Chapter 18: Seed
The island had a fatal attraction to the abyss, abyssal fog and force filled up the island and from the perception of the seed, this island was an excellent breeding ground.
Before the island phantom disappeared, the seed jumped through the void landing close to the entry point.
It locked onto a monster in the island and attempted to jump using it as a medium but just before the seed could take this step, a palm sized mirror reflected it figure rejecting it from entering the plane. The seed was not discouraged at all, it only floated on the spot quietly, when the phantom appeared again it would not fail.
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Lucian’s sea of consciousness and spirit body became more vibrant has each day passed, Aaron already told them that they only needed to advance and not think of anything else. His continous meditation brought results due to being rewarded twice for the same effort has others.
Surprisingly, Reina became even more proficient in the moon path abilities since they came out to the second exploration of the maze mirror. She always requested training from Aaron and he always obliged.
Adam despite seemingly having an average aptitude had high compatibility for the star path. Lucian wanted to improve his abilities faster but he also knew he couldn’t rush.
He could be crazy in other things but he couldn’t destroy the source of his strength.
His mind kept passively forgetting something ever since they returned from the team vault but he felt that it was a good thing. The words he saw on the beauty sun doll were horrifying, he had a feeling they had more danger than he could bear so he wanted to avoid it.
“The shadow of the name Dell keeps ringing, I wonder what kind of creature it is to keep giving me this oppressive feeling whenever I think of it.
I won’t go near that doll until I can’t hold on the summoning force. Sometimes knowledge without the strength to move forward can be infuriating.”
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Weimar Valencia calmly absorbed moon energy while staring at the mutated moon painting in front of him, he received this painting from his partner the week before and he could only marvel at it effect. The Weimar everyone met, smiled and talked with was the clone he had a long time ago, sometimes, he replaced Weimar in order to get hold of information.
The old ancestor of the Valencia family was a person that was fiercely loyal to the glory shelter and he wielded a rank 4 artifact, fighting him without a plan would be suicidal.
He followed lord Dell not because of the other party display of strength but because he knew that he most likely had surpass the barrier of rank 4. If a chance came for him, he wanted to rise above the rank limitations turning him into a true powerhouse.
He was quite curious on what and where the exploration team explored and how they ended like that but no matter how many places be checked, he couldn’t find the answer.
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“It might either be concealment or the use of an artifact to actively erase any attempt to find out.”
He also read on the hypothesis of the diamond crystals being the secret of the advancement to rank ɍ but he also knew how dangerous it was. Multiple attempts only had one outcome- becoming monsters. He did not believe he had better luck and ability than those that died but in the records, it also mentioned that they became stronger.
He already used the shadow clone skill twice, one clone died in a bizarre manner and it location unknown while the other was Weimar Valencia that everyone knew. He normally could only learn the shadow clone mutated skill because any attempt to learn or use other skills after learning the shadow clone skill with it requirement of splitting both mental and spirit energy was almost equivalent to suicide. The clone formed from this skill can be said to be an independent lifeform, this also means that the runes in his consciousness were not complete. Even if they were he would suffer from dissociation of he could not handle the effect of splitting himself.
The death of the clone and also the clone being missing made him give up the idea of developing a new clone, he wanted to find a chance to learn a new moon path skill.
The moon painting gave him a chance of achieving his goals.
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The runes, symbols and patterns in an awakened provides knowledge and guidance on how to use their abilities. As they advance further, there is a corresponding change in the sea of consciousness and spirit body, this makes them attuned to their path abilities.
For a normal person, he can only walk in the sun, feel the heat but cannot gather or turn this heat into a lethal weapon. The awakening in a path will attune the awakened to this mysterious force giving them the ability to annex them.
The old abilities are strengthened, new runes form for each advancement leading to acquiring new abilities and powers. The spirit, soul and consciousness are then made more attuned to their new ranks. Exhausting the energy stored from meditation is difficult because when facing an enemy one cannot defeat, they could always escape.
While the runes gave clear knowledge on what abilities they provided they were mostly one dimensional, one rune represented one ability, the symbols and the patterns formed a cycle to complete a full path symbol that we know now aa the sun, moon, planet or world and stars.
Mutated skills were gotten from seeing mutated artifacts that combined abilities from different paths together. Due to the runes in the sea of consciousness only provided an ability for each rune, the awakened found a way to split a rune without destroying it original function and after suppressing this split rune with their mental strength they added another split rune to form a new type of rune that could be cast instantly.
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Mercury travelled at a high speed leaving star trails that swiftly disappeared along the way, he did not directly teleport despite being in the periphery of the abyss because he was showing off his strength to those monsters watching him.
Rank 0 monsters on this segment of the abyss couldn’t take action because they were repressed by the planets and high level clans rank 0s.
“The abyssal dragon that Kumar beat up must have seen something that made it stay there or maybe it just couldn’t leave.
Could it be that what affected the dragon lord Longwei and the other rank 0s also affected this abyssal dragon? He found this quite incredulous, the desert that the dragon stayed in for so long was in a desolate part of the planet, it was quite reasonable that everyone forgot about this place.
Why did this desert that could affect rank 0s until Kumar came to shake it up also affect abyssal forces? I only need to to find out about the damned dragon and part of the answers I need will be provided then.
Just as he was about to use his star path ability to navigate the abyss, a small seed showed up in his peripheral vision. He immediately froze, he nearly jumped into a chaotic part of the void. When he removed his eyes, he couldn’t feel the seed in his perception at all.
“Something has really gone wrong, how can this seed escape my perception, it seems to have the effect of making those near it forget about it existence, what is this dense corrosive aura on it!.”
He did not wait for the seed to catch up, his body turned into a torrent of starlight that drilled into the chaotic void. The abyss stired violently as he tore through it. Mercury’s speed without using star path blink and teleportation could almost match a sun warrior.