Odyssey of the Blind God

In the end, there hadn't been a lot of detailed information for Miranda to share with Nial and Mathias.

They had been drafted to join the reclaiming conquest of mankind's third shelter, Juna. It would start in three months and the duration they were drafted for would end with the completion of the conquest.

Miranda had no idea why it was necessary to wait for three months before they would reclaim Juna because she didn't think that such a long preparation period was necessary.

She also didn't know for sure why Nial and Mathias had been enlisted in the military. It was weird and to her, it felt like someone simply wanted to ensure that these two Originals would be a part of the conquest by hook or crook.

The military had ignored the fact that they were the disciples of the Witch of the South, which was a direct offense against her because disciples of powerhouses were unofficially not allowed to be drafted without their master's prior permission. After all, there were usually more than enough soldiers for the military to get enlisted.

Furthermore, powerhouses such as the Witch of the South had done more than enough for mankind to receive certain benefits, including trying to ensure that their disciples didn't have to encounter any discomfort, anywhere.

But that was ignored, and she was not even allowed to join the conquest due to various reasons, which made her even more aggressive.

This was also why Miranda could only calm down when she received a notification on her Originals bracelet.

"Kirlia just messaged me…she will join the conquest of Juna as well. She also asked me if I knew why you two were drafted." Miranda read in confusion.

Nial's ears perked up upon hearing this.

"So Kirlia is not the one, who wanted us to join the conquest?"

At first, he was pretty sure that it had been Kirlia, who had asked the military to get them enlisted.

Nial presumed that he had messed up on hiding his dark energy perfectly in front of her, but that didn't seem to have been the case.

'Is it not the Heaven's Gates organization, who wants us to join the conquest? Who else would have the necessary power to force the military to do what they want?'

In the end, Nial could only shrug his shoulders, and accept that the situation was quite confusing.

"Will only Kirlia join the conquest or her disciple as well?"

Nial didn't intend to hide his interest in Kirlia's disciple. He wanted to find out her true identity. At best, he could use his Mana Sense on her while she was not wearing the veil.

This would help him to determine whether the veiled woman was potentially his sister, or if his hopes were for naught.

The majority of clues spoke again about the fact that she was his sister, but hope was the only thing Nial had, so he made use of that.

"I guess so. I doubt that she would leave her disciple alone in the Heaven's Gates Organization. I heard that they're quite competitive which is caused by the Disciple ranking board they have." Miranda added without hiding anything. And, it was her words that dragged him out of his rumination.

'Disciple ranking board. What is that?' Both Nial and Mathias wondered, which Miranda could also see based on the expressions of her disciples.

"The Disciple ranking board in the Heaven's Gates Organization is quite simple. The disciples fight against each other every now and then, and the better the ranking the more resources the Organization will give you."

The two disciples nodded their heads, and Nial averted his attention to Mathias afterward.

"We have three months. How about you finish creating your Advanced Origin ring by then?"

There might be multiple dungeons that restricted Prym ranked Originals from entering them but nobody told them that they were not allowed to keep advancing.

As long as Mathias entered the Prym rank, he wouldn't have many issues in conquering Expert dungeon, let alone unrestricted Rookie dungeons.

Nial wanted his friend to reach the highest possible combat power before they departed to Juna. That was even more important because the situation was simply too odd.

There were multiple reasons for Nial to believe that either someone was scheming against them or that he had accidentally pulled Mathias in a mess he, or rather his dark energy had created.

"I need, at least, four months to advance, potentially even longer." Mathias said while shaking his head.

However, Nial retorted to his friend with a faint forced smile on his lips, "If we minimize the times we enter dungeons, and the time we spent trying to comprehend the Elementus Mylee technique it should be possible for you to pull together more than enough time to create your first Advanced Origin ring.

If that is still not enough you can also decrease the time you spent researching and creating runic armaments."

Mathias seemed to have been convinced after hearing Nial.

He nodded his head even if he was not fully convinced about the necessity to enter the Prym rank before the start of the conquest.

'It should be important to be at the strongest when entering the wilderness, let alone an abandoned shelter…but there will be more than a dozen powerhouses and hundreds, up to more than a thousand Seclon ranked Originals.

Is it really necessary for me to rush advancing to the Prym rank?'

Mathias looked at his friend for a few seconds but he couldn't detect that anything was wrong. Nial wouldn't force him to do something he didn't want to and his suggestion was only for Mathias' good.

That was something Mathias understood because he knew his friend well.

However, that was also why Mathias chose to accept Nial's suggestion, especially because he knew his friend, and that he didn't give any unreasonable suggestions.

'Something is odd about this conquest, and Nial believes I have to be stronger…'

With that understanding, Mathias excused himself. He didn't want to waste more time and went for a huge shopping spree to get his hands on more than ten thousand high-quality Superior graded Origin crystals.

On the other hand, Miranda and Nial were left in the room, while Gianna stood in front of the living room, waiting to receive an order from her master.

"I don't feel good about this conquest. Usually, the Heaven's Gates Organization doesn't meddle in our affairs. They didn't care about the destruction of shelters in the past so it shouldn't matter to them if one or five shelters would get abandoned.

Something doesn't fit…" Miranda was not actually speaking to Nial. She was mumbling to herself and trying to figure out what was going on by going over all the facts in her head yet again.

But after she figured that this was not helpful, her head turned to Nial.

"It would be best if you start with the foundation of your Superior Origin ring as well. As long as you can create a rough foundation before the conquest begins, your strength will increase by quite a bit. It should help you to conquer all kinds of unique Rookie dungeons that Prym ranked Originals are not able to enter."

Miranda was sure that Nial would never have problems with Rookie dungeons but she still wanted Nial to be at his strongest when the conquest starts. Thus, she wanted to give him a few more tips about Superior Origin rings.

She had conducted thorough research on them, especially for Nial.

"I won't create a Superior Origin ring," Nial replied with a mysterious smile covering his lips before he turned away and left the room.

"What do you mean? Don't tell me you will waste your talent and everything you worked for by creating an Advanced Origin ring before the conquest begins. Don't you dare do that, it will cripple your future!

There haven't been many Originals capable of creating Superior Origin rings but all of them can vouch for how terrific they are in comparison to Advanced Origin rings!!"

Miranda was concerned that Nial would make a big mistake. However, the young man didn't even turn around as he reassured his master.

"Don't worry, I won't settle for anything worse than a Superior Origin ring. Just trust me."

After he said this, Nial left the living room. He didn't return to his room but went outside, and sat down in the backyard, where he took the Control of the Ancient Monarch manual out of his storage ring.

"I didn't unseal much of it yet because I wasted too much time imprinting the seal in my mind but I'm kind of intrigued now," Nial mumbled to himself while smiling as three words written in golden appeared in his mind.

[Ancient Origin rings]

The hidden page was something that had grabbed Nial's interest a while ago and he had been wanting to unseal it for quite some time already.

Before he was already sure that it would help him a lot in the near future, which was why he wanted to unseal it right off the bat.

'If I was already able to perceive slight distorted information through the seal before, after unsealing it, It should definitely gain a better understanding of it!'

Nial accessed his storage ring, and a moment later more than hundreds of Low quality Superior Origin crystals appeared around him.

He used the mana within them to insert it into the seal before he started to control everything neatly. It was quite difficult to undo the seal but Nial had long since reached a perfect mastery of the Control of the Ancient Monarch technique.

Thus, he met the requirement to undo the seal, even if it would take quite some time.

Nial was not sure how much time had actually passed but when the seal was undone, he sighed in relief.

For a few seconds, he took a few deep breaths to calm his nerves, and wiped off the sweat that trickled down his temples. By now, Nial's mana veins felt oddly sore.

However, he was satisfied with the result, which was why he sported a bright smile on his face.

'So the seal is still there but I can see the contents of the hidden page in my mind? That prevents me from sharing the  knowledge mentioned about the hidden content with everyone in a direct way, not bad.'

He lost track of time as he immersed himself in reading through the information that had appeared in his mind.

It was extremely detailed and spoke about every important, seemingly less important, and insignificant point one had to pay attention to while creating a special type of Origin ring.

This special type of Origin ring was called an Ancient Origin ring and it required several times the mana an ordinary Superior Origin ring required to be created.

'The larger my Mana core, the higher the potential of the Ancient Origin ring. It can even be created while being an ordinary 10th Origin rank Original…interesting.'

It was even possible to create an Ancient Origin ring after other types of Origin rings had been created beforehand.

However, its use would diminish greatly if the primary Origin ring was not altered in the way of the Ancient.

Nial was still not sure what the 'way of the Ancient' truly meant but he understood that Ancient Origin rings were much stronger and more powerful than ordinary Origin rings.

Their effect would elevate the more Ancient Origin rings he would create, and once he finished creating nine Ancient Origin rings, it would be possible for him to fuse them.

This astonished Nial greatly because each Ancient Origin ring was different, and each of them required to be set up in the correct way for it to function.

In the end, the Ancient Origin ring had engravings on it; extremely complex engravings. While the engravings mentioned in the section that belonged to the first Ancient Origin ring were already considered hard to engrave, the difficulty and complexity kept increasing.

Nial sorted all the information he had read and processed it after which he understood that creating the secondary Ancient Origin ring would be, at least, twice as difficult as the creation of the first Ancient Origin ring.

'Even if it's not for money or to create runic armaments for myself and the people around me, it looks like I need to spend lots of time becoming a great Runicier…'

For now, Nial was not confident in creating the primary, let alone secondary Ancient Origin ring.

However, the overlapping and amplifying effect they would create the moment more than one Ancient Origin ring were to revolve around his mana core was definitely worth it.

'If I were to create a Superior Origin ring as my primary Origin ring, it would probably take nine months, even with my perfect mastery of the Control of the Ancient Monarch technique.

Will it take two years to create an Ancient Origin ring with the size my mana core has?'

Nial knew that everything should be fine as long as his talent and determination to become a Runicier were strong enough. The biggest problem in the creation of the Ancient Origin ring was the engravings after all!

'It will be fine, there is no need to be worried about time. I'll have more than enough of it once I return from the conquest.' He reassured himself.