Epic Of The Demonic Sage

Lucius watched Arius for about ten minutes, in which he stayed in the same paralyzed state. 

"Is he fine?" Kiana asked in a low voice.

"Yeah, he should be fine. Even if he's not moving, his breathing is the same." Lucius replied.

Kiana looked closer and saw that the man's chest was still moving.

"Hmm… seems like it…" Kiana muttered before looking at Lucius.

"Was I the same when you upgraded my gift?" Kiana questioned.

"Not exactly. You fainted back then, and the rest of the process happened automatically thus I couldn't really tell much. But now seeing this, I can tell that it was much different than this. You had a slightly harsher process." Lucius answered.

"Why do you think that happened?" Kiana asked curiously.

"Hmm… it's hard to tell. The only other sample I had before this was Neta but his gift was only common ranked thus I thought the higher the ranked gift the more difficult the process.

But Arius has a rare ranked gift as well thus it should have been the same as yours but it isn't. This leads me to believe that different types of gifts may have different processes. The major difference between you and his gift is that your's is an emission type while his is enhancement.

That could also be it maybe since Neta had an emission type gift as well, and he fainted for a bit as well." Lucius hypothesized.

Kiana could only go along with Lucius' words and think that they were correct as she herself had no idea at all. Upgrading gifts was in itself miraculous and no one other than perhaps the three churches had an idea about it.

But then the gifts of the churches for the clergy were similar and thus they wouldn't have the same effects, most likely. There were a lot of questions that they didn't have answers to and they could only be answered in the future.

Ten more minutes passed like this when Arius finally moaned.

Arius took deep labored breaths upon breaking out of his paralyzed state.

While doing this he didn't even realize the sleeves of his shirt had started to tear. Lucius and Kiana's attention was pulled to it and they saw thick arms appearing from beneath them.

Arius's arms had almost quadrupled in size and were now Grey in color. The texture of the arms started to change next, and they took on a more grainy look. 

Arius who had finally caught his breath, looked at his large hand and arms in shock. The muscles on them were like large balloons and the power within them could only be imagined.

"This… this… SUCH POWER!" Arius suddenly exclaimed.

He slammed his arm on top of the table in excitement and directly broke it before burying it into the floor.

Kiana swelled her saliva while her fist clenched as a layer of metal appeared on it. Lucius, on the other hand, narrowed his eyes as he quickly used Nexus. In the next moment, a string of information appeared in front of him.

Gift Name: Igneous Fist

Description: The owner can turn their hands into a rocky mineral material which can attack at great speeds. The owner can also create controlled explosions on their elbows and shoulders to increase the speed and impact of the attack.

Rank: Epic

Type: Enhancement 

Evolution: Possible

Evolution Requirements: 10x Eight Limbed Gorilla Rune crystals, 12,000x Aether Crystals, 1 Kilogram of Ruby Grass Fruit, Lava pit, 3 tons of Iron

Other Owners: Goran, Teleth, Talion, Finte, Daice

'Argh!' Lucius held his head as a splitting headache filled it. 

All of Lucius's Aether had been consumed in one go which was a bit unexpected to him. But the information that he got was certainly worth it he thought. Not only did Lucius get the information about Arius's new gift 'Igneous Fist' but it also showed in the requirements for the new upgrade.

'This is the first time I was able to see upgrade information about the legendary rank…' Lucius thought to himself.

But when he saw the requirements for it, he was a bit lost and shocked at the same time. The rune beast crystal that it mentioned belonged to a beast Lucius had never heard of and it was the same for the Ruby Grass Fruit.

As for the Aether Crystal requirement, it was absurdly high, though comparing it to the number of people with legendary ranked gifts in the world, the cost was appropriate. If there was a person with a legendary ranked gift, and a power wanted to recruit them, 12,000 Aether crystal was a pittance, and would not even be enough to talk to them.

The final two requirements for the upgrade, the 3 tons of iron also seemed excessive to Lucius and he didn't even know how it would work out. As for the lava pit, Lucius thought that it would be better if he didn't think much of it or his headache might just worsen.

Since it had taken all of Lucius's Aether to obtain the information about the next upgrade, there was no way Lucius would be able to obtain the methodology for the upgrade either and know how these things were actually used.

'The lava pit though… don't tell me someone would actually have to enter that for the upgrade…' Lucius thought to himself.

But upon seeing the upgrade requirements for the legendary rank for Arius, Lucius wondered what they would be for Kiana.

'If they are this complex, then it might take me decades before I'm even able to attempt it…' Lucius thought to himself.

After getting through the shock of the evolution requirements, Lucius's gaze finally settled on the other owners of the gift. There were only five owners for the gift, which showed just how rare even an epic ranked gift was.

Lucius knew that there would only be one person with a unique legendary gift and no more in the world, but even the rarity of the epic ranked gifts was quite high.