NOVEL NEXT B1 | Chapter 73
The Tower of Magic
“It looks like they’ll be fine for now,” Etheria says with a faint smile as she sits on her throne, tapping her finger on the armrest of the throne. And while she doesn’t express her feelings on her face, she still can’t help but feel extreme relief at her latest student’s survival.
The Primordial is in her Seat of Power as always, with it being in the form of a massive, blue tower. One with mana of all colors floating around outside of the open walls of the tower’s highest floor, with one massive throne that she is seated on located at the center of the tower’s peak.
Meanwhile a large orb of energy covered in magical circles revolves high above her grand, blue throne.
She glances at Chaos as the man sits on the floor a little bit away from her throne, having barged into her Seat of Power halfway through his Successor’s death march with so much panic on his face that she felt… unsure. It made her feel like he was an entirely different person from what she remembered.
Etheria and Chaos had only spent a mere thousand years together as a couple, but she is still pretty sure she knows him better than anyone else even with that short a period of time with him. Yet now she’s starting to wonder.
Can even Chaos change?
The Primordial of Magic turns her gaze back to the Primordial Livestream in front of her to see both her student and his twin sister, Chaos’s new daughter, lying unconscious in her student’s respite cavern. The one he made and sealed away to keep the monsters from finding his safe place.
Both of the Successors had passed out from exhaustion and the complete draining of all their mana. With neither of them likely to wake up for hours at the least.
“This won’t be the last time something like this happens,” Etheria eventually says as she looks at Chaos. “So long as they’re stuck in there.”
Chaos doesn’t say a word. He just stares in silence at the Primordial Livestream. Not looking away even once.
His silence stretches on for several minutes as the two both watch their respective Successors lie unconscious in the cavern.
Eventually Etheria turns her screen, using her authority to change it to show the mini bosses far away from their cavern. Only to find the three mini bosses having ended up in a brawl with each other. The kobold lord’s quarry having vanished, leaving the kobold lord no one to target, and no outlet to vent its rage on.
Except for the drachne lord that had been chasing it for hours.
And with the drachne lord no longer running after the kobold lord and instead staying in one place, the alpha dracoraptor finally reaches its prey and joins the fight.
Etheria watches for a few seconds before Chaos finally speaks, “She will make it through.”
The Primordial of Magic glances at him to find his gaze having finally focused and regained his previous vigor. Only for her to blink in surprise when he turns to look her in the eyes and continue, “So long as she and her brother work together, they will survive.”
Silence fills Etheria’s Seat of Power again before she returns her gaze to the livestream and murmurs, “So they will.”
Ashley
When my eyes crack open again, I find myself blinking up at the ceiling of some sort of cavern. Feeling hungry as hell and thirsty as well. So thirsty that my throat is so dry that it hurts to breathe.
I use magic to summon water above my head and push it into my mouth to drink. Meanwhile I consider my current situation.
My body is so exhausted that I can barely lift my head, and I can only manage to do it after having that drink. But when I do lift my head, I find the cave so dark that I’m only able to see with my Dark Vision skill. And what I find in it is that the cavern itself is completely empty other than one other person inside of it with me.
Blake Sinclair.
After seeing him I remember what happened.
I remember when Blake appeared out of nowhere during the chase. When he asked if I could distract the monsters and I responded by using Frigid Tempest Call for the first time, proving the real power it has just based off of the System Messages I see in my vision that I’m putting off for the moment.
Then I remember him hugging me from behind, which confused the hell out of me at the time, until I realized he was wrapping the two of us up in some sort of shell of mana. Spatial mana.
I don’t remember anything after that.
The two of us must’ve fallen unconscious.
Or I did, at least. For all I know he could’ve stayed conscious for a bit longer before going under.
I glance at my status before feeling the corner of my lips twitching upwards a little at the sight of my level. Then I close out of my status after seeing my health full and my mana having recovered as well.
Good.
I finally let the System Messages play out.
{You have been granted 3 Skill Points for killing a monster within a Unique Domain.} x231
{You have slain a being while Assimilate is active. You have now unlocked the Skill Tree: Destruction-Touched Kobold Guardsmen} x32
{You have slain a being while Assimilate is active. You have now unlocked the Skill Tree: Destruction-Touched Kobold Knight} x26
{You have slain a being while Assimilate is active. You have now unlocked the Skill Tree: Destruction-Touched Drachne Warrior} x50
{You have slain a being while Assimilate is active. You have now unlocked the Skill Tree: Destruction-Touched Drachne High Guard} x31
{You have slain a being while Assimilate is active. You have now unlocked the Skill Tree: Destruction-Touched Delta Dracoraptor} x34
{You have slain a being while Assimilate is active. You have now unlocked the Skill Tree: Destruction-Touched Beta Dracoraptor} x24
{You have slain a being while Assimilate is active. You have now unlocked the Skill Tree: Destruction-Touched Lizardman Scout} x34
{You have unlocked a new Skill Tree, therefore the root skill of the Skill Tree, Destruction Poison Spray, is now unlocked for your usage.} – [ERROR – Destruction Poison Spray is already unlocked. No skills are unlocked. New skills will now be added and made available to purchase to the preexisting Skill Tree: Destruction-Touched Drachne Warrior.] x49
{You have unlocked a new Skill Tree, therefore the root skill of the Skill Tree, Destruction Poison Creation, is now unlocked for your usage.}
{You have unlocked a new Skill Tree, therefore the root skill of the Skill Tree, Destruction Poison Creation, is now unlocked for your usage.} – [ERROR – Destruction Poison Creation is already unlocked. No skills are unlocked. New skills will now be added and made available to purchase to the preexisting Skill Tree: Destruction-Touched Drachne High Guard.] x30
{You have unlocked a new Skill Tree, therefore the root skill of the Skill Tree, Destructive Fangs, is now unlocked for your usage.}
{You have unlocked a new Skill Tree, therefore the root skill of the Skill Tree, Destructive Fangs, is now unlocked for your usage.} – [ERROR – Destructive Fangs is already unlocked. No skills are unlocked. New skills will now be added and made available to purchase to the preexisting Skill Tree: Destruction-Touched Delta Dracoraptor.] x33
{You have unlocked a new Skill Tree, therefore the root skill of the Skill Tree, Destructive Talons, is now unlocked for your usage.}
{You have unlocked a new Skill Tree, therefore the root skill of the Skill Tree, Destructive Talons, is now unlocked for your usage.} – [ERROR –Destructive Talons is already unlocked. No skills are unlocked. New skills will now be added and made available to purchase to the preexisting Skill Tree: Destruction-Touched Beta Dracoraptor.] x23
{You have unlocked a new Skill Tree, therefore the root skill of the Skill Tree, Destructive Sensory Pulse, is now unlocked for your usage.}
{You have unlocked a new Skill Tree, therefore the root skill of the Skill Tree, Destructive Sensory Pulse, is now unlocked for your usage.} – [ERROR – Destructive Sensory Pulse is already unlocked. No skills are unlocked. New skills will now be added and made available to purchase to the preexisting Skill Tree: Destruction-Touched Lizardman Scout.] x33
{Congratulations, you have now reached level 70. Your PHY and MEN have increased by 1 point, and your MAG by 2 points. Please choose where you wish your 1 Free Point to be allocated.}
{Congratulations, you have now reached level 71. Your PHY and MEN have increased by 1 point, and your MAG by 2 points. Please choose where you wish your 1 Free Point to be allocated.}
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{Congratulations, you have now reached level 75. Your PHY and MEN have increased by 1 point, and your MAG by 2 points. Please choose where you wish your 1 Free Point to be allocated.}
That’s a lot of new and interesting skills.
I look down at my hand with a frown, though. Because I feel something wrong with it.
And what I find are five black and crimson talons on my finger that are emitting a bit of destruction mana.
But the moment I want them to go away, they retract, turning back into normal fingernails.
I blink in surprise before lying back down again.
Huh.
A mutation skill that isn’t inconvenient.
Interesting.
Might as well check out the other skills too while I’m stuck lying here.