"Reckless pup," snorted Sylvester under his breath, but inwardly he felt a bit flattered by the brat's words. The Cosmos Devouring Sky Wolf then released a yellow atmosphere as various light spheres began to form from the force phenomena. Seeing the tiny stars, Sylvester snorted disappointedly, "Tsk, still weak."
Before the phenomena could finish forming, the sky wolf stepped forward and disappeared into the void with a small ripple, like the space in front of him was a pool of water. When he appeared again, he hovered in the sky above the shoulder of the Earth Spirit Bear on the left, totally catching the vicious beast off guard. Sylvester spat out emerald flames from his maw like a flamethrower. Waves of green and black flames impacted the Earth Spirit Bear and sent it tumbling through the mud and the trees.
The beast's howls of pain caused the few birds remaining in the area to flee.
Hughes was shocked when he saw the yellow atmosphere surrounding the Cosmos Devouring Sky Wolf and the 30 light spheres. He could see that 15 of them were white 15 of them were pink and blue, and they were in the shape of a crescent moon. This was clearly identical to the young master's aura! Wasn't that supposed to be ghost force, then? However, those flames were far more intimidating than fire should be at the boy's level. No one had ever reported the child wielding flames other than when he donned that flaming divine sword tattoo.
Well, there was that incident with the Desolate Wing Falcon...this taught the entire legion to never underestimate Lord Trill.
"The combat soul can already use the strength of his host's origin? That's the ability of an Origin Scientist. Is this the effect of the heavenly grimoire? However, it seems Josiah expects to be able to fight at the same time as his wolf wields these terrifying ghost force flames," Hughes mused from the tree. "He is overestimating himself."
Crash!
Meanwhile, Jody dodged the deadly huge stone claws, and fierce chomping of the opposing Earth Spirit Bear, as trees were ripped to shreds and the land was damaged. Jody swiftly jumped and dodged in every direction, infuriating the Earth Spirit Bear into stomping on the earth with a pale khaki natural force. Huge earth spikes burst up from the ground aiming to impale little Jody! Hughes paled and was ready to take action.
This young master was too reckless. This particular Earth Spirit Bear had developed the perfection level nascent concept, and its force was 45 BP! However, right before Hughes was about to act, sheer force and momentum burst out from Jody's body. This momentum was so strong it shocked Hughes into inaction.
"Force momentum…? How in the...? Didn't he let the summon use his battle force? Does he not feel pressured?"
In reality, Jody had yet to feel pressured!
Jody's senses and reaction speed were bestial with both [Pharaoh's Law] and his seven astralis active. His physical strength, backed by rage force, had far surpassed this first-level vicious beast's force! It almost felt like things were moving in slow motion. Jody sidestepped an emerging earth spike and jumped onto it as it rose in the air. Circulating the rage force, Jody noticed a mysterious ripple in his seven astralis. He had long become familiar with this ripple but could now sense clearly.
Momentum!
Jody possessed the combat force of the ancient Titan Clan, his body radiating with titanic rage force momentum. Force momentum was the accumulation of energy around an expert that forms a type of utility wave. It could shield and also boosts attack power. Only real experts could possess it! Because his momentum was based on the principles of wrathful madness, his rage force had a unique application. The angrier he became, the fiercer his force momentum!
Jody had once been disintegrated alongside the only woman he ever loved.
He had a treasure chest full of unexpressed fury! Now that he had the hang of it, he could activate his momentum at will. After the earth spike reached two meters, Jody leaped and shot himself like a slingshot into the Earth Spirit Bear's abdomen with the Light of Truth arcana.
Fist of Rage!
Bang!
Crash!
The Earth Spirit Bear was foaming at the mouth as it stood to shudder in place, a huge bloody hole steaming in the middle of its body. Due to the Earth Spirit Bear's hard exterior coating, the other third of its body had made a crater a few meters away.
"This is…?" Hughes could tell that Jody wasn't using origin force in the last attack.
If anything, it seemed like he used the purest and fiercest strength possible! Not even rookie Saints could punch like that. Jody landed on the ground behind the twitching Earth Spirit Bear as it collapsed. The void above him rippled, and a black sky puppy emerged and fell on his head. After swatting at the air and feeling a hairy butt land again, Jody looked at his fists, reminiscing over that previous feeling. Usually, one needed to express a force surpassing 100 BP to produce a momentum stream. Yet, he could do so easily thanks to his rage force.
The key was that he had the required rage and knew how to harness it.
On the other hand, Sylvester casually flew over to the dying Earth Spirit Bear and unleashed a yellow atmosphere again as he spat out more skyfall flames. Watching this little puppy spit out a pillar of fire with the same force as when he was big was a far more wondrous sight for Hughes and company.
Wail~
The Earth Spirit Bear released a series of pathetic and heartbreaking sounds as it burned alive. Until...
[Imp: Enemy Slain! Loot captured!]
[Imp: You have slain the first-level Vicious Earthen Spirit.]
[Imp: Loot - 500 death crystals, 600 nirvanic crystals, 250 fire crystals, 600 earth crystals, 1,000 origin crystals.]
[Imp: Esoteric knowledge of Mud Slaying...]
Sylvester remained indifferent towards this and flew off to the steaming chunk of carcass a few meters in the distance, incinerating this as well.
[Imp: Enemy Slain! Loot captured!]
[Imp: You have slain the first-level Vicious Earthen Spirit.]
[Imp: Loot - 450 death crystals, 200 nirvanic crystals, 300 fire crystals, 300 earth crystals, 1,000 origin crystals.]
[Imp: Esoteric knowledge of Rock Hurling...]
Hughes found this cruel and unnecessary, but the utility of this combat soul had startled and horrified him. He wondered what kind of monster this kid was growing up to be.
Although this was just a first-level vicious beast who had comprehended force, even Jody thought this was a bit over the top. So he spoke to Sylvester via telepathy, "Why do you burn them?"
'I am refining them. Vicious beasts start absorbing the forces of the sky and the land from conception. Their bodies are far tougher than heroes, especially those of the earth and metal elements, but not all of them can comprehend laws due to inferior blood. For first-level beasts such as this to have such strength, they must have a hidden bloodline. With skyfall, I can extract the energy in their flesh for you to refine and improve your physique.' Sylvester flew back over and landed on Jody's head again, stretching out and lying down. 'If you use an item from your system at that time, who knows? You may have surprising results.'
This time, Jody was much less bothered by this suddenly adorable puppy on his head. He indeed needed to improve his body's foundation! He also needed to start using the Twilight Store.
'This may greatly assist you in your body transformation path, but you don't even understand the secrets of lifeblood. Strengthening your own will only benefit you, believe me. If old knife ears over there planned on showing you the fundamentals of Saint formula, its that better you solidify your foundation in the Titanic Rage Law first.'
'No way, Sly, are you serious? You've just got to be shitting me. Can you help me improve my physique as well? Are you kidding? That's super lit. Why didn't you say that before? I've long since been slaughtering these first level vicious beasts!' Jody grew incredibly excited at this sudden news.
He honestly had no fear of any vicious beast under level three. Even if the opponent had awakened an elemental force, his labors would help him take it down.
However, once it was third level or above, that would be another story altogether. Unless, of course, he could achieve a breakthrough in the Titanic Rage Law! He had to reach the limit of the human body before advancing to the next stage, or he was insulting his own destiny! Jody's most fervent desire was to be a hero who was more powerful than the skyslaughters.
'I have no idea what you've just said to me. What a barbaric era you must have grown up in,' Sylvester's sneer came across crystal clear. He spoke haughtily via telepathy, 'Furthermore, you are far too weak to facilitate my abilities properly. I can do much more than what you would imagine possible. Besides, this is not something we can do in excess, or you will contaminate your source. Even now you must go through a round of cleansing before I would allow it to happen again. I would suggest we specify our targets in the future. After all, you have the system, so this method isn't strictly necessary. If the target fits your bloodline, this contamination will not happen. Consider these Earth Spirit Bears as my gift to you for advancing.'
The state of Jody's current base physique was only equal to a little less than 33 points of battle power, or 33 BP. However, once he activated his astralis, each point would explode with astral light! The third fist of his Fists of Light arcana, the Fist of Destruction, allowed Jody to circulate all his astral light and direct it to explode from a single astralis!
Through this point, he could blast out with titanic rage force, containing the full brunt of his strength comparable to 57 BP! First-level vicious beasts only had around 20 BP, plus the advantage of any concepts they had inherited from bloodlines. This was why Sylvester could instantly slaughter the first Earth Spirit Bear. He had attacked before the opponent could even react and draw strength from its concept! Even the remaining Earth Spirit Bear possessed around 45 BP because of the power of its perfect level nascent force concept.
Unfortunately, this was not enough to stop Jody from slaughtering it.
Hughes lightly landed on the ground next to Jody, ready to caution this young master not to be too ruthless or cold-hearted. He feared the boy took pleasure in tormenting others.
However, before he could speak, emerald flames erupted to life from the maw of the sky wolf puppy on the young master's head. The puppy and its owner were then shrouded in the fire. Without wasting time or words with Hughes, Jody immediately sat down and entered his host space before opening his mind's eye, which was augmented into Mind's Lamp due to [Pharaoh's Law]. Circulating the Titanic Rage Force, the mantra echoed throughout his host space.
"The night is long and dark, though my heart is darker."
"The river is endlessly dropping, unaware of stopping."
"The light gives us life, and the truth creates the heart."
"The Heaven's call to the sky, if they fall, it was mercy's fault…"
Jody focused as he used his mind's lamp to gather astral light from the surrounding spiritual energies, refining the spirit points in the balls of both his feet! Meanwhile, rage runes were being produced from the mantra in his host space. These runes slowly gathered and glowed with crimson light as they condensed into hieroglyphs that disappeared into Jody's body, merging with his flesh.
At the same time, he summoned the [Twilight Ankh] and opened the Twilight Store.
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[Twilight Store - Rookie Tier]
'Twilight Essence Pearl⇆⇆55 Twilight Stars'
'Death Essence Pearl⇆⇆10 Twilight Stars, 12 Death Stars'
'Fate Essence Pearl⇆⇆15 Twilight Stars, 15 Fate Stars'
'Berserk Essence Pearl⇆⇆15 Twilight Stars, 25 Rage Stars'
'Origin Gem⇆⇆10 Twilight Stars, 50 Origin crystals'
'Source Star⇆⇆2 Twilight Stars'
'Death Star⇆⇆2 Twilight Stars'
'Fate Star.....BANNED'
'Origin Star⇆⇆5 Twilight Stars'
'Poison Star⇆⇆1 Twilight Star'
'Rage Star⇆⇆1 Twilight Star'
'Ruined Twilight.....Rookie-level Relic| 250 Twilight Stars, 50 Death Stars'
'Purge Charm.....Rookie-level Relic| 500 Twilight, 30 Origin, and 10 Source Stars'
'Lorac's Rage.....LOCKED'
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Jody reluctantly purchased a Twilight Essence Pearl for 55 Twilight Stars, curious to see how the transaction process occurred. He felt the familiar feeling of draining from his matrix, but suddenly felt something new had appeared in his matrix.
"Hm?" Only then did Jody realize things could be stored in his energy center.
A seven-colored pearl floated silently above his origin pool. Since Sly had found a way to help him, he would try to make two astral points simultaneously!
Meanwhile, Sylvester defied gravity and expanded back into his child form, becoming a mystical-looking five-meter-tall sky wolf. He opened his huge mouth and inhaled, causing all the emerald flames in the area to be sucked into his belly. The only thing that remained in the area where the beast corpses had been before was small patches of purple and pink ice.
Sylvester turned into a purple light and zoomed into Jody's glabella.