46 Sea of Souls II

[Halos]

[1st Halo] [Under the amplified effect of the 3rd and 4th Halo the skill duration rises from 2s -> 8s]

[2nd Halo] [Under the amplified effect of the 3rd and 4th Halo Host Aura of reflection became stronger and Host now can hide objects]

[3rd Halo]

[The Third Halo Grants the Holder Force Control]

[Force Control: In normal conditions the Body maximal power output only uses 20% of the body actually capacity, with the force control there is an option to increase this output up to:

30% but the time won't be longer than 10 seconds and there are serious black lashes such as internal bleeding.

40% but the time won't be longer than 9 seconds and there are serious black lashes such as internal bleeding, muscles torn.

50% but the time won't be longer than 8 seconds and there are serious black lashes such as internal bleeding, bones breaking.

60% but the time won't be longer than 7 seconds and there are serious black lashes such as internal bleeding bones shattering.

70% but the time won't be longer than 6 seconds and there are serious black lashes such as circular system failure and permanent damage to the internal organs

80% but the time won't be longer than 5 seconds and there are serious black lashes such as circular system failure and permanent damage to the internal organs, possible brain damage.

90% but the time won't be longer than 4 seconds and there are serious black lashes such as circular system failure and permanent damage to the internal organs, brain damage.

100% but the time won't be longer than 3 seconds and there are serious black lashes such as death by burning out life

[Force Control: Is also capable of decreasing the used strength under 20% which also can be beneficial for the body, This is pure concept, the lower the used strength the higher Host Perception is, in weaker state people have chances to gain better understanding of their surroundings, the weak see the world differently same goes for the strong.

[4th Halo]

[The Forth Halo Grants the Holder Origin Corruption]

[Side Note: The gods find it wasteful to kill more than 10 000 souls without corrupting them such as from now on the Origin halo will automatically infuse corruption into Host Essence to be able to kill without angering the gods by being wasteful]

[Origin Corruption: Corruption runs through host body fused into the Essence from now on the Essence can corrupt souls without the need of doing it manually but the Black water is greatly decreased, Host needs to kill 10 souls to gain 1 worth of black water.]

[Congratulation Host for achieving the Second Mark]

[Congratulation Host for achieving the Third Mark]

[First Mark] [Dragon Eyes: when activated the senses of the Host rises and the surrounding movement seems 2 times slower]

[Second Mark] [Dragon Hide: when activated the skin becomes harder and immune to fire or poison]

[Third Mark] [Dragon Scales: when activated Razor Sharp Scales appear on the arms and legs]

Meanwhile outside the Shadow Realm Razor was nonstop bragging for the sect master and the others inside the sect, Cyra had managed to get lucky and find a large crowd of souls to use the pulse, it was already fixed that she would be at least in the top 3000 if she is lucky maybe she could stay in the top 1000.

The other 2 disciplines weren't as lucky as Cyra both of them were still only in the top 3k There was nothing to be ashamed of they had already reached the placements that they hoped for.

Meanwhile somewhere in an another ancient City there was an old man looking at the ranking, while he was being served by his attendant, - "What happened with that discipline who reached top 11 in the first hour?" The attendant look up the leader board and said, - "She is currently rank 267 what is weird is that her points are still the same it didn't even rise by one." It was only a little weird, even thought the sect advised everyone to only stay inside for 3 weeks, the strongest practitioners usually stayed inside up to a year also there was at least 10 giant merchant families who used these opportunities to set up trading camps inside the Sea of Souls to gain additional benefits from buying cursed items from first hand.

It was at this moment when Cyra has stumbled upon one such a camp, the design was rather simple there was one big tent in the middle and smaller tents were surrounding the main tent, there was a few look outs who were constantly monitoring the surroundings for probably banshees, so they could avoid unexpected surprises.

Cyra was actually stopped by one of the patrolling guards, here Halo wasn't working here at all, she was constantly leaving foot prints in the dust, the people have to be blind to don't realize her coming, soo the guard said, - "Say your name and your current rank so we can make sure that your clean, killers are not allowed to enter this camp" explained the guard as his back up arrived.

Cyra continued forward without looking at the guard, she haven't killed before here, but she wouldn't mind doing so, none of the people here were stronger than her, because of the restrictions most people strength was between 1-2, it was truly nothing to the current her, also her current objective was to gather 1 000 souls it didn't matter if they were from the dead or the living.

Because Cyra wasn't answering the guard sounded the alarm and they were surrounded in no time, there was 56 guards with strength 2 and probably 10 visitors with the strength of 3, Cyra used brutal strength to crush them, and viciously striked down those who had higher Essence than her, after taking care of the stronger ones she easily crushed the rest.

They were simply kids they didn't stood a chance to begin with, after taking all the storage rings, Cyra continued onwards she needed to find more souls to corrupt currently she had corrupted around 400 souls.

Not long after Cyra left the camp, another group arrived to the now ghost camp, the leader of the group Jonathan said with a grave voice, - "It looks like they were crushed instantly, who could have caused this?"

"It must have been a top ranker they are the ones who never care about the rules that have been established long before the realm has been open!" Said Nana with a rather angry voice, these were her people lying around and she was helpless, she doesn't even knew who killed them.

"Look these seem to be foot prints, this incident must have happened just recently, I don't think he or she got to far, but if we don't go now we might lose our only clue that leads us to the culprit" Said the team vice-leader James.

Cyra on the other hand was constantly advancing forward she wasted enough time already, she had to start seriously hunt for souls, as she was thinking about this she came across a lonely banshee, the moment it saw her it started screaming but there was no souls near by so it was all in vain.

She caught the soul by using Essence and continued forward while holding the screaming banshee, as she continued moving forward with an incredibly fast speed, she caught sight of a few weird souls, they had parts that were visible even for the naked eyes.

These souls were tainted by emotional that surfaced over time these emotions makes the souls act weirdly such as angry souls would attack other souls or sad souls would normally would stay alone, in Cyra case she stumbled upon a Lonely Soul Pack that was floating together with each other in large numbers, the moment they heard the screaming of the banshee they started to swim towards Cyra in an alarming rate, in seconds she was surrounded by at least a 1000 souls, she instantly started charging up pulse.

What was weird is that these souls didn't attack her together, instead much like piranhas a few scouts came to try hurt her, she easily killed these scouts but this didn't stop them to send in scouting members, the pulse became fully charged and an Essence wave spread through the surroundings killing all the souls together with the banshee.

[Congratulation Host has managed to corrupt your first 1000 souls, with that Host gained the [Title: Reaper Candidate]]

[Congratulation Host for meeting the requirements of forming your Arcy Eyes]

[The forming of Arcy Eyes takes a long amount of time, suggesting host for choosing a cave until the process is finished for safety]

Cyra continued her journey onwards the terrain slowly changed, it was still desert like but holes and caves started to appear more frequently inside the ground, as she was about to enter one of these caves to form her Arcy Eyes she was interrupted by the feeling of uneas, so she decided to search for a cave that is much deeper, soon she found what she was looking for, a cave system that was running deep under the Sea of Souls.

While Cyra entered the cave System the team that was following her lost her tracks, because she used her Halo skill to fly inside the cave, since the entrance of the cave was in a giant hole.

"Weird it's almost like the person has completely disappeared" Remarked Josh.

"Not just that, can you feel it? The wind has became much stronger!" Said Jonathan.

"There is something wrong about this wind, did we already reached the 3 week mark? Said Nana with a scared voice.

"Looks like it, we should probably hide, it's no longer safe freely roaming the Sea of Souls!" Said Jonathan with a worried expression.

With every passing minute Cyra unease became stronger and stronger to the point were she started advancing deeper into the cave system, she felt fear from what was coming this was an almost alien feeling for her, yet it was keep getting bigger and bigger until she heard a weak whispering, it was very quiet but she could hear it but couldn't understand a word, the voice keep repeating the same sentence again and again, with each time it became louder, soon additional voices started saying this very same sentence.

[Translating…]

[Sea of Souls listen to our lords orders! Gather, Thrive it's time to get rid of these invaders of our sacred land, this is our world, our home, the living has no right to be here without our agreement, the time is already up! Chase them or kill them it doesn't matter they are simply puny thief's of our land, we have to stop them at all cost!]

What are these?

[I don't know]

Aren't you know everything?

[Yes and No, I know everything but I don't know what are these due to lack of information!]

What information do you need?

[Let's see for starters I need to see what are they look like!]

That's impossible I fear them, there is no way in hell that I'm going up to look at them!

[Host can use Force control to see with the help of pulse, this might even resolve the problem of fear, fundamentally the only things humans actually fear is the unknown, I know host evolved but that doesn't mean these traits has been lost, more likely the fear drastically decreased but, host is still somewhat resembling humans!]

The next thing Cyra did was using force control to bring her strength down to the current bare minimum from 10 to 1, in less than 1 minutes visible changes has appeared she could feel and hear better, after closing her eyes she could see with the help of her breathing, looking further away she could see the surroundings because of the strong wind crushed into the dunes and blowing the dust away.