"I have no idea." Painter shook his head. "I have never seen anything like this before. Usually, when soone contracts a high-tier soul beast, a pillar of light rises. But this... this looks like a storm."
"And it's growing stronger," Grey frowned, his eyes narrowing as he tried to peer through the distance. But even he couldn't see through the storm. "It's almost as if sothing is… evolving."
"Evolving? It feels similar, but it's not quite the sa. Still, it is still a very beautiful sight..." The Painter raised his hand, summoning a canvas from the ground, gaining inspiration for his next painting.
He held the brush and started painting the storm while sitting atop the tree. "Hmm? I can't capture it?"
It took him a brief mont to notice that sothing was wrong with his painting. He was drawing the storm, but he wasn't able to capture its essence. For the first ti in a long while, his painting was completely ordinary.
"Should we inform the Headmaster?" Grey asked, turning to the Painter. Just a short ti ago, they were fighting with the intention to kill. Even their clothes were torn in places, but now they were sitting as if nothing like that had ever happened.
"She is the only person in the Academy who can enter the Land of Fables again. I think it might be for the best to tell her. If sothing bad happens, she would be even more annoying to deal with. I'm already on probation because of the last ti."
The Painter affird the suggestion and told Grey to bring the Professor while he stayed behind.
"Despite being on probation, you never learn." Grey stood up, scoffing at Painter. He leapt off the tree, and disappeared.
"What's the point of learning? She can't fire . But still I don't want her to hear her lecture a second ti. Last ti it almost made my ears bleed." Painter rubbed his ear, rembering the annoyance he had to feel with, all because he made a small mistake.
"It's not as if that boy would've beco soone great. So what if I..." He mumbled, before shaking the thought off his head. He shifted his attention back to the storm, which was strangely still growing.
anwhile, within the heart of the storm, Elias was undergoing a transformation unlike any he had experienced before.
The twelve orbs he had chosen, each containing the essence of powerful fables, were rging with his very existence. Pain, raw and intense, coursed through him, but he gritted his teeth, and proceeded through the rger.
The storm raged around him, creating a physical manifestation of the fables that he was devouring. He could see Twelve shadows appear in the storm around him, each belonging to a fable that he was devouring.
One of the shadows reached out its hand to Elias. In response, he also extended his hand, even though every movent made him more pain. The two hands ca closer, until the shadow touched his fingers. For a mont, the world seed to freeze in place.
Elias felt the shadow started becoming blurry, as if its essence was entering his own body. He could feel black veins extending all over his arm, until they reached his neck, and slowly moving to his heart.
He could feel his heart becoming heavier, but not in a physical sense. Instead, there seed to be imnse grief making ho inside his heart, along with a myriad of emotions like regret and rage.
These were the emotions that he was already very familiar with, but he could feel even more of these emotions. He couldn't just feel his own sadness, grief and rage.
He could also feel the emotions that these fables had gathered for hundreds of years. These were emotions that were almost overwhelming him when combined with his own emotions, suppressing the other emotions.
He looked towards another shadow, which also extended its hand. He couldn't see the face of the shadow, but he felt as if he could see it smile.
"Accept everything that we own..." The shadow reached out her hand towards Elias. "Don't let the past disappear..."
Despite receiving the budget of the uninvited emotions, Elias still reached out his hand. His fingers again touched the shadow, and the second shadow also started disappearing, the essence moving inside Elias's body.
As the second Soul Beast's essence entered Elias, it also moved straight for his heart, as if making ho there. Harbinger's essence as well as the Decaying Beast's essence also ca to life, and moved to Elias's heart, making it their new ho.
The third shadow reached out, and then the fourth. Elias kept accepting all of them, even as he was overburdened by emotions that were getting thousands of tis stronger.
He didn't even rember his own last, yet tears were subconsciously streaming down the corner of his eyes, as he kept accepting the burden of others along with their strength.
This ti, he wasn't just evolving in his class, but also in his species. He was going beyond the existence of a human, and becoming part fable himself, starting his own fable.
The ego, hovering at a safe distance, watched the storm that now covered hundreds of miles around the area. Every ti the storm grew bigger, the ego was forced to move away, growing worried that the storm might attract dangerous enemies.
Unfortunately, because of such a large storm, the ego couldn't keep an eye on the entirety of the surrounding. It was trying its hardest to circle around the entire storm to observe the surroundings, like the moon going around the earth.
Just as it had expected, a few mid-tier fables were attracted by the storm.
Even the high tier fables were growing interested in the strange phenona, since they felt an aura that they had never felt before. It was like the aura of a new peak tier fable that was arriving in this world.
The storm didn't just catch the attention of the fables, but also the other students of the Academy that now had high tier soul beasts that weren't entrapped in their domains.
Rey was the first, getting on top of the beast as he rushed towards the storm to check. The others also did the sa.
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