Cosmic Peak

Chapter 37 - The Guild-1

After getting the rewards from Duke Heigan, Aren and Luna left the Duke's Palace.

"The rewards are really good. Hehe, I didn't expect that we would get uncommon rank spirit stones," Luna spoke with a smile.

[Spirit Stone I]

-Rank: Uncommon

-Requirement: Requires at least Mortal spirit core to absorb spirit energy from spirit stone.

-Effect: Contains Force level 1 spirit energy, 10,000/10,000.

"Now that we formed our spirit core, we can use the spirit stones to recover our spirit energy quickly," Aren said with a smile.

"Yep. Anyway, where do we go now? To the guild venue or Red Leaves Armory Shop?" Luna asked.

Aren thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to Guild Venue and register ourselves first. I think it's a certain form of identity here, and it's better to get it before doing anything else."

"Alright."

Afterward, both Luna and Aren asked about the direction of Guild Venue to the Knights and started walking towards it.

After a while, they arrived at the guild venue, which was like an area that had buildings related to the Guild.

A 13 or 14 years old looking boy was bored as he sat under a small tree near a building. He was looking at the path leading to the guild venue as many people were coming in and going out.

But when he saw Aren and Luna, his eyes shined, 'Strange clothes, curious and surprised expression, and most importantly, I have never seen them here before. Could it be they are from otherworld? Hmm...It looks like I found some customers. Guess I will earn some money while Zoltan and his gang are not here yet.'

The kid approached Aren and Luna as they walked inside the guild venue area and said with a smile, "Hello, big brother and sister. It seems that you are new here, hehe. If you want to, I can be your guide. As for money, you can give me any amount you want."

Aren looked at the boy, who looked around 13 or 14 years with a slight surprise before he nodded, "Guide? Sure. First, we want to register ourselves at the Guild."

The boy thumped his chest with a grin and said, "Leave it to me."

He then turned around before pointing at one of the biggest buildings in this area, "That's the place where you can register yourselves. Let's go."

Aren and Luna followed the boy as they went inside.

After going inside, he whispered, "I've known the staff here for a long time, so we don't have to wait in line, hehehe. Just wait for a minute."

Aren and Luna looked at the boy who went meet a person behind the desk while they looked around in this hall as many people with various weapons and tough-looking armors were gathered.

Both Aren and Luna attracted curious gazes due to their unique attire.

After a minute, the boy returned with a grin on his face and said, "Let's go. First, you will be tested and given basic knowledge before the registration process since it needs to input your power level and rank."

The boy told them about the procedure about fees, but since he talked with the staff, Aren and Luna can give the fees for the general guidance and testing after their assessment is over instead of paying the fees before.

Aren and Luna nodded with a smile as they followed the boy and walked into a corridor before arriving at a hall.

The hall had several one-meter tall dreamy white crystals, and a staff member of the Guild was standing beside each one of them.

"Heya, brother Donnie." the boy waved his hands as he led Aren and Luna towards one of the crystals where a man in his twenties seemed to be sitting on a stool beside that crystal.

"Little Gin, you are still here?" the young man said as he looked at the boy.

Gin nodded with a smile, "Yep, Zoltan is not here, so I thought about earning some money by being a guide to these big brother and sister behind me.

"So, brother Donnie, can you give them basic guidance and test them? They have yet to give the fees, but I have talked with big brother Rufus about it, and they will pay the fees after their assessment is over."

At this time, Aren took out a gold coin and said with a faint smile, "Gin, here's your fees. I am giving it to you in advance."

Seeing the gold coin, Donnie and Gin were shocked and looked at each other.

Gin gulped before he looked at Aren and asked with hesitation, "T-this...are you sure you want to give me one gold coin?"

Aren knew that the value of was gold coin was high. In the beginner town, He didn't see anything that was worth in gold. Most of the things cost bronze, while the costliest items were silver-tier weapons, which cost silver coins. Although their price sometimes surpassed one gold coin equivalent, they were still sold in silver.

One gold coin is equal to hundred silver coins, and Forgon's best-forged weapons cost 130 to 150 silver coins.

"Yep, take it," Aren smiled as he was making a minor investment.

Gin became excited as he took the gold coin and thanked Aren and Luna with a cheerful smile.

"Ahem, so let's start the testing process. I will give you the basic guide while explaining test results," Donnie said with a smile as he looked at Aren and Luna.

After saying that, Donnie took out a box from his inventory and opened it, which revealed several small red and black crystals.

Donnie smiled at Aren and Luna and explained, "The red crystal will assess your lifeform level while the black crystal will assess your divine path's grade and your power level."

After saying that, Donnie touched the big dreamy white crystal with his hand and infused his spirit energy into it, which activated the white crystal as it started glowing.

He then picked up the red crystal brought it to the white crystal. The moment the red crystal touched the white crystal, the red crystal was absorbed into the white crystal, and the entire white crystal turned red.

"Now, please put your hand on it," Donnie said as he gestured Aren to put his hand on the crystal.

Aren nodded as he walked in front of the crystal and put his hand over it.

'Feels warm...,' Aren thought as he felt a warm sensation when his hand touched the red crystal.

After a few seconds, several words appeared on the red crystal.

-Lifeform stage: [Grade-2 Mortal]

-Spirit core: Mortal Spirit core, Rating: [7.5/10]

-Meridians: Medium-grade.

-Affinity: Zero.

Donnie started explaining after seeing the result, "First, these test results are just for information, and it does not show your potential. After all, you may have fortuitous encounters in the future, which will increase these qualities.

"So first, we will talk about spirit core. It is very easy to increase the quality of the spirit core. Seeing that your spirit core's rate is 7.5, you must have unlocked all your meridians, but you must have yet to practice in any Spinergy method, right?"

"Spinergy method? Well, we are hearing about it for the first time, so yeah. We have yet to practice in it," Aren answered with a nod.

Donnie nodded with a grin, "Then once you start training in it, you can bring up the spirit core's rating to 10. After all, the basic requirement to break through to the next life stage is to have spirit core with a rating of 10."

After saying that, He pointed at the Meridian tab in the red crystal, "There are five grades of meridians. Poor-grade, low-grade, medium-grade, high-grade, and super-grade. In terms of fighting and using skills, the grades of meridians will not matter. The only thing that matters about meridian grades is that they will affect the training speed of your Spinergy method. "

Donnie tapped his fingers on his fist out of habit before he continued with a smile, "People with low-grade meridians will train faster than people with poor-grade meridians and so on...In the end, people with super-grade meridians will train at godspeed, but that's all. Faster speed doesn't mean faster progress in one's strength. Hahaha, If a stupid person has super-grade meridians, then they are useless on that person."

After a laugh, Donnie pointed at the affinity tab on the red crystal and said, " There are all kinds of powers in this world, and if you have an affinity with some of them, then you can work hard and comprehend those power so you can make use of it. "

Donnie looked at Aren as he beamed and said, " You currently don't have any affinity, but who knows? You might manage to acquire one or two in your adventure in the future?"

He then pointed at the Lifeform stage and said, "Now the most important thing: Lifeform stage. This is your fundamental existence level and your strength capacity. To get stronger, you will have to break through to the next Lifeform stage. If you can't advance in your lifeform stage, you will remain weak regardless of how many affinities you possess or however excellent your meridians are."

Donnie looked at Aren and Luna as he said with a grin, "There are a total of seven major Lifeforms stages. From weakest to strongest, they are Mortal, Supreme, Exceed, Epic, Legendary, Mythical, and Calamity. Although I mentioned seven, Calamity is just a myth of sort as there are no such beings. At least, none of them have been noticed yet."

Aren raised his eyebrows and thought, 'That father red dragon should be either Epic or Legendary...Hmm, I wonder when I will reach that level of Lifeform?'

He unknowingly balled his hand into a fist as he didn't know how powerful the despair after three years would be and how much people of earth could progress in these three years.

'The people of this world seem to take us, who came from otherworld as a minor surprise. It's as if they are used to seeing people from otherworlds. Hmmm....,' Aren thought as he was always in doubt regarding this thing and decided to ask Donnie about it after their assessment is over.