Apex Star

Chapter 9: New Techniques and strange Mountain

All the tiredness in his body from the battle before and his use of abilities were gone just like that. This seemed to be a perk of getting stronger.

After breaking through, Nova's mind was elevated on another level compared to how it was before the [Awakening] or even a few minutes ago.

He instantly thought about his 'Short Teleportation' ability, which he could use about 10 times before being a spent force.

He tweaked his mind for a while, and came to the conclusion that he was too low level to use it efficiently in combat. So he thought about using a lower method that cost less energy and could help him a lot better in an actual fight.

That is to channel space energy in his feet, so he could be faster. He is already stronger and faster than a person in his Rank thanks to his bloodline and ability, but he doesn't want to be only better in his Rank, but even above his league.

What he doesn't know is that his ambition will push him very far in the future, and it will change him forever.

After successfully gathering space energy in his legs, he started running around, and if a Rank 3 was here to see him, all they would see would be a blur moving at fast speeds. In fact, even a Rank 4 would have a hard time seeing him.

He decided to give a simple name to this movement technique; 'Speeding'.

Despite his lack of imagination for a good name, Nova was content with the technique mechanics as it would allow him to even take turns and jump if necessary. Unlike his 'Short Teleportation' that will make his body rigid for a few fractions of a second, which will be pretty crucial in a battle.

Also, when he teleports, he can do for a maximum of 30 meters, and his body will stay straight ahead, not seeing anything surrounding him. Plus, the consumption is greater if he's going to teleport for 30 meters, rather than if he does it for only three meters.

But with 'Speeding,' his body's speed is given a boost for the minimum energy, and he could maintain it for even a day if he wants.

Still, he realized what he lacked, offensive techniques. Only these will help him in battle besides Space Arrows. So he racked his newly ascended brain to work again.

After brainstorming for 5 minutes, he finally decided to 5 new techniques he could create. They were not the best, but at least for now it will be enough for this dungeon.

The first one is simple he just needs to coat his space energy around his fist, just like in a certain popular anime with pirates.

He called it 'Space Fist', as an anime lover he thought about the day he will release space waves from his fist and makes cracks through air with brute force alone.

The second technique is called 'Air Bullet', just as its name implies it will compress air using space energy and shoot it at an enemy. You could think of it as a lower version of 'Space Arrows'.

The third one is a defensive one, 'Enforce', it acts like an armor and has two activations to it. The first one is keeping it active, and the second activation is a synergy with the 4th technique 'Repel'.

'Repel' is forcing an enemy in your 'Space' to be unable to continue and push it back, depending on how much space energy he is willing to consume it will hurt the enemy pretty badly. Just like a certain ninja who tried to destroy a village...

The fifth one is neither an offensive, defensive, or movement one, but it could be considered auxiliary, 'Space Eyes' could amplify his vision a few times, if before he could see for 100 meters, with 'Space Eyes' he could see over 1 kilometer.

Nova was pretty satisfied with his gains, and after resting for a little while, he finally entered the mountain where he felt something strange.

The interior of the mountain was so dark he could barely see 5 meters ahead of him. Only after using 'Space Eyes' could he see for barely 50 meters ahead.

From what he knew from the 'Tutorial', this is what one could consider a Natural Energy Area where the element or elements in the air are several times those of the outside world, basically a paradise for those using the Dark Element Bloodline or Ability.

This mountain being a dark elemental one, made him immediately lost his interest in trying to absorb the energy inside and continued through the path to the second floor, hoping to find a Space or Time elemental one.

The other mountains won't bring him any noticeable increase in power even after trying hard to absorb their energy. In fact, the best energies for him to absorb are clearly, Space Energy and Time Energy. As for what energy his Apex Bloodline gave him affinity to...he doesn't know.

He's curious to find out in the future or maybe even in this dungeon if possible. Nova already put his Apex Bloodline on a pedestal, above his Space-Time Bloodline.

Unconsciously, he was right, even though the Space-Time Bloodline was one of the most powerful bloodlines in existence. The sub-region he was now in couldn't suffice his bloodlines use of them.

As even though a bloodline won't be as suppressed as a stronger being trying to descend in a low realm like this one, it will still have its limits. With even the possessor of said bloodline not bring able to use it at full capacity.

Of course, Nova couldn't possibly know all of these, as he didn't ascend to a higher realm to know, but even if he did, he may not find this information in a sub-region like this one.

In fact, not even his parents are aware of these things, as they are all small frogs at the bottom of a well compared to the real strong ones of the universe.