Chapter 190: You Have Grown

Elias sighed, but he knew he needed more time to experiment to find out more about what his Void Paradox might need for its growth. It may be that he was just feeding it the wrong diet, or he needed much more powerful prey.

The good news was that despite feeding the Rune Beast to his Paradox Vessel, he was able to gain 34 points of vitality from the fight, pushing his already insane Vitality higher, and Elias did not have to close his eyes to feel the thrumming of his Elder Talent. He had grown through this fight, and until the trial was over, he would be able to harvest his gains.

Leaving the best for last, he had just gained a stupendous increase in his Crimson Vein Dominion Legacy, as his vein completion had shot up so drastically from the single fight with the Rune Beast.

Elias’s eyes widened when he went through his memories at the end, although he was nearly blind from the blood that covered his vision after he transformed his head into a pincushion, it seemed that the burning rune from the Alpha wolf had slipped into his body after its death.

The abilities of this beast were related to sharpness and blood, and his powerful plate armor, and his durability was almost useless before its might. Without all of his extra abilities, his survival rate would have plummeted to zero, despite having the physical capabilities of a Mist Phantom.

At the moment, he could feel a slight tension through his body, as if his veins had been stretched to their limits, and Elias understood that this was one unique effect of his body that had been transformed by his Elder Talent.

His Crimson Vein Dominion had been enhanced to 35%, but those changes had not yet happened, not unless he allowed the waves of power that had built inside his Elder Talent to remake his body.

This was a great advantage to Elias because he did not want any unexpected changes to happen to his body in the middle of a fight, and he would like to be in top shape before he pushed his body to such a level in a rather short time.

The memory of the pain and danger he had faced during the first forging of his flesh had not been forgotten, and he expected that when his Crimson Vein grew by 35%, it would cause great distress to his body, and he would need all the healing power from his talent to survive it.

More than this, this event had just shown him a shortcut to supercharge the forging of his flesh, and he knew that it was not by coincidence. Nothing about this trail was random, and the Commander was simply showing him how much knowledge she had of the world. The only thing was that Elias would have appreciated it more if she had told him first, before, you know, throwing him into the jaws of the wolves.

Now that he knew that he could complete the forging of his flesh by absorbing the runes from Rune Beasts with similar attributes to his active legacies, Elias figured that the reason the progress for his vein completion for his Void Scripture was so slow was that he required materials or prey related to the void.

This might be a problem, but a problem for later; his trial had not ended.

Elias checked through the tattered remnants of his clothes. Lyssa would not be happy that her work had been destroyed in this manner, but he was a Siphon entering dangerous situations; all of these were just the casualties of the game.

He saw that the two items he had carried were still safe, and he breathed a sigh of relief. It would be funny if he failed his trial because of this, and he tucked them back into what remained of his vest and turned around and looked at the still lake behind him.

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Commander Yseult watched Elias fight and kill a Rune Beast at the Mist Phantom level when he was just a Fury Forge. If he were brought to the Central Continent Academies for Ascendant Candidates, this result should easily place him among the top ten thousand. Although there were many things that came into consideration when compiling this list, it still placed Elias in a very favourable position… but she knew that this was not enough.

The boy had bitten off more than he could chew; he had too many scattered legacies inside of him, and for there to be any possibility of fusion, she needed to apply force, the sort of force that would either mold him into something greater than anything she had seen or crush him into nothing.

Reaching into her Lumina Space, she took out a strange bronze cube that had countless spots of white and black dots on it. Her eyes became solemn as she peered at this cube.

She bit her thumb, and a drop of blood dropped on the center of the cube, and it began to glow before slowly expanding until it was ten times its previous size, and it hovered before her.

The countless white and black dots began to glow, forming exoteric maps that she knew represented Fate and Possibilities, and much more.

Looking closely at the cube, there was a single line that was weaving through the white dots and avoiding the black. This line had always followed the white dots until recently, when it began passing through the white and black dots.

Originally, this line was white, and it turned gray. This was where Commander Yseult wanted the path for this line to be.

This line… was Elias.

Not even the Bone Singers knew she had this cube, because it should not exist, as the last of them were supposed to have been destroyed during the time of the gods, but Yseult had been able to acquire this cube after an immense sacrifice, and everything that had happened up to this point was only possible because of it.

Stone Monkey had been amazed that she had been able to awaken the Void Bloodline of that race inside the body of Elias, and she had given him a half-truth about pushing the child to limits that Stone Monkey did not consider, but that was far from the entire truth, this cube had been the key… the Heart of the Forge… the first Alchemistry Crystal.

Her mind could not help but return to almost two thousand years ago, when she had walked among bodies and a shattered fortress that was falling from the sky.

She had been grievously wounded, missing an arm with a large hole blown through her torso that had destroyed her heart and barely missed her core. She had attacked this fortress alone despite the fact that it held an Angel of equal power alongside seven thousand of his loyal men.

The secret could only be known by her, and everyone else had to die. Commander Yseult could feel from the pull of gravity that in less than two minutes, the fortress that patrolled the heavens would soon be crashing to the earth, but her steps were not unhurried, and finally she saw her target ahead, kneeling, his vast white wings, six of them, had been cut off, and was beside him.

His beautiful golden eyes looked up at her when he heard the sound of her footsteps drawing near, and he smiled, “Daughter… you have grown.”

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