I Reincarnated As A Stick

Chapter 341: Meeting of Tempest and Gale

Bang!

Without hesitation, the door to Aurus’ room was opened with all the force Horell could muster through his arms. With a single glance, he could instantly tell that something weird was going on inside the room. At the moment, the density of energy within the room had risen to a level to where the alliance wouldn’t even be able to achieve, shocking Horell even more once he found out that this spike was related to Aurus’ evolution process.

While he was wondering why this spike in energy was taking place, he noticed that a few Inanimates were situated at the side of the room farthest from Aurus, all of them radiating auras of shock, fear, surprise, and even joy at times. Although he did not recognize all of them, he did recognize the two Aurus had brought out back then when they fought against Chonk, even with their figures changing.

Focusing his vision onto the two while he looked at the state of Aurus’ green cocoon from time to time, he then sent a message to the two through a strand of energy as he rummaged through his memories, trying to recall their names.

“Uh…Charisa and Fenrir, was it? Could you two tell me what’s happening to Aurus?” Horell asked the two of them, which prompted the two to focus their senses of vision towards him with slight shock. The two then focused their vision on each other as they sent a few messages back and forth. Not long after, they finally responded to Horell’s question, with Fenrir deciding to be the one to respond first.

“If my guesses are correct, your name is Horell, right?” Fenrir asked, to which Horell lightly nodded in response.

Seeing that they had gotten it correctly, both Fenrir and Charisa let out inward sighs of relief before answering Horell’s question as Fenrir said, “To be honest, I don’t know what’s happening to Master at the moment.”

“What do you mean by that? Surely you have been by his side all this time, right?” Horell could not help but ask, to which Fenrir replied, “That is indeed the case, but…”

“This just happened all of a sudden.”

Hearing Fenrir’s words, Horell pondered over the matter for a bit, wondering if it had something to do with Aurus’ evolution process. As far as he knew, all evolution processes had no surprises like these. If there were, it would happen near the end of the process.

With that in mind, he looked at Fenrir and asked, “How many days does he have left before he’s done with his evolution?”

“Around 8 to 9 days more.” This time, Charisa was the one who answered the question, prompting Horell to find the current situation even weirder. Although he knew that there were tons of exceptions to evolution processes, seeing it firsthand was still surprising to him.

Since he had obtained confirmation from the two that they had no clue as to what was going on with Aurus’ body, he decided to get closer to Aurus’ cocoon, wanting to see if he could find any peculiar going on with his body at the moment.

Casting a few layers of defensive magic on his body in case any stray bits of energy attack him out of nowhere, Horell then took in a deep breath as he stepped forward, muttering to himself, “Why am I leader again…?”

Fortunately, no stray bits of energy had attacked him, even when he was about to a couple of steps away from colliding with the cocoon protecting Aurus’ body. At such a close distance, Horell could see what was going with Aurus’ body even without investigative magic.

“Man, Aurus looks more human-like than even me,” Horell could not help but say as he clicked his tongue, looking at every inch of Aurus’ body from head to toe.

Unlike Horell, Aurus’ current figure had now taken on a more humanoid form, with the face having the usual figures one would find on a human face, definitely a far cry from his appearance before. Of course, distinguishing him from a real human was quite simple since the color of his body was that of dark jade green. Add on the fact that a crown made out of the same material composing his body was found on top of his head, then that would sum up Aurus’ current appearance.

With around a week remaining before Aurus was finished with his evolution, the layer of green energy protecting Aurus was quite thin. Surprisingly, this thinness allowed Horell to find out that there was more going on with Aurus’ body at the moment, noticing that there was a layer of faint white energy over his body…which was connected to somewhere else.

Following the path of this faint white energy, he found out that the faint white energy was connected to the ceiling of the room Aurus was in, but he felt that the energy extended for far longer than that, with his view only being limited to the confines of the room.

Just as he was about to ask the two as to when that faint white energy that connected to the ceiling had appeared, all traces of faint white energy had disappeared in an instant as the density of energy in the room had returned to its normal state. At this point, Horell and the others were at a loss for words, not knowing what was going on. Fortunately, a few seconds later, they finally obtained a clue as a disembodied voice resounded throughout the room.

Of course, with their current amount of knowledge, those words were more or less akin to gibberish for them.

“From this day onward, the thirteenth Spiriveritas of Erudinia has been born.”

“The other twelve have unanimously agreed that the name of this Spiriveritas shall be…”

“Verdante.”

…

While Horell and the others were wondering as to what the disembodied voice told them, Eleanor, Rosalia, and Argentum were having a leisurely time making their way to the Supreme Terra Firma Inheritance.

With the fiasco that was Melzarin and Eleanor fighting because of the intervention of someone else, even though Argentum’s intent in the first place wasn’t even resolving it, the three of them decided to take their sweet time while making their way to Rosalia’s inheritance. 

Of course, at first, Argentum was slightly against it since he still had to increase his understanding of Wind and Fire to the True Element level, but after remembering that he had unlimited access to Eleanor’s inheritance and her stash of Heaven’s Flame Potions, as well as the fact that he was naturally a Wind Elemental, he eventually considered this to be a small break for himself.

With that, the three of them made their way through various towns and locations that had beautiful sights, with Rosalia hunting a few beasts every once in a while to whip up a meal for herself, given how she was an Animate that needed to eat. As for Eleanor and Argentum, they just went ahead and occupied themselves with other things while Rosalia was eating.

By the time they had taken about two days to travel, the three of them had finally arrived at the entrance of the Supreme Terra Firma Inheritance with relaxed and delighted expressions all around by the time the sun was at its peak.

Snapping her fingers, the three of them were taken to the inside of the majestic castle made out of earth in front of them, appearing inside a room complete with the amenities an Animate could ever have a few seconds later.

Naturally, this was the place where Rosalia would go and rest. What one would not expect is that this place was also the place where Rosalia would moderate the inheritance, modifying it as she deemed fit for every potential inheritor that entered. At the very instant they appeared in the room, Rosalia pointed towards the bed she would normally sleep on and said to the two, “Make yourselves comfortable for now. Would you like any drinks or snacks to munch on…”

“Ah, right. You two don’t need to do that,” Rosalia lightly chuckled at her own joke for a bit as she continued, “Well, give me a minute or two. Let me just change into some better clothes.”

In response, the two of them lightly nodded as Rosalia opened up a corridor that led to another portion of the inheritance, leaving Eleanor and Argentum to themselves. Deciding to sit down on the bed, Argentum looked at Eleanor and asked her, “So…how did you become friends with her?”

“Long story short, we became friends while we were fighting,” Eleanor replied succinctly before asking, “Surprising that I know an Animate, no?”

“Not really,” Argentum slightly shook his head as he replied. “To be honest, I expected you to know more Animates at your level of power.”

“To be honest, me as well,” Eleanor said in response as she let out a light peal of laughter. Not long after, Argentum let out a bit of laughter as well.

After that, the two of them continued to talk about certain stuff, like how Herellia and Blob were doing in the inheritance, what Eleanor was planning to do with the Heaven’s Flame Potions, and so on. Around five minutes into their conversation, a corridor into the room the two were in was opened, revealing Rosalia, who was wearing clothes that were more on the casual side.

“Shall we tour my inheritance?” Rosalia looked at the two with a light smile and asked. Eleanor and Argentum looked at each other for a bit and stood up from her bed, tacitly agreeing with her offer. Just as they were about to start touring the whole inheritance with Rosalia as their tour guide, Rosalia looked at Argentum and said, “I almost forgot to give this to you. Take this as a gift.”

Whoosh!

In less than an instant, Rosalia pointed at Argentum as a light brown dot appeared on the tip of her finger. This light brown dot then headed towards Argentum’s direction, being absorbed by his body not long after as a notification sound resounded in his mind.

Ding!

‘You have obtained the active skill [Scripture of Nature’s Blessing].’

‘You have obtained the passive skill [Desecrated Inheritance: Partial Ownership].’

‘Huh. I can see that Rosalia gave me the first skill, but did it really take Melzarin that long to give me ownership over the inheritance?’ Argentum could not help but to think to himself as he looked at his notifications. Although there was a chance that he ignored the notification while the three of them were making their way to Rosalia’s place, he eventually thought that obtaining it later was better than never.

With all of that out of the way, they then toured Rosalia’s inheritance. With great enthusiasm, Rosalia explained the purposes and the thought processes she had for the rooms she made for the inheritance. The bedroom she usually slept in, the rooms she allotted for the trials the potential inheritors would take, even the room where all of the treasures she used as prizes were shown to them without worrying about being stolen from.

By the time the tour was over, it was already nighttime. The three of them were inside Rosalia’s bedroom, with both Eleanor and Argentum sitting on the ground while Rosalia gasped for air as she laid down on her bed. With her talking nonstop throughout the tour, it wasn’t surprising to see Rosalia in that state, given how a corridor to the room was opened, revealing a Wind-based Pseudo-Animate carrying a pitcher of water, a few glasses, and even some snacks to munch on.

“Here you go, Master. A full pitcher of water, some glasses, and your favorite snacks, just like you told me,” the Pseudo-Animate said to Rosalia as it placed down those times on the desk beside the bed. In response, Rosalia let out a light giggle as she sat up and said, “Thank you for doing this, Argento.”

In response, Argento let out a light sigh as he replied, “You should really do this yourself next time, Master. I’m not some sort of servant, you know. I became your disciple to learn under you, not to become some servant at your every beck and call.”

“Just let me indulge in this feeling for once,” Rosalia said in response, only for her to become silent for a bit as she noticed Argentum was looking at her disciple with a hint of interest. In less than an instant, an idea was already brewing inside her mind, prompting her to inwardly laugh as she asked Argentum, “Are you curious as to who he is, Argentum?”

“Somewhat,” Argentum briefly said as he felt that there was a high chance that Rosalia wouldn’t tell her his identity since she asked him that question. Instead, what happened was the exact opposite, with Rosalia lightly smiling before introducing Argento to him.

“His name is Argento,” Rosalia said. “Just like you, he’s a Wind-based Pseudo-Animate. He has become my disciple for only one reason.”

With his interest slightly piqued, Argentum asked, “And what reason would that be?”

Feeling that Argentum had taken the bait, Rosalia lightly giggled as she knew that Eleanor would react differently to her response. Nevertheless, she responded with what she had on her mind, much to Argentum’s surprise.

“Well, to achieve Lesser Origin, of course.”