Chapter 28 - Transformation results

The moment Gray opened his eyes. The air inside the hall changed.

Two silver eyes, full of majesty staring blankly around, the breath of life all over him, as if God of nature was standing there.

Thranduil looked at Gray's new look and felt horror from his heart. Just a couple of minutes before, Gray was a normal mortal, but now he can feel the breath of life from him as if a high elf was standing in front of him.

"Elf?" Thinking of this, Thranduil felt like realizing something.

At this moment Gray was enchanted by the scene around him. Even though nothing changes around. But what he can see now is completely different. The world in his eyes become more colorful and beautiful. Gray looked around for some time then recovered from his fascination.

He didn't hurry to check his changes and then looked at Thranduil and said with a smile; "Its a success, the curse was lifted thanks to you, Thranduil"

Gray didn't call him by his state like before, but simply Thranduil.

"Congratulation, Mr. Gray" Thranduil didn't care about how Gray calls him. He saw the miracle transformation of Gray besides he can feel Gray held a great power right now, if he fights with him, he might die before he can do anything.

Such a fact didn't annoy him but gave him more hope to get the gems back.

"Mr. Gray I'd like to ask you something. Are you by any chance an elf?" By looking at Gray's new look he can see that Gray is not human anymore, and he already guessed that's Gray may be an elf. But still, he wants to hear it from Gray.

"Yes, it was that curse changed my body to mortal body" Hearing Thranduil question, Gray answered easily. Originally he used the curse as lie only to explain why he became elf suddenly. And as he expected Thranduil really believed.

"Since you have helped me, I'll honor my promise and bring you the gems" When Gray said this, Thranduil was happy, and felt lucky that he wasn't so rude with Gray at from the beginning.

After some discussing, Gray told Thranduil that he will help the dwarves to escape and leave tomorrow morning, Thranduil didn't want to let the dwarves leave by his command, and that's why he let Bilbo on the original sneak and help the dwarves. After all, the ring invisibility can only hide Bilbo's body but not the air around him. So Bilbo can't really hide from him.

Soon Gray went back to a newly prepared room to rest.

But before Gray enters the room, he looked around and said; "Come out, I know you were watching the whole time"

As Gray's words fall, someone appeared from behind the hall road.

Looking at who appeared Gray smiled and said; "If you wish to talk, then come in"

Gray didn't wait for a reply and entered the room. Sit on the table waiting.

Soon a redhead entered the room and looked at Gray.

"Ms. Tauriel, sit down," Gray said.

Yup, Tauriel is the person who appeared.

Tauriel entered the room and sit in front of Gray, Staring on him with weird expiration. Just before when Thranduil told everyone to leave, she didn't leave but hid around, after all, it's her duty as a guard head, to protect the king. And saw everything that happened in the king's hall.

And naturally Gray was able to notice her all this time because shes caring weapon's with her.

"So your also an elf..." Tauriel said while looking at Gray. But the more she looks at Gray the more she's fascinated by Gray's new look. Originally Gray was handsome before. But now, White Hair, Silvereyes, Younger and cleaner face. Black crown as if made of black roses on his head... an elegant pattern under his left eye. Gray looks right now, in one word is an Art.

"As you can see I'm an elf right now" Gray didn't care about her weird look and answered.

Hearing Gray replay, she thought for a second and said; "I want to thank you for saving my life the last time"

Tauriel wanted to thank him before but she was somehow nervous, so she didn't have the chance to say it.

Hearing Tauriel thanks Gray smiled and said; "You don't have to thank, I only did what I should do"

"No, you still saved me, I don't like to owe others, if there's anything I can help you with please tell me" Tauriel said, with a strong eye.

Looking at Tauriel acting like this, an idea appeared in Gray's mind.

What is the most useful thing he could get from the world he crosses? Of course, is power. But Gray knows that he by himself can't get everything inside.

So he thought of an idea!. Companions. Gray wants to find a team of people, it doesn't matter if they are strong or not as long as he could trust them. by his ability, he can give them strength.

This the second time he crosses, but because he's weak, he didn't want to change the plot and was careful from every little thing. not daring to do whatever he wants. With companions, things will be much easier.

"Well, if you put it in this way," Gray said and smiled deeply.

"What I really want is you" When Gray finished his word the air on the room froze.

What is this? what does he mean?!! Tauriel mind at this moment went blank. After all, Gray's word is really not in the right place.

Gray notices that what he said wasn't the right thing to say. so he continued; "I want you to join me as a companion and leave with me to a Wider World"

"Wider world?" Even though Tauriel was somehow disappointed when she heard Gray meaning, his words still attracted her.

"The world you live in is just a little world. After I help the dwarves getting back their home, I'll leave to a stronger and Wider world, if you wish, you can come with me. But...." Gray stopped here and his face become so series, then said; "The moment you choose to follow me, you may never have a chance to come back again"

When Tauriel heard Gray's explanation, somehow she has an expectation on her heart. Strength was one of the things she desired for since her young age, maybe if she followed him, she will become stronger! At the same time staying with Gray's side... May be good!

Think of the last thing Tauriel's face went red; "Why do I think of such a thing?"

After some thought of what Gray said and her situation. She looked at Gray and said; "I need to think about it"

"Take your time, Ms. Tauriel" Gray didn't say more.

After that Tauriel said something and left the room. Gray didn't think much about whether she will join or not. After all, for her situation, Gray knows the best.

Legolas likes her, but Thranduil won't allow his son to pair with a low elf, so the best way for her is to leave, and that was her choice on the original. So she will probably follow Gray in the end.

And as for why Gray chose her as the first companion, the reason is simple, because Gray knows the original movie and her personality fits what he wants from his companion. And most importantly Gray thinks she will become so strong if he gave her a chance.

"Finally alone..." Gray already endured so much, he wants to check what changes happened after the transformation.

After some checking here's the result.

First Gray's five senses become much stronger than before. and his body becomes much stronger and lithe. His originally mature face becomes younger as if he's 18 years old but more handsome.

Second is the crown and the ring. When the crown awakened for the second time Gray felt it. But his mind at that time was all focused on his evolution. At this time the crown look changed, it looks like roots warped around Gray's head, the left and right side of his for the forehead, Black flowers bloomed, and on the middle still an empty slot. As for new power, Gray already know what power this crown evolved.

[Energy Purification], this ability is very weird, it absorbs the energy that enters or appears on Gray's body to purify then sends it back to Gray's body as new pure energy of its own nature. For example, if he wanted to learn black magic, and he already learned another magic of different nature, so he needs to cultivate unique black magic energy. the crown will absorbs both magic energies and purify them then sent it back to Gray's body as new magic energy that can be used for both magic systems.

This ability is ridiculously strong, but it at the same time is completely useless for the current Gray. After all, he hasn't mastered any kind of energy until now. But he knows in the future, this skill will simply a second cheat.

As for the ring on his hand, It became much darker than before, and hardly you can see the gold color on it, and Gray found he's able to enter invisible state, as long as he wanted to. This made him look forward to the end of the ring change.

The third is his metal control ability. This time it didn't rise much, but his sense and control over metal entered a new level. he can control metal as if he controlling part of his body.

And finally his awakened ability. When he activated his ability, he found that the E disk bright and an a controllable state, which means he broke through to the third-level awakener.

Gray wasn't so surprised that he has become a third-level awakened, he expected that. When the crown awakened for the first time, after all, his strength raised so much, so he expected if he raised his strength a little more, he will breakthrough.

When he entered the E disk, what he found inside was... memories. All the memories he has, from the day of his birth till now all recorded inside.

After looking at some of the memories he couldn't remember before, such as his childhood memories. Gray's heart was a little sad. He also some memories he doesn't want to remember.

After fast check. Gray opened his C driver to take a look. When he saw the C space. It wasn't as he expected, Without a limit. It's just ridiculously large.

More than 10million GB. apparently the elves aren't really immortals, but they have a very long life span.

With such a long life, naturally, they will think they are immortals, the world itself may be destroyed before they use this Life space.

Unfortunately, the elves can be killed so none of them will live such a long life.

After seeing all this Gray mood was so complex.

Originally he thought with the elven bloodline, the threat of the crown will be gone. But it looks like, he wished for more. Every time the crown evolves it will take 10 times the same amount of the last evolve. and he doesn't know how many times this crown will evolve. with his certain life span, he can care five more evolutions.

"Mehh" Gray sighs, for this crown he doesn't know if he should love or hate. From the new ability, he can see how powerful this crown is, but if he didn't get stronger he will be killed by it!.

Gray gains much more power then he thought. but he knows this is not enough. He knows that in the real world there are many strong guys, some of them have much more absurd ability than himself. So he needs to get stronger, much more till there's no one can threaten him.

Thinking of all this Gray felt some fatigue, so he went to the bed to get some rest...

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(Author: Sorry for my slow writing, but this is my limit! I work for 13 hours every day, so I write while am at work .-.)