The Soul Realm.

With each complete revolution of the orbs, pain increasingly pierced through his body as the essences emitted by the orbs flowed through his veins and arteries. They slowly dissolved with each passing hour, the essences merging with him.

His links to Grey and Lenthandra were gone, there was no sign of mental connection whatsoever.

Hours passed, a day, two days, three days and so on passed by while the integration carried on. On the eleventh day, Rune was as thin as humanly possible. The only organ that was still properly functioning was his heart. His brain had long went unconscious.

And the orbs were only halfway dissolved. There were still two other halves to go.

Grey and Lenthandra's bodies that were preserved in an ice casing dissolved slowly into motes of light that floated to and sank into Rune, revitalizing him.

The process repeated itself. Rune would reach his limit only to be revitalized by the bodies of his Dragon and ridgeback wolf.

Days went on like this until the twenty second day when he regained his consciousness.

The first thing he saw was that he was surrounded head to toe by motes of colourful lights, red , white, yellow, gold, blue, you name them, before realizing that the two orbs were no more.

He mentally checked himself and realized that his mind was sharp and as clear as ever. His thought processing speed was far much faster than he could have imagined.

He observed the motes that surrounded him as he was suspended in the air. They slowly integrated with his body. His skinny self was gradually fleshening and muscling up.

His skin was peerlessly smooth and soft to the eye. This was a skin Queens would die for.

His bones were hundreds fold titanium strong. Compared to his bones right now, his Jade Body bones were like grass stems. No wonder the system had said he had not began Cultivating yet back then when he was in the Jade Body Level.

His blue eyes had turned somewhat yellow and could now see miles away as if looking at something in front of him, more than an eagle could ever dream of doing. Just a thought and his eyesight reduced its range.

Pop!

[ Congratulations to the host on successfully activating the Primordial Dragon Artificer System. The system will under go a qualitative integration in the background.]

Rune still couldn't get himself on the ground. He wanted a physical reference to test his new body against.

After what felt like forever, he was gently placed on the ground. His Dragon and wolf were gone. His clothes were gone, his weapon was gone, his everything was gone! He stood there naked before the system interrupted him.

Hello Rune, it's nice to finally meet you, you can call me P-DAS.

Rune was startled by the female voice in his head.

"Who are you?" He asked with his voice, all senses on high alert

No need to panic or speak out loud. I'm your system P-DAS, which stands for Primordial Dragon Artificer System.

I have prepared you your interface, all you have to do is think of it and I will serve you the best I can.

Pop!

[Host → Rune Sachem ]

[ Age → 15 ]

[ Race → human ]

[Soul type → Integrated Primordial Soul]

[ Soul strength → 12 bars ]

[ Bloodline → Primordial Artificer Dragon]

[System Manifestation Beast→ Lenthandra]

[ Life Companion → Ridgeback Wolf ]

[ Cultivating Method → Dragon-Wolf dual cultivation]

[ 12 bar Innate Attributes → Void Walker, Soul Smithing,Runecraft, Healing ]

[physical attributes]

[ strength → 6 bars ]

[ speed → 12 bars ]

[ agility → 12 bars ]

[ resilience → 10 bars ]

Skill interface

[artificing skill → 2 bars ]

[sword skill → 4 bars ]

[archery skill → 4 bars ]

[ Open slot ]

[ System Store]

[Storage Space → 1 volume ]

[ Bars → 0 ]

[Wealth → 0 ]

[Shop → open ]

What level is a bar? And that open slot on my skill interface, can I still add another skill there?

P-DAS: you will understand when you see them fall and rise. All you need to know for now is that it was the basic measurement unit used to measure attributes, be it physical or skillset attributes, long back when titans still walked the planes.

As for the open slot, yes you can add a skill if you want but there's no need for that now because you have everything you need to rise up.

Okay. Why can't I feel Lenthandra's link as I used to?

P-DAS: you will understand after you summon her. To summon her, simply do what you have always done in the past when summoning her. But please do it later.

Rune wasn't sure about why the system wanted him to summon Lenthandra later and not now. He held his tongue back and followed the system's instructions.

So same same with the Ridgeback Wolf?

P-DAS: yes, please summon them after you have gotten used to your new attributes.

Do you intend to ask why there's no cultivation level on the interface? It's because there are no cultivation levels. Cultivation is just a seamless journey of one's growth in soul, spirit and body. But if you want me to modify the system to show cultivation levels used in this plane then I can do that.

No, there's no need. But can you tell me what stage I am in the Soul Realm if I were to use this plane's system.

P-DAS: you are an eighth stage in the Soul Realm. Let me add your slot to the interface so you could easily make a reference.

Thanks, that will be quite helpful

Wait, what? Eighth stage! I have skipped from early stage all the way to the late stages of the Soul Realm in one go?

The Soul Realm is divided into three levels each containing three stages to make up nine stages all in all.

No need to be shocked Rune, you will understand more of your strength when you return back to civilisation. And here is your interface showing your cultivation level.

[Host → Rune Sachem ]

[ Age → 15 ]

[ Race → human ]

[ Cultivation Level→ Soul Realm, 8th Stage ]

Thanks P-DAS.

P-DAS: now test your physical attributes.

Hmmm I'm naked, don't you have some clothes or something?

Rune embarrassingly asked the system.

P-DAS: I will spoil you this once because you are new to the system. Next time I won't be so lenient

A trousers and a sleeveless shirt coalesced into existence around his body. The clothes fit him perfectly. He thanked the system and moved to the large oak tree.

His movements were far much graceful than those of Lenthandra's. To think he once admired and envied her and Grey....

Boom!!!

He casually punched the large tree to mark where he was going to put his full strength on the next punch, but alas! The tree broke and sent splinters of wood flying in all directions as if it was dry wood.

He was so startled that he jumped back , but to his shock, he soared over the trees and crashed more than hundreds of metres away.

He lay in the crater where he had fallen trying to make sense of the bizzare things that had just happened.

He slowly stood up in the crater that was his shoulder deep and carefully and slowly began to walk out of the crater.

Each uncareful step sent him crashing trees with unprecedented speed.

Luckily enough, with his now enhanced brain, he soon caught up to the new abilities of his body.

It was time to summon Lenthandra and Grey.