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Chapter 53 - James, Emma and Jack’s Potential And Depth of their Blessings!

Current Date: Year 24,991 | 4th Month Ignara | Day 13

James's Blessings:

Minor Blessings:

1. Blessing of Radiant Restoration – Grants the ability to heal and regenerate wounds for

himself and his companions, utilizing light-based energy to mend injuries and restore vitality.

2. Blessing of Shadow's Vigilance – Enhances senses, danger perception, night vision, and

enemy detection. Grants the ability to move seamlessly between shadows, improving stealth

and evasiveness.

3. Blessing of Symbiotic Empowerment – Allows the sharing of skills, abilities, and strength

between him and his tamed beasts, fostering a deep bond and synchronized combat

techniques.

4. Blessing of Evolutionary Mastery – Enables his tamed beasts to evolve into stronger forms

under his guidance, unlocking new abilities and enhanced attributes.

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Emma's Blessings:

Blessings:

Main Blessing: Arcane Dominion (Blessing of Orvaris, God of Arcane Staves)

Blessing Effects:

1. Elemental Mastery – Greatly enhances her affinity with the four elements, allowing her to

learn and master magic spells faster than others. She can also fuse elements to create hybrid

magic (e.g., magma manipulation, storm fusion, sand control). Spells cast through her staff are

more potent, faster, and consume less mana compared to normal mages.

2. Staff of the Archmage – Any staff she wields is automatically enhanced, increasing spell

power, mana storage, and enchantment capacity. Over time, her staff can unlock special

abilities such as:

Self-repair – The staff automatically restores itself when damaged.

Floating Control – The staff can hover and move at her command.

Arcane Absorption – The staff passively absorbs small amounts of mana from the environment.

3. Rune Mastery – Grants the ability to inscribe and activate powerful magical runes, which can

be used for offense, defense, or strategic control.

Mana Flow – Increases her spellcasting speed and potency.

Arcane Shielding – Generates a protective magical barrier.

Elemental Resonance – Temporarily amplifies one elemental power for greater effect.

4. Spell Weaving – Allows her to store spells inside her staff and unleash them instantly when

needed. This ability enables:

Chantless spellcasting for pre-stored spells.

Rapid multi-spell attacks by casting stored spells in quick succession.

Spell fusion, where two stored spells can be combined for a stronger effect.

Minor Blessings:

1. Blessing of Vital Resurgence – Accelerates mana recovery, stamina regeneration, and wound

healing.

2. Blessing of Arcane Agility – Enables dual-casting and chantless casting, but only for a limited

time.

3. Blessing of Hunter's Instincts – Enhances danger perception, night vision, enemy detection,

and combat movement speed.

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Jack's Blessings:

Supreme Blessing: True God Blessing;

"Divine Ascendancy" (Mysterious True God)

1) Mastery of All Elements:He is the only being capable of wielding all 11 elements

2) Eye of Truth:

-Grants absolute perception of the world around him.

-He can see a person's full details, including:

Name, Age, Profession, Path, Talent Rank, Elements, Blessings, Skills, and Secrets.

-He can see through all illusions, disguises, and falsehoods—nothing can deceive him.

Can analyze treasures, artifacts, and magical objects, understanding their origins and hidden

powers.

No power, no entity can hide their presence from him.

3) High-Human Race (The Apex of Humanity)

It's a superior and legendary race lost to time.

His growth potential surpasses all beings, allowing him to reach heights unimaginable for any normal person.

His body, mind, and soul are enhanced beyond mortal limits, giving him incredible adaptability

and resilience.

His lifespan is greatly extended.

4) No Class Restrictions (The Ultimate Versatility)

He is not bound by traditional class limitations and can use all skills and spells from every

profession.

He can walk both the Magic Circle Mage Path and the Aura Force Ring Master Path without any

restrictions, something no one else has ever done.

Main Blessing: Blessing of the Devourer(Bestowed by Belzathor, the God of Gluttony)

1) Devourer's Dominion

Anything devoured becomes a part of him, whether it be skills, spells, talents, elemental

affinities, bloodlines, or even concepts like luck and fate.

2) Abyssal Regeneration

He can restore health, stamina, mana, and vitality instantly by devouring anything living

beings, energy, souls, or even the environment itself.

Fatal wounds, lost limbs, and even soul damage regenerate as long as he can devour.

3) Evolution of the Abyss

Instead of simply stealing abilities, his body, soul, and existence evolve based on what he

devours.

4) Devourer's Supremacy (Ultimate Authority Over Devouring)

He can devour more than just living beings—he can consume magic itself, energy

attacks, curses, divine power, even concepts like time and space. It can increase his power like

Magic Circles or Aura rings

Minor Blessings:

1. Blessing of Shadow's Vigilance – Greatly enhances sixth sense, danger perception, night

vision, and enemy tracking while allowing him to phase into shadows, becoming nearly

undetectable and able to move instantly between them within a certain range.

2. Blessing of Phantom Division – Creates clones with 50% of the main body's strength,

increasing in number with each Magic Circle or Aura Ring, with clones capable of independent

thought, using skills and spells, and four clones merging to form a single clone equal to main

body's strength.

3. Blessing of the Faceless Phantom – Allows instant and flawless transformation, changing

appearance, voice, aura, and even elemental affinity, making him completely untraceable,

undetectable by even divine perception, and capable of mimicking others to perfection.

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The forest behind their house, once quiet and still, now pulsed with spiritual resonance.

A radiant glow from the east. Flickers of elemental energy to the west. And deep shadows dancing through the trees like whispers of a forgotten god.

This wasn't just training anymore.

It was communion. Revelation. Awakening.

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James stood beneath a towering oak, his breath steady, eyes closed in quiet focus. One hand lifted toward the rising sun, its soft golden rays dancing across his fingers.

Blessing of Radiant Restoration

A gentle glow gathered in his palm, warm, soothing, divine. He knelt beside the small bird nestled in his other hand, its wing torn and trembling.

With a whisper of light, the radiance flowed into the creature. Feathers straightened. Bones mended. In a heartbeat, the bird chirped and flapped its wings, rising into the morning sky like hope reborn.

James watched it disappear into the canopy… then, in the next instant, his form melted into shadow.

Gone silent as breath into the forest's embrace.

Blessing of Shadow's Vigilance

James's senses sharpened to an uncanny degree. He could hear the rapid heartbeat of a distant rabbit, feel the subtle tremor of a leaf drifting to the forest floor, and see through the shadows as if they were bathed in daylight.

Silent as the night, he appeared behind Ironfang, his breath perfectly in sync with the beast's. Their movements became fluid, instinctive.

A pulse of shadowy energy surged between them, binding their awareness and reflexes in perfect harmony.

Blessing of Symbiotic Empowerment

James's aura intertwined with Ironfang in perfect harmony. For a brief, awe-inspiring moment, their movements mirrored one another like two souls beating with the same heart. Ironfang let out a primal howl as his fur shimmered with power, bones shifting, muscles surging, and claws extending with a metallic gleam.

Through their bond, Ironfang shared his strength, instincts, and battle-honed skills with James creating a temporary fusion of man and beast. In that moment, they moved as one.

Blessing of Evolutionary Mastery

James sat cross-legged beside Ironfang beneath the moonlit canopy, his hand resting gently on the wolf's thick fur. He closed his eyes and extended his aura, allowing it to intertwine with Ironfang's life force.

A pulse responded to a connection deep, primal, and sacred.

In that stillness, James saw it.

A glowing thread of evolution paths appeared before his inner vision branches of potential futures. Some paths led to larger, more ferocious forms. Others shimmered with elemental affinities: flames curling from fangs, lightning arcing along claws, shadows cloaking the beast's form like armor.

But something else drew his attention… the bloodline.

He reached deeper, testing the limits of the blessing. Could he reshape it? Improve it?

His aura pulsed.

And slowly… the impossible began to stir.

He caught a glimpse of an ancient echo, a trace of a long-dormant bloodline sleeping within Ironfang, one that hadn't awakened in generations. A bloodline tied to a Legendary Beast, fierce and noble.

James's heart pounded.

If nurtured… if trained with care… he could awaken that bloodline and elevate Ironfang beyond what any normal beast could ever become.

The first spark of evolution had been lit

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In the golden glow of the afternoon sun, Emma stood at the center of the training yard, her staff levitating by her side. Runes shimmered in the air around her, forming a radiant web of mana. With each precise movement of her fingers, elemental energy bent to her will sandstorms howled, magma surged, and ice petals danced.

Elemental Mastery surged through her veins. She didn't just cast spells anymore she orchestrated them.

Her Staff of the Archmage responded with growing sentience, floating alongside her like a loyal partner. It absorbed ambient mana, its runes pulsing in harmony with her heartbeat. She had learned to manipulate it mid-air, launching spells with mere thoughts.

With Rune Mastery, she etched glowing sigils into the earth, some exploded with force, others formed barriers or traps that shimmered like glass but held like steel. Each rune told a story… of protection, of power, of precision.

And then came Spell Weaving.

Fire and wind twisted into blazing tornadoes. Earth and lightning combined into shattering shockwaves. She began storing her woven spells within her staff, ready to unleash them in perfect succession. Every combo was a deadly performance, every cast a line of arcane poetry.

Her Minor Blessings sharpened her edge.

With Vital Resurgence, her stamina and mana returned swiftly, allowing longer combat.

Arcane Agility gave her moments of dual-casting brilliance once, she froze an enemy in midair while hurling a bolt of lightning with her other hand.

And Hunter's Instincts? She could now sense magical fluctuations in the air, detect illusions, and react to threats before they even arrived.

Emma was no longer a girl learning magic.

She was becoming an Arcane Force, a rising star on the path to becoming a master sorceress.

"I'm starting to understand, Goddess Orvaris… your power wasn't just in your staff it was in your discipline."

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At the edge of the forest, where silence held its breath and the moonlight spilled in silver streams, Jack stood alone a figure cloaked in power both ancient and evolving.

He extended a hand, and flames erupted.

With a flick of his fingers, they became water, then ice, then lightning, wind, shadowing a seamless flow of elemental symphony. Through the Supreme Blessing of Divine Ascendancy, Jack wielded all eleven elements like they were extensions of his very soul. Earth rumbled beneath his feet, space bent around his steps, and time slowed when he focused.

The Eye of Truth glowed faintly in his gaze. He examined rare herbs hidden in the wild, revealing their hidden magical properties. A glance at Emma's staff told him more than even she knew its origin, its potential, its sleeping spirit. Every object whispered secrets; every person revealed their inner truths.

As a High-Human, his training yielded results others would envy. Muscles grew denser, senses sharper, mind clearer. No Class Restrictions meant freedom; he trained in martial arts, cast spells, wielded elemental blades, summoned shadows, and practiced techniques from both mages and warriors. He was becoming a one-man army.

Then came the Devourer's Blessing.

He found the remains of a slain Flamefang beast and placed his hand on it. Devourer's Dominion activated energy surged, knowledge of the beast's combat instincts flowed into him. He moved faster, hit harder, and could summon a partial Flamefang claw in battle.

With Abyssal Regeneration, he drew in ambient mana and instantly recovered from training wounds. The pain vanished. The fatigue melted away.

As he continued, his skills began to shift on their own. Evolution of the Abyss molded his techniques to become more lethal, efficient, unpredictable. A wind slash turned into a spiraling stormblade without conscious thought.

He found a cursed charm in the ruins.

Touching it was dangerous.

Devouring it? Madness.

But he did.

And felt its power dissolve into him like ash and embers. That was Devourer's Supremacy. Nothing would be forbidden to him, not even cursed power.

Shadow's Vigilance let him hear whispers before they were spoken, and see clear through the dark. He danced in and out of shadows, syncing his steps with silence.

With Phantom Division, he summoned three clones and drilled them endlessly, each mimicking his fighting styles perfectly. They could flank, mislead, even cast minor spells.

But Faceless Phantom… that was something else.

He wore the face of a wandering merchant once and sold herbs to Sofia without her realizing. Then, for fun, he mimicked Ava, her voice, her posture, her warmth.

She didn't notice.

And that terrified even him.

Jack was no longer just a boy learning his power.

He was a growing myth.

A future legend in the making.

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As the golden dusk approached, the three gathered beneath the silverleaf tree behind their home, eyes brighter than ever, a silent fire burning in their hearts.

No one spoke at first.

They didn't need to.

Each of them had touched divinity not through worship, but through will.

Then Emma finally said, softly, "I think… we've only scratched the surface."

James nodded. "Yeah. But now, we're walking the right path."

Jack smiled. "The path of true Ascendants."

Ava watched from the porch, wings folded, eyes gleaming with pride. Her voice was gentle.

"You've finally begun to walk the right path. From now on… everything will change."

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James's Blessings came alive beneath the canopy of ancient trees, where shafts of golden sunlight pierced through dancing shadows. Light and darkness moved with him, not as opposites, but as partners in perfect balance.He stepped silently between worlds radiant healing blooming from his palms, shadow leaps carrying him through the forest like a phantom breeze. His every movement was seamless, deliberate, precise.

Each breath drew him closer to his beast companions. He didn't just command them he connected. Through the Blessing of Radiant Restoration, he mended wounds with warm golden light. Through Shadow's Vigilance, he became their unseen protector. And through Symbiotic Empowerment, he shared strength, will, and instinct.

Ironfang, his loyal wolf, howled to the skies. His body shimmered bones shifted, muscles surged, and his aura erupted like a storm held in check for too long. In a flash of blinding change, Ironfang transformed, fur bristling with new patterns of primal power, eyes gleaming with ancient intelligence.

The bond between man and beast pulsed like a heartbeat.Their movements mirrored, their souls intertwined. Where James went, Ironfang followed like a living shadow, both stronger, faster, and more terrifying than before. They were no longer hunter and hound. They were one force light, shadow, and beast ascending beyond what either could have been alone.

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Emma's Blessings surged with power, her staff glowing with arcane resonance, humming like a living conduit of ancient magic. Elemental forces bowed to her command flames entwined with gales, rising into roaring tornadoes of fire; streams twisted into crystalline spears, freezing mid-air before shattering into shards of piercing frost.

She moved with the grace of a dancer and the focus of a master artisan. Each rune she carved pulsed with intent, etched not just with mana but with purpose. The training yard lit up with layers of magic, glowing sigils spiraling outward, defensive barriers shimmering into place while offensive runes detonated with explosive force.

Her staff, awakened by the Staff of the Archmage blessing, floated at her side like an extension of her will absorbing ambient mana, launching spells, and reacting with unmatched synergy.

Spell after spell was woven and stored arcane threads pulled tight, layered in sequences that allowed her to unleash multi-cast combinations with terrifying efficiency. With every fusion of elements, her versatility grew.

She wasn't just casting spells anymore.

She was symphony and storm. Scholar and sentinel. Mage and battlefield.

She wasn't wielding magic.

She was commanding it.

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Jack's blessings stirred like ancient titans rousing from slumber, their power humming beneath his skin, vast and volatile.

The Eye of Truth unveiled the hidden blueprint of reality mana strands shimmered like threads of fate, illusions shattered under his gaze, and even the subtlest enchantments unraveled before him. He didn't just see magic he understood it, broke it down, consumed it, and bent it to his will.

He pushed the Devourer's Blessing to its edges and beyond absorbing elemental remnants left in the wake of battle, devouring cursed trinkets that once drove men mad, even tasting the final emotions and fragmented memories of fallen enemies. Every essence consumed became a new weapon, a new trait, a new layer to his ever-evolving arsenal.

Phantom Division and Faceless Phantom became more than just stealth techniques. They became his doctrine.

He trained his clones like soldiers each with a role, each with a purpose. Some scouted, slipping through shadows like whispers. Others deceived, wearing stolen faces, mimicking voices and movements to perfection. And when the moment came they struck as one, in precise, orchestrated violence.

He was no longer just a wielder of power.

He was a strategist. A predator. A phantom king.

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Their powers evolved.

Their understanding deepened.

And for the first time, they felt the true weight and promise of being Blessed Ascendants.

By the end of the second day, Jack, James, and Emma were no longer simply trainees, adventurers, or gifted youths.

They had touched the divine.

Felt its pulse in their veins.

And awakened the truth within their Blessings.

Their paths as True Ascendants had only just begun to shine.

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To Be Continued…!!

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