NOVEL NEXT Chapter 253: Astral (1/2)
Chapter 253: Astral (1/2)
After relaxing and resting for a day, Aleron began making his move.
He kept enough resources required for the girls to reach the peak of Paragon rank and then Unbound rank before sending the remaining to the Midworld.
Aleron told Darzax to pick up the cargo so they could use them on Guild.
[Aleron: You can sell useless weapons and other equipment in exchange for other things.] [Darzax: Understood. But this is really a lot, Master. How did this happen?]
[Aleron: Haha, we are going to get even more resources after a few months at the level of Unbound-rank and more of Transcendent-rank. You all better breakthrough to Unbound- rank fast.]
[Darzax: One-month maximum, and we all will be at Unbound rank with the number of resources you gave us.]
[Aleron: That's good. Also, if there's any problem that the guild can't solve, don't forget to contact any Eternal or me.]
[Darzax: Understood.]
After talking with Darzax, Aleron sent the resources he kept for the girls to Lilisa to process them into pills and potions.
There were other resources like Soul Refining Crystal, Bloodline Stones, and Enlightenment Fragments.
Enlightenment Fragments were smaller versions of the Enlightenment Stone that Aleron had. A single Enlightenment Fragment could heighten the comprehension ability of a person for one minute.
One minute.
During this minute, someone like Aleron could enter deep focus and trigger Enlightenment if it was an area he was talented in.
Which he did. He used an Enlightenment Fragment the next day to break through to level 3 of the Astral Flow concept, he did that in a jiffy. Within thirty seconds, he was in a complete trans. Space-Time around him was completely absurd, and no one could approach or see him. It was just a strange, dreamy orb with silver glassy fragments and golden sparks whirling inside in a strange fashion. Aleron wasn't visible, but one could see him in those glassy fragments and golden sparks as if he was being reflected.
"Master is really so talented..." Liang chuckled.
"Alright, one more try. We have to do it in this," Enorin said, her expression severe as she picked up another Enlightenment Fragment from the pile in the center.
Aleron and the girls had formed a circle with the pile of Enlightenment Fragments in the middle. A total of 24.
He had acquired a total of 104 Enlightenment Fragments, so he sent the remaining eighty to the Guild.
Aleron succeeded in getting enlightenment in his first Enlightenment Fragment, while all girls failed.
"We have two more tries at maximum," Yueha's eyes were somber. "Let's do this."
The ideal would be to trigger their enlightenment with the second Fragment and reach a higher level in Magilore, so they could use the third try on comprehending their Concept to level 3.
All of them had reached level 2 on their Concepts. Their next hurdle was level 3 of their Concepts, but this was not why they were using the Enlightenment Fragments.
Instead, it was for comprehending a higher level of Magilore.
The girls closed their eyes, and their consciousness connected with the small crystal in their hand, the Enlightenment Fragment.
Suddenly, Shelby's aura shifted as she floated, covered in a cerulean blue orb with various hues of blues flowing inside. Triggering her enlightenment, she was about to step foot into the 6th level of Magilore!
In reality, everyone was feeling pressured. They had fear and uncertainty. But these emotions were solely for the reason of staying with Aleron, by their Master and husband's side.
All of them were determined not to fail anymore, and it showed.
After Shelby, the others started triggering their Enlightenment one by one, entering a state of complete trans, absorbing the world of Magilore that opened in their mind.
Time passed, and two hours later, Aleron returned from his enlightened state as he successfully reached level 3 of the Astral Flow concept!
[Astral Flow-Concept]
Description: The flow of Space and Time is at your beck and call.
Level: 3 (max)
Effect(s):
-> Astral Flow: You can manipulate space and time as easily as breathing and blinking. -> Astral Covenant: As long as your skills and actions have space or time-related aspects, the boost those aspects provide to the action and skills' construct is increased by 100%.
'Wonderful!' Aleron's entire perception regarding space and time elevated.
He could see through the layers of chaosverse.
Without consuming any Chakra, he could teleport anywhere, even in Chaosverse's atmosphere, within his fundamental soul sense range, which was not that big at the moment since he had suppressed his soul.
Astral Covenant boosted space-time-related aspects' benefits in skills by 70% in level 2, but it increased to 100% in level 3. It was a huge boost!
Aleron looked at the girls and grinned, "Nice, they are also doing well."
He covered them in a solid spatial-temporal field to protect them and then used a Voidless Wormhole as he arrived in the Midworld.
He went to his Midworld's Hell and sped up the time ratio inside with his improved Space- time mastery.
With this ratio, Elysia would finish her punishment after three days instead of two months.
Of course, for her, it was two years and eighty days.
Afterward, he also transformed the lower cosmos Hell that Rexian ran. It was for people for Ascendent-rank and below.
He changed the time ratio there as well so that people outside could welcome their loved ones early if they repented and became good, while those who repented would still go over the full
punishment.
Their mentality would have improved, and surviving in Aleron's hell would undoubtedly make them stronger and give them higher potential.
So far, the rate of people turning good while getting punished and repenting wholeheartedly was a mere 8%. It meant that for every 100 evil people, a maximum of 8 would decide to be good wholeheartedly and get a new life.
Turning evil and getting punished with degrading thoughts would make it easier to live in hell as the pain from various hellish punishments would reduce in the degrading mentality, so only those who resisted the temptation and repented would succeed.
On the other hand, those who repented wholeheartedly with no evil in their mind and cast away the vileness resulted in honing their soul and higher pain threshold because they were absorbed in repentance and not punishment.
Aleron saw many people repenting, numbering in billions. But this was expected since the total population in lower cosmos hell was in trillions.
...
Aleron returned and arranged so that Elysia would join the guild after her return.
Three hours had passed by, but the girls were still in enlightenment.
It could last for days even, so Aleron left and arrived in the Doombound city.
He hadn't explored this city yet since he was training all day after arriving here. "Nice, I can explore the entire city with my heightened space-time powers," Aleron smiled. He covered the whole city, stretching a 700-kilometer radius, using a single Cosmic Eye after unsealing his soul to its original power. Despite this, his aura was completely in the fold. [Gachapi: Nice, with your current mastery of space-time, even Supreme-rank wouldn't be able to easily measure your aura even if you unseal your soul and body to the same level as
your Arcane.]
'Not easily, but a Mystic Skill could help them.'
[Gachapi: Yep. We shouldn't take any risks yet.]
[Astral: Master....]
'Hey, buddy.' [Astral: You know...I evolved, Master. Why don't you use me Q-Q]
'Hahaha, there's no need, so not yet.'
But Aleron's vibe shifted soon...he was watching over the city and decided to make use of the
Emotional Series Mystic Skill that he had thought of. It was based on the soul.
The first one he created was Mystic Skill: Despair Detection.
He used it in tandem with his Cosmic Eye, which scanned the entire city and observed
everything, be it above or below.
And just a few moments later, he detected an overwhelming amount of Despair in a northwest
part of the city.
"It seems I'll have to use you now, Astral," Aleron muttered as he stopped walking in the
middle of the street and focused on that place. He had changed his appearance and put a veil over him that made him look like a village boy with a white shirt tucked loosely into brown trousers because he was kind of famous and many people knew him.
However, Proper Path Alliance was keeping the trail on him. It was a device, a rather high- tech, and they called it a watch tower. He couldn't escape its detection.
But Astral could do that.
[Astral Reaver] - Symbios Gear
Level: 2
_Attributes: Space, Time, Astral Reaver.
Gear Forms:
1. Astral Celestial Set: Robe and Scyth.
-2. Astral Celestial Revolver.
3. Symbios Avatar.
Symbios Perks:
-> +50% Trinity Force.
The third form Astral Reaver acquired after his evolution, Astral Avatar, could be described in
one word.
Overpowered.
And it's Symbios Perk had also become overpowered. A direct 50% boost to Trinity Force.
"Astral, you know what to do," Aleron said as his eyes glinted coldly.
[Astral: Yes, sir, yes!]
From Aleron's shadow, a silverish-purple flash with a golden hue released, going straight
into a spatial layer, a parallel space that only he could observe.
Well, those with higher space mastery could also do that, but Aleron could hide things even
from them because he had space mastery as well as the Astral Flow concept's power!
[Gachapi: This is overpowered as hell indeed.]
Symbios Avatar.
An avatar of their symbios gear, who had a symbiotic relationship with their host. They
shared everything, hence the boost.
And now, this Symbios Avatar could take on a unique humanoid form while hosting the
Mystic Skills of their host!
Whatever skills Aleron could use, Symbios Avatar could use the same at the same level of
power!
There was only one problem, which was that a Symbios Avatar could stay activated for one hour only and then would need two hours of cooldown.
It could stay activated for 24 hours max, but then it would need 48 hours of cooldown.
But this was still overpowered gear form...especially for Aleron's symbios-Astral Reaver!