Chapter 582: A Farewell
Max opened his eyes slowly, a faint light flickering in their depths. ’With this… my physical strength should now reach the peak of Expert Rank,’ he thought calmly. His muscles pulsed subtly, his body now infused with the raw might of dragon blood.
’Now I need the Chaos Stones,’ Max thought, his gaze drifting across the quiet chamber as he noticed the absence of Princess Lenavira from the Tower of Truth.
A flicker of disappointment passed through his mind, but it was quickly replaced by deeper thoughts. Her absence reminded him of the conversation he’d had with the elf Supreme Master, particularly the cryptic words about the Heavenly Luminance Divine Bloodline and the Heavenly Luminance Royal Bloodline.
But Max shook his head, brushing aside those tangled thoughts. ’I’ll deal with that later,’ he resolved. For now, the priority was the Chaos Stones.
Seeing that Lenavira was nowhere in the tower, Max raised his hand and called out, "Xolo." Instantly, the golden spirit materialized in front of him, its ethereal form shimmering with a calm radiance.
"If Princess Lenavira of the Elf Kingdom arrives at the tower," Max said, "notify me immediately. I’m going to train for a while."
Xolo nodded without hesitation. "Alright," it said, vanishing as swiftly as it had appeared.
A faint smile touched Max’s lips. With the notification in place, he let his consciousness sink deeply into the Dimension of Time.
Inside that separate realm, time flowed differently—days stretched into years, and years into decades.
Max sat cross-legged in perfect stillness, his mind utterly focused as he began comprehending the new techniques he had obtained: Lightning Manifestation Armor, a technique that wrapped his body in a living armor of lightning, crackling with both offense and defense; the Severing Flow Sword Art, a sword technique that built up severing force with each flowing strike, until the final cut could split through concepts themselves; and the Void Severance Slash, a space element technique that allowed him to tear through layers of reality in a single strike, attacking both body and space.