84 Receding Fog. (1/2)
'Maybe this is a great chance for her to show what she's made for. Overseer, I'll try my best...'
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*THUD*
With a pale face and frail legs, a girl with a transcendent beauty dropped onto a white cloud in a white world. Her left arm was bent in a way it shouldn't be, and traces of blood littered her face.
She gazed at such a world with stubbornness, grumbling to herself.
”I'm only at the 15th realm and it expects me to fight 50 of them...”
She kicked the puffed cloud beneath her a couple times before getting up with some difficulty. Some excitement seethed as she thought about this strange shop that she has visited 14 times already.
'I might be able to get a Mortal Dao Spell instead of the usual techniques this time!'
She gripped her fists as she took her usual stroll through the strange world. A black building appeared, and in a similarly disconcerting fashion, it sped towards her at an unusual pace.
A jade appeared in her hands which she grasped. A clear but still dull inscription of a golden mediating figure shone on it, and as she gazed at this figure, she felt that it was becoming increasingly similar to Su Min's soul.
Nonetheless, she didn't bother pondering on the issue anymore as the same black and listless building loomed before her. She pushed open the door that had the word 'Open' written on it, where a small room with distraught darkness unveiled itself.
*Clink*
Though, this didn't last as a lamp on the roof turned on and ushered a dull light that would sometimes flicker. She was used to this, so with a light step, she strolled up to a single black orb in the centre of the room.
She breathed a deep breath, then gripping her jade even tighter, she muttered to herself.
”I have saved up 5 wisps, adding onto the realm I cleared, 6 should be enough to get something better than those shabby techniques...”
So, without restraint, she placed her jade-like hand onto the orb. A blackness invaded her vision with a blur, where three different feelings emerged and thrashed her senses.
She stammered a bit as her thoughts grew confused from these feelings, but with grit teeth, she focused on the one with a god-like disposition.
'Heavenly!'
Silence encompassed her as a couple of sparkling lights emerged from the pitch black space, nevertheless, in an exponential fashion, those few lights transformed into an incomprehensible number.
Some were so blinding that she had to look away, and some were so faint that she had to focus to even notice their existence. Nevertheless, she knew that this was just a facade. Her jade sizzled from this thought, then spewed a three coloured glare onto her.
Everything trembled as those lights dissipated one after another before only a couple remained.
She spoke to herself as she watched this happen.
”I wonder what the brightest lights contain...”
As her voice faded the glowing jade in her hand shook once more as strange wisps began to form around it.
One, two, five, six...
These wisps, each carrying a supernatural disposition, glided around her like beautiful starlight. Wen Mian was expecting six as she had found that after each realm you gain one, but to her shock, the glowing jade didn't stop at this number...
”Another?”
She became a little jittery as she watched the jade sizzle more, then in a pop, another wisp formed around it and drifted right towards her. Wen Mian couldn't help but cry with joy as she counted the number of wisps around her.
”Seven!”
Her eyes redirected themselves onto the couple glowing lights around her, focusing onto the lines of text beneath each of them.
'High Technique'
'Peak Technique'
'Peak Technique'
Disappointment flashed as she gazed at the three brightest, but she didn't want to give up as she surveyed every single orb of light she could see.
'Low Technique'
'Low Technique
Middle Technique
Low Technique
High Technique
Low Technique
....'
”Come on!”
She felt hopeless as everything said a similar thing. Nevertheless, in the corner of her eyes, she noticed a strange light reveal itself with a little apprehension. This was a tad odd considering that everything is normally revealed at the beginning.
The orb wasn't that bright, in fact, it was one of the dimmest, but it carried a peculiar atmosphere that seemed to set it apart from the rest. This caught her eye, so deciding to take a look at the words beneath the light, Wen Mian gulped.
'First Realm Half-Step Mortal Dao Spell'
Her eyes shined as she, without hesitation, focused onto that light!
'Even if it is half-step, It is still better than nothing!'
She only had techniques and not spells, and most didn't even know the difference between the two. But she knew, and anything that was called a spell used transcendent laws that required a strenuous comprehension.
Some people may not understand this and call a spell a technique, and it didn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. Whether you call it a technique or a spell, its power is unparalleled compared to the highest techniques, but most require ones understanding of energy to be at the level of a genius.
She, though, doesn't have to worry about this...
*WANGG*
Her mind fluttered as that light developed until it became a blinding pulsating orb of fiery matter. It blew hot steam onto her face, and in a strange hymn, a string of words surfaced in her mind.
' Oceans strike with power.
I who controls the ocean controls power.
Wherever I am, the ocean is.
My unfurled wings bring the ocean.