Ho-Seok started to train to master the two abiltiies since the previous high ranker said that he needed to fully master both the fire and electricity ability he had to combine them both.
So Ho-Seok stayed inside the hidden place for quite a while and he bought his own food and water through the player's store and after a week he was able to master his fire and electric ability.
Although his fire ability is weakened by his special ability he is still able to use it well thanks to him fully mastering the ability but because of his special ability he wasn't sure if he could combine the two abilities.
So then after all that thinking he decided to just try combining both abilities together, he held his hand up in the air and used fire on his left hand and electricity on the right hand and he kept trying to merge them together.
Since he had better control over electricity he tried making the electricity circle around the fire to merge with it more well and Ho-Seok tried at least controlling the shape of the fire since it was harder to control.
After a while of holding this together it slowly started to combine together and after a bit more it fully merged and the fire and electricity was gone but it didn't look like the fire that he saw the previous high ranker had.
Rather than the flame turning blue, the electricity turned into the molten color of the flames so then Ho-Seok realized it was because he had the electricity cover the fire and the high ranker must of covered the fire instead.
[Ding! The Player, "Ho-Seok" has done a great achievement and has received a reward!]
When Ho-Seok saw this he checked to see what the reward was and it was an upgrade card, it was a rare card that could be found in dungeons, boss drops or system rewards and they allow anyone to upgrade one item by one rank.
So Ho-Seok decided that he would try to upgrade the chain and Calin and so he decided that he would upgrade it and he placed the card on the chains and used it and it tarted to shine a bright light.
[Ding! The Player, "Ho-Seok" has upgraded the Soul-Bounded Weapon Artifact!]
Ho-Seok was surprised to see that since he forgot that Calin was actually not a chain but the absorbing artifact so Ho-Seok was excited to see what it changed into and after it stopped glowing Ho-Seok checked it's stats.
When he checked the abilities of the artifact, all of the abilities' effects was multiplied by two and it was now extremely overpowered and it didn't even seem real to Ho-Seok when he saw it and he still couldn't believe it.
『Ho-Seok? I feel different.』
Ho-Seok forgot about Calin for a second and after hearing that Ho-Seon asked, "Different? Different how?" and after that Calin took a while to answer but Ho-Seok was a bit worried since Calin was just upgraded and something might have changed.
『I can feel like an aura, I'll try and control it.』
After Calin said that, ice shards started to form around the chain and Ho-Seok quickly realized that it was Calin's ability but Ho-Seok didn't know how it was different from his ability.
Until some snowmen started to come to life, it looked like monsters from the tower and they followed Ho-Seok's commands like his undead and Ho-Seok was curious so he asked Calin, "Do you know what your ability is?".
『M-My ability is "Frost King", I think, it keeps appearing in my head. 』
After Calin said that Ho-Seok understood at how it made sense since he was able to create snow monsters and he was able to control it as well but he didn't know why he could control it until he remembered that Calin and him are soul-bound.
While Ho-Seok and Calin were celebrating about finding his abiltiy, Ho-Seon and Calin heard Olivia sigh qnd they realized that she felt left out and so Ho-Seon said, "Don't be sad Olivia. We will find your ability too but let's first celebrate about this.".
Olivia didn't answer so Ho-Seok assumed that she agreed to what he said and they continued to celebrate, the celebration wasn't actually anything special, Ho-Seok just bought a bottle of wine from the player's store.
The next day Ho-Seok decided that he would go to the city nearest to him and went through the whole thing using the pattern he knew and while he was doing this a system notification popped up.
[Ding! The System has added the forum function!]
Hi-Seok forgot they would be adding the forum function, it was a pretty useful function since you can gain or sell information in the forums and if you a trusted informant on the forums, people will sell their information to you.
It was a good way for those with explorer skills to gain money but as it was still new at the time no one knew who was telling the truth or not but Ho-Seok already knew who was a trusted user in the forum.
"NewsTower", it was run by a famous explorer but no one knew his identity and only people found out later that he the user was the famous explorer they started buying information from him.
He also decided to add a bonus for the users who bought information from him since they trusted him without even knowing his true identity yet do Ho-Seok wanted to become one of those bonus users.
There was also another reason why Ho-Seok wanted to become a bonus user, not that many people knew this but NewsTower sold even more exclusive information to them so Big Guilds look for player who had a bonus from NewsTower.
The information from NewsTower was also even more better than what Ho-Seok can remember so it would be useful if Ho-Seok became a bonus user to NewsTower so, Ho-Seok created a forum name.
The username was "Stockpiler" and Ho-Seok immediately looked for a user named NewsTower and when it finally appeared Ho-Seok immediately went and bought all the information he posted.
When Ho-Seok did this, the user NewsTower was surprised that a person bought all of the information already and all of the information he was selling was all exclusive and it would be gone after the day ended since Ho-Seok knew this from his past life.