Undying Warlord

'Now that I think about it, I really don't know anything about the Primordial Ascension. I've accepted everything because I became stronger much faster than others, but I never questioned anything…' Dilan realized after a short chat with Ariel Silvertale.

He got to know many pieces of important information, including the fact that there would only be one Divine occupation for every Primordial Ascension that happened.

Apparently, the Primordial Ascensions didn't happen often and they were initiated by a being that wanted to spread mana through the entire universe.

It would use the Primordial Ascension to awaken the mana of a specific planet and once the planet would be fully awoken, its overflowing mana would spread out to awaken other planets.

This was pretty interesting but it didn't really help Dilan to figure out why someone would make the effort to create a system, numerous Gates, advancement missions and many more things just to awaken a planet's mana. That didn't really make any sense but only the Creator of the system and the Primordial Ascension could explain the same.

In the end, he shared a few personal pieces of information in exchange for a wide variety of information. Ariel Silvertale was very knowledgeable and sharing the fact that he was a Tier-2 existence along with a few other things about himself didn't really matter to him.

He was more than willing to expose a lot more as long as he would get the information he wanted to get his hands on!

However, now it was time for him and the girls to enter the Blood Monarch's Sanctum.

They didn't receive a single notification upon entering the Instance Dungeon but that was not something they were bothered about right now. The three women knew that Dilan was chatting with someone and the changes in his expression were easy for them to notice and conclude that he was talking to someone credible enough. Had that not been the case, he would have closed the chat right away.

This led them to conclude that Dilan had been chatting with a woman! That was something the three women were certain of, and they didn't really like it. Even Yvonne had a bad feeling about this, which was odd.

Dilan ignored the three glaring women and he smiled, feeling that it was worth befriending Ariel to have someone to answer his questions in the future.

It was also quite relaxing to have someone to talk to and get some information about her personality and strength, especially if it could be achieved just by chatting around a little bit.

He was not scheming anything when chatting with her but it was still interesting to know how much one could read between the lines, even when it looked like one wanted to hide the most personal information about oneself.

'Chatting is scary,' Dilan felt all of a sudden when he realized just how much one exposed about oneself while chatting with other beings from other planets.

If someone with hostile intentions were to find his planet because of him, that would be extremely terrifying…but also somewhat exciting.

Dilan knew that he would behave a bit weirdly in certain situations, which was why he ended up sighing deeply as he entered the Sanctum of the Blood Monarch.

The moment he stepped through the doors, his sight blurred and everything around him seemed to change in an instant.

'A messy teleportation?' Dilan wondered, closing his eyes for two seconds before he opened them once again.

He had appeared in a humongous library, where only he and his three female companions were located. Victoria and Kathrine had slumped to the ground to prevent vomiting all of a sudden, while Yvonne was holding her head as if she could magically stop the world spinning around herself just by doing that.

Dilan smiled at this before he averted his attention from his three companions to take a look around.

'Is that really just a library? There is so much mana….every book is overflowing with it…' Dilan swallowed his saliva, feeling the tremendous pressure coming off from certain books.

It was quite interesting but also a bit weird at the same time.

Dilan was just about to wonder what they were supposed to do in this instance dungeon when he and the three girls received two notifications.

[By entering the Library of ten thousand techniques, the first trial has been initiated!]

[1st Trial – Learn ability without an ability crystal!]

Dilan and the others were confused by this. They didn't even know that it was possible to learn an ability without an ability crystal. It would make things so much easier if one could actually learn abilities from other means than a disposal ability crystal.

Dilan picked one of the books from the shelf next to him and he wanted to open it when a flood of the information entered his mind.

"We can only learn abilities without ability crystals as long as we possess the necessary compatibility with the said ability. From the looks of it, they will be automatically added to the Log of the Ancient if an Ascender takes the effort to improve them at a much faster rate than abilities that are not bound to the Log of the Ancient…" Dilan mumbled when he had digested and comprehended the information that had flooded his mind.

"What do you mean by 'improve much faster than abilities that are not bound to the Log of the Ancient'?" Yvonne asked, picking up a book from the shelf herself.

She received the same flash of information and looked at Dilan with even more confusion. He was talking about something that was not included in the strands of information that had entered her mind.

"Ah, I forgot to tell you. The Primordial Ascension's Second Phase will remove the upgrade function of active and passive abilities. Your ability will naturally be upgraded the more you use it, and your proficiency will improve as well. That being said, abilities you don't bind to your Log of the Ancient can be considered martial art or Spellcraft techniques because you can only use them as long as you possess the necessary requirements to use them and a high comprehension.

That being said, someone who is in possession of an ability related to fire will be capable of learning certain fire-attributed techniques," Dilan tried to explain in simple terms, only to realize that it was pretty hard to do so.

"But we never possessed an aptitude toward certain affinities before and were still able to bind the abilities of ability crystals? How is that possible," Kathrine asked, trying to comprehend what was going on.

"Ability crystals force their way through to the Essence crystal, and they plant the necessary aptitude inside your body. That being said, you and I have an aptitude toward lightning, just that yours is higher because you have an occupation that relies on it, while I have only [Thunder Step].

This means that you will be able to learn Martial Arts and Spellcrafts related to lightning at a much higher degree than it is the case for me…At least as long as Thunder Step is still at a low-tier," Dilan said, trying to understand a few things by himself.

It was not as if he could understand everything immediately either. He required time to figure out what was going out as well, and he was confused right now…very confused!

'I shouldn't allow this confusing topic to affect me. Rather than being too bothered about all of this, I should really try to comprehend what is going on. One step at a time towards my goal…'