“HAHAHAHA, Finally!” Ace ughed boisterously as his body trembled ecstatically, staring at the small green orb in his palm. “I finally got you!”

  The formerly vibrant jungle ndscape of the fifth floor of the Necropolis of the Gods had been transformed into what could only be described as a desote wastend, a testament to the power of Ace’s st strike.

  Still, the only thing Ace cared about was the Life of Pearl in his hands. He didn’t eveo care about the fact that he had just made a signifit breakthrough with his prehension of the fused mysteries of Explosions and the Essence of Fire, leaping all the to 80% in one go.

  Looking up at Ace standing in the skies above the now devastated terrain, ughing to himself like aed child on Christmas day, both Amira and Leona smiled happily.

  They, more than anyone, uood how much this meant to Ace, and they were beyond happy that he had finally achieved one of his many dreams. So happy, in fact, that they didn’t even bother to chase after the fleeing saint-level pnt-type lifeforms, instead choosing to fly over to Ace’s side.

  “Look at you giggling to yourself like aed child,” Amira chided with a gentle smile on her face. “If I didn’t know aer, I would’ve thought you broke through to bee a deity.”

  “Deity?” Ace scoffed as he looked up from the pearl for the first time siting his hands on it. “This is ten… no 100 times better than me simply breaking through to the deity realm.”

  Ace’s words would’ve sounded ridiculous to most; after all, the idea of being a deity was the dream of just about every person on the ti, be it man, woman, child or eve. As long as one could cultivate, who didn’t want to bee a deity?

  Still, Amira merely nodded. She uood that whilst being a deity was a dream for most, for Ace, herself and just about everyone in the Pavilion, it was more like a matter of time.

  “I’m sure Uncle Aiden will be delighted!” Amira replied, a teasing glint fshing across her eyes as she tinued. “I’m sure he’ll be even happier to learn about hoy his dear disciple was when he found it.”

  Hearing that caused Ace’s brows to twitch as his excited grin all but disappeared.

  “I have no idea what you’re talking about; you must be mistaken.” Ace cleared his throat as he swiftly suppressed his excitement. “I’m just excited that I no longer have to bother with doing that zy old farts dirty work.”

  Ace’s swift ge in mood caused both Amira and Leona to chuckle, but her said anything to tieasing him. In fact, they wouldn’t have gotten the ce even if they had wao. Before either realised what had happened, Ace had already stored the Pearl of Life away in his ste device as an all too familiar grin appeared on his face.

  Amira and Leona only had time to see Ace’s grin for a sed before an explosion took pce beh his feet and his body disappeared, leaving nothing but a vanishing afterimage. Still, that grin was ohey would be able tnise anywhere.

  Whilst Ace’s frin was one of excitement for being able to do something to help a loved ohe ohat took its pce was one Aly showed when he was about to take part in a battle that truly excited him.

  And as if to firm their suspis, Ace’s excited shouts echoed through the now devastated wastend.

  “LINLEY…” Ace bellowed excitedly as his body tore through the air at a speed that most noies would struggle to follow.

  Not wanting to be outdone by his rival, Linley excitedly shouted back as though he was peting to see whose voice was louder. “ACE! HAHA, I WAS W WHEN YOU WERE GOING TO SHOW YLY FACE!”

  Both Olivier and Yunaia stared at the back of Linley’s azure scaled ba shock.

  After their enter with Felicia, Linley spent the month by Olivier’s side, unwilling to leave him until he recovered from his soul mutation, and Yunaia decided to stay with him.

  When she asked to learn about cepts and the method of using them, Linley apologised but decisively refused. Although he was deeply grateful for her saving their lives, he expi wasn’t his secret to share, but if she still wao learn, her best bet was finding Ace as he was the disciple of Aiden Rohault – the man who created this newly formed path.

  Although disappointed, Yunaia respected his decision. Still, she was unwilling to give up and decided to stay with Linley until they ran into Ace, uanding that with the retionship between Linley and Ace, it would be best if the young Dragonblood Warrior could put in a good word.

  Liold her he would do what he could, but he couldn’t promise her anything.

  After that night, it was a month before Olivier finally woke up from his atosed state, with his soul successfully mutating.

  The power he had at his disposal at that point shocked him to no end. Just before he lost sciousness, he genuinely believed that he was dead, but not only did he survive, he somehow mao turn a disaster into a fortune.

  Although his prehension of the ws of light and darkness hadn’t progressed, the fusion of the two elements had allowed his might to multiply ten times over. Not only that, but the power of his soul had skyrocketed.

  It had to be remembered that although a genius, Olivier’s focus had always been oh of a warrior; as such, although his soul was more powerful than other warriors of his level, it was slightly g when pared to even the weaker early saint level mages, but now, his soul had improved by so much that it was no weaker than a prime saint level mage like Desri.

  Overall, despite only being a mid-stage saint-level warrior, Olivier’s power now put him firmly on the level of prime saints, a fact that greatly excited him!

  Though he was excited by his current level of power, he didn’t allow it to go to his head and cloud his better judgment, especially after hearing about Felicia’s current power.

  Yunaia expio Olivier that Felicia had begun fusing two mysteries, which meant that she would experienore bottlenecks until she reached the peak of the Demi-God level and that, within a few years, she would almost definitely reach the Demi-God level.

  It didn’t take a genius to uand what Yunaia was saying. Both she and Olivier had already provoked her by choosing to stand on Linley’s side. If he now were to venture off on his own, should he run into her, she would undoubtedly choose to vent her frustration out on him.

  All five of them – whether it was Linley, Yunaia, Olivier, and even Bebe and Oscar – had potential that pletely dwarfed hers, but as it stood, if any of them were to face her on their own, they’d be c death.

  Yunaia and Oscar would be alright for now as together they were still capable of suppressing her, but the moment she broke through and became a Demi-God, the roles would be instantly reversed.

  As a result, the five of them decided to form a group. Aremely powerful group at that! Over the st six months, their group of five had swept through the fifth floor of the with unstoppable momentum, and as top-level geheir growth had been anything but slow – each making breakthroughs of their own on a near-weekly basis.

  The only reason they had chosen not to head up to the sixth floor was because they wao spend as much time uhing their potential as they could before heading up to the floors, where the petition was undoubtedly going to prove a lot more brutal.

  When they saw the terrifyingly powerful explosioed by Ace’s ultimate teique, they decided to go and take a look.

  Still, the reason behind Yunaia and Olivier’s shock was because, over the st six months, they had all gotten to know each other fairly well, but not once had they seen this side of Linley.

  Ordinarily, Linley was the picture of posure and tranquillity. He wasn’t stoic or cold, but other thaalking to Bebe, it was rare to even see him smile. But as soon as he id eyes on Aot only did his usually steady and tranquil aura bee impassioned, but he even roared with ughter, a feat that her of his ravelling panions had seen from him in the past.

  “This is just the nature of their retionship,” Bebe expined from atop Olivier’s head as he calmly watched Linley and Ace csh. “As his orue rival, that bastard Ace is probably the only one capable of invoking that kind of a rea in my boss!”

  Olivier’s eyes flickered, but ultimately he said nothing. As someone who had already lost to Ace, he aowledged that Ace’s talent was simply out of this world, and after spending these st few months by Linley’s side, he had to admit that Linley’s talent wasn’t much worse.

  Both he and Yunaia were top-level geniuses, but in terms of the progression of prehension, Linley was the one who by far improved the fastest. Add that to his freakishly pure Dragonblood Warrior bloodline, and it was easy to uand why Ad Linley were ofteioned in the same breath.

  Still, after the mutation of his soul, he didn’t think he was any worse thawo of them.

  Yunaia’s thoughts weren’t too dissimir from Olivier’s. She grew up having no rivals from those of her geion, and before she came, she thought it would be the same here in the Yun ti. But after seeing the strength shown by Ace, Linley and the other mortals who ehe ruins with her, she uood that she had uimated them.

  Still, as both a soul-mutate and a genius of the Qingya family, she refused to believe that she would lose to any of them. But like Olivier, she had been shocked by Linley’s bloodline and rate of improvement. So one imagine her shock when she heard Linley aowledge that in terms of talent, Ace was number one in their geion.

  Previously, she had beeical, but seeing A a now, any doubts she may have once held had been all but doused.

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