Chapter 11: Chapter 11 – Unwavering

Luke hunted for a few hours, but now night was approaching. 

Luke went back to the house, had dinner, grabbed his lantern, and just continued with the hunt.

‘I’m closing in on 40 elementals gathered now…’ 

*Slice!* 

As he was thinking about that, a Gleem was cut vertically into two identical halves.

Luke’s control over the wind has massively improved. 

He could now make longer and faster wind blades. 

Luke was now also skilled enough to be able to shoot out wind blades without throwing them,  simply by willing them to move forward. This had a bit to do with his wind elemental  strengthening many times over as well. 

His speed increased only by a little, and his field of view also kept increasing, but almost  unnoticeably at this point. 

Luke kneeled down and absorbed the tiny wind elemental from the corpse. 

He could now easily gather materials from the Gleem’s corpses, but he didn’t need to, as he had  a suitable weapon already. 

“Phew…” 

Luke stood back up, and continued running. It was currently night-time. 

‘I can sense something over there…’ 

As Luke hunted, he started to notice that he could “sense” things. 

He couldn’t quite explain it, but he could sense other beings’ mana, although only roughly.

It started after he met the pair of silver robed people for the first time. 

He could also see his wind blade with his bare eyes, along with any other wind he conjured. 

Luke thought that it was due to his wind getting stronger and more condensed, enabling him to  see it.

Luke couldn’t know this, but he didn’t get so much better at all of these things only because of  strengthening his wind elemental. 

He would only realize what it was at a later time. 

Luke slowed down a bit, approaching the place where he sensed something was moving.

There were six Gleems just trotting around. 

Luke gathered a wind blade in each of his hands and stretched his arms out, shooting them out  simultaneously. 

*Swoosh!* 

As the Gleems were standing relatively close to each other, Luke decided to use longer wind  blades. 

*Slice, slice, slice!* 

The two wind blades sliced through the Gleems as if they were Swiss cheese, and cut them apart  violently, spilling their scarlet red blood and guts all around. 

Luke approached the mutilated corpses, and six tiny wind elementals were floating silently, as if  waiting for him. 

Luke stretched both of his arms out, and the tiny wind elementals started flowing along his arms,  and entered his chest, as if they belonged there in the first place. 

‘That should be 43 all in all.’ 

Luke’s eyes widened suddenly. 

He could feel a powerful presence approaching him. 

Luke’s eyes returned back to normal and he smiled. 

‘It was about time.’ 

Luke stared at the being in front of him. 

Two blazing red eyes stared right back at him. 

‘N’Gool…’ 

Luke could now completely envelop both his legs and arms in wind, so he did just that, and  started rushing towards the monster. 

A gust of wind tried approaching Luke, but it just scattered as it approached him.

“No talking.” 

Luke formed a wind blade in one hand, and formed a wind spike in the other.

The wind spike was basically just a huge, sharp rod made out of wind. 

“Look N’Gool, I found a perfect stick for you.” 

The huge creature started cackling. 

A gust of wind was approaching Luke, this time, passing next to him, thus not scattering.

“I. Don’t. Dare. Call. Myself. By. That. Sacred. One’s. Name.” 

‘Huh?’ 

Luke was visibly confused. 

‘Is this bastard saying that he’s not N’Gool?’ 

Coming to a realization, Luke slowed down just a little bit, before accelerating again.

‘Well, N’Gool or not, this bastard has to pay.’ 

Luke started shooting out the prepared wind blades and wind spikes. 

The wind blades were aimed at the monster’s huge but short legs, while the wind spikes were  aimed directly at it’s head. 

Luke was having a hard time aiming due to it being night-time, but the target being massive,  along with his experience with fighting in the dark helped him manage. 

He kept rapidly launching wind spikes and wind blades at the monster. 

The giant monster enveloped its legs along with its head in wind, and although not managing to  scatter the projectiles completely, it lessened their impact. 

‘This monster is actually weaker than that damned woman…’ 

Scratches started appearing on the monster’s legs, as well as tiny holes on its face.

‘These attacks are not enough to do any significant damage…’ 

Luke smiled bitterly. 

‘I couldn’t even fight back in the past. So managing to even scratch this bastard is also good  progress.’ 

The monster gathered up a huge ball of wind in its beak and then shot it straight at Luke.

Luke quickly dashed to his left, avoiding the ball of wind. 

*Swoosh, boom!* 

‘So much raw power…’ 

Luke’s eyes lit up. 

‘I must kill this bastard and obtain its wind elemental!’ 

*Zoom!* 

Just as Luke was in front of the giant monster, he sensed something zoom by him.

*Crush!* 

Luke’s eyes opened wide in disbelief. 

The giant monster was still standing tall in front of him, but there was now just one issue.

Its head was missing. 

The giant monster’s limp body swayed, and then started falling towards Luke.

Luke started running away, managing to avoid the limp giant corpse by a hair’s breadth.

‘What the hell just happened?!’ 

*Tap!* 

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Two people appeared next to Luke. 

Luke was now filled with dread. 

‘Of course it’s them…’ 

“Hey there! Have you seen an old man around here?” 

Mark’s deep blue eyes made eye contact with Luke. 

Luke could see a wind elemental the size of a child’s fist floating out of the giant corpse.

Mark followed Luke’s gaze, and regretfully said: 

“Ah… It’s a shame we don’t have a Capturing artifact.” 

Luke then had an idea, and opened his mouth.

“Actually, I happen to have one. That’s why I was fighting this monster in the first place. Thanks  for your assistance.” 

As much as it pained him to do this, Luke slightly bowed towards the two people.

“Hey, it’s not that big of a deal! It’s just a mother Gleem!” 

‘A mother Gleem… So that’s what it was.’ 

Luke smiled bitterly. 

“May I go capture the elemental now? I don’t want it to disperse…” 

Mark and Alissia looked at each other. 

Alissia nodded and said: 

“I’ll come with you.” 

Luke was nervous. He would probably die here, but if he could absorb even a part of this incomparably big wind elemental, it would be worth it. 

Luke and Alissia quickly arrived on top of the giant Gleem. 

They stood in front of the wind elemental and Luke couldn’t help but gulp.

He reached his hands out and the wind elemental quickly arrived in front of his chest. 

Luke started absorbing the elemental, and just as half of it entered his chest, something weird  happened. 

Luke’s world started spinning around repeatedly. 

*Squirt!* 

The world soon stopped spinning and Luke noticed that he was laying on the ground.

No, it was only his head that was on the ground. 

His headless body was still standing still as if frozen in time. 

Luke died, his headless limp corpse squirting blood. 

His body fell over, and rolled down the giant Gleem’s corpse, smashing into the dry ground below. 

The silver hourglass tattoo then started shining in its bright blue light, and the hourglass flipped  upside down, causing the sand to flow in reverse once again.

 

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Luke opened his eyes. 

He was immediately confused. 

‘Where am I?’ 

He examined his surroundings. 

He was floating in a seemingly infinite blue space. 

Just as he was about to try moving, he heard a voice. 

“Hey, kid. Fancy seeing you here of all places.” 

Luke turned his head around. 

The old man was floating while sitting in a lotus meditation pose. 

It was the old man that saved Luke’s life when he first appeared in this world.

Luke widened his eyes in surprise. 

“Old man, where is this place?” 

The old man retorted: 

“Who are you calling an old man?!” 

The old man sighed and continued talking: 

“This place would best be described as the place where your elementals reside. Some people  consider this space to be the human’s soul.” 

“Wait a second… You’re saying that I’m inside my own soul right now?!”

Luke was very confused. 

‘How could such a thing happen in the first place…’ 

“Well, kid, I’ll make it simple for you. You have gathered the required amount of mana you  needed to be able to access this space. Only a few people are capable of achieving this, even after  acquiring the required amount of mana, so you should be proud of yourself.” 

Luke was in a daze.

“Why are you in my soul then?” 

The old man stroked his chin. 

“I don’t know for sure, but there’s a few possible things that could’ve happened. The most  likely of them being that a part of my ego remained with the time elemental as I died, and got  transferred into your soul along with it…” 

“Wait, wait, wait! Hold on a second! What the hell is a time elemental?!” 

The old man smiled. 

“It’s the unique elemental that chose you as its true host. I was just a temporary host that  forcefully incorporated it into my soul.” 

Luke was shocked. 

‘This is all new information. Who knows how much I will be able to learn from this old man?’

But at that moment, Luke’s body started scattering. 

“Huh? What’s going on?!” 

The old man closed his eyes. 

“I guess time’s up. I’m sure we’ll see each other again in the future. Try not to die too many  times.” 

As he said that, Luke’s body completely disappeared from the imaginary space.

 

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Luke examined his surroundings yet again, before narrowing his eyes. 

It was late afternoon. 

There was a stick planted vertically in front of him, along with a freshly filled up hole in the  ground. 

‘Is returning to this exact moment just a coincidence?’ 

A pulsating pain started emanating from his chest. 

Luke started unbuttoning his shirt, wondering what it could be…

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