Chapter 209 Training, Training, Trouble?
Chapter 209 Training, Training, Trouble?
While Almond and Lily were absorbed in their Elemental Imprint, the other Grim Breakers were also training and only training so they could get stronger.
Elemental Imprint was everyone's main focus, especially after seeing its options and knowing that it would stay with them until they properly used it up.
Almond had Legendary-rank Elemental Imprint while Lily and Marcus had SSS-rank Elemental Imprints, and these Imprints were going to stay with them until they reached the rank of elemental mastery based on the Imprints' ranks.
Natalia and Maya had SS-rank Imprints, so they could master whatever element they chose in their imprint up to SS equivalent-rank.
Adrian, Julian, Amir, Jemma, and Brynjal had acquired S-rank imprints.
Kira, Talia, Noah, Eliara, Kayla, Mira, Xavier, Ron, Emma, Finn, and Anya had acquired A-rank imprints.
Most of them were using their Imprints to acquire mastery over a new Element first since they didn't have much more than that aside from Advanced Skill Scrolls.
Julian, Emma, Anya, Mira, Adrian, Finn, Ron, and Jian only had one Advanced Skill Scroll, while the others had at least two, with Marcus, Maya, Natalia, and Lily having three and Almond having acquired four of them total.
Marcus, Maya, Natalia, and Lily had high-ranking skill scrolls as well from their earlier Heroic Floor Boss rewards, but since they were mostly S/SS-rank and were not suitable, they sold those scrolls, except for one they had learned instantly using the Instant-Learning skill slabs they had gotten once.
Marcus and Maya sold their scrolls in GAA, gaining tens of millions of Gold coins due to the rarity and value of those high-ranking scrolls, while Lily and Natalia had sold them in the League of Firefly guild.
Everyone also had one Insight Stone each, except for Almond, Lilly, and Natalia, who had two each, which they could use to get insight into a random but possibly desired phenomenon of magic for 24 hours.
...
Almond and Lily woke up on 23rd December around seven in the morning with no result from their training.
But no result didn't mean they didn't progress. They were stoked after waking up because both of them could feel they were very close to awakening their bond with a new element.
They ate, showered, and went to sleep.
Natalia didn't train in Elemental Imprint but used her second Advanced skill scroll to learn a skill called Angel Wings of Aurora.
It had been over twenty-four hours, but she hadn't woken up yet.
Six hours later when Almond and Lily finished their sleeping, Natalia was still in the dimension produced by the scroll.
"It seems that this one is hard for her," Almond wryly smiled.
"Well, she will succeed if she is determined," Lily smiled.
"I will not give it to you, so I'll call Alfred to cook something fast and bring it to you."
"...Fine."
Food soon arrived after ten minutes, and Natalia quickly ate it before sleeping right there and then.
Three hours later, when it was 4 p.m., Lily's eyes opened before a misty crimson aura oozed out of her body.
"Yes!" Lily grinned upon seeing that Almond was still in meditation. "Hehe, I told you, darling. I'd win this bout."
Lily stood up as dimly glinting blood emerged from her finger.
She could increase her Blood by consuming Mana, but the most exciting thing was that her Blood also got a boost from her physical body. The stronger her physical attributes, the more potential her Blood could get and the more vitality it could generate upon her Mana consumption.
'I am only at D-rank mastery right now, but I will make this my focus now!' Lily's eyes turned fiery as she clenched her fist. 'Blood element will significantly boost my power.'
'I will fight alongside you,' Lily resolved and vowed as she looked at Almond.' It won't be long, darling.'
'I won't let myself stay behind for long!'
The atmosphere around her formed from her magic vibrated with a fiery aura as if responding to her will while the floating blood glowed.
Lily blinked as she calmed herself down shortly and got up, stretching her arms and body.
"Looks like she finished training and slept here after eating," Lily wryly smiled, seeing Natalia.
Thinking of something, Lily jumped off the Garden's edge and landed on the ground as she muttered, "I should order some energetic food since Almond will also wake up soon for the second S-rank Dungeon raid that's starting after two hours."
*Beep*
Suddenly, her wristwatch beeped. It was a message from Mira.
Seeing the content, Lily's brows furrowed closely, "What the hell?"
A flash of anger passed through her eyes as she fell into thought, 'What should I do?'
'Do I contact GAA? But will they intervene in this matter?'
'Damn it! This is a tricky matter, but...something must be done,' Lily's eyes glinted. 'Darling, wake up soon.'
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