chapter 11 : soul at the peak of martial core realm
Adriel's soul power slowly began to advance, the peak of 1st layer martial core realm then 2nd layer... 6th layer, 9th layer, then the respledent golden aura began to dissipate and Adriel soul strength reached the peak of the 9th layer of the martial by the time it completely vanished.
With this growth in soul strength, it wouldn't take a long time for his martial art cultivation and beast space to reach a similar level.
But even with all these progres Adriel's eyes remain closed and he was in a deep state of cultivation, trying to gain better control of the mysterious energy in his beast space, As for the Aura coming from the fierce beast in front of him, it didn't pose any more threat.
All the beasts on the 80th celestial step were surprised by the sudden spike in soul strength and began to panic.
According to the rule of each step on the nine Celestial stairways, the realm of the beasts of each step will be equal to that of the Ascender, but in case the ascender's strength increases the Beast on that step strength will increase too but only after 12 seconds.
This rule was a way to look out for the Ascender but a pain for The fierce beast.
"this human is cheating, our cultivation was suppressed to his former soul realm and it would take a while for our strength to sync with his new cultivation" A titanium-scaled Crocodile cried out.
"What do we do?!"
The beasts began to worry, they had been in this celestial step for God knows how many years and they didn't want to lose their chance of leaving this place.
The White Ape didn't say anything but his eyes remained fixated on Adriel's figure, he had a feeling Adriel won't use the 12-second gap to advance and they might still have a chance.
And sure enough, time was time slowly trickled by and Adriel didn't show any signs of getting up.
'3'
The white Ape counted down in his mind.
'2'
'1'
Then, immediately it reached zero, a blinding light enveloped all the beast present then their strength began to rise sharply and quickly reached the same realm as Adriel's soul.
"Everybody do it now, release your aura's now!" Feeling his soul beaming with strength the White monkey sent loud voice transmissions to the other beasts.
They happily obliged and they released their auras like they were opening the flood gates of hell.
Immediately thousands of terrifying auras raged toward the 'unassuming' Adriel.
At the same time, Adriel's lips curled into a wry smile then he slowly opened his eyes.
"You guys took long enough, don't think your father, I, isn't prepared like I was before!" he let out with a domineering tone.
As his voice fell a faint golden mysterious aura erupted from his beast tamer space and formed a layer of armor around his soul, the mysterious armor was as thin as paper even foggy at the same time and a powerful deterrence spread from it making Adriel look like an Apex divine beast in front of the beasts.
As soon as the auras of the fierce beast were about to collide with the armor,
all the beast auras dissipated as if they never existed, surprisingly all the beasts present withdrew their mighty auras on their own when they felt the mysterious energy and retreated in fear! like rat seeing a mouse
The white Ape eyes widened and it trembled in excitement, immediately Adriel released the mysterious light, and his instinct began to scream, his whole soul felt like jumping forward and devouring all that light, it felt as if it did his race Evo's potential will surpass that of any random divine beasts.
'That light, oh my God how did such a low-level human get his hand on something like this, the human isn't simple at all! I must become his martial soul beast at all cost'
It wasn't only the white ape that felt like that, all the other beasts on the 80th step all felt the same way, their brains were extremely excited and they felt like if they touched that light their potential will shoot straight up.
The atmosphere grew silent but the eyes of all the beasts present stared fervently at Adriel's armor with
"Oh great Beastmaster please allow this humble one to follow you, I will give everything I have to please you including my life" suddenly an ice suma Bee queen spoke out, her tone mixed with slight begging and seduction.
"Don't mind her great one, she's the weakest of us, let me follow you divine hero" A massive two-headed gorilla quickly said.
Soon the celestial step became noisy again as all the other beasts present began to suck up to him and begged to follow Adriel even to his death if they had to.
Adriel wasn't too surprised by their shameless actions after all he knew how beneficial the mysterious energy was to beasts and cultivators alike, who doesn't want to increase their potential, unfortunately for them, he had his target already.
He slowly stood up and prepared to leave.
Seeing him stand all the beasts begging grew louder and louder.
If another Beast master saw this scene they could die with jealousy, not many beastmasters had martial souls even if they did it will just be one, but Adriel had so many options to choose from high-ranking beasts.
"Silence!" A thunderous voice of the massive white ape suddenly resounded throughout the 80th step silencing the others and they all turned to look at him with curious gazes.
Even Adriel movement halted upon hearing the sudden shout, but soon he raised his leg to move to the next step.
"Please wait great hero" seeing Adriel about to leave the white ape left its dignified position and arrived before Adriel left side with pleading eyes.
Adriel stopped and turned to look at the Ape with a curious gaze.
Thud!
The massive white Ape kowtowed in front of him: "Great master please reconsider, those divine beasts are not all that different from me, and with that golden energy around you, I can even get better please make me your martial beast, I promise to do all I can to serve you"
Seeing his actions Adriel's heart shook for a while and he felt inclined to accept for a moment, but his choice was already made.
"I'm sorry I can't, I already have a beast in mind" Adriel consoled him and turned to leave.
Hearing his reply the massive ape let out a bitter sigh, it felt heartbroken about losing this great chance but there wasn't much he could do anyways as Adriels mind was already made up, it didn't blame Adriel though instead of his adoration for him because of for his unwavering divisiveness.
And when it did the familiar system alert sounded in Adriels mind, and a new message appeared.