1117: Limit

Limit

One hundred miles deep within Hyperion planet, behind all the mist clouds and near its core, Emery was still sitting in front of the huge dark crystal. Grand Magus Lilith was seen standing behind him.2

From the expression and twitching he was currently showing, it was apparent to see that he was in constant, torturous pain from being forced to stare into the soul of a celestial being. One could only imagine how much pain he was experiencing.

With the energy channeled by the garbed grand magus, Emery felt like he was able to slowly but surely scrape through and unravel the entity he had been probing into. But in exchange, the entire process delivered excruciating pain that hurt both his mind and spirit core.

Three days passed where he constantly kept this process and suffered through, and finally he reached his limit. His entire body began to forcefully shut itself off as a form of protective measure. 

In this midst where he felt he could lose consciousness at any moment, Emery heard the voice of the female grand magus.

"Is That's all!?...That's disappointing."

Instead of letting him go however, the grand magus seemed to push him even further instead. It was as if she was trying to squeeze out every inch of worth that Emery had remaining.

At this kind of situation and within his moment of weakness, Emery had no more will nor energy to care about anything. This led to a release of what had been suppressed – the urge which had been knocking for these few days – finally unleashed itself.

Feeling the eruption of the urge, the voice of the grand magus sounded again. 

"Hah! You still have something in you! This is good!!"

The grand magus didn't look worried at all by the rampaging urge from within Emery. She simply strengthened the restraint she imposed on him. 

Although Emery's body gradually changed into the wolf beast, he was still unable to move a muscle.  All the emerging power and rage were contained by the grand magus, forcing it to once again be directed at the celestial soul.

HOWL!

It was at this moment that the nearly unconscious Emery felt what he had been doing the last few days under the agonizing pain come to fruition. All the scrapping he had done with the help of the grand magus energy had finally managed to pierce a hole into the seemingly impenetrable wall.

This discovery was quickly followed by a bright light coming from inside the dark crystal and a huge crack that gradually appeared on the crystal wall. At that moment, the sound of laughter echoed in the cave they were in.

"Hahaha! Thank you, junior. You are truly much helpful. Thank you."

At the same time, the phenomenon also managed to stop Emery's transformation, forcing his already partially transformed body to return to its human form. 

The moment he did so, Emery immediately fell with his knees hitting the ground. With his blurry vision, he could see the female grand magus approaching the huge crack in the dark crystal and break it open with her bare hands.

The last thing Emery saw was the magus reaching for the corpse inside and appearing to harvest something. After that, everything turned dark as he finally fell unconscious from extreme exhaustion.

There was just silence and darkness for a while, until he felt a particular sensation of warmth entering his mouth and flowing within his body.

It didn't take long for him to start feeling the senses of his body again, and from what he could sense at the moment, his body seemed to be lying still somewhere.

"What is this… what is happening?"

It was a great and pronounced feeling as if every fiber of his entire being slowly came to life.

When the warmth finally flowed to his chest and arrived into his heart, Emery suddenly saw something that he hadn't seen for a while.

It was a glimpse of a figure – a massive wolf with half of its body seemingly shrouded by shadow while the other half was covered by light. Its appearance also came with a message that echoed in his mind.

'Devour and Life'

He saw the wolf raise its head and howl at the bloody red moon hanging in the sky. It was a majestic and breathtaking sight, until Emery realized that there was a movement from behind the moon.

Before he could focus his attention, the dark sky suddenly opened up like a curtain and showed a bright golden eye that looked straight into him, scaring him before it suddenly dissolved into the moon, and unexpectedly brought strength to the massive wolf howling at it.

What followed after was a series of notifications that took Emery by surprise.

[Calculating ancestor blood essence percentage…]

[Analyzing genes]

[33% twilight fey wolf essence found]

[Your bloodline just went through a purifying process]

[Genes purified]

[Twilight Fey gene essence percentage increased to 37%]

[Battle power increase exponentially]

It was not only his battle power that was enhanced by this unexpected boon. There was also a tremendous amount of build-up energy within his two cores. Exactly the impetus he needed for the breakthrough he had been waiting for.

[You have reached a breakthrough to the high stage of rank 9]

A tremor was felt on the Darkness Core Foundation as a tendril-like energy emerged from its surface like a flare. Looking at it, Emery could sense that the small thing contained all of his accumulated comprehension of space magic that had been continuously tempered through the pressure of gravity.

[The thirteenth pillar was formed - Darkness Element]

Immediately after the establishment of his thirteenth pillar, Emery swiftly balanced the equilibrium his dark core had with his nature core.

At this moment, he gained another round of comprehension regarding the connection between gravity and the earth element, and with it, a tiny but emanating powerful air Earth Element spirit energy appeared and formed the subsequent pillar.

[The fourteen pillar was formed - Earth Element]

[Spirit force increases exponentially]

[Emery Ambrose]

[Battle power: 256 (278)]

[Spirit force: 1718]

[Acolyte rank 9 - Highstage - 14 pillars formed]

[Earth spirit - 3 pillars]

[Plant spirit - 2 pillars]

[Water spirit - 1 pillar]

[light spirit - 1 pillar]

[Darkness spirit - 6 pillars]

[Devour spirit - 1 pillar]

With the completion of his thirteenth and fourteenth pillar, Emery awoke from his unconscious state with a loud roar. A tremor ran through his entire body as he felt it brimming with a seemingly unstoppable power.

As soon as he opened his eyes, Emery found himself in the familiar sight of gray sands. Dozens of Shrikes corpses were strewn everywhere, with the female grand magus staring at him with an amuse smile on her face.

"You finally woke up, young wolf."

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