Cosmic Peak

Chapter 23 - Articule Gear

While Aren was searching the mountain caves, Luna was digging out the small pond in the underground cave.

She used her dagger as she started to stab the bottom of the tiny pond.

*ting..*

After five minutes of digging, A lot more water spurted out from the hole, and her dagger also hit solid things as she heard a ting sound.

" More water came out means there's an underground water vein, but what about that solid thing?" Luna muttered as she put her hand inside the hold to take the thing out.

As soon as she touched the thing, she heard a voice and a notification appeared in front of her.

[ A common-rank spirit stone found. ]

[ Spirit Stone. ]

-Rank: Common.

-Effect: Contains 2000 points of spirit energy. You can't directly absorb spirit energy from it if you haven't formed a spirit core yet.

-Note: Even if it becomes empty, as long as it's left alone in an open atmosphere, it will gradually fill up with spirit energy from the atmosphere.

Luna was surprised at this finding and called Aren to tell him about the discovery of this spirit stone.

--Aren, " What did you find? "

--Luna, " It's a thing called spirit stone. From the description, It contains 2000 points of energy, and...

Luna told everything she found to Aren before saying, " Alright. I will hang up now and search for another place here while waiting for 3rd quest to be completed. After it's completed, I will go to a different town to officially start the plan. "

--Aren, " Alright. "

After cutting the spiritual call, Luna stored the spirit stone inside her inventory before leaving the underground cave.

...

On the other hand, Aren went deeper into the mountain cave he was searching.

But suddenly, He heard some strange sounds of some kind of beast from the second passage inside this cave and slowed down his footsteps.

He entered the passage that was curved like "C" but only 3 meters long.

After walking 3 meters, he went to the end of the passage and saw another cave but what startled him was a giant 4 meters tall bear sleeping near the field of red barries.

The bear looked super scary with its sharp claw and teeth.

Aren frowned and started thinking, ' I can't take the risk of taking the barries while it's sleeping since it might wake up anytime. It looks like I can only try to kill it. '

Aren took out his heavy broad sword, but right after it appeared in his hand, He trembled as he felt the new power he gained coursing through his body and brain.

' W-what's going on? ' Aren was startled and confused at this sudden strangeness, but he calmed down and tried to make sense of the things.

He first looked at the Tree of Path.

[ Tree of Path- Emporio Armalist ]

-Level: 1 [ 0/100 Exp ]

-Armalist Force: 100/100

-Talent points: 0

-Skills: <Hyper Charge>, <Gear Enchantment>

<Talents>

-->Armalist Drive ( Core of the Path, Merged with the soul ).

-Articule Gears: 0 [ Slots: 2 ]

' So the thing I am feeling in control is Armalist force...let's see. ' Aren first went back into the passage and stretched his hand to let out the Armalist Force.

He could control this power with his mind, so he thought about bringing it out from his hand, and it appeared over his hand.

Aren looked at the strange dark blue floating force that sparkled with dreamy blue sparks.

He thought about moving it to his left side, and the dark blue force with dreamy blue sparks in it flew to his left side.

' I can totally control it, but...what does it do? Hmmm...Let's look at the skills first. ' Aren thought as he focused on the skills.

<Hyper Charge>

-Cost: Min: 10 Armalist Force. Max: ??

-Effect: Infuse Armalist force into your Articule Gears to charge for a powerful effect of attuned nature.

' So I can only use this skill on Articule gears, which I don't have...yet. ' Aren thought as he looked at the second skill.

He felt that the second skill might contain the secret of getting Articule Gears.

<Gear Enchantment>

-Cost: Depends on the target.

-Effect: Transform any equipment into an Articule Gear.

' Indeed. ' Aren nodded after looking at the <Gear Enchantment> skill.

He walked out of the passage and returned to the previous cave before using the <Gear Enchantment> Skill on his Heavy broad sword.

Right after he thought about using the skill, He felt a headache as the information appeared inside his mind that clarified him about more things regarding this " Job class " of a sort.

' So the Armalist Force is produced from Armalist Drive that is inside my body, or more like..., it's connected to my soul. I guess it's something to do with that notification that said that my soul is now unshackled. That should be the reason why we get to choose a path after we reach level ten. ' Aren wondered before finally getting onto the main thing.

He put his heavy broad sword on the ground before touching it with his right hand and followed the steps according to information on how to use the skill <Gear Enchantment> because it seems that there is no option of auto-activating skills for this path. Not that he would want it anyway.

He gathered some Armalist force on his hand and thought hard about condensing into a tiny perfect square.

He failed the first time as the square couldn't hold together and scattered, but after a few tries, he succeeded in making the square of Armalist force according to the information.

-Armalist Force: 70/100.

' So the first step itself consumes 30 Armalist Force. ' Aren thought before moving on to the second and last step.

He put the Armalist cube on his sword before it naturally melted into the sword and disappeared as mystical veins-like patterns appeared on the great broad sword. But now was the final step; he controlled the Armalist force and started infusing it inside his sword.

' According to the information, I need to continue infusing the Armalist Force until all the vein-like patterns on the sword are filled up. ' Thought Aren he started infusing Armalist Force in the sword.

After 3 seconds of infusing, all the patterns on the sword were filled up as it shined briefly and disappeared.

Aren was startled...but only for a moment. Because after a moment, He felt the existence of the sword...inside him.

" W-what the hell...." Aren muttered because he could really feel the sword's existence inside him but couldn't figure out where it went.

This was not like storing things inside inventory because when he stores things inside the inventory, he couldn't feel those things. But for the sword, he could actually feel it clearly that it was inside him.

There were many questions such as how did that happen? WHERE in the hell was it stored in his body? , etc...But well, He figured that he would get his answers in the future, so for now, he took out the sword from inside of his body as it appeared on his hand with a single thought.

The sword's appearance has completely changed.

Its size was the same, but it became a silver sword with a red design and dark blue patterns.

[ Name your Articule Gear. ]

But at the same time, Aren made a weird face because he could actually feel some sort of connection with the sword.

' No way...This...' Aren was getting excited because of some information that he got after he summoned his sword.

He let go of the sword from his hand's grip, but...

It didn't fall to the ground, It just floated. He thought about moving the sword with his thought, and...it really moved.

He could control the sword with his mind!!

' T-this...is damn cool. ' Aren thought with excitement, but he also didn't forget about his priorities and first named the sword.

" Hmmm..." Aren thought for two seconds before deciding on its name, " Ikaros. "

[ Ikaros, Heavy Broad Sword ]-Soul Bound

-Type: Articule Gear

-Rank: High-Grade Silver-tier Weapon.

-Requirement: Armalist Drive.

-Damage: 800-1000.

-Durability: 100/100.

-Note:- Upgradable.

Aren was surprised to see such detailed information, ' Well, since it shows damage and such things, wish I could also see the stats of those beasts. '

Shaking his head, He then grinned as he walked into the passage once again.

It was time to hunt that bear!