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I stood at the top of the wall with a smirk. My mana spread from the point at which I stopped. Attracting all the guards in the area. None of them tried to approach me where I stood above them on the wall. I wasn't armed, but the amount of mana I gave off told them just how powerful I was.

The havoc I'd wrought brought them to me. I was their top priority at the moment. Between the buildings I'd destroyed, and the men I'd killed there was no way they'd be able to tear their attention away from me. I laughed at their feeble attempts to stop me. Leaping from the wall to the rooftops as I ran along.

Not a single house that had a slave within was spared destruction. I rained chaos down on those who dared to own a slave. When one was fast enough to catch up to me I'd slash at them with an ice sword. I wasn't stupid enough to show them my black blades. They'd connect it to my slave persona eventually.

I didn't want that. The slave bodyguard persona would collapse in on itself the moment I showed them my poisoned blade. My ice was hard enough that even the enchanted metal of their blades wasn't enough to break it. Several of them were quite surprised to realize that fact. I was surprised to find that I couldn't simply create a spatial portal within the city limits when I decided to leave.

*Warning - System has detected a spatial sealing array over the city.

User may be able to enter the city using the spatial element, but he will not be able to leave.*

I scoffed to myself in irritation. Before stopping dead in my tracks, and jumping straight up as hard as I could while lowering my body weight at the same time. To them it must have looked like I'd just flown straight up. Two elves sped past where I'd just launched myself. Attempting to stop as the rooftop collapsed beneath their feet.

Their eyes were drawn sharply upward as they tried to follow my movement. I knew that elven eyes were better then human eyes, but it was too late. I'd launched myself out of the range of their spatial sealing array. It wasn't difficult for me to lay over a hundred false trails. I still had mana to spare even after creating two lesser mana stones.

I'd fused with all of my elements, and held dominance over several of them. I didn't really know what dominance over the elements meant. I hadn't really noticed a difference between dominance, and fusion. The amount of mana I used per spell was minute. Even creating crystals was much easier. That little show I'd made for the humans was nothing compared to now.

I could create three or four lesser crystals simultaneously now. They didn't even need to be the same element. As long as they weren't composed of an unnatural element. I was more than capable of handling myself hand to hand as well. None of the elves had been able to so much as touch me the entire time I'd been wreaking havoc.

It was hard to believe that I'd struggled so much with the first elf I'd fought, and the way I'd killed that wyvern as well. It was all far too easy. It was almost boring. I was glad I'd left a spatial marker in the room or getting back in the city unnoticed might have been a problem. The room was empty, but I suspected that Sekka would be back fairly soon.

His mission was more peaceful in nature after all. I doubted the guards had noticed him sneaking around at all. Sure the darkness element was lethal if you had the power to make it so, but most could only manage to kill one person with pure darkness before they ran out of mana completely. The sheer amount of mana I possessed allowed me to do things that most wouldn't be capable of. It wasn't difficult for people to shadow walk, but moving about using shadow walking around so many mana sensitive beings wasn't exactly a smart plan.

Might as well announce publicly that your planning on attacking someone. You'd have a better chance if you just walked up, and stabbed them in the chest. It was amazing how many elves walked around wearing some form of barrier. Most of them were fueled by a mana stone in one form or another. System.

*System is ready to answer all queries*

How much of my core is properly purified?

*17%*

Just seventeen percent?

*Yes. Your core was formed with impurities embedded deep within. System recommends that you cease. There is a possibility of core damage in the process of purification.*

What will happen if my core is completely purified?

*Unknown.*

Exactly. A completely pure core is unheard of. That means that there has to be a reason. Some sort of hurtle that makes it near impossible to get one, and if I can over come this hurtle there has to be something worthwhile on the other side of it. The harder something is to achieve.

The harder it is to reach. The more I will benefit from gaining it. Besides. If core damage is the only thing stopping me then I really can't stop now can I?

*System cannot follow your logic.*

I scoffed at the systems uselessness. Sometimes I wished the system had some form of intelligence of its own. It did what I told it to, and kept track of my level of strength. That was all. Boring, and kind of useless really.

It did however work with complete single minded efficiency whenever I gave it a task. Tasking it with purifying my cure was a smart choice on my part. It was laced with a large amount of the impurities that earth naturally gave off. Those impurities were poison to other species just as the impurities of this world were poison to myself. My new poison affinity allowed me to sense the exact nature of these impurities, and stop them from entering my core.