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The lion-shaped Venerable-ranked Martial Beast tasted rather delicious, and it was a nice meal for the m’s breakfast. The eribe ended up joining in on the feast because there was way too much meat. Although I was still feeling shocked at how strong my Photon Essence had bee, I dedicated my time to giving attention to my family.
As we enjoyed breakfast and the hours went by, I started to sider creating a sey own. Although at the beginning I was against that, as I’ve realized the tower and the worlds were so vast and many and that I wao protect my ow, creating a big anization that spahrough many worlds while proteg my own would be ideal.
I might end up making another Heavenly Court. Thankfully, I simply have to use my Doppelgao handle most of it anyway. It shouldn’t be so hard, as I’ve firmed I trol them eveween worlds.
And with my Photon Essence evolving into Divine Photon Essehe Doppelgangers might have bee even stronger now, gainier solidification and also the ability to turn into a powerful metal-like material.
“Phew, I ate sooo much, I feel like I’m going to explode... Ugh, my belly…” Hekita atting her big belly as she rested ihe house.
“You ate too much, Hekita!” Urbosa reprimanded her. “I think we might o skip lunch.”
“Eeeh? No, I’m fine! I-I swear… Ugh…” Hekita was groaning.
“Just let her take a nap, and she should be alright.” I giggled; after analyzing, Hekita was fine. “Anyways, it should be about time. I’ll get going.”
“Oh, to your date with that rabbit girl?” Merkite asked. “I wish we could go, but it’s clear she’s only ied in you.”
“Good luck then.” Urbosa gave me a kiss. “Treat her well, alright? If everything goes fine, you’re free t her here. We would gdly invite her to eat something and know the tribe.”
“Alright, rex though; I’m not like... Going to do much.” I said. “I’ll take things slowly. It’s more like a meetiween friends? I want to know her better, that’s all.”
“At what hour are you ing back?” Merkite asked me.
“Probably after lunch, I believe.” I said. “Anyways, see ya.”
Mom and my sister weren’t here, but I didn’t think it was necessary to say goodbye to everyone, so after kissing my two mates, I zapped into the skies.
Using the new Divine Photon Essence felt great. Before, I could easily move through space, but right now, it doesn’t feel like I exactly walked through it.
It was more like I was swimming through space; the Photon Essenpassed my body, charged with my Divinity, and gave me even stronger liquid properties.
Even though this teique used both spad photon esse felt like the photon essence made it easier to move through space than ever before.
I appeared right in front of the Adventurer’s Guild within a split sed. Peperina wasn’t here yet; she’ll get here at least in half an hour. But I came here early on purpose, and I quickly disappeared again, reag the skies.
While waiting for her, I took a peek at my status again and decided to look into the details of the Divine Photon Essence Skill.
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[Divine Photon Essence Manipution (S): Lv1]
[Skill EXP]: [64.430/100.000]
A Divine Magic Skill acquired through the evolution of the [Photon Essence Manipution (A)] Skill. After having ied the powers of Divinity, the Photon Essence has evolved into its Divine Faining upgraded abilities and new effects.
By abs Sunlight, using a Light Divinity, and fusing both Mana and otherworldly energies together, Divine Photon Essence be created, maniputed, shaped, and transformed into a myriad of powerful, both protective and deadly, shapes.
It paralyze, deal internal damage, bypass physical objects, destroy magical circuits, and transform its position into physical, liquid, metallic, ethereal, gaseous, and more. Divine Photon Essence also easily bypass spatial boundaries thanks to the Divinity it possesses.
Additionally, Divine Photon Essence ow take on Spiritual aallis. By abs Spiritual Energy, it transform into Spiritual Photoniergies, which gain even more life on their own and develop into a myriad of useful shapes.
In its metalli, it creates a ual called Divine Photonite, a metal stronger and tougher than Divine Orichalcum, capable of withstanding the pressure and void of outer space with ease while also being incredibly lightweight and powerful.
Level Bonus (1): Increases Divine Photon Essence Manipution Proficy, Geion Speed, Attack Power, Range, and Effects by +330%
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Alright, the description increased a lot. And just as I imagined, if I mix it with Spirit Energy… Yeah, this be created without the o use that Spirit Creation Skill I got earlier.
FLASH!
The Divine Photon Essen my hands took on a nee, transf into the form of a beautiful bird and then dividing into many more.
Each bird was as gold as the sun and flew around, chirping and gng at me. I noticed they seemed to even have souls of their own, spiritual souls.
This ower very simir to what Hekita could do.
“Amazing…!”
My Doppelgangers areirely made out of Photon Essence, so they couldn’t be pared to this. They were also posed of piey own soul and hundreds of martial beast souls to make their entire position.
But to make a spirit out of just the photon essence I exude from my body naturally... This was on a pletely different level.
I’ll have to keep using it to gain more Skill EXP; it’s already going to hit Level 2 after all!
Now, let’s look at the other skills. What should I bine in the meantime?
“Clide, are you there? How many skills I bi a time? Or I force my way to bine as many as I want?”
[“Y-Yes, I’m here! I… I think the limit is four at a time for now! If you bioo many, the Skills might end up breaking, and you won’t get anything useful. Bance be acquired at most at 4 Skills!”]
“Hmm, okay then.” I sighed. “I wouldn’t want to break my precious relic after all. Though I easily do it against others, I would rather not break my own system.”
[“I-I wish you would have thought that way before…”]
“What did you say?”
[“N-Nothing!”]
I ignored his slightly snarky ent as I dove into my Skills. After taking a look at them, I decided to just bine four random choices and see what I get.
Ding!
[You have exged 40.000.000 Credits!]
[You have decided to bihe [Healing Golden Light (B): Lv10], [Cursed Fmes (B): Lv10], [Bzing Iron onry Creation (S): Lv10], and [ic Star Magic (S): Lv10] Skills!]
[Skill Fusion process has begun!]
FLASH!
Suddenly, four spheres emerged out of my invisible System Scarf as they started rotating around one another in front of my sight. It seemed each Skill could ma itself as a sphere of strange energies.
I think these energies were made up of Mana, Divinity, and something else, a third and powerful energy that fueled the system itself, which I’ve had a hard time deciphering without breaking my own system in the process.
But now that I could see all the Skills fusing together slowly, it was easy to tell what it was!
“So what fuels the System is iergy?”
FLAAASH!
All four Skills came together, being a rge sphere of many colors, which quickly flew baside the System Relibining with it once more.
Ding!
[gratutions! You have successfully bihe [Healing Golden Light (B): Lv10], [Cursed Fmes (B): Lv10], [Bzing Iron onry Creation (S): Lv10], and [ic Star Magic (S): Lv10] Skills into the Fusion Skill: [Blessed Bzing Starlight Cursed Relic Creation (SS): Lv1]!]
[Fusion Skills be equipped in any of the Cssless and Magic Skill Slots.]
Oh, that’s an iing name. Iing. So it creates blessed, bzing starlight relics that are also cursed? How does that even work anyway? I am now rather curious.
Let’s test it before reading the Skill description.
“Let’s see…”
I trated Mana into my hands and then activated the Skill. Suddenly, the Mana and my owal essenstantly took upon the blueprint of the System, taking the form of a rge golden staff with a blue crystal on top and a great sword made of blue and gold metal, with red crystals embedded into the handle.
“Iing…”
Both Relics exuded Auras of blue and golden fmes, imitating the color ay of iergy but not really doing the same. The fmes resembled blue nebus imbued with golden stars inside, which was very iing.
“Huh.”
I swung the ons towards the southwest as the sword released a mighty wave of ic fmes, whileashed a big explosion. The barrier I left on Nexus easily protected it from it.
“I see. Not so bad.”
And the staff jured a fsh of blue and golden light, unleashing an explosion of bzing starlight, but the barrier held off just as well.
“Hmm~”
And then I decided to trate on the relics. It did say something about Blessed and Cursed, right?
“Let’s see… Bless?”
FLASH!
The sword’s fmes gained a yellow color, and a sparkling light of divine purity exuded from the on instantly. After cutting my own finger, I let the bde burn through the wound.
And I noticed the wound slowly healing. Amazing, it evehe wound a Venerable such as myself takes. Impressive!
“And the curse…”
I cut the finger again; this time, I “cursed” the fmes, which then gained a bck color. When I touched the wound with the cursed fmes, I felt like they were trying to seep into my own wounds and body, trying to weaken them.
And it slightly worked; I felt cursed for a few seds, my physical strength went dowly, and my mi only slightly dizzy. I quickly healed back with the same golden fmes, feeling refreshed.
“It affect a being such as myself... It might prove to be a very useful Skill! Let’s see…”
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[Blessed Bzing Starlight Cursed Relic Creation (SS): Lv1]
A Fusion Skill created from the fusioween the [Healing Golden Light (B): Lv10], [Cursed Fmes (B): Lv10], [Bzing Iron onry Creation (S): Lv10], and [ic Star Magic (S): Lv10] Magic Skills.
bine Mana with the different elemental essences you trol to summon special Bzing Starlight Relics that be Blessed, Cursed, or both at the same time. Depending on the magnitude, form, and shape of these Relics, the amount of Mana required will increase drastically.
These Relics take the form of simple ons and accessories but ot exceed a certai a determined by the Skill Level. The Durability and Summoning Time of these Relics are also determined by their Skill Level.
Each Reliatter if Blessed or Cursed, will e with sparkling gold, blue, and red colors, and you'll be able to unleash Bzing Starlight Fmes of the elements between Blessed and Cursed. Such fmes will be able to deal damage, heal, or both, depending on the chosen Blessing.
Relics be biogether ter Relics, but rger quantities of Mana will be needed for their proper creation. The Elements that be given are Blessed, Cursed, and both at the same time.
Blessed Element will allow for the healing of both the target’s body wounds and soul wounds, as well as status ailments, diseases, and other curses.
Cursed Element will allow for the slow weakening of a target’s body or soul, worsening wounds, spreading status ailments, and decreasing their stats.
The bined elements will be able to do both in twisted ways.
Level Bonus (1):
Increases Bzing Starlight Fmes Attack Power by +250%, and Defense Ignoration by 30%.
Increases Summoned Relic’s Size and Summoning Time by +30%.
Increases Cursed Element Power and Curse Duration by +330%.
Increases Blessed Element’s Healing Speed, Tissue Recovery, Limb Reattat, Internal an Regeion, and more by +220%.
Increases bined Element’s Effects by +100%.
Decreases Mana Cost by -50%.
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“A rather long description for a single Skill, but it does sound perfectly good for me.” I smiled. “And it works just as I tested.”
I quickly unsummoned both Relid began to think: I make a perma one?
“Let’s see… They’re temporary because they disappear due to being posed primarily of Mana. For them to not disappear, they would either require a stant supply of energies like the summoned gods… Or.” I looked at my hands as a beautiful neckce of gold and blue jewels was made. “I simply add a bit of my own blood.”
I used the blood I bleed from my wound as a physical material, and the neckce suddenly stopped having a timer. It could both switch between Blessed and Cursed forms and allow the wielder to jure these fmes in their respective forms.
“Good! It’ll be a nice gift for her. I should make more for my mates as well!” I quickly made two beautiful rings, made of gold and blue metal, with red crystals embedded on them out of the skill. “For my Urbosa and my Merkite… Hmm, I ’t wait to see their rea~!”
As I imagihe happiness on my cute girlfriend's faces, I slowly desded back to Nexus, notig almost half an hour had passed. There are still more Skills to bine, but I’ll leave that for ter.
“Ahh, B-Bing Xue!”
Peperina greeted me from afar, waving her little hand. She was waiting for me in front of the guild. Thankfully, I wasn’t wearing my ese-styled clothing anymore, as I wore something more modern. Blue jeans, a white blouse, some bracelets, and a bck jacket.
“Hey, I just arrived; were you waiting too mue?”
“Not at all! I just came here. Wow, you look good in those clothes! Usually you’re wearing that gold and silver dress.”
“Yeah, I tried to go for something more casual. You also look very beautiful.”
“E-Eh? Really?”
She looked very geous; in fact, she was wearing a white and yellow dress with blue heels and a white summer hat. She looked ready to go to the beach, in fact.
Unlike Urbosa ae, Peperina looked more like a human—or perhaps a halfling? Than a beast person, except she had pointy rabbit ears on top of her hair and also a bit of fur across her legs and arms.
“So? Where do you want to go?”
“A-Ah, I have a few pns! I know you saw my Instagram, so let’s go to some of the pces I went before."
“Oh? Nice, sure! I also wao eat some of the food they sell around here. Let’s do that then.”
“Yep! Follow me, then! Ahahah…”
She was a bit nervous but utting in the effort of eaining me. She was so adorable.
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RUMBLE!
A huge tremor suddenly shook the interior of a Dungeon near New York. A party of five Huhat were expl the area were left surprised and paralyzed.
Their eyes were looking into the ceiling of the caves, and the corpses of weak mohey had just hunted littered their surroundings.
Crack, crack…!
CRACK!
Cracks spread across the cave’s ceiling, but not physical cracks or spatial cracks. Gray and blue energies began p out, dist everything.
“W-What’s happening?”
“Wasn’t this an E-Rank Dungeon?”
“Oi, Mark, what is this?!”
“The hell I know about, dude!”
Mark, the leader of the party, was still trying to decide if it was a wise decision to escape ht. Especially because the spatial crack was happening right in front of their escape route. To escape, one had to go even deeper into the dungeon.
“Oohhh…”
However, the voice of something or someone echoed from within the cracks. The entire party saw a strange vision across the Gate.
There was a giant jungle, bursting with greenery and a species of pnts and trees. From within, a giant human arm surged.
It was at least five times as rge as an average adult male; it singlehandedly opehe gate further, making its way out.
BAAM!
The party of five got ready for battle, but when they saw the person emerging from the gate, they were left fbbergasted.
“W-What is… this?”
“Not a monster?”
“He’s…”
The “thing” in front of them stood up, packed with muscles and hair, and wearing only some animal pelt ed around its her regions. Long, messy, and nasty hair, and a big beard.
However, it had the sharp eyes of a hunter who has gohrough tless battles of life ah.
“Oohh… Bunga? Onga…”
It spoke a weird, a nguage.
“A human?”
Mark, the leader of the party, looked up at the caveman-looking person that poured out of the gate.
“Hey, are you… Are you a returnee?” He asked.
However, the “human” in front of them didn’t let the man take aep.
“GAAAH!”
With a furious roar, as if it were threatened by the strainy humans in front of him, he swung his enormous and muscur arms.
CRASH!
It just happened within a sed.
The rest of the party was uo even see how it did that.
But Mark’s entire body was fttened into the ground, his bones, flesh, and everything else spttering out, his hard armor made of wyvern scales broken, and his sword shattered.
He died against a bare human hand!
“E-Eh?”
“Huh?”
“Wha…?!”
The rest of the party were left fbbergasted, staring at the se in silend disbelief.
However, the world wasn’t going to stop to let them process what happened.
The strange, gray-cate trembled as more of these strange, a humans poured out.
They sheir surroundings and the the tiny humans in front of them, baring their fangs like beasts.
“Someone… Help…! HEEELP!”
As they tried to escape, the cavemen chased them.
Their screams of help and agony reverberated across the dungeon.
Yet nobody came to save them.
Ultimately, the a men made their way out, seeing what was outside.
Both admiring and fearing what their world had turned into.
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