193 Sacred?

"I see you can recognize the value of the sacred room, now then we will leave you to make use of your time without interruption, you know how to return on your own."

"Ah right, your routine for the rest of the 15 days would be the same as today to help you recover and complete your awakening quickly, I'm not so free to accompany you everyday, just remember to take Sand with you or else you might get shot by one of the archers' watchtowers who guard this place…"

The overseer left nonchalantly followed by Sand, while I was still standing there in my place…

'This might be easier than I thought…'

To think that this so-called 'Sacred room of Enlightenment' is actually a cave that had countless  corruption elemental crystals covering its walls?

I already expected something similar to the 'Awakening' facade when I heard the word sacred coming out from the demon's mouth, but could such a corruption filled room really be called 'sacred'?

Of course, to me this room could be called like a cheap trick or even a blessing in disguise, but if there was any person using similar methods to infleterate like mine, he would have already been eaten away by corruption.

After all, even at this point, I was getting countless system alerts about purification…

[ Elemental purification in process… ]

[ Dual-Element +0.001 ]

[ Elemental purification in process… ]

[ Dual-Element +0.002 ]

[ Elemental purification in process… ]

[ Dual-Element +0 ]

After close inspection, it seemed like the crystals which covered the cave's wall were only Grade-0 ones, making it almost negligible to me, but the fact that there was such a great quantity of it managed to make it fill the cave to the birm and flow to my body on its own.

After the purification, the amount absorbed was indeed close to nothing, but that amount was absorbed every few seconds, making the accumulation seem worth it.

In fact, from a half-demonified human's point of view, this place was indeed 'Scared' allowing him/her to complete the demonification much more smoothly with the possibility of removing the side effects of hastened demonification! This was just how much corruption the atmosphere in the cave had.

'Hey Long, make it look as if I'm operating that dark art to absorb this corrupted energy.'

[Humph! leaving all the hard work to me]

Speaking using 'Mental Transmission' as I operated the absorption sequence of 'Lightning Cell' & 'Thunder Cell' after sitting cross-legged, trying to make use of this opportunity while using 'Omni-viewing Eye' to examine the cave in a more detailed way.

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One hour later…

I returned to my room on my own, and sat on the 'soothing' bed as I checked my gains…

[ Dual-Element: 25.04 ]

I actually managed to increase my elemental stat by a little over 0.5 points relying on a cave made of Grade-0 corruption elemental crystals, I wondered how much would the effect had been multiplied had it been real pure Grade-0 crystals instead, considering even the corrupted version had such a yield…

However, such yield could only be considered as a secondary one, as I managed to discover quite a lot of information that could be considered crucial to my goals.

These corrupted elemental crystals weren't similar to the ones I obtained before, but it was more like normal elemental crystals influenced by something special, the source of this influence came through the vein tunnel that I noticed before entering the cave.

In fact, I was 90% sure that the source of that influence was the Corruption core of this gate!

This obviously meant that as long as I manage to track the correct vein, I might be able to accurately locate the whereabouts of the 'Corruption Core', meaning that I could use that method to run from this gate if things went awry…

The second interesting fact that I found out was that the automatic elemental dispersion in the cave could be manipulated to achieve some interesting possibilities, giving me more option to choose about how could I go on my quest of exterminating this gate's demons.

Considering these two facts, I decided to put tracking the core aside for now as an emergency measure, and try to focus more on achieving the wanted effects by making use of the automatic function of the gate.

However, as I didn't ascertain which method I would use and how far could that function could be taken advantage of, I didn't start doing anything yet, as I continued pretending to laze around in bed as if I'm digesting my gains from the 'Sacred' room, all in wait for my next chance to enter the gate to come…

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One day later…

After making sure I was alone inside the cave, I took out a used Grade-0 elemental crystal from my ring while asking Long to mask me as I started experimenting and checking the reaction of the crystal…

Feeling the corrupted elements willingly enter the crystal and filling the used elements with corrupted ones, albeit a bit too slow, the spark in my mind grew brighter as I finally found my way to make as much destruction as possible…

I hurriedly used my own lightning elements and tried to push the corruption away, resulting in some sort of repulsion between my lightning elements and the corrupted element…

Then, I took out another crystal and repeated the same procedure, with the only difference being me using thunder elements.

Next, I used the dual nature of my elements to connect the two crystals together, before exchanging their properties a bit.

Finally, and using a miniature method of 'Elemental Severing' to sever the corrupted elements' currently inside the crystals from the surrounding corrupted elements, leaving them trapped inside the two crystals, fighting two different elements, while holding a dozen of corrupted elements which started trying to fight and take over the place of the other uncorrupted elements inside the crystal…

Bang...

A nostalgic crisp sound came out as the crystals suddenly exploded into powder...

Seeing the reaction of the two small crystals, I immediately decided on the best method of destroying this gate!

The answer was pretty simple...

Fireworks!