Plot armor! You've done a good job.
From here. I can control the entire realm.
The orb flies out of my hand and goes into its slot by the controls.
It gets swallowed and then a square cube is pushed out.
On it is a handprint.
I place my hand on it.
[ECHO]: Soul verified... linking to realm.
[ECHO]: 'Space' Comprehension has reached 1%
Immediately I can feel the restrictions of the realm disappear for me.
I can also feel all of the little details of the realm.
I banish all of the other people in the sect from my realm and close it off.
I can control the realm as if it is my own limb.
I teleport outside of the control room.
I then loot the rest of the inheritances.
I'm now able to open up my storage dimension.
I'm also able to teleport to any place in the realm.
Potentially in the future.
I should be able to trap people here.
Unfortunately the realm only overlaps the area of the world we traveled to.
I'm unable to move it with me.
But because of the soul link.
I can teleport here at will.
Then use formations to get out.
So I now have a way back to dimension 1.
But more importantly.
I now have a safe place to breakthrough to rank 3 in.
I have 300 potions exactly.
Let's do this!
Only 300 years? This should be a piece of cake.
I teleport to the control room.
I take out a potion and consume it.
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I then meditate for a year.
Then repeat this process.
300 years pass by in the blink of an eye.
[ECHO]: {Name: "Zero #119", Species: Abyssal Paradox (Human), Energy: 1 GR, Strength: 11, Vitality: 21, Nanites: 4.17124e+13, Mana: 1439. Spirit: 984, Soul: 75}
I'm in the process of inscribing the last rune needed to reach the 6th layer of my soul.
[ECHO]: {Name: "Infinite Mind", Level: 3, Type: Self, Element: Mana, Cost: 0, Desc: "Protects self against all forms of illusions and mind traps."}
I did it!
I'm now rank 3.
I'm unfortunately out of potions.
If I want to get to rank 4.
I'll need to have 2880 runes.
Since I have no more potions.
At 60 runes every 100 years.
It'll take me 2400 years.
If I can get more insanity potions.
It'll only take me 600 years.
I leave the realm closed.
I activate the formation I had inscribed at my room in the darkness sect.
But it doesn't respond.
Right... its been 300 years.
The formation there wasn't properly maintained by somebody.
I open up the antimagic realm and step out.
I fly along the path we came until I am at the front gate of the sect.
I show my I.D and am allowed in.
I head back to my home and find it is occupied by somebody.
"What are you doing in my room?"
"This is Zero's old room, he died. So I use it, so what?"
"I'm still alive!"
"What? that would make you over 800 years old!"
"A rank 3 doesn't live that long...don't tell me... you're a rank 4?!"
Sigh.
"Believe whatever you want. Now leave my house."
"But- But- I was kicked out of my house..."
"I have nowhere else to stay."
"Why were you kicked out?"
"They implemented something called rent. You have to pay contribution points once a year to stay in the homes."
"How much is it a year?"
"50 points a year."
Those sons of bitches!
They stole my idea!
This is clearly a money making machine...
"How are you able to stay at my house then? I haven't paid the contribution points?"
"Well... they couldn't confirm if you were dead or not. So they've been charging your account every year."
My heart bleeds.
The fuck.
I immediately go to the task master and find out my balance.
I owe 13k points...
Now I'm in debt.
FUCK.
You can't just randomly decide to start charging rent.
Then making a dead person pay that rent.
Can't you let them be debt free in the afterlife?
I check on my friend Werlin and he looks exactly the same.
He is 1,200 years old.
But his lifespan is 3200 years.
He is still quite young.
We headed to the dragon meat dinner and had a blast.
We chugged ambrosia like it was no tomorrow.
Neither of us got drunk from it though.
He also dropped his passive spell to show me his progress.
[ECHO]: {Name: "Werlin Miracle", Species: Human (Zero), Energy: 0 GR, Strength: 30, Vitality: 75, Mana: 3000. Spirit: 30, Soul: 10}
He progressed to:
[ECHO]: {Name: "Werlin Miracle", Species: Human (Zero), Energy: 0 GR, Strength: 30, Vitality: 70, Mana: 4698. Spirit: 29, Soul: 10}
He just needed 1062 more runes.
He said that would take him only 188 more years.
I'm slightly jealous of his aptitude.
Even if my aptitude was just a two.
I would be progressing at twice the rate.
In the time it would take him to do 1062 runes.
I would barely have done 100.
There truly is a difference with aptitude.
I ask for the insanity potions and he says he had built up a stockpile of them.
He gave me 1000 of them.
Let's see.
With these potions it'll only take me
600 years to reach rank 4.
"Now it is time to become a rank 4."
"ZERO!"
"What is it this time mee-"
"Meep was my father..."
"Ahh... you are?"
"My name is also Meep."
"You made a deal with my ancestor. All of us are named Meep 'for the lolz' you said."
"Ah... right."
"That was quite funny."
"What is it this time?"
"The Sect has entered a war. All rank 3 and 4's are to go to the frontline to support the rank 2's.
"Really?"
"Yep."
I'm not going to lie.
I've been itching to fight some battles.
Especially with the discounts of having 4 templates as a rank 3!