Rise Ethereal Essence - Chapter 12

At the bottom of a cliff was a calm and serene lake. A stream gently spilled into the lake.

The trickling splashes formed a soft mist making a refreshing paradise. A soft breeze ran around scattering the mist.

Nutrient-rich plants sprouted from the many openings within the rocky surroundings. The rocks were polished by the many years of erosion from the stream.

The only creatures of the world, the elves and dryads, were nowhere to be seen. The environment was a solitary sight. Only the rushing stream could be heard for miles.

A disturbance appeared above the lake. It altered the delicate atmosphere.

The soft breeze carrying the mist increased in force. The wind was like a frantic child looking for its mother. It ran all around becoming more and more violent. It had no destination.

The disturbance above the lake worsened. The original serene atmosphere of the lake now seemed to release an announcement, one bringing messages of ruin.

Grass moved alongside the breeze. Plants contorted in strange angles. The leaves of trees rustled and detached from their stems. The static water of the lake filled with ripples turning into waves.

The disturbance above the lake now encompassed more than thirty meters. The atmosphere was stirring and becoming indistinct. Haze filled the air forming the appearance of a sphere.

The increased size of the disturbance meant more ruin.

The wind was becoming stronger by the second. Before long, it had turned into a strong tempest, but it didn’t stop there. The tempest increased until it had the power of a hurricane and more.

The hurricane tore plants from the ground. Surrounding trees were bent and their branches snapped by the powerful winds. The originally gentle stream falling into the lake was blown off course flying randomly through the air as it spewed everywhere.

All of nature was in disorder.

The environment of this world had always been tranquil. There weren’t such things as storms or destruction. The natural balance of the world had been ruined at this moment.

The hurricane was like an air of ruin. Wherever that air of ruin passed everything was destroyed.

The air of ruin was only an after effect of the actual destructive force within the sphere.

Encompassing the entire thirty meters and beyond were destructive vibrations. The disturbance had become these destructive forces. These vibrations ripped matter and energy creating tears in the atmosphere. The atmospheric air was torn apart creating pockets of space that contained no Definite Material, which is matter.

The pockets of space were numerous and extensive. They increased in size as they connected and expanded.

It appeared like the air was being lacerated or turned into many fine strips.

All these scenes would be from the perspective of an outsider. Anyone who didn’t know any better would be terrified. Anyone at all would be.

The Dark Essence had come up with an idea that incorporated the principles of compression, absorption, and its shaking.

It began with trembling. Its thirty-meter body trembled with increasing intensity over the lake.

The first time it had tried doing this was when it was only a foot in diameter in the elf. It caused matter to separate forming space that turned into a vacuum when it stopped shaking. The scale now was completely incomparable to then.

The trembling was more intense at this moment. The Dark Essence had more power with its full size and current circumstances. It was out in the open instead of a confined space within the elf.

The trembling gradually caused havoc in the surroundings.

In the eyes of the Dark Essence, its body was clear and perceivable. To an outsider, there would be nothing but a random sphere creating havoc.

When the Dark Essence was shaking at an extreme speed the water, rocks, soil, air and debris floating within its body were disintegrated and expunged.

The many tears being created became one. Its body now contained an empty space of thirty meters. All forms of matter had been blocked outside the perimeter of its shaking.

When the space was created an intense pressure originating from the world collapsed onto the spherical space created by the Dark Essence.

It was like the world was opposing the existence of another space within itself.

The space the Dark Essence created was similar to the space outside the world. It did not contain Definite Material resulting in the pressure from the world.

The Dark Essence observed the forces of natures in action. It still had much more to learn and the actions the world took were a good place to start.

The extreme constant trembling was preventing another vacuum from appearing once again. Once it stopped trembling, the empty space would fill with all forms of matter creating a vacuum.

There couldn’t be a vacuum without the interaction between empty space and matter. It was like a chain that was always linked.

The components of the space formed within its body still weren’t known to it. The Dark Essence only knew that matter was expunged from the space. It observed it pondering what exactly the space within its body contained.

The forces of the world smashed against the space created by the Dark Essence but had no results.

The intense forces containing matter disintegrated when meeting the Dark Essence.

The intense vibrations of it prevented any and all forms of matter from infiltrating it.

With one part of its idea completed, the Dark Essence moved on to the next step. The next step would be the incorporation of compression and absorption.

The Dark Essence controlled its form from within. It started expanding its Ethereal body from the center.

Slowly, it was compressing the insides of the dark essence body against the outside.

It was similar to the creation of the space it made through the separation of matter. Except for this time, it was compressing its body into a ring-type covering or a ball.

The simplest way to explain it would be to compare it to the form of a beach ball. A beach ball had an outer covering with an opening to blow air inside.

The Dark Essence was making its form like that outer covering.

The outer covering of the Dark Essence would remain shaking like an enclosed seal. The inside of that seal would contain the space it created. That way it could manipulate it.

With that out of the way, the Dark Essence moved on to its last implementation.

The last step was the most important of them all.

It was absorption.

The Dark Essence would create an opening in its form from outside to the inside in order to fill the space.

That way, the matter outside the shaking would be absorbed into the space.

That was the first attempt at using the general principles, the Dark Essence had thought of.

The Dark Essence opened a hole the size of a meter. As if the surrounding matter had been released from some constraint, it launched through the hole incorporating itself into the space.

The opening created a powerful suction force that decimated everything. The suction force was like a vacuum of space, sucking everything towards it.

The vacuum resulted in the creation of a cyclone. The lake was no more.

The cyclone had ravaged everything.

The Dark Essence absorbed the many forms of matter flying towards its opening stones, plants, trees, soil, water, and air.

When the Dark Essence felt the space was full, it sealed its form once again.

What remained of the originally serene lake was a desolate environment.

The environment had been devoured in exchange for much more.

Definite Material = Matter/Material substances

Indefinite Material = Dark Matter/Immaterial substances