Chapter 246: Stone Titan

Julius once more watched as the hundreds of bodies around him dissipated into light particles. Even the blood that he was absolutely covered in was gone like it was never there.

He only had one more wave to go and made sure to check his mana before he did.

He frowned when he noticed how much mana he had ended up using. He only had around half of his mana left and that was without him using his more cost-intensive skills, it was less than he was hoping for.

Although he did kind of lose track of time when he was fighting, so it was hard to estimate how long he had fought those ants.

He could only hope that the last wave wouldn’t punish him for it.

Regardless, he was excited about what had popped up…

[Kinetic Augmentation lvl 19 -> lvl 20]

Kinetic Augmentation has advanced to level 20. Would you like to evolve the skill?

That wasn’t all either. It would seem he managed to get [Thermal Empowerment] there as well.

[Thermal Empowerment lvl 14 -> lvl 15]

Thermal Empowerment has advanced to level 15… Error…

Synergy detected. Would you like to evolve [Thermal Empowerment] and [Aura Burn] into a single skill?

I was definitely not expecting something like this, he thought to himself, taken aback by the new development.

He had not experienced a simultaneous advancement option and a synergy notification before. But he certainly wasn’t going to complain.

It was what he had been hoping for when he chose [Aura Burn].

There were kind of a lot of notifications at once and he wanted to organize them real quick.

First of all, [Kinetic Augmentation] had reached level 20, which was a big leap and one that he believed happened only because of his newly acquired Concept. The skill had been teetering on the edge for a while and it was nice that it had finally made that last step.

But he made sure not to open the notification, he didn’t want to open the option selection yet. Not until he saw the ones he got for [Thermal Empowerment] and [Aura Burn].

Speaking of which, he didn’t hold off accepting that notification and accepted it promptly.

Synergy detected. Would you like to evolve [Thermal Empowerment] and [Aura Burn] into a single skill?

You have learned the skill [Scorching Empowerment] (Rare+)

He wasn’t that surprised to see it registered as a superior skill, as a matter of fact, he would be much more upset if it wasn’t. He didn’t put all that work into infusing his Concepts into both of the skill’s usages for nothing.

Although it didn’t have the ‘of’ descriptor, he didn’t care too much about that. He was still planning on merging it with [Kinetic Augmentation].

He then checked out his status to see what had changed.

Name: Julius Von Hyperius

Tier: 3

Skills:

• [Armaments of the Arcane lvl 9] (Epic)
• [Sage of Savagery lvl 8] (Epic)
• [Phoenix Renewal lvl 5] (Epic)
• [Empowerment of Will lvl 19] (Rare+)
• [Barrier of Severance lvl 17] (Rare+)
• [Soul Tempering lvl 7] (Rare+)
• [Scorching Empowerment lvl 1] (Rare+)
• [Spatial Perception lvl 19] (Rare)
• [Kinetic Augmentation lvl 20] (Rare)
• [Flash Step lvl 11] (Rare)

Current Skill Slots: 10/11

Concepts:

• [Concept of Sharpness]
• [Severing Will]
• [Concept of Will]
• [Inexorable Resolve]
• [Concept of Phoenix]
• [Ashen Rebirth]
• [Concept of Force]
• [Resonating Burst]

Everything seemed to check out. His new Concept was properly reflected in it and he now had an extra slot available to him.

A part of him was tempted to accept [Kinetic Restriction] then and there, but he held off with a supreme act of willpower. He had a gut feeling that the technique would become much less energy-consuming if it was a proper skill. But decided to wait at least until he was done with the Challenge Rift.

The ten minutes were close to being up and the final wave would be approaching any moment. Julius would like to meditate and try to recover as much mana as he could before it did. He had a feeling that this next one was not going to be a walk in the park.

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But he would just have to wait and see.

***

The start of the wave didn’t begin like he expected.

No, instead of a horde of monsters or god forbid another wave of gross insects appearing in front of his eyes, all he got was a loud rumbling throughout the dark cavern.

It was pretty dark, but that didn’t bother Julius. He rarely fought while relying on his eyesight.

But the rumbling did concern him because it was getting louder and louder until it suddenly stopped. Just when he was about to relax a bright light bloomed throughout the entire cavern, blinding him temporarily and when he finally opened his eyes he was stunned at what stood in front of him.