NIP Chapter 132: Hints of a weapon
Chapter 132: Hints of a weapon
Days passed so fast that Ray had lost the date; that day would have marked the third month after his return to earth.
Most of his days passed in a set routine: sleeping for three hours, training with Marian or alone for five hours, and the rest was crafting crystals or research on magic.
His business flourished in no time. At first the military had passed on working with him, but after seeing the benefits for the underworld, they had agreed to it too. They thought they would cut 5 to 7 crystals in each one, and Ray would get 1 or 2 in each magical crystal, but after the cube of magic, he got 10 for each order from the military and 8 from the underworld!
For his own goals, peace was the most beneficial option between him and the military; in just three months, he had gathered 120000 base crystals, 70000 dark crystals, and the rest were white crystals that he gave to Jade and Marian.
At level 9 with a heavy cost, one could upgrade his abilities; that was why Ray wanted both of them to be as strong as possible while still having a long way to reach level 9.
"I need half a million to secure my level up, and there’s still no way to get anything useful." Ray sighed to himself; after long consideration, he decided to ask for help from someone else.
That was how I ended up once more in the glass sphere in the space facing a pink-haired immortal.
"Blood angel, you better have a good reason to call me here." Unlike the last time she was clearly happy with being in one room with Ray.
Ray didn’t waste any time. "I need your help; take me to the center of the sun and protect me in there for one day."
"Not gonna happen." She stood up from her chair, "next time that you contact me, its better to be artifact."
With that, she just left Ray alone, not even letting him offer up anything in return.
"Guess I have to do it myself." The hand wanted to take him back to earth, but Ray ignored it.
The part he lacked the most in making a power was an energy source; a mythical weapon needed an energy source as big as the whole planet, and the energy had a direct effect on the weapon’s abilities.
There was a free unlimited energy source in the sky; the problem was to use it. He had to be protected against the insane gravity of the sun while staying alive in constant fusion explosions and temperatures that could kill him in seconds.
"Even the gravity of earth won’t let me get out; the sun will devour me!" One thing was for sure: he needed help to do it. With the Aria refusing to help, Famine was the other option, but Ray didn’t want to be in debt; the three people she wanted to die for now had more benefit to him.
Shaking the hand, he teleported back to the bunker. Marian and Jade were still sleeping naked on the bed; not wanting to wake them up, Ray teleported to a small city in the southern continent.
The fresh breeze welcome him, with a corn field so huge that yellow had covered the whole ground.
He didn’t need to wait for so long as a white portal appeared in front of him, with a woman in military uniform stepping out; she had cut her hair short to her shoulders, and her small face was still as always with the empty eyes.
"What? I was in the middle of a meeting!"
Ray got straight to the point: "I need to go in the sun."
"What? Have you watched too many sci-fi movies? Katarina’s surprise didn’t last as she started to explain, "It’s simply not possible unless you make two immortals to protect you at all the time."
"Already tried. How about that guy with fusion magic?" Ray remembered him from the festival; apparently, he had refused to let him craft crystals for him.
Katarina thought for a second. "Make him level 18, and then he can do it. We are talking about a real star, not some shit that humans make with magic." Her hands opened another portal. "Is it even worth it? Just buy some weapon!"
As Ray stayed silent, his other hope left him alone; if Katarina had no way to do it, then it was truly impossible.
"There is only one way remaining."
Another worry that Ray had was the parasite; he had destroyed a big part of his plans, and the enemy didn’t seem the kind that would just forgive him. The unfair part was he, in space, on a planet with a different flow of time, could spend ten years while Ray had just spent three months.
"For me to have a chance against him, I should be at the top of humanity!" Seeing how the immortals ignored him reminded him that the only thing that mattered in how others would behave toward him was power.
Even after so much strength, Ray felt insignificant to the universe.
"I should be going for some time; you guys can make the crystals in my place. I don’t know when I will return." He sent the message to both Marian and Jade; if he wanted to go through the normal process of getting stronger, it would have taken years, which he didn’t have.
His system searched for a weak signal in his mind; the way to connect to it was very weak. From the beginning Ray had felt it, but it was as clear as day that it was a trap.
In a far away galaxy, Orcus still had its connection with his soul; it was simply impossible, or someone did it to look for him.
"Let’s head back to some elves." Ray answered back to the signal with his location; the sky in front of him cracked as a machine hand pulled him inside.
"It’s not a portal, it’s a rift! Instead of using magic teleportation, they bend space and time itself!" Ray smiled, "Instead of the sun, maybe I should push for a nova!"