Inside the expansive Forge that was now much bigger than when he first entered it, there were numerous shining armors and weapons that were beautifully placed on the walls of the Forge.
The Items forged from the materials of Infernals and Behemoths that were not yet distributed to his subordinates were all grandly displayed in the Forge, the workshop turning into a brilliant showcase of powerful armors as Noah went towards the one that shone with a luminescent blue brilliance.
The [Hydromancer's Mantle] looked like a blue battle robe that fully covered the wearer from head to toe, even having a fearsome looking helm with a design only veteran commanders would be adorned in. Blue runic sigils swam around the Mantle mystically as it gave off a feeling of power and strength!
Noah's eyes shone as he neared the [Hydromancer's Mantle] to take a look at exactly what abilities and boosts it provided. Would it be as crazy as the Trident of the Sea, or something even more wondrous?
Chapter 474 Hydromancer's Mantle
Noah's Ancient Blood Clone thoughtfully stared at the description of the newly forged Supreme Treasure, [Hydromancer's Mantle], that was floating serenely in the Blacksmith's Forge.
[Hydromancer's Mantle] :: A supreme treasure geared towards extreme defense, absorbing any attacks thrown at it as the wearer experiences extreme comfort. Abilities include Sea Domain, Hydromancer's Banner, Hydomancer's Pride, Seaborn
[Sea Domain] (Active) :: With the user at the center, the surrounding 1 mile can instantly be turned into a domain of the sea. Within this Domain, the wearer of Hydromancer's Mantle absorbs 50% of all damage and reflects 20% more, while the enemies are granted the Slow and Restrictive skill effect. The Defense of the user is tripled in the Sea Domain.
[Hydromancer's Banner] (Active) :: A banner of the one loved by water descends on the battlefield, granting the Aura of Water and Seafarer abilities to all those standing with the Hydromancer that allows them to move unhindered in the Sea Domain while enhancing their abilities.
[Hydromancer's Pride] (Passive) :: +500% Physical and Magic Defense, +300% Water Element Resistance, 5% Chance to block all damage.
[Seaborn] (Passive) :: The wearer of the Hydromancer's Mantle is loved by water, granting them 100% comprehension speed when trying to understand the Law of Water.
Noah's eyes stared carefully at the blue shining mantle as numerous ideas about the abilities shown passed through his mind.
[When forging, I tried to steer the resulting abilities towards things that you did not already have, the results being somewhat satisfactory.]
The voice of the Spiritual World System rang out as Noah smiled.
"This is more than enough."
Yes, this was more than enough! The abilities were stupendous, especially [Seaborn] that insanely doubled his comprehension in the Law of Water! He was currently working to refine Soul Jades from the Water Crystal materials he had obtained while traversing the southern area of the Celestial Realm in order to use them on the neglected [Lawful Nourishment] item that he received from the Karmic Sect Leader in order to increase the rate at which he comprehended the laws.
The future plan was to find the equivalent materials to enable him to collect numerous crystals of all the laws he was working on to further enhance his speed, so he never expected an item to actually just casually double his rate of progress in one law.
If the Hydromancer's Mantle gave just this, he would have been happy. But it did even more as grand abilities like Sea Domain, Hydromancer's Pride, and Hydromancer's Banner appeared to further protect him and reinforce his power.
Noah's clone wasted no time as his hands reached towards the Supreme Treasure, adorning it for the first time to see its spectacular descriptions in action!
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As legions moved closer and closer towards each other, Noah's main body was moving alone in the celestial realm.
Grand Master Vredral had looked at this disciple with shining and proud eyes when he stepped into a realm that was even above his own and was even courteous enough to ask his teacher still for the permission to explore the Celestial Realm by himself. The Grandmaster had shaken his head proudly as he waved his hands telling Noah that he could do whatever he wished!
He was an expert at the World Realm now and that title came with a status. A status that would first award him the title of a Grandmaster even though his fate lines had yet to reach and exceed 100,000. Before he left the Golden Bastion, Noah had received the Golden Robe that was adorned by the many Grandmasters of this Celestial Realm.
In the span of a few months after Noah first stepped onto the seventh Celestial Star as a disciple, in this short period of time he had actually risen from that lowly rank and had gotten the name of a Celestial, and now held the proud name of a Grandmaster.
Of course, this meant nothing to him as he left the Golden Bastion adorned in the golden robe and went further south of the Celestial Realm to begin exploring and hunt down behemoths in full. Even as people neared war, he still had to strengthen himself and his forces, where now a majority of the Harbingers of Sin were in the Soul Forging Realm with not a single one in the Domain Expansion Realm.
The current plan was to of course explore the uniqueness of this Celestial Realm while obtaining the cores and skills of Behemoths that he could absorb himself and also pass down to his subordinates.
He had already been on this venture for the past three days, having actually come across more than 20 Fate Behemoths.
These celestial beasts that were proficient in the law of fate would have been particularly difficult for Elite Explorations Teams to take care of, as they were more than likely more proficient in the law of fate than the Celestials that were following the inheritance of the disciple of fate.
But for Noah, these beasts that were in the Domain Expansion Realm fell under his abilities very easily!
The ones he came across were the same mountainous beasts that towered over 50 or 60 meters, with their traits being very similar to the animals from his homeworld that he had always come across before with their major difference being in color, and of course power.
Among the ones he had seen was a golden Phoenix that he took down through using attacks that were layered with the power of chaos, making sure that he had [Unique Origin] active and other covert skills so that even if someone was watching, they would not be able to understand the true extent of his power. This was simply him being more careful, and he most likely did not have anything to worry about.
He met a variety of fate behemoths the past few days, each of them holding golden feathers or golden furs with their skills being resplendent as they utilized the law of fate.
As for the loot, these Behemoths did not just drop cores, but they also dropped fancy-looking skills related to the law of fate that were not contained under the [Fate's Guardian] skill tree. Many of these skills utilized mana to either form offensive abilities or defensive abilities in the forms of shields or weapons. An example of some of the skill books that he obtained were [Blades of Fate], [Fate Armor], [Golden Berserker], and a few more abilities that were unique to the type of celestial beasts themselves.
There were various abilities, but in his eyes none of them even came close to the abilities under the Fate's Guardian skill tree that continued to expand more and more, each of the abilities within them boosting the entire skill tree to unimaginable levels. The percentage of boosts from these skills already at the Domain Rank actually did not even match the compounded boosts he was receiving from just a single skill in the still Soul Rank Skill Tree.
If he were to pay attention to all of these skills that dropped as loot from the fate behemoths and even the many other beings they had taken down, he would have thousands of skills in his stat panel without even knowing which one to use or utilize. So, many of these skills would be used as sacrificial skills for [Skill Combination] and to bring up his powerful skill trees to even greater heights, with the rest being given to his subordinates for them to gain equivalent
level skills for when he granted them cores of the Domain Expansion Realm as well.
RUMBLE!
Yet another fate behemoth fell as the brilliant light of loot erupted from it, cores and skill books erupting out as they quickly turned into lights and faded away, entering Noah's Expansive Space in the span of a millisecond.
All of the beasts that he had taken down could be considered Elite Behemoths and there were still all in the domain expansion realm. For him to meet the beasts above that, those that were titled Supreme Behemoths, he had to venture deep into the Celestial Realm to even come across these powerful celestial beasts that were at the World Rank or even more terrifyingly above that.
But this would all come later, as his focus now remained on hunting more Behemoths!
Chapter 475 A Sense of Pressure!
Noah's main body continued moving as the cores and the skill books that he placed in the Expansive Space were then quickly accessed by his clone and transferred into Spiritual World for his subordinates to use right away.
The ones prioritized were the Harbingers of Sin, as well as beings like Elena. The domain expansion rank cores and skill books would be even more useful to them as they didn't have the ability to very rapidly max proficiencies of their skill trees and upgrade them as quickly as Noah could. So even with the rapid power leveling that he continued to do with them, their skill trees almost always lacked behind their ranks because of how fast they rose.
He would keep a sufficient amount of Domain Expansion Realm skill books to use as sacrificial skills for his skill trees and give the rest to his people for them to be able to use powerful skills at the level that they enter. He planned to strengthen his subordinates well and have a few of them enter the Domain Expansion Realm and actually participate in the coming conflict of the Celestial Legions and the Legions of Mages, Wizards, Vampyres, and Infernals waiting for them at the Verittas Fortress.
He had also prepared numerous sets of armors from Flame Behemoths and from Infernals for them to equip, along with some completed Chaos Sets made from the many chaos behemoth materials that he had been collecting while hunting with Athena and the Righteous Fire Exploration Team before the tournament.
Only three of the Chaos Sets were able to be completed, and the three strongest combatants that entered into the Domain Expansion Realm before the war began would be given for them to wear.
His main body continued forward in this Celestial Realm as he hunted more behemoths and kept an eye out for any treasures. His gaze was bright as he waited for his clone that could now move with 100% of his strength to clash with the coming Celestials!
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The first thing that was eye-catching was the scintillating colors that now surrounded his body, the passive emission of the purple Aether from the Fledgling Aether Terror abilities and the sparkling blue water elements constantly given off by the Hydromancer's Mantle giving off an eerily beautiful contrast when also putting into account his devilishly handsome looks.
The Hydromancer's Mantle had a particularly unique style as one could almost feel as if waves of clear blue water were constantly moving at the edges of the blue mantle.
His body shone with an aura of a boss monster that he would only find in late game content of the games he used to play in the past, this type of boss monster being able to drop the most valuable loot!
Noah found himself smiling as his thoughts briefly went back to times of extreme ignorance and bliss, times when he could just play games and read novels while he went on with his life.
Those were the times when his mind was free with no responsibilities whatsoever on his shoulders, his life simply going along with the flow as he enjoyed the things around him.
A slight look of reminiscence appeared on his face as he quickly shook himself out of it and breathed out, adopting a serious expression as he thought about the current him.
He was still going along with the flow of things, even moving himself to steer their flow and the flow of fate to the direction he wanted. And now, the things he would have considered to only be in his wildest dreams and as just fantasy were actually right in front of his eyes!
So he shook himself out as he stopped reminiscing and made himself focus on the task at hand, his heart set on continuing forward.
As expected, while wearing the Hydromancer's Mantle, the progression of the Law of Water had nearly doubled, with the water particles rushing towards him much faster than the fire particles.
Even though the Seaborn effect was only for the Law of Water, the faster progression also propelled the opposing fire elements to run slightly faster!
The clone nodded its head as he continued on for another few hours before the tests came to a stop, his figure disappearing as his main body had placed yet another bountiful loot in the Expansive Space.
He waved his hands to take it out as his figure reappeared next to powerful auras of numerous beings training in the Time Space of the Spiritual World.
The Harbingers of Sin and the powerful Spiritual World Beasts were all here training to break past the Soul Rank and step into the Domain Rank as this was the prerequisite that Noah had set for anyone that wanted to participate in the war at the Verittas Fortress!
He was unconsciously becoming more and more protective as he saw that anyone in the Soul Forging Realm only had a chance of surviving in the coming war, and he didn't want any deaths that could be easily prevented.
A particularly arrogant Emperor Penguin raised its beak towards its master as it swallowed a Domain Rank Core, its flippers sticking out with no shame as Noah waved his hands for another similarly ranked core to fly towards him.
He pulled out more and more Domain Rank Cores that his main body continued to place in the expansive space as he hunted down Behemoths, all of them going towards his subordinates as he could sense the auras of many of them about to spill over into the next realm soon.
The Spiritual World Beasts entering into the Domain Rank was an even better situation as it signified that one of the requirements for the next upgrade of the Spiritual World was complete, the only thing remaining being the obtainment of a Large World Core.
This was something Noah would worry about for later as he focused on the current events, continuing the preparations for the war as besides giving his subordinates numerous Cores and Skill Books, he put the task of designating the Item Sets to the Spiritual World System whenever one of them stepped into the next rank.
Among the subordinates currently training, a few others were not in the Time Space as they were busy stabilizing the newly connected Underworld and moving around the Spiritual World thereafter, with others still looking over the many new worlds that were now connected.
He was not the only one busily moving, the forces he was connected to all feeling a sense of pressure as they collectively moved towards a brighter future!
Chapter 476 Ahh! My Progenitor!
Elena was floating in the skies of the Spiritual World as her face was that of immense wonder and infatuation.
A few days ago, her Progenitor- nay, her Master, had brought her into this wondrous land once more after saving them from the clutches of the Celestial Founder.
Her Master had actually duplicated his body as he ingeniously still kept his identity as a Celestial while also working against them simultaneously to save her and many others from certain death!
It was something beautiful and resplendent, something that only her Progenitor would be able to do!
She had great worries about her little brother in the Underworld the moment the Celestial Founder called for its destruction, and her Master had somehow been able to do something as ridiculous as teleport the entire Prime World away while dominating its core at the same time.
It was at this moment that Elena realized that she really did not know her Progenitor as much as she thought she did!
What type of being could subjugate entities that were the centers of entire worlds? Who could then even teleport such an enormous ent
ity to an entirely different quadrant in the Light Expanse?
What energy was required?! What grandeur! What magnificence!
'Ahh! My Progenitor!'
She found her hands clutching her chest as her thoughts went in this direction while she floated in the skies of the Spiritual World.
She had already stabilized the newly added Underworld as she gained the knowledge that her Progenitor already had numerous worlds like this connected, each of them with their own set of beings that were all being taken care of by him.
She flew along the paradisical worlds as her gaze traveled to the Central Continent of the Spiritual World and flew towards a certain location there.
Not to just mention the four floating Continents that were beautifully seen all around her, she actually found the Central Continent to be more wondrous as within it, she found the unbelievable land known as the Time Space, as well as the location where her Progenitor created fearsome armors and weapons that nobody else had ever seen.
But even more than this was the collection of portals that one could find at a particular area of the Spiritual World.
Her eyes gazed upon different colored portals that were ordered in a circular manner on a large snowy clearing.
There were names floating above these portals that would make one tremble when they realized exactly what their meaning was. She could see the titles above the portals as such- [Demon World Portal], [Ancient Blood World Portal], [Beast World Portal], [Underworld Portal]...
Her shining eyes saw many of such portals spectacularly laid out, figures of beings of different colors and races occasionally seeing coming in and out of these portals as they actually transferred from these many worlds and into the Spiritual World.
Almost all of the beings coming in and out of these portals had one singular thing on their faces- wonder and amazement as they came and went with their own assigned jobs.
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