LEVEL 0 IMMORTAL-Chapter 41: The Final Barrier

When Elias used his wisp form to tear through the barrier, it was a quiet affair; the barrier would stretch and deform before breaking, and that was the only change.

This was not what happened with the tornadoes.

As if he had just placed a burning hot knife into a bowl filled with oil. The tips of the tornadoes touching the barrier instantly went white hot, and a loud keening sound blasted out from the barrier as if it were a scream.

The wisp form of Elias was pushed backwards by the shockwaves that blew out from the point of contact between the barrier and the tornadoes, but he did not stop impressing his thoughts on the vitality tornadoes, not knowing if this wisp form would still have the mental fortitude to control these tornadoes once they were out of his control.

Elias wished to press his hands against his ears in this form, but he could not, looking over at the barrier, it had begun to shine as bright as the sun, as the tornadoes, given their orders to fill up the empty pools of Lumina behind the barrier, did not stop.

Suddenly, the pressure that the wisp was bearing from the tornadoes began to ease a bit, and he looked over in astonishment as he understood that he was feeling less pressure because the tornadoes of vitality were being consumed in a frantic manner. It was as if this barrier were a black hole, and it was devouring the vitality that was being used to break it.

Elias was worried at first, thinking that he was unknowingly strengthening the barrier instead of weakening it. How ironic would that be if, in his attempt to use his head to cheat his way out of the problem, he ended up worsening his situation?

However, he heard a loud crack like thunder, then another, and before he knew it, the barrier before him shattered with a loud scream that sounded like the cry of a woman.

Like a beast unleashed on succulent prey, the vitality tornadoes fell on the empty Pools of Lumina and began boring into the webs of darkness that covered them.

One part of his mind was concentrated on making sure that the tornadoes did not lose the image he was impressing into them, while the second was analyzing everything that had happened.

He had just opened ninety pools of Lumina and there was just one barrier left for him to tear open before he could access all hundred pools of Lumina. He had noticed that filling up eighty pools of Lumina had not truly consumed any of the cloud of vitality hovering over his head, he was sure if the total vitality over his head was separated into a hundred units, he had barely consumed even one unit.

However, the moment he began using these tornadoes to break the barrier, the cloud of vitality began to shrink, and it was not as if he had pulled all of that vitality into his body; it was as if the act of using these tornadoes to touch the barrier was consuming them in a way that was beyond his control.

From looking at the current size of the massive vitality cloud over the head of his body, he may have lost thirty percent of it in breaking this barrier.

Elias did not regret losing so much vitality that he was sure would have taken him deep into the Fury Forge Stage, and he only needed to hear the calls of the sixteen purple orbs behind him to smile like a maniac, and in a short while, that number would increase to eighteen.

If he needed to consume all of the cloud of vitality above to destroy the last barrier in front of him, then he was willing to take that bet. If he could get twenty points of Miracle or Damnation to spend every time he leveled up as a Wisp, then any sacrifice he made was worth it in his opinion.

His Strength, Agility, Durability, Perception, and even his Will could shoot up explosively every time he leveled up, and he wondered if this was the reason Angels lived for so long.

Perhaps they might not open all the barriers inside them, but if they did, then they may have so many points of Miracle and Damnation to spend that it would eclipse any Siphon, and with access to a Fragment of Divinity that contained more mysteries that Elias knew he had barely scratched the surface of, they were potent forces of power that could shake anywhere they went.

The other observation he made was the cry of that familiar voice... that woman, and her crazed ranting. With his perfect memory, he could not mistake a voice after hearing it once, and even though he was ignoring everything she was saying, it did not mean he was not noting it down.

Elias wondered what he would do if a third party interfered with the breaking of the final barrier in front of him, and for a while, he had no response to this line of thinking.

Although he was thinking quite fast, the webs of darkness over the Pools of Lumina were quickly shattered. They were quite resilient, but Elias’s touch had shifted the way the tornadoes behaved; they no longer pushed at the barrier; instead, they pierced through it. It was as if they were no longer acknowledging the presence of the barriers in front of them.

This was because Elias was showing them an image of the pools with no web of darkness over them, and the tornadoes were simply trying to fill up these empty pools in front of them.

With the webs of darkness shattered, Elias drew in a deep breath and focused on the final barrier that would give him a hundred pools of Lumina. Two purple orbs were rising behind the wisp, and their combined light seemed to be giving him energy even as their cries to be used by him were becoming increasingly maddening.

Elias did not think that he would ever thank the Passenger for the years of mental torture, but it was that torture that grew his Will to this point, and gave him the chance to fight for excellence.

He allowed himself one final moment to relax, because the cry of that woman had given him a horrifying premonition.

Then, directing the tornadoes to the final barrier before him, Elias, in his wisp form, spoke aloud,

"Again."