Chaos Heir

Chapter 1364: Training speed

That makeshift, more instinctive, and personal version of the [Blood Vortex] was superior to the previous in basically every aspect and for good reason.

The stylized reptilian head had more range than the [Blood Vortex]’s previous version ever did. Its effects didn’t only affect the entire valley. They stretched far past it, seemingly wanting to trap the whole quadrant in that suction force.

The suction force itself was far more intense. Previously, Khan had partially relied on his element’s heavy, destructive nature to break down the world’s matter to seize its energy.

Khan’s element was still playing a part now, but the suction force also greatly helped, being too intense for the brittle ground to resist. At times, even proper boulders rose toward Khan, unable to resist his new technique’s pull.

Those improved features didn’t only have to do with the superior theory upon which the technique was built. The new [Blood Vortex] resonated with Khan on a deeper level, almost acting as an extension of his innate abilities rather than a spell, expressing more overall power.

The absorption pace reflected that resonance. Usually, Khan would have had to store the seized energy under his skin before adding it to his flesh during the subsequent meditation.

However, that wasn’t necessary anymore. On an instinctive level, Khan considered the [Blood Vortex] and the following meditation part of the same process, and the theory behind the Niqols’ runes allowed him to express both with a single word, fusing both procedures into one.

The snake head’s fangs acted as a filter that shattered the attracted mana into raw energy, facilitating its absorption. Khan’s cells had also joined the technique, initiating the process of the previously necessary meditation as soon as something entered his body.

That across-the-board improvement led to a training pace that surprised Khan himself. Each strand of energy that entered the reptilian mouth immediately made him stronger since his body instantly absorbed it.

The process was so quick and smooth that Khan could almost feel his attunement with mana rising. The technique finally made a relatively evident dent in the bottomless pit that was his physical requirements.

Still, the new [Blood Vortex] was only one reason behind that incredible training speed. There was another aspect to it, and it came from the environment.

The reptilian head barely had to rely on its fangs’ functions there. The planet’s pure and unpolluted energy was basically ready to be absorbed as it was. The technique only shattered it even further, improving what would already be a seamless absorption, doing wonders for Khan’s training speed.

The density of the planet’s mana was also incredible. No matter what Khan absorbed, the amount of energy he received was immense, being incomparable to his past training sessions on Coravis.

Be it the air, ground, or distant fake waters, everything about that azure planet was so full of energy that Khan couldn’t have asked for a better training ground. Nothing in the universe probably came close to that rich environment, increasing the technique’s pace in ways that no other celestial body could match.

Moreover, Khan’s previous instinct couldn’t have been more correct. He had felt entitled to that energy due to what he had to overcome after the Second Impact, and the planet seemed to agree with him.

The Nak had spoken the truth. Khan had completed the implanted path. Despite refusing the plans the Nak had for him, he remained the mana’s heir, so that energy would abide by his will.

After the technique remained active for a while, the mana understood what Khan’s intentions were and aided him. Previously, the planet had studied the couple’s behavior to intercept them. Instead, it now worked with him to facilitate the fulfillment of his will.

The [Blood Vortex]’s new version had superior range, but the mana increased it even further, flowing on its own toward the technique as soon as it sensed its presence.

The [Blood Vortex]’s new version had superior suction force, but the mana intensified it, breaking down on its own and actively flying toward its source.

The [Blood Vortex]’s new version had superior filters, but the mana facilitated their job, often turning into energy Khan could immediately absorb before touching the stylized fangs.

With an entire world helping Khan, his training speed couldn’t be anything but exceptional. That unlikely and probably impossible-to-replicate combination of various advantageous factors helped him in ways he wouldn’t have dared to wish for.

Yet, a drawback existed. The universe had never been good with Khan, so even that favorable situation had to have its fair share of problems.

The spinning, floating sphere remained mostly unaffected by those across-the-board improvements. The valley and the surrounding areas had long since become unrecognizable after the [Blood Vortex] ripped entire chunks of their fabric away, but that white-azure item was still intact and bright.

That wasn’t to say that the [Blood Vortex] never absorbed anything from the spinning sphere. It had happened, albeit rarely.

That wasn’t even to say that the spinning sphere was opposing the absorption. In a way, that restraint in abandoning itself to Khan’s technique was for his own good, and he understood the reason for that as soon as the first whiff of white-azure energy entered his body.

Despite Khan only wanting to stick to the place’s raw energy, forsaking any dangerous knowledge or wise, ancient will, the white-azure mana inside the spinning sphere contained those teachings, making them inseparable from its very fabric.

That knowledge wasn’t something the technique’s fangs could filter out. They lightened it, attempting to dispel its heaviness, and even partially succeeding, but that did little to help Khan.

Khan was reminded of his time with the snake’s memories inside his mind when the white-azure energy entered him for the first time, except that the experience was also completely different and dangerously invasive.

The snake’s memories had merely been too heavy for Khan’s brain due to their sheer quantity and the fact that they spanned over centuries or millennia, which his simpler mind couldn’t handle.

Instead, the knowledge in the white-azure energy was profound, vague, light, and almost unnoticeable. Absorbing it wasn’t a problem. The consequences of that process were. That wisdom tried to fuse with Khan, altering his mind on the spot, triggering what he had already refused to do.