Spirit Ascension platform
After killing all of them by Crystallokinesis flash flood. Fan Lin absorbed the spirit energy and then went to the place that the spirit pagoda staff signalled next.
Some have escaped it seems.
He killed a few more and absorbed their spirit energy.
"Anywhere else?"
He muttered sitting on a rock.
Nothing changed in the surroundings. The hunt was over for today.
'Finished for today then. I need a bit more to advance.'
[Soul skill: Enhanced Digestion evolved to Ultimate digestion.
Ultimate digestion: Digestion increased by 700%. Previous effects retained.]
This was his first spirit soul ability after it became a hundred year old spirit soul ring, and it was astoundingly groundbreaking. The food was digested at a speed far faster, his skin became glossy and his face lost its traumatized looking look.
The amount of soul energy he could accumulate also increased by 14 times but the downside being the overcharged state increased as well.
Now he was a rank 26 Soul Grandmaster and Shrek's admissions were just a month away.
(Soul Grandmaster : rank 20-29)
After laying down so many corpses in the Spirit Ascension platform, he was sure that his two skills were enough to contend against anyone.
Forget two. Just one was enough.
His Crystallokinesis.... except it had a downside.
It needed spirit power to control it. The range was dependent on spirit power. The control depended on spirit power. Amount depended on spirit power. Every bit of it depended on Spirit power.
When he runs out of it, then Crystallokinesis also stops completely.
When he first gotten this soul skill, the range was 2 meters around him. It can appear from any place of the ground, or any surface that his body was in contact with or any earthen surface in the proximity of two meters around him. Later it increased to 3 meters. Now it was 5 meters. Give or take.
Once again, it can appear from any place on the ground in the 5 meter radius around him. His control also got better on it and now he can even make blankets out of it.
A year has passed since he left the Eastsea Academy. Shrek will start it's admission next month. He has already gotten his quota. He will leave the Earthrock Alliance next week. But before that he need to do a lot of things in this city.
'Did I repeat something? I feel like I thought these a while ago.'
He returned to the Shining Moon Academy.
He stay at the Shining Moon Academy could be summarised in a few words: He was treated like a king.
Obviously that was deserving of praise. Praise doesn't fill the stomach though.
"Do you need anything student Fan?"
The Principal inquired after seeing Fan Lin. As of now, he had pretty much treated Fan Lin as the owner of the school.
"I have prepared a small token of appreciation, please accept it."
"No. No, you don't need to give us anything at all. Just the Alliance admission quota was enough to raise our prestige a lot."
"I never asked Sir. I was telling you. I have given it already."
"Huh...? Pardon."
"I should have asked first. Thank you for taking care of me."
Fan Lin politely left the office. He had donated 300 million Federal credits to the Shining Moon Academy for now. Anymore would have been sus and,
'Petty money like this doesn't matter to me, it's not like I can't earn. Plus a good school can raise the future pillars of the society.'
"ha ha ha ha hahaha hahahaha, as if someone would believe that nonsense."
It is not much for me.
I am such a sweetheart!
*A week later*
Spirit Ascension platform.
A boy could be seen absorbing the last of the spirit energy in his surroundings. His spirit soul had already surpassed the limit of hundred year old soul beast absorbing rate and would evolve after his exit of the spirit ascension platform.
Fan Lin looked at the disappearing bodies of his victims. He was happy. Fan Lin was really happy. He had spent a year on killing people, attracting unnecessary attention and even nearly getting solicited to just reach his end goal of have a thousand year old Spirit Soul before Shrek's admission exams.
Imagining his new skill with the training facilities of the Shrek sent shivers down his spine!
And~ he could have taken it easy but chose not to. What was the point of doing things half heartedly?
[...what?]
With the aid of the hundred year old first spirit soul, him eating like a bull, constant physical training and meditation, his body had became stronger, faster and durable and flexible. All the pain and blood finally paid their price.
'I will just treat it as my periods. The painful ones.'
The half energy body theory was true. It could happen. He made it happen, although his contribution was close to none in this one since this was a skill given by that God.
After 7 years and countless days of hardwork, he was near his Shrek Academy goal and only God knows what he would do next.
But the fact that he was thinking of causing mass changes to an already established world without even having any proper or deeper knowledge of the know how of what was actually going on in the world because he didn't like certain aspects of the society might be a good foreshadowing for what's to come.
Like something was missing from him.. Something that would make him great.
"Benevolence."
He muttered out loud. To whom except himself.
After absorbing the last bit of the spirit energy. He pressed the escape button and out he was. The staff greeted him with a smile as he got out of the pod.
His face had become familiar to all the employees of this spirit ascension platform as well. Mainly due to his feats and the sheer number of appointments that he had. Yeah, that was the only reason. Nothing else was going on between them.
They never would help him.
There were some who have came to this wonderful conclusion that Fan Lin might be racially motivated in his crimes and was in fact a soul beast.
They had secretly engaged the headquarters to send an expert to check this. The expert had declared him normal though, contrary to the thought of the staff that were waiting for the good news and a promotion.
That expert had later on invited Fan Lin to join Spirit Pagoda but too bad, the Tang sect had already poached him a long time ago.
Close to a year had passed since they had been overlooking him in the Spirit Ascension Plane and who would have guessed that today was his last appointment. He will leave for Shrek the same night. The staff felt a little sad at his departure. He was the extra income earner for their Pagoda making them achieve three to five times the sales due to the available space that was created due to his presence.
Now he was going to a far away place, to another Pagoda, never to return at that. He will be missed.
"So you are leaving for Shrek Academy." A
staff asked Fan Lin.
"I am. Thanks for taking care of me for all this time."
Fan Lin said without emotion. For the past year, this place has nearly became his second home, owning to the amount of times he spent in the Spirit Ascension platform.
"That's our job. It's what we had to do. I am glad we were able to give you a pleasant time for all your stay."
One of the staff lady said with tears in her eye and after some warm words and happy greetings, Fan Lin left the Spirit Pagoda under the watchful eyes of all the staff.
The staff lady immediately messaged the headquarters.
'What an actor.'
.....
"You dare to lie to me!" Someone in Shrek city was mad at this relevation. Fan Lin's personal information was compromised. Corporate workers were just that. Slaves to the money.
And this was also why you don't tell the strangers about what you are going to do next or where you are going to. Who knows what lies in their minds?
Fan Lin was unaware of this and was thinking of his plans. He prepared three backups just in case. For completely different scenarios though.
*Two weeks later*
{The mystery gang strikes again.}
Fan Lin saw this headline flash by just as he got down from the soul train.
'They even broadcasted the news in the Shrek city huh.'
Obviously.
''Why wouldn't they?"
{This time the mysterious gang targeted more than 53 small cities on the same day. The world is in uproar and the parliament *was* going to held a meeting for this today.}
{The people killed this time amassed more than 70 thousand in death counts and the Federation had put a curfew in the Western region and on big cities. The mysterious gang needs to be stopped! This needs to be stopped. Those innocents need justice. If any of the people has any information on this gang please inform us on XXX XX XX}
{Mysterious gang is responsible for more than 90 thousand deaths in the past five years. Here's a recap on what they have done till.....}
{ Mysterious gang... Yada yada }
'All the channels are broadcasting the same news. Did they get tipped or something? Whatever.'
'I needed money. I earned it.'
*Five days ago*
Skysea City
"Are the preparations done? If it is, commence the plan."
'I said to the level seventy four Soul Sage. I didn't knew his name. He never told me and neither was I interested. He was my new scapegoat. Except him, no one knew me.'
My plan this time was big and for that I needed this guy's help. This time it will the higher risk but medium rewards.'
The plan was simple but on a bigger scale.
The first part: gathering enough poison was done with his help. He had huge connections and his manpower was higher. Child labour was truly unaccountable for but it eased a lot of the burden. They are free now.
The children of nowadays were truly doing major things!
Second part: to make sure only the criminals were harmed(I am a good person now) and to deliver the stuff to them and made them consume it willingly. Well, turns out that if you give high quality 'energy' wine as a gift, the gangs would even pay money to drink a sip of it. Pretty weird customs of hierarchy.
'Good for me.'
All three was done with the help of the Soul Sage. What would have needed Fan Lin a month on his own was done in a week.
The plan was a success. Fan Lin shook hands with the boss and the boss exploded to bits.
Daimondhead's crystal can be grown inside an object and it also possess the ability to explode. It's my skill. I know everything it can do.
"~aaaaaand I don't need to flash my spirit rings to use Crystallokinesis."
The second he shook his hands with me, his fate was sealed. He may be a level seventy four soul sage but he can't survive what he can and thus he died. His insides were not strong enough.
Hmph!
People in power are often greedy for more. Fan Lin thought while looking at his reflection.
I made sure to leave no proof behind.
What am I now?
I am Fan Lin. I am innocent.