How Much is Too Much?

Although Aurus and Fenrir were hunting within the boundaries of the Tempest Cliff, which is said to be a place teeming with S-grade and X-grade Inanimates, it was not to the point that every step a person would take would allow them to see an S-grade Inanimate or an X-grade Inanimate.

It took them around ten minutes of traversing around, with Aurus relying on his [Spirit Detection] spell, and Fenrir relying on his [Keen Senses] skill, to finally catch wind of a dangerous Inanimate.

In actuality, Fenrir was the first one to notice the dangerous aura, alerting Aurus as Fenrir's body pointed towards the aura's direction. "Master, there's danger at that direction!"

"Hm?" Aurus would always cast [Spirit Detection] at the instant it was off cooldown, and it would allow him to scan for beings at a radius exceeding 100 meters. Yet for some reason, Fenrir was the one to find an X-grade Inanimate first?

"It's probably because [Keen Senses] is a skill leaning towards more of an animalistic nature, which meant that possibly instinct affected Fenrir's announcement," Aurus muttered to himself as he looked at Fenrir for a bit before saying, "Let's head to where the danger is!"

"Yes!" Oddly enough, the short twig protruding out of one of Fenrir's ends started to sway back and forth like a real animal tail. Of course, Aurus did not mind this at all. He activated [Tempest Levitation] while casting [Gale Hover] on Fenrir, allowing them to get closer to the danger Fenrir found within a couple of minutes or so.

Rustle…rustle…

As they hovered above the ground where Fenrir sensed danger, a branch that was superbly larger when compared to Fenrir and Aurus' body sizes, appeared behind a bush, slightly startling them in the process.

"Identify," Aurus inwardly commanded the system as he looked at the branch that just appeared.

Ding!

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[Elyon (Branch Grandius Formosus — High Werei)]

Existence Level: Inanimate (X)

Level: 28/40

HP: 12500/12500

SP: 4800/4950

Stats:

[Toughness]: 437

[Thickness]: 532

[Density]: 338

Skills:

Uncheckable due to [Species Analysis] skill being low leveled.

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"Ooh, a Warrior as the first X-grade we'll get to kill," Aurus could not help but say inwardly.

"Should I attack, Master?" All of a sudden, a voice resounded through his mind, slightly startling him as he maintained a calm aura on the outside. In an instant, he knew it was Fenrir who asked so he replied inwardly with, "Fall back for now. Once you reach S- grade, I'll allow you to fight against X-grades."

"But…" As a reply, Fenrir answered with a complaining tone. As if it was a real wolf that was loyal to its master, Fenrir did not want Aurus to be harmed at all.

Fwoosh!

Just as Fenrir was about to continue coercing Aurus to let it attack, a flame that was close to being pure white in color started to envelop Aurus' body, raising to a height that surpassed 5 meters. It was definitely disproportional to the size of Aurus' body…to say the least.

Ding!

'The exchange of SP into power has reached its limit, boosting user's attack power by 200 percent.'

'The skill [Limit Transcendence] has been unsealed. It can be activated at any time.'

With these two lines appearing on the screen that popped up in front of Aurus' field of vision, Aurus could not help but focus his vision onto Fenrir and let out a cheerful aura. "Don't worry about a thing. You must get stronger for my sake, okay?"

"Mn…" In the end, Fenrir could only muster out a small whimper as it flew to a distance that was around 30 meters away from where Aurus and the X-grade being was, allowing Fenrir to take action if need be.

Still hovering above the ground, Aurus increased his altitude to the point where he was sure that he would not be noticed by the X-grade Inanimate at all. After feeling certain of the height he was currently hovering at, Aurus then scrolled through the seven sword forms given to him by the [Spirit Sword of Seven Hells]. While deciding on which sword to choose, he recalled something written on the details of the skill.

"Now that I think about it, I haven't combined sword forms yet. Let's start doing that," Aurus muttered to himself as a floating Anima was hastily transformed into a thin red sword. A few seconds later, another floating Anima was transformed into a thin sword as well, but it was yellow in color.

"Sword of Greed and Sword of Gluttony…" Aurus looked at the two swords floating above his body and commanded inwardly not long after, "Fuse!"

Chi! Chi! Chi!

As if it were two metal blades colliding with each other, soft yet harsh sounds of metal scratching on something could be heard for a few seconds, before coming to a lull as an aura that combined the auras of the two previous swords appeared on the thin sword that was a mix of red and yellow.

Ding!

"Hm?" Aurus did not expect that just right after the fusion of the two sword forms was finished, a screen would appear in front of his field of vision. Thankfully, the X-grade Inanimate did not catch Aurus' presence, still staying on the spot it was previously at.

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Please choose the sword form that will be used after fusing [Sword of Greed] and [Sword of Gluttony]:

[Sword of Insatiable Greed]

[Sword of Everlasting Gluttony]

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Thinking about the effects of each sword form for a bit, he chose [Sword of Insatiable Greed], instantly turning the sword into a bright yellow with hints of red grooves on its edge.

Without thinking twice, he then sent the sword out towards the X-grade being, slash at an angle perpendicular to the X-grade's body.

Swoosh!

Thanks to Aurus' boosted movement speed, the sword landed on the X-grade's body in a flash, removing a huge chunk of HP from the X-grade. Not only that, rather than finding the one who slashed at itself, the X-grade being was instead engrossed in some sort of illusion, falling into a daze as it started to rotate in place not long after.

Ding!

'Aurus has dealt 4757 HP damage to [Elyon]!'

'The debuff [Insatiable Greed] has been inflicted onto [Elyon], making the enemy fall into an illusion for 10 seconds!'

Not wasting the free time to attack given to him by his previous attack, Aurus hastily formed two more [Swords of Insatiable Greed] before hacking away at the vulnerable X-grade being, which had no clue how it died as it dissipated into small red and green particles not long after. The red and green particles were then absorbed by Aurus as a notification screen appeared in front of his field of vision.

Ding!

'Aurus has dealt 4757 HP damage to [Elyon]!'

'Aurus has dealt 4757 HP damage to [Elyon]!'

'Experience +2500'

'1250 EXP has been distributed to [Fenrir].'

'[Fenrir] has leveled up 15 times.'

'18 Life Points have been obtained.'

'13 Will Points have been obtained.'

'15 Alliance Points have been obtained thanks to killing an X-grade Inanimate.'

"Ssss…" Aurus could not help but suck in a huge amount of air through his body as he looked at the words written on the notification screen. "Just the distributed experience from killing an X-grade made Fenrir reach Level 16 in one go?"

Aurus could not help but look at Fenrir, who was on the ground, waiting for Aurus' good news. He went closer to Fenrir as he had a feeling that Fenrir grew a few sizes.

"…" By the time, he got close enough to look at Fenrir clearly, he noticed that Fenrir was beyond twice his size already. Letting out a stifled chuckle, he then said, "Fenrir, it seems that you might be able to fight soon enough."

After hearing these words come out of Aurus' nonexistent mouth, Fenrir's stick tail started to wag back and forth at a fast speed as it replied, "Really?!"

"Yep," Aurus let out a cheerful aura as he replied. "But you have to stay by my side at all times, okay?"

"Mn!" Fenrir let out a loud and cheerful sound as Aurus started to change his point of view on his surroundings.

"It has been a while since I've used this skill," Aurus could not help but think he was dumb for not using the skill in the first place.

"Change my view where the aura of X-grade Inanimates can be easily seen."

Whoosh!

A few seconds later, a myriad of colors entered Aurus' changed field of vision wherein all of them came from X-grade Inanimates.

Although it was pretty much a blur since Aurus was far away from these beings, it still made Aurus' job easier in finding X-grade Inanimates as he just had to follow one color.

"Hm…if my math is correct, I would need to kill over 140 X-grade Inanimates in order to have enough points to buy [Spirit Aura]." While Aurus was engrossed in his thoughts, he started to hover off the ground as he went towards the direction of a certain aura, with Fenrir following behind him on ground.

"You know what, you can never have too much points! I can use the remaining points on Alliance Tech and make me stronger!"

"I've decided!"

"I'll kill 500 X-grade Inanimates!"