Chapter 283 - Decadence of the Five Hyacinths (2/2)
”Hmm…” Argentum mulled over the system's words for a bit as he digested them, wondering what the system meant in the last part of its statement. Nevertheless, since the last part seemed to not be useful to him, Argentum placed the thought at the back of his head as he looked back at Horell and replied, ”In order for one to acc.u.mulate energy for a Power Baptism, one must redirect a great portion of their energy towards a random part on their body. Once the acc.u.mulated energy naturally explodes, then the Power Baptism would begin.”
”I understand,” Horell said after he was finished processing Argentum's words in his mind. Not long after, he then went ahead and circulated all of the energy in his body before redirecting it towards his right limb. But just as the redirected energy was about to make its way to the right forearm, Argentum prevented it from happening as he told Horell, ”I'd suggest you acc.u.mulate energy outside the alliance. Although a Power Baptism is a smaller and weaker Existence Tribulation, I can tell you without a doubt that it packs a punch.”
As for Herellia, she agreed with Argentum's words as she said, ”What Argentum said. It took an incredibly long time for us to repair the alliance base after what Zelefaire did. Do you really want to repair the alliance base all over again?”
In response, Horell went ahead and disappeared in front of Argentum and Herellia's field of vision, prompting the two to look around for a bit. Eventually, they were able to find Horell, who had just appeared near the corridor that led to the main hall of the alliance base. The two of them then looked at each other for a bit before going ahead and utilizing all of their movement speed boosting buffs and skills to head over to where Horell was as fast as possible.
After arriving at where Horell was, the three of them went ahead and moved at the same pace, heading towards a portion of the Tempest Cliff that was at least a few kilometers away from the entrance of the alliance base. Utilizing his enhanced sense of vision, Argentum looked around and checked for things that might interfere with Horell's Power Baptism, eventually finding out that there were none in the vicinity.
Letting out an inward sigh of relief, he then went ahead and distanced himself from Horell, but not at a level where it wouldn't be too late for him to help him out in his Power Baptism. Noticing what Argentum was doing, Herellia decided to do the same, more or less ending up at the same place where Argentum was.
After making sure that they were far enough from Horell that they wouldn't be hit by the trial brought about by the Power Baptism, Argentum focused his sense of vision towards Horell and shouted, ”You can start now!”
Nodding in response to Argentum's shout, Horell went ahead and closed his sense of vision, allowing him to gain increased sensitivity towards the energy circulating throughout his body. He then went ahead and allocated most of the energy to head towards his right forearm. In an instant, the energy that headed towards his forearm instantly made it look bigger, as if he had muscles on his right forearm in the first place.
Although Horell felt that the energy inside his right forearm was quite dense, it was not at a level that it would explode yet. With that in mind, he willed even more energy, which had recovered to a substantial degree, to head towards his right forearm. With this batch of energy now mixing it with the previous batch of energy, his right forearm now looked like an arm that had undergone extreme hypertrophy. Unfortunately for Horell, he did not feel the energy inside his right forearm exploding yet so he went ahead and waited for a bit more before sending another batch of energy to his right forearm.
'Please let this be the last one,' Horell thought to himself as he let the energy circulating throughout his body recover to a decently high level before sending most of it towards his right forearm one more time. Fortunately for him, just like what he was hoping for in his mind, after the current batch of energy had mixed in with the previous batches of energy in his right forearm, the energy that had acc.u.mulated inside it had exploded in an instant, allowing a loud and audible sound of an explosion to resound throughout the area. Surprisingly, Horell did not feel any pain from it, even though he was expecting it to hurt a lot.
Rumble…rumble…
A few seconds later, dark clouds started to manifest a few thousand meters above Horell's head, prompting him to look up as he muttered to himself, ”Is this the Power Baptism Argentum was talking about?”
With that in mind, he went ahead and looked at Argentum, only for him to see Argentum looking back at him and nodding, indirectly telling that the dark clouds above him constituted the Power Baptism he was going to undertake. Taking in a deep breath, Horell went ahead and composed himself as he did not know what a Power Baptism would have up its sleeve.
Ding!
On the other hand, Argentum obtained a notification from the system, prompting him to open it up soon after. After reading through it, he could not help but find it weird as he muttered, ”Horell isn't even a companion made by the system at all, so why is the system doing this?”
”Nevertheless, from the name of the trial, it seems to be easier than mine,” he soon added as he let out a light chuckle. ”How about I go help him out to make his trial a walk in the park?”
'One of the user's companions has triggered a Power Baptism!”
'With the heavens adjusting the difficulty of the Power Baptism, the decided trial shall be…'
'The Decadence of the Five Hyacinths!'
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