Chapter 341: Meeting of Tempest and Gale (1/2)

Bang!

Without hesitation, the door to Aurus' room was opened with all the force Horell could muster through his arms. With a single glance, he could instantly tell that something weird was going on inside the room. At the moment, the density of energy within the room had risen to a level to where the alliance wouldn't even be able to achieve, shocking Horell even more once he found out that this spike was related to Aurus' evolution process.

While he was wondering why this spike in energy was taking place, he noticed that a few Inanimates were situated at the side of the room farthest from Aurus, all of them radiating auras of shock, fear, surprise, and even joy at times. Although he did not recognize all of them, he did recognize the two Aurus had brought out back then when they fought against Chonk, even with their figures changing.

Focusing his vision onto the two while he looked at the state of Aurus' green cocoon from time to time, he then sent a message to the two through a strand of energy as he rummaged through his memories, trying to recall their names.

”Uh…Charisa and Fenrir, was it? Could you two tell me what's happening to Aurus?” Horell asked the two of them, which prompted the two to focus their senses of vision towards him with slight shock. The two then focused their vision on each other as they sent a few messages back and forth. Not long after, they finally responded to Horell's question, with Fenrir deciding to be the one to respond first.

”If my guesses are correct, your name is Horell, right?” Fenrir asked, to which Horell lightly nodded in response.

Seeing that they had gotten it correctly, both Fenrir and Charisa let out inward sighs of relief before answering Horell's question as Fenrir said, ”To be honest, I don't know what's happening to Master at the moment.”

”What do you mean by that? Surely you have been by his side all this time, right?” Horell could not help but ask, to which Fenrir replied, ”That is indeed the case, but…”

”This just happened all of a sudden.”

Hearing Fenrir's words, Horell pondered over the matter for a bit, wondering if it had something to do with Aurus' evolution process. As far as he knew, all evolution processes had no surprises like these. If there were, it would happen near the end of the process.

With that in mind, he looked at Fenrir and asked, ”How many days does he have left before he's done with his evolution?”

”Around 8 to 9 days more.” This time, Charisa was the one who answered the question, prompting Horell to find the current situation even weirder. Although he knew that there were tons of exceptions to evolution processes, seeing it firsthand was still surprising to him.

Since he had obtained confirmation from the two that they had no clue as to what was going on with Aurus' body, he decided to get closer to Aurus' cocoon, wanting to see if he could find any peculiar going on with his body at the moment.

Casting a few layers of defensive magic on his body in case any stray bits of energy attack him out of nowhere, Horell then took in a deep breath as he stepped forward, muttering to himself, ”Why am I leader again…?”

Fortunately, no stray bits of energy had attacked him, even when he was about to a couple of steps away from colliding with the cocoon protecting Aurus' body. At such a close distance, Horell could see what was going with Aurus' body even without investigative magic.

”Man, Aurus looks more human-like than even me,” Horell could not help but say as he clicked his tongue, looking at every inch of Aurus' body from head to toe.

Unlike Horell, Aurus' current figure had now taken on a more humanoid form, with the face having the usual figures one would find on a human face, definitely a far cry from his appearance before. Of course, distinguishing him from a real human was quite simple since the color of his body was that of dark jade green. Add on the fact that a crown made out of the same material composing his body was found on top of his head, then that would sum up Aurus' current appearance.

With around a week remaining before Aurus was finished with his evolution, the layer of green energy protecting Aurus was quite thin. Surprisingly, this thinness allowed Horell to find out that there was more going on with Aurus' body at the moment, noticing that there was a layer of faint white energy over his body…which was connected to somewhere else.

Following the path of this faint white energy, he found out that the faint white energy was connected to the ceiling of the room Aurus was in, but he felt that the energy extended for far longer than that, with his view only being limited to the confines of the room.

Just as he was about to ask the two as to when that faint white energy that connected to the ceiling had appeared, all traces of faint white energy had disappeared in an instant as the density of energy in the room had returned to its normal state. At this point, Horell and the others were at a loss for words, not knowing what was going on. Fortunately, a few seconds later, they finally obtained a clue as a disembodied voice resounded throughout the room.

Of course, with their current amount of knowledge, those words were more or less akin to gibberish for them.

”From this day onward, the thirteenth Spiriveritas of Erudinia has been born.”

”The other twelve have unanimously agreed that the name of this Spiriveritas shall be…”

”Verdante.”

…

While Horell and the others were wondering as to what the disembodied voice told them, Eleanor, Rosalia, and Argentum were having a leisurely time making their way to the Supreme Terra Firma Inheritance.

With the fiasco that was Melzarin and Eleanor fighting because of the intervention of someone else, even though Argentum's intent in the first place wasn't even resolving it, the three of them decided to take their sweet time while making their way to Rosalia's inheritance.

Of course, at first, Argentum was slightly against it since he still had to increase his understanding of Wind and Fire to the True Element level, but after remembering that he had unlimited access to Eleanor's inheritance and her stash of Heaven's Flame Potions, as well as the fact that he was naturally a Wind Elemental, he eventually considered this to be a small break for himself.