Chapter 79: Element Evolution (2/2)

The meditation room is a box of glass with a mattress in the center to sit, it is empty with only a glowing red crystal on the top that emits fire mana.

Rex saw a tablet etched on the glass wall just beside the door, he taps on it, and immediately the room settings appeared.

There, Rex can adjust the surrounding environment to his preference and also the crystal.

He searches for the lightning crystal but to his surprise there is none, 'It seems lightning is really a rare element, but there are many elements that are more expensive than the lightning element in the system's shop', Rex thought.

After sighing, he then decided to just adjust the environment into the night with the full moon shining brightly.

The glass flickers for a little bit before turning dark, the roof of the room turns into the night sky illuminating the room with moonlight.

Rex felt his body relaxed, he feel comfortable in this kind of place.

The meditation room enviroment adjustment felt real, he can feel the sound of insects and the cold night wind brushing his senses, it feels as if he's bathing during a real night.

After taking a deep breath, he takes out the Dark Mooncress manual from his inventory,

Swiftly after, a black-purplish book appears on his hand.

The cover of the book is the Dark Mooncress flower, the book emits a dark aura that envelops the surrounding making the place darker.

Rex takes out the three petals of Dark Mooncress and put them in front of it,

He examines the petals for a while and notices the dark aura coming from the book got attracted to the Dark Mooncress, the dark aura intertwine with the Dark Mooncress before it got sucked into the Dark Mooncress.

Rex felt the Dark Mooncress aura becomes stronger for some reason, he picks up one petal of it and scans it with the system.

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The petal that comes from a rank seven mutated plant Dark Mooncress, contains dark moonlight energy that gives it corruption properties. It is enhanced by the Dark Mooncress Manual increasing its effect by 25%.

Looking at the description, Rex felt good about the book!

Turns out by being in the presence of the Dark Mooncress manual enhances its effect by 25%!

After examining the petal, he finally opens the manual.

The system asks Rex if he wants to learn the book instantly but he decided to refrain from doing so, especially when it costs 500 gold.

The first, second, and third chapters are explaining about the origin of the Dark Mooncress, its properties, and how to enhance its effect.

He scans through the book until finally, he found the 'how to use Dark Mooncress' chapter,

Rex read through the chapter thoroughly to not miss any details, he didn't want the ritual situation to happen to him again where he almost died because of carelessness.

After about an hour of reading, he finally gets the gist of it.

The Dark Mooncress can be used in many ways depending on the petals it bloom, normally its petals range from four to seven.

It can be used to give corruption properties to one's body or equipment, enhance Dark Elementalist comprehension, Make an elixir to cure certain poisons, and even make a poison but Rex's eyes fall to the last one.

Element Evolution...

The book stated that the Dark Mooncress can be merged with any element to give it a corruption properties, it will then evolve the elements into higher ranking element.

This caught Rex's attention, his lightning element can be enhanced into a higher rank!

But based on the purpose of the Dark Mooncress, it also needs a different amount of petals to work with.

For example, to imbued corruption properties to the body will need a whopping seven petals while making potions will only need one petal each.

Rex on the other hand, for Element Evolution, will only need three petals.

He doesn't know why it is much cheaper than the other but he is happy to see it, he then follows the manual to evolve his elements.

The manual said to drink holy elixir first before continuing, the elixir rank must match that of the user's rank.

In this case, Rex is a rank two Lightning Elementalist so he needs to buy rank two holy elixirs from the shop.

He's hesitating to buy the potion because of the Sakhmet tattoo but he finally buys it for 500 gold after convincing himself that it will be worth it.

Rex also buy elemental string elixir for the last part of the process, thankfully it only costs 200 gold for the rank two one.

Two vials of elixir appeared on his hand, the liquid inside the holy elixir is pure white while the liquid inside the elemental string elixir is blue in color.

Holy Energy can be felt from the elixirs, it creates a disturbance to the surrounding dark aura and the Dark Mooncress petals.

After buying the items needed, the manual said to eat two petals first before drinking the holy elixir.

Rex did just that, he takes two petals of the Dark Mooncress and put them into his mouth, his heartbeat rose because of it.

Immediately after, he felt his throat burning because of the dark aura.

He gulps hardly to put it down to his stomach with difficulty,

The petals drop to his stomach and swiftly after the petals invade Rex's body with its Dark Energy, it went inside every nook and corner of his body corrupting them.

Rex felt his body burning, his eyes widened in shock.

His blood trembles, his throat heaved up and down when suddenly, ”Huakh!!”, he spat a mouthful of blood.

Without waiting for another second, he grabbed the holy elixir.

Thanks to his regenerative ability he manages to hold on, he immediately opens the elixir and drinks it in one go.

Gulp!

The holy liquid went into his body and collided with the dark energy,

Blood seeped out of the corner of his lips, he's hurting from all over his body because of the two energy collisions but not long after it started to calm down.

The next step is to activate his lightning mana, he tries to do that but suddenly, ”Akhh!!”, He spat another mouthful of blood.

Every time he wanted to activate his lightning mana he felt a thousand needles stabbing his inside, his body jolted in pain everytime he tries to use his lightning element.

'This is going to be harder than I thought'