Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest

“I-I can’t take it…” Mark muttered.

“Eh?! Why not?” I wondered, tilting my head. “Come on, you should use it right away!”

“But I can’t, it makes me feel bad…” he said. “It feels unearned, and you’re only just gifting it to me… Wouldn’t I be shameless to use it without even hesitating?”

“You totally earned it!” I said. “You fought a lot, defeated several powerful foes, saved the Yggdrasil Tree from getting corrupted by the Demon King of Death by cutting the branch, and defended the forest, right? You defeated the most Undead, so call this a spoil of war, take it!”

I insisted, he was sometimes a bit too humble. I know he might feel embarrassed that I might be acting like some sort of “sugar mommy” and it becomes worse when I’m actually older than him…

“Ah, well, if you put it like that I did put a lot of work, yeah,” Mark nodded, rubbing his chin. “Well, alright… fine, I’ll take it as my payment for my services, haha.”

“Good!” he grabbed the marble from my hands gently, as he glanced at it.

“Hmmm…” he looked at it attentively. “Surely it won’t break if it ends up falling, r-right?”

“I don’t think it can break, so don’t worry…” I said. “Though, I recommend you to use it right away!”

“Hmm, true,” he nodded. “Okay, sure.” Find adventures at My Virtual Library Empire

He quickly started imbuing his energy into it, as the Marble started overflowing with light.

“I need to select a skill… Okay, the skill matters that much?”

“Yeah, it’ll become what shapes this new specialization. It depends though, what do you want the most? Offense? Movement? Durability, survivability, etc… Select a Skill for such things.”

“Okay, I’ll go for more offense, can’t ever go wrong with more attack power,” he nodded. “Now… Woah! What the…?”

He seemed a bit surprised the moment he selected the Skill.

“Ah, are you seeing a list now? Yeah, inspect them carefully, they’re the Specializations you can choose… You can also reset the selection using Gold,” I said. “It costs one billion per reset… I have a lot of Gold so feel free to ask me for more if you need.”

“Ah, don’t worry, I got myself quite a lot,” he said, beginning to roll again, and again, and again.

I see, he wasn’t the only one with my same problem, haha…

As for Elena, I don’t know how she did it, but I think her first selection had the specialization she chose at the end, which ended being ideal for her.

While waiting for him to get done, I checked a certain coin I’ve been earning a lot lately, Nether Coins.

[Nether Coin (S Grade)] x138.136

“Oh, I got a lot…”

These Coins are specially used for the Underworld Shop, which can be accessed through the special Wandering Skeleton merchants NPCs.

The last time I saw one of them, they were with Angelina’s part, Erdrich was very interested in the skeleton, but since then I think they moved on.

I need to find a new one, most likely… but where?!

Part of my plans to infiltrate the Underworld was spending these coins to buy the key for it, which comes in several fragments.

Once we get back to the Luminous Kingdom, I’ll send all my spirits to look for the skeleton merchants if there’s any wandering around.

Though, based in what has happened lately in the city, I doubt they’ll allow them to walk in the streets, they could get attacked instantly…

Unless the System somehow protects them against other NPCs, inhabitants of this world…

And seeing how everything is gamified and so on, perhaps that’s not too far from what’s happening right now.

Anyways, looks like someone already finished.

FLUOSH!

A powerful blazing aura surged from his body, suddenly shaping into a feathered, winged humanoid titan…

“What did you get at the end?” I asked him.

“I got… Path of the Phoenix Soul Titan Spirit Guardian,” he said. “It looked really cool, like something straight of some anime I liked when I was a kid.”

“A-An anime?” I wondered. “Like what?”

“Let me show you in a less cramped place,” he said.

We walked towards the terrace of the castle which was empty, and he released his Aura.

FLUOSH!

“CRYYAAHH!”

The furious and fierce cry of a giant phoenix echoed from his aura as the enormous, humanoid birdman appeared once more, made of soul flames!

It wasn’t just a temporary being apparently, it remained there for a while!

“What in the world is this?!” I asked.

“It’s like a Stand!” he said. “It will attack anything I choose to attack, and it can move however I want it through remotely controlled mind commands.”

“CRYAAH!”

The giant, muscular feathered phoenix man roared, smashing the ground with its fists and leaving a huge, blazing crater behind.

BAAAM!

RUMBLE!

The entire building trembled for a bit…

“Mark! B-Be careful!” I panicked.

“Ahh! Sorry, sorry! I kind of got ahead of myself…” he apologized. “But it’s really cool, isn’t it?!”

“Yeah it reminds me of that certain anime…” I nodded. “Does it have unique and wacky abilities like that one had?”

“So you watched it too?!” Mark got excited. “I knew you were the perfect woman, Elayne!”

“Ahahah… I was kind of forced to watch a lot of stuff like that because of my late husband…” I sighed. “Um, but well… what else can it offer?”

“It can move automatically to protect me or surrounding allies, release flame waves, and is incredibly strong physically I think…” he said. “It should also be capable of growing larger, or even fuse with me eventually. It can grow stronger if I absorb Phoenix Soul Essence, which is generated when I defeated foes with it.”

“Sweet!” I nodded. “Sounds like an incredible upgrade if you can use it properly and combine it with other Skills! And because you can use this IRL too, it’ll be a great asset.”

“Right?” he asked. “I’m quite satisfied with it.”

Haha, he was acting like a kid out of nowhere for some reason… He really liked his ability.

“Nice, alright then! Shall we go to Luminous now? I don’t want it to get too late… Look, it’s already getting darker,” I said.

“Sure, let’s go,” Mark agreed.

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