Midas's ether attribute

Licht just stared at Midas and told him to sit in a lotus position on getting back to the room.

"When you sit down, concentrate deeply, block everything out. You would see particles floating around you and in your surroundings, seeing more of these particles means your attribute to withhold them and your ether regenerative speed is high while seeing little is the opposite. The color of the particles also shows what element you are attuned to." Licht said.

Ether elements depended on the colors, which means if you see red particles, you have fire affinity, blue particles for water, brown for earth, green for wood, purple for lightning, white for light, and black for dark. There were also other special elements like space, time, order, and chaos, but they did not have particular color sequences.

Midas sat in the lotus position, with his eyes closed and he started to meditate. Licht just stood beside him, watching him for any abnormalities.

They stayed in that position for 30 minutes till Midas opened his eyes with excitement and confusion.

"Master, I'm done"

"I saw dark particles, but these dark particles had a tinge of green in them. " Midas said in a confused tone.

As soon as Licht heard what Midas said, his usual collected look was gone and a look of excitement washed over his face.

Midas noticed the look on Licht's face and remembered when Licht met him the previous day, he had the look of a pirate seeing treasure after a long voyage, now it was a different look but also very similar.

"Master??? Why are you looking at me like that?" Midas asked

Licht calmed down and asked," You said you saw dark particles with a tinge of green ey?"

"Yes, Master. What does that mean?" Midas was still confused

"Elements are divided into three places: Alpha elements, Beta elements, and Omega elements. Omega elements are the basic elements people have like fire, water, wind, wood, and earth. There are also rare abilities like metal or lightning they are called rare because, in ten people, only one person would have it. Beta elements could also be gotten from a combination of some omega elements. Storm, Gravity, Sound, Ice, and many others are beta elements that can be gotten from combinations but they are extremely rare" Licht explained

"But shouldn't beta element users be stronger than omega element users then why was the mayor losing to the assassin?"Midas asked

"Sometimes, it doesn't matter the element you have. It sometimes depends on the proficiency with which you use your element. Mayor James was respected as the strongest because he used the lava element but when it came to combat roles and who has more experience, Callisto came up on top" Licht explained to Midas.

Midas understood and nodded, giving Licht a go-ahead to continue his explanation.

"Good. Other beta elements include Mental ether energy, Soul ether energy, holy ether element, and curse ether element. While for alpha elements, there are four. Most people only know about the existence of two of the alpha elements which are Space and time ether elements. The other two that people are not aware of are Order and Chaos." Licht said

"Order and Chaos? Isn't Order what master cultivates?" Midas asked.

"Yes, that is what I cultivate." Licht nodded

"A long time ago, there was a crazy warlock who had the soul ether element. He was the best in the study of souls and in his journal, he described his particles as dark with a hint of green. If I am correct, that means-" Licht was saying

"I have the soul ether attribute" when Midas interrupted excitedly

"Yes, you have the soul ether attribute. The warlock was one of the most dreadful existences of old. I killed him personally after he singlehandedly destroyed an entire kingdom." Licht reminisced

"He had the attribute to store souls within his and materialize those souls as warriors to aid him in battle. He could destroy a person by just staring into their eyes, after all the eyes are the window to the souls." Licht chuckled

"So having the soul ether attribute makes me a necromancer?" Midas was no longer excited about having an ether attribute.

This was because, in the Empire of light, necromancy was an evil act and if found out, the individual will be prosecuted and burnt.

"A soulmancer, actually. Necromancers are just wannabe garbage trying to be the original thing. These necromancers do not have soul ether attribute, instead, they have the curse element which is why the dead they raise are vulnerable to the holy element. They cannot store the souls of the fallen themselves so when they kill, they curse the soul to stay within the body, hence damaging the soul in the process, leaving the incomplete souls of the fallen. That is why the bodies mutter incomprehensive words and growl like rabid animals. Their bodies also decay after a while and are left with skeletons. Granted, they buff up their fallen subordinates making them a dreadful force to face.

"You would be fine as far as you do not raise the dead in the presence of people, or stuff like that." Licht chuckled.

Midas nodded, albeit a little worried but he had fate in his master.

"Here," Licht tossed a small blue ore-like stone to Midas.

"That's an ether stone, it's of the lowest quality but it should help break you through into the brown rank," Licht said while Midas stared at the stone in the hands curiously.

This low-quality ether stone was found in the bag of the assassin, Callisto but it was of no use to Licht since he already had power it was just currently segmented and scattered in different places, so he chose to give the stones to Midas.

Midas sat down in the lotus position and started to cultivate with the ether stone and in a few minutes, Midas felt like he heard a crack then he felt strength from within. Licht saw a brown halo around Midas and smiled at his incredibly fast cultivation speed. It would have taken an average person a day to reach 1st brown rank even with the ether stone but it only took Midas a couple of minutes and this was due to his emperor's potential.

Midas continued cultivating, after another thirty minutes, Licht saw a second halo around Midas again. The ether stone in his hand had reduced by 30 percent and Midas continued to cultivate. After about 3 hours, the ether stone in his hands had become exhausted and turned to dust, Midas was already at the 5th brown rank. He stopped and looked at Licht hoping to get more stones to continue cultivating.

He saw Licht was writing in a book then Licht said" You should consolidate your cultivation, even though with your emperor's potential, you would need to strengthen your foundation, if not you would be wasting the potential."

"Okay, Master," Midas said then started consolidating his cultivation.

By the time, Midas was done with his consolidation, Licht was also done writing. Licht passed the book he had just written to Midas.

"Read it later after getting a good night's rest," He said

Midas looked at it, he fought back all the urges to read it tonight and climbed into his bed. When Licht saw this, he smiled and praised internally "Patience is a virtue. He definitely is worth training"

Licht got into his bed and slept almost immediately. Licht had perfect control over his body. He could program his body to sleep almost immediately while his mind was still aware of the surroundings.

The next morning, Licht woke up to meet Midas awake and going through the book with fascination.

The book itself was a copy of the journal that the crazy warlock wrote. All of his experiences and experiments. He was the most successful in the soul-ether attribute because most people only knew how to cast soul balls and defense spells but he took it to the extreme. Most soul casters are usually killed because they try to be like necromancers and place souls back in the bodies of the dead and use them for battle, painting a target on their backs.

Midas was still reading when he noticed that Licht was awake and staring at him. He bowed to Licht "Good morning, Master."

Licht smiled and gave him the remaining two stones of the ether stones he got from the assassin. They were all of the lowest quality, while the ether block he got from the auction though was of low quality but it was still higher than the one that was taken from the assassin.

Midas was excited again, collected the stones from Licht, sat down in a lotus position with the stones in both hands, and continued cultivating. By noon, Midas had broken through multiple brown levels and he was currently at peak 9th brown rank, on the verge of breaking through to the yellow rank.

The ether stones in his hands once again crumbled and changed to dust.

Midas still sitting in his lotus position, raised his palm slightly, staring at his hands intensively, then all of a sudden, a green, eerie flame appeared, floating above his palm.

Licht looked at him surprised. "You have already learned the soul flame spell? I still subconsciously underrated your potential" Licht said shaking his head.