Chapter 81 - Merchant Ship

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[Domination Art: Small Spark of Ash]

• Description: A simple Domination Art capable of summoning a small mass of flame around the user's palm.

• Domination Class: Divinity Class

{Abilities}

° Ash Spark: Thrown on ash, the flame's size will increase by 150% before exploding and destroying everything around it in a great radius!

<The scale of destruction is highly dependable on the environment and the amount of ash!>

{Passive Abilities}

° Warmth: The flame will boost the temperature around its close proximity by a small margin.

<Further abilities can be unlocked once reached higher Class!>

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Nash read the description of his newly acquired Domination Art and felt delighted. But soon, that joy slowly turned into puzzlement then into deep confusion.

What was a Domination Art?

So far, as much as he was able to understand it, there existed only two types of Domination Arts, one that allowed a being to learn techniques under a single second and another one which could be mastered only through months or even several years of hard work!

For instance, his Strings of Domination was a Domination Art that allowed him to learn and obtain a heaven-defying power under a single second without the need to practice or understand its basic concept to gain mastery over it!

His Soul Shattering Grab, although a modified version, was also such a Domination Art. He only needed to swallow the small capsule and voila... He learned a power capable of destroying anyone's soul with a single grab!

On the other hand, Amy's Two Wind Punch was not in the same category as those two as it needed her to practice it for a while before gaining a basic understanding of its concept and obtaining complete mastery over it!

Out of these two kinds of Domination Arts, it was pretty obvious from first glance that this Small Spark of Ash was categorized among the ones that were formerly mentioned.

However, this was not the true source of Nash's confusion as he already knew the differences between these two types of Domination Arts.

No, what made him feel at loss was something completely else, something much more complex. Like how was he able to learn this Domination Art just now and how did he acquire suddenly the power to control fire even though his body was incapable of doing such a thing in the past?

Furthermore, to make things even more complicated than they already were, how could beings even learn Domination Arts in the first place if they have no affinity to a specific technique?

For example, how was the Fairy Race able to learn Domination Arts associated with other elements and other skills if their bodies were built to control only water because of their Legacy?

It made no sense right? Yet, for some miraculous reason, they were able to master other elements and other powerful techniques through Domination Arts, and worse enough, not only them but all the other existing races too!

It was such a seemingly complicated question that Nash failed to find an answer even after he pondered for several minutes straight without uttering a single word!

'The only explanation I can currently come up with is my essence. Both my Strings of Domination and Soul Shattering Grab require my essence to activate and use.' Nash thought in his heart as he activated his newly acquired Domination Art and watched as crimson flames engulfed his palm.

And as he thought, he indeed felt a small movement inside his Ancient Veins, indicating his essence reacted the moment he activated his technique, yet when he watched if his amount of essence decreased or not he watched in confusion that they did not. This only confused him further and forced him to ponder longer.

"So this little cube can grant you with that Domination Art?" Amy asked with piqued curiosity as she took the cube away from Nash and twisted it in the same manner as he did.

Soon, her palm too was engulfed in crimson flames, but in contrast to Nash he was deep in his own thoughts, her silver eyes widened scarcely and mumbled, "150% increase in size and explosion upon throwing it on ash? This power is pretty useful despite being only a Divinity Class Domination Art, just a Class above the weakest Rank!"

"Divinity Class? 150% increase in size and explosion? What are you talking about?" Miles who seemed to finished eating asked with puzzlement, looking at Amy with a raised brow.

"I am talking about the description of the Domination Art that your fa... that you have acquired," Amy said with a slight correction of her speech, avoiding mentioning Miles about his father.

"Description?" Miles ignored Amy's mistake and instead of becoming sad he became even more puzzled than before, "What Description?"

Amy was about to explain to Miles what the description was and how he could gain access to it when suddenly a blue light flashed in her eyes and watched as a needle pierced Miles in the middle of his forehead with precise accuracy!

"You! What are you doing?" Amy snapped his toward Nash, looking slightly stupefied by his abrupt action.

"What am I doing? Isn't that obvious already? I am unsealing his Legacy." Nash answered without glancing at Amy and slowly added, "Furthermore, it is useless to explain to him what a description is."

"What do you mean it is useless?" Amy frowned and watched as the needle flew back into Nash's hand with no trace of blood on it.

"What I mean, is that while his Legacy is unsealed, he has no ability to check descriptions let it be his own Legacy or other Domination Arts'," Nash said calmly and once Miles sat up with a dizzy face, he said, "Try to imagine the sight of you summoning those flames in your head. Now you should be able to see the description."

Miles was confused and light-headed when he heard Nash's words, but still nodded and did as he was told. And soon enough, his eyes widened while his eyes quickly lit up like stars in the dark sky.

"So this is what you were talking about! Now I see! And also this... Dimension Refining Physique... So this was my Legacy all this time?" Miles mumbled with awe, but shortly his brows lowered into a frown and asked, "Level six Mortal? What does that mean?"

"What? You are already Level 6?" both Nash and Amy widened their eyes when they heard Miles' words, the latter even standing up from shock as she failed to understand just how could such a fragile-looking boy possess greater strength than her!

"Well, it says the word level and six, so..." Miles scratched his neck and raised his gaze at Amy and Nash, "Is that good or bad though?"

"That is extremely good." Nash nodded and looking at the dish in front of him he pondered for a brief moment before putting it down.

"We need a plan. We need to leave this planet as soon as possible."

Amy nodded in agreement while Miles remained silent only to say a while later, "If we want to escape the only possibility is through sneaking on a merchant ship."

"Merchant ship?" Amy and Nash asked at the same time, curious to hear more.

"As you may have noticed this already the planet is under tight security hence no one can enter and exit freely much less escape without notice. However, once every month, a merchant ship will visit this planet to trade and take various goods back to the Ancient Dimension."

"The Ancient Dimension?"

Miles nodded and continued, "Yes, but because the ship can't travel directly back to the Ancient Dimension as only Interdimensional Titan Ships are capable of doing such a feat, it will stop at Planet Gaia where the Ancient Path is located."

"Wait, the Ancient Path is located at Planet Gaia?" surprised by this sudden revelation Nash widened his eyes.

Although he knew the Ancient Path existed and led into the Ancient Dimension, he had no clue at all where it was located, much less how he could get there. What's more, he didn't even know where Planet Gaia was until this very moment!

"Yeah, it is. Or at least that is what I have heard from two merchants. But why do you ask this?" Miles asked with a puzzled expression.

'So it turns out that the Hidden Library was all this time at the planet where the Ancient Path was? There is no way it had not been found already, right?' Nash thought in his heart, ignoring Miles's and Amy's confused gaze on him.

"And when will this merchant ship arrive? Also, how long will it stay here?" after pondering for a while, Nash finally asked.

"If I am right, the last one was here three weeks and 3 days ago, so the next one should arrive about 4 to 5 days. As for how long it will stay, it entirely depends on the merchants and the duration of their trading. It can last an hour or even half a day. It always differs from time to time."

"That is more than enough." Nash smiled, already having an idea how they will escape from this planet using that merchant ship.

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A/N: Hope you liked it! Stay safe!<3