The three demons straightened as formal introductions beca necessary, their expressions carrying their resigned fate.
"I’m Ed," announced the scarred rcenary.
"Edd," added the combat mage, adjusting his robes nervously.
"And I’m Eddie," concluded the third mber.
Ed, Edd, and Eddie. You’ve got to be kidding .
Noah stared at his new bodyguards with bewildered amazent. "Are you all related?"
"Brothers," Ed confird as a matter of fact.
Three brothers nad Ed, Edd, and Eddie, who turned to cri together. This world has a sense of humour.
"Well, at least I’ll rember your nas easily," Noah said, suppressing his laughter at the absurd coincidence.
The brothers positioned themselves at respectful distances as Noah prepared to resu his original purpose. Wind training required space and concentration, neither of which worked well with hovering bodyguards.
Ti to test my wind manipulation’s combat applications. Let’s see what Level 4 can accomplish.
Lola settled back onto the grass, her ruby eyes tracking Noah’s movents with interest.
Her posture suggested that she was just casually observing.
So he has wind talent now... he must have used the orb.
Wind began stirring around Noah’s hands as he used his newly acquired wind manipulation skill.
Gentle currents responded to his will with enthusiasm.
Basic wind control. Not bad, for a newbie. Lola thought, watching the wind that Noah commanded.
But as Noah progressed through increasingly harder techniques, Lola’s interest transford into genuine shock.
The way he used his skill defied his recent awakening. Noah was demonstrating comprehension that should have required a longer training period.
Wait.
That’s not beginner-level control, he’s approaching novice-level.
Noah created multiple small vortexes simultaneously, maintaining control while directing their movent through specific patterns of his choice.
The technique demanded skill and elental sensitivity far beyond typical beginner capability.
For soone who awakened their elent hours ago, this is...insane.
Her eyes widened as she realised sothing.
Noah’s attainnt level resembled practitioners who’d spent weeks or months refining their elental understanding through dedicated practice.
I don’t think he has a strong affinity to the wind elent; he would have awakened it without an orb had that been true. His current attainnts are Impossible. Unless he...
"He couldn’t have used the orb for knowledge absorption at his level, right?" she whispered, her voice carrying growing horror.
That would be the biggest waste imaginable.
Wind orbs were tier 5 artefacts precisely because they contained concentrated elental essence that could accelerate developnt at any stage. But using them during initial awakening was universally considered a catastrophic resource mismanagent.
You save orbs for breakthrough monts. When advancent stalls at higher levels. Not for basic skill developnt.
Advanced practitioners hoarded wind orbs for decades, waiting for the perfect mont when natural progression hit insurmountable barriers. Using such treasures for foundation building was like burning money for campfire fuel.
No one in their right mind would waste Tier 5 artefacts on beginner training.
Noah continued his demonstration, progressing to techniques that incorporated movent and combat applications.
Wind-enhanced footwork that increased his speed, directed gusts that could deflect projectiles, even preliminary levitation attempts that defied gravity for brief monts.
This is months of developnt compressed into hours. He definitely used the orb.
After watching for several more minutes, Lola’s curiosity overca her shock. She approached with the slow steps of soone confirming their worst suspicions.
"Noah, how exactly did you develop your wind manipulation so quickly?" she called, her voice calm despite her growing horror.
Please tell you didn’t do what I think you did.
"Used the wind orb for training, absorbed its essence to accelerate my comprehension. Pretty efficient thod." Noah replied casually.
Noah had responded in a way that made his action sound like the most obvious thing in the world.
He actually did it. He used a tier 5 elental orb like a textbook.
Lola’s face went pale as his confirmation hit her like a truck.
"Noah, those orbs are incredibly rare. You should wait before using them—it’s such a waste to consu them at low attainnts."
I can’t believe I’m explaining basic resource managent to soone who treats Tier 5 orbs like study guides.
"You’re supposed to save them for breakthrough monts when natural advancent becos impossible, using them for foundation skills is insane," she continued, her voice rising with shock.
Like explaining fire safety to soone who uses phoenix feathers as kindling.
But Noah simply shrugged with the indifference of soone whose daily inco included the replacent of such orbs.
"It’s fine. I’ve got access to more when needed."
Access to more. He says that like wind orbs grow on trees.
Lola stared at him with the expression of soone watching world laws being casually violated. Her understanding of scarcity-based magical developnt was crumbling in real-ti.
He’s treating priceless artefacts like consumable training materials. This defies everything I know about elental cultivation.
The Ed brothers exchanged glances that suggested they were beginning to understand exactly whose service they’d been bound to. Soone who used tier 5 treasures for basic skill developnt operated on a completely different level of resource access.
’Our new boss is either completely insane or incredibly wealthy. Possibly both.’
After killing several beetles using his wind manipulation, Noah felt the satisfaction of successful monster hunting fade into boredom. The creatures that had once challenged his swordsmanship now fell to his blade work and elental enhancent with ease.
These beetles are no longer enough for .
His novice-level attributes, combined with Level 4 wind manipulation, had pushed him beyond the challenge that basic grass beetles could provide.
Each fight ended in the sa way.
Their death without any hardship.
His wind-assisted strikes overwheld their simple defensive power.
Ti to move up to more dangerous prey.
Noah’s gaze shifted toward the deeper sections of the Crimson Mountains, where more formidable creatures made their habitat.
The fireflies inhabited territories beyond the beginner-safe zones, representing a significant escalation in risk.
Fireflies are Tier 1 monsters. They are known to be in a completely different league from tier 0 monsters like the grass beatles.
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