MMORPG: Rise of the Primordial Godsmith

Chapter 1620: Breaking Barriers: No Need?

”...No need?”

”What do you mean there’s no need?”

Ataraxia looked at Aeramis with shock written all over his face, his mouth agape thanks to the sheer disbelief from the latter’s words.

”As I’ve said,” replied the man, shaking his head with a wry smile. ”There’s no need for you to proceed with your third attempt.”

”After all, from what I could tell through the movement skill you created, you’re bound to reach the limits of the third trial with it either way.”

Now that he had heard what Aeramis told him for a second time, the young man was better able to process and understand why the former had decided to come up with the decision, eventually thinking that the decision made a lot of sense.

Unlike the first two movement skills he had shown during his first two attempts at the trial, this new movement skill he planned to show on his final attempt was better in pretty much every aspect.

Aside from being able to achieve a far higher maximum speed than his previous movement skill in far less time, the new movement skill also gave him the ability to maneuver through the 200 stone pillars in any of the two areas without any issues.

Naturally, with his previous movement skills already showing impressive adaptability, it went without saying that this new one was also usable in all three terrains within the area.

In fact, Ataraxia felt that the current movement skill could even be considered far better at adaptability than even the previous movement skill he made.

However, the one thing that truly made the new movement skill stand apart from the previous movement skills he had shown Aeramis was the amount of energy it expended.

Naturally, seeing as he made use of magic circles to propel himself through the areas he traversed, it went without saying that the skill consumed quite a decent chunk of his energy with every movement.

But that was all.

In terms of stamina, the movement skill took nothing from him. The entire movement skill relied solely on his energy output, as well as the rate that his energy recovered.

Not even one of the movements within the new movement skill relied on any accompanying movements whatsoever.

With all of that in mind, Ataraxia understood why Aeramis was declaring that he’d reached the limit of the third trial without having to go through it.

Yet, at the same time, he could not help but feel slight indignation towards the arbitrary decision.

After all, whether or not he could reach the limit of the third trial with his movement skill still remained to be seen.

Even though he knew Aeramis was doing him a favor by having him skip over the testing part, he still wanted to know if his new movement skill was truly capable of obtaining the maximum score for all four criteria.

And thus, he voiced out his concerns to the man.

”...Are you certain?” asked Aeramis in response, looking at him with confusion. ”There really is no need to go through the test again, especially since I could easily tell that you’d obtain the maximum score on all four criteria.”

”I’m sure.” Ataraxia nodded, his eyes glistening with eagerness. ”It doesn’t feel right for the conclusion to be like this after spending so much time refining this movement skill of mine.”

”...Well, you’re not wrong,” said the man after giving it a bit of thought.

After that, he nodded at the young man. ”Alright, then. Let us proceed with your final attempt at the third trial.”

”However, don’t say I didn’t tell you beforehand that you’d get the highest score without any issues.”

”I won’t,” replied the young man, a slightly excited smile adorning his face as the surface of the lake solidified not long after his response.

Then, with Aeramis’ voice acting as the signal, Ataraxia proceeded to test his movement skill on the four criteria the former had set, all of which more or less followed the same pattern the tests had gone during his first two attempts.

Unsurprisingly, with how strong his movement skill was thanks to the improvements and modifications he had made to it, the young man did get all fives on all four criteria, pretty much cementing the fact that he had reached the limit of the third trial.

”Now, what did I tell you?” Seeing the young man stare at him after he was done going through the third trial for the last time, Aeramis merely stared back at him as he slightly shrugged. ”There was no need for you to go through it one last time.”

”After all, the fact that you made a pure energy movement skill already told me all I needed to know before you even tried using it.”

”Not to mention the fact that you powered the skill with two Intent Seeds,” he continued, which made Ataraxia widen his eyes even further.

”By pure energy movement skill, you mean...?” Though he wasn’t surprised that the man had figured out he used two Intent Seeds to power his movement skill, the young man was curious about the term Aeramis used to describe his movement skill.

”Exactly what the name says,” answered Aeramis, his expression calm. ”A movement skill that purely relies on energy to achieve movement, which basically puts it a half-step above even the strongest conventional movement skills of the same tier.”

”Then again, using two Intent Seeds to power your movement skill also puts it a half-step above conventional movement skills,” he said, finding the whole thing slightly amusing.

”In that case, then it’d be more apt to say that the movement skill you created is on par with a normal True Intent-tier movement skill.”

”Now, imagine that you did create a True Intent-tier movement skill.” Aeramis looked at Ataraxia, the latter falling into pensive thought. ”Under the same criteria I’ve given you, do you think there would be a need to go through all that testing if you had a skill like that?”

In response, Ataraxia faintly shook his head, causing the man to let out a bit of laughter soon after.

”Well, now that you’ve reached the limit of my trials for the third time, I suppose it’s only right that I upgrade the title I’ve given you to the next tier,” said Aeramis after that, causing the young man’s eyes to glisten with expectation.

”However, before I do that...”

”Shall I discuss the fourth trial with you for a brief moment?”