Chapter 152: Aleron''s Law & Order (4), Frustration Fuelling Resolve
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After sending out memory crystals to all people rted to those 24 million criminals, Aleron separated them, keeping 3.3 million ck ones for Xorg transformation, and sending the rest who were red ones into Hell for another chance at life, depending on their nature.
When he was done with that, he finally shut his eyes in his bedroom and fell asleep soundly.
Rias had nothing more to do after that, so she also returned to the secret realm using the ring Aleron gave her.
Seeing him sleeping soundly on the bed, Rias kissed him.
"Get plenty of rest and sweet dreams," Rias softly giggled looking at Aleron''s sleeping face.
Afterward, she left with Roxen towards the Crystal Spires of Auroraville where others were training.
But when she arrived there, the atmosphere sensed was heavy and suffocating.
Everyone didn''t speak at all, and just purely focused on their training loop.
Kill crystal monsters.
Get their elemental crystals.
Use the elemental crystal to increase their elemental arcane sybus level.
So far, it required 4 to 5 elemental crystals of the same element to reach level 10 from level 9 in that element''s mastery.
Yueha was done reaching level 10 in Ice and Wind. She didn''t continue with elemental sybus training after that but focused on awakening her Concept, wanting to be Ascension-rank as soon as possible.
Mei reached level 10 in Darkness and Fire before she began training for the Concept of her Symbios Gear like Yueha.
Enorin also did the same after reaching level 10 in the Light and Lightning attribute.
Darzax and Hua were recovering as they almost died.
Fang, Riki, Ruan, Lee, Ying, Liang, and Jiang were using Elemental crystals in cross-legged positions at various spots in the forest near each other when Rias and Roxen arrived there.
The atmosphere oozed out depression, so the duo didn''t speak or converse with others to disturb them.
The duo sat down under a random crystal tree, ready to use the resources they brought from the Empire-most notably, the Soul Break pills.
''I wonder what happened to them?'' Roxen silently asked Rias. ''Didn''t young master Aleron win and things developed in his favor?''
Rias wryly smiled as she could understand what was happening based on the nature she had observed in Aleron''s subordinates so far.
''They are dissatisfied and angry at themselves for not being able to help Aleron much...but this feels familiar,'' Rias looked at the moment she asked Aleron to let her help.
''You just want to help the person you love and be worthy of him, especially when that person is someone like Aleron,'' Rias sighed and took out the pills.
Handing a bunch to Roxen, Rias popped the pills in her mouth one by one and entered meditation.
''Let''s get stronger.''
Both of them were at the early stage of Exceed-rank due to having broken through recently, and now they bought Exceed-rank pills from Longinus Empire''s treasury to increase their stats.
These pills were stashed away and stored for years whenever they acquired Exceed-rank resources and crafted them into pills. In the royal family, only worthy ones would get the pills to fasten their growth in Exceed-rank.
Rias bought a set for herself and Roxen both, effectively draining the Empire''s most valuable treasures.
Naturally, the Empire had no problem with that and that was purely because of Rias''s ties with Aleron and theing new world that Aleron had promised while Rias had assured them of that.
An hourter, Fang, Riki, Ruan, and the rest of them opened their eyes, their Elemental crystals turning to dust and scattering away from their hands.
As if coordinated, they vanished and went deeper into the crystal forest, where thergest and most strange area of the forest was located.
It had a strange glowing crystal tree that was 100 meters in height, taller than any other tree, and it created a mushroom-like shade from above, covering a 500-meter radius of area.
The group had cleared all the crystal monsters outside of this area and were approaching the final ce of this secret realm.
They formed their soulwork, so they talked with each other with it for fastmunication.
[Liang: We are entering the finalyer of this forest. The auras I sense consist of the peak of Primeval rank as we expected.]
[Fang: How many?]
[Liang: Scanning. The area is big and it goes under the ground at the end where thergest number of crystal monsters seems to be present.]
[Ruan: I''ll go and enter first to set up some chaos.]
Ruan said as she adorned her Symbios Gear''s first gear form, a beautiful dark pink and violet colored frock with a crystalized design.
Her Symbios Gear was Violet Mirage, an apt one for her as Ruan was an illusionist specialist, and so was this Symbios Gear''s attribute and trait.
[Violet Mirage] - Symbios Gear
Level: 1
_Attributes: Shadow, Illusion, Violet Enigma.
Gear Forms:
-1. Violet Mirage Set: Armor and Illusionist''s de.
-2. Violet Phantasm String.
Symbios Perks:
->50% +100,000 Physical stats.
->50% +100,000 Magic stats.
->50% +100,000 Intelligence stats.
Symbios Trait:
-> Violet Enigma: You must navigate the risk of losing touch with reality or bing
ensnared in your own tricks, but if you may resist and seed, you may harness the power of shadows and illusions in entric ways byprehending Violet Enigma, allowing for
masterful deception,
Nobody intended to stop Ruan as they knew she could roam around undetected while deceiving crystal monsters with her mirage clones to stay unharmed.
[Liang: Take this buff before going, Ruan.]
Liang''s guqin rang silently, only to be perceived by one''s soul as her Symbios Gear''s anomaly attribute activated as she used her Gear''s skill-Symphony Boost, affecting Ruan''s soul and mind to produce new effects from her soul path power, granting her two buffs.
These two buffs were invoked by Ruan herself, so they were suitable and rted to her own powers-this was the power of Liang''s Symbios Gear.