"You want it?" Arkhen asked as he turned to Yeezy with a smile.
"Yeezy has fire and dark affinities, so that skill will be even more powerful if she learns it as she can rank it up and awaken more power in it. But If you want it, we won't object," Jeizy said with a smile. "However, we can buy it from you if you agree."
"Nah. Take it," Arkhen said as he threw the scroll towards Yeezy before he pointed his hand at the small pile of 100 high-grade essence stones. "I want to get stronger, so I'll take this."
"But you can sell this to us for more essence stones of your choice," Yeezy said as she looked at Arkhen while raising her orange-haired eyebrows and her fluffy ears also flung up once.
"How much does this SS-rank skill cost?" Arkhen asked.
"It cost 400 high-grade essence stones," Gereld said with a serious expression.
"Do you have that many essence stones on you?" Arkhen asked as he turned to Yeezy and Jeizy.
Yeezy and Jeizy's expressions turned a bit awkward. They indeed didn't have 400 high-grade essence stones.
"But we can pay you later," Yeezy said with a determined expression.
"Instead of that. Accompany me when I come to the Pentarix continent," Arkhen said with a grin. "Deal?"
"Are you sure?"
"Yep."
"Alright," Yeezy said as her fluffy ears flung up twice with a cute smile on her face. "I'll show you around when you come there."
"Good," Arkhen said before he looked at the essence stones, "These essence stones are kinda unique. It seems that they work on all essence ponds."
"Yes. Only Labyrinth gives such essence stones," Meya said with a nod.
"So, how will you distribute the rest of the items?" Arkhen said as he looked at the remaining things on the ground after storing essence stones in his inventory.
"That gemstone is of the wood element. It can grant an attribute perk to an item," Gereld said as he looked at Meya. "Meya possess wood affinity. She can imbue this gemstone into her staff for a boost."
"No problem. That's the best use for it," Baloth said with a nod.
Farin also nodded.
After the gemstone, the two things remaining were a pair of boxing gloves and the flower.
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[Ascent Boxing Gloves]
[-Affinity: None]
[-Rank: SS]
[-Class: 2nd class]
[-Attack: 130% of strength]
[-Perk: Damage of Metaphysical skills boosted by 10%]
[Skills:
—>Boyance Punch: Consumes 200,000 metaphysical energy to buff the gloves for the next attack that will not deal any damage but forcefully push the target far away to a minimum of 10 meters away to a maximum of 1000 meters away depending on the power gap between the user and the target.
]
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"The only close-range attackers to use this item are Jeizy and Yeezy," Gereld said. "Since Yeezy got the skill, Jeizy can get the gloves."
"As for the flower… Farin can take it since she is an alchemist. It will be useful for her," Gereld said before he continued with a smile. "However, Baloth and I will have dibs on the next items."
Everyone nodded in agreement before they set themselves once again and moved towards the left side of the cave from where the snake came.
After entering another passage, from which they were slowly going downward, they arrived at grassy plains.
"This is really weird…" Arkhen muttered as he saw the grassy ground while the ceilings were sealed by soil and hanging sharp stalactites.
"Labyrinths are like that," Meya said with a wry smile. "Anything will appear as we go down. But we are still on the 2nd floor currently. The passage to the 3rd floor will appear after we meet the requirement to make it appear."
"Stay cautious. The beasts or monsters will come out of nowhere since this is a grassy plain area," Gereld said with narrowed eyes as he looked around.
"I have a bad feeling. Such large areas are usually attached with the spawning of a large number of dire beasts," Farin muttered.
'Ah, I feel like my curse will play its part again,' Arkhen thought with a speechless expression.
[Most likely. However, the curses also use some kind of energy to spread their power. In a single day, a maximum of 2 or 3 unfortunate incidents are the limit of this curse. After all, this curse is not as advanced as the one received by James White. It's a measly cursed-type magic spell used by a 1st realm being].
"Stop!"
Yeezy suddenly said as her ears twitched. Jeizy was also the same.
"What happened?" Gereld asked.
"Brace yourselves," Yeezy said with a somber expression. "Something is going to happen."
A second later, the ground started trembling, and its intensity increased every second.
*Crack!.. Boom…*
However... A blast occurred, not in the ground but the high ceiling of this area.
Everyone looked up and saw a blast occurring with five people falling down from a hole.
Two of them were an elf male and an elf female. The other three were humans: one woman and two men.
As they fell down, wings appeared behind their backs as they started descending.
On the other hand, the ground was trembling more and more.
"Fly up!" jeizy shouted as he unfurled his wings.
Arkhen, Meya, Gereld, Farin, Baloth, and Yeezy also flew up before the ground blasted and the giant flying…CRABS gushed out of the ground like a geyser blast!
"The fuck?" Arkhen was dumbfounded at the sight. Not just him, others were also dumbfounded.
*Roarr!!*
As if that was not enough, they heard a roar and saw that those five people that fell into this area were not alone!!
A freaking Wraith was following them! A giant Wraith is 10 meters tall with a ghostly robe, large dark nails on its hands, and an oozing dark aura around it.
It was a peak 3rd-grade monster!
"Run first!" Gereld shouted as all of them flew forward with their full power.
Arkhen used Thunder Mirage Dash twice while also infusing primal energy in his Purple-star wings to fly.
The giant flying crabs that were 2 meters wide and half a meter tall with big claws were following them.
The other group of five people also flew alongside Arkhen and others with a ghostly wraith following behind them a hundred meters away.
"Damn, this Wraith is the worst match for us! Physical attacks won't work against it, and we only have one with spirit energy pond to defend against its attacks," the elf man cursed. "We escaped below in hope by blasting the ground, but the trouble only increased!"
"Do you have any plan?! We need to work together," the elf woman said as she looked at her left side where the group of Arkhen, Gereld, and others were flying.
*Clak.. Clak.. Clak.. Clak.. Clak..*
An intense claking sound resounded, and everyone felt a shiver. Looking behind, they saw that most of the flying crabs shot claw-like projectiles toward them.
Everything was filled with those attacks!
There were over a thousand giant flying crabs!
'Velshi, are you sure about that?'
[Yes, my lord. The Wrathful Dragon Avatar's fire breathing attack can highly damage that Wraith because that avatar's flame is not a simple fire breathing attack. Since the avatar also has high HP, it can occupy the Wraith].
Everyone quickly conjured the best of their defense-type skills, but Arkhen slowed down and got out of the defenses.
"What are you doing!?" Meya and others shouted as they saw Arkhen slowing down.
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