We move a little closer to the entrance, in front of the green pond Ari and I sit, in front of us Pluto is about to begin his explanation.
"Both of you listen carefully, you are classified as monsters so you must awaken the inner element before I teach the Elemental Casting method"
"No Greedy, the elements I sense in your body were given through your blessing with the unknown god, now close your eyes and just listen"
First there was the sound of his footsteps approaching and soon after the rustling of the wind, out of curiosity I opened one of my eyes and what I saw was Pluto with his hand on Ari's forehead, the five elements circled his body, each with a shape.
Representing fire there was a red ring, water a blue ball, earth a small brown pillar, the wind circulates and makes his clothes flutter, while lightning appeared nowhere, but black clouds gather in the sky.
The four elements circle Ari's body and the earth pillar vibrates and breaks, then Pluto stops what he is doing and nods to himself and turns around looking in my direction, nervously I close my eyes and pretend to be calm.
"I know you looked stupid, as you may have other subordinates I will teach you the method of awakening, it is quite simple really, all you have to do is create a link between the element and the being you want to awaken."
In front of me appear the four elements and once again they circle around me, but while I am distracted some logs appear in front of me.
(Detecting an exterior energy)
(Energy beneficial to the user: Absorbing such energy highly recommended)
(Forced absorption starting)
Even without my consent the system does something dubious, as if I were a sponge the four energies are sucked through my body and Pluto notices this as he starts giving me even more energy and when I least expect it from the sky, lightning strikes my body.
But this too is part of the awakening and soon the lightning is sucked out too, as the process continues I see Pluto sweat, and the mystical ring appear on his back, followed by a second and a third.
The rings begin to rotate and in response the size of the elements increases, the ring of fire becomes as big as a closet, the ball of water as big as a wall, the wind spins as strong as a tornado and the pillar rises to be even bigger than pluto, while lightning falls from the sky like rain.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU!"
Pluto begins to grow and his body takes the form of a five-headed dragon, each head takes an element and then begins to spit the element out like a bundle, the rings break apart and recreate themselves into five haloes that become necklaces on the dragon's necks.
Something in me begins to grow unbridled, I feel an energy surge from the center of my chest, it expands to my shoulders and down to my fingers, the black and white of my arms now have five lines each, each with a color.
(The elemental awakening is complete)
(Five elements have been absorbed and stored in the user's body)
(You have achieved a title)
(For your extraordinary achievement you have gained 1 more level)
Seeing the change in my body he finally stops spitting and assumes human form again, his expression expresses the shock he is feeling, if his mouth could open and his chin touch the ground, this would have already occurred.
"Ridiculous, a Holy Magician, here in front of me, not only that, but user of the three unique elements, so that makes you the only one to achieve this feat, at least to my knowledge"
(Name: Natural Disaster)
(Info: The user has achieved the feat of gaining control of seven natural elements and because of this has received the recognition of a superior being)
(Effect: All elemental magic is doubled)
This title and this effect, there is something wrong, who recognized me, is it the unknown god that gave me the system ? It could very well be any other god as well ? Damn, I don't feel good after being praised by something that always despised me.
"What ? Aren't you happy that you have become one of the beings with the most promising future in the world ?"
"No, it's not that ..."
I explained everything to Pluto, about the system and the title, as well as my concerns, at the end of my story he is with complicated expression, thinking deeply about every word I said and in the end he spoke.
"Don't worry about that, at least not now, focus on training"
Then we started the Elemental Casting training, and I soon realized how complicated it is, mainly because I have seven elements to control and each of them flows differently through my body.
Fire for example, is indomitable the more I exert my control over it, the less I can manipulate it to do what I want.
"Strange"
That was Pluto's comment about my lack of control, looking away Ari seems to have been born for this, the ground moves at her feet with naturalness, her steps are light and she looks more like she is dancing.
Hours, I have spent hours without any progress in any element, fire is indomitable, water is too heavy, wind too light, earth doesn't move and lightning didn't appear when I called.
"Kid come here, I have seen you train and I can say with total certainty, you have 0 talent for this, which is strange since you should be a natural talent and after hours of inspecting you I think I have found the culprit"
I moved my hand asking him to continue talking.
"Your ring, I feel a huge amount of negative energy, I believe it is cursed".
Ring ? Looking at my hand I see a beaten and old looking ring and immediately the Orc came to my mind, as well as the power of the souls contained within it.
"How could I forget that ?"