Back at the base....
"No fair!, I thought Layla was my only competition on who would make it to Rank Two first, but for Ms Audrey to jump the line like that!". Jade said with a pout on her face.
"Oh, stop complaining; if you weren't so lazy, maybe you would have reached Rank Two a long ti ago". Layla replied to her with an eye roll. After all, Jade had been at 80% for more than a week and even that ca due to her emotions.
"Hhm, you might be right...oh hey, I just rembered sothing; I found a core in one of the lizards; I wonder what skill I'll get this ti?" Jade didn't disagree with Layla, she was just venting with no real intent behind it. And she happened to rember the core because of it, which she imdiately went it get from her bag.
"So, do you think it's going to increase her PR percentage?" Hope asked Chloe, eyes full of curiosity.
"Hmm, I don't know, but I doubt it" Chloe replied with uncertainty.
"I'm almost positive her PR won't be affected. Her situation is unique compared to the rest. Her class doesn't actually have an elent, her beast transformation is her power. So beast cores, which are elental in nature, can't affect her potential realisation. But it's not necessarily a bad thing, after all, her class can likely use skills from any elent...well, at least that's what I think". Layla chid in, giving her take on the matter.
"I'm back!" Before anyone could say anything, Jade's voice was heard as she returned.
"I'm surprised you didn't consu it on the spot when you got it actually... you know what, don't respond to that, just consu it and let us see.". Muku spoke, like everyone else; he couldn't wait to see what would happen after she consud it.
Other than rolling her eyes, Jade didn't do anything else as she quickly brought the core to her mouth. She also could barely hold herself back. A familiar scene of the core lting into her mouth as soon as it touches her tongue appeared.
Boom!
Imdiately after, her aura exploded. Like usual Muku had to contain it. Which wasn't hard because Jade's aura didn't get stronger, she just lost control of it for a bit. Which half confird Layla's theory. A few seconds later, Jade opened her eyes, which she had closed; a smile imdiately appeared on her face.
"So, what did you get?" Hope asked.
"Let's go outside and I'll show you". Replied Jade as she walked toward the exit.
...
Because of the mansion's awkward sitting position, on top of so rubble, Jade couldn't try out her new skill inside the gate. She couldn't help but complain to Muku about when he'll fix it.
"Now, prepared to be amazed". Jade said with a smug smile on her face.
"Earth spikes!" Before anyone could say anything in response, she cast the skill. A huge five-tre-tall earth spike rose in the group in front of her. It was even bigger than the ones the lizards cast, maybe because of her higher strength.
"Wow!!, but.....why is it green?" Hope was really amazed and then asked the question on everyone's mind, including Jade herself.
"I have no idea" Jade replied, also looking at the spike with confusion in her eyes.
"Hmm, I don't think that's an earth spike...well, it is, but at the sa ti, it's not". Muku spoke, confusing everyone. Before asking him what he ant, they took a closer look at the spike, and they finally understood what he ant.
"So after Layla consus a beast core, her beast aura imitates the properties of the skill within the core. Which makes that earth spike actually a beast aura earth spike?. What an interesting power you have Jade". Layla made her thoughts known. Everyone had long noticed how she'd beco a chatterbox whenever sothing new and interesting was found.
"Well that sucks, and here I was thinking of having all the elents one day". Jade said with a sad look on her face, but her eyes betrayed what she really thought. She was excited to have such a power.
"Well, isn't that a bit too OP then?". Emily asked an envious look on her face.
"Not exactly, I'm pretty sure she can't tweak what skill she learned and can only use it in its exact form. aning there's no room for diversity with it like spells. Which I guess can be said to be the difference between spells and skills". Muku chid in and expressed his thoughts on the matter.
Hearing his words, Jade's expression went dark; she had assud that she could use earth elent-type attacks now. She quickly put it to the test but, like Muku said, she could only use earth spikes of different sizes and nothing else. All her happiness imdiately drained away, her dream of tossing a few spells from a distance was imdiately squashed in its infancy.
"Don't be like that, you can still learn many more skills after all. Maybe one day you'll burn your enemies with a green fla or strike them down with green lightning and there's also a chance of stabbing them with green swords". Seeing Jade's bumd-out expression, Muku imdiately tried to cheer her up. And cheer her up he did, her eyes were now sparkling with a dreamy look in them, likely thinking of all the scenarios Muku described to her. The others smiled wryly at how, despite how much they fought, Muku always knew how to bring Jade's mood up.
"Yeah!, one day I'll have at least one of all your spells as my skills. Hhmp, I'll show you all one day that my class is the best out of everyone here". As usual, Jade imdiately got smug, prompting the others to roll their eyes, but they didn't say anything, not wanting to get into an argunt with the unreasonable girl.
"Just don't kill us for it, I doubt humans would have beast cores". Muku said jokingly.
"Like I'd even think of doing such a thing, how would I show off if I killed you then?" Jade replied rolling her eyes in annoyance.
"If you say so....now, Audrey, why don't you introduce us to your new friend here?". Muku said, jumping from Jade to Audrey in one statent. After hearing what he said, the others imdiately shifted their eyes from Jade to Audrey and the blood-red giant lizard beside her that she'd left outside the gate.
"Oh right, it doesn't have a na; I only created it in the heat of the mont, wanting to see if I could. There's no point in naming it since it will likely die within two more days because its body can't resist the blood corrosion for long.". Audrey replied, explaining the giant lizard's presence.
"Oh, okay, and I guess we never congratulated you for reaching Rank 2, so let be the first to say, Congratulations, Audrey", Muku replied and congratulated her on her breakthrough.
"Thank you" Audrey accepted the congratulations shyly. Then the others congratulated her as well. Everyone was happy that she broke through, now with her here, they felt more secure about their lives. Especially after she showed them the strength of a Rank Two through her aura. They all knew that even if they grouped up against Audrey now, they'd likely still be killed in less than a minute, Muku included.
"Okay, let's return and co up with a ga plan for the future. Clearly, potential realisation is unpredictable, so we should look into other matters while hoping that we realise it along the way," Muku said as he walked back to the mansion.
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Back at the mansion....
"So, what's our next step?" He asked, though he had so suggestions, he'd rather include everyone in the discussion.
"I think it's about ti we visited the university don't you think?" Jade suggested she had been observing Layla for a few days and noticed that sotis she seed to get lost in thought, and a sad expression would appear on her face. She'd quickly cover it up with a smile, but Jade would have already noticed it. And there was only one reason for Emily to be like that, which was the unknown situation of her family. Of course, most of them, including her, also had such sad monts, but for them, they were almost certain that their families were dead, but Emily wasn't yet, so it ate at her more than the rest.
"Hmm, sure, I also think it's about ti we visited the other safe zone of the city. I'm curious to see if they are as weak as the stadium. We'll set out tomorrow then" Muku agreed, while the others nodded. Although they hadn't seen Emily's sad monts, they had long noticed that her glow seed to have dimd down by quite a bit, and they could all guess why.
"Umm...so the water issue?" Chloe suddenly asked sothing everyone had forgotten. It was almost the end of the day, and they still had no water. As Evolvers, they didn't need to drink water as much as normal people so it had easily slipped their minds.
"Oh, right! I had forgotten about that; thanks for reminding . I got the perfect solution for it. Let's go outside and I'll show you!" Muku replied to Chloe as he got up and headed for the door.
The others followed behind with curiosity in their eyes, they wondered what his solution was. Was he going to make it rain or sothing?
Is that why his class was called divine?....
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