Death… And Me

Chapter 3464: They Didn’t Know

The years went by, and the sect continued to work without any issues. The changes in the shadows also proceeded smoothly, an effect of the Soul Binding Contract created by the sect itself.

Celis’s presence was a huge boost to the twins during this time. He emptied the Divine Stones in no time, adding them all to their shared cultivation. The Starlight Stone was even more so. Since there was little Starlight Energy for him to take from the environment, most of it came from the stones. Of course, that meant they were using a lot of them as well.

Before, the twins’ group took almost seventy years to go from the Initial Stage of the Void Tempering Realm to the Peak Stage. Now? Now, only fifteen years had gone by...

*Boom!*

Divine Energy, Starlight Energy, and Soul Power surged like a tide, and the twins’ group’s cultivation began to rise at an alarming rate. More of more stones were used nonstop, causing the surroundings to fill with the dust of broken stones due to their lack of energy.

Finally, all four’s cultivation stabilized, having now reached the Initial Stage of the Space-Bending Realm! That’s how much of a difference Celis’s presence made. He alone could absorb as much energy as Rean, Roan, and Kentucky combined. Above all, he wasted much less of the Starlight Stones’ Energy than Rean and the others would.

”Space Bending Realm! Took long enough!” Rean couldn’t help but feel energized.

”Can you make the armor now?” Roan asked on the side. From what they heard from Lotan, it was near time for the sect to enter the Evernight World. It would be better if they had Rean’s armor back.

Rean immediately teleported away, going to his workshop. Roan followed him as well. Rean then gathered the materials he needed, and through the power of his Space Bending Realm, he began to mold the necessary runes. It was hard work, and he could only barely achieve the effects necessary. No doubt it would take some time to finish. Nonetheless, it was possible. ”I think I will manage. Zangeshu, give me a hand. We will work on the armor straight away.”

Roan nodded after seeing that and left Rean and Zangeshu alone. Kentucky was also with him. ”Do we continue to cultivate?”

Roan shook his head in response. ”Not now. We won’t gain much anyway. Instead, try to consolidate your strength and get used to the Space Bending Realm again. Well, Sky Space Bending Realm, to be more precise. I’m also going to train for a while. I need to move a little.”

Kentucky nodded and quickly left. He went after Rifindio, who was still in the Peak Stage of the Space Bending Realm. If the two worked together, Kentucky was confident he could help Rifindio reach the Initial Stage of the Elemental Space Realm before they left.

Outside, Celis also stopped cultivating, taking a look at the surroundings. He knew what he was capable of, and he knew how it affected everything. He once had an entire planet’s energy being controlled by none else than himself. Now, pretty much all the normal plants and trees tens of kilometers around him were barely surviving. In fact, they were supposed to be dead, but Celis didn’t go that far. ”I guess I’ll give them a chance to recover now.”

Celis took the chance to join Roan in the Dimensional Realm, and the two trained together. Now and then, Rean joined them to test the results of his work, and so did Kentucky and Rifindio. Even Zangeshu was dragged along, even though he didn’t have an interest in combat.

Another two years went by like that, and Rean finally came out of his workshop with Zangeshu while holding three pyramid-like devices in their hands.

”It’s ready,” Rean said, throwing one to Roan.

How could Roan not recognize it? The System Armor had finally appeared once again, and it had the same shape as before while it wasn’t turned on. ”How much better is it compared to our previous version back in Lisan?”

”Mostly, it isn’t” Rean gave him the truth. ”I need some better material in the Divine Realm instead, and as I said, my cultivation is just barely enough to make an early version of it. But it does have one advantage, and that is in the form of Divine Sense Circuitry Runes.”

Zangeshu continued from there. ”Your armor before worked with your Divine Senses giving it orders. Now that Divine Sense Circuitry Runes are involved, the time for the armor to answer your calls should have been reduced by at least half.”

Rean nodded. ”Thanks to that, it should make it even easier to control the cultivation energies and elements outside the body. The version we had back in Lisan already made it easier, let alone now. However, its protection power is indeed far lower, so don’t rely on it completely. The best defense is to not be hit to start with.”

Roan nodded and immediately put a drop of his blood on the armor. His DNA was quickly saved in the armor, and it activated. It burst into countless micro runes that spread all over Roan’s body. They then disappeared, making it look like Roan wasn’t using any armor at all. ”Feels okay.”

Rean and Zangeshu also activated their own, and the armor quickly covered their bodies before disappearing. ”Anything that can give us extra protection and increase our strength is welcome.”

Kentucky, a little jealous, asked on the side. ”Didn’t you make anything for me? Rifindio and Celis, too.”

Rean shrugged. ”If you always stayed in your humanoid forms, it would make sense, but you don’t. Just how many times bigger are your real forms? Besides, your defense is already ridiculous, Kentucky. Even my armor back in Lisan couldn’t match it, let alone this early version.”

”Well, that’s true,” Kentucky felt pride in his defense.

Demon Beasts fight with their bodies, so unless Rean could make a System Armor capable of adapting to their changes, it wouldn’t make sense to make one. They are usually way too big.

During the next few days, Rean, Roan, and even Zangeshu spent some time getting used to the armor. That especially helped Rean and Zangeshu find flaws in the runes and program, which they fixed.

Then, just as they were about to try the armors again, Rean received a message on their CDs. Not only him, but also Roan.

-We are ready. Come to the main building.-

At the same time, another message was sent to all the VS devices of all the disciples and common elders of the Divine Snow Mountain Sect. All of them were to immediately return to the sect in case they were out, dropping any mission they might be dealing with at the moment. Just like that, the entire sect was put in motion, and most of the disciples and elders didn’t even know why.