NOVEL NEXT Chapter 482: The Supreme
"Lady Aria, please…."
In the beautiful garden, Aria sat on a comfortable chair while her expression was peak of discomfort. It was blank and dead.
The fact that she wouldn't be able to return to Erix and others had caused her depression.
Three beautiful women stood before her, bowing and telling her to train but they felt great anger and sadness as well.
Their palace master gave away her life to keep Aria here.
This wasn't the outcome they wanted to see. It was a lose-lose situation for them and Aria.
"Tell me how to return," Aria mumbled with a deadpan expression.
One of the women with silver hair gritted her teeth and wanted to curse and beat Aria, but she greatly held herself back.
Despite being so powerful than Aria that Aria was literally less than an ant in front of them, these women respected the position Aria was in, given to her by the previous palace master.
"Lady Aria," the woman standing in the center, with pitch black hair mixed with a few white hairs, looked at Aria with a solemn expression and firmly said, "If you want to return, then start training and get powerful."
"If you want to return to your loved ones, then work for it. This is the only way. Sulking and getting depressed won't change your outcome. You will only die soon if you keep this up."
"We don't know how long it will take before you see them again, but you can decide that. You got the legacy, so use it and work for whatever you want!"
Aria remained blank for a few seconds even after hearing that, but her eyes soon showed light as she looked at the three women.
Soon, her eyes turned watery and then teary before she cried out loud, pouring out her helplessness and sadness about this situation.
But after crying, Aria wiped her face with newfound resolve, her fists clenched and teeth gritted. "Give it to me."
"I want every help and resource available to me, and I want your help to train me in these Arts. This is my order as the new Palace Master of the 4th Nex Pillar!"
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The Awakened Elementals and Concept Gears were connected to one's soul, and each had a seed of living and sentience in them, effectively merging the three paths of power into one source.
Arcane Path of Magic—Elementals.
Mind Path of Aethir—Concepts.
Both joined into the source anchor of one's existence—Soul Path.
Erix and the group finished four more Challenge spots and won the difficult-level tasks, each time acquiring the Wish Reward to its maximum potential.
At the moment, they were receiving their last wish reward for this area because they finished all challenge spots here.
12 hours also passed by on Day 2, so they would start the Trial after finishing this.
Each time they finished a challenge and took the wish reward, they made one of their Elements or Concepts reach the peak.
The maximum number of Concepts one could have in the 1st Dimension Realm was five, even for Reverend-order powerhouses.
In the group, everyone had two, three, or four Concepts. So they made their Concepts reach the 10th realm, attaining the Conceptualize Manifesto and powering up tremendously.
In the last Wish Reward of this area, Rin, Lilith, Lily, Isabella, Sameira, and Kenshin decided to ask for the best dimension to help them achieve Mind Zone.
On the other hand, Erix decided to learn a new Concept and progress in it.
The new Concept he learned was none other than the one he had been working on for long before arriving here. It was vague, but he wanted a unique concept to utilize his powers and his desire to become the strongest.
The Concept awakened, named itself as…Supreme.
An Ethereal-type concept like Chaos, that depended on action and mindset both, but in a different and extreme way.
Supreme—highest in authority, highest in rank, greatest quality, the paramount.
A unique new Ethereal-type concept, much like his Devorex attribute-type concept.
This meant that none other in this 1st Dimension Realm had Supreme Concept and Devorex Concept aside from him.
Erix awakened this Concept and even attained the Conceptual Manifesto in one go due to the foundation of the mindset he had been establishing for this concept.
To be the Supreme.
It required Erix to strive to be the best, and if he failed, it would cost him greatly due to the nature of this Concept.
While benefiting him 'supremely' according to his achieved actions and mindset, it would also tie him down if he couldn't remain supreme.
As he exited from the dimension and returned to the playground, his eyes appeared serene, but bright and thoughtful.
"Supreme…" Erix uttered softly and calmly as a powerful and authoritative aura started oozing out of him.
A faint swirl of Nihilir essence manifested to his left before a humanoid purple jelly with dark silver patterns and dark purple flames burning inside its body appeared. Big black eyes lit up with dark purple flames and silver pupils at the center, it wielded a black scythe with light silver and purple patterns and a dark purple flamed flickering robe.
Nihilir Roid—the Awakened Element.
Immediately after that, several more things manifested beside Erix.
A dreamy white flower with a viridescent green design and golden patterns—Life Elemental--Life Bloom.
A black hole with a malevolent silver border—Punch Concept's Conceptual Manifesto, the Extinct Puncture.
A dreadfully chaotic orb with black, white, and violet swirling colors that chaotically clashed—Chaos Concept's Conceptual Manifesto, the Chaotic Doom.
A piece of cracked metallic brick, colored black while oozing out colorful hues from its cracks—Devorex Concept's Conceptual Manifesto, the Devoring Ingot.
These three Concept Gears and Nihilir Roid floated around him.
But one more phenomenon appeared, right above Erix's head.
A majestic and dominating sheen of golden appeared, fragmenting into sparkling golden linings and dreamy metallic strings that soon shaped into an exalted crown, with white crystals on its border in a classy arrangement that contained golden sparks inside.
Supreme Concept's Conceptual Manifest—The Supreme Crown.
Erix floated, his eyes calmly closed as all of his powers released a string of their aura that went to the Supreme Crown, submitting their control and bonding with it as Erix acquired an insight into the path that he was envisioning.
After a few seconds, Erix opened his eyes and took a deep breath before his lapis blue eyes shone with a deep aurelius luster, "But this is not the peak here. I must get one more Concept, and one more Super Exotic Element to utilize my Life element with other two elements."
A fiery and dominating aura emitted from him as the Supreme Concept powered him, increasing all of his stats, while also putting Erix's existence on tether towards ultimate doom as he established a mindset.
"I have to win this and become Supreme in this playground," Erix stated to himself, while the atmosphere around him, be it ground or sky, and space around him, all silently cried and echoed while binding him to his statement.
If he failed to achieve the Supreme position in this playground, which was being the only champion, the first rank, he would forever stay here, and be forgotten by all.
At that moment, a distant memory flashed in Erix's mind as he smiled, 'Mother, your strength and wish for me helped me survive and put me on this path that birthed my desire.'
'I am in this world because of you, and here in this place because of your stubbornness, so I will fulfill your wish and my desire,' Erix's fists clenched before he muttered something, something so important that it would change the fate of many as he established a law of his desire, his ambition, his love.