Empowerment|||C6

"I want it. I want this power."

That's what Ray muttered as he stared at the destruction caused by the two strongest beings on this planet.

He quickly averted his gaze from to scene and searched for the remains of one of the, now destroyed cities.

It didn't take long to locate one relatively big ruin, burnt to a crisp filled with thousands of dead bodies.

Ray was an experienced general in his last life but even then, this was disgusting.

Mind you it wasn't the bloodbath that disgusted Ray, no it was the birth of countless zombies due to the high magicule density in the area.

Tons of undead were constantly rising, most of them falling to the floor shortly after being 'reborn' because their mortal bodies couldn't hold their souls anymore.

Ray looked at the pitful scene of souls entering their old bodies only to die once again over and over again.

Anyways Ray...

DODGE!!!

All of Ray's instinct screamed at him to run, his mind went black for a second and he used all of his muscles to dash away.

His skill [Temporal Awareness] went blank for a second showing his imminent demise in thirty seconds when Milim releases an attack with her stardust magic aimed at Guy that will partly shoot back towards Ray.

He quickly composed himself and stopped running, he had only thirty seconds, and the blast/shockwave was big enough to kill him even if he ran away and used teleportation magic.

Stopping time wouldn't yield any results either, after all, a being like Milim shot the magic and the time being stopped will hardly hinder her or her powers.

There were still twenty seconds remaining so Ray allocated the first half of that time to form a plan and the remaining time to implement this plan.

Ray was stressed out, to say the least, the magic is only a spray shot of Milim's stardust magic with the power to destroy about four square kilometers in total.

Dozens of calculations fly by in Ray's mind, a feat impossible for normal humans made possible only due to Ray's prior evolution to a sage and his ability to fasten his own time, making everything around him slower.

The ten seconds were over and Ray completed a plan with good survival chances.

He used [Weaver of time] and spent all of his magicules to manifest a spear with immense time-bending powers.

Ray gets into a throwing stance, similar to the one Lord Gwyn does when he starts the war with the dragons from dark souls.

Ray could have tried using his time clock and used its ability to stop whatever Ray directly sees, but as Ray already concluded in his time as a Royal guard this only works when he uses the ability on an object with a small number of magicules. (That's also the reason why it didn't work on living things.)

Anyways, Ray was still aiming in the direction of the soon to appear magic attack, a few rifts still around him constantly spewing out strings to strengthen the time-bending capabilities of the spear.

Ray couldn't afford using [Temporal Awareness] because of its high magicule cost and it showing Ray constantly how he would die, disturbing him, a weakness he learned of just now.

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A huge ball of majestic energy formed a few kilometers away from Ray, and Guy cut right through it with his crimson sword, shooting the remaining parts all over the western kingdoms, at least that's what Ray thinks happened, he can't follow Guy or Milim with his eyes so he guessed.

One of the larger clumps of stardust energy comes directly at Ray, the latter finally releasing all of his tension and throwing the spear made out of ethereal white and black strings.

The sheer power of that throw creating giant spiderweb-like craters on the ground.

The spear and the clump of stardust magic clash against each other, the spear being throughoutly decomposed until only strings remain but that was Ray's plan from the beginning.

The black and white strings slowly encompass the whole orb of stardust magicules, making it slower with every passing second.

This goes on until the orb stops moving completely, now standing still fifty meters above the ground.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!*

Just as Ray was about to sigh, the soundwaves of the stardust magic getting split by Guy resounded.

"Sigh it's over at long last." Ray says to no one in particular as he slumps onto the ground like a lazy prick.

While on the ground Ray collects the magicules in the area regaining his lost magicules bit by bit.

As soon as he is able to stand up once more he scouts the ruined city for the tallest still standing building and walks towards it.

Ray jumps up its walls until he reaches its highest point without the building getting destroyed.

Ray uses [Weaver of time] to create a single string with no time related abilities whatsoever.

He connects one end of the string to the ball of strings that currently hold the clump of stardust magic and the other end to the crumbling building he is on.

Ray moves towards the stardust magic while keeping a delicate balance like a circus performer.

Ray eventually reaches his destination fifty meters in the air, he touches the ball of time bending strings, and closes his eyes.

"I never thought it'll be this easy to get something like this."

Ray lets out a breath of fresh air and uses all the magicules he regained from resting to cast some random spells aimed at the Undead roaming the city's ruin until not a single magicule remained inside of him.

His legs begin to shake but Ray ignored it for now and concentrated on the task on hand, for now, he manipulates the stardust magic to slowly enter his body, something that would kill normal creatures but not Sage's that are part spiritual lifeform, part biological life form.

Ray's constitution got worse and worse, at some point, his mouth and nose started to release blood but Ray still held on, remaining where he stood and holding his balance on top of the string.

*Cough*

About five minutes passed already and Ray slowly approached his limit but he knows that everything will pay off in the end.

Another five minutes pass until a voice resounds in Ray's mind that brought immense relief to Ray

{[Individual Ray has met all conditions for further evolution. The evolution will start now.

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Warning: External influence was detected, Original evolutionary path was replaced.

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Evolution completed, individual Ray race: Sage of Yaldabaoth evolved into race: Blind Saint of Truth.]}

A warm feeling enters Ray's body, healing and refreshing him completely.

{[Due to individual Ray's evolution from race:Sage of Yaldabaoth to race:Blind Enlightened of truth following unique skills were acquired:

Extra skill: [Spiritual Body]

Extra skill: [Magic Sense]

Extra skill: [Greater magicule manipulation]

Unique skill: [Timeline Manipulation]

Unique skill: [Greater Temporal Magic]

]}

A smile forms on Ray's face his whole body shaking in pure unrestrained joy.

But that wasn't all,

{[Due to high energy levels still remaining inside individual Ray, a Demonlord Seed will be cultivated

Unknown entity influenced cultivation of demon lord seed, resulting in its reconstruction into following: Seed of an Anomaly ]}

{[Due to individual Ray's evolution, Individual Cynus met all requirements to evolve]}

At this point Ray's smile transformed into something creepy, he couldn't stop himself this was just pure insanity, the Seed of an Anomaly is just as good as a demonlord seed if not better, atleast if the information he gained when he got it, is true.

Ray stared into the distance where Milim and Guy have been fighting for the last few days.

He looked directly at them as he suddenly disappeared from view, like he never stood there.

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