Chapter 167: Reveal
The blaring sounds of horns filled Grey’s ears, every vibration sending another crack through his body. For a mont, it was like a chorus of angels had peered out from the clouds on high, stepping over the edge, fluttering their wings wide open, and raising their trumpets to their lips.
It was such a beautiful lody, and yet it was stuck within his skin, ping-ponging across his bones and shattering them with each echo.
Grey could see how this sort of pain would have sent soone over the edge.
But it almost felt like he was back to kicking at bamboo to condition his shins. It hurt, sure. But it wasn’t to the point he felt the need to cry out.
Maybe the Genesis System had really desensitized him to what true pain was, because even with his own bones fracturing continuously, he hardly even sweated more than he would normally.
The longer he remained unbothered, the clearer the patterns beca to him and the more of a rhythm he felt for it all.
Grey felt a flicker within him.
There was sowhere else he had heard a lody as well.
His Goblin Warlord Spirit.
It thrumd with drums in his ears when he first started using it. These days, it was a lot easier to ignore. It beca like a background noise he ignored.
But now Grey was wondering if he should have ignored them at all.
’It sounds so... similar...’
Sparks of electricity pulsed in Grey’s eyes as the music layered for him.
The pain was so distant one wouldn’t have thought he was experiencing it at all. Instead, he sank deeper and deeper into the lody, his mind almost being massaged by it.
It sank deeper and deeper until all of a sudden, it wasn’t his bone it was resonating with, but instead his Neural Fra itself.
Grey’s teeth clenched hard, rattling beneath the impact. He felt like his body was being ripped apart.
This pain was a lot closer to what he had experienced with the Genesis System, but it was still nowhere near there. He could still maintain his lucidity, just enough for him to feel the two lodies almost fuse together.
The Holy Trumpets were so beautiful...
But they had been missing drums.
All of a sudden, the lody wasn’t just a soothing tone, it was an oppressive cadence, a thrumming beat that shook the heart and made certain to alert one that it was the harbinger.
All it was missing...
Was a voice.
Grey roared beside himself. It felt like a roar that echoed not from himself, but from a long-lost line. It was a pride that went beyond what one could have ford for themselves alone.
It was a pride that ca from generations, a pride built atop the shoulders of giants and the descendants of giants, a pride steeped in culture, in pain, in hope.
Grey shattered through a barrier and his body sparked with arcs of white and gold electricity, his hair standing on end as rings of gold appeared around his crimson eyes.
A foul odor coated his body, but it seed to be burned away for the most part, falling to the ground in streaks of ash.
Grey took a deep breath, exhaling slowly as the energy of the elixir was dispersed through the rest of his body, sucked up dry as though his flesh was the dry desert and the elixir was a sprinkling fall of water.
’This feeling...’
Grey was certain.
Goblin Warlord Spirit was no longer just a Fraless Ability. It had fused to his Holy Fra.
And he doubted it was still just known as Goblin Warlord Spirit either.
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[Na: Grey Temolt]
[Nad Affiliation: Disciple of Sir Trolley]
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[Fra: Protheus]
[Fra: Magnetic Hero (Proving Class)]
[Fra: Vampire Lord (Proving Class)]
[Fra: Paladin (Proving Class)]
[Pending Quests: 2]
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Stamina: 111/111
Sync Rate: 0.012%
Energy Reserve: 0.3/20.1
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Sync Rate: N/A
Energy Reserve: N/A
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Sync Rate: N/A
Energy Reserve: N/A
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Sync Rate: N/A
Energy Reserve: N/A
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STR: 33 ( 15) SPD: 52
DEX: 77 ( 50) INT: 61
END: 61 PER: 73 ( 50)
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Harmonic Stats: N/A
Free Stat Points: 289
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Abilities:
Body
Resistances: Lv7 Iron Veil
Combat: Lv7 Heart Lance
Enhancents: Lv8 tal Body; Lv8 tal Digestion; Lv8 tal Fusion; Lv6 Hemorrhagic Regeneration
Mind
Resistances: Lv8 ntal Fortitude; Lv4 Abyssal Anchor
Combat: Lv2 Magnetic Pull; Lv2 Magnetic Push; Lv3 Void Gaze
Enhancents: Lv8 tal Affinity; Lv1 Magnetic Resonance; Lv7 Crimson Cognition; Lv3 Paladin Spirit.
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’Paladin Spirit... it fell down four levels, too. Weird. But that stamina...’ Grey grinned.
It wasn’t just the acute change to his stamina that was such a big deal. He had a feeling from now on, at least up to a certain point, he would have a much easier ti improving his stamina as well.
This Paladin Fra was definitely superior to his previous Holy Fra as well, so there was also more room than usual to improve his stamina.
Regardless, with how many Fras he had, he needed his stamina to be amazing. Otherwise, even if one day he really did get four or five Fras worth keeping, he wouldn’t be able to use them to their fullest potential.
If activating just Vampire Lord burned him out in a minute or two, what would happen if he tried to activate two or more Fras at the sa ti?
Luckily, it seed that he at least had a short-term solution.
’I feel strong even though my stats didn’t improve. I almost can’t believe I struggled so much with piggy.’
On top of everything, the effect Grey was hoping he would get and one of the underlying reasons he had done all of this in the first place played out just as he expected.
His body wasn’t just healed, it was even better than it had been before Edmun ran him into the ground and he almost died to that bastard Joaquin.
’Great. Now I just need to get the fuck out of here.’
Grey had only just had the thought when the voice echoed.
"Reveal yourself."
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