A month had quickly passed in a flash once again and the village had quickly grown to house over five hundred people and the number of houses on the mountains had increased by an exponential amount. The fame of Leo had slowly died down and the surface was once again calm.
Unsealing various vital pieces of his ancestral inheritance, Garrick's strength had soared from refinement stage two to stage six in the month and he had access to a new library in the cave mansion which Leo had often visited. The library contained a few dozen remaining arts which Leo quickly learned and he had used towards creating an art which wass not fully completed yet.
For Leo, he had often spent his time training the kids of the village. He had come up with a training routine that would build the kids' bodies first. It began with them each having to do a hundred push ups, a hundred squats, and a daily run to Mt. Ketumati and this was supervised by Mars who seemed to really enjoy it then it was followed by a calm energy sensing session where Leo would insert a wisp of energy into their body and they would attempt to guide the energy through their bodies.
Of course each child was had their own affinities and so Leo made sure to insert one of each and then observed which one survived in their body the longest.
It took about four weeks for the kids to finally grow used to this training regime that wass incredibly intense for them. Being only about four to eight years old, this took a lot out of them but by the end of the month, their bodies were strengthened to a solid point where they could begin sensing energy and even regulate energy into their body.
But this speed of progress had made Leo realize how far the gap was between him and these kids. The most fruitful were Garrick's kids who had made their way into peak vein opening realm. And Leo had begun to teach them the arts that he found in the cave mansion's library when he explored with Garrick.
Sometime at the end of the month, Leo stood on top of Mt. Ketumati...
His hair flew lightly as the wind slowly blew across the sky. The cloud had slowly risen and floated over the peak of the mountain as it gracefully began snowing. His closed eyes suddenly opened as a burst of pure condensed energy suddenly radiated from his body.
"Finally, stage two origin realm," Leo spoke with a smile as he looked up, "the time is near, the end of the year is coming soon."
Leo then began condensing his energy and refilling his energy reserves as he sat down in a meditative state while checking up on his mansion. He made his way into the training hall and walked to the pod and checked on his status.
Beep! Beep!
Name: Leon Areia
Bloodline: None(Human)
Curse:
Killing aura(intent)
Control: Solidification
Tribulations passed: 1/7
Ability:
Death circle Lv.1
Cultivation: Origin realm stage two
Doors unsealed: 2(Total Strength is comparable to origin realm stage seven realm)
Talents:
Ten-ringed diamond fire, water, earth, wind, lightning, sound affinity
Lv. 7 Photographic memory
Lv. 2 Heavenly Nether God's eyes(24/1000)
Lv. 3 Demonic Nether God's physique(531/1000)
Sickness: Heaven's wrath disease (35 years, 7 months to live)
Sigh... I've made it to Origin realm now. I can consider opening the third sealed door now.
Seeing his status, Leo's attention was brought to two things. One, he was now able to concentrate on other things about to unseal the third door. Two, the time limit that he had to live. He had already spend fourteen years in this world and did not find any news on his sickness. He's only hopes were now the more stronger empires in the world which he was planning to visit.
But nevertheless, to be able to travel the continent he needed strength so he made his way over to the third door that was tightly sealed shut with a note stuck between the doors.
Requirements:
Origin realm(met)
Bloodline acquired(not met)
Red grade art learned(met)
Killing intent tribulatioin(met)
"Bloodline..." Leo spoke to himself as he began to think. Bloodlines... Past records do not have much on bloodlines other than that it often passed down from humans and the only way to obtain it non-hereditarily is through blood transfer.
Leo walked closer and read the note again. A red grade art? When did I learn that?
Immediately, Leo walked over to the arts room, a room that he had not visited for a while due to being too busy with the war. He walked over to the large tab and found that he currently had over three dozen arts memorized and out of those lot, he had learned only about nine of them. And as Leo checked all the arts he had he found that the red art that he had was not the one that he thought he had. He instead, somehow had owned two red grade arts. The first one was an art that he had learnt.
David Aksi: Arcus Nebula
But the second one was what had brought Leo immense confusion. It was an art that he had never seen before and it seemed to have come from the mansion again as Leo could not remember ever finding something like this.
The art was called Nagastra Dragon Art: First move: Dance of Orochi. And it was show as an old parchment paper that was ripped towards it's lower end on the screen, possibly meaning that it was incomplete. Intrigued, Leo immediately observed the art and tried to read it but as he attempted to read, the letters in the parchment suddenly seemed to move and form into a strange order and after a minute of reshuffling themselves, the parchment paper had turned from an art into a blueprint.
A blueprint for a weapon. A very strange weapon. As Leo read description on how to build it, he found that this weapon was not a sword, not a spear, not an axe. Nor was it a bow but it was an extremely lethal weapon he did not know what kind of weapon it was but it was called the Nagastra Rod. While it was called a rod, it did not sound like a rod. The description stated that it was more like a rope and the ingredients and the forging method were extremely unusual. The ingredients required were a large number of spider silk and a drop of Manta moth silk along with over five hundred kilograms of different kinds of metal.
Leo laid there in shock as he stared at the screen, a five hundred kilogram weapon? How was he supposed to do this?
The heaviest weapon that he had held was Garrick's axe which weighed around eighty kilograms and he did not find it very easy to move around in that.
But instead of scaring him, this had ignited a fire inside Leo instead as the thought of this excited him. He had been looking for a good weapon to use and this might just have provided him with the things he needed.
And as for the ingredients, all he had to do was to just consult the Lapis king for some help, and regarding the metal, he would not have to worry as all the metal that he required were all here in the mountains. Even better was that during the exploration of Garrick's cave, they had stumbled upon a strange metal ore that Leo was thinking of using.
He then happily decided his plans of action for now. He would first put his top priority on writing down a few of his arts and giving it to Mars to teach the kids and he would then concentrate on making the weapon and he should be able to leave for the Iudex sect to meet Aurora by then. The matter of unsealing the third door would need a few more information so that was not his direct concern yet.
"Leo!" a voice suddenly rang out and Leo immediately returned back to reality as he opened his eyes. As he turned he saw that Garrick had come up to the peak with a curious expression on his face.
"What's going on?" Leo asked.
"There's something that I wanted to talk to you about," Garrick replied with an uneasy expression.
He then brought out a weapon that Leo was all to familiar with. The Nightkiss.
"How did you get it?" Leo asked curiously, "wasn't it lost during the war?"
A smirk appeared on Garrick's face as he explained, "It was never lost. The Nighthawk had picked it up from the battlefield on that day."
"Whoah... That would explain a lot," Leo spoke understandingly but then his face turned a little sad. Doesn't that mean he just left me there?
"I want to use this weapon to defend this place but I don't know who to pass it to as I can't use it at all," Garrick spoke helplessly with a disappointed expression on his face as he handed it to Leo.
The scepter looked a lot worse for wear now but the energy circulating around it was still present and it was still awake. Taking it from Garrick, Leo slowly placed his hand on the handle and injected his energy onto it.
Immediately, an empty vague fog quickly appeared around the peak and Leo's eyes immediately opened as he nodded, "I see."
"What's happened?" Garrick asked curiously as he expected good news.
"There are no more beasts inside this staff," Leo replied with a sheepish smile.
Flinch!
"WHAT?" Garrick's face completely fell as he could not believe what he had heard. How had that happened? He clearly remembered countless beasts being inside it when his blood was being sucked into it so how was it empty?
Leo then placed his hand on Garrick's shoulder in a consoling manner as he smiled.
"Let's try something different," he spoke as he then walked over to the tallest point of the mountain which was a large rock and he raised the scepter and then hammered it down onto the rock, firmly lodging it onto the rock. He then injected his energy once again and a sudden surprised expression appeared on his face as Leo's senses were suddenly heightened and he was able to sense all beasts nearby in the mountain range.