Chapter 865: The Sealed Devil |
[It’s because you have three bloodlines. While your strongest bloodline is attributeless, your other two bloodlines are not, especially your weakest bloodlines which have a strong Thunder Elemental Affinity.] The voice answered, which left Max confused.
So, it explained, [In the first stage of the Spirit Realm, otherwise known as Five-Star Realm, one’s mana transforms into liquid, forming the Mana Sea. This sea is where you build your foundation for the next realms. If someone only has one elemental affinity, then it’s no problem, they can go ahead, transform their elemental mana into ’sea water’ and then they can use it to build their foundation.
However, the problem occurs when the person has multiple elemental affinities. If he only uses one type of mana in their foundation, he will never be able to break through to the successive realms, or it will be extremely difficult to do so.
For this reason, even if he has to use each of his elemental mana to fill the ’sea’. That way, there won’t be friction in the future and he will not have a hard time building his foundation.
In your case, while you only have Fire Elemental Mana as of now, when your bloodlines awaken, you will have multiple affinities which will cause problems.
So, you would be best advised to awaken them first. Only when you have the elemental mana corresponding to each of your affinities in your core will it be alright for you to break through to the Spirit Realm.
At that time, not only will you have no problem in advancing in future, but you will be several times stronger.]
Max pondered over this before he asked, "Can’t I add the mana of other elements after advancing to the Five Star? After all, it’s not like the moment I break through my mana will liquify?"
As if seeing through his thoughts, the skeleton’s voice chuckled, [Haha, young friend, are you asking this because you are afraid it’ll delay your break through too much?]
Max nodded in response.
[Sure it’ll take some time, but I assure you, it won’t be too long given your comprehension speed. At most, it would take a month.] The voice assured.
"A month?" Max muttered and then asked, "Can you send me out of this realm?"
[After helping you, I would barely have any energy left. So, no.]
Max’s pupils constricted when he heard this and asked, "Doesn’t this mean..."
[Yes. The devil will begin to awaken.] The voice sighed, sounding a bit helpless.
Max took a deep breath.
After telling him about the devils and the war, the Skeleton had told him several other secrets—it also told him about itself, the realm he was in and the reason why all the beasts in this realm had mutated to become evil and vicious among other things.
Firstly, this Golden Skeleton was the Beast Emperor, the founder of the Beast Emperor Hall, a Sovereign Power at its peak.
Secondly, after it rose to prominence and slayed several devils, it became the target of the stronger devils and a group of seven Devil Envoys who were equivalent to the Supreme Mages, attacked him.
Because killing a devil became increasingly difficult the stronger the devil was due to their extremely tenacious life force, it had exhausted itself completely in killing the six Envoys and didn’t have the strength to finish off their leader, the strongest amongst them.
Knowing how much destruction it would cause if it let it go and seeing it had injured its foundation which would be very difficult and time consuming to mend, it decided to seal the devil in the minor realm it created with himself.
After tens of thousands of years, it had almost completely exhausted itself to keep the seal intact.
When its end was almost near, its remnant consciousness stirred awake. It wanted to go out, see the state of the world and if possible, do something for the world one last time.
However, right then, Max ’arrived’.
Just when it was about to save him, it noticed that the extreme heat could no longer harm him after burning his skin.
Surprised, it scanned Max and noticed the extraordinariness of his Lust Overlord Bloodline and the unusually strong seal in his mind that even it couldn’t handle without killing Max.
Then it watched as Max began changing his mana, reconstructed his mana core and comprehended the Fire Law in a matter of a few days.
At that time, it decided to use its last bit of power to give Max a helping hand.
Thirdly, the reason why the beasts had mutated in this minor realm was because as its seal on the Devil began to weaken in the past few thousand years, the Devil’s energy was beginning to dissipate into the realm, affecting the beasts.
In fact, the Skeleton was initially surprised when Max didn’t change when, while unconscious, he absorbed the Fire Elemental Mana mixed with the traces of Devil Energy.
However, after scanning him and noticing the droplet of the devil blood working with his bloodline energy to purify the devil energy, he realized what was going on.
Before it talked to Max, it had even thought of asking Max to produce a method using his bloodline to purify the Devil Energy and make it available to the world so people could fight the Devils more efficiently or at least would not lose their minds due to the Devil Energy’s corruption.
However, after seeing Max didn’t have the same mindset as him, it didn’t add it in their deal.
"How long do you think it would be before it awakens and leaves this minor realm?" Max asked, feeling a little anxious because once the Devil left this realm and entered the outer world, chaos would ensue.
Presently, with no known Supreme Mage alive in the world, no one would be able to stop it and everyone would die, including him and his loved ones, which he didn’t want in the least.
[If its consciousness is still completely dormant, you should have a decade.]
The voice responded and noticing the uncertainty in its tone, Max asked.
"What if it’s not completely dormant?"
[Then...]
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