33 Risen#re - Chapter 347
It was dark out and a thick fog covered the city.
Lirian walked through the swirling fog, in which all visibility was lost, a person wouldn’t even be able to see two feet ahead of themselves, but to Lirian sight was never a necessary requirement.
Lirian sat down for a moment and released his transformation, his body quickly started to shorten, and his hair changed from light brown to silver in seconds.
Lastly his eye became silver again, but Lirian quickly shut them as his blindness returned, but he was no stranger to the darkness, and he welcomed it like a friend.
Lirian quickly changed into a black robe, as Bell’s clothes were too big for him, but thankfully the Red Boar had a closet filled with old clothes that Lirian could make use of.
Before setting out Lirian took a moment to sit down and golden flames started to lick his body, Lirian let out a pleasurable moan as the ‘Flames of Nirvana’ steadily started to heal his energy points for what he hoped would be the final time.
The flames looked like a golden halo around Lirian’s body and acted as a beacon in the mists, the mist fled upwards as the heat of the golden flames spread into the surroundings
A half-hour passed before a message popped up on the system.
[Host has gained Immunization to the Toxin in the breath of the world]
Lirian smiled when he read the message, and promptly removed the blocks on his energy points, immediately he felt his pores open up and the energy started to seep into his body as ‘Unconscious Cultivator’ took effect.
There was a slight burning sensation at first, but after a few minutes the feeling left and all Lirian felt was the joyous feeling of energy entering his body and slowly being cultivated.
The cultivation process was bound to be slow, especially since Lirian was an esper, in prospects of time, if Lirian solely relied on the natural breath of the world, it would take him sixteen times longer than a genius cultivator.
Lirian did have his fate achievement that would considerably improve his cultivation speed.
– Source Knowledge – you have grasped the knowledge of genesis, cosmic and celestial, all energy centres benefit from these knowledge’s (2,35x cultivation speed, as you grow stronger so will your cultivation speed)
With every stage breakthrough Lirian’s cultivation speed would increase by, 0,05, and with every grade breakthrough it would increase by 1.
Other than that Lirian had other means to accelerate his cultivation, there were a few techniques he could use when he sat down and cultivated without the use of ‘Unconscious Cultivator’ but none of them could compare to the boon brought by ‘Source Knowledge’.
But the best methods would require him to find special herbs and ingredients, that would be beneficial in accelerating his body’s ability to cultivate energy.
But at the same time, those methods did worry Lirian, with his godly constitution he would become immune to many of those ingredients very quickly which would mean that all ingredients would have limited usage.
Lirian didn’t expect his cultivation to increase anytime soon so he climbed to his feet and activated [Gods Gaze], the energy of the world became clear to Lirian as he scanned the city.
Lirian could use ‘Levitate’ to hover around but he wanted to give his body a little stretch before he got busy, Lirian walked to a tall building and gave the walls a few taps.
Before long the vibrations gave Lirian a good idea of the structure of the building, he placed his hands on the walls and moved his fingers into the littles crevices between the bricks.
Lirian shifted his weight into his hands used them to start climbing up the wall, Lirian started off slowly and soon his body grew used to the activity.
Within minutes Lirian was shifting his weight from his legs to his hands and back, as he kicked and pushed of walls and ledges, and grappled on random bricks and fixtures that provided a good grappling point.
Lirian continued with his parkour for a few minutes before he found himself standing on the edge of the roof of a 6-storey building.
Lirian felt that it was a pity that the buildings were so short and that there were so few tall buildings in the city.
Parkour was an enjoyable activity but only if you had a large enough area to freely traverse.
As Lirian stood there he scanned the city and all over he could see the various street lamps, the luminous stones appeared as a very bright white under Lirian’s vision.
But that wasn’t what he was looking for as he looked around he saw several burning torches, most of them were located near the gates of the city.
The city had two main gates on the outer walls the northern gate and the western gate, Lirian assumed that the live flames were being used by the guards to disperse the thick fog that settled over the city.
Lirian snapped his fingers, and the sound rung crisply through the air a moment later Lirian jumped from the ledge of the building, after a few seconds of having nothing under his feet, Lirian landed lightly on the ledge of the neighbouring building.
A smile spread across Lirian’s face as he started to run across the ledge while constantly clicking his fingers, as the sound travelled back to his ears he leapt from ledge to ledge, and when he started to feel bored of the simple jumps he started to do flips and spins in the air as he enjoyed the freedom.
Every movement forced Lirian to push his senses to their maximum, and before long Lirian found himself leaping across the rooftops of short buildings, it was then that Lirian realised that he just reached the western gate.
Lirian stopped and glanced around, it took him a few minutes to discover that there were over fifty guards busy patrolling the streets, while another dozen were stationed at the western gates and along the city wall.
As Lirian looked at the city walls he found that there was a layer of runes imbued with power drawn in the fabric of the wall, ‘I’ll have to get a better look at those,’ Lirian thought with a pondering gaze as he looked at the runes.
“But first I have to do some clean-up duty,” Lirian muttered softly and pulled out a kitchen knife that he ‘borrowed’ from the Red Boar.
Lirian watched the guards move and followed the routes they all took as they did their patrols, once he memorised all their routes he hopped down from the ledge of a single storey building and crept up behind a guard who was completely unaware of the fate that was about to befall him.
With a quick swipe of the knife, the guard went still as blood spilt down his throat and splashed all over his light armour, before the guard fell to the ground Lirian caught him and softly set him against a wall.
Lirian heard a ding from the system, he had no need to read the message to understand that he just lost 1 000 fate particles, and it was just the beginning of what he was going to lose.