On the ind''s center, Erix was covered in a ck cocoon with dark gold patterns, looking regal yet wild, giving a sense of doom yet vigor of a sun.


    The bloodline blooming within him was at the extreme ends of both duality.


    Life and Death. It was his evolution, biologically, granted by natural coincidence and one of the better possibilities of the cosmos that Erix grasped at the beginning.


    While Lilith controlled the ind and escaped to the north of Core Domain, the ind suddenly shook after a minute and started booming with greenery.


    "Finally," Rin smacked her lips. "This ind was pure white, with those strange arrays and patterns all over. It didn''t look like what we heard, but now it''s showing."


    "This is nothing," Lily chuckled. "Just wait a bit more. Since Erix is awakening here, the ind will also produce some phenomenon rted to his bloodline."


    Not a second after she finished speaking, the ground below with Erix as the center suddenly turned pitch ck in a circr area of a hundred meters.


    Lilith, Rin, Aria, Lily, and Amu sensed something brewing in the atmosphere and beneath as they flew away at the same time.


    After a second, the pitch-ck area suddenly produced strange dark gold and purple grass, glowing.


    At the center grew a sapling that rapidly matured into a unique, majestic tree.


    It was a ck tree with dark gold patterns on its branches and trunk, and dark purple leaves vibrant with life power.


    The tree grew a hundred meters tall with thick and robust branches. The surrounding of the tree was filled with faintly glowing ck-gold and purple short grass. Due to their gentle glows, they looked mellow and oozed out the pure power of life and death.


    But this was just the beginning.


    Aside from this central area, the rest of the ind was also transforming in exotic ways.


    "It''s producing things rted to Erix, sort of making it a special habitat for his powers," Lilith said as she noticed the whole ind producing an exotic metal climatebined with nature.


    The trees, nts, flowers, hills, mountains, rivers, and everything that started producing was not normal but made of elements that Erix possessed.


    The most prominent was Metal since everything had a tint and faint traces of metal power, making everything look shiny and metallic.


    And because Erix had acquired a unique Devorex Metal concept, his path on the Metal was drastically different than others.


    After all, his Devorex Metal could devour metals and create new metals by evolving them after exotic fusion.


    This Devorex Metal conceptbined with the natural progression of Metal affinity in the 4th realm, the Metal Elemental World, caused a situation where Erix could perpetually produce exotic types of new metals that wouldn''t exist normally.


    The Blessed Ind was influenced by it, giving a metallic aspect to everything while giving them their uniqueness.


    Some shining metallic flowers were likeva, some were frosty metallic, some mysterious tree was also space confound, making them glow silvery metallic, while some were deathly metallic, giving a sense of doom with beauty.


    "It''s been a long time since an event with a Blessed Ind reward appeared, and we got it," Lilith said as her eyes shone, just as thrilled as others.


    However, Lilith''s eyes soon turned cold as she said, "But we won''t be able to digest this reward easily. Blessed Ind always incurred bloodbath whenever it appeared, and I''m sure people wille for it."


    "All of them will want to kill Erix to make the ind ownerless and acquire it, but we can''t let them happen."


    "How long will it take for Erix to finish his Bloodline awakening?" Rin asked.


    Lilith turned to the majestic tree and Erix, who had turned into a cocoon on its central branch before saying, "I can''t say for sure."


    "The ind is also helping him while getting transformed with Erix''s influence and expanding its power, so it might not even take long," Lilith said after thinking for a second.


    "Let''s see the ind''s details. I''m sharing it," Lilith smiled.


    [Blessed Ind: ]


    _Evolution Rank: Spiritual Magic Land.


    _Features:


    —> Mind Drive, Pirs, Topography, Barrier-Pool.


    _Functions:


    —> Recovery Aura, Growth.


    _Upgrade:


    —> Unknown conditions.


    [Features]


    -> Mind Drive: Control the ind''s movement through the mind. The owner can assign Mind Drive to another one.


    -> Pirs: You can assign people you trust as Pirs of the ind, giving them benefits of the [Functions] and ess to [Features]. Pir slots: 10 (5 filled).


    -> Topography: You can freely arrange the topography of the ind to modify climate and biomes ording to the avability in Topowiki. Topowiki produces biomes and climates ording to the owner and Pir''s powers, and things that grow via the Growth function.


    -> Barrier-Pool: You can consume naturally stored energy in the Barrier-Pool generated ording to the exotic powers present in the ecosystem of the ind to create a barrier surrounding the ind. Barrier-Pool: 37 energy.


    [Functions]


    -> Recovery Aura: Increase the recovery of Mana, Stamina, Prana, Spirit force, and Soul energy by 200% within the Ind''s territory. Only Pirs can benefit from this function.


    -> Growth: The Blessed Ind can grow and nurture exotic things. Put anything you want to grow in its Growth List. Growth List: [0/1]


    After everyone read the functions and features, they were dumbfounded.


    "And this is just the first evolution rank of Blessed Ind," Lilith muttered. "No wonder everyone is hungry for these Blessed Inds."


    "Since these Blessed Inds are a specialty of Mystic Root, people from other parts of the Grand Primal Cosmos specificallye to central areas influenced by Mystic Root to acquire them," Maleina said. "I''ve heard this since there''s someone in my world who has a Blessed Ind and he roams around the universe on it."


    "But some powerful people arrived and killed him before taking away the Blessed Ind."


    "…." Rin was speechless and asked, "What could his Blessed Ind do?"


    "I''ve entered it once, and it had a barrier around it. It looked smaller than this ind from the outside, but when I passed through the barrier, I couldn''t even see the ind''s ends. It was very big."


    Maleina thoughtfully said, "I think new Features and Functions will unlock once we upgrade the ind, but the conditions are unknown."


    Shaking her head, she added, "I don''t know about the conditions. I was a young student when I entered that blessed ind and wasn''t in a position to ask anything."


    Lilith smiled as she looked at Erix in the cocoon and said, "The upgrade conditions are unknown because they haven''t formed yet. The conditions would appear ording to the owner''s progress."


    "Eh, I can feel something familiar…" Aria suddenly said and closed her eyes.


    "It''s Animus element!" Amu''s eyes glowed, and the slime vanished from its spot.


    After a second, everyone turned to the same south direction and saw Amu riding a dreamy blue deer with ck spots anding towards them.


    "That''s a newborn soul pulse and the birth of the first native…thanks to Aria''s Animus element," Lilith raised her eyebrows. "It looks like our powers started influencing the ind''s transformation as well."


    Tenebria appeared among the group like a ghost again and said, "Eat the pills and start absorbing their power."


    "Erix can eat his pill after he is finished awakening," Tenebria took out one more pill and gave it to Lilith. "Now, the four of you at Royal-order can have maximum fundamental stats."


    Lilith stored Erix''s pill while Lily, Rin, Aria, and Maleina ate the pills and sat down cross-legged near the central majestic tree.


    The ind was moving at the speed of 300 kilometers per hour, which was its maximum speed. But it was already fast considering that the ind''s size was massive five kilometers in diameter.


    As the ind traveled high in the sky, one could its exotic colorful hues produced from it thanks to its transformation that manifested exotdscapes, biomes, and atmosphere.


    After two hours of traveling, Rin and the others finished absorbing the pills, infusing them with overflowing power.


    "Adjust to your new peak parameters. The ind will absorb your energy''s residual since you are pirs and use it to recover the damage it inflicts even if you cause destruction here," Tenebria said.


    "Cool," Rin grinned and shed forward, releasing a hundred meters vertical-long sh.


    "We progressed so fast…" Aria spoke and moved her feet but she identally crashed into a tree.


    After all, her physical and magical stats reached 5000 from barely above 1000!


    Moreover, the percentage boosts derived from her Bloodline also increased her stats crazily.


    Rin, Lily, and Aria started sparring and using their skills to get used to their sudden boost in stats.


    Maleina went to scout the ind since many exotic nts were slowly growing.


    ''These can be used for alchemy, but I''ll need to experiment…''


    Lilith and Tenebria sat under the tree as they talked about the things and state of the central region since Tenebria had her eyes and a way to get information.


    Suddenly, Tenebria and Lilith looked up in the sky.


    "It seems that the wait time is over," Tenebria wryly smiled. "They''ve found us and we can''t escape anymore."


    Although the ind was still traveling, there was a huge single-eye phenomenon above it, traveling at the same speed as the ind.


    "It''s the Divine Sight Myspiona," Lilith raised her eyebrows. "They got her aid to find us?"


    "It was bound to happen. When the top forces want to find someone, there are many ways and powerhouses here capable of doing that," Tenebria smiled. "But we have Abyss Rule on our side."


    "Utilize it well and show this Abyss that they can''t do anything to us."


    The enemies wereing and Ind''s speed was not fast enough to escape from them.


    After all, there were enough Empyrean-order hunters capable of bringing other hunters along.


    "If they underestimate us, it''s better," Lilith smiled.


    Suddenly, the ind slightly shook again while the tree above Lilith and Tenebria slightly pulsed.


    "Perfect. Erix seems to be at the finishing point."