An Elental Seed, also known as an Elental Spirit
They were extrely rare. No, even calling it like that was an understatent. For an elental seed to form, it wasn’t just a matter of ti and effort. There was a good amount of luck involved as well.
After all, even with so much ti and condensed mana, gaining sentience wasn’t sothing logically possible. Elental seeds weren’t living beings.
Their sentience could be considered similar to an artifact spirit’s. As for the reason they ford? It was still unknown.
They were wonders of nature. To see one now, Damien was incredibly pleased.
‘It’s a sha that it isn’t a compatible attribute for . I could use a lightning elental seed to raise my lightning to the sa level as my Void Flas.’
But even then, it was an elental seed that’d benefit Ruyue, so it wasn’t much of a loss. He already had so much, after all.
‘But is it just an ice elental seed or is it full-blown yin? Maybe sothing in between? I can only find out once I see it with my own eyes.’
Damien soon snapped out of his thoughts, only to see that Lunaria was still observing the ice coffins. Looking at her, he hesitated.
Morally speaking, telling her would be the best thing to do. Especially since he was trying to build trust between them.
But he couldn’t do it.
Lunaria may be a relatively upright person, but anyone would get greedy in the face of an elental seed. Not to ntion an elental seed that aligned with their affinities.
It was best to hold the information back for the small possibility that Lunaria would go back on their agreent.
“So? What should we do now?” He asked. From what he could see, there was nothing in this area besides these ice coffins. He couldn’t even see an exit.
Lunaria thought for a second before responding. “Although I’ve been studying it, I’m not sure about the full capabilities of this ice yet. Whether or not it can freeze mana is still up in the air. And even if I want to try it, it’s too risky to do so.”
Damien nodded. But it was important for them to know whether it could or couldn’t. It would hurt them imnsely later on if they were caught by surprise.
Damien moved further away from Lunaria and found an ice coffin. Then, without hesitation, he poured a wisp of mana into the ice.
Crackle!
It was a strange sound to hear. But as soon as it happened, Damien jolted back and withdrew his mana. Small blue snowflakes drifted down to the floor in front of him.
“This…it looks like you were right. Ice that can even freeze mana…how terrifying.”
Damien sighed. Since it was like that, it would be impossible for him to kill and devour these beasts. He didn’t think Void Essence would be frozen by the ice, but that wasn’t sothing he could casually reveal to others.
Lunaria’s eyes shone with a glint of curiosity. “Indeed. Since there isn’t anything else we can do here, we should move on. This is just the entrance, after all.”
Damien made a sound of affirmation and began walking towards the other end of the icy area. Although he couldn’t see the end, he felt it was the best way to go.
And as he expected, there was another gate present there. Or rather, there were two.
“Split up or go together?” He asked Lunaria.
“I should be fine alone, but I can’t say the sa for you. You can’t use physical force nor mana against this ice?” She responded.
“Worried about ?” He asked with perked eyebrows.
Lunaria shook her head. “You are a friend of Qing’er’s. If you die, she will most likely be sad, and that is sothing I cannot allow.”
Damien smiled wryly. This girl was too blunt. He couldn’t even joke properly with her.
“If it’s my survival that concerns you, you don’t need to worry about it. I’m confident I can stay alive at least. And if necessary, I can easily escape.”
Lunaria looked at him closely as if she was trying to find any lies in his statent. Soon after, she shook her head.
“If you think you can survive, then that is your choice. I will not interfere. Which door will you choose?”
“Hmm…” Damien fell into thought.
He used his awareness to check both doors, but there was nothing special about either. Even when he poured mana into his eyes, he couldn’t co to a decision.
His expression beca wry. ‘It seems I’m not fated with this treasure at all. I can only rely on luck and hope I find it first.’
Thinking such, he randomly picked the door on the right.
Lunaria nodded. “Good. I was going to choose the left door anyway. Well then, I will see you when we exit the ruin.”
After she spoke, she imdiately rushed into the left door. Damien frowned at how hastily she departed.
‘Did I make the wrong choice? With her affinity, she should have a better feeling for this place than I do. Well, nothing I can do about it.’
He soon entered the right door as well. Truthfully, he was glad they separated.
Staying with Lunaria was too awkward for him. Having to restrain his personality so much to just stay cordial with soone was a new experience for him.
But it wasn’t only that.
“Now that I’m alone, I can finally use it…” he muttered.
A pitch black essence surfaced on his palm. When it appeared, even the cold aura in the surroundings retreated in fear.
“Hmph. Even if you’re an elental spirit, you’re nothing in front of Void Essence. Now, let’s see how you hide from .”
He shot forward. Whenever he ca across a frozen coffin, he engulfed it in his Void Essence, causing it to quickly dissolve into nothingness.
Beyond the right door, the scenery didn’t change much. It was still an icy tundra-like flatland. But there were a few signs of dilapidated buildings that had existed in the past.
‘This ruin is much vaster than it looks from the outside. But even then, these buildings are too worn down. I doubt anything within them could survive.’
He checked with his awareness just to make sure, but as he expected most of the buildings were empty.
In so, though, he could see extrely ancient traces of human activity. Rusted weapons and torn pages from books that no longer existed, even tea cups and other kitchenware that had been eroded with ti.
‘Was this a city? Underground? Wait, that’s beside the point. There were people living here?’
It wasn’t the sa as the situation with the demons. He had heard their story and their origin. In the end, they were still outsiders who entered the Trial World a long ti ago.
But the endless desert was different. It was the place where the Primordial Undying Tree’s main body was situated. There was no way such a being would allow those corrupted by the Demon God so close to it.
If so, who were the ones that once lived here? And what happened to them? They must’ve been extrely adept at using ice elent, or else they couldn’t have survived in this environnt.
If it was like that, then the desert environnt would’ve been hard-pressed to kill them. Starvation and thirst weren’t problems they would’ve had to deal with.
So what killed them?
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