BXBX NOVEL Chapter 241: Fist & Blade! (13/13)
"It's been a while since mirage crystals were circulated like this."
"Cosmic Factions are also interested in this group."
"I heard they've been at Wihanx Finger half a month and defeated over fifty Royal-order hunters? Is that true?"
"Don't know about that, but we have several mirage crystals with them defeating Royal-order hunters."
In half a month, the inner domain knew about Rin and Erix as their feats spread.
After all, it was long since such mighty Noble-order hunters appeared.
On the other hand, Lilith became unknown as she reached Empyrean-order, rendering her opponents very few and far between.
…
Dark Sterling Valen had found their location, but upon some investigation, he held off his assault.
"Dad! It's been twenty days! We can't even catch up to them at Wihanx Finger since they've risen high in the finger, and we can't find them there anymore."
Urkal said with a frown, "You've called your forces, so please, let's go there and take back Lynia."
"I will," Valen indifferently said. "I will find and kill them once they leave Wihanx Finger."
"But, do you think they will reach the top?" Urkal asked, his fists clenched. "If they reach the top, they'll become more powerful…"
Valen's lips twitched. 'I know that, brat.'
"You don't need to come with me," Valen said to his son. "Just focus on your training and leave this matter to me."
…
Wihanx Finger.
This stone tower was exactly 30,000 kilometers tall.
If people wanted to reach its top, they had to enter inside the finger at its base and reach the top by completing 300 individual obstacles.
After each obstacle was an exotic resting area of random landscape.
Each resting area had resources, and they would grow or appear randomly, which sparked conflict among hunters.
However, the value and rarity of resources depended on the level of resting area. A higher area equals better resources and opportunities.
People could go to higher areas by completing a challenge present in every resting area. But everyone only had one attempt.
They would be stuck in that resting area if they failed the challenge. They could go inside Wihanx Finger again but wouldn't be able to go past the area they failed to cross.
Erix, Rin, Lilith, and Lily continuously challenged until they reached the 250th resting area and finally stopped for a break.
After that, they progressed slowly and gradually while improving themselves with a certain pace and training schedule with goals.
When they finally reached the 299th floor after twenty days, their names had spread more due to the battles they'd fought in the resting areas while coming up here.
Invincible Noble-order duo. They were unbeatable in the realm of Noble-order hunters, and they had also proved that average Royal-order hunters were no match for them.
During the past 20 days, Erix had several women encounters because it was also one of the main goals.
He had been sucking dry Royal-order females that he defeated or anyone he found good because of his fame, strength, and gentlemanly frank charm backed up by his confidence.
After all, he didn't lack anything and only had more to satisfy those females, so his progression in balancing his source also went well in the past twenty days as he successfully reached 32% progress.
But it was slowly down the past five days since the other women were failing challenges and couldn't keep up with them. m-v-l_e-m-p-y-r original
In the end, only Lilith, Rin, Lily, and Erix arrived at the 299th floor.
But they were not alone in this resting area.
There were two men.
One had a huge necklace of beads around his neck and wore a monk-like outfit, while the other one had long hair, unlike the bald monk, and wore a black assassin-like outfit.
They were meditating at different spots, and both of them were Royal-order hunters.
This resting area had chains of various hills with different plant life on each of them, with various effects and elemental affinities in the atmosphere.
Erix and others also went deep within and sat in meditation on different hills.
Unfortunately, there were only primary and advanced elemental plant-life structures.
Erix sat on a flame-elemental hill and Rin on the wind-elemental hill.
Their journey in this Wihanx Finger had also been fruitful till arriving here as Rin had reached the 2nd realm in Time while she was also making progress towards the 3rd realm in the Wind element.
[~Rin~]
_Race: Human
_Bloodline: Ourous Scion (Legendary-2)
_Level: 166
_Rank: Noble-Order
_Class: Razing Blade Dancer
_Vitality: [100%/100%]
_Stat points: 132
—> [ Strength: 1000 (+300) +180
] —> [ Agility: 1000 (+300) + 350 ]
—> [ Health: 1000 (+300) ]
—> [ Stamina: 1000 (+300) ]
—> [ Spirit: 936 / Spirit Force: 9291/9291 ]
—> [ Magic affinity: Rank-A / Magic power: 1000 (+300) / Mana: 5000/5000 (+3000)
] _Talent (1/3): Stormshock Chart
Rin's Magic affinity also upgraded from B to A! It was eventually bound to happen with how much she was progressing alongside Erix in Magic, which finally increased her affinity for Magic to the same level as Erix.
On the other hand, Erix had also reached the 2nd realm in the Flame element while he was progressing towards the Space element's 3rd realm.
[~Erix~]
_Race: Hybrid Zombie (32% Balance)
_Rank: Noble-Order
_Level: 164
_Class: — (Death Reaper-X)
_Life orb: [100%/100%]
_Vigor Force: [1000/1000]
_Stats: 128 unassigned.
—> [ Strength: 1000 + 400 ]
—> [ Agility: 1000 + 80 ]
—> [ Health: 1000 ]
—> [ Stamina: ∞ ]
—> [ Spirit: 939 / Spirit Force: 9320/9320 ]
—> [ Magic affinity: Rank-A / Magic power: 1000 + 200 / Mana: 5000/5000 ]
_Talent (2/3): Vigor Force, Death Bound.
Additionally, Erix automatically awakened a talent called Death Bound when he reached 30% of progress in balancing his source. Just like Vigor Force, it was a permanent talent, not taking up the talent slots of Mystic Root's status blessing.
[Death Bound]
-Unique Talent: once your Life Orb reaches 0%, the user will enter the Death Bound state.
_Effect: In the Death Bound state, you will not die. Instead, your Life Orb will transform into the Death Orb, leaving only a body of dark gold bones. To revert Death Orb into Life Orb, you must absorb a pure source of life and enough blood.
He wasn't expecting this, nor did Lilith know something like this would happen since it was also her first time seeing a case like Erix's.
She could be considered a similar case to Erix, but she was a hybrid of demon and vampire, where both races had multiple mixed factors and powers right from those two bloodlines. Hence, her source became more chaotic, eventually getting her into trouble until Erix came and saved her.
Unlike her, Erix had the purer and base-level mutation of life and death. There was no mixture of any other factors.
A pure death-filled zombie who was one human long ago, and Erix, who was also a human but had pure life in him as a base-level human without supernatural elements.
After he revived as a hybrid zombie, he didn't know all that and continued to absorb death around him, which resulted in an imbalance source, but it was noticed, and he was on the path to reaching the true base form of his race.
Once he balanced his source to 100%, Lilith said that Erix would evolve. After all, he was no longer a simple lifeform but a Noble-order lifeform having various supernatural and magic powers!
Erix was close to achieving one more boost of power.
Death Reaper! His X-rank Class.
He only needed to kill a bit over a thousand monsters, and he would finish the last task he needed to awaken it.
Since his source had progressed properly towards balancing, Erix would soon be able to start mass-killing the monsters once the progress reached 40%!
During Limitless Plane's sessions over the past twenty days, the duo spent half time progressing in their elements while the other half improving their battle styles while also learning Lilith's combat style that she taught them and incorporating her knowledge to modify and enhance their combat arts.
Lily had been doing the same thing since she had learned Lilith's combat art and incorporated it into her own style.
But she had improved drastically in the past twenty days after rigorously training with Rin and Erix as she also made a significant breakthrough in her combat style.
Even Lilith was not an exception, as she was also improving since there was always more to learn from individuals with talent and potential, with the drive to bloom those traits to full.
When four such individuals gathered together, mass progress was about to happen.
Rin and Erix were particularly full of surprises regarding that.
In the past twenty days, they once again wholly improved themselves a whole notch regarding their combat arts and skills!
After training for a couple of days in this resting area, the group would finally tackle the 300th challenge.
If they complete it, a wonderful surprise awaited them at this highest point of Kaalanx Abyss.
…
Core Domain, Dark Sterling Valen's castle...
An exquisite and extensive Airship floated above the castle while Valen and several other people stood on the vast left-corner terrace at the castle's top.
"Let's move," Valen said, his face frosty and eyes determined as he flew up on the airship where two powerful auras equal to his were onboard.
Valen's short dark blue hair was combed and stuck to his head while he wore a formal dark blue robe with shining dark green patterns and tiny crystals.
It was a powerful magic outfit.
As he and the other eight Royal-order hunters flew up on the ship, Urkal arrived while flying, his face flushed as he shouted.
"Father, why can't I come with you?! You are going with two more Empyrean-order powerhouses and ten Royal-order hunters!"
"I'm sure I can help kill those two Noble-order hunters!" Urkal shouted, his fists clenched! "I am your strongest and most talented son!"
"Gahahahaha!"
A loud laugh echoed from the ship as a middle-aged man with a huge belly and a giant mug in his hand flew out and faced Urkal.
"Valen, your son doesn't seem to know how to measure oneself against others."
Urkal saw the man and gulped, 'Giant Belly Mohak. I heard he is as powerful as my father…'
"Hey, kid," Mohak said with a narrow grin, "Do you know what those two Noble-order hunters are called these days? Especially in the Inner domain?"
"W-What?"
"Bwahahaha, one is called Deathly Fist and Fist of the Abyss. People are juggling between them."
"And that woman is known as Anarchic Blade Dancer."
Mohak laughed, completely looking down on Urkal, "Go and make people call you by these titles before thinking about challenging them."
"It's a complete joke if you think you can beat them as a noble-order," Mohak said before returning to the ship and shouting, "Start the ship and move towards Inner Domain!"
"We'll end their tale before it gets any bigger!"