Eternal
They prepared for days. They had Selia advance to Peak Ascended, using the room for her just how both Ryun and Erdania had used it before. It was good for her to get accustod to it. She stopped with her last cycle, just how the two of them had done. The plan was for their advancent to happen at the end of a cycle.
On the day they planned on advancing they took things slowly. The staff of the Estate was sent away, leaving the three of them alone. Just talking about nothing important, internal matters of the Sect, of their smithing and how they could improve it. They prepared ntally by emptying their minds of any unneeded thoughts.
Once they were ready, they all shuffled into their advancent room and took their spots.
Now what? Erdania asked.
I thought that you two knew what to do, Selia glared at them.
Ryun chuckled. We relax, I guess. We all know what is required, it is just that we need to reach that point of inspiration I guess.
Selia tilted her head. That is a lot easier said than done.
How about this, Ryun started. We are here, together, because we want this to be a crucial mont in our lives. So, lets start by saying what we want out of life, why we advance.
Selia tilted her head, then nodded.
Ill start, Erdania said. I want to get stronger because I want to enjoy life. To see and experience interesting things.
Ryun smiled, that was a big part of why he cared for her. I want to see the end, he said. To hear stories of lives lived by others. My life is simpler. I am not like most people, and so hearing and seeing their lives gives sothing that I lack.
Erdania fit into his goal. They could endure together, experiencing stories, until the last end. Or as far as she could go.
Selia closed her eyes. All I want, all I ever wanted was a family. Now I want a legacy, children, sothing of to endure after I am gone.
Ryun had always known that not everyone was like him, not everyone wished for eternity. And that was fine. He would take what he could, enjoy it while it lasts, and rember when it was gone.
They had already known this about each other, but words had power. Saying out loud was as if bringing it into existence. Ryun reached over and placed his palm on the formation, activating it.
Selia and Erdania did the sa, activating their own. The room thrumd with power as Essence started to move, Ryun felt everything being pulled away from his section just as Selias section started to fill in with her own Aspect and Gravity increased in Erdanias. Ryun closed his eyes, using his new skill to focus only on his own Aspect to the exclusion of all else. His existence narrowed to just his section of the room and slowly he started pulling out Essence Crystals.
He pulled from them and into his core, feeding that endless well with Essences as closely related to Oblivion as he could find, and of the highest tier. He poured them in, and destroyed it, consuming it to create Oblivion, which he then cycled through his core. Again and again, spending a fortune of Essence Crystals to convert and get just a 100th of what he needed. But he did it, careless for the ti it took.
Instead, he focused his mind and his whole being, inward, on his Soul. What Zach had shared had sparked sothing more, but Ryun had already been on the path. Selia and he had managed to touch their Souls long ago, when they first crafted their spiritual tool. Since then, they had both worked to expand on that.
Ryun had been able to both see and sense Souls for a long ti. Now, he felt at his own. Through smithing, he had learned that Soul too can be a resource, that it can be used and that it regenerated. He focused on that connection between his body and Soul, knowing that it was the key for the Eternal inspiration.
He suspected, that to reach the Eternal Realm, one had to reinforce that connection. But how to do it, was up to each individual Cultivator. And Ryuns idea, was well. His Aspect destroyed everything, yet the aning of his Soul gave him shape and form. It was what ordered the Essence of his body into his appearance.
What he wanted was more, a deeper connection. He could feel the gulf between his Soul and his Body. The thing that separated them, and he poured his Qi through his body then out. Not out of his body, but through that gulf, the Essence that was in between. Space, or Realms, or whatever it was, gave way to his power. He eroded that gulf, bringing his Soul closer.
His will and aning were united in purpose, and all he could think was that he wanted to be Enduring, Eternal. A fixture in existence that would always be a part of it, for as long as it existed.
To see it all through, up until the End.
The gap was gone, and his Soul superimposed on his body without the barrier of that gulf, that Essence that anchored and kept Souls apart.
Ryun cycled his Qi that one last ti, then he advanced, as he knew he would be able to do. His Soul trembled, as did his body. Heat and Cold in equal asure spread through him, sensations unlike anything that he had ever felt ripped through him. He almost cried out when he felt sothing else.
Sothing filled the room they were in, a wave of sothing that only his Soul could sense that he had no word to describe. His sense shuddered and he felt the items they had placed around the room change.
Those around Ryun, fell apart, consud by Oblivion, turning into Essence that swirled around him. Erdanias change too, in a way that Ryun didnt recognize, but the gravity in the room increased substantially.
Around Selia, the change was greater. The items they had placed, the works they had created together, the paintings. They caught on green fire, but didnt burn. Sothing was seeping into them, but again, Ryun didnt know what.
He understood Oblivion, not their Aspects.
But whatever had happened lessened his pain. He narrowed his sense back, and focused on all that Oblivion around him. His advancent was still in progress, he could feel it lancing through him.
The hole inside his Core opened up, the conduit to his Aspect. That plane that was a Realm of a concept made manifest. He gazed out at it, and it gazed back at him. Everything got erased as that concept touched him. All his thoughts and all his sensations. One mont the overwhelming weight of the advancent was there, and then he was empty. He both existed, and didnt. A paradox made real. He felt it as he had last ti when he had only glimpsed it.
It refused him then, and it refused him now. He was not pure; he was made out of Essence that it could not touchhis Soul. Ryun reached for it anyway. He understood it in that mont more than any other. Oblivion was not malice, it was not hate or death or destruction. It was just a state of complete and utter peace.
The Oblivions rejection of him slowed, then ca to a stop. Perhaps it sensed his thoughts, his will reaching for it. Yet, as Ryun poured into that Realm, his will and thoughts spilling inside, he found it just empty, directionless. He understood now what Zach had ant when he told him how he established the Way of Ti.
But this it felt nothing like what he described. Zach had felt other wills, competing ideas to his own, he had to overpower them. Ryun felt nothing.
Pieces slid into place inside of his mind, and he grasped at the aning behind Oblivion. He had known it, in so shape or form, he felt like. Now it was clear to him. He wanted to be part of it, of that enduring monunt that would never end, that was always there before everything. He pushed himself into that plane and felt it touch his Soul, his advancent continued, and he was changed.
He grasped at the Oblivion all around him, and complete understanding was there, just at the tip of his fingertips, waiting for him to reach for it and then shape this entire Realm with his will. Oblivion poured over his Soul, and he stretched himself toward that understanding and
The empty state inside of his mind was shattered as sothing from the outside intruded in. Sothing greater than any concept, a frawork upon all of it was built.
Power level sufficient.
Possible integration of the Aspect of True Death remnants.
User unique perk created.
Evolved Form removed and rged
Immortality removed and rged
Ankh of EternityForm of True Oblivion, Eternal Hunter, Last Death created.
Ryun blinked, and felt the Plane of Oblivion throw him out. A part of him lanted the loss of what he almost had, but another knew that he would be back. Instead he let himself settle into the Real Realm, his thoughts and sensations returning.
Imdiately, he could tell that he was different.
He opened his eyes and saw only Oblivion around him, so thick that his sight couldnt see what Selia and Erdania were doing. Through his sense he knew that they were fine, and the Essence around them spoke of the sa thing that had happened to him.
ntally, he pulled up his notifications, reading them in order.
Insightful knowledge acquired
You peered into the deeper law and concept of an Essence. You grasped the truth behind it.
Great Feat accomplished
Rewards:
Grasp of Oblivion Title
Gate to Oblivion Title and Grand Perk
Titles
Grasp of Oblivion
Gain a grasp of the core concepts of your Aspect and gain a deeper understanding.
7% to all stats, (Aspect Improvent) 50 Celestial Essence
Gate to Oblivion
Your achievent, drive, or effort is recognized.
100 to base wisdom, Gate to Oblivion (Grand Perk), 10 Celestial Essence
Oblivion (9) (Aspect Perk)
Your Qi passively enhances your body with the concept of Oblivion. You are immune to any direct tracking or scrying thods. Any attacks against you will lose a portion of their power based on the disparity between you and the source. You are immune to directly influencing movent restriction effects. You have no presence that can be sensed by anything or anyone. 25% to vitality, 50% to wisdom and intelligence.
Gate to Oblivion (Grand Perk)
Open a gateway to the plane of Oblivion.
He had gained the Grasp perk. He grimaced, knowing that he was so close to the next step, what Zach had. He could rember the mont where he had almost gotten a complete understanding, but he pushed those thoughts away. There will be more chances for that after. Now, he reached the last notification, and paused. He didnt see a choice of perks, which told him one thing.
Slowly, he opened up his perks and found the new one that had swallowed two of his greatest perks.
Ankh of EternityForm of True Oblivion, Eternal Hunter, Last Death
Your Body and Soul are inescapably forged together. You are a singular entity, comprised not out of a body and soul, but raw Essence and aning. Appearance and size dependent on will and aning. Consuming high tier Oblivion Essence or Qi temporarily raises stats up to 150%. Your aning endures for as long as a single Essence of your body remains, and you can regenerate to full from it.
Realm restrictions lifted, able to walk on any plane.
Evolved Form perk removed.
All Immortality powers removed.
Benefits retained: You do not age. You no longer need to breathe or eat food, but will need to consu Oblivion or related type Qi or Essence. Reproduction will only be possible through use of powers.
Gain 50% to intelligence, wisdom.
You embody the ideas of several Aspects, ultimately, all had led you to oneOblivion.
That was going to take so testing to fully understand. But perhaps there were so upsides to what he had lost. For now, he centered himself, waiting for Selia and Erdania to do the sa.
There was a lot of in front of them, and he wanted to go through it together.
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