83 Core of Darkness
Now that a chance to turn things around had presented itself to him, he needed to grab it. Again, there was nothing that he could lose other than his unfortunate life.
Ery silently turned from the black dragon and headed back to the spot he had been cultivating on. He sat in a cross-legged position, ordered the symbol on his palm to bring up the darkness manual he had bought from Golden City's Magus Guild.
[Darkness is the ho of the void; within its emptiness, there you'll find yourself]
Ery's surroundings, including himself, beca nothingness. He couldn't perceive anything within his five senses other than what others referred to as self-consciousness. However, even that thought was sohow fading as if he was emptiness itself.
A few monts passed, and just like his previous attempts in understanding the basics of the dark elent, three great different colored lights appeared within the darkness and whipped away his concentration. Ery opened his eyes as he tried to catch his breath. He figured what he needed to do, so once more he focused, deeply looking into himself and not through the darkness elent.
Within the dark room of his mind, he saw a sphere that resembled his spirit core and within it, he could only see the green, yellow and blue lights. From afar, he watched the three lights cover the whole sphere, where the dark colored lights, a miniscule dark blob, hovered alone, staying still.
Ery unconsciously reached out and the spirit core seed to contract as it tried to touch the black light inside. The three lights suddenly darted, and the green light at the head shoved away the small dark blob. So this was what Killgragah had ntioned about and his experience just now. Whenever he practiced the darkness elent, the three lights would always try to deny opportunity for the dark to grow. All this was due to his talent not having the capacity to cultivate and to hold them all effectively. The more he tried, the more the elents wanted to break apart.
He consciously reached out for the dark blob. And like earlier, the three lights shot itselves and he created a wall to block all three elents. Once he felt like he was connected with the darkness, unlike the other tis he had probably been doing with the other elents, he broke down a small portion of the wall and let the green light collide with the dark elent.
Ery returned to the void and all his senses were once again blurred. Within the emptiness of space, a faint green light was growing larger and as he focused his eyes intently, he saw a multitude of trees, flowers, roots, everything related to plants and felt a sense of involvent in relation to the creation of them all.
Right now, he was trying to cultivate the plant elent in the attempt to rge it with the darkness elent as the core. Unbeknownst to him all this ti, Killgragah, in the form of the Faceless Man, was beside him and said, "Since we are both connected through Khaos, I can feel your progress. Right now, I can see you're making the darkness as your core while the plant as the second subservient. Although you can do that one at a ti, the difficulty of rging the others will exponentially be a whole lot harder, making it close to impossible, because those elents will think you are eliminating them. Connect with all of them concurrently, and you will have a significant increase in power, of course the chance of failure will also increase."
The way he had learned the path of cultivating the elents were different. However, since this was a dragon, a mythical being that was probably even more powerful than all of the magi he had t so far, Ery accepted the black dragon's suggestion and completely demolished the barrier blocking the other two elents and let them collide with the dark and green elents.
Back in the emptiness, the yellow light appeared in the distance and a world of sand and a giant rock seed to reside in it. Not far away was the blue light with its world showing great torrents of water, rushing in from all different directions.
All four elents; the dark, the plant, the earth and the water, converged into one spot of his spirit core and the feeling of overwhelming energy current beca painful as if a thousand blades were slashing his whole being at the sa ti.
Ery gritted his teeth, not letting even a grunt co out from his throat, and focused entirely on incorporating the dark blob into his spirit core. His physical body was trembling and blood was dripping from his mouth.
He lost sense of ti and the black light eventually dimd, then beca smaller and smaller until it completely disappeared. At that mont, his spirit core beca a translucent dark core, however since it had beco so, the other three lights thrashed and tried to break free from the spirit core creating cracks.
As if Ery had eyes everywhere, he saw the trees withering, the water turning murky, and the stone breaking.
"This is the crucial part, kid. Don't give up now!" said Killgragah to Ery, whose face paled into snow-white. However, the more Ery concentrated, the more his environnt was breaking into pieces, and Killgragah suddenly disappeared! Ery could tell his spirit core was cracking countlessly and just when it created what seed to be on the verge of shattering, a surge of Khaos energy rushed into his body and the Faceless Man appeared once more.
The whole body of the Faceless Man twisted and curled and transford into a mirror of himself. It said, "You are not going to make it!"
"Yes, I can!" he shouted back.
"Give up already!"
"I won't give up. I won't fail!" said Ery with gritted teeth.
"Then prove it!"
If he died, then he would die. He was already past the point of return, so all thoughts of the sa nature were aningless. Ery roared at the top of his lungs as he threw all doubts away. He grabbed on to the three lights in his core and then the images of the elents' environnts shattered as a black vortex ford and sucked them all in. And in that mont in his spirit core, the final crack appeared making it explode into countless pieces. However, in the place of a translucent dark core, a solid grayish dark core appeared as the three colorful lights of green, yellow and blue, stopped thrashing around and started spinning within the new core as if they were rrily chasing, synergized with each other.
[Congratulations! You have mastered the foundation of the darkness elent]
Ery's eyes opened before vomiting blood. He fell on his back on the ground, barely able to lift a finger.
The black dragon's face looked down on him and said, "Hahaha, you've succeeded, kid."
Ery gave a weak smile but after just a few seconds, he felt energized once more and checked his status through the symbol on his hand.
[Spirit Affinity: Plant, Earth, Water]
[Plant Spirit - High Stage]
[Water Spirit - Middle Stage]
[Earth Spirit - High Stage]
[Battle power 24 (17)]
[Spirit force 55 (31)]
[Spirit Core of Darkness - foundation]
[Fey Bloodline - stage 1]
[Acolyte Rank 4]
The first thing he noticed was that his darkness was taken out of the list of spirit affinity but all three reached the high stage at the sa ti. Not only that, an additional five points had been added in his spirit force. However, what really caught his eye was the newest line of information.
[Spirit Core of Darkness]
This was what the black dragon had helped him achieve and clearly, the benefits were evident. Aside from recovering his energy in almost an instant, when he tried to cultivate the elents, the spirit energy around him flowed like a steady stream into his spirit core and distributed the energy equally.
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