After roughly four hours, Almond finished learning the sequences of Eternal Tapestry of Refinement.
‘This is going to take time…’
This refinement process of his body needed a foundation to work, so the first sequence was of piercing a magical thread through to every single cell of his body and creating a canvas once it connected throughout his entire body.
This process required delicate control as small mishaps could lead to damage, which he would have to recover first before continuing again.
Once the thread connected throughout his body, he would be able to use external powers and course it through the thread and refine his body from the foundation level.
People could use Prana, wild or refined, to strengthen their bodies or use external energies and powers for faster progress, like with the Vitalis Crucible Tower.
…
Over a day passed by and Almond was barely halfway done to piercing the magical thread throughout his body.
He was fully focused on this task alone, and whenever damaged, he could use his Golden Haze Lightning’s healing attributes to recover, so he just made a healing-type ability based on Golden Haze Lightning and Light elements’ attributes along with Wind’s attribute and some non-elemental assets for utility—Healing Breeze.
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Time passed as Almond sat cross-legged, his body faintly glowing as he pierced the magical thread he created after learning the sequence Eternal Tapestry of Refinement.
He could burst and destroy a chunk of cells occasionally, but a breeze with golden sparks would appear inside his body where the damage occurred and heal it.
In the end, just before the last day was over, he managed to weave the thread throughout his body, connecting it perfectly.
Almond got up and went for the exit door, and he soon returned to the Central Lobby.
It was time to enter Vitalis Crucible Tower.
After inquiring about it at the central desk, Almond went through a big and wide door with an infernal theme and demonic vibe to it.
Arriving in a different dimension with a huge tower of over a thousand floors, Almond blinked once and arrived in front of its wide doors via teleport.
The statue guards’s eyes glinted as they scanned Almond for something, but as there was no problem, nothing happened.
He couldn’t even see the tower’s peak as clouds blocked the view after a certain number of floors, but from his vision, he could easily see a thousand floors.
‘Let’s see.’
Almond entered and found himself on the first floor.
It was an open world of a burning sun close up and red ground.
Students were sitting at various places in the intense heat, absorbing the mysterious energy to refine their bodies via various different methods.
Some students would disappear out of nowhere while still being in meditation.
Almond was confused, but when he began absorbing the energy and coursing it through the thread to refine his body, he heard a voice in his head.
[Do you wish to travel to the 5th Floor for better efficiency? If you can endure the heat and pain of the energy on the 5th floor, you can choose to go higher.]
Almond agreed and found himself on the 5th floor, which had visible orange and red heat waves in the atmosphere.
The ground was cracked, but it wasn’t as barren as the first floor. There were boulders, stones, and even plants of mysterious attributes that seemed to enrich the energy of this tower.
The heat here was 10,000 Celcius and the pain that the energy brought when one absorbed was also higher.
Almond could see students’ expressions faltering and cramping due to pain while they trained.
He also sat down and began training without further ado.
Soon, a slow whirling of energy waves formed around him as it stably absorbed into his body from all parts.
Stinging pain immediately began, but it was nothing compared to Soul Refinement pain, which was also the reason why students continued to endure despite the pain.
Almond absorbed the energy as it coursed through the thread and refined every single cell, strengthening them.
After a few minutes, Almond had entered a stable and steady form of absorbing the energy as his Eternal Tapestry of Refinement threads empowered his Body Constitution.
Almost an hour later, Almond heard a pop, and his eyes shot open.
He knew what happened.
He just unlocked his first Geno Gate! A gate in which everyone’s bloodline is formed and centralized. A slot that held a different source of power.
‘Seal.’
If he kept it open, the process of automatic bloodline manifestation would begin, which he didn’t want to start right now.
The bloodline would manifest entirely based on his experience and total assets of his arsenal of powers.
As such, he wanted to increase his assets more before starting that process or acquiring an already existing source of Bloodline if it was good and suitable to him.
Either way, he had to seal the Geno Gate for now.
‘Once Big D appears again, I’ll ask. For now, I have to move up the floor to speed up,’ Almond thought as he looked at his Body Constitution.
— Body Constitution: 52
Almond mentally asked while projecting the thought outward, ‘What maximum floor my body can endure for now?’
[Your body with 52 Body Constitution can exit up to the 16th floor without constant damage from the Vitalis Crucible energy.]
‘Then let’s go there.’
Almond arrived on the 16th floor and instantly felt burning all over his body. His vitality wasn’t hurting, or rather, it was hurting, but the loss matched the recovery speed, keeping his vitality at 100%.
The number of students here was more than on the first floor, and everyone was training hard.
Almond sat down on the spot and began absorbing the energy. The moment it went inside and coursed through the thread before spreading to his cells, Almond felt blazing pain.
But he could feel the speed of strengthening increasing!
‘Shift me to the next floor the moment I reach the required Body Constitution.’
He wasn’t going to stop until he reached the limit of strengthening his body and managed to activate the ‘chance’ effect of his Prana Art’s Eternal Tapestry of Refinement.