Chapter 172 Affinity: Fire & Vanquish

'Also, it seems that I can get one more Endowment power?'

[Yes. You will get one more Endowment power when you complete the Endowment Star-Field. Moreover, at each class ascension, you will get an opportunity to create a unique skill related to your affinities. The skill rank depends on your enlightenment state at that time].

'Sounds interesting. I guess Meya is entering that phase soon.'

[Yes. She can break through to 2nd-class anytime now and will be able to create a new skill].

'That aside, I can't wait to use my Endowment Power, hahaha.'

[Indeed. This Endowment power, in my opinion, is very useful. The skill ceiling will get higher and higher. EX+ is not even the limit of skill ranks. As skill ranks go higher, the difficulty of mastering the skill, finding its full potential, and ways to combine it with another power will also increase. So if you can manage to steal a skill with this, you can save so much time and gain an utterly complete skill while forcefully erasing it from your target... Though the pre-requisite is that you win the battle of will domination].

'I'll use this on that wench who is coming here,' Arkhen said with an excited and cold glint in his eyes.

[There's more surprise, my lord. Take a look at the Affinity tab. Just by awakening the affinity, your battle power increased a lot. As for how... You will know soon].

Even Velshi sounded excited and happy as Arkhen received a boost in power.

Arkhen smiled and opened the | Affinity | tab.

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| Affinity |

- Fire, Vanquish

1) Fire: 1st-Stage

--> You can consume any energy to produce raw flames.

--> Overall control of fire-related skills increases.

--> Fire-related skills' damage increased by 50%.

2) Vanquish: 1st-Stage

--> Produce Vanquish force by consuming soul energy.

--> Vanquish force can weaken the target's overall power and power of incoming attacks and defense.

--> You can imbue Vanquish force in your attacks to increase their damage by 10% and increase the chance of occurring related negative and debuff effects on your target.

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'So that's the Vanquish affinity...' Arkhen thought. Suddenly, Arkhen could feel the use of affinity and speculating that caused him to get startled. 'Wait, Velshi! If I am reading that correctly, does that mean I can give attributes to my superpower's active power via affinity??!'

[Bingo! That's correct, my lord!]

'Fuck!'

Arkhen stood up and left his room before going downstairs. Meya was in the hall and saw Arkhen before quickly saying with a smile, "Congratulations, brother Arkhen!"

"Thanks," Arkhen said with a nod as he continued moving towards the door.

"Eh? Where are you going?" Meya asked as she got off the couch and quickly walked towards Arkhen.

"Outside. I am going to that southern snowy region to hunt dire beasts and practice my new powers."

"But you shouldn't go outside... There are probably assassins waiting to kill you," Meya said with a rueful smile. However, a light bulb lit over her head as she said with a grin, "I got an idea!"

"What?" Arkhen asked as he turned around and looked at her.

"I will also come with you, so with me will come shadow guards who protect me. They can deal with those assassins," Meya said with a grin as she stood beside Arkhen and locked his arm with hers. "Come on, let's go!"

"If they can deal with the assassins, then no problem. But just to be safe, we will go sneakily and hide our appearance," Arkhen said with a smile. 'Velshi, can you temporarily change our facial and body features? Just make us shorter and give us some cat or bunny ears.'

[It will cost 127 reality motes with no resistance. The effect will stay for 10 hours]

'Good. Do it.'

Meya felt something. It was similar to when Arkhen was connecting her mind to the telepathy network. "Brother Arkhen, are you doing something?"

"Yeah. Don't resist it."

As Meya stopped resisting, her body became shorter, and her hair color and eye color also changed along with her dress and facial features. Same with Arkhen. He shortened from 6.5 feet height to 6 feet height and became a slim and pretty boy that looked like nineteen years old with new hair colors and eye colors.

"Woah!" Meya was startled. "How long will this stay?"

"Ten hours," Arkhen said with a grin. "Now, we can go."

"Ok, wait. Let me call shadow guards now, or they won't recognize me after we go out," Meya said as she took out a comm crystal to call her lead shadow guard before saying, "the two people who will leave the mansion in the next few seconds are me and Arkhen. Sneakily follow us first and then meet up after we are 50 miles away from the capital."

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Both of them left the capital. Nobody recognized them on the way, so It was a success.

After they left the populated part outside the capital, Arkhen summoned his Tasich Wolf, Ruan.

"Yey, I kind of missed this wolf," Meya said as she rubbed her face and hands on the wolf's furry body while smiling.

*Awoo!*

The wolf howled and gave a side glance to Arkhen.

"Alright, let's go," Arkhen said as he jumped onto Ruan. Meya also jumped up and sat in front of Arkhen. She properly adjusted her body and ass, tightly sticking to Arkhen.

Arkhen didn't show her any reaction or said anything because he knew this brat wanted just that.

...

While they neared halfway to the town that was in the Southern Snowy region and where Arkhen first met Meya and Gereld, Meya had a pout on her face. 'Stinky Arkhen... Does he feel nothing towards me?'

Meya pushed her butt even back before a smile appeared on her face as she felt the hard meat rod of Arkhen and started giggling. "Brother Arkhen, you are naughty."

Arkhen rolled his eyes but didn't say anything. This brat! She was the one acting pervy through the journey, so of course, it would make him hard!

Getting no response from Arkhen, Meya pouted again and lay on the wolf before lifting her long dress to show Arkhen her butt cheeks and panties.

"What are you doing?" Arkhen asked with a speechless expression.

"What? I am just resting by laying on the wolf. You are a pervert for thinking lewd things," Meya said with a giggle and then pressed her butt towards Arkhen's crotch and moved it.

"Brat, stop this, or I'll really fuck you mindless," Arkhen said as he pinched her right butt cheek and then grabbed her waist to make her sit properly. "Your shadow guards must be arriving now that we are almost fifty miles away from the capital."

"Humph," Meya snorted and didn't say anything.

...

After five minutes, they indeed met up with five shadow guards. Three of them were females, and two were males. All of them had worn a uniform like the ones worn by ninjas. Not exactly the same but similar. Their faces were also hidden behind a clothed mask, with only their eyes visible.

Arkhen saw their status and was surprised. Two of them were 6th-class powerhouses, while the rest were 5th-class powerhouses.

"My lady. We are here," the lead female guard said with a slight bow. She had a long light brown ponytail hairstyle and dark brown eyes.

"Good. Please follow us and look out for potentially dangerous people while we hunt dire beasts in the forest," Meya said with a smile.

"As you wish, lady Meya."