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Abyssal Cultivater
Chapter 5 – Light in the Abyss

Chapter 5 – Light in the Abyss

Chapter 5 – Light in the Abyss

System-

New Skill gained.

Abyssal Nexus-

* Abyss Manipulation

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„Abyssal Nexus……

That sounds like a scary Ability.

Abyss Manipulation, I can test out this ability on the four remaining Shadow Hounds.

Let´s find the other Shadow Hounds.

I should be able to find them if I focus on that mysterious energy from the shadow.

If I gather all my Qi to strengthen my senses I should be able to do it.

There it is.

Two at the same place, I will go there first.

This cultivation technique is truly amazing.

Not only was I able to heal almost in an instant from my injury, but I was also able to strengthen my senses a little bit.

If I train more, I should be able to master more Abyssal Nexus Techniques.

But now let’s follow the Shadow energy to the Hounds.”

A while later.

“The sky seems a little bit red, is it already sunset?

And the plants around this area all seem ill, what do these signs mean?”

As I walked through the Forest, filled with animals of all kinds, but as I got closer to the Shadow, less and less animals appeared in my way.

The two Shadow hounds should only be a few steps ahead.

Then I spotted them.

Two Hounds.

“Sigh…lucky me these aren´t evolved, so they should be normal Monsters.

Let’s test out this new ability,” as I stood in front of the Shadow hounds, their fierce eyes locked onto their prey, and that prey was none other than me.

A deep quiet voice, echoed throughout the forest as I said…

“Nexus - Abyssal Manipulation”

Abyss…

That power emitting from my arms, all living beings fall in fear at its sight.

I could feel it.

I tried to manifest a solidified appearance of the abyss.

Sharp, murderess, fast…

These were the thoughts I had while, manifesting the Abyss.

I needed something to fight with, a weapon, a sword.

The abyss flowing out of my arm began to structure itself into something solid.

I could feel the hilt of a sword in my hand being formed, a blade growing out of it.

The blade of the Abyss had been formed, sharp, murderess, fast.

The blade wasn´t exactly as I imagined it, the blade was uneven, the sword lacked sharpness, and the form was bad, making it slower.

I guess I need more power to be able to manifest it perfectly, and a fine forged sword would be helpful too, with that I could use that sword as a reference.

The Shadow Hound growling at me, droll falling to the ground, preparing to devour me.

I guess that shadowy figure won´t appear this time to strengthen them.

Let´s see what this sword of mine has to offer.

The Shadows rushing towards me from the front.

The trees around us singing the song of the wind, leaves of different colors red, brown and yellow falling to the ground. Rocks all over the place, covering our feet.

I never swung a sword before in my life, but it was as if the blade of my sword cut through the air itself.

It happened in an instance, the Shadows jumping at me, falling apart after passing by, cut in half.

My blade had already cut through them, as they stood on their feet behind me, with fixed eyes on me, a wound started to open on both of them.

Blood and flesh ripped apart, falling apart, the Shadow had been cut in half.

This incomplete sword was enough to deal with these two, I didn´t even need to use my Inner Qi.

System-

2 Shadow Hounds had been slayed.

Strength stat has increased by 1.

Level up

You have 4 available stat points.

The Abyss within you grows +2

The Abyss that grows within me after each kill, starts to concern me

Status-

Abyss collected – 6

The Abyss is being suppressed by a mysterious energy.

It is already at six points, but I don´t feel anything off.

A while Later.

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You two are the last ones, if I kill you, I will have all five of you.

I am ready, come at me.

The growling Shadow Hounds rushed towards me.

“Let´s try going all out.”

Release

Inner Qi

Every one of my muscle fibers began to thicken and strengthen itself, it was stronger than before, by a little bit. Is this thanks to my Cultivation reaching 10?

Nexus Abyssal Manifestation

The blade I once drew before appeared in my hand the same way it did before.

Let´s have some fun, damn little puppy´s.

These Hounds felt a little different than the ones before, they felt stronger, with more shadow lingering in them.

There it is.

The same kind of energy as before, these shadows have evolved!

But the shadowy figure didn´t appear this time?

Never mind that, I already struggled against one evolved shadow, but now there are two of them?

I need to concentrate.

Gather all of my Qi in the muscles necessary, contain it in my body, don´t let it leak out, that is the only way I can win this.

I focused all the Energy into my necessary muscles, my arms, legs, and hip.

It wasn´t perfect, most of the energy still leaked out, but “This should be enough to beat the crap out of you two!”

Dashing towards each other, eyes filled with Hunger and Hope facing each other, as my sword and their crawls clashed in the air.

I started feeling overwhelmed, in Body and Mind, devoured, I felt as If I was being devoured by something dark.

As my Mind started fading away, I felt as if my body was drowning in water, sinking deeper and deeper into despair, I felt the pressure of the water crushing me apart from the inside, every organ in my Body being teared apart.

“But I wanted to make them proud…”

My Soul slowly being corrupted, that is what I felt this moment.

I opened my eyes. My body sank, deeper and deeper, into the Void of Despair.

My body was being corrupted by the Abyss; it was attacking my Soul.

I need to stop the Technique, Abyssal nexus…

The Sword vanished into the void.

Is this still not enough.

Cough…cough, Ah blood this can´t be good.

This reminds me of the time before I got here.

I was someone insignificant, not even able to help the ones I loved, I wasn´t able to help them until the end.

The same feeling is overwhelming me right now again, drowning in despair from the mistakes I made. If I took life a little bit more serious, If I didn´t commit foolish sins.

After overcoming my Feelings and steeling my resolve, I am still a nothing, a worthless son abandoning his family in the face of despair.

I wanted to at least accomplish something so that when we meet in the afterlife, you will be proud of me and forgive me for being a good for nothing son.

As I sank deeper into the void of despair, a light…

An Arm made of light, dissolving all despair in the void, shining brighter than the smile of my mother as she said her final words, “its okay, you did everything you could, didn´t you?”

Light that gives hope and strength, even in the deepest of despair, I familiar hand that I felt a long time ago.

The light from within me started suppressing the Abyss.

As the abyss started flowing back into my body, the abyss layered on me disappeared.

I had noticed my hair grow longer reaching almost my shoulders, my white hair that had been corrupted by the Abyss turned black, only the tip of my hair remained white.

My Inner Qi that emitted my body in blue before, now had fused with Abyss and that mysterious light, now started glowing in purple, this thunder-like Qi filled the air around me with lightning.

“Now I should be able to manifest it again.”

Nexus- Abyssal Manifestation

The Sword emitting the same aura as my inner Qi, now was stabilized and it wasn´t emitting as much Abyss as before, I was able to control it.

Haaahhhhhhhh….

I took a step back, stabilized my form, and pointed my sword towards the shadows.

“I am ready for you now!”

As the Shadows got closer, my blade followed the path I had created, striking down my enemies in one strike.

Sigh…. that was all five of them…

This was a close call…too close.

But what was that mysterious light, that helped me against the corruption?

System-

Mind Stat increased by 2 after overcoming your Despair.

Level up

Level up

You have now 12 stats points.

The Abyss within you grows +4

The Abyss within you is temporarily suppressed by a mysterious energy.

I was somehow able to beat all of them. But at what cost…

I almost died two times…. or three times…

I already lost count of it.

Hmmm But….

How will I take these 5 bodies back with me?

Fuck…. I didn´t think this far ahead…

System-

If you concentrate on your Abyss power and create a void within it, you should be able to use it as a Dimensional bag.

“I am able to do something like that?”

“Won´t the Abyss overtake me again though?”

System-

That won´t happen.

“Fine, I shall trust you, my eternal servant!”

System-

What did you just say, servant?

Never mind…..

Hmm she is a lot calmer than before…

When I made jokes back then she would always react aggressively, what happened to her?

And what even is she?

Nexus Abyssal Manifestation

Sturdy, compact, limitless….

These were the thoughts I had while manifesting the dimensional bag.

I did it!

Now let’s try putting the whole shadow Hound in it.

It actually fits in…

I should collect the other body too.

After collecting each Body.

I should probably head back to town and deliver my prey.

Back in Lumenvall

I should hurry to the Quest requester; it is already sunset.

This should be the place mentioned on the Quest note.

A Building, built with dark wood and stone, crumbling away before my eyes.

It was as if this building was abandoned years ago.

“Blacksmith”, a sign hanging on the building.

A Blacksmith? This place is a blacksmith.

Knock…Knock

“Hello is anyone there? I completed the Quest; I came to deliver the Shadow Hounds.”

“Nobody is coming…is this the wrong place?

Its already sunset how am I supposed to find the place?”

As I was about to leave, the door opened slowly.

Looking eagerly at the Quest requester, but….

“Where is he? Did the door open by itself?”

“No, you dimwit I am down here!”

A deeper, old voice that seemed annoyed sounded from before me.

I looked down and there was a small person there, orange hair, a long orange beard with white strains.

Clothed in a brown robe, and a hammer in his right arm, stretching his head.

“So, you are the one that took my quest, I thought nobody would take it...”, he said with a grim expression.

“Come on in, I will give you your payment.”

A dwarf…. But most dwarfs live in the Kingdom of Thaloria, why is he here in Lumenvall, in the Kingdom of Valandor?

As stepped through the door, the smell of iron and flame filled the room, Sword and Shield forged hanging on the walls, one was able to perceive with his senses how much hard work it had cost to make these.”

“So where are the Bodies?”

“Don´t say you didn´t brought them with you, “he said enraged.

“I have them with me calm down, ha-ha”

He has a very short temper.

Nexus - Abyssal Manifestation

I Manifested my Dimensional bag.

The old dwarf looked confused and interested.

“What is that,” he asked me in an instance with eyes filled full of passion.

“Oh this? Its one of my Abilities, I call it a Dimensional bag.”

“A Dimensional bag you say…”

As I took out the bodies of the shadow hounds, his eyes filled with shock.

“Where did you find these?”

“What do you mean? These are all Shadow Hounds from the forest nearby...”

“Only the first one…. the rest is…”

“The rest is what?”

“The rest is an evolved species…… which was created by that…”

The system mentioned it was an evolved species, but what does he mean it what created by that?

“What do you mean by that?”

“You must be new in the Town aren´t you…… no you must be from another kingdom am I right?”

Another Kingdom?

I am from earth….

“Yes I´m, why do you ask?”

“There is a being that resides in this Kingdom, Valandor, since ancient times waiting for something. Some say he isn´t real, but a few people know the truth, he is still in a state between Live & Death residing in this world to accomplish his goal….”

“What is his goal?”

“Nobody knows… some speculate he plans to destroy our kingdom for revenge, some say he is simply waiting for someone to help him cross the world of Life & Death…. or it may be both…”

“What about the King of Valandor?”

“The Royality hasn´t made any stand on this matter, they remain silent whenever someone brings this up.”

They haven´t made any stand?

I don´t know the current king but ancestor, the King in my novel, was a righteous man, always doing his best for the kingdom, he was not only a King but a father, he was the kind of person that would do everything for his Kingdom and family.

If his successor is anything like him then he should have a good reason to stay silent about this.

“And what does this have to do with the shadow hound? Don´t say he created them?”

“You are spot on, the people who have survived after encountering him, said that he was able to manifest these evolved beings, gaining strength much greater than before, some say they are about 10 times stronger.”

“And you brought me four of them… normally this quest shouldn´t have been able to be accomplished by a D rank adventurer… They would at least need five E ranks or one D rank adventurer to beat one. And you brought back 4 of them….”

You need that many to deal with one…. I mean I almost died 2 times, if it weren´t for my unique abilities I would have been dead long ago…. I need to be more careful

“I didn´t ask for these, but these are much better I will pay you the price you deserve for these.

Here is the Payment.

He reached out his hand with coins in his hand, there were 5 cold coins shining in his hand.

“Ehm... Thank you.” The quest stated that a normal shadow Hound would go for 1 silver each. And he gave me 1 gold per the evolved one?

“By the way how much are these worth, I am not familiar with the currency here.”

“Ahh, you can buy an apple with about 2 copper coins in most places, With a silver coin you can stay at Ins for two or three days with food, and a Gold coin…. 100 copper coins are 1 silver coin and 100 silver are 1 Gold coin, so you can image its value.”

“Thanks, I understand…. but five?”

“HEY ISN´T THIS A BIT TOO MUCH?”

“I haven´t talk to someone in a while, consider this me showing my gratitude.”

“If that is the case, I shall accept this kindness.”

“What are you doing to do with the bodies though, create a new sword…?”

“Hahahaha, that would be nice….”

A sad expression filled his face, longing for something he could never achieve.

“I have a last request for you, blacksmith!”

“What is it, out with it?”

“Could I please stay the night, I have nowhere too sleep, I thought about quickly getting my pay and then going to an in to sleep ,but you started to speak and it took you so long to finish that it has already gotten night and the ins don´t take any new people in at this hour, please help this young boy, oh great old dwarf!”

“YOU WERE THE ONE THAT KEPT ON QUESTIONING ME AND I AM NOT OLD YOU HEAR ME!!!!!! I AM ONLY 154 YEARS OLD!!!!!”

“That’s pretty old….”

“WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?”

“I AM SORRY, I WON´T SAY IT ANYMORE!!!”

And so, I stayed the night at the dwarfs place, I think he was bad at me, he didn´t even give me a blanket or a pillow, I think he wanted me to freeze to death……

And so, the morning came by, very slowly……. After a long night of freezing to death.

“I forgot to ask you yesterday, but I don´t even know your name?”

“My name is Thorin Grimbeard “

“I´m Shine Kage, nice to meet you!”

“I will go out to the marketplace at the square, I will be right back”

“Don´t bother coming back, you are just a freeloader!”

Shine Kage left the Shop and Thorin was finally able to get a moment for himself.

“I should probably tell him to keep his distance from me…. Nothing good will come from association with me…...”

“How long will it be until I can see you again, ----------?”

“It has been far too long since I last saw you…”

End of chapter 5----------------------------------------------------------------------To be continued

Current Status Window:

Lv – 10

Hp – 5

Strength -6

Stamina- 8

Endurance- 8

Magic – 0

Mind - 9

Unique Stat

Cultivation- Abyssal Arts -Foundation Establishment state - 10

Available Stats – 12

Abyss collected – 10

The Abyss is being suppressed by a mysterious energy.

Skills-

Inner Qi application

Abyssal Nexus-

* Abyss Manipulation

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Condition Overview-

Cleaning impurities 10%

-Cultivation needed for further improvement

Weak Body- training efficiency -80%

-Training needed for more efficiency

Illness- You have a serious illness

If not treated, you could die / In your current state there is

no cure for your illness.

Curse of the Abyss- You have been cursed by the God of the Abyss- you are more

likely to become evil.

Curse of the Dragon-???

Titles- First title gained “The Light within the Shadows “.

Gain – 10% more power when fighting against darkness.

Item Information-

Name-

The 10 Rings of the Abyss.

Skills-

Devour

Energy Outburst

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Bound to you for life.

As your Abyssal Cultivation grows, you will unlock more Skills.

The use of this Item will make you more likely an Evil being.