Cyra woke up 2 days after the perfect evolution, than she had to wait another 7 days until she could move again. She decided to stay alone as long as possible so people won't notice her sudden high change, after decided to stay behind closed doors Cyra took out her inscription pen and paper and started practicing her inscriptions.
The fallowing month's went rather quietly, she spent her days doing inscriptions while cultivating at the night, her intelligence and Essence has risen with leaps and bounds she spent the following 3-4 month's like this until she heard the notification:
[Congratulation Host for gaining better understanding of the Vision Rune] [0.01/100%] -> [9.99 % /100%]
[Int: 28.34] [Str: 120.72] [E: 13.85] [H: 1]
Cyra also gained her first halo since all of her basic stats were past 10, she didn't even realized it up until now she was so lost in inscriptions, but it wasn't important for her right now she wanted to advance her inscription glow.
System how do I take the test?
[Host, needs to have 9.99%]
I have! See it's already 9.99%
[No host only got 2.5%]
So I have to do the others too?
[Yes, Host]
Sight.. with that Cyra went back grinding experience with inscription..
[Congratulation Host for gaining better understanding of the Cage Rune] [0.01/100%] -> [9.99 % /100%]
[Congratulation Host for gaining better understanding of the Shield Rune] [0.01/100%] -> [9.99 % /100%]
[Congratulation Host for gaining better understanding of the Skin Rune] [0.01/100%] -> [9.99 % /100%]
[Int: 88.28] [Str: 120.72] [E: 43.82]
Already more than a year has passed Cyra strength greatly increased, but her Rank didn't so no matter who looked at her they would assume her strength was a Perfect Rank 1 Essence disciple, she completely ignored her strength in the past 1 year since her other two stats were way to behind compared to her strength.
System can I do the glow test now?
[Yes, Host]
I want to the the test!
Before finishing her sentence Cyra vision blurred and she was standing inside a room, the room was basically empty, there was an old man sitting by the table opposite to her, he seemed to be sleeping so Cyra walked up to the old man and woke him up by holding his nose so he couldn't breath, than the old man woke up, he was looking rather angrily at Cyra than asked, - "Green Wood and Wall Cut?"
Cyra wasn't sure if what she heard was right so she asked, - "What?"
The old man stood up and screamed it into Cyra face, - "Green Wood and Wall Cut?"
Cyra was stunden by that and said, - "Same words louder really?"
The old man was already back on his chair and asked, - "Wall Cut and Green Wood?"
Cyra was started to get annoyed and said, - "The same words in reverse doesn't take us closer to the solution"
Than Cyra suddenly stopped as the realization stuck her, the old man understood what she was saying, so she said, - "I just want to do the inscription test!"
"HaHaHa so Green Wood and Wall Cut!" Said the old man as he took out an inscription pen and paper and gave it to Cyra, than he was pointing to the 4 inscription symbol behind him self, they were the ones she spent her time drawing for more than a year now.
Cyra started drawing the first symbol but immediately after that the old man said words like, - "Little Girl that's not exactly how it's drawn" Cyra was already annoyed by the old man so she got angry and by the looks of it she ruined the inscription since it disappeared, she calmed her self down and started drawing again.
"That's not long enough" Said the old man, Cyra angrily glared at the old man, than as she wanted to continue drawing she realized that it disappeared yet again, This continued on for hours since no matter what the old man wouldn't stop annoying Cyra with his remarks which in return kept ruining her work.
The first symbol was drawn without any problems after 9 hours, the old man was looking at Cyra work and than added another rude remark, - "Kid, this getting worse, I'm looking at garbage" said the old man while sighing, which in return pissed of Cyra once more, as she pointed at her work, it disappeared before her own eyes, this got her thinking, this stupid test had nothing to do with how to draw it was all about staying calm while drawing, after realizing that Cyra stopped concentrating to her avatar hearing instead she was listening to birds singing on the sleeping main body, with this she has drawn the symbols in no time, after finishing the inscriptions they lit up in a pink glow showing Cyra that she was done, the old man waved his hands and Cyra was back in her room.
After Cyra left the old man simply walked out of the room while thinking to him self: the next time that kid plays a prank like that I won't go easy on her..
Not long after Cyra was done one of her maids given her a latter from Helios, the letter stated that Helios is really happy with her progress since she gained her Halo, but since she officially stepped into the world of cultivation she have to do a mission for the clan, Helios also said that he chosen an easy but interesting mission for her, she will have to travel to the kingdom of Elian, there is a town where citizens go missing, Cyra is tasked to find the reason why they go missing than come home and continue her cultivation.
Right after finishing reading the letter, 3 of her maids comes in to measure her for creating ordinary cultivator clothing to her, to the maids surprise Cyra chosen full black as the color of her clothing, this was surprising because they expected her to wear golden to show of her Clan Power similar to how the other members of the clan do.
While she was waiting to her clothing she ordered her servants to bring her large amount of food, drinking water and medical pills also pills with strong painkiller effects, she didn't spent any of her money for almost a year, she was filthy rich, yet she didn't need anything besides those things.
Oh I almost forgot to ask System what does the Halo do?
[1st Halo]
[Halo can be earn by impressing Gods]
[Halo will be lost by disappointing Gods]
[Since Host became a lesser demigod the Halo skill effect is amplified]
[The first Halo Grants the holder the ability to Fly for a short amount of time,this flying short to the point of being only 1 second]
What's the point of 1 second flying?
[It can be a life saving skill when falling from a high place, than using the skill Host can reduce the Falling speed to 0, than can fall again which in return reduced the chance of dying from falling]
The fallowing days were normal Cyra decided to relax before setting out on her trip, her pitch black clothes has also arrived, she was also told that the kingdom's danger lvl is actually pretty low, almost none of the rouge cultivators stay in kingdoms since there is nothing useful for them, they either stay in Clan Capitals or abandoned Towns in the clans territories.
Cyra decided to travel by foot, she was rather fast thanks to her current strength, within a day she arrived at the town of Aaron, the town wasn't exactly ordinary, it was missing life, there was barely anyone on the roads, as she was walking around the town a rich looking young man stopped her and said, - "Miss I can see that your new around here, do you have anywhere to stay for the night?"
"No" Said Cyra as she was checking out the young man, what instantly caught her eyes was the fact that this young man actually had essence, didn't they say that no cultivation capable person stayed in Kingdom's, Cyra started to feel like Helios pranked her about the number of cultivators, because as she said that 3 more person walked out from one of the houses and asked, - "Is there any problem here?" The young man called Markus hurriedly answered, - "There is no problem at all, I was just asking this Miss if she wanted to spend her night at my house"
"Sure" Said Cyra than she followed after Markus, as they were walking she continued to observe the town, there seemed to be some kind of black substance flowing around some of the houses..
System what's that?
[Unknown Liquid, Suggesting Host to gather information around the town]
15 minutes later they arrived at Markus house, it was actually one of the best looking houses in the town, seeing that she knew where her house would be for the night, Cyra turned around and left before Markus could utter a word, Cyra headed to the bar that she saw as they were coming here, as she entered the place there was not many people inside.
There was a middle aged man sitting by one of the tables showing his back to the door,he was a great man everyone just called him Joe, he was in terrible shape, he used to be the town Chef but his role was forcefully taken away by the Nobles, since he had nothing better to do he spent his remaining days by drinking.
Cyra decided to approach him since he was the only person who wasn't hostile the moment she entered the place, she simply sit down opposite to him and said, - "You seem to be more reasonable that the rest of the bunch here, can you tell me what happened inside this town?" Joe looked up and down Cyra that pointed at his empty Jar, seeing Cyra taking out 10 silver coins he was elated and immediately ordered more drinks for him self, after drinking one full Jar he said, - "Miss it started around 3 months ago, first only a few people went missing but as time went by more and more people disappeared and the town became a ghost town..
"Do you have any idea where they went?" Asked Cyra.
"I'm not sure, but while I was still the town Chef I heard that strange things happened at the house of Williams, they are the current Chef of the town, William Jhon is a strange yet strong man, if I didn't know better I would think he became a cultivator.. Ha Ha Ha I truly start to lose my mind" after saying all that Joe drank one more Jar than fallen asleep.
Cyra next stop was the house of Williams, similar to the town the giant mansion was devoted of any life, no matter what Cyra did the house seemed to be empty, she opened the door and went inside with the help of a little force, after walking around the house for a good hour she didn't find anything that was worth mentioning, than she exited the house at the back and went towards the cemetery in the middle she found the Williams Family Grave, the black substance was dripping from the giant stone door, it wasn't a hard task for her to open the door, she went inside where she found thirty or so skeletons sitting inside blood pools, the black liquid was leading towards a room, but Cyra eyes mostly were fixed on the blood.
One of the skeletons jumped out of the pool and attacked Cyra, she easily crushed it with her strength, she was extremely happy to see this much blood, since she was ignoring her strength cultivation this will greatly increase her strength, she easily killed all the skeletons than jumped into the pool of blood, than started to absorb the blood inside her body.