Chapter 1106 A Thank You Would Have Sufficed

Chapter 1106 A Thank You Would Have Sufficed

Holding his cat and turkey friend by the neck like two lost puppies, Jake reappeared sitting atop a tree over twenty kilometers from the devastated area. From his vantage point, he could distinctly see, through his cosmic vision, the spatial rift slowly closing, leaving nothing in its wake. Conversely, the blast of the residual explosion that had disintegrated River's Bane continued to spread, rapidly expanding towards the periphery of Lustris City...

The capital of the Lustra Plains was still smoldering, evidently still engulfed in flames... It shouldn't make much difference if kilometers of water pushed by the explosion's blast unexpectedly showed up at their windows. Probably...

Jake felt bad for the civilians who had nothing to do with their Ordeal or this continental war, but he didn't let guilt weigh him down. After all, it wasn't his fault that the damn cephalopod had released all the Water Lumyst in its Core before kicking the bucket...

All that waste of Lumyst and lifeforce... Just thinking about it gave him a headache.

Fortunately, Jake hadn't come out of it empty-handed. Remembering what he had managed to take from the Titan just before its destruction with his Essence Snatch ability, he couldn't help but chuckle proudly. Beyond that, his Lumyst Aura had also done its job of collecting...

As for his lack of guilt, it wasn't just because he was heartless and devoid of humanity. If he wanted, he could still save them. n--0velbIn

But it wasn't necessary. Lustris, being the capital where the Radiant Conclave was located, was more than adequately defended. The ongoing fire had surprised him, but he could see with his sharp eyes that whatever caused it had already been neutralized or forced to flee. The fact that the flames and smoke were extinguishing one by one was the most telling sign.

Jake took the time he had before the wall of water pushed by the blast reached him to quickly inspect the injuries of his cat and turkey, but lost interest just as quickly upon realizing that their lives were no longer in danger.

As the saying goes, it's often the worst scoundrels who live the longest. Or was it the other way around?

"Phew, just as I thought," Jake elucidated, not without astonishment.

[Lumyst is an energy belonging to no one.] Xi concurred. [Depending on the attribute of the Lumyst and the cultivation level of its host, it is possible for the latter to adapt to a very specific form of Lumyst and gain a remarkable level of control that does not depend on other parameters like mental sense. It's like a human having fine control of their own limbs thanks to their nervous system. Their mental strength has nothing to do with it.]

"Indeed, that's exactly it," Jake smiled before adding more seriously, "But it's not without drawbacks. Since this Water Lumyst no longer belonged to this Titan as soon as it lost control, anyone with an affinity for this type of Lumyst can then claim it. If two Lumyst cultivators with the same type of Lumyst clash, with equal body and spirit, the one with the most advanced Lumyst Core could theoretically seize the Lumyst of their opponent and make it their own without any counterbalance. The control of Lumyst weakens as it moves away from the Lumyst Core, meaning a Lumyst cultivator of a lower stage is completely powerless against a stronger one."

Finishing his last sentence, Jake raised his arm in front of his face and thoughtfully stared at the back of his hand shrouded in a halo of dark blue Lumyst. With a thought, the Water Lumyst suspended around him began to flow towards him, merging with the deep blue light of his hand.

Logically, one might have expected a clash between the two different natures of energy, but nothing happened. Instead, the dense current of pale blue light siphoned from all directions, reminiscent of a levitating river, obediently entered his hand, the dark blue Lumyst coating it gaining furiously in brilliance, changing from a timid flame to a fiery blaze.

"Earlier, while fighting that Titan," Jake continued calmly, "I immediately realized that my 5-second-old Lumyst Core was nothing compared to its thousands of years of accumulation. If my psychic faculties weren't so overpowered, my Lumyst would have been just a rigid mass of energy good only for nourishing my organism and supporting my close combat attacks and defenses. I knew my Lumyst was of superior quality, but that should have just allowed me to buy time.

"As you saw, I was far from the mark. My Cosmic Lumyst includes almost everything that makes up the cosmos, and water is part of it. Instead of clashing with its Water Lumyst, my Cosmic Lumyst simply swallowed it. As long as River's Bane tightly held the reins of its Lumyst, the balance was maintained as it could be the case between two Water Lumyst cultivators of equal power, but as soon as River's Bane lost concentration after my counterattack, the winner was decided. All the Water Lumyst it opposed to my Lumyst Blade and me in an attempt to kill me was engulfed inside, exponentially increasing the power of my Cosmic Lumyst. I didn't have much time to experiment with Breath of Living Elements, so this Cosmic Lumyst contained almost all my attributes, including Space and Time. Hence this result, cough, how should I say... spectacular?"

For someone unfamiliar with Jake, his tone might almost sound embarrassed or repentant, but Crunch and Lord Phoenix, who had silently regained consciousness a while ago, rolled their eyes disdainfully.

"Master is truly shameless, but I like it," the Himalayan black cat praised with its comically flat-faced look growing even more stupid over time.

Not to be outdone, his partner in crime sweetly overplayed, "Only true shamelessness can lead to immortality! Hail our shameless leader!"

"..." Jake dropped the two idiots into the void, suddenly regretting having saved them. "A simple thank you would have sufficed."