Heart of Order First Fragment
The Headmaster arrived in class and was pleased to see Aavesh integrate easily into the group.
Aavesh seemed to be enjoying his time here, even Coral could sense it and was happy that her adoptive child had finally found friends albeit very late but not too late.
But inwardly, the Group was preparing for Confrontation with Areshkagal - Alyssia and Petrov were able to divine that the incident would take place in 6 Months.
The Clock was ticking.
Everyone had their designated tasks to do.
But for the first month- they had to grow stronger - together.
" All right you bunch", Johan began as he teirled his platinum beard.
"Petrov and Alyssia - 6 hours 16 Days each in the Astral Divination room"
" Camilla and Aiden - 12 hours 16 Days- War and Battle Tactics Room"
" Zhong and Yuna - 8 hours 16 Days, Pool of life and death"
" Alena and Kai - 7 hours 16 Days in Midnight Brilliance Fields "
" Anyariel - 16 hours 16 Days in the Ever-changing Primatic Vault"
"Aavesh - you can't visit with her yet, you need to match her Cultivation... Stay back here, Go on all of you", Johan concluded.
Anyariel pinched Aavesh and as he turned to face her, she winked at him and left, causing Aavesh to feel a bit queasy.
This girl... She seemed to like tormenting him a lot.
Aavesh shook his head wryly at her while Johan chuckled.
"She likes to torment those she gets along with, it's her way of showing affection",Johan spoke with a smile.
"Now that they have all left, tell me Aavesh Cultivation seems to be very complicated for you almost - needlessly", Johan sighed and spoke dryly.
"I can't seem to help it, you saw the Astronomical amounts I need to spend- I haven't managed to craft Mythic Crystals and Evolution Units- I'll need to make them somehow ", Aavesh spoke with bitterness in his mouth- it was going to be a pain.
" I can help you with what you need, but you'll have to enter an ancient Tomb with me now, it's mostly empty - but you'll find something very useful there", Johan then waved his palm and a Dimensional door appeared.
" Well, It can't hurt to try", Aavesh stood up and followed Johan through the door.
*ZAPP
Aavesh felt an immense feeling of recognition but couldn't exactly recall why?
It was a Tomb made by humans, yet there no sense of Rot here...
The Astral Wisp here was more sorrowful.
He entered a room with Johan and found a dull crystal shard lying in an empty coffin.
"Go ahead - Touch the crystal", Johan spoke with a voice full of Mysteriousness.
Aavesh walked to the coffin and touched the shard.
*BOOOOOOOOM
A loud explosion sounded in his mind as the Crystal burst apart and merged into him.
His eyes glowed briefly and he sat down to meditate...
Memories of an Ancient War flooded his mind, A civil war between the Order Autarch and Chaos Autarch- Both fought continuously to assert dominance.
"Neoth - Why do you not accept my dominance and accept the right of Chaos", The Chaos Autarchess smiled as she spoke
"Erda - Chaos cannot bring peace to the realms, Order is necessary", The Order Autarch replied coldly.
With every blow, they destroyed parts of Machina and Vodovorot, yet they didn't relent.
" Neoth! Why don't you accept me", She stopped as her Chaos blade touched his neck while his Order lance was about to pierce her neck.
" I can't, I can't let you", Neoth spoke with sorrow in his voice.
" You love me but you suppress this emotion between us, you TORE us apart! I wanted us to be together... Why?! Why do you push me away!?", Erda screamed at him, starlight tears Erupting from her eyes - the Dimensions wailing at her sorrow and grief.
" I am sorry ", Neoth spoke softly and let his Mythic Powers heal the dimensions and he left as Erda stood silent for a while, she then left as well to her dimension.
Neoth turned and saw her fleeting figure with relief and extreme grief in his eyes that appeared for a moment and then it was submerged in.
He came to the Mortal Realm and found a dying Galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy and he entered the Dead Blackhole.
He then spoke words ... Simple words that reformed the Galaxy to its Prime State.
" You will hide the Artifacts here one day", he spoke to the Blackhole with a soft caress.
" I have already failed, I can't let them be erased or devoured, I have to save them all"
"Even if it costs me my life"
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Aavesh opened his eyes and felt a chunk of him had been restored - his Mythic Powers had Ranked up properly to Rank 2.
He felt a a stronger self within him and his connection to the Universe grew even stronger.
He could feel a limit break and sensed his Mythic Powers infusing into his Dantians...
A Silver and Blue Rune were now present on the Seeds while the nature of his Ultimate Cosmic Origin had subtly changed.
His Cultivation was filled to the brim, he could breakthrough anytime he desired...
Aavesh naturally chose to breakthrough and felt the Swirling Flame Mark light up...
He felt a burning energy of Enlightenment seeping from it and he Fully used it.
He immediately circulated the Ultimate Primal Universe Arts and initiated a comprehensive breakthrough.
His cells began to reconstruct with Cosmic Force assisting in their evolution, the shadow of a tree began to form in his Upper Dantian with assistance of the Soul Wisp and His Constitution.
All Hidden Pathways in his body Erupted with Energy a d a strong fluctuation formed around him as Elemental Qi Liquefied in his Meridians and surged across all of his Pathways.
He spent 15 days non stop in this breakthrough and and on the sixteenth day he opened his eyes with deep gaze.
He was extremely strong now and better able to utilise his heavily refined Origin.
Aavesh felt the merge between his two Mythic Powers had deepened, it was now about 50%.
" Did you have an interesting vision?", Johan asked as he leaned back on the wall nearby.
" Yes", Aavesh replied in a more deep voice, albeit a bit more serious.
" The shard you used is a fragment of the Heart of Order- the Heart of Order was crushed with the death of the Order Autarch...
" You feel it don't you, Cultivation has become slightly easier now, there are 2 other locations, once you gain the other fragments they will merge and the artificial constraints placed upon you will become trivial", Johan replied as a matter of fact.
" Still, I want to you to convince me, I want you to reach Mythic Rank 4 and choose your Absolute Destiny, oy then will I bestow the fragments, the question is can you survive reaching Rank 4? It'll be an interesting story I bet ", Johan smiled and with a snap of his fingers they returned to the class.
It was nightime now...
Aavesh briefly glanced at where Anyariel's empty seat was and walked to it, as he felt her residual Aura left behind.
" Something about her is deeply familiar "
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" The lovers and Chains of Death?", Anyariel frowned as she played with her Tarot cards.
" The Magician and the Fool Inversed"
" Should be fun"