LEVEL 0 IMMORTAL-Chapter 114: You Need More Connection

The Commander was etching the runes on his palm, and Elias closed his eyes, feeling every single stab of pain in his soul, taking it as what they were... the price for his advancement.

With everything that was happening around him, going from zero to a thousand in such a short time, Elias wondered when he would rest, or if his Talent or the madness of the Passenger in his head would ever allow him to.

As much as he would have wanted a world where everything followed his pace, he was clearly much too small to dictate that such a thing should not happen.

However, what gave Elias hope and more than a fair bit of joy was that he could one day become someone like that, if he strived hard for this position.

This was the ultimate fairness of this world. It was dark, bleak, and brutal, but if you were strong enough and stubborn enough to keep pushing ahead where all others had fallen, then it was inevitable that you would find yourself standing on the peak.

"It is done," the Commander said, "Now, stretch your hands towards the Art of your choosing, and it shall be taken into your core. This is necessary before you become a Fury Forge, because your foundation would be built alongside your Lumina Scripture."

Elias glanced at his palm before quickly looking away. His palm burned as if it had been pierced through and branded, and this pain flowed through his body until it reached the part of himself that he felt was connected to his Lumina Space. He could not be too sure without his real body.

Turning around, he stretched his hand to the altar and focused on the Lumina Scripture, and with his focused mind, Elias discarded the other two arts, keeping his eyes only on the one he wanted.

The Commander did not tell him he needed to do anything extra, just to stretch his hand, but after a few seconds and nothing was happening, Elias guessed she did not tell him everything; perhaps it was a matter of will and of his need for this Lumina Scripture.

With these thoughts in mind, Elias focused on the Scripture he wanted, and he instantly felt a connection with his Lumina Space, and suddenly, inside his head, he heard a roar from the infinite oceans of Lumina inside of him.

This roar was powerful, but sounded as if it came from far away. Perhaps because his form seemed to be linked with his Ageless Echo, his sights zoomed into his Oceans of Lumina, and for the first time since he gained them, he was not afraid to truly look at their depths.

He saw nothing but the endless void, but he knew that was not all there was, because the roar he heard came from inside this endlessness, and they reminded him of the ocean, of waves breaking against the shore.

Elias continued to search across his hundred oceans of infinity, but then he took a step back, and he connected to the pain he could feel in his soul, knowing that the roar he heard only came about because of this brand, because it had connected him to a part of himself that he could never have found.

However, in the vastness of these pools of infinity, this pain he could connect with was nothing, and he wondered if he should have told the Commander to give him multiple brandings, because it was clear one was not enough.

He did not have deep pools of Lumina; he had Oceans of infinite... wait, he had oceans, but they were more like hollow craters, where was his Lumina?

He was a Wisp who depended on his body and weapons to battle, but the moment he reached the level of Fury Forge, he was supposed to begin quenching his flesh with his Lumina, so it could be slowly strengthened and better prepared for the Mist Phantom level, where he would be able to externalize his Lumina.

Because his Attributes had been outrageous, and his weapons a bit too powerful for someone of his level, Elias had not asked himself one fundamental question... where was his Lumina?

Before he had oceans, Elias had watched his pools grow, and he had seen that every time he reached the limit, his Lumina would be compressed, expanding the pool and adding to his foundations.

However, those Lumina were not gone. From all he understood of Siphon, these empty pools would begin to gather the personalised Lumina of the Siphon just underneath the pools. This unique Lumina would slowly grow and convert every other foreign Lumina that entered the pool.

A Wisp did not utilize the Lumina in their pools because they were unable to. However, a Siphon at the Wisp Stage would reach their peak when the Lumina in their pools had reached the point of overflowing.

It meant they had reached the peak of their potential, and the next step would be to become a Fury Forge.

This was the natural progression of things, and if his pools had not changed under the might of the goddess and the tampering of the System, he would have seen his one hundred pools brimming with his Lumina that was ready to erupt from their boundary to make the next transformation into Fury Forge.

Now that he was inside the infinity of his empty ocean, he could not find his Lumina, and he knew that it was not because they were not there; he could hear their roars, but no matter how much Lumina he had accumulated as a Wisp, how could you even find an ocean inside the infinity of this place?

Elias slowly opened his eyes and looked at the Commander, and spoke almost self-deprecatingly, "I am sorry, Commander, but I think I need more of these runes."

She blinked, and to her credit, she did not say anything, only held out her hand, and Elias began raising his left hand, but she nodded towards his right hand that was free of the rune, and Elias changed his hand.

Knowing that he did not fear the pain, Commander Yseult did not hold back, and she used multiple fingers to etch runes on his palm. In a few seconds, he was done, and Elias did not remove his hand from her own, even after she let go; instead, her turned his hand so the back of his palm was facing upward.

The Commander arched an eyebrow, but she knew there was not much time before Elias’s head brain boiled into soup inside his skull, and she had not seen anyone bond with a Lumina Scripture before, and it may require more space to be collected, and her disciple was smart and would not push beyond himself, so she etched another bonding rune to the back of his hand, and she was not surprised that he brought up his left hand for her to etch runes upon the back.

Commander Yseult was now numb, working mechanically. She was aware that the solidity of Elias Wisp’s form had gone beyond what could be considered normal and was approaching the realms of impossible.

The Wisp form of most Siphons and Ascendant Candidates would have collapsed under the weight of two Higher-Order Runes, but she had drawn four on Elias, and he did not seem affected by it much, except his Wisp form grew a bit dim, meaning he could still collect multiple runes of bonding.