Chapter 19 Chapter: 019 Calm before the storm (1/2)

The news about a Seven Town Meeting and a possible war against the Briles Kingdom had quickly spread like the wind all over the northern region. In addition, everyone living in the north was scared by this news.

This Seven Town Meeting or Northern Region Meeting was known as the gratest event possible in the Northern Region. Usually, it would only be done when there was an extremely important subject.

The last time a Meeting was held in the Northern Region was when the King reached the seven northern territories and decided their positions of power as well as the limits of their dominion. Giving the Cooper Town to the Branches, Miller and Reyes families.

In addition, it was due to this Division of the Seven Territories of the North Region, that they continued until the present days.

Cooper Town was one of the smallest territories in the entire region, but it was also one the richest, being located in an area with several veins of copper, silver and gold.

There was even rumors saying it have mana crystals underground.

Because of this, the head of the Branches family, Luke Branches, sent his second son, Henry Branches, who at that time was only fifteen years old, along with his attendant Michael and Several Elders Elders.

And now, the new king, Edmund Grayshine, had suddenly come for the meeting of the seven territories.

If even the king had to go to a meeting, everyone could imagine how serious the meeting is going to be.

The meeting was being held in Green Lake City, located in the center of the northern region. The previous northern meeting was also held in this city and therefore this city was the perfect place for this meeting.

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Within the Branches Castle.

After Elijah awoke from the cocoon, he was aready at the peak of the ninth level, but he gradually slowed his pace and Shadow said to focus on his foundation.

Athough he wanted to move quickly, no matter what, he would end up with a weak base. So, he should silently calm his mind and strengthen his base. Otherwise, it would be a problem for him when he tries to advance to a Higher Realm.

So while waiting for his father he decided to train in his void steps that even though he was in the third level, he discover it was not truly teleport, in truth the Void Level was about being invisible while moving and together with speed it made look like a teleport. But he still hadn't managed to properly control his speed and was working on it.

As for the super strength he had used earlier, after a few tests in the dark world he discovered it could only be used once for month.

The first time he used that spell it had a duration of only 10 seconds before he pass out.

But since his vitality had increased significantly inside the cocoon, Elijah could easily fight for 15 seconds and he no longer fainted after using it.

However, a great obstacle emerged when he attempted to endure for more than 15 seconds making he pass out again.

This phenomenon also intrigued Shadow. With his increased vitality, it should be easy for Elijah to withstand more than 20 seconds. Why did he keep fainting?

After thinking for a while and finding no answer, Elijah, who was confused, could only talk with shadow.

And they realized that it was a division between boundaries.

Although 15 seconds and 16 seconds differ only from 1 second, maybe it was a separation between two levels.

After he heard Shadow's teory, Elijah was enlightened. No wonder it was so difficult to endure more than 15 seconds. This was due to it actually representing the difference between two diferent levels.

After identifying the cause, Elijah could only wait before he reached the first realm before attempting again.

As Elijah relaxed, a dozen days or so passed by.

During this period, Elijah had split up his time into four parts. One part was for controling the Third level [Void Steps], another part for cultivating his Elemental Energy, another part for researching on the complex and mysterious Rune Spell he had gain from the Giant Gate and the last part was for talking with Shadow or visiting her.