If he wanted to progress in both of them at the same rate as he divided his attention to both, this number would simply be halved as he would need to focus on Chaos one day and Fate another day. And once one took into account that he would be doing other things besides isolating himself for a full 24 hours during the day, maybe it would be possible to amass half a million of both Fate Lines and Chaos Particles every month.
This was an increase of roughly 5% in two Supreme Laws simultaneously every month...a terrifying thought that would horrify any knowledgeable being!
Chapter 416 - A World Core!
As terrifying calculations were carried out in Noah's mind, his Ancient Blood Clone had finished his pill making session as he observed the swirling of different colored essence around the 10 Spiritual Land Beasts.
He spread his senses out as he monitored the continued strengthening of other beings on the wide Spiritual Land.
The numerous portals lying stably in the Underground area he was in pulsated with colorful lights as those given permission would occasionally enter the Spiritual Land while an individual like Steel Mikhail would enter and live freely as he moved to do his job on the blue planet and then returned to cultivate in the Spiritual Land.
After observing everything moving smoothly, the clone disappeared from the Time Space of the Spiritual Land as he let the Spiritual Land Beasts finish their breakthrough into the Soul Forging Realm, leaving behind numerous essence pulsating pills and cores for them to continue absorbing!
He performed a long distance teleportation this time as enormous amounts of mana was used, his body reappearing in the wide expanse of space not too far away from his homeworld.
The Ancient Blood Clone glanced at the small blue world that only he could currently see, the [World Veil] he had cast on this world and the other ones he was connected to long ago still active and hiding the world from any passing eyes.
The world in front of his eyes was already nearing the position of a Prime World as it continued the powerful feedback of essence from the many worlds it was connected to, especially the Ancient Blood World that was an entire Realm sometime in the past.
Yet this powerful and expansive world still seemed so small as he looked at it from an extremely far distance, his body continuing to move away from this blue planet as his target this time was not to check up on all the advancements that had happened so far, but to search for viable worlds he could pluck the cores of in the surrounding area!
This was something that even his own mind just a few months ago would never have been able to fathom.
The fact that someone like him could be traversing through space actually looking for a viable world to steal an entire world core and possibly destroy such a world was something extremely foreign to him, yet now about to become a reality.
His body moved across space as the [Child of Space] ability from the Lesser Cthulhu skill tree made him feel like he was in the most comfortable possible environment. His body was shooting through the vastness of space at a shocking speed, the tremendous boosts that he received from his many passive skills made it so that his speed and power was already nearing those at the Domain Expansion Realm!
He could only confidently say this when it came to those at the normal level of the Domain Expansion Realm, and this was not putting into account the Celestial Grandmasters themselves like Vredral.
He continued moving across the vastness of space as he wandered across the void looking for specific stars. The one that he was looking for was a small world that would not have any inhabitants, potentially a world that had a harsh environment that no organisms could survive in.
His heart was not fully set out to be a destroyer where he would without reservations take the core of a small world that was filled with life forms similar to his own homeworld just a few months ago, even with all the knowledge he currently held.
He did not travel far before he came upon a world filled with elemental storms and chaotic energies. It was neither a large nor a middle world, being a perfectly small world that was uninhabited by any other beings. The rough storms always raging on the surface of this world and in the skies above it making it an uninhabitable star in this wide area.
His eyes honed in on this world as he began shooting down towards it at a high speed. He felt a slight resistance as his level was so much higher than this world, but these protections were nearly nothing when it came to someone who wielded the immense energy coming from multiple stars.
He quickly pierced through the many layers that a small world would have for protection as he entered its atmosphere, and then continued shooting down towards its earth!
BOOM!
His body pierced through the layers of frozen Earth, this world holding unique qualities of destructive storms above it and frozen earth below it. Because of his extremely fast speed, he began nearing the inner core of this world in less than a few minutes.
SHAA!
He broke through the innermost layer where the core of the entire world laid as he glanced upon these slowly rotating ovular shape in front of him.
[...]
A period of silence followed as Noah looked upon this rotating core of this unknown small world, where he heard a cold static voice thereafter.
[What are you?]
The small world coldly asked this question in a manner and tone of voice that Noah was used to hearing throughout these past few months. He impassively focused on the core of this small world as he took in its words and replied calmly.
"I would apologize to you in advance. For this is something that I do have a choice on, and I am choosing to do it regardless of its consequences in order to further my own goals. It is even somewhat hypocritical."
His voice was that of conflict as he had made sure to look for a specific world, one that didn't have any life on it, one where he would not be taking or reaping the lines of billions. But still, there was one entity that would have to be affected no matter what he did.
This entity was the world itself.
He glanced upon the small world core that did not reply after it heard Noah's words. It's vast senses telling it that something inexplicable would be happening here today. Noah moved without any further forethought as he threw his hands out and placed them on the powerful core of this Small World as he uttered simple words.
[Devouring].
RUMBLE!
For the first time ever, in actuality and in totality, he had cast the skill from the Seven Deadly Sins, from the Sin of Gluttony- He had cast [Devouring] on an actual world!
OOONG!
A cloud of darkness went on to wrap around the rotating world core, it's manner was that as if a beast had opened its jaws and was rapidly closing in on this resplendent core. Devouring was fully cast as the cloud of darkness had circled the entire core of the Small World in front of Noah, with essence beginning to leak out of the body of the clone nonsensically as the target of devouring was an actual world this time around, not just an enemy that was at the mythical or a legendary rank, but an entire core of a small world!
RUMBLE!
Essence leaked out of him with wild abandon as the entire surroundings of the small world were shaking. At this moment in time something that had rarely occurred in history was happening, where one existence that was on an entirely different tier from another was doing something unexplainable!
The process of essence continuing to leave his body recklessly went on for a few minutes before everything went silent and the darkness that was wrapping around the core of the small world rapidly began to reduce in size as Noah began to see cracks appearing on the layers of earth around them.
CRACK!
At the moment that the small world core fully disappeared and the devouring skill had successfully done its job and devoured an entire core of a small world, space shattered and began folding in on itself!
This destruction continued spreading throughout the area of the inner core that Noah was in, his figure teleporting out o
f the area as he began to see notifications of messages from the Planetary System Discerning the exact results of his actions.
He appeared in the space above the uninhabitable planet that was filled with even more destructive storms as he looked at the visible result of his actions.
CRACK! CRACK! BOOM!
In front of the already destructive world, cracks were visibly spreading all around the spherical planet, the instability of a world without a core being visible in front of Noah's eyes as he went on to watch the destruction of something that he had caused with his own hands.
BOOM! BOOM!
Space shattered and refolded as the world had a force rapidly pulling itself in near the center of the missing core before it exploded outwards as a supernova!
Shards of the planet began to spread out far and wide as in front of Noah's eyes, the storms gradually reduced and calmness slowly returned, the only thing left behind in front of him was palpitating destructive essence and floating debris over the wide area of space.
[A Small World Core has been obtained.]
[Error. Analyzing. Error.]
[...]
From the void of space, numerous Chaos Particles had begun appearing as they willingly fell upon Noah the chaos and destruction he had caused being rewarded as a few hundred Chaos Particles were added unto his already abundant amount. The Planetary System was also sending various messages as the results of devouring a Small World Core were slowly unfolding in front of his eyes!
Chapter 417 - Possibilities
In the [Large Stomach] that was created from the abilities of the Sin of Gluttony, an ovular world core was floating stably as the essence of gluttony tried to absorb it ever so slowly.
Noah felt these changes as he gave a command, everything going silent in the large stomach with the messages of the Planetary System continuing to ring out and float in front of his eyes!
[Analyzing.]
[The devoured Core is an entirely separate entity compared to you.]
[There is a high rate of failure if you try to absorb the Small World Core.]
[Two options exist after the successful devouring of a world core. The first is to use the core as a basis to upgrade a Spiritual Land. The second is to use the world core as the basis to upgrade the levels of the connected worlds. You cannot personally gain benefits from it as it is an entirely different plane of existence compared to you.]
Noah listened to these words as he nodded, his thoughts just being affirmed as he had already looked at this possibility while using <
He would not have been able to even fathom if he could somehow obtain quantifiable or actual benefits from him actually absorbing the core of an entire world. Unlike him, a world did not have statistical values. It did not have vitality, strength, or focus. Nor did it have any skills or abilities. It was an entity that was bound by the universal laws!
It was him that was an anomaly! It was him that had stepped out of the bounds of his existence and actually intruded upon the existence that was a world, being able to actually devour its Core through using the large reserves of mana that he was borrowing from the many worlds he was already connected to.
He thought of the two options that the planetary system had laid out for the possibilities on what to do with world cores as at this moment, he was focusing on the first one. The use of the world core to fulfilling the requirement that the Spiritual Land needed!
In the void of space, Noah's clone glanced at the destruction that he had caused, the debris of an entire star floating around him as he began to disappear in particles of light.
He reappeared in the underground space of the Spiritual Sand as he looked in the Time Space where multiple beasts had already broken into the Soul Forging Realm.
The emperor penguin was of course the first, with the Arctic Wolf and the Polar Bear following there after, where now only two of the spiritual beasts had yet to finish their breakthroughs!
Noah waited patiently as he thought about his recent actions, his heart not wavering one bit.
To make sure that no problems occurred for what he was about to do he teleported out of the spiritual land and made sure that everyone was contained in it, leaving behind the ancient pedestal that held the Inheritance of the Disciple of Fire as he used anchor to place the spiritual land on his body where he then disappeared once again from the volcanic mountain.
This time when he reappeared, he was actually near the Ancient Blood World that stood at the junction between the Light and Dark Expanse. This was an area that he knew very few beings would be passing by as he laid out this spiritual land in the vastness of space and let it bloom to its full size!
The spiritual land that could have been considered a floating city multiple tiers ago could now already be called a country in itself. Noah always messed around with the spiritual land's size regulation feature, so he never really let it bloom to its full size in the past months, with the spiritual land almost always remaining miniaturized as he moved along with it.
This time around he was in the vastness of space as he let the spiritual land freely get to what could be considered its size at the eighth tier. The enormous floating landmass bloomed further and further as Noah's figure slowly became the size of an ant. The spiritual land itself continued to expand while he pulled back further and further to observe its enormous size.
When he made some quick calculations as the fantastical landmass that was holding its large shade of white color and still keeping to its name as the Frozen Plateau Spiritual Land, he found that it was approximately around one thousand miles in size!
This was a landmass that had been obtained in the Frozen Kingdom of the Beast World. At that time this landmass was only a few tens of miles long being something that floated in the skies near the frozen kingdom.
Yet now, the Spiritual Land had grown to a size of over 1,000 miles, and from what Noah expected, after the upgrade to the ninth tier that actually required the core of a small world, this Spiritual Land was about to get even bigger!
RUMBLE!
He glanced at spiritual land management As he saw under the Upgrade Conditions for the number of beasts to reach 10 had turned green. For the requirement of a small world core, it had also turned green!
The spiritual land could already sense a core of a small world on the body of its master, and the requirements could be considered completed as now all that was needed was an immense amount of energy and essence in order to initiate the upgrade from the eight tier and into the ninth tier.
This was an upgrade that required the core of a small world, so what exactly would be the boons of it come out of it? What exactly would the possible Locked feature that was listed as [Division] for this next stage of the spiritual land hold in store?!
Noah wasted no further time as he looked at the mystically floating landmass that stably stood in space, his thoughts already moving to initiate the upgrade to the 9th Tier!
Chapter 418 - An Upgrade of Enormous Significance!
The mystical spiritual land floated in the vastness of space near the junction of the light expanse in the Dark Expanse it had a blue light film of light covering it in its entirety, making sure that it acted as a protective barrier between the suffocating space and the beings that were currently within the spiritual land. To them, the environment had changed from the red blazing earth and lava that was the volcanic mountain that they were under, and now when they looked to the skies of the spiritual land all they could see was the expanse of space!
Some of the more knowledgeable beings in the spiritual land knew that something grand was about to happen. This was even more so for the beings that had followed Noah the longest, as the Calamities of the Sea, along with Barbatos, Kazuhiko, Steel Mikhail, and many others that cl.u.s.tered near the center of the spiritual land where Noah had built the most pristine buildings while using the [Architecture] feature of the spiritual land.
While a majority of the beings gathered here, the emperor peng
uin appeared in the skies of the spiritual land, his brothers and sisters not too far behind him as the 10 of them looked out into the void of space, barely being able to see Noah's clone through their connection that they held to this Spiritual Land Master.
Their bodies had the aurora of having just broken through to the Soul Forging Realm, completing one of the requirements as they simply waited for yet another resplendent upgrade to occur in the land that they were born in. They had a deep trust in their master, and simply bid their time as they waited for the event to start!
Noah's clone was staring at this fantastical sight that was a spiritual land as he put aside his thoughts and commanded the item that was contained in the large stomach ability of the Sin of Gluttony.
Right in front of him, the sizable core of a Small World appeared, not rotating anymore as it floated stably in space. Noah's thoughts then went to the {Spiritual Land Management} which showed the upgrade conditions as met and without further ado, he went ahead and initiated the upgrade of the spiritual land from the eighth year and into the ninth tier!
RUMBLE!
The world core that was standing next to him suddenly shot out with extreme speed as it was attracted onto the floating spiritual land, going through and easily passing through the blue film of light as it continued downwards. The soil that it was about to hit on the snowy area of a spiritual land seemingly opened up in front of this core as it continued to shoot down further and deeper into the spiritual land without any issues until it settled in a place that could be considered near the very center of the spiritual land deep in the underground area where the Time Space and the Blacksmith's Forge was located!
OOONG!
In the vastness of space, the spiritual land began rumbling with energy as from Noah's body, a ridiculous amount of mana began flowing out. The spiritual land itself was using the atmospheric essence it held along with the energies in the void of space and dropping them towards its center as the process of upgrading the spiritual land from the eighth tier and the ninth tier went underway.
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