30 minutes later...
Felix had finished the integration smoothly without fainting. The process was painful alright, but 5% was manageable for his pain tolerance. As always, he imdiately went for a shower after he was done.
Shortly after...
Felix exited the bathroom and went to get dressed. After putting proper clothes on him, he sat in the bedroom and closed his eyes shut with an eager expression. 'Please be sothing good.'
The mont Felix dove into his mories and noticed the unlocked information, he couldn't help but raise an eyebrow in surprise after reading an unfamiliar na for a passive. The other one he already had clue about it.
"Absolute Sand Defence?" Thoughtful, Felix opened his eyes while resting his chin on his hand. He never heard of such a passive before and especially one that had 'absolute' in it.
Felix knew that those abilities were nad personally by the Sphinx, and for her to add Absolute in an ability only ant that it was the real deal.
"Let's see if it lives up to its na." Felix closed his eyes again and dove back, wanting to read the rest of the ability's details.
A few monts later, he opened his eyes with clear agitation on them. "Automatic sand defense? This is f*cking nuts!"
Felix might have only seen how the ability worked, but it was enough to blow his mind!
Without a second delay, Felix laid on the bed and requested the Queen to log him in. He was too eager to test out the ability's bold claim!
...
In the asurent Center, in a VIP room...
Felix had just closed the door behind him before getting greeted by the room's AI. Felix walked to the center of the small white room and requested an Elental assessnt.
Soon the room was split into the sa four areas. Felix went to the defensive area where he would be subjected to all kinds of attacks. Whether elental, physical, or ntal.
After standing before a silver machine, that resembled a canon with a screen on top of it, Felix requested, "Please switch to different abilities from different elents periodically."
"Understood." The AI asked, "Do you want to upgrade the strength of the abilities gradually or just fixated on a single level?"
Felix thought about it for a second before choosing the first option. After so, he relaxed his muscles and held his hands behind his back. He looked at the mouth of the canon and smirked, "Fire!"
Whoosh!
Felix narrowed his eyes in focus on the approaching ice spear and simply kept thinking, 'Any mont now, any mont no...F*ck !'
Alas, by the ti Felix realized that sothing was wrong, the spear was already in front of his face.
Boom!
The icy spear penetrated Felix's forehead and disappeared right after, leaving behind it a bloody hole that showed Felix's mushed-out brain matter!
He died instantly...
Plop!
His body fell to the ground as it couldn't keep on stranding like this without support. However, a second later, Felix broke into light particles and rearranged again in a healthy state.
"Should we carry on?" The AI asked.
The mont Felix was hit directly, she stopped the following attacks.
"Give a second." Felix murmured while massaging his forehead.
Although there was no pain, Felix's mind kept repeating the sa experience over and over again, making him feel like his forehead was aching.
"I can't believe I just went from being immune to peak 1st stage bloodliners' abilities to get one-shotted by them." Felix sighed in dejection, "I am missing my superstrength passive already."
Obviously, the mont Felix unlocked those two sand passive abilities, he lost his superstrength and poison immunity.
When Felix still had his super strength, his body defenses were able to withstand elental abilities fired by even a peak 1st stage bloodliner. But after it was replaced with one of those two sand passives, he lost almost 40% of his strength.
Now? He was barely immune to abilities fired from Sylvia!
For his body to be this shitty, Felix knew that he wasn't going to survive the upcoming gold ga as a single ability would turn him to dust.
Thus, he felt extrely happy when he read the description of Absolute Sand ability. But, it sohow failed him against this attack, and Felix was currently thinking deeply about the reason.
After a couple of seconds, Felix slapped his forehead, "I am a f*cking idiot."
He realized that his eagerness to test the ability made him ignore a huge requirent for the ability to work.
Felix didn't waste more ti berating himself as he swiftly requested, "AI, please create a field of sand around ."
The AI did as she was told obediently, manifesting a wide area of sand around Felix. After feeling that he was rising slowly, Felix requested for it to stop.
Felix bent down and lifted a handful of sand. He opened his palm and looked at the golden shimr of the grains with a hint of fascination.
He might have reached 100% sand affinity two days prior, but this was actually the first ti Felix was near sand created by elental energy!
"Let's try again." Felix dusted his palm and stood with his hands guarded in front of his face. His c.o.c.kiness had been taken away with that spear attack.
"Are you ready?" The AI asked while pointing the cannon's mouth at Felix.
Felix took a deep breath and nodded his head firmly!
Whoosh!
Imdiately after, a thick arrow made of flas was sent flying in his direction. Felix rely tightened his fists but didn't move from the way.
Heck, he didn't even blink as he didn't want to miss seeing his new passive in effect.
Thank god for that decision as the mont the arrow fla was only two ters in front of Felix's face, the sand underneath him propped itself automatically and blocked the arrow from advancing any further!!
That wasn't all, as the sand engulfed the arrow like a beast devouring a snack!
A split second later, that portion of sand withdrew back to the field, lying peacefully with the rest like it never moved in the first place.
Felix throughout the entire interaction just stood frozen stiffly in his place, looking like an idiot with his guard up and eyes widened in shock.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The AI didn't care about his reaction, as it sent two elental abilities this ti! One was a massive water drop and the other was a silver sharp sword.
Just like earlier, the sand moved on its own. However this ti, it created a curvy sand wall that resembled a half-sphere in front of Felix!
Against it, those two elental abilities could only get blocked and engulfed inside the belly of the thick wall.
The sword disappeared from existence while the water gave the sand a bit of trouble as it made the sand wet and hardened it slightly.
Still, not a single drop of water managed to touch Felix's clothes, succeeding again in its defense. The wall of sand then broke apart and fell into the field.
Just as the AI wanted to attack again, Felix waved his hand slightly giving her a signal to hold for now.
He then crouched down with a faint grin creeping upon his face. He kept looking at the peaceful field of sand and couldn't help but start laughing by himself.
"I struck the f*cking Jackpot!" Felix shouted as he kept throwing a handful of sand above his head with a feverish expression.
He read the description of the ability but he was still skeptical about the truthfulness of it.
Because it clearly implied that as long as Felix was near sand, it would always be on standby to protect him from attacks!
What did that an? Felix had literally just received an automatic shield that could block every ability even the ones fired at him from his blind spots!
Felix never heard or saw such defensive passive before. But considering that he was using the Sphinx bloodline, it was only natural that he could unlock possibly its best defensive ability!
After venting so of his excitent, Felix reared in the rest as he still had tons of tests waiting for him.
Such as testing if the sand was able to block ntal abilities, or testing the limits of its defenses.
After all, those abilities fired at him were equivalent to attacks from only peak 1st stage bloodliner. The sand couldn't possibly withstand abilities fired at him from high-leveled bloodliners.
After Felix stood up, he crossed his arms above his chest and decided on the first test, "AI, please manifest tens of silver machines around and fire at the sa ti and continuously."
"Understood."
Promptly, silver machines started to manifest one by one around Felix until there wasn't enough space for the machines to aim at Felix without hitting the one in front of it.
Felix kept turning his head, glancing at the gleaming silver cannon mouths of those machines. However, he didn't seem nervous by being put right in the middle of such a suicidal formation.
Instead, he had a look of anticipation on his face.
"Ready?" AI asked.
"Fire!"
Whoosh! Whoosh! Phew!...,
Tens upon tens of colorful abilities were projected at the sa ti and in a single direction.
Felix heard the sound of the wind as they approached him, aiming to wipe him out of existence.
WHOSH!
Alas, the sand underneath Felix rose as one akin to a beast waking up from its slumber.
Then?....Boom! Boom!..
It kept moving on its own as it slapped abilities back, engulfed so as a whole, and arranged defensive barriers all over Felix, protecting him from everything thrown at him!!!
Felix neither moved nor spoke, he just kept standing with his hands crossed above his chest and eyes peering in every direction at the abilities failing to touch his clothes.
The sand field truly resembled his loyal guardian, who would do anything to keep him safe.
Only after seeing this sight and being inside its protection did Felix feel like he was a real Sand Elentalist!
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