10) Oh No... Anyways.

"Ok, but why are you blushing?"

"W-WHAT?! W-Who's blushing?"

Gi Wan looked at Rai with suspicious eyes and that prompted Rai to get flustered and he started spouting nonsense.

"H-Hey stop looking at me like that, if you keep on talking like this I will just leave you alone!"

"Ok, ok calm down."

"Hmph!"

It seems Rai is quite weird.

"Well just wait for around an hour, I have a few things to take care of."

As Gi Wan got the new powers thanks to the test, he gained a huge buff to both authority over mana and also gained authority over aura which is also unbelievably high right from the start. If Gi Wan wanted to, he could become a third circle magician as well as a 4 star aura user. However he recieved the message that he will be taking the test when he formed his circle. So he decided to just become a 4 star aura user for now.

"But why?"

"You will see."

Gi Wan closed his eyes and leant against the dungeon wall. He then noticed tried to feel the energy around him once again. This time he felt an energy similar yet different from mana. It was also present everywhere like mana, however if mana acted like a cocky bastard and needed us to gather it forcefully, aura is more like a friendly neighbour as it enters our body as long as we have enough space for it to stay inside us. Generally, one would need 100 intelligence stat to even feel mana or aura. However it was different to Gi Wan as he aquired both authorities already.

'I'm sure that it shows my intelligence stat as '???' because it is immeasurable.'

Although he thought that he knew very well that it had something to do with being an apostle. Now Gi Wan switched his focus back to absorbing aura. The moment he opened up the path to his blood vessels for the aura, it started to go inside his body rapidly. He could feel his strenght increasing just from the aura around him entering his body.

「You have aquired the skill 'Aura Sense'

You have aquired the skill 'Aura Absorption'

Skills 'Aura Sense' and 'Aura Absorption' has been absorbed by 'Authority over aura'」

After a little while, he could feel his body drastically strengthening itself.

「Congratulations! You have become a 1 star aura user!」

He still didn't stop and kept on letting the aura around him flow into his body. Maybe due to his high authority over aura which is still increasing in real time as his aura ansorbtion should be increasing in levels, the aura shrinked itself in size once it entered his body letting more aura to be accommodated. Like that two hours have passed.

「Congratulations! You have become a 2 star aura user!

Congratulations! You have become a 3 star aura user!

Congratulations! You have become a 4 star aura user!」

Gi Wan slowly opened his eyes only to find Rai looking at him as if he saw some kind of weird bug.

"?"

"Must be nice being an apostle, you are growing at a really unbelievable pace. I mean you couldn't even use any aura back when we fought, but you are now a 4 star aura user. I mean, it took me 3 years to become 5 star aura user you know?"

Rai must have felt conflicted. Becoming a 5 star in just 3 years is itself a miracle however he saw Gi Wan growing at an incomparable pace.

'Genius my ass, to think an apostle would grow this quick, I now fully understand why master said me to never mess with any apostles.'

"Well, guess I got lucky. Wait, let me do one last thing."

Gi Wan held his staff. He then pumped the mana in the air around him into his staff. Unlike mana, aura is not something that can bring about amazing magic spells or such sort, instead aura is really simple. It greatly strengthens whatever object or whoever's body it is in. So he used the aura around him instead of the aura in his body.

「You have learned the skill Rookie's Staff Aura!

Skill 'Rookie's Staff Aura' leveled up due to the effects of the skill 'Persistent Bastard'

Rookie's Staff Aura (lv 1) --> Rookie's Staff Aura (lv 7)」

「Rookie's Staff Aura

Rank :- D

Level :- 7

Type :- Active

Effects :- Increase your staff's durability, strenght and damage. The increase depends on the level of the skill. You can create any weapon over your staff as long as it is derived from staffs.

Usage Cost :- 1 year's life force per hour」

Gi Wan knew about this. He thought he would just use mana to make weapons kver his staff and use it to fight. Although it is inefficient since mana doesn't strengthen the staff much and the fact that it forms a way thinner layer over his staff than aura, he preferred using a staff with mana since staff was the best weapon he could use at that moment and the ridiculous usage cost of staff aura.

'Wait a minute'

However his plans changed.

「World's Blessings

Rank :- SSS

-Ascended-

Type :- Unknown

Effects :- Remove any negative effects of any three skills or items of your selection.

Remaining uses :- 3/3」

'Hope it works...'

「You have used the skill 'World's Blessings' On the skill 'Staff Aura'」

「The usge cost of the skill 'Staff Aura' has been lifted!」

「Rookie's Staff Aura

Rank :- D

Level :- 7

Type :- Active

Effects :- Increase your staff's durability, strenght and damage. The increase depends on the level of the skill. You can create any weapon over your staff as long as it is derived from staffs.

Usage cost :- None」

Gi Wan's eyes shone so bright that it felt like the dungeon suddenly felt like it lightened up.

'What the... for real?'

Staff aura is actually the strongest weapon aura in all the universe. However due to it's usage cost, no one ever used a staff with its aura unless they are in a real prickle.

Rai noticed that Gi Wan was using staff aura and yelled at him.

"Hey, stop that right now! Staff aura consumes your life energy!"

"Haha, no worries. I'm an apostle and I don't need to worry about such things you see."

Gi Wan smiled as if he was giving an ad to a toothpaste company.

Suddenly they heard a huge rumbling sound.

"Grrrr!"

It was a huge orc holding a whip.

"Oh, a noble orc. It should be one of this floors gaurdian. Hmm, guess the fact the noble orc which was supposed to be the boss of second dungeon became a guardian and orcs being the normal mobs here should have to do something with your appearance here or my appearance here, since I'm one of the five irregulars."

"Hey, don't we need to take this one down first? Even if I became alot stronger I am still not used to these powers, so it will be a tough figh-"

TZZZZZ!

SLICE!

THUD!

"Ez"

Rai said that while winking.