Cosmic Peak

Aren bought eighty vials of poisons and paid 80 gold coins for them. Four types of poisons, twenty vials of each type.

"Also, chief. Do you have any items? like a weapon or something?" Aren asked after putting away the vials in his inventory.

"Well, we also sell poison needles and poison bombs," Chief said as he took out a needle and a poison bomb to show Aren.

Aren looked at the needle, and instantly, the one-eye google displayed its power level.

[Poison Needle]

Power level- [200]

He then looked at the poison bomb.

[Poison Bomb]

Power level-[340]

"I want something more powerful," Aren said as he thought of something," "I want an item that requires one to do blood bond to use."

"Oh...so you want Magia items," Chief said as he waved his hand, and an orb with green and black mist inside it appeared on the table.

"I only have this one magia item, and it's useful to me, so I can't sell it to you," Chief said with a smile.

Aren looked at the orb and clicked his tongue.

[Skyfang Toxic Orb]

Power-level- [1240]

"How much does it cost to buy a Magia item that's as powerful as this?" Aren asked.

Chief stroked his green beard and thought for a moment before saying, "I haven't bought this magia item but acquired it while adventuring. However, from my estimation...Its price should be around 30,000 to 40,000 Crista-shards."

Aren nodded, 'So that's around 300 to 400 gold coins. Whew, it's good, Luna, and I got gold coins as the reward. Without these golds, it would have made completing this task a bit tricker. Luna..., If she didn't meet me, she would've been alive.'

Aren fell into a daze as he remembered his mom and others, but he snapped out of his thoughts soon with determination in his eyes, 'Rosflin's father...did he really let them die? Since he appeared to save me...at the last moment at that, which makes it suspicious, but a mighty being like him could have saved mom and others as well.'

Shaking his head, He stood up and looked at the chief before saying with a smile, "Thank you very much, chief. If fate allows, then we will meet again."

"Sure thing. It was good doing business with you, hahaha." Chief laughed as he and Aren came out of the house.

The guard, Terul, and Perambol looked back and saw Aren and chief coming out of the house.

Terul squinted his eyes and asked, "How many things did he buy, chief?"

Chief smiled and said, "He bought things worth eight thousand Crista-shards and also donated a hundred gold coins for our settlement."

"WHAT! R-really, chief? Y-you are not pulling my legs, right? How can this human be so generous?" Terul spoke while sturring.

On the other hand, Perambol was also dumbfounded, 'Wow, this human sure is generous.'

...

Afterward, Perambol and Aren left the settlement.

"Perambol, do you know a place where I can buy magia items?" Aren asked as he decided to buy one instead of wasting time searching for it or snatching from someone.

"I know, sir."

"Then lead the way."

"Right away, sir."

...

After thirty minutes of traveling, They entered inside a settlement, and Perambol led Aren to a store that sells magia-items.

The store was big and luxurious, with many mutant people in it. However, Aren was startled to see that every single item in this shop had the same color, dark grey metal.

Well, those items had different patterns carved on them as if some sort of magic carvings, but their material...looked exactly the same.

'Strange...however, it should be the thing of this world. Guess I'll find out after I buy one,' Aren thought before moving towards a staff member.

Aren then told that staff member in the large hall of the store that he is looking to buy a magia item worth between 30,000 to 40,000 crista-shards.

The staff led Aren to a section where different kinds of items, from small to big, were displayed on different stool stands.

"Esteemed guest, these magia items in front of you have a price ranging from 30,000 to 50,000 crista-shards, and they come into Duke-category, from low to high grade." The staff lady said. She looked like a lady with bunny ears, tails but other than that, all human.

Aren nodded and didn't even have to look much as he pointed at the giant hammer, "I'll buy that one."

The hammer's handle was six feet long, while its head was one meter in width and fifty centimeters tall—a very big battle hammer.

'Perfect,' Aren thought as he looked at the staff lady picking up the hammer and then leading Aren to a counter.

There was a price tag on the items, so he knew the price and brought out 460 gold coins before paying them at the counter.

'Now I only have one thousand and forty gold coins left. Well, the money was worth spent in this world than Wild Expanse since its value is higher here. Hmmm...should I buy one more Magia-item? But I am not sure if I can keep it. I can only know after I do blood bond with it and the task notification tells me ab-'

Suddenly, his thoughts were cut off as the staff behind the counter said, "Esteemed guest. Can you please activate your magia item? We require you to activate it in front of us so that you won't resell it at a different place."

Hearing that, Aren was startled, but he quickly responded with a smile, "Sure."

He wasn't sure about its activation, but he decided to just drop his blood on it since the task mentioned the blood bond.

He bit his thumb before putting on the giant hammer. A drop of blood fell onto the hammer before it was absorbed.

[Task 2 completed. You will be transported back to the test area in one minute.]

The hammer absorbed the blood, but...Aren saw the staff member looking at him with a gaze that said, "continue."

'So it's not over yet? However, I don't know how to continue sigh...'

Aren thought for a moment before deciding to use his mutant magic ability since that was the only thing he had from this world.

'Anyway, It's better to try it before making a fool of myself.'

He activated the Amber core of Eturnia as his body changed color, but his eyes became a bit wide as he realized that the hammer was clearly absorbing the power of his ability.

The carvings on the hammer shined as the hammer started to transform but not literally.

"Sir, why don't you use the full power of your ability at one go and make this hammer reach its full strength?" Perambol asked with doubt.

Aren's lips twitched before he spoke with a smile, "Ehh...I was just checking the process. Of course, I am going to use full power."

Under tension, his brain's gears turned fast before suddenly a light bulb appeared on Aren's head, not literally.

'Soul energy! I should try to bring out its full power through soul energy. Maybe it might work? No harm in trying.'

Thinking of that, Aren controlled his soul energy inside the inner space and brought it towards the Amber core of Eturnia.

He tried to infuse soul energy in the core and was shocked by the reaction as the core brightly shined as it released red, dark red, dark orange, and such different shades of red and orange energy.

His body also changed with different shades of red and orange while the hammer absorbed all of his ability's energy released from him. The carvings on the hammer also had different shades of red and orange.

The staff member frowned, 'This human has no control over his ability; how stupid.'

However, Aren looked at the cooldown and hurriedly took out fifty gold coins and gave it Perambol.

Right after that, Aren disappeared along with a hammer.

Perambol and the staff were stunned, 'This human also grasped teleportation ability? How powerful!'

...

On the other hand, Aren appeared in the dark area with the hammer still absorbing his ability's power.

[Test 2 finished. You have completed all three tasks in 24 hours so you will be given A-grade reward at the end.]

[You will get one hour break before we start test 3.]

[ Test 3 is a test of battle. You will be sent to fight a boss monster and you will have to defeat it by only using your Path powers.]

[59:59]

[59:58]

Aren looked at the cooldown before focusing on the hammer, 'I can feel it's nearing the end of the process. Let's hope I can transform this hammer into Articule gear because it's the thing I wanted.'

His eyes had slight excitement as he looked at the info of hammer.

[Desta-Infa Giant Hammer]