Chapter 136 New Ways

"The water once again turned cold. Let me replace it with hot water," Arkhen said with a wry smile while massaging Emily, who was sitting with her back leaning on Arkhen while his hands massaged her breasts.

"It seems that Azela was tired. She fell asleep," Emily said with a smile as she saw Azela sleeping. Her back was supported by the hot spring pool's edge wall, and she fell asleep while sitting just like that.

'Velshi, can you send her to the bedroom of Aerzax Castle inside the Mystic Wonderland?' Arkhen asked.

[Yes. Just need your permission, and it will take the usual five seconds of the transfer process].

'Do it,' Arkhen said.

Five seconds later, Azela disappeared.

The massage was already over by now but Arkhen was just savoring Emily and increasing the skinship with her while relaxing.

At 7:30 AM in the morning, the moons in the sky turned faint while a single sun appeared in the region. However, it didn't give much heat or sunshine in this snowy region.

The magical thing was that there were multiple of such suns and moons for each vast region. This Sun and the previous Moons were exclusive for this snowy region.

After staying for several minutes more, Arkhen and Emily returned to the hidden cave under the pond.

…

"Do we also hunt for dire beasts today?" Emily asked while sitting in the underground pond below the pond.

"Yep. We will leave this region and head towards a populated place while killing dire beasts on the way," Arkhen said as he opened the roulette function of the system, intending to spin it.

'Velshi, you said others can't see some system-related things, but can they see if I want them to see?'

[If you allow it, then I can make it visible to selected people].

'Cool, then allow it for Emily and Azela and all others when they awaken,' Arkhen said. 'Also, make the roulette manifest physically in front of me if possible. I want to try others' luck.'

A second later, Emily was startled to see a roulette board appearing in front of Arkhen. Raising her eyebrows in shock, she asked, "what's that? A roulette but…"

"This is one of my powers, haha," Arkhen said with a laugh as he beckoned Emily with his hand. "Pull that lever with your hand to spin it. Let's see what you get from it."

Emily curiously pulled the lever, and the roulette started spinning.

"Press that stop button whenever you want it to stop."

Emily nodded. After three seconds, she pressed the red button, and the roulette started slowing down. Soon, the roulette stopped spinning and a section with a scroll icon stopped at the needle's point.

A tiny beautiful firecracker appeared over the roulette along with a congratulatory message.

[Congratulations, you have received a random S-rank 1st-class skill scroll]

A scroll manifested on top of the roulette after that, which truly shocked Emily. She looked at Arkhen and asked with a dumbfounded expression, "Is this your power?"

"Yep," Arkhen nodded with a grin as he grabbed the scroll and opened it.

[Flame Fist: Agnister]

[-Affinity: Fire]

[-Class: 1st class]

[-Rank: S]

[-Cost: 100,000 Primal energy]

[-Mastery: Novice]

'Is this a new skill detail window? Also, is that cost the maximum energy consumption the skill execution can handle?'

[Yes, my lord. I've improved the panel. You can use the skill for less than 100,000 costs. But the max cost is 100,000 for the max power of the skill. You can't go beyond 100,000 as that is the skill's limit].

'Explain to me everything I see new in that panel,' Arkhen said as he was filled with curiosity.

[The skill's affinity is fire. You don't have the fire affinity, but you can still use the skill. However, to increase the class of the skill, you need to have Fire affinity]

[Skill Class: This indicates the limitation of the skill. Improving the class of the skill will make it stronger and increase its limit. For example, once you upgrade this skill to 2nd Class, the cost will increase to 150,000, but its power will also significantly improve]

'And I guess that the Mastery is also related to skill class? Do I also need higher mastery before I can upgrade or something like that?'

[You guessed correctly, my lord. There are four levels of mastery: Novice, Adept, Expert, and Perfect. Only after achieving Perfect mastery, you can upgrade the skill.

[However, you can only achieve Perfect mastery if you have the required affinity for that skill. Naturally, Perfect mastery will remain perfect even after you upgrade the class of the skill. Also, this mastery thing is actually set up to reward you].

'Oh?'

[When you achieve the next level of mastery in any skill, you will get a certain amount of reality essence along with some random reward. This is one of the few ways you can get reality essence. This also applies to your women, who are members of the Mystic Wonderland].

[With reality essence, you can use reality bending functions that will unlock in Mystic Wonderland after you defeat the Guardian Bosses].

[Defeating a Guardian boss will unlock the region and a mystic lab of that region in which you access a reality bending function]

'Example?'

[One of the Guardian bosses will unlock a skill lab. There, you can combine skills to create new ones, evolving skills, and access other skill-related functions. You will know in detail when you unlock it].

'I see. Sounds exciting to do. Skill combing, haha. Now the more important thing. I need fire affinity to reach Perfect mastery and upgrade it. So, how to get affinities?'

[For others, they need super rare affinity crystals to awaken a certain affinity or some fortuitous encounters. One can also awaken one or two affinities through a Star of Endowment. But you can gain affinities through quests, shop, or roulette].

'I see.'

"Arkhen, should I do one more spin?" Emily asked.

"Yeah, do one more. Let's see what we get," Arkhen said with a grin. He was hoping to get an affinity crystal.

Emily nodded and rubbed her hands for a few seconds before she pulled the lever to spin the roulette.

Ten seconds later…

[Congratulations. You have gotten 1000 reality motes].

"Reality motes?" Emily was surprised.

"That's like an energy that only I can access. Well, although it's not what I wanted, it's good for now," Arkhen said with a wry smile and deactivated the roulette. "That's all for now. Next, we'll get that lotus, and then we'll start moving to the nearest town or village."

'Velshi, create an arrow that points to the nearest village or town.'

[It will cost 24 reality motes. Do you wish to proceed?]

'Yep.'

Afterward, Arkhen and Emily walked toward the magical lotus in the pond.

"I think we need to uproot it carefully to prevent it from damaging," Emily said with a thoughtful expression."

"Hmmm… Well, let's not take the risk. I'll use my power to uproot it instead of doing it with hand," Arkhen said with a dry laugh. This lotus flower looked very mysterious and valuable. He didn't want to damage it.

'Velshi, get that lotus into my inventory. Perfectly intact.'

[1 reality mote consumed]

In the next second, Emily saw the lotus disappearing and turned to Arkhen. "Did you get it?"

"Yep. Now let's go. I want to try my new skill and I already got the location to the nearest settlement," Arkhen said as he looked at the information of the Lotus.

However, just as Arkhen and Emily moved two steps. Arkhen stopped with a startled expression as he read the details of the Lotus.