Chapter 340: Signs of Awakening (2/2)

As for Rosalia, since she did not know the feeling of having someone else own a part of her inheritance, she just watched, eager to see if Argentum's offer would be accepted.

Fortunately for Argentum, after remaining silent over the offer for quite some time, Melzarin let out a light sigh before lightly nodding. Scratching his skull, Melzarin looked at Argentum and said, ”Alright. I'll settle for 25 percent. Of course, I'll only agree if we create a spirit contract.”

”Why would I reject something like that?” Argentum asked a question in response to Melzarin's words before letting out a light chuckle. Soon after, the two of them underwent the usual procedures of a spirit contract. After a minute or so, both of them felt that they had a faint connection to one another, signaling that the spirit contract was a success.

Letting out an aura of glee, Melzarin then said to the new co-owner of his inheritance, ”I'll make sure to give you your share of the inheritance once I head back to the inheritance. For now…”

He then looked at the three that were listening to their conversation and said, ”How about you guys help me tidy up this area?”

Felix and the other two then looked at each other before letting out a light chuckle, tacitly agreeing that they would help out. As for Argentum, he went ahead and rubbed his hands as he felt that restoring the landscape in front of Melzarin's inheritance would be a good way for him to become more familiar with manipulating earth.

And so, the five of them went ahead and started to fix the landscape, chatting about their lives while doing so. Naturally, while they were talking about themselves, Argentum could not help but mention about his goal of achieving the element of Lesser Origin, which the other four felt that he had a high chance of doing so, given how he was more powerful than peers at his current grade.

Some time later, while the others were still helping out in removing the charred bits of earth from the area, Felix went closer to Melzarin, who was taking a break, and said, ”You know, Argentum would've probably accepted a 20% share of your ownership. Don't you feel a hint of regret from doing such a move?”

”Naturally, I do feel regret,” Melzarin said in response as he continued to recuperate his energy. Soon after, an aura of slight excitement surrounded him as he continued, ”Nevertheless, that little Pseudo-Animate might just do something that we couldn't. I'll just think of it as a worthwhile investment in the long run.”

In response to his words, Felix went ahead and conjured a ball of cold water, which he then dropped over Melzarin's head, instantly making Melzarin shiver. Without hesitation, Melzarin hastily stood up and started to conjure spikes made out of dark earth, seeing how Felix was running farther and farther away from him.

”Oh no, you don't!”

”Catch me if you can, slowpoke!”

And with that kind of atmosphere covering the whole restoration process of the area, the five of them had finally finished restoring the landscape to how it was by the time the next day's afternoon had arrived. At this moment, the five of them were lying down on the ground, recovering their energy with auras of satisfaction around them.

Soon after, all five of them stood up as they decided that it was time for them to separate. Melzarin went ahead and headed back to his inheritance, telling Argentum that he would get it sorted out as soon as possible. As for Felix, he left the other three after telling them that he had to prepare something for the market, or whatever it was.

With Eleanor, Rosalia, and Argentum being the only ones in the area, Rosalia then looked at Argentum and asked, ”So, should we go?”

”Sure.” Argentum nodded, prompting Rosalia to cover him in her energy. As for Eleanor, she went ahead and cover him in her energy as well, saying, ”I'm coming as well.”

Hearing that, Rosalia could not help but let out a light chuckle before saying, ”Alright, then.”

Whoosh!

And just like that, the three of them then made their way to Rosalia's inheritance, the Supreme Terra Firma Inheritance.

…

While that was happening, something else was going on in the Verdant Blossom Branch Alliance.

Horell nonchalantly walked through the corridors of the Tower of Seclusion, making sure to scan each and every room if there was a being there. While doing so, he could not help but let out a light sigh as he muttered, ”Why did Herellia and Argentum choose me to do this? Cermalia and Harriott are still here, wouldn't they be better off as the acting leader instead of me?”

Although he said that, he was making sure that he was doing his job properly, even going out of his way to greet the members of the alliance when he came across them. After some time, he arrived at a certain floor of the Tower of Seclusion, instantly feeling a large spike in energy in the surroundings.

Normally, Horell would panic since he did not know where such a large spike would have come from. Fortunately, before Herellia and Argentum delegated the job of acting leader to him, Argentum, in particular, told him of what was going in the Tower of Seclusion.

Scratching his head as he continued to walk through the corridor, he muttered to himself, according to Argentum, ”There's still about a week or so until Aurus finally finishes his evolution to X-grade Inanimate.”

”Haah. To be honest, if Aurus wasn't evolving, I'm pretty sure he would've been chosen as the acting leader of the allian—”

Whoosh!

Out of nowhere, a large wave of energy washed over his body, prompting him to instantly sense where it had originated. Unsurprisingly, it did not take him too long to find where it had come from, given how he was close to it from the start.

”Aurus…” Horell muttered as he looked at the direction of the room Aurus was staying in. Just as he thought that it was over, the floor he was in started to rumble loudly, making him think that there was more to what was happening to Aurus.

And so, without hesitation, he dashed to where Aurus was staying, wanting to find out what was going on.