Chapter 397: Rich Kid
Northern exhaled and tried to console himself for his mistake, thinking about the good this particular skill had to offer.
Multiple Clone: [You can instantly summon more than two clones]
Independent Clone: [You can only summon one clone; however, you can designate this clone an ego of its own, making it act independently of your decisions and choices. This clone, however, can never disobey you]
Northern frowned a bit at the second ability, then his eyes widened.
"Good, good, this is very good."
How disappointed he felt a couple of seconds before now, completely disappeared because this was a silver lining.
"If I can make it independent, then I can make it take on a soul summon and act independently."
Of course, this ability still had some flaws, like in the end, the clone is just a clone and not a soul summon like Night Terror. He didn't know yet if it was capable of evolving to a Void summon.
"It could be; I won't know until I try it out."
Northern shrugged and flashed a satisfied smile. Then dismissed the panel.
The next talent he had been anticipating evolving.
"Evolve talent, Windstride."
Northern felt elated as he said the words. He didn't know how fast he was about to become...
"I guess I'm about to find out."
But the thought of it alone made his expectations leap beyond bounds.
[Are you sure you want to use 600 talent fragments to evolve Talent, Windstride (S)?]
Northern nodded, "Yes."
[Evolving Talent...]
[Congratulations, Talent Windstride (A) has evolved to SpeedWalk]
[Talent Ability, Velocity Dash has evolved to Flash Step]
[Talent Ability, Shunpo has evolved to Travel]
[Talent Ability, Time Warp has evolved to Overtime]
[Talent Ability, Sonic Surge has evolved to Speed Burst]
[Talent Ability, Breeze has evolved to Windstride]
Flash Step: [A footwork that enhances one's speed and nullifies the need for distance. Unlike Shunpo, it is highly versatile]
Travel: [You can appear in and out of places you have seen or been to]
Overtime: [You can override time with enough speed]
Speed Burst: [When this ability is activated, you receive an edge of speed, pushing you faster than the speed of light for one second]
Windstride: [Your legs are as fast as the wind]
Northern nodded.
"I think I'm satisfied..."
He looked at the number of fragments he had left and decided to do one more.
"Evolve Soul Sight."
[Are you sure you want to evolve Talent, Soul Sight (B)?]
"Yes," Northern responded.
[Evolving Talent...]
[Congratulations, Talent, Soul Sight (B) has evolved to Eyes Of Intent (A)]
[Talent ability, Soul See has evolved to Spectra Vision]
[Your Danger Sense and perception senses have gotten better]
[Due to the improvement of your perception senses, you have reached a certain level of spatial awareness]
Northern was not surprised at the information. Spatial awareness was something he had been having since the days of All Eyes.
"Chaos Eyes is good, but I wonder if it killed the potential All Eyes has... I haven't really seen any progress since I started using it."
Besides the fact that he has gotten very proficient with it.
"The damned eyes still cause a headache to use."
However, he just had gotten used to that headache.
Northern finally closed all the panels and looked at what he had left.
Talent Fragments: [646/3000]
He felt a little bit bad for himself but decided to focus more on the talents he would wish to
copy.
And also, what he had initially started all of this to do.
He summoned a single clone, stared at himself in Night Terror armor for a couple of seconds, then summoned the soul of the monsters he just killed.
Once again, he was surrounded by a horde of monsters, short, tall, robust, all kinds, left and right, and he was in the center of them.
Northern took note of them for a moment and shook his head.
"I have killed a lot..."
Somewhere amidst them, he caught a glimpse of a familiar face standing afar.
"Cal? Right! Cal!! I killed him too!"
Right now, he just wanted to give up on finding a flight mount and use Cal as his companion. He was also curious if he would have his talent and what the young man had to offer as a soul
summon.
But all of that could wait.
"I can't afford any more time. I have to end this."
He turned his eyes away and saw a certain monster. It was like a wyvern: forelimbs connected
to its wings, and its hind limbs were large, ending with large, curved claws.
The monster's head was the most fearsome part of it.
"Did I really kill this thing?" Northern thought.
It probably happened very fast. It was not like he even had any time to register the faces of the monsters he killed.
He singled out the soul of the monster and commanded it into his clone.
The monster immediately ran towards the clone, and upon contact, both entities merged with
a brilliant display of blue light that faded as the wyvern monster fully formed.
"Aerisyles..."
Northern muttered the name of the monster as it was displayed upon its profile.
Since he could just leave them around the Limitless Void, he didn't need to worry about canceling the summon. It also didn't eat away his void essence in any manner.
Northern just walked out of the Void, unknown to him that his entire Void was slowly becoming an abyss of nightmares.
He opened his eyes to reality, and the Aerisyles was beside him.
He gave Mr. Fluffy a glance and said, "Like I said, you are on your own. I have to check
something out."
Mr. Fluffy growled angrily as he watched Northern sit on the monster and didn't stop growling even after the monster took off, spreading its wings into the yellowish abyss above
them.
A couple of seconds later, Northern was flying towards the yellowish expanse.
His eyes widened as he passed.
"What in the world is this?"
It was not a sky, that was the first thing that he could deduce about it.
The supposed sky looked like a completely shattered scape rather than anything a sky should
be.
Northern looked left and right as the monster flapped its enormous wings upward.
"I have a bad feeling about this... a very bad feeling."