'50,000 ZC?' Jacob showed a fleeting frown before he tapped on the 'Install button' while thinking coldly, 'It's better worth the cost.'
Although he had earned quite a lot in these past two years, and Ellie's last paynt was also quite generous, his total wealth was still below 300k ZC. So, spending 50k ZC out of the blue was quite a pinch for him.
Nevertheless, Jacob knew the path toward magic would not be going to be easy or free, and there was no room for acting stingy with nurical wealth. As long as wealth was spent on his purpose and clearing his way ahead, he won't hesitate to pay any price, even if he had to sell everything.
The next mont, the paynt was deducted from his Bank Account, and an application started to install on his Star Watch.
After ten seconds, a rainbow color icon appeared on his star watch interface with the na 'EAC,' and he opened it with very high expectations.
"Welco to Elent Aptitude Scale Application!
"Description: Now you can check your elent affinity right on your Star Watch without any need to go through cumberso, expensive rituals.
"[NOTE: Please note that a star watch of a particular grade can only asure a particular rarity of elents.]
[You are logging in from an Advance Type-1 Star Watch, which can only asure Primary (Basic) and Rare Elents. If your Elent Aptitude Scale result is 'Unknown,' then it ans you have Elent Belong in Scare or high elent category. Thereby you need a type-2 or higher-grade Star Watch.]
"[Do you want to proceed with the Elent Aptitude Scale Test from this device?]
"Yes/NO"
Jacob narrowed his eyes, 'So there is still a variable of elent rarity, huh? Well, I shouldn't be worried about it since I'm supposed to be a Blanker, which ans I should have an affinity with multiple elents, and I just need to increase the highest one to 100%. So even if I have scarce elents like lightning, light, dark, and so on… it won't matter much...'
With those thoughts in his mind, Jacob pressed 'Yes,' and the interface changed as a scanner scream appeared before words started to flash past his star watch screen.
"Establishing a connection with Star ID…
"Star ID detected!"
"Type-1 ID Detected: Faceless Ancient [NOTE: This Scan will be Free of Charge and all the recomndations can be bought at 90% discount.]"
"[Scanning has been comnced!]"
Jacob suddenly felt his wrist heating up before a very light current suddenly started to pass through his skin. This scanning was even more intense than the Life Force Scale.
'Just what kind of technology has been used to create these watches? The mont I tried to open one of them, they will instantly self-destruct like a small bomb. While in the type-1 Star Watches case, I can't even find a way to open them as if they are made with fabric…'
Jacob couldn't help but think about so of his crazy experiences when he tried to peek into a Type-0 star watch and ended up blowing it. He was naturally curious about these watches and wanted to see just what kind of technology was used, but he was t with a terrible failure.
The mont he tries even to separate the rubber band-like material of type-0 Star Watches, they would instantly explode.
But the most astonishing thing Jacob discovered was they would only explode if he tried to deliberately separate them, not if they got stabbed by so sharp object or cut accidentally.
Not only that, if a star watch were stabbed or cut, it would get fully destroyed, aning the internal structure would sohow automatically obliterate itself, turning into fine black powder but not with a blast that occurred if soone tried to open it deliberately.
The forr was clearly done to protect the technology from soone like Jacob's ideas, while the latter was done not to harm the wearer who accidentally broke it.
Nevertheless, Jacob was completely awed by the mind of whoever invented this thing and would very much like to learn from this person if he ever got the chance.
Anyhow, from that point on, he completely dropped the idea of dismantling a Star Watch. At least his current knowledge, skills, or equipnt available for him were not capable enough to do it.
As for if this thing could still be spied upon, Jacob knew it was completely possible, but he also knew he wasn't at that level yet where he could draw the attention of soone like the creator of the Star Watch.
Since he was very sure the Star Watch security couldn't be breached by anyone, not even those highly intelligent AIs seed to be capable of it.
At this mont, the result was finally out.
"Elent Aptitude Scale scan has been fully completed!
"Elent Affinity Detected: 1
"Affinitive Elent: Water
"Affinity Rate: 3%
"Recomndation to increase Water Affinity best for the Teas Taker (Faceless Ancient: 2
"Recomndation: 1
"Rated: Average (Below 20% chance of succession)
"Price: 10 ZC (After 90% Discount Deduction)
"Recomndation: 2
"Rated: Good (Below 40% chance of succession)
"Price: 100 ZC (After 90% Discount Deduction)"
Jacob frowned, looking at the result, 'Only one elent of affinity? According to my research, a Blanker has multiple elent affinities at less than 100% rate and can even add more as long as it doesn't have 100% affinity. That's the sole reason this kind of individual is called Blanker.
'So, I'm also supposed to have more than one elent affinities since I'm a Blanker. Or is this work another way around? Is this thing even working right?
'Not only is it showing only one elent, but it's giving a pitiful rating of 3 percent. But this application was recomnded on the manual I bought from the champion shop, so I don't think it's a fake or scam. Then why is my result like this? Am I even blanker or not…'
Confused, Jacob had various questions about this result but pity no one was available to answer them, not even Immortika. Furthermore, his talent in magic seed quite poor with that kind of single affinity.
One could even say he didn't have talent at all.
Frowning, Jacob decided to give it another try, but this ti he changed his star watch with another Advance Type-1 star watch. He now had many of those lying around in his storage after he killed so many people over a week ago.
Furthermore, he was going to ask Hallberg to sell them for him since they took up quite a lot of space, and his purpose in collecting them was to sell them in the first place since they were in high demand on the market, especially the high-level star watches.
Jacob easily logged in on a new Star watch without needing to log off from his original one. No one can log into his Star ID without his special life signal.
Speaking of which, his original star watch from the champion shop was of higher quality than the one he was now wearing. But he still wanted to confirm if this result was accurate or if there was a problem with his star watch.
When he conducted the sa scan on the new star watch, the result appeared identical, and he changed it into his original star watch with a gloomy expression.
'I should check those suggestions now. Since I have an affinity with water, it doesn't matter if I have an affinity with another elent or not. I just needed to increase it to 100% and then learn water-type magic…'
Jacob quickly let go of his confusion about the blanker thing since it clearly didn't matter much if he didn't care about having so rare elent. Although it might be possible to form another affinity, he had no thod for it.
So, he was happy with what he had right now, which were the two suggestions that could help him increase his affinity with water, and he bought both of them without hesitation!
After buying the two recomndations from the Elent Aptitude Scale, Jacob opened one of them without hesitation.
"Recomndation (Average): Affinities of an elent are graded in Faint (Lower than 10%), Low (Lower than 20%), Half (Lower than 50%), Incomplete (Lower than 80%), Complete (100%).
"Your Water Affinity is Faint (3%). The most common, effective, and safe way to increase the affinity of a basic elent like Water, from Faint grade to Low grade, is by absorbing the Elent Particles.
"Elent Particles are the primitive state of any basic elent, and only with a unique combination of these elentary particles can a basic elent co into existence.
"Water elent is made with two unique elent particles known as Oxygen and Hydrogen. To increase the water affinity from faint grade to low grade, it is recomnded to absorb Oxygen into the Magic Orbits until it crosses the 10% threshold.
"Then it is recomnded to start the abortion of Hydrogen into the magic orbits until the half grade. At last, once the magic orbits will mold with oxygen and hydrogen together, they will be ready to absorb the Water elent force directly from the treasure rich with water elent energy.
"thod to absorb the elent particles is very simple, just expose your body to elent dense with the specific elent particles, and once the body fully gets used to the elent particles, they will automatically start to enter the magic orbits.
"Disclair: This thod is very slow, and there is even a slight possibility that it will not work entirely. There is also over fifty percent possibility that you might suffer from extre pain because of directly exposing your entire body to the elent particles. Once the elent particles start breaching the magic orbits, the initial pain will be tripled.
"Recomndation (Good): Make a magic elent serum of basic elents and directly inject it into the bone marrow. This thod is fast and highly effective despite being extrely painful.
"A Magic Elent Serum is a special serum made with a special recipe that only a Potion Alchemy Elder Grandmaster can create.
"Recomnded Dosage: 1000ml of Water Elent Magic Serum."
Forget about the second recomndation, Jacob's eyes were affixed on the first one, and he was reading the entire thing again and again. In contrast, his eyes shimred in astonishnt and disbelief.
Because right now, only one thing was circulating around Jacob's head, 'Isn't this abortion of the oxygen the sa effect I experienced whenever I practiced the Art of Nature?!'
Jacob felt his mind blown away as realization dawned upon him, 'Don't tell the water affinity I have is also because of the Art of Nature?'
Jacob felt a huge veil had been lifted from his head, and also, he suddenly felt like he was a fool. Because he had been neglecting the Art of Nature for a long ti as he thought he no longer needed it after awakening the fluid acceleration.
But Jacob also wasn't to bla for this because who could think that so life-prolonged exercise from a magicless world could grant the affinity to perform magic?
Not only that, but this Art of Nature has five different levels or exercises, and Jacob hasn't even managed to complete the first one, Water ditation.
But now, Jacob felt like he was searching for gold outside while he had a treasure chest filled with diamonds right in his ho.
Suddenly, Jacob couldn't help but ground his teeth, 'That goddamn book probably knew about the secret of the Art of Nature, and it even dropped a subtle hint about when I inquired about Blanker. If it had told straight, I wouldn't have wasted so much ti in a goose chase and might've already awakened magic…'
The more Jacob thought about it, the more frustrated he beca with Immortika's habit of hiding things and playing riddles without caring about the consequences or severity of the situation.
Jacob knew better than anyone just how much he wanted to use magic, yet he was helpless in this matter for a long ti. He might not even felt all this anger if he hadn't discovered the Art of Nature's hidden effect.
But now that he did, he was naturally furious about wasting so much ti and money to find out about it when he could've learned it without doing all this if Immortika had told him or dropped a more solid hint, at least.
Now, after walking in circles, here he was back to square one, and he could literally hear Immortika's wanton laughter filled with amusent after finally watching him figure it out.
Jacob didn't know what was making him more flustered, the fact about Immortika not telling him or him being stupid enough not to fully dig deep enough into the Art of Nature's true capability.
He started the Water ditation because his body size would increase after he ate so much, but after he got the fluid acceleration, the problem was solved. He also didn't get much chance or ti to pay attention to the Art of Nature, which had no further use for him anymore.
In the end, he could only bla himself for being an idiot who completely discarded a thod that wasn't even fully explored just because he got another convenient and powerful one.
After lanting at his own idiocy, he finally cald down and regained his calmness, but the coldness in his eyes couldn't be colder as he closed the star watch entirely.
'In the end, it's my fault, and I should still consider it an achievent to find out about it before it's too late. The only thing worth learning from all this is, 'I can't discard things that I still have yet to understand fully and that Cursed Book's riddles can't be overlooked even for a second…'
Afterward, Jacob made up his mind, and he was no longer in the mood to do anything anymore. No, after knowing he might be able to use magic or discover sothing new as long as he completes the Water ditation.
With his current strength, Jacob knew he should be able to do it quickly, and all he had to do now was to find a place with a huge water reserve, and he just knew where to find one!
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