Helios narrowed his eyes as he looked at the divine crystal and considered the proposal. "Fine, but I have to finish this book first."
Hak nodded and found a seat. He didn't bother to push the boy. He knows enough to know that that is the best he can get out of the boy. If he wants more then he has to offer more. You have to pay more for faster delivery.
He allowed himself to chuckle, 'He may not be hedonistic or decadent but he is too proud. It has come to the stage where we need the currency of the gods to batter with him and he is just 20 years old.'
Helios continued reading his book. He used to train but stopped that when Soverick acquired the Understanding of the entire pantheon of the gods. He was born ten years before Soverick and it has been 10 years since Soverick completed the divine dungeon. The growth rate of giants of order is very slow. 20 years is a very young age for them so his progress in refinement has been slow.
Soverick had been able to complete a lot in 2 years while he is just starting out. The babies of giants of Order are born as half-mana entities. Their bodies are mana bodies and they have a mana core at birth just like dragons. And just like dragons, they don't need to train for them to grow stronger. They will absorb mana from their environment passively as they grow. The older they get, the faster the rate of absorption is.
It is a good mechanism because it means they don't need to work hard to grow. The bad thing is that because they missed the vitality core stage and the body forging stage, they absorb vitality from their environment too. When this absorption of vitality combines with the natural anti-magic domain that they possess, it causes the siphoning of vitality in a wide radius around them instead of just what they eat. They absorb vitality and mana from the air, the earth, water, plants, and animals in their surroundings. The process escalates until a barren environment is created.
The law of order can be pretty bossy. It is the reason why they are born as mana entities, why they absorb from the environment, why it is extra difficult to become transcendents and why it is impossible for them to become lords of law. The absorption and the anti-magic domain can only be controlled when they become transcendents. But that is difficult, so they remain mana entities for a long time, all the while absorbing the vitality of the world like some parasites.
The environment suffers and the process doesn't stop. This results in the giant bodies of giants of Order as more vitality is stored in their bodies. It would have been good if they breakthrough to transcendence pretty quickly but that doesn't happen.
The bigger the body, the stronger the fragments of order in the body get, and since order resists change, the more difficult it is to become transcendent. Two factors affect the strength of a transcendent. They are the body and the soul.
The body of giants of order is very strong but their soul is originally lacking. They can't train their soul quickly with magic because they can't use it, so the stronger and bigger the body gets, the smaller the chance of breaking through becomes for them. This puts their race in a loop.
They are unable to become transcendents quickly all the while growing stronger by absorbing the vitality of the world. This phenomenon is why the other races didn't want them around. They are bad for the environment. So they were locked up into a single plane.
This restriction is why most of them don't know about the outside world or the realm of high heaven. They believe that their plane is all there is apart from the divine realm. They can't use technology because of their anti-magic domain or they would be able to communicate with the outside world. The law of order has made this race big for nothing, it has also made them backward and reliant on the path of divinity.
The law of order is the source of their strength and their weakness. Their strong body and weak soul all revolve around Order. Helios has broken that curse on his body and has become a bundle of anomalies. It's just that the way he did it brought some attachments. The first anomaly is his sun core. He used divine energy, light, and fire elemental mana to create a focal point for his mana core.
It is an anomaly because giants of order don't create a focal point themselves. The law of order does it for them. That's why they can't control their anti-magic domain until they become transcendents. He can control his domain but it came with some strange effects.
His sun core affects him in a weird way. It resonates with the sun and gets stronger the higher the sun is in the sky. It also makes Helios stronger until Helios becomes his most powerful at noon. Then it goes downhill from there until he becomes incredibly weak at night.
These changes also affect his body. His body is at normal height in the morning. Then he grows bigger and taller until he reaches his biggest at noon. Then he starts to reduce until he becomes stunted at night.
He found the phenomenon appalling and tried everything to fix it. It is one of the reasons why he trained fervently when he was younger. But training didn't work at all because he is a giant of order. His body won't change because it is a mana body and because of the fragments of order within it. Only mana and life energy can affect it.
He is strong in the day, then he gets crippled at night. It is a huge disadvantage. He didn't give up training even though it was not working. He chose to focus on learning fighting skills but he stopped when Soverick became a child of the plane.
The understanding fixed his need for learning skills and the supply of infinite mana alleviated his problem. His strength still wanes but he can prevent himself from being crippled at night by relying on mana instead.
The second disadvantage and the most glaring one is the issue he has with his benefactor the sun god. Being a demigod comes with weakness at night and an attachment to the sun god. He has made plans but he still doesn't know what the aim of his divine father is.
If not for the fact that he wants to wait for his body to grow stronger and the plans of Legion, he would have broken through to transcendence already. Becoming a transcendent will give him some strength to resist whatever schemes have been laid down for him. Because no matter the situation, strength is useful. Having more power is hardly a detriment.
NAME: Helios (Legion-4)
TITLE: Child Of The Virut Plane.
RACE: Giant Of Order.
BLOODLINE: Sunfire Royal bloodline.
POWER LEVEL (BODY): Mana Body (Complete)
POWER LEVEL (SOUL): Soul Reformation (Complete)
PHYSIQUE: Half-Divine Body
HP: 100%
STAMINA: 100%
ENERGY LEVEL (BODY ): Mana
ENERGY LEVEL (SOUL): Spiritual Energy
VITALITY: 1291
ENDURANCE: 1024
STRENGTH: 992
AGILITY: 576
PERCEPTION: 1,000,000,000
SPIRIT: 1011
LIMITER (BODY): 80%
LIMITER (SOUL): 0.000001%
DIVINE SENSE (GRADE): 101(B)
OTHERS
MANA AFFINITY: 100%
LAW AFFINITY: 50%
ELEMENTAL AFFINITY (GRADE): FIRE (DIVINE), LIGHT (DIVINE), ORDER (DIVINE).
STATUS: Healthy
He is a giant of order so the stats of his body and soul are already breaking through the limit of what's possible for mana entities. He was able to complete the conversion of his body quickly thanks to the infinite supply of mana but his body didn't stop growing.
His vitality and endurance broke the 1000 stat limit and his strength is also about to. This led to him having more wiggle room for his powerful soul.
He has a much stronger soul than normal giants so he can break through easily but he wants the advantage of a strong body and an equally powerful soul. Besides, he is not in a rush to break through just yet.
The other reason he hasn't broken through is that the sun god had told him that he has something planned for Helios when he is about to break through to transcendence. The sun god has already started preparing the so-called gift by marking his body with divine energy to create a Stigmata.
The Stigmata has modified his body and the law fragments on it to form an invisible tattoo on his back but he can sense the hidden tattoo. He can disregard the effect of the Stigmata and break through to transcendence but he will be severely weakened if he cuts out so many law fragments from his body. So he decided to brush up on the knowledge of Rune making so that he will understand what the Stigmata is for and what the sun god is planning for him.