5 seconds later they heard a shout "Alright! I'll do it!"
Zane smiled and entered the room again. Terran took off his spatial ring and tossed it through the bars. He then unbound his bow making it ownerless and slid it through the cracks as well.
Zane picked them up and scanned the contents of the ring, satisfied he smiled.
However what he did next sent chills down Anne's back, he pointed a finger at Terran, and a bolt of lightning pierced through Terran's head.
"Idiot…" He muttered coldly.
Zane would never spare Terran after what he tried to do. It was merely a ruse so he wouldn't have to hire a runemaster to break the runic lock on the ring so he could access it. Zane wouldn't hesitate to kill those who dared try to harm those close to him.
He turned over to Terran's dead corpse and shot a flame onto it, this caused it to turn to ash in a matter of minutes. He then handed the bow to Anne.
"Keep it, I got better ones in my clan treasury anyways." Zane said with a smile to which she nodded reluctantly. She grabbed the bow and dropped a drop of her blood on it. The runes on the bow lit up and acknowledged her as the new owner of the bow.
Once that was done Zane split the resources inside the ring between them. Anne couldn't help but smile seeing she got noticeably more than him. He gave her 60% of them while he only kept 40%.
"Why are you so nice to me?" She asked.
Zane simply smiled "Do I need a reason to help a beautiful dragon such as you?"
She blushed at his teasing remarks. She couldn't help but twist her hair around her finger for a moment.
Zane chuckled as he grabbed her hand and began walking. She blushed at this but didn't stop him.
Zane couldn't help but sigh lightly as they made their way up. 'The heart… it's not something easily tempered.'
They ended up back on the ground floor and left the clan grounds before finding another building to take shelter in.
They were about to go into a tempering session, they had tens of thousands of spiritual pellets and now was the perfect time to temper with them. Well, to be more precise Zane was about to begin tempering while Anne protected him taking guard.
Zane took a moment to think before beginning.
What he did today made him realize something 'I've adapted way too quickly to the ways of this world… No, wait… It's not adapting, perhaps I was always like this. Forget it, I was definitely always like this, just without the killing part. The killing part was the only part of me that I restrained back on earth since the consequences weren't worth it. I've always been defensive about those close to me.'
Shaking aside his thoughts he decided to take some time to temper his blood further. Now that he actually had some time to himself, he decided to get it all done in one go no matter how long it took.
Thus, he began his first secluded cultivation session. 1 year passed in the blink of an eye and he finally had his golden blood complete. He was now able to step into the martial realms if he wanted to quite easily.
This news made Anne quite happy. It was quite boring to stand guard over a single building for a year straight with no one to talk to.
"What do you intend to do now?" She asked.
"I intend to awaken my 1st martial spirit before we set off, so it will probably be another few days."
She nodded with a dispirited sigh.
Zane seemed to know what she was thinking "Relax, it's just a few more days, we can spend all the time together we want afterward. As for the bracelet that you want, it's in the earth prefecture. I doubt people will be able to get there so easily."
She nodded with a smile.
With that Zane went back into seclusion for a few days. He took a deep breath.
'What did you say my martial spirit was again?' Zane asked.
[You were born with 9 martial spirits, 1 for each life you've had in the past on your path of rebirth.] Alina responded also finally revealing a bit of the bigger picture beyond his recent rebirth.
Zane took note of this. Alina had already told them there were 2 paths one can take for immortality, the eternal path, and the rebirth path.
[Your first is the eternal nihility dragon. It won't be easy to wake him up, as he was formerly an existence half a step into the deity realms. In fact, it might take up the rest of the spiritual resources you have.]
Zane was stunned, the deity realms! The final 3 realms of spiritualism were the immortal realms, the deity realms, and the god realms. The deity realms focused on achieving omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience within your domains, while the god realms focused on achieving these 3 universally.
He took a deep breath before beginning to absorb spiritual energy from the mountain of spiritual pellets, stones, and crystals he had piled up next to him.
The presence of so many resources caused the amount of spiritual energy in the air to skyrocket.
This attracted many spiritualists as the energy spread out for many hundreds of miles.
Alas… Anyone who got close to the city was cruelly struck down by golden lightning from the sky. This was naturally the work of what remained of the heaven will of the golden dragon world. It didn't dare refuse an order from the existence behind Zane, and she had ordered it to protect Zane in this critical time. It was only for a few days.
Although it felt aggrieved it had to waste the energy it had been storing to repair itself, such a loss was minimal compared to its survival.
After seeing this scene no one dared to enter the city, though they all grew curious about what the heaven will was protecting.
Especially the people who actually guessed this was its own world with its own heaven will. What could incite the protection of a legitimate heaven will?
Meanwhile, inside the city, Zane's aura was slowly rising as he directed spiritual energy into his profound vein into a particular corner where 9 eggs resided. When his spiritual energy came into contact with one particular egg it slightly trembled as it slowly absorbed the energy.
It started off slow, but gradually the speed at which it absorbed spiritual energy grew. If before it absorbed 1 unit of energy a second, within a matter of 5 minutes it was absorbing 15 units of energy and it was rapidly growing. Hours passed in this manner.
The egg that seemed to be made from the depths of the abyss itself began trembling every now and then. Originally it started out as once every few hours, then once every couple of hours, and gradually accelerated over the course of a day. During which he had expended 300,000 lesser spiritual pellets and 20,000 lesser spiritual stones.
It was then he heard a click.
*Click*
An ancient aura began drifting out of the egg slowly as if an ancient dragon was beginning to wake up from its millions of years of slumber. However, that's exactly what was happening.
This aura slowly permeated throughout his profound vein as it slowly grew and began leaving his profound vein. The moment it did, it grew violent.
A towering dragon's aura shot to the sky that was growing with every second. Almost immediately, everyone was attracted to this inconspicuous city.
*ROAAAAAAR!*
A dragon's roar echoed throughout the 9 firmaments spreading across the 4 domains echoing for eternity.
Many eternal existences in the universe quivered.
'First the nihility god now the nihility dragon!?! What the fuck is happening? How many nihility ancestors will come into being in this era?!?' A god realm existence couldn't help but quiver in fear.
Although he was a god, when it came to matters pertaining to the nihility armies… No one could see through them until after it actually happened. Ever since the nihility armies came into existence, a simple saying had been very common.
Divinity is damned before Nihility.
This phrase was simple, but its implications were enormous.
Meanwhile, the aura was continuously rising. At this point, even heaven and earth began trembling in fear.
This aura was not an aura of power. The nihility dragon, no matter how heaven-defying, wouldn't be that strong after being reborn as a martial spirit right off the bat.
This aura was that of status, for it was a deity being reborn.
After 2 more days this aura finally disappeared for a moment before…
*BOOOM!*
The sky split apart from an explosion. Spiritual energy rushed into the area forming a waterfall of energy before crashing down upon the building Zane was in as a black dragon made out of seemingly nothing yet everything at the same time formed in the air above the building. It was so large that it blotted out the entire sky above the city. This made the onlookers stare in horror.
However, a moment later it disappeared into thin air.
Zane breathed a sigh of satisfaction. His 1st martial spirit was awakened. He felt boundless strength running through him right now. He felt like even 1st profound realm of existence would perish easily before his hands. Of course, he knew that it depended on the circumstances, and he wouldn't dare to underestimate such an opponent.
With that, he stepped out of the building he was in and noticed Anne was staring at him as if he was a monster.
He smiled with an embarrassed expression.
A/N: Greetings everyone, I hope you're enjoying the golden dragon ruins so far. Just a friendly reminder power stones, reviews, comments, and collections are highly appreciated.