Temporal Pearls

The chakram's furious cutting and speed tripled again and flashed by Seth's face. Myriad Wheel Shield projected and shrunk before Seth's face. The shield wheel then rotated extremely fast.

Creagg!

As if gears were grinding against each other, the shield wheel was the one that broke but the chakram speed was reduced and Staff Of Elevation smacked it away.

The moment the staff touched the chakram a connection was established and the chakram blasted elsewhere.

Bang!

The alpha horse reached Seth and rammed at him in that juncture.

The sheer pressure emoting by its tyrannical body suppressed the Three Fold World Fence.

Sparks of fire from its hooves burst toward Seth's face and body and the horse's eyes emitting flame coupled with its snort created a hurricane of inferno surrounding its enemy.

Second later, a light brown whip lashed out to a tree and a burning figure was pulled out from the inferno.

But as he was being pulled the inferno followed him. Within one can feel a growling of pain from the burning figure.

There was no way for him to escape the fire snare, so he waved his staff at the inferno. Its intensity reduced and he managed to escape to another tree.

Seth's face was red and contorted in pain as he glared at the horse.

The angry steed was confused about what happened. How can the human dispel its strongest attack?

Then it noticed beside the intruder was a glowing gem and it immediately knew what happened. Somehow its fire was sucked into the gem.

No matter, it attacked again. Brute force beget all trickery.

The dragon horse has assumed correctly but not the intricate process of how it was done.

Seth has used Temperature Aspecto and targeted the fire and tried hard to siphon away its heat while transferring it into the Temra Diamond Scale.

And it somewhat worked by a small margin which destabilized the rest of the combo attacks Seth escaped.

…

The two continued to clash but Seth was cursing himself for what he didn't earlier.

The ramification of taking a piece of heat from the flame was now burning him from within.

For the sixth time, Seth escaped but he was rammed at a tree while he and the tree burst into flames.

[Health: Burning Effect]

"How terrifying. You are stronger than all those pesky babies. You are truly something great!" Seth praised genuinely.

Seth has found out that he can defeat dragons to push his Phantom Battle Might Grade but also he can fight to digest his skills and the battle might

His Enhanced Battle Perception was increasing every second. So also, his skills he used in combo attacks.

His Preeminence Gaze was a very useful eye ability and he has been using it like a barbarian with no subtle control.

But now he can see things he usually can't see. He can also react to them.

For example, he can see attacks of Aura that he can resist and those that he must dodge and avoid.

With that, he managed to avoid being ensnared in combo attacks like before.

Escaping the fire, Seth concocted a plan.

The moment the horse was close by, a splashed Red Stream wet the ground. The horse was wary but pushed forward.

Seth has long come to realize that to achieve supersonic speed with Momentum and Velocity Aspecto, he needs to link all his walking skills and make a combo.

From his staff, to his active skills, to his red stripe and silver stripe together and the link was to blood splash or red splash on the floor.

Now he chose Red Stream, it's almost impossible to harm this steed. Let alone cause him a bloody wound.

Seth saw the trajectories, they were pale pink and his perception increased. Seth didn't go ahead to move but pushed the Red Signature Book's back cover to the horse to see.

The horse froze and immediately, he stepped forward.

Now, in the movement combo skill, the trajectory isn't marked by lines but by paths. He can see his multiple destinations which were the weaker horses

He reached them, Aura Grab and Pluck didn't slow his movement as he pulled them toward the womb.

He entertained the idea of cutting one of them and getting blood in that fast-paced world, but he didn't have time to cut through. Their hide is extra hard.

But one thing he did was push Preeminence Gaze on each of them trying to glean something from them.

They were all protected, confusionist won't work on them at this point.

Seth appeared in a cave packed with hooves scales and hair belonging to the dragon horses.

That was when he saw four glowing hooves and grabbed them.

Boom!

A terrifying explosion happened and Seth burst into laughter, "Hahahaha. I know who you are!"

He said as the alpha horse appeared behind him before an immolating flame struck him but Seth's body phased away.

A Mirage Skill.

Seth has it among his Moon Stripe abilities alongside Moon Halo and Contractee.

[Moonlight Stripe]

~Grade 4, Level: 1

~Use:

[Passive Skill]

(1)~Moon Absorption. (2)~Improve Movement under Moonlit Sky.

[Active Skill]

(1)~Moon Halo. (2)~Mirage. (3)~Moon Contractee

[Mirage: Create a duplicate mirage of you to confuse enemies or escape dangerous attacks. Active Skill] (Check Chapter 246)

***

"Haha. Damn it. Haha!"

Like a madman, Seth was splashing at supersonic speed away from the horse's den.

His body was burning but he was happy with the gain.

It wasn't about the hooves he stole but about the battle in general, digesting his Phantom Battle Night to a greater degree that his aura began to shift.

[Marking of the battle master began to manifest…]

[Completion: 2%]

Seth already has Graviton Line and Gawee Dots tattoos on his body.

They have now been actively altered to a certain degree to be carved in the Battle Master mark.

The marks as he understood them will affect his aura to have some battle attributes and also increase his battle power.

Sadly, he can only achieve 2% against the Dragon Youngling.

"Hehe. I almost shit myself when I realized he wasn't a Dragon baby but I controlled myself."

Seth Preeminence Gaze drilled out the truth that he wasn't facing any baby but a rank above that.

But due to the marking of Battle Master gains, Seth pushed forward to reach his limit before he opted to escape.

***

"Would he be okay?" A man beside Dream Fortune asked. His name is Skylar.

The enigmatic floating woman shook her head and said, "I don't know. It's like Dave, his anger and thinking process were skewed. Seth looked more normal in the past but ever since he came here, he behaved differently!"

"Ha. Thank goodness I never go to the Red Valley. That place is absolutely cursed!" Skylar said with a hint of fear.

"True!" Dream Fortune concurred.

She has been to every sanctuary she knew, including Nightmare Forest but she didn't dare go to Red Valley.

***

Seth landed on a giant stone and activated Glass Dome to cool down. "Damn it."

The burning was still there but what worried him more was that he was enjoying it.

He checked, but no one was close so he removed his attire and observed his body. His chest in particular with glowing Lava Scripture made it even worse.

Seth has observed his body countless times, he was used to seeing the tattoos, markings and brands as they were named.

His skin was pristine, a bit darker than before and covered with waving mystic lines as thin as hair lines.

Following along the mystic line were dark dots, not black but darker than the normal skin tone.

These are the….

[Graviton Tattoo]

[Mythic Lines due to assimilation and ingestion of Graviton. First Might have mitigated the danger and granted you safe usage.]

~Effect: Defying Gravity

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[Gawee Dots]

[Dots are a race of humans that used rituals to prevent themselves from decaying as they walk barefoot on Gawee Soil]

~Effect: Resist decaying!

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Gawee Dot played an important role when he was turned into a paper human. Afterwards, their number and intensity have increased since then.

These tattoos weren't all over his body but rather around the side of his torso and chest. Then his thigh to his legs. Not on the feet.

His shoulders and arms didn't have them, neither on his face nor neither below his ankles and feet.

On his left hand were the two pillars supporting the moon-like depiction and between the pillars was the energy bar. It was full. Seth hasn't used it in the fight.

The pillars used to be made of light but after First Might effect, they were now made of mystic lines similar to Gravitons lines

On his right hand was a small depiction of an Hourglass made of flowing water. It wasn't like a tattoo but more projectíon on his skin. Or a hazy picture that was fading away.

It doesn't use to appear until Seth summoned it and projected it. Now it has merged with the Red Stream and has a permanent appearance.