Bab 86: Final Trials Part 20- Food Stores & A Naval force? Core Formed and Saintly Power
Days passed away but by bit as I gained insight I invented more and more ways to make money, by this point the money was piled up in mountains and Gold and other currencies were treated like trash only exchanged for Platinum coins which littered the Kingdom's Treasury full and 3 new secret compartments for treasuries were being installed by King Edwin's orders.
I'll never forget the look on everyone's faces when the royal Treasury was filled to the brim my comment on ' just wait until I expand my scale of reach and train some people then we'll be training more people henceforth our Empire will be easily 10× bigger than before. Also I'll be testing and training with our soldiers on the Naval Frontiers, since we have excess income I reckon it'll be good to outsource a bit but please feel free to give your opinions.'
I can still feel the rhetorical screaming at the Castle on that day how Estr and Edwin and every trusted loyal personnel's went completely crazy from these words alone and Havier had to be called in and saw the mess that had become of these bunch and was in quite a daze herself haa~ good times.'
Thinking so Zash was quite happily looking at a machine which carved wood in a wooden mechanismsic pattern spinning and shining around the bronze covered edges with a golden glow while this one was specially designed and more beautiful the only wooden and bronze or brass one's didn't lose one bit in their beauty spinning around without any power source just rhythmic geometric movements and laws of Gravitation and Conservation of energy's Zash was selling these mechanisms almost twice the price his highest bidd d painting had sold for and whenever something of 'Zash Eleron's' name popped up the entire streets will be crowded with no place to breathe in the auction houses were packed full, this was an even higher amount of respect the royalties and nobles showed towards their Kings and Emperors.
Each Kingdoms and Empires wanted to meet this pioneer in each great fields but only for them to get a cold shoulder from the other party as the mysterious Zash Eleron wasn't as free as them and everyone accepted that but demanded the ones in charge of supplying the materials to arrange a meet whenever he wishes to,
One could see the reverently greedy looks on their faces as they were dying from the sheer curiosity of this person's identity and that was one of Zash's goals for now as he was too busy to attract such attention towards himself and Zash in Epis's body still had a bit of tempering to do and many many more things on hold for now.
"Ah son" Edwin came into Zash's room and spotted his Young Son's latest artworks and couldn't help but exclaim.
"Wow ! No wonder everyone's going Crazy over your stuff." Honestly if one could hear his tone they'd wonder if Edwin was praising himself rather than his son.
"I am currently making one for our family, your's is done father look and see if there are some adjustments needed." Pointing out towards the wall Edwin saw the Entirely Brass covered Mechanical Pendulum which constantly circulated time and time again even containing a small geometric clock if one paid a keen look on to it on top of that the dials and surroundings were made entirely our of Gold and decorated with Jewels and Jade's if every known variety available Edwin spotted 7 of such Pieces with the 8th one being the completed outcome as Zash had foretold him.
While the rest seemed to be for Estr and Havier and the staff and honestly covering the entire palace wouldn't be called too much as this was just so beautiful that one cannot underhand their beauty no matter how much one looked at one.
"Hehe this will surely bleed those Basturds pockets dry ! Mostly none of those ragdolls arrive when they're needed yet I can guarantee they'll drop whatever degeneracy they're onto and sprung right into action like filthy dogs that most of them are !" Huffing a bit Edwin was quite surprised at his own speech and let out a hearted laugh chuckling from time to time.
"So Father about the funds for training navy and better arming our military personnel I'll be needing to take out a big portion from our Treasury but it should recover in a bit of time, oh of course I taught of a way to make even more mo-"
"Shut up! Take whatever, Do you want I DO NOT need to know whatever you're planning, do whatever you want and you have my full permission to bleed those nasty Nobles and Royals dry ! No questions asked." Saying so Edwin escaped not wishing to know more about his son's more ridiculous plans it was enough as it is, while relishing the feeling of getting his anger out on those Basturd nobles who had wronged him before remembering how much of a pain in the ass they were when he was wooing Epis's and Estr's mothers he still remembered their faces when they'd condemned the masses against them try to meddled in their love and when his wife fell in eternal Slumber they almost drive him mad with his self guilt being on the highest level at the time he was ready to kill himself but somehow was living like a tree with a hollow trunk up till now it's only now that he realises that he wasn't in wrong and those Basturds were picking on him when he was down the most before he had known what was going on but still trapped in self guilt he couldn't think much and proceeded to get pressed in a corner only for him to become more aware and stunned at his own Stupidity as it was his own son who drove him out of his toxic self reflections.
Walking away he seemed so light as the shoulders which were constantly pressed down were once again stood high up with confidence like a thousand tons of weight had been lifted off of him in this moment.
"Say did you hear yesterday a maid passed out on her night duty." A guard guardian assigned to protect the imperial palaces frontiers said curiously
"Hah ? Why would i bother with such gossips ?... well now that you've said that I assume you have more info." The second guard couldn't help but ask quite curious himself.
"Hehehe this matter she was sorting her stuff and checking in on rooms when she spotted balls of light making way towardsher in the dark alongside a human figure 'each passing moment the human figure continued coming closer to me his eyes glowing in the darkness illuminated by the fiery globes shimmering besides him it was soon eerie I almost peed myself, I pinched myself wondering if I'm in a nightmare eventually I was so fearful I screamed on the top of my lungs and passed out.' was said by the maid I was there present when she woke up and said whatever came in her histeric mind.
"This- that must be an hauntingly bad experience is she safe ?" Concerned the second guard asked for her well being to which the guard almost collapsed laughing and giggling.
"Hey ! That's not a fun matter you know the structure of society nowadays some people will go as far as to kill her to get rid of such bad Omen's." The first guard retorted.
"Haha ha~ sorry to ruin your expectations, but it's nothing serious you see hah-a it wasn't anybody else other than our Second Prince Epis it was him using his powers seemingly testing something unfortunately the maid saw him at the worst time and situation possible after she screamed a few guards were elected and prince Epis personally came forward claiming his wrongs in this matter this morning. Man I swear you should've seen the full look on the maid's face she looked so comedic at the time ha-ha and that's not all apparently she's not the only one who had to suffer such a fate alone some personnel had been caught up in the way of prince Epis and ." The guard explained chuckling how thoroughly Epis had scared the ever living soul out of the poor maid.
"Pfft~ " almost at the same time two sources of laughs could be heard one from the Second guard and the other from the behind as soon as they turned their eyes expanded in shock as this was the first time they had seen their very own Emperor laughing and snickering not to mention this could be counted as neglect of work and they could suffer time in prison for that but to their surprise the Edwin didn't seemed displeased.
''take care don't be lazy while doing your duties you know." Edwin said with a slight chuckle.
"We're Sorry your Excellency !"
"We're Extremely Sorry your Majesty!"
Two pleading sounds were heard but Edwin consoled them and just laughed it off telling them to be careful with their duties in the future with no punishments whatsoever.
"Say this is the first time I've seen the Emperor so happy, something good must've happened doesn't it ?" The first guard said it to be smacked by the second guard who represented his behaviour and gave him a good smack.
Edwin on the other hand got to his room and asked for Benedrict to present himself.
"I'm here your majesty do you need me for something ?" Benedrict asked respectfully
"On that matter I asked a full report of my Second son's whereabouts before but it was only later that I learned about the funny instances of him scaring the staff accidentally why aren't they included in the reports ?" Edwin asked sceptically
"... Your majesty by recollection after a few incidents you personally told us not to dwell deep in print Epis's works especially after the Treasury incident you ordered not to let such incidents shake you up."
"...." Edwin
"...."
Zash on the other made plentiful use of the money on hand and used it to make equipments for the new naval forces he was working on and along with cooking utensils in accordance with modern standard in turn selling them by making a clay mould and making the process in a controlled and professional manner and vice versa Zash started to make recipies from his Homeworld and made them spread around the Empire as a one day taste experience for everyone free of cost which was easily available to everyone no matter class or whatnot.
People eventually came running off to the castle demanding similar cusines to be made for them regularly and even opted to shrine Royal chiefs who in turn turned in all those that tried to bribe them as every one of the chefs who knew the recipes were loyal and trustworthy individual selected by Zash and while this whole ordeal was happening everyone's attention was drawn off towards the Culinary advancements which was deemed to be advanced by the same Mysterious "Zash Eleron" once again Omlets so juicy and tender, cakes so fluffy and delicious, the newly made Pizza's and Burgers, Fries, soft drinks of various kinds alongside new Wines and beers on the new Royal stores anyone who had gone through a personal check and was up for the job was allowed to sell it and henceforth anyone and everyone was allowed to come take it and go eat at home or just sit there and there and enjoy in turn making the ignorant royalties understand that they're not different than normal humans and were just royals due to hardworking Personality & Luck of their predecessors of course implementing this changes weren't easy but Zash in turn created a force called Royal Platoon and trained them by experienced guards which were laid off and had retired in turn giving the retired people a opportunity to continue working on and passion on the fire and experience from their youth while still earning for their work and hence Many a jobs were created and many businesses centered around the food industry was stated like the paper bag or designers glasses which Royals buyers baught in plenty so on and so on.
In the impending chaos of things Zash secretly Trained a new naval force making better ships and better cannons and swords for them along with new sets of equipments which made them nearly invincible, if used correctly and as such while the Royal Treasuries were once again beginning to be filled by Food stores Zash's plans worked wonders and within a month he had made a strong Platoon consisting of a good and experienced 3000 strong personnel's being leaded by a strong 123 Leading officers who were there to act in command whenever and wherever necessary, equipped with Deadly equipments from the devil himself the brave Platoon was tasked to to out and continue recruiting more workers who seemed to be up for the work.
Doing this task so seemlessly no one could've suspected that from this new innocent innitiative and simple thing like these Food stores had such a major role in clouding people's eyes, making them blind to the new exchanges as nobody suspected that the new huge ships made by Zash Perfectly blended in as merchant ships ready to provide supply for the stores, everyone had been bamboozled by Zash in the very Literal sense.
"Natural born Tactician !" Benedrict praised this act after learning about what Zash was doing on one hand this move could be seen as attempts to dissolve social dispute while in reality it was just a mistake with good benefit only there to give People good food and hide their Empire's now Naval Frontier's rise from the surrounding eyes but for this to work so well if they didn't see it happen they'd wonder if something like this could be even possible to be done by anyone.
Without waiting Benedrict called for everyone in a room Estr and Edwin, Havier was on standby as well in case anyone has an episode once again.
Explaining away Epis's plans and what he was doing and how he had fooled the entire world the shock of the Experienced people was beyond imaginable to say the least.
Everyone was left stunned at what their Little demonic prodigy of a prince was dwelling into not to mention that he had talked the new Platoon's people themselves to look for more experienced and skilled people and recruit them for their Empire and conduct other spy like activities along with the social impact that the food stores had created the nobles and royals and the common people too continued to go and eat their meals form the chained branches of food stores within the empire as it turned out Epis had a major part in inventing these new popular foods ! That too all of them it seemed so ! their Empire was growing ever more prosperous than the day before.
Just thinking about this topic Made people have an annurism, so one can easily imagine how difficult of a thing it must be to be planned but as if consciously they all knew that their Freaky prince didn't strain these matters much and carried forth everything so perfectly, even if the whole palace helped Epis in this project they cannot be guaranteed to meet a satisfactory end but what had they seen in a short span of an entire month a new and strong Platoon was born along with new sources or food and increasingly stable economic growth of the Empire.
A few officers fainted on the spot just putting two and two together never thinking how the very shops they had visited to eat food had such a deep purpose behind them others were left frightened at how deep Epis's plans affected one's mind and after looking at the bigger picture who can dare to claim to be an Art Of War tactician better than Epis
After all he had Literally done the impossible a feat nobody can dare to replicate.
"Sigh~ just look at him grow im so proud of little brother." Estr said in the hysterical room and she'd a silent tear at how much his little brother had grown.
"Hah you can say that again I don't dare wish to know anything anymore I fear I'll die from the severe shock one of these days." Edwin said with a slight worried smile on his face.
"So where's our little devil now ?" Edwin asked as calmness returned to the room.
"This prince Epis is currently in his room he has ordered not to be disturbed... I-I he said "I will become more powerful if everything goes well we won't need to be fearful of anyone and the world will be in our grasp" these were Prince Epis's final words to me I dare not claim to say one word wrong in these sentences." Benedrict said sweating at the sheer horror that laced behind Zash's words.
Gulp*
Hearing Benedrict's statement the others dared not imagine what was to come they could only look forward with hope and expectations.
In the spacious room Zash slowly opened his eyes, his room tough was thoroughly packed full of stones and gems containing Essense as Zash was in his middle of all this message sitting under a small makeshift array formation preparing for rapid promotion as he was currently in the Final stages of Peak 7 the stage Elementary Master he was planning to speedrush things a bit and if he's lucky he could possibly step in beginning Core formation Stages where he can be truly called an existence close to invincibility in this world.
Whew* sniffing the rich air around him a storm seemed to brew in the skies as thunder cracked and the winds blew triumphantly smashing trees left and right Zash within the room too was surrounded by a small storm of sorts making cuts and ripping his skin from time to time Zash paid it no mind and continued to meditate if any severe injuries are caused he'd take a healing pill and continue onwards.
BOOM* Thunder cracked and sent a bolt of lightning towards Zash from all sides not caring for his room's protective roof the thunder disseapated and entered through windows and rained hell on Zash but at the same time Zash absorbed the thunder not letting go and seemed to be absorbing the thunder's properties and using them as a ladder to loosen his breakthrough.
Agghhh* finally !" Feeling the bounds of his Cultivation breaking Zash then activated the Array beneath him
Just as he did all the surrounding stones seemed to have started againg rapidly turning into dust meanwhile their Essense within them had congealed and started to transform into a huge gel like ball which looked so vibrantly beautiful with all colours of the spectrum seemingly shining if viewsd enough but it wasn't for much longer as Zash called it towards him and started eating the gelatinous mass of Essence wasting nothing and tightly shutting his mouth for the next step.
Feeling the power surging between his body Hsi ribs and bones were strengthened and expanded beyond belief Zash expanded by nearly 2× his body mass but once again shrank back as his body was Changing at moments notice and he had not long after he advanced in his Cultivation once again stepping into Sky Master Beginning stages and once again repeated to consolidate his Cultivation with the plentiful energy within his body which was at this point Literally begging to be used by him.
After he felt he had made a good enough foundation for this body he began once more and started to use the energy to expand when a buzzing noise could be heard in the air it was the sound of water and soon Zash was under the constant assault of a small whirlpool within his room but even so Zash stayed still breathing moderately not letting go ever so often and just as he had done with the tribunal beforehand he didn't let this one go as well forming a connection with the water whirlpool he once again started to absorb the Heavenly Tribulations energy within this tribulation and started making his way preparing for the next stage.
A full 20 minutes had gone by and Zash's clothe had long since been ripped to shreds from the Elemental assult Zash had successfully managed to take on 3 tribulations head on making the best out of each of them but at the Finale of things the Essence energy which Zash had previously swallowed had mostly been used up and hence Zash had to depend on the Tribulation to provide him with some as the fourth tribulation from Peak Sky Master stage was on his head any possible second.
"Is that the best you can do ?! I am so disappointed that this is all this world's worth ! Give me a challenge for Fu**s sake !" Screaming towards the sky in his room the sky seemed thoroughly annoyed,
Hence turning Black, bright sparks of purple and blue hued flames started shining in the skies as the public and Zash's family was confused at what was happening.
"Oh lord it seems this is whatever power which will make prince Epis invincible." Hausa said covering himself with his shield not daring to be careless in the wake of the flying debree floating in the air and neither was Benedrict who acted quickly and formed a Guardian circle and came out in the open Field assigned a couple meters back of Zash's room wishing to get a better view but their efforts was for naught as a barrier was formed by Zash beforehand just in case for this scenario,
The guards and his family tried desperately to enter in close proximity but to no avail.
At that mere moment the sky gave off a slight "quake" and all the floating sparks of flames darted off towards Zash's location making the room burst out shining bright violet and blue spectrums of lights from every opening making everyone worried.
Zash tough didn't had the luxury to care for these matters and focused on his Cultivation not daring to slack off leeching off every excess bit of energy caring the least minimum about his physical condition which was somewhat in a better situation due to his recent advancements and his regeneration was a bit quicker than before but that was it, and any bit of carelessness could very likely burn this body to a crisp at any moment's notice so Zash was extremely vigilant, concentrating peaked to the extreme he started forming a bond with the surrounding typhoon of flames and thunder absorbing it as the Heavenly Tribulations wasn't able to do much harm, only doing it's part of feeding Zash's endless hunger for Essense and pushing him more and more towards the Core Formation Stage which in turn made him asthetically pleased just thinking about it making him form a light smile on his face not caring about the pain.
'wtf ?! Is he Crazy ?! Is he a Masch***** or something ?' the old figure was tired out of his mind he could be looked at Zash's direction in utter dismay and asked to the void skies pleasingly.
''I was prepared for anything that might come upon me ! I thought I was ready for anything ! But ! But how can I had been prepared for this freak !?!"grabbing his frail white greyish hairs he ripped a few off not caring for the pain he asked in hysteria bit there wasn't anyone to answer his queries or more so it seemed like whoever he was asking these things was having an episode himself or he might've himself been in a trauma due to him
In the long silence that followed a overbearing ancient voice answered.
"I can't comprehend this even ! This one's clearly a freak ! But this time it seems he's made the Heavens angry and might pay for this with his life !" Continuing so the ancient voice expressed his helplessness in this matter.
"Ah ? So what can we do ? This isn't a matter which can be solved by external support !" The old man said.
"Hmm that's... Not necessarily true you know but let's see if he passes through with this I'll help him get an opportunity as for if he's suitable for grasping this godly opportunity depends all on himself."
The ancient voice said telling to keep his hopes up and had seemingly rushed off somewhere leaving the old man to look towards the ridiculousness of this situation all by himself.
After a short few moments the thunderstorm instead of disappearing had started to grow and expand but it wasn't seen by Zash who was focused on collecting enough energy for forming a stable core not to mention that it needed to be purified and concentrated and while doing so abundance of force and power was needed and power was being presented to him but the storm but now it seemed much more complicated than that as a force seperate to this was starting to dwell within him through the surrounding making him open his eyes.
The moment he opened his eyes a sensation spread throughout his conciousness looking at the unbelievable situation he was left stunned as if time and stopped in that very moment he saw layers of barriers opening around him as Saintly Monsters and Beassts of all kinds and sized were up to be viewed, Dragons, Demonic Beings, Holy Beasts, Humongous beasts could easily fit a city or two within them, Humanoid Figures bearing great might in them, their faces covered in ancient runes carrying weapons of all sorts and sizes so many of these portals and what did Zash see ?
A small part of their power was flowing throughout the surrounding air and formed a whisky golden whirlpool bit this one wasn't affect by anyone or anything, his moments didn't change it's trajectories or anything the energies flowed mostly being Golden whisks of floating energies covering Zash's entire body and tightly wrapped themselves around his body as they contended to claim ownership over certain part of his body a slight leather was found by these Golden whisks which connected Zash's soul to his Original body and soon they started wrapping over it as well golden sigils and runes lit Zash's entire body making it shine to the extreme making Zash close his eyes as they were now bleeding from the sheer pain partly due to being unable to hide from this assault and partly due to casually seeing some of these Mythical Beings through the naked view of a human being.
One slight glance from a Holy Being or Beast of any kind can grant powers to ordinary Humans and such powers if one is able to develop can grant one a higher depth of accomplishments from everyone else.
The stinging pain in his eyes didn't last long as the Portals closed one by one and the Golden whisks had solidified into their intented forms covering Zash's both bodies Entirely from head to to even extending to his hair making him glow golden in the now dark room illuminating it all by himself other than the sparks of Heavenly fires which were still present but that wasn't a care from worry as the final sigil formed around both his eyes Zash's eyes healed up almost instantaneously and he was taken aback by this shocking form of his now he felt so powerful that if he's not careful he might just crush his own body using these forces fortunately he had a tough body due to his Cultivation but that wasn't for everyone to speak.
''This sensation ! It can't be !" Now that he was better able to process what had happened he once again took a closer look at his arms and he was able to feel a familiarity with the elements around him and even as an Immortal such familiarity is rare, even rarer for God's to have such an absolute sense of familiarity.
Only one such recorded instance came to Zash's mind no matter how much he'd think through these situations he was sure that he has done an unimaginable feat which he had even failed to do while becoming an Immortal in the past 11 000 years.
[Congratulations to the host for becoming a Saint ]
"Just like Grandfather, I am seem to have become a Saint !"
BOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM#
along with a big spark of thunder which illuminated the entire skies white making everyone feel as if it was bright as a day entirely unbelievable if one claimed the skies were pitch black moment ago, in the very next Second everyone was forced to close their eyes in fear that that might just go blind just like that Zash had entered Correctly Formation Stage with a decent enough Core he had gained powers way above his reach imaginable signaling that a Freaky Saint was born in this World
PERTIMBANGAN PENCIPTA 
COOLASH
COOLASH So here's another chapter Hopefully it's entertaining for those that like my novel as much as I love writing them.
Prehistoric Facts : A Hyppo and a whale share a common ancestor which apparently had conflicting opinions on staying on land and Millions of years ago half stayed on land, some returned and started living in the ocean, making the most peaceful creatures who are mostly the symbolic representation of Peace and Calmness connected to a Murderer on four legs, menace to everyone, a crazy Hyppo. Talk about bad family trees.
Stay safe and let's meet again soon.
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