The Aether Carnage Realm was a unique Realm that had faced destruction in the past but had not been destroyed fully. It then thrived on the elements of destruction as it took on the qualities to become a Carnage Realm!
This particular Carnage Realm had the elements of Aether permeated throughout from its destruction, and was thus filled with extremely dangerous and baleful Aether swimming around freely all across it.
One could come across areas of floating earth and stones all across this Realm, but much of its space was occupied with clouds and tendrils of Aether that would shred apart an unsuspecting being if they were caught in it. Even more terrifying, Aether Storms occurred frequently in random areas, and were the major causes of death for anyone exploring an Aether Carnage Realm as they would be surrounded and ground down by Aether in a matter of seconds!
Yet, Carnage Realms were also preferred by powerful Law Masters as they had an abundant essence of whatever element they were named after, a being that was trying to comprehend the Law of Aether being very comfortable in a place like the Aether Carnage Realm.
Still, it was a Realm that was extremely hard to navigate in, and it was why it was used as the first Trial for this year’s Blessed Imperial Selection!
That was the reality for most people, but a single being was freely walking across the Aether Carnage Realm as if it was his home!
Noah had shining eyes as he looked at the areas around him, the tendrils of Aether occasionally striking down like lightning making any nearby Trial Participants scurry as they tried to find a safe location that was not permeating with too much Aether while preventing themselves from ever having the bad luck of coming across an Aether Storm.
Yet for Noah that had [Eyes of Truth] that told him everything about this Realm…he held no worries as it even felt like home!
He knew the extremely dangerous zones as well as the safe zones, and even what signs he should watch for in case an Aether Storm was about to form in a certain area. He was more familiar with this Aether Carnage Realm than even beings that had explored it once or twice over, and this only made possible because of his Trait.
He was continuing to compound the abundant knowledge he was coming across while thinking of the beings he came across that he could consider important, the shocking Imperial Princess holding an Epsilon Ranked Trait being one of them, and the killer of the body he was currently moving in being the other!
As he saw fewer and fewer people around him, he disappeared into a cloudy area of Aether as the dangerous tendrils only washed over his body briefly before they became calm, his proficiency that was over 50% in the Law of Aether still existing in his Origin as this much would not harm him.
He moved across the dangerous tendrils of Aether of this Carnage Realm as he chose to continue collecting and assimilating the vast amounts of information before making any major moves. Even in the case of the Young Master that killed Alexander, he wanted to collect more information on the Household he was a part of and how they were connected to the Imperials.
He had to move carefully and not just focus on the small fries in front of him, because there were many experts on this Nexus Galaxy!
Just from his first day here, he had met numerous Star Forgers just like the realm of his current body and multiple beings at the Nebula Realm, not to mention the terrifying expert at the rank of Black Hole.
He chose the route of care as he closed his eyes while surrounded by tendrils of Aether, even using this time to absorb and cultivate them as he waited for the 24 hours to pass before he successfully cleared this Trial.
Using this time, he was gradually building up the Origin Cores of Water, Fire, Air, Earth, Light, and Dark as well as the Lines and Particles of other laws that were returning towards him at crazy speeds.
His Origin was already proficient in all of these laws, and he just had to use the essence around him to recreate them in this body as he expected it to only take him a matter of days before he was fully back to the same power that his body in the Novus Galaxy held!
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At the same time, three figures were moving across the Aether Carnage Realm peacefully as it seemed they were on a stroll, the central figure being veiled in a regal while cloth while the two Guardsmaids beside her were looking around carefully while clutching their weapons!
“Will you two relax? I finally got permission to leave that stuffy castle filled with old monsters to enjoy myself, but you two aren’t making it easy.”
The veiled figure, the Imperial Princess, said with a sonorous voice that would drain the energy from the legs of weak men as the two women beside her shook their heads simultaneously.
“We’re sorry Imperial Princess, but aside from the Carnage Realm being dangerous, we don’t know what intentions these weak Blessed participating in this Trial might have towards you and we have to be on guard.”
Protective words filled with conviction rang out from the two Guardsmaids, one of them sporting a head full of dark hair tied up in a ponytail, another having a similar style with the color of green.
“Mmm, that’s your worry? It seems like anyone we come across simply bows with trembling bodies or they scurry away in fear. And do you all think any of them can actually harm me?”
The Imperial Princess remained with a sonorous playful tone as she talked to the uptight maids, reminding them how anybody they came across actually shook in their boots as they knew the identity of the Imperial Princess, and nobody could brave to even be within a few meters of this only daughter of the Imperial Adjudicator as they traversed far away from them!
The last sentence to come out of the mouth of the Imperial Princess might have also seemed arrogant and domineering, but when the maids heard it- it was like they had received a reminder as their hands lifted from their weapons and became slightly less worried. This was because they knew her words that none of them could actually harm her were a fact, and it was because even the two of them at the peak of Nebula Realm and holding fearsome Delta Ranked Traits could never even get near the Imperial Princess in strength!
“Come on, I don’t know when that old man is going to get paranoid again and force me back into that castle. Let’s enjoy this freedom while we still can.”
The two Guardsmaids looked at each other as they shook their heads wyrily, understanding the heart of this fearsome Imperial Princess that had never come out like this before in her life. They continued floating across the deadly Aether Carnage Realm as the two of them moved to protect the Imperial Princess anytime tendrils of Aether rushed towards them, the hours passing by within this Realm.
They had come across multiple parties and beings during this time, each of them simply nodding towards them with respect as they scurried off quickly thereafter. This action drew a light of disappointment from the veiled Imperial Princess as she continued moving forward.
Things had continued to play out this way until half an hour later as they passed through a region of particularly wild clouds of Aether, they came across a figure that was peacefully floating in the skies while surrounded by tendrils of Aether!
The baleful Aether seemed to actually be attracted towards him as he seemed to be cultivating, and the presence of the three women alerted him as he opened his eyes and stared towards them.
The three of them were still floating on the same path they had been going on as they expected another panicked reaction and a bow, but their figures simultaneously came to a halt when they actually observed this being to not even have a change of expression, simply closing their eyes once more as they returned to their cultivation!
“…”
The two Guardsmaids had annoyed looks as they felt that this being had not shown the proper respect to the Imperial Princess, while the veiled Princess herself had an interested light flashing across her eyes as she came across a being that didn’t scurry away from her the moment they realized who she was, and this one did not even seem to care!
