Chapter 411: The Supreme Legendary Technique... Part-3.
Chapter 411: The Supreme Legendary Technique... Part-3.
Just when Ashtel was about to dive down and find his way to descend to the lower floors of the Spire of Ascension, an extremely powerful mana fluctuation spread in all directions.
'Tch, he already activated the forbidden magic...'
*BOOOM*
The void located below where the planets were originally rotating started to collapse and the lower floor became visible.
An immensely powerful and dense wave of mana spread in all directions and entered the 100th floor from that collapsed void.
Ashtel immediately flew into that gigantic hole and tried to enter the 99th floor to see what Neo was doing, but the mana flow became even stronger than before and pushed him back forcefully.
'Such a powerful mana flow... This is even more powerful than someone using a 'World Authority' related to mana control or something like that...'
'What's going on... What kind of forbidden magic is he even using...'
[Sage Art: Broken Vessel: Smooth Manadynamics]
Just like aerodynamics is a method to move objects more smoothly by reducing the friction with air, manadynamics does the exact same thing, only that it's made purposely for chaotic mana currents.
As a person who has fought in wars for decades, Ashtel learned to adapt to various environments, and one such environment was the environment filled with chaotic mana.
On the battlefield, hundreds of thousands of awakeners battle each other, and thus the mana in the environment gets quite chaotic as thousands of people are forcefully trying to control
it.
It's not much of a problem to deal with such a situation for a short time, but Ashtel was one of the elite soldiers; he had to go on missions nearly every day, so he was more vulnerable to mana deviation caused by chaotic mana.
To resolve this matter, he created the 'Manadynamics' technique as a part of his 'Sage Art'.
It simply uses his own mana at a minimal and extremely efficient amount to smoothen the mana flow around him, thus rendering the chaotic mana completely ineffective on him.
The moment Ashtel used that skill, the mana pressure on his got immediately reduced, and he started moving forward once again.
He flew into the gigantic hole, completely ignoring the repulsion of the insanely dense mana; the closer he got, the denser mana became.
The 99th floor turned out to be a gigantic barren empty land; no matter how far you look, there was just endless barren land.
'A looped space-time area...'
But that wasn't the thing that caught his eyes; the most eye-catching thing in this entire empty barren land was a gigantic magic circle drawn on the ground.
The magic circle was so big that you could cover the entire Earth with this magic circle two times over!
The word small doesn't even begin to explain it; it was bigger than an entire planet!
'And it's all made up of blood...'
To make a magic circle that is even bigger than a planet entirely out of blood, the number of corpses and sacrifices that are needed is simply too huge; it's such a huge number that it's unthinkable.
"This!?"
Even Ashtel was shocked at such a sight; even he couldn't help but feel shocked at the number of creatures that Neo must have murdered to create something like this.
'Insanity, absolute insanity...'
If Neo had killed this many creatures in the outside world, the world alliance would have definitely noticed it, but there's no such record of so many creatures going missing.
Moreover, Neo couldn't have collected this many corpses right under Ashtel's nose either. There's only one way he could have collected such a massive pool of blood and corpses. 'He killed his own summoned beasts!'
Yes! The only way to collect this much blood without making others wary is by slowly summoning beasts over the years and killing them and storing away their blood in a space ring.
The space ring in this world is quite advanced; no matter how long you store things inside it, time barely even moves, so it's possible to preserve things like blood inside it for a very long time.
Although you can't store living beings in a space ring, it's possible to store tons and tons of blood sucked out of the corpses.
'Monster...'
Even Ashtel was shocked at how cruel a person can be.Nôv(el)B\\jnn
Neo literally summoned beasts for decades upon decades and one by one killed them and stored their blood for several decades in his space ring.
He kept repeating this process till he had enough blood to create a magic circle of this scale.
'No wonder he seemed so calm and happy after the war, even though I forced him to stop his crazy things...'
'He had found a new way to enjoy himself...'
Neo first summoned weak beasts and then tortured them and used them to get as much blood as possible.
A summoned beast is generally just made-up condensed mana; they don't actually have a real body, but when they sign contract with someone, they become partially real; their bodies then have blood like any other creature.
In other words, over the past decades, Neo signed contracts of friendship with millions of beasts and then tortured them and used them to collect blood.
'No wonder he always used to send clones to do his bidding; no wonder he was always making more and more clones of himself...'
At that moment, after seeing that gigantic magic circle, Ashtel had figured out everything.
The reason why Neo was always making clones was because the main body was busy concentrating on dodging Ashtel's detection and killing as many beasts as possible.
The clones were also helping him in the process.
Although Ashtel can indeed detect Neo if he's doing massively bad things, he can't do it if Neo is doing it on extremely small scales.
Neo likely used his world authority to cover the mana flow and then killed extremely weak summoned beasts; this way he was able to hide the mana fluctuations!
'Moreover, he must have made some hidden place that he filled with mana detection slowing
artifacts...'
All in all, Neo was able to keep his evil plans hidden from Ashtel for several decades, which is a feat that takes massive patience!
If his plans had been leaked to Ashtel even in the slightest, it would have been the end of him right then and there! But he was so good at hiding it, no one found out about it for decades!
'No wonder he hated his son when he saw that Liam was taking such good care of them.... His mentality has become twisted over the years from torturing millions of summoned beasts to
death!'
At that moment, a serious look appeared on Ashtel's face, and he immediately mobilized his
own mana.
'I must not let this plan succeed! I will crush this fiend's soul before he can even seize control over the artificial body!'
Ashtel flew down, and as the dense mana was just too dense around the center, he wasn't able to see the identity of the artificial body before, but as he got closer and closer.
The body started to look more and more familiar.
"T-this can't be!? Neo!! How can you be so cruel! YOU ARE A BEAST IN HUMAN FORM!"
"INSANITY!"
When Ashtel finally saw the face of the artificial body at the center of the enormous magic
circle, his eyes widened in sheer shock.
It was none other than Neo's youngest son, 'Liam Aldif' himself!
At that moment, Ashtel had realized almost everything!
'In that moment when I was getting teleported by that portal, the team Astra must have been teleported too! Neo asked Alverto to purposely teleport his son Liam here!"
"The reason why he was trying to delay me was because he wanted to complete this magic
circle!!"
"From the very beginning! He was going to seize his son's body! He knew that Liam is much more talented than him!!"
As realization dawned on Ashtel, he gritted his teeth and he clenched his fists. Liam has a bright future ahead; if such a great talent gets taken over by an evil sh*t like Neo, that will
spell doom for the entire human empire!
"I won't let you do it! I will shatter this magic circle-"
Before Ashtel could even do anything, the magic circle suddenly stopped working, and the
powerful mana flow stopped repelling Ashtel.
Everything became so silent for a second, as if time had stopped itself from moving.
A look of disgust appeared on Ashtel's face.
"Y-you piece of sh*t! How can you do this to your own son?!"
Ashtel was too late; Neo forcefully stopped the magic circle mid-operation with his soul's
power.
Neo had already prepared for this circumstance beforehand.
In case he isn't able to keep Ashtel in check for three hours, he will use the half-completed magic circle and then force stop it.
Although this will cause his soul to have some flaws when entering Liam's body, it will at
least be successful!
At that moment, the eyes of the unconscious Liam opened, and the young boy slowly got up
from the ground.
The usual calm and wise look from his eyes was already gone at this moment; instead, his eyes carried the look of immense hatred and insanity now.
A massive demonlike grin hung over his face as he suddenly started to laugh out loud like a
manic!
"BAHAHAHAHAHAAH... AHHAHAHAHAH...HAHAHAAHAHA... I DID IT!!!!!.... I HAVE SEIZED THE SUPREME LEGENDARY TECHNIQUE!!!!...HAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
"YOU LOST ASHTEL!!! YOU LOST!! AHAHAHAHAH.... MY DECADES LONG PLAN HAS SUCCEDED....
THIS IS SO DELIGHTFUL....HAHAHAHAHAH..."
Liam's body started to float in the air on its own at that moment.
[Ding! Error! Your world authority has merged with the legendary technique 'Mana Field!']
[Ding! Your world authority has been erased; your legendary technique has become your 'World
Authority'!]
[Congratulations! You have learned a Supreme Legendary Technique!]