Living Wind

We continued on our path for to find monsters with more diversity, not wolves, not goblins, and not slimes. We see many other monsters like Shrub Deer, Wood Bear, Green Wolf, and Sporefly. We could bring more to our army, but I need places that I can take care of monsters efficiently. Bringing in too many monsters with me will bring too much attention.

We continued on to the forest and Gris' ears twitched. He barked and ran ahead. Hyoran and I ran ahead as well to follow Gris.

We ran past the various monsters, flowers, fruits, and many other things, but it's not important.

We see Gris stop right in front of us and we see an ancient ruins. However, we feel a breeze and something slightly energizing.

I looked on a head I see glowing green orbs surrounded by winds. Every single one of them are floating. Every leaf and blade of grass move at the presence of these orbs.

They're called Wind Elementals. Beings of pure Wind Magic heavily concentrated.

[Notice. High concentration of magic is present in this area.]

Yes, an ancient ruins that was once a temple of wind. It was established 2000 years ago and fell to ruin due to the crusade. Despite their extinction, the Wind Elementals still persists and appears to this day.

"Check its stats."

[Checking...completed.]

As an elemental, they get elemental dominance that is half of their proficiency in specific element. They also absorb that same element for benefit. Their downsides is that they cannot possess more than one element and is weak to a certain element. How weak? They take double the damage against the element they're weak to. Wind are weak to Fire.

I walk up to the elemental to get a closer look. I can feel its breeze from it's verdant essence.

"I'll name you...Viridesca."

[Fragmented Wind Elemental has been named to Viridesca.]

Back in the game, Viridesca is a complete hard counter to Aeromancers and Geomancers alike. Fire is still a problem to her, but she have skills like "Vacuum" to snuff out the flames at certain tiers, "Aero Authority" as she can take over ANY Wind Magic Spells from any mage and weapon and cannot be controlled by any other.

Why did I call Viridesca a 'her' is because...well, I evolved it to the point it can take a humanoid form and on a whim, I turned it into a waifu.

Right now, it doesn't even have a gender.

The elemental I'm seeing right now is a green orb that is small enough for me to put in my pocket. But when I see that orb is missing a piece or in smaller pieces, it is known as a Fragment, the lowest form.

"I wish to evolve Viridesca."

"Viridesca. Evolution!"

[Acknowledged. Now evolving.]

With my command, Viridesca glowed bright green and became surrounded by its own wind. It swirled and grow bigger in size.

The wind dissipated and the Wind Elemental is now whole again. No cracks, no chips, a perfectly round sphere protected by wind.

[Evolution complete. Viridesca is now Dweller Wind Elemental.]

[Due to evolution, Viridesca's rank has risen to H.]

[New skills acquired for Viridesca. Wind Magic-IV, Wind Dominance-II.]

Viridesca's form is now in a more stronger form. Let's do it again. I have enough EP to spare.

"Evolve again."

"Viri. Evolution!"

[Acknowledged. Now evolving...]

Viri became surrounded by wind again and swirled even faster and the cyclone around Viri is larger. I could go more, but my EP is limited right now.

As the cyclone subsides, the orb is larger and greener. It is now protected by a constant tornado and will shred anything it touches.

[Evolution complete. Viridesca has evolved to Lesser Wind Elemental.]

[Due to evolution, Viridesca's rank has risen to F.]

[New Skills acquired for Viridesca. Wind Magic-VI, Wind Dominance-III, Earth Ward-II.]

Hot damn...it's just like the games, Dominance is half of their element mastery, and Ward is a third of it.

"Kiii!" A screech is heard and we all turned to the sound to see Paura, Schwarze, and Noire safe and sound.

"System, how much EP they've got?"

[Calculating...complete.]

[The Paura, Schwarze, and Noire has accumulated 420,130 EP.]

[Do you wish to collect it now?]

"Yes."

[Acknowledged.]

This really helps as I am planning to keep evolving my monsters. Now I wanna get a fox along the way.

Speaking of fox, I have one that is a hellkin named Fennec. A female fox that can actually kill just by looking at them. Along with four other eyes that floats around her. I wonder if I can recreate it here.

To be safe, I'll evolve Viridesca again.

"I wish to evolve Viri."

"Viri. Evolution!"

[Acknowledged. Now evolving...]

Viri became surrounded again by the wind and the wind began to howl. The loose leaves, grass, petals from various flowers are being carried around swiftly by the wind. This process continued for a few more seconds and the wind exploded forth.

Viri now have the same tornado covering the orb, but a sphere of wind inside the tornado as well.

[Evolution complete. Viridesca has now evolved to Middle Wind Elemental.]

[Due to evolution, Viridesca's rank has risen to E+.]

[New skills for Viridesca. Wind Magic-VIII, Wind Dominance-IV, Earth Ward-II.]

With this, Viridesca will be better off for defending this place. If anyone were to attack, Viridesca will fend them off. But Viri will not be alone as I will have Schwarze to defend here as well. Oh, and Paura as well.

"Evolve Paura."

[Fetching evolution paths.]

"Scythe."

"Paura. Evolution!"

"Ki-kiii!"

Paura screeched again and the fog envelops him completely. The fog swirled faster than before and became bigger than the last time I evolved him. He had those sickle-like forelegs and is spiky around his abdomen.

The fog disperses, displaying Paura in the same size before, but its looks are very different. However, his forelegs are sharper, the spikes on his body have wider spikes with barbs on it.

[Evolution complete. Paura has evolved to Scythe Spider.]

[Due to evolution, Paura's rank has risen to B.]

[New skills acquired for Paura. Menace, Bravery, Poison Nullification, Earth Resistance, Thread Manipulation, Steel Web, Accelerated Regeneration.]

[New Unique Skill acquired for Paura. Bladed Body.]

That's plenty of skills Paura got and very useful as well. Now to evolve Schwarze.

"I wish to evolve Schwarze."

"Despair Owl."

"Schwarze. Evolution."

[Acknowledged. Now evolving...]

Schwarze spread his wings wide and dark mist quickly swirls around him. The mist that once has a blue tint turned purple while maintaining a ominous manner. Soon after, the mist dissipated around Schwarze and his feathers have this inky black and purple color. His eyes are now purple instead of blue.

[Evolution complete. Schwarze has evolved to Despair Owl.]

[Due to evolution, Schwarze's rank has risen to A.]

[New skills acquired for Schwarze. Dark Magic-VII, Wind Magic-III, Menace, Bravery, Dark Absorption.]

[New Unique Skills acquired for Schwarze. Curse Magic-V, Curse Nullification.]

[Unique Skill Nocturnal has been replaced by Eclipse.]

With this skill, Schwarze no longer feels sluggish in the day or night; Diurnal. Also, with Curse Magic in Tier V, it can attack the soul directly. In the game, it reduces maximum health no Healing Magic nor Potions ain't gonna cut it. Only way to fix that is Blessing Magic.

With that out the way, I assign Viri to stay where the other elementals are, Schwarze and Paura will stand guard while out of sight from innocent onlookers. Gris and Noire will come with me and Hyoran.

I turn to Hyoran and I see her crouching over.

"Hey, you found something?" I said.

Hyoran turned to me, holding a small, fluffy, and orange animal. Its fur is orange with parts of the feet are black and the end of its tail is gray. It's an Orange Fox.

"Can we keep him?" Hyoran said.

Hyoran...you didn't need to ask.