The sect master had informed the sect that he'd be going into seclusion for an unknown amount of time with his new Disciple. The sect master and Damien had been sparring for months. The battles had been massive and the sect master was close to breaking through to immortal realm. Damien was also close to breaking through to the second immortal rank himself. It had taken a massive amount of high grade spirit stones.
The entire city was in an uproar over the winner who had destroyed the examination stone. Word had been sent out to the capital about the full mysterious bloodline they had seen. No one, not even the current Emperor of the Entire continent had heard of it. Needless to see the other local major sects weren't happy and were concocting their own plots.
For Damien it was taking him much longer to breakthrough due to his bloodline. His cultivation had to also account for its strength. That was the drawback to stronger bloodlines. Yet, the power they provide more than makes up for it. Currently, Damien was braking through the next rank with the sounds of shattering glass and a massive explosion of power. During his time cultivating Damien realized he had an issue. He could not absorb energy into his grey matter. His power will not grow. He was stuck at his god rank until he had access to mana particles. For now Damien would grow his immortal rank. He would also scour the world seeking the formation of the formation to get himself home. The cultivation realm had an abundance of secrets that were taken to the grave by many cultivators that weren't able to outlive their breakthroughs.
The sect master was in his 2,000th high spirit stone that began to go dim showing that it was empty of chi. He currently sat in the lotus position cultivating and gathering his thoughts gaing insights on the immortal Dao.
During this time Damien checked his status.
Name: Damien Sorlen
Demi System Lvl 1
Race: Mid Grade Immortal/ Infant Demi-God
Title: 1st in the Known Universe
Divine points(DPs): 15,700,345
Demi-Immortal(DI) Lvl 2 Low DI
*FP=Full power
Phy: 345/140 (3450/1400)
Spirit:253/150 (2530/1500)
Mental: 400/150 (4000/1500)
[Inventory+Universal shop].
He rose a rank due to the growth of his immortal cultivation. He rose level after his total immoral power had risen by 1000 stat points. Damien was bored so he look over the shop options. He hadn't checked it out since becoming an immortal. He didn't have a daily increase any longer and his DP was stuck at 15,000,000 which seemed like a lot but in actuality wasn't very large but he still had options. His cultivation could increase on it's own but his grey core wouldn't without mana and resources. He narrowed the list to mana sources.
Mane Stones
Low grade mana stone - 1 DP ea.
Mid grade mana stone - 20 DP ea.
High grade mana stone - 100 DP ea.
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Low grade self restoring mana stone
(2 weeks) - 10,000 DP ea.
Mid grade self restoring mana stone
(1 month) - 50,000 DP ea.
High grade self restoring mana stone
(3 month) -100,000 DP ea.
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Natural Mana Mounds
Mana Tree Antient - 10,000,000 DP ea.
Mana Mountain - 12,500,000 DP ea.
Mana Moon(Unavailable) *Must be mid level Demi-God
Mana Star (Unavailable) *Must be mid level Demi-God
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The list was of course massive and had various types of mana sources around the universe.
Damien thought long and hard on what he'd purchase. It would be his last purchase until he gained a meaningful following again.
He selected 'Mana Mountain' and confirmed his selection with the system. He purchased 1000 low grade Cultivation blocks. These were for immortal cultivation. With his last million he purchased an 'Chaos Blade'.
'Cultivation blocks are blocks of pure chi or spirit energy. Drastically improved cultivation, chi absorption, removes impurities, and widen acupuncture points after the max expansion of the meridians.
'Mana Mountain' is massive deposit of pure mana that provides pure mana in a 50,000 meter radius. It is directly inserted below ground but is limited to the area it is placed. Massive mana radiation will cause unknown changes to the area. *WARNING* Placed in location of purchase.'
'Chaos Blade' is the tool of Immortal cultivator of ying and yang, life and death. Only a primordial bloodline wielder can access it's full powers.
Once Damien near instantaneously finished reading all of the descriptions and in his foolish haste he had purchased them immediately, not noticing the tiny print of warnings. in response, the quake was felt in and around the city. Plants and animals began to change. Some becoming more aggressive larger and more aggressive. The stress in the area began to grow high into the sky seemingly without end. Hundreds of animals gained howled and roared gaining magical abilities from another dimension. Many of the beast fled into the forest. The ordinary mortals were also no exception.
The biggest changes would be the mortals. The would be enhanced in a multitude of ways. The number of pure blood mages were astounding. Had this been planet Damascus, the powers that be would stop at nothing to claim these people. Essentially they are born Archmages and Sorcerers. Eventually they will be able to sense and control their elements with their will and magical endurance. Yet, that was with training.
Around this same time, peoples bodies changed. Some peoples features changed. They had bright hair and eyes of their natural elements. Some peoples bodies grew larger, smaller and a multitude of skin colors. As in freaking the colors of the rainbow!
Their were people swarming with magic power from slowly growing abilities of various types or mixtures of powers. There were poison, time, gravity, absorption, buff powers, copy cat mages, physical and mental enhancement mages and many others forming everywhere in hundreds of meters.
Of course, chaos erupted all over Dragon Rise City and the Sect. Any mortal in the city and sect had the most powerful changes. The further away the city anyone was, the less concentrated the mana particles. Explosions, uncontrollable gust of wind, massive fires, earthquake or pillars suddenly appearing out of the ground or building being turned into solid ice. The amount of damage done was no small thing. The surprising thing was that the loss of life was minimal but there were countless injuries.
Damien knew he royally ****** up. He could fix it, maybe yet he still didn't know how. As fate would have it this was of course the exact time, a cracking sound was heard, followed by a 100 mega ton explosion of pressure. It took a half hour for the sect master to fully reign in the power. He had to absorb the power back into himself and it would be impossible with turbulent emotions.
"Ahh! This power is amazing! I feel like I can destroy several mountains with a blow. This was worth all the years of pain and suffering! It's all thanks to you my disciple."
"Well.... don't thank me quiet yet..."
"I.. was experimenting with a new power that wasn't affected by spirit energy and somehow it went out of my control and well look...." Damien quickly looked away as he responded .
The sect master face was red with rage.
"WHAT DID YOU DO!!"
The sect master picked up the black cube and when the images appeared, he gasped.
He turned back to Damien with a murderous intent that Damien hadn't seen for the master before. "Fix it."
Damien sheepishly flew into the air towards the city. Damien knew how much the sect master loved this city so he understood his fury. He would fight to the death to protect this city, no matter the enemy.
As Damien flew he could feel the powerful magical energy coating his body. Damien flew over the city until he was over the center of the city before diving deep into into the planet before stopping. He could cast Grand Scale magic at this point with only a thought. Damien extended his arm and the area began to open up before transforming into an massive underground bunker that stretched the entire circumference of the city above. After tunneling 2000 feet deep into the earth.
Damien then went to each corner to input magic rune on the walls with the 'dimensional' and 'expansion' runes on the inside and hardening and barrier runes on the outside of the bunker. This was all done in a few hours. Strangely as Damien operated his magic he felt a strange resistance. The resistance was very peculiar and would happen each time a new spell was casted. Ignoring the peculiar issue Damien continued on. He had to quickly finish before things on the surface got worse. He moved in to the rooms and facilities inside the bunker.
Damien made a massive mana training facility. With a massive tug from his grey core. Damien completed the massive structure with modern apartment like rooms. Many of the rooms were similar to what he created in Damascus. They will housed based on a ranking system that Damien will come up with. Damien will base this on their strength upon awakening.
Once completed, Damien flew to the center of the city high above. Using his life sense ability, Damien located everyone with a purple and blue mana signature and portaled them all away. Damien floated in the air gasping for breath. Damien added too many powerful magics and technologies together on his own. Of course Damien wasn't aware of the intricacies of godhood and he just pondered on why this was. Not to mention the weird pressure whenever a spell was casted.
The vetern City Lord mobilized his heavily armed roabed guards. They the rushed out of the city Lord palace to quell on the violators. They weren't sure who it was that was bold enough attack the entire city but these guards were ready to make the enemy bleed for every step into their city. Just as the city Lord prepared to give the order to kill any invaders, he hard countless random screams followed by staggering earthquakes. For long minutes everything shook and loud explosions were going off everywhere. When it felt like the quake would shake every building to rubble, everything suddenly stopped. All of the screams and earthquakes dissapeared without a trace.
The confused and nervous had soldiers had finally come out of the palace with gaped mouths to find nearly ruined city. Destruction and damage from fires, tons of pressure water, lightning strikes, trees and vines growing through buildings and countless other magical discharges.
Underground, the scene was filled with millions of confused, angry, and terrified people. While the people looked around and saw that nothing was harming them and calmed down some but they still did not let their guard down. Suddenly massive holograms appeared out of the floor all around the bunker type of building and startling everyone. Damien appeared in all of the holograms and he began to speak.
" I apologize for the uncomfortable trip. Unfortunately as you can all tell your bodies are changing. By no fault of your own you have been exposed to an unknown power. This mysterious power is referred to as mana. Stronger than mana is pure concentrated mana is called aether. You have all been exposed to aether and in the surrounding villages were exposed to a lesser degree. All of your bodies are unstable and you are all walking time bombs. That means if you do not learn to control this power in a short amount of time, you will all die. For this reason you all cannot leave until you at least master your primary element. Some of you will have multiple primary elements. But-"
Before Damien could finish the crowd went into an uproar. The people went into a mass panic.
"What do you mean we can't leave!"
"Let us out!"
Lin Mi! Where is my child Lin Mi!"
"The Heavens hes gonna steal and rape our cows!"
"Wait! What the F- Now this in getting WAY out of hand."
Millions of people went in an uproar. Suddenly their were massive explosions. Peoples bodies exploded from their uncontrollable emotions. Anyone nearby was impaled, frozen, burned, clicked, partially melted or burned bodies flew in every direction. The panic only grew at that point. Damien gained control of the situation now. He shamelessly added an element to the situation that he didn't need to. He needs to learn to stop saying more than need be. This isn't earth. As a matte rof fact this isn't even Damacus. Time to stop being so friendly. That's obviously not working.
Channeling this mana Damien shouted.
"Now do you see what I say is true! Bow a knee to me now and swear fealty to the god of all and to myself his Harbinger and I can save you from your plight! Witness the power of aether and mana!"
Forcing these people to swear fealty to him in a dire situation that he cause is completely wrong. Yet, Damien was in a foriegn planet and dimension with only one ally who was a sect master but is only one man. This was something that had to be done. He could not wait years to build a strong force to follow him. So he would make them. Even if they were made by him and it was completely by accident, he would take advantage.
Damien raised his hands glowed a purple glow that instantly swept over the crowd like a blanket. The thick purple light seeped into the bodies and the injuries and painlessly healed the 100s of millions of terrified people. Repairing lost limbs and restoring new skin was not unheard of but it was for a person to heal someone completely in seconds in the mortal realm. The entire crowd was in a stupor.
"Bow to me and never have to be subject to a cultivators wrath again. You will be able to even fight on par to with immortals if you advance in your magic and strengthen your control of the world around you."
To exercise his point, Damien created a portal and stepped through. Instantly appearing above the crowd after stepping out of it. Using earth manipulation Damien created a mini skyscraper above everyone. The crowd dashed away in all directions covering their heads trying to get away from the building suddenly appearing over their heads. He set the building on the ground. Then proceeded to show off and he made the hard ground turn into soil to grow grass, then beautiful flowers, then to trees bearing fruit. Next he created a small creek, froze it over, then suddenly melted the water until it evaporated. A small sun appeared and burned the entire structure. Shamelessly Damien asked the crowd again.
"Magic is limited only to its wielder. Will you bend the knee and swear the oath and we can begin."
The crowd look at the spots of decimated bodies and one by one dropped to their knees and swore fealty to Damien Sorlen and the God of All. Some of the people were suddenly looking at themselves wondering if they were capable of such wonders. One grey old man who suddenly had the body of a 25 year old walked to the front of the crowd with vigor. He glared at Damien before softening his look and bowed. Like a domino the crowd also began following suit.