The Ultimate Summoner

Chapter 12: Forgotten Battlefield

Chapter 12: The Forgotten Battlefield

Even before he read the description the moment he equipped the armour he could feel power welling up within him as well as a dense desire to slaughter, equipping the full set raised its grade by one which further enhanced it, the attached abilities for every equipment was even more fantastic, some of them were passive while others were active but all combined gave birth to a great killing machine, his stats were now reaching the three hundred threshold putting him on par with average Zen warriors and he knew deep down that he could fully tussle with even the stronger ones, he took notes of the new stats bonuses that the armour gave but weren’t reflected directly on his profile such as movement speed, attack speed, critical hit chance, damages and resistances.

From a simple thought he deduced that movement and attack speed were reliant on his agility, damage was most likely related to his strength as for critical hit chance he wasn’t so sure while resistance was what it was, he didn’t know how they were calculated and neither did he care, all he knew and cared about was that he was now faster and stronger.

Aldrin glanced at the marble floor and saw an unclear image of quite an intimidating reflection of himself encased in a scarlet-hued, battle-hardened shell. The helmet's angular design and crimson-tinted visor concealed his face, while the chest-plate's intricate engravings seem to blaze with fire. The pauldrons' curved shoulder guards jut outward, adorned with flared crimson plumes that appear to ruffle in the wind while the gauntlets' plated fingers ended in razor-sharp claws, and the greaves protect the legs with reinforced, crimson-etched steel. Finally, the boots' rugged soles and calf-high design complete the set, their crimson lacing and accents glowing like embers of fire.

Even though it was blurry he couldn’t help but admire his appearance, “Now all that’s left is a cape and a sword.” He muttered to himself, he was like a child finally having with new toys to play with. A single thought and the cape appeared on his back the sword in his hand.

The Nightwalker Cape was a majestic, midnight-black cloak crafted from velvety silk, its surface was so dark it seemed to absorb the light. A slender, crescent moon brooch fashioned from polished silver secures the cape at the neck, adding quite an air of elegance, it was the exact same height as himself with an extra 2 feet that trailed behind him with every motion.

[Grade 3 Cloak; Nightwalker Cape:

+10% movement speed in darkness/shadows, +10% evasion, +20 stealth effectiveness

Attached Skill:

“Shadow of Night”: Erases presence at night, when in the darkness or within a shadow.

“Moonlit Escape”: Teleport to any position within 20 yards, leaving a shadowy illusion (3/minute)

“Night's Shield”: Absorbs 30% of incoming damage for 5 seconds (1/minute)

Comment: In the shadow of the night the nightwalker shall thrive]

While it did look cool Aldrin was a little disappointed at its lacking capabilities as he compared it to the crimson armour set completely forgetting that one was a set of six while the other one was a single equipment.

“At least it’s great for escaping and possesses quite some defensive capabilities” He muttered to himself

“Now let’s explore this demiplane.” He added with a grin that was hidden behind the visor of his helmet.

Only after reaching the portal did he remember that he has yet to stabilize it, he was about to dip his hand into his tunic when he remembered he was now covered in armour, with a thought the chest-plate and gauntlet vanished and then entire armour set dropped to grade 2 with some of their attached skills vanishing and their bonuses reducing, he put his hand and fished out a storage pouch and began removing several devices from within it, it took a few minutes to set them up around the portal and after activating the fluctuating portal suddenly took a spiral shape, slowly spinning and pulsing rhythmically.

He summoned his chest-plate and gauntlets back and walked through the portal.

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He had used teleportation circuits before allowing him to instantly teleport from one location to another and one common feeling that came along with it was vertigo but this it was extremely hard to explain how moving through the portal felt, he felt like spaghetti being swirled rapidly through a pot of soup, it felt like he was sinking downwards and yet he was being pulled forward but it all ended in a flash, it took all his will power to stabilize his system and restrain the urge to empty his gut.

After regaining his bearing he began to observe his surrounding but at that same moment the system’s mechanical voice echoed in his head as a pop-up appeared in his vision.

[You have discovered The Forgotten Battlefield]

[New Mission: Explore the forgotten battlefield and defeat the bone general

Rewards: Spatial Coordinates]

[Detected deathly energy; would slowly erode host’s spirituality]

[Nightwalker cape: “Shadow of Night” currently in effect]

Aldrin contemplated in thought, the name of this demiplane was the forgotten battlefield which symbolized that it was once a battlefield but the mission that came along with it made him smile in joy, accessing a demiplane totally relied on the portal that formed linking the main world to it but most times the portals were unstable and required stabilizing devices to use but even at that there was cooldown to using the portal lest it becomes unstable again and collapses upon itself making the demiplane forever lost, but aside that there was another method to access the demiplane which was by getting it’s spatial coordinates and creating a teleportation circuit that linked directly to the demiplane and while it costs more resources to use the teleportation circuit compared to the portal, it was totally stable without a chance of it collapsing.

With the spatial coordinates one can link the demiplane from everywhere without being restricted by the location of the portal but getting an accurate spatial coordinates was extremely hard almost close to impossible as the regular method for doing so was to place a reference position in the main world and try to measure it from the demiplane but the spatial flux from the portal and the ever changing void made it hard to get an accurate result and in such an endeavour accuracy was of utmost importance least one teleports to an unknown location within the vast expanse but right now he was going to get the spatial coordinates just by exploring the demiplane and he was confident that the coordinate would be accurate.

“At least now I don’t need to compete with the Gryphon clan in using the portal, I can just build a circuit that leads here directly.” He muttered to himself

“And I guess I have to hurry, I don’t want to know what the deathly energy would do once I run out of spirituality” He added with a chuckle and he took his first step forward and observed the world around him, the floor was ragged with stones and jagged rocks adorning the terrain, it seemed to be night-time but it wasn’t very dark as there was a crimson moon hanging in the sky giving off a low sinister light that barely illuminated the world below.

After walking a few meters he noticed that several weapons were littered around with none of them capable of surviving the brutal ravaging of time and alongside the weapons were bones and skeletons at various degrees of completion.

Several meters had passed but he hadn’t come across any encounter, all that was around were just decayed weapons and bones, suddenly he came to a halt and crouched to pick up a blood red crystal.

[Bloodstone: Formed from the crystallization of blood]

‘It really is bloodstone, I should have known this was a battlefield after all’ He thought to himself in wonder, bloodstone is a rare material that can only be gotten once a large amount of blood has been shed in a particular place making them common on large scale battlefields were war was being constantly fought, they are used in the preparation of certain potions and are quite popular amongst zen warriors, he tossed the bloodstone aside as he was pretty certain that there would at least be a small bloodstone mine somewhere around but he wasn’t interested in that yet, he just made note of it.

“Perhaps if I’m lucky I’ll find a soul stone” He muttered to himself before laughing in self-ridicule, like bloodstones soul stones could only be found in battlefields except in some special cases but unlike with bloodstones the formation of a soul stone was several times more difficult as it required a large amount of grandmaster level entities to have died with grievances and resentments in a particular place which was pretty difficult to attain, their major use was for strengthening the mind and soul which made it a commodity for Master ranked entities would be willing to pay anything for as a stronger soul would make their tribulation of the mind easier.

Only a few moments had passes since he made that statement when he suddenly froze in his track before scratching his head in disbelief, perhaps if he had found soul stones he wouldn’t have been so shocked, before him was a valley filled with bones and skeletons giving off an eerie aura but fluttering about within the valley were beautiful neon butterflies which gave off  otherworldly aura creating a conflict with the sinister environment there were in and yet seeming in perfect harmony with the environment. Aldrin of course wasn’t shocked by the scenery but by the butterflies themselves, they were known as soulwings and were formed in a similar manner as soul stones but were several time purer and valuable than soul stones, if soul stones were capable of enticing Master ranked warriors and practitioners then soulwings were capable of making grandmaster ranked figures fight to death, they were so rare to the point that they were believed to be a legend, a soul stone possessed soul energy within but alongside the energy was resentment and negative energy which would affect whoever was going to absorb it and needed to be refined first, grandmasters could also absorb soul stones but it was quite inefficient due to the amount they would require but unlike soul stones, soulwings were a pure manifestation of soul energy that could be absorbed directly, the amount of energy they contained far exceeded what a soul stone contains making them exponentially valuable, if it required a large amount of grandmasters to from soul stones it was unimaginable the amount of supreme masters or even demigods required to form soulwings and yet before him was a valley full of them.