Chapter 182 - Empyrean Tower

Empyrean Tower.

This is a gigantic tower that can be seen from any place in the Rising Sun Empire.

The survivors keep coming here from all directions for different reasons, some to get stronger, some to sell things or find something, almost everything they need can be found inside this tower.

Around the tower, there were many people selling things in the streets or in the stores around.

Just by looking one can see many different things here, some sell weapons, some sell weird-shaped fruits, some even sell their services like healing or enchanting, etc...

In the crowd, there was a group of special characters walking around looking at the people here with interest in their eyes.

"There are many people here..." While walking, Niala looked at the people around and said.

"Yeah... don't like being in the crowd?" Baccarat on the side patted Niala's head and asked with a smile warmly...

"Not really...." Feeling Baccarat's hands, Niala showed an annoyed look and slipped away from her side to Gray's side.

Somehow... Niala felt Baccarat's smile wasn't nice at all... yet she felt this smile was quite familiar...

It has already been a week for them in the base since they gathered together.

Many things happened in these few days.

On the third day, somebody came to the door and asked them to register if they want to stay in the base.

This wasn't much of a surprise for Gray, since they already know that the empire security department was watching them somehow.

And like that, they joined the base legally and managed to move freely around... Like entering the tower...

For registering, they only needed to report a few normal things and their awakened ability and C.P.

For the ability it was optional, but Gray and the others already have more than one ability, so they faked their data to dodge whatever trouble that might appear.

And Gray even got in an interesting idea from this and faked his ability according to the facts around them... But still didn't show its effect...

These days, everyone got familiar with their abilities, especially Legolas and Tauriel who got the abilities late.

For Legolas, his development for his ability can be said to be quite flexible, he slowly integrated his ability with his physical skills, which was way different from Borsalino's style... At least it wasn't so wretched...

With every day passing, his use for his ability was getting better and better.

Besides Gray gave everyone Wizard's Bloodline.

As for magic knowledge and skills he only gave what will help the others in developing their abilities...

Yup... Not copying everything magic for them, but only the knowledge and basic use of magic in different fields only...

From Perona's way of using magic completed her hollow ability, Gray found that the Wizard bloodline was a great boost in developing the sources abilities, just like it helped him controlling the magnet around him.

How to say it... Magic is a kind of imagery power...

Wizards can release magic even with a little change in spirit, especially the young wizards who can't control their magic.

For example, Harry's few funny accidents with his ducks family or Tom(Voldemort) when he was young...

There were many cases in the wizarding world about this...

And the source ability greatly relies on imagination and talent that allows the person to dig the potential of his own ability...

The closest example was Gray himself when he got the dark fruit at first, even with the ring amplify and his imagination, he couldn't develop his fruit as fast a Blackbeard who was fated to get this ability, which simply because Blackbeard was a gifted person in a certain sense... At least better than Gray at that time...

So as much as Gray can see, the wizarding bloodline is a good tool to help them develop their abilities faster, and even develop their abilities in an unresponsible way... After all, it's magic!

As for Tauriel, Gray gave her all knowledge he has... ALL!

After all her abilities really need this knowledge!

Tauriel's ability was mentioned before, but after studying with her these days Gray really understood how good her ability was.

Ignoring all the basic abilities of the two basic sources the phoenix source and the human modifier source, her new source bred two knew innate abilities.

[Known]: Free modify.

[Oblivious]: forced modify.

Free modification means to allow her to modify what she understands freely and unresponsible...

For example the cup of water, she can modify this cup to any other shape as long as it didn't exceed the size of the cup itself, however, if she understood more about the glasses that made this cup deeper, she might be able to modify the glasses itself into something else, as long as she understands it, or even make something completely new...

In other words, as much as her knowledge extends, her modifying ability will reach, and only her knowledge was her limit!!!

That's why she calls it [Known].

While her Forced modify, as it's called, she forcefully modifies anything with her imagination.

Tauriel used this ability three timed already.

The first time when she planted her healing magic into the stone, even though she doesn't understand how things really worked, but she did it.

And the second time was against the giant birds that followed her when she came back and changed them into small harpies.

And the third time was when she found Baccarat, ignoring the fact that she doesn't know where she was and how long the distance was, she modified her strongest slash to actually cut the space between them which allowed her to find Baccarat directly.

However, after using it for the third time, she also felt something empty inside her and noticed that in her phoenix form her tails eyes, three of them already closed, so she realized that her tails eyes number might be her limit for how much she can use her ability, so she didn't use it again to find the other but flew around with Baccarat.

For this, Gray also agreed with her thoughts...

After all, her ability was so precious and she shouldn't waste the chances to use them, besides who knows what will happen after using all the chances...

The phoenix was known for its reborn ability, so he doesn't think it will be life-threatening anyway, but since she felt empty inside, she shouldn't keep using it till she understands her ability deeper and at least to find how to relight her tail eyes!

Honestly Gray was really greedy for her ability when he learned about it...

This ability was simply a problem solver for him... For example, it can allow his young body to mȧturė again... or help Nagini to solve her curse...

Many things can be done!

But in the end, Tauriel's safety comes first... For their problem, they can solve them slowly over time...

Not in the next world, the one after... Or even in the main world...

As for Baccarat and Mary, both have their special way.

Especially Mary... Gray has many ideas for her but still wanted to wait for the next world to do it.

These days Mary stayed in her golden room doing something inside, from the lightning sound outside of her room, Gray knew that she was probably creating or trying something new.

As for Baccarat, Gray naturally gave her Divination magic, which directly merged with her original card Divination magic, making her ability more weird and powerful.

What made Gray feel weird, Baccarat view about Niala...

Gray let Niala stay around because he found something interesting the others didn't find.

Though her weirdness was obvious to all, yet Baccarat actually said that we are lucky to have her with us...

From her words...

Though she doesn't understand, many of what they encounter might be fortune or misfortune for them, and Niala was a great fortune for them, especially Gray.

Which made Gray became more interested in this deep twisted minded little fake blond Niala.

Besides Niala was a great source of luck for Baccarat at the same time which made her like Niala even more...

And like this a week passed for them getting familiar with the base and themselves, gathering information about the awakeners, and thinking of what they should do next.

And today they decided to take a look at the most mysterious place in the base.

Which is the place that everyone was here for.

Empyrean Tower.

The foundation and the most dėsɨrėd place in the entire base.

Empyrean Tower, not only a place where the awakener can get stronger but also the place where the strong stay, including the base leader himself.

Because of knowing that there was a sixth-order awakener inside this tower, Gray hesitated many times to come here.

But after a weak of observation and gathering intelligence, there wasn't any reason not to come, so here they are...

After all... This tower was a magical place where one can get stronger faster!

Gray and the others moved randomly around the tower.

There were many interesting things here, especially those who have good abilities, these people looked so attractive to Gray... Well... the abilities...

After walking around for some time, finally, Gray with Perona, and Niala walked into the tower entrance.

"Really big..." Looking up from below the tower, Perona couldn't help but say.

"Yeah...." Gray also looked weirdly at this tower...

Looking at the tower from far and from under it directly gave a different feeling...

"Oh, isn't that My little Gray!" While looking at the tower, suddenly a voice came from the front of them excitedly.

Hearing this voice, Gray face showed an ugly look suddenly and moved his eyes toward the voice direction to see something flying toward him.

Without even thinking about it, Gray moved two steps to the left dodging this flying shadow.

*PUFF* This made the flying shadow fall down on the grounding in an awkward way leaving some dust around!

"*Cough* So cruel! why did you dodge!" The person who fell on the ground turned his face showing a wronged look and said to Gray with almost tearful eyes...

It was a tall man dressing in a white suit with some blue line on it, handsome gentle face, and pale blonde hair, sky-blue eyes, wearing simple glasses making him look like a nobleman...

"Why shouldn't I ..." But Gray looked at the man in the ground and said with a displeased yet little helpless face...

"You can't be like this Gray, Finally we met by chance today, especially that the two red devils... aren't around..." The blonde man said something while looking around as if trying to find somebody.

Seeing Baccarat and Tauriel wasn't around, he stood up and patted his clothes in a calm manner as if nothing happened.

"Well, It doesn't matter anymore, why did you come here? want to enter the tower? come with me, I'll show you around, I know everything here" With a smile on his face, he smiled at Gray and said ignoring the unkind eyes of Perona and Niala beside him...

So as he wanted to walk forward, suddenly the floor under his leg broke into two halves which almost made him lose balance and fall down.

And as if he expected this, he directly skipped a big step forward...

However...

*PUFF*

With a funny look, he kissed the ground again...

The ground where his other leg was standing actually broke in a weird way, which made him lose balance...

Yet this wasn't the end... from the sky suddenly a white unknown liquid fell down on the top of his head, which looked very disgusting.

Looking up, a big bird flew above them...

Directly after, there someone holding bags in his hands walked from their side not seeing what was on the ground, and stepped on the blonde head which made him slip because of the liquid, and dropped what he was holding down...

"Waaah... It's hard to imagine that such a person is actually so strong..." Perona looked at the tragic picture in front of her and said while knocking her fist with Niala's fist...

'Hm, this shameless thing actually wants to get closer to my thing, believe it or not, I'll break the tower on your head next!...' And Niala nodded her head silently while thinking with a weird smile on her eyes and knocked her fist with Perona...

Obviously what happened just now was the work of both of them...

Seeing all this, Gray didn't know what he should say, but for a second he couldn't help but glance at Niala and Perona with a weird face...

These two... Somehow crueler than Baccarat...

Well... Their thought was crueler...

While being tangled if he should the person in the ground or not, Legolas and the others also came to their side gathering together.

They already took a simple look at everything around them.

So as if nothing happened under the leadership of the existed Mary, everyone entered the tower.

As Gray and the others entered the tower, they found the inside of the tower was even bigger than it looked from the outside.

On the sides of the hall, there were many people trading things in the windows around, while others were waiting or watching around.

And in the center of the tower, there was a huge list.

Looking at the list it was actually a task list.

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Task No.9

Find the traces of [Red Lizard] that Destroyed the southern Red Stone base two years ago.

Reward: 1500 Awakening crystal... Kill it and bring the corps Extra 2000 Crystal.

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Task No.6

Explore the extreme dangers of the Northland.

Reward: 3000 Awakening crystal... The more discoveries the more Crystals.

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Task No.3

Destroy the Immortal Grave Forest on the east...

Task condition: At least three fifth-order awakeners with more than 20 members in the team.

Warning: This is an extremely dangerous forest that simply can't be destroyed by normal means, no matter how much you destroy it will revive endlessly, if you are not sure... this immortal forest you better not try.

Reward: 100.000 Crystal.

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The higher the rank of the tasks the more absurd the dangers level will be... Especially for normal awakeners with only a few abilities, unlike him who have many means to deal with every situation...

Especially when he looked at Task No.3...

Just by looking at the data of the task, Gray already recognized this forest...

It was the one that he and Perona shattered to pieces before.

Such a forest... Even if hundred fifth-order awakeners, if there wasn't a few special abilities between them, Gray doesn't believe that they can destroy it...

After all, not everyone can destroy the lands like them, not everyone can rise the entire forest upside down like Perona.

Destroying the roots, making living flames catting the forest to pieces like him...

Not saying that they are stronger than the others, but their ways of dealing with the forest were simply much more powerful than normal awakeners' abilities...

Also... He can proudly say that their abilities are the strongest in certain sense...

But weirdly Gray found that he can't see the first two rank task, apparently, not anyone can take the first two tasks.

"Isn't that the new race awakener group that joined the base not long ago?"

While looking at the list and thinking if he should tell the others that the forest had already been destroyed by them and a bastard light.

An unknown voice came to Gray's ears.

Looking at the voice direction, it was a big man wearing heavy armor around his big muscular body with three scars on his face standing with a group behind him looking at their direction with interesting eyes...

Looking at this face, a few words came to Gray's mind...

'It's here... the villain who came to make trouble...'

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