nownovels Chapter 442 Star Furnace
Chapter 442 Star Furnace
Erix, Rin, and Lily moved to the planned position and distance from each other.
After just a minute of walking through the thick fog and forest, they all sensed a powerful aura with hostile intent aimed at them.
Soon, they appeared in their detection range and quickly saw them.
The trio was connected spiritually by staying within range of 50 meter radius of each other, so they could talk to each other and move accordingly.
'So they are Mist Pixies? They look awful.'
Mist Pixies were two meters tall with misty wings and a ghastly face with dark blue and yellow skin carved with patterns.
Their aura was more powerful than any Empyrean-order monster they had fought before.
[Mist Pixie]
-Power level: 6th class Empyrean-order.
Erix swept his hand and without hesitation, used Abyssal Impale as his gauntlet faintly shone.
The Mist Pixie felt something, but it was too late as it released a painful screech due to a small spear suddenly piercing it from behind. But its screech was also short-lived as the Void Impale swiftly turned Misty Pixie into motes.
Rin also used her offensive skill, Blade Hunt. Her Raibor Power Slime was the best katana for her because, on top of absorbing a Chronace Metal that Erix made, it had its own enchantment.
With this weapon and her Blade Hunt skill, Rin only moved her Katana slightly before a dark red slash projectile faint dark gold sparks hit the Mist Pixie 30 meters away from her that was about to attack.
After slash stuck it, this Mist Pixie screeched and turned chaotic as hundreds of slashes appeared on its body shortly in just a second before it turned into motes.
'Tear Flow Blade killed it?' Rin raised her eyebrows. 'I just wanted to incapacitate it, but I guess their defense is too weak or Tear Flow Slash is better than I expected.'
Her Blade Hunt skill was also easily a stage 6 offensive-type skill, with multiple types of Slash attacks with unique effects she weaved with a combination of her elemental magic, concepts, Aethir's attributes, and Soul Vices.
The one used—Tear Flow Slash, had the effect that once stuck, the Slash would break down into tiny particles capable of passing through anything, which was made possible via Liberty.
After passing through, its energy would spread in the form of slashes at rapid speed with their own speed heightened via Chronace element's properties and her Speed concept.
Those slashes would wreak havoc inside as they were particularly focused on extreme offense in the area of pure sharpness and speed. The higher the speed, the sharper and stronger the attack would inflict on the target.
[Blade Hunt]
_Type: Offense
_Effect: Any target within the user's sense can be marked with Blade Hunt. Upon the user's will, the weapon wielded by the user will release one out of three desired Slash techniques.
-[Tear Flow Slash]
-[Absolute Rending Slash]
-[Demise Chamber Slash]
_Note: Each Slash has maximum slash power, on top of their individual additional effects from Aethir's applications and Soul Vices.
On the other hand, Lily's offensive skill was called Strings: Weaving Ruination.
She had multiple types of attacks in this one skill, and each one had a different Soul Vice like Rin's offense skill. It was based on her Weave concept, with other concepts and powers around its structure.
And it was a Liberty-based, direct attack.
'Strings: Frigid Expunge.'
Lily's two fingers released a frigid and sparkling icy beam that struck the Mist Pixie before freezing it in a strange greenish-blue ice, which was based on the properties of her Super Exotic Element—Liviorte (Mist x Ice x Life).
The Mist Pixie was frozen and its particles seeped life from it swiftly as it died without being able to do anything.
The challenges were not difficult given their current strength and newly created set of skills.
But if they didn't have the new sets of skills, it would've been a disaster.
Group C finished challenged first as Erix, Rin, and Lily emerged back into the playground from the Hunt of the Fog challenge dimension.
[Would you like to receive your reward now? Your 1 hour in Time Dilated Space will be 1 minute in reality.]
"What do you say? Do it now?" Lily asked.
"Yeah! We get stronger, challenge everything, and get stronger," Erix grinned.
"Perfect cycle" Rin chuckled. "There are 11 challenges in this area, and we are three teams. Let's get at least one more than others."
"Let's go. I want to see how much we can get stronger with this," Erix said with anticipation and entered the portal that formed before him.
Rin and Lily also entered their respective portals to receive their rewards.
Although three of them appeared in different dimensions, the said dimensions were all the same.
All three of them arrived before a terrific scenery.
It was a burning sphere 500 meters in radius, while they stood on a lavatic ground with glowing cracks.
The three of them heard the same notification.
[Star Furnace has been activated. You have 1 hour to do whatever here, but if you want to increase your physical stats, enter that burning spherical star furnace and endure the refining.]
[The more you endure the refining at higher levels, the stronger your physical stats will become.]
[You can adjust the level of refining once entering Star Furnace.]
"Hot damn," Erix muttered as he looked at the disastrous sphere.
But he didn't waste time because time was limited here and swiftly shot into the Star Furnace.
Rin and Lily also did the same as they shot into the burning sphere.
Once inside, their expectations were shattered.
In an instant, their entire bodies down to atoms were swiftly frozen and a panel appeared before them.
[Refining level ranges from 1 to 10. Choose your level.]
'Let's start with 1.'
Erix adjusted it to 1 and suddenly felt a streaming heat assaulting his whole body from inside, but he was still frozen!
'Wtf?'
'But this is not painful at all. Alright, this level 1 isn't going to help.'
Erix thought for a moment before he directly adjusted the level 10.
[This is a dangerous level. Make sure your body can follow up with recovery. It is advisable to only use this level if your Bloodline is of Mythic-grade.]
'Do it.'
In an instant, Erix felt such a sudden amount of heat spreading throughout his body that his consciousness blanked out before a primal scream of pain echoed in his mind.
Erix's Bloodline had to activate automatically as his Blood essence was consumed to recover his body from utter destruction!
However, when it recovered and the refinement was established, his stats shot through in increments of 10s every second!