Chapter 18 - How Could That Be? (2/2)

After that, he started to model the surface, first he created the atmosphere since it is necessary to hold the air, regulate the seasons and stop things like the ocean to evaporate to the universe, after that came the seas, almost all life came from water, so the seas and oceans came second, terrestrial life forms need land to walk, so the continents came after, to give birth to life, energy is necessary, usually it would be provided by the sun, but Krune didn't have one, so he used his rainbow like spiritual energy that he had thought before to nurture the seas and lands, and for that rainbow like spiritual energy alone, he spent almost 1000 spirit stones, after all, his enclosed universe was much bigger than something like the island in the lake foundation.

Then came the life forms, forests, animals, so on and so forth, this planet modeling would take a very long time, but Krune didn't care, he paid attention to every detail, and revised them several times, time isn't a problem, Krune had just recently become 4 years old, he is still a young wisp.

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It had already been three months since the start of the planet modeling process, by now Krune had already finished his little planet, he spent the last two weeks revising it though, making corrections here and there, time seemed to have no meaning for Krune anymore, all that matters is his foundation, and today, Krune finally arrived to the conclusion that he can't do anything further to his little planet.

'I revised it hundreds of times, I can't find anything else to fix, at most I would just change somethings places, but that wouldn't be because they are wrong, but just because they would look better in the eyes, but I wont do that, a planet isn't something born to look good, it is a balance, as long as the key points are there, the planet itself wouldn't care about how it looks like. If I do that, my planet might even be rejected by the heavens, one must remember that even heavens isn't perfect, let alone a planet, my chances will be better if I keep it as close as possible of the real thing.'

'Now then, its time to created a home for my soul and my future golden core.'

Krune had heard from Ruik that when you breakthrough the Core Formation stage, your core will be golden like, but Ruik only heard about that himself too, so he isn't privy about the details.

'Also, my soul feels like it had been vagrant all around inside my core, this feeling of not being attached really makes me feel uncomfortable, I hope everything goes as planned, I planned to build the planet core to be compatible to what my soul had before my breaking through process, but I will only know if it was a good idea after I finish it.'

In fact, the core of the planet would be quite easy to finish since it was going to more or less be a copy of what his core was before, the only difference is that at the very center is the place where his future golden core will be nurtured, his soul will live together with his future golden core, Krune doesn't know if this is a good idea or not, but he decided that it is worth a try.

'From what I heard from Ruik, I must leave the place where my future golden core will be nurtured completely empty, it must have no obstacles and enough space.'

Another ten days later, Krune had finally finished everything, before finishing his foundation creation, he decided that he better attach his soul back to the core first, that's because he is afraid that he might be thrown out when he finishes his breakthrough, his foundation might consider as if he wasn't supposed to be there, different from other races, his soul must be part of the foundation itself, he has no other choice.

'Alright, everything is done, now I just need to complete the process and wait for the heavens to check my foundation, I've been here for three and a half months, Ruik said that the time spent to finish the foundation creation doesn't matter, but he also have never heard about anyone taking more than a month to finish it, let alone more than tree.'

What determines whether the foundation modeling is over or not is the flow of spiritual energy, that's also why Krune gathered so much spirit stones, if the flow of spiritual energy is interrupted before finalizing the modeling, the process will be considered a failure, so he had to be sure to have enough spirit stones available, it was the same for everyone as well. At the same time, you need to stop the flow of spiritual energy by yourself after finishing the modeling, by doing so, the new foundation will try to gather spiritual energy by itself from heaven and earth and the process will be finished.

The moment that the new foundation tried to gather the spiritual energy from the outside world, is the moment that the heavens feel it's existence, it will then check if it's in according to it's rules.

By now, during those three months of creation, Krune had already used almost all of his spirit stones, no more than a hundred were left, fortunately, he didn't damage his spiritual vein lake, after staying so long in this place he couldn't help but feel a little attachment, it might be a low grade spiritual vein, but it had helped him and his companions plenty. Krune calmed his thoughts and made up his mind.

'Alright, this is the moment, it all depends on whether the heavens like it or not.'

Krune cut the flow of spiritual energy and waited, not long after, his foundation seemed to come to life, is started to absorb the spiritual energy from heaven and earth through his Spiritual Energy Meridians, Krune was also able to confirm one of his guesses from the past, before, he couldn't use all his three Spiritual Energy Meridians at full power, he always thought that it was because his core was too weak, turns out that he was right, as soon as the foundation started to absorb the spiritual energy, his Spiritual Energy Meridians started to work at full power, all three of them, Krune was relived with that.

But he didn't have time to check, that's because soon, he felt as if the world around him disappeared, it was like there was only him left in the entire world, and then a comfortable sensation assaulted his soul, it was like all the laws of the world were at his grasp, he understood what was happening, the heavens had descended to check on his foundation, he could feel that every part of his core was being run by some kind of energy, it was a very magical feeling.

It didn't last long though, no more than a minute, in fact, Krune's check up by the heavens already lasted much longer than it would for someone else, it's the prove that his foundation is much more complicated compared to any other ordinary one, of course, Krune didn't know that.

After that, the energy simply disappeared as if it had never been there, Krune checked his core foundation and it didn't feel like it was going to break apart anytime soon, not only that, it was fortifying as the seconds passed by.

'Does it mean that I succeed?'

Krune was just about to celebrate when suddenly, he noticed something wrong.

'Wait! Where is the my future golden core?'

Once you enter the Foundation Establishment, your foundation will create a core which will be nurtured until you are ready to enter the Core Formation realm, it isn't a real core though, it's more like a pseudo core, but in his case, the core was no where to be seen.

He didn't have time to think for long though, that's because he could feel a lot of spiritual energy congregating above him, Krune is inside of the cave room, he couldn't see what was happening outside, but it felt like the entire world itself was angry at him.

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In the middle of the cave, but outside the spiritual vein lake room, Ruik was sleeping when suddenly, he felt the spiritual energy of the world starting to gather above the mountain range, he immediately rushed outside to see what was happening, when he looked up to the sky, his heart almost stopped, he knows what it is because he had seen it happening before from distance.

”How could that be?”

The more he looked at it, the more frightened he felt.

”Heavenly... Tribulation!”