Extra's Path To Demon King-Chapter 89: Phasebound Sanctum [1]

[Nexus Panel]

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Name: Axel Nomrad

Age: 18

Species: Human (Partial-Demon)

Primary Aspect: Runecaster

Secondary Aspect: Chaosblood

Seeker’s Path: 1st Phase

Core Saturation: 30%

Bloodline: Demon

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Primary Stats -

Strength: 180

Agility: 150

Vitality: 200

Stamina: 180

Endurance: 150

Mind: 200

Mana Reserves: 120/120

Demonic Energy: 100/100

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Skills -

Runic Swordsmen (passive): You are extremely adept and skilled with runic sword artifacts.

1) 10% increase in attack power.

2) Sword Sense = you have an innate understanding of your own created Runic Swords.

Emotional Sense (passive): Upon the activation of your second aspect, you have a vague surface-level emotional Sense of others.

Upon transformation to Demonic Form, the skill increases in proficiency by 20%.

Titles -

Absolute Runecaster: The Runic symbols themselves are innately subservient to your existence.

1) Understanding of runes increased by 200%

2) Proficiency in Rune Engraving increased by 200%.

3) You have the Runic Eyes, which help you to innately understand anything related to runic magic.

Demon of Obsession: Because of your innately obsessive nature, the more your actions work towards the thing you are obsessed with, the more power is generated by the demon bloodline.

1) When your rage reaches its peak, you take on the demonic form, in that form, all stats + 10%, and you are unable to use any active abilities of your Runecaster aspect. There will be a short period of weakness after the form is reverted.

2) You’re killing intent is extremely pure and lethal passively because of the demon bloodline and only increases in potency with accumulated negative emotions, and its power is increased even further upon reaching the Demonic Form.

3) You can only use Demonic Energy while being in the Demonic Form.

Stored Items -

(None) - Please choose your primary storage tool to get a usable storage space.

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Axel was at first surprised by the number of the stats, they were quite high, but that was in a way expected as well. Especially the strength, stamina and demonic energy stats, while the demonic energy stat was unusable in normal circumstances. To put it into perspective for normal Seekers the stats would be around 100 with only a few stats difference between each of them depending on the person or their aspects.

His increased stats could easily be attributed to his demon bloodline and exceptional performance in the trial. So, his vitality, mind, strength, and stamina were almost doubled. The effects of the skills did not surprise him much, but the next most surprising thing was the effects of the ’Absolute Runecaster’ title.

Then title related to his second aspect was weird, he did not understand exactly why the ’Prime Nexus’ labeled him as obsessive. Pretty much everything was passive except for the Demonic Form.

The reason there were so few effects of the demonic form as well as drawbacks to it, is because of the incomplete demon bloodline, not to mention the ’Runecaster’ aspect itself being the primary one had a suppressing effect on the ’Chaosblood’ aspect. But this was better in fact, for now there was no need for the demon bloodline to be prominent, just the Runecaster aspect was enough.

The moment he was discovered to have the demon bloodline in him, it would be game over. With a sigh, he closed off the panel and went to sleep.

The next day, he woke up in the morning, walked towards the designated classroom for the gold section. He and Heinz were walking together. Heinz spoke in a wonderful tone,

"Bro, I still can’t believe I’m actually in the 2nd place among everyone."

Axel stated in a deadpan look, "How many times do you have to gloat?"

Heinz winced back and showed an apologetic expression, "Come on, dude, I’m really not talking about that, but.....I guess in a way..."

Axel started walking again, "Yeah, I guess you went through some shit, so you’re deserving for that in your own way."

"So, there’s no need for you to look down on yourself, just because of your humble status, in the end, power triumphs over anything. All these social infrastructures and hierarchy built upon the nobles’ statuses as well as their sense of superiority, are just for keeping the lower end of the people in the low life and keeping high-profile people in the sky," stated Axel calmly.

Heinz stopped for a moment and looked at him with visible surprise, then spoke, "You almost sound like you have a grudge against people in the high society?"

Axel shrugged, "Who knows? Maybe I do, maybe I don’t."

They reached the classroom, it was quite a wide and luxurious room. everyone took their seats and just as the clock hit 8 in the morning. A handsome looking middle aged man appeared in front of them, it was almost as if he was already there from the beginning, but only chose to reveal himself when the lock hit the right time.

The man introduced himself, "Hello, everyone, I am Darwin Brown, I shall be your homeroom professor from now on, generally in charge of everything within the Gold Section. You can simply refer to me as Professor Darwin."

"As you must already know, you must always carry the magic card with you, and your attendance in each of the lectures, as well as various other operations, will be automatically recorded."

"And yes, I know many of you are wondering what my relationship with the vice principal is considering we both share the same last name, we are brothers."

"Since that is out of the way, what I will be specifically teaching you about is Soul Space," revealed the homeroom teacher of the Gold Section.

Axel listened attentively, as did his friend and everyone else in the class, while Professor Darwin continued,

"You all have already seen it before and after going through the trial. In that place, the glowing light is your soul. Now that could be in any shape or form or color, depending on who or what you are. It expresses the purest form of your existence."

"But what you must know is that the form you saw then or can see now is not the real appearance of your soul. Since souls are the most mysterious things in existence. You are not at a level where you can see the true appearance of your soul. And as you grow stronger, what you see inside will have more and more substance. It will change greatly."

"However, I am not here to talk about those typical things related to the soul, but something far pressing and directly related to your journey of getting stronger and becoming a more and more powerful Seeker."

"After your trial was finished, in the evaluation period, you must have heard the words ’Phasebound Sanctum’, Primary Aspect Chamber, and Secondary Aspect Chamber."

Everyone nodded at the statement of the professor, while he continued, "Unlike the power systems of the various trial worlds created by the ’Prime Nexus’, the Eldarion continent is extremely special, the power system is much harder in every way, so normally adding constructs or spell structures in the open soul space, doesn’t work here."

Within your soul space, a large stretch of floating land is generated, and in that place exists a building-like structure ready to add more floors high in the sky or on the bottom floor downwards. Initially, the structure will only have the ground floor and one underground floor. As you advance through the Seeker’s path. The floors on the structure increases.

The floor above ground is called the Primary Aspect Chamber, while the underground floors are called, Secondary Aspect Chamber. Depending on your aspect, potential. The top or bottom floors can only increase to that height or reach that level of depth.

The professor showed the example by talking about the aspects of the Valkyrie. Saint [4-star] + Arcanist [3-star]

In this case, once the Valkyrie reaches the 4th phase, her primary aspect chamber will have 4 floors while the secondary aspect chamber will continue to have only 3 floors underground, showcasing their limits. As for what exactly the Phasebound sanctum was or its purposes, they were also explained in the following minutes.

The Phasebound Sanctum represents the Seekers’ Path of each and every individual in their own vision. As well as the very key for the next level of power. Within the Sanctum, on the first floor of both aspect chambers there is a white glowing core. That is referred to as the Nexus Core, everyone has 2 cores, it basically works in exchange for the mana core within the trial world. Each for one aspect of each person.

The primary Aspect chamber embodies your primary aspect, and the same goes for the secondary aspect chamber. The professor explained further, For the aspects that are from the warrior branch, their aspect chambers inside would look like a training or marshal hall or maybe even like a warzone, it could look different for everyone and depending on what their aspect is.

While for the aspect chamber, which the aspect is of the Magic branch, they would look like a magical lab, engraving room, or experimental room of sorts.

For those aspects chambers of the warrior branch, on the first floor, they would face a replica of theirs, and you would have to defeat that one replica of yours 3 times, indicating the three sublevels within each phase.

Initial, mid, and late.

Initially the mana in the Nexus core is gaseous, after defeating that replica your core will reach saturation with the gas like mana, then you will advance to mid state by converting the gaseous energy into liquid, but the next replica becomes that much harder to defeat, and once you defeat that as well, liquid mana saturation then conversion to crystal mana.

The same process follows, and at this point, it almost becomes impossible to defeat your replica, but when you do, crystal mana saturation occurs. Then you have to make an achievement, something that will allow the world will allow you to advance and help you convert the saturated crystal mana into something higher and gas-like mana again, but of a far higher quality. Advancing to be a 2nd Phase being.