Tria's curiosity towards the priestesses' book have been spiking up, and so after she took a bath and got ready for bed. Settled, she did not delay entering her consciousness.
Submerged into her consciousness, Tria was standing in front of the altar, scanning the book cover. Plastered all over it, was an image of a rune portraying a line of women with their hands raised towards the sky. Their hands were projecting lights that converged into one big light radiating over what seems to be many people. That light even reflected over the cover of the book, although dim, it was rather majestic.
Keeping in mind the warning from the previous letter, she decided to go through the book, page per page; and the first few pages detailed the basics of cultivation. Before she could start cultivating, she had to first understand what spiritual energy was.
Spiritual Energy was simply energy particles that can be absorbed and stored into your spirit. You can make breakthroughs and advance to greater heights by storing a lot of energy into your spirit until you undergo a spiritual change and upgrade your spirit capacity. The greater the capacity of your spirit, the greater the power contained in your body.
Power Levels were categorized in this order Master, Grandmaster, Saint, Sovereign, and the legendary Celestial. These were each sub-level into lower, middle, and upper class. At a Master level, one's spirit size is about the size of an apple and improving into greater sub-levels do not make it grow bigger. Instead, it refines and strengthens itself, and the color changes from clear to muddy, and lastly to a solid hue.
Tria was nicely surprised to know she had already leveled up to a Grandmaster level comparing the capacity of her spirit to an apple, hers was at least the size of a cantaloupe. The quality and strength she felt, also had placed her in the middle class.
Absorbing energy requires the person to meditate and sense the energy particles given off by their lands' attribute, as the land Tria was currently on, it would be the Sun's energy. The Land's people could only cultivate their own land's attribute. Upon birth, the local energy gets accepted into their spirit and imprinted onto their souls; limiting them from absorbing foreign energies.
Tria's case was special, from the knowledge that was passed down to her, she learned that all the previous priestesses were able to absorb energy from the different lands. That is why it was possible for them to connect with all kinds of people, even they contained different energies within their spirits. Therefore, she also had that ability, but then it required her to travel there to get her spirit acquainted with the different energies.
Next, Tria learned how to use her powers as a Priestess. She was looking forward to this part because one her goals of learning how to use her powers is so she could repay Crei's kindness by healing him. She thought it would have been extremely hard. Yet, the holiest act that priestesses do is purifying souls, and that only required her connecting her spirit onto theirs, and basically cleanse them. Other acts were a bit more complicated, however, they were rarely done, since the most common illness was the inability to cultivate.
Now that she had learned these points, she was ready to call it a night and get some rest. Crei would come in tomorrow expecting her decision.
'I wonder how he will react when I tell him I'll stay,' is what she last thought about before falling into a deep sleep.
Not far from her room, down the hall was another large and well-decorated room. Inside is a certain someone who was unable to sleep due to anxiousness. Since talking to her that morning, he has not been able to get her off his mind. She did not have any ties to him, so he was certain that she would decide to leave his side. Crei thought of getting one his subordinate to think of a way to make her stay, but he knows how it went last time, even though it did work; that was not how he wanted her to portray him.
Though the world viewed him as weak, his character was not. The commoners were not privy to such information and so they did not know, but the people in the palace, how else would they stop bullying and talk bad about him, to even be mindful of him. The servants knew him as a ruthless master who had no hesitation in killing and getting rid of those who disrespected him. His closest subordinates knew him as their Lord, while his royal siblings feared him. They feared him for reasons that were not known to the public but shocked them to illness when they learned of his background.
While Tria was in deep slumber and Crei was diving into insomnia, the world outside was currently going through changes that will greatly disturb the lands.