Chapter 82: Time To Grind (3)
After about 10 minutes of grueling pain the four of them were now up and better. Looking at the four of them Akasha appraised them.
[Jovian Savant]
Age - 22 years old
Race - Human
Talent - Saint Grade
Law(s) - Law of Endless Time
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[Lyria Sylvan]
Age -21 years old
Race - Elf
Talent - Saint Grade
Law(s) - Law of Life Manipulation
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[Celeste]
Age - 23 years old
Race - Human
Talent - King Grade
Affinity - Shadow
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[Amy]
Age - 23 years old
Race - Human/Elf
Talent - King Grade
Affinity - Wind
[A/N: Lyria talent increased by two instead of one due to her bond with Akasha. Akasha will undergo evolution for the Elven traits at a later date.]
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The four of them were each surprised about their changes. To think in 15 minutes of time they were able to increase their talents and racial traits. Things like this just weren't supposed to be possible. For most people they would find it impossible to increase these things. There are plenty of resources that could help, but this evolution was much different than a simple talent increase.
The were literally evolving to perfection.
"You're crazy dude." Jovian said as he sighed. As a transmigrator he knew cheats existed in some form, but to think something like this happened it felt like a long dream.
"Thank you, Akasha." Lyria said softly.
Amy and Celeste both stepped forward and bowed while saying
"Thank you! We will not let down your expectations." They said with tones full of conviction.
Seeing all this Akasha sighed before saying.
"You know you don't do all of this. I'm a pretty chill guy so just be yourselves because business will get handled regardless." As he said this, he helped the two ladies raise their heads. He then took out four storage rings and tossed them to Raven, Elara, Lyria and Jovian.
"These rings will have all the rule stones you guys need. If you need any more just ask Luna or Elysia."
"Alright I will miss you!" Raven said as she took the ring while giving Akasha a hug.
Elara not being out done by Raven went for a hug too.
"I will miss you too!"
"Haha, I'm not disappearing or anything, but I will miss you too." He said while giving them a long hug. After a few seconds they separated and the four each went into seclusion.
He then turned to Amy and Celeste.
"You two have yet to step into the first realm of power, so you will need to grind some dungeons until then." As he said this, he snapped his finger and then his personal dungeon appeared.
*snap*
Turning around the girls were a bit shocked to see a towering gate. This gate was a stark contrast to the beauty of this realm. It glowed ominously and dark energy seemed to seep out of the gate.
*Gulp*
The girls gulped seeing the hellish looking gate.
"This is my personal dungeon. The difficulty will rise alongside your rank and there's no wait time. When you enter you will be inside of a safe zone once you exit the zone then you will have to clear the floor before getting to rest.
I know it sounds difficult, but you won't die. If you die here, you will respawn so don't worry too much. Last thing, you must clear every floor without any weapons."
The girls were good with what they were hearing until the ending.
"W-what do you mean no weapons?" Amy asked shyly.
"I know you both already have weapon choices, but you need to be good with hand-to-hand also. Again, don't worry too much, just trust me. The worst thing will happen is you die and respawn." Akasha said rather bluntly.
Amy and Celeste steeled their resolve and nodded their heads.
"Alright, let's do it!" Celeste said full of determination.
After this the two entered the gate.
When they left Akasha picked a random direction and walked in it. As he walked his thoughts were only on one thing.
Power!
After seeing a few things, he no knew if he really wanted to have some fun then he needs absolute power. When he got that then he could do whatever he wanted.
'In two years even, I don't know what I will be.' He thought.
But this is what excited him the most. What would two years of pure grind look like? He wanted to see, and he would.
After walking for about an hour he sat down cross-legged. As he sat down his robes morphed into sweatpants and his blindfolds disappeared. Like every other time he cultivates, Luna took her place on his lap and Elysia snuggled closely to his side.
Before he began cultivating, he asked Luna
"Is there anything I need to know before I began cultivating? Like any special requirements for me to break through?"
[No, you don't have to worry about anything. You will actually find out your speed of breaking through will be quite fast until your breakthrough to the Mythical Rank. So, just comprehend your laws, add them to your core, fuse the core with your law essence, then finally explode your core and flow it into the soul.]
"Alright sounds simple enough." He said and then he closed his eyes.
He began thinking to himself before cultivating.
'Hmm, I will first comprehend 100% of the rules aligned with my laws and then break through.'
As he thought this he began cultivating.
He began with space since this was the rule he had the highest comprehension of currently. He calmed his mind and then slowly those familiar ancient voices began to speak to him again. Now that he has spent some time comprehending this rule he was now use to these voices.
The odd thing is that they never said anything different. From what he could tell it was the same lines over and over. But the more he focused on these lines the closer he felt to the rule of space.
"Spa.... is..."
"....is.... ev...."
"Space...is...
"...is....ev..."
After an unknown amount of time the words finally became crystal clear.
"SPACE IS EVERYWHERE!"
A simple sentence that had many truths to it. But then before he could think too much the voices came again.
"Space....i....s"
"Space is ... A"
"SPACE IS ALL...
This continued over and over and eventually the words became clear again.
"SPACE IS ALL ENCOMPASSING!"
As these words echoed Akasha felt as everything made sense. He then heard a notification.
*Ding*
[Law of Eternal Space - 100%]
He opened his eyes to see this, and he smiled. He then looked at the two ladies and asked
"How much time passed?"
"Uhhh about a week and a half." Elysia responded.
"Good! That's perfect actually. But this feels a bit underwhelming..." He said the ending with a frown.
"I obviously feel more connected to space and all of the usual things, but I feel as if this is lacking in some weird way.... Aren't laws supposed to be the building blocks of reality of some shit like that?
I should feel absolute now that my comprehension is 100%, right?"
Hearing this the ladies smiled and then Luna spoke
[Yes, you are right and wrong dear. Laws are the building blocks of reality, but there are things more important. After Laws comes the Dao which are hundreds if not thousands of times stronger than the power of Laws.
You should think of Laws as a sort of medium between the rules and the user. So, although you comprehended 100% of the Law of space, you didn't comprehend 100% of the rule of space.]
"So, what's the point of comprehending the Laws to completion? Wouldn't it be better to just jump directly to Daos after you improve your Law to something like 50%?" Akasha asked after hearing Luna's explanation.
"Well, that wouldn't be a good idea at all. The most obvious reason is the power of a Law is still important in your rank. The power of your Law will undoubtedly be the determining factor of battles at your current stage.
The second things are that your soul will be weaker once your breakthrough in further stages. Once you explode your core all of the Law essence you fused into your core will be used to fuel the soul." Elysia chimed in.
"Hmm, well that does make sense. Alright I won't exit cultivation again until all of my Laws are at 100%."
After this he began cultivating again.