489 Next step forward.
It was after getting his thoughts and emotions in check that ke realized how long and far he had walked. He immediately increased his pace and in no time, he was already back home.
Once in, ke ignored everyone and went straight up. Not caring about anyone except their master, Ebony and Ivory followed him up.
‘It seems no one is ready to talk.’ Cami and Tessie couldn’t help but let out a helpless sigh.
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‘Now I know I am alone in this, it means I should look for ways to be efficient to not sacrifice the time I spend with Tessie and Cami.’ ke said as he walked into his room and went straight into a crossed-leg position.
“Since I know beasts that stay around or inside Thranium crystal mines have higher intellect and are more united even after the beast tide. I have to test my theory.”
“The question is how?” ke said.
For him to test out his theory, ke had to find a normal energy crystal mine that was inhabited by beasts. The problem with the n was that crystal mines were very few, talk less of undiscovered mines inhabited by beasts.
“Going about searching for mines is not even an option.” ke said as he let out a helpless sigh because he knew even the locator spell wouldn’t help him.
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Not only would the mines be out of the spell’s range, but the possible number of undiscovered mines in the area could be in the hundreds even thousands, thus further reducing the effectiveness of the spell.
[Have you noticed something.] The system said derailing ke’s line of thoughts.
[Thranium crystals are meant to be the rarest type of crystals and mines, but all through your stay you have only seen 1 normal crystal mine.] The system said shocking ke.
Calton city had quite a number of normal crystal mines, but from how the city was discovering new thranium mines almost every beast tide, ke could swear the total would be greater than normal mines.
“That even raises more questions.” ke held his head a he felt a headache brewing.
“The only 2 things I can do is wait for the ash corps to discover a beast-inhabited crystal mine, then read up the report or try out the locator spell anytime I am outside the city.”
“As for now, I should focus on advancing to the peak of the Hero realm.” ke as he began thinking back to Colonel Darius’ exnation during the drug gang burst.
[They can’t see us because, at my level, I can control allponents of nature to a certain extent. So all I did was manipte the light rays hitting us and the wind that carried the sounds we make.] The system reyed the memory.
‘For him to be able to do that his control over the other elements had to be greater than that of Champions if not Heroes of the pathways!’ ke was awed by the insurmountable power of a peak Angel.
‘So, one thing for sure is that at one point I will have to start learning the other elements.’ ke let out a helpless sigh as the thought of starting from square one in another pathway was tiring.
“What if that’s what I am actually meant to be doing!” ke said aloud as he abruptly opened his eyes.
“All this while I have been trying to sense nature all at once, but I think it is best to increase my understanding of one element first.” ke said.
Although his theory wasn’t confirmed, ke was going to give it a shot especially since he had wasted a lot of time studying mana.
It was then that Cami walked upstairs to inform him that the food was ready, and without wasting even a second, ke stood up and began heading downstairs for Lunch.
‘That’s a good sign.’ Cami thought as he took her hand.
Food was one of ke’s favorite things in the world; so as long as he didn’t reject food, the problem with him, Castiel and Brian wasn’t too serious.
Cami and Tessie had prepared lemon garlic shrimp pasta and butter chicken with rice.
Knowing ke, they had prepared a lot and even though the atmosphere was awkward ke didn’t care at all.
Brian and Castiel were the first to leave the table, leaving Cami and Tessie who happily watched ke eat.
When it was time to sleep, Brian and Castiel took the guest room while ke and the girls remained in the master bedroom.
“It’s alreadyte, aren’t you nning on sleeping?” The girls asked ke who remained in his meditative pose with a fireball in his hand.
They had joined ke to meditate but even after they were done, he had remained on the floor for more than 2 hours.
“I am.” ke said as he extinguished the mes and climbed onto the King size bed.
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The next day, the awkward atmosphere was almost gone, but that was only because Brian and Castiel avoided asking ke questions.
The girls noticed this but they chose to ignore it. They had already agreed to not ask questions until both parties were ready to exin what happened.
“How is your cultivation going, any clues of the next step to advancing to the peak of the Hero realm?” Cami asked causing everyone including Brian and Castiel to turn to ke.
ke had always been ahead of everyone in terms of cultivation and had been the one everyone turned to for assistance when they got to a bottleneck.
Also, they had noticed how he had been meditating with either a fireball or electric arcs in his hands. So they felt if anyone was to have the key to advancement it should be him.
“Nope, I am still testing the theory that I previously shared with you guys.” ke said.
Sharing the key to advancing with others was not only useless in most cases but also dangerous. This was because everyone had different tests from the Mother-stream and also different ways of understanding concepts and definitions.
So an exnation might end up dying them even further, especially since their strengths and weaknesses were not the same.
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