Chapter 26: Riding A Sword And System Upgrade!

I controlled the huge elemental sword to hover down and land on the ground.

We stepped on the huge elemental sword and took a seat.

Zale, Aerin, and I are currently sitting on the elemental sword while I'm trying to manipulate the elemental sword to levitate in the air.

I controlled the huge elemental sword to take off and it flew into the sky while we are riding on it.

We found several giants that are in the forest and also some other monsters that we haven't encountered yet.

Since there are other monsters then there must be some new artifacts that we can get if we slay the monsters.

If a giant can give me a ring of gigantism, then I might get a ring of fire-breathing if I slay a dragon.

That would be cool but I can already accomplish that because I have the [Dragon Roar] skill.

We kept on riding the huge elemental sword while admiring the beautiful scenery of the forest from above.

'So this is what a bird can see if they fly this high? Even though I can use [Dragon Wings], I still can't fly that high since my body still can't withstand the change of air pressure.'

'We can fly this high using the huge elemental sword because I manipulated the elemental sword to withstand the pressure for us which allowed us to fly high up in the sky.'

We are up in the sky for at least an hour and since it's already afternoon and the sun is shining brightly on us, I cast [Mana Barrier] to protect us from the radiation of the sun's ultraviolet rays.

'We can't risk ourselves from getting sunburned! It's better to be safe than sorry.'

Since it is already afternoon, my stomach grumbled and I'm getting hungry as time passes by.

"Zale and Aerin, are you both hungry?"

"Thought you will never ask! I want dragon meat again but put some chili sauce on it!", Zale said.

"I want dragon meat with some vegetable stew.", Aerin said.

"Wait for a while, I will cook some dragon meat and prepare for our lunch."

I took out the iron frying pan from the system inventory and some dragon meat.

I cast [Fire] on the bottom of the frying pan and placed the dragon meat on the frying pan and waited for it to be cooked.

Sizzling sounds can be heard and the sweet aroma of the dragon meat being fried made us even hungrier as we kept on waiting for it to be cooked.

I was kinda getting impatient but I still persevered since dragon meat is best if it is eaten cooked.

The dragon meat is finally cooked and I took out some chili sauce from the system inventory and I dripped the chili sauce on the dragon meat and served it on a plate that I took out from the system inventory.

I gave the dragon meat with chili sauce to Zale and he ate it happily.

I took out some vegetables, water, and an iron cooking pot from the system inventory.

I put the water inside the cooking pot and cast [Fire] on the bottom of the cooking pot to let the water boil.

I waited for at least 5 minutes before washing the vegetables and I put the vegetables in the boiling water.

I waited for another 5 minutes before adding some spices and seasonings to the boiling water.

After boiling the vegetable in the pot for 3 minutes, I added the dragon meat and waited for it to be cooked before serving it in a bowl.

I gave the dragon meat vegetable soup to Aerin and she drank and gobbled the soup happily.

I took out some ghost peppers from the system inventory and several dragon types of meat so that I can cook my lunch.

I washed the iron pan and cast [Fire] on the bottom of the iron pan.

I placed the dragon meat on the frying pan and sizzling sounds can be heard as the dragon meat is getting fried.

I made a chili sauce using the ghost peppers and some other spices and dripped the chili sauce on the dragon meat.

I heated the chili sauce with the dragon meat and the dragon meat slowly absorbs the chili sauce.

After 4 minutes of cooking the dragon meat with chili sauce, I served it on top of rice and there I have it; dragon meat curry!

It ate and gobbled the dragon meat curry happily as I felt the burning sensation on my tongue and the spiciness which brought the taste of both chili and fried dragon meat.

Zale, Aerin, and I ate our lunch for at least ten minutes and I washed the dishes before putting them inside the system inventory.

We continued riding the huge elemental sword with a full stomach and scouted the forest to find any monsters that we will target.

We found several tree spirits and we agreed that we will fight them so that we can earn a lot of unique rank artifacts when we slay them.

I commanded the huge elemental sword to hover down and land on the ground.

When the huge elemental sword is ten meters off the ground, we jumped out of the huge elemental sword and landed on the ground.

I controlled the huge elemental sword to go to my hand and it followed my command.

I am holding the huge elemental sword in both of my hands while I gripped it tightly.

Despite the heavyweight of the huge elemental sword, I wielded it easily since I cast [Levitate] on it making it float in the while I gripped it which made it weightless.

I made some wind golems and since the golems are made out of the wind, they don't weigh I commanded them to stand on top of my blade.

I catapulted the wind golems which made them sent flying into the air and they landed on the ground where the tree spirits are.

"Good thing I won the national baseball tournament or I won't be able to pull off such a stunt!"

As Zale heard what Axel said, he thought of only one thing; 'What are things that Axel can't do?!'

I cast [Sight Share] and now I can see what the wind golems can see.

I commanded the wind golem to attack the tree spirits and they followed my command.

The wind golems launched some wind blasts and wind slashes.

When the wind golems got close to the tree spirits, they would attack the tree spirits with consecutive punches.

I kept on infusing the wind golems with my mana and a surge of tremendous mana befallen the wind golems which drastically improved the wind golems' attack and defense.

The tree spirits are getting massacred and can't even fight back.

The tree spirits are left with no choice but to dodge the attacks of the wind golems or defend them.

The tree spirits are slowly getting slain until none of them are left.

The boss tree spirit appeared as soon as the tree spirits got wiped out but the boss tree spirit can't even hold a candle against the attacks of several wind golems.

After 3 minutes of continuous fighting, the boss tree spirit got defeated.

I cast [Dragon Wings] then rainbow-colored wings appeared on my back and I flapped it and flew towards the place where the tree spirits got defeated.

I saw multiple shining items on the ground where the tree spirits got slain.

I picked up the shining items and as usual, the glow on the items disappeared after I picked them up.

It is similar to what will happen in a game.

I found some green rings with exquisite designs that are golden colored, some necklaces that have a green gem and a green sword with some runes on it, and the sword's hilt is made out of gold with some carvings.

I held the sword in both of my hands but sadly, it doesn't suit my taste.

I have read in the swordsmanship book that a sword must be compatible with the wielder and must suit their taste so I didn't bother using it.

I tossed the sword to Zale and he held it in both of his hands and after he used it for a minute, he was satisfied so he gave his thanks to me.

"I gave that sword to Zale since I found that it will suit his taste and I'm planning to give the necklace and ring to you, Aerin but I don't know the effect of both the necklace and ring so to be on the safe side, I won't give it to you until I know that it is safe to wear. Who knows if someone placed a curse on this!?", I informed and explained to Aerin while showing her both the necklace and ring.

She was fascinated by both the ring and the necklace but she held the urge to wear it since she remembered that I informed her about the possible danger of the necklace and ring.

'System, can you display the information about the artifacts I got today?'

*dqueotkbsvekc*

'Is the system still broken?'

*vsmckocrkwlfo*

'System?'

*ksxixkwnenslepwpir*

*Initiating system upgrade... 0% of completion...*

"Wha-"

My eyes started to feel tired and I fell and landed on the ground and a 'thud' sound was heard when I dropped on the ground.

My eyesight began to dim until I can't see anything.

"Axel!"

"Darling!"