I now have two paths ahead of me: I could live lavishly or die trying.
Let's pipe down for a bit. I just got a bit of my memories and I shouldn't focus on bad things.
I should wait a bit, get used to the people of the Eastsea city and then roam around the area to widen my horizons.
I recall that in the fourth book, the spirit beasts had a planet for themselves and they were supervised.
Hmmm. Let's get to Shrek.
He went to sleep.
A few months later.
Not many things changed. I am still busy all day.
And I am checking for new materials and information from the various brokers about the situations in different cities and towns everyday as information is power.
As I am getting stronger, it is becoming easier to work for longer periods of time without getting tired and that is detrimental to my situation as I need to get rid of the energy not become energy efficient.
I have completely stopped my dangerous eating habits and instead am now progressing slowly but continuously.
The past months, I have excellented my cooking and now I make good food everyday.
I can have a good life and I can let my hatred destroy me...
I don't know. I don't find things worthwhile. I feel dead nowadays.
Not to say, I wasn't alive in all this time. That would just make everything I have done worthless. I just gained a bit of my salty self. That was it. I still think that all humans should perish if they become don't have humanity or empathy.
I can't expect change from the masses.
Not much has changed since I recalled these memories, except I am not feeling hesitation or doubt as of much.
"Without violence, earning money is hard. Some people spend their whole lives and still can't afford a ten thousand year old spirit soul."
"Just a few times. Just a few. I promise."
That's it.
I consoled myself... since I am alone and lonely😞.
Hmph!
Hahaha hahah hahaha HA HA HA .
Lonely🥺.
Hahahhahahahahhahahahahaa.
I should just drown myself in the lake.
And with a new perspective and better mental health, a year passed in a blink of an eye.
...
Inside the spirit Pagoda.
Spirit soul pavilion
Fan Lin was here again after one and a half years. This time he was here for his second spirit ring. He needed a spirit soul for it.
He reached level 20 just two days ago but since holidays were from today, he waited.
"I need a spirit soul for my second Spirit ring." I asked the staff. I wonder what happened to the lady.
"Of course Sir, let's check your Spirit power level and we will be able to choose a good one for you."
Fan Lin went with the staff to the spirit power measuring machine and came with the results.
67.
It was his spiritual power after a year and a half. The growth is quite slow.
"Your face has completely healed. Will you still be continuing?"
The staff recognising me from my quite often visits asked.
"I will. Thanks for telling me the spots for the spirit energy."
I did enter the Spirit Ascension Plane a lot and each time I eased their work by eliminating people.
Sometimes, they even help me by pinpointing me with areas abundant with spirit energy and I often used them a lot as my spiritual power nourishment.
(Spirit Energy spots are basically places where lots of deaths happen in a quick succession such that the spirit energy hasn't yet dissipated.)
(It generally takes around a day for the spirit energy to dissipate in the environment)
"No problem. There's quite a lot of people in the upcoming week. We have booked you some slots."
The staff said while passing a list to Fan Lin.
"Thanks. How many?" [Fan Lin]]
He inquired while looking at the various choices. He wasn't going to make the same naive mistake.
"27."
The Staff person answered.
"I will be there. Can I get a space related spirit soul?" [Fan Lin]
Fan Lin passed the list back. It had more than 200 spirit souls available but none of them were the spacial or spatial related.
"Those are really hard to get in the hundred year old range. The last time that we had one was two years ago. Currently we have none."
"Can I not get it from the other pagodas?" [Fan Lin]
"The demand for spatial related spirit soul is far higher than the supply. I don't think we can get any soon even if we requested."
"I see. Give me the toxic human faced spider then." [Fan Lin]
"Please wait a bit. Let me bring the spirit soul Sir." The staff person smiled as if knowing his choice.
Soon he got the spirit soul and directly went to a free room to absorb it.
*Two days later*
Fan Lin has been fusing with the spirit soul for two days. He didn't know that if not for the heat sensing soul guide that proved that he was alive the staff nearly broke his door to check on him.
Unbeknownst to him though, an azure green spirit ring was floating in front of him. The fusion process was on its final stage.
*Two more hours later*
Fan Lin opened his eyes. There was a shade of yellow instead of his common brown eyes. The first thing he checked after opening his eyes was the new skill information in his mind.
[Due to your Petrosapien gift, soul skill poison web has been adapted to Crystallokinesis (Petrosapien)
Petrosapien Crystallokinesis: The ability of Petrosapiens to control their crystals to atomic levels.]
He used the skill. Suddenly crystalline shards rose out of the ground in front of him. They were green in colour.
' It looks familiar. Where have I seen this?'
While Fan Lin was thinking his gaze went to his new spirit ring. It was light green.
"Wait a minute. Green ring. Green crystalline shards. Isn't this Diamondhead's ability? She was the Petrosapien?"
A message floated in front of his eyes as he said that.
[ The gift was randomly generated kid, you just got lucky.
This is a recorded message and your net geek is weird. ]
'Hey, wait up. What do you mean?'
With the message, lots of memories came to his mind. Memories of the child that he was supposed to be a guardian of.
'Answer me. What do you mean? What happened to him?'
He remembered that he had once promised to teach him how to cook. Throwing him to the cliffs and beating him whenever he talked bad.
Memories came down with the tears once again came to his eyes and now he understood what he regretted. He doesn't like this world that was trapping him even a bit more.
After one hour, he had calmed down a lot. He thought about the messages and their timings, each one came just after he gained his soul rings. So if he became a soul elder the message should come again. No it will definitely come.
He forced calmness to his self, shorted out his clothes, ruffled his hair, made the crystal disappear and went out of the room as if nothing had happened.
Time also returned to normal as things began to move but he was completely unaware of it.
And unbeknownst to him, he was not considering this as a possible manipulation of him to do what the Gods wants him to do.
When he went to the reception, the staff was looking at him differently than when he first came. Part of the reason was because he was a head taller and had a different coloured eyes than before. The other part being that his scars had vanished and his body had become slender. Thin slender.
"I caused some property destruction at the free room by mistake. How much fine do I need to pay?"
"Let me check." The staff replied to Fan Lin and hastily went to check the damages as the cameras seem to have shut down for a moment.
'Couldn't he send someone else to check in , why did he had to go in person. Maybe they are understaffed. Who cares.'
"Sir, its 50000 Alliance coins."
The staff returned from inspecting the room and after find that the cameras and sensors were all fine and just needed a quick restart, he heaved a sigh of relief and then he checked the damages on the floor and after determining the rough price, he decided to charge Fan Lin twice that amount.
"Ok"
Fan Lin paid and left the spirit pagoda.
.....
The Academy has holidays for now since the semester ended a week ago.
Fan Lin entered his dorm and everything was the same except for the dust and leaves because he had left the windows open.
'I should have closed them.'
It was evening when he came out of the Spirit Pagoda , he had left at 2pm in the afternoon and now's 9 pm, a little bit of calculating and he should have been in the room for 4 hours.
"That's expected. I thought it would be more since it's a hundred year old spirit soul."
He took his clothes off and went to take a shower.
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