Cosmic Peak

Aren was shocked. However, his gaze landed on a few bright pieces of some material flying out, and his heart almost leaped out.

He hurriedly tried to control his hammer, and it worked as the hammer with only a few pieces of its head attached to it came back to him.

"It broke...," Aren muttered as he looked at his broken hammer.

70% of the hammer's head was gone, and its handle had slight cracks.

"It's core...it should be fine, right?" Aren questioned in doubt before he tried to infuse his mutant-magic ability's power into it and see if it would recover. After all, it was noted that as long as the hammer's core is intact, it can be fixed using its affiliated magic.

[ You have passed Test 3 with an A-grade result. As such, you will get an A-grade reward.]

[You will be transported to the test zone for your reward bestowment in one minute.]

[00:59]

Aren heard the voice, but he focused on the hammer. As he infused his mutant-magic energy in the hammer from the Amber core of Eturnia, the hammer glowed and started to recover slowly.

Seeing that, he sighed a relief, "Phew..."

However, its recovery speed was painfully slow, so he decided to put the hammer in his inventory.

One minute passed before he appeared in the dark place called the Test zone by the voice.

[The first reward is the standard reward that everyone gets after they pass their respective path's tests: Soul Awakening.]

Suddenly, Aren felt light-headed before feeling extreme comfort. He felt fresh and in high spirits like never before.

[Soul Awakening completed.]

[ +30 points to soul stat.]

[Your soul is now awakened, so it will get robust with more points in Soul attribute, just like how your body health increases when you add stat points to Constitution stat.]

[1 point of soul stat = +1 in soul health and +10 soul energy.]

[You can now add one stat point to soul every time you level up.]

Aren looked at his status and saw that his soul health and energy indeed increased according to his current soul stat.

Soul Health: [138/138]

Soul energy: [480/480]

[Your first test's result was B-grade. As such, you will get one talent point of your path, two skills points, and 30,000 stored Exp.]

[Your EXP will be stored from now on, and you can use it whenever you want. Leveling up will recover you to perfect conditions.]

[Your second test's reward is A-grade. Choose one out of the three rewards.]

Athan saw three digitized frames again, but this time, they displayed interesting things.

[Pyrit Kidneys]-Innate gear: easy to implement.

-These kidneys regularly purify your blood. Your health recovery and injuries regeneration will increase, your sex drive will become more powerful, and your bones will gradually strengthen.

[Lexus Spine]-Innate gear: easy to implement.

-This spine is supremely flexible and will never be broken. It will also rebound the damage directed to your back, so you will not suffer any injuries to your back unless the attacker uses an attack that can bypass or break the Lexus Spine's protective functions.

[Armalist Box]

-If you choose this reward, you will get a random thing related to your path.

Aren thought for a few moments and picked up the third reward because he was not interested in those two innate gears and hoped that he could get something good from the Armalist Box since it would give something related to his path anyway.

After he picked the third reward, a box appeared in front of him with eccentric light blue and silver patterns.

Since the box didn't open directly, Aren decided to put it away as he didn't want to open it right now.

[Your third test's reward is A-grade: Soul enhancement and 50,000 stored EXP.]

Aren felt high-spirited, fresh, and powerful for a few moments during the Soul enhancement process.

[Soul Enhancement completed: 10 points to soul stat.]

-Name: Aren Azrael

-Level: 13 [ 1160/16000 ] ( Stored Exp: 80,000).

-Path: Emporio Armalist [ Level: 6 ]

-Body Health: [ 2650/2650 ]

-Soul Health: [ 148/148 ]

-Life Stage: Mortal-2

-Spirit Energy Pool: [ 10200/10200 ]

-Soul Energy: [ 580/580 ]

-Mystic Field: 0/150 points

-[Stats]

<Strength: 26(+3)(+42)(+16)=87>

<Constitution: 25(+28)=53>

<Agility: 26(+3)(+21)(+18)=75>

<Soul: 48>

Aren looked at the stored Exp and thought about adding one thousand to his Exp bar.

-Level: 13 [ 2160/16000 ] ( Stored Exp: 79,000).

"Oh, this is great. Since I still have to fight in the hidden dungeon, I can level when I am injured to recover my health fully," Aren nodded with satisfaction as he liked this function.

[As you have finished your test, you will be transported to your location in Wild Expanse.]

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[2]

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...

Aren appeared in the hellscape, and right when he appeared, he saw a giant hellish minotaurs monster with a lava-burning axe in its hand ten meters away from him.

Aren stayed calm as he waved his hand in an arc motion as the chakrams appeared from his Inner space and zoomed towards the monster.

He also jumped on his sword and flew up while looking around since he remembered the monsters in this challenge appeared out of nowhere to surprise attack him.

Aren empowered the chakrams with <Hyper Charge> and sliced the minotaur into pieces.

[Hellish Minotaur killed, 1200 exp gained.]

*Screeeeeee....*

Aren's eyes twitched as he dashed downward without turning back as a hellish bird and a fireball zoomed past him.

"Let's finish this challenge," Aren muttered as he looked at the countdown and felt that he could survive 4 min without suffering many injuries as long as he remained careful and cautious.

...

While Aren was in a difficult challenge, his mother, Quinn, Luna, and Hemila, were also enduring some hardships at the empress's hands.

Four of them were in a bizarre cave whose atmosphere would change every five minutes, and new monsters would spawn, which they had to kill.

Empress was looking at them from a giant orb mirror and muttered, "I was not supposed to choose any people in this batch to train, but since you four landed on my lap, then I might as well train you."

Suddenly, her eyebrows raised as she waved her hand as verdant motes released from her hand and entered the globe before healing Quinn, who was always getting the most injured from the group due to her path, but she was also dealing most damage killing most monsters.

"I can heal you after each round, so be careful not to die while fighting," The empress muttered as she continued to watch.