Chapter 529 - Elemental Form

It was still in the afternoon. The sun was still shining brightly. However, Auron closed his curtain and turned on his light. He wanted to keep this a secret. After Auron felt secured, he took out the [Moss Sword].

[Moss Sword] (common grade equipment) (Upgradeable)

Type: One-Handed Sword

Requirement: 100 Strength, level 100

Class: Swordsman, Thief, Merchant

Attack: 60 - 63

Effect: No effect

Description: A one-handed sword with a green blade. Other than its strange color, the sword, currently, doesn't have any effect. However, don't underestimate this sword since this sword is upgradeable.

Upgrade Information:

- Sacrificed common grade weapon (0/100)

- Coal (0/100)

- Iron (0/100)

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Auron skimmed the weapon's information. However, there was nothing change about the sword. No new information or change in the effect. 

Suddenly, Auron realized there was something new at the most bottom of the weapon's information. There was a new line added.

The line was named with 'energy'. And, Auron had already 100 energies. Auron guessed that this should be something new given by the [Quad Elemental Spirit King]'s corpse.

Unfortunately, Auron didn't know what this energy means. There was also no information about it anywhere. Auron saw there was a plus button near the energy. Auron clicked the plus button. And, a new popup confirmation appeared in front of him.

[You are about to spend 100 energy to activate the elemental feature. Are you sure?]

Auron's eyes brightened when he saw the confirmation text. It seemed that he hit the jackpot. An elemental feature. Although Auron still didn't know what it would do to the sword, he knew it should be impressive.

Auron didn't ponder for too long and immediately clicked the 'yes' button. Suddenly, the sword glowed in red light. A second later, the red light vanished, only to be replaced with blue light.

A second later, the brown light shone from the sword. And, one second later, a white light shone. It took a full four seconds before the light dimmed and the sword returned to normal.

Because it was too sudden, Auron panicked. These strange lights would attract the passerby's attention. He immediately stood up and opened the door to his room. Fortunately, there was no passerby. Auron breathed a relieved sigh and locked back his room. He went back to his sword.

The sword's blade had changed. Previously, it was only had a green moss color. However, right now, the blade had a diagonal dark red color pattern from its sword's tip. It made the sword's blade looked grimmer. It was as if the dark red pattern was made of real blood.

Auron looked at the sword's information. A new section was added below the energy information. There were four new lines. Each of the lines represented an element.

[Moss Sword] (common grade equipment) (Upgradeable)

Type: One-Handed Sword

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energy: 0

fire form level: 1/10 (activated)

ice form level: 1/10

earth form level: 1/10

wind form level: 1/10

Seeing this, Auron knew that the sword was currently in its fire form. And, also the number should represent there were 10 levels for each elemental form.

One question surfaced in Auron's mind. How to upgrade these elemental form?

Auron tried to look for information. Not long after, he found the answer. Auron needed to gather enough energy to upgrade the elemental form. And, each element would need to be upgraded separately.

The cost for upgrading was also not cheap. Auron needed to spend 100 energy to upgrade to level two. Then, he needed 200 energy for the third level. 300 for the fourth level. 500 for the fifth level. 800 for the sixth level. 1300 for the seventh level. 2100 for the eighth level. 3400 for the ninth level. And 5500 for the tenth level.

It was also not easy to obtain energy. The sword needed to absorb the corpse of a boss monster. Also, it was not any kind of boss monster. The boss needed to be a minimum of a rare grade boss monster for the sword to obtain energy. The higher the grade, the higher the energy received.

A rare grade boss monster would give one energy. An epic one would give 10 energy. However, if it was a boss from ancient times, the energy would be multiplied by 10, just like the [Quad Elemental Spirit King]. This means that Auron needed to kill the [Quad Elemental Spirit King] four times to upgrade all forms to level 2.

It was not easy. But, Auron knew he had secured a way to provide these energies, which was the previous dungeon. Of course, right now was not the correct time to farm these energies. He needed to be stronger first. He also required a lot of money to buy the ticket.

Also, Auron knew if he were farming the energies, he would need a great team to keep his secret. Right now, Auron still could not trust the Absurd team with his secret yet. Hence, Auron was required to find 10 people to bring to farm. However, Auron knew it was still long in the future.

Auron was happy as well as gloomy with this new gain. He was pleased because this means he already had an elemental weapon. The elemental weapon was not easy to obtain. Even they had an elemental weapon, no weapon had four elements like what Auron had. If this news got outside, then there would be many people who would try to snatch this weapon.

However, he was also pained because he had to find more time to farm for these energies. There were already many things in his hands and another new one already added to the list.

Auron shook his head. No, he could not think like this. This would only add to his burden. He decided to complete the task one by one slowly.

Since Auron could not test the sword's new power, he could only put it back to his inventory. Now, he had to prepare for tomorrow's trial.

Auron stood up and exited his room. It was time to meet with General Aston for some help.