Unknown: "I can. Then you can decide when you want to hand it over. I can also have Slis with any affinity you want. So, which elental Affinity you want?"
Maya’s eyes narrowed.
’If he can give any elent Sli then it an he have the way to get Ancient Slis’
Maya: "Is there a way to get an Ancient Sli with a Life elent?"
She stroked the sleeping wolf pup in her lap, thinking of her growing roster.
"My Night Fangs wolf already has Darkness and Decay. I need sothing to balance the lineup."
Unknown: "Life elent... rare as hell. But I’ll try to force it. If it doesn’t work, I’ll send you another sli with sothing similar to Life affinity. Deal?"
Maya’s lips twitched. He was confident—too confident. Either he was bluffing, or he had a thod worth killing for.
"Deal," she typed back, already considering her ways to track him if he tried to vanish after their eting.
Unknown: "Good. I’ll contact you once the sli’s ready. Then we’ll talk about the rest."
The chat window blinked out, leaving Maya staring at the empty space in her HUD.
She leaned back, fingers drumming on the armrest.
"So... another player with class related to Ancients huh. And he’s hunting for ."
The wolf pup stirred, yawning wide enough to flash its small but sharp teeth. Maya scratched behind its ears, her mind already running through scenarios. If this stranger really had a way to manipulate Ancient beast traits, then working with him—even temporarily—could give her an advantage that no guild on the server could match.
"I hope its just not an hoax" She mumbled as she stood up and putting the pup in her Heart Space as she left the city moving towards the Golden Sun City, the Holy City of Sun God and also from where she got her first class Sun warrior.
***
Rhys closed the chat as he leaned back on the inn bed.
"To think she got the class this early..." he mumbled, surprised that she could obtain it so soon.
"But... if it’s also great, the faster I get closer to her, the more trust I can build up with her," he thought. His mind drifted to the Ancient Sli. "But now as for the sli with the Life Elent, lest see if I can get it."
He opened the forums, searching for ntions of the sli with life-lending powers. There were many posts—most from newbies—describing sightings of a green sli with strange markings on its body.
"Found it," he muttered as he stood, leaving the inn.
Rhys didn’t comnt on the system ssage—he’d expected the restriction.
Without wasting ti, he adjusted his grip on his sword and headed toward the far edge of the village, where the sli spawning fields stretched out.
Shallow pools of clear water shimred in the afternoon light, dotted with clusters of mossy rocks and vibrant greenery. From these pools and patches, slis of various colors and textures bounced lazily—pale-blue Water Slis and soft-green Plant Slis.
It didn’t take long before he spotted a particularly docile-looking Plant Sli.
With a quick, clean motion, he lunged forward, net in hand, and scooped it up. The sli squird once before settling inside the sturdy beginner-grade pet ring he’d prepared. A faint glow sealed the bond, and the creature’s information window flashed up—harmless and weak, just as he wanted.
"Perfect... now we have our template," he muttered, glancing at the little sli inside the pet ring. The Pet ring are special as they can be used to form temporary contracts with any beasts.
"Now to next step" Rhys mumbled as he went back to village and then began to look around.
Soon, he spotted his target, Rhys walked over to a small wooden stall at the side of the field. A bored-looking NPC sat behind it with a faded sign that read:
’1 copper coin for 10 sli cores’
He leaned casually on the counter, striking up a short exchange. "Buying or selling?" the NPC droned.
"Buying. A lot," Rhys replied, sliding over a few coppers.
The NPC nodded and in the end Rhys bought 1000 of theses cores.
"Cores secured and now for the last part" Rhys mumbled as he left the village going back to the Sli field.
Rhys made his way deeper into the sli field, where the grass grew taller and the pools grew murkier. The air was damper here, and the sounds of the village faded. Following the trail of squelches and faint glowing shapes, he eventually found what he was looking for—
—a Plant sli spawner, tucked between two moss-covered boulders. Unlike the simple pools, this one pulsed faintly with magic, its surface rippling in unnatural patterns. Each minute, a faint shimr passed over the water, and a new sli erged.
Rhys crouched low, smirking. "There you are..."
"Now... let’s create the Ancient Sli of the Life elent," he murmured, his voice low with anticipation. Placing the plant-elent sli from his pet ring on the center of the spawner he began the process of the evolution. He began to feed the Sli cores to the plant sli as its gelatinous body quivering as it consud the cores. Soon he feed him the required amount as the Sli began to shine like an bulb as its evolution was triggered.
"Good... now, evolve into a Life-elent sli," Rhys muttered.
The plant sli have now condensed into an green pulsating core as its evolution was almost complete as its outer gelatanious body will now form completing the evolution, But before he could even blink, Puddle who was perched on his shoulder suddenly darted forward and swallowed the glowing core whole.
The system ssages flashed imdiately:
[ Your temporray pet Plant Sli has died ]
Rhys froze, eyes narrowing. "Wait... what?"
Another set of notifications appeared before he could react:
[ Your tad beast Puddle has consud the core of an Ancient Life Elent Sli ]
[ Your Tad beast is evolving...]
[ Tad beast’s rank has advanced from Rare to Epic ]
[ Puddle now possesses the Ancient Life Elent ]
A bright light engulfed Puddle’s body. When it faded, the sli’s form had completely changed—its surface now glistened with white, black, and blue streaks, all threaded through with a faint, otherworldly green glow that pulsed like a heartbeat.
"No way you can actually gain more elents like tis?" Rhys asked in shock, still processing the sudden evolution.
In response, Puddle trembled, and a wave of pure life magic washed outward—its potency so vivid that for a mont, Rhys swore he felt his own HP tick upward.
"Wait a second..." Rhys froze as he saw the spawner still intact. "Well, atleast it didn’t broke. I guess I’ll have to go back and repeat the process get another Ancient Life Sli," he said, scratching his head while Puddle nudged against him happily. He added with a smile, "You did well. I’ll now give you all the elents I can find for you."
If Puddle could gain all the elents, then he wasn’t going to waste this oppurtunity—he is going to make the most overpowered sli.
"But let’s first see what this Ancient Life Elent is," Rhys said as he opened Puddle’s status screen to the new elent slot.
Ancient Life Magic – Level 1
Vital Bloom – Releases a burst of rejuvenating pollen, healing allies for 8% of their max HP instantly.
Mana Cost: 400
Cooldown: 120s
Nature’s Embrace – Summons vines to shield a target, absorbing damage equal to 12% of their max HP for 6s.
Mana Cost: 1055
Cooldown: 200s
"Hmm, it’s just level 1, huh? I guess it’s new, not old as your other skills," Rhys nodded, then went back to catch another plant sli.
This ti, as the Ancient Life Core ford, Puddle didn’t absorb it—instead, he watched as an Ancient Life Elent sli was ford, its na being called Spirit of the Forest.
anwhile, Puddle, whose species earlier was Ancient Black King of White Rivers, was now classified as—Erald King of Twilight Seas.
"I really wonder who cos up with these poetic nas for little living jellies," Rhys mumbled, seeing Puddle’s new species na. He took a screenshot of the Ancient Life Elent sli and sent it to Maya—her in-ga na was Idonotfear.
As in just a second, her reply popped back:"No way! You really got it?""Okay, lets et now. I’m at the Golden Sun City, at the Golden Fox Hotel, room 12—just co here," she said and her ssages sound eager.
Rhys nodded and, as he put the life sli inside the pet ring and stood up."Alright, this Village only has a water and plant sli—if not, maybe another elent, Puddle," he said to the sli, who tilted its eyes cutely, kyuu kyuu noises bubbling out.
"First, get Maya, and then my next step will be giving you as many as Elents I can," Rhys said as he begun to leave the forest and went back into village.
And with the Village Chief help he got teleported to the Golden Sun city.
"What a grand city," he murmured as he arrived just outside its gate.
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