Mystical Journey

“It’s fine, as long as I like it,” Garen smiled, watching as the ball of light atop the staff scattered by itself. He spun the staff gracefully in his hand, it felt good.

“Alright, seeing as you chose wrong with the first item, I’ll recommend you something you can use.” Mingway seemed slightly apologetic. “In the corner to your right, there’s a small silver-white box, do you see it? That’s called the Instantaneous Paper Box, it’s a single-use item. When you open it, there will be an explosive field of repulsion, it’s as powerful as an inheriting pilot’s single use of his Willpower force field. It only works once, and it cannot kill or injure your opponent. The most it can do is push away the opponent, for a range of fifteen meters, it’s something that can save your life at a crucial moment.”

“Alright, I’ll take it.” Garen took his advice and chose the Instantaneous Paper Box. Now he had two items, the Staff of Absolute Yin and the Instantaneous Paper Box.

“Right, you can go rest for a bit in the Flying Saucer Room, I’ll send you straight to the edge of the Radiation Area, to the legal entrance into the Blackboard Region, so that it’ll save you some trouble.

“Thank you, Your Highness,” said Garen politely.

“By helping you, aren’t I also helping myself?” Mingway was very open about it.

Garen was in a good mood. Led by the robot, he left the small hall, and began to unlock and demagnetize the items. Everything in the vault was fortified with powerful magnetism, in order to prevent them from emitting any force fields that might be noticed by outsiders.

A white pillar of light was suspended from the ceiling above. Garen put the Staff of Absolute Yin inside first, and let it float in the pillar of light.

Smack!

Garen’s expression changed immediately. Nobody noticed, Mingway had already left, and the robot was also still controlling the light pillar so it could demagnetize the items. No one noticed that Garen’s gaze had become extremely, extremely strange, his expression changing for a moment before quickly returning to normal. Still, he could not suppress that hint of surprise and joy deep in his eyes.

After a clear sound, wisps of black air flashed around the staff, and then quickly vanished.

Garen reached his hand inside to grab the staff, and pulled it out lightly. Then he put the Instantaneous Paper Box inside, and let it float there.

No one saw that he held the staff tightly, very tightly…

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The room where the Flying Saucers rested were many spherical rooms, and each sphere was hanging on so many silver racks, that it looked from afar as though the hall was lined with two rows of World Cup trophies…

The living area was cold and empty. Led by the robot, Garen entered a bedroom, and checked the surveillance situation around it. The room was very safe, the walls were all made of very high-quality alloys, so normal explosives would not even make a mark on them.

As soon as he closed the door, he grasped the Staff of Absolute Yin.

The thing felt strangely smooth and round, like human skin.

Closing his eyes lightly, Garen took a deep breath.

He began to softly rub the red ruby on the tip of the staff, the surface of the ruby had many black cracks, like melted lava. It was strangely beautiful.

Wisps of an indescribable cool air flowed into his body through his fingers, and that long-awaited feeling made Garen sink into it for a moment.

“I found them at last… potential points…”

After observing his surroundings carefully for a moment, Garen got up and turned on the computer in the room. Sitting there, he quickly checked the situation after he had left, acting as though he was surfing the Internet out of boredom.

As he clicked the mouse, large amounts of screens and images flashed through his eyes. He had filtered out a vast amount of information and sites out of the countless information given to him, and collected them in his mind.

“The Blackboard and other regions are all currently embroiled in the whirlpool that is the White Light Organization… This seems to relate to a bigger picture… There’s something impressive in the Blackboard Region, it’s the center of everything.”

Long ago he had already noticed it, but he did not pay too much attention to it. More and more outsiders were appearing in Blackboard City, that could not be a coincidence. Through all this information, he could only grasp some rough ideas. So he could use them to figure out what the bigger picture was like.

“But no matter what problems there are in the region, none of it has anything to do with me. I just need to take it step by step, and proceed according to plan, then nothing will go wrong.” Garen quickly clicked a couple of pages, his fingers brushing past the keyboard with a whoosh.

He gathered all the serious incidents that had happened in the region recently and put them together in a file. By listing them all down from the top, he could see that it was not just the Blackboard Region, but even the Polar Region and the Maria Region, as well as others, were beginning to make their moves.

Garen’s intelligence was twice that of a normal person, his reflex speed and logical thinking skills abnormally fast. Soon enough, he had more or less figured out that something major was happening in the Blackboard Region.

It was highly likely that the strange actions from the White Light Organization and other main regions were also as a result of this.

“The elite students and the higher-ups are mostly in charge of the serious incidents outside, most students remain unaffected, so I can ignore this. The Blackboard Region has caught everyone’s attention, but on the other hand the Polar Region’s battle for territory is not really in the spotlight now… Maybe I could give it a try.” Garen’s thoughts jumped over all this, and landed on the territory he had decided on. He could use this chance to ask Mingway about it, Mingway was also a rich noble from the Polar Region, so he would probably have influence in that sense.

The battle in the Blackboard Region was too far away from him, what he needed to do now was to increase his own powers as soon as possible.

Ever since he reincarnated here, his recovery speed had been too slow.

“Last time I absorbed the White Peacock Stones and increased my limit, but I had always been holding it back, so that I could wait for a good enough training method and increase them together.”

With his bare hands, Garen picked up two stacks of printed information on the table next to the computer in the room. These were the two stacks of training information that Mingway had asked someone to put in the room beforehand.

He flipped through them. Glowing Radiance was his main focus, Crouched Eagle Talon was only a generalized training method, like Galaxy Glow, they could be bought on the market. Or rather, out of any people on the street who were currently practicing training methods, a couple of them would use this Crouched Eagle Talon. But most people could only reach Level Three at the most, while this version was Level Five, so it was much better. Garen had seen them on the market before, but they were too average so he never really considered them.

“Alright, this is the one, this is the highest level training method I’ve come into contact with. If I couldn’t reach Mingway, perhaps I could only buy this at a high price from Blue Narcissus.”

Garen flipped open the Crouched Eagle Talon, and began to read it carefully, page by page. It was relatively easy for him to switch from training with the Galaxy Glow to this one, because he did not go deep with that one, and his Willpower had yet to fully reach that special state.

The training method was very simple, Garen just read it once and he could already completely understand its secret. Unlike the previous training method, the Crouching Eagle Talon first activated the arms, activating the Willpower in the arms. Since this one was the most-used part, so it was very easy for regular people to do that as long as their Willpower was strong enough.

Following the steps stated there, he just had to move his current Willpower into forming two imprints. After they stayed in each of his arms for a short while, when he could feel that the imprints had fully formed and were sealed into his arms, that would be proof that he succeeded with the first grade.

Garen’s Willpower had already reached Level One anyway, so he could just ignore the basics. He flipped to the second grade, second level content.

Feeling the impulse to level up that was being suppressed inside him by the Hellfrost Peacock Technique, Garen let his Willpower relax slightly, releasing the suppression.

Woo… Woo…

Suddenly there was a sound by his ear that sounded like a child’s cry, it was the cry of the peacock.

Just like that, sitting in front of the computer, Garen turned his body around, and let his leather chair spin with his momentum. His skin began to turn faintly blue, a mild ice-blue color.

A hint of a warm touch spread from the right side of his face. Without him noticing, an icy-blue peacock, slender and beautiful, had appeared behind him. It stretched out its neck, lightly caressing the side of Garen’s face.

The peacock was translucent, softly making its faint cry.

Whoosh…!

All of a sudden, Garen opened his eyes, but he saw nothing beside him. There was no peacock at all. He touched his right cheek lightly, there seemed to be something more there.

Turning off the computer screen, he used the half-transparent screen as a mirror.

Garen abruptly found that there was a new, mysterious icy-blue mark on his right cheek. It was an image like that of a flying bird, covering half of his face. Most strangely, the mark seemed to have been embedded into his skin, it did not look like it was drawn on at all.

“Did I just completely step over the Basic Level, just like that?” He did not feel like he had changed a lot.

He checked the attribute pane in his vision.

‘Nonosiva Lin – Strength 3.1, Agility 3.0, Vitality 4.7, Intelligence 2.1, Potential 0%. Soul limit 40.’

‘Willpower – Lower Second Level, (Obtained a certain degree of strengthening from the Living Secret Technique)

(Training Method: Crouching Eagle Talon Level Two.’

‘Potential Quality — Void Pursuer’

‘Soul Seed – Northern Trident Frost-Fire True Water Evil Technique, Holy Phoenix Demonic Book.’

‘Secret Technique – Hellfrost Peacock Technique: Living Secret Technique, Level Five. Completion rate of Level Five is at 100%.

‘Natural Ability Obtained — Devour (Devours various living things to restore body)’

‘Natural Ability Obtained — Distorted Seed (Creating chaos is the Hellfrost Peacock’s favorite pastime)’

‘Natural Ability Obtained — Cold Chaos (Causes fluctuations in time and space naturally and releases cold air naturally within an area of twenty meters to create a chaotic low-temperature area with the lowest point at zero degrees. Simultaneously, there is a low probability that it will trigger confusion within the minds of its enemies, causing them to attack randomly)’

“Overall my attributes increased by more than three points, I’ve improved a lot. The average is about twice what it was, I knew that I would get a big upgrade once I got past the Basic Level.

And then there’s Cold Chaos. Its range was increased to twenty meters, and its temperature reached 0 degrees. I guess I could kinda use it.”

Garen looked at his changes, somewhat satisfied.

“The main point is that my Willpower has finally reached Level Two. I knew that increasing Living Secret Techniques would strengthen my whole body, that little bit of additional effect would also allow my Willpower to increase as well. As expected of the powerful secret technique that can be used all over the universes.”

“Now, let’s take a look at the only item with potential power that I’ve found since coming to this world…”

Garen moved his gaze to the Staff of Absolute Yin, his gaze burning hot. If he could obtain potential points, then his speed of improvement would increase tremendously.