"Phew, I managed to break through despite theziness," Arkhen muttered as he opened his eyes and smiled. "haha, I feel good doing something while my entire being was rejecting it."
[You managed to resistziness. Keep up this pace and resist all side effects as theye.]
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After Arkhen and his group broke through to 5th ring power, it was time to ascend to the 3rd realm!
Grace also finished her trials and reunited with Arkhen and others. She remembered the trial and was very happy to finally be able to stay with Arkhen again.
Since Grace went through the trial in the 2nd realm, she came out as a 4th ring powerhouse with two of her affinities reaching level 3, having proper physique, Endowment Star, and such.
She just needed to upgrade her innate physique to reach the 5th ring, and she did that in several days as resources were avable.
Aside from that, all leaders of Myriad Mayhem in 2nd realm were killed already, so Arkhenpleted the main quest here as well.
There was nothing left to do except for some visiting, which they did and then flew up to leave the realm.
Unlike in the 2nd realm, the requirement to ascend to the 3rd realm was simpler. One just needed to have reached the required power level to release an attack.
If that attack reached the required power level, the realm would create a door in front of that person to go to the 3rd realm.
As such, Arkhen and others reached the barrier in the sky.
The barrier looked misty, and nobody could pass it without meeting the requirement.
"The 3rd realm also has only one ascension spot. Let''s go," Arkhen said as he cracked his knuckles before pointing his palm at the barrier.
A dark red ball of me with a white border appeared.
Nightmare Blood me!
Arkhen condensed 10,000,000 energy in that ball of me, which he could normally do without creating an order.
Afterward, he empowered that ball of me with his buff skills and shot it forward.
Sierra created a half-ck and half-deep blue spinning spear. This was her new skill. Shebined two SSS rank skills she created with one Supreme rank skill.
Meya, Sasha, Luna, Isabe, Zoe, Evelyn, and Grace also used the most powerful skills that they created through the skill pavilion after Arkhen put them through tough training.
"We should start as well," Yosin said with a grin.
Yosin, Sherly, Tiffani, and Gerald also used their most powerful skills to attack.
When everyone was done preparing, they unleashed their skills at the same time, creating various sounds and explosions!
Various designed doors appeared afterward, one in front of each of them as they entered and sessfully ascended to the 3rd realm.
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The 3rd realm: Divinity of the Fallen.
Arkhen and others appeared on a floating ind.
The entire 3rd realm only had floating inds with various exotic climates.<novelnext></novelnext>
Among those many floating inds, five inds were the biggest! Each of them was the same size or more as those spheres in the 2nd realm.
"So many people of different races…." Grace muttered as she was amazed upon looking around.
She hadn''t gone anywhere afterpleting her trial and just stayed in the empire, so these realms above the Earth and universe were mystical to her.
"Darling, can my parents stay with us?" Meya said with puppy eyes.
Meya''s parents ascended to the 3rd realm before them.
"Yeah, it''s fine. We have a big castle and a small world for ourselves now," Arkhen said with a nod. "Contact them and get their location."
"Arkhen, we can progress fast in this realm as long as we focus on it. So, how about we join Cherry Blossom Mountain Sect here and organize how we move?" Sierra suggested.
"Sierra is right. We will need information, locations, and resources. Since we are not strongest here and we also have the trouble of Myriad Mayhem following us, we should join the sect," Isabe said.
"Then let''s grab Meya''s parents and go to the sect together," Sasha said as she looked at Arkhen, "Right?"
Luna, Meya, Zoe, and Evelyn were fine with whatever they decided.
"How about we first get a bit strong? I mean, the boon of 3rd realm is something we can activate anytime, which is the Guardian Spirit Manifestation. We also get absolute protection for five days, so let''s train without worrying about danger for five days," Yosin said.
"That''s given, Yosin," Sasha said with a nod.
The group traveled by flying on this gigantic floating ind.
They entered a vast forest and stopped at a small waterfall.
"This ce is good. There''s enough ground, water, food, and everything," Luna smilingly said with a nod.
"To eat and sleep, we can go inside Mystic Wondend. For training, we will do it here," Arkhen said.
"Divinity of Fallen. The name of this realm suits the method in which people get strong," Gerald said with a wry smile.
In the 3rd realm, there were divinity spirits. They were everywhere, and they were the resources used to get strong by both people and beasts.
People needed to defeat divinity spirits and absorb their divine core.
There were only two stages in the 3rd realm, but progression in power was still high.
First stage: Divinity umtion.
Second stage: Divinity Ascendence.
In the first stage, people need to absorb divine cores rted to their energy system and affinities, thereby gaining increased stats and EP.
In the second stage, one needs to create a divinity spirit of their own, and doing that would sessfully ascend them to the 4th realm.
Creating a divine spirit needs a lot of divinity umtion, which can only be gained by killing divinity spirits and absorbing their divine cores.
Moreover, one needs a medium to create their divinity spirits, which was only possible if one reached level 5 in any affinity because the medium was their affinity''s elemental power.
So, in the end, their elemental powers can take a beastly or humanoid, or mixed form, which will be their divinity spirit!