Cosmic Peak

[Your path has leveled up to 9.]

[ Two talent points gained.]

After healing himself to not full health because his arm and right leg were still cut off, Aren looked at the notification of his path leveling up. He was surprised that he got two talent points.

[Armalist Drive +5]: Increase the cap of your Armalist force by 500. Gears slots increased to 12 slots in total.

'Hmmm, this time, I am gaining more Armalist force capacity while in the previous upgrade, I got my control range of gears increased to one kilometer. Anyway, the more Armalist force I have, the better.'

There were two more blinking talent nodes.

[Armalist Cloak+]: Your natural control of gear manipulation is increased even more. The skill <Hyper Drive> of the Armalist Cloak will unlock as its information will be infused in your brain on how to use it.

[Emporio Heart]: Innate gear, first form: Throne. As an Emporio Armalist, you can also take on the whole battlefield without moving a finger. Sit on the Emporio Heart's first form: Emporio Throne, and control the battlefield. This throne provides no current benefits except that this throne will act as a usual Articule gear (However, it will unlock its trait as you progress). The next forms of Emporio Heart are not fixed, and they will take shape based on your mentality, your experience, and how you walk on this path.

"Huh...," Aren was a bit speechless at the third talent. It sounded interesting, but since it provided no current benefits to him, he decided to select [Armalist Drive+5] and [Armalist Cloak+] talents.

Suddenly, Aren heard loud sounds of bell tolling as the scenery around him changed, and he appeared in grassy land domain with a giant bell in the sky.

[Congratualtion! You have successfully cleared the demonic trial and acquired a total of 14,600 Demonic Points.]

[Enter into the portal, which will lead you to the special shop. After you finish spending 14,600 Demonic points, you will go through an awakening ceremony to awaken your Demonic Affinity.]

After Aren finished hearing the old man's voice, a white portal appeared in front of him.

He actually wanted to treat his cut-off arm and leg first. Even though his pain endurance had increased, the pain still constantly stings him.

However, he could only continue to endure it now as he entered the portal. However, he had stored the cut-off armored left leg from the knee and his entire armored right arm into his inventory in the hope that they could be re-attached perfectly by some magical means in this world.

After going through the portal, Aren was surprised to arrive in a vast hall filled with showcases of various items of varying sizes.

All of them were covered in glass showcases and had a price tag on them.

Aren didn't go to look around as he wanted to be done here early and treat himself. As such, he decided to try out a thing, "If you are there, then can you show me the best luck increasing item in this place?"

"Ho-ho! Sure. Follow the dark red wisp."

Aren heard an old man's voice before a dark red wisp appeared in front of him and started moving.

Aren followed the wisp as he passed by two rows of items showcases before the wisp finally stopped in front of a showcase.

The item inside the showcase looked like a revolver with gold and red patterns.

[Miss-Fortune Demonic Revolver]

-Cost: 1000 spirit energy per shot.

-Effect: Aim the revolver at your temple and shoot! Don't worry, it won't kill you but randomly put your luck between -100 to +100. This status will stay until something lucky or unlucky things happen to you.

Aren looked at the price and saw that it cost 13,000 Demonic Points.

Without a second thought, he bought the item.

"I want this item."

After Aren finished speaking, the glass showcase disappeared, and the old man's voice rang out.

[You can now take the revolver. Also, put a drop of your blood on it to activate it and bind it to you.]

Aren nodded as he took out the revolver with his left hand and put it near his right shoulder as he relaxed his shoulder muscles, which caused the cut-off part to rapture a bit as drops of blood fell onto the revolver.

[Innovative. I thought you would bite your lips a bit and draw blood from there, ho ho.]

Aren was speechless as he shook his head with a wry smile and stored the revolver inside the inventory.

"Is there anything I can buy with my remaining demonic points?" Aren asked.

[You can buy a Demonic Gemstone box for 1000 demonic points. Once you open it, you will get a gemstone with random demonic power.]

[And with the remaining 600 demonic points...I guess I can remove that cursed cut on your shoulder and leg. However, leveling up will still not regenerate them. You either have to become a supreme lifeform or visit a witch doctor to recover them.]

"I'll go with those two options," Aren nodded.

...

After getting the Demonic Gemstone box and removing the curses on his shoulder and leg, Aren had to enter another portal for the ceremony.

After Aren came out of the portal, he was startled as he directly fell into a bubbling dark red water pool.

[The ceremony will start after ten seconds. Just endure staying in this pool for one minute, and you will acquire the demonic affinity with a random ability.]

"One minute?" Aren asked with raised eyebrows, "If I stay longer, will I get a better random demonic ability?"

[Ho ho, I told you one minute after properly assessing you. The minimum time one needs to stay in the pool to acquire demonic affinity is just twenty-five seconds. However, I have observed that you have quite a high endurance and figured you could stay for a minute]

Aren grinned before speaking, "then I will stay longer than a minute.]

[Ho ho, alright.. Good luck with that, as it is indeed the case that the longer you stay, the better demonic ability you get.]