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Chapter 1114: Expelling A Territory Is Easy! All You Have To Do Is...



"I see..." Replicus said.

He had heard a streamlined version of the last bit of Yuyui's story long ago, but frankly, because of the pressure of the Premium Age Royale, and how casual his and the girl's

relationship had been then, he had frankly never really cared for it.

What he had cared for was the fact that she couldn't die and was thus a fantastic guinea pig for all sorts of experiments.

Now, though, he took her story to heart.

"You have so much to be grateful for. Your parents weren't wrong. Perhaps they saw some fight in you. You proved them right by fighting insanity for five years; claiming a power that many failed to obtain since the Grand Wars; by being indispensable to my cause, which mostly involves fighting for dear life, and by facing your own demons through great pain. You should take pride in that," Replicus said.

Yuyui smiled. There was a genuineness in her smile that showed her internalising what Replicus said. She had battled things the original version of her would never have. Staying in her parents' warmth, to some degree sheltered and shelved her potential instead of allowing it to be tested by dire, dark trials.

Yuyui was tempered like steel now.

She felt herself worthy of mentioning for her master.

That said, she couldn't help but wonder about something else.

When Yuyui first went to a Temple and spoke to a priest, he told her these exact words:

"Your Direction will tremble and spill a dramatic change in your path when you sing from the heart. A song of great pain. A song of happiness. A song of great triumph. It may be in this order, or it may not, but the Deitess Listafelle will be with you."

(A/N: Refer to Ch.465.).

Apparently, Yuyui would experience life-changing things, depicted by songs she would sing.

In her mind, she had already met one of these hurdles.

A song of great pain.

Yuyui remembered singing a rather dark song about great pain through her ten thousandth bout with starvation. That was the exact moment when she met Skullius.

(A/N: Refer to Ch.415).

Her life had changed dramatically from then on, starting with the fact that she wasn't supposed to leave the Temple until she awakened her third eye, but still ended up doing so because Skullius had summoned Sause who did him a favour.

However, since then nothing else happened. Yuyui had yet to meet a circumstance where she sang another song and had something that made her feel triumphant or happy occur.

Perhaps this divination by the Priest had changed? Or had it just not happened yet perhaps? Who knew?

The subject on this ended just as swiftly as it had begun.

Baddan had been immensely uncomfortable when it started. He had no way of participating in the conversation.

Thus, when Replicus finally spoke to him, he was delighted.

"Baddan. I would like you to tell me how exactly you formed your Territory. I figured learning from a human would be a big mistake since the nature of how humans do it is vastly different from how beasts do. I assume you and beasts from Sacred Forests earn your Majestic Territories the same way," the Progeny said.

Despite having different origin points, Cluster beasts and normal beasts developed their Majestic Territories similarly.

Unlike humans who grew threw Tasks and Trials to eventually earn the right to use Nitros, which was crucial for casting Territories, beasts, through evolving from race to race, tempered their bodies to eventually be able to use Majestic Territories. Usually, when a beast reached Tier 10, they would be legible for it, but some Tier 9s could do it.

Of course, the Tier wasn't all that was required for a beast to cast a Territory.

It was universally regarded as impossible to cast a Territory with a white core. Thus, beasts had to also work on their cores. To do this, they had to find places with thick, pure mana. Replicus had learned this from Timmit, the red stork he shared the island Deign with. The centre of a Sacred Forest often had mana so dense it could be seen and felt even without a mana-related skill.

"Well, I don't think there's anything that can stop a beast from using a Territory after they reach the ripe Tier," Baddan said after some thought. "As long as they can produce Nitros, there really is no problem. I don't believe I had any trouble in creating my Territory back in the day. I didn't even have to think on what details I wanted. I just willed it to happen and it did. All my other fellows did the same. The only challenge there is for a beast is that before they fully master their Territory, it is hard to use Nitros for basic combat, like the humans do. As you may already know... even a high tier creature like me can only use Nitros for other purposes if I can manage to convince myself that I'm only releasing it for a Territory."

Replicus narrowed his curved sockets.

"Is that so?" he said.

Now that he thought about it, most of the beasts he fought never really used Nitros unless they were about to expel their Territory. This fact contributed greatly to their defeat, after all, one of the only reasons Incandescent Stagers were so hard to fight was because it was nearly impossible to harm them with powerful skills when Nitros was guarding them, cancelling out mana and even Aura-powered skills!

"So, it's that simple, is it? I suppose humans could never fully replicate all that comes with Territories from beasts," Replicus said.

"Can you produce Nitros, master?" Baddan asked solemnly.

"Yes. That's not a problem at all."

Replicus then went on to ask Baddan about how to toggle a Territory from dormant to active like beasts from Sacred Forests could do, among many other things.

When he felt that he had absorbed as much knowledge as he could on this, he finally turned to Serenity within him. This was the main reason he was riding slow towards Edagon.

'You owe me a lot of information. You promised I would get all the answers about the Null Verse at the Fourth Tier. That still stands, right?' he asked.

"Of course," Serenity replied.

"Then, I have something to ask first. Maybe that could be the best way to approach this," the Progeny said. "During my battle with the necromancer, I used my Reversion to gain access to Undeath energy. I then mixed Undeath and Null Life Essence together and the result was me and that man's lives or maybe souls bleeding into each other. I saw a bit of his life, he saw a bit of mine. Before that, I used Reversion on a few million Undead. Their Undeath energy- which turned out to be the target of my Maximum Catalyst - turned into life energy. How do these two energies work - Null Life and Undeath? Let's add Voided Death to the mix too. I

need to know."

Serenity seemed to take a second to think.

"I suppose the best part to begin when explaining all this to you is... Void, Emmae and I were

siblings. In the beginning of our story, we never thought that we would come to loathe each other and part ways with the ideas we had once collaborated to create. Ideas that were different, but tightly bound to our kinship still..."