Chapter 424: Addition of Nothingness!
On the 9th day since Lilith used her Insight Scroll, Erix, and Rin finally made a second big breakthrough since the last one seven days ago.
They successfully broke through in their Chaos concept, reaching 3rd realm in it!
Most importantly, they finally reached a breaking point in their spirituality shortly afterward and transformed their Spirit source into Aethir source! They didn't complete the 3rd stage of Way of Unfettered, but finally finished the requirement to complete it. Now they just had to work towards awakening Aethir Mystic Intent in the usual daily 30-minute nightmares.
Both of them were under the Dreanox Tree and they had just finished a Limitless Plane session of 1 hour where they reached the 3rd realm in the Chaos concept. They still had to spend 30 minutes of it in the evening for the torture of Way of Unfettered's 3rd stage and the sudden breakthrough of Aethir awakening occurred on both of them at the same time as if they were synchronized.
The flux of power released in their aura was sensed by Aria first as she came flying on a big four-winged black horse with violet-black flamy wings. It had a dark gold ethereal mane and tail just as wild, making the steed look demonically majestic.
This was Aria's Regalon Drive that she had named Xan and she sat on the throne over its back, watching Erix and Rin with a gleeful grin.
"Erix and Rin finally reached there."
*Neigheheigh*
The steed brayed loudly, its nostrils bursting out dark gold and purple flame sparks.
"Yeah, yeah, Xan. It will be hard to defeat them now," Aria giggled as she patted Xan.
"Let's see how many affinities of six transformations they initially awakened."
Aria descended beside them while Xan dispersed like a shadow and turned into a black crystal bangle with dark gold and purple patterns on her wrist.
After sitting on a couch, Aria snaked on some chips that Isabella recently made. They were super spicy and sour like lemon with more mixed spices.
Soon, Isabella also arrived and sat beside her as she had just finished lunch. "Aria, lunch is ready, so don't eat these too much."
"Okie. Where are others?"
"Lily, Sameira, and Kenshin went to pocket dimension with both guild's core groups to check out a strange site that Yelwon reported this morning."
"Oh, sounds interesting. I also finished my Labyrinth Tower's floor clearing to the 80th floor, so I should go there and check it out.
"Lilith's aura has been changing constantly the past few days, eh?" Isabella looked at Lilith several meters away in her cross-legged sitting position.
"Yeah, that element is scary," Aria nodded as she looked at the black spots that forming in the flowing aura around her. "I wonder what it is?"
"Mhmm," Isabella nodded. "When my spirit sense approaches there, it gets blacked out instantly and I can't sense anything, not even a connection to myself."
"She has high mastery in the Death element and her Super Exotic Element—Meizen, is also scary because it deletes everything," Aria wryly smiled. "She must be progressing very high in it, eh?"
"Mhmm, but this feels a bit strange," Isabella muttered. "I've never seen such pure darkness in her Meizen. I mean, I know Meizen is a combination of Death, Blood, and Shadow elements, but this feels a bit different."
Isabella shook her head with a dry chuckle, "It's just my gut feeling. Forge it."
"Let me see with Spiritual Aethir Gaze," Aria said as her eyes turned curious. She believed in gut feelings, and Isabella could be true.
"Spiritual Aethir Gaze?" Isabella raised her eyebrows.
"Hehe, yep. I first learned Aethir Gaze, which is like an upgraded version of Spirit sense that we were using to sense things within a large area. It allows me to look through multiple layers of anything."
"And once I mastered it, my Spiritual Mystic Eye turned into Spiritual Aethir Gaze, haha," Aria chuckled. "I should be able to check it properly."
"I also have a feeling I'll reach my breaking point soon and evolve my spirit source into Athir source," Isabella smiled.
"Yep! We will get stronger and if those pirates come again, we'll beat them this time!" Aria raised her fist while grinning. "Alright, let's see what Lilith is cooking."
She used her Spiritual Aethir Gaze, giving it the shape of a tiny, mysterious eyeball by consuming a bit of Aethir force.
It floated towards Lilith and went into one of the pitch-black spots in her aura.
Aria's eyes were closed shut as she could sense the pitch-black spot's power and nature.
"This…" Aria's eyebrows were raised. "This is nothing."
Isabella confused. "What do you mean?"
"It feels nothing…oh my god," Aria's mouth suddenly wide opened in shock along with her eyes as she exclaimed. "This is Void!"
"It has to be only this! My senses were flooded with pure darkness and nothingness."
"Void…" Isabella's eyes soon showed shock. "So it's just like your Animus element, a principle element."
"Yes," Aria repeatedly nodded as she continued to sense it. "This is a pure void that I am sensing."
"It's not affecting that eye you used?"
"Nope. My Spiritual Aethir Gaze is more powerful and resisting the void, so it's not getting deleted out of existence," Aria chuckled. "But It's consuming a bit of Aethir force to stay here. Anyway, I'll stop since we checked it."
Indeed. Lilith was pulling the same kind of stunt that Erix and Rin pulled when they used their first Insight Scroll.
Just like how Rin and Erix each awakened a Principle element and directly made a Super Exotic Element out of it by combining it with the two elements they had, Lilith also awakened a Void element and made it a part of her new Super Exotic Element.
Meanwhile, Erix and Rin finally opened their eyes which glowed with a whole new level of clarity reflecting in their eyes and surging with invisible pressure that stemmed from them awakening Aethir.