Chapter 118: The Philosopher's Stone, Resurrection of Bakawa
Chapter 118: The Philosopher's Stone, Resurrection of Bakawa (1425)
Time slowly came to 1235:12 p.m. on the night of December 31, .
More than a thousand people gathered in the arena of Saint Laurent College. Some were teachers, some were students, and some were parents of students. They all came for the Philosopher's Stone Refining Ceremony.
At this moment, they were all staring nervously at the 108 floating platforms in the sky arranged in a specific order. Those were the 108 Fools and their Enlighteners.
At the center of the ceremony, Ash and Rikki stood quietly.
Ruiji's face looked a little unhappy because the rules just announced were not in their favor.
After the ceremony begins, everyone's levels will be added up and averaged to achieve a certain degree of fairness.
This also means that the challenge levels of everyone are not very different, and this time it is a free-for-all mode, which gives some people the possibility of being overwhelmed.
As for who the elephant is, needless to say, it must be the famous Ash.
"How do we fight, boss?" asked Rikki.
"Wait for them to come." Ash raised his eyes slightly, but he didn't look panicked at all. After all, his challenge coefficient was over 10 even without using his power.
No matter how average their levels are, no matter how besieged they are, he still has an absolute advantage.
Seeing Ash so calm, Riki felt a little relieved.
Time passed little by little, and in the blink of an eye it was 23:59.
"I'll make it clear for the last time. This ceremony is carried out out of necessity. Please do not kill anyone. If you violate this rule, the Hand of Mystery will do its utmost to hold the person and the forces behind him accountable."
The old voice sounded in everyone's ears and repeated the rules.
"Well, the time has come for the transition from the old to the new, and the ceremony begins!"
As he finished speaking, patterns of various colors lit up underneath the 108 floating platforms, intricately connecting to form a dense pattern.
The moment the lines appeared, Ash felt his strength being drained.
When the draw stopped, Ash glanced at his level and saw a bloody 57 next to 40.
boom!
A loud roar was heard, and two fools who had a grudge against each other took the lead in confronting each other, and their mentor also took the lead in confronting each other.
The roar was like a command, and everyone took action at the same time. Except for those who wanted to seek revenge, most people rushed to the center.
Even though no one communicated, most people had a tacit understanding that Ash and Rikke should be eliminated first.
Otherwise, even if they survive to the mid-game, no one will be able to control them, and the final winner can be said to be locked in advance.
Looking at the students rushing towards him from all directions, Ash snapped his fingers, and the second body walked out from behind him, then spread out his ten fingers full of rings.
There is no need to chant, ten magic circles are aimed at ten directions, followed by an endless torrent of spells.
Fireballs, lightning, wind blades, light beams... spells came at them like a tide, with mutant spells mixed in between.
A chaotic roar sounded, and the first wave of attack spontaneously organized by the students was put out.
However, despite the huge momentum, not a single student was eliminated. After all, the spells used by Ash were ordinary first-level spells, which were not very powerful.
But this was enough to achieve Ash's goal, to keep some weak students out and prevent them from causing trouble.
Ten more blood spirit clones walked out of Ash's body. They drew their swords and attacked the students who had broken through the spell.
Rikki stood next to Ash, with two green spikes beside her circling quickly like snakes, piercing the spells flying towards them.
Her originally brown eyes also turned light yellow, and Ash gave her the original extreme level of [Fire Eyes and Golden Eyes] through [Climbing the Dragon Pillar].
Although it cannot reach the ultimate level due to his bloodline, it is enough to see through spells.
Soon, the first eliminated person appeared, and he was knocked off the floating platform by a sword from the Blood Spirit clone.
After he fell off the floating platform, two balls of light floated out of him and his Initiate and sank into Ash and Rikki's bodies.
Apart from feeling that the [Heart of Elements] and [Antibodies of Elements] that he brought back specially for today were strengthened, there were no other changes.
Riki's reaction was much stronger than Yaxiu's. She felt that her physique and some of her inherent skills had been strengthened to a certain extent.
A hint of greed appeared in her eyes, but as soon as it appeared, she shuddered because she felt an invisible sword piercing into her brain.
"Keep your mind calm and don't be bewitched by the effects of the ritual." Ash's calm voice came from the side.
The moment the ball of light entered his body, he felt something was wrong. It carried a faint bewitching power, so he immediately used the sword intent to suppress Ruiji's mind. She had not yet been endowed with [Innocence], and her potential had not been sublimated to the level of intention, so her resistance to this aspect was really poor.
"Yes." Rikki nodded.
The battle continued, and one after another, the weaker students were eliminated by the blood spirit clones. Even if they worked together to break up one blood spirit clone, what made them despair was that another blood spirit clone walked out of Ash's body and rushed into the battlefield as if there was no consumption.
After realizing that the clones were just a small trick for Ash, the stronger students quickly united to break through the defense line formed by the clones and rushed towards Ash together.
Ash stretched out his hand towards the second body, and a lightsaber made purely of light elements was held in his hand. He used it alone, for he was afraid that he would accidentally kill these people.
Mystery: Sun Shower
Golden spots of light fell like raindrops, and the students who rushed over immediately used their own methods to defend themselves.
Those who used weapons to resist found that the light spots seemed light, but they were actually heavy when they came into contact with them; those who used magic to resist found that the light spots were extremely sharp and could directly shatter their defensive spells.
With just one move, most of the students were eliminated, and the remaining students and people watching outside the venue also showed horrified expressions.
This is definitely not the strength that can be achieved with a challenge coefficient of 10. Ash's combat power has definitely reached the level of Divine Forbidden Area (short for the Holy Forbidden Area).
How old is he? He seems to be only 17 years old.
The lightsaber disintegrated, and Ash grabbed another lightsaber in his hand.
Mystery: Sun Shower
Another wave of golden raindrops fell, and another group of students were eliminated. Now there were only a handful of students standing on the field.
"Are you still coming?" Ash stood with his hands empty, looking at the students around him, "You should know by now that you can't beat me."
"Save some time and jump down by yourselves."
However, none of the remaining students jumped down. Before Ash came, they were all famous geniuses in the academy.
There is no false reputation under a great name. No matter what their usual character is, their character is naturally up to standard.
To ask them to surrender with just one sentence would be too much of an insult to them.
"on!"
A young man shouted loudly and rushed towards Ash with a spear in hand. Before Ash arrived, he was the number one person in the academy.
The gun was as powerful as thunder and as fast as lightning. In the blink of an eye, it pierced in front of Ash.
But it can only reach his eyes.
The young man looked at Ash in shock as he held his gun firmly with just one hand.
At this moment, the remaining people also rushed here, but their target was not Ash, but Riki who was standing beside them.
Through observation, they have discovered that the Fool is the key to this ritual. Only if Riki, the Fool, is eliminated first, will the remaining Ash be automatically eliminated. But how could Ash not have observed what they could observe?
The second body, which had stopped releasing attack spells at some point, stood in front of Riki, with layers of spell auras stacked up madly in front of it.
When the remaining people reached the second body, all kinds of defensive spells broke out crazily to resist wave after wave of attacks.
As for Ash, he just swung his hand, threw the young man away, and then killed the rest of the people.
Like a tiger among a flock of sheep, Ash eliminated all of them with just his ordinary punches and kicks.
The last person to be eliminated was the young man just mentioned.
"You are such a monster!" the young man exclaimed as he looked at Ash.
Bang! Ash punched him out of the floating platform with an expressionless face.
The Blood Spirit clones rushed out and quickly eliminated the remaining students.
After all the eliminations were completed, information appeared in front of Ash.
{Inherent skill [Heart of Elements] has reached the inherent skill limit. Do you want to upgrade it to a unique skill?}
{Inherent skill: [Elemental Antibody] has reached the inherent skill limit. Do you want to upgrade it to a unique skill?}
{It is detected that the skill [Heart of Elements] and the skill [Antibodies of Elements] have the possibility of combined sublimation. Do you want to consume 3 points of divine sublimation?}
Ash transferred the two skills back to his second body, then transferred his Indestructible Body back, before choosing Yes.
[Achievement Points: 1035-》735]
{The combination of skills · [Heart of Elements] and skills · [Antibodies of Elements] has been successfully upgraded, and the inherent skill · [Elemental Spirit Body] has been solidified.}
[Elemental Spirit]: The body is made entirely of elements and is immune to physical damage.
At the moment when the [Elemental Spirit] solidified, the second body began to fade, and the surrounding magic elements were infused into the second body, replacing every one of his cells.
This startled the dean Khalifa who was paying attention here. He recognized what the second body was doing, elementalization.
It is amazing that Bakawa's ritual can directly sublimate the [Elemental Spirit].
Khalifa exclaimed.
He thought that this was the end of it. He believed that this was the effect of the Philosopher's Stone. After all, even if someone upgraded the [Heart of the Elements] and [Antibodies of the Elements] to the extreme level, no one had yet summarized the experience of how to combine and sublimate them.
But in fact, he was wrong.
{Inherent Skill: [Elemental Spirit] has reached the inherent skill limit. Do you want to upgrade it to a unique skill?}
Yes.
【Can! 】
The highest and greatest voice sounded, and Ash was not too surprised.
After all, two extreme inherent skills can be combined and upgraded into a unique skill, so there is no reason why the skill upgraded from the combination of two extreme inherent skills cannot be successfully upgraded.
After taking the second body into his body and waiting for it to transform, Ash looked at the beam of light that appeared behind him.
Inside the beam of light, a blood-red crystal was gradually growing larger.
"You go down first and then enter the dream room." Ash said to Riki beside him. He didn't believe that this matter would end like this.
"Okay." Ruiji nodded and rushed down immediately.
But just as she rushed off the floating platform, a colorful ball of light rushed out of her body and headed straight for the light column.
"Cough!" Rikki coughed up blood. Not only did the ball of light take away all the enhancements she had just accumulated, but some inexplicable things from her were also stolen.
This instantaneous change from strong to weak caused her body to suffer severe damage.
Her figure disappeared in an instant.
Ash watched quietly as the ball of light rushed into the light column and dissolved into the blood-red crystal. He watched as the blood-red crystal gradually grew into flesh and blood, forming a naked boy who looked to be about eighteen years old.
Ash raised his eyebrows, and with the help of his [Fire Eyes], he was able to analyze some things.
It is said to be the ritual of refining the Philosopher's Stone, so it must be the ritual of refining the Philosopher's Stone.
Gather the strengths of hundreds of geniuses and eventually create a body of a sage with extraordinary talent.
"I didn't expect that you were not affected by greed." The young man opened his eyes, and a hint of regret was revealed in his dark eyes.
At the end of the ceremony, the flesh and blood sacrifice of the Fool and the Enlightened is required, but unexpectedly, Ash is completely unaffected by the ceremony and lets Rikki escape.
Fortunately, this step has little impact, it just slightly reduces the initial level of generation.
"Bakawa." Ash said in a firm tone.
"It's me." The young man nodded and admitted his identity openly.
Ash glanced at Bakawa and said, "Aren't you afraid of being beaten to death by appearing in front of me like this?"
"I was afraid, so I didn't perform the last step of the ritual." Bakawa nodded, "The last step requires the flesh and blood of you Enlightened Ones and Fools as nourishment."
"You want to kill me, so I have no choice but to drag them to be buried with me."
"Just this?" Ash raised his arm, revealing the lines on his palm.
"Of course not." Bakawa shook his head. "You must have some knowledge of the mark and have the corresponding methods, so I used another method."
Bakawa looked at the owl that appeared at the side and said, "Dean, please let me go. I can swear on the divine contract of the Goddess of Dawn that you will stop using my tricks after I leave."
The owl made a sound: "You are worthy of being chosen by Tzeentch. You are very good at playing the open game, Bakawa."
He couldn't tell whether Bakawa was telling the truth or lying, but he certainly didn't dare to gamble the lives of hundreds of students on Bakawa's words.
"I just want to live longer and learn better, Dean." Bakawa gave the owl a wizard's salute.
The owl thought for a moment and said, "After signing the divine contract, you can leave."
He compromised.
"Thank you." Bakawa nodded.
The owl reached out and a golden scroll appeared in its hand, it plucked a feather and began to write, and when it was finished, it passed it to Bakawa.
Bakawa took a look and neatly marked it with blood.
The scroll glowed, confirming that the name was real and valid.
"Then I'll be leaving, Dean," said Bakawa.
"The farther you get out of here, the better." The owl said unceremoniously, "Otherwise, I'll be the first one to come and kill you."
Bakawa saluted once more and turned to leave.
No one tried to stop it, because no one could afford the consequences of killing hundreds of students.
Looking at Bakawa turning and leaving, Ash did not make any move, but just lowered his eyes and waited for an opportunity.
Asking for a monthly ticket!
(End of this chapter)