Chapter 26
After an unknown amount of time he found his vision stabilize and took the chance to look around.
He saw Dawn, Chloe, Liam, Sarah, Savannah, Logan, and Henry.
'Where is the shadow?'
Asher wondered inwardly
'Maybe there is some sort of age or cultivation limit'
Asher knew some legacies had these restrictions so he didn't ponder over it too hard.
Asher and the rest found out they were in a ancient looking pavilon, he tried to move his body and talk but couldn't.
"h.e.l.lo!" "sup" Two tiny cute looking imp's appeared before their eyes, one looked devilish while the other one looked angelic, they were floating in the air with cute little tails.
"Welcome to our Master's Legacy! You will go through a trial of strength, a trial of speed, and a trial of mind, each stage you pa.s.s, the more you will fill the Deva tattoo!"
"If you fail even one stage you will die a horrible death!!! haha" The little sinister devil imp laughed disgustingly which caused them all to s.h.i.+ver.
"Stop that! You guys won't die if you choose to surrender, but if you fail, you won't get the Deva tattoo which will highly increase your power!" The angelic imp snapped at the devil imp then explained, like good cop bad cop.
Asher and the rest just looked at these two imps bewilderedly, they reminded them of the devil and angel on your shoulder.
"haha Mr. goody two shoes is right...or is he? hehe"
The devilish imp chuckled again.
The angelic imp rolled his cute eyes and then said
"I wish you all good luck! If you complete the tattoo you will get the full inheritance! Do your best in the trials future Deva children!"
'Deva? never heard of it' Asher and everyone else were confused
The angelic imp waved his tiny hand after it finished talking and Asher's vision blurred again.
He found himself on a stone platform surrounded by many ancient stone warrior statues.
The statues were holding spears,swords,bows, and even some were just using their fists.
Asher looked on surprised 'Is this the first trial? Strength?'
Asher felt a painful stinging sensation on the back of his hand, he saw a face being drawn, the face had a pair of incredible eyes.
One was completely white and glowing, it gave a divine feeling, as if it invoked lower beings to wors.h.i.+p it.
The other eye was completely pitch black like the abyss and exuded a sinister yet charming aura like a devil that could grant you your deepest darkest desire.
The unfathomable eyes were the only features on the face of the tattoo, then Asher felt more pain on the back of his hand as he saw the tattoo grow a neck and a torso that attached itself to the face, though there were no limbs attached.
'This is the Deva tattoo?' Asher felt it looked pretty cool so far
The thousand statues seemed to awaken once Asher appeared before them and started stretching like they were normal people getting ready for a fight, they first looked like ancient statues that would crumble if they fell, now they looked like nimble warriors made of stone.
There were about one thousand of them and were surrounding Asher who was in the middle, Asher decided to test their defenses and casually walked up to one that was acting like he was warming up and then exploded out confidently with just his fist.
BAM
Asher's fist struck the stone statue and a whirlpool of dust exploded out like powder was blown everywhere.
"What?" Asher exclaimed, he just saw an indent on the stone warriors body, who now realized Asher's cheap-shot and wanted to attack him. Asher was extremely confident in his physique as he had a G.o.d-Level one and was expecting to easily break the statue.
Realizing that he didn't do much damage to the statue he decided to just summon his sword
Asher tried using his storage ring but found out he couldn't, the strength trial didn't allow him to physically exert his Spirit Qi so he couldn't activate it, with scowled eyebrows he looked around to see the thousands of stone warriors converging onto him.
The trial clearly wanted him to only use his physical strength
Asher punched out again, but this time infusing very little of his white lightning martial spirit.
ZZZZZ BAMM
Zapping sounds followed by a large explosion resounded out on the platform for the strength trial.
"Hah" Asher smirked as he saw the statue crumble into dust as he noticed he could still use his divine martial spirit. The statue revealed a bright light that shot itself into Asher's body as it broke. Asher checked his body and was surprised to see that the light actually strengthened his physique.
He did the same to the other statues, rus.h.i.+ng up and punching out, whenever a sword,bow, or spear hit him it would just result in a flesh wound as his Black Dragon G.o.d Body and the lights of the defeated statues granted him immense defense and rejuvenation to his physique.
Asher looked around him with a bated breath and smiled proudly as he demolished all the statues with ease, he used lot of his spiritual energy as he infused the divine white lightning martial spirit into every punch.
'Ahhhh'
Asher gritted his teeth as he felt the burning sensation on the back of his right hand again as he completed the first stage.
A pair of arms were drawn on the back of his hand, attaching itself to the torso of the divine, yet devilish figure.
Asher remembered the angelic imp's words about 'filling the tattoo' and how it can grant immense power
He got excited to see what it could do.
Cras.h.!.+
Asher heard numerous cras.h.i.+ng noises and found out there were actually two thousand statues that appeared this time
Asher looked on gloomily as he just now realized he shouldn't have used so much energy on the first stage
Asher looked toward the Deva Tattoo on the back of his hand and felt an instinctual connection to it.
He activated the tattoo and the newly formed pair of arms glowed
Asher could feel his physical strength increasing rapidly
He exploded out with 'stardart' and appeared in-front of two stone warriors, surprisingly he could use star energy
BOOOOOOM
Asher punched out with just his fleshly body and completely punctured both of them with his fist because the immense physical strength flowing through him made him feel like he could.
Shocked, he looked down toward the now glowing tattoo on his hand, it was going dim after he exerted its power.
Now fully dim as he stopped activating it, the tattoo still looked ethereal, the divine and evil eye caused a chilling feeling whenever he stared at them.
He realized the tattoo was indeed amazing.
The pair of arms actually increased his physical strength by about 100%
Before when he exploded out with his body he only made an indent, now he punctured two statue's faces like his arm was a kebab. He realized the tattoo ate away at his remaining spiritual energy and couldn't be used indefinitely.
He actually exerted most of his remaining spiritual energy so he decided to just sustain whatever injuries the statues caused him as he bombarded the statues with fists.
CLANG BOOM
Sounds of weapons being used and stone breaking could be heard
Asher who now looked like a Asura covered in blood was breathing fairly hard. He would keep punching out with his strong const.i.tution not caring about the wounds the statues would cause him. He had many arrows sticking out of him, hundreds of gashes from swords and spears, blood spilling out of them, but would soon be closed then replaced by another.
All the statues had Earth ranked weapons, allowing them to deal enough damage to his G.o.d const.i.tution that hasn't fully awakened.
He managed to destroy hundreds with just his fists punching out non-stop. He was getting a little light-headed from the blood loss so he decided to dodge the remaining and focus on recovery.
He could feel his wounds closing and healing at an rate the eye could see.
Soon his body was not spilling anymore blood and was just like before, but was still void of spiritual energy as the trial grounds did not allow him to exert and gather Spirit Qi so he couldn't recover nor use the full strength of his cultivation.
Done tempering his fleshly body he decided to use his martial skills.
As the trial did not allow him to use any Spirit Qi he decided to use the 'Star G.o.d Slayer Art' that specifically used star energy on the remaining stone warriors.
Asher manifested a divine looking bow and quickly shot two glowing arrows that resembled shooting stars as they approached the statues
BOOOOOM!!!!
Many statues instantly exploded as they made contact with the arrows
Asher smirked at the amazing prowess of the Third Style of the Star G.o.d Slayer Art
'Star G.o.d Arrow'
Eight statues remained, the two arrows Asher shot used up his remaining reserves on his star energy.
Asher decided to blink towards four of them, his Deva tattoo glowed as his physical strength increased a whole level.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM
Four consecutive punches, four consecutive statues turned to dust.
Asher looked toward the last four statues who blindly charged toward him and swept out his leg in a crescent moon shape
BOOOOOOOM
the four statues heads were cleanly swept off by Asher's leg, the Deva Tattoo finally losing its l.u.s.ter as he completed the second stage.
The burning sensation appeared once again, but this time Asher was prepared for it.
Another pair of arms surfaced on the Deva Tattoo.
The ethereal tattoo now had four arms, looking strangely G.o.d-like.
'Will this increase my strength 200%?'
Asher thought as he was br.i.m.m.i.n.g in happiness.
His spiritual energy fully used, his star energy was fully used, and his overall stamina was running low after continuously battling the stone statues.
If there is another stage Asher is not sure how he would pa.s.s it, though he has not fully taken advantage of his attributed intents, bloodline skills, and his Black Dragon G.o.d Const.i.tution Transformation.