Chapter 55: Doppelganger (1/2)
Kadyn sat on his plush chair and looked at the contract that he had signed with a smirking face. ”Now three of them can't do anything to retaliate. On the contrary, they have to listen to my every demand. Most of all, the danger has gone, and I can go anywhere in the city without worry.”
Then he frowned. ”Barret said the people of Rirus Empire had been killed while traveling back and mother had vanished mysteriously without a trace. What does that mean? Did someone save her? Didn't father go after her? If he successfully rescued her somehow, then where are they now?”
Kadyn's brows creased and wrinkles formed on his temples as he pondered hard about the situation, but to no avail. In the end, he shook his head and put the contract away and stretched his arms and neck before standing up as he muttered with some expectations. ”Let's check out the Level 1 Meditation Room.”
Previously, he could not examine any place after the upgrade, as he was busy brewing potions for auction. But now, he had all the time to do whatever he wanted. However what depressed him was the price of 1 hour—it was 10 energy points.
He entered the room and could immediately tell how dense the mana was inside. It was over three to four times or even five times as compared to before, and he felt it just by standing at the corner of the room. He could already imagine how insane his meditating speed would become when meditating for real.
Kadyn looked around in astonishment. The formation had changed. Though he could still not tell the head or the tail of the formation, but this formation was giving a kind of golden hew that was mysterious.
After peering around, he sat at the center of the formation that was etched on the floor, eager to check out the efficiency of the Level 1 Meditation Room.
He activated his Chaos Elemental Formula with the help of Lightning Element. Immediately, a rush of mana poured into his body, gushing like a turbulent of a wind. Kadyn was surprised that an extensive amount of lightning element was rushing into his Elemental Pool.
Previously, when he meditated, there was only a tiny amount of elemental energy that would gather around him or he would absorb. Right now, he could ingest much faster and a larger quantity!
This was certainly due to the upgrade. After all, his mediation ground had already reached the level of Spell Casters—on the level of Elementary Mage, one would use star patterns to cast spells while the Spell Casters had no such thing like star patterns. They would control elemental power directly through spells that they could cast by using Spiritual Energy. They would not need something like stars that Elementary Level Magus used.
[One lightning star has been awakened: 8+1→ 9]
Not even ten minutes passed, and a star awakened. Purple lightning gathered on his body, whizzing and fizzing, but he didn't feel uncomfortable and continued to drive it into the Lightning Elemental Pool. Around fifteen minutes later, a final star also awakened. Kadyn beamed with joy, his heart was filled with ecstasy and exultation, but he didn't stop, and switched to another element.
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While Kadyn was immersed in Mediation, thousands of miles away from him in a dangerous wilderness, two shadows flashed, dashing through the woods in the murkiness of night—a man and a woman. However, a man was shouldering another woman on his back, who had a pale face and shriveled hair. She was coiling her hands around that man's neck to support herself.