Cosmic Peak

After buying the map, which had a very life-like painting, they went to the Alchemy area.

After going to the Alchemy area, they entered one of the Alchemy shops and negotiated the price of selling red berries.

Aren wanted a health potion in exchange for red berries.

"Little brother, I can't go more than 4% extra potions in exchange, You must know that red berries will also expire, and I don't think you can finish those four thousand plus red berries before they start to lose their effectiveness," The shop owner said with a wry smile.

" 4%..." Aren thought for a moment before he smiled and said, "Then just make a round figure and give us 1800 health potions. Come on, that's just ten plus some extra health potions."

The shop owner thought for a moment before he sighed, "Alright. I am going to initiate the trade."

Right after that, Aren heard a voice and words in front of him.

[Merchant Lufos wants to initiate a trade with you, accept or not?]

'Accept,' Aren said with a speechless expression, 'If I knew this was possible, we wouldn't have gone through that trouble...'

Once he accepted the trade, two windows appeared in front of him, and beside the left window, there were items from his inventory displayed.

The other window had nothing, nor there was anything beside it. But after a second, Health potion [1800] appeared with an icon of health potion in the window.

Seeing that, Aren understood as he also put up all the berries from his storage ring, Red Berries [4118].

Afterward, They all went to an armory shop and bought silver-tier armor for Lorain, Quinn, and Hemila.

...

After they exchanged all of their red berries for health potions with more effectiveness, they finally left the town.

After leaving the town's gate, Aren and others stopped under a tree before he gave each one of the 360 Health potions by initiating trading. It seems that even if the other person didn't put anything, Aren could still send them his things once they locked their trade bar.

Afterward, Aren looked at everyone and said with a serious expression, "As you know, the quest we just received is a fake one."

Luna and others nodded before Lorain said with a frown, "What is that old man's intention?"

Nobody had any idea about it.

"I don't know, but it doesn't matter since we will not go there right away. Let's first get strong. But before anything else, let's go towards a cave where Highleg wolves are staying and let auntie Hemila kill them to get exp so she can level up to 10."

...

The map that Aren bought encompassed five hundred square kilometers of area. This was the smallest map, and it still cost them 280 gold coins. Maps are expensive!

Aren didn't buy a larger map since what he wanted to find; the Blood-Spring valley was already on the map.

After a few minutes of traveling, they arrived at the nearby Highleg wolves cave.

Highleg wolves were weak, even weaker than hunchback wolves, which is why Aren picked up this location. Luna and others will be going inside for protection and just block the wolves while Aunt Hemila can practice and kill them.

She was already level 9 but just at the start as she needed around six thousand plus exp to level up to 10.

Meanwhile, Aren stayed outside as he took out one of his chakrams [ Glory of Moon Chakram ] and used his skill <Gear Enchantment> on it.

After five seconds, the process was done as all the vein-like patterns on the chakrams were filled up.

-Armalist Force [18/200]

'So It took 182 Armarlist force to complete the transformation. Quite a lot compared to the force consumed by Ikaros. It looks like this transformation will be more powerful.'

The chakram disappeared after the vein-like patterns were filled, but Aren knew that it went inside his body or...more likely, the Armalist Drive. He was not sure, but he felt that it was related to it since that was his path's power.

He took out his now transformed chakram that had additional dreamy blue patterns on the original silver body of the chakram.

[Name your Articule gear]

The original name of this chakram was good and suited the chakram, but Aren decided to give it a name, albeit a short one, just like his heavy broad sword, Ikaros.

'Hmmm...Since chakram is moon-like with smooth round blade structure full of sharp aura, then...Oberon, it is.'

[ Oberon, Chakram ]-Soul Bound.

-Type: Articule Gear.

-Rank: Low-grade Platinum-tier.

-Requirement: Armalist Drive+.

-Perk: +11 STR, +11 AGI, Increases the penetrative aspect of skills released through this chakram by 20% of the skill's own penetrative aspect.

-Damage: Physical [3480-3990].

-Trait: Taint of Moon-Makes it harder to heal injuries caused by this chakram.

-Durability: [1000/1000].

-Note: Upgradable.

*gulp....*

Seeing the transformed chakram, Aren gulped as he just confirmed his speculation.

When he transformed his Heavy Broad Sword, the previous requirement disappeared, and the new requirement appeared, Armalist Drive, which he had already met since it's his power.

Although the requirement became Armalist Drive+, he also met this, and most importantly, He could now wield this chakram.

Previously, He couldn't wield and throw it since he didn't meet the requirement of 28 Strength, 25 Agility. But now, he was not going to throw it but...manipulate it without touching it.

'This path...It seems that it's very powerful despiting being Mystic-grade and not having some other benefits like Affinity and such things that other paths provide...' Aren thought since all the things regarding chakram upgraded.

Its rank went up to low-grade platinum-tier, and with that, all stats of the chakram also upgraded.

Its perk's bonus stat points increased to +11 from +7, Its damage increased by a whopping 1000, and its perk's ability that increased the penetrative power of skills released through chakram also increased from 15% to 20%.

He looked at his state, which also increased because now that he made this chakram into his Articule gear, the bonus stat it gave always remained active even if he didn't wield it all the time.

<Strength: 23(+3)(+11)=37>

<Constitution: 22>

<Agility: 22(+3)(+11)=36>

<Soul: 3>

The other +3 bonus on Strength and Agility were from his [Spirit Faux Leather Armor]

Aren was excited as he wanted to try his power and took out a map to decide where they should go next.

As he looked at the map, he saw a demon face icon at one place on the map.

Frowning, he focused hard on it and got information as he heard a voice.

[ Clear the dungeon, Grotto of Demon Ants ]

<Objective>

-->Enter the Grotto and kill the queen of Demon Ants.

<Reward>

-->5000 exp, A random mystery box(Bronze).

"Five thousand exp? Hmm, then it shouldn't be too difficult. Alright, since it's already accepted, then we might as well do it," Aren muttered after looking at the quest before he started practicing the chakram manipulation while waiting for others to come out.

First, he manipulated the chakram to spin like a fan.

*Zzz...*

*zzzzz....*

*zzzzzzzzz.....*

The chakram was floating in the air while spinning rapidly as it produced a sound.

Aren looked at it, speechless. After all, it is definitely impossible to spin this chakram like this with a hand, and one can only throw it by grabbing the handle inside its center belly part.

With great throwing mastery, they can spin the chakram by throwing it, but it would never spin as fast as spun by Aren's...thought.

Afterward, Aren moved the chakram while it spun rapidly. He then exerted all of his thought to move the chakram at the fastest speed while it spun terrifyingly.

He moved it near a boulder and...hit it.

*Creeeeeeeeeeee...*

The chakram went through the boulder as if a knife through butter. He felt slight resistance when it was cutting the boulder, but only slightly.

After some testing, Aren confirmed, 'So I indeed can't surpass that threshold of speed. It should be around 380-420 mph.'

Aren had tested his fastest flying speed on the sword and in straight-line; once he reached a point, He couldn't increase the moving speed anymore.

Now, he just checked the same with the chakram, and the moving speed of the chakram also didn't increase after reaching a certain point. From his speculation, the maximum moving speed he can achieve with manipulating his Articule gear is around 380 to 420 mph. He also can't say exact without a measurement tool.

But this speed was already faster than the fastest car.

He then started to practice double manipulation by flying on Ikaros and also moving Oberon chakram.

...

After an hour, Luna, Quinn, and others left the cave as they saw Aren flying around while moving his chakram.

Aren noticed as he descended with a smile and said, "You also got the dungeon quest, right?"

"Yep."

"Then let's go!"