I finally heard the news that I was waiting for Ingredi and Hilda went to isolate themselves in her family compound, they will start preparations to move forward if they are successful, they will be the first to manage to transform their nucleus in our class at the institute, still don't hear a single one report of a student of our year advancing.
It should take them a few more days around four to seven days to find out if they were successful, as far as I've researched on the process going forward and an interesting process, but unfortunately a lot of conflicting information and theories and a very complicated subject because not only the several differences between the three types of cores and add to this how the element or elements can influence the advance.
Because of the huge number of variations that each family can have, they end up developing their own theories and traditions and in case they are not part of a noble family, the guild provides a very simple manual, but it helps a lot to have a direction even if it is not something very elaborate and better than having no direction at all.
In my time at the library, I researched the subject of advancement I read several manuals and biographies that are available I decided to take the most frequent points and plan my advancement path in them but I would still like to see someone's advancement process I believe that would help me a lot in figuring out how the core should change.
The process of the first evolution of the nucleus is basically a purification of the nucleus which in turn will purify the body during the stages of the gray nucleus and this point is considered more fact than theory there are few people who disagree with this point the biggest problem and how to purify your core, unfortunately, is not as simple as concentrating your aura or elemental energy to purify the core.
My plan splits into two fronts as I have to worry about purifying my core with my aura and purifying my elemental seed with my elemental energy. I decided not to have much interaction between my core and the elemental seed because I believe their chance of helping each other is less than their chance of harming themselves.
And as warriors who don't have an elemental seed advance then I believe that everything the core needs to purify itself and the aura I intend to use my concentrated aura to purify my core by focusing all of my aura in a small spot and using that aura to expel the dirt from my core a little at a time until it turns gray, but to do that I have to be in an environment full of mana in order to regenerate my aura.
Already in my elementary seed it will be a similar process, but the problem is to concentrate two different elements in a single point and as the seed is small it will be very difficult to keep control over the process and if shit happens, I will get hurt a lot and maybe even die and that is something I would like to avoid.
But there's still a long way to go before I can try to advance to the gray core. So better spend my time improving my control over my aura and elemental energy and a pity I can only use offensive and defensive elemental arts they are a great way to exercise my control over my elemental energies, the only art I have that uses aura and a auxiliary art to strengthen my eyes.
In the last few months, I haven't had much progress in this aria I've only had a small improvement in my elemental arts and it was basically the speed I run them the intensity and duration of them hasn't changed much, but I'm not too sad or frustrated about it as my level is way above what is considered normal for the genius level of the institute.
This is obvious when I train against Raziel, Torris or Hilda speed of my aura and elemental energy is almost double their speed and this allows me to attack with greater speed and intensity causing Raziel and Hilda to have to defend themselves instead of you attack, but this also has its negative points my aura and elemental energy consumption is higher than normal even though I spend even though I spend less aura to perform my elemental arts.
I basically have a problem with not having enough energy to fight using my strength to the fullest and it shows me that what's holding me back and my core level I believe when advancing it will change and finally, I'll be able to advance my control and perception of my aura and elements.
So, I have focused on improving my combat skills and earning institute points I have taken on several missions in the emerald forest. I have not only accepted missions to harvest plants and some rare minerals that can be found in the forest, but I have focused on hunting missions although level one and two animals are not challenges for me when I face one or two at a time I have I risked hunting larger groups.
But I'm not stupid to attack them openly like a barbarian I'm a hunter and my best weapon in this circumstance and my bow at this time of year the amount of level one animals decreases it a lot compared to the beginning of the year this month the animal population in the forest is almost completely made up of tier two animals and a few tiers one magic beasts.
Even if I have to resort to my sword or hunting knife to kill some of the animals and magical beasts, I find in the forest I kill most of them using my bow, but in doing so I unfortunately ran into a problem I have to fix. more arrows and if possible, buy level two durable arrows.
During dungeon exploration I didn't even lose an arrow, but after entering the forest a few times
I've already lost almost half of them the body of a level two animal is much tougher than the arrows I'm using.
This wouldn't be a problem normally, but the price of arrows at the institute is a steal and much cheaper to buy using gold coins in the city than using points to buy them at the institute, but I don't earn money doing institute missions. So, I had to get creative a decided to buy the materials to manufacture level two arrows without elemental materials and a will take the materials to Calen to manufacture some quivers for me to use for my next few months.
She was not very happy and threatened me after accepting my request I must not repeat this kind of request to her again if I want common arrows I must go after Lofar because he has time to lose not her. I'm probably going to vote here to craft elemental arrows or a maturation set for me, as if Hilda can talk Ingredi to go dig up the source of the life element I believe I'll have enough money to order a maturation from Calen.
I just don't know if it's going to be ready before the institute test because so far, I haven't found out anything about it. I tried to get information both from the library and from the teachers but got nothing in the last few months, the closest to an answer was when Hilda told me that she had asked her aunt and mother about the test and their response was evil laughter.
She repeated her mother's evil laugh to me only to be hit by Ingredi who was on her side. Ingredi has a lot of respect for her mother and so she doesn't allow Hilda to denigrate her image. This sena has already become common for me as well as the fights of Raziel and Erick or when Hilda and Ingredi insult when Erick makes a comment, they judge to be an idiot.
On second thought my team members are quite brawling for a group that shares so unitedly when in combat with the training of the last few months the teamwork has improved a lot, but unfortunately, I feel that this will not help in the next test I have the strange feeling that the challenge will be more individual in nature and so I have focused on improving my individual combat skills.
To improve my chances, I have acquired two new elemental arts the first and a fire element mobility art I feel like I'm trusting my movement skills completely to my wind element and this is natural as one of the strongest characteristics associated with the wind element is speed and sharpness.
It consists of using the fire element to propel my body in a straight path I chose it because the movements of my wind element movement arts tend to be circular movements and with a focus on mobility and sustainability, the art of Ardent Ascension that not only will help me improve my movement repertoire as it also has the function of being a base for the art of Flame Vou, which is an art for warriors from the orange core upwards, which has the property not only of moving on the ground but also for the warrior move through the air at high speed.
The second art I learned was also of the fire element, but different from the arts I learned before this element it and the support type it consists of using the fire element to reinforce the body's explosive power in a greater intensity than the fire element normally allows unfortunately using this art has a side effect of injuring the body.
These injuries are not caused by the fire element as the art uses my own elemental energy but that the force exerted by my body when using this art and so sudden that my body muscles that are driven end up tearing because of the strength which is triggered.
It is a very useful art that should be used as a trump card to end dangerous combat, I decided to learn it because of the force I saw the assassins use when they tried to kill me, I feel that a risky and necessary move to kill a suicidal enemy.