Cosmic Peak

Aren didn't check the amulet right away and left the royal palace.

After leaving, he started walking towards the Guildhall to turn over the last quest's material.

While walking, he took out the amulet and looked at it to get its details.

[Feyron Protective Amulet]

-Grade: Legendary.

-Effect: Block two attacks of being at Legendary-2 and below.

-Auto Protection: The amulet will automatically create a barrier around the user upon sensing the attack of Legendary power level.

'Legendary-2 and below? Hmmm...the higher grades should have larger power gaps even in mini-stages. Well, it's just my guess. Anyway, I like the auto protection function,' Aren thought while walking.

After a while, he reached the Guildhall and turned over the last quest's material, the Silverflame wolf's skeleton, and got 570 gold and one uncommon grade Pyro Bomb.

[Pyro Bomb]

-grade: uncommon

-use: throw it after infusing ten spirit energy, and it will explode after five seconds.

-effect: deals 20,000 fire damage and covers the ground on fire for five seconds.

Aren was not impressed with this bomb because he could deal greater damage. But he still kept it instead of selling it for testing purposes.

Afterward, Aren went to the quest board to select more quests because he still needed more gold to buy the skill stone he wanted.

This time, Aren picked up fifteen quests that were similar to the ones he completed.

After doing that, he wanted to sleep, but he then thought of something and paused.

-Level: 14 [ 0/18,000 ] ( Stored Exp: 273,220 )

"Hmmm, I guess it's okay to level up. I really don't want to sleep right now and just be done with this kingdom and move towards North for what I planned," Aren muttered.

[You have leveled up to 15.]

[Mortal ascension triggered. Prepare to receive the world's essence to upgrade your lifeform from Mortal-2 to Mortal-3.]

"Eh?" Aren was surprised to hear that, and right after that, a strange power entered his body out of nowhere.

*groan...*

A small groan of pain left Aren's mouth because it felt like his whole body had millions of ants crawling over it, and he was feeling burning internally in the entire body.

"Young man, are you okay?" A passerby middle-aged man asked seeing Aren's slight painful expression.

Aren forced a smile and nodded, "I am fine. Just a bit of stomachache."

"Don't eat things without properly checking them. They might taste good but prove to be bad for health. Youngster these days...," the middle-aged man left while shaking his head.

"Sure, sure...," Aren nodded with a wry smile as he felt the pain starting to subside.

This whole process only lasted a minute, and after that, Aren felt stronger.

[Your Strength, Constitution, Agility, and Soul stat are increased by 5 points each. You will recover your health by five points every one minute unless you have received serious injuries or deep internal injuries.]

Aren added four stat points to Agility and one to the soul because his Agility was the most lacking since he destroyed [Novas] gear.

-Name: Aren Azrael

-Level: 15 [ 0/20,000 ] ( Stored Exp: 255,220 ).

-Path: Emporio Armalist [ Level: 7 ]

-Mutant Magic: [Aember core of Eturnia]

-Spinergy Method: Demon Yakum's Spinergy Method.

-Body Health: [ 3800/3800 ]

-Soul Health: [ 158/158 ]

-Life Stage: Mortal-3

-Spirit Energy Pool: [ 10350/10350 ]

-Soul Energy: [ 590/590 ]

-Mystic Field: 0/150 points

-[Stats]

<Strength: 31(+42)(+8)=81>

<Constitution: 35(+41)=76>

<Agility: 36(+11)(+9)=56>

<Soul: 59>

"Destroying Novas surely hit me a bit hard since that gear provided me with 10 Strength and 11 Agility and with Armalist cloak activated, It gave me 8 in Strength and 9 in Agility too," Aren muttered as he looked at his stats.

His leather armor was destroyed on this trip, and that also decreased his STR and AGI by 3 points.

However, after getting [Destructo], He got +20 in STR and +20 in CONT. On top of that, because of the Armalist cloak, he got an additional +13 in STR and +13 in CONT.

[Armalist Cloak.]

-Effect 1: While the cloak is activated, Your natural control of Articule gears will be increased.

-Effect 2: You will gain a portion of your Articule Gears that will be converted to stats and some special buffs. [ Ikaros: +1 STR +2 CONT], [ Destructo: +13 STR +13 CONT], [ Oberon: +8 STR +9 AGI].

The buff from [Destructo] was quite strange.

[Destructo buff]: $#@%&#$#$#$

Yep, he couldn't comprehend this buff at all, so he ignored it the entire time. Maybe it didn't activate yet? He didn't know, but he didn't bother with it as he felt that it would reveal itself sooner or later.

'Oh well, I don't need Strength that much, but Agility is as useful as Constitution to save my life,' Aren thought before he decided to buy a single armor and turn it into an Articule gear. He decided to buy one armor with a major agility perk because his Agility was really lacking.

...

After thirty minutes, Aren bought a light leather armor from the Armory shop that provided a major Agility boost as a perk. It cost him 560 gold coins.

[Wind Rider Leather Armor]

-Rank: High-grade Gold-tier.

-Perk: +15 Agility +5 Constitution. Increase wind attribute damage by 300 and grant 500 wind resistance.

-Defense: Physical [420] Energy [510] Soul [20] ( Wind Resistance: 500 from the perk.)

-Trait: Blend with the Wind: Lower Air resistance by 5% and gain a windshield of 1000 hit points with 0 defenses while you are flying in the sky. (Shield cool-down: 5 minutes.)

Aren wore it for now and decided to use <Gear Enchantment> on it after leaving the capital town.

"Let's do it," Aren murmured as he left the town and started flying on his sword towards the direction of the first quest.

After flying for twenty minutes, he descended near a waterfall amidst a jungle to take a bath and also upgrade his new armor afterward.

He removed his clothes, put away his armor inside the inventory, and jumped into the water body under the waterfall.

"Nice...," Aren felt comfy and fresh even more because he hadn't taken bath for many days now.

Naturally, his sword, hammer, and chakram were floating around him and he was also cautious while bathing.