BXBX NOVEL Chapter 15 - A Window To Close
Kyros paused for a bit and glanced at the constipated-looking soul of Calaminus.
"What? How\'s that possible? Everything I learned and know is from you."
"That\'s exactly what I\'m curious about! How did you become smarter than me?! That\'s unfair!" Calaminus cried.
"I don\'t know. Did you become dumb when you got here?"
"Hmm... Well, now that you mentioned it... I mean, I did a bit... When I was sealed, it took away most of the powers that I naturally know when I was an Ancient God."
"Naturally know? You mean like how a bird knows how to fly and how a fish knows how to swim?"
"Yeah. When you ascend to godhood or well... descend to the fallen state, you develop a different body. These things are not taught but can only be understood if you are a god or a fallen. So when I became human, it took away a lot of things. My understanding of the elements, the powers of a God, and so on have been limited. What I can remember, I still carry. The only reason why I was able to cast my Time Survivor Skill is that it is associated with the soul."
"Then if we cultivate and get you stronger, you\'d be able to remember them?"
"Yes. That part is true."
"Alright. Then I guess this is severely limited. Relax. It might be basing your intelligence compared to a very weak you!" Kyros consoled.
"I have to find a way to get you to have a body. It\'s weird having a crazy older man stuck on me. What\'s Spirit Shackle? I used to have Soul Shackle, but now it\'s Spirit."
"Right! We didn\'t talk about Soul powers during our little time trip! Truth be told, I thought we didn\'t need it."
"You didn\'t talk about Soul and Spirit, but you had the time to talk about Corporate management and company relations? Which, by the way, still doesn\'t make sense."
"It will! When you soon save a kingdom and rise to power, you can use those tricks to make sure your people are happy."
"So, for me to defeat the collaboration between the Fallen and the Greater Gods, I need to make that thing that what you discussed for two whole days? I need a Mission and Vision Statement?"
"All successful companies have them. So why not, right? So you do need that, and you have to set your OGP."
"Setting Objectives, Goals, and Plans can help me defeat divine and accursed beings? But theoretical and practical knowledge on Soul training isn\'t included?" Kyros challenged.
"Well, I figured you didn\'t need it! You have three souls, for crying out loud! You don\'t need to cultivate it. You just need to unseal them!"
"Wait. I have THREE souls? And you just figured that me knowing that I have three souls is of less value than understanding C#? I was already getting the hang of Java and am already able to program my soul to search for a means to analyze things constantly, and you still made me go through that."
"What?" Calaminus was startled at his statement.
"What do you mean?"
"I already programmed my soul to constantly assess and think of a way to get me unsealed faster. I am also using my ability to draw out the energy of this world to increase my soul. How do you think my soul could recover even when I fell unconscious. My soul was acting in auto-pilot mode!"
"What the fragment?!" Calaminus exclaimed, unable to believe what he was hearing.
"Impossible! Quick! Show me the details of... that one! Greater Soul Meditation on your Active Spells! I don\'t recall any skill with that name! Focus your will to see it! Now!" Calaminus demanded.
Kyros was surprised at the sudden demands that he made a mistake and locked into Greater Soul Resistance under Passive Skills.
"Er... I made a mistake."
The details of Greater Soul Resistance appeared.
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[Greater Soul Resistance]
The ability to resist soul-related elemental and non-elemental attacks. The soul is also more resistant to possible mind-altering attacks that originate from forcibly altering the state of the soul. This includes mind control, beguiling, and confusion.
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"Close it and open the other one! This one helps explain how you were quickly able to overcome your Dark Maddening state! But that\'s not important! Close it!"
"How do I get out of this erm... thing?"
"Just close the window!"
"Alright." Kyros immediately rushed and closed the nearby windows that were surrounding the temple where he was sealed in. It was difficult for Kyros to do this as the window display in his eyes was blocking the view. Several of the Shadow Ghouls attacked Kyros and nearly clawed his arms that were moving out of the shield to pull the windows back. But thankfully, the shield protected them. Kyros did this several times as he closed the windows on the four sides of the temple.
"Done." Kyros wiped his hands to disperse the dust.
"Hey. It\'s not working. This thing about Greater Soul Resistance is still here."
"..." Calaminus facepalmed himself.
"FRAGMENT! No wonder my other incarnation resigned from the call center industry! I meant close that display. Click on the X button."
"Click?"
"Make your will select the X button on the top corner!" Calaminus urged with great frustration.
Kyros finally did so.
"Oh. So that\'s what you mean by \'window\'!"
"For someone who surpasses me in intelligence, you can\'t close that window?!"
"You never explained what a window is! Why would this be called window and not \'floating\' box? And you didn\'t even bother to tell me the details of this stat system which would have been helpful! You didn\'t teach me more about this temple! If I knew that I had nearly three days to recover, I would have stopped fighting and rested! Maybe I surpass you in intelligence because you\'re so dumb!" Kyros cursed.
"I didn\'t know about this temple! This is something that honestly surpasses my own! The mystery of this temple and even this place is something that shouldn\'t be possible! This place is designed to train you to awaken your Fallen and your ascension to a God! This is what the temple is! A training ground for a Nephilim!" Calaminus explained.
"This is a training ground?" Kyros clicked on the X button and closed the displayed screen of Greater Soul Meditation.
"Show Temple Info!" Kyros shouted to display the temple stats.
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Nephilim Sealing Temple
Status: Kyros Unsealed
Nephilim Training Commencing!
Shade Level: 1 (01:15:35:42 remaining to Level 2)
Temple Level: 3 (104/1000 points to Level 4)
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Kyros mused over the first set of information and immediately bolted out of the door.
The many Shadow Ghouls were caught off guard. They couldn\'t see inside the temple as the light was hindering their sight. So when they saw Kyros moved out of the temple, they were caught off guard.
Kyros bit the head of one of the Shadow Ghoul to kill it as he began to kick and punch the monsters. Even though the Force Lock curse was hindering his ability to release the Force energy, he had already learned how to deal with the hordes of monsters before him.
The monsters were immune to physical attacks. But Kyros could attack them. And because of that, Kyros could send them flying with ease. Even when several would pounce at him together, they would all get easily blown away by a sweeping kick or punch.
And while his attacks wouldn\'t kill these Shadow Ghouls, it gave Kyros the chance to knock them back and deal with the others.
And so, Kyros would make a wide swing and attack and reach for one to bit its head and toss its body towards the temple.
Kyros had already discovered on his previous fight how powerful the Holy Barrier was. The Shadow Ghouls recklessly charged and rushed at Kyros even when Kyros was standing in front of the temple. Kyros retreated, and it was there that the Holy Barrier suddenly appeared. When it did, the rushing Shadow Ghouls were purged as they passed the barrier. Although these creatures managed to reach the other side, they were severely weakened, and their sizes shrunk until only one-third remained.
"What are you doing?! Get back inside, and let me check on your stats!" Calaminus roared.
"Didn\'t you see? I have a day to get my points up to level 4! So help me!" Kyros argued and kept fighting.
"We can talk about my stats later! I need to get to the next level!" Kyros answered as he kept attacking and evading. The skill Pronto was once more activated and allowed Kyros to move and retreat before these creatures could move.
Although the speed of Kyros would normally prove useless against these numerous beings, the problem was that Kyros stuck close to the entrance of the temple, and so the horde couldn\'t recklessly rush in as they would get burned by the temple\'s shield.
As such, the horde-styled invasions of Shadow Ghouls didn\'t happen, and all the ghouls merely kept trying to swipe or pull Kyros.
"Amazing. With all his abilities, the creatures that level fifty or sixty mortal warriors and mages is something that this level 1 Kyros could fight!" Calaminus observed in awe.
"If you want to see my stats help me kill more!" Kyros shouted.
"Fine! I saw that Passive skill Time Surge! Either by your disgusting constitution, or because my soul merged with yours, it allowed you to carry Time Reversal Magic! I normally wouldn\'t allow you to use it since it would alert the gods and fallen. But since we are here, I guess they won\'t sense it."
"What\'s Time Surge?!"
"Simply put, your body always has an excess of time! There are a lot of possible ways to use it! But the most helpful now is to use Time Haste! It\'s a Time spell that allows you to time faster for a few seconds in the area around you!"