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"Hmm… so what now? The knowledge says I am now awakened as an Invoker or an Enchanter. Which one am I?" Ning asked.
He looked into more information regarding that. The way to tell apart an Invoker from Enchanter was to use Aether itself and try to do something with it.
"Either create stuff or manipulate what already exists, huh. Let's try… creating water. See if that works," Ning thought.
He closed his eyes and started visualizing flowing water inside of his mind. As the image started forming inside of his mind, Aether started bubbling inside his Sea of Aether.
The Aether was burning. Ning could physically feel something changing in his body.. Slowly, droplets started forming in front of him and got together to form water.
He tried to concentrate as much as he could on flowing water when suddenly, his body lost all energy and he fell onto the ground.
The drops of water that were forming in front of him dropped onto the back of his head, letting him know that at the very least, he was successful.
"What happened?" he asked as he got back up. The feeling of lack of energy had now disappeared. "Why did I fall?" he tried to figure out.
"Oh," he said when he remembered a bit of information from the knowledge regarding Aether and Aether users. When one's aether in their body completely disappears, their body stops functioning until they get their aether back.
'Thank god I had the automatic collection one, or I would've had to spend many minutes trying to collect Aether,' Ning thought.
"At least, I know I am an Invoker now," Ning thought.
As the Aether slowly filled his Sea of Aether, it also increased the size of the Sea of Aether. "I want to see how far I can go with my current size of the Sea of Aether," Ning thought and without hesitation, jumped into the crater.
Immediately, he opened up a barrier and put all of his focus into using his divine sense to check the Sea of Aether.
Within seconds, he was blasted out of the crater and was thrown quite far away from the crater this time. He landed on a piece of wood and rolled down onto the fresh snow. He only got to check his Sea of Aether for mere seconds, but that was enough.
"With the current size of my Sea of Aether, I should be able to become Aether Student and be halfway along the way to become an Aether Master. After getting fully acclimated to the Aether, maybe I can increase the rate at which I can absorb and reach up there quite fast," Ning thought.
Suddenly, he slapped himself. "No, stop getting sidetracked. You need to leave this place first. You can come back here years later. Until then, you have people you care about," Ning said to himself.
After that, he decided to go back up to the top of the crater and restart the routine.
CRACK
'Huh?' Ning thought and looked at what he had stepped on. It was the wood that he landed on. The wood was fully covered in frost and when he stepped on it, the outer frost had cracked.
"What's this?" he thought and looked at it. It was a thick, rectangular wood with some carvings on it. The sun still wasn't up, and Ning knew that was because he was in the south pole of the continent. So, he turned towards the aurora to get some more light.
"Is this a writing?" Ning wondered. He only had basic language skills, so the most he could do was communicate verbally.
If he wanted to do anything else, he would either have to ask the system for higher-level knowledge of that particular language or just learn the language as everyone else did.
"System, can you translate this?" Ning asked.
It is written in the general language of the continent
it says 'Here lies Feroy'
"Feroy? Is that a name?" Ning wondered. He then looked around him and wondered, "Is this a headstone of a grave?" He tried to search for more and soon found many similar headstones buried here.
'I don't see any graves though. Is it perhaps buried really deep?' Ning wondered. He tried for a bit, but then gave up and walked back up to the edge of the crater.
He was going to restart the routine all over again. He jumped back into his spear and took his body inside him and went back to sleep.
After 3 months of collecting energy, he now had a little less than 8 Billion Kinetic energy
In the next 10 iterations, he had about 8.6 Billion Kinetic energy.
In the next 10 iterations, he had about 9.2 Billion Kinetic energy.
In the next 10 iterations, he had about 9.8 Billion Kinetic energy.
Ning looked at his status and made a big grin. Just a few more days and he could increase the cap with his Kinetic Energy as well.
So, happily, he went back to the spear and took back his body. Then, he asked the system to put him to sleep.
As soon as Ning fell asleep, he was awakened as well. He slowly got back into consciousness and suddenly, he felt something.
'Movement?' he thought. He could feel the spear moving in a general direction.
"Sigh, it was an unfortunate event, but you need to stop thinking about your father's death now, Famir. It was not your fault. He went inside the forbidden forest to find the beast cores on his own," A voice came from near Ning.
He looked around and saw a group of people walking around barren land. The spear was being held by a rather elderly person.
The youth in front of Ning, who was around 18 years old had a red face with teary-eyed. 'Did his father die?' Ning wondered and started to feel sad for him.
'So… he is an orphan now huh? It's certainly going to be hard for him.'
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"I— I know grand uncle, but… but… if I hadn't told him that there might have been a way to heal my sister, he would've never went to the forest at all," the young boy said as he started crying once again.
"Shh! Shh! Don't cry. You have to be strong now. Your sister needs you. Here, take this. This spear is yours now," the old man said.
"Bu— But grand uncle, you found this. You should take it," the boy replied.
"Just shut up and take it. What need is there for an old man like me to take it, huh? If you don't want to use it then sell it or something. You should be able to earn a few rops with this," the old man said.
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"I… Thank you, grand uncle," the young said and took the spear.
All the while, Ning was trying to figure out where exactly he was. He looked to the right of him and saw a massive forest, and on the left was a massive, empty expanse of barren land.
After the old man handed the spear away, Ning finally got to see more behind him. Far away, away from where the group was walking, he could see the mountain he had been all this time there.
'Wow, that's so far away. Did these people carry me back here in under a day? I wonder how?' he thought. He didn't immediately come out of the spear.
There were a lot of people around him and he didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble for himself. The group finally entered a small village and all the men walked away from the group to their own home.
"Famir, I am going back. If you need anything, come to this old man. Don't hesitate to ask us for anything, okay?" the old man asked.
"Yes, Grand Uncle," Famir said and walked away as well.
The village consisted of around 20 homes made up of stones and mud. Thankfully, It was green all around, and they were out of the barren lands.
Famir walked through the village until he reached a house next to the forest. He walked inside and dropped the spear. Ning was curious about what he was doing until he saw him run into a room and sounds of sobbing appeared again.
'Sigh, I guess that's fine. The kid should cry a little more; holding emotions in isn't really good for the body,' Ning thought.
Ning waited for half an hour, but the kid didn't stop crying at all. 'I can't believe I'm about to do this,' Ning thought and threw out his body.
As soon as his body was out, he switched bodies and took back his spear. He walked to the room with the kid in it and entered.
The room was very small, barely 3 meters in length all around. Inside was a small bed, on top of which was a girl with a white cloth covering all but her face. She looked barely 13 years old.
The kid named Famir was crying right next to her. 'This is the sister he was talking about huh?' Ning thought.
"Hey kid, get yourself together. You have a sister to take care of," Ning said.
"Who?" Famir turned to the side and saw Ning's unfamiliar face. When he realized he didn't know the person, he looked around to find a suitable weapon. He ran up to a small stick by the side and held it in front of him.
"Sigh, I'm not here to do anything bad to you kid. I'm here to help you," Ning said.
"Who are you?" Famir asked with a quivering voice.
Ning had a sense of deja vu. He smiled a bit, and said, "God."
"What?" Famir looked confused for a second and then immediately got more scared. Someone who would call themselves a god was likely never a good person.
"Hahaha, I guess that answer only works on Hyesi. I was joking, don't mind my answer. I'm just a wandering nobody who saw you crying and came to help. I will leave once I help you," Ning said.
"Who are you? Why should I trust you?" Famir asked.
Ning shook his head. Suddenly, the stick in Famir's hand slipped out and fell onto Ning's arms. "Wha-aaAAHH" Famir suddenly started floating in the air.
Ning put him down and said, "If I was here to do something bad to you, I would've done so already. So you can be sure that I am not here to harm you," Alex said.
"Y— You are… You are an Enchanter," Famir said in surprise.
"An Enchanter?" Ning was a little confused. But then he remembered that Enchanters could manipulate existing objects. 'I see. Telekinesis is in some way an Enchanter's ability,' Ning thought.
"I am an Aether user, but that's not something you have to worry about right now. Have you eaten yet?" Ning asked.
Famir shook his head. Ning took out a fruit from his storage and handed it to him.
Famir's eyes went wide as he looked at the yellow fruit in front of him. He tried to search for storage rings in Ning's finger but couldn't find any. However, just the fact that Ning owned a storage device showed that he was not a random nobody.
"Take it," Ning said.
Famir finally got out of his shock and quickly took the fruit and started eating it. Ning looked at him very closely as the fruit he had just given was an Emerald mango. The mango should have healing properties, but that was only when it had Qi.
But what about in a world that did not have Qi? Surprisingly, the answer was simple and in some ways, very unexpected.
Even though Ning brought the mango out of a world of Qi, the Qi was still in the mango. So when Famir ate the mango, he also acquired a bit of the Qi in it.
Suddenly, bits of black waste started leaving Famir's body. "Wh— What is happening to me?" he screamed in terror. Ning on the other hand watched in absolute shock.
'He entered the 1st Qi Condensation realm. He is a cultivator now.'
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The kid started to freak out. Seeing black, disgusting goo ooze out of every single patch of his skin was a very disturbing scene for him.
"Don't worry. It's helping you. It's throwing out all that was bad inside of you," Ning explained.
Famir heard it but still didn't stop freaking out. It slowly started to stink in the room, so Ning picked him up and threw him out of the room.
"Go take a bath," he ordered.
There was a well behind Famir's house, and Famir quickly took a bath from that water. Once all of the gunk was washed away, it revealed a well-built body hidden underneath.
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"What? How is my body so good?" Famir asked in surprise. He had never had a body like this and now surprisingly, there it was.
"Alright, come back kid. Finish your food," Ning said from the side. Famir slowly walked back into the home while looking at Ning with a weird face.
"What?" Ning asked curiously.
"I'm not a kid, you know? I'm already 17," Famir said as he walked inside.
"Well, I am around… 24 years old now, so you are still a kid in my eyes," Ning said.
"What? No way?" Famir said in surprise. "You barely look 19."
Ning was a little surprised. Nobody ever really commented on his age in Kumia, but that was because they were all used to people looking out of their age. But here, where age could be told by how a person looked, he was considered much younger than he actually was.
Ning smiled and said, "Thank you. I do look young, don't I? Anyway, go finish your food. Then we can heal your sister."
Famir's eyes widened when he heard that. "You can heal my sister?" he asked with tears in his eyes.
Ning rubbed his head and said, "Yes, I can."
Famir god down on his knees and started shouting, "Thank you! Thank you so much." He bowed onto the ground until his head touched the floor.
"Hey, hey, hey! Get up. Don't say thank you until I've healed her," Ning said. "Now, go eat your food and I will see what is wrong with your sister," Ning said.
Famir nodded and went to go finish his Emerald Mango. Ning sighed as he saw that. Famir had become a cultivator, but he didn't know of it yet, and would likely never know since he would never get any Qi to begin with.
'Sigh, at least his body is healthy now. He will probably go on to live for hundreds of years,' Ning thought. 'Now, let's see what's wrong with his sister.'
He looked at the little girl that was around the age of Hyesi when he first met him. He checked her pulse, skin color, eye movements, everything that a doctor would.
"Can you heal her?" Famir asked from the side.
Ning was stumped. He would be able to tell what was wrong if it was a mortal problem, but surprisingly he couldn't, which meant… this was likely an Aether-related problem.
He couldn't see any option other than to ask the system for the problem.
"Wait a second. Famir, you said you knew what her problem was right? Can you tell me what you know?" he asked.
"I… said that?" Famir asked in surprise.
"I heard it when you were coming down the mountain," Ning said.
"Y-Yes. I… went to the library and saw that there have been cases of people falling into a coma after awakening. The book said it was because the newly awakened person uses Aether without learning an absorption technique first," Famir said.
"Hmm… Aether… no wonder. I assumed she was a mortal, but if she is an Aether user, that would explain a lot. Tell me, how exactly did she fall into a coma?" Ning asked.
"We—Well, one day around a year ago, she suddenly awakened after eating a fruit she found in the forest. I later learned that the fruit had contained Aether and was the cause behind her awakening.
"After she awakened, Mavenna tried to help father with a little work but ended up straining her body too badly. She fell onto the ground unable to move. For the first few days, she was only paralyzed, but after a few months, she went into a coma.
"I've been trying to find a way to cure her ever since and… only if I… only if I hadn't said something so stupid, father would've still been alive," Famir started sobbing again.
"What did you tell your father, Famir?" Ning asked.
"I— I told him that…hic… sister would be fine as long as…hic… she got some Aether in her body. So the most likely way… hic… would be to find that fruit from before," Famir said.
Ning contemplated on that information and realized there was nothing wrong there. He had done his fair share of research before coming to this conclusion.
'Let me just check if it is all true. System, what is wrong with the sister?' Ning asked. After spending a few million energy, the system gave him all the answers he wanted. When Ning read the answer, he was really surprised.
It was exactly what the kid had said. The only thing different was that there was more than one treatment. However, the fruit was the easiest one of all.
'System, can I create the fruit?' Ning asked.
You can create the fruit, but not the Aether inside
'Well, I guess there is nothing you can do about that then.' Ning turned to look at Famir. "Alright, you stay here. I will go get your fruit from the forest," Ning said.
"N-NO!" Famir shouted. "You will get hurt."
Ning stopped. "Are there monsters in the forest?" he asked.
"Monsters? No, well maybe, but that's not the problem. The fruit is ridiculously high up in the tree. You will die if you fall from there… just like my father," Famir said with tears in his eyes.
Ning smiled and said, "You just worry about your sister. I can take care of myself just fine."
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Ning put up a hand to block the sun that was far away at the horizon. "Well, at least I am far enough from the mountain that there is sunlight now, albeit in the form of a perpetual morning sun," Ning thought.
Then, he walked into the forbidden forest that was right next to Famir's house. As soon as he walked into the forest, he couldn't help but get shocked.
'Holy Sh*t. He wasn't lying when he said the trees were tall. No wonder his father died after falling from such height,' Ning thought.
The trees were not just tall, but also very dense. Just 10 meters into the forest, the light inside had reduced by half in terms of brightness.
"This is dozens of times more scary-looking than the forest outside of Starsight city," Ning thought. He had gotten an idea of what the fruit looked like from the system, as well as learned what the tree looked like too..
So, he kept an open eye for the fruit along the way.
"Well, fortunately, there are no monsters here. I would've had to waste my time if there were," Ning thought. "Also, how the hell did Famir's father even make his way through this forest. More than that, how did anyone even find Famir's father's body?" Ning wondered.
As far as he could see, not a single sign of humans were in the vicinity. People truly didn't like going into the forest. After nearly an hour of trekking, Ning finally found the tree that resembled his image in his mind.
The tree was very tall, at around nearly a hundred meters tall, and was about 5 meters in diameter. It was a straight tree with no branches at all. Instead, the trunk of the tree was covered with tangled vines that started from the top of the tree.
At the very top of the tree was a single fruit that was floating towards the sky, tethered only by the small vine it was attached to.
Ning grabbed the cluster of vines and walked up. As soon as he placed his hands on the tree, the vines moved to give Ning a better grasp.
"Huh?" Ning thought in confusion. He then placed his left foot on the vine, and it too opened up to give him a better foothold.
"That's not bad," Ning thought and started climbing. He hadn't even climbed 10 meters up when he realized it was a very comfortable climb until now. However, in the back of his head, he could tell that this was too easy.
"Why would the tree make it too easy for me to climb?" Ning wondered. "Could it be… that this tree is going to let me go halfway to the top and then throw me down?"
That was a definite possibility. "After all, Famir's father did die from falling too," he thought.
Still, he wanted to see what the tree was going to do. The entire way through, he expected the vine he was stepping on to loosen up suddenly and have him fall 50 meters onto the ground.
However, rather surprisingly, nothing happened. The entire way through, the tree was very supportive of his climb. 'What the hell?" Ning thought.
He then saw the fruit in front of him. It was a large peach-like fruit that was about the size of dried coconut. "So this is it, huh?" he thought and grabbed the fruit.
Just as he was about to pull it out, suddenly, two green flaps appeared from either side of the tree and caught him there.
"What the hell?" Ning was surprised. "What is this?" he shouted.
Suddenly, the walls started secreting a pungent-smelling viscous liquid. They slowly slid down the wall and made their way to the center where Ning was.
"Could it be… This is a carnivorous plant?" Ning thought in surprise. However, he wasn't scared. The fruit was still in his hands. He ripped the fruit and immediately told the system to teleport him back to Famir's house.
Without delay, Ning disappeared. He appeared outside Famir's house and dusted himself. "What was that? No wonder it helped me climb so far up. It wanted to eat me," Ning thought.
"Did Famir's father really die by falling from such a tree?" Ning thought. "System, give me information on that tree just now."
Information flooded Ning's mind and he started to learn about the tree. The tree was a carnivorous tree that liked to kill humans and animals to gain their nutrients, as well as their minute amount of Aether.
It provided a fruit as a lure and helped everything get to the top just so it could eat it.
"That's… interesting. There is no way Famir's father should have fallen from such a tree," Ning thought. He could sense some sort of hidden plot of someone.
Ning decided to ignore that thought for now. He looked at the fruit in his hand. He walked into the house and found Famir asleep next to his sister's bed. Even as he fell asleep, he didn't leave her alone.
"Famir, wake up," he said.
"Huh?" Famir slowly opened his eyes and started rubbing them. "What is it father?" he said as he stood up. Only then did he realize who was standing in front of him.
"Oh," he thought when he remembered everything. Sadness welled up inside him once more.
"Hey, Kid. You can cry or do whatever you want to, but do it after you've healed your sister," Ning said.
Famir's body shivered a little. "Di— Did you get the fruit?" he asked. Ning threw the peach towards Famir.
"This… this is it. This is the fruit from the book, the one that sister ate," Famir said. "Thank you so much, senior." Famir started thanking him relentlessly.
"Alright, do that later. First, let's help your sister. Bring me a bowl," Ning said.
"Yes," Famir said and ran out to the kitchen before bringing back a wooden bowl. Ning took the bowl and placed it on the ground.
"Let's start."
Famir stood up, all ready. "What do I need to do?" he asked. He was unable to hold himself still when his hopes of getting his sister back from a year old coma were rising again.
He was very excited.
"You don't have to do much. Just sit back and watch," Ning said and took the fruit. He caught the top and bottom of the peach horizontally and twisted it so that it split vertically along where the natural line in the peach was.
He took the seed and threw it outside the window. "Do you have a clean cloth?" he asked.
Famir immediately ran to the other room and brought back a single shirt. The shirt looked dirty, but that was just because of its bland color..
"This is my shirt, will this work?" Famir asked.
"This is clean, right?" Ning asked just to make sure.
"Yes, yes. I cleaned it myself a week ago," Famir replied.
"Very well then." Ning took the cloth and put the peach inside of it. Then, he closed the cloth around the peach and started crushing it.
Juices seeped out of the shirt and flowed onto the bowl. Ning crushed it multiple times before he managed to extract every single bit of juice that was in the fruit.
The resulting liquid was a light brown colored juice that reflecting quite a bit of light back. "There is Aether there," Ning said as he looked at it.
Ning tossed the fruit to Famir and walked next to the sleeping sister. The bowl of juice flew up next to him without any assistance. Famir couldn't help but be shocked when he saw such an impressive usage of Aether.
Ning supported the sister's body by the neck and opened up her Esophagus. He then pulled her jaw back and slowly started pouring the juice onto her mouth.
He did that in batches and waited for the juices to be swallowed before putting in more. Once he was halfway done, he stopped.
He put her down and pulled up her bedsheet. "That should be enough," Ning said.
"Senior… shouldn't you feed her all of it?" Famir asked.
"No, need. As soon as she absorbs the Aether in the juice, she will wake up. Once she wakes up, you can just teach her an Aether absorption method, and it will all be fine," Ning said.
"I… I see. So, my sister will be okay?" Famir's eyes started tearing up again.
Ning smiled. "Yes, she will. Good job on finding the fruit on your own. That helped your sister a lot."
"Thank you, senior. Thank you very much." Famir started bawling out in tears. Ning wanted to ask him to stop crying but didn't see any problems with him crying right now.
"Hey, Famir," he said.
"Yes, senior?" he asked as he sniffed a little.
"Drink the rest of the juice," Ning said with a wink. "I'll see you later. Good luck."
Ning walked out of the house and went around the small village to see what the daily life here was like. No matter where he went, he only found people staring at him.
"Why are they staring? My skin is the same color as them, same for the hair," Ning thought. if it were Klavis, he could understand being stared at, but not right now.
A big buff man suddenly walked in front of him. This was a tall dude with rough beards and a body that would make a bear cower in fear.
"Visitor, can you tell us the purpose of your visit?" he asked.
Ning looked at the man and couldn't see any wrong intentions in his eyes. "I'm just walking around to see what this village was like. You don't have to worry about me," Ning said with a smile and tried to go around the man.
The man instead walked again and blocked him. "That is not going to cut it here. This is a peaceful village, and I can't have city folks come here and do whatever they want. Please state your intentions here," the man asked.
"City folk? Why do you think I'm from the city?" Ning asked.
"Why else? Your clothes obviously. Nobody could wear such colorful clothes other than the city folks," the man said.
"Ah," Ning said as he realized. He was wearing the blue robe from the Blue Dragon sect and had forgotten about it.
"I see. Well, I wasn't lying about my intentions. I just want to look around the village—"
"Please tell me the truth, visitor," the big man said.
"Sigh." Ning suddenly pointed a finger towards the man and flicked the finger upwards. Immediately, the man was thrown some 50 meters in the sky, before falling down.
People around the town screamed when they saw that. People closed their eyes and looked aside just as the man was about to fall down, Ning stopped him in mid-air and gently landed him on the ground.
The man had the fear of God put into him.
"As I said, I am not here with any bad intentions. I would've done something bad by now if I wanted to," Ning said. The man was still in shock and didn't hear most of what Ning said. However, the villagers heard him and that was enough for him.
He tapped the man and woke him out of the shock.
"What's your name?" he asked.
"M— My name? It's Jangar," he said.
"Jangar, what do you do?" Ning asked.
"I— I am a carpenter," he said.
"Oh, you made such a big body by carpentering?" Ning asked in surprise.
"I— I also cut trees on the site," he added.
"Oh, a carpenter and a lumberjack. No wonder, you are this huge," Ning said. He then patted Jangar on the shoulders and said, "You are doing a good job, but tone it down a little. Even good men will get angry if you annoy them," Ning said.
He then walked away, leaving the crowd and Jangar behind in shock. It took them about 5 minutes before they went back to doing their own things, but news of Ning soon spread through the whole village.
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Ning looked around the village and realized that it wasn't that great of a village. It barely had maybe 100 people living in it, and most of them just did what they could to make a living.
"Sigh, this is a very poor village," Ning thought. The sun was already down, but the light from the aurora still hit the village and make it light up quite a bit.
"Let's go back," Ning thought and returned back to Famir's house.
When he walked in, he found Famir huddled up in a corner next to the bed. The bowl was empty, so he seemed to have drunk all of the juice.
"Alright, while he is asleep, Let me go and collect some energy from the mountain top," Ning thought. 'System, teleport.'
Not enough energy
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The natural seal around the mountain is too strong
Host will require more energy to break through it
"There is a… seal? How come I never saw that?" Ning asked.
Seal is at the base of the mountain
"Hmm… so can you teleport me to the base of the mountain?" Ning asked.
Yes
"Alright, let's go."
Ning immediately disappeared from where he stood and appeared on the base of the mountain. From here, he could see that the mountain was around 5 kilometers tall.
"Is there really a seal here?" Ning thought. He picked up a stone from the ground and hurled it as far as he could.
Instead of flying far away, however, the stone struck an invisible wall and in a flash of purple light was destroyed to smithereens.
"Geez, there really is one. Is it that hard to get across?" Ning asked and placed his palms on the seal's barrier. Another flash of purple appeared and Ning's right arm was blown to smithereens as well.
" Argh! What the F*ck!" he couldn't help but scream. He hadn't expected the seal to be this strong. "Damn, I still don't understand why I can't just teleport inside. Isn't this just a barrier? Why can't I go inside?"
Seals are different from normal barriers
Seals seal away space from the surrounding
So, while the mountain is still in Vilmore, the seal is making it so that it isn't
"Damn, so I can never go back there?" Ning asked.
There are 2 ways
First. Gather a lot of energy to break the seal on your own and enter
Second. Find the key to the seal and open it
"Hmm… since you said a lot, it's probably not even in the billions anymore. Let's go with option two. Where is the Key to the seal?" Ning asked.
There is no specific key to the seal
"Huh? So there is more than one? What is this key then?" Ning asked.
A human corpse
The seal will only open for 5 minutes when it comes in contact with a human corpse that hasn't awakened with Aether yet
"Woah, that's… I can't find those sorts of keys. What sort of psychopath makes this sort of seal?" Ning asked angrily.
This is a natural seal
Nobody made this seal but nature itself
"Gosh, so I don't even have anyone to blame for me not getting to go in? Damn, that sucks. Now I will have to wait until someone dies before I can go in.
"In the meantime, this barrier will do I guess," Ning thought. When he had placed his palm on the barrier, there was so much energy output from there that not only had it filled its cap, it had exceeded far beyond anything he had felt yet and destroyed his arms completely.
"Very well. I shall come back daily to gather energy from here," he thought and teleported back to Famir's house.
Famir was still sleeping so he decided to go and try some Aether arts.
"I'm an invoker, right? I should see how much water I can create with the Aether in my body," Ning thought. He took out the bowl from the room and kept it in front of him before starting to visualize water in his mind.
The image of water flowing felt very real to him, and at the same time, inside his Sea of Aether, the few Aethers that he had gathered had started to boil once again.
They disappeared from the Sea of Aether and suddenly, in front of him, droplets of water started forming. Ning opened his eyes to see it.
There were about a dozen or so droplets of water formed in front of him. He was about to slowly place those droplets on the bowl, but suddenly, his whole body froze and he fell to the ground.
This happened due to him overusing his Aether and drying out the sea. If it were someone without any absorption technique, they would be unable to move right now until they somehow got Aether or ended up in a coma.
Those that did have an absorption technique, would use the technique and gather some Aether before standing back up.
Ning didn't even have to do that as his body automatically absorbed enough Aether right now to go from Aether Starter to Aether Student in just 10 days.
He stood up and looked at the bowl in front of him. He weighed the drops of water and found out it was around 13 milligrams.
He then waited for him to go back to being full with Aether and started forming more water once again. He continued doing that for the rest of the night.
By the time morning arrived, he was starting to make around 30 drops of water.
"That's a good enough progress for a day I guess," Ning thought. He let the water fall from the bowl and stood up to go back into the house.
Just then, he saw Famir rubbing his eyes as he looked at him. " *yawn* Senior, what are you doing so early in the morning?" he asked. "Also, why are you so dirty?"
Ning looked down and realized that falling onto the ground for so long had in fact made him quite dirty. "Oh, never mind this," Ning said and snapped. All the dirt in his clothes fell to the ground.
"Let's go back in."
Famir was surprised to see Ning's usage of 'Enchantments'. He still believed that everything Ning was doing was Aether arts.
"Do you feel any different?" Ning asked.
"Different? No, not really. I think it failed," Famir said.
"Hmm? Try using it. Try invoking or enchanting. If you did become an Aether user, you will know then," Ning said.
Famir stopped walking and hesitated a bit. "Umm… should I really try it senior?" he asked.
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"Of course. How else will we know?" Ning said.
"No, I mean…" Famir slowly turned towards his sister and pointed towards her. "Won't I end up like Mavenna?" he asked.
"Oh, Sh*t. You're right. Nearly forgot about that," Ning said with an embarrassed smile. "I still need to learn more," Ning said.
Famir was a little confused as to what a senior with so much knowledge could mean, but didn't say anything.
'Hmm, should I get a random one from the system? Although, I am still quite unknown about the situation of this world. I don't know what would happen if I hand over the gold to these kids and leave. Bad people might come after him,' Ning thought.
Thinking along those lines, he thought of something and decided to ask.
"Famir, what's inside that mountain?" Ning asked while pointing south.
"The Peak of Afterlife? It's where we send off our departed to the stars," Famir sad.
That reminded NIng of a question that he was a little confused about. "Oh, by the way, who found your dad?" Ning asked.
"It was one of Noble Canon's men. He found my dad on the ground after he had fallen from the tree," Famir said with a sad voice.
"Noble? There is a noble in this village?" Ning asked.
"No, he's in the next town over. It's an hour's walk from here," Famir said.
"I see… and does this town have the library too?" Ning asked.
"Yes," Famir said with bright eyes. "It's where I read all of the books. It's honestly an amazing place."
"I see… Let's go there," Ning said. He needed to learn more about Aether and this world. And to learn that, he first needed to learn what topics there were to learn.
A place like a library that had different types of books would be a good way to get ideas on what to learn about.
"Senior, I need to look after my sister. I can't leave her all alone," Famir said.
"Ugh… wait for a second," Ning said and walked over to the room with the sister.
"Aegis, can you come out?" he asked.
Aegis flew out of the beast's space and landed inside the room. He was cramped and could barely fit in the room while sitting down.
"Turn around and put your back to the door. Protect the girl over there, okay? I will return in a few hours," Ning said and left Aegis alone to look after the girl.
"Alright, we are all set," Ning said as he walked back outside. "Let's go."
The two of them walked along the road and the people started whispering quietly when they saw Ning. 'I guess it's not surprising seeing how big of a show I put on yesterday," Ning thought as he facepalmed himself.
When the villagers saw Famir, they walked up to talk to him, give him their condolences and tell them that if they needed anything then he could let them know.
The entire village was like a big family. It reminded him about the people back in Klavis.
"Famir! Where are you going?" an old man walked up to him.
"Ah, Grand Uncle, I am going to the town with senior here. I will be back in a few hours," Famir said.
"Senior?" the old man looked at Ning up and down.
'Tsk. I should've changed my clothes,' Ning thought. It wasn't like he didn't have the clothes. He was just being lazy.
"Who might you be… visitor?" the old man said.
"I'm a nobody. You don't have to worry about me. I needed help for something from Famir, so I was taking him to the town," Ning said.
The grand uncle got a little alert when he heard that. "Only that that we need to worry about tell us that we don't need to worry about them," the grand uncle said.
"Uhhh… this is going to be troublesome," Ning said as he scratched his head.
"Jangar! Jangar!" the old man shouted.
"What is it, father?" Jangar walked out of the house. However, the moment he saw Ning on the street, he started getting scared.
"This man here is— What's wrong with you? Why is your leg shaking?" the grand uncle asked.
"Ah— No reason," Jangar said. His father liked staying inside the house due to his old age, so he didn't know what Jangar had gone through.
"This outsider here is trying to take Famir here with him. Go with him and make sure the kid is okay," the grand uncle said.
Ning's face got better when he realized he wouldn't have to spend another half an hour trying to prove his innocence to the old man.
"B— But fathe— "
"Brother Jangar, let's go to the town together. I would be quite happy to have someone so reliable with me as well," Ning said with a massive fake smile.
Jangar wanted to deny him but seeing his father's annoyed face and Ning's smiling face, he knew he had no choice.
Reluctantly, he agreed.
"That settles it then, doesn't it senior? I can have Famir here take me to the town right?" Ning asked.
"Hmph! It's okay now. Jangar, make sure to beat him to a pulp if he tries anything funny with your nephew," the grand uncle said and walked back into the house.
Ning looked towards Famir and asked, "that old man cares quite a lot about you. Are you guys related?"
Famir shook his head. "According to my father, after grandfather died, grand uncle basically looked after him, until he was old enough to live on his own. He kept on calling him uncle, and after me and my sister were born, we followed our father and called him grand uncle as well."
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"I see," Ning said.
He turned to look at Jangar and asked, "So his father lived with you guys?"
"Yes, Brother Yian lived with us for a few years," Jangar said.
"Oh, then you guys must've been quite close to each other," Ning asked.
"Oh no. I was maybe 6 years old when brother Yian came to live with us. He was around the same age as my late brother Nassi. Those two hit it off quite well," Jangar said with a melancholic voice.
"Late brother? How did he die?" Ning asked.
" He… was cutting a tree and the tree fell on him," Jangar said..
"Oh, that's quite sad. You have my condolences. Did you find your brother?" Ning asked.
"No, it was some other people who found him and carried his body back home. That was 3 years ago," Jangar said. " Let's stop talking about this. You guys want to go to the town right? Let's go," Jangar said and started walking.
Famir too would rather stop talking about the depressing talk, so he decided to start walking too.
Ning followed behind then, but a thought kept on running in his mind. 'A lumberjack dying from a tree crushing him? Another person falling from a tree that doesn't let you fall? These are too much of a coincidence for there to not be anything sinister behind them," Ning thought.
But he just couldn't pinpoint the motive. Then he thought… "the seal!"
"Hmm? What seal?" Famir turned around to ask.
"Uhh, the seal in the mountain, the Peak of Afterlife. How often does it open?" Ning asked.
"Umm… I don't know, once a month?" Famir said and looked towards Jangar for confirmation.
"Yes. Honestly, the village is cursed. Every month or two, someone dies here. I just want to leave the village already so I'm not the next one," Jangar said.
'There is definitely something going on here,' Ning thought. After an hour of walking, and crossing a 10-meter long wooden bridge, they finally reached the town.
Ning was quite surprised to see that the town was actually quite developed when compared to the village. There were a lot more people, and the buildings were a little more modern looking.
They were still not very different from the residential areas in Deepskull island. The place was just way too far away from the whole continent, so it was understandable it wasn't as developed.
He wanted to change his clothes, but turned out there were way too many people with color dresses here, so he was fine for now.
Famir took him to a small shop, which turned out to be the library. When Ning walked in, he was shocked.
'It's not even as big as my volunteer room,' he thought. The room was around 10 meters long and 6 meters wide, and it was the only floor.
There were a few desks inside and about 10 shelves with books on them.
Ning approached the shelves and looked at the books. 'The cover and binding are so good. This world must be quite advanced. Only this corner of the continent must be too far away to get the good stuff,' he thought.
Famir walked up to him and looked around for a few seconds, before choosing a book and taking it away. Ning looked at the spines of the books and didn't know if he should laugh or cry right now.
He only now remembered that he couldn't read at all, so coming to the library wasn't really the bright idea he thought he was.
"Whatever, I doubt his book is the best book out there," Ning thought. "System, how much does the max information about the subjects in this book cost?" h asked.
The system gave him a number that maxed at around 45 Billion energy. He didn't buy it immediately, however; that would be being too hasty, and he didn't have enough energy to splurge it around like that.
"Hmm… alright, let's try this. System, take every book that is in this library and place the global, nonrepetitive version of this information into my auto-buy list," Ning said.
System will require a one time access of up to 2 Million energy to scan every single book in this room
"Use it," Ning said.
The system stopped talking for a second and started scanning everything. After it was done, a bunch of new books got directly added to the auto-buy list.
"How many books are there?" Ning asked.
Around 34.7% of the books were deleted due to overlapping information or other complications
12% of the books were deleted due to them being fiction
Remaining books have turned into 36 books
The books cost 18 Billion Energy
"Huh, let me see the prices of each one?" Ning thought and went to check the list. He currently held about 6 Billion energy, so even if he wanted to buy it all, he couldn't.
"Let's see what exactly I can buy first… hmm… this book about Aether usages makes sense, oh, there are monsters in this continent as well. Flowers and fruits can be helpful."
Ning looked through every single book and in the end, decided to buy around 6 of them for now. It cost him nearly 3 billion since he chose the short books.
Once he was done with buying books, he took a random one and sat next to Famir, and acted like he was reading. Instead, what he did was try to understand the 6 of them that he had just learned.
The books had quite fascinating bits of information that Ning found quite fun to read. As he kept on reading them, his eyes turned a little sharp as he realized that he had been misunderstanding something about using Aether.
He referred back to own information he had gotten before and it told him the same thing. He just hadn't expected Aethers and by association, Aether users to be so unique when compared to Qi.
"If this is true… then learning might just be the way to becoming a great Aether user."
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Ning looked through his head and continued reading. The information there was just too much to sort out in just a few minutes.
Thankfully, due to them being bought from the system, all he had to do was refer to them.
'This book… is an entire book that does nothing but tell me what something is or something does. It's like a children's book for grown adults that help them visualize different kinds of stuff to use with Aether,' Ning thought.
'I see. So that is what it was. Aether isn't like Qi where just by training, you can get strong eventually. It's actually the power of imagination. As long as you can imagine it, Aether can help you do anything.'
Ning was absolutely thrilled to learn this.. If visualization was all it was needed, he knew tons of things, remembered so much that it would be impossible for him to not visualize stuff very easily. He could tell that Aether was going to be a lot of help for him.
"Hmm… so falling down after your Aether disappears is not that uncommon huh? I guess people here are just used to it. Or maybe it's just not a well-known thing in this faraway land of nowhere," Ning thought and kept reading.
Learning that it was the power of imagination, he started wondering how far the powers of Aether could be pushed forth.
'When you burn away Aether, your body looks for the next thing to burn, which happens to be the important nerves around the Sea of Aether and started burning it too… Yikes. Do people slowly lose functi— Oh, here it is, the damaged nerves are healed when the Aether returns.'
'However, if one kept up with the damage, they will go on a coma. I knew this. Why did I spend energy to get the same information twice? Tsk,' Ning thought.
After an hour or so, Famir finally tapped him, relaying that he was ready to leave. Ning looked to his other side and saw that Jangar had been fast asleep with nothing else to do for him.
Once he woke up, he too walked out of the library.
"So the library is free to use?" Ning asked after walking outside.
"Yes! It's maintained by the Noble Canon," Famir said.
"You guys want to go check out anything? Or do we return for now?" Jangar asked.
"Hmm… let's go to some stores and see if there are some clothes to buy. I don't feel like walking around while looking like this," Ning said.
"Oh, I know a shop. This way," Famir said and started walking forward.
They soon reached a shop and started looking through clothes.
'System, give me information on the currency here,' Ning asked.
Soon, he had basic information of currency here. The lowest currency was bronze coins that were also called Sik, and 100 of those would join to be this alloy of silver and some other metal, also known as Rop.
'How much energy do rops cost?' he asked.
it will cost you 5 Million energy per Rops
'Wait a second? Didn't that cost me the same thing for gold coins back on Kumia too? I'm starting to sense a pattern here' Ning said.
Yes, there is one
It costs you 5 Million energy per highest denomination of currency in that land
'Wait, so if the highest denomination of money in this land was only siks with no rops, then would I have had to pay 5 million per sik?' Ning asked in surprise.
Yes
'Tsk. That's quite bad. How much do I have to pay now?' he asked.
Siks are 1 Hundredth of a Rops value
So, you will have to pay 50 thousand energy per sik
'Damn, that different just because there is a higher value currency above it huh?' Ning thought. 'No, wait a second. There were spirit stones above gold. Why didn't you count that?'
System cannot make spirit stones due to being unable to create energy
So, it doesn't count Spirit stones as a currency, and chooses the next possible currency
'So there really was a pattern to the prices huh? What about prices for the other things I make you create?' he asked.
They have a price pattern as well
Non-organinc, Non-metallic creations cost 1 million energy per kilogram
Organic creations cost 2 million energy per kilogram
Metallic creations cost 4 million energy per kilogram
Objects will also cost more if their value is considered very high by the world
'I see. Alright, make me… 20 Rops for now,' he asked. As the guys were looking through the shop, 20 rops appeared in front of Ning that he hid as quickly as it appeared.
"You guys have seen enough? Let's go pay and return back home," Ning said.
"Yes, senior," Famir said and took out a single pair of clothes from the place.
"Hey, that won't do. I thought I gave you ample time to choose. Why are you only taking one set of clothes?" he asked.
"Umm… I don't have a lot of money." Famir got a little embarrassed.
"Ahem. Carpentering doesn't earn very much in the village," Jangar said.
"Sigh, I will pay. Choose what you want," Ning said.
Famir and Jangar smiled, but they still only chose a few clothes. "Goddamn you guys, here take these and this one too. Do you like that? Take it."
Ning started dumping the clothes onto the guys more than they could handle. When they got to the front to pay for it, even the lady at the counter was in shock at the sheer volume of the clothes.
She started to calculate the costs of all those clothes, so it was going to take some time.
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Two men with big bodies walked into the store and went right up to the counter.
"Be right there with you," the lady said without looking up.
"Hey!" one of the gruff men said. "We are not customers, lady. Look over here."
The lady looked up and saw the two men and fear showed in her eyes for a second. She did not like seeing these two here.
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"H— How much?" the lady asked with a quivering voice.
"50 siks for today and we come tomorrow, or 10 rops for the whole month. Your choice," one of the men said.
"I— I don't have that kind of money right now," the woman said.
"Cut the crap and give it to us fast. We don't have time to waste with you all day," the men said.
"I— I really don't have any. I have nothing to give to you," the woman said.
"Hah! Who do you think you are lying to? Look at this, you sell so much and you expect us to believe that you don't have anything? You are quite a brave woman, aren't you?" the man said with an evil grin.
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Ning looked at him and really wanted to punch his face. But doing so would mean the man was going to die, and he didn't want the hassle of being a murderer in this world right now.
'Although, I might finally have a key to the seal,' Ning thought and smiled a little.
"Th— This is only my first sale of the day. These gentlemen haven't even finished paying yet," the woman said.
"This woman really wants to— "
"Hey, brother! It looks like you have some business with the lady here," Ning said from the side.
"Yeah, we do. What does it have to do with you?" the man said.
"Nothing really. It's just that I was here first, so if you have a business, then you will have to get in line behind us," Ning said.
"Haha, Pal. It seems you have a lot of money to pay for these things. Why don't you pay us too?" the men said as one of them moved his cloth just enough for Ning to see a hidden dagger.
The man smiled when he noticed that Ning had seen it.
Ning smiled too. He snickered towards the men and said, "You think that little toothpick is enough to scare me?"
"Why don't we see then?" the man said and suddenly pulled out the dagger. He pointed it towards Ning and tried to act like he was going to stab him.
"Yeah, still not scared," Ning said.
"B*tch! Just shut up and hand over the money," the men said.
Ning smiled and took one step closer. "Oho, are you openly robbing me now. That feels like I have a reason to attack now," Ning said. "Come stab me too. There is no other way I am going to give you money."
The men got angry and the one with the sword suddenly stabbed at Ning.
Ning looked at half the dagger sticking next to his cloth and got a little surprised. 'He really stabbed me."
The man smiled sinisterly when he saw that half his dagger had entered Ning's left shoulders. "You better bring your money out now, or I will twist this dagger ins—"
"AAAAHHHH" scream of pain appeared from right next to the man. He looked behind him only to see his friend down on the ground, with his hands clutching his face and blood gushing out of it.
"Hey! What's wrong?" he tried to pull out the dagger from Ning's body to check his friend. But suddenly, Ning caught his arm and held it in place.
"You're not going anywhere," Ning said.
"Famir, are there police or guards in this area?" Ning asked.
"Uhh… Noble Canon has guards that patrol the town. They are responsible for looking after the town," Famir said.
"Go call them. Tell them I have a criminal in my clutches," Ning said.
Famir skipped past the two men and ran out of the door.
Ning looked to the side and smiled as he said, "Lady, don't mind us. Please just focus on counting the price for now," he said.
The other man didn't stop screaming at all, and the blood was still gushing out. Without treatment, he would die soon. The man tried to pull his arm back, but no matter what,
"Yo— You! What are you planning on doing? I will stab your heart if you don't let go," he threatened.
"I don't doubt you will try to," Ning said. "But with what blade?" He slowly bent the man's hands away from his chest to reveal that his hand's taken any damage and that it was the blade that had broken in half.
"You already used to pointy end to stab your friend back there," Ning said with a smile.
"Ho— How?" the man couldn't believe what had happened until he thought of a possibility that shocked him. "Aether User."
"Well, you are not very stupid, are y—"
BAM
"ARGHH" the man screamed as he held his left arm against himself. He had just tried to punch Ning on the face and instead had his hands broken.
"Tsk. And here I just said you are not very stupid. Why did you feel the need to prove me wrong?" Ning said.
"In here." Famir's voice came from the outside. Soon, two people in brown-green cloth walked into the shop and saw the two men in pain.
"What happened here?" one of the guards asked.
"Oh, these men came here looking for protection money from the shop and then tried to rob me. So, I put them in their place," Ning said.
The guards quickly checked the criminals and were shocked a little. "Thank you for your help, sir," he said and took away the men.
"Well, that was enough fun for the day. Let's go back home," Ning said. The other two nodded.
"Lady, how much is the cost?" Ning asked.
"I— I haven't finished counting," she said.
"Hmm… give me an approximate price. I don't have time to wait for so long," Ning said.
"Uhh…" the lady tried to guess the prices of the clothes all at once. Once she was done checking it all, she said, "8… 8 rops and 30 siks."
"Hmm… okay," Ning said and tossed 9 rops her way. "Keep the rest."
Suddenly, the stack of clothes on the counter disappeared and Ning started walking out.
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