Chaos Heir

Chapter 1366: Mountains

Khan could stop, slow down, or even attempt to approach the matter more carefully, establishing a failsafe to protect his mindset from delving too deeply into that more transcendent perspective.

Except Khan didn’t do any of that. Now more than ever, he believed that mana was his to take, and the world was even helping him in the process. After getting a few tastes of the spinning sphere’s wisdom, Khan sort of trusted it to know what and how much he could handle.

Besides, the benefits were massive.

Increasing the attunement with mana had an exponential difficulty. It was relatively easier in the early percentages but grew harder and more time-consuming, especially when approaching completion.

However, each additional point brought more strength. That improvement was usually negligible. Even the difference between entire levels was relatively minimal if spells and martial arts weren’t involved, but that didn’t apply to Khan.

Khan’s body had immense requirements but also innate abilities capable of wondrous might. He could fly on his own, unleash titanic physical strength, and heal from fatal injuries in seconds, but the benefits mainly affected a different skill now.

The new [Blood Vortex] relied on Khan’s cells to instantly absorb the energy the technique sent into his body. Yet, there was a limit to how much mana he could store under his skin, and the white-azure strands threatened to make him reach it, potentially slowing down his training.

Still, that never happened.

Khan’s attunement with mana rose at a pace he had never experienced before, strengthening his cells and their absorption speed.

Initially, Khan’s cells struggled to keep up with the energy delivered by the white-azure strands. Still, they quickly got better at it, shortening the time Khan needed to absorb the mana that ended up stored inside his body.

That created a strange, confusing loop. The stronger Khan became, the more energy he could absorb on the spot. Yet, that also shortened the breaks between one strand of white-azure mana and the other, triggering the broadening of his mindset more often.

Khan ended up going in and out of his and the mana’s perspective all the time, with barely any moment to collect himself or understand his gains. Ideas spread in his mind as quickly as they vanished, leaving only crumbles of enlightenment behind in a process that threatened to crush his psyche.

Yet, Khan kept enduring, driven by duty, pristine resolve, childish stubbornness, and instinctive greed. That was his world to take, which he even needed to increase the universe’s chances against the Scarlet Eyes.

Needless to say, that recklessness could be deadly, but Khan didn’t only trust his resilience and the spinning sphere’s wisdom. He didn’t come to that planet alone for a reason, so he believed his wife would intervene if something went wrong.

Of course, Liiza was currently quite indisposed. The evolution wasn’t something that could allow distractions, and the mental connection confirmed her complete immersion in the process.

While Khan had been in the air, turning the valley and surrounding areas into a mess of fissures and flying boulders, Liiza had remained inside her ice, continuing her evolution, joining her husband in bringing changes to the place.

Liiza didn’t need external energy to evolve. As a student and master of the Niqols’ new old ways, her procedure would mainly rely on her mutations, unleashing functions Khan couldn’t even hope to imagine.

However, Liiza’s energy did build a suitable environment for her evolution.

Initially, Liiza had isolated herself inside a frozen pillar while her body mimicked the ice’s fabric. Yet, that structure had expanded, pushing away the azure mana, leaving it for Khan to absorb, while establishing her personal domain on that foreign planet.

The pillars had multiplied and grown, transforming into proper natural structures. The once relatively small building with no entrance was now a group of pure, white mountains that stood in complete stillness while the surrounding azure world fell apart.

Despite the mountains being relatively transparent, Liiza’s figure was impossible to see from outside. She sat at the very center of those structures, her body and existence as a whole continuing to change in a direction only she knew.

Just like that, the pair of husband and wife remained immersed in their respective training that promised to bring their strength to new levels. Both were focused entirely on their procedures, with only the mental connection keeping them company and reminding them that they weren’t alone.

Actually, there was a third, powerless party. The Nak remained frozen in its position while the world around it crumbled apart, converging toward the figure in the sky, unable to do anything but watch history unfold from inside its prison.

The valley eventually was no more. Even the quadrant as a whole lost all its superficial layers and most of the air above it. That would usually force Khan to change location to maximize his absorption, but the planet fixed the issue for him.

The spinning sphere was still in its original position, so moving wouldn’t have been beneficial. Instead, the planet brought the mana to Khan, sending waves of unpolluted mana from distant areas to refill the now-empty sky and rebuild the ground and valley.

The quadrant came back to life, only to fall prey to the [Blood Vortex] again. Khan’s training continued unperturbed, and the massive mobilization of mana didn’t affect the frozen mountains, either, building around them to avoid disturbing Liiza.

Once Khan was done destroying and absorbing the second iteration of the valley, the mana built a third, and a fourth followed. By the seventh, Khan was starting to have headaches due to the uninterrupted switch between perspectives, but something far more meaningful happened.

The white mountains had stopped growing and expanding after taking that shape. The waves of mana that blew over them also left no track of their passage on those pure surfaces.

However, a tiny crack eventually opened on those mountains, and a frozen shard fell from it, bouncing over its pure surfaces, leaving dents wherever it hit.

Cracks spread from those dents, releasing even more shards that started a chain reaction, turning the massive mountains into a hailstorm that quickly settled on the azure ground underneath, creating a white bed for the frozen, cross-legged statue they revealed.

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