affinity] as he silently prayed for those that were killed for his gain.

Eventually, after a total of 25 Earth-based Pseudo-Animates had been killed, the connection Argentum felt towards the Earth element had now achieved a breakthrough. If his connection with the Earth element before was akin to somewhat familiar acquaintances, right now, what he felt was that of a connection between good friends.

Ding!

With a notification sound resounding throughout his mind, Argentum went ahead and opened up the notification screen in his mind, radiating an aura of happiness soon after.

'You have obtained the skill [Earth Affinity].'

Surprisingly, just as he was about to go ahead and increase his understanding of [Earth Affinity] to be at the same level as the other affinities, another notification sound resounded in his mind.

Ding!

Soon after that, the feminine-sounding voice of the system was soon heard in his mind, asking him, ”You have obtained great affinities with the four foundational elements. Would you like to fuse them and obtain [Lesser Origin Affinity]? By doing so, you would be eligible to participate in the Origin Trials.”

Listening to the system's words for a bit, he pondered as to whether he should accept the offer or not.

Unexpectedly, it did not take long for him to come to an answer as he replied in his mind with…

”No.”

”Well, to be more exact…”

”Not yet.”

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