Rise Of The Infinite Sovereign

Chapter 336: Sirion and Lumeria

"Lumeria and Sirion!"

Ezra’s blurting disrupted Zydrax’s concentration.

"Tch" Zydrax clicked his tongue, obviously displeased. "Would you not do that?"

He almost flipped over the energies floating above his hand.

Ezra didn’t reply.

Taking that as a response, Zydrax continued tinkering with different energies.

Two days later.

"What were you saying?" Zydrax spoke to Ezra.

"Huh?"

"What did you shout about a lumen or what was it?"

"...."

No answer.

"You can talk now" said Zydrax.

"You’re completed it?" Ezra asked in response.

"No..." Zydrax said it slowly. The excitement in his eyes had dimmed "Contrary to my expectations...again...there’s yet another hurdle in my path"

"What is it?"

He sighed. "Unlike the last few times. This time, the problem doesn’t have a straightforward answer"

"Last time, it was the placements that simply needed changing, and before that, it was the energies that were imbalanced" he said. "This time, I found that it’s a problem with the negative mana"

"I have an abundance of pure mana and more than enough dimensional essence-

"What’s dimensional essence?" Ezra prompted.

"Let me finish" Zydrax huffed. "I have an abundance of other two energies but the negative mana is lacking"

"Then, shouldn’t you just get more?" Ezra answered with a ’how did you skip such a simple answer’ tone.

To which Zydrax rolled his eyes.

"If it were that simple to solve, I wouldn’t have called it a problem in the first place"

"Its beyond just quantity. The negative mana itself is not up to par"

"Eh?" Ezra was confused.

"If I have to explain the problem, it would be to illustrate how atmospheric mana and refined mana are basically the same thing, but their effectiveness is incomparable"

He draws upon a small bit of negative mana. "The negative mana in my hand is like atmospheric mana, but for the creation to come to life, I need negative mana on par with refined mana"

"I see" Ezra now understood. "Okay. How do you intend to find it?"

"I’ve thought of opening the portal to the demon world and searching for treasure within, but our chances of succeeding are slim with how many dangers there are, not to mention how many things could go wrong"

"Can’t you just kill demons and suck out the negative mana like you did before and refine it?"

Zydrax shook his head.

"I’ve already tried. It takes ten fistfuls of unrefined negative mana to create a half a fist of negative mana with the needed quality; and we need an immense amount to complete the artifact-if I would call it that"

He continues. "To use such a method, we would have to kill at least ten times more than we did last time, and besides, their world’s will wouldn’t simply watch us do it"

"If yov’ve thought this far, then you must’ve figured out something" said Ezra, pushing him to continue.

"What we need is a negative mana artifact equivalent of mana stones or the mana cube, and the only way to do that is to search the demon world"

"Didn’t you say chances were slim we’d survive if we tried such a thing?"

Zydrax sighs again, "That’s why I’m currently trying to think of something else, or maybe come up with another idea"

"Why don’t you just reduce the quality of the dimensional essence and the mana to accommodate unrefined negative mana?"

"That is a terrible suggestion" Zydrax replied. "Tell me, if you had the best eyes in the world, would you reduce your eyesight so you could read someone’s terrible handwriting or even an art piece?"

Ezra went silent for a while, beforreplyimg. "No"

"To cut quality from everything else would be to make this artifact flimsy, unrefined and most of all, it would an insult to all the effort I put in until now" Zydrax’s tone had chilled. "Don’t ever make a suggestion like that again"

Ezra shrugged. "If you day so"

No, Ezra wasn’t afraid of Zydrax, but respect was to be awarded where it was deserved.

"So what are you going to do?" Ezra asked.

"I don’t know" he said, and then chuckled. "It’s been a while since I didn’t know what to do"

"For now, I don’t have any good plans. So I’ll pause, take a break and go over the artifact over and over again to see if there’s any way to bypass this problem"

"You’ve been on this artifact for more than fourty weeks, taking a break would indeed help clear your head"

"Who do you think I am?" Zydrax retorted. "I’m simply pausing so I reexamine my progress. At my level, even in my current state I can go seventy weeks without much trouble. Don’t underestimate me"

"I’m not" says Ezra.

"Anyways, tell me more about Lumen and Siron"

’Lumen and Siron?’ Ezra was firstly confused, until it hit him.

"You mean Lumeria and Sirion?"

"Yes" Zydrax replied. "Why did you shout before?"

"Sorry about that. I just suddenly remembered them"

"Why?"

"Well, right now, I realized that they’re still both unknown to everyone. Also I was on my way to Sirion befor I was killed"

"And that’s when you reincarnated?" Zydrax guessed.

"Yes" Ezra nodded.

"That aside. You were heading to Sirion?"

Zydrax was suddenly interested.

"Yes" Ezra nodded.

"Sirion is a place then?"

"Oh. I hadn’t mentioned?" Ezra realized. "Lumeria and Sirion are continents"

Zydrax was taken aback, Ezra hadn’t told him any of this when he first pressed him for answers during the Life Ark incident.

No, it wasn’t surprised that Orion had two more continents. As someone inhabiting the world’s will, he’d known about them from day one.

He was instead surprised that Ezra knew them, and that they had been given names.

Though, he had inkling as to which was which. "Is Sirion the island of Ice?"

"You know about them?" It was Ezra’s turn to be shocked.

"Of course I do. I’ve been this planets will for centuries, it would stranger if I didn’t know"

’That’s true’

Thinking about it, Ezra nodded.

"Yes, Sirion is the Island of Ice. Well, I was unable to see it in person, but that’s what it was described as"

"Lumeria must be the beast land then"

"It is" Ezra nodded.

"But how did you find it?" Zydrax questioned.

If the three continents, Lexon, Puton and Hellison were at one part of the planet, Sirion was a floating island on the other side of the world and Lumeria wasn’t too far from Sirion.

Few Grandmasters would ever travel that far, because there was nothing inbetween but water, meaning you had nowhere to land in between.

Not to mention, of the few Grandmasters that did make it there, none ever returned.

So how did it happen that not only did they find it, knights like Ezra was being dispatched to it.

Ezra simply replied. "We didn’t"

"Hmm?" Zydrax was confused.

"It came to us"

"...?."

"During the apocalypse, I don’t know why or how, the continents merged into one. That was how we discovered Lumeria and Sirion"

He continued "The merging forced us into corner as we pushed against otherworldly creatures, beasts from Lumeria, demons and ice men"

Ezra’s voice had almost died out. "Multiple Millions died during that time, and humans would’ve completely lost if not demons. They attacked everyone, making them fight each other. Thus giving us a chance to catch our breathe"

Zydrax imagined just how horrible that must’ve been.

Ezra made a dejected laugh "All through that, I refused the power of the Life Ark. In my eyes, the Life Ark was created by whoever sent down those damned dungeons and I couldn’t stand the thought of using such a thing"

"I made sure to never use it, and I convinced all my subordinates not to use it as well, thinking I doing them a favor, but all I did was hold them down"

"Eventually, my stubborness lead to all our deaths" he said, in a light tone. "My self righteousness had me die to people who should’ve never been able to step within ten feet of me"

"I was beyond angry at the time and when I found myself in the past, I vowed I’d make those people pay, and then worked day and night to make sure of it"

"But eventually, thanks to alone time in Arcadia, I realized I was just doing them a favor" Ezra shook his head in laughter.

"Those that hurt me didn’t exist anymore. I was just torturing myself in memory of things had yet to happen, blinded in pursuit of something beyond worthless. I realized I had to put the past in the past, and look forward to the future. Then somehow, I ended up here with you"

A smile lay across as he recalled and compared his present and past selfs.

The events of his betrayal no longer triggered him, his anger over the issue had shimmered, gone like dust in the wind.

As a result, regardless of what happened, the days were far brighter and living life never felt better.

Like a bubble bursting, Ezra broke out of his reminiscence and came back into the present.

"Ah, forgive me. It seemed I’ve blabbered some nonsense"

"Nonsense?" Zydrax spoke in a pleased tone. "Stories like these are what life’s really about. It was very pleasant"

His tone turned neutral, as he tapped his chin.

"Now, where was I? Ah, yes, why were heading to Sirion?"

Ezra brainstormed a bit.

"Let me see...ah! It was to join the main forces already stationed there"

Ezra nodded, affirming his words.

"Yes, yes, we were to assist them in fending off the otherworldly creatures that had attacked the place to stop them from taking something..."

"Taking something?" Zydrax retorted.

"An artifact I think...yes, ah, I can’t seem to recall exactly what it was...wait! There’s a book in my space ring that should have the answers. Take it out"

Adhering to the introduction, Zydrax fishes out a medium sized book from the space ring.

This was the book that Ezra had jotted down all he could remember about things of his past life while he was still small and his memory was at the sharpest.

No wait, that’s wrong, his memory now was sharper than before, but he had little he was thinking off at the time and the memories were still intact, so it hadn’t convulated with the events of this life.

"Not that one, not that either, not that too"

With Ezra in his ear, Zydrax flipped through pages with swiftness.

Then, he hit the section that talked about the apocalypse.

Many of the items written were now useless since many events had been shifted.

For instance, since the demons didn’t invade, the location of their portals and war strategies beared no significance.

Finally, they reached the parts containing matters about Sirion.

At their level, the contents of the entire page was absorbed in a second.

There it was.

The name of the artifact otherworldly beasts sought in Sirion.

The Ice source.