Opening their eyes amidst the chaotic atmosphere with mixed energy motes and biome of Wind, Ice, and me, the duo felt slightly frustrated.
Even using the Limitless ne, the duo failed to glean the next step of their Chaos Concept, ending their session in disappointment.
"Gah, this is hard," Rin stood up as she looked at the chaotic scenery.
"Chaos…" Erix muttered and weakly smiled, "Well, this concept is one of the high-end concepts. Lilith said it would be hard to progress in this one, and it''s showing."
"True," Rin sighed and sat beside Erix again, "Forget it. Let''s begin our today''s main dish."
"Yeah, I am excited about it," Erix said with augh. "Let''s start."
Both of them closed their eyes once again and finally used their first-ever skill-creation attempt.
A secondter, they felt their consciousness drifting away as both arrived at different mystic realms, exclusively created by Mystic Root.
Erix arrived in a realm of death. Everything was ck and filled with death. It seemed as if Life had no ce or purpose here.
Death bloomed at every corner of this world, in the form of strange deathly creatures, exotic skeletons, ghosts, wraiths, cursed creatures, deathly ntations, geography, and structure.
Everything was made up of Death, Prana, Spirit, and Soul in their foundation.
Erix floated in the sky as he observed the oundishness of this realm while a monotonic voice rang his mind with information.
[You have used a Skill Creation chance. You have 10 hours in this ce. 10 hours here is equivalent to 1 minute outside.]
[Any creature you kill or interact with here will show you a hallucination that has a chance to inspire you.]
[You can only wield Death, Prana, Spirit, and Soul energy here to create a skill.]
[Once you create a skill, you can register it and immediately exit from this realm. You can also spend theplete 10 hours by not registering a skill until thest minute and continue gleaning more inspiration.]
[You will also automatically exit if you die.]
[Good luck and all the best.]
*Whistle…*
Erix whistled in amazement as he looked around and heard the voice exining to him about this skill-creation attempt realm.
*Roar!*
Erix turned around as a grin spread across his face upon seeing the iing Bone Wyvern with pristine-ck bones, shining with gray patterns.
"Let''s begin."
…
On the other hand, Rin arrived in a world of des. But this didn''t mean that everything was des here.
Instead, there were unique creatures here that made Rin dumbfounded.
Every creature, including the strange humanoid ones with a single eye, had one thing inmon.
de.
Every single thing here had a form of de in them, naturally, and biologically. de energy was abundant and everywhere, in everything, along with Prana, Spirit, and Soul.
"Damn..."
Rin''s horizons werepletely broadened as she observed this weird yet wonderful realm consisting of myriad types of des.
"So that''s how it is, huh…" Rin grinned as the monotone voice in her head stopped after wishing her good luck.
Without further ado, Rin flew towards a bunch of two-meter tall humanoids of rocky and metallic bodies with a single eye and swords instead of hands fighting each other.
Rin joined the fray with a flurry of her des, killing them as she started getting inspiration in the form of information regarding the way de powers these creatures wielded.
The duo began and intended to make full use of the skill-creation chances.
…
Earth, Phoenix City…
Isabe wore a ckbat robe with blue and gold patterns and held a scepter in her hand with a crystal orb attached on top of it, whirling with four colorful energy indicating Fire, Wind, Water, and Earth.
In the Unfettered Guild''s hall, she faced ten core members of guilds, her face tired and angry.
"What do we do, leader? T-They killed Taro-chan and her party," a middle-aged woman spoke while suppressing her sobs.
"The Heavenly Melody Guild''s members arrived and killed them, but something is wrong with those bastards. Why are they attacking without caring about their lives?" Alfred said with a deep frown on his face. "Their state of mind felt weird."
Alfred was a middle-aged man, one of the early members of the guild that Erix recruited along with Leon and Zoe, who were a father-daughter duo, and Alfred was their long-time butler.
"One more thing. Since six of our members were killed, ten people left today just before you arrived," Zoe said with clenched fists, clearly angry. "We helped and supported them, but when trouble came upon us, they ran with tails between their legs."
Zoe cursed under her breath, feeling angry because she particrly helped one of them, a girl of her age, and thought she had be friends, but she ran away without telling Zoe anything.
"More might leave if this continued," Leon sighed.
"I…I can''t me them," Isabe sighed and clenched her fists, "The Rowin Elf n finally agreed to help us in exchange for helping them gather resources in a secret realmter. They will be arriving here soon."
After saying that, Isabe took out ten pills and waved her hand, giving one to each one, "This pill will boost your Spirit stat permanently by 100 to 200. I got this from the Elf n, as creating this pill is their specialty."
Everyone was surprised.
"This pill can only work once, but this will boost our powers, and I want each of you in other parties of the guild because you are the strongest we have."
"Eat it now and sit in meditation to absorb the pill''s power properly," Isabe said. "Kenshin and Sameira also told me they woulde here after half an hour, so after you finish absorbing the pill''s power, call and gather every member in the central hall."
"Alright."
Everyone nodded.
Isabe looked at them and flew outside before entering the Tree mansion at the back of the guild''s territory. She entered one of the rooms on the top branch''s floor and saw Aaron in meditation.
Aaron, Isabe released a soft sigh, her faceced with worry.
''Rin, Erix…I hope you two can return soon.''
Isabe was recently feeling a bad omen gnawing at her.
Moreover, she recently heard of a few people returning from an Abyss, so she hoped Rin and Erix would also return soon.