Chapter 61: The Eternal Garden. Part-2.
After some further investigation, Zephyr realized that the storage ring was completely empty at the moment and had about 5 cubic meters of space inside, which was about the size of a small room.
With so much space, Zephyr could store plenty of stuff inside of the space ring; thus, he immediately put the ring on the index finger of his left hand with a smile on his face.
Only after he was done appreciating his newly acquired space ring did Zephyr finally bring the other two items out of the treasure chest.
Seeing the movement art technique, an idea suddenly appeared in his head, and he loudly muttered to himself.
"I see, so this is a mana training manual; using this, I can start using mana to improve myself!"
"Finally, I will also be able to use mana to enhance my capabilities and become a powerful superhuman!"
Up until now, Zephyr had been looking for a proper opportunity to formally reveal to his viewers that he had awakened mana.
He couldn’t just tell them that he stared at a random torch for a bit, got help from a system, and awakened mana out of nowhere.
The training manual came at the right moment just when he needed it.
The people in the stream couldn’t properly read what was written on the cover of the training manual at all, and only he could understand it because of the game world’s power.
Thus, if he said that this was a mana training manual that could help awaken mana, nobody would doubt him, as they wouldn’t even know what was written in the book.
This way, not only will Zephyr be able to explain the existence of his mana, but he will also be able to hide the existence of his system; it was like killing many birds with one stone!
Moreover, Zephyr purposely used a double meaning type of phrasing when muttering about this matter and never said that it was a mana awakening manual straightforwardly.
This way, even if people learn to read this mysterious language in the future and figure out the truth, they would still not be able to properly notice anything amiss!
’Anyways, taking screenshots or recordings of the livestream is impossible as everyone is watching it in their dreams and can’t bring it out to the world.’
’Once a moment passes there would be no record of it left in the outside world and people can’t go back to review it.’
’Even if people later on figured out that I lied, they will not be able to find any screenshots or recordings of what was writing on the original manual!’
Thinking about these things, Zephyr smiled to himself as he felt satisfied with his own plans.
’Sometimes I am so smart that I feel like I am invincible, kekeke... Cough, be humble Zephyr Ried, be humble, don’t get too full of yourself, you are still the most unlucky person in the world!’
Thinking about his bad luck, Zephyr managed to control his excitement and reduce it slightly.
He opened the manual and pretended to read it a bit before putting it away.
Then he brought out the flask of ’Elixir’ and opened the wooden cork placed upon it.
"Just the scent alone is making my mind feel so calm and refreshed; this thing is a true rare item..."
As his instincts were telling him that this was a good item, Zephyr found himself a clean spot to sit down in a lotus pose and drank the ’Elixir’ without hesitation and then started pretending to read the book again.
[Ding! You have drunk a Master-Grade ’Elixir’ made from Dragon Tears!]
[Ding! Judging base stats... judgment successful! Your body and spirit is powerful enough to endure the burden of this transformation!]
[Ding! Beginning transformation...]
A feeling of warmth spread all over Zephyr’s body as he felt a powerful force roam inside his body and enhance his body from inside out.
Zephyr’s vision flickered for a bit as the pleasure of his life level being elevated spread all across his senses, and his spirit rejoiced from the bottom of his soul!
[Ding! Transformation successful!]
[Ding! Congratulations! You have successfully awakened a new affinity, Water Elemental Affinity (S+)!]
[Ding! Congratulations! You have successfully awakened a new affinity, Thunder Elemental Affinity (S+)]
[Ding! Congratulations! The concentration of mana in your body has improved tremendously!]
[Ding! Congratulations! You have successfully ascended to rank ’C-’ with the help of the ’Elixir’ made from the tears of a storm dragon!]
As many notifications rang in his head, a pleasant smile appeared on Zephyr’s face, and his entire body started to glow with a bluish aura of water elementals, and sparks of bluish thunder started dancing around his body, representing the thunder elementals!
Seeing that this was the perfect moment, Zephyr chose to strike the iron when it was still hot and muttered loudly,
"Now I can use mana and affinities to fight!"
What he said had no falsehood in it; he already had mana, but he used phrasing that made it seem like he had just awakened mana and had now become capable of using affinities to fight!
This was all to deceive the unsuspecting viewers into believing that he had only just awakened mana!
’I do prefer hiding my abilities, as no one knows what kind of dangers await me in the future. The more enemies misunderstand my strength, the better my chances of doing surprise attacks...’
’But of course, there’s a limit to what I can hide and what I can’t. I need to show overwhelming strength often if I want people to believe in me and improve my BP collection rate...’
With a happy smile on his face, Zephyr manipulated the newly acquired water elemental affinity and condensed water vapors into his hand, creating water out of thin air using the humidity of the air!
"From now on, I will no longer have to face water shortages anymore. The problem of needing to find water over and over has been permanently solved!"
"As long as there’s humidity in the air, I can always create drinkable water for myself!"
The thunder affinity was good too, but the water affinity was what made Zephyr feel the most happy, as it was extremely practical and very useful in increasing his chances of survival!
