14. A Winner, a Shield, and Festivities
Royal Capital Tempest Void City
The sect competition continued, unaware of the chaos and turmoil that was beginning to destroy the planet. Even if they did know, what could they do when even the World Creator Vitrum was helpless. The second and third rate sects continued with their battles, while the first rate sects did not pay much attention to them and worked on their strategies for the battles that are ahead of them.
As time progressed the battles on the arena came down to the final four. It was now early evening. The Emperor, asked if any of the four finalist wished to continue to fight only within the lower rankings for a lower reward or step up and attempt to fight it out with the first rated sects. Each combatant went to their respective sects and discussed with their masters. While the options of fighting at a higher level and potentially earning much greater rewards, they all knew it was a pointless endeavor since even if the sect masters tried they would probably stand no chance, let alone some low leveled disciples.
All for finalist decided to just fight it out for the lower leveled rewards. With this the fights continued. The final winner was from a second rate sect called Thousand Hammer Abode. This sect was once a powerhouse on the continent when its founder was alive. The founder was capable of summoning a thousand divine hammers and was a peak Rebirth Realm expert. To top it off he was said to be one of the three disciples of the World Creator Vitrum. Unfortunately, after Vitrum had his three disciples fight it out to see who was the strongest, only two had survived, the most powerful one was the current Emperor of the continent.
The winner of the section was a youth named Tony Green. He was an entry level Golden Core, who has shown the most potential in the Thousand Hammer Abode, being able to summon two hundred pseudo divine hammers. He was awarded with a token, allowing him to enter the Royal Capitals World Grotto for an entire year. He also received a few hundred precious herbs and ores.
Now that the lower level competition ended, so has the first day of competitions. Tomorrow would start the main event that everyone was looking forward too. Until the time of the start of the next days competition though, everyone began to celebrate. During this competition the Royal Capital, held a massive festival. This was a way for all the sects to socialize not only with each other, but the mortals living there as well. This was an exciting chance for the mortals as well since if someone took a liking to them, they would be able to enter a sect. For them even a second or third rate was a huge opportunity, that could change their life.
Iris, Susie, and Orval decided to descend to the city to enjoy and partake in the festival. This kind of festival was nothing new to Iris, but she was enjoying it more now compared to in the past. That was because she had company with her that did not only follow her around to curry favor. Susie and Orval also enjoyed this since, neither of them really left the sect before.
After enjoying the festivities, Iris returned to the palace, while Susie and Orval returned to their floating sect. The festivities continued through out the night.
Heavens Realm
Vitrum had successfully made his way slowly to his residence. The location of his residence was in the First Level of the Heavens Realm called Lesser Ascension Heaven. The entire realm was home to countless immortals and world creators. The land was filled with lesser divine energy and was home to countless divine beasts and plants. It was a cultivators dreamland to say the least.
His residence was a medium sized palace made out of golden divine glass, that would endlessly shine with the rules he had mastered in his lifetime of cultivation. This was his pride and joy, even compared to the world he created. When he returned he immediately began to nurse his injuries with divine herbs and pills.
After he had recovered enough to not be in a fatal state he began to circulate his divine qi. He activated one of his world creator techniques 'World Creator Method: Core Protection.' This technique is one of the powerful moves that allows the creator to encase his entire worlds core in a shell to protect it from invading forces. While it was not an invincible shield, it was enough to halt the process of those fiends and buy him some time.
As Vitrum watched the core of Glass Planet, it began to be covered in the shell. The shell he created was made from the rules of metal, space, and life. The metal would allow it to have a sturdy defense, the space would deter any one who came to close to be sent to a random location in the solar system the planet was in, and the life would constantly nurture the vitality of the planets core.
After ensuring the core was protected he sent a message to his master about his situation, before continuing to tend to his injuries.
Unknown Location on Glass Planet
The Rot Fiend Lord noticed the change in the planets core. He smiled, since he knew that this is a last ditch effort of any world creator. While this does slow down the progress of his plan, it didn't matter much. At most it may take a few thousand years to break through, but what was that compared to the trillions of years he has already waited.
The vile Lord ordered the subordinates to continue working, while selecting a few blood fiends and devour fiends from the bunch.
In a chilling voice he spoke "Go out into the world. Cause chaos and mayhem. Kill everything starting with the continent that idiot Vitrum's body is on." All the fiends bowed and headed out to the world to complete their mission.
Royal Capital Tempest Void City
On the Glacier Manor's airship, Abel was in his room. He had suppressed the violent aura that he had received while in seclusion. His realm now was peak Rebirth Realm and he felt that no one would be able to beat him in the competition. He decided when he got the chance he would kill that lowly bastard who turned the princess against him. Then after that he would dominate over the princess and take her as his trophy. Should anyone want to stop him he would kill them with the new power he has, even if it was his father or even the Emperor.
"HAHA!" he laughed in a chilling and sadistic voice. His thoughts were filled with evil and morbid thoughts. He licked his lips as he thought of what he planned to do with his new trophy in the future.
Emerald Gem Sect
Orval called Susie over to his room. He informed her to keep an eye on the sect. While Susie was a little confused why he would ask this of her while he was there and it was impossible for anything to happen, she obeyed the order of her master. Then Orval proceeded to inform her of what his plan was. To say the least it cause her mouth to drop, since it was pretty crazy.
After the conversation Susie went back to her room to cultivate. If she was to be the sect leader in the future she had to get more powerful. She at least needed to step into the Rebirth Realm. She called Burlesque over to discuss her best options. Burlesque showed her, her page in the Infinite Legacy Scripture. A shock appeared on his face when he noticed a change to her potential, something he did not know could happen.
[Name: Susie Lime
Current Cultivation: Peak Nascent Soul
Current Art: Infinite Art: 10 Stars Chaos Method
Talent: Extraordinary
Potential: Galaxy Sovereign (due to current world highest realm that can be achieved is Rebirth Realm)
Recommended Art: Infinite Art: Controlling Stars Sutra]
Susie immediately asked Burlesque to transfer the new art to her. As he did so, she felt an amazing amount of qi swelling inside her. With this art she could tell that could moved the stars in the sky and shift the galaxies as she willed. Satisfied with the results she achieved, she went into a meditative state before going to sleep.
Burlesque, on the other hand, was shocked about the changes on her page and decided to check everyone's, since this was in line with the orders he was given to grow the sect. Unlike Susie's, no one else seemed to have any changes. When he got to Orval's page, he was even more shocked. The once full page of information, was empty except for his name. This is not supposed to happen, even if the person of the page dies, the page would still be there with all the information, but add that they were dead.
He quickly used his abilities to check into the current state of his creator, to ensure he was safe. He could sense his presence and that he was alive. Although, his current aura seemed strange. It was like it was his aura, but at the same time it was different. Burlesque was slightly confused but just figured Orval was training another profound and special technique.
He left the palace and returned to patrolling the sect and keeping an eye on the surroundings. The mortals of the Emerald Gem Sect were just like the mortals in the Royal Capital below, enjoying their own festivities throughout the night.