Chapter 297 - Myriad Calamity Shower (2/2)
In Argentum's mind, he thought that Herellia would surely heed his warnings as he was Aurus's clone. In connection to that thought, he was hoping on the chance that Herellia would pick up the idea that Argentum had a system as well since that would reduce the time needed for Herellia to believe in Argentum's words.
”Herellia, can you hear me?” Argentum said through the energy strand, prompting Herellia to stop looking at the clouds and focus her vision towards Argentum. Without delay, she replied in a calm and collected tone, ”What's up?”
”I have a feeling that you might not believe me, but…” Argentum hastily responded to her question as he explained what he had read from the notifications in his system. ”The next round you're about to face is filled with a type of lightning far more dangerous than the purple ones darting through the clouds right now?”
”Eh?” Hearing such a piece of important news out of the blue, Herellia could not help but radiate an aura of disbelief as it was just too sudden to her. In response, she could not help but radiate an aura of suspicion as she asked him, ”How do you know what the next round is going to be?”
Letting out a sigh that said 'I knew this was going to happen', Argentum decided to not beat around the bush and said in a slightly defeated tone, ”Since Aurus has a system, then I have a system as well. I got a message from the system telling me about your next round. If you don't believe me, just cast the [Eyes of Undeceiving Truth] on me.”
With her sense of hearing focused on Argentum's words lingering inside her mind, Herellia only took less than an instant to process the information that was said. She could not help but take a few deep breaths as she felt an immense amount of dread from imagining the next round if Argentum's words were to be the case. Letting out a long yet soft sigh, she then asked Argentum, ”So, what do you want me to do in preparation for the next round?”
”You've undergone an evolution, right?” Argentum asked, his mind working on overdrive as he felt that the changes brought by Herellia's transitional evolution would allow the subsequent trials to continue staying at the same difficulty, lest the two of them made a move of their own.
”Yeah, what about it?” Herellia replied, only to soon realize what Argentum was trying to imply. Although she was almost a hundred percent sure that the thing Argentum wanted to say was the thing she realized, she wanted to make sure, prompting her to ask him, ”You want me to gain a better understanding of the new skills I've received?”
”Yes! That's exactly what I want you to do!” Argentum said in a gleeful tone, inwardly letting out a sigh of relief as he felt that Herellia would know what to do while the next trial hasn't started yet. In response, Herellia lightly nodded before saying, ”Alright, I'll try to familiarize myself with the new skills as much as possible. Do inform me when the next round of lightning bolts come crashing down, okay?”
”I definitely will,” Argentum said in response to Herellia's words before cutting off the connection between the two of them. He then focused his sense of vision onto Horell, who was still looking at the dark clouds, and said, ”Horell, could you keep an eye on the dark clouds and alert me if there's a change going on? I need to do something for a bit.”
”Eh? Alright,” Horell said in response to Argentum's request, only to be greeted by an Argentum that had its sense of vision closed while it sat cross-legged on the ground. Letting out a light sigh, Horell then panned his sense of vision back to the dark clouds and muttered to himself, ”You could've said thank you at the very least.”
Ignorant to what was going on in Horell's mind, Argentum brought up the spell creation feature of [Sage's Water Magic] in his mind and focused his vision on the True Water spell portion of the skill. Working his mind to overdrive, he then muttered inwardly, ”It's time for me to put these vacant spell slots to good use.”
And just like that, the three of them were preparing for the next trial in their own ways. Herellia was currently sitting cross-legged on the ground with her sense of vision closed, allowing herself to become more familiar with the new skills she had obtained after evolving to a Pseudo-Animate lifeform. Every once in a while, one would see ribbons of crimson and gold surrounding her body while white energy particles were scattered around her body.
As for Argentum, his mind was focused on maximizing the usage of the 9 vacant True Water spell slots he hadn't used yet, deciding to make most of the True Water spells have the purpose of boosting a certain ability to its limit. He also decided to make a few defensive spells with the remaining slots, realizing that he should make a Blessed Water spell leaning towards the defensive aspect of things once Herellia's existence tribulation was done.
As for Horell, he continued to look at the dark clouds, taking note of every change that was happening. It was only after about twenty minutes since Argentum told him to keep eye on the dark clouds did a change finally occur, prompting him to alert Argentum that something was happening to the clouds. Fortunately, by that time, Argentum had made sure that all of the True Water spells in his arsenal would help out Herellia one way or another…at the cost of a lot of mana being used up for every spell he discarded.
Lightly stretching his body, Argentum then stood up from where he sat before asking Horell, ”So what change happened to the clouds?” In response, Horell only pointed towards a certain section of the dark clouds, prompting Argentum to follow the path of Horell's finger, eventually seeing what he was pointing towards.
In that certain portion of the dark clouds, the lavender bolts of lightning were undergoing the same process as the crimson bolts from before, fusing as one before transforming into a bolt of lightning that radiated an intent of destruction many times intense than before. Thanks to this fusion, a loud rumble resounded throughout the area, shaking every bit of energy that made Argentum and Horell's body. Fortunately, Herellia was too engrossed in familiarizing herself with her new skills, allowing Argentum to inwardly let out a sigh of relief as the two of them continued to look at the new type of lightning that had emerged.
Thanks to the Power Baptism he had undergone before, Argentum knew that the next type of lightning bolt after the purple one was a light blue lightning bolt. But when compared to the Power Baptism version, the current bolt of lightning that had emerged from the dark clouds took on a slightly darker shade, a royal blue lightning bolt. As he thought about the color that perfectly described the color of the current lightning bolt, it was then that he felt that there was something else to the royal blue lightning bolt. Behind the inherent destructive intent of the new lightning bolt, there was also a trace of arrogance brought about by its superior power, as if any lightning bolt or being under it was inferior when compared to it.
”So that's why there's the word 'Calamity' in the name of the next trial,” Argentum muttered to himself as he noticed that the number of royal blue lightning bolts gradually increased. With a long yet soft sigh, he then said…
”The next trial is going to be a calamity alright.”
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