Shade sighed on her throne but she suddenly felt something she thought she would never feel again.
The thumping of that man’s heartbeat.
Shade stood up feeling the heartbeat she just felt and was sure it was that man’s no one else had the power behind it. Shade froze if it really was that monster of a man she was in actual trouble but after further examination Shade realized it was just a random F-Grader with the bloodline she blew out a sigh of relief.
No matter how strong that man’s Bloodline was a F-Grader wouldn’t be able to beat even a Peak Hegemon in an actual battle much less her. But Shade knew how quick that man improved if this kid was anything like him he would speed through the ranks. Shade waved her hand and a clone appeared with only Monarch Grade Strength. The clone kneeled:”What is it?” Shade smiled confidently:” There’s a kid who has the Void Emperor’s Bloodline kill him.” The clone teleported away. Shade smiled she wasn’t dumb enough to give this kid time to grow. Shade moved on erasing the kid from her mind even the Emperor had no chance against a Monarch when he was F-Grade.
Shade smiled as she caressed her slender purple and black blade. Shade looked in awe at the monstrosity of a skill the Emperor made. Nine Seals Eight Pillars One Destiny was so powerful it would be wrong to call it a skill anymore. Even when she was in godhood she wasn’t able to escape the skill. Shade laughed as she remembered how the Emperor went down that bastard got too caught up in his own Legacy he forgot that Shade existed and in the end it was his own Legacy that ended up killing him after all Shade was still not strong enough to kill him. She would need to pull out her full power to match his Void form.
But then isn’t that only natural for her to be unable to kill the man who made the very Heavens kneel?
Leo woke up to a start with Peak teasing him:”I really don’t think getting yourself knocked out 3-4 times in two days is going to help you progress.” Leo groaned and saw the notifications.
Sword Dummy F-Grade has died!
Void Slash has upgraded to Middle F-Grade!
The Void consumes all you wish become the harbinger of doom the bringer of life and the all consuming void power awaits.
Leo smiled maniacally even he knew how big of a pain it was for cultivators to upgrade their skills he’s seen Hegemons with E-Grade skills. Peak took out a badge and smiled:”Welcome to the Sword Saint Army or more accurately the Fifth Legion Second Segment 23rd Squad under the leadership of Officer Slasher a High E-Grade cultivator.” Leo wryly smiled it was time he started shedding blood. Peak dragged Leo by the arm and pulled him to the recruitment station. Suddenly realizing something Leo asked:”Where’s the Kill Energy from the Dummy?” Peak laughed:”That was a practice dummy to give people experience in their techniques not a Kill Energy farm.” Kill Energy was when you killed something their energy is pushed into you in which you use to push towards the next level. “Besides you never really was in any trouble.” Confused Leo asked:"What do you mean not in trouble"? grimacing from the memory of the fight:”I almost got myself bisected!” Peak wryly smiled:”The blades would retract if they ever thought they were going to actually kill you. Cripple you? Maybe. But it would never kill you.” Leo groaned thinking of the Kill Energy he could have gotten.
After dealing with the elfish register Leo entered a tent where three people already sat around a table. There was an elemental made of Fire and Water with a flame sword and a water sword how this elemental made his body of two opposing elements Leo didn’t know. To the left of the elemental was an elf but she didn’t have the traditional green hair most elves do instead having pitch black hair and purple eyes. And on the right of the elemental was a holy paladin in big chunky armor with various runes carved onto it. The elemental grunted standing up and then Leo could see how tall this elemental truly was. The elemental was a monster standing at 8 feet though Leo knew that Monarch Elementals could become as big as planets this was still pretty scary. The elemental grunted again:”Took you guys long enough name’s Slasher your friendly Late Stage Hegemon.” Confused Leo asked:”Your a Hegemon? Shouldn’t you be on the actual battlefields instead of being the officer of a 5 man party?” Slasher growled:”I was in a clan of elementals never was one for politics got backstabbed by a couple people they then further hindered me by putting me with you kids instead of going on the battlefield and making a name for myself like I should have.”
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Leo didn’t know what to say just silently walking to one of the seats at the table. The dark elf smiled at Leo:”Welcome to our party don’t mind Slasher he’s just pissed he’s paired with us newbies.” Happy to see a friendly face Leo tried to speak but Peak stood up putting a hand in front of Leo:”Meira he’s my disciple keep your hands off him.” Meira smiled though it was strained at retracted her outstretched hand. The paladin stood up unleashing his aura at full blow the aura of the Holy Church super evident. The Holy Church was another faction in this unfamiliar world Peak didn’t seem to like them very much muttering on and on about how they were fanatics who didn’t care who died too further the goals of their monstrous leader The Holy Mother a Divine Monarch aiming for Autarchy choosing to gain it through sacrifices and other unorthodox means rather than cultivate the normal way as her talent and momentum has all but been lost. But this paladin looked pretty down to ground neither did his eyes shine the way Peak said the true fanatics of the Holy Mother would shine in fact he seemed annoyed at the armor he was wearing.
The paladin stretched out his hand and grasped Leo’s hand tightly trying to find any weaknesses Leo staunchly refused to show any hints of weakness and infused his hand with Energy reenforcing it and clenched tighter. The paladin’s eyes shone as Holy Energy filled his hand seemingly trying to burn Leo’s hand to a crisp. Suddenly a roar sounded at the back of Leo’s head and the floodgates opened not as dramatic as last time but still super evident. Void Energy as what he started to cal it, started to pour through his hand and absorb the Holy Energy the paladin was showing off muting it to a small flicker. The paladin smiled hugely showing two rows of gleaming white teeth:”You’re strong and you’re telling me you’re only Level 1 give me some pointers later eh?” Leo smiled back:”How’d you know I’m Level 1? And I sadly can’t give you pointers it’s a technique I got from my family clan that is bound with my soul not allowing me to share any details.” This was the excuse Peak had built for him when people went around asking about his strength after all many clans do the same thing. Power doesn’t come for free and one mere mistake from one junior is all it takes to have everyone know the details of your strongest technique. The paladin sighed:”I should have known such a strong technique was soul bound. Anyway name’s Hubert and we all know your level we all got a copy of each teammates abilities level and ranking. In fact I think Slasher’s going to give you one now.” A tendril of flame carried a piece of paper to Leo miraculously not burning the paper. Leo scanned over it.
Meira Duskleaf Level 5
Dusk Elf
Archer Of The Shadows
Abilities: Shade Warp, Shadow Split, Lights End
Peak Saint Level 15
Human
Sword Saint
Abilities: Imperial Slash, Wisdom Of The Ancients, Sword Array
Slasher Level 219
Fire/Water Elemental
Chosen Of Duality
Abilities: Fire Wave, Annihilation, World’s End, Hell Flame……….
Leo Evordox Level 1
Human/???
Slasher
Abilities: Slash
Hubert Gilding Level 5
Life Human
Holy Paladin
Abilities: Holy Slash
Leo’s eyes opened at seeing Slasher’s formidable power Leo knew how strong each grade progression was. A E-Grade wouldn’t have any problems with killing 1000 F-Grades as long as they weren’t elites and the effect was even more pronounced when someone went from E-Grade to Hegemony. Each grade was 75 levels you basically push Kill Energy or Energy from crystals and other Natural Treasures and strengthen you body a little bit all around. The E-Grade was more specific you push Energy into small Nodes all around your body. These Nodes connected your physical body to your spiritual form separating them. In the E-Grade you either slowly whittle the Node away until it’s gone or just blast it open. Each Node opened strengthened the body part it was in but blasting open Nodes wasn’t some easy work. One misstep and you’re looking at severed body parts here and while slowly whittling Nodes away wasn’t as dangerous it was still a practice that you should do in caution as you could accidentally erode away some of the spiritual tendons connecting you physical body to your spiritual resulting in your physical body greatly downgraded and any sort of cultivation to the soul would be much harder. Slasher opened his eyes after brooding what to do for a while:”We need to work on our team coordination while working on these pathetic levels of yours.” The others really couldn’t counter the Level 219 Late Stage Hegemon. They headed out into the world where danger and power walked hand in hand.