Chapter 351: The Long-Awaited Goal (2/2)
”Hoh? Is the friend an Inanimate?” Eleanor could not help but ask, to which Argentum replied, ”Uh-huh.”
”Alright, give me a second,” Eleanor replied before cutting off the connection between them as she used her energy to teleport Argentum and Aurus into her room.
Whoosh!
Not long after, both Argentum and Aurus appeared inside the room where Eleanor usually stayed, with Eleanor already standing in front of them.
”How did your week with Rosalia go?” Argentum asked, to which Eleanor could not help but lightly shudder as she replied, ”Please don't remind of it for now.”
”Anyways, who's this Inanimate friend you brought with you?” Eleanor soon focused her vision onto Aurus, prompting Aurus to communicate with Argentum through the connection they had with their spirit as he asked, ”What should I say?”
”Whatever you do, don't reveal the fact that I'm your clone or you're my original body,” Argentum hastily replied before adding, ”Then again, no one would believe us, but you know, just to be safe.”
Scratching his head as he let out an awkward chuckle, Aurus responded to Eleanor's question, saying, ”I'm uh…Aurus, one of Herellia's close friends.”
”Hoh? An Inanimate that could move like a human? That's something you don't see that often,” Eleanor could not help but say after Aurus was finished responding, making the two become nervous for no apparent reason. Eventually, Eleanor let out a light chuckle as she said, ”Alright, Aurus. Give me a few seconds. I'll let you meet up with Herellia.”
”As for you, Argentum. You stay here, okay?” she then said soon after, focusing her vision onto Argentum, who nodded in agreement to her words.
Whoosh!
Not long after, a corridor that led to Herellia's room was opened, prompting Eleanor to tell Aurus to just walk along the corridor to meet up with Herellia. With a light nod, Aurus went ahead and walked through the corridor, only for Eleanor to close up the corridor once Aurus was deep inside for quite a bit.
After that, she looked at Argentum for a bit with a solemn aura surrounding her, only to let out a boisterous laughter as she asked, ”You're about to achieve Lesser Origin, aren't you?”
”I was planning to keep it a secret, to be honest,” Argentum said in response, scratching his head as he let out a chuckle before saying, ”Anyways, yeah. Once I exit the inheritance, I'll be going all in to achieving Lesser Origin and then proceed with the Origin Trials after that.”
”How long do you think it would take you to finish it?” Eleanor asked, to which Argentum replied, ”I don't know. Maybe days, weeks, even months. In any case, if I'm still not finished with the trials after a week, please send Aurus out of the inheritance.”
”I'll keep that in mind,” Eleanor nodded in response before going ahead and using her energy to teleport Argentum out of the inheritance. Of course, she left a few parting words along the way, saying, ”I hope you succeed!”
”Thanks!” Argentum hastily replied before he fully disappeared from Eleanor's room.
…
Whoosh!
A few seconds later, Argentum appeared in front of the abandoned building that served as the entrance to the Flame Spirit Inheritance. Not long after, he went ahead and took out the tome that was hidden inside his upper torso all this time. After that, he then allowed the affinities he had with the four elements to interact with the tome, doing the same thing as what the player did back then in ISE when he first obtained the Tome of the Four Elements.
Fortunately, the binding process had successfully begun, allowing Argentum to let out a large sigh of relief as he watched the tome form tendrils of energy that extended towards his body, while his body went ahead and formed tendrils imbued with the four foundational elements of the world, gradually extending to meet up with the tome's tendrils.
Around half a minute later, the tendrils from the tome and the tendrils from his body had instantly contracted, bringing the tome to Argentum's body in less than an instant as it looked like the tome was fusing with his body as a whole. At first, Argentum was afraid that he would lose the tome forever, but after some time, he found out that the tome was now converting to its true form, a form that could switch between the physical and mental.
Eventually, the connection between him and the tome had been successfully established, now giving him the ability to summon the tome whenever he wanted, and peruse through its contents whenever he wanted as well.
With that taken care of, he then got to the main matter at hand, which was to fuse the affinities he had with the four foundational elements into the higher tier element, Lesser Origin. Fortunately, he had already obtained a notification from the system a few seconds after he had achieved the True Element level of understanding with the Wind element.
Without hesitation, he went ahead and summoned the notification from the system, allowing the system's feminine-sounding voice to resound throughout his mind as it asked.
”You have postponed the creation of [Lesser Origin Affinity] in order to achieve something greater, going ahead and increasing your understanding of the four foundational elements to the True Element level. Would you like to create the [Lesser Origin Affinity] skill based on this heightened understanding of the four elements? Note that by creating this, you'd instantly start the Origin Trials.”
Taking in a deep breath, he eventually responded with a firm tone, ”Yes.”
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Ding!
'Congratulations! You have obtained the passive skill…'
'[Lesser Origin Affinity: Sophos Veritas].'