43 The first battle 3 (2/2)
Compared to the mirage in the North Pole this felt very different. That hadn't seemed like a mirage to him at all. Something felt very weird about this news story.
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ZHONGSHAN PARK
200ft in the air, huge pillars of light swirled around Chàng Bo and Mao Lu who sat behind him, creating a thick wall.
The vines extending from the huge creature constantly slammed at this wall of light but they couldn't penetrate it.
Chàng Bo gasped, and tried to regain his breath. He was feeling tired now. For several minutes he'd been constantly defending and attacking against this creature.
Each time he used flashier moves which required greater essence, yet no matter how many dents and huge chunks of the creature he incinerated, it still wouldn't die.
In the end Chàng Bo, in an attempt to conserve his energy, had created a wall made of Celestial light to surround both Mao Lu and himself.
Yet each time the vines of the creature slammed against his wall of light, Chàng Bo felt like it was sucking away the star essence that created the wall, and each attack it made became stronger.
This wall wouldn't last long.
\”What the hell is this thing?\” he thought as he opened up the Sovereign system.
Name: Chàng Bo
Title: Celestial Apprentice
Age: 100
Stage: The Dao
Skills:
Supernova lvl 60/100
Starlight lvl 30/100
Celestial dance 60/100
Angel flight 80/100
Heaven's Grace 22/100
Fate points: 200/10, 000 [Warning! Low points] [+190]
Health: 95/100 [-5]
Strength: 400/1000 [-600]
His strength had decreased by 600, shit, he'd used up too much internal essence.
There is internal essence and external essence. The external essence is what makes up everything, and is inside of everything, the internal essence is specifically what is inside of you.
For example Mao Lu has his own time essences that are within his body which contain his memories and his Time, but there are also time essences that exist outside of him.
Life essences, the ones on the body, are internal essences. Their size and colour represents your lifespan and health.
Chàng Bo has his own internal Celestial/star essences.
When a practitioner trains, their internal essence becomes stronger and more pure and their ability to control external essence also greatly improves.
As Chàng Bo trains on the Celestial path, the star/Celestial essence within him grows.
To cast a spell, enchant an item, use a technique or a martial ability then one has to use their internal essence. Another name for Internal essence is Qi.
On Chàng Bo's Sovereign system his Internal essence was labelled as strength. When he didn't use any internal essence his strength stat was at 1,000.
If a regular mortal had a strength stat of 1, then Chàng Bo had 1,000 times the amount of internal essence compared to a regular mortal. And the amount of his internal essence would only increase as he progressed in stages.
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Chàng Bo quickly ate a qi pill. It was a medium grade pill that could replenish internal essence. Chàng Bo only had five on him, and due to obvious reasons he hadn't had the chance to get more.
His strength stat went up from 400 to 510.
He only had five qi pills left now. Each pill would only give him around 100 points of internal essence. If this fight continued, and he had to keep consuming using such essence pills, then he would eventually run out of internal essence and be greatly weakened.
Making him basically helpless prey for that monster.
\”I need to do something that will drastically change this battle. Damn it I need to think!\”
He went to the library on the system. Going to the library spent 5 fate points, but luckily Chàng Bo had more fate points now. Thanks to this battle it seemed that he'd inadvertently changed a lot of fates. His fate points were increasing by the minute.
He went to the Encyclopedia. He clicked on it and a text appeared in front of him.
\”WHAT DO YOU WISH TO KNOW?\”
\”Tell me what the hell that creature is and what it's weaknesses are.\” Chàng Bo mentally told the system.
The Encyclopedia buzzed a little and then an image of the creature below appeared in front of him. It was titled, \”Low Tier Irregularity.\”
\”This is a Low Tier Irregularity. It is created by a disturbance in the Realm. The Creatures sole purpose is to consume everything it comes into contact with. It eats everything.
If allowed to grow it will eventually consume this planet and spread to consuming this entire Realm.
Its weaknesses:
Currently it is only at a low tier and can be affected by high level attacks that use a large concentration of essence.
It has low intelligence and can be easily fooled.
Currently it's appearance is unstable, it is only copying what it has consumed. It ate the park and is currently pretending to be the park.
ERROR!!! MORE INFORMATION ON SUBJECT \”IRREGULARITY\” IS OUT OF YOUR JURISDICTION. YOU DO NOT HAVE CLEARANCE TO VIEW THE REST OF THIS INFORMATION.\”
The System told him. Chàng Bo's eyes squinted in suspicion. A creature that could consume planets and possibly devour an entire Realm. How comes he'd never heard of such a thing before?
Something so powerful and dangerous should be well known. The fact that this was a secret was a huge conspiracy in itself.
Why was this information being hidden? Were the Gatekeepers keeping it secret? For what reason?
Chàng Bo's head raced with all kinds of questions but when he felt another vine striking his light wall, and this time with much greater strength compared to before, he realised he didn't have time to be thinking about this.
He needed to fight this thing and somehow defeat it now. Or at least make enough time for Mao Lu to do what he needed to do.