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While MJ's five corpse integrated monsters were clearing 31st and 32nd trial zones of monsters, Jay reached the 33rd trial zone from Earth's trial zone and there, he found sothing that he hadn't seen in any trial zone.
The monsters in that trial zone didn't attack him directly like they usually do. That was quite strange because the instinct in their mind tells them to kill any Alpha Chosen they co across.
At least, that was what Jay learned back when he tried to ta the Storm Eagle monster.
Instead, the monsters Jay ca across didn't blindly attack him and retreated, sensing that they weren't a match for him.
Jay didn't chase after them to find the reason behind their unusual behaviour right away and instead waited for his weakened state to end since he recently exited the mode.
He hid in a tree's shadow using the skill , one of the thousands of skills he had in his possession.
It's not like he had rged with every skill he looted but only a few that seed helpful.. Jay left aside the remaining ones, and if he were to co across a situation where he had to use a particular skill, he could always rge with that specific skill and use it to his convenience.
The rare grade skill was sothing Jay recently obtained when he converged a few uncommon grade skills together using Qew's 1st Innate Exclusive skill, .
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: Enables the user to hide in any shadow. This effect will be disrupted if the user initiates an attack from within the shadow or if the shadow that the user hid in disappears.
Cost: 1 Spirit Energy per minute.
Cooldown: None
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Using this pure stealth-type skill, Jay hid in a tree's shadow and after a few minutes, the sa Tier-2 monsters that ran away brought two Tier-3 Low-Phase monsters with them.
They then signalled the Tier-3 monsters, pointing at the location where they had last seen Jay.
This new revelation caught Jay's attention since it was his first ti seeing monsters act as subordinates for other monsters and bring in reinforcents when they were outpowered.
The monsters usually collaborate with each other against Alpha Chosen but not to this degree.
Jay stayed still within the tree's shadow as those monsters looked for him. He didn't worry about being found since there weren't any Darkness innate talent monsters among them.
For a while, those monsters searched for Jay, and after not finding any traces of him, they left, but they all dispersed in different directions and continued to search for him.
anwhile, Jay had already recovered from his weakened state and even summoned the Shadow Leopard MJ to his location and had it secretly plant 'Shadow Markers' within the shadows of the two Tier-3 Low-Phase monsters to track their movents.
The ability to plant 'Shadow Markers' was from the Spirit Item that was with the Shadow Leopard.
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(Rare Grade): Enables the user to implant a 'Shadow Marker' in the target's shadow to trace their location within a 250 km radius.
No. of traceable targets: 250
Effect: Spirit 50^
Requirents: 80 Spirit
Durability: 100/100
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Thanks to Qew's second innate exclusive skill, , the once Uncommon grade Spirit Item was now upgraded to a Rare grade one, and the range increased from 100 km to 250 along with the number of traceable targets.
Jay had the Shadow Leopard MJ stealthily follow those Tier-3 monsters and observe their every move.
At the sa ti, he intentionally travelled around, leaving a trail behind, without hiding his presence to catch the attention of the monsters.
That was when the third assessnt was about to begin, and Jay had MJ postpone it as he was occupied.
After so ti, a few Tier-1 monsters found the traces Jay left and what happened next confird his suspicions.
The Tier-3 monsters that the Shadow Leopard was stealthily following had changed their path and headed right towards Jay.
Since that happened right after they found his tracks, Jay concluded that soone was controlling the monsters.
Jay ruled out the possibility of that soone being an Alpha Chosen because he learned that there weren't any Alpha Chosen alive within the 33rd trial zone through MJ.
For a Soul A.I like MJ, who has Tier-4 System access; it was easy to find this kind of information.
Since that soone wasn't an Alpha Chosen, that must be a Monster.
Since that unknown monster could control every monster in the trial zone, MJ concluded that the unknown monster must have a Hive-mind type Innate Talent, which is mainly seen in the Insectoid Race.
Dealing with a monster that possesses such Innate Talent would be rather tricky as it stays hidden and controls other monsters to attack its prey as a horde.
It was no wonder that the Alpha Chosen in that trial zone died already.
When a few Tier-3 monsters caught up to Jay, he didn't bother escaping anymore and subdued them before using on them to pry out the location of the unknown monster.
However, there was no helpful information about that monster's location in their mories.
The puzzling part was that Jay couldn't find anything related to the unknown monster within their mories.
Jay felt it was a pity that he couldn't find anything. If they had learned about the exact way the unknown monster used to take control over the monsters, MJ could have browsed through the System records in search of any information regarding the unknown monster.
Since that wasn't possible for now, Jay didn't bother finding the unknown monster for now and began to kill the Tier-3 monsters in that trial zone, one by one.
Whenever the unknown monster tried to send groups of several monsters at him, Jay would escape after killing the monsters in locations where he was last seen.
Ti passed, and Jay slew hundreds of monsters but didn't find even a single clue about the unknown monster's whereabouts.
Even though Jay could fight a horde of monsters in a full-frontal battle, he didn't want to exhaust himself and be prepared for when his mode cooldown ends as his top priority is to enter as many trial zones as he could to find the Arch Spirit Fruit.
Jay didn't hunt for monsters anymore and reached the other end of the 33rd trial zone. He then hid in a small cave he created in the ground and began to recover his Stamina and Spirit Energy.
Soon, the cooldown ended, and Jay entered the mode and made his way through to further trial zones.
The commotion Jay caused by breaking the trial zone barrier didn't escape the unknown monster's attention, and its intelligent eyes shone with a golden-yellow glow within a dark, gloomy area.
Ignorant to that, Jay continued to pass through other trial zones and in the 34th, 35th and 36th trial zones, he didn't find anything odd about the monsters like in the 33rd trial zone.
Two more hours passed, and it has been six hours since the start of Day-9, and the cooldown of ended.
Jay made a small cave in the ground, hidden from the monsters there and began converging another elent to the Dual-elental Innate Talent.
[You have successfully converged Grade-3 and Grade-4 , creating a Grade-4 .]
[ enters a 24-hour cooldown until it can be usable again.]
[Congratulations! You are the 1st Existence in the Entire Universe to combine three elents into one, creating a Tri-Elent, 'Lightning Fla' while just being in Tier-2.]
[Grade-4 (Fire, Water & Lightning) (Elental Category):
Gives Host the ability to comprehend the 'Lightning Fla' Elent without losing the ability to individually manipulate Fire, Water and Lightning elents along with their respective skills. Increases its comprehension speed by four-fold.]
By using the Water elent, the 'Lightning Fire' turned into 'Lightning Fla'.
Even though it looked like a slight difference, that brought another leap of power for Jay.
It was because 'Fla' is a higher elent, and only Fire and Water dual Innate Talent users could manage to use it upon reaching Stage-4 Mastery.
Jay brought out his right palm, and over his finger, the 'Lightning Fla' flickered, and the heat it produced instantly changed the temperature in the makeshift cave.
The purple fla turned denser, and the red flashes on it beca brighter.
Not only had the attack power of the new higher elent improved, but also its movent fluidity along with its reach.
Soon after he conjured the Tri-elent, another series of notifications appeared.
[Congratulations! You have gained Lv.1 (Stage-1)]
[Lv.1: Lv.1 Lightning Fla-elent training thods will be transmitted into your mind.]
[Your Lv.30 is compatible with Lv.1, do you wish to rge it with Lv.10?]
By accepting it, the improved by a notch.
[Lv.30 Lv.10 = Lv.15]
[Congratulations! You have gained Lv.15 (Stage-2)]
[Lv.15: Lv.15 Lightning Fla-elent training thods will be transmitted into your mind.]
Jay wanted to test out his new elent in actual combat. Since killing monsters wasn't a challenge for Jay at all, he thought of sothing before calling for MJ and had him analyse the properties of the 'Lightning Fla' so that he could simulate it perfectly within the A.I space for Jay to test it.
Once it was done, he entered the A.I space, and for half an hour, Jay familiarised with the Tri-Elent.
Following that, he instructed MJ to begin the third assessnt so that he could test out the 'Lightning Fla' in an actual combat situation and at the sa ti learn the extent to which Earth's Alpha Chosen has grown in the past few days.
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Note: The '1st FIFTEEN PEOPLE' to comnt for every new chapter release will get '1 ADVANCED CHAPTER' for free in Earth Alpha Pri's Discord server.
In the discord server, I opened private channels for those Top 15 candidates, where I post the respective Advanced Chapter.
Also, you could find the link for Advanced Chapters in the Earth Alpha Pri's Discord Server. (within the 'ADVANCED CHAPTERS!' Category.)
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Discord Link for 'Earth's Alpha Pri' :
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I decided to hold the next chapter releases until I stack enough chapters for my Patrons (i.e. 10 advanced chapters), before continuing the usual chapter releases. It might take a week or ten days or even two weeks for that. I hope this won't inconvenience you all.
As an overview of the upcoming chapters, In Ch.117, there will be a minor introduction of the monster that could beco a threat to the Alpha Chosen. However, it was just a vague introduction. The real one will be shown in Ch.121 in great detail.
Two to three chapters after that, the Tournant part will begin and I believe it will be quite interesting with the Earth's Alpha Chosen interacting with a lot more characters from different trial zones. The different rounds that will take place in the Tournant will be sothing that you all could undoubtedly look forward to. Also, the Arc-1 would end with quite an intense battle that could even threaten Jay's life.
So, all those who are thinking that Earth's Alpha Chosen could easily co out on top in the upcoming tournant would have to rethink their opinions. I am estimating the Arc-1 would end at around Ch.150. Alright, this is it for a short overview. Well then, Stay Safe, see ya.
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