Chapter 176: Level Five
Far away from Vaelor’s Continent... The Falcon Empire!
The old emperor sat on his throne as usual with his eyes closed when he suddenly felt the world tremble. He quickly opened his eyes and looked toward the horizon in astonishment, and after some time, that astonishment turned into happiness!
"The Great Era has arrived!" The old emperor stood on his feet and looked toward the sky, barely able to believe what he was seeing...
"Father, did you feel that just now!" Three people pushed open the door of the throne hall and hurried inside. Two of them had four wings, while the third had six wings!
"Yes, I just felt it. The rules and laws that were preventing us from breaking through to Level Five have been canceled. The prophecy of the Immortal Tree of Cradle has come true!" the emperor said with extreme excitement.
A person of his age had a life that was about to come to an end. But now that there was a chance to reach a higher Level and gain additional lifespan, hearing that the Great Era had arrived was the happiest news he could possibly hear.
"Where is the Ancestor’s Potion! Where is the breakthrough potion! Bring it to me immediately!" the Falcon Emperor shouted impatiently at his sons, as if he could not bear the thought of waiting any longer to experience the ascent to Level Five himself!
"Immediately, Your Majesty!" One of the emperor’s sons immediately bowed, then flew away with his four wings at full speed to retrieve the required potion. Ten minutes later, he returned with a small box in his hands and presented it to the old emperor!
The emperor took the small box and gently opened it, his eyes trembling when he saw the blue and green potion inside!
One hundred thousand years ago, when the ancestors were expelled from the Main Continent, each of the four ancient races went in a different direction and began searching for a new homeland to inhabit. After a long search, each race discovered many islands in whichever direction they had taken.
These islands were filled with monsters but no humans, islands that were the size of entire regions on the Main Continent. Thus, the four ancient races settled on the nearest and most suitable islands they found and made them the starting point of the new world.
After thousands of years of reproduction, occupying more and more endless islands, and strengthening themselves, they ventured farther into this endless ocean and discovered monsters and creatures they had never imagined existed, witnessing horrors they would never have believed possible.
The resources in this new world they discovered were far greater and more abundant than those of the Main Continent, and its available space was far too vast for the four races to fully occupy. Each race therefore claimed new continents dozens of times larger than the Main Continent as their homeland, and each race came to possess dozens of continents of its own!
The greed and avarice of the four ancient races did not end with settling the lands and enjoying their resources. They wanted more and more!
And that something more they wanted to possess was the place they had come from... The Main Continent!
Their thinking back then was simple: Why had the World Spirit and the lord driven them out of the Main Continent and given them this paradise, when this paradise was far greater than the Main Continent in terms of energy, space, minerals, resources, and all other forms of abundance?!
There was only one thought in their minds... And that was because the Main Continent contained something far greater than this paradise!
But they could not discover what that something far greater than this paradise was, nor could they even break through the Dragon Wall surrounding the Main Continent. However, they knew someone who knew what that thing was... And that someone was the reason they had left the Main Continent... The Immortal Tree of Cradle!
Therefore, the three ancient races once again allied themselves against the Elves and crossed the vast distance between their lands for one single goal!
Not for the sake of the World Spirit, the lord, or under the guidance of either of them, but for the first time since their existence, they formed an alliance of their own free will under a single goal... To discover the secret held by the Immortal Tree of Cradle!
The Immortal Tree of Cradle did not want to enter that war again, or perhaps it simply did not want to bother itself with it once more, so it told them only one thing...
"Whoever obtains what exists there will obtain absolute power, and I cannot tell you anything more than this because the lord and the World Spirit will not allow me to reveal anything further!"
After learning this much information, the three ancient races decided to retreat after obtaining an extremely strict oath from the Tree of Cradle that it was not lying.
After retreating, each race focused all of its efforts on increasing its strength and breaking through to Level Five. But no matter how hard they tried, they always failed. They could not even get close to reaching that Level!
They always reached the peak of Level Four and had no idea how to advance any further!
Millions of them reached the peak of Level Four after reproducing for more than ten thousand years, but even with such numbers, not a single one succeeded in reaching Level Five after thousands of attempts and thousands of experiments.
Rumors and claims began spreading that Level Four was the maximum limit for creatures like them, and the credibility of these rumors increased with every failure. At the same time, the very existence of higher Levels beyond the Laws refuted these rumors!
After thousands of years of failure, and after the first generation of ancestors had died, only one entity among the original ancestors remained alive, and that entity was the Immortal Tree of Cradle!
One day, news reached the three ancient races that the Immortal Tree of Cradle was attempting to break through to Level Five!
The Tree of Cradle did not walk the path of the Monster Path, so it had lost the advantage of rapidly increasing its strength as a monster with an Immortal bloodline. Instead, it had chosen to walk the path of the human Energy Path from the very beginning!
It was true that this path was slower than the Monster Path, but it was far superior in terms of the ability to control the Laws!