Wizards were sothing Gu Shanhai wasn’t too familiar with, for he had collected so information, but it was too disorganized, mostly revolving around potions and curses. Frankly, they were more akin to the Necromancers in the ga Diablo.
After coming up empty-handed, Gu Shanhai naturally left, making haste toward the Elental Realm exit he had found earlier in the Elental Region of Wind.
The distance was not short; even by traveling in a straight line, which is the shortest path between two points, it would likely take half a day. It was fortunate that he didn’t have to go to the edge of the Elental Realm, otherwise Gu Shanhai would have needed to spend even more ti.
As he sped on his way, with Kurus Brass’s departure, the once silent Elental Realm once again beca vibrant with life.
On his way back, Gu Shanhai also encountered several small Wind Elentals, but he didn’t pay much attention to them, not even bothering to kill them, instead speeding off.
Since they held no value, why kill them? Stopping to deal with them would be a waste of ti.
The small Wind Elentals were sowhat persistent, but Gu Shanhai was fast, and they couldn’t keep up with him. Eventually, they could only leave, cursing as they went. What else could they do?
Although they were capable of ranged attacks, Gu Shanhai easily evaded them with his keen senses.
"Thank goodness, it’s not closed. If it were, I would have had to go back and find another exit," Gu Shanhai thought, looking at the person-high fissure with a sense of relief.
He had no way to determine when the exit would close—that would require ample knowledge.
And Mafas and the others didn’t teach him that. In their eyes, as long as Gu Shanhai could get out, that was enough. Traditionally, apprentice fatalities were due to the inability to find an Elental Realm exit, not because they were hunting elentals like Gu Shanhai.
Gu Shanhai walked straight into the fissure, and a powerful pulling force forcibly brought him out at a different location, aiming for Deer Plain.
This Elental Realm exit was naturally not at Deer Plain, but the ritual’s power forcibly changed the outco of his landing. Gu Shanhai was not panicked about this, as he had been prepared.
Soon after, the scenery before his eyes abruptly changed, and Gu Shanhai knew he was back, back at Deer Plain.
The next mont, a great amount of elentals converged and entered Gu Shanhai’s body. He felt the four elents of wind, water, fire, and earth boiling within him, and then the four Elental cores in his arms gradually lted.
In his mind, the knowledge and legacy of the Imprint Druid flowed in as the elental enhancent process continued.
’Sure enough, with one point each of wind, fire, water, and earth and the four Elental cores, one can obtain a higher-level Elental blessing.’
The Elental blessing was nothing but fodder used by the core talent of the Marked Druid to transform. Without the Elental blessing, one couldn’t obtain the core talent.
This core talent was called Nature Affinity, allowing a deeper understanding of nature and increasing all resistances and affinities by ten points.
If Gu Shanhai had not fard small elentals, he would probably have only gained five points, and without the four Elental cores, likely only one point.
Of course, this wasn’t the important part; the key was the ability to feel nature more deeply, akin to a simplified version of Unity of Heaven and Man.
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"You have succeeded. Now you may choose a surna," Mafas said, looking at the returned Gu Shanhai.
A multitude of surnas appeared before Gu Shanhai’s eyes. After becoming a Druid, he could choose a surna to rge with and receive an enhancent.
Mafas was Wolf Teeth, which gave him affinity and improved his animal companion, the White Wolf, as well as enhancing his Magic Claw Technique and other related Divine Arts.
Fla, Hurricane, Wave, Earth—these four surnas first appeared in Gu Shanhai’s mind, rewards for over-performing in the ritual. Choosing any of these would undoubtedly push his corresponding elental resistance and affinity to 100 points, but he declined them.
Next ca Nature, which provided a boost to all his attributes, though not as much; the only upside was that it could synergize with his core talent, Nature Affinity, and slightly enhance all his Druid Divine Skills and talents.
While it might seem grander than the first four surnas, it was actually a notch lower. One couldn’t judge by the na alone; the enhancent was what mattered.
Further down were surnas like Mafas’s Wolf Teeth. After so contemplation, Gu Shanhai ultimately chose Nature as his primary one.
The first four surnas had better attributes but were limited to a single elent, which was far from what he needed.
After making the choice, he felt a significant increase in his natural affinity. It felt as though whispers were incessantly reaching out to him.
This left him sowhat uncomfortable, as anyone would be confused by such a sudden influx of sensation.
Moreover, his mind was filled with a vast amount of knowledge from the Marked Druid legacy, forcefully cramd in, giving him quite the headache.
The legacy knowledge was divided into three parts: prophecy, Divine Arts, and markings.
The core part was the markings, befitting the title of Marked Druid, followed by prophecy, and lastly, the Divine Arts.
After briefly organizing his thoughts, Gu Shanhai found that in the Imprint stream, most had abandoned prophecy in favor of focusing primarily on Divine Arts, with markings as a secondary aspect, leaving only Mafas as a student of the prophetic school.
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