Eventually, Cyra decided to get a few more deities to serve her; as such, she poured her blood into 5 Shadow Crystals and prepared to visit the higher levels, places where she has never been.
She decided to move alone as even if she was in danger, she could smoothly run away. While Cyra spent her days planning her next step, the Abyss has extended further, establishing another four shrines in the underground caves.
These Shrines had solid foundations but were much closer to the art of Death. They discovered that they could harvest even more Shadow Essence from their deaths and became even stronger undead.
They eventually began to building armies, weapons crafted from bones and grafted into their bodies, further increasing their combat strength.
From time to time, groups of the Ember sect would either join pity fights or the crusade to earn even more Experience, Shadow Essence, war, and Death was a way of life for them.
These people we following in Cyra's footsteps as the Death Hands told them what they saw. When Cyra resurrected them, they saw the beast. This beast ideology became the sect ideology.
Those who joined to wars weren't there for personal gain like the upper echoes of the sect. They were purely there for war, DeathDeath, and endless bloodshed, chaos, and violence became the Ember sect's trademark.
It became apparent relatively fast that the Ember sect was no different, just like the other colossal sects. Under their colorful robes, monsters were walking among them, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.
Yet, the sect's existence was a mystery as nobody knew where they came from, and whenever someone tried to look for information, they would die in the cruelest way possible.
The sect slowly grew more potent as its supporters grew in numbers and strength. After overseeing everything for 100 years, she decided to move out.
She wanted to know her opponents, during these 100 years, she had two breakthroughs and gradually became a Saka.
Cyra finally reached the first step of her final evolution. Cyra gained access to Shadow Control, with it only her skeleton remained intact, and Death Manifested to some degree, the Golden bones were eye-catching for a bit.
But then her second skin also adapted to Cyra's current form turned into dark robes and a Golden mask hiding her skull.
In this state, she was indestructible and couldn't take any damage. Furthermore, the body could take in unlimited amounts of Shadow Essence.
Calling Cyra herself an anomaly at this point wasn't far fetched as she was alive. Her organs changed to another matter that couldn't change much in this state.
As if time has completely stopped, Cyra lost her symbols, the symbols that forbidden her from using any techniques what so ever.
Her body has experienced a rather annoying change related to light. As long as her Shadow was under light from all directions, she was incapable of moving unless she turned back to the original matters.
Anything that comes in contact with her will be destroyed almost immediately, leaving no traces behind.
The system shows me my stats and analyzes what I am!
[Alright]
[Status]
[Name] [Cyra]
[Title] [Colonel] [Saka]
[Race] [God] -> [Phase 1 Shadow Deity]
[Variant] [QDW]
[Driving force: Greed,Discord,Pride]
[Gender: Female]
[Bloodline] [Nidhogg] [Frost Demon]
[Int: 81 000]
[Str: 81 000]
[E: 81 000]
[Self Diagnosis]
[Analyzation complete]
[Death] [100% Matching]
[Side Note: In this form Host doesn't age, there are minimal metabolism within the bones to repair possible damage, other than that, the body doesn't have any other life functions]
[Origin: From the time before time, in places where time was a twisted reality came Death, Death wasn't dead even more living than any other life form constantly experiencing the Cycle, affecting everything and everyone near them this race went into an exile and stayed and stayed alone up until to this very day]
[Body Analysis: On one hand, all body parts turned into a shadowy substance appeared to be still, nothing is changing in this state the body is fueled by Shadow Essence and became indestructible and deadly, the phase one change is far from the final form, it's not perfect as such it's weak to light but other than that it's still can be disturbed and disarmed]
[Estimated Battle Power]
[EBP: Saka-Deity]
Eventually, Cyra stayed true to her path and didn't try to learn techniques; instead looked into the ways of giving herself abilities through bone grafting, similar to what the ship did.
Another advantage of the Death form was speed. Upon entering a place without any light, she could slide through the darkness with great speed and reach her goals in a matter of minutes, as it turned out a large quantity of Shadow Essence has pushed it self away from other matters.
This was pretty useful during her ascent in the transport hole as she didn't have to worry about avoiding objects, and she could quickly fly up.
The highest Cyra could get level 9000. She faced a restriction that didn't let her progress further, a sort of suppression coming from many cultivators who were stronger than her.
Cyra looked for a maintenance shaft and changed back into living matter, then climbed to level 9001 and began her cultivation under millions of Deities' supervision. With this, her cultivation has progressed tremendously. Within 20, years she experienced another breakthrough.
It was then that the idea of going even higher surface in her mind. She no longer needed resources as her body was filled with Tylium. The only thing she needed was food and supplies, but even that seemed endless within her book of earth.
She reached up to level 10 000. This pressure was the limit of her body endurance as she was crumbling under pressure emitted by these entities.
Even starting to move into position took a tremendous strain on her body and required immerse strength to accomplish.
Within four years, Cyra had another breakthrough allowing her to move around more quickly on this level. As such, she climbed even higher.
.....
Within these four years, many things have happened. The sect has further increased its territories while even more members have joined.
The construction of the Crystal Heavenly Regions on level 2 has been finished. As such, the sect began moving even higher.
Establishing even more Shrines in the already occupied regions and creating legions willing to die for the sect.
With the countless undead servants, the constructions have been significantly speeding up, and they also began gathering intelligence about the other sects and superpowers across the levels.
.....
As a Golden Saka, she climbed again and again as a pile of the bloody mess. She climbed to the highest high, at 10 550, she could sense that there were no more than ten individuals up there, 11 with her accompanying them for now.
Cyra eventually understood why people rarely broke through as even under such pressure, her next breakthrough took 12 years to accomplish.
.....
While Cyra wasn't present, many things have been reformed and renamed as such with the growing numbers, even more people were willing to join.
Even a list has to be created for those deities who wished to be revived or live longer with Shadow Essence's help.
.....
As a Crowned Saka, her cultivation slowed down even further, day and night went under the sky and even years passed without her notice. Around 37 years later, she became Emperor Saka.
.....
Cyra's presence on the level wasn't unnoticed. Most of them couldn't care less. As long as she didn't try to steal anything from them, it wouldn't matter.
This fact didn't mean that they would tolerate her there forever. They were playing a game, waiting to see which one of them had enough of it first.
.....
Even after continually healing, her body once again became stiff. Yet, she continued to cultivate as she believed that this bought her more benefits than always fighting. She preserved for another 111 years, which resulted in her last breakthrough as she became a Conqueror Saka.
Left with no more Shadow Essence, she was incapable of teleporting home nor flying down. As such, she had to jump.
As she lamented what to do, a figure appeared directly by her side and lifted her by holding her into her hair.
Even after it released nitrogen, the character seemed to be unfazed by it and examined her closer, but eventually, it lost interest and threw her back into the hole.
As she began to fall, she turned to her stomach and began to wait for the moment because without her Essence. She was unable to fly.
It never happened before that she had 0 Essence inside her body to fuel her ability to fly. As such, Cyra was experiencing free-falling, and it wasn't that fun.
Cyra was plummeting downwards with a continually increasing speed. To decrease her speed, she bit on a 100% purity Tylium and waited.
Cyra's stiff body was eager to suffer damage to regain its functionality as such, using a rapid burst of explosions, Cyra could keep her speed in check.
Well, this was the goal, her acid needed time to rust through a layer. As she was getting deeper and deeper, ships began to appear.
She positioned herself in the middle and wished that no big ships will come anytime soon. Eventually, the Tylium has lit as she was between 2 carriers who transported people between levels.
The Explosion instantly killed the mortal servants on the carriers granting her a chance to teleport home.
After she left, the chaos she caused continued to accelerate as more and more ships have exploded under the weight of the falling ship ruins until they completely blocked transportation between level 8655.
When Cyra appeared from the Shadow she directly crashed into her palace wall, as even with a fly, she was barely able to slow down the impact.
A colossal BOOM sound echoed through the whole sect in a matter of minutes, alarming everyone.
The 5 Death Hands has immediately appeared inside Cyra's room to witness her slowly regenerating from her injuries.
"What is it? Did something happen?" Inquired Cyra as she looked at them.
For a while, they didn't know what to say as it seemed they were more worried about Cyra's injuries than Cyra herself.
Within 5 minutes, she completely regenerated and kicked out the 5 of them because she needed to meditate.
Among the 5 of them, only Achlys stayed behind and looked after her until she has recovered her Shadow Essence.
"Why did you stay? I'm sure I told you to leave!" Said Cyra as she turned her head towards her. It was unknown for Achlys what her master expression was.
"I-I just wanted to make sure that everything is already with the master!" Declared Achlys as she resembled more of a scared cat than DeathDeath at the moment.
After pondering for a while, Cyra picked her up and took her into her sleeping chambers; after going into bed, Achlys was lying on her shoulders without making a sound.
It seemed that she wasn't expecting this at all from the beast. As such, she was utterly clueless about what to do.
"Stop overthinking it. I'm not going to touch you, nor do I have any interest in that sort of thing..."
"Than why did you?" Puzzled Achlys as she looked at her master with wondering eyes.
"I have countless kids. Learning how to care for them shouldn't be that hard..." With that said, Cyra was no longer paying attention to her and continued to absorb Shadow Essence.