[The Epic Skills and are branches of a pathway. Once a skill is used, the other cannot be used at the sa ti.]
[rging Opportunity Detected. The skills from the sa pathway have the opportunity to be rged. Upon rging, the resulting skill might favor one skill more than the other. Skills are not lost upon failing the rging opportunity.]
[rging Success Rate: 25%]
[Cost: 200 Lives]
[rge?]
Staring at the unexpected notifications materializing before him, Moon’s eyes glinted with excitent. He had never expected such a possibility—the system was offering him the ability to rge his two related skills precisely because they originated from the sa pathway.
Upon successful rging, he would possess a single unified skill that could leverage both abilities simultaneously, which would be more powerful than being restricted to using just one skill at a ti with the other sitting dormant and inaccessible.
’To rge the skills, I must pay a cost in lives?’ Moon processed the information while studying the disappointingly low twenty-five percent success rate displayed.
Skill rging wasn’t sothing Moon had ever heard other awakeners discuss at all, at least not within his knowledge from conversations and research. The chanic might be unique to the Classless path, or perhaps so rare that most people never encountered the opportunity.
Thankfully, the system explicitly stated that even if he failed the rging attempt with such unfavorable odds, he wouldn’t permanently lose either skill. They’d remain intact and usable despite the failed investnt.
Without hesitation or extended deliberation, Moon decided to imdiately attempt rging the two complentary skills.
[200 Lives Consud. rging Failed.]
A notification flashed across his retina almost instantly. Moon wasn’t particularly surprised by the imdiate failure, with only a twenty-five percent success rate, he would have been surprised by his own luck if he’d sohow succeeded on the very first attempt.
Moon tried again without pause.
[200 Lives Consud. rging Failed.]
[200 Lives Consud. rging Failed.]
[200 Lives Consud. rging Failed.]
[200 Lives Consud. rging Failed.]
"..."
Moon began feeling frustration rising as the failures continued flashing across his eyes. He’d already burned through a thousand precious lives with absolutely zero progress to show for the investnt. The success rate remained steady and unyielding at twenty-five percent, offering no improved chances for his continuous tries.
’I refuse to believe I can’t eventually force this rger to succeed,’ Moon thought stubbornly through gritted teeth. He still had plenty of accumulated lives remaining, his total reserves had long since broken through five digits thanks to his countless hunting. He could afford to keep going.
[200 Lives Consud. rging Failed.]
[200 Lives Consud. rging Failed.]
"..."
The soul-crushing parade of failures continued relentlessly until the tenth attempt, where the ssage display finally changed.
[200 Lives Consud. rging has been successful.]
[Your skills and have rged to form .]
Moon’s entire body straightened with triumph despite the two thousand lives he’d just burned through the rging process.
[Advanced Elental Body]
[Rank: Epic]
[Details: Your entire body has been tempered by the five elents—Fire, Wind, Earth, Water, and Lightning. You gain strong affinity with the four basic elents, and low affinity with the lightning elent. 100% Elental Control. 100% Elental Damage. 100% Elental Resistance to the five elents.]
Staring at the new rged skill description presented before his eyes, Moon felt deep satisfaction spreading through his chest. The result fit exactly what he’d hoped to achieve, a skill allowing him to leverage both skill sets simultaneously rather than being forced to choose between defensive tempering or offensive power.
Thankfully, the warned possibility of the rge heavily favoring one skill over the other hadn’t manifested. The resulting ability preserved both the defensive elental resistance from Elental Body and the offensive power amplification from Five Elent Affinity in roughly equal asure.
Another detail that imdiately caught Moon’s attention was the rank of the newly rged skill. It remained firmly at Epic rank rather than sohow ascending to Legendary tier through the fusion process.
This made Moon believe even more strongly that there must be specific hidden prerequisites or conditions for gaining a Legendary rank skill—he just needed to discover what those mysterious requirents actually were.
The day was still relatively young, with hours of useful daylight remaining. They’d just finished a brief rest period when Moon abruptly stood up from his seated position.
Everyone sitting down beside him moved their heads up towards him, wondering what he was planning to do.
He looked directly at his assembled team, currently composed of five Savi Clan mbers including Selene, and his loyal mount Mirage.
"Are you all ready?"
Yara tilted her head with obvious confusion. "Ready for what exactly?"
A grin began to spread across Moon’s face, his eyes already environing the destruction of the Heretic forces. "Ready for war."
The Heretics had made his stay troubleso on this island, forcing him into constant defensive positioning and making him reminisce uncomfortably about the miserable early days inside the first hidden realm he’d entered. Back then he’d spent weeks constantly hiding in caves and various other concealed spots, living like hunted prey.
This hidden world had so much potential to explore, so many mysteries to uncover and resources to claim. Moon absolutely wasn’t going to waste the precious ti continuing to hide defensively from the Heretic faction like so frightened rabbit. Especially when he had the power to destroy them all.
’I will deal with them first, eliminate the primary threat to my freedom of movent. Then, once they are dealt with, I will properly explore this realm and attempt to understand the specific conditions required for completing it and escaping back to the normal world.’
"War? Against whom?" Yara gulped down, a terrible thought that she didn’t like erging in her mind.
"Who else? The heretics." Moon responded calmly.
"What?!" Yara stood up from her position in shock, the other Savi Clan mbers following suit. "No, we absolutely cannot do that Moon!"
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