Chapter 350: Familiarizing Oneself (2/2)

> Maximum number of Flux Knights: 1

> Minimum level of Flux Knights: 1

> Maximum level of Flux Knights: 10

FP Cost: Dependent on the initial strength of the Flux Knight being created

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After reading through the description of the skill, he now had an idea of what the skill did and what he could do it. Naturally, a few questions came to mind as he read through the skill's description, prompting him to ask Theresa, ”Can these Flux Knights level up if I allocate my unused experience points on them?”

”Yes, these Flux Knights do indeed level up once you allocate your unused experience points on them…” Theresa said in response, making Aurus more and more excited to test the skill out, only for this excitement to slightly disappear as she continued, ”…but at a cost.”

”You'd need a thousand unused experience points to increase their experience by one point, Master,” Theresa said, prompting Aurus to ask, ”Isn't that equivalent to the conversion rate between an Inanimate and a Pseudo-Animate.”

”Exactly,” Theresa said, leaving Aurus in a state of confusion, only for him to realize what Theresa was hinting towards soon after as he asked, ”So, you're telling me that the existence level of these Flux Knights are at the Pseudo-Animate level?”

”You got it correct, Master,” Theresa let out a light giggle as she replied. As for Aurus, he pondered over using the skill right now or at a later time, even though Theresa told her that if he wanted to familiarize himself with something first, it would be this skill. In the end, he decided to postpone the first usage of the skill at a later time since the summoned Flux Knight wouldn't even be able to do much inside the alliance.

”Since [Flux Knight] wouldn't be able to do much inside this stone room, while the other skills are more or less straightforward, how about I shift my attention to the other skills I've obtained that offer new effects?” Aurus soon muttered to himself as he opened up his skill list through the system, focusing his attention on the new skills he had obtained.

Eventually, his eyes landed on two skills, one active and one passive. The first one was the active skill named [Noble's Mark], giving him the ability to pass on his blood of nobility onto other beings, boosting their stats in the process. As for the second skill, it was the passive skill named [Purification of Noble Blood], which did what the name of the skill implied. It was pretty much a skill that increased the concentration of noble blood inside his body…which made him ask Theresa a question.

”Is there really blood flowing throughout my body?” he asked, to which Theresa replied, ”Yes, Master. You do have blood flowing throughout your body, but not the type of blood you're familiar with. The type of blood inside your body is more viscous, which means it doesn't really move that much.”

”Well, as long as my power increases, I guess,” Aurus said to himself with a shrug of his shoulders before sitting down. He then went ahead and activated [Noble's Mark], only to stop midway as he remembered that he could only cast it on those he wanted to pass his blood of nobility onto. Of course, he could summon one of his companions back so he could try the skill out, but he felt bad summoning then keeping them in a short amount of time, so he decided to shift his focus onto the second skill he had chosen.

”[Purification of Noble Blood]…” Aurus muttered to himself as he closed his eyes, allowing the skill's magic to take place as he felt that the blood flowing throughout his body had become less viscous, becoming more and more akin to the other type of blood he was more familiar with. While that was happening, every once in a while he would feel that a clogged-up area inside his body had cleared up, allowing the blood to flow more freely, giving him a wave of pleasure that spread throughout his body.

Not only that, but with every clogged-up area that was freed up through the activation of the skill, he would obtain a notification that the purity of his noble blood had increased by 1 point, with the maximum amount of points possible for him being at a million.

Just as he was about to stop the skill after increasing his progress bar to around 15 points or so, he remembered that it would still take a couple of days or so for Argentum to finish enhancing his understanding of the Wind element to the True Element level. With that in mind, he decided to let this skill continue operating as it would increase his overall power due to the purity of his noble blood, as well as increase the efficacy of [Noble's Mark]…though the latter was more of a speculation.

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With the two doing their own things, around two days had passed since Argentum had started grinding out his understanding of the Wind element while Aurus had started grinding out the [Purification of Noble Blood] skill.

At the moment, around 10 clogged-up areas in his body were freed up at once, giving him wave after wave of euphoria that washed over his body as he obtained a notification that his progress bar was now at around 11,000 points. Although it may not seem like a lot when compared to the grand scheme of things, considering that he had obtained 11,000 points within the span of 2 days, it meant that he could obtain the 1 million points in about 6 months or so.

But that was not all. He also noticed that with every point in the progress bar of the skill, the speed at which the clogged-up areas were being cleared gradually became faster and faster. At the beginning of this process, he could only remove one clogged-up areas after around a few minutes or so. But right now, he could remove around 10 to 12 clogged-up areas with every cycle.

Just as he was about to let the skill continue operating, a massive surge of energy spread throughout the whole Tower of Seclusion, prompting Aurus to stop the skill as he stood up and hastily went out of the room he was in. While dashing to where he knew the origin was, he could not help but let out a light chuckle as he muttered, ”Argentum finally did it.”

”He finally achieved Lesser Origin!”