Synopsis and Starting Chapter 2 Patching Up Tory
3 Old House Old Memories
4 Oasis Online And O-Pods
5 Entering Oasis
6 Mcp Chip
7 Oshos
8 Bounty
9 Lifespan
10 The Botched-Up Op
11 Rationalizing Death
12 Kamikaze
13 Axela
14 Lazarus Pods
15 Meta Vs. Non-Metahuman
16 Insidious Attack
17 Whistleblowers P1
18 Whistleblowers P2
19 Full Circle
20 “I’Ll Be The Architect Of My Own Destruction”
21 Screech. Crash. Boom.
22 Seek And Ye Shall Find
23 Death-Like Slumber
24 Waking Up
25 Memories Flooding In
26 Rankers
27 Digesting Memories P1
28 Digesting Memories P2
29 What It Feels Like To Feel P1
30 What It Feels Like To Feel P2
31 Stardust Guild
32 Scare Tactics
33 Miranda Bloom
34 Adjusting On-Job Routine
35 Brush Up On The Basics P1
36 Brush Up On The Basics P2
37 Loving The Process
38 A Divergent Way To Learn
39 The Crane’S Nest
40 An Easter Egg
41 Siphoning Life Essence
42 Absolute Control Vs. Destructive Freedom
43 Walk The Rankers' Path With Unwavering Grit
44 Successful Warrior
45 Packing A Punch P1
46 Packing A Punch P2
47 A Philosopher Of Bullshittery
48 Formless
49 Countdown
50 Breakthrough Into Official Rank
51 I’Ll Begin My Journey In Infinity. In Infinity, My Journey Shall End
52 Infinite Mana Core
53 Spell Stacking
54 “Look What You Made Me Do”
55 Take No Prisoners
56 Confide
57 Grind Is Real
58 Rookie’S Test
59 Battlemage
60 Experimenting
61 To Hell With Circumstances. I Create Opportunities
62 Surpassing Expectations
63 Realizing Shortcomings
64 Entering Gilaahan
65 City Of Ludan
66 Death And Taxes
67 Possible Solution?
68 First Mission
69 Mia Silver
70 Dokkaebi
71 The Mammoth Hunt P1
72 The Mammoth Hunt P2
73 Karma
74 Multi-Stage Breakthroughs
75 State Of Epiphany
76 Artifact Smithing
77 Explore More Expect Least
78 The Bare Necessities
79 If It Doesn’T Open, It’S Not Your Door Yet
80 Hexers
81 The Hexers' Creeds P1
82 The Hexers' Creeds P2
83 Malcolm Merlot
84 Battlemage 101
85 Investment
86 The Wolf’S Creed
87 Back To Earth
88 Underground Fights
89 Eren Vs. Tegan
90 High Profit Margin
91 Rog Bandalwild And Jacob Jenkins
92 Leading Rog By The Nose
93 Believe In The Dead To Keep A Secret
94 Blitz Shard
95 Spirit Beast Spell
96 Real Knowledge Is To Know The Extent Of Your Ignorance
97 Float Like A Butterfly Sting Like A Bee
98 One Ring To Repel Them All
99 Benefiting From The Dead
100 Alfem
101 Demonic Rankers
102 Flesh Golems
103 Something'S Off
104 Uninvited
105 Roland’S Compromise
106 Collecting Raw Ingredients
107 Eren Vs. Jario P1
108 Eren Vs Jario P2
109 Baited
110 Gilaahan’S Blessing Once Again?
111 Forbidden Technique
112 Bulal Blood
113 Elevated Stats
114 Bulal’S Uninvited Guests
115 Undying Cockroach Vs Ariadne
116 Using Fire Element
117 Homing
118 Escape
119 Purpose Behind Guards' Infection
120 Flesh Golems Appear
121 Escaping Traitors
122 Red Runic Array
123 No Gall No Glory
124 Patience Is The Art Of Concealing Your Impatience
125 Gains
126 Securing The Bounty Reward
127 A Place To Return P1
128 A Place To Return P2
129 Straight Face
130 Picking Up From Where They Had Left Off
131 Coffee And Cuddles
132 Viktor Vs. Keith
133 The Ax Effect
134 Besting Keith
135 Unexpected Invitation
136 Trying Hex Gear Set
137 Entering The Hexers’ Testing Grounds
138 Puppets
139 Alfem And Blitz Shards Combo
140 Flesh-Altering Spell And Taranbiest
141 The Bear Trap
142 Kino
143 Mediocrity Is The Final Enemy Of Prosperity
144 Hexers And Freedom
145 Downsides P1
146 Downsides P2
147 Hex Spell: One Up
148 Slaadi
149 “Success For Me Is To Go Out There And Dominate”
150 Twin-Star Arts And Igni Series Spells
151 Igni Lotus
152 A True Fire Domain
153 Being Followed
154 Retrospection
155 Spied On
156 House Of Spiders P1
157 House Of Spiders P2
158 Prince Charming
159 Whatever Doesn’T Kill Me Had Better Start Running
160 Bigger Threat
161 Mia Escapes
162 Dual Kill
163 Let This Rain Wash Away All My Pain Of Yesterday
164 Bloodfest
165 Green Prison
166 Extreme Fear Can Neither Fight Nor Fly
167 There Is No True Genius Without Some Touch Of Madness
168 No Greater Danger Than Underestimating Your Opponent
169 Choices And Consequences
170 Aspect Fusion
171 Contract Bound
172 Awakening Potion
173 Breakthroughs P1
174 Breakthroughs P2
175 Encashing Kills
176 In Spontaneity Lies The True Beauty Of Life
177 Wild Forest Wind Trapped Inside Four Walls*
178 Unspoken Competition*
179 Ready Or Not*
180 All Yours*
181 Incredible And Unbelievable
182 Walk A Mile To Avoid A Fight
183 Seeing The Tip Of Something Dreadful And Evil
184 Violence Is Not The Answer
185 Baiting A Wolfpack
186 A Bit Of Progress Each Day Adds Up To Big Results
187 Yana Shiran And Raina Regan
188 Profit Is The Ignition System Of Any Economic Engine
189 Bad Guys Vs Bad Guys P1
190 Bad Guys Vs Bad Guys P2
191 Meeting Ariadne Again
192 Talk Between Two Survival Specialists
193 Destroying Spider Golem
194 We Can Live With Dignity; We Can’T Die With It
195 Dread
196 No Power Is Worth Losing Self Control Over
197 Adelman'S Ring
198 No Hard Feelings
199 Plans To Form A Merc Team
200 Same Brand Of Delusional
201 Aiming For Spiders’ Loot
202 Escaping Spiders
203 Assassinating The Assassin
204 Ambushing Behlam
205 Slaying Behlam
206 Multi-Element Artifact Forging
207 Soul Mark
208 Regaining Control Over Hex Spells
209 Clearing Second Stage
210 Having The Patience To Wait For The Right Moment
211 Anemoi: Model Elephant
212 Elemental Aspects & Spell Integrations
213 Fusion Flame
214 Bonus Stage: Wyvern Hunt
215 Battle Trance
216 Signs Of Soul Sense Awakening
217 Controlling Wrathful Summoned Creatures P1
218 Voice Of Reason?
219 Conversation With Aleph In A Near-Stagnant World
220 Controlling Wrathful Summoned Creatures P2
221 Overwhelming Rewards P1
222 Bonus Stage Reward: Kiamat
223 Steady Growth For Six Months
224 Confronting Gian
225 Eren Vs Gian P1
226 Eren Vs Gian P2
227 One Up + Hex Spells + Deviant Casting
228 Igni Lotus Collapse
229 Fine Line Between Genius And Insanity
230 Death And Insanity
231 Recruiting Yeti
232 Guild War Breaks Out
233 Battlefield Chaos
234 Jilly
235 An Illusionist'S Achivements
236 Of The Streets, By The Streets, For The Streets
237 Mind Control Through Illusion Spells
238 Arto
239 Ambitious Plans And Necessary Sacrifices
240 Using Debuff Potions & Being A Man
241 “I’Ll Be The Architect Of My Own Destiny”
244 Breakthrough Into Awakened Rank
245 Yeeting From Gilaahan
247 Meeting Malcolm Again
248 The Last Spider’S Origin Story
250 Eren Vs Sofiya P1
251 Eren Vs Sofiya P2
252 Eren Vs Sofiya P3
253 Eren Vs Sofiya P4
254 Defeating Sofiya
256 A Freelancer'S Dreamjob
257 Sofiya Onboard
258 Building Trust
259 Collecting The Bonus Test’S Reward
260 Forming Spirit Contract With Tiamat
262 Aleph'S Demonic Possession?
263 Discovery Of An Elder Seed Artifact
264 [Bonus Chapter] Beast Companion Technique Of Amazonian Origin
266 Elder Seed Inheritors
267 Diverse Paths To Power
268 Evokers, Elementalists, Body Cultivators, And Soulweavers
269 Planning For The Future
270 Elder Artifact: Adelman'S Ring
271 Unveiling The Distinctions: Transcendent-Grade, Hex, And Elder Seed Artifacts
272 Mapping The Path As An Artifact Forger
Categories Genre: All, Fantasy, Ongoing Status: Ongoing ______
Total Chapters in book: 265
Estimated words: 348063 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1740(@200wpm)___ 1392(@250wpm)___ 1160(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 348063 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1740(@200wpm)___ 1392(@250wpm)___ 1160(@300wpm)
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LIST OF LAST 10 CHAPTERS:
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A green-haired woman was trapped inside the Lotus-shaped fire domain that had been created in the middle of the forest.
This young woman had a pretty face and cherry-red lips. Her eyes were as pitch black as the moonless and star-less night skies and her skin was supple and snow-like. She had a pink hue on her cheeks, indicating that this ranker was full of vitality.
This young woman had the right curves in the right places. Her prominent feminine features made her look more mature than her age.
Her wood element nature was apparent by the soothing and nature-like vibes she would exude. Yet, at this time, those vibes were nowhere to be found. Anxiety, worry, fear, survival instincts, and other extreme emotions had put this striking woman on edge.
Eren quickly closed in on Lagertha after he had taken care of Tohir. At this point, he wanted to get rid of her as soon as he could.
Eren charged at Lagertha without any weapons in hand. He had simply coated his hands in Blitz Bolt that he would release as soon as he got within the striking zone.
Bzzt. Swoosh. Boom!
Eren was surprised when Agatha cast an armor spell on herself just before meeting Eren’s fist with hers. The first to get wrapped into wood-element armor was the hand she had used as a fist to meet Eren’s.
Her entire body was encased in wood-element scales and vines in the next moment. Unlike her usual wood element manifestation, the armor was completely wooden. Also, the vines of the armor were a bit dry, showing that the armor was more focused on durability than flexibility.
Lagartha didn’t stop there. She fortified her wood-element armor with green vines that were all over the ground. This way, the armor would be resistant to both fire and lightning attack.
Eren’s Blitz Bolt was released as soon as contact was made. Lightning cracked and started to turn the wood that came into contact with it black and charcoal-like, generating white smoke as well.
However, the lightning failed to affect Lagartha because of her wood-element fortified armor. Since the lightning was not able to penetrate the insulating armor, the wood-element ranker stayed safe.
‘This is what they call Aspect fusion, right?
Impressive!’
Eren had a thought in his head as he exchanged some more moves with Lagartha. He had heard about elemental aspects and aspect fusions. But this was the first time he saw it getting applied. And that too by a Meta ranker.
‘This girl is a prodigy. That stupid Geer should have let her lead the team.’
Eren criticized the way Spiders handled things for no apparent reason. It was as if he was criticising kids for misbehaving. Only, the punishments he had dealt to so-called kids were extreme to say the least.
***
Eren had to say the girl in front of him was a genius. A prodigy among a bunch of prodigies. She should have been the leader of the party and not some random nobody like Geer.
Every element that gets adopted by a ranker would have an aspect attached to it. The elemental aspect of the ranker is what determines how that element manifests. Two rankers could have the same element but different elemental aspects to them, making them employ a completely different set of spells.
In the beginning, a Meta ranker would only have one aspect of an element. Their elemental attainment would also be restricted to that one aspect.
The elemental aspect would also dictate how the same spell can have varying outputs. The purple-colored lightning element was purely focused on speed, while the red-colored lightning element was focused on its destructive nature. Furthermore, the blue lightning element would be focused on the burning, causing objects to char instantly.
In other words, when a lightning element ranker who possessed the speed aspect of lightning used their lightning-based spells, the manifestation of lightning would be purple. Plus, they would receive the biggest boost to their movement spell because the aspect of lightning they had awoken first would be more compatible with it.
Similarly, when a ranker awoke to the incineration aspect of the lightning, their spells would generate more heat, and their spells would generate incinerating effects as well.
Eren had a blue lightning aspect that was associated with incineration. That’s why most of his attacks would leave an incineration mark on his opponents. The Solid Spark he had executed on Tohir was one such example.
The Blitz Shards he created would also explode and incinerate when used with Igni Shards. That’s why he would often use both the spells in combo ever since he had gotten his hands on the Igni series spells.
Eren’s fire-element and his fire-element spells were highly compatible with his lightning-element spells for this reason. The combo spells of both elements would give him greater results than the individual summation of the two.
That was not to say Eren had difficulty executing his movement spell or other spells. It was just that lightning spells without a focus on heat or explosion would not be boosted by the first aspect he awoke.
One had to say that Eren was already very agile and nimble using his movement spell even when his blue lightning didn’t really complement his movement spell. Incessantly, he wondered what kind of agility he would be able to unlock when he achieved lightning’s speed aspect.
The reason why Eren referred to Lagartha as a prodigy was because not only had she unlocked two aspects of her elements, but she had also managed to combine both her aspects to fortify her spells.
Unlocking two or more aspects of the element was already considered a rare event. However, spell fusion was rarer to the point of being non-existent when it came to Meta rankers.
Aspect fusion not only allowed the user to fortify their spells but also made them go easy on mana consumption. The aspect fusion was the result of in-depth elemental attainment that would normally take a long time for a ranker to achieve.
Such elemental attainment was akin to nature helping you do your bidding. Therefore, those with multiple elemental aspects or aspect fusion which were the result of higher elemental attainment could sustain their spells for longer.
Eren could guess that Lagartha was not very proficient at Aspect fusion even though it looked like it was not her first time doing it. She could only tap into it when her life was in mortal peril. Otherwise, she would have made use of it from the beginning to gain an advantage.
Still, Lagartha achieving what she had achieved at such a young age was not something to be scoffed at. She was only a step away from attaining the rank of Awakened. Eren could guess that her Rank promotion would have brought even greater gifts for her.
Too bad, she wouldn’t survive the fight. At least that’s what Eren was confident about, thanks to the fire-element domain he was in.
***
Lagartha had injected an all-stats recovery potion into her system just before Eren killed Tohir. She had used that time to prepare herself for the fight ahead. She had earlier planned to fight Eren using the forbidden potion. However, the all-stats potion was the next logical thing.
It seemed that Lagartha knew a bit of mana-based martial arts too. She only focused on diverting the opponent’s attacks instead of striking. As a result, she would defend more and attack less. However, Eren became more impressed with her level of expertise.
Eren kicked Lagartha under her left rib cage and sent her away from her previous position. He then used the kick’s recoil as a force to create more distance from her.
Eren knew he couldn’t beat Aspect Fusion with his relatively ordinary spells. The only thing he could do was overwhelm her with his abundance of mana.
“Alright. Fun time is over. There is no use for you anymore.”
Eren was done using Spiders as live dummies. He could have killed them all by burning them at the same time when the Igni Lotus was activated. He only got up and personal to vent some of his frustration. After all, he was interrupted right when things were blossoming between him and Mia.
It was about time he killed the last Spider and called Mia back. He will be aptly rewarded for his valor and heroism by the elf.
A moment later, flames from inside the fire domain started filling the void they had left behind. Soon, the entire space inside the fire domain would turn into a furnace, burning almost everything except Eren.
No matter how potent Lagartha’s armor spell was that was based on her aspect fusion, it was bound to bow down in front of Eren’s infinite mana. It was only a matter of time.
“Wait… spare… spare me. Please. I have something to tell you.”
Total Chapters in book: 265
Estimated words: 348063 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1740(@200wpm)___ 1392(@250wpm)___ 1160(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 348063 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1740(@200wpm)___ 1392(@250wpm)___ 1160(@300wpm)
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