2856 Breakthrough II
Buzz!
As my core absorbed the herbal energy, the spherical formation lit, and with it, the first violet cube lit up.
The moment it did, the whole spherical formation began to turn violet; it only took a couple of seconds for it to turn completely violet before the twelve runic chains were released from it and connected to different parts of the formations covering me.
As it happened, the purple cube blazed like a sun, and the violet color darkened as it released energy; the chains transferred it in an instant, turning formation covering me fully violet like a sphere before sending the energy to me.
Gasp!
I couldn’t help but gasp in shock as the violet energy appeared from every part of my body; it was not the amount that had shocked me, but the quality of the energy.
I know how powerful these crystals are; I have performed numerous tests before selecting them for my breakthrough. Still, when I felt them entering me, it shocked me.
The energy is no weaker than the source energies I have sensed. The violet energy is very powerful; I have done numerous tests on it, testing it against many source energies, including the one I have got from the Bishop, and it was no weaker than it.
Though it is just energy, different from the source energies, be it of inheritance or the bloodline, it could not compare to them, nor do I want to.
Inheritance or Bloodlines, to some extent, need the energy with an imprint of source; it is what they run on. I, on the other hand, do not need such an imprint; I have created my own Inheritance, which gives me the advantage of using any energy that is suitable for me.
Inheritances and Bloodlines also have their advantages; some I could not compare to.
The energy came streaming down through the runes, passing through every cell of my body, before entering my core, which is like herbal energy, began to spin faster and faster to absorb more and more energy.
These violet energy crystals contain a massive amount of energy, more than one would need for a breakthrough into the Grand Lord class.
According to my calculations, I would need three-four of the three violet crystals, which may seem impossible, seeing the sheer amount of energy that is needed for the Grand Lord breakthrough; even though I am breaking through Grandmaster class, I would need about the same amount of energy.
I have brought out twelve of these crystals, just for precaution.
Half an hour passed, and a quarter of the crystal disappeared, and within its consumption increasing every second, the rest would disappear in another half an hour.
Currently, I am taking 2.1 times the energy that Bishop was taking at the same time, and he was already going too fast due to the problem that had occurred in his core. My core is taking the energies faster than him, but I am feeling no pain, nor is my body suffering any side effects due to it.
There are several reasons for that, the uniqueness of my body and energy is two of them, but the biggest one is the breakthrough formation I have developed.
It is efficient and fast; it could provide me with far more energy in much less time without any side effects. I am feeling quite proud of this fact; the days I had put into designing this formation finally seemed to be worth it.
Another half an hour passed, and finally, the first violet crystal disappeared; it had taken around one hour and two minutes to completely disappear. The second crystal, which is already lit up and providing unimpeded energy to me, will take even less time to disappear.
I looked at my core and saw the blob spin faster and faster; as it did, it grew bigger very slowly.
One would not notice the change in size unless they kept looking for minutes; the change in size is not surprising considering I am breaking through the Grandmaster class, my biggest breakthrough after entering the tyrant stage.
The Grandmaster class used to be the dream of everyone; people used to prepare for decades and centuries to break into this class, but then I appeared, and Grandmasters began popping like rain, and people’s dreams climbed a notch, and they began to dream for a High-Grandmaster class.
I am just happy I am breaking through the stage, and everything seems to be going well; I am not sensing a small problem in my core, which couldn’t help but make me feel relieved.
While I am confident in my methods, I still have this small, and it is natural; everybody would have it while taking such a big leap, no matter how confident they are.
Another hour passed, and no problem had occurred, but my core had consumed two more energy crystals. Now, it had begun taking the energy from the fourth, and the amount it was taking was so huge that it had turned the whole runes crystalline.
The amount is quite shocking, and I begin to feel strain in my body. It is not much, but surprising considering the preparations I have made.
If I had been taking such a huge amount of energy without the protection of the formation, I would have been torn apart like Bishop had, even worse than him, considering the flow of energy is more than five times greater than what he had suffered, and it is increasing.
I don’t care if the strain had been painful; what matters to me is having a breakthrough, and looking at my core, that seemed to be the case; I could not find even the slightest problem.
Fourteen minutes passed, and the fourth crystal disappeared, which shook me to my core. I did not think I would need more than four violet energy crystals; I was surprised when it went over three and a half, but now, it started on the fifth, and it had sort of started worrying me.
If it had been four crystals, I would not have been worried, but the fifth is worrying.
Four more minutes passed, and the strain became painful when my core had finally begun to slow down with its consumption of energy.
Seeing that, I couldn’t help but take a sigh of relief; if it had consumed the whole energy crystal, I would have really worried about my life.
It took little more than a minute for the core to stop, and when it did, the flow of energy had also stopped.
As the core stopped, I got to look at it; it was still a colorful blob of liquid, but now it was bigger and felt much thicker. If I am right, then its size had increased by 30%, which is a huge increase, seeing we are talking about the core.
Now, it is time for the final stage, solidification.
If I had been breaking into the stage of the Grand Lord, the isolation would have disappeared, but I am not, despite the power I will get from it.
I have also made a conscious effort for that not to happen; each of the runes is infused with the power of rule-bending, and I have created a formation in such a way that it isolates itself.
Even those standing beside the formation will not sense a shred of aura from it, even when the energy crystal sends out its energy highest volume.