The clear skies quickly shifed from the beautiful sunlight that blessed the land to the blanket of darkness covering the sky, ridding the world of most of it's light. The only light sources in the sky being the moon and the beautiful stars.
Inside the Immemorial Battle Forest!
-SLASH! -SLASH! -SLASH! -SLASH!
Damon swung daggers, sending out waves of pure mana that sliced through the air. With each swing of the deadly blood-tainted daggers, the heads of Damon's assailants fell to the ground and torrents of blood poured out. There was already dozens of dead bodies lying at Damon's feet, yet more came to attack the young man.
"ROARRRR!"
-SLASH! -SWIPE!
The ferocious claws of a flame bear slashed and swiped at Damon with ferocious speed and venom, determined for the kill as it also released a tyrannical roar. The claws were completely coated with flames that spread all throughout the surrounding area, latching onto the trees and created a massive forest fire.
Damon hurriedly evaded the swipes of the bear and slid between the bears legs, pulling out a dagger and slashing at the Flame Bear's tendon.
"ARGGGG!" The angry roar of the bear echoed as it's tendon was sliced off, the very earth shaked at the bear's anger, yet Damon wasn't done.
"Θραύσμα πάγου." Damon said and immediately, a gigantic shard of ice burst out from the ground and impaled the bears body, causing a massive wound and enraged the bear even more.
" Ενίσχυση σώματος." Damon chanted inwardly and felt his body being enhanced by his mana further than his natural bodies strength. Damon knew he needed to increase his speed to dodge all these attacks and sufficiently counterattack. Damon slightly dodged another attack of the bear and slashed off another tendon, continuing his violent onslaught as he cruelly dispatched of his opponent.
From claws, paws, legs and various other bits, pieces and chunks of the Flame Bear's body were chopped off with cruel efficiency and precision, falling onto the ground piece by piece as more and more blood leaked onto the ground. Before long, Damon had already executed the bear.
~SLICE~THUD~
The gigantic head of the Frost Bear was separated from it's body, falling onto the ground as the bear's torso remained impaled onto the spike of ice.
"Whew, finally done here." Damon said as he looked at the dozens of dead bodies littered around him. Damon had been battling a variety of monsters during his expedition out of the Forest all night, and he was exhausted, yet knew he needed to keep going, as those assassins could still possibly be near him.
Damon immediately began gathering all of the useful things on the ground. Damon had killed a variety of monsters, from Flame Bears, to Frost Wolves, to Thunder Lizards and even Slimes. As more and more time passed and Damon had battled more and more enemies, he had gained even more experience and efficiency in killing his opponents.
Damon gathered the useful parts of these dead bodies, such as collecting their blood for Alchemy purposes, and their meat and bones for food or selling purposes, alongside keeping all of the Mana Cores. Unfortunately, Damon couldn't ressurect these beings as Shadow Soldiers as he wasn't strong enough as of yet, but he could feel he was close to that level of strength.
If one were to look at Damon right now, they would see his unique look. Unlike the clean and elegant clothing Damon usually wore, since Karthus had presumably dropped Damon off here with absolutely nothing including clothing. Damon got creative.
Damon was wearing a hooded-fur-cloak made of the fur of the Frost Wolves and his pants were made of using the hard skin of Thunder Lizards and resembled Mountain Pants from his previous life. These were all of the clothing Damon could make, and made him look like a privitive being.
As Damon collected the remaining things on the ground, his mana senses which he had spread out had picked up on potential enemies moving in on his position.
" Αόρατο." Damon casted softly, his body getting harder to see as he flashed through the forest. The longer he spent in the forest, the better Damon knew it. No matter what, Damon always ran to the West, as that was where the light signifying the military base was, and Damon knew that arriving there was his goal in completing the test Karthus had given him.
~SWHOOSH~THUD~
A sudden attack flashed millimeters away from Damon's face, and something smashed right into a nearby tree. Damon could see it was a throwing dagger. Damon immediately realized it was the remaining Assassins who were still chasing after him and dashed off.
"Απατηλή κλώνος." Damon chanted inside of his head. Suddenly, the space seemingly cracked, and four different copies or clones of Damon appeared, running in different directions. These clones didn't have combat power, yet were very useful in tricking enemies. Damon used his mana control to limit the amount of Mana Aura he was revealing in line with the clones, to better trick the Assassins.
Combined with the previous spell Damon had casted to make himself harder to see. Damon managed to successfully trick his opponents, forcing them to travel in different directions after his clones, yet he knew he couldn't keep up this facade forever, and would need to eventually face these assassins head on.
Damon ran as fast as he could and finally found an isolated spot. The place was an isolated lake that thankfully had no-one near it. Damon ran and washed off his body near the lake, before sitting down in the lotus position right next to the lake, beginning to cultivate.
Due to his training with Karthus and his battle experience here, Damon's foundation was completely perfect, and Damon's cultivation had increased over the previous couple of days since his first time cultivating.
Now, Damon was at the Top Stage of the Mana Refinement Realm and the Peak Stage of the Spirit Refinement Realm. Damon wasn't planning on breaking through to the next stage in Spirit Cultivation soon however, as he hoped to break through with both Mana and Spirit Ream at the same time, yet that didn't mean that Damon couldn't increase his strength as a World Spiritist.
Damon was planning to awaken his First World Spirit, which was an incredibly important event in a World Spiritist's journey.
Just like the Mana that was used by all awakened beings, Spirit Power,or the evolved version of it, Aether, that was used by Damon, all originated from the Omniverse's Energy Origin Point and was endless. Only World Spiritist were capable of wielding Spirit Power, yet World Spiritists were exceptionally more rare than Mana Users.
In order to effectively control and wield Spirit Power ( or Aether for Damon ), World Spiritists would create their personal World Spirit Space which connected to the Spirit Worlds the World Spiritist was connected to.
Thankfully, when Damon awakened the Primordial Spirit Aether Body and got access to Aether, his unique World Spiritist physique used Aether to built Damon the most perfect and powerful World Spirit Space.
Damon's world spirit space was a vast galaxy, with a near infinite amount of stars in the cosmos twinkling. In the middle of this vast galaxy was a beautiful black and golden planet. Damon walked on the planet and explored it. The planet was beautiful, covered in a variety of Spirit Plants, which were plants that had spirit power within them.
Damon arrived in the middle of the planet, which held Seven Doors all with a variety of different colours and aestethics.
There doors represented the Seven Spirit Worlds and their strength ranking:
# 1= Oblivion Spirit World
#2 = Ethereal Spirit World
#3 = Nether Spirit World
#4 = Monster Spirit World
#5 = Mecha Spirit World
#6 = Fairy Spirit World
#7 = Nature Spirit World
Unfortunately, six of these doors were sealed with chains, with only one door open. The door to the Oblivion Spirit World, the strongest Spirit World. World Spirits are the organisms that come from the Spirit Worlds, and the Oblivion Spirit World was the Strongest. Less than a handful had made contracts with Oblivion World Spirits in the past thousand years.
Damon had tried to enter the other chained up gates, but they were all locked and he could not enter, so Damon had braced himself and entered the gate for the Oblivion Spirit World, which was coloured like a Galaxy.
Once Damon entered the gate, he was transported to a boundless vast sea, and he was floating in the middle of it. Damon quickly realized he was in his Soul Form and looked around. Floating all around the vast sea were billions if not trillions of clusters of light, and Damon could feel all of these light clusters calling out to him.
"System, what is going on." Damon asked in confusion.
[ Host! All of these clusters of light are various Oblivion World Spirits that hope to sign a World Spiritist Contract with you and become your personal World Spirit. ] The system's enigmatic voice replied, but did little to stifle Damon's utter confusion.
"But system? Oblivion World Spirits are exceptionally rare and barely call out to anyone. From what I heard from others, they don't even get to choose their World Spirit as there is so little options due to the selective nature of Oblivion World Spirits, the World Spirits choose them. So how do I have so many choices?" Damon asked.
[ Host! You are the most talented being to ever exist, holding Primoridial Chaos Grade Talent, that alone would make 99% of all World Spirits want to form a contract with you due to your potential. Also the host has the
"One last question, why can't I just travel to the World Spirit world and make a contract there? Didn't my
[ The Spirit Worlds are in a higher plane than your current world host. Meaning that if the host travels there now, the host would be destroyed due to the difference in Dimensional Power. Even with the Host's unique physique. Also, not even the strongest of Gods can enter the Spirit Worlds without being immediately annihilated. Only the host's unique physique will allow that, so get strong quickly. ].
Damon nodded at his answered questions and looked ahead at the various World Spirits that were calling out to him. Damon decided to channel his Aether, using it to find out the most talented and most useful World Spirit for himself.
Damon was eventually let in front of one cluster of light that was shining incredibly brightly.
"I'll choose you then!" Damon said and did not hesitate.
After making that choice, the cluster exploded in a bright light. All of the other clusters disappeared and the sky immediately changed in color as a serene aura filled the air, the skies having a variety of different colours.
In the skies, two beautiful wings flapped and the sound of serenity filled the surrounding area. A gigantic fairy the height of tens of meters was shown in front of Damon. In the next moment, the being who the wings were connected to stepped down from the skies and approached Damon.
Her limbs slowly stretched out as she approached Damon.
She turned into a beautiful woman with curly long blonde hair and a voluptuous mature figure that couldn't be topped even by Damon's mother. The lady wore snow-white clothes including a white robe, and had a pair of glittering white wings on her back fluttering gently. Her looks were both alluring and pure, and could topple an entire Empire.
The beautiful lady appeared right in front of Damon and moved her hand across her heart as she gazed at Damon resepctfully, saying,
"Hello, my master. I am Freya, an Angel and I am your loyal World Spirit!"