3 My first confrontation with Death in this new life
Cotias Lancastera : "Mum, is it true that my eldest cousin have the best talent for our family Cultivation pattern since our Legendary 4th Lancastera Ancestor, Venerable Archibishop Lithor Lancastera ?"
Ortensia Lancastera : "Shuuuut, your eldest cousin is sleeping. Do not shout in Sophia's room. Yes, your grandfather Voicea has detect some Cultivation energy in Sophia's body with his Insight Eyes. Everybody know that my uncle Voicea is the best to discover genius in Cultivation in our province of Sunias. Many generals in our country army were discover by him. You need to keep this secret about Sophia's talent. She is so pitifull with no mother for now. If someone outside from our family know about this, and if it come to Dark Gate assassin's ears, she'll be in danger again !"
Cotias Lancastera : "I'll keep this secret until my death's bed, mother."
Ortensia Lancastera : "Silly boy, we will know more in 3 days time. Your grandfather ask a secret family meeting to test further Sophia's potentials."
Here we go, I know now why I'll be dead in 3 days. My gift is at ATS lvl5 now, with an ATS daily limit of 16. From my practices, I now have Good Energy Affinity with Earth and Air energies. And Passable Energy Affinity with Light and Dark energies. From Oracle ATS answers, I know now each energy affinity have some benefits to specific skills.
Earth affinity is very good for the body resistance to shocks and the body endurance.
Light affinity is very good for healing the body.
Air affinity is good for my consciousness agility.
Dark affinity is good for my mind depth.
Oracle, what energy do I need to focus for boosting my mind resistance ?
"You need to have ATS evo1 in order to get this information."
Is working with my energy routine on these 4 energies affinities, I can avoid the next Bad event ?
"Yes"
Finally, an ATS answer that make me at ease. I have another ATS answer left for today. Let be sure about my preparation.
Oracle, can I survive after 4 days if i focus on this energy training ?
"No"
Damned you. It seem that another danger is waiting for me, and that one is not link with the next Bad event.
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Tomorrow will be my Cultivation potential test day. And I just get the ATS lvl6. ATS lvl7 need to get 40 ATS answers. My ATS daily limit did not change this time, still at 16. From what I learn these past 2 days, it is that I need to protect my body with some physical protection to prevent any harm.
As I can't talk with nobody because of my age, my only alternative is to rely with what I know for now.
Oracle, with all my current knowledge, can I survive tomorrow ?
"Yes"
How ?
"Please upgrade your ATS evolution tiers in order to get multiples choices."
Hum, I can't wait until this upgrade. I lack time. From my observations, the only thing that I can do at my level, is to manipulate energies to my cells. I need to think of a pattern that can protect my body.
My Cultivation pattern transform my cells in order to adapt with my energies affinities. But I was focusing with parts of my body for an energy type. Like using my skin cells with Earth energy to boost my defense. Or using dark energy with my brain cells to increase my mind depth. From Oracle ATS answers, the mind depth boost my concentration and analysis capacity. But it do not increase my mind resistance. Maybe I'm in the wrong path... The wrong path..
Oracle, what from me is the strongest at the moment ?
"..."
After some seconds..
"Baby Sophia, your consciousness is the strongest part of you at the moment."
My consciousness is the strongest part of me.. My consciousness.. Yes, all players before starting this damned Divine Game were like me. They were introducing to their gifts by using their consciousness. And from the Divine Game rules analysis, a player is dead if his gift is devoured. My gift is an imprint on my subconsciousness, that is link to my consciousness... So I need to focus on my consciousness... Air energy affinity boost my consciousness agility, maybe other energy will boost something else with my consciousness ?
"Yes"
All right, that is it. It's not late to try it.
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Within a quiet room, I was put in a square with some warmth fog. Around me, are sitting more than hundreds of my family's members. And my grandfather is near me.
Voicea Lancastera : "Please begin the test. Activate the potential light detector."
With my consciousness, I see some energies that I do not know until now, scan me. The pattern is like the one my uncle Vexim Fatsia was using when he healed me. I then see some circles forming above the square where I was.
4 circles with different colors and of different intensities shoked the crowd.
I only see in the eyes of some elders, lights that shine like stars in a night. They all have large smiles on their faces. And my grandfather do not hide his pride.
Voicea Lancastera : "This child has a very good affinity with Earth and Air magics. She also has good affinity with Light and Dark magics. It's the first time that in our family, that someone had a possibility to become a QuadriMage at this early age. It's very rare, even at the national level. I hope that the family synode will accept to put Sophia Lancastera in the Gold List !"
Some family members shout their agreements after these words. Others keep their silent. I was concentrating on the crowd and I was waiting to see what will come. My timers were near the end of the countdown..
4..3..2..1..
Someone from the crowd suddenly got up, it was a middle age man with short blue hairs. With his hands, he make something appear near my grandfather, then unleashed 4 objects around my square. All was going very fast after this. My grandfather disapear from all view, and a sort of carapace appear where he was. The 4 objects exploded with continuous Booms. 4 Space cracks appear after these noises. I do not have the time to see my father, uncles and elders to move toward me and trying to rescue me.
I see 4 purple rays coming to my body. I then use my consciousness to charge all affinities energies around me that i can detect, to form a pattern around my body. I was inspired by a Caracol pattern from my previous world to protect my body with 4 energies layers. The collision was short, but it give enough time for my rescue family members to close the Space cracks and to stop these attacks. My grandfather also escape from his jail. He then jump to where the blue hairs man was, and join the battle that was taking in place between him and other family members. With my grandfather help, this traitor was subdued.
Voicea Lancastera : "Chasak ! I'll never thought that a member of my Lancastera family will ever have a Dark Gate signature in their energy pattern.. Take him to the family's jail for further investigations. I want to know all his secrets."
Joseph Lancastera : "Grandfather Hopias, how is my Sophia ?" Many worries can be seen in his eyes.
Hopias Lancastera : "..." What is this poison ? I've never seen something like that. These 4 attacks were delayed by something, and this something can only resist a short moment, but it can not stop this poison that came into my great granddaughter.
Hopias Lancastera : "Voicea and Usias ! Come here, you and little Usias will use Air and Light magics to support me in healing our small Sophia. I'll try to detoxicate this unknown poison with my Water magic."
Humpf, I do not mind what was happening around me. Because my consciousness was teleported to a strange place. I see for the first time in this place, a spectral body of myself. Very strange. My consciousness see me with my previous teen appearance, the one I had in my previous life. Around me is a cold plain under a pale moon, in front of me was a graveyard with in the middle of it, a throne with a white monk toge sitting on it.
I can not see his face, in it place, I can only see a cosmos under his hood.
Me : "Who and what are you Sir ?"
"Oh, a visitor. My 89th in this Divine Game.."
He disapears from his throne and appears in front of me. Like a ghost, he goes around me. And with a child guy voice, he said :
"Hum, not bad. I see that your gift give you some opportunity to train your mind. The question is : is it enough to pass my test ? Hahaha.."
He disapears again, to let in his place a big dog with 2 heads. This one do not wait for jumping toward me. My consciousness search for energy around me to deal with this beast. I can only detect Dark energy and a new unknown one in this space.
Oracle, can energies in this place will help me to defend against this 2 heads dog ?
"Yes"
What is this strange energy that I detect with Dark energy ?
"It's the Death energy."
I then concentrate a ball of energy, a melting of Dark and Death energy. I place the energy between me and the beast. I also make some distant from it with my uncle's Vexim Fatsia method. Seeing my ball of mixed energy, the beast teleported behind the ball and try to close our distance. I then make the ball of mixed energy to explode toward me. This deflagration accelerate the speed for my energy ball, which is smaller, to devour the beast. It seem to take some damages and it was slowing down.
Oracle, what is this beast weakness ?
"Please upgrade your ATS evolution tiers in order to get this information."
Is this beast weakness his heads ?
"No"
Is this beast weakness his limbs ?
"No"
Is this beast weakness is one of his organ ?
"Yes"
Is it his Heart ?
"No"
I concentrate my consciousness on this beast inner body. I can only see some Dark energy inside it that form some organs, but not all of them. My only option for now is to delay this beast and keep it in ranged. The battle continue for almost 2 hours like this. My spectral self in this place do not seem to be tired, and it's the same for my enemy.
"Your affinity with Death energy is now Bad."
Yes, it surprised me a little bit. I use again my consciousness to take a peek at this beast inner body. I see now some part that I can't see before. Death energy is everywhere inside this beast. But a part near his left lung seem to concentrate something with a lot of Death energy.
Oracle, what is the energy mass near this beast left lung ?
"Please upgrade your ATS evolution tiers in order to know this answer."
Can I win my battle if I concentrate my attacks on to this mass ?
"Please upgrade your ATS daily limit to know this answer."
Ok, an ATS answer. For the rest of this battle, I focus my attacks on this spot. It seem to do nothing. This beast defense is very high, his skin is tough. So I change my strategy in my attacks. I keep my energy ball for defense, and I create some tinies spores of Death or Dark energy. When the beast open it's mouth to shout after me or to bite me, I put these spores in his inner body. I then guide them to this mass and I'm waiting to accumulate them there. After maybe 3 hours of battle, I decide to explode all my spores on all links this energy mass have connections with other parts of this beast inner body.
The beast then shout a cry of agony, then it disapear from this place.
"Congratulations baby Sophia, you just pass your first Bad event successfully. As this Bad event was link to the Death God, this one offer you a skill that can be add to your ATS gift in your next ATS evolution tiers. Also, your Death energy affinity is now Passable."
The creature wearing a white monk toge appear again.
"Great, it seem you are a little smart girl. For surviving this test, I can give you a reward between 3 choices : Tendrils, Omen or Snare. Make your choice, no explanation is given to any reward choice. You have a minute of thinking."
Oracle, what is the Tendrils choice ?
"Please upgrade your ATS evolution tiers in order to know this answer."
Oracle, which energy affinity that I have is the best for my ATS gift for now ?
"Air energy affinity."
Oracle, how much compatibility air energy affinity have with each of these choices ?
"No compatibility with Tendrils and Snare choices. Very good compatibility with Omen choice."
Me : "I'll choose the Omen reward."
"As you wish ! By accepting the Death God's reward, you have create a link with him, and he can now follows your progression. But, because of your ranking gift, the Death God is not very interested in you."
After these words, all around me twist in a strange way, and my consciousness was back into my baby body.
