Cosmic Peak

Chapter 154 – Path Trial End-1

Aren looked at the countdown before simply waiting with his eyes closed. All of his energies were recovered, so he didn't need to do anything.

"Oh wait…I had that force level 2 spirit stone I got from Ghost Demon Ship's treasure box opening," Aren suddenly remembered and checked his Inventory, "I also should be able to use that item since I am supreme lifeform now."

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[Inventory]

-Cursed Shofar, Spirit stone [5], Health potion [197], Uncommon Thunder-Gemstone, Forfar Nugget, Bone Scrapper-Chainsaw, Raikis Flying Boat, Mirror of Mystic Seals, Ancient Key, Skill Fusion Stone.

-A skill box containing a random skill related to the Lost Ancient dungeon. (A-SS)

-A box containing a random grade force level 2 Spirit stone.

-1x Uncommon grade Agility boost potions,-1x Uncommon grade Strength boost potions.

-1x Uncommon grade Physical defense boost potions, -1x Uncommon grade refined bloodstone.

-1x Common grade gale gemstone, -1x Uncommon Pyro Bomb.

32,068x Gold coins.

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Out of those five spirit stones, four were of force level 1, which were useless to him. But one of them was force level 2 spirit stone.

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[Spirit stone II]

-Rank: Rare.

-Effect: Contains 25,000 force level 2 spirit energy.

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"I should've used this, sigh," Aren sighed with a wry smile, "would've made the ten-hour battle a bit easier. As for those boxes, I'll open them with preparation after increasing my luck."

"That chainsaw, I can't transform it right now. But I might be able to use <Gear Enchant> on it once I level up my path and upgrade my Armalist Drive," Athan muttered as he looked at the chainsaw.

As for the item that required him to become a Supreme lifeform…

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[Raikir Flying Boat]

-Rank: Epic

-Requirement: Supreme-Lifeform.

-Details: A flying boat made from Raikir beast's hide and lightning pule ore mixed together for a powerful material.

-The boat is 7 meters long and 4 meters wide. The boat's flying speed is 450 meters per second at full speed. Full speed is achieved after five seconds of flying.

-1st Effect: The ring around the boat is a powerful mystic weapon. You can consume 5000 spirit energy to shoot lightning currents from the ring that can paralyze beings up to one whole lifeform higher than you for up to 3 seconds. But the duration of paralyzing debuff is shorted if the target is more powerful than you. It doesn't deal any damage and only causes paralyze.

-2nd Effect: Consume 1000 spirit energy to boost the boat's speed by 50% for two minutes. It can be used once every 30 minutes.

-3rd Effect: Consume 100 soul energy to activate auto-pilot mode and scanning of map inputted by the user in inscription tablet.

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Aren's max flying speed was 759 meters per second, but he preferred this boat since it had an autopilot mode and powerful debuff attack. He could input a map inside the inscription tablet and could make a destination mark for auto-pilot after infusing 100 soul energy.

A set of spirit ghost instructions were inscribed in the ship for auto-pilot mode's activation. Aren didn't know much about this, but it was related to the inscription occupation in this world.

And soul energy was used to run that auto-pilot mode and make appropriate scanning of geographic location for the ship to reach the destination. 100 soul energy can run the boat in auto-pilot mode for ten hours.

He bought this boat along with Mirror of Mystic Seals from the Treasure Hunt Event's Treasure Shop. However, the Mirror of Mystic Seals required him to be at the Exceed lifeform to use it.

…

Soon, five minutes passed, and the details of the 2nd test were revealed.

[Test 2: Duel of the Self]

[Defeat your doppelganger. Only allowed to use path skills and gears. Your doppelganger will have exactly the same stats as you and can also use the same gears and path skills.]

[Rewards]

-Defeat in 10 minutes for A-grade rewards.

-Defeat in 15 minutes for B-grade rewards.

-Defeat in 18 minutes for C-grade rewards.

[5]

[4]

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[0]

When the countdown reached 0, Aren saw the scenery changing in front of his eyes as he appeared in the same place filled with clouds instead of solid ground.

But there was another Aren in front of him, looking exactly the same as him. He also wore [Weimbus] mobile armored suit, and the gears were floating around him.

*Swooooooosh….*

The [Destructo] hammer flew towards Aren at a supersonic speed from his counterpart.

"My doppelganger? Heh, let's see if he can also battle like me," Aren grinned as he dodged the incoming hammer and started flying chaotically.

He spread his rings in four directions around his doppelganger as both Arens started clashing against each other physically and with their gears.

Their hands, tails, and wings clashed as they dodged the rings, chain whip, and hammer attacks.

In the middle of the fight, Aren realized that it was incredibly hard to hit the enemy Aren, just like how he dodged incoming attacks as well. When he separated his [Slinger] gear from his Mobile armored suit, the doppelganger also did the same and started releasing <Demonic Grasp> seeds like him.

After three minutes, Aren decided to go all-out as he focused entirely on the fight to both micro and macro level. His eyes narrowed, and his mind went into overdrive mode.

*Clank…*

*BOOOM…*

*Slash!!*

*Swooooooooooosh….*

The clash was intense, but Aren was slowly cornering his counterpart, trying to trap him to get a one-shot or incapacitate his fighting power.

After a minute of intense fighting, Aren managed to hit two <Demonic Grasp> seeds on his counterpart. Still, the enemy Aren felt that since he would be trapped, he appeared to be prepared for it, and right when the seeds blasted and produced vines, they were burned and destroyed.

The doppelganger actually released two linear fire whips from [Pyrin], the fire ring, towards the vines before they could fully expand and destroy them.

*Swoosh…swoosh…*

Aren predicted that his counterpart might do that based on its intelligence since he would also do that and had prepared a counter for it. He attacked the [Pyrin] ring and destroyed it with the hammer while dodging his doppelganger's hammer that came for him using this opportunity, which was one of the possibilities Aren had thought and was ready to dodge it.

'But…I got you now,' Aren thought with a gleam in his eyes as he successfully destroyed [Pyrin] ring of the counterpart. The fire ring was the most powerful gear after the hammer because both Aren's had fire affinity and had a 130 Fire elemental mastery. The fireballs and other fire attacks from the ring were fast, so they proved to be troublesome as well.

So destroying the [Pryin] ring of his counterpart was very important.. This caused Aren's doppelganger's firepower to decrease, and Aren rapidly thought of many other possibilities by continuously observing the battle with full focus to corner enemy Aren even more.