Chapter 57: Death Rune

"Thank you Young Lady Senpek for this chance you gave. I wish all the best for your wellness"

"It's okay, mister. I hope we will meet again"

Making a hand gesture, Cylius left the grandiose mansion of the Huston family. This encounter might be a coincidence or an encounter that fate had arranged for him.

Whether Senpek would be of great importance to him in the future was unknown. But he knew one thing for sure, he had to be cautious of Senpek. Whether it was the unstable talent or the great characters she was going to attract in the future, he had to stay away from her.

...

In the river of ice, land of snow.

A bloody figure could be seen lying on the ground covered with snow. Next to him, a white tiger was lying dead, with wisps of white-blue coming out and entering the body of the bloody figure.

Both of their eyes shut, they no longer breathed.

The figure's body still, there were no signs of life within him.

As the stars in the sky shined brightly, snow covered the ground. Strangely as if the snow was repulsed none fell within the area of the bloody figure and the white tiger.

As a star fell from the sky the shut off eyes of the figure were opened, revealing white pupils that shined brightly. At the moment the eyes opened the body of the white tiger was lifted up in the air as its fur started falling off one by one.

The fallen fur turned into light spectacles as they entered the person's body.

With each spectacle, the wound of the figure would close as the blood would freeze and turn into red particles.

As the last light spectacle entered the body, a mystical change occurred to the person.

Snow surrounded his whole body, wrapping him tightly into a white sphere. In the end, a white cocoon was created as a long white line extended from within and hung to a branch of the tree.

Within the cocoon, the opened eyes were shut off once again as its breath receded gradually.

...

In the Gorge of Death, on the peak of a mountain.

"This shall be my cave for seclusion" choosing a cave in the outer area he was ready to go into seclusion. The cave had a good amount of negative energy and was suitable for comprehending the death rune.

But first, he should clear out any potential threats.

Now that he was a second-tier being, he could act as he pleased in the outer areas of the Death Gorge.

With his power destroying a mountain would be as easy as eating pie, as long as the mountain was made of normal stone.

With a finger, he could kill a peak first-tier individual. With a hand, he could kill a bunch of them.

Just one thought, and they would be killed easily.

First, he would clear any creature within the place he was going to go into seclusion. Due to its concentration of negative energy, many undeads and demons would roam around here.

Checking with his perception, he could feel three peak first-tier residing on this mountain.

Three of them lived in harmony, without any hostilities.

Each owning the place with the most amount of concentration, they seemed to reach an agreement.

Normally, three peak first-tiers living on a mountain would be surprising enough, but with the condition of this environment not to mention three he wouldn't be surprised if there were five or six.

So they might be cooperating in order to repel other peak-first tiers.

The situation of peak first-tier undeads cooperating was very unlikely as their violent nature would get in the way even if they were intelligent. So the three of them cooperating could be said to be a very rare thing.

With the three of their power, lone undeads would have no way to enter the mountain. In this situation, the three would be monopolizing the immense resources of this mountain aiding them in comprehending a rune.

As if sensing his aura, three skeletons came out of the mountain to band together.

Right now he was flying, his control of the dimension rune was increasing by each second. Now, he could already control the rune to stay in the air and teleport small things. He could even create space tearings to attack the enemy or enhance his attacks with dimensional strings to make abnormal changes to the attack.

Without owning a rune, it would be very hard to dispel the after-effects of these kinds of attacks.

...

"Symon, what do we do? From his gaze, it is obvious he is eyeing this mountain. But his power is too great, even if we band together fully we might not be able to beat him"

"We don't have a choice. Our lives are at his will, so the only option is to ask for a leave and maybe deposit all our treasures to him. If he doesn't accept it we should try fighting with all our strengths and see if we could escape."

"But what if he decides to lie to us? Maybe after obtaining our treasures, he might want t..." the voice ended there.

As soon as the sentence ended, the other two quickly backed away and escaped into different directions.

The reason for this was, the person speaking had already died.

Without them noticing a tentacle had emerged holding the skull of the skeleton. The tentacle had already severed the connection between the skull and the body. And after obtaining the skull, another tentacle had already drained all life of the skeleton as it broke into pieces.

Knowing this the other two already analyzed that Cylius wouldn't be merciful to them, so they escaped into two different directions without any agreement at all.

Although the three thought that their conversation couldn't be heard by him, with his perception listening to this was just natural for him.

As for the treasures they talked about? With his perception, finding them would be natural, they can't hide anything from him.

Instead, he was more interested in the essence they had accumulated over the years. With them, his probability of comprehending the death rune would increase.

...

10 minutes later.

Three skulls hovered above his head, forming a triangle, as he sat on the ground.

He had already killed of the three undeads and found their treasures. He was quite surprised when he found coins of the Nine Claw City among their treasures. As for who they were they were originally orphans who participated in the mission for survival.

The three were originally trainees who had unknowingly ended up in the Death Gorge. With their power at the time, they had no chance of survival, so after cooperating they defeated a demon and got its essence.

To survive, they swallowed the essence and fully degraded into an undead.

After becoming an undead they devoured the essence of demons and undeads and after three years they have achieved what they were now.

But what they were and what their hardships weren't of his concern, the only thing that matters is that they are dead and is now used by him as a cultivation resource.