Chapter 125: Heavenly Bead

"Is it the egg of the demonic crow?"

Kritos wondered about the origin of the egg. Perhaps, inside in it, there is a high purity bloodline demonic crow. It may be the reason why they were protecting me.

Still, why do they wish that someone would pick this egg? and the light illuminating the path was also pointing to the egg.

Kritos gazes at the dozen fleeing demonic crows from afar. A confused and bewildered countenance appears on his face.

He didn't understand what just happened. He was simply following the light because all around him was deep darkness.

Above the sky, there was an extreme red sun. The sun was very strange from the ordinary sun.

Kritos felt it was constantly looking at him as if it was really alive.

"I have to immediately escape from here," Kritos doesn't dare to stay anymore in this place.

The place is another different plane. Its time and space are different.

Kritos again glanced at the White-Red egg, and suddenly thought something.

"Maybe they wanted me to leave along with the egg. This egg must have been here for approx hundreds of years."

To accumulate enough mud around the egg, such that the mud becomes this durable. It should have taken a minimum of 100 years.

As Kritos decides to quickly leave from here through the same route from where he came. 

Suddenly, The same big water door appeared in his vision as if it was waiting for him.

"Strange!"

Without wasting a single second, Kritos immediately steps in the water door with the White-Red egg in his hands.

…

"Lord, it is done. Someone with a compatible soul beast that describes in the ancient text has taken the ancestor egg," A fairly big crow transmitted a voice.

Quickly a response transmitted into his brain," Good! Good! Finally, I can leave this cursed place."

The voice has an exhilarating emotion with a mix of loneliness.

"Approx 200,000 years, damned 200,000 years!"

The owner of the voice cried out in sorrow.

The thing that happened in the extreme past was constant grief in his entire life.

….

Swiss!! 

Suddenly, Kritos tumbles in a rather similar place. 

"Cave!"

It was the same small cave where Kritos found the bead which teleported him to a strange place.

Kritos immediately searches for the bead around him. Soon, he found a similar bead but with an absurd dim light. Its light was on the verge of vanishing.

Kritos stare at it for a few seconds before the light completely disappears from the bead.

Upon complete disappearance of the glow from the bead, the bead now looks normal.

Its color was violet with a speck of white color. 

This time, Kritos first throws a small insect on it, upon seeing nothing happens to it. Kritos has a sigh of relief.

After a split second, Kritos walked towards the bead and again bent his body to pick up the bead.

[Ding…]

[Heavenly Bead detected…]

[Heavenly Bead: Used to strengthen the core of the cultivator into the Heavenly Core. It can only be used just before the breakthrough to Core Realm.]

"Heavenly Bead!"

Kritos glanced at the relatively normal bead and a delighted expression materialized on his face.

However, he doesn't understand why previously there was a trap around it.

Kritos knows that the golden light was a trap that has the function to teleport someone to a strange place.

Furthermore, it has already teleported countless people to their death door where they die due to the starvation.

Kritos could guess the reason why many high realms cultivators wanted to obtain this bead. But, they would have never expected that there was a layer of a trap around the bead.

Although Kritos doesn't know what the grade of the heavenly core is, but, it must be above the legendary grade.

The core of cultivators is divided into many divisions, based on the purity of the core. Starting from the low grade, mid-grade, high grade, highest grade, and then the last legendary grade.

Most of the cultivators at the Core Realm have only low-grade cores, whereas people like Captain Mitchell have mid-grade cores. 

The system also assigns a mission to him that is related to the purity of the core. In the mission, he has to somehow help Sanju to form high-grade core purity.

Kritos knows that with time, his elder brother would definitely form a high-grade core purity with his improved talent and divine soul beast.

If only Sanju's divine soul beast was pure, not mutant, he can easily form the highest grade core purity.

About Legendary grade, Kritos never heard anyone forming it. For people like him, it was already an impossible feat.

'Heavenly Core must be higher grade than Legendary grade purity.'

But…

Wasn't the Legendary Grade already at the 99% purification level?

What will be the purification level in the case of Heavenly Grade?

Kritos safely stores the bead in his system storage function.

He is currently far away from reaching Core Realm. So, he stops thinking about it.

Afterward, Kritos looked at the beautiful egg and immediately used his greater inspection skill on it.

[Ding…]

[Child of the unknown entity]

All his anticipation broke upon seeing only one line.

"What unknown entity? Doesn't it have any name?" Kritos frustratedly murmurs to himself.

[Ding…]

[Host, Please upgrade the Greater Inspection to see the information about superior beings]

"Upgrade... How can I find the soul of a watcher, when I don't even know who the watcher is?"

Kritos thought for a bit and again inquired," System, who are watchers?" 

[Ding…]

[Watchers is a race known for their magical eye powers and they also maintain the balance between reality and the virtual world]

'Virtual world? Is this related to the Time chamber?' Kritos thought to himself.

After storing the unknown egg in his system storage function, Kritos decided to leave the cave. 

Bakiya city was just a few hours away from here, but due to the mountain range, it will take some time to arrive there. 

After wearing the clothes, Kritos departed from the peak of the mountain.

…

Inside Kritos consciousness, a being surrounded by the black smoke opens his dark eyes.

The being was in a formless shape, it can take the shape of any being. Currently, it was in the shape of a beautiful male elf.

"Drag-di-gon aura?"

Aurelius again sensed his surroundings, but this time, he was disappointed.

"Was I dreaming?"

Earlier, Aurelius sensed a similar aura, which was exactly the same as his buddy, Drag-di-gon, The primordial Dragon.

Suddenly, he thought of something and murmurs," Father is surely extraordinary. He can create any skill, or ability, out of nothingness! If only I could recover half of my strength, I could see his adventure in this world with my own eyes"

Due to the soul injuries in his past. Aurelius sleeps inside his father's consciousness most of the time.

The soul injuries that can never be restored were healing at an extraordinary speed inside his father's consciousness.

"But, I don't understand, why is father inside this weak mortal body? Besides, he is also helping the owner of this body."

After saying this, Aurelius looked at the string which connected him to the soul of the weak human.

"I am also somehow bound to him... Father, who is he?"

Hearing no response, Aurelius again murmurs," Sometimes, I don't understand, why does your consciousness merge with this human consciousness?

Aurelius has many questions that he wanted to ask his father.

However, even after asking many questions, his father always remains silent.

This quietness was something Aurelius worried about.

He understands his father was the creator of many things in the cosmos, but he can't discern what is going on.

When the king of the soul beast world told him that only by becoming a soul beast, he would have a chance to meet his father. He never believed the words of that bastard. However, even any single possibility to meet his father was great to him. So, Aurelius quickly agreed to that bastard request.

"Thinking about that bastard, he never personally made an appearance with his actual face… Weirdo!"

Afterward, Aurelius again closes his eyes. Only by sleeping, could he restore his full power.

…

The wind was blowing at high speed, it swept past through Kritos.

The sudden gust of wind ruffled the leaves of the trees, creating a sound much like the surf.

At this side of the mountain, there were some trees, compared to the other side where there were only rocks everywhere.

Currently, Kritos was resting in a tree branch. This tree was full of edible fruits. 

The taste of the fruit was somehow sweet with a mixture of sourness.

"Why did I never find this fruit in Rewa City? What a pure taste!" Kritos compliment upon biting a fruit.

He had already stored many foods in the System storage function. The tree was almost empty because of him.

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