(Chapter 37)

In the snowy prairie.

Shyrveen already gave up counting hours, because the place was stuck in the daytime.

He saw the man changing postures, again and again, teaching him about the Ice Element without speaking and still with closed eyes.

The first time he saw the man that was standing in a different posture, made him confused.

But after completing each set of postures, he realized that it was a complimentary fighting technique with the Ice Element.

Unknown to him, he was staying in the snowy prairie and practicing the technique with controlling the Ice Element for thirty years before the man opened its eyes and stared at him, and opened its mouth.

"... I didn't know that 'myself' will be this moron... How come you can only comprehend these things for 30 years, that should be comprehended a long time ago for only 2 years?... Wait, did you... Who am I?"

Shyrveen can only blink his eyes for what the man said and to the last question, he shook his head to respond and said.

"I don't know... All I know that something in me is telling me that you are a part of me?..."

The man stared at Shyrveen for a very long time and sighed.

"... What happened to the most Absolute Being in that universe?... Had been killed by toys and now, got an amnesia?...

I can feel the three shards... And a piece of Death Element? In your body. So I can say that you're me too for sure... But... Do we really did an outrageous thing from the past and now we're degenerating instead?... Haa...

Well, I don't know what happened to you but this is the only thing I can do and was assigned by you to do in the first place...

As you did, you combined the Magic and Geno Points, creating a Supreme Geno Arts but still in the second experimental stage because the Gods from the Sixth Sanctuary noticed you and decided to hunt you, after you gave this Geno Art to one person and only to be killed after they saw how this is overpowered even in the Fifth Sanctuary...

Without much time, you decided to go back to our universe to reincarnate improperly, because you were losing power every time you move from our universe to this universe to scatter the Soul Shards, add the chase on you from those Gods that made you weaker faster...

And now you got back the first Soul Shard containing the Ice Element and absorb the Mana in it. You can fight toe to toe with one of the monarchs now, that compared to the past, you looked like a chicken before butchers because you lack fighting skills and only harnessing raw powers...

But still, with learning the Supreme Geno Art; Icesheath, now. You can increase the power back to the past and much stronger if you're still alive at that time.

But you need to unlock the Gene Locks of that Geno Art first to increase your element's power, and you will know the rest in the future after unlocking the Fifth Lock.

By the way, absorb the Ice Monarch too, if you want to increase the possibility of unlocking the first Gene Lock...

But remember, don't seek the 2nd shard unless you got at least 30 Super Geno Points and increase it by another 30 for the next shards, if that's not the case, maxed your Sacred Geno Points first to handle the 2nd Soul Shards's power, or that mortal body of yours now will explode and you will go back to the square one again...

I know you had a lot of questions since you seem to forget your main objective now after having an amnesia...

But you only assigned me to remind you and teach you the Icesheath and controlling Mana with Ice Element...

Now, let me remind you that, that our universe is only small compared to this Great Gene Universe... You should know what's the meaning of the rest even if you're this moron..."

Before Shyrveen can ask or voice out his other concerns, the man slowly disappeared with the snowy prairie that starting to crack everywhere and getting smaller and smaller at the same time.

Soon, he found himself standing into the darkness and saw Irveen with Eggie that have the same crack from the first time he saw the egg.

"Nice~ So what your questions now?~"

Asked by Irveen that still smiling at him after he noticed Shyrveen popping up in this place.

"... What's this Absolute Being and Monarchs?"

"Well, well, well~ I didn't know that Eggie assigned his Soul Shards to be like that~ Alright~ Absolute Being, the strongest individual in our universe, or the God that you know of~ And he created 16 individuals harnessing each type of his power~ That was called Rulers and Monarchs~

Rulers for the Light side and the Monarchs for the Dark Side~ He created them to entertain himself from boredom because~ No one can fight his raw powers other than himself~ But was killed by 7 Rulers and 8 Monarchs instead after they realize what's their purpose for him~ And you got the picture now~"

Shyrveen was stunned after hearing the proofs of his conclusions and now piecing the things until he was stuck for why there are Gates on Earth.

"Hep~ You don't need to know that yet~ Unless you can get the Fifth Soul Shard~ Don't think such things for now, okay?~"

Shyrveen only stares at him without agreeing.

"... So, this Absolute Being was killed because he lacked fighting experiences against veterans, 15 individuals that harnessing his powers, and only leaving one person that... Is loyal to him?..."

"..."

Irveen was still smiling and nodded after several seconds but didn't say anymore.

"So, lastly... This man in the Soul Shard said that our universe was smaller than this universe... Can I interpret that his objective all along was to get stronger and reach this Sixth Sanctuary before going back to our universe to do his revenge?"

"..."

"What about the Soul Shards?... How many of them that has spread out to each sanctuary?..."

Irveen stayed like that no matter what Shyrveen ask any different questions and only after seeing the eggshell that starting to regenerate.

"Time's up~ Just ask me anything once you got the Fifth Power and we will talk about this~"

"... You said the same thing from our first meeting, you idiot..."

Shyrveen complaint after being kick out again by Irveen from the dark place.

After making sure that Shyrveen was gone, Irveen glanced at the egg with a glimmer of amusement in his eyes, and punched the eggshell again but with ice covering his fist this time to stop the regeneration.

"... Four left~... Before I can shatter this shell of yours, Eggie~... And at that time~... For sure I can do it with surety~..."

At the underground cave.

Shyrveen found himself laying on the ground and the only thing that popped up on his mind while staring at the cave's ceiling.

'... 30 years?... Even with my time dilation, that will be 10 years at least... I wonder what happened to others... And that should be around 3 years on Earth... But I need to go out first and see what's the situation now...'

He stands up and willed the Ice to his imagination and made wings from it and makeshift some parts of the gun to propel his body forward and using his wings to flap for another increase in speed while skating on the made ice slippery floor.

Soon, he reached the water where the only way to get in the underground cave and out from it, then he saw his own reflection on the surface of the water.

His usual pompadour hairstyle was gone and his hair that is black became longer and darker but only reaching his shoulder, the outline of his face became much younger but the masculinity had become more defined to complement his real age.

He checked his upper body that full of scars was now mildly that compared to the past, that the scarred skins were more detailed than his original skin.

He can see that his body is still the same but he can feel each muscle strips are more compacted by the mana and making him stronger by three times compared from his past self.

'... So... With this, I can be considered awakened now?... I should disguise then... Some people might recognize me later...'

He willed his face to change to what he imagines using the Ice Element like what a sculptor will do.

'... Now, much more easier to disguise and lessen my time preparing for one...'

He closed his eyes and senses his mana to be like a pond full of liquified Mana, but much more dense and heavier compared from the Mana he can sense from the Earth.

After checking himself, he dives down and swam to go out of the crack.

But only to meet four green-scaled big fishes near him that sensed him too and looked at him.

'... This should be the Sacred-Blood creatures of the fish here... Nice... I wish I can take two Beast Souls at least...'

Shyrveen thought the possibility after seeing the creatures.

But only to be stunned again after two individuals swam and appeared so suddenly beside him and he unconsciously smack them away without even looking who are they and stared back at the four creatures.

'... Four?... Is it because they are pair in each holes?... Welp, why thinking about this since they will die anyway...'

Then he tried to summon the Mutant Arrow but he remembered that it was at Han Sen currently. And so he can only do was fight them alone.

Shyrveen clench his two hands into fists and ice started to spread into the body of two creatures. But only to be stunned and dodge them after making a slanted ice wall to redirect their directions while thinking.

'... How I can't even hurt a Sacred-Bloods with my power?... Brother Sen and I saw how it affected the Sea Serpent... Unless... My power itself is still weak?...'

Then he fights underwater for eight minutes against these four creatures while casualties of the Mutant Crimson Iron-Bone Fish increases from the crossfire.

'... Hmmm?... Crimson... Crimson... Green-scales... Jade? Then my power isn't weak at all, but only facing the weakness... Ugh...'

Then he turns back to swim to the bottom of the lake that was followed by four creatures too.

After calculating, he turns again and created an ice rampant to the direction of one fish that made it thrown out of the water because of inertia and he throws three big bus-sized icicles to follow it up.

He knows that it will be useless to harm it but decided to cover it in ice block to reduce the burden.

He twisted his body as he is making ice walls and another ice walls nonstop and used the rampant to fly out of the water after he saw the first fish that has been put into an ice block had sunk to the bottom of the lake.

He didn't forget to create a blue ice mask because he remembered that there are people around the lake.

'... Well, ten years is enough to make the other get stronger to fish in this lake...'

While on the air, he decided to use all his mana to create a big pile bunker that made of ice to smash the fishes to oblivion with the gravity and weight.

But after getting out of the water, he saw Han Sen, Qin Xuan, Yang Manli, the two men groaning with ice on their chest near the shore that made him stunned for another wrong conclusion.

'... So, it wasn't ten years?... I'll ask Han Sen later... And these two idiots... It wasn't my fault that you both appeared so suddenly in my peripheral vision...'

He decided to abandon his crazy idea to destroy this place and used his ice wings to fly towards the Steel Armor Gang.

After landing, Son of Heaven angrily took a step forward towards them with Fist Guy on his side.

"Who are you!?"

"..."

Shyrveen decided to play stranger again and looks around the Steel Armor Gang and said.

"Who is Han Sen here? Brother Dollar and Brother Bill told me that this person is a real friend..."

That Han Sen got an idea for what his friend doing and played along and glanced at Qin Xuan and Yang Manli that understood him.

Han Sen raised doubtfully his arm and said that it was him.

Shyrveen looked at him and made him come to him and brought him to a blind spot for the other people at the opposite shore of the lake.

He told Han Sen to give back his Beast Souls that he can only be heard by him alone while moving his hands to be more realistic for other's eyes.

'... This is Life Essence, sorry to say but there's no materialistic treasures inside the cave but I found out what was the creature we saw...'

Shyrveen handed Han Sen the Life Essence and looked at Shyrveen with a confused stare.

'Control your face and don't be shock... There's beyond the Sacred-Blood and that crystal is called Life Essense, it is like a meat but lick it like a lollipop inside your mouth till it melts...'

'!!!... Alright, brother Shyr!... And... Thank you for telling me about this... You making me cry because how you view me as a sworn brother...'

Han Sen felt the warmth from his friend's kindness, no. His sworn brother's kindness, now. Then Han Sen gave back the Beast Souls to Shyrveen and turned around to flick the crystal into his mouth.

'Don't mention it.'

Then Shyrveen fetch him up again and flew back to the Steel Armor Gang before Son of Heaven shouted again at him with an angry face with the same expression on Fist Guy's face...