31 Exploring 1 (1/2)
What was weird and surprising was that [Instant Regeneration (no limit)] and [Lifeblood] merged and was elevated into Divine rank, making it into 2 Divine spells. At the same time, the two advanced spells disappeared, giving him five slots filled out of 10.
It was the name and description of the two spells that kind of confused and worried him.
[Ordered Life Regeneration (no limit)]: Life essence will never decrease or increase, nor be affected by elements and magic spells that exist within the ordered system. The body cannot be separated from the Life essence as a result. This is activated automatically at the presence of ordered system elements/magic spells. This spell can be used to other living and non-living beings, which only heals them.
[Chaotic Life Evolution (no limit)]: Any form of injury or damage in and on the body will be reverted to normal. The life essence of the caster will never decrease or increase, nor be affected by elements and magic spells that exist outside the ordered system. The body and life essence cannot be combined as a result. Activated automatically upon the presence of non-ordered system magic spells/elements. The spell can be used to other living and non-living beings, which can cause them to mutate and evolve.
Aren't these two spells conflicting? Xander thought for a moment, then realized one thing: One suppresses the negative effects of the other spell, but both support each others' positive traits.
Both focus on the life essence doll, while the latter protects the body from harm.
The spells can heal, and at the same time, be used to cause beings to evolve or mutate.
With the formation of these two new spells, he decided to remove two pseudo-spells, namely [Body Control] and [Blood Manipulation] and then created 2 Advanced spells he had gleaned from the red sphere during its activation: [Ethereal Sunrise] and [Frenzied Sunset], a pair of spells for Order and Chaos elements.
[Ethereal Sunrise]: Invokes the power of order to be strengthened in the target or area, causing improved elemental circulation, cultivation, and magic spell power up to 10 times the original effect. Elements have a stronger representation of the rules of the ordered system in the area or in the target. Can only be used before noon.
[Frenzied Sunset]: Invokes the power of chaos to be strengthened in the target, or area, causing higher rates of randomness, and makes the Elements' representation of rules of the ordered system weaker, or even swap in the area or in the target. It can only be used after noon.
Because of the unique properties of these two spells, they have a special function. When the spells are cast at the same time, a Sage rank spell: [Twilight Sonata], activates.
[Twilight Sonata]: Returns everything to their very origin, removing both chaos and order in the area, reducing everything into nothing, forming a seed of creation and a seed of destruction. The number of seeds produced depends on numerous factors.
This combined spell, however, cannot be used by Xander now, given that his comprehension for the Order and Chaos elements was not on the required level. On the other hand, his space-time comprehension was the one that benefited the most.
With 10%, space appears as a series of points and matrices that are interconnected, no matter how far you are from one point to another. With his current strength, Xander could travel 1/4 of the universe's distance within seconds and reach the end of it in less than a minute, with no traceable spatial and elemental fluctuations. He looked at humans walking outside the hotel and he could see lines that form their bodies, their being. He could even damage it or destroy it completely. He noticed that different people of different cultivations had differing line structures, some more complex, some more simple, some were thicker.
At the same time, his capability to break spaces increased to a new level; he could easily escape chaotic spaces with a single thought, as well as break the space apart to force the ordered system to reset the space in the area. So, if he was sealed in a stable space, or traveled in a chaotic space region, he could break it and elicit a reaction from the ordered system to repair the space back to its original state, before the sealing or chaos ever existed. Breaking layered spaces were the same as well; even if they were infused by other elements, as long as they aren't the origin elements, they could easily be broken down simultaneously by Xander.
All the capabilities of his space-based spells also increased qualitatively. [Space Crush] can now cover a maximum area of a lightyear, with the speed it activates being less than a second. His other God rank spell, [Absolute Space], became activated, with the (sealed) turning into (sealed, 10% unlocked) state. He could finally read the description of the spell.
[Absolute Space (sealed, 10% unlocked)]: Space becomes a multi-dimensional drawing for you. Everything is formed by points, lines, and shapes, the very foundation of space, and it is easy for you to manipulate these points, lines, and shapes. Multi-dimensional traveling is quite an easy task, and creating a fledgling dimension would be no problem. One can also create spatial holes out of the ordered system and into the Great Void, and sneaking into other ordered systems is also possible. The limitations of your control over space are the limitations of your imagination and knowledge.
Now, with 10% comprehension of Time, besides the viewing of the past and future elongating to from 10,000 to 100,000 years, to 100,000 to 10,000,000 years. He could also influence the river of time of the ordered system at a certain extent, meaning he could summon it and manipulate the changes by forcibly removing or adding something to the river, undetectable to anyone, within the period of 1 - 10,000,000 years into the future and back in the past. Weirdly, he could change his vision of the universe to actually detect 'pockets of time,' natural and artificial areas in which time moves differently from the entire universe, whether it may be slower, faster, or not moving at all.
Not only that, but he could also now influence the time clones of other beings; meaning, he could summon their alternate timeline bodies and abilities, and replace the current person in battle, before defeating them. So if he fights a Demigod magician, he would just need to delay for a few seconds to search for a time clone that is a mundane or mortal, replace his current state with that time clone, and then kill him while the time clone is in effect.
The spell [Absolute Time] and [Temporal replication] also improved in quality; the latter being able to do it without direct contact and doing it in an area with a maximum size of a lightyear. He could create another Eteria planet appear in the starry sky, or even replicate the moon, or even the stars! The biggest improvement was [Absolute Time], where an additional line appeared at the end of the description.
[Absolute Time (sealed, 10% unlocked)]: Nothing can go against the flow of time; this can affect non-living and living beings, targeting their characteristics, ranging from, but not limited to:
Intrinsic characteristics (molecular and quantum structures, temperature, sharpness, clarity, thickness, roughness, concentration, spatial arrangement, etc.)
Biological functions (Age, memories, digestion, regeneration, cell division, tissue and organ formation, etc.) and
Extraneous functions (such as magic cultivation, ability to do magic, affinity towards the elements, etc.), causing them to reverse, slow, stop, or accelerate permanently, as long as their comprehension of the time element is lower than the caster.
Xander pondered for a moment before realizing what the change meant. If earlier, he could reverse, slow, stop, or accelerate time, but only for a certain period of time in the ordered system, and it varied depending on how different the time was of the area to that of the rest of the universe, now he could cause beings to be permanently affected by time acceleration, reversal, slow, or stop as long as their comprehension is lower than his, as well as their cultivation level is not too high.
Last but not the least, the combined understanding of space-time elements brought a breakthrough. Not only was the fusion of space-time spells a lot more stable compared to that of 2% comprehension, but reaching 10% allowed him to create larger pocket dimensions where time flows differently, becoming partially independent of the ordered system it is in, with its own set of rules and elements existing in it. It's basically a spatial dimension, but it allows life to survive inside, and time flows differently, and not in a static state. He could convert his garden into a pocket dimension that is locked away from anyone's prying eyes and hands, with only him and those he gave permission being able to enter and leave.
Because of this partial fusion, all his space spells had a trace of the time element in them and vice versa. He could now target anyone with a distance of 1 lightyear with his time spells, so he doesn't have to be in physical contact. The problem however is that it generates a karmic thread that connects it Xander's life essence doll to the target if the target is not dead, so unless he uses this feature to kill rather than to torture or play around, others can use this opportunity to locate and bother Xander. Similarly, the space spells would also have a trace of time, meaning he could accelerate the process of the spell or even slow it down, or reverse it, or stop it.
The space-time reversal whenever he gets critically injured to the point of dying also improved. If earlier, it returns 2 minutes before the scenario happens, it is now able to turn back up to a total of 180 days, or half a year, giving enough time for Xander to change and create plans to avoid the situation from happening. The radius of space-time reversal occurs within 1/4 of the universe's total size, with the location he is in being the epicenter. All is reversed in this period: Biological, intrinsic, extrinsic processes, including life and death. Anyone who has a space-time comprehension lower than his are not exempted.
Lastly, the formation of the last God spell, [Origin Universe] appeared. when he checked the description, he was not disappointed.
[Origin Universe (sealed, 2% unlocked)]: Combining all origin elements except the Void element, one can create a small, stable, and independent ordered system in the Great Void for an indefinite amount of time. It cannot grow from its defined size. It is only the size of a lightyear.