Aelira also woke up after several minutes.
After freshening up, both of them went to the dining hall in the spaceship.
The food was free, and they were hungry.
'SS-rank spells seem awesome, darling.' Aelira looked at the spells while eating.
'Yep.' Rudrean nodded. 'This curry fish is so tasty.'
'This sandwich, too.'
'Let's visit the sparring room next. We should train by fighting each other.'
'Oh, good idea. I really need to get better at that.'
'I am also not that good since I never trained under anyone who knows Arcane Martial Arts.'
'Arcane Martial Arts?' Rudrean blinked.
'The spells from the compendium we use are something we create inside our Life Nexus in the form of sigils, and then we can activate them by executing the sigil sequence every time.'
Rudrean nodded. He had already learned this with all the knowledge ingrained in his mind after buying the compendium with his talent.
'Arcane Martial Arts utilizes the energy nodes of our body to rapidly form an execution sequence paired with the movement of the body. This way, they manifest their Arcane Martial Arts by shaping the force of the body and magic both. They are a potent and powerful arsenal to have that could change the tide of a fight. Having Arcane Martial Arts in our arsenal would definitely increase our combat power and overall survival chance further.'
Aelira smiled. 'Both spells and Arcane Martial Arts are important to have.'
'I wonder if my talent has anything more to give?' Rudrean wondered. 'X-rank... is there anything above it?'
'No idea. I've also never seen or heard of X-rank before. But one thing is clear, your talent is way more insane and broken than even SSS-rank talents.'
Rudrean wryly smiled and nodded. 'True. Being able to share talents, spells, and other stuff, and being able to upgrade them already makes it seem like a cheat rather than a talent.'
'Humu.'
However, they didn't know that X-rank was the beginning of something beyond the domain of this plane.
Just like the Exceed Shrines.
…
Riglight Galactic Alliance's central star system.
This star system had 33 habitable planets and 1139 moons orbiting two giant suns.
All of them were connected via advanced magitech transport lines that moved at light speed.
This entire system was controlled by the Riglight Mother AI.
There were 1039 Riglight Children AI under it that oversaw one-third of the universe that is under the Riglight Galactic Alliance's territory.
The 1,130,389 Exceed Shrines floating in Riglight Galactic Alliance's territory were marked with a colorful spiral on the map that indicated the special magic field that was identical around all Exceed Shrines.
Today, something strange happened.
An additional colorful spiral suddenly appeared on the map, detected by the routine scan signal waves.
"Huh? Is that an error?"
"What is it?"
"It's an error. How can an Exceed Shrine just appear? It's unheard of."
"Let me confirm."
The people in charge sent a spacecraft to the location to confirm it.
And there it was.
An Exceed Shrine, just like all others, looks the same as the million others.
How? And why?
Nobody had an answer.
But it happened. It was an action, and somewhere, its consequences were occurring.
…
[Sync complete]
Rudrean and Aelira had just gotten off the spaceship and paid the 2000 low-grade Mana Stones for the tickets to reach Planet Rawrling1K when both of them saw something appearing in their minds.
Love-Bound Arcane's window popped up and showed something new.
[Love-Bound Arcane]
—> Aelira.
—>
—> Phoenix Flame S to SS | 100,000 LP.
—> SSS-rank Compendium of Fire Spells | 300,000 LP.
Both of them paused for half a second before they continued and got into the spacecraft.
'Darling, something new appeared.'
'Gacha?' Rudrean was surprised and opened it.
[Love-Bound Gacha]
Level: 1 [0/10 Summons]
— 1 Summon = 1000 L.P | 10 Summons = 10,000 L.P
Fiery Mayhem Banner | 1-star to 10-star (Changes after 7 days or after 100 summons.)
— 1 Summon = 1000 L.P | 10 Summons = 10,000 L.P
'This looks fun!'
'Yeah, and it says 1-star to 10-star…'
'That must be a universal ranking system.'
Aelira's and Rudrean's eyes sparkled as they looked at each other.
'Let's do 10 summons in the Fiery Mayhem Banner and see what we get.'
Without further ado, Rudrean spent 10,000 Love Points and selected 10 summons at once.
[Congratulations. You have acquired the following items in the ten summons.]
— 5 x 1-star Blazing Heart Pills.
— Nothing.
— 1-star Fiery Hell Boots.
— 1-star Arcane Martial Art: Two Bites of Infernal Maw.
— Nothing.
— Nothing.
— 2-star Fire Boost Potions.
— 2-star Flame Empress Dress.
— 1-star Blazing Descent Vest.
— 2-star Crimson Tide Katana.
'Damn, we didn't get anything above 2-star.' Aelira clicked her tongue.
'The chances must be low. But there's a level…' Rudrean saw that the level button was glowing and the bar next to it was filled.
[10/10 Summons (Level Up available)]
Rudrean leveled it up.
[Love-Bound Gacha has reached level 2. Rating for 3-star and 4-star slightly increased.]
Aelira blinked. 'Nice. But now we need to summon 100 times to level it up.'
'We will reach it eventually.' Rudrean smiled. 'For now, let's quickly learn the Arcane Martial Art. I can see it in the acquirable arcane.'
[Love-Bound Arcane]
—> Aelira.
—> 1-star Arcane Martial Art: Two Bites of Infernal Maw | 35,000 LP.
—> Phoenix Flame 1-star to 2-star | 100,000 LP.
—> 3-star Compendium of Fire Spells | 300,000 LP.
'The ranking system in the talent interface changed.' Aelira blinked. 'How mystical is your talent? X-rank must be something crazy.'
Rudrean smiled. 'It's thanks to you.'
…
After an hour, both of them finally landed on the planet.
According to the guiding steps they got from the academy, they had to first visit the Adventurer's Guild in the city and officially become Adventurers of the Riglight Galactic Alliance.
They would also get information to complete their missions from there after that.
Like the approximate locations of the monsters they needed to hunt for the missions, and the locations of the items they were required to collect.