After joining the Institute of Bloodline, in the afternoon Ery went over to the Institute of Darkness. Ery hoped he could et his ntor, Magus Xion, for so guidance. Unfortunately, Ery had to return empty handed, as the magus was currently not available at the institute.
This ti Ery knew the magus was not in a class or at his residence. Therefore, Magus Xion must have gone sowhere. Seeing the person he had co for was not there, Ery thought about returning to Lord Izta's palace to practice his sword and battle art training. However, he imdiately changed his mind, when he saw the place where the origin stone room was.
Ery Enter the Institute of Darkness' origin stone room, and took the half day access
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This was actually Ery's first ti entering and seeing the darkness stone of origin. He was very excited by the thought of directly seeing the darkness stone. Ery then quickly made his way inside the room and like usual, the closer he was to the stone the heavier his steps.
Ery walked until he found the place he felt comfortable at. Surprisingly, he can walk much closer to the darkness stone compared to the other institutes' stone of origin. Looking at the stone in the distance, Ery estimated he was currently about 80 ters away from the stone, while normally he stayed in the 100 ters radius.
Nodding his head in satisfaction, Ery swiftly sat down and closed his eyes, as he began to enter a ditative state. A sentence, or rather a thought slowly appeared in his mind.
[Darkness the ho of void, within emptiness you will find yourself]
Upon hearing that, Ery who was already in a ditative state quickly fell into a trance-like state, where everything and anything was nothing. He was drawn into an illusion, where he was just a tiny speck inside an endless dark space. All his senses were gone, as a feeling of weakness, loneliness and powerlessness crept into his very being and began eroding it.
Darkness was the absence of light. Whenever light arrived, darkness would be driven away.
The feeling Ery was currently experiencing was disturbing… and uncomfortable. In the endless space where there shouldn't be anything, Ery found a mist, a black-colored mist. But before he could reach out to it, he was awoken.
[Ti is up]
[Spirit force increased by one]
On the outside, it might be just one point increase of his spirit force. However, Ery found out he had a new understanding of the elent of darkness, a knowledge that couldn't be asured by any number.
Feeling it was worth every point he spent, Ery decided he would go to the darkness origin stone room every day and after the ditation session, he would then go to Lord Izta's palace and do a few training courses during the night. Ery thought this would be the best option to rapidly increase his strength within his remaining ti.
Solidifying his schedule, Ery imdiately went into Lord Izta's palace to… sleep.
After all, it was already midnight and Ery wanted to make sure he would be able to carry out his plan without any flaw. Therefore, he walk as fast as he could towards his quarters and imdiately dropped dead into his bed.
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The next morning, after he woke up, Ery swiftly did the 'business' he had to do and darted towards the Institute of Darkness, again. Entering the origin stone room, Ery returned to his previous position and started ditating.
Second day.
[Spirit force increased by one]
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Third day.
[Spirit force increased by one]
Even though it only gave him one spirit force a day, Ery still ca back to the origin stone room over and over. With each day passed, Ery felt his understanding of the darkness elent deepen and beca more profound.
There were indeed monts where Ery thought of going to the other institutes to spend so ti in their origin stone rooms. But after thinking deeply, Ery thought it was not worth it with the limited ti he had. With that Ery thought it would be more beneficial to master one elent first.
Ery hoped that, with the increase of his understanding towards the darkness elent, all his darkness spells as well as the combination spells [Granite skin] and [Dark root binding] would beco much stronger than before. This is the right way he thought.
This was the way Ery spent his remaining days before the second stage of the Magus Gas began. Cultivating his elent during the day, trying to reach a deeper understanding and sparring against the wooden puppets during the night, polishing his combat ability and battle art skills.
At dawn of the fourth day, Ery laid on the ground, extrely drained, as he had finally managed to defeat the level 6 combat puppet, which granted him a 3 battle power increase and another battle art skill. Despite his eagerness to choose a new skill, Ery just couldn't get up.
After several minutes of continuous struggle, Ery gave up and lay there on the ground resting his exhausted body. Half an hour later, Ery finally felt his body slightly recovered. Slowly getting up, Ery received his reward.
[Congratulation for defeating level 6 wooden puppet]
[Receive 3 battle power]
[You are rewarded with one battle art skill]
This ti, Ery chose the dagger skill, [Hidden Blade]. Therefore he now had two battle arts for two different situations. A direct attack and an indirect one.
Seeing the morning sun rising in the sky, instead of continuing his rest, Ery imdiately went to the darkness origin stone room again. ditating there for half a day, Ery once again received another one spirit point. Stepping out of the room, Ery checked his status.
[Ery Ambrose]
[Battle power 37]
[Spirit force 126]
These past few days, Ery had been practicing really hard doing everything he could, with very limited rest ti. However, he couldn't help but be concerned, he felt he was definitely still lacking for the next ga. Rembering there were only 3 days left before the ga started, Ery shook his head and sighed deeply.
It was unfortunate that until this day Magus Xion still hadn't returned to the institute. Ery then left the Institute of Darkness with a heavy heart. He returned to Lord Izta's palace and when he was about to practice again, he found out that Julian had been looking for him.
"Ery! There you are!" Julian exclaid, when he finally saw his best friend.
"What's up, What's with the rush?" Ery asked, as he saw Julian dashing toward him at full speed, as if afraid he would disappear.
"You can't bla , Ery. After all, these few days you have rarely been seen in the palace." Julian said. "By the way, there is a gathering tonight and we are invited!"
"Gathering? What kind of gathering?" Ery asked, puzzled.
"I heard they are inviting all acolytes of group 7 for so kind of strategy briefing." Julian replied, while scratching his head. "I'm also not sure actually"
"They? Who are they?"
"The other top group 7 acolytes like us, I guess."
"Like us?" Ery asked again, truly confused. Ery didn't think his team was that special.
"Ery! We were in the top 10 in the first stage. Of course we are part of the top teams of group 7." Julian answered with confidence. "So… what do you think? I couldn't find Thrax and Chumo, but I did find Klea. She said that she will be there."
It appeared the last four days, everyone was so drowned with their own training it made them no longer know what the others were doing. Thinking for a while, Ery nodded his head. "Alright. I think it's a good idea to know more about the ga. Let's go."
The two of them then left the palace and went into the big residence located at the peak of the mountain. This whole mountain was the location of group 7, which consisted of class 71 to class 80. This location would be the most distinct place for them to do a massive gathering.
When Ery and Julian arrived near the residence, they were taken back for a mont because there were way more people than they thought. Looking around the groups of people. Ery estimated there were at least a hundred acolytes gathered here. Therefore, out of all the top 50 in the group 7, almost one third of them ca to this gathering.
When Ery and Julian were seen in the distance, Anas, the acolyte from the Kaleos world shouted. The shout was loud enough it caught the attention of everyone present.
"Here we have the best group that managed to kill the ogre!"
All eyes imdiately turned towards Ery and Julian, watching the two of them approach the residence.
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