Chapter 98. Rank 7

Time flowed like water, and two centuries passed.

The Olton empire had conquered the entire Auros Island, and there was only one forbidden land, even the king didn't want to go there.

There, dark energy was so concentrated that it actuallu formed crystals and had changed the flora and fauna of that region, however, the king had strictly forbidden any form of expedition or research there.

With time, Keith, his sister, and even his concubine had reached a point in their cultivation that they could live for a thousand years if they wanted to, however, they chose to be closer with their true lord and left their mortal bodies at less than a hundred years of age.

The prince took the throne after their demise and became the new emperor and aquired the title of the Golden Emperor.

Soon after he became the king, he stopped the advances of his soldiers outside of the Island and sealed off the land, focusing on developing the territory that he had.

A decade later, he went into seclusion, only coming out to handle things that his ministers weren't able to. Since the members of his royal court were capable as well as hypnotized, they worked with vigor and never once disturbed the golden emperor's seclusion.

This went on for 80 years before he came out, flying straight to the sky like a shooting star.

As soon as the golden emperor came out of seclusion, he declared a war against the neighbouring Island.

And so, the soldiers marched forward, to the Island that was soon to be theirs.

They attacked all of a sudden, death and destruction followed their trail.

The conquest was met with a fierce retaliation, but was nothing to worry about. By the blessing of their true lord, the dignitary of death, darkness and destruction, their powers increased by leaps and bounds.

But something unexpected happend. The Island had a guardian beasts. The strength of which couldn't be measured by the soldiers.

But their hope was never extinguished as their Golden Emperor kept shining brightly even in the most hopeless of situations, becoming an almost god-like figure second only to their true lord.

It only took the golden emperor a single attack to decapitate the guardian beast and conquer the land.

Once the war ended, the Golden emperor massacred every living being on the conquered Island.

Then, by borrowing the immense power of his true lord to move the entire Island and attached it to their Auros Island.

After that, the Auros Island was re-named to the Auros Empire.

Eventually, they came to know of the main continent and that they had a true lord as well, named scarlet lord of flames, she was a being that was a mixture of both human and a dragon.

The golden emperor and the emperor of the central continent made an alliance and set out on a conquest to dominate the layers of this world for the coming centuries.

...

Another 200 years passed,

Far away,

Underground, the law of death was concentrated around one human who was sitting cross-legged.

This human was Tirus who had gone into a dormant state. His comprehension of the law of death had long reached the 50% mark.

When a rank 6 magus comprehended a law till 50% completion, they would enter a dormant state. If their comprehensio reached 100% then they'd reach rank 7, becoming a being of law, however, those who couldn't breakthrough could only pass away in seclusion, which was the case for almost 99.98% of the breaking dawn magi even during the ancient magus era.

'It happens now.' After hundreds of years, Tirus thought.

Dark light flashed as Tirus was completely enveloped by a blood-red fireball. He quickly moved outside the boundaries of the Dark World, arriving at the boundless astral plane.

Comprehending a complete law was no small matter; he wasn't certain that he could contain all the radiation. And since he didn't wish to destroy everything on the surface of the dark world, he had to come here.

[Beep! Comprehension of the law of death has reached 100%]

[All requirements met, advancing to rank 7]

Tirus felt the power laws permeating his entire being, from his body to the core of his truesoul, everything was transforming.

[Beep! Host has advanced to rank 7. Body of laws has been perfected. Stats have changed greatly, recalculating data...]

[Name: Tirus Elrod; Rank 7 magus, estimated stats, Strength: 6000, Agility: 10000, Vitality: 8500, Spiritual Force: 10,000+, State of Soul: Realm of laws. Comprehension of laws, Death: 100%, Destruction: 49%, Darkness: 49%, Massacre: 49%]

'A perfect body of laws. My body is now completely made up of my laws, huh, is this how Leylin felt in the canon as a rank 7 being.' Tirus pondered, looking at his newly evolved body.

[Beep! A.I. chip is undergoing an evolution of incalculable level]

After a few moments,

[A.I. chip has been upgraded...]

[Recalculating host's data in the units of heavenly astral race...]

[Tirus Van Elrod, Rank 7 Magus, Strength: 180, Agility : 130, Vitality: 250, Spiritual force: 450. State of soul: Realm of laws. Comprehension of laws: Death: 100%, Destruction: 49%, Darkness: 49%, Massacre: 49%]

The units of the new data were based on the Heavenly Astral Race. Every unit was more than ten times its previous standard. The numbers in spiritual force had condensed a hundredfold, allowing it to be quantified. Because Tirus's soul force and power of laws had been merged into one.

'My comprehension of other laws have only reached 49%, but still, I'm much stronger than most magi at rank 7, as for comprehending the law of masscre, its comprehension will eventually reach 100% as well.'

His warlock clone was commiting massacres in the dark world on a regular basis, it was a given that he'd have no problem with comprehending that law.

"Now." Tirus snapped his fingers and souls of billions of humans and beasts manifested themselves around him.

These were the souls of the people who had called upon his name to gain power the path of sacrifice.

"Become my soldiers!" Just these words from Tirus were enough.

Once someone became a being of law, they'd be able to use their power of laws to directly interfere with the world origin force, becoming pseudo-omnipotent.

The souls flickered with dark light as they all felt an increase in the quality of their power. Soon, each of them took form of royal soldiers, skme were holding swords, some had hammers and some held war axes. However, each and everyone of them had one thing in common, and that was their strength, at the peak of rank 6.

Now Tirus could easily give anyone power equivalent to a peak breaking dawn magus.

'Time to return.' Tirus murmured internally, looking in the direction of the dark world. It felt as if the entire world was inviting him.

To be continued...