[22 hours 45 minutes]
Dum… Dum… Dum…
As if the pulse of the planet itself was beating in his mind, faint dull sounds could be heard in a certain repetitive pattern. He didn't know exactly why, but Ery instinctively knew that this uneasy feeling he had been receiving must have sothing to do with the Primordial Wisp.
Hence the reason he took out the crystal glass even though his companions were busy defending the base from the hordes of the Abyss creatures. He hoped that he could find so answers through the spirit butterflies.
Ery looked at the crystal glass in his hand. His gaze intently watched the four tiny, glowing spirit creatures that were contained within. After a while, he finally placed the glass in front of him as he sat down and assud the lotus position.
As for the first butterfly, it should be still interacting with Twik and the five Chizpur brothers inside the Spatial Space at the mont. However, since he wanted to also experint with it and its kins, Ery thought that he might as well take out all the plant creatures.
"Ku… ku… kuang."
The mont they ca out of the Spatial Space, Twik and the Chizpur brothers greeted Ery with their ever-present enthusiasm. Smiling at their actions for a mont, Ery clapped his hand and put his finger on his lips.
"Alright, now all of you stay quiet and watch," Ery said to them before shifting his attention and concentrating on the glowing butterfly. To get this started, he decided to try with the butterfly he had caught himself as he had previously had interactions with it.
[Nature Grasp]
Light green streams of root-like energy started to seep out of Ery's stretched hand and ca in touch with the butterfly's body. As soon as the two connected, Ery could feel a series of emotions that were certainly not his; they were the butterfly's.
Distress, anxiety, and worry.
Turned out that the butterfly shared the sa reaction to the feelings had been having the past few hours. Unfortunately, the ssage was not that clear and there was also no vision for him to see this ti.
Now that the first butterfly was done, it was ti to release the four butterflies contained inside the crystal glass.
Just as the creatures were about to co out from their container, Ery was ready with his spell [Aegis Void] to subdue them within a void bubble. After all, he couldn't risk letting them get away freely.
After making sure they were securely restrained by the spell, with his other free hand, Ery began to use [Nature Grasp] to probe this group of spirit creatures. The familiar sight of green root-like energy seeping out of his hands quickly ca into view again.
As the [Nature Grasp]'s energy started to interact with the spirit butterflies, they all one by one suddenly beca chaotic. They all started frantically flapping their wings while flying around erratically.
This ti, the emotions that Ery felt were vastly different than the first butterfly. There was anger… rage…; this left him both surprised and confused.
It took quite so ti before the chaotic spirit butterflies began to calm down and return to normal. But by that point, he discovered that they were still unwilling to communicate with him.
The vastly different reactions left Ery at a loss.
Then, his mind suddenly thought of an idea. He proceeded to call the first butterfly as it swiftly flew over when it received his call, and without further ado, Ery let it enter the void bubble where the other spirit butterflies were. It quickly joined its kins and the reactions to its arrival were varied.
? ?? ??-?? ???. ??? During the process, he could feel a powerful spirit energy undulating, then fluctuating, before finally flowing out of the bubble. It was as if they were all communicating with each other.
After a while, seeing that there seed to be no problem with the other spirit butterflies, Ery decided to do a leap of trust and dispel the [Aegis Void] spell that contained them. The next thing that happened was sothing he didn't expect at all.
He watched in a daze as the five freed butterflies flew between one another, emitting bright rays of light as they swiftly coalesced into a shining orb. Imdiately, a violent tremor shook the tower he was currently at.
A few monts after this flashy occurrence, a series of notifications ca.
[Is that your doing, Ery? What is going on?]
[Ery, I just saw sothing bright appear inside the base.What was it?]
Several ssages asking what was really going on ca from Julian, Klea, and the others. Realizing that what the spirit butterflies did attracted everyone's attention, Ery smiled wryly before quickly sending them a ssage telling them not to worry.
After he finished ssaging everyone, Ery returned his attention to the spirit butterflies. By now, the orb had turned the tower into a kind of beacon with how bright the light it gave off. What's more, he could feel that the power it emitted was gradually increasing.
This ti, as his [Nature Grasp] reached over to the shining orb, Ery hoped that he could understand what was happening with it, or at least, would be able to receive a more definite ssage.
However, instead of what he wanted to know, a deluge of spirit energy appeared and rapidly flowed through the connection his [Nature Grasp] made. Every second that passed, Ery could feel a trendous amount of energy flowing into him and his cultivation increasing.
[Nature Grasp] was a special Rank A skill that was given by Gaia, and from the mont he obtained it Ery had always depended on it to fill his Spirit Pool or to upgrade his spirit core. And now, it worked the sa manner to the shining orb, only a few tis than usual.
It wasn't as rapid as what he received from [Spirit Devour], but it was still several tis faster than his normal cultivation speed. As if to prove it, a notification popped up every few minutes.
[Spirit force increased.]
With every passing minute, Ery could clearly feel the apparent boost in power. Not only that, but he also comprehended a new understanding regarding the elents of nature.
[22 hours 10 minutes]
After half an hour, Ery suddenly felt sothing swiftly approaching from a distance. Fortunately, it was anything but bad news.
A distance away, a tiny speck of light could be seen dashing towards the tower. When it finally neared, it slowed down and revealed its appearance.
It was another glowing golden butterfly. It flew around a bit before quickly rging into the orb, causing the light it gave off to shine even brighter. After that, Ery felt a slight increase in the spirit energy flowing into him.
[Spirit force increased.]
[21 hours, 42 minutes]
Another golden light approached. Just like before, it rged with the orb.
[Spirit force increased.]
A few minutes after the third spirit butterfly arrived, Ery finally beca sure about his conjecture that the orb was summoning all the tiny spirit creatures all around the planet into it.
The orb continued to grow.
As Ery felt his power increase with every passing mont, he also noticed that it wasn't just him who received the abundant spirit energy, his six plant creatures unexpectedly received the boon as well.
Unknowingly, Twik and the 5 Chizpur brothers all had calmly sat down around Ery, as their bodies basked in the glowing energy.
[18 hours 30 minutes]
It had been three hours since the shining orb made its appearance and the spirit creatures started to gather to it. At this point, 8 golden lights had arrived and entered the orb, giving a total of 13 spirit butterflies gathered into one glowing orb.
As if it had finished doing whatever it was trying to do, the orb finally stopped.
[Spirit Force: 1,372 (1,401)]
In a short span of three hours, Ery received an increase of 29 spirit force points. It was also at this ti that the ssage he received from his connection with the spirit butterfly finally beca much clearer.
It still wasn't in the form of words, but he could clearly feel that the intent was calling for help.
"Help? What do you an? Who are you?"
At this mont, a bright light suddenly appeared and blinded his eyes. When Ery opened his eyes again, he was no longer at the tower but returned to the vision he once had before. However, the scenery that appeared in front of him had subtly changed.
It was the sa vision of leaves falling from the Tree of Light, but this ti he could feel that thirteen different leaves were falling at different tis.
After feeling it for a mont, Ery realized that the 13 leaves were part of the Primordial Wisp's offspring. On the other hand, the spirit butterflies were the result of the rebirth of a new lifeform with the partial power of the Primordial Wisp.
However, while the realization was dawning upon him, the intent conveyed "danger" into his mind.
"Danger? What do you an?"
Unfortunately, the orb didn't imdiately respond. Ery already had a bad premonition when he heard there was danger, and this sudden unresponsiveness made him even more anxious.
"Show the danger!"
As if the orb understood, it emitted bright light again, but this ti, it was more vivid.
Multiple loud echoes imdiately greeted him, and soon after, he saw it; the monstrous golden centipede with its body cracking all over.
Sure enough, he realized that he was watching the fight between the enforcers and the stage 7 Abyss creature - the Royal Centipede. However, the sight that he saw was sothing that he didn't expect, or rather, didn't dare to think.
Before his eyes, Magus Hyokai was standing among the corpses of his four comrades.
"They lost?"
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