Mystical Journey

"Due to some personal reasons, I cannot physically be with you guys at the moment," his smile on his face slowly faded away. "As a matter of fact, this body is not my actual physical body. I have seen all your hard work and effort over the years."

"Sect Master, please come back!" Ice-Ocean stood forward, "We need you, the Scarlet Snow Alliance needs your presence."

More importantly, the potential of all the experts with the Distorted Seed parasite that were present at the location relied on Garen's existence. Once Garen died, all of the Energy Machinists here may very well return to their former weak selves.

This was what worried the Two-Faced Person and the other Level Ten Perpetual Motioners the most. Since Garen went missing, they all had a serious feeling of unease lingering in their hearts. In an attempt to release themselves from his shackles, they have tried to research the principles and theories behind the Distorted Seed over the years but to no avail.

"That's right Sect Master, after so many years of improvement, the Scarlet Snow Sect is no longer the small sect from the past. The only thing lacking now is a true blue Regent Level in our ranks. Once you've returned, our Scarlet Snow Sect will break through boundaries and become a real Regent Level force! The human's Tenth Great Royal Star Force!!" The Two-Faced Person shouted out.

Garen smiled bitterly as he shook his head.

"It's not that I don't want to return, it's just that my physical body is now at the White Royal Palace, unable to escape confinement. The White King's physical body is constantly monitoring me. Unless there comes a day where you guys can manage to defeat the White King and break into the White Royal Palace…"

"White Royal Palace!!"

Who would have thought that Garen's physical body was at the Finite People's main camp. This was something that the Two-Faced Person and the other experts could have never expected.

That place was completely surrounded by countless Finite People experts. Even for the Thousand Pillar King, the epitome of the Regent Level, it would be a suicide mission breaking into their defense, much less for the average Regent Levels.

White King was one of the top Regent Levels, an existence that boasted itself as the unmatched peak within this universe. Furthermore, within the Finite Royalty, there was also the White King's mysterious mother - Goddess Dowager. There were also the Twelve Golden Merit Blue Princes, twelve Regent Level experts!

With this kind of lineup, even if we get another Regent Level with a similarly strong power as the White King, it was still an impossible mission.

"White Royal Palace…" Not just the Scarlet Snow Sect members, but even Clint and company on the Flying Ship fell silent.

"No wonder you went missing for so many years. You got yourself stuck in the White King's home base," Red Moon sighed. "It looks like he understood a bit more about essences. For someone who understood the concept of essences, when facing others who have not, they would have an absolute suppressing power against them. This effect can be apparent with even the slightest bit of understanding."

"You mentioned essence, but what exactly is it?" White Winter paused for a long while before asking, his gaze locked onto Garen's eyes.

"That's the foundation and the basis behind all Regent Levels," Red Moon explained.

While listening to his explanation, Clint and the others started to feel more at ease as they were no longer in imminent danger. They listened on curiously at Red Moon's explanations.

"In theory, the coverage area of essence could go up to an infinite distance. Currently, the furthest essence coverage is wielded by the one known as the weirdest Regent Level, Golden Thread Flower King. His essence can cover an area with the radius of up to hundreds of light years apart, affecting the people within its coverage. It can completely cover the entire Solar System and even its bordering areas."

"That's absurd!!?" Clint's eyes widened. "Essence coverage of hundreds of light years! Then, what about the weakest? What's the smallest coverage area?"

Red Moon clicked his tongue.

"What's so absurd about it? Strength is similar to essence, it has a concentration level. The more concentrated it is, naturally, the coverage area would be smaller. If you want to increase the coverage area, naturally it will cause the concentration level to drop. However, once the concentration level drops below a certain extent, it would become more or less useless. You need to, at the very least ensure that there is the lowest level of effect."

"That's true…" Clint rubbed his chin, understanding what Red Moon was saying.

"Garen's abilities look to be similar to that of a Void Creature's Dream Abilities. It seems to be very strong, very real, and its coverage is area is also quite large. However, he has a fatal weak point," Red Moon coldly stated.

"What weak point!?" White Winter's face tensed up.

"His actual strength is too weak. Thus, he has to rely on illusions to make his opponents think they are under confinement. However, once they learn about his essence, their subconsciousness will no longer think he has the ability to put them under confinement, breaking the illusion and causing an opposite result," Red Moon calmly explained. "To put it simply, his ability is to deceive his opponent's nervous system, making them see certain things or think that they are confined and are unable to move. In reality, he was just manipulating their nervous systems, using it to create illusions, not actually doing anything in the real world."

"It's like inducing a dream on the opponents!"

"Exactly! That's how you can look at it!" Red Moon confirmed. "With that in mind, that is why his essence coverage area is very wide. As long as there are sentient organisms in the area, it will be under his coverage. This might even exceed the Golden Thread Flower King, reaching a terrifying level. However, it's only flaw is that once the opponents do targeted preparation on him, it would be extremely hard for his abilities to achieve the same effects. In other words, what's fake will always remain fake. No matter how real it looks, once it gets seen through by someone, it would become useless."

"This type of ability seems to be powerful on paper, but in actuality, it is very weak," White Winter nodded in agreement.

"That's right… Real or fake, if only Garen's potential was just a bit stronger, he might actually be able to use this essence of his and reach a terrifying level," Red Moon said regretfully. "However, I found out that his essence had already been completely locked in this current degree. I don't know why that is the case."

Although Red Moon was a Regent Level of the older generation and his experience could help him see through a lot of things, he was still clueless about the truth behind this issue.

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"My essence…" When Garen was asked about this, he let out a slight smile.

"It's confinement, freezing. It's also illusions and dreamland," he calmly answered.

"Between the Regent Levels, what is the deciding factor for the difference in potential?" Whilst Garen was around, the Two-Faced Person took the opportunity to ask what he wanted to know. He was now at the very peak of Perpetual Motion, with only one last step to reach Regent Level. He understood that essence was a concept, but he could not fully understand the details regarding it.

"Regent Level…" Garen went deep into thought. "It's the confrontation between concepts. Regent Levels back in the Perpetual Motion Level era gained unlimited strength. However, Regent Levels nowadays gained unlimited Willpower. When Willpower condenses to its maximum point, it would naturally become essence. Regarding this, it's best for you to find your own essence that suits yourself the most, then only can you become a true Regent Level."

"My own essence…" The Two-Faced Person and the other Level Ten Perpetual Motioners started thinking.

Garen was also sincerely hoping that some of them would manage to attain Regent Level. Thus, he decided to pass down his wisdom that he attained to aid them as well.

"In my opinion, the difference between Regent Levels does not lie within strength. Since everyone can freely gain unlimited strength, it was not a point of contention. The key difference should be in the difference of one's essence, and one's grasp and understanding of it. The confrontations between essences is dependence on one's depth in understanding. Whoever can grasp their own essences better shall have a greater impact on the battle. In turn, they will have a greater chance to dispel their opponent's essences, allowing their own essence to affect the opponent. However, no matter how much you try to suppress or affect your opponent, it wouldn't be likely that you will be able to one-shot them. In other words, the difference would not be too big."

Garen continued.

"With that in mind, there wouldn't be any quick deaths between two Regent Levels. Unless it's a fight to the death or a battle of endurance, most of the time the Regent Levels would survive these battles. Unless, of course, an unexpected situation occurs."

"In that case, would all Regent Level battles eventually turn dragged out long battles?" A girl with four arms asked. The Two-Faced Person and her were currently the ones with the strongest potential within the Scarlet Snow Alliance. She was also one of the representatives for the other Level Tens.

"Would Regent Level battles ever not be a dragged out long battle?" Garen returned her question.

With this question, the people at the scene came to a sudden realization. From the start of the battle between humans and the Finite People, there were not any Regent Level casualties. The last Regent Level casualty was from an unimaginably long time ago.

Garen put out his right hand, five balls of pale red light appeared on his fingertips.

"Go."

He shot the red lights into the air, attaching them onto the five strongest people present.

Almost as if a hallucination, the red light seeped into their skin without them feeling anything.

"This is…" The Two-Faced Person frowned.

"It's a bit of my essence that can attach itself to your bodies, If you have any updates or urgent situations, you can concentrate your Willpower on it and send a message to me. I should be able to receive it," Garen explained. "My essence is not one that has high offensive power, so it's slightly more troublesome."

"There aren't many essences with high offensive power, supposedly only the Fresh Blood Holy Lord, who is missing in action, had a purely offensive essence. Unfortunately, after she challenged the White King, she went missing, or she might even have died…" Garen thought back to his last encounter with the crazy lady of the Wraith Royalty. At first, he straight up shot a star, almost completely crushing her.

"Alright, my time is almost up," Garen looked at his current body. This physical body he possessed belonged to a Non-Falling Level expert at the Scarlet Mourning Hall. However, this possession was not permanent, it was only available for a temporary amount of time.

"Sect Master…" Ice-Ocean and company sincerely hoped for Garen's safe return. If the Scarlet Snow Alliance was led by Garen, it would no doubt improve a lot. Instead of having to cowardly live under the protection of Sawtooth King.

"Say no more, I will continue to watch over you guys in the White Royal Palace. Perpetual Motioners without an essence will have no way of defending against my possession, White King would not completely disregard my presence. He wouldn't dare to take any direct action towards you guys. He knows that once I no longer have anything to linger on to, it will result in both of our mutually assured destruction," Garen seriously stated.

To tell the truth, he did not actually fully attain Regent Level. In reality, he used a trick, utilizing Shadow Dragon's essence to consider himself half a Regent Level.

Thus, his possession was completely vulnerable to the White King's projection. From the very beginning, He only used ambushes and illusions, temporarily pulling the dreamland into reality, overlapping it. Only then did he manage to create such a large effect. However, in actuality, the damage he had done was pitifully little, far incomparable to when the Thousand Pillar King completely annihilated the White King's kin later on.

If the White King decides to disregard him as a threat and take action, he would not be able to do anything against it.

"Now return… I will talk to Sawtooth King a bit later…" Garen finally started to feel that his possessed body was at its limit. Looking back at the flying ship, Clint and company were looking at him through the ship's glass window.

Baylon was still passed out unconscious.

"The stimulus this time, should be able to replace the stimulus from the Battle of Ice Age?" Garen silently pondered, "Hopefully she can successfully awaken…"

In the grand scheme of things, Baylon was originally affected by the death of her brother, causing her to completely awaken, rapidly becoming a top level Royal Star. On the other hand, Clint was also working hard, rapidly growing up. This is now their true turning points.

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