Chapter 1006: The Power Between Life and Death (2/2)
After briefing Han Hao on the conversation, he said, ”I'm worried that your Quintessence will lose control once you use its energy up, so it's best you start gathering the power of faith now.”
According to Nestor and the rest, there were many other rituals that had to be conducted for the Quintessence, including cleansing it in the sea of faith. While Han Hao might not need it back when it was just a shard, his Quintessence would annihilate his soul and seek a new master once it ran out of faith to draw from.
Han Shuo had immediately set out after hearing about it so that he could explain it to Han Hao. Even though Han Hao wasn't at the Fringe, he would send Han Shuo a message from time to time about his whereabouts. Even so, Han Shuo chose to contact him in person to make sure his words wouldn't be intercepted by anybody else.
”Father, I don't really think that applies to my situation,” Han Hao said after a long pause of thought.
”Doesn't apply? How so?”
”My Quintessence is formed from the death Quintessence Shard and my own demonic arts. Now that the shard is gone, I still don't feel any need for power of faith. Not only that, the Quintessence is still infusing energy into my body and soul. I feel like I'm growing stronger and stronger as time passes.”
”What?” Han Shuo gave Han Hao a good look. After a good moment, he said, ”Then I really have no idea what's going on. This is weird. Don't tell me that your Quintessence is different from the others' and doesn't require faith?”
”I'm not sure myself. I don't feel any pull or obligation from it. Instead, it seems to be helping to strengthen me even further. Even if I encountered Nestor now, he wouldn't be able to kill me even if I can't defeat him yet.”
Han Shuo was still a little at loss after hearing it, but he knew Han Hao wouldn't lie to him. Han Hao was confident enough to face off against Nestor now and survive, yet Han Shuo couldn't even deal with Amon. Was Han Hao stronger than him now?
”Show me how powerful you are,” he finally said with a smile. Turning to Donna, he gently said, ”Go take a rest over there. You might get caught up here.”
She nodded and gave them some space. From that conversation alone, she knew that the father-and-son were now far from average in Elysium and their powers were on the level of the Twelve Overgods. She was aware that even the smallest shockwaves from a battle between two Quintessence Overgods could easily shatter her body and annihilate her soul.
After she left, the two sealed off the cave. Han Hao then struck with exceeding care, infusing his bone spear with negative energies like violence, despair, death and endless hate. A slight wave of the spear seemed to cause space itself to sparkle and tear.
Han Shou could feel the power coming from the spear and closed his eyes. After a long time, he nodded and said, ”Your energy is really unique. It's a fusion with your understanding of the edict of death as a base coupled with your insight into the soul from demonic arts. You are able to use the negative energies unleashed at the instant life is extinguished to explosive effect.”
Han Hao had always lacked a fundamental understanding of his own energy. ”Father,, do you mean that this power stems from the last burst of a life on its last embers? The power between life and death?”
Nodding, Han Shuo opened his eyes. ”It is an energy without an element. Before all life vanishes, they will leave some remnants of energy in the surrounding environment. For those who died from old age or sickness, the deaths are usually peaceful because they can see their fates coming and won't generate much energy like that. However, your energy comes from the people who died under exceptional circumstances. All the hate, despair, violence, killing intent and savagery and perhaps even evil itself is the essence of your true power. You were really lucky to use those energies to form a Quintessence.”
After some hesitation, he continued, ”Only you would've been able to perform such a feat. Perhaps it was thanks to your unique lifeform that you could incorporate all that negative energy into your soul. Had it been any other god, their soul would have crumbled long ago.”
”Father, what should I do?” Han Hao asked. He seemed a little stunned.
”I'm not sure. I have a feeling that your Quintessence formed almost too easily.” According to Nestor and the rest, the Allmother only left twelve types of Quintessence behind, yet Han Hao had formed his own. Even Nestor and the rest had never seen something like that occur in their aeons of life. He wondered if it had something to do with demonic arts.