Chapter 22: Life Stage Elevation, Choose a Path?
The plan of Aren was to find similar places that might have spirit water and red berries.
They found those places in the surrounding places of Honken Town, so Aren guessed that other towns might also have similar places.
Aren and Luna were furiously searching for similar places that might have underground caves and mountain caves.
Just like that...One and a half hours passed.
While running, Aren spotted a mountain cave and entered inside, but right after that, he got a notification.
[ Quest: Kill 30 Venomous Fang rabbits, completed. ]
[ Gained 1500 exp ]
[ Leveled up to 10 ]
[ Life stage elevation process starting in 3 seconds. ]
[ 3 ]
[ 2 ]
[ 1 ]
Aren looked at the whole thing, and right after the countdown hit 1, He disappeared.
The scenery changed in front of him as he appeared in a completely dark place with nothing in sight except for darkness.
But after a second, Aren saw a golden brilliance appear in front of him before it shot towards his head and entered inside his brain.
Right after that, He fainted.
Aren was having a strange dream after he fainted. In that dream, he was forced to take many trials filled with life & death situations. After that, he had a second dream in which he gained strange powers and fought with alien creatures.
After an unknown amount of time, He woke up groggily and looked around, " What is this place? "
Aren tried to remember the events, and the last thing he remembered was appearing in this dark place and the appearance of golden brilliance in front of him.
As for dreams, apparently, he had no recollection of the dreams he saw.
[ Life Stage elevation process finished. Choose your path. Or, in your world's terms, choose a Job class. ]
-1st: Emporio Armalist.
-2nd: Runic Mage.
-3rd: Heavilist Weaver.
[ Trust your instinct to choose the path. ]
Aren was startled, ' Job class? Seriously? Also, what's with these job classes? They are so strange. '
He then looked at the names and thought, ' I can't understand what's Emporio Armalist and Heavilist Weaver are, but Runic Mage sounds like the mages in normal MMO games but with a different way of using magic. However...'
Aren looked at the last notification, ' Trust my instincts, huh? '
If he trusted his instinct and feelings, He felt like choosing Emporio Armalist and Heavilist Weaver more than Runic Mage.
After thinking for a minute, He decided, " I choose Emporio Armalist. ]
Right after he finished speaking, Golden brilliance appeared in front of him once again and shot into his head through his forehead before he fainted.
After an unknown amount of time, Aren opened his eyes and saw that he was inside the mountain cave that he entered.
He also saw a barrier around him and heard a few notifications right after he opened his eyes.
[ Life Stage elevation has completed: Your soul has been unshackled. Soul Energy unlocked. ]
[ Mystic Field upgraded to 150 points. ]
[ You can now form a spirit core inside your body. The required knowledge has been already entered inside your brain. ]
[ The protection barrier will be removed in one minute. ]
Aren first checked his status by thinking about it as his status window appeared in front of him.
And he was surprised by the massive changes and an additional thing called Tree of Path. He also gained 3 stat points in all attributes, and he also added the 5 stat points since he leveled up.
-Name: Aren Azrael
-Level: 10 [ 1320/10000 ] Exp.
-Path: Emporio Armalist [ Level: 0 ]
-Health: [ 1000/1000 ]
-Soul: [ 100/100 ]
-Life Stage: Mortal-2
-Spirit Energy Pool: [ 200/200 ]
-Soul Energy: [ 100/100 ]
-Mystic Field: 48/150 points [ Heavy Great Sword ]
-[Stats]
<Strenght: 21>
<Constitution: 20>
<Agility: 20>
<Soul: 1>
<Meridians: 1.3%>
-Stat points: 0
-Skill points: 1
-Abilities: <Painful Glory[cursed]>, <Icy Enchant>.
-Skills: <Haste(5)>, <Wind Slash(2)>, <Heavy Strike(1)>
-Inventory: Cursed Shofar, Deep Blue Gemstone.
In addition to that, There was another thing besides his status window.
[ Tree of Path- Emporio Armalist ]
-Level: 0
-Armalist Force: 100/100
-Talent points: 1
-Skills:
-Articule Gears: 0 [ Slots: 2 ]
Right below this window, There was a whole tree with grayed-out bubbles with strange images.
At the root of the tree, the lower-most single bubble was blinking with a white glow, and when Aren focused on it, He heard a sound and got a notification.
[ Do you want to add 1 talent point to Armalist Drive? ]
" Yes. " Aren replied as there was no other choice. Only that bubble was blinking, and the notification only appeared when he focused on it.
Right after he said yes, the bubble turned dreamy blue as Aren suddenly felt a sharp pain throughout his body and mind.
This pain lasted for brief 2 seconds before Aren cursed internally and took a deep breath.
But he could also feel a strange thing inside his body.
[ Armalist Drive has been formed inside your body; now you can control Armalist force. ]
[ Beginner Emoporio Armalist Skills unlocked: Hyper Charge, Gear Enchantment. ]
[ You have started walking on the path of Emporio Armalist, In this path, You can transform and modify gears and even create them. You can also enhance your gears and use the unique skills of Emporio Armalist to make them more powerful. But this is just a surface of what an Emporio Armalist can do! Progress in this path as you unlock the true mysteries of Emporio Armalist. ]
Aren was dumbfounded seeing so many things and notifications, ' This world is way more mystical than I thought. ' He saw that this level of this path also turned to 1 from 0 and an exp bar appeared beside it.
Suddenly, He received a spiritual call from Luna.
Aren accepted it and directly heard the excited voice of Luna.
Luna--" Aren! Your guess was correct; I found a place with spirit water. Also, I saw a bunch of knights marching along with a giant carriage that was hovering over the ground. Those knights felt very powerful, and they covered the carriage and themselves in a mobile barrier. They definitely didn't look like they came from a town. "
Aren--" Oh? That's interesting. The voice told us that this world is far vaster than our earth, so there should definitely be big cities and things like countries too. Anyway, about the spirit water, since we have confirmed that there are more sources of spirit water, then you can go ahead and dig that place to see what is below the spirit water's pond. "
Luna--" Alright. This spirit water's pond is smaller, so I'll just go ahead and dig it. "
Aren--" By the way, how much time has passed since we arrived here? "
Luna--" ehh? You don't know? Anyway, It's been approx one and a half hours. "
Hearing that, Aren was startled, ' Strange...' But he didn't want to waste time thinking about it and hung up the spiritual call after telling Luna to inform him once she digs out the spirit water's pond.
He then also didn't waste time and decided to look through Emporio Armalist later because the current first priority was finding the places containing red berries and spirit water.
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone