Grandmaster Vredral glanced at Crixus and Athena as he had a carefully pondering expression on his face, turning to the disciples who had just taken down another Chaos Behemoth and were steadily purifying the Domain Realm Origin Core before they began absorbing its powerful essence for themselves.
He knew that the forced increase in the realms of these beings was not necessarily the best, but their bodies seemed to be able to particularly handle this ordeal as they continued battling with the powerful Behemoths!
He expected these two students to soon enter the Domain Expansion Realm themselves, but this was where hardship would begin, as treasures to push the power of those at this realm were exceedingly rare, causing the situation that had occurred when he requested more resources and actually could not be provided with any.
A solution was under way, but his students would have to work hard to get through an ordeal before they could continue advancing at such a rapid pace again.
His heart was at peace as he thought about the other beings considered Special Existences and those with Noble Fates. He truly believed in his heart that Crixus and Athena had the most potential and stood above them all! Now, the only thing for them to do was to show this to the higher echelons…
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As events continued to be propelled forward around his main body, Noah's clone was the one being the most productive these past few days.
His main body continued to move with the Righteous Fire Exploration Team as they went deeper in the Northern Region of the Celestial Realm, coming face to face with powerful Domain Expansion Realm Chaos Behemoths.
Since they were at the Domain Rank, each time they faced a Behemoth, the Grandmaster had to be present to cancel the powerful Domain they could cast, otherwise Noah and the others would fall into a Domain of Chaos as the fate energy in their bodies became restricted, eventually falling into the deadly hands of the beasts.
Though at the rate they were going, Noah knew he and Athena would reach the Domain Expansion Realm soon enough and be able to provide their own Domains!
A majority of the materials and Cores from the defeated Behemoths continued to be distributed to him and Athena, their titles continuing to benefit them greatly, even though he knew a limit for the benefits of these titles was soon coming. As for what would happen after that? He would take it as it came.
While his main body continued to build up his Rank and get used to the spectacular new abilities of the next stage of [Fate's Guardian], the path of the [Unruly Guider], his clone had been using the Dual Cultivation method the past two days to break past the barriers of one hundred thousand in both the Supreme Laws of Fate and Chaos!
Noah had noticed that ever since the initiation of the Golden Guider ability that influenced the beings in the world he was connected to even more closely, he had become able to gain more and more Fate Lines at a rapid rate.
The effects of [Golden Guider] did not just extend to increasing the power of the multitude of beings he was connected to, but it went even further to increase the rate he improved in the law of fate as his influence over these many beings increased by a huge factor!
This effect was slowly causing a trickle of Fate Lines to converge towards him constantly, with him believing that it would gradually even increase over time as the beings he affected increased their strength and propagated throughout the worlds in the future.
This boost of Fate Lines from multiple sources and the Dual Cultivation method allowed for him to break through the barrier of 100,000 milestone with ease.
100,000!
The benchmark that marked a Celestial as a Grandmaster, and the place which allowed him to see a 1% next to the Laws of Chaos and Fate on his stat panel.
His Chaos Particles were hanging slightly over 104,000, with his Fate Lines shooting further ahead as even though he divided his time equally in increasing both the laws, he was originally ahead with Fate Lines by almost thirty thousand and now gained a greater amount because of the effects of [Golden Guider], which put his total number currently at 130,000 Fate Lines.
Such a number could only be achieved by tens if not hundreds of years by heavily dedicated practicing Celestials, and he had gotten it done in a few days while also keeping himself busy with other tasks.
His forces had entered a period of rapid strengthening because of the boost of [Golden Guider], the addition of the aura of fate on their bodies granting them a level of damage that decimated their enemies.
Even Noah himself thought he was still underestimating the effects of the Guider skill as it seemed like the stage of strength of many beings across the Worlds he was connected to were being boosted to a whole other level.
In the Spiritual World, the beasts were moving with vigor as they enjoyed the resplendent farmlands across the continental landmasses, many of the Spiritual World Beasts leaving lives of luxury as they cultivated and enjoyed essence filled fruits and medicinal herbs.
The paradisiacal looking Spiritual World that had four floating continents on top of the enormous central one was an environment that even the richest kings would not be able to come across, the levels of atmospheric essence in this world being off the charts. This wasn't to even mention one of the continents now being fully changed to a land of fire, coagulation of fire elements being abundant as it was fully turned into a Fire Law Space.
This allowed for the birth of new Spiritual World Beasts that were not of the Water Element, the advent of fiery beasts coming to be in the expansive Spiritual World!
There always seemed to be new and exciting things to observe in this Spiritual World as Noah unlocked more and more of its secrets.
There was also the recently unlocked plants which granted boosts to the Law of Fire and the Law of Water being already planted in the Time Space of the Spiritual World, Noah moving to use his Budding Farmer skill as he reduced the growth and maturing rate of the plants by a large margin, expecting them to be ready for consumption in a matter of weeks and not years!
On the side of the Blacksmith's Forge, he had already collected more than enough Chaos Materials, being able to craft a full Set Item from the Chaos Element. He planned to craft a full one some time later, and for now, he was going to upgrade a skill tree he looked forward to seeing the next stage of for a while.
That's right, the Lesser Cthulhu skill tree was ready for an advancement to the next stage!
The ability that made it possible for him to gain the qualification of an Infernal Lord in the beginning, the one that seemed to be surrounded by mysteries- it advancements were slowly opening themselves up in front of his eyes.
Chapter 430 - [Kin of Terror], Bold!
Noah's clone was currently in a random location in the void of space, his gaze looking over the stat panel that showed two possibilities of where he could take the Lesser Cthulhu skill tree.
[Amorphous Space Beast] (15/15) :: Abilities- Spatial Cage(5/5), Destabilize(5/5), Shattered Star(5/5), and Miniature Space(5/5). >> [Lesser Cthulhu] (45/45)Additional Abilities- Morph(5/5), Child of Space(5/5), Portals of Terror(5/5), and Sever(5/5). Two Skill Trees for evolution are possible once sufficient points and a base requirement of two equivalent level sacrificial skills are reached: >> [Void Colossus] :: A pathway geared towards enhancing the control of space, granting a form deserving of the name. >> [Kin of Terror] :: A fledgling of a powerful existence with unique traits. Its true value lies in its future possibilities.
Two possibilities lied in front of his eyes as he read over them carefully, understanding that his choices would determine whether he reached a stage of something he had gained an insignificant amount of knowledge about so far.
The pathway of [Void Colossus] seemed to provide more battle power, especially the mention of having a form deserving of the name. The [Kin of Terror] pathway was worded similarly to the upgrade of the Blood Lord that led to the Kin of Ancients, making Noah lean more towards this choice, along with the glaring shining words that read 'Terror'!
He chose
the [Kin of Terror] pathway right away as the words in the stat panel shone, an additional set of abilities being added. He briefly glanced over them with shining eyes before he placed all the Skill Points into the abilities, wanting to see their most powerful versions right away.
SOUL [Amorphous Space Beast] (15/15) :: Abilities- Spatial Cage(5/5), Destabilize(5/5), Shattered Star(5/5), and Miniature Space(5/5). >> [Lesser Cthulhu] (45/45) :: Additional Abilities- Morph(5/5), Child of Space(5/5), Portals of Terror(5/5), and Sever(5/5). [Kin of Terror] (60/60) :: Additional Abilities- Aether Reinforcement (5/5), Multiplicative Ray Support (5/5), Triple on Cast Support (5/5), Lunacy Inducement (5/5)
[Aether Reinforcement] (5/5) :: All of the abilities preceding and following the Kin of Terror Skill Tree will be reinforced by the power of Aether passively. +300% Aether Damage, +100% Aether Penetration, +60% Fate and Chaos Damage Reduction.
[Multiplicative Ray Support] (5/5) :: Laser-based abilities similar to [Sever] will be further enhanced, the released rays of Aether increasing to 6 as their power is tripled.
[Triple on Cast Support] (5/5) :: The [Portals of Terror] ability is further enhanced, where there is an 80% chance to triple the appearance of portals of terror on cast, bringing the possible maximum cast portals to 54.
[Lunacy Inducement] (5/5) :: Those with weak minds cannot stand against the Kin of Terror. Lunacy Inducement allows for the user to bring their enemies into a negative mental state as they are slowly left defenseless. The effectiveness of this ability depends on the Soul Strength of the target as well as the user.
The additional abilities under the Lesser Cthulhu skill tree were proudly showing themselves in front of Noah as he read them over a few times. There were a few differences compared to previous additional skills as two of the new ones were called support skills that simply enhanced the previous skills to an insane degree.
[Multiplicative Ray Support] and [Triple of Cast] support effectively made the Sever and Portals of Terror abilities nonsensical at this moment, even Noah himself not being able to understand the extent until he tested them out himself. Even without having tested them though, their usability already seemed ridiculous! He wiped non-existent sweat off his forehead as he thought about any pitiful enemies that would have to face such terrifyingly enhanced abilities.
[Aether Reinforcement] was straightforward, and the only one that would need more time and a closer look in was the [Lunacy Inducement] ability which seemed to have its own terrific uses.
He wanted to test these abilities right away, and would very likely have the chance to in the next task that he had the clone lined up to do!
The Ancient Blood Clone that was still floating peacefully in the void of space got ready as his body rippled with power. For his next task, it was considered something bold as while his main body continued to move through the ranks of Celestials and got stronger in the Celestial Realm, the clone's task was to increase the number of connected worlds amidst the training of skills and amassing of Chaos Particles and Fate Lines!
It was a very busy and non-stop past few days for his clone, but not even an ounce of tiredness could be felt as he always looked forward to the next steps.
For the first world in mind, and this was also the reason why he called the next set of events bold- it was to form a connection with the Magus World that he had personally taken the lives of its strongest forces, this world now currently having celestial disciples moving within as from the words of Grandmaster Vredral, it was being used as a place for them to hone their skills in fate while influencing the lives of the beings in it.
This meant that in the Magus World, there was a high chance of there being a Grandmaster that was overseeing the operations for the world that had the massacre of its strongest forces broadcasted, and his plans of forming a connection with the world would undoubtedly cause him to come in contact with whatever force the Celestials had stationed there!
Thus, he would have to move covertly in order to establish the connection, clear out any Celestials he found there, and then do something even crazier as his teleportation currently was leading him towards his homeworld where he would be picking up something the Celestials called a Cursed Treasure, something that they used as the reason to destroy an entire world.
He considered this next venture bold as he would ultimately be pulling off a disappearing act for an entire Prime World by the end of it...
Chapter 431 - World Engine
Noah's Ancient Blood Clone appeared serenely back in his homeworld, above the wide blue seas as he took a deep breath and glanced towards his surroundings. He took in the calmness as his body began descending down into the sea, moving at such a speed that in only a matter of seconds, he could already see the shining lights of an underwater continent that was the New Atlantis.
He observed the unique futuristic mixture of magic and technology that the Atlantians and Merfolk showed, the appeal of such structures returning to him as he made a mental note to have an entire area in the Spiritual World built similarly.
His presence was already sensed the moment he neared the underwater continent, the being that he had sent a telepathic message some time ago already floating in the lit-up sea with a party of Atlantians and Merfolk to welcome him.
"O Great Benefactor, we have everything ready."
The one at the forefront, the being that continued acting as the Ocean Master these past few months, bowed towards Noah while pointing to a huge square compartment that shone with blue and gold runic lines.
Before he teleported here, Noah had sent a telepathic message to the Ocean Master to have one of the World Engines that had finished being created ready for him to take away for his own use, and the Ocean Master had delivered as Noah could sense the pristine fluctuations of something powerful in the square compartment!
He nodded towards the Ocean Master while speaking.
"May I?"
"Why of course. This is one of our most recent ones that runs even smoother, a few changes made to the rune overlays that allows the flow of mana to be evenly distributed and even faster, achieving the result of spatial warping in a much shorter time frame."
The Ocean Master spoke with a confident expression as Noah went forward, waving his hands and opening the square compartment as a circular treasure that seemed to constantly have runic lines moving over it shone resplendently.
{World Engine} :: A unique treasure that was created by the combination of technology and magic by the Atlantians. It allows for the spatial warping of an entire world, and requires the permission and cooperation of the will of the world itself before it can be operated. The user must be standing with the World Engine in the innermost core of the targeted world before it can be activated.
A description that foretold exactly what to do with the world engine floated in front of his face as he nodded, waving his hands as the entire square compartment containing the Wold Engine entered his [Expansive Space].
"Amazing work as always. I can't wait to see what other innovations you come up with."
He gave a light smile to the Atlantians that could sense the overwhelmingness of his power, the Ocean Master bowing again as he spoke out.
"Whatever we can do to help. Please let us know if we can be of use at any time."
Noah nodded towards the Ocean Master as he gave another glance to the continuously expanding futuristic underwater world around him, his figure disappearing thereafter as he made his way to the Magus World!
The moment he left, huge sighs and breaths of relief as bubbles from the Atlanteans and Merfolk as it felt like they could finally breathe after an instance of meeting that powerful figure. One of the Merfolk turned towards the Ocean Master as he asked with an ashen expression.
"Sire, are you sure that is the same Benefactor?!"
The Ocean Master had a relaxed face as he glanced at his subordinates and nodded, even he not being able to completely withstand the overwhelming aura the being that had just disappeared released!
/> It wasn't that his rank and power were overflowing freely for all to see, they actually could not even guess what realm their Benefactor was at as his body did not release any essence fluctuations. What filled them with the overwhelming sensation was his eyes! Whenever he glanced at them, they felt like his eyes could see through everything they had, having a level of power capable of decimating them in an instant.
The relaxed expression on the face of the Ocean Master only increased as he affirmed that they had allied themselves with a powerful being, his forces never having to fear for their lives again!
"Let's go. I want to see if we can finish the Plasma Warship in the next few weeks. As soon as we are able to get the inscriptions correctly, we can produce many working ones quickly!"
The innovators of Atlantis returned to their underwater kingdom as they went about their work, their Benefactor appeared on the surface of the Magus world silently, his body not releasing even an ounce of energy.
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The Magus World was a huge Prime World that held billions of powerful Magi, their power being something that many forces feared in the past. But this power would forever remain in the past as their strongest organization had gotten decimated some time ago!
Currently, the Inhabitants of the Magus World felt a sense of loss as even though their lives were gradually returning to normal, they felt a stifling sensation in their hearts as they never became able to reclaim the sense of identity as beings of a powerful Prime World.
This was especially so when the Celestials, those responsible for carrying out the decimation of their strongest forces in the first place, were freely descending on their world as they seemed to be helping the many scattered forces and organizations come together and bring back an ordered Prime World.
A few days ago, a Celestial Warship that was a level lower than a Prime Warship had docked on the central lands of the Magus, a Grandmaster that brought along a few Celestial Disciples just beginning in the study of the Law of Fate coming along as he also monitored the evolving situation of the Magus World.
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