Tristan left the meeting, content with the sale of information and made his way to his penthouse flat as White Star. His goal was to absorb all the items he had received.
The very first one was actually the Earth's Milk.
[Earth Milk]
[Absorb? Y/N]
Tristan initiated the absorption. Immediately, Tristan forcibly turned into his Energy form and the Earth's Milk was slowly fusing with his Energy Body. This process was quite slow, but Tristan could feel his energy form slowly become stronger. Eventually the bottle was emptied.
[Basic Energy Body +63% Progress]
When Tristan had evolved to the Duality (Human Form) race, he had gained a genetic intuition that he had to evolve both physical and energy body to the same grade to maintain balance. Right now he had an evolved physical body, but an unevolved energy body.
He took out a bottle of Liquefied Life essence, of which he had only eight bottles left. Before he formed an energy body, he had little use for it beyond trading, but now he could use it directly.
[Liquefied Life Essence]
[Absorb? Y/N]
Once again, Tristan absorbed the life essence and slowly he felt his energy body grow stronger though by the end of completely absorbing this bottle, he didn't feel much progress.
[Basic Energy Body +73% Progress]
An entire bottle of life essence only provided 10% progress on the basic energy body. Disgusted at the consumption level, Tristan gritted his teeth and absorbed three more bottles and finally was done and opened up the energy body evolution quest.
[Basic Energy Body +100% Progress]
[Physical Evolution Quest - Basic Energy Body]
[Absorb Pure Energy Stones.
< 40% - F
< 50% - E
< 60% - D
< 70% - C
< 80% - B
< 90% - A
100% - S
]
"This..." Tristan was surprised, but also had a bad feeling. "Is the Energy Body Path going to turn me into a pauper?" He wondered.
Without any fan fare, Tristan began picking out the energy stones and absorbing them in his energy form. One, two, soon several tens had been absorbed and he had just reached 40%.
Gritting his teeth, Tristan kept absorbing the Highest quality Pure Energy Stones one after another. When he had absorbed one hundred of the stones, he had reached 80% on the mission counter, but he felt like the growth was getting slower.
Tristan sighed and continued absorbing. He spent almost an hour constantly guzzling these energy stones like diet coke. Finally when he absorbed 150 stones, the progress reached 100%. Tristan almost cried, he had only 50 energy stones left now.
[Physical Evolution Quest - Basic Energy Body Completed]
[Quest Grade - S]
[Please Choose from the following Evolution Paths:
1. Intermediate Energy Body Path
2. 1-Element Energy Body Path (Earth)
3. Asura Energy Body Path
]
Tristan, having discussed with his sister about the energy body path, had already thought of the path he was going to take. Intermediate Energy Body was the standard evolution and Asura Energy Body was not a human path at all and would end up with no possibility to evolve further. Tristan chose the 1-Element Energy Body (Earth) or Earth Energy Body.
Now he set his eyes on the remaining items he had gained, which he wished to absorb. The first item he took out was a small water drop that was crystallized into a frost like material. This was the item [Frost Limit]. Tristan immediately began absorbing it and his body began feeling a cool but not chilly liquid flow through his veins and arteries and his heart felt cool. He felt like his Self Healing Innate Talent was a little stronger now.
[Progress: 5%]
The overall progress had also increased by 5%. Then he took out a red bead, which gave off the emotion of anger. This was the [Rage of the Spirit General]. It was an item with a heavy spiritual essence, coming from an exorcised Spirit General, a higher being among spirits.
Absorbing it actually improved Tristan's mental faculties. His mental energy increased from 10 to 11. And the overall progress again increased by 5%.
The next item was the [Space Tar] a relic from the chaos dimension filled with space essence. It fortified his short range teleportation while increasing his progress by 5%. After this was [Burning Nectar]. This was the nectar from a rare species of bees in an insect world, that contained an abundance of fire essence. Tristan absorbed the nectar and felt his insides pain from burns which were quickly healed by self healing amd his progress increased by 5 more percent points.
The last two objects... weren't for increasing evolution progress of the plate. The object containing [Splitter Aura] was actually the remains of a creature called the Splitter. It was a creature that used Aura to fight and when it died, it's aura would remain deeply ingrained within its bones, unwilling to submit. Tristan transformed to his physical body and released his own Warrior Aura, covering the remains of the Splitter. The [Splitter Aura] tried to fight against the Warrior aura but eventually succumbed and the Warrior Aura slowly began consuming the [Splitter Aura]. Eventually the progress of the Aura Cladding went from 50% to 65%.
Tristan then thought about his innate skill Dominating Aura. It was also a kind of aura that was a manifestation of the Dragon Bone Aura Tristan had absorbed from the dice the medium had sold to him months ago. He wondered if his Warrior Aura could consume the Dominating Aura or fuse with it.
He then activated both the Dominating Aura Skill as well as the Warrior Aura fused with his own physical body. Suddenly the two auras began to try to devour each other. He got a prompt from the system.
[Fuse Warrior Aura Cladding and Dominating Aura? Y/N]
Tristan agreed to the fusion and then the Dominating Aura skill disappeared from his innate talents. His Warrior Aura suddenly became a lot more stronger and his body began being pricked by the intensity of the Aura, which was then combining with the cells of his body and integrating themselves like a skin over Tristan's body. The Aura Cladding Progress jumped all the way to 90% and when he displayed his aura, it had a terrifying fear inducing effect emanate out of his body.