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A long-awaited fruit[2]

[Ace POV],

The awakening tree was and continues to be the only rank 2 treasure I've seen in my life.

It was the treasure we discovered while trailing the mutated zombie, and Chris is the only one who has benefited from it since he has two elements in addition to obtaining a legendary job.

Although he hadn't evolved yet, in reality, his evolution with the legendary job was already set in stone because it was far less troublesome than my own and had no time limit, so he wasn't in a hurry like me.

The awakening tree fruits should have been collecting dust in my storage ring if Chris hadn't asked for my assistance to help him get a better job at the time and we hadn't had the little time we had now to rest.

But, even though the awakening fruit was a rank 2 treasure, what one got out of it was still up to chance.

For one thing, it could be an increase in the area of one's magic, or it could be an additional element.

It was two elements in Chris's case. The fact that he was able to obtain two elements despite the 50% chance of him awakening an element from taking the fruit demonstrated how lucky he was because he was able to make it appear as if the chances of him awakening an element were 100% since he did awaken two elements from just taking two fruits.

But the point is that this was the case for him because having a 50% chance of awakening an element does not guarantee that you will awaken one if you take two awakening fruits.

If my luck is worse than Chris's, I might not be able to awaken an element at all, even if I take all six awakening fruits in my storage ring.

Because of this, I decided that I wouldn't use more than two awakening fruits this time.

I wouldn't want to throw away several rank 2 treasures.

Imagine if there's another way to use them.

As I was thinking about these things and other things in my head, I focused my attention on my body, expecting an effect, but even after waiting a few more seconds until it was two minutes since I took the awakening fruit, I felt no change or other effect in my body.

Well, I did notice a difference that I couldn't explain, and I was certain it wasn't caused by the awakening of another element.

Perhaps it was an increase in my affinity with the fire element, as the awakening fruit had that effect even if one did not awaken an element after taking it.

I didn't need to be told what happened at this point because I already knew.

I failed to awaken another element, but that was to be expected given that not everyone is Chris and succeeds in awakening another element on the first try.

Though it would have been good if I could have awakened another element now.

As I considered these things, I pulled another awakening fruit from my storage ring and took it without hesitation, waiting to see if I could succeed this time because if I couldn't succeed in awakening another element, my trial today would be over.

This was my train of thought as I waited for something to happen and after a few seconds, something did happen.

I began to feel heavy.

Seeing this, I knew that the situation would not be like before, where I would have to wait for no change because I now knew what was going on.

I was reawakening an element.

This was why I didn't try anything else, like rising my guard or being cautious, but what concerned me was whether even feeling something from eating the fruit could be considered a sign of an element awakening.

This is what I thought when I felt my skin tighten suddenly.

I wasn't sure if I was just overthinking it, but I felt like my bones were becoming harder as well.

Aside from these two changes in my body, I also felt heavy and it was difficult to breathe.

This continued for a few seconds before coming to a halt.

I immediately took a deep breath to collect air back into my lungs after it stopped.historical

Well, I tried to, but realized that the earlier feeling of not being able to breathe was just me feeling it because it didn't feel that difficult to breathe anymore when I tried to take a deep breath, and aside from feeling a little short of breath before, I felt quite normal.

That is if I disregard the sensation I felt inside when I attempted to circulate my mana.

I couldn't explain it, but I did notice a difference. It didn't help that my situation was different from Chris', where it was fairly obvious whether or not he had awakened an element and which element it was.

I also didn't have access to the job offer panel to see what was going on.

In a nutshell, I was lost now.

For one, I didn't know if I had succeeded in awakening an element, and if I did, I didn't know which element I had awakened based on the event that had just occurred.

I didn't specifically ask Chris to describe how he felt when he awakened his element.

Perhaps I should have inquired because I could have used it as a reference in the future like it was right now.

But that's all there is to it because it's already happened.

As I thought of this and made my way out of the room, I patted my chest to get rid of what was left.

My destination was outside the mansion.

There was no specific location in mind, and I was intending to go to wherever there was space.

My plan was to see if I did awaken an element in a rough way.

I planned to frantically circulate the mana in my body while focusing on the specific change I felt in my mana and see what happens.

Like my previous experience, when one releases their mana outside, a trait of their element can be seen within the mana, causing a sensitive person to recognize the element one has.

It would be preferable if this method worked because I would know what was going on.

As I was thinking about this, I exited the mansion and walked to a location further away from the mansion.

After a while of walking, I came to a halt because there was a lot of space around me which was all the requirement I needed in the first place.

After that, I sat cross-legged on the ground with my hands spread on my leg and began to circulate the mana in my body.

I started slowly at first because my mana circulation was based on the basics of what I learned from the fire manipulation scroll, and once I found a way to circulate the mana in my body without releasing my flames, I increased the speed at which I circulated my mana.

This continued for a few more seconds until my mana began to emit from my body, affecting the surroundings.

When I saw this, I didn't let it distract me and returned my attention to circulating my element.

Even when my flames began to appear on the outside as I gradually became coated with blue flames, I didn't stop and just continued, and in the end, my work paid off as a different change began to appear in the surroundings around me.

The grassy earth around me began to crack, and earth spikes began to emerge from the ground.

Aside from that, the earth around me began to become uneven, with one part rising to form something resembling rocks and another sinking deep into the earth to form pits.

When I saw this, I had a thought.

'Did I awaken the earth element?'

As I was thinking about this, I focused a portion of my concentration on an earth spike not too far away from me, and it didn't even take ten seconds for the earth spike to grow larger.

Seeing this, I was able to confirm that I had indeed awakened the earth element.

It was obvious from the previous signs, but I needed to confirm.

'It's a good thing I was able to awaken another element,' I thought, but just as I was about to stop circulating my mana, another change began to appear in the surrounding area as the area around me heated up, and when I finally saw what was happening in front of me, a thought occurred to me.

'Another element?'

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