A few months pass as nick made sure not to cause any commotions when he experimented with anything by going to the dark realm making the world finally relax thinking that his spurt of genius finally ran out. in this time nick had gotten mastery of the abilities of the fiend energy he had discovered previously which he named the fiendish arts due to how integral the fiend energy was to use them. tyrion had evolved into a tier five lesser darkness griffon in an ironic twist due to him being in close proximity to the goddess of darkness for a long period of time. the system had rewarded nick with the blood essence of a strange creature called a star devourer for completing the hidden mission of being contracted to a member of a higher race like that of the wyrms. tyrion didn't change much during his evolutions save how he no longer had a sense of disunity from when nick forcefully mixed two completely different bloodlines. nick advanced his cultivation to the peak of void completion as well as his body to the skin stage of the iron tier at which point he learned from millea about the tiers after void completion.

Apparently the reason nick couldn't know about it was because it was the beginning of the process to deification which was a complete elevation of existence to another level. what nick was horrified to learn was that during the process to breakthrough to the next tier which was called sage tier was that one would be struck by the heavens to forge ones existence and that absolutely no one was exempt not even children of nature since it was impossible to ascend otherwise. what was worse was that the strength of the tribulation was based entirely of the strength of the person taking it meaning that an extreme existence like nick would cause a tribulation that felt almost apocalyptic. as a result nick put off breaking through to the next tier and focused on creating the next parts of body refining as well as of his cultivation technique which took an entire two months of focusing on that task alone to accomplish. after that he took a week to relax before he started grinding his professions to the highest he could which was tier five since he had learned that the higher tier of energy one gains after ascending was needed to create anything beyond that point.

Once nick finished raising his professions he increased the levels of his techniques by a level. azdra during this time had grown as large as a sedan which meant he was no longer able to hang onto nick which made him very unhappy. nick was a little worried about azdra as according to millea azdra will reach adolescence meaning he will have to undergo the tribulation that accompanies reaching that stage since adolescent wyrms are tier seven minimum.