Birth of the Demonic Sword - Chapter 790

Chapter 790
A few lines were enough to make Noah understand that there had been some drastic changes during the years that he had spent in the other world . However, he had so much to do that he didn't feel like conversing for the time being .

He simply noted in his mind that Daniel had reached June and Faith's level in that period before giving a few orders . "I want a detailed description of everything that has happened in the past years . Just send it to Jason or Bruce . They should be around somewhere . "

Then, he left for his underground quarters, and the nobles heaved a sigh of relief when they saw his figure disappearing . Yet, they soon realized that something had been off about that encounter . Noah's dantian seemed to be in the fifth rank!

Noah didn't waste time . As soon as he returned to his habitation, he sent the list with the materials to Elder Julia and began to review the new spells of the darkness element just obtained .

The Shandal Empire had used spells to pay for his advice on the hybrids' matter, and, to his surprise, he found a few diagrams suitable for his aptitude . Also, raiding the castles had given the invaders access to the natives' resources, which had some spells among them .

However, only a few of them suited his individuality, and there were even less able to match the rank of his sea of consciousness .



'I guess these three are worth translating once I get my "Breath" back . I'll keep the others for inspiration purposes . ' Noah thought as he laid a tome and two scrolls on the ground before storing the other spells that he had discarded .

Two of those spells came from the Empire, while the Hive found the other in the other world . Among them, two could express a power up to the fifth rank while the other didn't have limitations in terms of cultivation level .

'To think that the Empire would give me something like this . ' Noah thought when he gave a quick look to the spells without limitation .

The name of the ability was Shadow Copy, and it allowed a cultivator to create something similar to a puppet that could imitate part of the caster's attacks . It didn't have limitations in ranks since the power of the copy derived from the amount of energy used during its creation . The only issue was that the copy would be quite weak, but Noah was confident in improving it with a few modifications .

The spell coming from the other world was called Merging, and it was a movement-type ability . It wasn't limited to the darkness element . The cultivators would need to partially fuse with the "Breath" of their aptitude to move faster for a short period .

As for the last one, its name was Shadow Chains, and its primary purpose was to suppress and restrict living beings . The useful aspect of that spell was that the cultivator or beast wouldn't be able to use their centers of power once the chains were in place .



Noah started to memorize them since he had to wait for Elder Julia to deliver the resources needed for his experiments anyway . Yet, Elder Jason passed down a report from the Udye family at some point, along with some pieces of information gathered by the Elders that didn't join the invasion .

It turned out that a few crises had hit the Utra nation as soon as the exploration team ventured through the portal . The density of the "Breath" in the environment there had started to diminish, leading many magical beasts to migrate .

The noble families found themselves assailed by waves of starving beasts . There were even rank 5 creatures among those packs, and one of them was the Albino Snake that Noah had met so many years ago .

The nobles managed to protect themselves, but that was mostly because the beasts had no intention of remaining in the Utra nation . Their instincts were telling them that those regions wouldn't be a suitable home anymore .

The Elbas family then spread the rumor that it had a method to force breakthroughs in the heroic cultivators . Many nobles were skeptical about that matter . Still, there were too many heroic assets in their ranks with centers of power that had stagnated for centuries . Also, more nobles started to accept the Royals' terms when they saw that the cultivators joining them were improving .



Little by little, the noble families joined the Royals in the new continent, even if their status was completely subservient there . The constant suppression and the impossibility to seize fortuitous chances forced many nobles to give up, especially after their home was about to turn into a wasteland .

At times, rebels had to accept the fact that they couldn't win . The Elbas family had kept on growing stronger, and its Patriarch was a monster able to open passages leading to other Mortal Lands . No one would bet on its decline .

A few noble families though refused to side with the Royals anyway and decided to switch organization . Yet, the Elbas family labeled most of them as traitors and hunted them down, turning them into prisoners or directly killing them .

Only the families smart enough to deal with the Royals on a political field managed to change faction without deadly consequences . The Udye family was one of them, and it had to give up on most of its resources and wealth to become free to leave .

Its connection with the Hive ultimately brought it on the southwestern coast, where Chasing Demon decided to add it to the Hive's ranks, even if only in probation for now . After all, no one would trust someone who had already switched sides once .

Truth to be told, the Hive desperately needed heroic assets to match the three big nations, but it wasn't so helpless to blindly trust cultivators that had plotted a revolution for who knew how many years . Even with a few oaths, Chasing Demon still didn't give Amos and his family a seat among the other Elders .

Elder Jason's report updated Noah on the general situation of the Hive . The years spent in peace had allowed it to make full use of its positive trend, which saw the overall number of powerful cultivators increasing .

The Hive had more than seventy rank 4 cultivators now, and a few of them were even inscription masters in some of the schools taught by Thirty-seven!

Chasing Demon had ordered the construction of academies too, one for each dome . They would start to operate once enough cultivators became inscription masters and could instruct the human assets on those fields .

The resources requested by Noah eventually arrived, and he found his underground quarters filled by so many "Breath" blessings that he found it hard to find a place where to sit .

Of course, that was the last of his problems, especially now that he was finally starting to create his rank 5 cultivation technique .