Smiling received his requested items along with his metal plate. He entered Chamber 21 and produced the plate he needed for the Furnace Treatment. He then removed five needles all looked specially made. "Let's begin" the needles then floated above certain points on his body before sticking into them slowly. He winced at the pain as the needles and plate he sat upon heated up to glowing bright orange. His body felt on fire and his bones felt like molten lava was poured onto them. He then sat their for three days while the process became latched on.
After doing the treatment after a month the usual state of Smiling staggering out of the chamber and heading to his room. This was last day of the treatment and when he arrived at his room he passed out for a whole day. He then awoke standing from the bed somewhat refreshed. He clenched his fists and felt his chi circuits had grown along with his core. His body felt hot and at the same comfortably warm giving him the feeling of relaxation. He then felt a rush of dizziness as he wobbled in place. He sat back on the bed holding his head. 'Must be the treatment of the spell. My core feels like it's coated in strong metal' he thought. His skin felt hard his bones ached from the hardening process. 'But my mind feels like its filled with cotton' He was close to breaking through to the top tier of Rank Five he had been using the chambers for a month. He had seen progress in his Soul Core along with enhancing his body with the Furnace Treatment. Sitting on the table he saw a flat circular metal plate. The forge created a plate for Iron meditation unlike his Furnace plate. It was a lot like the one from home but better quality. Unlike the first plate with etchings to heat up this plate. This one was enriched metal with chi stones forged into it. He picked up and flipped in the air. He sat cross legged upon it as he looked over his progress inside his Mind Palace. He found that the mental pool was rising and he could see runes forming inside his mind from the Furnace Treatment. Runes being engraved to his mind was probably the cause of the dizziness for they hadn't become stable yet.
After effects from the Furnace treatment being mental fatigue which made his thoughts fuzzy. Taking it easy would do him some good for a bit. He staggered to the food tray and began eating everything quickly. 'I am starving so this is what I needed' He scarfed it down drank the pitcher of water and burped wiping his face. 'I should take a break today. Best I just sleep for awhile till my body has time to stabilize completely' he thought aiming for his bed.
He walked over to the bed holding the railing. He then fell upon the bed lying flat on his back. His eyelids felt heavy and he felt the sensation of slumber. He then drifted into sleep. As he slept he then felt a jolt of power surging through his veins, muscles, organs, and his bones. Steam began to slowly come off his body as he slept. The Furnace Treatment had began to push his body to evolve.
As Smiling slept the world kept turning.
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Red Demon sat in the bare temple as large stones floated around him. One stone in particular floated in front of him. "Focus on what you want to change or control" the apparition All Seeing standing behind him. The image of the stone began to flicker as it turned into a small figurine of a statue of a god with a big belly with horns. Sweat rolled off his forehead as he concentrated on creating the illusion. "Now make it move" the statue started to become animated but the movements were sloppy. They would pause after every movement causing him to push more chi into the technique. The statue started to move more naturally as it danced about static face with tongue hanging out. 'Demon face....chubby...' he thought as he shifted the stone's image. After an hour of this he fell forward and the stones turned to their normal selves and fell to the ground with a crash.
He felt exhaustion and his head felt like it could split. "The sensation to this element is intense…" he said whispering as he controlled his breathing. "Yeah it takes a special person to maintain the headaches till you reach a certain level with the element then you feel nothing, but an open mind controlling every aspect of your body's function. Or every soul around you seeing their lives from a far" she had her arms crossed and she fixed her glasses. "You've made progress in illusion casting, and telekinesis is probably your strongest being battle comes secondary to you" she stated. "Have you been able to penetrate this temple with your thoughts?" She asked. "I have but the presences I felt around the temple are fuzzy. Their bodies merely blobs of chi. But I can make out that they are animal and lack sentience" he explained. "We'll keep using practice within your routine after you leave here. Which should be soon you need to be heading to the Keep" she explained. Red stood and manifested Demon's Wrath and began to swipe the air. He went through all his forms as All Seeing sat on a boulder watching in boredom, "You are a patient one and diligent with your training? Anyone would be rushing out of here when they know they can leave? But you have been here just using this time to train?" Red Demon spun in the air shooting the shuriken out. He decided he needed to incorporate this as part of skill. He was limited and didn't need to drain his chi with his forge ability if he didn't have too. He spun it around with the golden string and whipped it about synchronized with his movements along with his slashes of his sword. "You gonna keep ignoring me?" All Seeing said with a pout. "I'm not ignoring. I'm concentrating. If you must know…" he finished an arching slash and then shot the shuriken forward till he stabbed into the stone walls. He jerked his arm freeing it as it shot back into his hand. "Clearly being here hasn't brought the wrath of the World and no one is trying to kill me. This place is rich in chi and I plan to absorb every drop from this room. In doing so I will have taken all chi from this temple after you gave me the element" he then stomped down as rocks then shot up stopping mid air. The rocks then shot forward exploding into the walls. He straightened up, "Being isolated like this has been the first real freedom I've had in awhile. And I need to hone some skills I've picked up. Being on the go has made training difficult. So I will be staying here till the chi is gone. Then we will leave and hopefully I'll be closer to the top tier of the Fifth Rank" he explained going back to his training.
"Well great…I have to stay here till you do all that" she cupped her face in hands sighing loudly.
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Location: Elysium
The World walked down a bridge made of thousands of swords leading to a floating platform. Over the bridge was shining white clouds and above was golden light and stars. They were joined by Raijin and Dreymond following behind. The old King Slayer was dawned in scaled armor, he wore a Tengu blue mask, a giant sword on his back along with a katana with a wakizashi. He was ready to defend his master with all weapons he was equipped with.
They walked towards specific Primordials' of the top ten all seated in thrones upon the circular floating platform. In the middle of the edge of the circle was three vacant seats. The World took their seat in the middle having Dreymond on their right and Raijin on their left. All around them were different beings of immense power. One individual stood up he was dawned in a black robe with a white dragon upon their back. He had short black hair and silver eyes. He bowed, "The Mist Dragon reporting to the Master The World. I want to thank you for coming to our meeting spot and come at a timely manner for this meeting to take place" the World merely nodded, "Elegant as always Mist Dragon. You ask me to come and hear an emergency meeting of the Regime. What can I do for you all?" Mist Dragon sat and a woman in revealing silks stood up. She was beautiful and had long curly purple hair all way down her back. She had a tiara upon her head and she had lavender eyes. She bowed, "Pixie Queen, reporting I have been asked to speak on a matter. We have unrest among the Primordial some have seen your leadership being distracted and lenient upon the realms leading to this civil war? This has caused serious unrest and realms mirror a similar conflict among us. What do we do about this?" She asked. "What has been done that I have not been told?" The World asked with a cold tone.