The Lord of Elements from a Drop of Water

Chapter 16: The Third Rank Up

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

On the mortal continent, in the secret chamber of the Iris’ family, she was dressed in a loose mage’s white robe. Her beautiful long blue hair was casually draped over her back, and her maroon, gem-like eyes were looking at the teleportation circle on the ground in front of her.

Jon, surrounded by a mystical power, walked out from the magical circle. He looked at his surroundings and asked,

“Do you need assistance, Iris?”

“No, Sir Jon. I’ve done what you previously instructed me to do. Using the 2,700 gold coins we got in the Molin Clan’s cave, I’ve bought the nine ice gemstones for you at an average price of 300 gold coins. Including the reward I promised you, this is a total of 10 gemstones. Please take a look.”

As Iris spoke, she took out an ordinary cloth bag. Jon took it and opened it up. It was full of gemstones that were emitting cold air.

These gemstones were very precious. Even if they had the money, an average person might not even be able to find a place to buy them. Iris completing this task that Jon gave to her so quickly was enough to show just how powerful her family was.

What made Jon even happier was Iris’s attitude. To be able to complete this task in such a short period of time meant that when she returned home, she did not even have the time to investigate who had designed them. She immediately put aside everything else and did her best to help Jon complete the task.

It could even be seen from this that she valued the partnership between the two of them very much.

“Thank you!”

Jon thanked her solemnly. In the future, he would have to rely on Iris’s power in the mortal world.

“It’s nothing, I only did what I ought to have done. It’s my honor to be able to help Sir Jon.”

Iris placed her hand on her chest and bowed. Although the two of them had signed an equal contract, she had no intention of being on equal footing with Jon.

Jon didn’t know what to say. Did Iris think too little of herself compared to Jon?

However, if he thought about it carefully, it was understandable. Only with equal strength would there be equal status. As a commander-level being whose level was much higher than Iris’, Jon’s strength was also much greater than hers.

“Since things have finished up over here, I’m going to head back. If you need help, summon me again.”

After Alice retracted her summoning spell, Jon returned to the Water Elemental Plane with the ice gemstones.

After Jon had disappeared, Alice only then let loose a worried expression. “He actually leveled up again. He’s leveling up too fast; sooner or later I won’t be able to maintain his existence in the material plane. What should I do…”

Jon returned to that peculiar land area and took out the cloth bag containing the ice gemstones.

“Extract the advanced fragments from these gemstones.”

Jon told the system in his heart.

“Ding! The existence of a collection of advanced fragments has been detected. Host’s will to extract has been confirmed. Preparing to extract…”

“Ding! Extraction successful. Successfully extracted ice type advanced fragment +100 from the target’s body!”

…..

Ten consecutive system notifications rang out. Jon used up all of his ice gemstones and obtained more than 1,000 points of advancement fragments in total.

Jon opened his data panel to look at the number of advancement fragments. The current situation was:

850/2000 for water, 45/2000 for earth, 327/2000 for battle aura, 1150/2000 for ice, 120/2000 for magic.

He had gathered enough advanced fragments for his rank up.

“Use water and ice advanced fragments to rank up.”

Jon conveyed his intent to rank up to the system.

“Ding! 850 water type advanced fragments and 1150 ice type fragments were consumed. Prepare to rank up. Please choose the direction of your rank up.”

The virtual screen displayed three directions for ranking up:

1. Ice Demon Warrior: Crystallized hardening of its entire body increases its overall defense and physical destructive power. Physical ability increased by leaps and bounds.

2. Elemental Ice Demon: Possesses the ability to cast immensely powerful ice magic. Uses extreme cold to defeat all enemies.

3. Ice Elemental Envoy: Dual cultivator of both the physical and magical. Has both a natural talent for casting ice magic and strong physical combat potential.

The first rank up direction to harden the entire body could admittedly increase defense by a lot. However, the better the body, the more elemental power it requires to heal. Moreover, if one’s body became like that, one’s passive recovery would very likely decrease. This isn’t what Jon wanted.

The second rank up direction is Jon’s current class but more advanced, which looks good. But choosing this direction would mean Jon would have to switch from melee to ranged combat.

The third rank up direction, dual physical and magical cultivation, looks good, but it’s inferior in physical strength to the Ice Demon Warrior and inferior in magical strength to the Elemental Ice Demon. He still had to consider carefully.

“Evolve into Ice Elemental Envoy.”

Jon chose the third rank up direction. He felt that it was better not to let himself have any shortcomings.

“Ding! The host’s intention to rank up has been confirmed. Beginning to rank up…”

The system’s notification sounded in his ear. At the same time, an endless breeze of cold air appeared from within Jon’s body, and then rushed crazily toward the elemental crystal core. Along the way, it modified his body, and finally strengthened the crystal core.

His body, which was originally made of pure water, began to freeze and gradually shifted towards the direction where the water was mixed with ice crystals. There were so many ice crystals that his body now looked like a near-solid fluid.

A layer of ice skin covered the surface of his body from the bottom up. It was more aesthetically pleasing, lighter, and stronger than the black stone armor he had before. Not only could it provide Jon with a more advanced and sturdy defense, but it would also help his body to make more powerful attacks.

Jon could feel waves of mysterious and powerful energy surging through his body. This was the feeling of becoming stronger, the joy of ranking up!

“Wonderful!”

There were countless creatures in this world who would never have the chance to experience a life-level transformation in their entire lives. However, Jon had already ranked up three times in just the few days he’s been in this world!

This time, ranking up took even longer than the last time. It took him almost three hours to complete the process.

His solid and beautiful body was covered in white ice armor. His handsome face was rugged and well-defined, and a mysterious and powerful energy was flowing through his body. This was Jon’s current body.

“Ding! Rank up successfully completed. Congratulations to the host for obtaining the innate skill ‘Ice Elemental Mastery.’ The innate skill ‘Elemental Water Demon Body’ has advanced to ‘Ice Elemental Body.’ ”

“Ding! Congratulations! Your skills have simultaneously evolved. Your skill ‘Intermediate Water-Rock Elemental Sword’ has been upgraded to ‘Intermediate Water-Rock-Ice Sword.’ Your skill ‘Elemental Leap Wave Slash’ has been upgraded to ‘Ice Leap.’ Your skill ‘Elemental Throw’ has been upgraded to ‘Storm Throw.’ Your skill ‘Elemental Spirit Shock’ has been upgraded to ‘Ice Spirit Shock.’ Your skill ‘Elemental Water Shield’ has been upgraded to ‘Ice Shield.’ Your skill ‘Arcane Stone Statue’ has been upgraded to ‘Ice Colossus.’ Your skill ‘Diancang Fist’ has been upgraded to ‘Icy Diancang Fist.’ ”

Jon’s skills went through a round of evolution and basically all obtained qualitative improvements. Jon’s power has greatly increased!