Sophia's eyes shone with l.u.s.ter as she spoke out with a smile.
"If we had been walking and stumbling in the darkness all this time, then we are about to start running forward at full throttle into a brand new era."
Simple words that were filled with hidden meanings erupted out, Steel Mikhail's calm heart shaking as he heard them, his thoughts tumultuous as he thought of the being that only an F Rank Hunter a few months ago!
"Be ready for what is to come, for we are stepping into an Era we had only thought to be possible, but never something we could realize."
Her words faded out as those around her gulped and nodded. Above them in the void of space, Noah had returned above his homeworld and Spiritual World, his gaze turning around to observe the many cl.u.s.ters of stars arranged in a circular formation all around him as he felt his heart beat remaining stable.
He felt the gravity of what he was about to do as [Unique Being] was activated, the effect of Apathy bringing him to utter calmness and serenity as he closed his eyes.
He felt the void of space and the stars around him. He felt his heart and thoughts that remained stable. He felt his very origin as he committed to advance forward, waving his hands as five sparkling Prime World cores flew out of his expansive space and rushed towards the Spiritual World!
The stage was set, the requirements met.
A grand realm full of possibilities was waiting at the other side as an event that would forever change the lives of an uncountable number of beings began.
From the Frozen Plateau Spiritual Land to the Spiritual World. Now, it would be advancing into the...
Chapter 543 - Realm Formation!
An unbelievable scene was playing itself out in a small quadrant of the light expanse. There was an enormous shimmering floating land mass that was a size larger than most prime worlds. This landmass was made of a singular central continent and four floating continents mystically floating above it.
This was the spiritual world that was currently stationed above Noah's home world! The blue planet was floating mystically below the enormous spiritual realm, and not too far from it, there were the shadows of numerous planets with each of them sharing a connection with Noah.
All of them were stationed in a circular formation as an invisible line that connected each of them went towards a singular person. This singular person was floating above all the stars as his apathetic eyes looked down towards the spiritual world that had just absorbed five prime world cores.
RUMBLE!
The entire spiritual world was trembling as the transformation had started, blue light wrapping around it in a luminous fashion. Noah closed his eyes as he sensed his connection with the spiritual world and followed along its path of the upgrade into a Realm.
An immense amount of essence was already converging towards it, and he followed all of this essence towards the core of this world, his awareness noticing the formation of a thin archaic-looking illusory door.
Yes, a door!
As the process began with this spiritual world absorbing an enormous amount of essence, the thin outline of an archaic door had actually erupted out from the core of the spiritual world, this outline rising from the depths as it shot out of the expansive world and into the void of space, coming to rest at Noah's eye level!
His closed eyes opened with a flash as he stared at the illusory door that was shimmering with mystical lights.
RUMBLE!
The entire spiritual world continued to vibrate rapidly as Noah monitored everything while sending messages to all the planetary systems connected to him.
"Be ready."
The systems of all the worlds that he was connected to had to ensure the safety of all the beings living within them from what was about to happen next. The sight was a fantastical one to see as Noah observed the spiritual world to actually start becoming smaller and smaller while gravitating towards the illusory figure of the door that had continued to expand in front of his eyes.
This was the process that the spiritual world was taking to upgrading to a realm! After the initiation an illusory door had appeared, the landmasses of the spiritual world would all be absorbed into this door as they were placed in their own spatial plane, becoming a full fledged realm thereafter!
As Noah observed one of the continents of the spiritual world getting closer to the door and being absorbed into it, he focused on his connection to his main world- the connection that was the strongest, as this connection and his will were relayed to the spiritual world. Noah was actually using this connection as a passageway as it served to identify his homeworld with a similar status to his Spiritual World, the blue light that had been covering this unique treasure since its upgrade shooting out as it went to wrap around Noah's homeworld!
This phenomenon was something that only Noah would have been able to do, as only he possessed a Spiritual World with its unique features while also sharing a connection with it and many other worlds.
This light that signified the upgrade into a realm wrapped around his homeworld as it did not just stop there, this blue light going on to jump across the expanse of space as Noah's mind focused on more and more worlds. The blue light continued towards the distant stars that he was connected to, each of them gaining a shimmering glimmer that caused for the ecstatic scene of multiple stars glowing brightly in this empty corner of Light Expanse!
The inhabitants of all of these affected worlds felt the earth rumbling beneath their feet as each of them felt a movement they had never experienced before. It felt like their worlds were spinning out of control, and yet at the same time they weren't. It felt as if they're moving forward, but at the same time, they weren't. It was a feeling that could not really be expressed in words!
The phenomenon that was occurring to the Spiritual World was now happening to all the connected worlds, each of them becoming wrapped in the bright blue light as they began to be pulled towards the illusory door in front of Noah while they rapidly reduced in size.
Noah's eyes shone with l.u.s.ter as he observed the rapid movements of enormous planets shooting towards him only to disappear the moment they came within the bounds of the illusory door.
VOOM! VOOM! VOOM!
It was such a fantastical site to see as Noah felt the many connections that he had forming into a singular powerful, strong and more robust connection. The many stars he shared connections with all rushed towards the illusory golden door as each of them disappeared, going towards a different spatial plane that even Noah did not know how the formation of it would be nor what results would come out of it.
The central continent of the spiritual world was actually the last thing to fly into this illusory door, waiting until all the chosen planets had been sucked in before it acted like a final piece, disappearing into the doorway and initiating the rest of the process as the rumbling of immense fluctuations of essence ensued!
RUMBLE!
With all the worlds absorbed into a singular door that was gradually becoming more physical, Noah focused on his connection as his eyes peered into the formation of the Realm inside of this door, his hands landing on it as even he disappeared!
When he reappeared, he was actually above the skies overseeing a shocking transformation, his eyes watching as the central continent of the Spiritual World flew in to situate itself at an empty area that signified the center of this new Realm, the other continental landmasses already around it.
The more shocking things were the other landmasses that were connecting and fusing with the many worlds, the circular shapes of these worlds ridiculously unfolding in front of Noah's eyes as if they were some malleable material, a unique blue energy holding everything together safely as these worlds attached themselves into the landmasses of the Spiritual World!
It felt like he was watching pieces of a puzzle come together as while he was observing all of this with shining eyes, something unexpected happened deep within his Origin.
POP!
Noah adopted a p
ainful expression as he brought his hand and clutched his chest, his face ashen as the connection between his very origin and the many stars he was connected to actually seemed to explode...and then rapidly begin to reform and expand!
Chapter 544 - Mana Manipulation!
It was a shocking feeling to go through, Noah experiencing something he always felt exploding within him, the connection that was established many months ago seemingly gone for a brief period of time before he felt it again.
He could not even describe it as feeling the connection again as he realized it was the same connection, but it was also extremely different as it was much more expansive!
If he could compare his past connection to a single thread of a line that was a few inches long, this current connection was an enormous column that was multiple miles long! That was how expansive and enormous it was.
RUMBLE!
Noah's body actually became bathed in the same blue light that the many fusing planets had, where one could trace a cylindrical column of immense amounts of essence shooting forth from the forming Realm below him, this light seemingly too vibrant as his body could not contain it.
This vibrancy made it shoot out above his head as a column of majestic blue right pierced through the newly forming clouds, a scene of fantastical elements playing out as Noah could not help but stretch out his hands and feet in the skies to take all of it in!
[Everything is proceeding smoothly.]
At this moment, he heard the voice of the System that seemed similar to the apathetic voice of his homeworld, his Spiritual World, and any of the other worlds combined as each of them seemed to be represented in this one voice.
[The living beings will briefly experience a period of extreme nausea. No other effects have been observed.]
Noah's body continued to be bathed in a glorious blue light as he listened to this voice, finding it much more apathetic and systematic than before, but he could not pay too much attention to it as he was also experiencing something profound within himself.
Because this new connection of an extremely large Realm was coursing through him, he could feel something that he had been actively using for the past months with the help of the System. The fuel that allowed for him to use the skills he learned from [Skill Books] or Inheritances, the one thing that he had a nearly infinite amount of.
He could feel...Mana!
Not just feeling it, his Origin was shaking excitedly as he realized that this immense amount of mana from this forming realm...he might actually be able to manipulate it!
It was an ecstatic thought, and something that he had always wanted to get his hands on ever since he first formed his connection. Previously, he had access to large reserves of mana, but he could not freely manipulate it in whatever order he required to bring the effects of skills he thought of or desired.
Even the beings of the Beast World that did not have high realms could manipulate mana in different ways to create new skills with their experience, yet someone like Noah was still not able to after all this time!
The reason for this was uniquely because of his own situation, his Origin and body not being able to withstand the torrent of Mana from the connection with a world, where him only accessing the connection when supplying mana to skills was the only way for him to use it all this time.
But at this juncture, he was forcefully exposed to a torrent of mana multiple times larger than any of the connections before, the reserves of a Realm being something that he could not even wrap his mind around. This exposure should have been extremely dangerous, and might have even caused for his Origin to fracture and explode. But he had achieved a realm only a single level below what the beings in this Novus Galaxy could achieve- he had become a Star Forger before his upgrading of a realm!
This allowed his Origin to expand this new connection, while his body was being shot up with so much mana that even if he did not want to be fully exposed to it and begin to learn how to manipulate it- he would be forced to!
[The Inherent Skill, {Mana Manipulation- Restricted} has been acquired.]
BOOM!
He felt an explosive force erupt out from him with the words of the System, the rowdy and expansive connection of a Realm slightly settling down and reigned in as his body felt ecstatic in ways he could not even describe.
At this time if one was observing Noah's expression, they would observe the blue light that was emanating from his body to be so potent for a release that his eyes actually shone with splendrous arcs of blue light, his gaze turning otherworldly as these arcs of light spread out to his surroundings.
His shaking eyes continued releasing gorgeous arcs of light as he could not even wait as he tried to look at his stat panel and observe exactly what the newly gained skill entailed!
{Mana Manipulation- Restricted} :: An inherent ability that allows the user to use mana in specific pathways in order to achieve the desired effect in terms of abilities. It includes the abilities of Mana Operation and Mana Perception. It is {Restricted} because the being, [Noah Osmont], is restricted from freely releasing Pure Mana externally.
…!
His thoughts churned as he read the somewhat different description of this new Inherent Ability, his eyes honing in on the so-called restriction as he seemed to understand. Only someone like him was specifically restricted from freely releasing pure mana, as it would mean he had the output and force of an entire realm to release upon his enemies if he wished!
Such a thing completely broke the scales of balance in the Novus Galaxy and in the Universe as a whole, and in an effort to maintain a similitude of balance- Noah was restricted from being able to do such a thing! Thus, he could only continue to release mana in terms of skills and abilities.
He had an unwilling expression as he thought about this, feeling it to be an injustice. Yet, his thoughts were stopped yet again as the voice of the System continued to ring out in his mind.
[Because of the required condition of having {Mana Manipulation}, the System function of [Skill Creation] is now available.]
"…"
…!!!
The wondrous upgrade into a Realm did not just come with Mana Manipulation, but it came with the ability that went hand in hand- the capability to forge the skills which could put the newly gained manipulation skill into practice!
[Skill Creation] had entered the stage!!!
Chapter 545 - [Skill Creation]!
As a ridiculous amount of essence continued to be sucked into a wondrous process of a Realm Formation, a single being was floating in the skies of the realm as his body was surrounded by a column of blue light!
His arms and legs were outstretched as his muscles spasmed, his eyes shimmering as they shot out beautiful blue arcs of light.
Even though this being looked to be in pain, a smile could be seen on his face as the surprises he was getting were too many!
First was the Inherent Ability of mana manipulation, and then came a feature of his System that many others could already do- the capability to create skills! The feature of [Skill Creation] was added on top of such things as [Skill Combination], Noah taking half of his attention from the forming of the realm and into his panel as he observed the details of this feature.
[Skill Creation] :: A feature that allows the user to create skills or skill trees. The tier of a skill or skill tree is dependent on the stage of the user. Multiple conditions are required for the successful creation of a skill or skill tree: The user is required to describe the intended ability in detail before a skill model can be computed for its feasibility. To bring the skill or skill tree into fruition, [Skill Points] are required. The amount of [Skill Points] needed is dependent on the type of skill being created.
The description of a feature that seemed to actually be shining bright gold in Noah's eyes appeared, this feature being a much-awaited one as he theorized all he could do with it! The only thing that put a damper on his thoughts was the requirement of Skill Points that he had very limited amounts of rem
aining, much of them being cl.u.s.tered and spread out into numerous Skill Trees.
Unless he found a new source of Skill Points in the near future, he would have to soon inactivate some skill trees as he took the Skill Points within to focus them onto a few specific ones, as he would soon be upgrading the stages of skill trees into the Star Forging Realm!
He would be faced with the situation where Skill Points were gradually becoming a scarce resource, and this was made especially so by the fact that he would need to spend them to create new skills or skill trees.
Thus, he looked forward to the day that he could obtain new Skill Points, but he also abhorred it because it would come with its own terrifying connotations!
[The Realm Formation is 80% completed.]
He locked this thought in the back of his mind for now as the voice of the System rang out in his mind, his awareness focusing on the expanded channel of mana that could intensely feel as well as the changes occurring in the expansive Realm before him. He would play with [Skill Creation] later as he now finished overseeing this realm upgrade.
The circular planets had all inexplicably unfolded into wide and flat land masses that would make for a grand paradise for anyone that believed stars were flat, these landmasses connecting together like pieces of a puzzle that had just been waiting to be fitted this entire time!
The vibrancy of all sorts of colors of essence was abound in this spectacular realm formation that even Noah did not know how to describe it all.
He could see the different regions that used to be the Spiritual World, his gaze seeing those that shone with colors of blue, red, gold, or dark depending on their different Law Spaces. In the location that used to be the Spiritual World, he could see the figures of beasts led by the Emperor Penguin, this arrogant penguin actually standing at the forefront as one could see its body trembling, tears actually coming out of its beady eyes!
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