Cosmic Peak

[You will be sent out of Enlightenment space in three seconds.]

Aren opened his eyes with a faint smile on his face, 'three skills and one ability finished. I still have four runes, and I can try to create ability or do something else with them later.'

Three seconds passed as Aren arrived back into the room.

"So three days passed in here as well or only in enlightenment space?" Aren muttered, hoping to get an answer. After all, when he did the path trial previously, the time passed during the trial was long, but only a few seconds had passed when he came back.

[Three minutes passed here]

A monotone voice greeted Aren in his head, answering his question.

"Phew, that's good," Aren sighed a relief because if he really spent three days here as well, he would have to pay additional 18,000 gold coins to the Private Meditation House.

Aren stood up and left the room. However, since he stayed in the room for 23 hours, he still had to pay additional 3520 gold coins.

So he spent a total of 6020 gold coins to use the service of this Private Meditation House.

Afterward, he returned to his inn and entered his room before checking out bloodline skills to test some things.

<Meteoric Claw Strike>

->Type: Bloodline skill.

->Rank: SSS

->Level: 1/3

->Cost: 2000-??? Blood essence.

->1st Effect: A pair of claws materializes that does a four-hit combo in quick succession to the target, dealing damage according to Blood essence consumption. The attack also decreases their physical and energy defense by 500 and reduces their fire, ice, and wood resistance by 500.

->2nd Effect: The attack inflicts a Vital Burn debuff for 30 seconds, dealing 0.5% of the target's health damage per second since this flame burns the vital life essence of the target. (This debuff can be removed by the target that possesses countermeasure against it.)

Aren tried to add a skill point in the skill with his thought since he had four skill points total.

[You can not use skill points in Bloodline skills. You can only improve the rank of your bloodline skill by your hard work.]

Aren had two more skills, <Crimson Aember Sun Disks> and <Pyro Alexi Barrier> but they were a rank higher than SSS.

Epic Rank!

His first Epic rank skills turned out to be bloodline skills. Aren didn't know what would be the rank of skills he creates, but he felt that the rank had something to do with his bloodline as well. The source, which was his bloodline power, was already high. So even if he made fireball bloodline skill, it would be at least A rank, he felt.

Of course, the complexity, effectiveness, and potential were the majority factors that decided the rank of skills the further they went up in rank.

All in all, <Crimson Aember Sun Disks> and <Pyro Alexi Barrier> were overall better than <Meteoric Tiger Strike> skill.

As for the ability...

<Meteoric Aember Drifter>

-Rank: Epic

-Cost: 100 Blood Essence per second.

-1st Effect: The Aemberic sparks will surround you, aiding you in your flight. Your flying and movement speed will increase from this ability's boost. (Current increase in speed would be 37% faster than your usual flight speed if you use this ability.)

-2nd Effect: You also gain +100 Fire elemental mastery while using this ability. Your attacks have a 1% chance to inflict Vital Burn debuff for 5 seconds.

-3rd Effect: While using this ability, you will naturally cut away a certain level of wind resistance in the atmosphere to improve your flying speed and maneuverability. Your physical attack speed will also increase by 30%.

...

"The cost is a bit higher, but it's fine. I can use it as my surprising measure to suddenly increase my speed," Aren muttered.

Afterward, Aren fell into thought on what to do next.

First, he could start his path trial right away.

Second, he could go out to the library or something and find how to create a Fire affinity core in him so that he can produce his unique flame and then start the path trial.

After thinking for a few moments, Aren decided to start his path trial first. He didn't want to waste any more time on that, and who knows when he will find a method to create fire affinity core and finally create it? So it's better to start path trial first.

However, before that, he also decided to transform the remaining two rings into Armalist gears.

...

After an hour, Aren finished turning [Ring of Earth] and [Ring of Wind] into Armalist gears [Georno]-Ring of Earth, and [Fein]-Ring of Wind.

Afterward, Aren meditated to recover his Armalist force before closing his eyes and thinking, 'According to that, I just need to think about starting path trial.'

Aren thought about initiating his path trial, and right after that, he heard the voice.

[Path Trial starts in 3 seconds.]

Three seconds passed by before Aren appeared in a black space with nothing in it.

[This is your 2nd path trial, and there are two tests for you to complete.]

[The first test is "Do or Die"]

[Do or Die]

-You will have to fight for ten hours non-stop in a place where monsters will continue to attack you. Naturally, if you fail, you will die.

-However, those monsters are special, and you need to kill them to gather Mystic Essence. This mystic essence will be used to upgrade your Armalist Drive.

-You are only allowed to use Articule Gears and Path skills to kill monsters.

[You have five minutes to prepare before the test starts]

[4:59]

[4:58]

"Hmm? But I should be able to use my bloodline power as well. I can activate 1st gene slot and transform myself into dragon humanoid form," Aren muttered.

[Naturally, you can.]

Aren sighed a relief since this was important. He didn't know how much, but if he is in dragon humanoid form, his stats increase by a certain amount, and he gains physical and energy defense on his body as well. When he transformed during the process, he couldn't check it. But he will check it once the first test starts.

He then took a deep breath and quickly checked his stats.

-| Stats |

<Strength: 71(+35)(+57)=163>, <Agility: 80(+123)(+104)=307>,

<Constitution: 87(+74)(+85)=246>, <Soul: 116>

"My Agility is off the charts, which is a good thing and just what I wanted when I picked those items. Constitution is good enough, and I don't need Strength, but I might need higher Strength as I get stronger if I want to create that gear that I visualized in enlightenment space," Aren muttered.

Afterward, Aren just waited for the countdown to hit 0 with his eyes closed.