Chapter 143 The Price Of Power

Chapter 143 The Price Of Power

"To start with, first, what happened to your left eye?" Instructor Draco said staring dead straight at Zeras as his face grew extremely cold and the surrounding air suddenly gained a chill.

Zeras noticed the greatly dropping temperature of the room but he still replied as naturally as he could.

"It was a result of a slight contact with a foreign object in the last expedition..."

"Oh, was it due to the malevolent sea..." Instructor Draco asked raising an eyebrow. Of course, the tale of the rescue mission on planet Humbad already reached their ears.

"Yes, it was after that strange encounter..."

Instructor Draco's eyebrow furrowed at hearing that as he was also aware of one of the forbidden grounds of the Infinite Galaxy, one of which was the Malevolent Sea caused by the invasion of dark matter. Since Zeras traveled in the river, it was a possibility he got his eyes mutated therein.

"That's all I wanted to ask.." Instructor Draco said as the cold feeling in his eyes disappeared while the chill in the air dispersed as it regained its normal temperature.

"Um, why do you ask though..." Zeras asked after breathing a sigh of relief within him.

"I can sense the energy of dark matter within you, Zeras. A power only us Chaos dragons can harness..." Instructor Draco said.

"Dark matter..." Zeras muttered in his breath with a lost expression.

"Yes, Dark matter. There's this law of the universe where everything in the world must have their opposite, even Mana wasn't an exception to this rule. So do you know what the opposite of Mana is?" Instructor Draco asked looking at Zeras who had his eyes narrowed to points but suddenly they began widening as realization dawned on him.

"Correct. That opposing energy is Dark Matter. It's an incredibly dangerous energy possessing all the negative attributes of Mana. In short, it is not an energy anyone or anything should come in contact with.

Yet, I sensed a great deal of that energy in your eyes. If your left eye was really due to the mutation of the malevolent sea as you say, then I'm willing to pay for an Eye-nanobotic transfusion..." Instructor Draco said as Zera's eyes widened.

An Eye-nanorobotic transfusion is for those who have lost their eyes but instead of remaining blind, their eyes can be replaced with technological eyes, An eye-nanorobotic transfusion is a very major eye transfusion as it grants increased sensory ability to the user than what the normal eye could imagine.

In short, Instructor Draco suggested he remove his left eye and transplant it with a nanorobotic eye.

He had truly seen the effect of dark matter. It completely changed the malevolent sea turning every of its inhabitants into mindless creatures. There were countless strong Abyssal creatures in the malevolent sea all due to the effect of the Dark Matter source beneath it.

It was just like Instructor Draco said, dark Matter gave them power but it robbed them of their intelligence and self. It made the Abyssal creatures its slave.

But this wasn't enough to scare Zeras. Unlike what Instructor Draco said, Zeras didn't possess Dark Matter energy. It was just the energy his Chaos Devourer gene radiated that looked similar to Dark Matter. He had zero dark matter within him.

"I don't know what the price of this system fusing with me is. But I know well whatever the price, I'm willing to pay it... because I won't ever be on the losing end. This is my conviction" Zeras said affirming to himself as he headed towards his dorm room.

-- -- --

10 minutes later...

Zeras clenched the doorknob as he entered the room but was shocked speechless by something: The Mana in the room.

It was so concentrated, that Zeras could feel them grazing past his skin and entering into his pores just from standing in the room.

"Woah, so this is what a 150% Mana means?" Zeras almost screamed out loud.

"It seemed the Event was really worth all of the trouble. I can't even begin to warp my mind around losing all this. That said.."

Zeras immediately grabbed hold of his watch as he inputted some codes.

Zeras immediately clicked in the yes.

"Yes"

Zeras breathed out a sigh of relief at hearing that. Of course, he had never forgotten the VR helmet that Quinn bought for him with his points last time so he had promised to pay him back once he had enough points.

With that done, let's get to the real major hit in this Event.

"Activate System interface."

[Congratulations, Quests Completed...]