Chapter 2250: Timeskip
Chapter 2250: Timeskip
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Thanks to the Onyx Hammer Venerable, everyone had shinier and stronger equipment than ever before, and even Drake’s children received upgrades to their weapons. Drake helped with those because he loved his daughters too much to let the old man handle the weapons he had made, and he learned a great deal about his techniques in the process, using his Mimicry Skill to mimic him and copy his abilities. Once the mimic form had gone, he retained some of that mastery every time.
Augustus, of course, called him a damned cheater and grew really angry whenever he did that, hitting him on the head with his hammer, so Drake ended up just learning from him directly... as annoyingly hard as it was.
Lucia, Chris Bluefield, and Jake also continued training and mastering their new powers and strength. Drake helped them learn various Spells and Martial Arts by creating special Spell Books and Martial Art Scrolls, consumable magic items that imprinted spells and techniques onto them, which helped them adapt very fast to this world.
Their unique "Fantasy Repelling Anomaly Force," as Drake dubbed Earthlings’ unique power, remained even when they adapted to this world’s fantasy, disproving one of his theories that the more they adapted, the weaker this power would become. It seemed that, for that to happen, they would have needed to reincarnate, which didn’t happen.
Therefore, despite still being much weaker than the rest, this power elevated them to almost the same level as the rest of Drake’s allies and friends, who had also continued training, refining new divinities and divine abilities, and gaining new skills through their classes. Some even went through their own Class Trials, although none were as long and complicated as Drake’s.
Among them, Ruby was still the most special, and she received special treatment from Drake, who decided to train her during the second week, of course, with her mother Carmilla and Rakasha sticking around. Rakasha was his bodyguard, even though his strength didn’t depend on hers and vice versa. He simply didn’t want to separate himself from her or her mother.
The dwarf Venerable took some interest in him and Surtr and taught them the ropes of his techniques as well, finding that they barely had the "spark" necessary to learn his millenary abilities.
Through Drake’s intense training and also his help, Ruby managed to do the impossible and fully refine her Ascendancy Law, which was built mostly out of the Ascendancy Law of the Vampire Venerable, adding her own powers and elements, and also various Blood Attribute Divine Treasures from Drake’s Divine Realm and the abandoned divine realm of the Venerable of Blood, including the giant Blood Moon, which proved to be enough to help her completely recover the Ascendancy Ring and complete it.
With this, Ruby became the third Venerable to be born in this era, dubbed the "Scarlet Princess" by the Voice of Yggdrasil, a simple and fitting title, as the original Vampire Venerable was well known as the "Crimson King" by many in ancient times.
Amethyst and Triton continued their very intense training, managing to slowly master their techniques and abilities. From blood, she moved to her own muscles and then to her own bones, as Amethyst barely managed to learn how to fully convert herself into what she called "Divine Unbreakable Diamond Dragon," making her thousands of times tougher and stronger, although slower. However, crystallizing her soul was still in progress, and she had barely begun to find ways to do it, but she had yet to find how to make it into a proper technique.
As for Triton, his mastery over his multiple forms improved very quickly, and he was able to seamlessly switch between his base form, his True form, and his Dual Form, where both his Soul Body and True Soul were separate entities he controlled.
His base form also grew stronger through a lot of basic exercise, body cultivation, and eating lots of nutritious food to boost that skinny boy’s physique, which also increased his aging process as he went from a small boy to a strong, tall teen with clear, slim muscles around his body. It seemed the more "mature" he believed he was, the more he would grow physically, proving that his body, despite how it could be exactly like a living one, was much more different from everyone else.
Celene continued pushing herself through this time too and managed to develop five more Spirit Moon Mirrors, two of which ended up being "Unique Grade" as she called them. One was pitch black, called a Chaos Mirror. The other was divided into two colors, red and blue, a Frost Flame Mirror, which specialized in the elements they carried within them, making reflected attacks of these elements even stronger. Drake knew that her Mirrors would become very useful for what was coming.
Alma received special artifacts that Drake created with Surtr and Rakasha’s help and with the dwarf Venerable’s ideas, which would help her control her Endless Mana much better and also unleash its power in incredible new concentrated forms, making her quite happy.
Her entire team had also grown considerably stronger, and they continued improving and training on their own, but Drake did give them some guidance here and there, particularly for the Psychic Twins, who helped increase their Psychic Powers even further, while Hermes learned more about Space Manipulation from Andromeda and Callon learned more about Technomancy from Kate.
And just like this, two weeks flew by...
Once the final day arrived, Drake woke up and played around with his children before breakfast, testing their new strength while also helping Yudra learn how to better use her draconic powers, although as a baby she was still quite clueless. And after a hearty breakfast, everyone was ready to depart.
And they were a massive team, including all the allies Drake made in Svartalfheim and those from Muspelheim. Surtr and Emerald knew that the battle in Vanaheim and beyond would be decisive for this world and decided to stick around until the end rather than go back to their homes to rest, as they said they had rested plenty.
"Alright everyone, ready? Let’s go."
Drake smiled as he nodded, and everyone quickly stepped out of the Divine Realm, arriving in the interior of Fuyu’s ship-like body. Charlotte usually is here with Drake’s Doppelganger and various other visitors and friends, although she still spends most of her time in the Divine Realm. She even had a whole crew of Spirits that Drake created for her.
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