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Chapter 421
The next moment, a dark blue opaque screen appeared in front of Aakesh. Golden fonts then started appearing on it.
Personal Status:
Name: Aakesh,
Title: Myrioglot (Think to expand),
Race: *****,
Profession: Store-owner(Level 1)+,
Level: Level 7(initial),
Physical attributes,
Strength: 901,624,018 (+893,000,000),
Agility: 898,243,607 (+890,000,000),
Intelligence: -0-,
Stamina: -0-,
No. of quests completed: 13,
Skills: Energy Overseer, Detail-eye, Watcher, Chameleon-level, Counter Shield, Ability-Learning, Apocalyptic Blast….
Pet Status:
Number of Pets: 1,
Current status: Young.
Aakesh couldn't help but nod in appreciation, seeing his level increasing from initial Level six to initial Level seven.
His eyes then fell on the attributes section. His jaw almost dropped to the ground, seeing the amount of growth he had due to this breakthrough.
His strength attribute had seen an outrageous amount of more than eight hundred million Primal units in strength, while the growth in Agility was lesser than the strength, but it was only by three million units.
Even the strongest Immortal in the Primal dimension had around a hundred million Primal units of strength, but Aakesh already had more than nine hundred million units when he still could grow physically. The difference was such that even if Aakesh casually sneezed, a peak Immortal wouldn't be able to survive it.
His strength was still less than the Void beasts, who had their strength exceeding a billion units, but he still felt that he could fight a Void beast to a draw, despite having lesser strength.
He then refocused on the status screen as the purpose of his calling the status screen was different.
There was no change in his intelligence and endurance attributes since they were already infinite.
(A/N: I denote infinity as -0- because the first hyphen signifies that nothing can be taken from it, while the second hyphen indicates that nothing can be added.)
Finally, his eyes reached on the skills section. He then tapped on it to know the details about it.
The next moment, a new small blue screen appeared in front of him, and soon, golden fonts then started appearing on it.
[Skill Name: Apocalyptic Blast,
Grade: Inferior,
Ability: The owner can release an energy blast consisting of the element of destruction, death, chaos, and nihility over a specific range, depending on the user's ability. It can vary in shape, size, duration, and damage.
Type of attack: It's an AoD attack and also a single person-oriented attack,
Limitation: None,
Condition for upgrade: Completing the system's quests.]
Aakesh's eyes went wide open, reading the details of the skill he had just gotten.
His reason for acting was the elements used.
All the elements used were supreme elements. While the elements of Nihility and Chaos were in other leagues. Even many Gods didn't have the ability to control it.
Aakesh only had the basic control over these two elements and that was only due to the system's helping him in his breakthrough.
Despite being a mixture of four supreme elements, the Apocalyptic blast was only an inferior version.
This skill couldn't have come at any better time. Even though Aakesh stopped thinking about the bug of three seconds, it still had taken some storage in his mind.
Previously Aakesh felt that he was completely safe inside the store, but now that he knew the truth, a thirst for getting stronger rose in his heart.
Even though there were only a few beings who could break through the restrictions of the store, Aakesh had no interest in waiting for that day.
The increase in energy level wasn't in his hand as his cultivation system was linked with the system, but physical growth was entirely in his control, so he would now double the quota of his training from tomorrow.
Aakesh then suddenly thought of testing the power of the skill. He then turned in the direction of the weapons room and proceeded toward it.
The room looked the same as the last time he had entered, so he didn't look around and straight away proceeded toward the testing slab put in the center of the room.
Aakesh could use the skill in any form, so he first decided to use it in the form of a laser beam. It was the best way to quickly kill when there was only a single opponent.
He raised his hand and activated the skill.
The next moment, energy belonging to the four required elements started gathering on his palm. Since there was no lack of elemental energy in the store, the process was very quick.
Aakesh first decided to use only one-tenth of his strength in this attack.
Soon, a dark energy ball began rotating on Aakesh's palm. Aakesh then willed it to be in the form of a laser beam.
The next moment, the dark energy ball turned into a straight line as it crashed into the center of the slab.
The next moment, the slab lightened up, and new fonts started emerging on it.
Soon, a numerical value appeared on the slab as it had surpassed the limit of the peak Immortal.
The slab showed 178,543,926 Primal units. Despite it being only one-tenth of his strength, it had exceeded the power of the strongest Immortal by a large margin.
Aakesh then decided to test the strength of an energy ball, which he would use as an AoD attack.
He used the same amount of strength.
Aakesh wanted to test the destructive power of the attack from a large distance, so there were some changes in the slab.
A projection appeared right above the slab when the energy ball crashed onto its center.
The projection was a miniature version of an area of a billion lightyears, the same range of the AoD Absolute arrow Aakesh had used.
Soon, the figures in damage started appearing on the projection.
From the center of the blast to one lightyear, the destruction was 178,543,926 Primal units, similar to the attack power of the energy beam.
From one lightyear to hundred lightyears, it saw a decrease and reached 162,359,487 Primal units,…, and from nine hundred million to a billion lightyears, it got to 106,137,842 Primal units.
Aakesh nodded, seeing the destructive strength of only one-tenth of his power over a range of a billion lightyears. Only a few Immortals would be able to survive even when they stood a billion lightyears from the center of his attack.
Chapter 422
After testing the attack power of the skill at his one-tenth, Aakesh decided to now increase his strength to half.
Time flew by.
The result at half his power was also better than his expectations, so Aakesh now decided to test the attack power of the skill at his full strength.
As usual, he first decided to test the attack power in the form of an energy beam.
Aakesh raised his hands, and not long after, a dark energy beam left his hands and crashed into the center of the slab.
The next moment, the slab lightened up, and soon, a numerical figure showing Aakesh's attack power appeared on it.
Aakesh couldn't help but smilingly nod in appreciation, seeing the numerical figure on the slab.
On the slab, the figure of 1,028,416,721 Primal units was shining.
The Void beast's strength varied between one billion to two billion Primal units, depending on their situation. So with the skill he had received as a reward from the system, he now had more than enough capability to fight a Void beast on the same pedestal.
"Hey, system, what was the strength of the single kill Absolute arrow?" Aakesh suddenly asked the system. He wanted to know the difference between his skill and the Absolute arrow.
[Host, in literal terms, any life living in the Primal dimension doesn't have the ability to survive it. In figurative terms, it has an attack power starting from 2,500,000,000 Primal units.]
The system responded in its usual mechanical and emotionless voice.
Aakesh nodded after hearing the system's response. The Absolute arrow's power started from 2.5 billion Primal units, while his full strength was only just above a billion. The difference between both was more than double, but Aakesh didn't mind it.
He had just gotten it, so there was room for improvement. The more he practiced the skill and grew stronger, the attack power of the skill would also grow with him.
After testing the energy beam, it was now time for Aakesh to see the attack power when he used Apocalyptic Blast as an energy bomb.
Aakesh raised his hands, and not long after, a dark energy ball started rotating on his hands.
Previously compared, the energy ball was several times bigger and was almost the size of a basketball.
Aakesh then threw the energy ball, and soon, it crashed into the center of the slab.
Soon, a virtual condensed projection of a billion lightyears of the area appeared above the slab.
From the center of the blast to one lightyear, the destruction was 1,028,416,721 Primal units, similar to the attack power of the energy beam.
From one lightyear to hundred lightyears, it saw a decrease and reached 962,359,487 Primal units…, and from nine hundred million to a billion lightyears, it got to 906,137,842 Primal units.
Even on the edge of the range, it still contained more than nine hundred million Primal units of attack power.
Aakesh decided to condense the projection further and check the limit of the Apocalyptic Blast.
The projection started growing larger at an unimaginable rate.
Time flew by.
Finally, at a 3.1 septillion lightyears of distance, the attack power of the Apocalyptic Blast had reached its limit and turned zero.
Aakesh then decided to see whether this attack power had the capability to destroy the Anga continent or not.
There was no comparison between a span of 3.1 septillion lightyears and the Anga continent, as the latter wouldn't even be a dust particle in that range of distance. But Aakesh decided to test it as the Anga continent originated from Kashi, a minuscule portion of the fourth dimension, so it had a stronger law of control.
The next moment, the projection disappeared, and instead, a new projection of the Anga continent appeared.
The projection was blurred, so as to stop Aakesh from knowing the areas of the Anga continent without traveling since the system wanted Aakesh to be self-sufficient and not depend on it all the time.
From the center of the continent, a blast occurred. It then began spreading across the continent at an unimaginable rate.
Aakesh couldn't help but nod in appreciation, seeing the damage he could do to the Anga continent if he released his skill at his full strength.
On the projection, around 95% of the area had gotten entirely destroyed; three percent had severe damages, one percent had faced some damages, while the remaining around one percent remained untouched.
Aakesh then stopped testing his strength and left the weapons room, and the silence returned.
There was still around an hour left before the sun rose, so Aakesh decided to take a bath and then wait for it.
Time flew by.
The closed-door connected to the hardwood floor through stairs finally opened, and Aakesh stepped out of it.
He looked the same as before entering the room, except for the color of his dhoti. For his successful breakthrough and reaching the peak of cultivation level, the system gifted him a slightly yellow dhoti made up of the best fibers possible.
It not only gave Aakesh an aesthetic look, but it similarly provided him a great defense. Even though Aakesh was bare-chested and didn't wear anything except the dhoti, it still offered a complete defense to him.
There was a thin invisible barrier covering him. It could take damage up to a billion Primal units, so with it, even if Aakesh stood straight and didn't do anything, except the Void beasts, none would be able to even land a scratch on him.
There was still time left before the sunrise, so Aakesh decided to wait for it.
He turned around and went to his chair. The chair had also grown bigger to accommodate the larger him.
Aakesh sat down on it and started thinking about how he wanted to grow more powerful so that the three-second bug wouldn't create an issue for him in the higher dimensions.
Time flew by.
The first ray of sunlight arrived and broke the back of the darkness engulfing the Anga continent and Visteerna. With it, a new day started, hopeful for some while terrible for many.
Aakesh stood up from his chair and proceeded toward the door.
When he reached there, he grabbed the handle and opened it, starting another day for the store.
A large crowd welcomed him, waiting on the street for the store to open.
Chapter 423
Aakesh opened the door, and as usual, a large crowd was waiting outside for the store to open.
The number of virtual portals had gotten a severalfold increase and was sufficient for even twice the number of customers at the same time, the customers still arrived and waited early in the morning as it had become a habit of them since they have been doing it for the past month.
All the customers couldn't help but get shocked seeing Aakesh. He looked taller, bulkier, his skin tone darker. If previously Aakesh felt mysterious and powerful to the customers, he now looked like a silent prehistoric beast waiting to pounce at any minute on them, despite just standing there with no emotions on his face.
Maria was also part of the crowd waiting for the store to open. Seeing Aakesh made her face red as she remembered the past emotions she had for him. She wanted to hide her face, remembering those feelings.
She now had complete reverence for Aakesh in her heart, just like a deity. It was also the reason behind her naming the organization, Skylord since it was the meaning of Aakesh's name.
Aakesh ignored the surprised looks of the customers, turned around, and took a step forward toward his chair.
The customers finally woke up from their shocks and began entering the store one by one. There was no hurry since there were more than enough virtual portals for every one of them to enter Panagea in the first group.
"How did you change this much overnight?" Evelyn casually asked Aakesh after entering the store.
From the day of her entry into the store, she had always been casual with Aakesh. George, her boyfriend, on the other hand, used to be nonchalant earlier, but his tone had changed after the events.
Evelyn didn't change her tone since she could see the look of insignificance in Aakesh's eyes for every customer, irrespective of their status. She knew that he never minded the tone of the customer, just like a human doesn't care for what an ant does unless it attempts to bite the human.
"I had a breakthrough," Aakesh responded with his expressionless face.
"What level have you reached now?" Evelyn smilingly asked with curiosity evident on her face. Earlier, she could see Aakesh's level, and it was always Void Forging. She knew it was fake, but still, she could sense it, but now she couldn't even sense the cultivation of Aakesh.
Aakesh previously used the skill Chameleon Level since he was equivalent to Tao Palace and had no interest in someone seeing through his cultivation level. But now that he had reached the peak of cultivation in the Primal dimension, he had no interest in continuing to use the skill since no one was able enough to see his cultivation now, including the Void beasts.
Aakesh didn't answer the question but instead told her to move away as there were customers waiting to pay for their entry into Panagea.
A wry smile appeared on Evelyn's face, but she didn't stand around and moved away. The customers waiting in the queue behind Evelyn paid for their six-hour stay in Panagea and went to the portal room.
Several seconds later, the store was silent, with only Aakesh sitting on the chair.
The silence didn't continue for long, as a round of teleportations ensued not long after.
It was Veenesh and the other members of the Esh clan. As usual, they first bought all the pills each of them could buy, and then the members left.
All the clan members hadn't returned to their clan, and still, there were around four thousand members left.
There were around eighteen hundred portals out of twenty-six hundred still vacant since the day had only just started, and many customers hadn't arrived yet.
Veenes and all the clan elders were also part of the group. Since they had cards, they didn't need to ask for permission, so Veenesh, the clan elders, the hundred apprentices, and the remaining regular members became part of the first group of 1800 customers to enter the portal.
The remaining members left sat down to meditate since there were six hours left before their turn would come.
Aakesh expressionlessly looked at everything happening inside the store. When the first group of spots for Panagea had gotten completely filled, Aakesh closed his eyes, initiating the first relaxation session of several today.
Time flew by, and around a minute had passed.
"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh!"
Suddenly, the silence inside the store got broken, as two consecutive teleportations happened.
It was Trihan, and his master Xotak, who had teleported to the store for Panagea since they both liked it.
Both of them stood at the peak of the Primal dimension, so the next stop for them was ascending to the Sacred dimension, but Panagea changed it all.
In Panagea, they would start from mortality again, but with so abundant opportunities that it would put the Primal dimension to shame. Just after entering, they witnessed a figure belonging to the third dimension, and they were only there to welcome them.
"Eh!"
"Eh!"
The duo of teacher and student simultaneously exclaimed in shock after their eyes fell on Aakesh relaxing on his chair. They then looked toward each other and could feel the tremble of their soul and fear in their heart.
Just like the moment when their souls and bloodline had trembled, seeing the feather made of the divine swan used in the chair, a similar thing happened today when they looked at Aakesh.
The tremble from the previous situation wasn't even worthy enough to be compared with the current situation.
Previously, it was them who had controlled themselves, but today, it was an invisible power that had done it and made their hearts relax, or the feeling of absolute destruction that had risen in their hearts would've devoured them.
It was the system that had acted. Aakesh's bloodline had made the duo terrified. It didn't happen with others as Xotak and Trihan, both had somehow been able to tap into their bloodline that came from the top-level creatures, so they were more sensitive than others toward such strong bloodlines.
'Just what bloodline is this?' Both of them thought the same question when their hearts had calmed down.
They knew it was someone else that had calmed down. They didn't feel afraid as the duo believed a higher power to be present in the store, and for it to do something like this wasn't a big deal.
Chapter 424
Trihan and Xotak then stopped talking about the change in Aakesh as they didn't want to offend Aakesh. They instead decided to enter the portal room, but then Trihan's eyes fell on the meditating members of the Esh clan, and he stopped in his steps.
Xotak wasn't aware of the situation, but Trihan was, so he couldn't help but get disappointed.
"What happened?" Xotak asked, seeing his newly acquired student suddenly stopping.
Trihan didn't say anything but pointed at the rule board and then the meditating customers.
Xotak followed Trihan's pointed direction and noticed the rule about meditating customers.
A disappointed expression appeared on his face, understanding the reason behind Trihan's suddenly stopping. They then looked at each other for a second and activated the supreme card since they had no interest in waiting twelve hours for their turn to arrive and then only staying for three hours inside Panagea.
The next moment, Xotak and Trihan both disappeared from the store and returned to their respective homes.
During all this duration, Aakesh remained in his relaxing mode, ignoring the expressions and conversations of the duo.
After the duo left, another round of silence fell on the store.
Time flew by, and around an hour had passed.
"Store owner, I want three Dharma Palace experience pills," A peak Dharma Manifestation customer requested.
It was a new customer. The man was wandering the southern part of the Anga continent in the hope of a breakthrough to the Dharma Palace. While traveling in this part of the continent, he came across the store, and after learning about the store's products, he decided to buy the pills.
"For what Dharma?" Aakesh expressionlessly asked the man. The Palace experience pill was different for every customer, depending on the element and Dharma/Tao/Law they practiced.
"I have three Dharma fruits. Store owner, why don't you suggest me? Should I go for one pill for each Dharma Palace, or should I buy all three for one?" The man asked as he was confused about what to do.
"What are your Dharmas?" Aakesh expressionlessly asked, as suggesting the best available product was his duty as the store owner.
"Silver Fire, Raging Wind, Gentle Water," The man responded and told the three Dharma fruits he had.
The silver fire was a pure offensive Dharma fruit and was one of the hottest and destructive types of flame. The raging wind was both offensive and movement, while Gentle water was defensive and healing Dharma fruit.
The man had three Dharma fruits that gave him a good balance of strength, defense, and movement.
Aakesh then took a glance at the man while the man felt himself standing naked in front of the store owner. He subconsciously attempted to reject Aakesh's senses invading his body, but they were futile as if a shield made of paper standing against an ocean tsunami.
"Your movement is good enough, and you also don't seem to lack offensive attacks. The only thing you're lacking is a good defense, so if you want to ask me, I would suggest buying three pills for Gentle water Dharma fruit," Aakesh expressionlessly told the man in a single breath.
The man looked shocked and horrified byAakesh's statement. With only a single glance, the store owner found his weakness.
"Thank you, store owner! Please give me three Dharma Palace experience pills for Gentle Water Dharma fruit," The man then sincerely thanked Aakesh and decided to go ahead with the store owner's suggestion.
Aakesh expressionlessly nodded, stood up from his chair, and went up to the counter.
After reaching the counter, he thought of the pills the man wanted, and the next moment, three Gentle Water Dharma Palace experience pills appeared on the fourth row.
Aakesh took the pills out, returned to his chair, and handed it to the man.
"You need to pay 45,000 superior Primal stones," Aakesh expressionlessly told the man.
The man couldn't help but get surprised, hearing the price lower than he had expected. He then took out the required amount from his space ring, and soon, a mountain of Primal stones appeared in the store.
Aakesh waved his hands, and the next moment, the mountain of Primal stones disappeared from the store. Soon, an alert of the amount being complete appeared in his head.
The man then thanked Aakesh once more and left the store as he couldn't wait to experience the pill and hopefully go for a breakthrough.
Another new customer was waiting for Aakesh, so he sat down on his chair and began answering the questions.
Time flew by, and around ten minutes had passed.
Since there was no customer in the store, Aakesh was comfortably relaxing on his chair with closed eyes.
"Clomp!"
"Clomp!"
"Clomp!"
The silence inside the store got broken as the sound of heavy footsteps rang inside the store.
Aakesh opened his eyes as these were unfamiliar steps. He then looked at the source of sound only to find a familiar being entering the store.
It was a figure disguised as humans but was around ten times the size of ordinary humans, almost comparable to a young giant.
Before the breakthrough, Aakesh would've failed to see through the disguise and would've needed the help of the system, but now Aakesh easily saw through it.
The figure was none other than the Void beast he had met yesterday.
***
A night earlier,
Somewhere in the Primal dimension, there was a hall, and in it, there were twelve throne-like chairs, each one of them being larger than an upper-tier village.
All the twelve chairs were in a circular pattern, marking none to be superior and equal to each other.
"Why did you call all of us so urgently?" A being curiously asked. It was hard to define from the voice the gender of the speaker.
"Don't let it be one of your silly jokes like in the past," Another figure chimed in and smilingly commented.
"Let him speak first," Another figure chimed in, its voice being emotionless.
"Yeah, let him speak first." Several of the twelve seated figures commented.
The being in question, who called the meeting, couldn't help but stupidly look at the figures asking to let him speak but still not shutting up.
The figure was none other than the Void beast who had just returned after accepting the summon and then surrendering to the opponent.
***
A/N: This would be enough for today. I know four chapters aren't enough when there is a fourteen-chapter privilege tier, but I didn't have a stock of chapters for the month due to several circumstances. I also owe you five chapters from the last month, so there is a large debt piled on me.
To clear my debt, I have decided to publish 3-to-4 chapters every day for the next week. So, show your support with GTs and Gifts(Only if you have extra coins). Please wait for the next week!
Chapter 425
"If you stop talking, only then he would be able to speak," One of the three Void beasts that had been silently sitting couldn't control herself hearing the other Void beasts and flared up.
"Oh!" A Void beast exclaimed in surprise and couldn't help but laugh to cheer the air that had turned hot after the sudden burst of one of their fellow members.
"Go ahead, Oxen, tell us the purpose of the urgent calling," The female Void beast commented, seeing that everyone had fallen silent after her outburst.
Oxen was the Void beast that had accepted the summon of Geoffrey earlier than other Void beasts and then had returned with a failure as he had no interest in dying over a promise to an organization.
"Thank you, Talia! Only you could have made these brutes silent by your manly voice," Oxen thanked the female Void beast, supposed to be Talia, and then added a joke in the next sentence.
"Haha!"
"Ha-"
The Void beasts began laughing in response to the joke, but their laughter came to a sudden stop as an angry glare surveyed them.
The Void beasts were Immortals, and since there was none in the Primal dimension that could defeat them, they were invincible too.
Like Titans, they also traveled across the Primal dimension in disguises or slept in the void to pass their time. So whenever they met, there was always a laughing aura around them since all of them originated from the same source, and they had no enmity.
"The reason I called for this urgent meeting is that I've learned something which was impossible before today," Oxen told the group before Talia could flare up again and punch him.
The laughing aura in the room suddenly turned solemn, as the Void beasts had never seen such a weighty face of Oxen. He didn't look like he was joking at all.
They didn't interrupt Oxen and waited for him to continue.
"You know about the promise we have with the top-five organizations," Oxen said.
The other ten Void beasts nodded and waited for Oxen to speak more.
"I was the first to accept today's summon of the third-ranked organization," Oxen began sharing his experiences.
"When I reached there, the organization had an intruder attacking them. The scene looked weird to me since the damage had not reached an extent where summoning for us was necessary, but since it was a promise from us, I accepted the request of the creature and went to attack him."
"The intruder was peculiar. I couldn't identify his race, and similarly, his power system was different from the inhabitants of the Primal dimension. Unlike Qi, Prana, or Mana, his power system had no such distinction. His energy level was equivalent to an early Tao Palace, and the bow he had, gave him enough strength to evenly fight back against Immortals," Oxen continued his experience. The other Void beasts intently listened with surprise, hearing the description of Aakesh.
"At first, I asked the intruder for his information, but instead of telling me, he took the initiative to attack."
"I took his fighting as a joke since even with having the ability to fight back against Immortals, the intruder was nothing."
"But then something strange happened. The intruder aimed his bow toward me, and the next moment, an arrow stronger than anything I've ever seen appeared on the bow."
"The arrow had black tail feathers and a black-colored arrow shaft, while strange unrecognizable patterns were engraved on it in blue. The arrowhead it had was similar to a blade," Oxen told the group of Void beasts about the appearance of the Absolute arrow.
(A/N: I haven't introduced the features of the single-kill Absolute arrows when it was used as I felt here, it would make much more sense to explain it. If you believe it would've looked better in the war chapters, then please do tell.)
"Just by looking at the arrow, I felt myself getting pierced in every portion of my body," Oxen commented. His voice had a slight tremble as he still remembered the feeling of hopelessness as if it had only happened a moment earlier.
The Void beasts, intently listening to Oxen, finally had a change of expression. It was unbelievable to them that something existed in the Primal dimension that could make the Void beasts fear for survival.
"How did you succeed in killing the intruder then?" One of the Void beasts asked as from what Oxen described, him returning without even a hint of injury is no less than an impossible task.
Oxen, who had been looking toward his fellow beasts, had a change in expression hearing the question. He moved his eyes away and started looking at his foot.
"I didn't kill the intruder," Oxen commented. His eyes still looking at his foot, as he couldn't match his eyes with the Void beasts due to his embarrassment.
The other Void beasts didn't have to guess for an answer as Oxen further added, "I surrendered myself and requested the intruder not to shoot me."
"Surrender!" The majority of the Void beasts exclaimed in surprise as they couldn't believe what they just heard.
"What about the organization you were summoned to protect?" A Void beast asked.
Oxen, instead of answering, gave a look of 'Can't you guess?' to the Void beast.
"You did well. Our only duty is to protect the Primal dimension from any harm, and for it to happen, we need to survive. No promise or oath is bigger than our duty and hence our survival," A Void beats, who was silent from the start, opened their mouth and commented.
"Now, forget about the organization and let's talk about the intruder and the arrow," The Void beast further added.
"He told me his name is Aakesh, and he operates a store on Visteerna," Oxen commented. He then waved his hands as ten cards similar to what Aakesh had given him appeared in his hands. He then passed them to all the ten members.
"Just this," A Void beast asked as the card had nothing but the store name and address on it.
"Yes, he refused to talk to me, and when I pestered him, he told me to come to his store if I wanted to ask for things," Oxen replied what Aakesh had said to him.
"So, what do you think should be done?" Oxen then asked the question.
Chapter 426
"So, what do you think should be done?" The aura around Oxen suddenly turned cold as he asked. "Should we combine our forces and kill him, or should we let him develop and have some friendly relations with him?" He simplified the question the next moment.
For creatures of their stature, there was no such thing as saving face. Their foremost duty was to protect the Primal dimension from destruction, so what methods they employed didn't matter to them.
"Let's hear it from you first, Talia," Oxen looked at Talia and commented.
The other Void beasts also looked toward Talia to know her opinion first. Since there were eleven of them and had their different views on what the majority would choose would happen.
"When you conversed with that Aakesh, what was his reaction toward you?" Talia, instead of giving her suggestion, asked Oxen a question.
"I felt nothing for me in his eyes. Neither did he feel disgusted since he had a powerful arrow strong enough to kill, nor did he have respect for me. He had a similar expression to what we have for anyone other than us, complete indifference," Oxen honestly told what he noticed at that time from Aakesh toward him.
"Okay, I have another question," Talia expressionlessly commented. Oxen gestured for her to go ahead.
"Are you sure that he only had one weapon of that caliber?" Talia asked.
"No!" Oxen bluntly replied. "Aakesh may have more than one such arrow, but the number couldn't exceed three," Oxen didn't stop and continued.
"Why three?" A Void beast couldn't help but ask.
"The number three is always considered a balanced figure. If Aakesh had four, he would've used it to destroy the barrier surrounding the galaxy and not use other weaker arrows to do it," Oxen responded.
"It makes sense," The other Void beast chimed in. They then returned their eyes to Talia since she still hadn't given her opinion.
"Let's suppose he had three of such weapons, and we decide to take the hard option and eliminate him before any troubling situation arose in the Primal dimension. Our group has eleven members, and three arrows would take any three of us out, so now who are the three members who would be willing to sacrifice themselves," Talia created a condition for everyone to share their opinions.
"Since I am the first, let me start the answers. I would be willing to become one of the three sacrificed members, but before doing that, I would like to know everything about the store owner, even if we chose to eliminate him. He may not be a tragedy but an opportunity for the Primal dimension," Talia gave her honest opinions.
Oxen then looked at the next Void beast.
"I agree with Talia. We need to learn everything about the store owner before making a decision," The Void beast replied.
Time flew by.
One by one, all eleven of them shared their opinions. The decision they made, in the end, was to research the details around Aakesh, and only then would they make any decision. All eleven of them had chosen to go through this way.
"Who would research around the store owner, then?" Oxen asked.
For being the protector of the Primal dimension, they had two privileges. One, they could teleport to any place, barring a few ruins, and the second was that they could directly get the complete life detail of any inhabitants of the dimension.
Since Aakesh had weapons strong enough to kill them, he would be able to know if the Void beasts tried to learn everything about him. It could offend him and go terribly wrong for the Primal dimension; it was the last thing they wanted. So considering this situation, a personal search was deemed to be most suitable.
"You!"
"You!"
"You!"
Almost simultaneously, the other ten Void beasts responded. Since Oxen was the one to find out about this situation surrounding the arrow, he would be the better person to do this.
Oxen had expected this, so he didn't act surprised and accepted it.
"Okay, I'll meet him tomorrow when I go to his store," Oxen commented.
"Don't make this situation terrible like your jokes," Talia suddenly commented. Even though the situation was serious, she still hadn't forgotten the joke about her manly voice.
Talia's comment made the mood in the hall lighter as all the Void beasts, including Oxen, started laughing.
"Okay, let's meet at this time tomorrow," Oxen then told the group as the purpose of the meeting was done, and now it was time for everyone to leave.
"Hmm, don't do anything that could offend him before we find out whether he's an opportunity or a disaster for the Primal dimension," One of the Void beasts solemnly told Oxen.
Oxen didn't say anything but only nodded in response.
The Void beasts then started leaving one by one, and in the end, only Talia and Oxen were present in the hall.
Talia, who had an angry or solemn face all this time during the meeting, suddenly had changes as a smile spread across her face.
Oxen and Talia both stood from their chairs and rushed toward each other.
"How long has it been?" Oxen smilingly asked.
"69 billion years," Talia responded. The next moment, she pushed her lips against Oxen's.
***
As decided in the meeting, Oxen teleported right in front of the store's door.
He had disguised himself as a human, but since the stature of humans was too small, he was a human with a height of around fifteen meters.
Having the privilege, the Void beast could travel to any place in the Primal dimension. When he thought of directly teleporting inside the store, his intuitions warned him that it would be disastrous for him if he attempted to do it.
When he appeared outside the store, a shocked expression appeared on his face.
The door was open, but he could neither see nor hear what was going on inside the store. When he attempted to peer through it, a sudden pressure attacked him, and soon a warning appeared in his head.
Fortunately for him, he hadn't used a strong sense to peer through, or the counterattack from the store would've been of similar strength.
"More dangerous than expected," Oxen mumbled as the danger level of Aakesh rose in his heart with the first look at the store.
Chapter 427
"A mighty figure behind the store owner," Oxen mumbled. For even a moment, he didn't believe that it was all done by the store owner and there wasn't some mighty figure from higher dimensions behind the store.
The Void beasts were the protector of the Primal dimension and were invincible unless a God personally intervened. Even then, they had enough strength to win against the lowest-level Gods.
But first, the arrow that gave Oxen the feeling of absolute terror. He knew he had zero chance to survive that. So considering this, the Void beasts knew that there was a high-level God behind the scene. But now, after reaching the store, the level of the figure raised to a mighty figure.
(A/N: A mighty figure is a person either standing on top of the Sacred dimension or beings from the third dimension.)
He raised the level of the figure as they weren't without a lack of knowledge about the Sacred dimension. No one except the twenty-two Void beasts and the creator Deva knew that all twenty-two of them had linked minds.
Even though they lived in two different dimensions, they still could contact each other and similarly share their knowledge. So the Void beasts in the Primal dimension were aware of most of the things related to the Sacred dimension.
"More dangerous than expected," Oxen muttered and increased the danger level of Aakesh in his heart. The hiding effect of the store wasn't a big deal, but the counterattack was, and the warning soon followed.
His face couldn't help but turn grave since the mighty figure behind the store owner would undoubtedly intervene if the Void beasts chose to eliminate Aakesh or if Aakesh initiated the attack.
'There is no need to panic. We still have the last option left, even if the store owner turned against us and the mighty figure intervened,' Oxen thought. He then took a deep breath and calmed down.
After he calmed down, he finally decided to take a step forward and enter the store.
The door of the store was big enough to accommodate him, so he didn't have to change his height.
Oxen didn't know that even if the door turned out to be smaller than the size of the creature, they could still enter the door without any issue.
Right after he entered, his eyes fell on the hardwood floor he walked on. Even a creature with no material needs like other races felt jealous of the store for having such a large amount of Ashamba's barks. As far as he could see, the floor made of bark didn't seem to end as if it was endless.
The surprise of seeing such a large quantity of Ashamba didn't stay for long since there was already a mighty figure behind the store, and Ashamba's bark was nothing in comparison to that.
The surprise had only disappeared when Oxen saw the most shocking thing of his life. His eyes almost popped out, seeing Aakesh expressionlessly staring at him.
Ashamba's barks may be great for figures of the Primal dimension and the Sacred dimension. But for mighty beings coming from the third dimension, it was nothing. Even one tiny dead bark dropped from the Primordial Ashamba was larger than a big planet, and the figures had no lack of it.
Oxen couldn't believe what he saw. Yesterday when he had met Aakesh, Aakesh was only equivalent to Tao Palace, but today, his cultivation had seen an enormous leap.
Since Void beasts were creatures that originated from a drop of blood of a figure like Vritrasur, no disguise skills worked on them.
Oxen could see that Aakesh's cultivation had reached the peak of the Primal dimension(A pseudo Divine physique).
'Dangerous level maximum,' Oxen thought in his heart, seeing the changes in Aakesh.
He raised the dangerous level of Aakesh to maximum straight away. He did so because Oxen felt that even without the arrow, Aakesh could now fight the Void beasts on an equal level unless Void beasts decided to use their awakened forms.
Oxen then finally stopped thinking about Aakesh as Aakesh had been expressionlessly looking at him since he entered the store.
"Chomp!"
"Chomp!"
Oxen then stepped forward and proceeded in the direction of the chair and Aakesh while his steps made heavy sounds.
"Hey, strange creature," Oxen commented as he reached Aakesh.
His tone and words to refer to Aakesh stayed the same as yesterday since he didn't want to make Aakesh learn that he was here to research him or show respect as he feared the mighty figure behind the store, not the store owner.
Aakesh didn't respond but expressionlessly nodded toward the Void beast.
"So, what kind of store is this?" Oxen asked as he could see a pill counter, two open rooms, and more than two thousand people meditating in the store.
Aakesh, in response, began introducing the store products the store currently sold.
Oxen patiently listened without interrupting Aakesh. The more he heard, the more sure he became of a mighty figure from the third dimension being behind the store.
The Gods u0026 Demons training area was the last straw that made Oxen 100% confident of the mighty figure behind the store originating from the third dimension. He became so convinced because there was no technology in the Sacred dimension that allowed creatures to freely choose between any race, starting at the weakest since the power gap was enormous between even the top five races and the remaining ones.
"How did you arrive here?" Oxen suddenly asked.
"I don't know," Aakesh honestly answered.
Aakesh knew that most people thought him to be from a higher dimension, and Aakesh had no issues with it. Since the level of products his store sold was unheard of, and he was also completely safe inside the store in the Primal dimension, there was no point in hiding it.
Oxen couldn't guess whether Aakesh was speaking the truth or not from his expressionless face, but he took Aakesh's answer as the truth. Even if it were a lie, it wouldn't make any difference.
***
Time flew by, and minutes had passed.
"What's the charge for Gods u0026 Demons level training area for the Immortal level?" Oxen asked after asking all the questions he had on his mind for today. After learning about the training area, he wanted to try it to see the difference between him and high-level races of the Sacred dimension.
Chapter 428
"A trillion supreme Primal stones," Aakesh expressionlessly answered the Void beast.
"Okay," Oxen responded and then began to take out the Primal stones from his pocket space.
The Void beasts didn't follow the cultivation system of the Primal dimension since they were born with this level of strength. The pocket space was something Oxen created himself by dividing the space over a thousand miles and started using it as his pouch to carry things.
Oxen had no idea how many Primal stones he had with him as he rarely used them, and Oxen also never expected himself to buy anything since he was here for a purpose.
Time flew by.
"Three hundred billion, four hundred and ninety-seven million, six hundred and sixty-eight thousand, nine hundred and five supreme Primal stones," Aakesh expressionlessly told the number of Primal stones the Void beast had given him after the system informed Aakesh.
"Eh!" Oxen exclaimed in surprise since he hadn't even paid half the amount he needed to pay for the training area.
He finally understood the steep price of the training area since he previously thought of trillion supreme Primal stones as nothing as he had no use for them.
"Can you give me credit for the remaining sum? I would return it to you later," Oxen asked Aakesh with an embarrassed face. He had never expected such a thing to happen where he would have to request the store owner.
"No!" Aakesh bluntly responded, as the system didn't offer such services for any customer.
Oxen didn't attempt to persuade Aakesh as he could see that Aakesh would never budge. He instead asked, "Do you take items in place of Primal stones?"
Oxen had several Immortal-level weapons in his pocket space since he had gotten summoned twice during these countless years. He stored the weapons, which survived his attacks, in his pocket space after succeeding in the mission.
"No, the store only sells products, not purchases," Aakesh expressionlessly responded.
Oxen then fell into a dilemma as he neither had money to pay for the training area nor did the store owner take the item he had in his pocket space.
Oxen then suddenly remembered an item he had gained from his first summon.
"Do you take Sacred stones?" Oxen asked.
During his first summon, Oxen had faced a group that had arisen due to a ruin just like Demonic-Fire. But since it wasn't public information that the top-five organization had one promise of help from the Void beast, so when the group attacked the fifth-ranked organization at that time and almost succeeded in completely destroying it, the organization had used their one promise and summoned.
Oxen successfully completed the request of the organization, and he had gotten an unrecognizable opaque stone at that time.
He only found out the information about the stone through the Void beasts of the Sacred dimension.
For the first time, Aakesh didn't refuse straight away. He instead asked the system about it.
"Hey, system, can inferior Sacred stone be considered a currency for the purchase?"
[Yes, Host! The Sacred stone can be considered as currency here in the Primal dimension.]
[But Host, there isn't an exchange rate between the Primal stone and Sacred stone since the energy gap between both of them is unimaginable.]
The system responded in its usual mechanical and emotionless voice.
"Does that mean he can exchange any amount of supreme Primal stone for an inferior Sacred stone?" Aakesh further asked.
[Yes, Host!]
Aakesh didn't ask any further questions. He then looked toward Oxen and said, "You can use the inferior Sacred stone, but there isn't a conversion rate for it."
"I don't need much. Just give me an hour in the training area for it," Oxen responded straight away.
He had no use of the Sacred stone since his level was limited to the Primal dimension, and he would never be able to ascend.
"Are you sure?" Aakesh asked as Oxen was taking a great loss with the deal.
"Yes," Oxen replied.
Aakesh expressionlessly nodded and then told the Void beast to take these supreme Primal stones away and instead give him the inferior Sacred stone.
Oxen took out the stone from his pocket space.
As soon as it appeared, the space around it had started to become unstable. The system acted right away and erased the pressure released by it.
Oxen, who was going to act, felt surprised, seeing a sudden invisible pressure arriving and attacking the Sacred stone.
He couldn't help but take a glance around him as he was confident that Aakesh wasn't the one to do this.
"Who did that?" Oxen asked.
"You don't need to know," Aakesh expressionlessly responded. He then waved his hands as the inferior Sacred stone appeared in his hands.
It was an opaque stone that looked nothing more than an ordinary rock.
Time flew by.
After paying, Oxen left for the weapons room.
Before entering, Oxen had used Aakesh's help to take a drop of blood out since he didn't store a drop of his blood and his healing rate was way more quicker than the Immortals.
Aakesh didn't have to do anything, but he instead asked the system to seal Oxen's energy source. Oxen, at that moment, decided to remove the first option from their plans, and they would now only make friendly relations with him.
Someone who could so easily seal his energy source was never an opponent they could even dream of fighting.
As for the issue of Aakesh attacking them or the Primal dimension, they had their last option still left with them.
After storing several drops of his blood, Oxen asked Aakesh for unsealing. Except for one drop, he put all the remaining drops in a bottle for future use and then stored them in his pocket space.
Oxen then left for the weapons room.
"Hey, system, why not add a needle on every pillar for the use of customers," Aakesh suggested to the system.
The blood wasn't an issue for lower-level cultivators, but for Immortals, it was.
[Good suggestion, Host!]
The system responded positively.
The next moment, on all the 108 pillars, a tiny light appeared next to the imprinted symbol of the weapons.
When the light disappeared, a sharp needle appeared.
Oxen, who had just reached the first pillar in the weapons room, he couldn't help but stand dumbfounded, seeing the needle.
***
A/N: Starting from tomorrow till Sunday, there will be a release of three-four chapters every day.
I have decided to make it alternate. Monday: four, Tuesday: three, and just like that, for the whole week. Thanks for reading the book!
Chapter 429
Oxen couldn't help but stand dumbfounded, noticing the needle next to the imprinted pattern of a disk.
He had just now faced the most terrible feeling when his energy source got sealed to take out drops of blood, but here there was already a needle.
He then stopped looking at it and instead smeared his blood on the pattern of the disk. The next moment, a golden transparent barrier surrounded his body, while his consciousness left the body and entered the infinite space inside the training area.
When his consciousness entered the training area, it took his actual appearance and stature. A beast spanning over hundreds of thousands of miles appeared. Oxen felt shocked, seeing his original appearance, but the system's calming effect acted, and his mind returned to calm.
Oxen then stopped thinking about it, like other topics related to the store that went out of his expectations.
The Void beasts didn't have use for any weapons due to their invincibility and tougher physiques. So for Oxen, it didn't matter what pillar he chose to go in.
The Void beast had their origins from the top creature of the past from the three dimensions, so they had well-to-do knowledge about all kinds of weapons.
After his consciousness entered a blank space, a choice of the opponent's race appeared in Oxen's mind.
Oxen right away rejected the races residing in the Primal dimension since his purpose for coming here was to fight against the top divine races from the Sacred dimension.
Before Oxen could select the races of the Sacred dimension, he came across the eleven Void beasts, including him.
It was the first time for the appearance of the Void beast in the training area. Since they originated from a drop of blood of a creature from the third dimension, the system hadn't added the Void beasts. But now that a Void beast was personally present here, the system automatically added all eleven of them, residing in the Primal dimension.
Oxen couldn't help but get shocked, seeing him and his fellow Void beasts on the selection option.
The calming effect of the Gods u0026 Demons level training area acted, and his mind automatically became calm. After seeing all eleven of the Void beasts as choices for being the opponent, Oxen got the idea of whom to fight in the training area.
Oxen decided to ignore the races of the Sacred dimension but instead go for one of the eleven Void beasts there.
Oxen had no choice but to get disappointed as he didn't find the eleven Void beasts of the Sacred dimension in the race choice.
With this, Oxen finally got the idea of why the Void beasts of the Primal dimension were here, but their stronger counterpart wasn't.
'It must be due to me appearing in the training area and giving a drop of my blood,' For the reason behind him and his fellow appearing as an option, Oxen thought.
He was correct with his thoughts. It was the reason behind the Void beasts appearing here. As for the Void beasts from the Sacred dimension, the bloodline difference was so vast that even their ends couldn't be seen.
A single Void beast from the Sacred dimension originated from 9% of the strength of the drop of blood, whereas all eleven Void beasts from the Primal dimension got created from only a single remaining percent of the blood.
Since there were no Void beasts from the Sacred dimension, but he and his fellow members were, Oxen decided to select himself as his opponent for the training area. He wanted to see how big of a difference there was between his mirror copy and him.
Oxen chose his opponent. The next moment, a new choice appeared inside his head, asking for the environment he wanted for the training.
Oxen had no requirement for the environment, so he chose the random.
The next moment, the scene in front of him entirely changed. A vast field of prairie filled his eyes as far as they could see.
Soon, a light out of nowhere appeared on a portion of the field, millions of miles away from the spot where Oxen was standing.
When the light disappeared, a mirror copy of Oxen appeared on the field, but with a cruel aura around him, unlike the actual Oxen.
A disk spanning thousands of miles, equivalent to the size of a small planet, lay on one of the mirror Oxen's three fingers, rotating at lightning rate.
If anyone were to look at the disk from the top, they would see a pattern of the disk cutting a planet in half while tens of thousands already cut planets lay there, and similarly, millions of planets were waiting to get cut in half. The pattern was engraved in dark red, releasing an aura of slaughter, while the disk was in black.
Oxen couldn't help but get surprised at the mirror him since the mirror him had no emotions on its face as if it was incapable of it. Similarly, Oxen also noticed that their body posture was entirely different from what he would have.
He also felt an aura of slaughter combined with massive cruelty from the mirror Oxen, which went entirely against his character.
The system acted, and Oxen's mind returned to calm since there was no place for anything other than training.
Soon, the battle began. The real Oxen decided to take the initiative and rushed toward the mirror Oxen.
Even though they had more than several million miles of distance between them, both were still of massive size, so even without any skill, it would only take a step for Oxen to cover it.
How could the mirror Oxen let it happen? He released the rotating disk on one of his fingers as it flew toward the charging Oxen.
"Crash!"
The next moment, a loud crashing sound rang in the area as oxen got knocked backward after the direct clash with the disk.
Oxen couldn't help but look in complete shock at one of his hands cut in half while a terrible cut spread across his chest.
Oxen's healing rate could even put Gods to shame, so his cut hands and chest had already healed. Oxen finally got serious about the battle. Without using his 100%, he wouldn't be able to survive, let alone win or draw.
***
A/N: First chapter for the day. Three more chapters left, they would come later in the day(Indian time).
Chapter 430
The injury created by the disk healed right away, but the shock it produced didn't. If not for the system's acting and making Oxen's mind calm, the effect of this beatdown would've made Oxen stand shocked for a few seconds.
After cutting Oxen's hands, the disk returned to the opponent.
This time, the mirror acted right away, giving no time to Oxen to think.
Suddenly, two new disks appeared, with the original disk rotating in the center.
The two new disks were each half the size of the center one.
The opponent then released the center one, and the disks on the left and right followed on their own and charged toward Oxen.
Oxen thought of dodging the disks, but when he attempted to do it, he found himself unable to budge as if something had tightly bound him to that place.
"Clang!"
The next moment, a sound of metallic clash rang in the area as Oxen's fist clashed with the center disk.
Oxen's hands had turned silver as the other hand reached toward the disk on the right and grabbed it, crushing it in no time.
The disk on the left clashed with Oxen just above his waist portion and got stuck there, as it couldn't move forward.
"Thud!"
Suddenly a crashing sound rang in the area as the hand Oxen had used to clash with the center disk fell to the ground.
The disk then charged toward Oxen's head. Before it could do that, Oxen's other hand came in the way and clashed with the disk.
"Boom!"
Suddenly a loud sound like an explosion rang in the area as the opponent appeared right behind Oxen and punched, aiming at his head.
Oxen's head was no less than watermelon in the presence of a hammer, so his head burst into pieces.
"THUD!!!"
The next moment, a crashing sound loud enough to shake planets rang in the area as the giant body of Oxen crashed on the ground without the head.
"Ugh!" Oxen groaned as he regained his consciousness after getting revived.
The first thing he did was check his head and heaved a sigh of relief when he saw it was fine.
"I lost," He then mumbled as it was the first time he had lost, and that too overwhelmingly. From the start of the battle spanning over a few seconds, he gained no advantage or even touched the opponent, while he got injuries, and in the end, died.
Soon the system present in the training area acted, and Oxen's mind returned to calm, only thinking about the battle.
The next moment, the second battle between Oxen and his opponent began.
Time flew by.
***
"Hey, system, can the Void beasts get stronger any further?" Aakesh asked the system after Oxen left for the training area.
The Void beasts were at the absolute limit of the Primal dimension, so if they grew even further, wouldn't that mean they would be able to breach the limit of the Primal dimension and would have to ascend to the higher dimension.
[Yes, Host! Due to originating from a drop of blood of Vritrasura, the Void beasts belonging to both the dimensions had a limitless physique.]
The system responded in its usual emotionless and mechanical voice.
The limitless physique was the strongest physique in the existence of the Multiverse after the Devas. As its name suggested, the owner of this physique could grow limitlessly, and at one point, they would even be able to surpass the Devas.
There has only been one recorded owner of the limitless physique in the three dimensions. He was none other than Vritrasura, the only being in existence other than Devas to fight against the Devas and survive for a whopping eleven seconds.
If not for the cruel and destructive tendency of the Vritrasura, he would've only grown stronger, and the newborn Deva at that time wouldn't have to intervene.
"Limitless physique? Wouldn't that result in the appearance of twenty-two Vritrasura like creatures?" Aakesh asked another question as it was the first time he heard about the physique of the Void beasts.
[No, Host! No matter how strong the Void beasts grow, they can't ascend to the Sacred dimension or the third dimension.]
[If they want to ascend, the Void beasts have no choice but to grow out of the control of the Deva that created them.]
The system answered. Aakesh nodded after hearing the answer.
Growing out of control of a Deva was impossible for the Void beasts since they weren't even the actual Vritrasura, but just a percent of a drop of his blood, depending on the dimension.
"Does that mean even if they breached the Level 250 mark in the Panagea, they still wouldn't be able to ascend?" Aakesh asked.
[Yes, Host! There is no way for them to ascend even in the store.]
"So disappointing," Aakesh responded, hearing the system's answer.
"Here, I thought I was a Deva, and you're my actual consciousness," Aakesh jokingly commented.
[Host, you don't have sufficient authority to know that answer.]
"Leave it," Aakesh mumbled, feeling disappointed with himself for trying to joke with the system.
***
It has been seven hundred hours since Oxen had been training in the Gods u0026 Demons level training area.
In these past hours, he had stopped counting how many times he had died, but the Oxen from before entering the training area, when compared with the current one, was entirely different.
"Drip Drop!"
"Drip Drop!"
"Drip Drop!"
A sound of something dropping on the ground filled with ice rang in the area as the mirror Oxen stood there straight.
Even though the mirror oxen stood there straight, he had no life in his eyes and couldn't be any more dead. Where the heart was supposed to be, there was instead a giant hole, and it was also the source of sound as the blood continuously fell.
"Finally!" Oxen commented with no emotions in his voice, seeing the dead opponent.
The actual Oxen had his only horn vertically cut in half, while half of his face was also gone, and it was healing at a visible rate.
The next moment, the dead opponent crashed to the ground, and its body scattered like sand in the field laden with ice. Soon a new piece of information appeared inside his head.
Unlike Trihan, who had gotten his skill upgraded after killing the Hygar, Oxen gained a new skill related to the disk.