In the top floor of Lakebell's Adept Association, Association Head James Yong had gathered with all the leading forces of the city as they stared at the holographic projection of the Anima Knight.
The head of police of Lakebell, the man behind the mission Thomas and Clarisse had just completed stood. "Things are looking pretty bad, this is the third illegal weapons factory we have found this year. From the reports I received, this before you is an experimental weapon designed by an unknown expert. Other illegal weapons such as particle cannon, sonic cutter blade, B-grade Explosives were apprehended this time. Thirty box filled with flasks of a non-identifiable substances had been found and sent to the lab for identification. The president of the department of Adept Science should know more about it."
An middle aged woman, the same that correct Thomas' exam stood up. "Association Head, our specializes have identified the substance to be 98,8% similar to the compound drug used in the incident of Dexia City's Adept Selection."
James as well everyone else in the room already expected such news. "This is starting to become a problem. Several influential families such as the Kyle group seem to have a connection to this.... What about the Retribution, has their organization made any other movements?"
"No sir, other than their involvement in these illegal weapon manufacturing facilities, they have been keeping quite the low profile lately."
"And I hope it stays that way." Everyone in that room nodded, so James turned to the window thinking to himself. "Lesso will be arriving shortly to help in the training camp. With the Adept King's gift, perhaps these snakes will finally come out of hiding."
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One week later, Thomas had just finished sending the report for another mission. He received a message that his reward for the mission was going to be delivered in the next few days, and since he had nothing to do he went downstairs to the basement.
When he got home after than mission with the weapon manufacturing facility, He transferred all the blueprints to his personal terminal and spent hours looking through all he downloaded to study more about it since even the deities of the system were fairly interested about it.
By the time he read through all the projects listed in the folder, Thomas sighed with relief. "Good thing I didn't hand these to the association. This Anima Knight is too dangerous, I can't even imagine what would happen if it was mass produced."
The design in itself was just a magnified version of what the battle armors already provided, with customized weapons and all sorts of new functions.
The specs were amazingly high, going head-to-head with a 3-stars adept at its most basic model. If it was to be build and some improvements were made it would become a terrifying weapon, specially if any normal human could pilot it.
Now, it was Thomas was was together on improving the prototype for himself so he could have some trump card for the next few months when the A-city's rift breaks.
[See that, it would be a good idea to add a formation on its chest, close to the core. The circulation of energy within the suit will be improved and it will waste less as well. I knew of a few demonic formations myself that should work well with this project.] (Kez'ganak)
[He's right, celestial runes and formations are too powerful for such weak material. The material should also be changed to something since this animanium alloy is too unstable. Is there still Imperial Iron here in Gaia?] (Prometheus)
[Not sure, it will be good to look for it though. There should be a least a little if we search for the ruins of our city.] (Dike)
Thomas was getting the help from the gods he's synchronized with to help her improve it using their ancient knowledge of celestial and mystical matters.
[Master, you can already check you current status if you want to.]
'Really?' Thomas was pleasantly surprised by the yellow chain's voice and proceeded to test it.
Beep*
This time it worked and a large screen popped up in the air.
[Character sheet]
Thomas Ries
Title: Demon Lord's Successor, The Blacksmith Titan
Race: Half Demon (Demonized Human)
Sun-moon Demonic Body Level 2 [Evolution Undergoing...]
System Access: level E (0%) Store Credits: 956.000
Sunlight Demonic Energy: 200/200 Anima Energy 1200/1200
Strength 50, Agility 49, Dexterity 50, Intelligence 50, Charisma 44, Willpower 50, Anima 50, Demonic 50
Skills: [Resistance Against Eagles] [Warlord] [Speed] [Perfect Precision] [Overclock] [Titan Blacksmithing] [Aura of Fertility (Passive)] [Aura of Life (Passive)] [Titan God's Hand / Titan God's Shadow] [Advanced Craftsmanship] [Proficiency with Spears II] [Proficiency with Knives II] [Spatial Storage I]
Demonic Skills: [Demon Transformation] [Demonic Sense] [Demonic Energy Manipulation]
Soulbound Armament: [Spear of Ares] [Spartan Armor] [Black Orb]
Secondary Character Sheets: [Sunlight Demon] (Unavailable), [Moonshadow Demon] (Unavailable).
The skill Proficiency with Spears was the first to level up naturally and he could already easily wield his bone spear with enough confidence. He even wanted to look for spear arts so he would be able to unleash his power more efficiently in the future.
The evolution of his demonic physique isn't complete and it In these past few weeks all his attributes increased by a lot.
The only problem he was facing was in fact in his attributes. Since getting into the training camp, his attributes improved a lot only with his training. His own level as an adept hasn't increased at all though.
Before he stipulated increasing all his attributes by 10 points would he be able to get to the next level and so it happened making him easily become a 3-star adept. Yet it as only naivete of his part to believe it would be so easy to become an Elite Adept. He even wondered if he would even get to become an elite adept someday.
"Thomas, come have dinner!"
Amidst his work, Thomas was interrupted by Clarisse voice message on his wrist computer on the desk and put down the blueprints. "I will deal with this lat... ARG!!"
His vision turned into blur as he felt a sudden piercing pain right next to his heart. Thomas groaned in pain and he clutched his chest as he fell down to the ground with a 'plop'.
In less than a second, Thomas immediately went into his complete Sunlight Demon Transformation. Hairs turned orange, vertical pair of orange pupils, only the patterns on his skin seemed way firmer and more real than ever.