The Lord of Elements from a Drop of Water - Chapter 7

Chapter 7: Successful Advancement

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

“Consume advancement shard to begin advancement!”

Jon conveyed his wish to the system.

“Ding! Using 68 water attribute advancement shard, 132 earth attribute advancement shard, preparing to advance, please choose the direction of advancement.”

Jon was ecstatic, it actually worked!

The virtual screen unfolded before his eyes, showing three directions:

Speed Water Demon, speed specialization. It could mobilize the elements of the environment to aid its movement. Its movement speed was increased by 30% .

Strength Water Demon, completely transformed into a body of flesh and blood. Its strength was stronger, its defense was stronger, and its speed was also increased.

Elemental Water Demon, increased your elemental mastery ability. The effects of water-type skills and earth-type skills would be increased by 30% .

Speed Water Demon was the first to be eliminated. Jon, who currently mainly relied on his close combat abilities, did not have much need for speed. Leap wave strike was already very useful.

As for the choice between strength water demon and elemental water demon, it was worth considering.

Should he choose strength water demon to completely give up the elemental form and walk the path of close combat until the end, becoming a man who would never lose in a fist fight?

Or would he choose the elemental water demon that cultivated both physical and magical?

“Advance in the direction of the Elemental Water Demon.”

Jon chose the direction of the Elemental Water Demon’s advancement. The upper limit of this direction was obviously higher. People who had always been good at looking at things from a developmental perspective would definitely choose this direction!

As for the problem of cultivating both physical and magical without biting off more than they could chew… would a man with the system by his side have such a problem? It didn’t exist.

‘Ding! It’s confirmed that the host has chosen the direction of evolution for the elemental water demon and has begun to evolve…’

As the evolution began, Jon felt that his elemental crystal core was the first to undergo changes. The originally crystal clear crystal was dyed with a layer of earthy yellow, and then blue emerged from underneath the earthy yellow. Gradually, it became clear that the lower part was muddy and the upper part was clear.

After the crystal core’s transformation was completed, his body was affected by the magical synchronization rhythm between the crystal core and his body. He began to extract pure water from the surrounding environment to expand his body.

His body began to grow. He was originally the size of a 10 year-old child, but now he was gradually growing to 12, 14, 16… 18 years old!

He was 1.8 meters tall, which was not much better than his previous life.

After his height was fixed, a set of black stone armor grew from the surface of his body and covered his half-elemental, half-flesh body, providing him with the most complete protection.

“Ding! Advancement successful. Congratulations to the host for learning the innate skill [ easy-to-damage armor ] . The innate skill [ water demon body ] has been upgraded to [ elemental water demon body ] .”

“Ding! Advancement successful. Congratulations to the host for synchronizing the transformation of his skills! Skill [ water demon blood sword ] has been upgraded to [ water rock elemental sword ] , skill [ leap wave strike ] has been upgraded to [ elemental leap wave slash ] , skill [ blood sword throw ] has been upgraded to [ elemental throw ] , skill [ spirit impact ] has been upgraded to [ elemental spirit impact ] , and skill [ mystic water shield ] has been upgraded to [ elemental water shield ] !’

The system notifications kept ringing, Jon had successfully upgraded to elemental water demon.

He checked his own transformation with joy.

Easy-to-damage armor: 30% weakening effect on all defensive means.

This was a passive skill that came with the advancement. It would be added to all active skills, which meant that all skills would be strengthened by 30%, especially the ability to damage the heavy-armored enemies.

Elemental water demon body: Increased the user’s elemental mastery ability, and increased the effects of water-type skills and earth-type skills by 30% .

Easy-to-damage armor weakened the opponent’s defense by 30%, and elemental water demon body increased the user’s damage ability by 30% , this meant the upgrade of 60% .

Jon really wanted to give himself a thumbs up and say, “I won.”

Water Rock Elemental Sword: When killing an enemy, insert a stone spike into the enemy’s wound to further increase the damage.

Inserting a stone spike into the enemy’s wound not only could increase the damage, but also inhibit the enemy’s wound from automatically healing. After all, there were stone spikes in the wound. If the wound was closed for a long time, the slightest movement would cause the stone spike to injure the enemy from inside.

Elemental Leap Slash: After advancing to Elemental Leap Slash, the attack range of the skill had significantly increased. Moreover, elemental flow was used instead of real waves. It was no longer restricted by the water environment and could be used in places where there was no water.

Elemental Throw: In the past, before using blood sword throw, one must first use the water demon blood sword. However, after successfully advancement, one could no longer rely on the shape of the sword and could directly throw elemental power to produce an explosion.

Elemental Spirit Impact: Significantly increased the casting range and no longer relied on close-range casting.

No longer relying on close-range casting, one could use this skill as a half-ranged control method. It also increased Jon’s mid-range combat ability.

This advancement lasted for more than half an hour, with all sorts of light and shadow special effects hitting his body non-stop.

After completing the advancement, Jon’s eyes revealed a look of amazement. Although his original body’s combat strength was already very strong, it was still not handsome enough. For men, strength was important, and being handsome was also very important.

Looking at the data panel, the skills and talents column became very gorgeous, and the most dazzling column was the rank column.

[ rank ] Intermediate commander tier.

Stepping into the commander tier meant that one had obtained a certain ability to control one’s own fate. One would no longer die easily in the hands of other creatures, nor would one die in natural disasters like the elemental storms when one was just born.

Moreover, in terms of numbers, each commander tier was one in ten thousand. In the vast water elemental plane, an average of 10,000 water elementals were born, and only one commander-tier life form was born.

“Alright, I can go look for that seaweed demon that has been spying on me.”

After completing his advancement, his body had already recovered.

Sensing the terrifying changes happening to Jon’s body, all the creatures nearby, regardless of whether they were intelligent or not, had long fled.

The gaze that had always been watching Jon was neither too far nor too close. Now that he had a certain level of ability, he decided to deal with the Peeping Tom.

“Ding! Summoning request received. Do you wish to respond to the summoning? The host can choose either the projection mode or the main body mode to respond.”

A system notification suddenly sounded, interrupting Jon’s steps.

“Summoning?” With Jon’s experience of living on Earth for more than twenty years, he naturally understood what summoning was.

Among the human mages, there was a school of magic called summoning magic. It could connect to the outer world and enter the human world to assist in battle. However, according to Jon’s knowledge, the creatures that were summoned were all working for the humans for free. Not only did they not receive any rewards, they were also easily beaten into ashes.

Even if the main body hid in the elemental plane and only sent projections into the mortal continent, that did not mean that it was 100% safe. This was because some intelligent species were simply too monstrous, able to cast the traceback method… using projections to attack the main body across borders, or to kill it across borders.

In short, summoning creatures was all sorts of disasters. The creatures that developed summoning magic were simply the mentors of capitalists. Any capitalist who saw this could only call it an expert.

“I don’t want to do such a dangerous job,” Jon said to the system. “I refuse to be summoned.”

“Ding! The Summoner has offered up a treasure [ ice elemental gem ] as a reward item to summon the host for a second time. Do you wish to respond?”

He did not expect that even though he had already refused once, the other party still wanted to summon him. Could there really be something urgent?

Looking at the introduction of the ice elemental gem displayed on the virtual interface, Jon could not help but feel a little shaken.

“Good stuff… then let’s go take a look,” Jon said to the system.

As expected, the gift-giving culture had its own reason for being able to survive for thousands of years on that piece of land. Even though Jon had come to another world, he was still moved by this culture.

[ Ding. Please choose the projection mode to respond to the summoning or the main body to respond to the summoning. ]

The advantage of the projection mode was that even if the projection was killed, it wouldn’t have much of an effect on the user. However, the disadvantage was that it only had 20-30% of the main body’s strength and couldn’t display its true strength.

If the main body descended, it could use all of its strength. However, if it was killed in such a situation, it would pay an extremely high price. Even if it died in the Otherworld because of the summoning contract, it could return to the elemental plane to be revived. However, it would be difficult to say what would happen to him at that time.

To be on the safe side, Jon made a choice. “The projection will descend.”

“Whoosh!”

A ripple with a strange rhythm enveloped Jon. His body disappeared from the water elemental plane, at the bottom of a small hill in the multivariate continent.

A blue-haired girl held a silver-white staff in her hand. Her exquisite face was filled with anxiety and astonishment.

“The summoning actually failed? How is that possible! Summoning magic never requires the other party’s permission to forcefully summon a summoned creature… could it be that the difference in strength between me and the other party is too great, causing the summoning conditions to change?”

Thinking up to this point, the blue-haired girl no longer hesitated. She directly took the cold gem hanging from her fair neck and threw it into the summoning magic circle.

If she offered a sacrifice, it would reduce the resistance of the summoned creature. Moreover, as long as the sacrifice was good enough, it was completely possible to summon a creature far stronger than her. Even a lord-tier or even a king-tier creature could respond to the summoning.