Chapter 21 - Elemental Fusion (1/2)

Continuing with their regular schedule, the boys' progress took a sharp turn; they had begun making several small breakthroughs with their affinities and, as a result, were breaking through supposed bottleneck after bottleneck, and their Essence points clearly showed this. However, with the addition of multiple random event quests and regular daily quests, they were far from ordinary level 5 humans, let alone that they hadn't even reached middle school.

Usually, a child between the ages of five and six would at best be level 3 if they came from prestigious families. But this wasn't the case for Cynrik and Brance; neither of them had a silver spoon shoving resources and information into their mouths. Yet even without this kind of help, they were well into the XP grind for level 5, and if they continued in this manner, it wouldn't be long before they stepped into level 6, something that isn't supposed to be achievable until they were at the very least teenagers.

Yet, they were leagues ahead of children in their age bracket due to having a cheat-like system and being reincarnations. These two simple facts were more than enough to give off the appearance of being highly talented geniuses.

However, even with all their cheats, talent, and knowledge, one thing still eluded them, and this thing was that neither of them had been able to manifest their original Affinities.

While Both Cynrik and now, after several weeks Brance, had been able to bring forth both their additional elements, The Dark and Light Affinities were proving to be a tricky problem to solve.

Due to both Affinities' ”Special Advanced” grade and their restricted access to Vinestra's internet, Cynrik and Brance struggled to gain any ground with their Proficiency. The most information they could obtain was that it was supposedly nearly impossible to awaken and train a SAG Affinity without a minimum of a Tier 5 Codex and Circuits.

Cynrik was entirely at a loss for how to advance his understanding of his Darkness. Ever since he stepped into the world of Magic, he had tirelessly attempted to trigger some reaction from his original Affinity.

That is until one day; he had a sudden epiphany. Sudden enlightenment occurred while he was attempting to merge Wind with his Flames to increase its power. He had been studying the past few nights about the process of elemental fusion. For this to occur, the emotions behind your manifestation must align perfectly; simultaneously, they must stem from a similar origin such as Creation or Destruction; they must also be appropriately laced with certain feelings.

Cynrik was sitting in the center of the bedroom with his legs crossed and his arms loosely held out at his sides, his palms facing up while speaking quietly.

”My Flames bring about Destruction with their blazing heat and searing power.” Finishing the first sentence, his open palms burst into flames that would burn anything except its user.

Realizing his brother was attempting something, Brance's attention was drawn away from the school workbook he was trying to read and landed on the boy sitting in the center of the room.

”It surges forward swiftly as it's fueled by the gusts of my Wind, with unstoppable force and blinding accuracy.” A gust of wind kicked up in the room, rapidly flipping the pages of Brance's book and making his and Cynrik's hair flutter.

Brance slowly closed and placed his book off to his side, and activated Mana Sight. He wanted to gain as much from the scene presenting itself to adapt it to his Earth and Wind manifestations. He was well aware of what Cynrik was trying to pull off. They had spent many long nights discussing how to move forward and get stronger, and now it looked like his older brother was finally paving the path ahead; how could he miss this opportunity.

Slowly a tangible, visible gust of wind wrapped itself around the fireballs that were hoving inches above Cynrik's hands, fueling them with oxygen and rapidly increasing the force of each one. ”Together, they create a destructive force that can even cause the heavens to quake,” Opening his eye's Cynrik observed these ever rapidly fluctuating flames with curiosity.

His extended arms drew closer together as Cynrik slightly turned his palms towards each other in an attempt to merge the two fireballs into one.

Much in the way that pouring water into a half-filled cup was seamless, the two balls of fire merged into one.

It was at this moment that he received his sudden enlightenment. It was but a simple thought that made his mind tremble at the possibility of it working. Taking a deep breath and exhaling slowly, he spoke out his newly formed phrase bringing it to life.

”and it is this Destruction that is born from the Darkness.” The world seemed to go perfectly still.