Chapter9: New World
[Poison Stake Mission completed] [Host is rewarded 200xp to level up into the next level] Arden beemed at this news, and immediately, a tremendous amount of Astro energy suddenly surged from within him, clustering and huddling till it condensed into a pure and vibrant yellow Astro energy which was considered to be of a higher grade. Arden shivered in excitement as he felt the newly initiated powerful form of energy withing him. According to what he had heard from Evnor, In the rank of Astral servant, astral energy is always being condensed into a purer form whenever the Astral mage upgrade his or her strength. It seems that despite the fact that he was using a system, the same effects also happens in his body when he levels up. At this moment, Arden was no weaker than Sir Micrio. Suddenly a systems notification in which Arden was familiar with rang in his head. [by completing four missions consecutively, host has unlocked a system ability, Copy] StatusRace : HumanSpecies: Homo sapienExp: 0/600Existence: Rank B (Lev 2)Coins: 800 StatsStrength: ×42Speed: ×45Endurance: ×50Recovery: ×39Mind: ×40 Host AccessoriesWeapons: (2) Lazonian swift blade : Serpent suppression poleSkills: (1) Copy. "Copy ability, what exactly am I going to copy and how can I copy using it…. I wonder how it works" Arden muttered. [ Mission outpost conquest unlocked, Host is to rise withing the rankings and conquer the entire island withing two years] [failure to complete the mission in time would be thorough evaporation in both soul and body] "shit another fucking mission, when will all this stop anyways" He suddenly heard a yelp coming from behind him as Evnor regained consciousness. Arden quickly moved towards the alluring princess and helped her up. "Are you ok?" he asked in concern. "Am fine, just feeling a little dizzy.." Evnor conveyed in a soft voice but all of a sudden she paused as if coming to a realization and clamored. "Are we still alive, how are we still alive!" To her question, Arden replied flatly, we are alive because the poisonous serpent king had no intention of killing us, it left soon after you went unconscious" "is that really what happened?" Evnor muttered with a look of suspicion but Arden nodded seriously in affirmation. He didn't want sensitive information like Evshelf living inside his body getting out so easily as Evshelf who will offer him assistance from time to time had now become his greatest trump card. "let's quickly get out of here before it returns, we don't have much time" Arden said as he led the way out of the chamber. On the way, the two of them spotted two unconscious people who seemed to be in a deep sleep. "Sir Althev, Noiter!" Evnor exclaimed as she dashed forth. "oh, it's the guard and that troublesome girl, oh great, I wonder why she's still alive, someone as annoying as her shouldn't live long right" Arden thought inwardly to himself. "Brat, that girl is under the influence of my forced sleeping technique, if you want her dead I can make it happen!" Arden almost jumped from shock when he heard Evshelf's voice coming from both corners of his ears, he reconed that it was transmitted directly to his soul with was still uncomfortable to him. "you don't need to do that I don't really want her dead" Arden hastely came up with a reply before Evshelf could act, Although he detests an annoying girl like noiter and wish she could just disappear or due unexpectedly, it hadn't reached a point where he truly felt like killing her or want to have anything to do with her death. "You're truly indecisive letting your enemy survive, back when this king reigned across the Astro world, even if an ant offended me I wouldn't let it off !" Evshelf spat disdainfully and went silent. Arden was unresponsive to his remark, he didn't want to be influenced by Evshelf into committing actions that were against his conscience. Not too far ahead of Arden, Evnor finally succeeded in awakening Noiter and the guard Althev after some light patting. "Princess, thank goodness you're fine, we saw the remains of Sir micro and thought that something must have happened to you and rushed all the way here only to suddenly fall asleep under the influence of some mysterious power" Sir Althev recounted. Upon listening to him, Evnor was once again saddened by the death of Micrio, even at this moment she still felt that she was responsible for it. "Princess, how come your fine!" Noiter suddenly remarked curiously. "it was all thanks to Arden, he appeared and saved me right when I and sir micrio were at our wits end. When the horde of serpents attacked us, arden miraculously appeared and saved us from the horde of serpents, but it is so sad that it was too late for sir Micrio at that time all because he was guarding me from the haorde of serpents." Evnor sadly conveyed. "impossible!" Noiter stated. "how could this young man defend you against a disaster in which sir Micrio failed to survive in" Even Althev felt that it was incredulous. "Arden is very promising, he was somehow able to suppress the poisonous snakes with his might" Evnor came up with a random explanation as she didn't want to expose Arden's secret by telling the two about the existence of the serpent suppression pole. Even she didn't believe what she just said though. "I don't believe it, he must have brainwashed your somehow with an evil technique" Noiter was very adamant in her belief as she said while shooting fierce glares at Arden as if he was the worst villain in the world. Upon listening to her accusation Arden frowned and a powerful presence of the second stage of Astral Servant surged out of his person and enveloped noiter suppressing her. He finally thought that he should teach this little bitch a lesson lest she keeps on annoying him to the point of killing her in the future. Noiter shivered in fright when the powerful presence which could crush her suddenly enveloped her and retrained her movements. When she turned over to the source of the presence, she found Arden giving her a chilling gaze. It was only after Evnor looked Arden in the eyes pleadingly that he withdrew his impressive presence and unkind gaze from Noiter. Though he hated this little bitch, he couldn't afford to put the lovely princess in a tough position by acting against her. After Arden withdrew his might, Noiter kept trembling as she gazed at him in fright while Evnor and especially Althev were flabbergasted. It came to the greatest shock to them that Arden had racked up qto the level of sir Micrio in such a short time. His talent simply was unheard of as he had ascended from the fourth stage of the celestial Novice into the second stage of Astral servant in merely a matter of days, even the most talented Astro mages they've heard of needed at least half a month time to accomplish such feet. "young man, would you like to join the moon Elf clan as an auxiliary guard?" Althev rushed to rope in Arden into the moon Elf clan, there was no way he could let such a genus slip away. If the moon Elf clan were to have such a genius in their mix, then it won't be a problem for the Moon Elf clan to defeat the other clans in the Evermore island and conquer it. Evnor didn't say anything but her gaze reflected her surging anticipation to hear Arden's opinion. "I'll think think about it on our way out here" Arden said. Considering the new mission in which he was given by the system, it was very much to his advantage to agree to join the moon Elf clan in order to gain a foothold in the Evermore continent however Arden thought that he'll look too eager if he immediately agrees to join them. "Alright, I'll give you time to mule over it, lets leave here quickly" Sir Althev said as he took the lead. Noiter quickly tailed behind him followed by Evnor then Arden. On the back to the entrance of the underground exit, the group treaded carefully but quickly at these time. "You know, there will be a lot of benefits if you join the moon Elf clan besides, this princess will have a gift for you to pay you for your services" Evnor suddenly said out of nowhere. "really?, just what kind gift is that?, are you going to offer yourself to me?" Arden remarked jokingly, it was his first time flirting with this alluring princess who's beauty was otherworldly. Evnor flushed upon hearing Arden's s remark then a bright smile appeared on her face as she said. "if you really want this Princess, your have to earn her by stealing her heart, as things stand, you don't qualify yet" "Ooh, then I guess I'll have to work harder then" Arden said. "why don you start by joining my clan" Evnor smile became even brighter. "ahh, still thinking about it" "you better not let this opportunity slip by you Arden, auxiliary Guards acquire amazing privileges in my clan" "do you care to ascribe?" "As an auxiliary guard, you shall enjoy abundant resources to upgrade your strength, you will be awarded with a territory of you own to manage and a group of subordinates under your control" "wow, this is amazing, I think I have reached a decision" After listening to Evnor, Arden was amazed and immediately came to a decision. "What have you decided?" Evnor stared at him intuitively. "I am joining the moon Elf clan" Arden declared. "good, it looks like you've realized how amazing the benefits are to you" Evnor remarked. "not very much, the reason I agreed, it's has a lot to do with your beauty, I'll surely win your heart" Arden muttered with a smile. Evnor blushed, her cheeks turning red hue. Not too long after, the group exited the bore hole, after learning about Arden's agreement to joining the moon Elf clan, Althev was delighted as he energetically led the way out of the forest of carnage. Noiter on the other hand was silent all the way and always avoided Arden like a plague, it seems that the girl had grown terrified of him after the previous incident. "After we leave the jungle of carnage, what is the outer world called" Arden asked. "it's called the new world" Evnor expressed.Chapter10: Bad News Fresh rays of the sun which was rising from the west brightened up the whole surrounding. The surrounding was formed by a cluster of a uniform breed of trees which had hibiscus coloured leaves. A long and narrow path stretched forth along those trees on which Arden and the others walked on, as they strode, sounds of chirping birds entered their ears from time to time. "Are we there yet?" Arden asked curiously as he surveyed his surrounding excitedly. He had asked this question for almost a dozen times on the way to the new world, Arden was just too anxious and excited to enter the so called new world which he had heard a lot about from Evnor. "No we aren't there yet, why can't you be patient, we've only reached the periphery of the jungle of carnage" Evnor remarked dispassionately. "Ok" Arden clamored but his blood was still boiling in excitement, just how many of those mystical races out there was he going to see, just how do they look compared to the moon
Chapter11: Rescue i "the situation is far worse than that, the moon Elf clan has been exterminated by the Urc clan!" "impossible!, those bastard Urcs and our Elf clan have been enemies for so many years but the overall strength of the two clan have always remain the same how can they ever be able to exterminate our Elf clan" Althev yelled hysterically, he couldn't bring himself to believe what he just heard, likewise Evnor and Noiter. Evnor and Noiter was currently shaking all over after hearing the news but couldn't utter a single word. Arden fixed a puzzled gaze at Noden trying to determine whether he was lying or not, the revelation was also a shock to him. A short moment later, Evnor cameback to her senses and stoped shaking, she suddenly asked, "How did it happen?" "As you very well know, our Moon Elf clan had formed an alliance with the Radiant Fairy Clan overseas, the clan head suddenly got a distress signal from the fairy clan that it was being attacked by a powerful
"This secret tunnel was revealed to me in the past by the prince himself, we can use this tunnel navigate around all corners of the Millenium city, the plan is to blend into the crowd and and strike unawares, kill all the guards and save them." "I agree with your plan but there's one thing I'll like to point out" Althev said solemnly. "We all know that the strength of the urc clan guards ranges from between the third stage of celestial novice to the fifth sage however, we both know that Wolder is in the third stage of Astral servant and would be two much for any of us to handle, how do we handle him" "I'll volunteer to distract him with Sir Noden" Arden suddenly said. Althev and everyone nodded except Noden who found Arden's statement suspicious. "kid do you think you have what it takes to fight an entity like Wolder?" "brother Nothen, you can rest assured Arden is strong enough to do that, he's in the second stage of Astral Servant just like you" Althev blurted. "wh
"you bastard, you finally remember this king after you ignored this king and almost got him killed, hmph this king will be kind enough to enlighten you with the truth so that you don't keep on courting death you reckless fool" Evshelf said pitifully. "What that brat Wolder used to block your sudden attack and even tried to blast at you just now was his pure condensation of Astro energy outside his body" "When an Astro Mage reaches the second rank of Astral servant, their Astral energy condensed to a very concentrated state where they can project it outside their body and manipulate them to create attack and defences of all forms depending on the Astral Servant's mastery of Astro energy" "You obviously haven't been an Astral Servant for long so despite the fact that you can, you haven't mastered how to control your Astro Energy to the point of projecting it out of your body" "The Sky piercing flame arrows Attack the other kid used just now is another form of attack called
"Evnor, you need to leave now, Wolder is to terrifying, without enough strength, you can save us save yourself now before it is too late!" Across Evnor and Althev who had subdued the guards, A beautiful Elf young man who almost looks like a girl said these words to Evnor. The beautiful male young Elf's appearance bore fifty percent resemblance to Evnor, apparently he was prince Galva and also Evnor's older brother. "No brother I will never leave you in the hands of those bastard, even if it means death, then we'll all die here trying to save you" Evnor remarked stubbornly. "you idiot, do you intend for the Elf's to be completely exterminated, you need to escape now and live on till you grow strong enough to avenge our deaths" Galva was on the verge of exploding in rage as he profusely tried persuade Evnor to escape only for Evnor to refuse obstinately, very adamant to die here if she fails. Ignoring her brother's rage, she directed her sight towards the ongoing
At that moment, Arden was feeling as if all the Astro energy within his body was completely drained out as most of it had been absorbed into the serpent suppression pole. When he saw the incoming destructive attack coming towards him, Arden witnessed first hand just how destructive it was as the smooth platform below it in it's wake was eroded into a deep and narrow pit Instantly, Arden absorbed the miniature wind hurricane into the spent suppression pole making it as heavy as a giant bolder. "Ahhhhh!" with a loud roar, Arden exerted all of his physical strength to swing the pole in the direction of the incoming attack, releasing his own attack of equivalent power. A loud explosion ensued as the two destructive wind waves clashed into one another like colliding celestial bodies and created a powerful explosion of Astro energy and wind alike which expanded rapidly and enveloped both Arden and Wolder. Noticing the might of the explosion, Noden quickly constructed an Ast
In the mighty Urc clan which was well known in it's tyranny, a magnificent dark tower could be seen and numerous other small houses made up of brick walls, this very tower represents the symbol of the Urc clan, it magestically stretched into the sky, towering above Everything in a way that elicited fear in eyes of outsiders. The tower is also home to the strongest and leader of the Urc clan, Vecnom, the Urc ruler was adorned in a dark loose armour augmented by triangular metal pieces with rough spikes all over it, his current expression was terrible to behold. "How dare they act against the Urc clan, they all deserve death, Wolder is highly incompetent, how can he disappoint me like this and throw away the face of the Urc clan?" "Send a ward to my son ilres who is currently close to the millennium city, tell him to mobilize fifty mages to fish out and extermibate those bastards once and for all!" "but clan leader, you know that the Elves have the shapeshifting Inn
Noden quickly led Arden and the others out of the tunnels, the moment they came out of the tunnels, Arden scanned his surrounding with a shocked expression. All Around him were wrecked buildings which had been destroyed and burned not too long ago, blood and dismembered corpses of dead Elf clan members of all kinds of age also crammed everywhere. Young men and women, old men and women, children, pregnant women and infants….. Even the supposedly beautiful garden which Evnor had dutifully discussed with him in the past had become nothing but a disarayed field of dead plants. Evnor, Galva, Noden and Althev all gazed at what was left of their precious homes with angry expressions and killing intent. "the Urcs deserve to be exterminated!" Arden muttered. The brutality of the urcs was something that he couldn't accept, it was ok to kill able men and woman but who would be so heartless to brutally kill children, pregnant women and infants. "Ahhhhhhh!" Galva yelled at the top of