NOVEL NEXT Chapter 209: Mystic Path (2), Dungeon: Clora of Crimson Marsh
Chapter 209: Mystic Path (2), Dungeon: Clora of Crimson Marsh
Inside Aleron's source, the new thing was Chakra Core and Chakra pool. Chakra was acquired by combining Vigor energy, Magilore energy, and Soul energy.
The first Mystic Path would manifest once one's pure Chakra core is filled up with experience and expertise. Just randomly training wouldn't fill it.
One had to act upon their desire, their expertise, and wish for the new path of power earnestly and train accordingly to gather the experience and expertise to fill up the Chakra Core.
[You have manifested your first Mystic Path-King of Over-Encompassing]
A beautiful, bluish-purple scroll with aesthetic design appeared in Aleron's source space.
It opened, displaying his mystic path.
[King of Over-Encompassing-10-star]
-Level: 1 [0/100 Exp]
-Mystic Path energy sources:
- [Blaze of Ardent Desire]-
-Traits: None discovered yet.
-[Mystic Path Skills]
-None manifested yet.
[Mystic Path Power System Guide]
'Huh? Didn't expect a guide.'
[Gachapi: Whether one ascends into one of the Upper Cosmos or directly lands into Chaosverse, this guide appears once you manifest your first Mystic Path.]
Aleron looked at the guide with interest.
[Mystic Path is the source of power awakened from your manifested potential. You can level up Mystic Path by gaining experience as your life progresses, mainly by utilizing the path's powers in front of opponents.]
[The star represents the potential of your Mystic Path. The higher the star, the more powerful your energy source. You can increase your Mystic Path's star by increasing your potential with your desire and matching hard work towards a goal.]
[Once you have awakened your Mystic Path, you can wield a unique energy source. Each energy source of Mystic Path has a higher level of power that exhausts your Vigor energy, Magilore, and Soul energy simultaneously should you use to expend that energy.]
[Your Mystic Path energy source has unique traits, but you have to discover and comprehend them to activate them.]
[Your Mystic Path skills automatically manifest once you discover your Mystic Path energy source's traits and envision skills based on them.]
[Mystic Path skills require Chakra energy's consumption.]
[Chakra energy is automatically recovered by consuming Magilore, Vigor Energy, and Soul Energy. Another way to refill your Chakra energy is to practice Chaos Breathing Arts in Chaosverse.]
[Chaos Breathing Arts can be used to absorb chaotic energies present in the Chaosverse by creating a Chaotic Vortex in one's source space, which would refine chaotic energies and turn them into Chakra energy.]
[Each Chaotic Vortex also grants a unique Chaotic trait based on the Chaos Breathing Art.] 'Interesting. So Gachapi, those Mystic Path's skills can still be influenced by Concept, right?' [Gachapi: Mystic Path skills are different and flexible. They are like ultra-powerful Savant- grade skills that use Chakra energy to execute, so yeah, Soul Path's Concepts can boost them, Body Path's Bloodline Essence can boost them, and Arcane Path's Magic Prints can boost them as well.]
[Gachapi: Three foundational paths' Trinity: Concept, Bloodline, and Magic Prints. These three powers have aspects of all three paths in each other. Concepts are made such that they can be anything, having traits of all three paths. It's the same with Bloodline as you know.] 'True. So, what about Magic Prints?' Aleron's eyes glinted. 'Is this the new stuff you said about the 2nd level of Magilore and onward in the path of Arcane?'
[Gachapi: Yep. Magic Prints mean creating a print of magical effect by comprehending an external phenomenon or envisioning a magical phenomenon yourself and utilizing it. Bloodline Essence is a pure potency boost. The concept is a flexible potency boost. But Magic Prints are modifier potency boost because, unlike Concept and Bloodline, they can't be changed, you can create Magic Prints anytime and delete them.]
[Gachapi: Here's an example of Magic Print.]
Gachapi showed a detail panel of a Magic Print.
[Magic Print: Giant Fingers of Hands]
-Grade: 1-star
-Effect: Increase your both hands' fingers size by 5 times.
-Cost: Magilore.
'Huh?' Aleron blinked. 'So now it's literal magic. You can do whatever you want with Magilore?'
[Gachapi: Laws and rules of nature no longer apply to it. Instead, it applies its own rules and laws. Magic Prints have no ranks, but only stars like Mystic Path. In magic print, the star is assigned to it based on its effect.]
'Are you saying it's possible for a genius to create a 10-star Magic Print even at Paragon rank?' Aleron's eyes glinted.
[Gachapi: haha, not so easy, Master. Remember the levels of Magilore? Yep, that is required. At 2nd level of Magilore, you can only create 1 and 2-star Magic Prints. If you want to create a higher star of Magic Print, you must go deeper into Magilore and reach higher levels.]
'Gotcha.'
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Everyone else went back to training after seeing Aleron's breakthrough as he awakened his first Mystic Path.
Meanwhile, Aleron started playing with his newfound powers at the side.
A day later.
[You have discovered 3rd trait of your Mystic Path's energy source-Keen Flame: Increases sensitiveness and penetrativeness of your energy by 50%.]
'Another weird trait. My energy is more sensitive now,' Aleron wryly smiled. 'Jokes aside, I am interested. This flame is so pure and dreamy, that it does nothing, but when I peek inside it,
It's full of unknown.
'Unless I will it to activate one of its traits, this energy doesn't do anything to anything.'
Aleron waved his hand, causing the energy to take on various shapes. Unlike Magilore energy which would become unstable in Chaosverse, this energy remained undisturbed.
"Master, let's fight. I just got my 2nd Mystic Path skill," Yueha said with a grin. "But don't use your Excise Line trait, please. It's too much powerful."
*Swoosh!*
Suddenly, a surge of aura exploded and attracted the trio's attention.
'It seems he is 3rd one to break through.'
The first one was Enorin, and the second one was Yueha. Both of them got their first Mystic Path in the morning and now, Fang broke through as the night descended, surrounding himself with chaotic lights that bent and danced around him as if in a rhythm.
Suddenly, one more surge of aura exploded as Liang floated in the air surrounded by a strange windy phenomenon that produced colorful waves around her while the strange wind shaped and rang in melodious chimes.
"Let's continue," Aleron said with a chuckle. "Everyone will awaken their mystic path in a few days, so we'll still have several days for us to train and prepare for the dungeon."
...
9 days later.
Seven days ago, the remaining four of the group awakened their first mystic path, while Roxen took an extra day. She felt pressure and tension since she was last, but that seemed to help her get herself together and she broke through.
Since then, everyone has been training and sparring with each other to discover their Mystic Path energy source's traits and manifest the skills.
Aleron also didn't miss a chance at Gamble Quest and prompted them daily. He used at least two daily at night to prompt them for some naughty fun involving bets. Moreover, he also summoned more Innate Gears and Equipment, gearing up everyone. Of course, fully gearing up with 6 Innate Gears and 4 Equipment on each was not possible, but he still made sure that each of them had at least 1 Innate Gear and 2 Equipment.
The new function of the Gacha Room was quite handy in summoning things.
When summoning on a banner that gives multiple types of rewards, he could use the function
to lock on or lock out the desired type!
For example, he locked out weapons from Outlandish Crafts of Equipment, so when he was summoned, he didn't get any weapons!
There was no need for a weapon because everyone had Symbios Gear, even Roxen. As such, everyone had powerful weapons already.
Aleron had some Symbios Gear stored after he summoned them a second time by activating
the banner and buying tickets.
He still had 3 Symbios Gears to give out.
As such, he summoned a total of 40 times on the Equipment banner including the first time, and geared up everyone with Armor, Boots, or Headgear.
"Everyone, the recommended level for this dungeon is level 5 Mystic Path, and our Mystic Paths are at level 1," Aleron said with a somber expression. "But we have aids, bonuses, and
items, and we are strong!"
"Dungeon Break will pour out a lot of monsters at once, but if we enter, we have a higher
chance of clearing it and gaining rewards."
Everyone nodded.
"Let's clear this dungeon and get powerful so that once we enter into this Chaosverse's
chaotic society, we can handle ourselves."
Aleron activated the dagger and a malefic-looking ancient gate surging with special effects
manifested.
"Let's go."
[You have entered the Dungeon-Clora of Crimson Marsh.]
[You are in the Cave of Howling Wind.]
[Main Task: Find the Crimson Marsh and defeat the Blood Sword Clora who awaits her
freedom after death.]
The cavern was huge, but it was a strange one.
The ceiling had five holes and the ground was barren with nothing in sight.
Seeing the visual of light in those five big holes, and no other passage in the cavern, it was
clear those holes were the exit.
"We have to go there, but I sense danger in those holes," Arran'tel narrowed his beady eyes.
"Present of death lingers in those holes," Darzax said. "Who will scout one of the holes?"
"Some of us have Mystic Path skills that can scout the area. We have to use them since the
original skills we created aren't working in the dungeon as well," Rias said as she tried to form an Eye of Darkness, but failed.
Mystic Path's skills were wonderful. Even a Paragon-rank lifeform could have a powerful skill
with strong effects rivaling higher lifeform powerhouses. The skill ranking was based on Stars
like Mystic Path.
A skill's effective power was determined based on Physical stats, Magic potency, and Soul
potency. However, since the skill's output power was determined by Chakra consumption, their skills would still be weaker than stronger powerhouses with higher Chakra reserve due to executing them with a low amount of Chakra energy.
"Allow me," Liang said with a smile. "One of my Mystic Path skills-Echowaves of Tracing,
can do the complete work of scouting all five holes at once with all details."
[Echowaves of Tracing] -Grade: 8-star.