Chapter 2304

2304 - The Truth of the Law

Turmoil

Renara stared ahead with an unfocused gaze. The thick rope began to descend slowly, but her dazed eyes had not yet regained their focus.

She muttered, "...No wonder," her expression tinged with a hint of fear. "All those engravings on the rope, the patterns we know nothing about—they are all other abilities of the Law of Energy Conversion, abilities that every one of us can use."

"...No wonder there are members of the Nine Halls who have displayed unique abilities, like Elinor, who possesses seduction. We always thought it was because of her extraordinary beauty and our stirring blood—that just by looking into the eyes of a weak-willed person, they would begin to adore her... But in reality, she was using energy manipulation in the neural cells of the brain and the limbic system to produce signals for false emotions?"

"...My grandfather was famous for converting a small amount of energy and using it to create a huge explosion. He always returned from desperate situations and achieved heroic results that way. He built our empire in the past with that strange and astonishing ability... Was this not a branch of the Hall of Explosion, but another ability—Energy Amplification?"

"Good heavens… All this time, we were all using the same law but in different ways? Why?… Is it because Zavarus the Savage told my grandfather that blood affinity grants familiarity with nine laws? Or because the Fox has nine laws, so we confined ourselves to them? Is it because, according to books and legends, the stupid beast only used the nine in specific ways, and we began to imitate and do the same… Or what exactly?!"

*Clatter*

The thick rope began to descend freely, plunging downward like an obelisk bearing the sky above it, and in the dark sky, new stars of various colors appeared one after another.

From each star, the tip of a thread began to dangle, and due to the multitude of threads and their dazzling colors, the darkness in the place vanished entirely… Yet those colors could not affect the blazing golden light of the Sun.

Renara raised her hand, "…All this time, we were using one law—all of us using the same law in different ways. The affinity was merely psychological: one person feels they love Frost, so they start in that hall; another loves speed, so they head to the Thrust hall from a young age… How did we not notice this when a child is born to parents in one hall yet joins another? How did we not notice when many people appeared who could use several of those laws?"

“At ease at the same time?!”

Then she laughed, “We even gave the halls strange names… the Earth Hall for Energy Vibration, the Artillery Hall for Explosive Expansion, the Wind Hall for Thrust, and even the Lightning Hall for Energy Discharge, and the Blade Hall for Energy Separation… little by little we drift away and give names from other paths to the same thing, the same thing!”

Then she slowly raised her head upward, “Law of Energy Transformation… what is your origin and just how powerful are you? And why do you have no Minor Laws? The same Rope carries all the engravings, and no other rope or even a single thread from the same path appears? This is not found in any other Monarch’s records… what makes you special?”

“…?” Renara began to regain her focus as she fully raised her head, then her concentrated expression shifted to astonishment.

The blackness had completely vanished, and around her appeared an overwhelming number of fine, colored threads.

What was most strange was that golden Sun—it did not dim with the appearance of that majestic scene, and its peculiar light still seemed to be centered solely on her.

There was no thread near the Sun; instead, a black halo surrounded it. That halo was, in truth, a piece of the Original Sky, where threads dared not appear. The closest threads to the Sun trembled and tried to pull away, as if a powerful wind were pushing them back.

"That Sun... it hasn't appeared in any of the records the Shadow Swords brought me about breakthroughs." Renara furrowed her brow tightly.

At that very moment, an extremely fine thread approached her forehead.

"Ah!" Renara instinctively tried to resist, waving her hand forcefully, but it passed through the thread easily. Then it advanced and touched Renara's forehead.

"....!!" A light gleamed in Renara's eyes, and her mouth fell open for a moment.

Then the thread quietly withdrew to its place.

"Ha..." Renara showed a smile and began examining her hands. "Hahaha!!"

She finally understood what was happening... her breakthrough to the Law Dominator Realm had begun!

"I think I need to read the Major Law of Energy Transformation. I've been using it my whole life without knowing." Renara laughed joyfully.

*Huum*

A new thread touched her forehead and then withdrew.

This time, Renara ignored the process and began examining something.

Then, after a few minutes, with many threads having touched her, she opened her eyes in surprise and fear. "This...?"

Then she paused and took a step back. "Twenty percent... I'm receiving support from the secondary laws of the universe at a full twenty percent all at once. This means that by the end of the breakthrough, I'll receive support from the Law of Energy Transformation at a volume of thirty percent!!"

Most of the Guardians and Monarchs said they received ten percent support during their first breakthrough, while a few claimed their support reached twenty percent the first time—and all of them were major figures.

Only a rare handful of Behemoths, whose words truly carried weight, achieved thirty percent support from the very first time!

Doesn't this mean that after she completes all her breakthroughs as an Intermediate Monarch, and then as a High-level Monarch, she might reach sixty percent or even seventy percent support? That would be far higher than the average Behemoth, and of course, far higher than all known and unknown Monarchs and Guardians!

"Hehehe," Renara placed both hands on her white-gold hair. "I wonder what His Majesty's reaction will be when he sees this."

"I'll say congratulations, of course."

"…………..?!?"