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The pillar launched its attack, turning into a bony husk. Yet, its target managed to avoid the attack at the last moment.
The pillar lay weakly on the ground as the Demon opened its huge maw. In its current state, the pillar was helpless. The Demon moved forward, and...
Consumed the pillar in one piece.
Inside, the pillar was rapidly pushed towards the Demon's stomach. An instant later, one of the stomach's walls was broken by lightning, and the pillar flew through the hole.
In the next moment, the pillar found itself inside an isolated space. Naturally, it wasn't alone in this space.
"And that's that," Sebastian said, looking at the pillar beside him. "You have died."
The pillar recovered in an instant since Kyle no longer needed to keep his powers secret.
"Well, I guess that's where the pillar's adventures in the Main Dimension end," Kyle transmitted with a sigh. "Kinda sucks, but what can we do? The gulf between Realms is simply too vast to overe."
Naturally, all of this had been planned. Kyle had returned to Sebastian and Star Genesis to ask them for their opinions. Kyle desperately needed the Level Five Laws, but he couldn't access them on his own.
Luckily, with Sebastian and Star Genesis, they found a way to give Kyle access to the Level Five Laws.
There were three ways through which Kyle could prehend the Level Five Laws.
The first way was to enter the Law Wells. Sadly, that was impossible. He had already tried that. However, what if Sebastian's Demon Car could access them? The Demon Car wasn't bound by the Elements. As long as it could reach the Wisdom Fire Realm, it could survive the Law Wells.
Sadly, after returning to the two of them, Kyle realized that this was also an impossibility. The reason was simple...
Sebastian's Demon Car couldn't advance anymore.
Getting through the Mortal Realms had been easy. Unlocking the Clusters also hadn't been a problem. After all, the Demon Car had a body, and therefore, it had also received its Clusters.
Yet, the Demon Car didn't have its own Center. Sebastian was its Center, and Sebastian couldn't be pressed anymore. So, even though the Demon Car's Center had a density of Energy equivalent to the Domain Realm, it couldn't advance inside the pression Realm anymore.
They had expected that something like this might happen, but now, it was a certainty.
If someone circumvented, bent, and broke the rules, there was a chance that things would stop working smoothly. Metaphorically, the team had abused glitches and bugs in the code until the progression of the game didn't work anymore.
The game was softlocked. They were still alive and could do things, but they couldn't progress anymore. The only way to fix this was to restart or reload an earlier save.
Sadly, this was not a game. They couldn't travel back in time or start from the beginning again.
Sebastian's Demon Car had recently advanced. At most, he had about 5,000 years before the continuous concept transmission became too powerful. In about 5,000 years, his Demon Car was supposed to either advance or go to the frontlines.
Because of all of this, the first method of gaining access to the Level Five Laws became impossible.
The second way to gain access was to acquire a great number of Spacetime Metals. Sadly, that was just as impossible. There were some scattered pieces of Spacetime Metal in the world, but they weren't nearly enough to fulfill Kyle's needs. He could only acquire them by going to a Law Well for Spacetime Metal, which led back to the first way, which was still impossible.
This only left the last way.
Going to the Elemental Dimension.
The problem with that way was that Kyle couldn't go back to the Main Dimension. Sending either the Elemental or his human body to the Elemental Dimension would break the Elemental's Spirit.
The Elemental counted as a human, and a human's existence relied on their Spirit and mind. If Kyle left his Elemental, the Elemental wouldn't have a mind anymore, which would lead to the dissipation of its Spirit. Sure, the Elemental would still be alive, but it would no longer count as human. One could say its legal human identity would die, leaving only its identity as an Elemental. It would essentially turn into a copy of Sebastian's Elemental with the same strengths and weaknesses.
Kyle didn't want to sacrifice his Elemental's human identity. Based on logic, it wouldn't make a difference. The only use of its Spirit was to hide Kyle's Karmic Lines. Since he was now inside Sebastian's Demon Car, his Elemental had no use for its Spirit anymore.
However, Kyle still didn't want to sacrifice his Elemental's Spirit. He wasn't sure if its Spirit would bee useful again, but there was a chance that having a second Spirit would pay off.
In fact, Kyle was already entertaining some possibilities.
'You can't get a 100% Imposing Law with a weapon. You need yourself as your Imposing Law to get to 100%. As an Elemental, it can change its body into whatever I want. An Imposing Law is based on someone's Spirit. That means I can create an Imposing Law for my Elemental as well.'
'Now, if I add my Imposing Law to its Spirit and turn its existence into the form of a hammer, wouldn't that fulfill all of the criteria? It has a Spirit. It is a hammer. It has the Law of Hammer.'
'I have to experiment with this when I've got some time. For now, I need to focus on the Level Five Laws.'
So, what was the actual plan? What method had the team e up with to allow Kyle to look at the Level Five Laws?
"It's safe to go," Sebastian said.
In the next moment, the pillar started to transform. Flesh parted, revealing dense streams of Gravity Metals. The pillar's entire body changed shape, and moments later, it turned into a bipedal figure.
The bipedal figure was several meters tall, had two long legs, and four long arms. It had two heads, one above its neck and one on its lower back. In its hands, it carried a humongous hammer made of Gravity Metal. All in all, it looked like an Elemental Fighter Demon.
If one looked at it, one wouldn't be sure if this thing fit any of the three categories. It looked like a biped and had a weapon, like a human. It had several heads and arms, like a Demon. It was fully covered in Gravity Metal, like a Gravity Metal Elemental.
Kyle had chosen this appearance deliberately. He didn't want to be seen as an Elemental Demon since he didn't know if anyone kept track of them. After all, there weren't a lot of them. However, due to his power, he also didn't want to be seen as a normal Elemental.
The appearance of his Elemental suggested a mix of the two. The consciousness inside the Beast Core was broken, but the Elemental still instinctually mimicked parts of the dead Demon's identity. It was like a Metal Elemental from the Tertiary World. These Metal Elementals had not mimicked the appearance of the first living thing they saw.
This gave Kyle an excuse for his power while also not being special enough to warrant further attention.
"Ready," Kyle transmitted.
"Go!" Sebastian said.
Then, Kyle and his Elemental left the Main Dimension and traveled into the Elemental Dimension.
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