Chapter 110 - Reborn From Fire
After refining the flame for almost one hour, he had refined almost forty percent of it and had finally acquired the fire element. Now, his previous chaotic essence orb was undergoing a change with the acquisition of a new element.
With the addition of the fire element, he currently had five elements, this, in turn, made his essence orb have five different colors with the fire element unexpectedly dominating it. But Grey couldn't bother about the reason for now and focused fully on breaking through.
He had currently reached the critical point of his breakthrough, that was, forming his essence beads. Although over fifty percent of the people who attempt to form their essence beads succeed, since there's a failure rate of almost fifty percent, it showed forming the beads was easier said than done.
Compared to Single Elementalists, the failure rate among Dual Elementalists was lower due to having higher spiritual energy, then for Multi Elementalists, their success rate was a whopping eighty percent. Because, forming each bead required a delicate procedure, and if Dual Elementalists succeeds in forming the first bead, given the experience from the first one, they shouldn't have any problems when forming the second one. But on some rare occasions, they fail to do so.
But for most Elementalists, their failures occur when forming the first bead. And once one fails in forming the essence beads, they would be stuck at the Arcane Plane, and only a few natural treasures could help them.
Only Dual Elementalists and Multi Elementalists have it better since even if they failed in one element, they could still succeed in the other. Although their strength wouldn't be what it was supposed to be, it was better than not advancing at all.
Being fully aware of this, Grey knew there was no room for errors. Rushing into forming any of his beads might spell disaster for him. But once he completes the process, then he would become an Origin Plane Elementalist. He was slowly getting to the pinnacle of the Azure empire.
Calming his mind, he decided to form the essence bead for his wind element first, the reason was quite simple, among the other elements in his essence orb, it occupied the smallest mass. So he would use it to get familiar with the technique of creating his beads.
Also, if one's spiritual energy isn't strong enough, they might not be able to hold the elemental essence for too long, so they will not be able to compress it properly. If these type of people even manages to break through to the Origin Plane, their overall strength will just be slightly better than an Arcane Plane Elementalist, and geniuses like Grey and Alice could beat them easily even if they were still in the Eighth Plane of the Arcane Plane.
Grey slowly used his spiritual energy to first isolate the wind element from the others before forming a sphere around it. After successfully forming the sphere, he slowly started compressing it. Given his strong spiritual energy, he had no issues with holding the element in the sphere.
It took him almost fifteen minutes to compress the sphere to more than one-fifth of the previous size of the wind element while it was still in its previous matter state. While the wind element was still in a matter state in his essence orb, it occupied a space of at least twenty-five centimeters.
'I can still compress it a little further', Grey pushed it to the limit.
Although this seemed rash, there was a reason for it. The smaller you compress your essence beads, the thicker your elemental essence. This would then increase the boost in strength, speed, and defense it gives the user.
'What the hell is he doing? Even though it hasn't been long since I was born, I'm confident they don't absorb flames this way', he thought to himself.
He saw how Grey was refining it previously and knew he's absorbing the flame. But now, how did it turn out like this? Looking at Grey's face calmly, he could see it was distorted from pain. He could even feel Grey was in a tremendous amount of pain from their connection.
'Why would he put himself through this pain just to grow stronger?', he asked himself.
When studying Grey some moments ago, he realized the strength of his body was increasing at a dramatic rate. In fact, his body contained so much explosive energy that it was terrifying.
'How could the human body contain so much strength?', Void asked himself in disbelief.
Beasts are known for their tough bodies, but not humans. The body of a Magical Beast in the same Rank as a human is far stronger compared to the latter.
Grey's mind was currently a mess, the pain was stronger than he expected, it was even three times stronger than his expectations. It was like the flame was slowly eating away his flesh, tissues, and muscles, and slowly remolding them, making them stronger.
'It's almost like being reborn from fire', he thought jokingly while still in pain.
Being strong-willed, he gritted his teeth and endured the pain of feeling his body being burnt and remolded. Due to the speed at which his flesh, tissues, and muscles were remolding, Void couldn't see it.
It was only after twenty-five minutes of constant suffering did the flame slowly start to die down. Grey had cursed in his mind so many times already because of pain.
What was left of his clothes after the battle with the Elemental Warrior were burnt to nothingness, luckily he still had a spare.
'If I were to engage in another tough battle that might destroy my clothes, then I'll have to walk around looking like a beggar. That can't happen! *Sigh* Looks like I'll have to be careful when fighting next time', Grey shook his head wryly.
When he stood up, all his bones made cracking sounds. His skin was smooth, and one wouldn't find even a single blemish on it.,
"*Phew* Finally, I'm in the Origin Plane", he breathed out heavily.
Observing his body properly, his essence orb had long disappeared, in its place were five rotating beads.