Chapter 5: Absorbing Soul Rings and Immortal Plants 1

As soon as Shirou had awakened his martial soul and soul force, Shirou didn't do much in Notting City. Shirou chose to return home immediately to prepare to absorb the soul rings for his two martial souls. It didn't take long for Shirou to get home. Arriving home, Shirou went to the kitchen to prepare various foods. Because Shirou knew by the time he was about to start the process of absorbing soul rings and immortal plants as planned, it would take a lot of time.

Every meal made by Shirou was immediately put into his storage room. After finishing preparing all the necessities to supply his energy, Shirou immediately went to his room and changed into his gym clothes, and went to the training room to start the soul ring absorption process.

Arriving at the practice room, Shirou went to the control panel to adjust the temperature as well as some things about the practice room. After finishing setting up the practice room, Shirou immediately went to the center of the room while sitting down in meditation and thinking, " Let's start by absorbing the immortal plants first. At least by absorbing it, the chances of me being able to absorb a soul ring approaching 10,000 years could be greater."

Shirou first took out the 10,000-year-old Lightning Lotus Flower immortal plant for his first martial soul which was Supreme Lightning. The 10,000-year-old Lightning Lotus flower has a very beautiful blue color and around it, there is a very strong lightning current that serves to protect its crown. Shirou who had awakened the Supreme Lightning martial soul had immunity to the lightning element.

Shirou didn't wait long, he immediately absorbed the 10,000-year-old Lightning Lotus Flower. By the time the 10,000-year-old Lightning Lotus Flower had been absorbed by Shirou, enormous energy emerged from within Shirou's body which began to increase the power of his martial soul along with the strength of his body.

It took more than 4 hours for Shirou to fully absorb the 10,000-year-old Lightning Lotus Flower. After he finished absorbing the 10,000-year-old Lightning Lotus Flower, Shirou's eyelids slowly began to open again and he immediately summoned his first martial soul.

Shirou's body was instantly surrounded by an extremely strong lightning current, "Amazing~ After absorbing the 10,000-year-old Lightning Lotus Flower, the power of the lightning martial soul has increased by at least 300%. Not only that, but my physical fitness also improved after absorbing the 10,000-year-old Lightning Lotus Flower. With my current state, the probability of absorbing a 7000-year soul ring increases to 50%. If I complete the absorption of the second immortal plant for the Supreme Flame martial soul, the chances of obtaining a 7000-year soul ring for my first soul ring will increase to 90%. Then let's do it right away." Shirou muttered excitedly.

He immediately regained his composure and began removing the 10,000-year-old Fire Lotus Flower immortal plant from his storage space. The 10,000-year-old Fire Lotus Flower has a very beautiful red color along with the extremely high temperature released by the 10,000-year-old Fire Lotus Flower. Even the previously normal room temperature was slowly starting to rise due to the appearance of the 10,000-year-old Fire Lotus Flower.

However, for Shirou who had awakened the Supreme Flame martial soul, the temperature emitted by the 10,000-year-old Fire Lotus Flower was still very mild even he had acquired the status of immunity to the fire element. Shirou didn't wait long, he immediately absorbed the 10,000-year-old Fire Lotus Flower.

By the time the 10,000-year-old Fire Lotus Flower had been absorbed by Shirou, just like before, enormous energy instantly emerged from within Shirou's body increasing his physical fitness as well as the strength of his fire martial soul.

It took Shirou over 4 hours to complete the process of absorbing the 10,000-year-old Fire Lotus Flower. Shirou slowly opened his eyes again and saw a touch of joy at getting the same improvement he had before. Shirou instantly summoned his second martial soul by extending his left hand forward.

Suddenly, above Shirou's palm appeared a ball of white fire. This martial soul that Shirou summoned was not completely his own. The white orb that Shirou summoned was a manifestation of the form Shirou wanted his second martial soul to appear in. Unlike Shirou's first martial soul which didn't affect the room, Shirou's second martial soul would greatly affect the room the moment Shirou summoned his full power. Because of that, Shirou needed to control the power of his martial soul for himself to summon.

"Pretty good~ An upgrade is the same as a lightning martial soul. My physical fitness has also improved and I can now be sure to absorb a 7000 - 8000-year-old soul ring for my first soul ring." Shirou nodded and retracted his martial soul.

*Stomach* *Stomach* *Stomach*

Simultaneously, Shirou's stomach growled asking to be filled immediately. Shirou reflexively grabbed his stomach as he lifted his head and glanced at the clock on the control panel, "It's 8 pm already? Huu~ Counting the time I first came here, it took me 4 hours to absorb every single one of the previous immortals. Then, let's take a break for a while. I also need to replenish energy to prepare for the absorption of the first soul ring."

Shirou immediately took out the various foods and drinks he had prepared beforehand. In front of Shirou, we can see a large number of various kinds of food and drink. With Shirou's physical fitness increasing, the need for food also begins to increase, therefore before the absorption process begins, Shirou needs a lot of time for himself to cook food for himself to eat.

With the food coming out of Shirou's storage room, the smell of the food instantly covered the entire training room. Luckily the practice room had a deodorizing facility that made the food smell go away after Shirou finished eating.

" Hmm~ Maybe I can try opening a food business in this world? I can try to plan this." Shirou thought casually as he slowly started eating his meal.

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Some time passed.

"Ah~ Full! Full!" Shirou with a satisfied expression sat down heaved a sigh of relief. Shirou had finished replenishing his energy until he was full again with the food he prepared.

"Then let's get ready. I need to absorb the soul ring as soon as possible" Shirou who had finished restoring his state to the peak immediately stored all the cutlery he used in the storage room to clean up everything after he finished absorbing the soul ring.

After all the cutlery was put back in, Shirou immediately sat in a meditative position while taking deep breaths to calm his emotions again. Sensing that his emotions had stabilized, Shirou immediately took out a soul ring tool from the storage room and appeared right in front of him.

The soul ring tool was the size of a basketball with a bumpy surface. The surface of the soul ring tool has 5 patterns with different colors ranging from yellow, purple, black, red, and gold. Each color in the soul ring tool pattern represents the lifespan of the soul ring itself.

Yellow patterns represent soul rings from 100 years to 999 years, purple patterns represent soul rings from 1000 years to 9999 years, black patterns represent soul rings from 10,000 years to 99,999 years, red patterns represent soul rings from 100,000 years to 999,999 years, and lastly. The golden pattern represented a 1,000,000-year-old soul ring.

Any Soul Master who wanted to absorb a soul ring using a soul ring tool, they could freely choose what abilities they wanted. The strength of that ability also depends on how old the soul ring they will get. To obtain a soul ring that had an extremely high lifespan, they needed to withstand the pressure that the soul ring would exert. Hence the need for a strong body or physical fitness to receive a very high aged soul ring.

As for Shirou himself, he had thought about what abilities he wanted. The ability that Shirou wanted to become a soul ring ability was the ability to massively increase his martial soul power. Like passive speech, this ability allowed Shirou to gain an increase in his martial soul power without needing to activate his soul ring.

Shirou himself had carefully considered this ability he wanted. With the passive increase, he would get to his soul ring ability, which would increase the strength of his current martial soul. Shirou did this because he wanted to create various powerful abilities that he had seen in various anime before.

Apart from that reason too, Shirou increased the power of his martial soul using the passive ability of the soul ring he would get. Even with Shirou only injecting a small amount of his soul force to bring out his smallest technique in one of his martial souls, surely the power of the technique would be very strong thanks to his martial soul power which had been enhanced through the passive ability of the soul ring.

However, to achieve this. After Shirou finished this soul ring absorption process. Shirou had to start practicing the ability to control his soul force and martial soul if he was to create the various abilities he wanted. Because only by achieving absolute control, Shirou could create the various abilities he wanted by trying to visualize them through his mind.

Shirou had tried this by trying to manifest his martial soul by turning it into a small needle during the resurrection ceremony. With that little experiment, Shirou had been convinced that if he came to absolute control over his soul power and martial soul, he could create various abilities just by visualizing with his mind like Tang San who had reached level 100 and inherited Poseidon's power. Being able to control and create various abilities from Water only needed to visualize it because Tang San had already attained absolute control over his power.

Shirou who had been preparing to absorb the soul ring, started to summon his first martial soul. Shirou's body was instantly surrounded by an extremely strong lightning current. Shirou didn't wait long and directly injected his soul force towards the soul ring tool.

The soul ring tool responded to Shirou's injection of soul force. The soul ring tool instantly flew towards Shirou's front while taking out a yellow soul ring representing 100 years of age from within the soul ring tool and slowly hovering over Shirou's head.

Shirou who saw this knew that the soul ring absorption process was about to begin. He immediately sat perfectly in a meditative position while closing his eyes and starting to enter into the absorption process. For Shirou's first soul ring, he had determined to obtain a minimum of a 7000 years old soul ring.

With Shirou's current physical fitness, it was not impossible to obtain the soul ring. However, it took time for Shirou to get the soul ring and a determination to get it.