And so, Almond and the gang enjoyed a grand war while hiding above.
With the Gorilla leader dead, Almond’s boost only lasted for one minute extra, but there was already another powerful Griminion King for him to harvest.
Spirits also gathered as he had added the function of Spirit Extraction in his domain, so every time a Griminion beast died, he was getting a Spirit in his Spirit Pocket.
He had already increased his Spirit Pocket’s size to 50,000 and could improve it more, which he would do during the fight against this Griminion Tide.
Soon, half an hour passed by, and no Griminion Beast detected Almond and the group. While the powerhouses who were fighting noticed them, they didn’t bother about them and just focused on culling the Griminions.
— Arcane Constitution: 1019
— Arcane Constitution: 1021
— Arcane Constitution: 1025
— Arcane Constitution: 1027
Almond had reached his goal, but he wasn’t stopping because there was still much more to explore, absorb, and create.
Especially by observing that Immortal King powerhouses who had Space Elemental Mastery, he was understanding more about this Mythical-rank Space mastery fast, and incorporating it with a myriad of other actions and knowledge to create assets, thereby increasing his Arcane Constitution by producing power circuits.
Almond knew he would take more time, and he didn’t want Mad Nuts to get bored, so he sent them to backlines with Meliora and expanded his domain to cover a kilometer radius, covering the activity range of Mad Nuts at the back.
Brian and the others hadn’t left yet, and seeing the group without him might prompt them to make a move, so Meliora would inform him if she saw their signs.
Soon, one hour passed by, and Almond’s Arcane Constitution hit 2.2k.
And that was the limit.
He had explored all possibilities and technicalities that his arsenal of powers and the logically established imagined assets he could birth.
And now, he had become a proper threat to even the Immortals. Of course, he could still increase his Arcane constitution if he continued observing and comprehending to create more assets, but that would be a waste of time.
It was time to fight now because if he didn’t, he would get a seizure.
With Arcane at his command, he took twenty minutes more to refine his existing abilities to incredible heights and created some useful sequences to enhance his combat power and style.
The tide had slowed down a bit, but it wasn’t over. The Griminions came in waves, but there was no break in between their arrivals. Their arriving numbers just reduced at intervals, but the tide wasn’t about to end this fast.
“Everyone! Gather within the circle quickly to receive the buffs of Immortal King Raigen’s ability! The next wave has a higher corruption rate, and the Griminions will be stronger!”
A shout suddenly rang, and a huge golden circle with white, red, green, and blue ethereal wings covered the sky. The circle’s border covered 2.5 kilometers of radius with Immortal King Raigen at the center.
Almond was already inside, while those at the back and the Immortal Kings at the very front quickly got into the circle.
Immortal King Raigen’s aura burst as he executed his ability, increasing the physical parameters of everyone within the ability’s radius by 50% for 30 minutes while also imprinting a mysterious bird-shaped sigil on everyone’s skin that would activate to recover their injuries if they get wounded from now on, but only to a certain extent before disappearing.
‘Nice. This ability has conceptual powers alongside Blood and Light elements, eh?’
Almond didn’t waste any more time after checking the buff he received and decided to start fighting.
‘Let’s see…’
Some people had already died, and many were injured and got carried to the stronghold for recovery, so Almond looked for struggling adventurers or those in trouble.
He spotted several of them as his eyes flickered, and his lips curved into a smile.
‘Time to rumble.’
But before going in, he unlocked his first Geno Gate because it was time to let it cook his Bloodline.
In the immortal-rank powerhouses’ area, a group of seven Immortals of different races suddenly got overwhelmed with more numbers of Immortal-rank Griminions jumping on them and attacking them.
A three-headed black-blue scaled wyvern accelerated with a burst of exotic flames, its target none other than the group that would result in the death of one or two.
[Blackstream Zet Wyvern]
-Lifeform Rank: Immortal (corrupted)
-Bloodline: Blackstream Zet Bloodline – Immortal
-Ability Power: [Beta 6103]
-Prana Sea:
-Soul Sea: 1000
-Stats:
— Body Constitution: 2838
— Mental Constitution: 2617
— Soul Constitution: 2601
— Arcane Constitution: 2715
The group noticed the incoming Griminion Wyvern too late and felt death, but the expected destruction didn’t occur.
Instead, they heard a loud blast and a shockwave spreading just fifty meters away, where a black-haired human stood in front of Wyvern, who seemed to have been forcefully stationed.
Almond’s newly synthesized sword rested on the wyvern’s snout while the veins all over his body had popped.
An almost ethereal translucent golden coating of aura could be seen covering his body, but only Almond knew just how much defensive power was in this spatial coating.
It cracked all over his body as Almond’s nose oozed blood, but at the same time, the paused Wyvern’s eyes lost their light, and its body split into two, with both halves falling.
‘It seems that I’ve empowered my Self-enchantment abilities too much for my body to handle.’
However, a glint of satisfaction passed through his eyes because that spatial diffusion he used to shave away the Wyvern’s ongoing power upon the impact of his slash that split the dragon only took 35% of his total Prana.
‘I name that attack…Blackened Horizon Slash.’
*Swoosh!*
A lion-like beast with a strange crystalline body and bat-like wings lunged at Almond, tearing the air with its sharply glistening claw empowered with some kind of magic.
It was another Immortal-rank Griminion, slightly more powerful than the Wyvern.
However, Almond dodged as he vanished from the spot before the attack and appeared above the Lion before kicking it.
Normally, his pure physical kick wouldn’t even affect a monster of this level, but he had enchanted himself with that translucent thin coating which had an ever-changing molecule structure at his command made from an energy that was a mix of all of his mastered element, but mainly a synthesis of sand and lightning that resulted in the exotic crystal glass.
In that thin coating of space, matter was a great amount and potency of power condensed, connecting every single cell for empowerment.
And in that kick’s heel, Almond executed the sequence of Blackened Blade Blossoming while also modifying space matter to fill in the air that weighed 100,000 tons.
So, in the thin coating at his heel, the power of the kick carried 100,000 tons of weight along with the execution of Blackened Blade Blossoming.
*Smash!* *Chreee!*
The monstrous beast was smashed to the ground while hundreds of long-bladed spikes burst out in a thick spiral formation from where Almond landed his kick, killing the Griminion Lion completely.
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Almond heard a beep from his wristband and checked it out after veiling himself.
“Where did he go?”
“I wanted to thank him.”
“Fuck, look out!”
Almond shook his head. Being careless during fights, especially in chaotic battles like this where Griminion beasts were coming constantly, was stupid.
[Almond]
-Lifeform Rank: Mortal
-Ability Power: [Beta 8310]
-Prana Sea: 1000
-Soul Sea: 1000
-Stats:
— Body Constitution: 1000
— Mental Constitution: 1000
— Soul Constitution: 1000
— Arcane Constitution: 2288
‘My Ability Power directly skipped Alpha level.’
After SSS, the ability power of the individual was measured more precisely, with levels being Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and so on.
Beta 8310 meant that the attack he just released was powerful enough to obliterate average Immortal-rank defenses!
‘Let’s continue. This isn’t my peak because I still need to refine my abilities. Those Immortals and Immortal Kings have very specific energy constructs in their abilities. That must be the most optimal way of creating their combat style. I have to get to that level.’
Almond sucked in wild Prana and recovered to full after refining it with his soul energy before continuing his hunt of monsters and collection of spirits.
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Several minutes later, he got Meliora’s message while he also noticed Brian and his gang approaching Zek, Karven, and others while dealing with Griminion.
‘Time to die, Brian.’
…
“Brian, that bastard Almond isn’t with them.”
“He will come soon then. But this time, he isn’t escaping,” Brian said with wrathful eyes. “That bastard almost killed me!”
Brian was ready for Almond with an artifact specially for him as he wanted to destroy Almond at all costs.