Chapter 505: Unexpected Visitor (1/2)

”Hey, Raven!”

A voice called out to him as he was walking inside the base, he turned around and saw that its Jason. He stopped on his tracks and let him catch up. When he came close, he asked: ”What's up?”

”I'm planning on visiting the Fighting Arena, wanna come with me?” Jason asked.

To which, Raven raised a brow and said: ”You're on duty today right? Don't tell me you're slacking off? That's a bad example dude.”

Jason flinched. What Raven said was true, Jason was supposed to be monitoring the status of their teammates who went out today. Which is why Raven accused him of slacking off, this is their first rotation of duty. It wouldn't be a good example if he, as the elected leader, skipped his duty just because he wanted to watch some dudes fight it out.

”Ey, don't be like that. I've informed Pyra about it. She said that she alone should be enough for that - hey! Don't look at me like that! It's true! You can ask her right now! I'll even go with you.” Jason exasperatingly said, he even gestured at Raven, signaling that he's really willing to prove his innocence.

Raven could only sigh and say: ”What's taking them so long anyway?”

”Beats me.” Jason shrugged, ”When the Imp Overlord died during the eruption, many of its minions managed to escape. In a sense they should be able to find many of them lurking in the Devil's Cradle, but it seems that such isn't the case. If it was, then they should be returning by now.”

It has been five days since the first group went into patrol and they still hadn't returned.

Just like what Jason said, this situation seems a little bit strange since there should be a decent amount of Imps lurking around the Devil's Cradle. Unfortunately, they have no way to know what truly is happening within the place so they could only pin their hopes to their teammates that they will return safely.

”Anyway, there's no use on being so overly worried. Floyd is with them. If anything, he should be able to handle hordes of Imps on his own.” Jason waved his hand, showing a confident expression. ”So? You coming or not?”

”I can't.” Raven replied, ”I need to train somethings for my job. Search for another one.”

This was a blatant lie, but Jason doesn't need to know.

”Ah, the Cleanser thing!” Jason was enlightened, he then nodded and said: ”Alright, I guess I'll go with someone else. See you later.”

With that, Jason walked away and Raven continued on his way towards the official training rooms within the base.

Many things had happened since he exited his most recent seclusion...

First and foremost is the his control over his monstrous strength. If before, he was still wary of his actions and needed to constantly pay attention lest he unconsciously destroy whatever he's holding, now he didn't have to worry about it anymore.

With his arduous training, he attained utmost perfection in his strength control. He trained it to an instinctual level that he no longer needed to wear any strength suppressing seals. With his perfect control, his physical strength can go from 0 to 100 with a thought.

Sufficed to say that the skills which are directly tied with his physical strength are also trained to their current acme.

He didn't improve much when it comes to his laws due to a few reasons. His Destruction Laws were stuck in a bottleneck. He needed a spark of inspiration in order to gain knowledge about its second concept, and that is something that happens naturally - which means that even if he uses every mind enhancing supplements there is, unless it isn't fated to happen, it won't happen.

As for his Spacetime Laws, it received some small boosts and that's about it. He was able to extend the time by one whole day for both 'Historical Reading' and the effects of his 'Spacetime Domain'. The Spacetime Void also became a little easier for him to pry open, allowing him to fit his head but he didn't take the plunge just yet.

Another are which he improved upon was the seals - which were giving him the biggest headache instead of laws. [99 Destruction Seals], [99 Holy Seals], [Forbidden Scarlet Seal Art] - the reward he received from acing the second trial, and the [Ancestor Sealer's Rosary] - which was handed to him by Elder Gin in hopes of freeing the Heavenly Elk situated at the 89th floor of the Devil Emperor's Pagoda.

There way too many freaking seals for him to learn! So far, he only managed to decipher the first five seals of both the Destruction and Holy Seals, the others are too difficult to decipher. He hadn't even touched the Forbidden Scarlet Seal Art, and only deciphered the 1st Seal on the rosary - which is just as difficult as the first two sets of skills he needed to learn by the way…