Next, Thalion delved into the elental book, which turned out to be far more interesting than he had first thought. Although he liked reading books, he preferred it to being bombarded with information by touching the paper, which hadn't happened in this place yet. He also didn’t trust those talking scrolls; what if they missed sothing?
Back to the elentals. They were born when undead material, like rock, absorbs too much Atheris, which leads to the formation of a rudintary consciousness. After this consciousness grows to a certain degree, it is referred to as an elental.
Elentals don’t follow a path of evolution. In fact, they can’t really evolve. However, that doesn’t an they can’t upgrade their abilities or bodies. For example, transforming an elental from fire to water is nearly impossible. While theoretically achievable with enough power, it’s rarely worth the effort.
What often happens is that an elental acquires a secondary attribute that complents its primary one. For instance, fire and wind or water and ice are pri examples. This secondary attribute can manifest through intense training, special circumstances, or when two elentals rge into one.
The strongest elentals were referred to as primordial elentals. A being on par with, if not greater than, a true dragon in the hierarchy of existence. However, they are exceedingly rare. According to the book, thousands of true dragons might rise before a single primordial elental was born.
The next part of the book was equally intriguing. It described how high-level beasts sotis used elentals as armor and weapons. One example involved crabs and coral elentals. The coral elental would grow on the crab’s shell, greatly enhancing its defense. At higher levels, the coral could completely cover the crab and even attack with spikes.
Thalion found this particularly fascinating. One of his forms, the umbral predator, could potentially use an elental as armor or a weapon. Being a creature of darkness, it might benefit significantly from absorbing a darkness elental, much like his sanguine thorn.
Unfortunately, the book noted that this was impossible unless one could rip apart the true soul of the elental, leaving only its inherent will to grow. This process would grant full control over the elental, which would transform it into a spirit weapon. However, this was a feat no F-grade individual could achieve, as the process often destroyed most of the inherent will, rendering it useless.
To obtain good results, one would typically need over 100 elentals, depending on their power levels. If a D-grade individual attempted this with an F-grade elental, it would be much easier, but the power gap would make the effort pointless. Fortunately for Thalion, he knew sothing the book didn’t. The exact thod for ripping apart a soul while leaving only the parts he needed intact.
Of course, he would need a ritual circle and other preparations, but it was essentially the sa technique he planned to use with the outsider. The mory crystal’s blasts of knowledge had been invaluable. He would never have understood this process by rely reading.
Satisfied with his progress, Thalion picked up two more books. One focused on creating elentals and another was about beast enchantnts. The first book, like most others here, was glittered in gold.
Forging the Elents: The Art of Creating Elentals
This to served as a step-by-step guide for alchemists and mages eager to craft their own elental beings. It covered every detail, from gathering pure elental essences to conducting the necessary rituals.
Thalion read through the book with excitent. According to its pages, he could even create an F-grade elental. The process required creating zones of absolute darkness in a mana-rich environnt. There, elentals would naturally form. To accelerate their growth, one could gather and combine elental essence to awaken the being.
Determined to master the runes that blocked out light, Thalion practiced drawing them with his blood. After twenty repetitions, he was confident he had morized them correctly.
Satisfied, he moved on to the second book.
Creature Enchantnt
The book was filled with intricate runes and thods for enhancing a beast’s body using natural treasures. After so ti, Thalion discovered a manual detailing how to integrate a powerful crystal into a beast’s body. This power source, a crystal of imnse energy, could drastically strengthen the beast's body. There were, of course, more examples of power sources like the hearts of other beasts, but since he already had powerful crystals, he didn't pay it much attention.
This concept excited Thalion. If he could transmute a crystal into one of darkness and integrate it into the umbral predator, it would be revolutionary. Even if not for the predator, any beast could benefit from such a power source.
The procedure was dangerous and most of the ti it ended with the death of the beast. The most important thing was the passive healing of the beast, as that was the only way for the body to accept the crystal. He delved deeper into the manual, studying how to handle larger beasts and determine the appropriate crystal size relative to the creature’s body.
As Thalion closed the second book, a golden figure appeared before him. "You tapped your ring. Would you like to return to your residence?" The figure asked with a courteous bow.
"Wait, you can teleport anywhere I want?" Thalion asked surprised, looking down on his hand with the golden ring. "Why didn’t anyone tell this earlier?"
"Yes, I am here to assist you," the golden man replied with another bow, ignoring his second question.
"Aweso and you know what is going on here," Thalion said with victory in his eyes. Finally, he would get so answers.
"What do you an by what's going on here?" the man said, confused and turning around as if he wanted to find sothing.
"When are the rituals for the union happening and am I allowed to participate?" Thalion asked the most important question. Going by the words of his trainer, he could do the ritual at any mont.
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"Yes, just inform when you are ready and we can go there," the man said with another bow.
"Great, so I can do what I want here, Thalion said with a grin.
"Of course there are even many other masters here to help you in many different tasks," the servant concluded.
"What about swordsmanship?" Thalion asked with a grin, which Rylak although shared.
"Oh yes, we have multiple masters who can teach you. Touch your ring if you need to get teleported and I'll bring you there," the servant explained and bowed again.
This was just perfect. He ended up in a position where he could read about the multiverse and this new reality, losing no ti in the tutorial, get thought new skills, and be bound with an outsider.
Finally his life was whole again and oh boy felt it good.
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