83 Chapter 83: Expedition 3

Throughout the first week of the month, Derik spent most of his time indoor, meditating. During that time, he received valuable knowledge about the world itself and how things work.

According to Demos, the human body is like a container that is capable of absorbing a certain amount of energy which in turn can be used in various ways. While some are born with lesser storage space, a few are born with frightening large energy reserves which can rival those at the bronze realm.

According to Demos, the only difference between those at realms and those at the recruit level is just refinement. Refinement is more like purifying the container, allowing it to absorb and withstand the pure and more chaotic form of mana

It simply upgrades the container, allowing it to absorb a much more pure and powerful form of mana which in turn, completely increases a person's capabilities by leaps and bounds. Of course, they can still be overwhelmed by someone yet to purify his container who is born with monstrous potential.

Of course, to refine one's self, a lot of precious materials are needed. These are things no normal person can acquire, even nobles will spend a huge fortune if they decide to gather these materials. This is why only kingdoms perform this ancient ritual and even then kingdoms are still very picky of those they refine, making sure that only those with a certain level of potential are allowed to undergo this process.

After that, Derik was further enlightened on the limiter path which he has chosen to follow. According to Demo's, the way the path worked is quite straightforward. The more restrictions placed on one's self, the stronger they became when the limiter is taken off. This truth is that paths can only be chosen and followed by those at the silver class realm and this path which he has chosen is quite infamous amongst the hundreds and thousands of paths that exist.

A path is just a certain path of power that one can decide to focus on later on. Each path is unique and grants the users unique skill sets that can be used to gain an advantage over their enemies in battle. Just like Robert Gyro who possessed some sort of voice power.

It was even shocking that even warriors and physical class members have paths designed for them as well. According to Demos, after one chose a path it is not advisable for him or her to change and some situations where people try to master two or more paths are quite rare but should someone manage this, such a person is considered invincible amongst their piers. But that wasn't what caught him off guard.

He also got to learn about cosmic spirits, these beings are said to be in existence even before the creator appeared and the guardian spirits were created. People like the Kingdom guardian of Gyro and the youngest son of the king, Kuen possess cosmic spirits which are rated the only peak 5 star. These people possess uneven advantage against their piers are guaranteed to get to the golden realm and there is even a high chance that they will break past the realm of mortals to become demi gods if given proper guardiance and training.

The fact remains that the only reason they could fight on equal terms with kuen back then was strictly due to the limiter paths Derik and Cyrus has chosen, which is something people of their level shouldn't possess and Derik's werewolf side....…A week later just like Demos predicted, all the members of the team were called home by their families and this brought great fear and grief to Derik, as he could already predict the outcome of their next meeting. His eyes turned cold and his emotions were frozen by Demos in an attempt to help him focus on his training.

To begin with, Demos loosened the limitations placed on Derik which initially completely prevented him from utilizing magic. With the limitation loosened, even though Derik had become considerably weaker, whenever he took off the limiter, he still didn't regret it.

Right now, without taking off the limiters, he had access to his magic but on a small fraction, making him considerably weaker than normal mages of his level. But that didn't bother him one bit. By the way, he never had plans of returning to his 'mage' ways, the whole point of taking off his limiters is to take off help him enhance his archery skills with a little touch of magic. The moment the limiter placed on him was loosened, his purple eyes which were dim at first, instantly lit up and he felt the diabolic and sinister energy of the death aura, flow through his body, renewing his strength and putting him at a realm higher than what he was in the past.

After this the real training began, the first batch of spells he was tasked with mastering by Demos with not offensive or defensive spells, but spells which would help make his life easier should he encounter a situation where he was all alone.

Since amazing tools like storage rings, which could be used to store food items, equipments, and even weapons were only made available to high level military officials, High level adventurers and people of a certain level noble status, Derik had to create a spell similar.

Standing at the center of the spacy room all alone, Derik began chanting some ancient words which even if people were present, they definitely won't understand unless they have guardian spirits or cosmic spirits in them.He made strange movements as he spoke and his eyes turned pitch black while he performed this ritual. His hands suddenly stopped moving abruptly as if it hit something and with his eyebrows knitted together, Derik began to pull.

Space itself tore open and the temperature of the room instantly spiked. His body shivered in ecstasy as a gloomy and diabolical aura escaped the empty space and spread across the room. This for some unknown reason, excited him in ways he couldn't understand.

"Death Magic: Accursed gate of the Underworld!!" he muttered coldly and kept trying to tear the space even more.

The wider the hole became the more gloomy gray energy that poured out. He continued this process for over five minutes and the hole was the size of a ball. At this point, cries and screams of pain and misery escaped the little space and the aura which kept escaping from just terrifying and soon, the room was filled with gray clouds.

This spell was presented by Demos to serve the same purpose as Daemon's shadow storage skill. This was aimed at reducing his dependency on others!