Author’s Corner: Author-sama has been bad lately with getting chapters out early, so have an extra chapter today as an apology!With the Void Affinity training complete, and even the new addition of my water sli, I decided to head into the ga. However, first, there were a few things I needed to take care of. Looking down at Yo, I sent him a command with my water mana to not resist what I was about to do. He blinked his eyes(popped his bubbles?) confusedly at , but when I wrapped my mana around him, he did not resist. I noticed that it took roughly five tis as much mana to send him into my grove as it took to do the sa with either bird, but that was to be expected given that he was a monster.Next, I left an instruction with the house AI to send a ssage in the ga if I get a call, and then sent Celeste back into the grove. Finally, I went back up to my Seed, cancelled my Aspect of the Bird spell, and climbed in. Been awhile since I logged in, wonder what’s happened with the Klax…Soon, darkness surrounded , and then I found myself lying on a small bed, a strange device strapped to my arm. It kept beeping at a fairly regular interval, which made think it was asuring my heartbeat, and I slowly sat up.“Ah, he’s awake!” Soone called out, and a woman in a white uniform with a red cross on the chest ca over. “Sir, are you alright? Do you need anything?”I blinked, a bit surprised at the situation, and then it hit . I logged out on a bench… and it’s been several days since then… I coughed a bit, looking to the woman who seed to be a nurse. “How long was I out?”“We found you shortly after the rescue summon, and that was seventeen days ago.” She answered simply, a bit relieved that I seed to be okay after checking whatever it was strapped to my arm. “There were a number of cases similar to yours around the sa ti on other planets, and we found that they were all travelers. Though, you seem to be missing your companion.” She looked down to my wrist, but blinked in surprise when the tal bracelet appeared in a strand of blue light. “Ahh, right.. we were told you were a druid.”I looked myself over once, and checked my inventory. Thankfully, nothing was missing from my inventory, but… “I was wearing armor when I… ‘fell asleep’. Do you know what happened to it?”“Hmm?” The nurse tilted her head curiously, and then got up to go talk to one of the doctors. After a few minutes, she ca back, shaking her head. “You weren’t wearing any armor when you were found. Before we heard reports of other cases like this, we thought you might have been mugged.”No… My armor… was stolen… Nooo!! I clenched my fists tightly, I liked that armor! It was aweso! Though, if I wanted to, I could easily go kill another Great Boa with my current strength most likely. But, I wasn’t even sure if there were any on this planet, which made that I difficult challenge. “I see… do you happen to know sowhere I could get a replacent..? Would rather not wander around without any protection.”And note to self, from now on stick all important gear in inventory or grove before logging out.The woman nodded her head. “There are a few different shops you could visit to get gear in the city. Once you are discharged, you can find a terminal to view the map.”I nodded my head slightly. “Alright, and do you know anywhere I could access the online network? There’s so information I need to look up.”“If it’s just to look up information, any terminal would do. However, you should visit a software library if you’re wanting to download sothing for your companion.” The nurse smiled at .“Thanks.. and, when can I get discharged?” I honestly didn’t want to look up new software for right now, but I did want to look up more information on slis and elentals.“Normally, if soone was unconscious for over two weeks, we’d ask them to stay for a couple of days to monitor their recovery. However, it was almost like your body didn’t require any food or water, and is still in perfect condition. We couldn’t find the trace of any particular blessing on you, but it was still remarkable. Given that, I think the doctors will agree to go ahead and let you out.”I smiled and thanked her again, and she went to speak with the doctors. Within another half hour, I had been released from the hospital, and was even given a basic set of clothes to wear since my initial set had been practically ruined by combat, and my armor was missing. For the first ti, I noticed that I was actually in shape now, and had entirely worked off the gut I had when I first started playing the ga. Small miracles do happen..Once I was out of the hospital, Celeste appeared at my wrist, giggling slightly. “Well, should have expected sothing like this to happen. Though, now we know for the future, right?” She smiled up at innocently, and all I could do was sigh in response.Moving over towards the nearest terminal, I did several searches to get information. I was tempted to use my eye and just record everything relevant, but trusting the terminal to decide what was relevant without asking for my input would be a bit much. And every second wasted trying to tell the terminal what to pull up would be precious mana wasted.First of all, I pulled up information regarding wind elentals so that I could help Tessa, in case it was impossible for her to change her race back the normal way. Aside from what I had already known, there were a few important bits of information.Wind elentals, like most, were incredibly difficult to kill because they could freely move their core around within their body and hide it from view. This ant that, at the very least, nobody should easily be able to hurt her. That part put at ease a little bit while I continued looking for information.The next tidbit was about her creating a human body. Like my mom had said, at level thirty they are able to create a semi-solid form, like a mirage body. Aside from solids like earth elentals, I suspected that that was a universal trait. Once they reached level fifty, they could start practicing with making a fully solid body.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.Unfortunately, I had no intention of waiting for Tessa to level up to fifty. Who knew how long that might take? Weeks, months? If she wasn’t able to change her race, I’d train until I was able to do it for her.With my research on Tessa taken care of, I moved on to researching slis, in particular advanced water slis like Yo. From what the terminal told , advanced water slis were stronger, smarter, and pretty much better in every way compared to their normal version. They had a higher chance to evolve into a sentient race known as sli people, and even other cool evolutions. However, the only way to get an advanced sli was to have it take in the essence of a living creature as it is being born. I was rather surprised the drop of blood I used had such an effect.For example, the highest form of a water sli was known as an ocean sli. This was a rather terrifying thought, honestly, because a single sli could potentially control the entire ocean! Once in the water, they’d be able to control it as if it were their own body. I couldn’t imagine trying to take on sothing like that with anything short of planetary destruction. Apparently, when I had been fighting the water sli before, it had taken in the dark mana I was using to attack it, and forced an evolution in an attempt to save itself.On the path to sentience, they are able to turn into ‘mimic’ slis, which can copy the physical shapes of objects or creatures. I asked, and they don’t make very good weapons. Can you imagine trying to hit soone with a sword made of jello? It’d be about the sa thing. They do make great armor, though! And after they gain enough intelligence, they get their evolution to sli people.Finally, when looking up the special abilities of water slis, I found sothing rather interesting. Similar to plant slis, it is possible to create various potions by feeding the ingredients to a water sli, and having it secrete the finished potion. The amount of potion depends on the size and strength of the sli, but generally will not exceed dium quality. That ans I could feed it so blood weed and fireflower petals, and have a walking(rolling) health potion!With that taken care of, I moved on to looking for information about my birds, and the evolution paths they could end up taking. For Yin, my ideal evolution would be achieved if she kept focusing on training her Wind Affinity before leveling up, because then she could evolve into a Windslayer. From what the terminal said, a windslayer is a powerful magical beast able to control the wind. However, it required Wind Affinity to reach 30% before level 20 in order for it to evolve that way.If it did evolve into a Windslayer, then it would gain other evolutions for either focusing on Wind Affinity, or branching out into other elents. I was really hoping to get this path, but I didn’t want to look up the information in case I wasn’t able to get it. That would just be teasing myself, which I have already done enough of.Now, if they got to level twenty before getting the required amount of Wind Affinity, but it was still their main ability, they would turn into a Gustwing instead. A gustwing was not as powerful when it ca to manipulating the wind, but they were listed as a ‘low ranked’ monster, instead of a ‘dium ranked’ magical beast. Although their wind powers were lacking, they had a stronger overall combat power thanks to an enhanced body.With the information for Yin taken care of, I moved on to Yang. Her evolution path was pretty much set in stone, and she would imdiately beco a sentient creature when she hits level twenty. As long as she kept practicing Nature Magic, this was not sothing likely to change. The type of species she will turn into is known as a demi, which I guess is what they call evolved creatures. Specifically, a winged demi.A winged demi is a bird that has used magic, or had magic used on it, to bridge the gap between sentient and animal. Their exact form depends on the form they are based on, so they could beco demi-human, demi-elf, or demi-dwarf, for example. In terms of potential, they possess all of their innate traits they had as an animal, but are capable of intelligent thought on a level of a sentient creature. If they trained to beco a demi on their own, they will likely possess an innate talent for arcane magic. It would be really nice if this was the case, because another caster would help quite a bit.Finally, I decided to end my little study session by looking up information on elent seeds. I still didn’t know how to refine higher quality ones, or why the sli’s core seed to have two elents. The first question I had answered pretty easily. I just had to refine an elent seed with a higher elental purity. So.. the ones I was making right now should be around 25% pure, but I need 50% pure for it to be a dium quality seed. As for my last question, the terminal inford rather bluntly that an elent seed, or the sli core created from it, can only have one elent. This elent can be a mix of other elents, but must still be an elent of its own.
So what elent is water/darkness, then? I debated whether to ask the terminal, but decided against it. Instead, I walked off to find the armor shop that had been indicated on the map. Now I knew how I could evolve all of my animal companions, and what they could evolve into. I’d need to check what level the birds were at already before doing I went fighting again, but having a winged demi, a Windslayer, and a mimic sli would make for not only an epic fighting group, but also a wide range of traits to study for my Xeno-Shifter class!
Author’s Basent: No real action this chapter, but information! Information is good. Action will be coming eventually as well, but he did just get out of the hospital after all and lost his only armor! If anyone spots any errors or has any questions, as always leave a reply. I'm going to try to pass out earlier tonight, so I will get them tomorrow, but this also ans that tomorrow's chapter should co out a bit earlier!
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