LIGHTNOVELWORLD Chapter 449: Zuxil Mountain, Event
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Erix, Rin, Aria, Isabella, and Lily finished the Difficult Level task and successfully finished their last challenge in this area.
They disappeared in the next second and arrived on grassy ground with a beautiful spacious tree array, a clear pond nearby, and a gentle breeze flowing under a warm sun.
They were atop a huge mountain's rather large peak which was 10 kilometers square meters in area, indicating that the mountain was way massive relatively.
But it was not just massive from the dreamy window panel that popped up before them after a second.
[This Zuxil Mountain is all yours. The resources within, the monsters, and any random phenomena here belong to you for 100 hours. You may increase your Magic Power with various resources that are abundant in the mountain.]
"Good. Let's separate and explore the mountain as fast as possible to make a map," Erix grinned and said, "We'll just note down resources, monsters, and various materials' spots with labels according to their aura. Afterward, we'll start farming and using them to power up."
Everyone didn't waste time and quickly flew separately to descend the mountain and note everything by scanning with their Spiritual Aethir Gaze.
On the other hand, Lilith, Nira, Sameira, and Kenshin also finished with their challenge.
Unlike Erix's group, they chose the Concept dimension as their reward, so they were in different dimensions related to their concepts and making progress.
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It took 12 minutes for Erix and others to scan the whole mountain and note all the important spots on the map.
But it was worth the effort because they could just teleport with Erix's help after using up resources at one spot.
"Let's start with Magic Lake Tree," Erix said and snapped his finger as the group appeared under a mysterious and magical tree oozing out pure arcane power. It was at the center of a lake on the top west part of the mountain.
The first and nearest resource spot from the mountain peak. Erix named all the spots on whims, according to their appearance to better track them on the map.
"This tree has 12 fruits. Welp, let's start with each absorbing 2 and see how it goes," Rin said as she waved her hand and faint breezy blades precisely cut the fruits from branches.
Two remained on the tree and from the 10 fruits, 2 went to each one.
They sat down under the tree cross-legged, with two fruits in their hands, and closed their eyes.
The fruits had pure and concentrated magic essence. They infused this magic essence into the Arcane Spirit Crystal Tree in their origin region, which was their source of magic.
It started from Magic Core at Mortal-lifeform rank and after multiple evolutions with their efforts, it became the Arcane Spirit Crystal Tree.
The foundational limit of Arcane Spirit Crystal Tree was 35,000 Magic Power and 350,000 Prana.
Their Strength, Agility, and Health had already reached 35,000 in foundation thanks to Star Furnace's reward. As for Stamina, due to being Regalons like Erix, everyone had unlimited Stamina. And it was mainly thanks to unlimited Stamina along with the tough willpower that they reaped such benefits from Star Furnace and reached a foundational peak in their Bodily stats this fast.
Unlike Star Furnace, the magic resources didn't increase their Magic Power that fast.
As they absorbed the fruit's power, their Magic Power and Prana limit started increasing. The appearance of their Arcane Spirit Crystal Tree started 'enhancing' as their branches, leaves, and size increased.
They finished one fruit within ten minutes and it increased their Magic Power by 1000 and Prana limit by 10,000.
The second fruit also boosted their Magic Source by the same amount.
"Let's save the remaining two fruits," Erix said as he put away the two fruits and snapped his finger.
The group disappeared and arrived at another spot where a horde of Hellfire Deers was situated. It was just a couple of kilometers away from the lake.
When Erix and others arrived, all 38 deers were alerted and looked at them with fiery red eyes. They were dark orange with red and black patterns and had two demonic horns.
Upon seeing Erix and others, they didn't even pause for a second and hurled their attacks. Some rushed forward at fast speed with orange-red flames bursting out of their tails while some released various projectile attacks from their horns, mouths, and ears.
Erix and the group swiftly dodged away instead of taking their attacks head-on.
Each Hellfire Deer had reached a peak in Empyrean-order, both Magic and Bodily stats, while they also had Aethir Source and awakened Soul Source to varying degrees of power.
The group separated and started fighting individually. Combating also gave them a chance to improve their skills further and the only way to increase their mastery of Aethir's attributes was to fight and experience everything.
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With more experience in this new realm they reached, they would be able to explore and improve Aethir's attributes to make their skills even stronger.
The Hellfire Deers were fast. Fast enough that even Erix's Abyssal Impale skill missed a target once. That deer turned into a hellfire spark and shot at Erix before exploding, dealing him solid damage.
But his healing was powerful and the injury was not enough to weaken his healing factor, so he swiftly killed the Hellfire Deer and healed after a few seconds.
The others also received trouble because the attacks, toughness, and agility of these Hellfire Deers were nothing to scoff atm but once they learned their skills after some trouble, they started finishing them off fast.
Everyone fought without using their Regalon Drive because they didn't want to win purely by stats and keep their physical power lower than the Deers, while their magic power was already lower, so to overcome the differences, their skills needed to be sophisticated and powerful enough with high potential usage of Aethir's attributes and Soul Vice.
It took them 20 minutes to kill all the deers because they couldn't just one-shot them and also had to be wary of their attacks. By limiting themselves, they further improved their knowledge of Aethir's attributes and spent the next 30 minutes creating some simple, but extreme skills for niche uses.
Aside from Aria who tweaked her Animated Spirit Warriors to make them better, the others created their 2nd offense-type skills.
Afterward, they started absorbing and refining the Hellfire Deer's magic cores.
Each Hellfire Deer had a Magic Core in them, so with 38 magic cores containing peak Magic power of Empyrean-order, the group started refining them and absorbing them into their Arcane Spirit Crystal Tree.
After dividing them, each one got 7 magic cores while Erix saved the remaining 3 for later.
At first, they got almost two thousand Magic Power and twenty thousand Prana limit increase after absorbing their first magic core, but the effectiveness of the cores started decreasing.
In the end, everyone's Magic Power increased by around 4.5k Magic Power and 45,000 Prana limit.
"Alright, we still have over 15 spots to check out. Hopefully, we'll reach the peak in our Magic source after finishing all of them," Erix said as he cracked his neck. "And also improve our combat ability."
"If we go with this speed, we can have some free time," Aria grinned. "We can also relax and have some fun in our free time."
"You want some fun, eh?" Rin chuckled and appeared behind Aria as she started fondling Aria's big breasts.
Aria giggled with Rin's tickles and fondling.
"So, what's the next spot?" Isabella asked.
"It's a bunch of flowers and plants with magic power in them. We gotta refine and absorb them."
"Let's finish all the resources as fast as possible then," Lily smiled. "We got 100 hours, so we'll surely have free time here."
Isabella chuckled and nodded, "It was such a good idea to ask for this type of reward indeed."
"Yep, then let's go and finish it all quick," Erix snapped his finger as the group vanished and arrived at the small meadow filled with flowers and plants.
"Woah," Aria's eyes shone. "I got an idea! We shouldn't refine them and absorb them directly. It's a waste."
"These are all Tier-8 resources, and some might be reaching Tier-9," Aria said as she flew around while expanding her senses.
"Hmmm, now that I think about it, I can create Animated Spirits and give them my knowledge of Pill concocting!"
"Wait, that's actually perfect," Rin's eyes glinted. "Your Animated Spirit can be very intelligent thanks to the Animus element."
"Yes! They can definitely learn it. Alright, I can do this, but I will need some time," Aria said while nodding. "You guys go to other spots, farm resources, and take them here."
"Alright," Erix smiled and ruffled Aria's head. "We'll be back soon and finish all of this to have fun later."
"Yey!"
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"Okay, that's one," Korin muttered as he marked a spot that had a pitch-black boulder with eccentric patterns on it.
It was hidden around bushes and snow, but with a powerful perception skill, one could sense its hidden aura.
After flying towards the boulder, he touched it and a pop appeared.
[Event: Blackbird's Descent]
_Type: Boss Fight.
_Difficulty: 7
_Hidden Rule: Upon Blackbird's death, it will absorb 99% of the vitality of a random person and revive.
[Do you wish to activate the Event?]
Korin's eyes flashed as he looked at the details.
The Hidden Rule also disappeared after three seconds. It was only available for the first person who found the event spot.
Since Korin found it, he got the information.
"This is a good chance to gather a random crowd, alright," Korin nodded and touched the stone again. This time, he activated the event.
The boulder suddenly shone and released a pillar of black light in the sky, attracting the eyes of a couple of groups.
Korin decided to start this event without the rest of the group's members due to its hidden rule and another reason was that they were not available at the moment.
This was also a good chance to find other groups because starting even Event would release a light that could be seen from certain distances.
If any other group wanted to participate in events, they could come here following the pillar of black light.
Korin waited for a few minutes before he sensed the first group incoming.
Of course, he wasn't waiting in the open.
If a group discovered him, there was a 50% chance that they would try to eliminate him.
In this War of Thrones, anyone aside from your allies was an enemy and it was best to eliminate them if possible.
Korin had used his Camouflage-type skill and hid 100 meters away from the boulder.
The event's black light pillar would stay on for 10 minutes, so he planned to enter in the last couple of seconds.