Chapter 346: Awake Once More (2/2)

Thanks to the small size of the alliance's ecosystem, as well as the fact that Argentum had activated his movement speed buffs, it only took a few minutes for Argentum to arrive in front of the room where Aurus was staying. Taking in a deep breath, he then gradually opened the door that led into the room before seeing the changes that had happened while he was gone.

Naturally, the most drastic change in the room was the fact that the cocoon of energy covering Aurus was now as thin as a sheet of paper, with his body being more or less visible to everyone who was in the room. With there not being much obstruction between him and Aurus' body, Argentum could see very well with his enhanced senses that Aurus looked more like a human than he did, which he thought might have something to do with Aurus being a rare species.

As for the companions that accompanied Aurus, once they saw Argentum enter the room, they all greeted him with joy while bombarding him questions like where he went, what he did, and so on. Of course, with him being away from them for quite some time, he took his sweet time answering each and every question they had, even going so far as to narrate what happened to him these past couple of weeks while he gone.

Eventually, they were satisfied with the answers they had obtained from Argentum, allowing him to do his own thing, which he did. Without hesitation, he sat a small distance away from the cocoon surrounding Aurus as he went ahead and summoned a few flasks of Heaven's Wind Potions from the system's inventory. Not long after, he consumed the contents of one of the flasks as his perception over the Wind element had increased.

Following that, he did the same thing, conjuring tendrils inside the cavity where the tome was located as he flipped to the section where the Wind element was explained. Using the tendrils he had conjured, he committed and organized the information of the tome regarding the Wind element to his memory before going ahead and taking one last look at Aurus before closing his eyes.

”I wonder who will finish first, you achieving your evolution, or me achieving [True Wind Affinity].”

With that, Argentum went ahead and started his process of enlightenment, gradually increasing his understanding of the Wind element to the True Element level. Of course, with his understanding over the Wind element already being at the Animate level, that meant that it would take him less flasks to achieve the True Element level, though he wasn't too sure if that would be the case.

To be honest, the only reason why he had opted to enhance his understanding of the Wind element in the alliance instead of any other place inclined towards the Wind element was none other than Aurus. Ever since he had embarked on his journey of achieving Lesser Origin, he always took into consideration the time that remained before Aurus woke up. Even right now, while he was increasing his understanding over the Wind element, he took the time Aurus would wake up in consideration, remembering that there was only a couple of days left before that happened.

Nevertheless, time continued to pass, with each flask Argentum downed taking up 2 hours of his time as he used it to gradually increase his understanding of the Wind element. Surprisingly, after the 2 hours of increased perception were up, he would look at the cocoon of energy for a while, taking note of how much energy in the cocoon was left before it shattered.

And so, Argentum repeated this process until he had downed around 30 flasks or so. By the time he was about to down the 31st flask of Heaven's Wind Potion he had, a change had finally occurred to the cocoon of energy surrounding Aurus.

Crackle…crackle…

At first, the change was faint, with everyone in the room having to strain their sense of hearing to hear what was happening. But as time passed, they could clearly hear that the cocoon of energy surrounding Aurus was now beginning to crack. First, hairline cracks appeared on the surface of the cocoon, then it gradually transformed into large cracks that looked like spider webs.

Eventually, this spider web-like crack had covered the entirety of the cocoon before…

Crash!

In less than an instant, the cocoon of energy had shattered into a thousand pieces as they instantly transformed into green wisps of light. These green wisps of light soon coalesced around Aurus' body, which was still hovering after all this time as it gradually descended to the ground, with the green wisps acting like some sort of cushion.

It did not take long for Aurus to truly be on the ground, with the green wisps now being absorbed by his body as the aura surrounding him had gradually intensified with each wisp absorbed. Of course, the increase was not that terrifying, though it was still considerable when compared to the previous aura surrounding Aurus before his evolution.

At this moment, Argentum, as well as the companions Aurus had, looked at the still unconscious Aurus with auras of excitement and expectation on their faces. All of them were waiting for Aurus to finally wake up, eager to tell him everything that had happened while he was unconscious.

Thankfully, it did not take long after the cocoon cracking for him to awaken as everyone felt a slight increase in energy from Aurus as a faint grunt could be heard coming from Aurus.

”Mnggh…”

Gradually, Aurus opened more and more of his sense of vision, with his other senses following suit. Eventually, he was conscious enough for him to move, which came to him naturally as he became more and more used to his new form. Unsurprisingly, the very first thing he saw…was his clone.

Of course, recalling how his clone looked like before he evolved, Aurus could not help but feel surprise as his appearance was drastically different from what he looked like before. At the moment, Argentum's upper portion was made out of blue energy, his middle portion made out of brown energy, and his lower portion made out of green while his arms had red energy spiraling around it.

At first, Aurus could not believe what he was seeing, but after feeling the connection he had with him, he went ahead and asked, ”Argentum…is that you?”

In response, Argentum replied, feeling an immense amount of glee, ”Yes, Aurus. It's me, Argentum.”

”Welcome back.”

”…”

”I'm glad to be back.”