For the remaining 15 minutes Shi Chenli started taking recovery potions like crazy, which he had prepared beforehand along with others essentials.
15 minutes passed quickly and a new prompts sounded.
[Second Round: Elemental Hazard]
[Elements are in chaos and given birth to spirits. Enter the elemental Forge and defeat elemental spirits.]
[Success Rate will e calculated on base of no of spirits defeated]
As prompts came the earth in front of him wriggled and a cave entrance appeared.
Shi Chenli took a deep breath and entered the cave.
After walking for a while he came to a cavern.
He looked around and other than different stones there was nothing in the cavern.
As he was going to walk forward, an earthquake occurred and stones in the cave started rolling and assembled to form a rock giant.
He checked the giant's information.
Name/Race: Earth Golem
Type: Earth Elemental Spirit
Level: 10 (99.99%)
Skills: Earth Tremor, Gravity Domain, Earth Armor, Earth Spikes.
It was a level 10 extreme monster.
What shocked Shi Chenli was that this elemental spirit also have a domain type skill and it is a very rare Gravity domain.
After shock he became excited because after he defeats Earth Golem, this skill will be his.
But when he looked at the earth golem, his lips twitched after seeing its size and on top of that it was an earth element, famous for its defense.
Shi Chenli quickly recalled information about elemental spirits and made his plan.
"Elemental Spirits are made of elements instead of flesh and blood so it needs a core to condense its body. At least before it reaches rank 7."
"So, I need to find its core and destroy it to kill it."
"Or I can kill it with overwhelming force."
Just a she was thinking of a feasible plan, earth Golem attacked Shi Chenli.
It punched the ground and earth became to undulate which caused Shi Chenli to lose his balance.
The next moment earth spikes came from Shi Chenli's feet.
Chenli quickly dodged the spikes and rolled to the side.
He deployed ice shards but it didn't even scratched earth golem.
"I need to find its core quickly." Shi Chenli thought in his heart.
In process of dodging, he saw an imperceptible light flashing for a fleeting moment at golem's chest.
Shi Chenli's lips curved into an arc, "So it's there"
Shi Chenli quickly cast vine entanglement.
As a novel enthusiast in his previous life, his ears were calloused by reading phrases about five element cycle and other logics.
Five element cycle is also effective in this world.
So, Shi Chenli used wood to overcome earth.
Vines spread from his feet and quickly approached Earth Golem.
But these vines failed to break earth golem's defense.
Shi Chenli also casted his domain skill 'Absolute Zero' and 'Ice Thorn Whip'
Vines attacking earth golem also turned icy blue and thorns appeared on it.
Under the effect of 'Absolute Zero', Icy Thorn Whip's lethality also increased.
On the other hand, Earth Golem slowed down.
Icy Thorn Whip/vines penetrated freezing earth golem and encroached upon the core.
After much efforts vines approached the core and penetrated it.
Rock Golem's body collapsed back to rocks.
Shi Chenli sighed in relief and started checking his loot.
He got:
Energy Crystal (Level 10)*1, Fine Earth Dust (F grade)*10 units, Skill Books (Earth Tremor, Gravity Domain, Earth armor, Earth Spikes.)*1, Reinforced stone*46, Earth Element Mage Class Change Certificate*1, Earth Element Core*1
Shi Chenli was puzzled by the last item as he had already crushed the core so how can he get this.
But soon he diverted his attention to skill books and chose to learn all of them.
As for class change certificate, it was useless for him so he tossed it aside.
After 15 minutes of rest, he started walking toward the cave entrance on the other side of cavern.
As this round was not time restrictive task so Shi Chenli could complete it at his own pace.
He quickly came to a next cavern and it was a cavern filled with lava streams.
"So, it is Fire Elemental Spirit This time." Shi Chenli thought.
As he entered the cavern, mini lava rivers started boiling and two lava lizards came out of them.
When Shi Chenli saw these two lizards he cursed.
"Holy fuck"
"You can't increase numbers. Right?"
Shi Chenli quickly casted his ice element skills and froze the lizards and shattered their core.
He didn't even gave them time to attack.
This round was easy for Chenli as his most powerful skills were ice attribute which completely countered fire.
After Killing these two Lava Lizards he got:
Energy Crystal (level 10)*2, Earth Flame*2, Skill Book (Fire Line, Lava Spray and Flaming Rain)*1, Fire Mage Class Change Certificate*2, Fire Element Core*1
"This time I killed two Elemental Spirits but I still only got 1 elemental Core."
"It seems that its is not a drop but an item dropped after clearing one type of elemental spirits."
And he was proven right.
In next few caverns he encountered Wood, water, metal, Lightning, Wind, Light and Darkness Elemental Spirits, with numbers doubling with each subsequent cavern.
But he still only got one Elemental core.
The most difficult round for Shi Chenli was light elemental spirits.
They looked a bit like angels but smaller.
Their speed was very fast.
So Chenli had to lay a trap or these spirits which took him almost a full day.
Last round was darkness Elemental Spirits which were undead Skeletons.
As Chenli killed the last skeleton a prompt sounded.
[Second Round Completed.]
[Killed nine type of elemental spirits]
[Completion Rate: 100%]
[Final Rating: SSS rank.]
[Reward: Affinity to corresponding elements.
Player can now absorb elemental cores to get corresponding element affinity]
[Special reward for SSS rank. F to B can only get a random affinity. A grade can choose his own affinity, S grade can choose two while SS grade can only chose three.]
Shi Chenli was stunned because he could get affinity to all basic elements.
He didn't expect this reward.
If he had not killed all elemental spirits, he would not be able to get all element affinity.
[Ding you have triggered a hidden mechanism.]
[Third round will be changed to "Night Caster's Legacy"]
[Trigger Conditions: Complete first two rounds with SSS ranking.]
[Third round will start immediately.]
[Teleportation starts in
3
2
1]
Without giving Chenli time to react world spun around him and he came to a stone room.
He cursed the sky curtain for vague instructions.
I he couldn't complete first two rounds with SSS ranking then his class change mission would fail.
He felt like sky curtain was scheming against him.
He looked around the stone chamber and there was only a table in middle of room with two things on it.
One was an animal hide while the other was a glass orb.
He approached the table and took a look at animal hide.
It was a letter.
'Hello,
So, I finally have a successor.
You must have completed first part of the trial for mage class.
Now you can try second part for Assassin Class.
But before that you have to know about me to understand my class.
My name is Nex Nightfall.
I will not describe my biography here so.
I got two talents when I first entered Sky Curtain.
SSS-Grade Omni-Arcanum and S-grade Void's Blessing.
Omni-Arcanum gave me ability to awaken element affinity as long as can devour Elemental Spirits. More Spirits or stronger spirits devour, stronger the ability.
As for Void's Blessing it granted me ability to walk into the void and avoid any physical obstacle for a short period of time.
So, I became a mage and assassin, a dual class.
I leveled up and surpassed rank 9.
I also made my class into a SS class mage and assassin class.
That was the time when I forged 'Rune Song' and 'Void Fang' with some of my talent.
So, it also contains some essence of my talent and my life long research.
I hope that you can fulfill my lifelong research and promote this class to SSS grade class.'
At the end of the letter was use of glass orb.
It was a teleportation orb which will teleport him to inheritance site.
According to Nex, this was an inheritance process as well as a test.
He injected mana into the orb and vanished from the stone rom.
A few seconds after he left, a ripple appeared in space and a young man with black hair and casual clothes came out of it.
He looked at the place where Chenli vanished and then chuckled.
"I want to see your face when you see me alive"
Then he retreated back into the void.
***
On the other side.
Shi Chenli came to a dark space.
There was nothing in this space only darkness.
He couldn't even see his own hands.
***
On a blue planet.
In a simple two-story house, a man was sitting on a sofa.
A holographic document was floating in front of him and he squinted his eyes after seeing the information.
"Interesting"
***
Back to Shi Chenli.
He was going crazy. He felt like years have passed in this dark space.
He tried to calm down but didn't succeed.
After unknown amount of time, he sighed and sat down.
He stared blankly and made his mind wander.
Just as he was thinking of random things.
His mind became blank gradually and forgot himself.
In this state of forgetfulness his body started to become illusory and gradually disappeared.
He was still there but not there.
He was in a weird state as if in another dimension.
As his body vanished a prompt appeared in front of his eyes.
[Ding you have completed third round 'The Night Caster's Legacy']
[You have comprehended the skill, 'Void Vanish']
[Completion rate: 100%]
[Rating: Special]
[Reward: Special Equipment 'Rune Song' and 'Void Fang']
Shi Chenli came out of his forgetfulness after hearing the prompts.