by Ivory Scott
"Yes, let's do it like this." Nodded Jodye. This was precisely what he needed. Even if he couldn't imprint the knowledge directly like his master, Jupiter Titan the T'Zhane, he could still share the information. He believed Sek Si would be able to benefit from it to some extent, and eventually, he could pass it to her himself.
"Young master," as Jodye finished talking to himself, Sek Si had already appeared behind him again.
"Ah, Sek. Do not resist, I'm going to pass you something. Study it well, and your shadow avatar should grow swiftly," said Jodye casually, startling the pretty face of Sek Si, who merely blinked in a daze. The young master was presenting her with a gift? This was the first one ever! One that could increase her shadow avatars strength? What could it be? The uraeus on Pharaoh's law suddenly emitted a red glow, which turns into a red laser line as it drilled into Sek Si's glabella.
"Ah.." Sek Si let out a startled little yelp before she gently closed her eyes as her lashes trembled. When she opened her eyes again, she saw a pair of dazzling sapphire blue eyes staring back at her. There was pale gold light deep in the depths of his eyes, making them seem more imposing. The vertical slits gave the boy's handsome face a wild flavor that made Sek's heart start to race. His gentle smile threw her all the way off as she stared up at him in a daze until his words woke her up.
"It's good then right? Try to remember as much as you can, but don't worry I'll show you again if I must," said Jodye Trill, to which Sek nodded her head quickly like a little chick. This was cute to Jodye, as she was a bit smaller than him now. "Okay, where's my dad?"
"I left my avatar so I can take us straight there, but your big wolf is too big for me to take," said Sek Si sweetly, which gave Jodye goosebumps. Sek's level of charm was far from average, and her words would often sound ambiguous. Jodye feared the day this child matured.
"This is no issue. Just take me with you, Sly will come with me," said Jodye Trill. As soon he finished speaking, Jodye felt like he fell through the bottom of the world into the vast dark void, and Sylvester landed on his head. Jodye marveled as he was pulled somewhere at high speed. Three minutes later he heard a burst of loud, boisterous laughter before stepping out from behind his father's back somehow, facing a crowd full of elders and nobles of all ages in a grand ballroom.
Out of nowhere, the crowd saw the young boy who appeared to be a tall eight or nine-years-old with a little black sky wolf puppy on his head, wearing [Pharaoh's Law] and the Frozen Night division's black armor, casually walk from behind the House Lord as if he was always standing there. Everyone went quiet as they stared shocked. Where had this handsome boy with beautiful blue beast's eyes come from?
This naturally made Lord Osiris notice Jodye's presence, to his momentary shock, but he quickly recovered. Since he was aware of Sek's ability, Jodye's presence isn't what shocked him. In Lord Osiris' opinion, Jodye must have finished his pilgrimage and then used Sek Si to immediately transport himself to his father's side. What shocked him was the boy's appearance! How much had he grown in the last month? If he didn't look exactly like the Lord himself, and walk up wearing [Pharaoh's Law], then Lord Osiris may not have even recognized the boy.
"Hahaha Welcome, my boy, welcome, welcome. Congratulations on successfully overcoming your trial! You are officially a Noble Sage warrior." Lord Osiris laughed boisterously and clapped Jodye's shoulder hard three times, but too his shock his son didn't even budge, only wincing slightly. Lord Osiris may not have used more than 100 bp in that slap, but he was still shocked at his son's toughness. The House Lord's words woke up the crowd as well.
"Ah, is this young man the fabled third young lord? Truly the heroes are born young!"
"Young master Joseph, well met! I am the Honored Elder, Ah Meed Dah Shin. If you ever need a sparring partner, my disciple Victory would be happy to share guidance with you."
"Young man, I am honored elder Atah Mavis. My daughter is a fine young wolf, much like yourself. You two should become friends."
"Young master Joseph is it true you're only five this year? You look as old as my two junior disciple brothers, both around the age of ten."
"Do not question the child of the lord, are you seeking death?"
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"Dad stop, less of this and less of that! We're under siege, my mom's in trouble you have to help her!" Jodye Trill was instantly pissed off when he saw how relaxed everyone was in here. Were they dumb, or just stupid? Shit had already hit the fan out there!
"Joseph, calm down, what are you saying?" Lord Osiris knelt in front of Jodye to look him in the eye. He had now noticed how pale and anxious this son of his appeared. This was his first time seeing such an expression on Jodye's little face. Clearly, something terrible had happened.
"In the wilderness, we were ambushed by a bunch of Dark Elves, assassins dressed in black leather armor. I called my mom, and she told me to find you immediately and warn you that there was a siege and that a white demon found us and was about to attack!" Jodye rushed and explained everything he knew, urging his father to take action immediately, what was he doing still? However, Jodye noticed that the moment the words 'white demon' escaped his mouth, his father's face and aura instantly changed. Suddenly, the Osiris Trilleck in front of Jodye was fierce and aggressive, he stood imposingly as he spoke to the crowd.
"Attention! This, not a drill! We are under attack, everyone to your posts immediately, prepare the defensive formations, I need my Curse Masters in front me in 3 seconds. Honored Pack brothers and sister, I need you to immediately depart and recover the first lady, go right now!!" Lord Osiris wasted no time and gave out orders to the surrounding officials. The officials were startled for a moment, but then the lord's atmosphere exploded outward as the origin phenomenon formed above him, "I SAID MOVE NOW! LET'S GO, LET'S GO!"
As Osiris Trilleck and the elders made their move, Jodye Trill whispered something in Sek Si's ear, then immediately sat down and pulled a mid-grade origin stone out of his space ring, and begin restoring his energy. After checking the time, Jodye confirmed that he could only have Sylvester summoned for less than another two hours and then he would be without him until tomorrow!
Even though Jodye could still summon Xavier today, Sylvester had been discouraging him from revealing this little brother for some reason he was unwilling to elaborate. So he had decided to only summon Xavier if there was no other option. For now, he would let Sylvester return to the Grimoire willingly, that way he could still use these two hours for later.
As if he had sensed Jodye's thought, Sylvester defied gravity before turning into a purple light that shot into Jodye's glabella. A couple of hours later Jodye had fully restored his origin forces, and he started rebuilding his astral forces. This was far more difficult to do, as he didn't have anything to help him do so. All Jodye could do was absorb the astral might present in the atmosphere, or extract it from the spiritual energies present in the stalks of saint force grass.
"Summon me without using the source artifact. I can help you recover." Xavier's voice suddenly rang in Jodye's mind via telepathy. Jodye had never done this before, but he somehow was aware of how to do so. Jodye focused on his combat soul, and behind him, an astral projection of Xavier in his infant form appeared floating behind Jodye.
With his mind's lamp active, he immediately noticed that all the spiritual powers of the heavens started surrounding Xavier's astral projection as if he was eating it all. However, what came out of the little mutt's butt was real astral might. Jodye quickly absorbed it into his astral points, swiftly recovering the energy he had used before.
"So this is how you use a combat soul without a grimoire, haha. How boring," observed Jodye Trill. Though this was a useful ability, Jodye wouldn't value it much on its own. The grimoire provided him with far more versatility, he believed he had made the correct choice.
With his body returned to its peak condition, Jodye put up his things and pulled out the magic mirror to contact his mother again. However, there was no response after
a few minutes.
"Sek Si!" shouted Jodye Trill, his anxiety quietly transforming itself into rage through a magical process. The next second, Sek Si was suddenly directly in front of Jodye again. "Did you find them?"
Sek Si nodded.
"Take me there."
"…" Sek Si frowned.
"This is not a request!" Jodye spoke through gritted teeth. Sek Si just closed her eyes, as she grabbed Jodye's hand and disappeared into the shadows.
Chapter twenty-five
The night that the Sky Fell
This time Jodye felt like they were traveling for an hour. When the duo reappeared, they were in the shade of one of the branches of a huge ancient tree. Sek Si and Jodye were crouched low on the branch looking down at the scene below. Earth-shaking explosions arose from the center of the vast wild lands. It was like the forest had to bear a bombarding from a rock slide. Massive holes appeared. Pieces of land settled deep into the ground. Trees were broken and knocked away, it was mayhem. Jodye released his spiritual awareness so he could get a clearer picture.
"Release the First Lady if you wish to survive this, Rotimi Black, you shit. Do not think I cannot recognize your Gu Birth ability. In the West Ward, only your Gurantula combat soul is capable of this. What is the point of these masks?" Mercer Trilleck was fiercely battling against four dark elves in black leather armor. "This is an act of war against the Pharaoh! Do you pussy ass black knife-ears even have the guts?
"Hahaha, It's far too late for this," a sinister voice like an evil serpent echoed throughout the wilderness.
Elder Mercer was clad in blazing armor with five wolves howling at a red moon designed on the rear. He was sending a barrage of enormous fire arrows that seem to be made of liquid magma, as his flaming red hair danced in the wind. The four dark elves were in a strange formation and attacked with various dark power blasts and different glowing weapons. Jodye Trill was under the impression that these dark elves were mainly saints path experts.
Incantation runes begin to fly out of elder Mercer's mouth and gather onto the ancient and magnificent bow in his hands, seemingly charging up the firepower to another level. The bow suddenly looked like a miniature sun, and above the fiery aura surrounding elder Mercer, Jodye was able to see 12 fist-sized lights spheres.
Most of these spheres were black, but four were on fire! The pressure emitted from elder Mercer at this time was able to influence even Jodye, who was at least 45 meters away.
Swish! Swish!
Swish! Swish!
In less than a second, elder Mercer had fired four molten arrows, each landing in a vital organ of one of his opponents, who screamed manically as their bodies melted slowly.
"How gruesome..." mumbled Jodye Trill. This was the might of advanced power! However, these dark elves were were clearly no pushovers if they forced the Honored Pack to unleash such strength. These warriors were moving at speeds Jodye simply couldn't keep up with. All over the forest floor below and the sky above it, there were hundreds of dark elves battling the fierce Five Element Wolf pack.
Sharp sword lights, crushing boulders and walls of mud, chaotic winds, ice spikes, shields and arrows of magma, incantation runes flying every, Jodye Trill had never seen anything like this in real life! He honestly felt like he was in some type of fantasy movie from his last life. Jodye was still trying to find his mother in this mayhem with his spiritual awareness when he suddenly heard a voice in his ear.
"Little…Joe...?"
A strand of Jodye's spiritual awareness locked on to a true essence fluctuation by his ear and his head whipped around, as he instinctively sent his full perception in the direction he was looking. To his complete shock, his vision exceeded 150 meters! However, Jodye had no time to focus on this, as over 100 meters away from his position he was able to see his mother. One of her breasts was exposed as she lay against a tree in tattered robes and broken armors.
There were wounds of varied sizes and blood stains all over her. Isis Trilleck looked pale, and many of her injuries were sizzling dripping with a silver liquid. Jodye Trill felt his heart tighten, as rage begin to erupt from the pits of his soul.
"Lunar venom! That's a mid-grade poison! That's super dangerous, it could permanently damage her potential! Don't fret, little Joe, get me over to our mom, and I can directly refine that poison!" said Xavier via telepathy, despite Sylvester's protests.
"Refine? How?" Jodye Trill was stunned. X could refine poison? Before Xavier could respond, the Cosmos Revolving Grimoire appeared in a flash and flipped open to the third page.
[Guardian 2: Mighty God Sky Jackal]
'Compatibility rating: 22%.'
'Tier 1: Primary Spark - Abstract, Catastrophic Hackability'
'Tier 2: Auxilary Spark - Meta, Viral Conversion'
Information about these abilities was detailed in Jodye's mind. Abstract was the ability to communicate with and 'see' pixies. Pixies were the most mysterious creatures in existence, they were denizens of the seventh layer of the divine ennead. Pixies had the unique ability and manipulate and invert law systems. The powerful ones could even change the laws within! Catastrophic Hack was a sword attack that could penetrate any defense within the same realm as the attacker!
Meta was an auxiliary ability that allows the user to invert the function of laws to unlock new skills, like pixies. Jodye was amazed by this. On the other hand, viral conversion refined poison into viral energy.
"What's viral energy?" asked Jodye to Xavier via telepathy.
"Top tier fiend force," responded Xavier, "Trust me, I can do it!"
Standing guard in front of his mother were two dark elf knights, their faces hidden within black armor. Two meters in front of them was brutal looking and large muscular dark elf in beautiful white robes. The dark eld was removing the white mask covering his face. Jodye thought his face looked like a pug. His skin was purple-grey, and he had a blood red, spiked mohawk. This must be the man the elder Mercer was cursing!
"To think that the five of them could take on my entire core force. This requires some improvisation. You two guard her well… it seems I will have to take care of this myself," came the evil voice of Rotimi Black. "I will send reinforcements once I can relieve some of the pressure. This Five Element Wolf Pack is truly worthy of its reputation. That chump, Monte, will have to pay me extra for this mess."
At the mention of the name 'Monte,' the temperature dropped noticeably. Rotimi Black glanced back at Isis Trilleck, licking his lips, "Do not worry, Rotimi will be sure to continue playing with you later."
Rotimi Black then whistled sharply, and Jodye saw his mother's eyes go wide before she shrieked so fiercely in pain. Silver liquid dripped down her body from her many wounds. Rotimi then burst into dozens of tiny black spiders and disappeared. Jodye Trill's body was emitting heat, as his rage was completely spilling over at this point.
"Young master, please calm yourself. Young master!" Sek Si was tugging on the sleeve of Jodye's arm, but he wasn't responding. She was then alarmed by the heat wave emitting from his body, and begin to shake him. She quickly cloaked his aura with her shadows again, but Sek Si couldn't be satisfied with this as they were both much much weaker than many of the warriors here. She didn't think her cloaking would be active towards someone who truly intended to probe.
"Sek Si, do you see that clearing over there?" asked Jodye Trill suddenly, catching Sek Si off guard.
"Clear…ah!" Sek Si gasped, and her face changed when her eyes landed on the figures in the distance, "Is that the Frozen Night Master?"
"Can you take us there? To her shadow?" asked Jodye.
"Young master, those guards are at least experts at the Earth Science realm, even if we know we cannot possibly…"
"Can you take me there or not!" Jodye Trill roared in a low voice. He was clearly becoming impatient. Seeing the intensity of the current Jodye gave Sek Si a feeling she couldn't recognize.
"Mn."
"Then do it. No, wait for a second," said Jodye Trill
before contacting his combat souls via telepathy, "X, am I strong enough to hold Fenrir yet? If we attack with all of our strength can we take down those two?"
"Thanks to the grimoire you should be able to swing my sword once. However, I will likely drain all of your origin energy to use my Catastrophic Hackability just once. After the first time, your origin will be depleted. Catastrophic Hack at Tier 1 can slash and hack through the defenses of anything with up to double the strength of the attack," Xavier explained directly when asked. His voice didn't do anything to hide his excitement. He was eager to have some fun, as Sylvester had never once let him come out!
"Jodye, Fenrir is a special weapon. It defies the heavens, you shouldn't use it so casually yet," Sylvester interjected. "After all, we have the Sky Fall flame! As long as their underneath the mage rank we can incinerate those two no problem."
"Then can you also retreat swiftly, and directly after attacking without leaving a trace behind? Can you also quickly refine the poison in my mother's body, converting it into a new boon for us? Can the mighty you also do all of this quietly without making a large commotion? Because with a sword I can do these things with ease, and with X already summoned my mother has a greater chance of recovery! X, your on stand by!" Jodye Trill's angry voice echoed domineeringly through the host space, as he was slowly losing control over his temper. This caused Sylvester to quiet down as he felt a pressure descend that was so strong he had to ignite the Sky Fall flame to rid himself of its influence.
"Sek Si, here's the plan."
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Back on the tree branch, the [Cosmos Revolving Grimoire] appeared in a flash of purple light. 30 meters away this flash alerted three of the nearby dark eld archers who were also in the trees. The archers immediately reacted by shooting a barrage of arrows in that direction. However, the targets seem to disappear into the shadows of the tree branches. However, before the three archers could react, the one furthest from Jodye's original location began screaming as he was drowned in a sea of green and black flames. One by one the same thing happened to all three dark elven archers.