Inside her room she was sitting on her bed, while checking out of the effects of the Essence Crystal cultivation, her Essence has greatly increased from [E: 43.82] to [E: 44.82].
Eh, why did it only increase by one even after I consumed around a 100 Essence Crystals?
[Because Host only consumed around a 100 Essence Crystals, daily 1 Essence increas the maximum that Host body is capable of surviving, I assume Host curious by why the increase isn't 10 right?]
Yes!
[The Essence Crystals used as normal currency are Stage 0 Crystals they can only increase one cultivation by 0.01]
Oh, I see..
The next morning Cyra went to visit her master, she wanted to know more about that sacred realm that she will be entering, but to her disappointment her master was still drinking with the 2 other old man and they were drunk to the point where they couldn't even walk anymore, not to mention even talking.
Seeing that her only way to get literally any idea about this even was Atlas, she firmly decided to be there in time, but since there was still time until the evening event, she headed to the City for a little sight seeing while also buying large number of supplies such as clothing, food, and drinks, she felt like it was better be safe than sorry, she also had to buy more inscription papers since her stocks were empty, as she was wandering around the store she realized than one of the basic inscription wasn't sold inside the shop.
"Sorry may I ask why there isn't any sight Rune for sale?" Asked Cyra.
"Miss, you must be joking you don't know?" asked the shop keeper.
If I knew I wouldn't have asked it idiot...
"Yes, I don't know. Is there any reason why there is non of them for sale?" Asked Cyra with an a slightly annoyed expression on her face.
"We only sell them for pre-order, the sacred realm will be opening tomorrow at noon, without the Rune of sight it's impossible to survive the first round?" Said the shop keeper.
"Oh, is there some kind of test?" Asked Cyra.
"No, No it's not a test but large scale slaughter, entering that place just to be sent back immediately is wasteful that's why people need the Rune of Sight" Said the shop keeper.
"What is there that they can't see?" Asked Cyra.
"Ghosts, they are not even stronger that stage 0 practitioners but the numbers, those are huge there are hundreds of millions of them inside the sacred realm they can easily over run most of the practicing disciplines, there was a year when almost 700 000 disciplines were sent out just in the first seconds" Said the shop keeper.
"How many disciplines take part in this sacred realm event?" Asked Cyra.
"I'm not sure it's should be anywhere between 8-9 millions, but usually the disciplines from our city are in the top on the leader board, in the times of the current Guardian Elders, there was 5 from our city who got into the top 10 000, it is Huge accomplishment!" Said the shop keeper.
"Well thank you for the information!" said Cyra, as she headed towards the door, she realized that she might underestimate what she truly needed to survive inside the sacred realm so she went to by additional supplies.
System any idea what's inside that realm?
[Based on the information provided by the shopkeeper it's either a realm similar to an underworld or Hell, in both environment it's possible to use anchors to keep the souls down, also it would explain the slaughtering, millions of mad souls trapped in the underworld, with the fractions of their original essence, they can be killed quite easily but the numbers are still dangerous, there is also the fact that he said 700 000 got instantly sent out, even a stage 1 rank 1 cultivator should be able to run away from ghosts without any problem, this death ratio means that in the realm something restricts the ability to move.]
Ty, now I have much better chances since I know much more about the situation I am in..
[It's my pleasure Host]
Cyra than spent the rest of the morning wandering aimlessly until she decided to go back home, the moment she arrived her master was already in a much better shape than in the morning.
"Come little one, I take you to the sect to register to enter the sacred realm." Said Razor.
"Alright" Said Cyra as she was following behind old Razor, instead of going to the city center they went under the city as Cyra found out the sect was actually even deeper down than the Ancient City it self, even thought Razor was a Guardian Elder at the sect, his disciple still had to under go the test.
A smaller crowd has gathered around the testing site, they were curious who could become Guardian Elder Razor discipline, so even thought the tests didn't even started yet, there was several hundreds of people present.
They first tried estimating Cyra age by looking at her bone age, this ended up in a failure because the test showed Cyra as a 1 year old with incredibly strong bones, than they tried using a formation to check out Cyra Soul Essence but that test simply went off charts so with no hopes left the Head Elder who was directing the test walked next to Cyra and asked, - "Young lady, may I ask how old are you?"
"Seven." Said Cyra with a none caring expression on her face.
"Seven?!" Jumped up both Razor and the Head Elder at the same time, it was way to absurd she looked like someone who was in her teens, yet her bone age was only 1 while they couldn't even measure her Soul age.
In the sect the word reincarnated wasn't exactly rare it happened from time to time, it was said that their soul was to weak so they couldn't ascend, so they came back to try again and again but these people Soul age still could be measured.
Now for the bone age that was even more absurd because people bones should be aging no matter what, unless a change occurs that heals the marks of time, but it is rather rare.
When they shock was lessened they headed towards the formation to measure her cultivation, looking at the results everyone sighed in relief she was a Rank 2 Essence Disciple, it was actually acceptable and also proved that her she was right, at this point old Razor was starting at the results with wide open mouth, he knew full well that his disciple was a demon but didn't expected her strength be this absurd, than he realized that it might have to do something with her bones.
After the testing was over Cyra gained a necklace with her name on it, there were also 2 additional lines were on the necklace the first was to show her points which were currently 0, and the second was for her rank, since she was one of those who registered lastly the number was 9 832 102, now she knew how many people will take part in this so called event.
"Master, are we going to enter at the same place with all these people?" Asked Cyra as she was pointing at her necklace.
"No, from Neruf a maximum of 100 000 disciple going to enter, there are formations that lead into the sacred realm in every underground City, the sects has disciplines that are staying at branches all over the world but for this event they come together to the ancient cities." Said Razor with a still happy face, he was still happy with Cyra test results.
"How many branches does the sect has?" Asked Cyra as she was walking behind Razor.
"A lot we are also a branch for it, The main sect is called Divine Crimson Sect, under its rule there are 4 Heavly Crimson sects, under them 40 Shadow Crimson Sects, we are in the largest Shadow sect, under us are the Crimson Cults these usually exist inside the territory of the kingdoms, clans and the 3 great sects." Explained Razor proudly.
"Where are we going now?" Asked Cyra.
"Since we are already done with your test, it's time to buy more wine for me." Said Razor as he was greedily eying with Cyra.
"I don't have money.." Said Cyra.
"That's a lie both of us knows it, how about this you give me 40 million Essence Crystals for a technique." Said Razor
"It's better be good." Said Cyra as she handed the Essence Crystals to Razor.
Razor threw a technique at Cyra, than within a blink of an eye left to buy his wine, as for the technique it was the reason why he could be in the top 3000, he originally wanted to give it to Cyra but the 2 old man made him sell it to Cyra so all of them could drink great wine, it was a technique that the 3 of them created together.
[Congratulation Host for Gaining a new Defense Technique: WildPulse]
[WildPulse: a large, destructive force that spreads quickly through the surroundings and shreds through any obstacles]
[Requirements: 1 minuets needed to charge Essence into Host hands than release a devastating pulse]
[Effect: Kills anything that has weaker Essence than Host, creating a pulse that jumps from target to target until there is nothing with weaker Essence around]
[Drawback: Essence Fatigue if used more than 5 times in a row]
Now I see why master managed to get into the top 3000, if he used this skill to kill ghosts all day long it's basically cheating, now I'm eager to try out this technique.
System why is this marked as a defense technique when it's clearly used for attacking?
[Host the reason is because if the opponent has equal or higher Essence the technique does minimal damage and instead of shredding through the enemy's it will push them away from host, it can be life saving technique]
Than why is that not added to the description?
[The technique doesn't do that knock back part intensionally it's just a lucky accident]
Oh I see..
After reading through the technique once more Cyra headed towards the Fallen Star restaurant, because of the Armor of Darkness most of the people from the younger generation immediately recognized her, there was already rumors spreading about Atlas buying that armor for one of his junior sisters, but no one knew up until now who is the lucky girl that obtained the armor.
Soon Cyra reached the restaurant, at this point there was at least a thousand people following her, yet it's seemed nothing because what was coming behind her was nothing in the eyes of the crowd who were waiting to enter the restaurant.
Cyra headed towards the vip line and took out her invitation, the servants quickly let her in and lead her towards the tenth floor of the restaurant, after arriving Cyra found Atlas chatting with some girls, seeing that he didn't realized her yet, she headed towards the middle of the floor there was a giant hole going all the way down to the ground floor, there was a giant fighting ring at the bottom of the hole, at she was sitting by the edge Atlas walked over to her side with 3 ladies following him.
Before Atlas even could say hi Cyra asked, - "Why didn't you sent your gift personally?"
Atlas caught of guard by the sudden question said, - "Pardon?"
"Why did you use such an incompetent man to send a gift, if I didn't pay attention I wouldn't even knew what was this Armor.." Said Cyra as she was angrily glaring at at Atlas, the main reason why she was still mad because she couldn't kill that idiot who threw the so called present at her.