faes was not tired after the fight as she leveled up and her mana and energy were replenished but she was still a kid. Aiden wanted her to go to sleep so he tucked her in and sang the lullaby to her which she now had memorized. faes didn't want to worry Aiden so she went to sleep after eating the feast Aiden cooked to celebrate her first fight.
when Aiden left her room faes went to her space and began to refine the elemental crystals again. after refined about a hundred fire stones the crystal in her consciousness was now the size of her nail and triangular in shape vanished stopping her from refining further.
'where did it go now?' faes was not sure about the process of adding the crystals to the choker so she did what her gut told her she went to the mirror and checked the choker on her neck.
the choker which only held the bloodstone had another little red crystal near it.
originally the choker was just a band made of a thread woven in a net-like pattern. when faes had checked its material with inspect she found that the thread which seemed like normal nylon thread which seemed like an endless sea of galaxies was made up of a mixture of stardust, wish-granting dragons whiskers, god's hair, and blood.
faes was struck dumb after reading it. why did the god give her the choker made of his hair and blood? stardust and dragon's whiskers were normal compared to it.
when faes came to terms that the material of the thread was not found in the world she glanced at the bloodstone which was in the center of it, originally there was nothing except the bloodstone and faes also didn't got much information except that it was made of powerful cultivators blood.
now however there was additional red crystal near the bloodstone which was occupying one point of the ten pointed star. the blood stone was st the centre of the ten pointed star while the fire crystal was occupying one end of the star.
'system what is the star made of?' faes asked as she thought 'if the thread of choker is made of god's blood then this star have to be extraordinary.'
[scanning please wait....]
[scan complete....]
[host the star is made of a fallen god's bones, feathers and blood, while it have both divine and devilish energies]
the system replied happily but faes sighed.
'i knew it was extraordinary!' she then glanced towards the choker in the mirror. the star seemed to be made by rusted iron but it was smooth. red in color along with white and black lines at some places it looked magical. there were also black and white feather like structures seen floating in the red star.
'whoever the fallen god have given the hair, feathers, blood and bones to make this choker i respect you and send you my condolesence'
faes thought that the fallen god who gave these things was either killed to get them or was first killed then these things were taken from him. either way he or she were pitiful.
'you are not only heartless but greedy how can you take something like this easily? though i think aiden is correct about one thing again' faes sighed again remembering aiden's words again
he had told her to take important things which you can use instead of wasting them and this seemed like same case.
'i will take it anyways, thankyou' faes told the god in her head glancing upwards again even when she felt guilty she knew it was the right thing to do, not that she had a choice.
'i cant take it off even if i want to'
when faes confirmed that the fire crystal was placed firmly and cant be taken off no matter what she began refining water stones.
water stone refining process was similar and the only thing different was the structure it was formed in. the water element magic particles were arranged in layers upon layers making waves going outwards. when faes refined it they turned into a similar crystal to the fire one in her consciousness. triangular in shape and blue in color and the size of her nail appeared in another point of the ten-pointed star after refining hundreds of water stones.
earth stones were just randomly arranged earth elemental particles which made brown triangular crystal and air stones were made by densely packed air elemental magic particles which were not completely turned solid but were in mist form at the center.
after refining all the four kinds of elemental particles and adding them to the choker in form of triangular nail-sized crystals faes felt her cultivation increase again. the four-color crystals red, blue, brown, and very light green began to glow and increased faes mana power, though not in quantity but in quality.
due to the sudden increase of power faes was unable to keep it from entering her body and dantain. the core she had formed in her dantain was now completely occupying it not even a small space was left but when the pure energy from the element crystals began to enter the dantain the core was not able to hold it for much longer. faes screamed in pain rolling on the ground as sweat began to drip from her head. the core crystal was stronger than any normal core crystal as it was formed after refining and was very condensed so when it was getting destroyed by the energy from elemental crystals, the tiny bits of core broke and stuck her dantain breaking it in the process. this made the agony of core destroying increase by a hundred forth.
normally when a cultivator breaks their core the space between the core and dantain got filled with qi or magic particles which ease the pain of dantain crumbling along with the core, but in faes case there was no space for the mana to get filled and the pain of both dantain and core getting destroyed was increasing rapidly.
the process continued and faes felt her consciousness drifting away but she held on it forcefully. 'i wont die due to a simple level up!' she gritted her teeth and endured the pain.
faes could have eaten a pain relieving pill but due to the intense pain she was not even able to move as tears began to flow out of her eyes and sweat dripped on the ground where she laid curled up in a ball.
when the whole core was destroyed along with the dantain the pain began to vanish leaving a soothing feeling. on the place of dantain there was sea of mana present now. this sea acted as the basic mana source but it also formed a centre point around the body from which till a certain radius the cultivator can control the mana freely.
normally the cultivator gets a sphere around them when they break their core which increase in size as the core gets destroyed in parts. which happens in the stages of core destroying stage 1 to 5. the final sphere becomes the basic limit of cultivator in which they can control their respective magic particle or qi outside their body easily. the normal radius of the sphere is about 3 meters and some geniuses can have up to 5 meters of radius when they destroy their whole core, but when faes checked her sphere radius she did a double check right away still panting on the ground with wide eyes.
'is it really 10 meters?' faes doubted herself at this point. she might be halucinating due to the tiredness she felt. as there was always a mana storm whenever she broke through there was one this time too and it was stronger than previous ones. faes not only experienced pain of core and dantain destroying with a hundreadfold but also endured the constant high speed mana that was entering her body.
due to the tiredness faes felt and the remaining pain she was experiencing was making her feel heavy headed, and after checking her condition and knowing that she was alright faes let her consciousness flow away and passed out on the ground of her training area in space where she was refining the stones.