The Epic Tale of Chaos vs Order

Chapter 665: Elemental Manifestation (II)

As the tornado of the four elements revolved with increasing power, Cain entered Elemental Resonance and began to absorb natural energy. Once his body was saturated with this power, he trained in the next phase of the Foundation Stage of the Primordial Path: Elemental Manifestation.

During Elemental Resonance, Cain needed to resonate with the natural elements, allowing his body to contain the power of natural energy. Although his body gained certain physical characteristics related to the elements during this phase, they were minor and did not have a significant effect on his battle power. However, things changed once he took the next step and achieved Elemental Manifestation.

Elemental Manifestation required Cain to infuse his body with the forces of the four elements. Unlike natural energy, which would circulate through his body and energy pool, making him temporarily stronger, this process would permanently infuse the power of the elements into his flesh, blood, and energy pools.

To attain Elemental Manifestation, one would normally need to explore different environments charged with the essence of the four elements and slowly draw them into their bodies. Using treasures was not recommended, as assimilating them would add foreign components other than the elemental essence into your body, leading to pollution of your foundation.

However, Cain harbored not a single shred of worry. After natural energy had flooded his body, he opened his eyes. The power of his Ego Wave burst as the Concept of Gluttony flooded it, making its power skyrocket and, in the process, slowly degrading the treasures inside the red tornado.

Although some of these treasures were meant for Apotheosis Realm Masters and were as hard as a Platinum Artifact, Cainʼs Ego Wave was able to deploy such a mighty devouring force they could not resist and shattered.

It didnʼt take long for streams of different essences to flood into Cainʼs body. Some were green, blue, red, and brown, related to the four elements, while others were gray, dark, and so on. They were all mixed, and trying to separate them was nearly impossible, but Cain didnʼt care and absorbed everything.

The elemental essences flawlessly merged with his flesh, blood, and energy according to the guidance and principles described in the Primordial Path. However, the other essences were not so smooth.

Some began to infiltrate Cainʼs tissues and bloodstream, contaminating them. Trying to determine the affected areas would be challenging, and not even Cainʼs Ego Wave could do it, or at least not fast enough to prevent the corruption from spreading. Luckily, the [A.I. Chip Module] had the [Pseudo Atomic Analysis] tool, which could mark the contaminated areas without a fraction of a second.

Of course, locating them was just part of the problem since Cain still needed to stop the corruption from spreading and eliminating it, and that was where the Gluttony Concept came into play once more. He sent streams of his Ego Wave with the power of the Gluttony Concept and devoured everything contaminated.

That meant that from time to time, Cain would be consuming his own flesh and blood, and while that would have a psychological impact on most people, he showed no concern. As for the physical damage, the Radiance of Life was able to regenerate all the damaged tissues in a few seconds.

Days passed, and Cain continued with his training, infusing the elemental forces into his flesh, blood, and energy while using the Gluttony Concept to devour everything else. By the eleventh day, Cain finally opened his eyes as the metric tons of treasure of the four elements were gone, all now inside his body.

As Cain clenched his fists and felt the power of the elements running through his flesh and blood, he softly nodded.

ʼGood. Iʼve made decent progress. With a few more months of training, I should be able to complete Elemental Infusion. That would lend my fists the weight of mountains and my steps the elusive nature of the air.ʼ

Cain rose from his kneeling stance before placing his hand on the ground, and the next second, his Ego Wave burst with even more strength as Essence Wave concentrated in his right hand, soon generating a powerful necrotic aura. The moment the necrotic aura emerged, everything it came into contact with began to rot.

The spell Cain was using was Death Touch, one of the abilities he learned during his time on the Kronos Continent but never came to use. The spell allowed Cain to use the power of the Law of Death to take away the targetʼs vitality forcefully.

Without hesitation, Cain placed his hand against the ground. He drove all his power into the spell, extending the power of Death Touch across every inch of the five-hundred-kilometer forest inside Angarʼs Shadow Domain.

As the power of Death Touch expanded, consuming the trees and even the earth beneath his feet, Cain felt waves of vitality accumulating inside his body. Yet, he could only shake his head as the effect of the spell was simply too weak, and it filled the air with the stench of death, making it so that nothing could grow in this place in the future.

The amount of life Cain could obtain using the Concept of Gluttony would be much higher and would not wreak havoc on the environment this way. Yet, the corruption and necrotic aura flooding the air and earth was exactly why Cain was doing this.

The True Titans noticed the necrotic aura infusing into the death ground in a radius of five hundred kilometers but did not bother with it. They rose to the sky, making sure the stench of death did not sully their clothes.

Cain truly exerted himself, devouring the life in the area and flooding the place with the aura of death. After thirty hours, not only was there not a single sliver of life present, but the power of death had impregnated the earth and sky to the point that ordinary people would not be able to survive in this place.