Herald stared at the mess in front of him, his eyes unwavering, as if he was already used to seeing such grotesque things.
"A mana rage... When a human forcefully enters the fourth dimension, a forced transcending will be attempted. All the mana will try to enter the body at the same time, but this leads to the mana rage.." He said to himself as he broke one of the spikes. As he walked, it looked as if mana was paving way for him. His long black hair seemed to be floating in the surges of mana that were rampaging. His eyes glowed intensely, brimming with power.
"Calm down," he said. Suddenly, the mana rage stopped and the spikes vanished, leaving Mitsuki or whatever that had remained of him down on the ground of the mana realm.
"He has an impressive vessel.. He actually absorbed a lot of this..." Herald thought as he looked down at the bloody mess.
"That must been a very painful experience.." Herald thought as he examined the red crown on top of Mitsuki's head. He looked as his hand and saw the red symbols and numerals.
"Encode huh.... Now this is something huge.. It is a good thing you entered the fourth dimension, you haven't died yet, you are just alive, and I know you can hear me.. Listen well, try to ignore the pain, circulate all the pure mana in your vessel state and concentrate all of it into the middle. Do the same with all your energies, including your cursed energy." Herald said as he looked at the boy. Sure enough, he felt small traces of pure mana circulating, slowly and steady.
"Good, good.. Continue doing so.." Herald said as he used a spell to reduce the pain Mitsuki was feeling.
"If he can actually try to persevere, I will help him out a bit.."
"Listen while you accumulate the mana in you. When you do accumulate all of the energy in you to form a temporary Energy Sphere in you, I will need you to control it until implosion begins. The way to do that is through the controlling the codes of life: Your soul basically.. It is a delicate thing, but nevertheless, I will try to correct you.."
"I can sense that you are trying to talk.. Do not, first focus on what I am telling you to.. Not that you even have a mouth to talk right now.."
As Herald continued giving instructions, a distinct white glow started emanating from Mitsuki's chest. A faint white aura covered his body.
"Good.. The more you circulate the vast amount of pure mana in you, the faster your soul will heal.. Now try adding your celestial energy into the cycle to heal the injuries on your soul faster.."
Slowly and steadily, the aura around Mitsuki was becoming more and more distinct.
"Do not heal your physical body, you will have no use for it soon enough. Just persevere through that pain.. Remember the thing that keeps you from dying,"
As the glow on his chest was becoming more and more discernible, his skin looked like it was flaking off of his body, revealing a pure white body where there was supposed to be flesh.
"A pure white soul... Damn, just how much did he absorb? How large is his vassal energy?" Herald wondered as the soul seemed to float out gracefully from the body. Aside from it being pure white, the form looked blank; no facial features, just a blank face.
"Now, mix in your cursed energy into that circular path, then reduce the radius of the circulation slowly by slowly until it combines into a sphere.." Herald commanded. The sphere grew larger and larger as it now hosted a variety of colors.
"I said that you would have to encode, but I shall do it.. Just focus on Imploding the mana sphere." Herald said.
"Well, seeing how purely white his soul came out to be, I can't leave it to him." Herald thought as numerical values started to appear all around Mitsuki's soul. The sphere started glowing aggressively as it imploded, becoming smaller and smaller but denser.
"Encode;" Herald chanted, causing Mitsuki's soul to turn into spiral like matter that was now spiraling around the now blinding core, until suddenly, it disappeared.
The mana realm broke like glass, unable to host the beings that were inside, causing them to appear in a whole other place. All that could be seen were cube like shapes that seemed to be moving in all directions in an endless march. A distorted image of a night sky could be seen in the cubes, and howl like sounds could be heard.
Suddenly, a large explosion occurred, right where Herald was. As if he had experienced it many times, he kept his cool as he controlled the explosion, stopping it.
"Damn, this is taking quite a lot of effort.. Plus... They must have noticed by now..." Herald thought as he felt the fourth dimension shake. He controlled all the energy that had exploded, recreating it back into Mitsuki's soul as he encoded his soul, mixing it with the energy.
"Hurry... I need to hurry." He thought as the shaking became more and more violent. A blurry gigantic hand appeared above the cube like place they were in, attempting to crush it.
"Done!"
As the cube shattered, Herald appeared back in Aqua's realm together with a glowing orb. He sighed as he placed the orb on the air.
"Damn.. I have always hated those beings... They are really unsettling..." he mumbled as he watched the orb take form.
Mitsuki felt his body being reconstructed as he gained consciousness.
[Transcending process complete.]
[The system shall now exit your soul.]
[You can attempt to combine the system into any ability to make it grow.]
"What is this feeling.." He wondered as he tried to look around. He was in a dark green world and the system display was now in front of him in the form of a holograph."
"Combine.... This should do then.." He thought.
"Combine with Orchestra of Chaos." He commanded.
[The system shall now combine with the form Orchestra of Chaos.]
[Due to the differences of origin, The Orchestra of Chaos shall consume the system to gain power.]
As the world around him seemed to start collapsing, the display in front of him shattered into a million pieces, and three letters that were red in color appeared.
{α}
{β}
{γ}
"Gamma... I can't wait to see what the gamma stage does.." He said as his consciousness faded.
".... ke up.."
"Wake up."
Mitsuki opened his eyes and saw Kanazuma looking at him, his face full of worry.
"Thank goodness..."
He stood up, feeling a bit strange.
"That was one traumatizing thing that happened to me... How did my body heal? I thought I-"
Suddenly, he remembered the voice he was hearing back when he felt intense amounts of pain:
"Do not heal your physical body, you will have no use for it soon enough. Just persevere through that pain.. Remember the thing that keeps you from dying,"
"Right! That voice! Where is he.."
Mitsuki looked around, but aside from Kanazuma and the frozen in time Aqua, there was no one else.
"Were you able to tap into the fourth dimension?"
"Y- Yes.. I was.. Now I am a transcended, right?" He asked as he looked at Kanazuma.
"Why are you looking at me like that? I can show you-"
"No, it's not that I don't believe you, its just that.... I feel pity for all boys back on the kingdom now.." Kanazuma said as he sighed.
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"Still dense as ever I see.. You will see soon enough."
"And is it just me or has my hair grown longer? I can feel it touching my neck.. I also feel full of some kind of energy. Um sir, what exactly did I become?"
"Let's see.." Kanazuma said as he stared at Mitsuki. Mitsuki gulped, anxious to know.
"Well, you are a..."
"a what??"
"You are a being that I do not know of."
"Huh?"
"Anyway, we shall see later. I shall now ask that time shall be resumed."
"Wait wait wait! What do you mean you do not know? Do I have horns or something?? Wait..." He said as he looked inside his pants.
"Thank goodness its still there." He said with a sigh of relief.
"Was that really necessary... Anyway, we shall call you to Avalon soon, so that Lord Aurendor can check what you are.." Kanazuma said time continued flowing.
"..an" Aqua said, finishing the word he was saying.
"Huh? When did those two get that far away?" Aqua wondered as he saw the two walk towards him.
"Kanazuma, was time stopped or something?"
"Yes indeed."
"Ahh, so did you do whatever you wanted to do with Mitsu- wait a second.." Aqua said, getting very close to Mitsuki, as if scrutinizing his face down to the skin itself.
"Who the heck is this?"
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