Strings Of Domination

[Congratulations! You have successfully defeated Latael, the Ancient Fifth!]

[You have successfully completed your Final Trial, Against the Ancient!]

Nash was still surprised by the results of his Soul Shattering Grab and failed to react to the words displayed in his mind. Only when Latael's body began to turn into small fragments of green particles and began to fade did he move and let out a shocked gasp.

"So this is the true strength of an Ancestry Art? This is terrifying!"

Although Nash has kind of guessed such results when he first saw the title of the Ancestry Art, in truth, he didn't fully expect it to be this brutal. He literally shattered Latael's soul without him having the slightest chance of resisting! He literally turned him into a vessel without any soul, a cripple that had no consciousness but had a body!

Nash felt shocked, but at the same time also satisfaction. This was because despite his Ancestry Art being kind of brutal, it was pretty straightforward and until he can touch his enemies' soul, he can instantly gain victory!

The only downfall about this ability was that it required a huge amount of his essence, and currently, he can only use it at the most 9 times, as with his Soul Eye active 10 times was impossible.

However, although 9 times seemed a small amount, especially if he was fighting against a horde of creatures like he did in his third trial, against a single enemy such as Latael, it was the finest ace that could be up to his sleeve and also being a great lifesaver!

"Unfortunately, I couldn't activate my Soul Breaker and see what it can do. It seems it needs a rather long time to get its ability triggered completely, and against Latael, it was simply not fast enough." Nash sighed as he touched gently the hilt of his sword on his back.

"Anyways, how can I get out of here? I thought this was the final trial, so how come I am still here?" Nash wondered with a mild frown when he saw he was still in the middle of the vast domain and glanced around.

Split earth, bottomless fissures with lengths of several hundreds of meters, huge chunks of debris with a size of a human lying everywhere, and craters with a width of tens of meters. The whole landscape was changed from the previously beautiful emerald grass field into a wasteland filled with nothing but destruction!

Just thinking about that this all happened because of a single existent that was only at the bottom of the Warrior Rank made Nash feel his body tremble scarcely, and wonder just what kind of hell would get loose if Latael would have been even stronger!

Nash was pretty sure he wouldn't have had such an 'easy' time against Latael, that was for certain!

"Do I need to do something to get out of here or what?" after waiting for an entire minute and seeing nothing happened, Nash asked with remote impatience and was about to do something when suddenly a figure appeared before him all of a sudden.

Silver hair that shone brightly under the sunlight, voyager-blue eyes that seemingly held deep and complex emotions that only a few could understand, flawless skin together with a striking look that could make even the coldest women feel hot instantly, and a firm posture that made one feel as though he was an immovable mountain that supported the nine heavens above!

The one that appeared before Nash, was no one else but Aruer!

"It seems you have succeeded in completing my trial and sooner than I have anticipated, haha! Maybe I should have made it a bit harder..." Aruer said with a calm smile, his serene gaze fixed on Nash's figure in front of him.

'Harder?' when Nash heard that single word, he almost coughed up blood from both shock and anger.

Could have made the challenge stronger than it already was? Was he just joking or what?

Although he had the ability to overcome the first three trials with relative ease, the final trial was a completely different matter altogether! Not only did he have to concentrate with every bit of his willpower to avoid getting crushed and killed, but he even had to fight against Latael even with that small amount of fighting knowledge he had!

One had to point out that despite Nash was fighting like someone who has practiced for months already with the sword, in fact, it was all because he had seen and 'practiced' how to wield the sword way back when he was still back at Planet Zero.

Different from Planet Azure where only caves and mines existed filled with minerals, Planet Zero was a planet where one of the many military quarters were located of the Sky Beast and there, it was not rare to witness how the Sky Beasts practiced with different weapons such as the sword!

And because he has spent a rather long time there, Nash had more than enough time to inspect the way the sword was wielded while also trying to imitate it in secret during his small amount of free time, if he had any at all.

Hence, despite having a small amount of knowledge and experience in the way of the sword, Nash was far from being a sword expert and his time against Latael could be said as a struggle, thus hearing Aruer said he could have made the trial harder was a little shameless!

"Anyways, you have successfully done what you had to do, so let me hand you your rewards."

Whoosh!

Nash watched with surprise as several items, three to be exact appeared out of thin air in front of him, each having a different shape than the other; unfortunately, none of them were Ancient Treasures, thus Nash could only sigh with slight disappointment and proceed on inspecting the three times one by one.

The first item on the left was an ordinary small ring with an oval shape and a deep black color. On its top, a symbol Nash didn't recognize was seen, representing a triangle with a small circle in its middle, each top of the triangle connected to the edge of the circle with a single straight line!

The second item on the right was a small orb with a size around a human fist and a color of white. Except for those two, it emitted neither a unique aura nor did it have any other special characters, so Nash didn't inspect it for any longer than a few seconds before averting his gaze at the third item in the middle which looked way more interesting than the previous two by a huge margin.

It was a small floating flame with a color of green that emitted a warmness that made not the body warmer and relaxed, but one that made the mind loosen instead! It was the little flame that challenged him during the first trial!

"These three will be your reward for successfully completing my trial," Aruer spoke calmly and with a wave of his hand he all three items flew before Nash, waiting to be collected by him.

"The ring is a Dimensional Ring, a 1st Class Luminary Grade treasure capable of storing a huge amount of objects in it in exchange for a little bit of your essence. The orb, on the other hand, is a 3rd Class Solar Grade treasure and is called Dimensional Orb. It is quite useful if you wish to navigate in any existing dimensions and find worlds that are either already discovered or still undiscovered."

"As for that little flame..." Aruer showed a small smile when his gaze fell on the little green orb of flame and said, "You will find it out once you take it."

Nash listened carefully when he heard Aruer explaining each item's name and Grade, and couldn't help but feel shocked upon hearing their Class and Grades!

World, Luminary, Solar, Galaxy, and Dimension Grade treasures with the first being the weakest and the last being the strongest! Furthermore, each Grade was categorized into smaller Classes with 1st Class being the superior and 5th Class being the inferior!

With this knowledge, hearing that he got two top items Nash couldn't help but feel ecstatic and tremble with excitement. As for the little flame, Aruer told him he will find it out once he takes it, thus he couldn't help but feel eager to find it out.

"This is the best! It turns out it was well worth completing this trial!" Nash said with a joyful smile plastered on his face as he placed the ring on his right ring finger and for a small essence, which was only 1 Essence in total, placed the orb into his ring.

"Haha! It really works!" Nash laughed merrily and without hesitation touched the green orb of flame in front of it.

Swish!

A warm feeling swept through Nash's body the moment the green flame melted and vanished into his body, making his body relaxed almost as if he just stepped and slumped into a hot spring all of a sudden!

[Congratulation! You have acquired Special Bloodline: Soul Flame!]

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A/N: Hope you liked the chapter! If you want more make sure to vote! :)

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