Almond didn’t waste any more of his time in Hyper Plane. His fists coated with translucent black film, flickering in brightness and he punched Andrew’s chest.
As his fist touched the armor, it was as if it didn’t exist. His fist went through and struck Andrew’s chest solidly before his entire armor cracked and shattered.
BOOM!
Andrew shot up like a shooting star while spitting blood as his entire body was cracked from the shockwave of that punch that neatly spread within his body. His mind was rattled, and he couldn’t use Prana.
Jessica and Kai saw what happened, and their eyes went wide while their built-up aura popped like a balloon.
Simon sighed and raised his hand as Andrew suddenly halted with a mystical, ethereal hand grabbing him.
In the next second, the hand appeared before Simon, but Simon saw Andrew’s injuries suddenly vanishing as if he never received them.
Feeling the aura connection, he looked at Almond in surprise.
‘What kind of healing was this?’
“I won’t leave them injured,” Almond said to Simon before turning to the two with a smile. “If you still want to verify further, make your moves.”
Jessica and Kai looked at Andrew, who was knocked out, meaning that Almond’s attack overwhelmed him enough to make him lose consciousness.
Being able to make an Immortal Emperor unconscious was a crazy feat in itself because that required exertion of will over others, and it had to be stronger.
Meanwhile, the top Immortal Emperors clearly saw Almond entering Hyper Speed 3 and were dumbfounded.
An Immortal with the power of a middle-to-top-level Immortal Emperor!
‘Who is the young man?’
‘I’ve heard about him and his force. They are House of Regalon, a newly ascended planet from the first player.’
‘What was that stat boost? It was a Bloodline power, but it felt different, and I feel like that’s the tip of the iceberg.’
‘Senior White Dove, can you tell what is going on with his Bloodline? At least, what’s the level of his Bloodline?’
‘I’m afraid that’s not a Bloodline…at least, not a proper one. That distinct and profound developing genome aura doesn’t belong to Bloodlines’.
‘What?!’
‘T-That…don’t tell me.’
Immortal Emperors were shocked upon hearing Senior White Dove’s words, who was one of the five Supreme Emperors and the current Emperor of the Gezero Dynasty.
Everyone knew what he meant when he said what Almond had wasn’t a Bloodline.
‘So he is in the process of turning his Bloodline into a Geneline?! How is that even possible? Isn’t it very hard to do?’
‘Very hard? No, that’s the hardest thing and a must-requirement for a Supreme Emperor to even participate in the Ascension Games.’
‘Indeed. Creating Geneline means overthrowing the rules and laws binding you, reshaping your bloodline and filling it with your own design that requires a complex structural process and, most importantly, Prana’s control and a strong will to keep everything stable. Moreover, the design has to be built with your various aspects in such a way that it has potential for growth.’
Bloodline Manifestation was what Grimworld did to people who opened their first Geno Gate.
Although other Immortal Emperors wanted to see more of Almond, Jessica and Kai didn’t make moves in the end.
“I think everyone has verified their doubts already,” Simon said with a laugh. “We’ll leave you alone now. Also, I’ll also be here in this channel, just in the frontline section with the Emperors of Hyper Speed 3 category. Join the soul network with everyone here once the battle starts so everyone can coordinate better.”
“Got it,” Almond nodded.
Simon left, and Almond went back to the platform where Admiral Rudra was meditating.
Looking at his hand, they flickered with ethereal linings as his skin turned transparent. ‘Power…’
‘I need to measure myself properly now that I got a chance.’
He had gone on many missions, but the appearance of Griminion Emperors was still rare, though he made sure he got to each of the spots thanks to Big D to make his Spirit Lords powerful.
And now, he was going to participate in the battle against the largest Griminion Tide ever.
However, judging by the number of powerhouses here, Almond didn’t think they had a chance of blocking the tide of such a scale here.
‘Is reinforcement really not coming?’ Almond thought as his eyes overlooked the wide area with Immortal Emperors at their spots.
Closing his eyes, Almond tried to establish a spatial connection with a formation in the Academy’s student mansion but failed.
‘Those annoying Hollowstar pests,’ Almond sighed.
Moreover, Almond could also feel distinct fear rising in him after he made a slight cut out of this cosmos.
It was the Void Titan Leviathan. He was sure he would turn into dust instantly against it.
‘People from other cosmoses must be doing something; otherwise, it will be over for this cosmos. The Griminions would make more rounds across the planets thanks to the cosmic river until no one was left alive.’
Which was precisely why Almond thought that people from other cosmos might be doing something.
‘It looks like I’ll have to get a Spirit Drape from some powerful Griminion Emperor. It’s going to make more noises among these people, but so be it.’
Spirit Drape was his Spirit Animation’s ability, a kind of evolved version of Spirit Devour.
Almond could transform a living creature into Spirit Drape, which he could metaphorically wear, but in reality was a process of his soul temporarily becoming symbiotic with it, but it would also become a parasite, so for a defensive mechanism, his soul would gradually erode it, ending it within an hour and expelling it.
But for one hour after activating a Spirit Drape, Almond would get a surplus of stats, including Arcane Constitution and some of the powers of the being that he turned into Spirit Drape.
Arcane Constitution wasn’t something that was buffable due to its nature. It was just impossible because it was something based on all knowledge of arcane that one possessed about their arsenal of powers. It wasn’t possible to suddenly imbue new knowledge into someone and have them comprehend it to increase Arcane Constitution.
However, Spirit Drape would present a second Arcane Constitution for Almond to use that beings power!
He created this ability thanks to Spirit Devour and Spirit Lord Project’s research knowledge because he had already created a way for Spirit Lords to create their Arcane Constitution.