1443 Nice to meet you, Nux Leander.
‘Is he interested in her?’
Aeliana thought inwardly, soon, however, she shook her head.
This didn’t seem like a mere attraction…
It…
It was something more… something much more complicated.
‘Haaah… let’s not think about it right now…’
Aeliana inwardly shook her head, then, as she glanced at Nux who was looking at Vyriana with a complicated expression since he was unable to come up with an answer to her question, she decided to help the poor child.
“Vyriana, stop bothering my student. Do you even hear what you are saying? Keeping distance from you? What sane man won’t do that? Your image in the Ancestral Order isn’t exactly positive.
Do you think he hasn’t heard rumours about you going around challenging and beating any cultivators you deem strong?”
“Isn’t he doing the same thing…?” Vyriana retorted.
“He is doing everything officially, and it is others who come and challenge him, not the other way around.”
“…”
Vyriana momentarily turned silent, then, taking this chance, Aeliana grabbed Nux’s hand and, “Anyways, stop bothering my disciple. He just came out of the Trial, he needs time to get used to his new body. So I need to train him.
And aren’t you supposed to accompany the Seven Heroes as they return to Yrniel? What are you doing here?”
“Those so-called Heroes are boring, giving them such tit-”
“There are reasons we do that, Vyriana. Take this seriously.” Aeliana spoke with a strict look on her face.
“Whatever.” In the end, the Dragon just snorted. Aeliana sighed as she then took Nux to her office.
…
“Thank you…”
Sensing that no one was around them, Nux spoke with a grateful smile on his face.
Not wanting to open the topic again, Aeliana simply nodded at him before she shifted the topic, “Do you now have 3 Bloodlines in your body?”
“That is correct.”
Nux nodded with a smile as he returned to his human form.
“Do you feel any discomfort of sorts? Any problems within your body?”
Aeliana questioned and Nux shook his head,
“I do not. Everything is perfectly fine, the three bloodlines are perfectly balanced inside my body and I can activate any of them whenever I want just as I expected.”
“I have no clue how am I going to explain this to them?”
“The Progenitors huh…”
“Mhm.”
Aeliana nodded, she had already told Nux about Progenitors and how she shared his peculiarity with them.
Why did the Progenitors not take any action against an abnormality like Nux? Well, that was because of Aeliana.
For better or for worse, all the Progenitors loved Aeliana a little too much and since she had decided to take him in as her disciple, despite being as curious as they were about him, they still didn’t make a move.
In their mind, nothing in this world was worth offending the girl they see as their own daughter. They owed her at least this much. Not to mention that Aeliana herself was an extremely responsible girl, the Progenitors knew she wouldn’t do something that might harm Yrniel or the Order.
The Vampire was given the freedom to move however she wanted, that was how much the Progenitors trusted her.
“Anyways, what is your plan going forward?” Aeliana questioned with a curious look on her face.
“Can you open all the Trials for me?” Nux questioned.
And as if she was expecting this question, Aeliana just chuckled, “Get used to your new body first, child. Don’t rush things.
Actually, let’s just continue with the 10-year consecutive win rewards. This way, you won’t see fighting other cultivators to be a chore and I won’t feel like I am spoiling you too much just because you are my disciple.
Earn your rewards, child.” Aeliana smiled and Nux simply stared at the woman with a deadpan look on his face. She was making this unnecessarily complicated.
Not that he had any other choice but to agree to the woman’s conditions.
Time passed, Nux continued his training, he shifted from one dimension to another, efficiently utilizing the time he had to its full extent.
His undefeated streak in the tournament continued to grow, no cultivators ever came close to making him sweat, let alone beat him. It was almost demoralizing. By now, almost everyone in the Order had given up and had accepted him to be Aeliana’s deserving disciple.
And as Nux continued to dominate his enemies, he continued to take more and more trials, Elven Trials, Catkin Trial, Shadow Demon Trial, Incubus Trial, he even went for the Devouring Demon Trial to get the Devouring Mist and the Dwarven Blood.
Of course, he didn’t like his dwarf form so he didn’t use it a lot, however, Dwarven Physique which could potentially allow him to create top-level artifacts was something too interesting for him to ignore.
Especially now, when he wanted to learn about creation more than ever.
After all, he still needed to understand how his system worked and how to recreate it, mass-producing it for his wives if possible.
After winning for the 90th time in a row, Nux currently sat in front of Aeliana, who looked at him with a tired look on her face and, “What trial would you like to take now?” She was already used to this pattern, heck, she doesn’t even bother observing the tournaments anymore since the results are so obvious. There were even some years when no one bothered challenging Nux at all.
He was now a Peak Great Sage and had made quite some improvements. Aeliana was satisfied by her disciple’s progress, therefore, she didn’t mind spoiling him a bit.
“Human Trials.”
“What…?”
This time, however, Aeliana, who was getting used to Nux’s antics frowned in confusion once again.
“Human Trial? Don’t you already have Primordial Level Human Blood?”
“I need to confirm something.”
Nux didn’t explain much.
“Do you wish to go right now?” Aeliana just sighed.
When has he taken sane decisions anyway? What’s the worst that could happen anyway?
“Give me a year.”
“Hmm? You are not going the instant I offer you?” Aeliana was surprised.
“I need to make some preparations.”
He had pretty much mastered all his Bloodlines and the Powers that came with it, this time, getting used to Bloodlines much stronger than what he had in his past life gave him strength far stronger than his former Great Sage self.
Now, however, it was time to progress with Zenith Flow, getting Caesar’s Blood and combining all his Bloodlines was an essential step.
But before that, he needed to break through the Semi Saint Stage, a stage where he was supposed to reform his body.
Thinking about it, Nux, who returned to his room closed his eyes and started cultivating.
Soon, he broke through Semi Saint Stage, beginning to reform his body and suffering through that agonizing pain. Nux’s pain resistance was extremely high, but even then, reforming his feet wasn’t something he could bear through without his body trembling continuously.
However, Nux knew that this was not the worst part of the story.
It was the next one. The one he was about to take.
Essence stored in his body rushed into his brain and the next instant, his brain exploded.
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Soon, Nux appeared in a completely different place, a dark place where nothing was visible.
‘I am back here again huh…’ Nux muttered as she looked around the dark place.
He could sense that this place of devoid of life, just like before, he tried to understand what this place was but failed to do so. In the end, he could only try and ‘feel’ where he was and remember the feeling.
Nux didn’t know how long passed, but he was then sent back to his world. He noticed his body and realized that he was now a Semi Saint.
Noticing that a year had passed ever since he sat and tried to break through, he, without waiting any further, appeared in Aliana’s office.
The Vampire was ready to keep her promise, seeing that Nux had broken through, he praised him, Nux nodded with a smile. He was then taken to Human Trial Tower, without further ado, Nux entered the Tower, The familiar castle appeared in front of him, the fight started and…
Just like before,
He faced that same, strange beast, at the 40th stage and once again, he was defeated.
Reaching the 40th stage was also the trigger for Caesar and Faustina to not lose their patience, the two Progenitors quickly made an appearance in front of Aeliana and Nux.
Then, Caesar cut his finger, his Blood drop flew in the air before entering Nux’s body. Yrniel reacted, even Azriel woke up, Nux’s body continued to get stronger, all the blood merged into one as he returned as a human, this time, however, he didn’t need any ‘forms’ to access the abilities of a Bloodline.
“Well, this turned out to be quite interesting.”
Faustina commented, looking at Nux with eyes full of curiosity and interest.
Nux, who was looking at his ‘mother’, felt nostalgia hitting him hard, Faustina, who mistook his silence for confusion introduced herself.
“Oh, you must be wondering who I am,
My name is Faustina Origin,
People also call me the Mother of all Humans.
Nice to meet you, Nux Leander.”
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