Chapter 237: The Path’s Problem
Vaelor didn’t even know exactly what these colorless symbols were. All he knew about them was that they were symbols of extreme power, surpassing in power even the Law of Genesis, composed of three cosmic laws.
Aside from being the reason Rios had been able to merge with the Defense array against the giant Anar... and aside from the fact that thanks to them he could enter the World of the Veil more than once... their true ability that Vaelor had discovered so far was recognizing things!
With this ability, and with the power of the Law of Derivation, Vaelor’s speed in understanding everything around him had increased several times over.
Using this ability, Vaelor had been able to discover Orion’s mutated lineage’s skill and copy it.
After taking a sample of Orion’s blood, and using the colorless symbols, Vaelor could see strange symbols above that blood sample, numerous symbols whose function he understood but whose composition he didn’t understand in any way whatsoever.
But after recording all those symbols and preserving them well, and entering the World of the Veil several times, Vaelor was able to craft a technique similar to Orion’s skill... and then merge it with the Immortal Body training path.
As for the array Orion was sitting on at this moment, it was helping refine his body and accelerate the fusion of the Essence of Life with his bones, blood, and organs several times over... and without it, Orion would have taken several weeks to achieve the same result.
But since yesterday until today, he’d been in the midst of retraining on this new Body path after Vaelor erased every trace of the old Body path’s training from his body... and he was now in the midst of breaking through to the Fifth Level in the Body path.
And with this, he would become the third person in the kingdom to reach this level, after King Vaelor, who had reached the Sixth Level in the Path of the Soul and established the Third Gate, and Imris, who had reached the Fifth Level in the Path of the Soul and established the Second Gate just days ago!
At this moment, as Orion wrestled with the pain, fifteen tattoos lit up on his body as they absorbed the Essence of Life along with him, refining it!
And these tattoos were Orion’s ten old tattoos, after he’d upgraded them...
A dragon, a lion, an eagle, a tiger, a crocodile, a snake, a gorilla, a bull, a wolf, a deer!
In addition to five new tattoos...
A whale, a bear, an elephant, a turtle, and a tree!
And among all these tattoos, the tree tattoo occupied the largest space, absorbing the greatest amount of Essence of Life after Orion himself.
This tattoo wasn’t just an ordinary tattoo like the rest, rather it had originally been crafted from Vaelor’s own lineage essence and his branches after grinding them!
And using these things, Vaelor had used the power of the Law of Genesis to imprint that tattoo onto Orion’s body!
But just as this path’s potential was tremendous, its flaws were also considerable.
And its biggest flaw was its enormous cost!
Its biggest flaw alone was enough — its complete reliance on Essence of Life... and this problem alone was enough to make it impossible for this path to spread outside Vaelor’s kingdom.
For who would be such a wasteful fool as to squander all these quantities of Essence of Life just to develop a Body path, other than someone who crafted Essence of Life himself, like Vaelor!
To understand the scale of this expenditure, a single vial of Essence of Life cost a thousand Primes at minimum, or an average of one thousand five hundred Primes... and Orion was now consuming a hundred vials... meaning a hundred thousand Primes at minimum, or a hundred and fifty thousand Primes on average.
Of course, if someone else wanted to break through to the Fifth Level in this Body path, they wouldn’t need this much Essence of Life. Orion at this moment was consuming ten times the quantity an ordinary person would need... and this was because of his lineage’s exceptional ability, which was aiding him in this, otherwise, if anyone else absorbed such a quantity of Essence of Life while still at the Fourth Level, their body would have exploded by now!
But even with all this, raising a person to the Fourth Level with this Body path cost a single vial of Legendary-grade Essence of Life, which cost one thousand five hundred Primes... the highest cost among all the paths for raising a person to the Fourth Level.
But for Vaelor, this path was the cheapest among all the paths, and that’s because the cost of producing a single Legendary-grade vial of Essence of Life cost him only ten Primes... and that’s because he was the one making it, not buying it.
"Seems like we’ll have to rely on both the Path of the Soul and the Body path for the foreseeable future" Vaelor looked calmly at Orion, sighing with some displeasure.
"Forgive me, my liege, but is there a problem with progressing on the Path of Energy?" beside Vaelor stood both Ranos and Sedar... and at this moment it was Sedar who asked.
"Yes, there’s a problem, specifically a problem with the elven lineage that will prevent them from progressing on the Path of Energy forever, if we don’t find a solution for it!"
Upon hearing this from Vaelor, they were struck with alarm at once, their eyes shaking violently at this statement... but none of them spoke a word, waiting for Vaelor to finish what he was saying.
"Among the seven races on this continent, the elf race is the only anomaly among all of them. For it was the only race that neither the Lord nor the World Spirit created!" Vaelor spoke, scowling, for after capturing the Falcon King, and through certain methods, they’d managed to extract all the information about the ancient era that he knew.
"All the races possess ancestors with a mutated lineage, so there are no limits on the level in the Path of Energy" Vaelor said mockingly, continuing "of course, the level they can reach depends entirely on their degree of talent" then he waved his hand, scowling again...
"But the Tree of Cradle’s lineage isn’t a mutated lineage, so there are limits on the race that took its lineage, and those limits are determined according to the last level that beast reached when it gave its lineage, and in the Tree of Cradle’s case, that’s the Fourth Level" then he looked at Ranos with a simple smile "but people like you and Orion can naturally surpass those limits because you possess a mutated lineage" then he looked at Sedar, scowling slightly...
"But you, and Imris, and Ayat, and Ethar, and the rest of the elves who don’t possess a mutated lineage, and they’re the majority, can no longer progress, unless you find a Tree of Cradle lineage that reached a higher level, or your lineage becomes mutated, otherwise the Path of Energy will remain stagnant like this forever!"