Chapter 584: Pyramid of Elents II
CH584 Pyramid of Elents II
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Alex considered the situation cautiously for a mont.
’I could still brute-force it. The pain isn’t actually that bad,’ he mused.
But then another thought occurred to him.
’Well, if Fire elental mana is out of reach, what if I simply pull in a different elent?’
He rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
’Let’s try Light this ti.’
Among his four major elents, after Fire, Light seed like the elental nature that would likely be the most abundant.
So he reached out for it.
’If only I could still use Spirit Sight, I wouldn’t have to guess like this,’ the thought passed briefly through his mind before he dismissed it.
His Spiritual Force extended outward once more.
Just as with the Fire elental mana earlier, the Light elental mana quickly responded to his pull.
It gathered around him and ford an additional layer of shielding, protecting his body from the pyramid’s crushing gravity.
’Success,’ Alex thought.
He continued climbing the pyramid, increasing the concentration of Light elental mana surrounding his body with every step.
Everything progressed smoothly until he reached the eighteenth step.
When he attempted the nineteenth step, he realised that the Light elental mana surrounding him had already been depleted.
Just like the Fire mana before it, he would now need to extend his Spiritual Force farther outward —exposing it more to the pyramid’s gravity— if he wished to gather more Light mana.
’Alright then... let’s try Darkness this ti.’
Alex did not hesitate.
He imdiately switched to attracting a different elental mana.
Having begun to grasp the pattern of the trial, Alex deduced that the pyramid’s gravity spiked every nine steps, requiring a new elent to withstand the pressure.
Darkness mana quickly gathered around him.
It reinforced his shield from the nineteenth step all the way to the twenty-seventh step.
When he reached the twenty-eighth step, Alex imdiately switched to drawing in Lightning elental mana.
Just like before, the Lightning mana strengthened his protective shield and allowed him to continue climbing the pyramid.
However, unlike before...
Alex’s expression had beco extrely solemn.
Alex looked up the pyramid and realised he had not even reached halfway.
And yet he had already exhausted the elental affinities he could use to strengthen the shield protecting him from the pyramid’s ever-increasing gravity.
Soon, he reached the thirty-sixth step.
Even before lifting his leg to attempt the next step, Alex imdiately felt an overwhelming pressure pressing down upon the shield surrounding him.
’Forget taking the next step... the shield won’t even last long if I stay here for too long,’ his brows furrowed.
’Should I step back?’
He glanced behind him.
But the very next mont, he rolled his eyes and turned his gaze back toward the summit of the pyramid.
Rather than waste ti contemplating sothing he had no intention of doing, he might as well spend that ti searching for a solution to his current predicant.
’Can I...?’
Looking at the shield surrounding him —ford from the basic elental affinities he had drawn together— Alex suddenly had a whimsical thought.
’Let’s try this.’
His Spiritual Force extended outward once more.
However, this ti it did not reach toward the surrounding ambient mana.
Instead, it reached into the shield itself.
Under the influence of his Spiritual Force, the Fire and Light elental mana within the shield began to rge.
The shield suddenly strengthened.
More Fire and Light elental mana rushed toward it from the surrounding space, drawn in from areas beyond the safe range of his Spiritual Force’s affinity.
’So Solar mana is also recognised as an elent under the Heaven and the Earth,’ Alex nodded to himself.
With that realisation, he continued his climb.
Whenever the gravity intensified with each step, he simply rged the newly gathered Fire and Light mana within the shield to create Solar mana.
The Solar mana would then attract additional Fire and Light elental mana, creating a self-reinforcing loop that steadily strengthened his shield.
This continued smoothly...
Until he reached the next major checkpoint.
The forty-sixth step.
At that point, the loop suddenly collapsed.
It appeared that the Fire and Light elental mana within the surrounding region had already been exhausted.
Simply rging the remaining Fire and Light mana into Solar mana was no longer enough.
If he wished to continue forward, he would have to find another solution.
’In that case...’
Without much hesitation or complex deliberation, Alex shifted his attention toward the Lightning and Darkness elental mana within his shield.
’Netherspark... it’s your turn.’
Lightning and Darkness mana fused together, forming the rare —perhaps even unique— Netherspark elent, an energy born when Alex’s Velkar True Na first manifested, tied to the Infernal origin of his Furor bloodline.
Just like before, the shield imdiately strengthened.
With the reinforcent provided by the Netherspark elent, Alex was able to continue climbing once again.
Things proceeded smoothly until he reached the fifty-fourth step.
However, the mont he attempted to move toward the fifty-fifth step, he encountered yet another roadblock.
As a test, Alex cautiously extended his Spiritual Force, probing the pressure that would descend upon it.
’Argh!’
Alex clutched his head.
A numbing pain surged through his brain as the pyramid’s crushing pressure descended upon his exposed Spiritual Force.
He imdiately withdrew it.
’It’s still a bit bearable... but incredibly annoying,’ he thought.
’More importantly, it isn’t a permanent solution. I don’t think I can keep using it as a thod to draw in more mana all the way to the top of the pyramid.’
’I need a different solution.’
Crack—!
Suddenly, Alex heard a sharp fracture within the shield protecting him from the pyramid’s overwhelming gravitational force.
’Ahh!’
For a split second, a small portion of the pressure leaked through.
Alex felt as though he had been struck by a speeding truck.
Fortunately, the shield quickly stabilised itself, sealing the crack before the full force of the gravity could crush him.
’I definitely cannot allow the shield to collapse,’ he thought grimly.
’Think! What other thod can I use to increase my mana affinity and attract more sympathetic ambient mana...?’
Alex lifted his gaze toward the summit of the pyramid.
There were ninety-nine steps leading to the top.
He had only climbed fifty-four.
That ant there were still forty-five steps remaining.
Five major gravity spikes still lay ahead.
Which ant he needed five more solutions if he wanted to increase the elental capacity of his shield enough to reach the summit.
Crack—!
Unfortunately, the pyramid was not giving him much ti to think.
So Alex made a gamble.
"Calm Madness."
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