Chapter 240 240:Beyond 9-Star
In a vast open ground, the sound of sonic explosions reverberated again and again.
Seeing countless attacks pouring at him, Harris let out a soft sigh and raised his palm covered with a fiercely glowing crimson aura. Almost instantly, a pillar of bright red light burst forth.
"Fucking hell. This is training for God's sake."
Letting out a soft groan, Lucas covered himself and fled trying to escape from the pillar of light chasing his tail that obliterated the ground leaving behind nothing but flying shrinks of shattered ground, rising dust and smoldered charcoaled soul in its wake.
Harris frowned, noticing Lucas landing after a huge jump and his figure momentarily disappeared from his vision.
Just as he let go of his light sword, he felt the temperature becoming chilly and raised his chin only to notice many spikes of ice hovering in the air starting to fall.
Harris' figure turned into a shadow dodging the flanks of ice spikes hurling at him.
Running around, he paused his steps seeing ice spikes shooting at him from all directions.
With a nonchalant look, he kicked the ground shooting himself up towards the sky.
As his figure shot upward like a comet, a shadow flickered and a humongous fireball descended on him.
"Wow! That's something new. Just how many skills did you gain Lucas?"
With an amused smile, he twisted his body and punched.
BOOM!
The fireball punctured like a balloon with the hot condensed gas expanding crazily but it wasn't over as from the explosion, crackling lightning shot at him almost hitting him.
Harris managed to react at the very last second and dodged the streaks of lightning from frying him.
On landing down, he saw a sword wrapped in lightning and fire erupting towards him.
Lucas gripped his sword tighter and suddenly immolated crimson flames that engulfed the weapon and his whole body in a warm embrace.
Lucas activated Mana Devour and suddenly felt an explosive strength coursing through his veins.
Harris with a smiling face shot at the incoming boy like an arrow and swung his palms at him.
Lucas sidestepped by twisting his body deflecting Harris' glowing palm and swung his sword but Harris raised his other palm to deflect.
But much to his surprise, Lucas let go of his sword and continued to charge, he rammed his whole body onto Harris after activating Mana Devour.
An explosion reverberated, scattering shockwaves that swept away the upper layer of soil around and as the smoke dissipated, one could see Lucas' back lying a few meters away from Harris.
Lucas holding his dizzying head looked at Harris as if he had seen a monster.
'Is his body made up of Diamond?'
When he slammed his body against Harris, instead of pushing back Harris he felt a rebound as if a rain hit him throwing him back.
He thought that by taking Harris by surprise, he could finally manage to land his much-awaited hit but his sweet dream was thrown into shit.
"Sir Harris, this is unfair. You are bullying me with your higher realm power."
Standing up, Lucas walked towards Harris with a hint of resignation.
"This isn't a strength of 6-Star. So, are you cheating?"
As Lucas came closer and grumbled, he sneakily tried to raise his foot to crush Harris's toes who took back his foot swiftly and kicked him.
BANG!
Lucas' body dragged along with the ground for a few metres leaving behind black drag marks.
"Now, that is what we call improvement. If it was before, your body would have just blown away by that kick." Harris replied putting down his foot and crossed arms around his chest.
Lucas, who managed to defend himself, took a step to get back in an attacking stance but his expression stiffened as a crack echoed from his knees and he fell holding his dislocated knees.
The impact of the force shook his leg to the core.
'Unlike other teachers, he never goes easy on me.'
Lucas, using the sword to support himself, kneeled on the ground taking deep puffs.
On raising his face, he noticed Harris's expression who was waiting for him.
At that moment, Lucas decided to ask the question that had been looming in his head.
"Sir Harris, the power you contain as a 6-Star is way higher than others. Why is that?" Lucas asked curiously.
He knew that Harris was way stronger than before and fell to 6-Star but even with experience his power is exploding.
He had a rough estimate of power of a 6-Star but this guy power at 6-Star is really absurd.
"Sir Harris, remember that question I asked about the realms. I want to know. I want to know the real truth now."
Harris' brows furrowed but it became normal after a moment.
"Why do you think the current way of power is wrong?''
"Anyone with a discerning eye could see that something is fundamentally wrong in our way of storing mana." Lucas answered casually but this was something he got to know from Future Lucas' memory.
Harris smiled, seemingly pleased with Lucas' answer.
He walked towards Lucas with a bloody smile that sent a chill down the spine.
Soon, the air around Lucas became heavy.
'Wait! Don't tell me he is going to hit me with all his strength.'
Lucas screamed inwardly.
The mana in the air bellowed and the air started swirling around as if signalling the forthcoming of a storm.
Harris' aura started to skyrocket and a fierce crimson aura exploded from his body leaving the vicinity in red.
Like a beast unhinged, Lucas could see a madness flash in his eyes which was followed by a bombing sound echoing from Harris.
Six crimson dots flickered from Harris' back that rose above their head and expanded into a huge crimson mass that started flickering.
Astonishment shone over Lucas' face as he felt an insane amount of mana circulating inside the round orbs.
"What you are witnessing now is the most primitive method of Cultivation of the world and the real Star Cultivation method."
Lucas swallowed his saliva as he saw Harris' figure rising and floating in the sky.
His red hair danced crazily and his entire figure looked divine.
"So, what we are learning is just a false or subpar method."
"No!" Harris chuckled and released his power returning to normal.
"Let me give you a brief rundown."
"Most of the records of the world before the Demon War had been lost, it would be correct to say that all the records seemed to have vanished or been erased by someone."
"We are now at the end of the fourth era according to Steer but still we don't know much about the world's beginning. Most of the record and power realms of the First Two Eras are missing. However, from what we know, it has been said that we have been following subpar methods of cultivation. If not for the Demon War which even put Gods in jeopardy, we might have learnt the true cultivation pathway. "
"I didn't understand this part." Lucas asked, feeling a bit confused.
"I can't give you a brief on that now but know this. In exchange for helping Gods to defeat Demons, we gained the real Star cultivation methods of an ancient era but it was limited to some people."
"From the remnants we have, it can be inferred that primordial humans or early humans were many times stronger than the present time. They have assimilated vast powers and with the blessing of Gods, they gained many supernatural powers and these powers were passed down from one generation to another."
"Those powers are still present. Do you have any guesses?" Harris paused for a moment after he asked.
"Bloodline powers?" Lucas made a bold guess but still, he felt as if it had become complex when combined with the term bloodline.
"I understand what you are thinking but it's not that complex." Harris chuckled and started explaining.
"The modern term suggests genetics. Strong people give birth to strong offsprings. A tall man mostly gives birth to tall children and a short man mostly gives birth to short children. If replaced tall with strength, children of strong people or of a higher realm give birth to children with better genetics and if their parents had powers bestowed by God, it is like icing on the top."
"Now, this is where shit went downhill. When the world split after the Demon War, the laws of the world were also deformed and severe restrictions were placed on us that bore a great limitation. The world did this to keep balance and the current limitation is 9-Star."
"Hmm!" Lucas rubbed his chin and some things that hadn't been cleared started making sense.
"So when did this whole bloodline thing come into play?"
"After the war, people faced a great restriction imposed by the world. Everyone's growth became limited and many people whose talents were quite bad or had low potential even found it hard to awaken which didn't happen previously where no matter whether you are talented or not, you can still awaken. Also, the concentration of mana had thinned out." Harris answered, then pointed at his nodes.
"Humans and others crafted new power scales for accurate measurement of power and divided people based on bloodline and many new suitable awakening methods came to play that made it possible for the lower potential to awaken otherwise those with a bronze bloodline had no chance to awaken."
"Now, the answer to your question. According to the Star Pathway, we create a spiritual path guiding mana into our soul where it aggregates to form a manifestation of Star. Each time we break through we get a new star that continues until we gain 9 Stars. After we have 9 Stars, we use our soul to pressure them to make them fuse which turns the stars into a spiritual Sun which is the next stage."
Lucas' heart tightened hearing the new realm and his eyes flashed with anticipation.
"The Sun realm is divided into early, middle and peak. After the Sun realm comes the Divine realm where the Sun transforms into a halo."
Lucas closed his eyes, absorbing what Harris said.
"Sir Harris, was there a Sun realm expert during the Demon war?"
"As per the records, none." Harris shook his head.
"Something had happened by the end of the 2nd era causing the entire power system to regress. However, the restriction of 9-Star started in the Third Era. I don't know why the power system regressed during that time. There are a lot of ambiguities."
"Now coming into this, if one follows the current way, which has been going since the 3rd Era, one can never cross to the Sun realm because fusing stars requires a great amount of energy as it undergoes a process of destruction and for that, you need to amass great power. In terms of the current method, it is inferior to the other one by 40% in terms of energy comparison."
"What....What the hell?!" Lucas shrieked.
"Why aren't we taught about this and are still lingering on this subpar awakening method if the higher ups still know? It lowers the strength of the entire world. Aren't we getting our future fucked by doing this?" Lucas asked with a frown feeling that he might have abolished his power and started from scratch.
'Didn't that mean, I...No, we all are fucked up and stay at 9-Star.'
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