Chapter 248: Extreme Methods
Vaelor remained seated, looking at the Immortal Body Array and Orion, who had already nearly finished the breakthrough to the Fifth Level. And indeed, after another hour, Orion finished the breakthrough and the array gradually subsided, and Orion finally opened his eyes!
Orion stood on his feet and tightened his fist, and he felt how powerful the life flowing inside him was. The monster tattoos on his body gleamed and pulsed with traces of life, as if they wanted to leave Orion’s body now and become free and unbound!
But among all those tattoos, the Tree tattoo on his back pulsed with life calmly, unlike the rest of the tattoos, which pulsed violently. It did not need to prove itself and its existence like the rest of the tattoos, for it was the tattoo with the largest area on the body, and the owner of the greatest amount of life energy... As for the rest of the tattoos, they were competing for second place.
"You’ve finally finished." Vaelor smiled while looking at Orion. He was happy that Orion had obtained this kind of power... for one of his swords had become stronger now.
"Yes." Orion nodded happily and stepped toward Vaelor. "With this power and these tattoos, in addition to the ability of my mutated bloodline, and my ability to transform into the monster form, I don’t think there is anyone at the Fifth Level who can stand before me!"
Orion stood directly in front of Vaelor and spoke with absolute confidence.
"Don’t get arrogant. You’re not the only genius in this world. There might even be those a full level below you who possess strength surpassing yours!" Vaelor spoke with a smile and immediately remembered the battle between Ricky and Solar, then reached out and took a palm-sized bottle from his storage space...
"This is a Formation Law potion for breaking through to the Fifth Level. You already possess a mutated bloodline, so the bloodline’s level limits do not apply to you, and you understand more than fifty percent of the Second Grade (Fifth Level) of the Cosmic Formation Law, so you will have no problem breaking through to the Fifth Level using the Energy Path."
Orion took the potion and looked at Vaelor with complicated looks.
Until now he had been the one benefiting from Vaelor without offering any notable benefit himself, and yet Vaelor kept bestowing more treasures and resources upon him without being stingy with anything, which left a trace of guilt inside Orion, in addition to a feeling of uselessness toward himself.
Vaelor had clearly seen Orion’s looks, and he understood part of their meaning, but he did not even try to console Orion with a few words. Instead, he gave him what would make him get rid of those feelings.
"With this potion you can reach the Fifth Level by the end of the day, so I want you to go to Ayat tomorrow morning. By then she will have prepared the suitable squad for you, and after that you will set out to a place called the Celestium Region. That place teems with huge numbers of monsters, and it does not lack Fifth Level monsters, but that place is very important to us. So I want you to cleanse it as soon as possible, and you can get the rest of the details from Ayat."
On hearing this, happiness overcame Orion at once, but he did not show it, and he quickly bowed. "At your command."
"Mm." Vaelor nodded to him and waved his hand. "You may go now!"
After bidding Vaelor farewell, Orion turned and left happily, for to him, the news of receiving a mission was among the happiest news. A mission like the one he had gone on to his father and the Elven War Kingdom, to invite them to King Vaelor’s side, had not counted as a mission in the first place.
After Orion left, Vaelor sat alone and looked at the sky. Now the working gears of the kingdom had begun to rely on themselves to a great extent. And before they absorbed all that knowledge he had given them, they would not need his help in the coming period.
Vaelor pressed his fingers together and tightened his fist. Since he had broken through to the Fourth Rank, he had not made any progress yet on the Energy Path, and the potion for breaking through to the Fifth Level was still a great unknown to him.
As for the Soul Path, after reaching the Third Gate (Sixth Level), his progress had slowed greatly and become like that of a turtle, for after he opened the Third Gate, the demand for Soul Essence and Soul Shards had increased at a crazy rate.
The First Gate required one hundred Soul Essences to open, and at that time creating a Soul Essence required ten Soul Shards.
The Second Gate required one thousand Soul Essences to open, and at that time, after opening the First Gate, creating a single Soul Essence required from twenty to forty Soul Shards.
The Third Gate required ten thousand Soul Essences to open, and at that time, after opening the Second Gate, creating a single Soul Essence required up to one hundred Soul Shards.
As for the Fourth Gate, which was equal to the Seventh Level, opening it required one hundred thousand Soul Essences, and creating a single Soul Essence at this level usually required one thousand Soul Shards.
The demand for Soul Shards had risen very sharply at this point, but the difference in power between the Third and Fourth Gates was also very great!
To know the scale of this number and how difficult it is to reach the Fourth Gate, an ordinary person who does not train on the Soul Path usually has from six to ten Soul Shards. And monsters and less wise beings naturally have fewer Soul Shards.
Theoretically, for Vaelor to gather enough Soul Essence to open the Fourth Soul Gate, he would have to kill at least ten million humans and devour every Soul Shard they possess. And that is if every one of them possessed ten Soul Shards and Vaelor managed to devour all those shards, which was completely impossible, for most humans possess only six or seven shards, and to reach the Fourth Gate in reality, he would have to kill far more than a mere ten million people.
This is, of course, if he used extreme methods!