Chapter 40 Distress Voicemail

December arrived weakening the snow season. Lucis already erase the eye of green star mark at the Murky Town after 2 more magic cube shattered. Except for important matters, he won't be using it anytime soon until he can strengthen the conductor or replace it with a better material.

With nothing distracting him during the night, he managed to finish the mansion with some overtime extra hard work during the night. He didn't immediately live in it and instead continue to add some wall 20 meters away from his mansion surrounding.

The mansion have 3 floor and 30 bedroom in it with 3 of it especially big like a royalty bedroom.

Besides the room, Lucis made a complete modern water system on the mansion turning it into completely modern earth building. The only difference is most of the stuff in the house work with magic instead of electricity. Also, he doesn't have the appliance from earth so the mansion is pretty lacking compare to the real modern house from earth.

"majestic." Lucis floating above his mansion satisfied with his creation. The design is never seen before. Not on earth, not in this world either. It's completely futuristic cyberpunk style with unnecessary decorations everywhere.

"the wall should be finish soon. I wonder what else should I add." Lucis feel like he's been playing "empyrion" game so far. Adding block here and there and fitting in anything he like without purpose. There's even this one huge pipe standing straight up tall hundred meter from the roof but if one look from above, this pipe is actually just thick pillar without and usefulness whatsoever.

"Ahhh, it's so great having a power. I wish I'm talented enough to build that bloodborne city here. The geography is just right." he shake his head feeling nostalgia. Indeed, that would be a huge achievement unlocked if he succeeded but reality is, it'll just collapse.

Looking at the sun starting to shine on his bizarre mansion, Lucis teleport back to his cave.

His cave now can support a thousand people inside after he keep digging for the material to build his mansion. The main hall have 11 room on both side with the garden take the biggest space.

The top floor is renovated into a hotel like with the room he used to cultivate is expanded and turned into a lobby and added 8 other room on the left and right side. At the back of the lobby is the library and still under construction at the moment.

"life is so good to me recently." Lucis smile as he went to the 32 floor. This floor is more simple and empty then the ground hall and the top floor since he only recently use this place to cultivate.

Lucis sit down on the mat thinking about life.

After wasting time for no reason. He shut his eyes and examine his body.

"my core is forming faster than usual. Did God just over-bless me recently?" he look at the 5 soft core under his spiritual root. His spiritual root also has been growing during these time. Now it have 5 branches and all of these branches connected to his 5 core.

"but the jade only explaining how to cultivate one of these core? Will the other four combine itself over time?" he furrowed his brow but feel nothing urgent not even worried. It's normal since he doesn't know what happened to him.

The truth is, everyone only have one core and that represents their element compatibility. One core can support the basic 5 element with one of these usually stronger than the other. Although it's not balanced, usually their main element restrain the other. Cultivator creating spells and skills by combining these elements.

What happened to Lucis is, he's unconsciously creating a new cultivating technique. He have many different elements in his body creating a chaotic energy within him. Thankfully, his wood or life energy is the main cultivation he use and it is quite powerful too when it comes to containing other elements. Sadly, it's not really that special when it comes to fighting. It's like a sword sheath made of wood. it's good at holding the sword but useless when fighting against it.

Good thing this is happened when he's creating his foundation on the planet. If he built his foundation on the outer space, he might have more core than what he have now. In fact, it will be too many that it's just impossible for a living being to contain that they'd just explode.

At this moment moment, one of the core is already half formed. Of course Lucis doesn't even suspect anything suspicious yet. He just knew that his core is forming faster than the other.

"soon I will be able to fly without magic item." Lucis is quite excited thinking about it. When one have magic core, the core itself function like magic item. Of course riding real magic items still has its perk. They're faster than flying with one own core since it is designed for the purpose. Why walk when you can use a car. Besides, some magic item have other use than flying like flying swords.

Feeling more excited, Lucis activate his cultivation technique and feed more energy to his core speeding up the process.

Suddenly, the voice talisman vibrating in his storage dimension.

Lucis frown and take out the voice talisman. After looking at it for a moment, he put it on his forehead to receive the message.

"..."

". . . ."

"what's going on?" Lucis pull away the talisman and examine it.

"is this thing broken?" he shake it up and down a bit and put it on his forehead back.

After a couple minutes, there's still no message in it.

Lucis look up at the ceiling. "are the line not good here?"

Lucis send his devine sense to the surface ready to teleport when the voice talisman suddenly shining a small light.

"the line really are not clear here." Lucis frown. He really feel like he's holding a cellphone now.

After the light dim down a bit, Lucis pick it up and use his devine sense to check the message.

The first thing he hear is scratching sounds then a voicemail.

"..is this connected?.." a voice finally heard but it's not clear and there's a lot of noise behind.

"hello.. Hello.."

"mister Lucis?"

"mister Lucis, if you... this please.. ..ep us.. south o.. Murky Town.. Tara trench.."

The sound stop. The background sounds is quite chaotic and the voice keep disappearing but the message is clear. They're asking for help.

Lucis withdraw the talisman and rub his chin wishing that he have beard. Maybe it could instantly give him great wisdom.

"should I?.. " Lucis though. He's not even that close to Muzin anyway but they did spend some times together in the murky Town and he's the only cultivator friend he have here.

"hmm.. they really good at running an errand though." Lucis though about how obedient Muzin is at him and how he help him with the sun stone.

"but my eye of star array cannot handle long range yet with that weak material.." Lucis already fix the array but he never use it again since he can basically teleport using his own skill. The arrays only useful for a long range but the material just barely holding up even when he only use it at murky town. Nothing is perfect apparently. He just discovered it recently that the longer the distance is, the more stress put on the array.

Lucis check the message again and weighing down the risk. If they ask for help that's mean there's danger.

After thinking about it a long time, he finally decided to go check the situation. If it's too dangerous then he can only say sorry. If it's safe for him to proceed, then he will save them. Having a trusted allies is hard to find these days. He wouldn't want them to just die after he finally have one.