69 Final Preparation

The cocoon in the middle of the room continued pulsing in a rhythmic fashion for almost an hour without any change. A little bit after the hour passed a sudden stronger beat was heard and then all sounds stopped, the mist didn't pulse anymore but was continuously absorbed by the cocoon.

Once the last wisp was absorbed, the cocoon which looked fleshly and organic till now dried out and started cracking. From inside a hand reached out breaking a large chunk, the hand looked incredibly pale and noble. Using the hand as a leverage, the rest of the body climbed out of the cocoon and a naked man appeared in front of Lucien.

Lucien looked at the perfect copy of himself and saw something unexpected, it's eyebrows were red.

'Don't tell me.'

Lucien went to the mirror and saw that it was not a difference, he was the same.

'Since I comprehended it on my own, All Existence didn't offer to erase all external changes. Anyway, it shouldn't be a big problem.'

Lucien normally wore just common clothes and kept his look as low-key as possible, but since he was planning to leave the clone within the imperial palace and to keep a difference, before looking at the connecting to the clone, he gave him a black robe which fit him perfectly.

Turning his attention to the clone, Lucien realized that any doubts he might have had about the clone betraying him were baseless, the clone that All Existence created using the points was like a second mind of Lucien that could operate independently, he could even take control of the other body should he want. It was like splitting the mind, but then using two bodies to contain it.

Another astonishing thing was that Lucien didn't have to give up half his Soul or anything like that, he payed for the clone to have a Potential that was more than the current level of the Path, in this case the clone had a Potential to reach Rank 3, while the Darkness Path was currently Rank 2.

Because of that the clone inherited the Darkness Path of Lucien in it's whole. He had 1000 Soul and 1000 Agility, the only problem was that since it couldn't inherit the other Paths, it's other stats were rubbish.

'It's fine like this, the clone won't be leaving the palace anyway, even if the sky was to collapse there will be someone else to hold it.'

'I can give it another Path of mine, but it's a waste of points.'

Lucien didn't even talk to his clone, as it would be pretty much talking to himself, he just sent it back to the palace where it would enter secluded cultivation to comprehend the promotion diagrams of the Darkness Path.

'Now there is one final thing to do before executing my plan to bring the Devil State to a completion.'

Lucien sent his consciousness inside the Crimson World and looked at the Darkness Herbs.

It has been almost half a year since he left them to grow with the time sped up to 10x. There were 7 Rank 0 Herbs and 1 Rank 2 Herb and they were all of the Darkness Path when he left them half a year ago, while making sure that All Existence preserved all the seed they released.

After this period of time the 7 Rank 0 Herbs were 7 Rank 1 Herbs that had already completed the cycle of releasing seeds 10 times, while the Rank 2 Herb had done so 6 times in total to the previous one.

On average the Rank 2 released 10 Rank 0 seeds and the Rank 1 released only 1 Rank 0 seed, so in total over this time he had a stock of over a 100 seeds. Even when they were not planted 10 meters around them were infested with Darkness Particles, making the Crimson World seem a little bit different than before.

'Since I don't have soil for that many seeds, let's see if they can be useful in other ways.'

'Crack them and contain the Particles they release in one area.'

Even through he was thinking about it, everything he though about happened in his world. The seeds were cracked and the Darkness Particles in that 10 meters around them flooded over. All Existence kept all the Darkness Particles within the 1000 meters even if they were already reaching an astonishing concentration.

'Okay, condense them once.'

-Condensing Particles won't increase their grade as Particles don't have grades, it would only make a more solid structure of pure Particles-

'Do it.'

It took some measly existence points and condensed the 1000 meters of Particles into 100 meter cube pitch black cube.

'Once more.'

This time it took a little bit more existence points as it was necessary to use more force to push them closer and condense them. But in this world nothing was impossible for Lucien, the cube shrank down to 10 meters and already looked like a solid pitch black object.

'Condense it into a 199cm spear.'

-Host had to imagine the shape of the condensation, 1000 existence points will be deduced for detailed condensations-

Lucien gave his consent and imagined a simple spear, nothing fancy.

The cube started shrinking once more, but this time because it was so concentrated it seemed to suck light in. The process continued until the spear Lucien imagined appeared in all it's glory. It was pitch black and seemed to be capable of sucking in the soul of it's enemies, falling into illusions was also something enemies might encounter.

'I don't know if people use condensations as weapons, but I don't even need a weapon against Rank 2s, it's only there to make the fight quicker, since the plan is going to be a bit risky.'

'It's not really a trump card, but a little surprise at an unexpected moments.'

Thinking so, Lucien pulled the spear in his grasp and after feeling it for a couple of moments he let it fall towards his shadow, where it sank and disappeared.

'I'm now ready.'