Her thoughts were tumultuous as she looked towards this genius with a disbelieving gaze, the Rift above them shining brilliantly as something descended down while being surrounded by the colors of blazing flames and an immense light of fate!
RUMBLE!
The light came all the way down as it touched the ground, the blinding luminescence dying down as the creature to come out of the rift began to be seen with clarity.
Being only a meter in size, the Archaic Animus Summon shimmered with wings that spat out flames, the golden light of fate pulsing off of its feathers as its head rose to the skies. One could see a golden piercing beak with dichromatic eyes of gold and red that dripped with arrogance and dominance, this Animus Summon looking towards Noah with an unkempt aura of regality!
Standing on three legs with wings wreathed in flames and the light of fate, the First Archaic Summon that Noah brought forth...was a chicken!
"..." The Imperial Adjudicator was speechless.
"..." Anastasia had no words!
"..." Noah himself was shocked as he stared at the Animus Summon in front of him, a summon of the Ultra Rare rank!
Chapter 692 - Three-Legged Fate Crow!
The singular thing that could be said when one looked at the fiery gold chicken was the fact that from its face, they could see an aura of extreme arrogance and dominance, its eyes gazing around everyone as if it stood above them!
Even while glancing at Noah, its golden beak was raised high as its flaming feathers flapped towards him, seemingly telling him to get a move on after it had been summoned.
Anastasia came out of her stupor as she sensed the profound aura around the chicken that told her it was of high rank, her years of experience telling her not to underestimate it as she quickly spoke.
"Quickly contract it! An Animus Summon will not remain here for long unless it finds a master right away."
Noah's eyes shone at Anastasia's words as he didn't need to even be told, the identity of the chicken in front of him making him wave his hands as he cast [Archaic Contract] right away!
RUMBLE!
Essence flooded out as the skill enhanced by skill points formed into a unique runic sigil in the skies, the sigil separating into two parts as one shot towards Noah's head and the other shot towards the fiery gold chicken.
SHAA!
It felt like a brand was being placed on his very origin when the archaic rune entered, the process being fairly fast as in a matter of seconds he felt...a consciousness that he could understand!
His eyes sharply opened as he stared forward, locking with the fiery gold eyes of the chicken as its face still continued immense regality and arrogance. The consciousness within him conveyed an arrogant thought as he received the first ever thought from an Animus Summon.
"Human! Count your lucky stars to have summoned someone as great as I- the Great and Archaic Animus that stands above all, the Golden Crow!"
OOOM!
The voice dripped with confidence and strength as Noah smiled at the successful contract, looking over the details of the pet as its arrogant words stood true.
[Three-Legged Fate Crow](Ultra Rare) :: An Animus Pet currently at the Domain Rank. It holds within its origin a semblance of the bloodline of the Archaic Golden Crow, and is currently contracted to Noah Osmont. Its abilities include Fate Flames of the Void, Barrier of Brilliance…
The description of the first pet were displayed in front of his eyes as he drank them in, going towards this pet as its voice continued to resound in his mind.
"Well? I've heard that the Trainers calling upon us will have skills capable of raising our realms and refining our blood, where are these skills at? It is the only reason I answered your call!"
Noah smiled at the domineering voice inside him as he went to grab the juvenile Fate Crow, its fiery feathers flapping as it tried to get away, but its power at the Domain Rank was nothing to Noah!
He grasped onto it as it flailed around with complaints, this creature never being held by anyone before as it grumbled its complaints in his mind.
"Let's see, I'll call you...Flamey?" He sent his thoughts towards it as its head shook with horror, not accepting the name as Noah continued.
"Sparky?"
"No!"
"Fruitloops?"
"No!!"
….
"How about Ruby?"
"...Hmph"
An acceptable name was taken as the Fate Crow took to the skies, announcing its entrance to the Dark Universe with a piercing cry!
CAAA!
Flames of fate erupted out as Anastasia appeared behind Noah, nodding her head as her sonorous voice rang out.
"After summoning a pet and contracting it, you must then work hard for years to increase its realm and refine its bloodline."
"The [Bloodline Forging] ability can only be cast once a day to gradually refine your pet's bloodline, with powerful trainers spending hundreds of years to even successfully awaken any ancient bloodline within their summon. But the [Animus Growth Empowerment] can be cast as many times as possible, and only depends on your mana reserves and the talent of your pet for how far it can grow!"
Noah's eyes shone as he heard these words, Anastasia continuing as she expounded more knowledge.
"Some are able to quickly raise the Realms of their pets and even bring them to the Manifested stage for each realm, the only thing stopping the advancing of the pet thereafter being their Summoner's Realm and the capability of the Summon to refine the essence of the Realm they enter before they can proceed forward."
Yes! Animus Summons were special in that their realms could be raised purely from their Masters casting the Animus Growth Empowerment on them, with the only thing they had to do is to refine the essence flooding into them and stabilizing their realm before they could advance!
Some had the talent to quickly stabilize their realms and break through multiple times, while others took years to stabilize their realms before proceeding forward.
"When a pet achieves the latter realms of Nebula, Black Hole...the talented ones take years while the worst ones take hundreds of years before they can be caused to advance even with the Summoner casting [Animus Growth Empowerment] until they run dry. The only limit to how high a Summon's Realm can be raised is the Realm of the Summoner himself."
Noah nodded as he sent a command to the Fate Crown, its three legs touching the ground again as he neared it and cast [Animus Growth Empowerment] right away!
RUMBLE!
Mana flooded out of him in waves as it created three illusory runic circles above the Fate Crow, these runic circles beginning to undulate up and down the summon as essence from the surroundings and from Noah flooded into it incessantly.
Anastasia said even with the use of [Animus Growth Empowerment], pets would still take months or years to move up! He wanted to test with his Infinite Mana and the talent of this Ultra Rare summon, just how fast could he raise its Realm?!
WAA!
He gave no pause as after casting [Animus Growth Empowerment] once, he cast it once more as three more runic circles appeared and began undulating around the Fate Crow, the conversion of essence only increasing.
CAAA!
"Hey…"
A piercing cry was released from the crow as Anastasia was about to caution, but everything she knew was once again flipped upside down as in the next second, a wave of essence released as she watched the realm of the summon go from Domain and into the World Realm right away!
At this moment, the first three runic circles undulating on the body of the crow had begun to fade away, but Noah waved his hands as yet another three appeared with ease.
[Animus Growth Empowerment], [Animus Growth Empowerment]...
"You…"
Anastasia was cautioning with alarm as she saw Noah casting the ability multiple times as if it didn't take immense amounts of mana, numerous undulating runic circles appearing on the Three-Legged Fate Crow as the unique cultivation only for Animus Summons began
with a stellar fashion in the Blue Plains Realm!
Anastasia could only watch on before finishing her caution as she saw from the body of the Fate Crow, an Illusory World was already beginning to be Manifested!
Trained from the Domain and into the World Rank in seconds, with its current Realm already beginning to reach Grand Completion as an illusory world was already manifesting on its body.
CAA! CAA! CAA!
An excited expression could be seen on the arrogant Three-Legged Fate Crow as it sat within the numerous undulations of runic circles, its eyes shaking in happiness as it sensed the profound essence continuing to flood into it as its Realm rose even higher!
Its body already began undergoing changes as it looked towards Noah with a shining light.
This was a Trainer! This was an Animus Summoner!
Chapter 693 - Ascending Through Realms With Ease!
For Animus Summons, their cultivation was extremely unique!
Their Summoners did all the work as they cast powerful Trainer skills that directly caused essence to flood into them and elevate them to a higher level, the job of the Summon only being to consolidate and stabilize their realm before they can move forward.
Common ranked beasts took a long time to refine their new realms before they could advance to the next rank even with the aid of [Animus Growth Empowerment], with rarer Summons taking a shorter amount of time.
The truly rare or Ultra Rare Summons with powerful Archaic Bloodlines would take even less time before they could refine and consolidate their new Realms, being some of the beasts that could be raised extremely fast!
The only limiter to how much a Summon could be raised was only based on the Summoner himself, and Noah wanted to see if his enhanced [Animus Summon Trainer] paired up with the hidden Bloodline of this Three-Legged Fate Crow would allow it to quickly catch up to his Realm of Black Hole.
BOOOM!
Potent reverberations of essence erupted out as one could observe the illusory world of the World Rank Manifest on the body of the Crow.
CAA!
Its eyes shone with l.u.s.ter as its wings gained archaic golden runes, the runic circles undulating around it continuing to swirl from all directions as in the next moment...the Manifested illusory world could be seen quickly condensing and becoming realm, forming into a genuine Star!
Star Forging Realm!
The Three-Legged Fate Crow had entered the Star Forging Realm as the forged star enlarged and became denser, essence continuing to be refined by its body rapidly as it tried to assimilate this new realm and use the potent essence from the undulating archaic circular runes cast by its master to go even higher.
The mesmerizing body of the Three-Legged Fate Crow had gotten even larger, reaching over 10 meters at this moment as the undulating runic circles brought forth by Animus Growth Empowerment expanded to match it.
Shining with a gold and red l.u.s.ter, the Crow continued to absorb a flood of essence as by the side, Anastasia seemed to be learning a completely different way of cultivating Animus Summons.
Her mind was buzzing as she affirmed what she was seeing was correct, trying to make sure that the genius she had just handed down skills to wasn't an old monster who had already spent thousands of years studying the Dao of Summoning!
Because she knew the only way one could be an amazing Trainer such as this to be able to raise the rank of a Summon multiple times- they had to be extremely proficient in the Dao of Summoning.
Those with more comprehension could naturally bring more of the pets' talents, yet this Alexander seemed to already be at the stage just within an hour of coming in contact with the Dao!
Her eyes watched with rapt attention as on the body of the Three-Legged Fate Crow, she noticed essence being burned as she finally saw something normal- the scene of the pet trying to refine its essence and blood after stepping into a new Realm.
This was something every pet had to do after breaking through, and it was what took time when it came to raising one's pets over the years!
Even though this monstrous genius was casting the skills of an Animus Trainer over and over again as if the concept of mana wasn't applicable to him, the pet still needed time to assimilate the fast progression of Realms.
Anastasia was waiting to see how long it would take for this pet to assimilate before trying to break through, planning on imparting some of the more common sense ideas into Alexander's head in the mean time when her eyes contracted.
CAA!
She saw at this moment that the burning of essence on the body of the Three-Legged Fate Crow had finished as it let out a piercing cry, the forged Star within its Origin Manifesting very clearly as it seemed to be...at the peak of the Star Forging Realm!
BOOM!
Her thoughts were proved to be true in the next moment as the forged star imploded powerfully, becoming scorching heat and gaseous dust as the base for a Nebula was created.
My gosh!
From Domain to World to Star and Now Nebula, all in a matter of minutes!
Completely defying all known norms, this phenomenon was caused by the enhanced trainer skill that Noah used, along with the immense talent of the Three-Legged Fate Crow that had the Bloodline of the Archaic Golden Crow.
Numerous stars had already begun to be forged within the Nebula as Noah continued to cast Animus Growth Empowerment, increasing the undulating archaic runic circles that enhanced the realm of the Summon as a fiery fate essence continued to permeate out.
He already had a pet at the Nebula Realm, and it would not take too long to bring it to the Realm of Black Hole!
As he watched the stars forging in the Manifested Nebula, he was patiently waiting for them to reach 100,000 as this summon consolidated its realm before it broke through.
In the meantime, he also looked at the [Bloodline Forging] skill that further refined and brought the hidden bloodline of pets out, casting it right away as a golden bloody mist landed of the Three-Legged Fate Crow that caused it to tremble!
The descent of a fearsome aura could be felt as off to the side, Anastasia shook her head in wonder as one could barely hear her whisper.
"A Top Tier Archaic Bloodline...Ah!"
One could hear lament and disbelief in her voice as Noah kept his eyes on the cultivating Three-Legged Fate Crow, going towards Anastasia as he saw the situation proceeding smoothly.
At this moment, tens of stars were being forged by the Animus Summon as numerous archaic runes undulated around it, so all it needed was time! Noah went to talk to the shocked Anastasia and the Imperial Adjudicator that was looking towards him with shining eyes as he waited.
"You mentioned how the Aurora Galaxy Dragon was just one of your pets, how many pets can one contract?"
He asked this with a clear face as if he didn't just overwhelm the two of them with a shocking show in the past few minutes.
Only Anastasia and the Imperial Adjudicator were watching the commotion, and Anna still had her eyes closed and engrossed on the Dao Crystal that contained wisps of the Dao of Summoning as she tried to sense this Dao and nothing else!
Anastasia heard his question as her drop-dead gorgeous face returned to its old self, her sonorous voice ringing out.
"...At the Nebula Realm and below one can contract a single pet, with every Realm thereafter allowing them to contract an additional pet. Aside from the Aurora Galaxy Dragon, I have three other contracted pets!"
These words were like honey to Noah's ears as he nodded with shining eyes, his gaze staying on the image of the Three-Legged Fate Crow as many thoughts crossed his mind!
Chapter 694 - Conditions Met!
Noah truly had too many ideas and thoughts coursing through his mind as he ascertained the number of pets one could contract as they progressed through Realms.
At his current Realm of Black Hole, he could summon and contract two pets!
But one must recall that Noah was not normal.
Through the use of a Ruination Core, he had g
ranted himself not just Infinite Mana and the Trait of Protagonist that should soon grow to the next stage, but he had also split his Origin as he obtained the identity of an entirely new being in another Galaxy.
His bodies as Alexander and Noah weren't merely clones, and each of them carried their own cultivation as even now, Noah's body in the Novus Galaxy was still only at 80,000 forged stars as he used abundant essence to recreate what the body in the Nexus Galaxy had already done!
But because of his two different bodies with differing Origins... it meant that he would be able to summon and contract twice the amount of pets as other beings...or at least he hoped so!
This would mean that when both of his bodies were at the Realm of Black Hole, he could actually contract 4 pets.
And when he reached the GALAXY Realm, instead of the usual 4 pets one could contract...he would be able to have 8!
The implications of this were truly horrifying to understand as if he trained all of these pets to the same Realm as him when he later reached GALAXY...it meant that aside from his two bodies, he would be walking around with 8 GALAXY Realm Animus Summons that would each have their Realms at Grand Completion!
Ah!
Just the idea of it was enough to cause his eyes to shine with excitement.
In the Blue Plains Realm, Noah continued to observe the situation as hours passed.
On the 3rd hour as he resupplied the undulating archaic runic circles that continued to help the animus forge stars in its Nebula, he received a question from a worn-out Imperial Adjudicator.
"Are your mana reserves just as monstrous? Even a Galaxy Realm expert wouldn't have this much…"
"I was always born with large mana reserves. I'm nearly depleted right now so I hope the Three-Legged Fate Crow can advance to the Realm of Black Hole soon!"
Noah's reply was calm as he didn't worry about them finding out anything about his Infinite Mana. Nobody in their right mind would even believe that someone could have such a thing, so they could only attribute it to extremely large Mana Reserves!
Another hour passed in the Blue Plains Realm.
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