Chapter 1547: Catch These Hands Dammit! (3)
[Forbidden Monastery of Black’s Scion] was a Third Ascendant Tier Andori that allowed the user to manifest a monastery which granted them access to the eight abilities and eight floors worth of room for varying purposes – mainly battle.
These abilities were represented by eight statues within the monastery, and manifested through the gates outside the monastery.
The statues embodied the nature of these powers, all of which were tied to why the user of the Andori was a Scion: Black the Mother; Black the Guardian; Black the Observer; Black the Ghost; Black the Pugilist; Black the Prayer; Black the Grace, and Black the Penance.
Without manifesting the full monastery, Skullius could access these abilities by manifesting the gates instead – the Vanity Gates. So far, he’d used Black the Guardian to increase the sturdiness of himself and the Apostles; Black the Pugilist to increase their attack power; Black the Ghost to make himself intangible; and of course, Black the Mother, which allowed him to recover 35% of all energies he expended with each singular ability activation.
Indeed, Black the Mother was actually a rather underwhelming ability, at least when considering what Skullius was used to – like with skills that could restore his mana instantly, or with cheats like Creeds that could bend reality. It remained true that the best way to restore Amras in the wider reality was with a fitting Immortal Physique or with Exora Mead.
Without the full monastery, Skullius could only use the powers from two gates at a time and could only grant external parties a single power from the gates. Within the construct of darkness, however, he could use the abilities from four gates at once and could allow external parties to not only use more than one power, but to also take the place of the statues that represented these abilities.
This was why a certain statue behind Skullius, right next to one that looked like a nurturing mother in long linen robes, cried to him in warning. The statue took the likeness of a large, long-legged bird akin to a heron, facing ahead with its left eye. It was the Observer... and it was Eternity’s Weaver.
"Back away, my liege! DO IT!" the Apostle urged in Skullius’ head.
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