"Haha... don’t worry I won’t be eating them alone, you can take it... and we’ll share the rank 3 core alright". Black spoke, chuckling, petting Zephyr who already ate her 3 normal cores.
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Both Black and Zephyr had already reached level 59 after spending seven days doing nothing but hunting, killing and devouring other powerful rank 5 creature’s to beco stronger hence at present Black and Zephyr were teteering between the edge of level 59 and level 60.
Just a few more hunts and killing normal level 57 to level 59 creature’s — Black and Zephyr would be able to reach rank 6 rather easily since they dodn’t have any minor or major bottlenecks because of the virtue of being a proginetor and the first born.
During this ti there mastery over there abilities have seen significant progress too.
Black could now resonate with the elents present in the nature with his [ Resonance ] trait Controlling them to a certain extent. Although he is only limited to the 5 basic elents right now, [ Fire, Water, Earth, Wood, tal ] Since his mastery was still at the biggner level more accurately, Black has increased it till 30 percent in this ti fra.
Furthermore when his mastery over his trait reaches the second level — The Accomplished Level, Black would probably be able to resonate with atleast 10 elents. Maybe so abstract elents too and the extent and versatility of his manipulation would surely increase in range too including the strength of the elents.
Additionally, Black’s [ Dissonance ] trait had also seen major improvent, as his [ Sensory Discordance ] ability have further evolved since — now it could even brake the bond between the more ethereal senses of an existence such as ’the sense of self’ or ’the sense of space-ti’ compared to before where it could only brake the bond of the sensory system and the mind leaving the victims paralysed.
anwhile now Black could directly collapse his victims self-awareness by braking there ’sense of self’ using his [ Sensory Discordance ] ability.
However Black is majorly unaware of the extent he could use his [ Sensory Discordance ] ability because he hadn’t t any Rank 6 creature in these past 7 days since any rank 5 or lower creature would simply have there self-awareness collapsed the mont his ability hit them.
Nevertheless, after eating the magic core and the Ox at that Black cooked on fire both of them were simply resting.
Besides as for how he created the fire — it was obviously by using his Resonance trait.
While his mastery at present only allowed him enough versatility to create small fire balls by resonating with the fire elental present in the nature yet that was enough for his current use.
Since anymore and the [ Resonance ] would simply brake because of the resistance the elents themselves put against his ’will’ or ’control’ causeing the gathered fire elent to simply disperse.
Moreover, He even got so salt by boiling the bioluminescent fungi attached on the giant tree roots sprawling all over the underground caverns, and since every root was tens of ters thick he even got the fresh water to boil the fungi just by cutting the side of a root slightly.
After boiling the fungi, Black just simply dried them up using fire again, making a powder of the fungi using wind elental therefore he got his salt to enjoy with the Ox at.
And of course he knew about how to make the salt using his Partial-Omniscint ability since the first ti he cooked the beast at after leaving the small cave, it was quiet bland, so he had just asked his Partial-Omniscint on a whim.
And he got this answer — That ti he was really grateful to have such an amazing ability.
...
A few hours have passed...
Black and Zephyr were just resting near the fire After a good al and the long hunt.
Furthermore in these massive underground caverns there was no sun-light or moon-light only the small illumination coming from the large, small or giant crystals embedded on the tree roots and the above ceiling of the middle-layers and the bioluminescent fungi.
Thus after every now and then, Black and Zephyr would simply lie down to rest there body and mind from the long hunt or to simply pass ti as they had nothing to do.
Sotis spending hours doing nothing, Soti 1 or 2 hours as they had no way of telling how much ti had passed in these caverns.
Just enjoying the light warmth of the fire and each other.
He created the fire, using a fragnt of the large tree root he had cut and again cutting that fragnt into smaller fragnts, then extracting the moisture out of them using the water elental, thus drying them.
Resulting in the good fire they enjoyed which provided them with both warmth and with another source of light in these caverns which was mostly surrounded in darkness.
"Just a few more days to go and we’ll finally break-through to rank 6... After that you should be able to get your revenge too, Zephyr". Black looked at her, his voice gentle and calm, trying to hide his emotions, the fury even wrath.
He was totally beside himself when he learned about what had happened to Zephyr before she t him and even though 4 days had already passed since than his dark thoughts still hadn’t cald down even till now because he cared about Zephyr a lot more then he think he did.
anwhile, Black was leaning against the Giant Tree Root. Before him the small fire burned like flas dancing with frevent energy, the embers, like tiny stars, drift upwards, carried by the rising tendrils of smoke and the small breezes of wind. Casting a warmth and a light golden glow. The air shimred with heat, by the wood burning in the gentle flas.
In the silence and quiet that followed after he finished — Black looked below at Zephyr who had already transford into her serpent form again, coiled on his lap.
His golden gaze mirroring his voice — Calm and gentle.
Upon hearing his question, Zephyr looked up. Her Sscarlett orbs just as enchanting and beautiful as ever, she spoke.
"Umm... Just 1 or 2 more day and I’ll finally be able to kill that Nether spirit... But before that I’ll ask him why did he co and slaughter my family and turned them into those abominable undead. Not letting them rest in peace even after he slaughtered them, even in death.. " Zephyr finished, her voice heavy, crocked even broken.
Her eyes, a little moist reflecting her sorrow and grief even suffering. Zephyr still rembered the scene of her small family being slaughtered vividly.
She rembered how her small self trembled in despair and terror when the dead and empty eyes of her father, her brother even her other siblings who were also born with her, looked at her.
Even though dead. They moved, slithered towards her mother and herself who were the only one left alive, and How that Nether spirit crackled and laughed nacingly as he looked at them with enjoynt, like so sort of objects for his entertainnt. And how her mother fought for there survival and how she died but managed to bought enough ti for her to escape.
She rembered all of it like it happened just yesterday —
Seeing her unstable emotions, Black’s eyes widened, ’sh*t how could I forget, she is still traumatized by that experience. Only 7 days had passed since that happened after all’. Black thought feeling guilty.
Apparently neither Black nor Zephyr could accurately judge ti in these caverns, so even though Only 7 days had passed, it felt a lot longer to them. since they had experienced a lot of things in these past 7 days. And if his System didn’t tell him his age he wouldn’t even know how much ti had passed or would’ve thaught more than a month had passed.
"I’m... I’m sorry Zephyr I shouldn’t have said that because of you had to rember those depressing mories again... I’m sorry!!" Black apologized in guilt and self-bla.
Seeing, how her earlier display had affected Black. Zephyr just smiled kindly and spoke..
"No you don’t have to be sorry. These emotions are sothing I have to overco. I can’t live in these past traumas since I have a new family now, don’t I!! ~ " trying to cheer him up.
When Black heard what Zephyr said about ’trying to overco her past’, he also smiled gentlely, his earlier guilt faded too.
"Haha.. You are right Zephyr, we are a family now and I would never let sothing like that happened to you again!!." Black spoke, his voice back to his calm and confident self.
He only looses control over his emotions whenever it’s sothing related to Zephyr.
Changing the topic..
"Anyway, that Nether spirit you told about..." Black asked, as he rembered sothing.
Seeing he had Zephyr’s attention *umm..*
He continued..
"You said that he ca from the ground layer right.. the one below the middle-layers!!." Black asked, he still rembered Zephyr talking about it briefly in there previous conversation.
"Umm... I had heard my mother saying sothing to my father when that Nether spirit had appeared in our den near the giant tree roots near the Dark-Fall lake, sothing like ’why would a nether spirit from the ground, co up’ though at that ti I didn’t understand what she nt compared to now when I know there is a layer below us called ground-layer!!." Zephyr answered, her voice steady as she tried to rember anything of importance.
"And that nether spirit was also a Rank 6 existence but still managed to kill your parents who you said were also Rank 6.. can you tell how Zephyr!!." Black asked as this was sothing he could not understand since he didn’t know anything about Nether spirits in general or what type of creature’s they were or just what were there abilities.
Apparently even Black’s Partial-Omniscint ability also ca blank when he asked it. even though that nether spirit was clearly a Rank 6 existence as Zephyr had told him. aning it was still in stage 2 under the limit of Black’s Partial-Omniscint ability. And when he asked Double about it, he simply said Black had no karma with it or sothing and that only Zephyr had it.
Black couldn’t comprehend what he nt so he directly asked Zephyr.
Zephyr replied, her voice disgusted, hateful even vindictive. She rembered everything she heard and saw that day as it was the mory that changed her very destiny..
"Nether spirit themselves aren’t that strong. At least that’s what I think since the one that killed my parents wasn’t. He nearly died when my father went berserk as the undead that he comnded killed all of my other siblings while crackling nacingly. I don’t know much about what a nether spirit can or can’t do. However the one who attacked and slaughtered my family had the ability to bring back the creature’s he killed to life again as mindless Monsters using his nether energy. which he used to create an army of hundreds with creature’s of different races and ranks or level in it!!."
Zephyr stopped to take a deep breath..
She Began..
"The undead of different ranks from 4 to 6 even though weak when they were alive and weaker then my parents stil beca the bane of our family since no matter how they used it. My mother or father’s poison just didn’t work on the undead. Moreover since my father had went berserk disregarding all of his defence, uncaring about his life. He was eventually killed by the curreption of nether energy of those powerful rank 6 undead’s and beca one of them.. "
"My mother had to watch my father brutally get killed. She couldn’t do anything to save him either since she was busy protecting using all of her strength from the hord of undead.. "
"Even though wounded and broken at seeing her family get slaughtered she did everything she could to protect .. " Zephyr chocked, her voice a little heavy.
However she just shook her head and sighed..
"Alas even she couldn’t hold on for much longer just being on defensive and... And after a few more minutes she too succd to her wounds. And beca one of the undead all the while that maniac laughed nacingly. enjoying the feeling of destroying our ho as though it was sothing normal!!." Zephyr finished, as she smiled at him. This ti her voice was stable and calm no longer carring the previous tumultuous emotions.
Black simply nodded and closed his eyes, his mind heavy with many complicated emotions. Black couldn’t understand how could a baby who wasn’t even a day old suffer so much yet in just seven days still have such a beautiful smile.
Seeing that Black didn’t have anything else to say or ask..
Zephyr also closed her eyes and coiled her body back on his lap.
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4 hours later, suddenly Black opened his eyes from his sleep when he heard the sound of sothing approaching.
His golden gaze staring at the Darkness past there small fire, which crackled ti and again..
Zephyr also opened her eyes then transford into her humanoid self, her onyx slits narrowed as she looked at Black. Then at the pitch-black darkness on the right side..
"Zephyr co here..." Black said as he moved in front of Zephyr to protect her in case of any danger —
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