Chapter 121: Right Hand Preparation (1/2)
The Task Hall is crowded as usual, which makes Rex slightly uncomfortable because it is so different compared to Faraday University.
Many students look around to get missions as well, but most of them are second-year or above students.
Only top rankers can freely do missions, if a student is not a top ranker then they will need to attend class to learn more about the theories.
It is beneficial for Rex to attend these classes.
He is in a need of strength, and the System knows many things about Supernatural so he's not worried.
He rather does missions to raise his level than learning more about the Supernatural in classes.
Rex and Adhara went to see the lists of available missions,
While they're looking inside the Task Hall, many students decided to greet him because of his achievement against Faraday University before.
In their perspective, Rex brings Ochyra University's name to new heights.
It will benefit the university later on because of Rex's win, they will probably get supply from Ratmawati City equal to Faraday University or perhaps even more.
They all become friendly to him because of it, and they all got Rex's cold shoulders.
”Rex, we can take this one”, Adhara said while pointing at the mission, she's pointing at a mission in the peak rank three sections.
Rex glance at it before he said, ”Let's try to find early rank four missions, it will be good to be used to fighting stronger opponents for you”
Although he looks considerate, he's saying that because it will take a long time for him to level up if he only fights against a peak rank three Supernatural.
He then scans the lists before his eyes laid on one mission,
Adhara saw the mission Rex is looking at before she shakes her head, ”Are you serious? a battalion of orcs lead by a Warchief?”
Rex smiles, he then takes the mission before he gave it to the counter.
”I'll take this mission, can you sign this mission to both of us?”, Rex said to the staff.
The staff looks at the mission, he wanted to say something but when he saw Rex the words got stuck on his throat, ”Okay, I'll sign it to you right away”
Rex nodded his head before Adhara intervenes from the side, ”I'll become a burden if we go there”
Hearing this, Rex chuckles, ”Don't worry, I'll give you something after this”
Not long after, Rex and Adahra got assigned to the mission before they left the Task Hall to instantly prepare to depart.
The mission will take place in Wedron City a level four city that houses a few thousand people, it takes about two days of train travel and about eight hours of driving because it's a level four-city.
It is stated that a battalion of orcs is currently sieging the city because of unknown reasons.
The city is far from Ratmawati City so it didn't get the reinforcement it needs, it's a horror for humans that live in level 3 and 4 cities because they're not important enough to be protected by Ramtawati City.
Time is rough these days, and many cities that can't keep up will be abandoned.
Arriving at their room, Rex immediately tells Adhara to sit down before he takes out the mid-rank fire affinity that he bought from the system.
A fire orb appeared on his hand making Adhara widened her eyes.
”What is that? I can sense dense pure fire mana in it”, she said with marveling eyes, she never saw this kind of orb before.
Rex then hand the fire affinity to Adhara, ”Take this and try to absorb it, it will boost your power”
After saying that, Adhara shuts her mouth before she follows what Rex told her to do.
Although Adhara is shocked because Rex can take this orb out of nowhere, she didn't question it because she trusts that Rex will tell her at some point.
After a couple of hours, the orb between Adhara's hand disappear.
Adhara's body sent a subtle shockwave that breezes Rex's cheeks, fire started to envelop her body as another gentle breeze exploded within her.
Not long, Adhara opens her eyes which glint with a fiery blaze.
She clenched her hands before she said, ”I don't feel any changes in my power, what is that thing Rex?”
”Try to meditate”, Rex replied with a smile.
Hearing this, Adhara closed her eyes before she started to meditate.
The red ball that floats around her suddenly got sucked way faster than before, the increase in absorption speed is astonishing.
Adhara paused her meditation before she looks at Rex with a shocked expression.
”Amazing isn't it? Now you can become strong faster than before”, Rex said before he started to pack his stuff.
Just after he said that Adhara said, ”It's really great but I can't breakthrough rank four”
Rex got confused, he bought the affinity so that Adhara will be his right hand in the future but this caught Rex off guard.
Adhara glance at Rex before she said, ”My element is still basic, I can't raise to rank four”
BOOM!!
These words sent lightning inside Rex's brain, he forgot that in order to enter rank four an Awakened need to upgrade their element into Great Element first.
If an Awakened only has a Basic Element then an Awakened will be stuck at rank three.
Basic Element can't create a rune to amplify an Awakened mana, only Great Element or above can create these runes.
This is the cause for so many people to be stuck at rank three, upgrading their element is not something easy to do because they need an immense amount of resources to do that.
To upgrade a Basic Element to a Great Element, an Awakened needs two things
The first one is to have a remnant of a higher rank element to be their upgraded element, the second one is to have a catalyst to make the higher rank element merge and engulf the basic element.
If an Awakened manages to find a remnant big enough to turn their entire element, they don't need the second ingredient.
Just like Rex when he found the Dark Mooncress,
He can turn his lightning element to Black Lightning with the help of a catalyst.