69 When Dreams Are Born (1/2)

”..time reverted back by four seconds.” Said Alis with a casual tone.

Daniel couldn't help but feel a little surprised by Alis's words. What else could have bent the world's omnipresent law of time during the tournament but his system's passive ability 'Second Chance'? It would be too big of a coincidence to be believable.

Forcing a smile to appear on his face, Daniel said with a jubilant voice ”That's amazing!.. Maybe i'll find someone who can teach me time essence there.”

”Sure.. But be careful.. A single touch by any other cultivator, and you're screwed. Even after months, the news of a dual cultivator appearing hasn't reached us yet.. So I wouldn't expect a kind welcome if they were to discover your secret.” Said Heimart with a matter-of-fact tone.

”Don't worry about me. Why do you think I am studying spatial essence for?” Said Daniel with a confident tone. He then looked at Ligart and said ”Try to touch me.”

After a moment of confusion, Ligart approached Daniel and tried to put one of his hands on him. The very moment his hand was supposed to touch Daniel, the shape of space around him started to change.

His hand was only a few millimeters away from Daniel's body, and yet pushing his hand past those few millimeters seemed impossible.

To ligart, the feeling was that of moving his hand into empty space, but what was really happening was that Daniel had bent the very space that surrounded his body. No matter how one moved within the space he controlled, they could never move in the direction of Daniel's body.

It was like trying to catch a wet bar of soap with wet hands.

Unfortunately, this method was only useful for preventing people from accidentally touching him. On the other hand, it would be completely useless in case of a fight, or in case someone really tried to get a hold of him.. as he would need to overpower the other person's ki and spiritual essence within the bent space, in order to force them to submit to the space's bent laws.

If he wanted, he could prevent Alis and the rest from touching him ever again. The only person who could manage to do find a way around this layer of protection, would be the blond young man, as his ki was similar to Daniel's in both density and power.

After a few missed attempt, Ligart gave up and went back to help Heimart with moving the surprisingly heavy drawer.

Daniel left the room and went to check the only part of the castle he had blocked with the help of the formation.

That room was, of course, the Clear Mage's childhood bedroom. The reason he had blocked it was to prevent anyone from reading, copying or memorizing the cultivation path written clearly on the wall.

As for any other room, the walls and floor were covered in dried blood. The only difference between this room and the others, was the this room didn't have many furniture inside, and instead of bones of teenagers and young men and women, it had bones of dead children.

Since the moment Daniel had reset the formation, the bones had restarted their usual decay. The reason why the bones hadn't turned into dust yet was because, at least according to Daniel's assumption, the Clear Mage had sealed the castle and removed any natural element that could deteriorate the inside of the castle.

The reason for that, was probably to prevent the writings on the wall to be damaged by the elements like wind, humidity, and heat.

Now in full control of the castle, Daniel tried once again to set the wall on fire.

With a simple wave of his hand, a thin veil of orange flames expanded through the entire surface of the wall. Two minutes later, when the flame had finally extinguished, only a large patch of black could be seen covering the wall and leaving no trace of the cultivation method.

Daniel lifted the block on the room and left for his next stop. The renovated library.

After a few minutes of walking, Daniel found himself in a long corridor with three doors per side. All the doors on the left side were the entrances of the library of spiritual arts and magic tomes, while the rooms on the right side were the entrances to the library of martial arts and skills.

Daniel entered the library of spiritual arts and tomes, and inside it, he saw the new and elegant sets of bookcases that covered the walls of both floors, and the middle of the room's floor.

Between the two bookcases in the middle of the first floor, was a long table surrounded by comfortable chairs. A set of stairs brought to the second floor, where there was no floor. Only a meter and a half large corridor with a handrail to the side that circled the entire room.

Despite the small number of windows, the room was illuminated magically. It almost looked like the bright rays of the sun penetrated the walls and shone brightly on every corner of the library.

Daniel took a slow walk towards the semi-empty bookshelves, and only stopped after reaching the section marked as 'Handicraft'.

He remembered to have seen most of these books. They were mostly the books he and the rest had recovered from within the many spatial containers inside the castle. The others, had been bought by Alis and the others as essentials manuals that any decent library should have.

Amongst them, was the book which Daniel was looking for. On the cover, a clear writing spelled 'Differences and Creation of Essence Orbs and Spheres'

Daniel took the book and sat quietly in one of the many comfortable chairs around the library.

It didn't take long for Daniel to memorize the entire book and its three main concepts.

The first concept, was the difference between essence orb and essence spheres, of which Daniel was already aware of thanks to his encounter with both types of artifacts.

To put it simply, an essence orb was a simple container in which the manifestation of a specific essence, or mix of essences was stored. It could be used for demonstrative purposes along with the help of a specific formation.

Extremely different from it, were essence spheres. Essence spheres were created by condensing a large amount of essence and binding it to an essence treasure of the same property.

The method of creating these artifacts was what Daniel was really interested in.