Chapter 81 : Master of time!
Lancelot Jr sat under the light and continued to absorb the power from the combined essences of the time stone, the time compass, and the time heart.
As it flowed into him, his mind, body, and soul felt as if they had traveled through time.
He witnessed histories in the blink of an eye, he could feel the exact second that every single leaf dropped, he could tell the time difference between heartbeat.
Every concept of time was clear to him. He felt as if he could control the time of the world and nothing could stop him.
Outside the stage Sir Zuco looked unhappy, he had a frown that was plastered on his face.
"Zuco, he passed his test, I hope you won't go back on your word" Sir Jenny said.
He had a sarcastic smirk on his face but he greatly suppressed the laughter that was struggling to surface.
He only looked on casually as if he wasn't finding the situation fun.
"Master of time, what a great ability it would be. It has never been used before and I can't seem to find anything recorded on it in my memory palace. I can only obtain information on it in the future."
"This young man is pretty remarkable, he has surpassed James Night in his ability to gain the mastery of time. This ability undoubtedly would be useful for him later on."
Sir Zuco was silent, like a child that has lost its favorite toy, he felt defeated.
After absolving the power completely, Lancelot Jr stood up and stretched forth his hands, and everything stopped.
Time was frozen. From the dropping speckles of light to the blowing wind, to clothes billowing in the wind, to mouth opened to make an utterance, everything was frozen, even James Night was frozen for a few seconds before he moved.
Lancelot Jr then unfroze time and everything returned to how it was.
It was then he discovered the huge price he would have to pay.
For the short time that he used the power of time, he lost about 50% of his energy level. The energy consumption required for time control was huge.
In the future, if he wanted to really use this ability to the utmost level, he would need to improve his energy levels in regard to time control.
"Congratulation descendant, you have not only broken the seal of time, but you have gone further to become its master. There are many benefits the ability would bring you, but it is likely that this ability would drain you of your energy levels fast. I have provided regions where you can get energy blobs on the earth. As an additional reward, I will give you three energy blobs."
A map appeared in Lancelot Jr's right hand, it contained detailed areas and regions where he could find the energy blobs.
"What is an energy blob?" Lancelot Jr asked Smiley face- James Night but he didn't respond. Not that he didn't want to respond but that line of questioning wasn't part of the things he was programmed to answer.
The spirit speaker noticed this and decided to respond on his behalf. "An energy blob is a round crystal, that can fill up your energy as soon as it is depleted. Some can take as long as 4 years before they are completely depleted depending on their extent of usage."
"When you use your time ability as the master of time, the heavy energy loss from the usage of that ability can be easily replenished by using an energy blob. Instead of having to sleep, rest and eat. All that could be replenished in a couple of seconds"
"Wow," Lancelot Jr remarked in understanding as he became excited.
Smiley face James Night pulled a chest out of thin air and handed it over to Lancelot Jr. In the chest were three blue balls, which had weird patterns on their surface.
They glowed continuously and gave out a strange feeling.
Being close to them felt like connecting with energy, it could enliven one's mood.
Lancelot Jr collected it and stored it in his elemental storage ring.
A ring that could be worn on the fingers but has a huge space that could hold as many objects as possible.
It was offered by Principal Gladys of the General Suzie elemental School to all level 4 elements, but Lancelot Jr had not used it as he had no need for it, now that something as important as the energy blobs in a chest had appeared, he found a use for the ring and naturally stored the chest in the ring.
"Descendant, don't forget my warning, something strange is happening on the earth, you need to stop it. Save the earth. Goodbye for now descendant, break more seals and we will meet again" the smiling James Night bowed and gave his widest smile before disappearing along with the test stage.
Lancelot Jr appeared back beside both Sir
Zuco and Sir Jenny who were rather chatty.
"Zuco, he is here. He has completed the time test and successfully passed it to become the master of time. Honor your word and bestow the powers you promised."
Sir Zuco looked at Lancelot Jr and grumbled, "I can't bestow all the powers I promised, it would kill him, but I would give him a little portion" He then stretched forth his hands towards Lancelot Jr.
~Swwooooosh!!!~
A wave of energy moved from his hands and flooded into the body of Lancelot Jr.
It covered him entirely like a halo of ethereal proportion.
Lancelot jr started to grit his teeth as the power overwhelmed him, it was filling him up completely.
He felt the presence of 3 other seals but none of them was tugged at. A new space behind the seal appeared.
The space was like a cup that was being filled up rapidly.
The power poured in rapidly, it felt like an inflow of cold water, it didn't stop until the cup was filled to the brim, then the whole process ended.
Sir Zuco retracted his hands as the halo faded
completely.
Sir Jenny gave a wry smile to Sir
Zuco and later spoke "Indeed you just gave him 50% of the powers you promised, hope you won't go back on your word when he is strong enough to obtain the rest?"
Sir Zuco remained quiet as he looked at
Lancelot Jr. Lancelot Jr's face appeared pale, he was in pains.
He was struggling desperately to stand, the pain inside him was intense, he felt like he would burst open.
"What is this?" Lancelot Jr asked Sir Zuco.
"There are five abilities that James Night possessed aside from those seals he never broke, one of which you have successfully broken. These five abilities are half of a pair, the remaining half remains with me."
"It would take time for you to absorb these powers into your system, hence you cannot use them yet. In time you will learn to master the abilities I have bestowed upon you."
"Sir Zuco why don't you tell him what those 5 abilities are?"
"He will discover them when he has absorbed them" having said that, Sir Zuco turned and floated away.
Sir Jenny moved towards Lancelot Jr, "Don't mind Sir Zuco, he isn't a bad person, he just has difficulty getting along with new people. He is right though, in time you would learn to master the powers you got and you can use them freely."
"Don't let pride destroy your potential, learn and grow with humility and help as many people as you can but never let your guard down. When trusting people always be wise. With that, I will take my leave, see you in a couple of years" Sir Jenny waved and floated away.
Lancelot Jr was still in pains but he managed to hear every word spoken by Sir Jenny and he understood them, he was grateful to Sir Jenny who had been very supportive and helpful, and also to Sir Zuco who although was a bit unpleasant to meet but in the end, gave part of the powers he vowed to give even though he could decide not to give those powers as the guardian of power.
After a while, the pains eased to a considerable extent.
He got up and smiled mimicking smiling
James Night, "it's time to leave the dream world" he then looked around and asked the spirit speaker inside him, "Mom, how do we leave?"
"You should have asked the guardians before they floated away, I am not exactly sure, but from what I can remember of the history books written about the dream world and the dream state, you just have to find a way to leave this star world, the beginning of the netherworld" The spirit speaker spoke.
"How do I do that?" Lancelot Jr asked.
"It would depend on the ability that you unsealed, you could crash the dream state and appear back on earth in your body" The spirit speaker stirred from within
"How do I do that mom?" Azrael spread out his hand to either side portraying ignorance.
"l don't know, could you try to stop time or something?" The spirit speaker responded.
"Mom, stopping time would halt all activities, it won't necessarily ensure our way out of here!" Lancelot Jr rolled his eyes.