365 Entering the ancestral grounds (1/2)
With what Gabriel told me about the restriction of the ancestral grounds, I initially believed it to be yet another superstition, but seeing the entrance to the subdimension with my very own eyes, made me rethink this matter from the scratch.
Even if creating subdimension wasn't as hard of a task as I assumed from the challenges bound to creating my own, it still didn't make any sense. From what Bonger told me a few days ago and everything I saw so far, the world should be more or less divided into areas with a completely different approach to using the energy. With that said, the existence of subdimension that was strictly bound to either magic or pure cultivation didn't make any sense when one thought about the way the locals were using their energy!
”I can tell you only a bit. Cracking the code of this lock will cost five hundred attribute points!”
Woah!
It's been a while since you wanted to rob me of my points in this way!
”Oh, shut your crap! Just like you can't evaporate the mountains with just a spit of yours, I have my limits as well! Do you think that I really enjoy how weak you are? Since my existence depends on your wellbeing, don't you think that if I could, I wouldn't feed you all the best cultivation, magic and other techniques? Grow the fuck up!”
Ups, it seems I angered you a bit. Sorry for that, I always took that you just didn't want me to get complacent! While it pains me a bit, we don't really have a choice, do we?
”I will take it as a yes. Give me a second.”
Every day, I was learning something new. Taking the Bonger for the example, it already evolved in my head from a dead system following the strict principles of its code, into a kind of mentor, that had its own needs and aims.
While I wanted to get to the bottom of this topic and finally know what the fuck was actually going on, with how weak I was and how limited my knowledge was, I could only base all my theories on those scraps of information that I currently had.
That's why I had nothing against investing about a third of my remaining attribute points into cracking this dimension open. Even if this place would be completely in the open, I already hoped to learn a lot from it. The fact that it was hidden in something akin to my own small world, only added to its potential value!
”I'm in. As long as you pass the guards without raising the alarm, you should be able to enter that dimension. It was surprisingly a tough nut to crack!”
Preparing a shockwave was a simple task, but forcing it to appear on the opposite side of the clearing than were I was, actually took a big toll on me. I really had to find a way to increase the range of my attacks!
BOOM!
With the shockwave destroying the eerie balance of the surroundings, all the guards instantly turned their sights to the source of the sound.