"I don't know if the death hazard will be useful to you, but I have to warn you to let it quiet. Even if you have the same attribute, the chances of you succeeding in getting its help its close to none, maybe if you achieve the level of elemental king, yours chances will rise."
Rick thought for a while, from the way she put her words his chance must be pretty low. Lilat also noticed the way he was looking at her, her eyes lit when she thought of something. "However I believe I can help you raising your chances by bestowing an opportunity upon you. Follow me."
Turning around, both left the dormitories and Rick gasped. He had seen this place from outside as a huge illusory mountain range, now he was truly surprised. The dormity he had been resting was a three-story building with a wooden place on the entrance.
[455th Juvenile Demon Quarters]
When his eyes scanned his surroundings, he could see a total of five hundred identical dormitories all around him as well as a plaque with the map of Tryon.
[Institute Aatryon]
[You are in the Juvenile quarters.]
All the children were eating at the moment which made the outside of the Juvenile quarters very quiet, Lilat turned to Rick who was looking at the map and wave of invisible force pulled him towards her.
"Aatryon is not just a place that protects demons, we are also a institute in charge of teaching and informing this seedlings how to control and coexist with their peculiarity." Explaining the existence of this place, they quickly approached their destination. It was a simple-looking stone hut, Lilat walked forward and waved her hand making its doors open and a intense pressure fell over him.
"This is the hyper-gravity chamber. This is something any elemental king of earth in the second stage can do, but it can only be maintained for two to three hours. In my case its only four to five weeks without."
"..." Rick was without words, even he didn't know who stages the elemental king had, though, for Lilat to maintain this art for four weeks when even a second stage could not was enough to show her strength.
"If you can resist within the chamber for five hours its your win." He knew that the opportunity she spoke about was this gravity chamber. 'So I have to endure it for six hours.'
"However I injured right now, we should wait until I'm fully hea..." A gentle earthen light shone over him before he could even finish. Gentle like the touch of a mother, all his injuries vanished faster than he could see. It it wasn't the light that healed him, but his lightning that grew stronger and quickly mended his injuries before gathered in the center of his body once again.
"I replenished your vitality by taking from the earth and trees surrounding us. you can enter by now."
Bracing himself, Rick reinforced his body as he stepped inside the chamber. The moment his feet was in the area of hypergravity, he suddenly stumbled.
"Ugh!" The weight on top of his body had increased immensely putting Rick on his knees. He tried to move his hand, and by the time he succeeded in moving a single find his forehead was covered sweat. He wanted to speak but the weight was so much that his lips would not raise any bit making give up on talking and concentrating in forgetting the pain.
By the end of the third hour, his sweat had formed a little puddle bellow him while his body was shining with a faint blue light. It was midnight and the beautiful dark-blue light attracted the attention of people who watched from the window.
At that time, his mind blurred for a moment and his body nearly fell when the light around him intensified a couple times. Overflow! All the light quickly receded and was replaced by numerous lightnings that passed through him as the weight he felt decreased.
One hundred, ninety, seventy... The number of lightning threads inside him vanished as thunder and light gathered to protect his body to the point a faint layer of lightning formed a dome around him.
Everyone had long been sleeping when the six hours finished, his body easily fell on the ground unconscious. However a second before he fell, Lilat's voice reached the depths of his mind.
"You really passed my test, I should tell you that the weight over you had reached more than 1 ton. Only earth element masters at the peak of the third stage right at the door to elemental king can endure a training like this. Demons tend to use it to improve our bodies and further awake our bloodlines. Now let's go to your rewards." Countless information invaded his mind, a huge map with the location of all the flame union's bases and even some of the church. Information about their forces as well as a obscure art were revealed to him.
[Unity Mantra]
...
On the next day, Rick, Lisa and Cassius said goodbye to the everyone within Aatryon and prepared to leave. With the young guardian walking in the front, Lisa and Cassius stared at each other, since he woke up both of them noticed his was acting differently from normal. He even told them he got a map with all the research facilities the flame union has in the fire god territory, however they didn't know how, but there was a complex emotion in his eyes as they left the illusory mountain.
[Are you still so scared that you could use the arts created by the demons instead of your own people's elemental arts?]
"..." Without making any sound, he just continued walking. When he said he had a map was a lie, the protector of this place, the map was transmitted directly into his mind by a technique that should only work in demons and beasts. It was not like he was actually believing he was a demon because he was sure it had something do with his other side, but how could he not feel agitated by knowing he is becoming less and less human. If one day he really become a god once again like the voice said he was, then what would be left of the human him?
[You are thinking too much. We may have been a god in the past, my position as a god had long gone to the point I would have to find another position if I wished to become a god once again. I guess that woman is really good to see our soul is divided in two, with this [Unity Mantra] we can further increase our connection to make it easier for to become one in the future.]