Chapitre 174: Maturing before the early descent
"You sure that the person you are looking for is trustable and that he won't end up backstabbing us?" Ash asked, too worried to trust Nightin fully after his recent changes, he has become so fixated on getting stronger that he's already losing himself, he was once full of life and open to suggestions, every life he takes would make him contemplate and reflect on himself, but now he kills without even blinking an eye.
"Don't worry, that person might even prove to be an important asset to us in the upcoming war." Nightin says as a curve form on his face, but the pain glistening in his eyes are telling Ash that he hasn't given up on himself yet, it's just that he is forcing himself to undergo this change.
"Do you treat that person as a tool?" Ash asks, his back facing Nightin, his body relaxed but tense from within.
"Don't ever let me hear you calling my disciple a tool again!" Nightin rebutted immediately before he could even process what Ash said, his chest heaving up and down in anger which he never expected.
"Your disciple? Then wake up if you still care about them! You think your disciple will be glad to see his master as a savage who only thinks about getting stronger?" Ash asks, his tone fierce and harsh, but determined to bring his friend back.
"New system quest has been issued, give up on Ash as a friend and fully accept the new you."
[Reward: Demigod realm promotion with the strongest foundation in one year of secluded cultivation]
Nightin felt his heartbeat skip for a moment when he saw the reward, but soon calmed down as he asks himself "Is it worth it?"
He may grow stronger instantly, the benefits gained may outweigh the cons it brings about, but his heart was telling him that he should never succumb to this thought no matter the reason.
[System, I'll give this mission a skip. Thanks. For the reminder.]
That was Nightin's message keyed in return to the system via the keyboard to input the answer as the system quest vanished, a surprise message popping up before his eyes.
[Congratulations to host for helping the system to unlock its true functions, quest rewards will be tripled from now on and in addition of a reward, a samsara seed will be thrown in]
[Samsara seed: Will lay dormant and plant itself in the spirit core of the host, growth time is estimated to be a hundred thousand years to grow into a sprout, a million years to grow into a tree as it grows endlessly until the end of time]
"Are you fooling around with me right now? I don't have the time to wait for a hundred thousand years for it to just grow into a sprout!"
"Nightin, are you alright? Who are you speaking to and what hundred thousand years are you talking about?" Ash asks in concern, pondering if he mentioned anything that might have caused a screw in Nightin's mind to loosen.
"Ash, pretend you saw nothing just now. It's not that I don't want to explain this to you, but I honestly have my personal reasons for being unable to tell you the truth." Nightin explains frantically with a smile, a smile that assures Ash and tells him that he has returned, or more of he has grown even more mature, mature enough to differentiate between what's right and wrong.
"Alright, I'll trust you on this. Congratulations for returning my brother. Now that I think about it, have you ever made friends with anyone else besides me?" Ash replies and asks the first question that comes to his mind, hoping that the conversation will dragged on for as long as possible.
"Anyone? There is someone if I really have to talk about it, he left me after I fainted in a battle and lost my memories, leaving me right after I participated in a life and death battle with him at one of those slaughter arenas, whenever I think about it, I honestly wonder just lucky we were to have survived that battle and become brothers with each other."
"But after that day, the day which I recall all my memories, he left without saying anything. At that time, he was only nineteen while I was sixteen, if things go well for him and he manages to leave that low grade realm, then his achievements right now wouldn't be any lower than ours."
Hearing Nightin's brief story, Ash understands that the guy which he had once looked up to has returned, the guy whose demeanor was way too overbearing for him to see through and he was the only person besides his master who managed it.
In the Blue star realm, the whirl continent, there was a young man who acclaimed himself as the strongest mage below the age of thirty despite only being at the age of twenty one, even exclaiming that by the time he's thirty, he'll be unmatched below the age of hundred among all mages and even those one generation from before might suffer defeat before him.
His eyes were sapphire and his once short spiky blue hair, was now wavy and the natural colour of the ocean, his demeanor reveals a king and whenever he fights, there's always something which leaves him identifiable, the water dragon that he summons in every battle.
He first made his debut in the beginner grade mages competition, but was soon kicked out after the first battle, not because he was too weak, but because he took out all the mages in one move even though they were scattered across the arena. That was his first appearance, yet it was dazzling and unforgettable to many of the young ladies whose desire for love had just begun to bloom.
No doubt, that mage was the person who Nightin had just been talking about just a few moments ago, but of course, both Nightin and him wouldn't have expected that they had actually been in the same place three days ago when the mage dropped by the Voyager kingdom for a conference meeting while Nightin's trapped in here with his army.
Just like this, Nightin and Ash agreed to stay here until backup arrives to cultivate, even taking some time off to explore the poisonous plants and herbs around the areas, hoping to find something that may miraculously benefit their cultivation somewhere via a reverse effect.
In the meantime, Ash walked some distance away from Nightin, wondering just how these plants are formed and how he can utilise in battle in the future while making use of their fullest potential. Just the notion of being able to make use of poison in battle or even made him excited as he started to imagine the various ways he can use these new attack methods in battle.
No wonder he managed to awaken the law of imagination, it would be a wonder if the law of imagination chooses someone else over him considering how he has already begun to imagine the various ways they can be implemented. While others would be thinking about how they should start searching, he has already thought further about how he wants to use them and the possible locations based on when he first entered here instead of wandering aimlessly like a lost child looking for his parent.
"Sect master, I'm here, what do you want me to do from here?" Unknowingly, three days had already passed in the outside and Lancelot had already followed the coordinates given by Nightin and the geographical location to locate him.
"What's your cultivation realm right now and how strong is your concentrated attack power?" Nightin asked, glad that Lancelot was still being able to hear his voice for some reason.
"I'm at the Martial Emperor fourth transcendent gate of the tribulation lightning at the moment, my concentrated attack power should be around the eighth gate while my destructive power is around the ninth gate." Lancelot replies, prideful of his own achievements made within these one year.
"I won't need your destructive power or you might attract the attention of someone lurking around here, I want you to count ten breaths before concentrating your lightning bolt spear into the invisible barrier you can sense ahead, I'll be striking at the same time and if all goes well, we should be able to meet each other soon."
"Hopefully you aren't lying to me again." Lancelot says, but the anger in his voice couldn't be concealed as he said ten to start the countdown to himself.
9...8...7...6...5….
Every passing second felt like an eternity, but when Caps sensed the intrusion of another person entering the detection array he had setted up, he made a beeline for where the transportation area was, only for Ash to suddenly shout from within.
"I found the Hepta Violet flower!"
The timer counts three.
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État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
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Power Stone 
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