LEVEL 0 IMMORTAL-Chapter 135: You Question Your Master

Elias senses returned one after another. First was touch; he was no longer frozen in a block of ice; instead, he was lying down on a cold metallic surface. Then was smell, he could scent the cold breeze that smelled of copper and old stone, and he knew he was back in Stormfall... then the third thing that he felt was strange but oddly familiar, pressure... this should be the pressure of being underneath the Heavenly Restriction that covered the city of Stormfall.

He had always been living with this pressure, but he did not understand what it was or even realize that this pressure was not normal. Having tasted freedom and knowing what it was like to live without an invisible weight pressing down on you, it was hard not to notice.

However, this pressure for him was like a weighted blanket, and barely hampered the flow of Lumina inside his body. He knew that the Heavenly Restrictions would not bother him until he reached the level of Void Sentinel, and he wondered what this pressure must feel like for someone like the Commander.

With this thought, his eyes snapped open, and he saw the Commander a few feet away from him, looking at him with her piercing silver eyes.

"Who wakes?" she said, "My disciple or a Void Horror?"

"Can you not tell... master?" Elias gave a cheeky reply as he slowly came to his feet, and was a bit alarmed when he felt a bone-deep ache in his muscles that he had never felt before... was he sore?

Commander Yseult snorted, "You have a surprisingly sharp mouth for someone who mostly remains silent in his thoughts." however in her mind, she wondered if this would have been Elias’s true character if he had not been transformed by the curse of his race.

Elias groaned as he straightened. He could feel his body tingling as it was repairing some invisible damage inside of him, but they must be too deep or too small for him to notice why he was feeling as if he had been crushed into pieces.

"This is the first time I have seen a Fury Forge with access to a Godform, but you should not use this until you reach Amber Exile at the least... if you don’t die that is."

Elias shook his head in confusion, "Godform?"

"Yes, Godform... your victory over the Void Echo gave you many benefits, and one of them is its form. Usually, you should not be able to fully transform until you reach the Void Sentinel level, and so this is one of your secrets that must be kept hidden. There is already too much around you as it is... Well, so how was it? Apart from the Godform, did you gain anything else?"

Elias looked at the Commander, his master, and he could not help but feel a frown cross his face.

Although she might have given him hints about what was to come ahead, he could not help but feel a bit of anger at the way he was treated by her. Still, he swallowed down his irritation and nodded.

"I gained a new Void Scroll, but I cannot access it until I fully master the first scroll," he paused, "The name of the second Void Scripture is the Scroll of Inversion."

Commander Yseult tapped her lower lips in thought, "How interesting, the first scroll is the Scroll of Containment and the second is the Scroll of Inversion... there is an interesting pattern here, but that can be studied in the future, for now, congratulations are in order, I don’t believe there are many in the world who hold multiple scriptures, a and you are now one of the Ascendant Candidates with the most promising future."

"That is... if I don’t die right?" Elias said, "You told me that my lifespan would be short because I have multiple Lumina Arts inside me."

Commander Yseult shrugged, "And I have not changed that statement. I do not see how you would reach the Void Sentinel stage. If you do, then the sacrifices you will have to make to reach that point would have been truly ridiculous."

"If I do not live long, how would I be of use to you, master?"

Commander Yseult looked at him for a moment, and then she smiled, but Elias thought he could see sadness in her eyes that was rapidly wiped away.

"If you had died to the Void Echo, I would have brought this creature to the Southern Swamps. Its purpose would be to serve and to survive as long as possible. Now that you are alive, this heavy burden falls to you."

"I don’t understand where you are leading with this, Commander?" Elias frowned.

"You cannot understand everything at this point, but I can tell you the core of your purpose. Certain angels and I are trying to destroy the Heavenly Canopy. It exists far above in the heavens, and it powers every Heavenly Restriction around the world. Your Void Incursion tears a hole in the Heavenly Canopy, and what that does is that it creates a weakness in its structure that would continue to expand, in a decade to a century, we should begin to see the Heavenly Restrictions around the world begin to break down."

Elias cocked his head to the side in thought, "Correct me if I am wrong, master, but would bringing down all of the Heavenly Restrictions not be a bad thing? As much as I understand that the Heavenly Restriction gives rise to a lot of manipulation and suppression, I cannot imagine the chaos that would sweep across the world if all Heavenly Restrictions fell."

The Commander blinked, and a dangerous light flashed in her eyes, and she sucked in a deep breath, "Do you know how many times you could have died in the last forty eight hours? Perhaps the unfair advantage you have because of the curse of your race gave you a bit of an advantage, but make no mistake, Elias, even with all the talents you have, you have been dancing on the edge of death. How many Ascendant Candidates would have survived half of what you have gone through?"

Elias blinked as his mind went through the countless encounters with death and pain that he had experienced from the moment he touched Lumina, and it seemed as if he had been fighting for years and not days.

His survival had not depended on just his talents but on sheer luck, intelligence, and his calm and calculating mind nurtured over years of trials.

With everything he had experienced, there was no way he should have been alive, and standing here was a miracle. If he had missed a single hint or had hesitated for just a moment, he would have perished.

"The battle we fought against the gods and daemons was to give all races on Trion freedom. Tell me Elias, everything that had happened to you from the moment you touched Lumina, the secrets that I had to keep from you, and the fact that if I was not here to keep everything in check, an Ascendant of your potential would have been suppressed to the deepest layers of the Maw to slave away for hundreds of thousands of years keeping the curses that the Great Houses unleashed by their endless quest for more power."