For an instant, Terug thought that he was going to die because the light that shot towards his body was the same as the one of Yale's last attack.
However, as soon as the light entered his body, he noticed his increase of strength and was unable to believe it.
"What happened?"
Terug needed to use his full strength to surpass his shock and ask.
He had just advanced towards Tier 8, so he didn't expect to advance again for at least a million years, but he ended up advancing on the same day.
"I also want to know it. I just felt grateful to you, and it happened…"
Yale realized that Terug's strength increased and sighed in relief, but he felt depressed when thinking about the fact that he couldn't control the pure energy properly.
The pure energy could be harmful or beneficial to others depending on how it was used, so Yale feared that someday it would end up harming someone he didn't want to harm.
Of course, he noticed that the pure energy seemed to react to his emotions, so it was difficult that he would end up benefiting and enemy or harming an ally, but he wasn't sure on how it worked.
He felt that maybe a burst of anger could trigger it and harm someone else without a proper reason. After all, getting angry with someone didn't mean that the other party needed to die.
After some minutes of silence, Terug managed to recover his calm.
"Well, it has benefited me, so I need to thank you for it."
Not even the number of Spirit Stones he used to reach Tier 8 would have been enough to reach Tier 7. He would have needed at least the double, but that stream of energy had been enough to provoke the breakthrough, so Terug felt that it had been the second greatest blessing of his life.
The first one was when he obtained the Fake Origin Path.
In his mind, Terug already decided to follow Yale from that day onwards. He failed to get acquainted with the Origin God that gave him the Fake Origin Path, but he was decided to not fail in becoming Yale's follower.
Terug was sure that meeting someone like Yale and becoming his friend was a chance that only happened once in life, so he wasn't willing to let it escape.
He was also sure that if the other World Gods in the world knew about Yale being able to provoke breakthroughs in the World God's Tier, almost all would want to swear loyalty to him.
After all, what was the most valuable for those World Gods was increasing their strength and gathering Spirit Stones was only a way to do it. Thus, if someone was able to induce the same results, they should be willing to follow the other party.
Moreover, despite being an Essence God, Yale wasn't weaker than a World God, so it wasn't shameful to follow him.
The strongest World God in that Immortal World was just at Tier 6, so Terug felt that Yale could be considered to be among the top on that Immortal World.
In fact, even Terug could be considered to be near the top after reaching Tier 7.
"No need to thank me, but if you want to thank me, you must let me saw your chefs in action. Speaking of chefs, they should have finished preparing the food. Let's eat something."
Yale was really in a good mood at that moment, so he wanted to enjoy the food and have some fun.
"Just ask them to let you see at any moment. Alright, let's go to eat."
Terug could just compensate the chefs with some more lessons for letting Yale see them, and he believed that they wouldn't reject the deal.
The rest didn't open their mouth because they were still thinking in the previous battle.
Most of them were just happy to see that Yale was so strong, but Lina and Shiba were quite depressed.
"I can't let this continue in this way. I can't be weaker than Yale. I want to battle at his side not become his burden. I need to train harder."
Lina wanted to spend all her life with Yale, but she knew that if her strength weren't enough, Yale would end up protecting her as he did with Wyba, Aiwai, and Ange, but that wasn't what Lina wanted.
She wanted to battle together with him and share the burdens together. However, since Yale obtained the pure energy their difference in power increased quickly.
"I thought that with my strength it shouldn't be no problem to help my master, but now I see that I was too naive. I need to find a way to improve more or I won't be able to help master."
Shiba was determined to help Yale since the first time they met. At the start, he felt happy that with his strength he was able to help his master because both were at similar levels, but before he could notice it, their strength was already very distant.
Of course, Lina and Shiba hid those thoughts in their minds, so Yale was unaware of their feeling at that moment.
The dishes served were top class, and the people that Terug invited to do some performances for them were very skilled.
After that, Yale went alone to the Storage Space that was already almost a perfect world to apply the changes on his Path.
Terug remained in the house to protect the rest in Yale's place. Given his sudden increase of strength, he was confident that no one in that world could kill him instantaneously.
Even though he couldn't beat a Tier 6 World God, he could at least flee with those in the house.
In the Storage Space, Yale was sat while meditating.
The whole world in the Storage Space was shining with pure energy like the world that Yale's incarnation created on the other universe.
After some time, Yale opened his eyes.
"Condense!"
With Yale's shout, a second world was created inside the Storage Space.
However, that world only had one Elemental Essence and one Battle Essence.
"Another six more."
Yale returned to meditation and after a few months, a total of seven worlds orbited around the main world.
"My strength is vastly superior to before right now, but I still need to do something with the Archery Essence, but there aren't any more Elemental Essences to use. Even if I substitute one of the Battle Essences in the worlds for the Archery Essence, I will still have one Battle Essence without Elemental Essence."
Yale could easily change the relation between Battle Essence and Elemental Essence. The problem was that the numbers didn't match.
"Adding the Archery Essence to all isn't a solution. Time, Space, Life, and Death exist in the whole Storage Space, so using them to a world is useless. Probably I need to create a new Essence as grandfather did with the Battle Essences, but it is easier to say it than to do it."
The Storage Space was already like a solar system with the main world using the pure energy of the light as the center.
The rest of planets were uninhabitable because they only had a single Elemental Essence each one, and it was clearly something that wouldn't happen in a normal solar system, but those planets weren't meant to live, they were a formation to fuse the energy of all the Elemental Essences and Battle Essences.
Yale decided to leave the Storage Space and returned to the house. He hadn't been able to alter the time flow of the Storage Space since he was busy modifying it, so the rest hadn't seen him for some months, but since they knew that Yale was doing something important, they weren't angry at all.
At most, Wyba was a bit upset, but she only hugged Yale for some hours after he returned as compensation.
While Yale had been modifying the Storage Space, the rest hadn't been losing their time. Especially Lina, who had managed to become an Essence God in all the Essences.
However, she didn't dare to advance to World God because she wanted to see if it was possible for her to practice the same Path as Yale or at least the simplified version if he managed to create it.
After all, it was easy to see that Yale's Path was superior to the Origin Path, so it would be difficult to be of similar strength as him by training the Fake Origin Path.
The rest had also been training, but in improving the strength of their minds and souls, which was their greatest problem to advance at that moment.
Fortunately, Terug had been there the whole time and took the time to help them all.
Although Terug didn't look old, he was the oldest of all of them even including Yale's previous life, and the time at the Life and Death Trials.
Terug might not know how to create a new Path, but he knew several methods to improve the resilience of mind and soul to prepare for a breakthrough, and from Shiba to Wyba, all of them trained following Terug's indications.
