Chapter 1227: Clearing The Grey Rot 12
Chapter 1227: Clearing The Grey Rot 12
Essence Stalker's group dealt with the Grey Rot the most severely and brutally, by using their nonsensical abilities to beat it up!
｢Name: Essence Stalker – True God
Level: The Law of Auroric Creation (Basic)
Divine Energy: 100%/100%.｣
｢Law of Auroric Creation - Divine Law
Grade: Unknown
Effect: A new Law that has never existed in the history of creation. Its scope of abilities is wide and near limitless, but the basic operation is that it grants the user the ability to weave Aurora into anything without the usual limitations.
Sources: Aurora Lord (Divine Class) + Essence of Creation (Passive Skill).｣
Quite possibly the shortest Law description so far among the core members but also the most tyrannical. Once again, Essence took the spot of the most overpowered below the Evil Trio, and his Law also showed this as it was the only one that was graded as unknown.
Its actual utility was something he was still working out, but it didn't seem too different from his usual class abilities. With his Class, he could convert matter and energy into Aurora, which he would store within himself and then either release in its raw state or shape it into anything he wanted.
However, Aurora had two weaknesses. Firstly, it was volatile, so the more of it he used, the more unstable the fabric of reality became. Secondly, it was impermanent, meaning that it could not last long and once control was removed, it would dissipate.
His former Aurora Lord Class had stabilized those two weaknesses using passive skills as he ranked up, yet those passives had simultaneously made his Aurora Energy weaker. However, this Law was different, as it completely removed the two weaknesses.
Now, Essence Stalker's Aurora Energy had the same characteristics as all other energies, which was a first, even for the AI.
Firstly, it could be broken down into smaller energies, but it did not yet have a tree of lesser energies developed like Origin Energy which could be broken down to Divine, Creation, and Destruction, which further broke down to Aetheric, Space, Time, etc.
Basically, the universe as we know it and all its matter and energies came from Origin Energy, which was the foundation of every universe in existence, even the one for Eternals.
Secondly, it could be used to power abilities. Previously, Aurora Anergy had been too volatile to power anything, forcing Essence to have to directly shape it into whatever he needed and then toss it out to do the work for him.
Now, he too could use Aurora Energy for magic, skills, and the like, with the same effect as Origin Energy. Aurora was on par with Origin Energy after all, but at the same time, Essence Stalker's output would be forcibly capped at the Divine level because that was the level of the Law.
Thirdly, it could be auto-generated by those who had the right Source Origin for it, which was limited to Essence Stalker himself and a few other special people like Shadowheart who could produce all energies or Draco who was the source of the power in the first place.
However, just like Destruction Energy, even if they could produce it, without the Divine Law to balance it, they would suffer its weaknesses.
Fourthly, and most importantly, Essence Stalker's Aurora Energy retained all the positive features it had when it was part of his former Divine class, but even strengthened further!
The man himself was currently walking into the Grey Rot, releasing a circular ward of Aurora Energy around him. Any bit of Grey Rot that came into contact was immediately met with the universe's most volatile material that was only tamable by one man and turned into Aurora Energy itself.
The Grey Rot was nothing but a child before Essence. The only ones who could make him struggle to compete with were the Evil Trio, as their various abilities could clear the Grey Rot in the entire Divine Realm within days, but Essence was not crazy enough to fight literal Eternal Gods in human form.
There was not much need to detail his fighting process with the Grey Rot, it was a massacre. One had to question who among the two the real calamity was...
Looking at the Grey Rot unceasingly smashing itself against his ward in futility, consuming itself to try and defeat him while achieving nothing but making him amused, one couldn't help but feel their heart ache.
Go little Grey Rot, never give up! Defeat that tyrant!!
Hmm…
Intellectual Monkey, Armonia, rubbed his smooth chin as if a sagely beard was there with a look of Daoist-like contemplation, a slight smile of transcendence playing on his lips. However, given that he was a handsome young pretty boy with an exotic build and features, it rather seemed sleazy and could make certain women blush.
"Mmm, best focus on my own quarry. I don't think any amount of cultivation can surpass that freak." Armonia muttered to himself.
｢Name: Intellectual Monkey – True God
Level: The Law of Battle Sage (Basic)
Divine Energy: 100%/100%.｣
｢Law of Battle Sage - Divine Law
Grade: EX+
Effect: Among the various Sage-related Laws, there is one that has nothing to do with research and has all to do with combat, putting the depth of sagacious knowledge forward solely for the purpose of achieving violence! This Law can only be used on the body and transforms one into the form of the Great Sage Underneath the Heavens for as long as their Divine Energy lasts.
Sources: Sage (Divine Class) + Theory of Violence (Passive Skill).｣
Armonia had hesitated before taking up this particular Law because his interest was first and foremost acquiring new knowledge through research.
Especially after the core members were able to sync their real-life power with that of their in-game power, Armonia had been working tirelessly behind the scenes to prepare materials and research that would allow not only the core members but all of humanity to adapt to the upcoming 'Age of Dharma Return'.
At some point, Draco planned to take down Gaia and release Worldly Energy for Earth to recover to what it had been during the era of the Nine Original Humans. However, there would inevitably be chaos and troubles if preparations were not made beforehand to help people adapt smoothly and transition into a new society ruled by Umbra and the Lineages.
But upon knowing that the task would mostly be expansion and combat, Armonia had chosen the only combat-related sub-Law under the Sage variety that was available to him so that he could deal with the Grey Rot.
Anyway, Draco had shared with him a way to let them become True Gods of Tradeskills so Armonia could use that bypass to bring his various Tradeskills to the Divine Level.
Armonia passed a hand through his lush white hair and focused. He clapped his hands together as his body began to shift from human to monkey, being very anthropomorphic. When he pulled his clapped palms open, a bo staff materialized slowly from golden energy, solidifying into the Ruyi Bang when done.
Due to the nature of this fight, Armonia did not spawn the Somersault Cloud but rather took out a pair of talismans, one with the word 'Fire' written boldly and another with the words 'Evil Warding' displayed on its front. Experience magic on m-vl-e-mpyr
The Evil Warding Talismans was cast with a flicker of golden energy, which manifested into a giant forest that formed in the air. Armonia then activated the fire talisman which moved to coat the words in the air, propelling both forward into the midst of the Grey Rot.
The resulting explosing caused the Grey Rot to roil and even subtly scream, mostly due to the Evil Warding rather than the fire. Armonia's eyes narrowed as he realized he had discovered another trait of the Grey Rot, which was that it was considered as part of the 'yin' faction.
However, he could tell that this was only in terms of spirituality. After all, from the feedback of the other core members, the Grey Rot was physically immune to even solar fire and heavenly lightning, which were the biggest enemies of the yin element.
However, for Armonia, his Evil Warding Talisman was intangible, only given physical effects due to the fire he added. The Evil Warding was what negated the Grey Rot's physical immunity greatly so that the ensuing fire could clear out the rest with ease.
Realizing this, his eyes shone brightly. His best method of assistance would be to craft a great amount of Evil Warding Talismans for his fellow members to use to boost their abilities and even those who struggled like Cold Summer with the water element would no longer face such trouble.
As such, he hurried to clear his lot for the day by spamming talismans while not caring about the Divine Energy cost, aiming to give himself buffer time to carry out his plans.
Watching him from nearby, Ghostprotokill scratched his curly brown hair with perplexity. He wondered why this usually calm fellow behaved as if someone had lit a fire under his bum, but then he realized he couldn't muster enough interest to find out.
Instead, he glanced at the Grey Rot and pondered how he was to make use of his rather… bizarre… Law to deal with it.
｢Name: Ghostprotokill – True God
Level: The Law of Law Mastery (Basic)
Divine Energy: 100%/100%.｣
｢Law of Law Mastery - Divine Law
Grade: EX
Effect: This Law grants its user the ability to accumulate a certain amount of Laws for their own use permanently and use any Law temporarily after copying. The number of permanent Laws increases linearly per Rank of this Law.
Sources: Classmaster (Divine Class) + Class Mastery (Passive Skill).｣
Yes, it was basically an upgraded version of his former Classmaster Divine Class, but this time it dealt with Laws. As it were, he could accumulate on permanent law at the Basic Rank and this number would increase by one slot with each rank up, for a total of 8 at the Supreme Rank.
Holding a permanent Law did not cost him anything and could be used at any time, similar to to the Evil Trio's methods of bypassing the need for Laws. Permanent Laws acquired by Ghostpro could grow, but in tandem with the Law he had.
So if his overarching Law was at the Supreme Rank, all the 8 permanent laws attached to it would be at the Supreme Rank to, and he only had to pay the Divine Essence into his main Law.
Permanent Laws were acquired through a lottery in his character sheet, and Ghostpro had yet to pick one because he was waiting for an opportunity to ask Fitter Cleric for help. With that lucky bastard's help, it would be easy for Ghostpro to get a good permanent Law.
Temporary Laws were easier to understand. Ghostpro could duplicate literally anyone's Öaw regardless of rank and use it for as long as he had Divine Energy to pay. He couldn't keep temporary Laws once his Divine Energy was finished and they couldn't be put on standby.
If he copied a temporary Law, from that very second his Divine Energy would begin to drain at a rate relating to the Rank and power of the temporary Law as well as his own source origin's quality.
He could copy even Essence's Law, but naturally, the drain would be crazy given that laws's power. None of the core members had weak Laws that he could easily plagiarize, Ghostpro had tried.
When he had tried out Draco's old Abyssal Prime Divine Class's main Law, the Law of Malevolent Darkness, which was SSS, the resulting drain had been at 5% Divine Energy per second!
How could he sustain anything with that kind of fucking drain!
While Draco had already devised potions to recover Divine Energy to full and Ghostpro could afford to buy million of them, why should he be the only core members to guzzle potions like a common player who needed to grind?
Especially since his Law was arguably one of the most overpowered so far apart from Essence's?!