Strings Of Domination

"Silver Essence, huh?" Miles mumbled quietly as he stood up and quickly activated his newly acquired ability.

Whoosh!

"Oh?" a surprised gasp escaped from Miles's mouth once he saw how a silver hue slowly appeared and engulfed his whole body, giving him an appearance of a holy being!

"Interesting. I feel as if my body lost several pounds and now became as light as feather!" waving around his hand which looked incredibly fast, Miles exclaimed loudly before his eyes lit up and asked, "Wait... I wonder if that works."

Without waiting for anything, Miles quickly extended his right arm before him and under the confused look of Nash, the white light which previously engulfed his body slowly but surely began to move onto one single point, around his right palm!

"It works! Haha! So I can use this Silver Essence in such a way too!" Miles laughed with joy, almost like a little kid who succeeded in finding something pretty amusing for the first time.

Right now, Miles' fingers were moving with such speed that even Nash had problems following their trajectory and there were even times when he lost sight of them for a split second!

"It seems, depending on the amount of essence I channel into different parts of my body, I can increase my speed tremendously!" and to show his theory was right, Miles quickly controlled his essence in his body to all over his body, not only resulting in his whole body to get engulfed in gentle silver glow once again but also causing the speed of his fingers to drop drastically!

Nash seeing this from the side looked surprised and an idea immidieatly popped into his mind.

'Wait... If this is the case, can I do the same with my Crimson Essence?'

This question was important because so far whenever he activated his Crimson Essence it only engulfed his hands and not his whole body. Of course, there was one time when the crimson ambiance covered his entire being, but it was only when he attempted to protect Amy from the scorching heat inside the Hidden Library.

At that time, unfortunately, he only acted on instinct and didn't think about trying out if his whole body became stronger or not. However, now was the perfect time to try out what he couldn't previously!

Whoosh!

Once on his feet, Nash raised his hands and watched as both his arms got covered in a crimson glow which looked and moved in a manner as if they were crimson flames!

'Let's see.' closing his eyes, Nash controlled his essence in his hand slowly into his legs, and to his pleasant surprise, the crimson flames around his hand vanished and reappeared around both his legs!

"It worked!" Nash exclaimed out loud and said, "Although every bit of my essence was turned into Crimson Essence, enhancing my physical strength in every part of my body equally, it seems I can concentrate all of them to different points inside my body to boost only that region!"

"Yeah, but unfortunately... We can't use both the Silver and Crimson Essence at the same time." Miles mumbled, showing a slightly disappointed look.

"Hmm..." Nash let out a low hum as he too tried to activate both his Silver and Crimson Essence only to end up with neither of them activating and even causing a small pain to pierce his chest!

"I think we are not strong enough yet." Miles sighed before he suddenly raised his hand and yawned a large.

"Huh?" surprised by the yawn and also the fact he became sleepy all of a sudden, Miles frowned before realization hit him.

Just when was the last time Miles was able to sleep well and without trouble? No, instead, when was the last time he has slept? Although he has taken small naps from time to time like during on the spaceship to Planet Rover or when Nash was knocked out unconscious, they were only half an hour, at the very best an hour rest!

His last time when he properly slept for several hours was perhaps before the time he met with Nash and Amy if not even later than that!

Nash seemed to realize this and showing a bittersweet smile he said, "Just go and sleep. It won't do good for your body and mind if you keep staying up without resting properly."

"And what about you?"

"After I have been knocked unconscious and woke up my body feels pretty refreshed. I don't feel tired much less sleepy at the moment. I think I will just continue cultivating in the meantime."

Miles pondered silently as he was first hesitant in fear that he will fall behind if he won't cultivate, but once another yawn forced its way onto the surface out of his will he understood he really had to sleep or else it will affect him in the future.

"...Sure" Miles sighed and without saying anything else walked away, walking onto the second floor and into the room just next to the one where Amy was in.

Nash upon seeing that he now was alone sat back into a lotus position and closed his eyes. Then, slowly controlled his essence in his body against the blue symbol which immediately forced him to clench his teeth in pain and stop cultivating after a few seconds.

"This is way harder than the first two... This will be quite a challenge." Nash mumbled before he took a deep breath and went back to cultivate.

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The sun was currently at the peak on the boundless vest azure sky, just right above a huge and majestic palace, washing the entirety of the Sargon Family's domain in its warm and pleasant glow!

And exactly before this majestic palace's very entrance which was as wide as ten humans standing next to each other and as tall as an average tree, three individuals wearing robes, clothes of the Sargon Family, and different masks stood patiently.

Obviously, those three were Nash, Miles, and Amy who after resting for one and half a day were summoned by King Helio, seemingly because of their first mission.

"King Helio is already waiting for your presence. You may go inside." the two guards standing in front of the gate with two huge spears stepped to the side as the gate opened slowly, revealing a huge hall.

Though, when one said the interior of the hall was huge, one didn't simply mean it was large but instead that it was extremely gigantic, gigantic to the point where a smaller-sized spaceship could be fit in there with ease!

Golden pillars with heights three times as tall as the gate itself stood in rows on both sides with floating candles burning with blue fire surrounding them in a ring-like shape while in the middle a wide and long azure blue carpet showed the path all the way to the other side of the hall where two thrones could be seen, each having a single individual sitting on them!

"You three are finally here." King Helio talked loudly despite Nash and the other two walking and standing before him less than 10 meters.

"Oh? Did you perhaps have a small breakthrough?" Ayanna sitting next to Helio looked at the three with narrowed eyes and asked, her gaze fixed especially on Nash's figure.

"It's just a minor breakthrough, nothing special to boast about. " Nash shrugged casually, even his voice containing indifference despite standing before two powerful beings from one was way above the Warmaster Rank!

Though, although he was showing he was relaxed and was not anxious, his guard was raised as he was well aware that despite seeing no one in the hall except Helio and Ayanna, at the moment the three of them were surrounded by several individuals that were by no means weak.

'Warmaster Rank each. They hide their physical appearance but keep their presence noticed to warn us to not do anything stupid.' Miles noticed this too, and for the first time after a long while his expression was quite solemn.

Helio narrowed his eyes too, but instead of being offended by the way Nash behaved he showed a smile and said, "Good, I hope you will have the same confidence in that place too."

Nash, Miles, and Amy shifted their gaze at Helio with curiosity, but as they knew the place Helio just mentioned was in deep connection with their first mission they remained silent and waited for the King of the Sargon Family to continue speaking.

And soon enough, Helio indeed began to speak;

"Well then, let me explain your first mission briefly and what you will have to do. You will go to Planet Amnar and enter the Lost Ruins there.." after Helio reached that point in his speech he waved his hand and a device in front of Nash and the other two on his side lit up, projecting a hologram to them which currently showed a small pot with a little golden tree in it.