14 Book of Runes: A----?

A warm current flowed from the abdomen and circulating through the entire body. Lucas felt the thriving Life Force inside him continuously growing at a fast pace. Immersing in the wonderful feeling Lucas quickly forgot the passage of time.

Life force absorbed from the Life Seed increased the total life essence of Lucas. Every cell in his body greedily absorbed the flowing life force at a incredible rate and strengthened the physical foundation of his body rapidly.

His cultivation started climbing in a skyrocketing speed. Brimming with Life force the blood, tendons, marrow, spirit, bones and meridians rapidly enhanced and got wider, sturdier and stronger.

Sensing Life Stage peak

Tempering Body Stage

Tempering Body Stage peak

Mortal Limit Stage

Mortal Limit Stage peak

According to True Life Origin Scripture Mortal Limit Stage peak is the highest in the lower realms.

In a trance Lucas didn't know the marvelous changes happening inside his body.

[Ding! Scanning! Analyzing!]

[Ding! Optimizing!]

[Ding! Even distribution. Circulation technique modifying.]

Lucas felt he was in a warm spring nourishing his body. The Life Essence in the Life Seed rapidly converted to Life Force and wandered around the body the force cleansed, nourished and tempered the body.

There are many places deep inside his body that the life essence and True Life Origin Scripture technique couldn't reach. The hidden parts are only nourished, tempered and cleansed only in the higher realms. Now due to the System Lucas's every part of the body have leveled up.

As time passed on Lucas's body oozed out black liquid from the pores on his body, without realizing the changes Lucas continued to cultivate.

As his cultivation increased the essence and vitality inside the body continue to increase to the peak, spirit was also increasing with the nourishment of pure Life Essence.

His essence qi and spirit started to form a harmony, in mere moments Lucas will step on to the higher realm. Over 95% humans are not even capable of touching the harmonic edge in their life. At that instant in Lucas's mind palace the golden book covered in mystical runes that was quietly floating around slightly shook. Tremendous amount of Life Essence was devoured by the golden book. Slowly some of the runes started to sparkle with a golden light. Slowly the brightened runes started to change and move around the book while shining with golden light.

After some time Lucas opened his eyes, he could feel his body was stronger, stronger by many times. Clenching his fists he felt that he could even blast the sky with his fists and crack the earth with a kick. Shouting loudly Lucas punched the table placed near him. But contradictory to the expected shattering sound, what welcomed Lucas was only pain.

"Ahh!"

Lucas couldn't help but cry out loud, he never expected such an experience.

But thankfully the pain immediately cleared his mind.

Lucas took a deep long breath and waved his hand due to pain.

"Hooh,hah."

"The table is quite a sturdy one. Good quality"

Lucas inspected the table and noticed it to be made from some wood even some of his chairs are made from the same type of wood.

'This is damn expensive for sure. Luxurious too luxurious, it's great it wasn't broken, otherwise…...'

Lucas stopped thinking and touched the table and tried to identify the material, but even in system library he didn't find any information.

"Hmm, most likely the past me didn't even cared about anything trivial such as what wood is used to make his strong table and chairs."

It was at his moment Lucas noticed a putrid smell that coming from his body. He saw some sticky black liquid on his skin.

"Impurities? Must have come due to body tempering."

Lucas quickly went to take a bath.

Lucas slowly clenched his fist and then slowly released, it went on repeatedly, he was trying to get familiar with the new strength.

"That feeling....most likely due to the sudden huge increase in strength. I am right now at the peak of the three lower realms. How much of the Life Seed did I absorbed? Aunt said that most can in the range of 20%-40% is most probable. With my Assimilation ability I may have absorbed more than 50%, right."

As if hearing Lucas's question the System responded.

[Ding! 82% absorbed.]

[Ding! After Analyzing 18% may cause harm after a long period of time if in time, proper cleansing isn't done, probability of harm increases.]

Lucas marveled at System, 'So it was possible to absorb 100%.'

"Wait, Isn't the Life Seed is of Nether Wyvern Spirit, it is a high level beast among First Stage magical beasts. If I absorbed 82% of Life Seed I should have clearly breakthrough to Higher Realm."

Lucas was confused,"What happened? Does my body need that much essence."

[Ding! 49% Life Essence was absorbed to mind palace.]

Lucas was frightened. In his mind palace there was that artifact. Until now there wasn't any trouble. 'Did something happen?'

Lucas quickly closed his eyes and looked into his mind palace. There was nothing special happened.

The book was still quietly floating inside his mind, but after closely observing the runes was slightly changed.

Lucas concentrated his attention on the runes. Only a part of the runes were changed and some light was emitting from it.

Immediately some words entered in his mind.

Book of Runes : A @#4#%&^

'Book of Runes?

A book related to Runes?

But why did it absorb the Life essence? Is it alive?

Does it have a spirit?'

Lucas tried to get some response from the artifact, but the artifact continued to quietly float around.

"It seems like I need some Life Seed to complete activate it."

Lucas cut off his thoughts since thinking doesn't help and will only waste his time. Getting out of bath, Lucas dried his hair and pondered on his next steps.

Looking outside Lucas didn't felt much time pass by. After consuming Life Seed there is a need to cultivate for 8-10 hrs to stabilize and after about 3 months Life Seed will be completely consumed.

Lucas knew that his absorption speed will be high and he wouldn't even need one month to complete absorb.

Enquiring to system, the response was.

[Ding! 1hr 16min 32sec passed.]

Lucas was amazed, "That quick. Assimilation is indeed great." After pondering for a while, Lucas decide his next step.

"Now I need to prepare that potion. Hope it won't fail."

Lucas moved his feet towards the lab after releasing a long sigh.

The laboratory was neat, everything was ordered meticulously, as soon as he stepped inside the lab, various data regarding the apparatus and materials inside the lab was constantly poured inside his brain.

Nearing the instruments Lucas used them in a familiar way. Data constantly poured into his brain, after training with some low quality herbs and other material, Lucas could recover his original familiarity in a fast pace.

After 3 hrs.

Lucas took out Lunar Shell Crystal from his space ring and looked at the nearby high quality herbs.

"Now let's start."

Time continued to pass by, after about an hour Lucas came out with a bright yet weary smile, obviously he succeed.

Watching the soon to be setting sun, Lucas made up his mind.

"Finally I have to rely on the one and only clue, this is going to be a dangerous trip."

"If I remember correctly according to system, I have a hidden locker where I keep some of the potions that will be pretty useful to me."

After releasing a long breath Lucas walked towards the bookshelf and took two books from there.

Survival Tips from a Mercenary

A Beginners Guide to the Forbidden Zone

There were beautiful patters behind the books. Anyone with even a bit of aesthetic sense could feel the beauty the patterns represents.

Lucas watched the patterns for a moment then pressed the backside containing the patters with each other and he let his mana flow through the two books.

ZZhh!

A low resonant sound was produced for a moment, following the sound a small locker was shown visible near his bed.

Click!!

Walking over Lucas inputted the password and had a iris confirmation followed by the the locker opened to Lucas.

System immediately informed Lucas about the contents and their uses.

Lucas's eyes glittered brilliantly and with a exciting grin he thought.

'Now I really want to recover my earlier memories, what was I thinking keeping these, for sure the past Lucas wasn't a simple 15 year old boy that spends his all time in studying and experimenting.'