When Grey was done reading the text, he changed his attention back to the floating lotus and walked towards it.
'Seems like I can finally awaken my fire elent', he thought.
With the awakening of his fire elent, he would have five elents. Had it been previously, he would have thought he would only need to comprehend the Light and Darkness elent to have all elents, but now, he didn't know how many elents there were.
"I rembered you said the Space elent was one of your innate elents, which other one do you have?", asked Grey who stood a few inches away from the lotus.
'I have four in total, Space, Darkness, Lightning, and Fire', the cat replied.
"Oh, four! That's quite a lot", Grey replied.
Although the fact that the cat had four elents was quite shocking, he didn't brood too much over it. After all, he was about to acquire his fifth elent.
'Actually, I think there might still be one more. But it seems like I'm not strong enough to awaken it yet', the cat said while placing its little paws on its face like a human does when thinking.
"Oh! How strong are you currently", asked Grey curiously.
'Around Late Rank three, I think', said the cat.
"Rank three? Magical beasts have ranks?", Grey asked.
He had never heard of beasts having ranks, they had always used the sa system as humans, well, according to the books he had read and also from how everyone in the empire calls their system.
'Of course. Are you from a small town or village?', the cat suddenly asked.
It felt Grey knew lesser compared to it that had just been born. Since Grey had been in the world for a while now, it was unexpected he knew nothing about the Space elent, and now, he didn't know how Magical beasts were ranked.
Grey almost tripped when the cat asked him this question, he also felt like soone from a backwater place due to what was happening. It was quite embarrassing that he had to learn about these things from a cat that had just been born.
But he couldn't be blad, this was the first ti he was hearing about them, and he couldn't pretend he knew about them just so he wouldn't embarrass himself. As long as it was sothing new, he always wanted to learn, even if it ant learning from a newborn cat!
"How are beasts ranked?", he averted the cat's question and asked his own.
'It's just like the human cultivation system, only, unlike you humans, we have ranks instead of planes', explained the cat.
"There isn't much difference in the cultivation system then. It's just a change of na. This ans, according to your rank, you're at the Late stages of the Arcane Plane", said Grey.
'Arcane Plane, is that the third plane for humans?', asked the cat.
Grey nodded.
'Yeah, you could say that', the cat said.
"So do you have a na?", asked Grey.
Other than what the cat told him, the only thing he knew about it was that it was male. And he only found out when he was studying it the first ti.
'Void', said the cat.
"Void? Who would na himself Void?", Grey chuckled.
'That's a great na, it fits my magnificent features perfectly', Void said proudly while sticking out his little c.h.e.s.t.
Grey laughed seeing how the little guy stuck out his c.h.e.s.t trying to show his 'features'.
'What's your na?', Void asked after so ti.
"Grey", replied Grey.
'Grey? Who nas himself after a color. And to think you had the guts to laugh at my na' Void laughed on hearing Grey's na.
Grey looked at Void speechless, shaking his head, he once again placed his full attention on the lotus.
"Ti for an upgrade", he laughed lightly.
He was quite expectant towards acquiring a new elent, his strength will not only increase but his plane also. And there was a chance he might acquire the rare blue fla the expert spoke about.
This wasn't the first ti he was hearing of blue flas, compared to normal red flas, it was almost two tis stronger. It was just like the black lightning the crocodile he fought had, it was stronger than the normal silver lightning he had.
Grey was shocked by how small it was, but he could also feel how strong its energy was. Compared to the lotus, it was almost four tis stronger.
'I don't think I'll be able to fully absorb the energy in one cultivation session. I'll just refine it now, and not only awaken my fire elent, but also breakthrough. I'll slowly absorb the rest of the energy later', he thought before reaching for it.
When he made contact with the fla, its warmth spread across his hand, before moving to the other parts of his body.
He took it and sat cross-legged, looking at Void who was staring at him with pleading eyes, he sighed before waving for him to take the lotus.
Although if he were to be the one to refine the lotus his strength will increase further, it didn't hurt to allow the little guy to take it, besides, he had already taken the best treasure which was the fla. Also, from the looks of it, the little guy will be staying with him from now on.
Getting the go-ahead, Void happily leaped towards the lotus, opened his mouth, and swallowed it instantly, like he was afraid Grey might change his mind.
He laid down close to Grey, snuck a glance at him, and spat out a single petal which he slowly started absorbing.
Grey who was still staring at him was surprised when he saw Void spit out one of the nine petals. He thought Void swallowed it completely.
'Seems like this guy has sowhere he stores things, but where? I'll ask him after I break through', thought Grey.
And so, one human and one cat started cultivating.
.........
While Grey and Void were cultivating, things had started heating up at the ancient paths. The paths intersected with each other, so the people were starting to et up as ti slowly went on.
They had all been on this path for almost five hours now but still hadn't reached the end. So of them had gotten great treasures, such as rare plants, essence stones, elental weapons, and even techniques, but most of the techniques were of the fire elent.
At one of the paths, a youth could be seen running quickly towards what looked like a castle.
'It's stronger here', the youth thought while staring at the castle.
The youth was none other than Jonas. Since he entered into the ancient paths, he had not stopped for one minute and had been following a 'call'.
From the ti he saw the light, he suddenly felt a sense of calling from it. This was why he hurried towards it as fast as he could. Even after the light had died down for so ti, he could still feel the call.
After entering the ancient paths, he didn't bother about any other thing and just focused on where the call was coming from. Now he had finally found it, it was from this castle.
'Why is it calling ?', Jonas asked himself.
This was a question he had asked himself over and over again, but he still couldn't co up with an answer. He didn't know what he might find in this place, but he knew it wasn't sothing that would harm him.
Steeling his mind, he slowly disappeared into the castle.
.......
"Uh! People are fighting up ahead", a soft voice said.
The owner of the voice slowly walked towards where the sounds of battles were coming from. It was ahead anyway, so there was no way the figure wouldn't see who was fighting unless the figure decided to turn around.
Boom! Bang!
A figure slamd into the wall by the side.
"So this is his full strength", the soft voice said.
The owner of the voice was Alice, ahead of her was the Darkness Elentalist, and he was facing off against two youths. One in the Third stage, and another in the Second.
The fact that he could fight against two people of this caliber and not only gain the upper hand but was about to kill them, was nothing less of a testant to how strong he was.
Alice initially had no plans of stepping in but looking closer, she recognized both youths, they were from the Lunar Academy.
Although she was still in the Second stage of the Origin Plane, her true strength was no weaker than those at the Third stage, and she is even stronger than so of them.
Sensing soone else walking into the battle scene, the Darkness Elentalist turned and looked in her direction.
"I'll advise you don't interfere with this, little lady", he said coldly.
"I don't ddle in other people's affairs. But you see, they're my friends", Alice smiled lightly as she walked towards both youths.
Now it was three against one, although one of the youths was injured, it didn't an he still couldn't fight.
The Darkness Elentalist looked at them with an icy gaze.
And the path fell into silence.
Alice was waiting patiently for his decision, if he wanted to fight, then, she had no problem with that. She hadn't fought soone this strong anyway, so it will be a test for her.
Both parties faced off without anyone showing any signs of backing down.
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