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Chapter 65 - Death forest part 1

Ace journeys to the Death forest with intent on exploring it in its entirety.

Ace started traveling north as he found a strong earth element aura coming from that direction, in hopes its another powerful relic he quickly ran in that direction.

Within a few minutes Ace finds himself surrounded by 50 skeleton soldiers.

Skeleton soldier

Blessings:

Inanimate body

Power level 20

Class: Support

Description: The user can repair/heal all physical damage delt to them. 

Undead

Power level 20

Class: Support and Enhancement

Description: The user has resistance to all non element damage. The user never runs out of stamina.

Stats:

Level 40

HP: 200 (+25) = 225

Defence: 50 (+50) = 100

Strength: 400 (+50) = 450

Soul: 350

Speed: 250

Stamina: 50

Combat rating: 84

Equipment:

Rusty Sword (E-Rank)

stat bonuses:

+ 50 Strength

Wooden Shield (D-Rank)

Stat bonuses:

+ 50 Defence

+25 HP

The number of skeletons scare Ace as he looks around at the sea of skeletons, Ace quickly draws his spear and summons Winfred as he has no way of attacking the soul without consuming heaps of stamina.

Winfred's huge vines and thorns fill the battle field killing Skeletons easily with every strike. As Ace dodges and weaves through the attacks of the skeletons and Winfred to land a few powerful but ultimately useless blows against the skeletons. After a few minutes all of the skeletons have been crumbled to dust thanks to Winfred's spiritual attacks.

"Ding... Winfred has grown to level 56."

"Ding... you have grown to level 50."

"Ding... Class Feature has been unlocked." 

As Ace hears the final notice a screen appears in front of him displaying E-Rank classes; Rouge, Soldier, Mage and then at the bottom there is a option called Elemologist with a brief description under it. "Elemologist is a class available to those who obtain the ability to use all elements, This class is extremely rare but are also known to not be very strong due to a lack of expertise."

Ace decides to select Elemologist. "Ding... Elemologist has been selected."

Class:

Elemologist

Rank: D-Rank

Description: Elemologist is a class available to those who obtain the ability to use all elements, This class is extremely rare but are also known to not be very strong due to a lack of expertise.

Bonuses:

+10% Damage with all element based attacks

+100 Soul

Ace looks happy at the class he received, Ace puts Winfred away after thanking him for the help.

Ace heads further north following the same powerful aura. Ace continues for a few hours on foot before stumbling upon what looked like an abandoned village, Ace investigates the wooden and stone like structures that litter the area.

Ace finds various everyday items, but he walks into a larger building and finds a giant library filled with old tomes and rubble. Ace pulls out various books that remain intact, Finding books about ancient relics, Epic and legendary resources and even a few books on ancient skills and fighting techniques. Ace takes many of the books and packs them into his bag excited to read them when he gets home. 

Still looking around the building he finds a small storage room full of various resources. He finds 2 Ancient wood Crystals and a Death Ring item, the rest of the items and resources look fairly common and don't show much potential.

Death Ring (A-Rank)

Stat bonuses:

+ 50 Soul

+ 100 Stamina

Bonuses:

This ring prevents the death of one target you can see as they die. Afterwards this ring will break into pieces. 

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Ace finds nothing else in the small village after searching each building for 2 hours.

Ace heads towards the powerful aura again.

After many hours he stumbles upon a Killer Bark Wasp, The wasp buzzes around Ace with its menacing aura. Earth elements oozing out of the wasps body.

Killer Bark Wasp

Blessings:

Poison Gas

Power level 18

Class: Support and Element (Earth)

Description: The user produces a poisonous gas around them in a 50 metre radius. 

Sturdy Bark Skin

Power level 19

Class: Enhancement and Element (Earth)

Description: The user's skin is like bark, The user has a bonus 1900 Defence.

Buzz Speed

Power level 10

Class: Enhancement

Description: The user's speed stat is increased by 3 times.

Stats:

Level: 125

HP: 250

Defence: 350 (+1900) = 2250

Strength: 1100

Soul: 225

Speed: 1000 (+2000) = 3000

Stamina: 500

Combat rating: 327

Ace feels this strong aura and immediately summons Winfred and draws his sword and shield. Ace activates Lightning Haste, Stat Boost and Forest guardian, a surge of energy and strength flows through Ace as Forest guardian seems to be nearly double the strength as before.

Ace using his speed is able to easily out speed the Wasp and keep it distracted while Winfred Focuses his attacks on the Wasp. As Ace gets close to the wasp, a Green gas forms in the area. Ace falls back to try to avoid the poison. The gas keeps on spreading eventually covering Ace and Winfred. 

Winfred Activates Root Tab and continues his attacks as best he can. Ace puts his sword away and his shield. Drawing his spear with immense speed he charges at the wasp still being able to sense it through the gas. Ace condenses his aura around his spear and lands a flurry of attacks against the wasp leading to minimal damage being delt.

Winfred's attacks don't land often but when they do the wasp is delt a lot of damage, as the combat continues Ace's stamina starts to fade as the Poison takes its toll. Ace steps back and activates Healing light, hoping to recover some lost HP as the poison and the attacks from the wasp keep draining his HP quite quickly.

Winfred sees Ace struggling, in reaction Winfred uses his vines to surround Ace and protect him while he recovers. Winfred starts launching Thorns at the wasp.

Ace finds himself in a sphere of roots and vines as his healing light blessing takes a hold, Quickly he breaks free and activates his origin power. With a surge of power Ace instantly appears next to the wasp and lands a two hit combo leading to the death of the wasp. His HP slowly going up as the poison fades from the air and their bodies.

Ace takes a break right where they are to allow time to recover HP and some stamina.