It wasn't that Zick felt no emotions in the slightest. He felt many emotions just like any living being.
The truth was, he was unaffected by greed or lust, his logic had always suppressed other emotions. Allowing him to have such a mindset.
Zick thought about the magic disaster feeling a little annoyed, feeling his own powerlessness.
There was always a reason behind anything in this world. There had to be a reason why the magic disaster occurred this early.
The best lead Zick had right at the moment was that this magic disaster was connected to Aeiron in a mysterious way.
The magic disaster had directly landed upon where Aeiron was in the novel.
'Did me meeting Aeiron change something?' Zick mind turned gear and started thinking rapidly.
'The sun god, Velveric, could be connected to this in some way.'
This would make a lot of sense to Zick, the sun god must have a connection to Aeiron, allowing him to see through his senses.
Though this sounded far-fetched in a way, it would explain many things.
Creating a magic disaster like that, which even Zick could not resist and had enough power to teleport thousands of people, could only be possible for such an entity.
'At least, I can be sure that the sun god had something to do with this. If not, I don't have any other clue left that I can look into.' Zick thought helplessly, he was not even aware of the reason why the sun god could have let or made the magic disaster occur.
'There is also a chance that this doesn't have anything to do with the sun god at all. But was instead caused by some other strong entity or item.'
For now, Zick put aside this matter as it was a waste of time to think about it.
There was another thing which needed his attention.
Now with the red thunder qilin, Zrector dead. There was nothing getting in the way of the battle between the middle and eastern continent anymore. This would lead to a huge war with millions of soldiers at once.
And in turn this would weaken the two continents, making their chances to resist the demon continent's invasion lower.
'There is also the problem with the magic disaster.' With a lot of time in his hand, Zick continued thinking.
Even while thinking, Zick's mind recovered at a stable rate, showing that some of the recovery ability from before remains.
The magic disaster Zick experienced was larger than the original one, covering the whole middle section of the Academic city. This was also something that could come in use to find the reason why the magic disaster occurred so early, so he kept this in his mind.
The academic city held more than 5 million people in it. The middle section didn't have many people as the academy main campus was located there, but there were still many people nearing almost a half a million.
In the novel, it took a while to notice that some of the people from the middle continent appeared in the eastern continent by the alchemist towers and other ruling forces.
But now with such a large amount of people teleported at once, it would change the flow of the future that Zick knew too.
The alchemist tower would start looking into it madly. They would be interested in a phenomenon like this.
Zick concentrated upon the connections he felt on his body currently. Luckily he could feel the two dragon eggs and Varine's presence, with this he could search for them easily later.
Even with the quality of his bloodline decreasing, Zick could feel the eggs' location just fine.
The dragon eggs were very important in Zick's eyes. They would bring a lot of support to him now that he was in such a pitiful state.
Zick could feel the direction they were located at. But one of the eggs was very far away. He couldn't even calculate the distance properly like something was getting in his way.
'As long as the connection exists, they should be alright.' Zick thought, for now putting them aside as it would take a long time to get them back.
Varine's survival chances was also low, the eastern continent had many way to remove the slave seal too. So Zick was worried that he might lose her location at any moment.....
Varine was the closest from Zick's current location, so he didn't mind going and picking her up first. If she had already been captured by an enemy stronger than Zick, he could only give up and ignore this matter.
Zick was not stopped by his loss of trust anymore. He needed Varine's future grandmaster level strength. He was very weak right now, he needed any amount of power he could collect. But he didn't have any intention of sacrificing himself for any of this power.
'For now, I should try my best to first get the biological golem. With it, I should be able to resist others and I might also find a way to increase my potential in there.'
'But the problem is getting to the location of the lab, I would need to prepare extensively to be able to reach there.'
With Zick's current state there was a very low chance of surviving if he didn't plan his future move carefully.
Zick wasn't worried about money right now, he already had many things he could use to exchange for it. And there was also the mana crystal mine that he could use to make a fortune in the future, so there wasn't much to worry about in this matter.
Continuing to consider all the things he needed to do after entering the eastern continent a long time passed by. He didn't bother training in mana as it was a waste of time.
With his current potential no matter how much he trains not even a bit of his mana quality or quantity would increase.
At last, Zick was able to recover enough to use a little magic.
Right now, Zick's whole body was covered in marine silt, which happened after staying in ocean water for a long time.
Taking out a healing potion from his space ring, Zick brought it near his mouth using magic to move the water. But before pouring the potion into his mouth, he used the black mana in his mana nerves and pushed out the water which filled his body.
Blop~
Quickly Zick placed the healing potion into his mouth and started pouring it. He could have done it with the water within his body too, but that might lead to losing a portion of this healing potion. He had no idea about the density of the healing potion compared to the water, so there was a chance that the potion might just start rising above the water.
Slowly Zick's internal wounds started healing, enabling him to move his fingers.
'The healing potions wouldn't have been able to heal me if I still had a strong physique, but now with my weak body its effect has become more potent.'
The marine water entered his mouth again, filling his mouth with the bitter taste of salt. He bore with it and continued to put another potion in his mouth.
Unfortunately healing potion could not help in the recovery of the mind, so he still felt a little headache as he used magic.
After doing the same process for a few times, Zick's body had recovered fully. He could move his mouth already by the third time of this process, so he could stop the water from entering his mouth himself.
'I feel so weak...this really makes people go into despair for a long time. Even I can't help but feel despair because of this, but I can't stop moving in my path just because of this one setback.'
Zick wasn't trying to pursue eternal life for someone else, but for himself. He wanted to enjoy the process of getting near his goal even by a little. He wanted-
Omnipotence and omniscience!
This was something that was a must in his goal.
With an indifferent expression, Zick started circulating mana all over his body which strengthened his body. The water pressure which made him feel like he was being pressed down by a huge mountain vanished to a certain degree.
The black mana covered his body dimly, he slowly got up on his feet. It took a lot of his effort to just move his body in here.
There was still nothing but darkness in his surroundings, giving him a little empty feeling.
RIPPLE~
Moving his legs and hands, Zick started swimming upwards with long strides. He couldn't sense anything in his surroundings at all, this was the first time he experienced going this deep within the ocean.
'I can't see anything even with my dragon eyes here, there might not be anything containing magic here then.' Zick pondered before ignoring it.
In a world where people are able to store power within their body and strengthen themselves. Many people and things can easily resist the power of nature and even gain victory over it.
This also affected how this world's society works.
Millions of years ago humans might have formed groups to resist the monsters and other dangerous beings. But its purpose changed after they gained enough power to resist them.
They changed their aim from protecting to ruling. This led to the formation of the kingdom and empire system which existed right at the moment.
'In the end, human greed has no limit.' Zick knew of this very well. He was no different too, but compared to others he knew when to give up and to continue advancing.
'Throwing away my life for some benefit would be the height of stupidity. But others still do it nevertheless, these people have a very low chance of rising up in their whole life.'
Even while swimming at his full speed, it took a while for Zick to be able to see a ray of sunlight. His body had really weakened to an unbelievable level from before. This fact again made Zick feel a little down.
'Sigh.....I am reaching the surface at last. I don't even know how much time has passed since I fell into the sea.'
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