Chapter 180: New Skill? Body of Prey?! (1/2)

Upon death, the thing that attacked him dropped a crystal. It plunged down the air and touched the ground, producing a clear clanking echo. He didn't miss that and turned to look at it. It was of a grayish-purple couple and shaped like a Tourmaline. Elliot's expression changed when information about it popped up in his mind, becoming one with his memories. The crystal held five units of impurities.

Impurity, like its name, was a substance harmful to humans and present in nature and everything found within. From humans and magicians to magic herbs and ores, everything has it within them. Although he hadn't heard of magicians knowing of any methods to expunge impurities from their bodies, he did know that alchemists can eliminate impurities from herbs and stuff by using alchemy. The amount of it varied from person to person. The more impurities in one's body, the worse their health. As magicians haven't learned a way to deal with impurities in their bodies, one could use this crystal as a material to refine a poison solely made out of impurities, one without any possible cures!

After all, the impurities in this crystal were not something that the immune system of the magicians could annihilate, nor could they release It as excretion, meaning it would stay in their bodies forever and forever, troubling them to their deaths.

Elliot picked it up, used the back of his cuff to wipe the dirt off its surface, and then stored it into the subspace. Then, he turned to the fruit he just purified. It was in his hand reach, and its quality has increased. At first, consuming it would've only increased his strength by a point but now it has increased to 1.1 points.

[Your Strength has increased by 1.1 points]

After consuming the fruit and gaining an increase in his strength, he purified forty-nine of them, killing the same amount of ghastly apparition in the process and earning several dozen crystals of Impurities.

The ghastly apparition that attacked him met the same end. Some of them were fast; Some of them were strong; Some of them had high stamina; however, all of them were way weaker than him, and he mercilessly blasted apart their face with a single punch, a one-hit combo that was extremely effective against them.

Ten or so fruits were left, but he ran out of God's Qi. He had no means of eliminating a unit of impurity from the remaining fruits, which was a trigger to pull the ghastly apparitions out of them and eliminate the danger inside of them. Consuming the fruits without doing so was the same as asking for a nightmare.

”What should I do? Should I try fusing spiritual energy with the essence of life? Would it overwork the magic matrix, causing it to be damaged?”

[No, I don't think so, as it is pretty solid. You should give it a try and see what happens.]

”Let's do this.” Unlike the inner area of Medusa's statue and the place of the second trial, this forest that lacked magic energy left him with no choice but to mix spiritual energy with the essence of life to see what he would create.

Would it be like God's Qi or something else?

A look of curiosity flashed through his eyes as he performed several hand signs, a code to activate the energy fusion magic matrix. The magic matrix on his hand snatched spiritual energy and the essence of life from his body, fused them into one to create Nourishing energy.

[Nourishing Qi]

[Description: An extremely nourishing energy created by the fusion of one unit of the essence of life and one unit of spiritual energy.]