Blue light was surrounding him blinding with its brightness, like a furious river, blue light was dragging him alongside its path. From time to time he could get out from current just for a second to catch a glimpse of floating lands filed with ancient ruins, monuments. There was no sun, light was generated by blue symbols current. Path of light river seemed endless and waste. At same point current slowed down, below it was giant meteor emitting blue light stronger than any other. Thousands of streams were generated from within it, just to start their wandering across space so they could return one day after completing its path or perish. Current was unstoppable, he could only look at upcoming collision, but the moment he was about to shatter on the rock’s surface, he simply didn’t feel any resistance. Second later he was inside giant hall. At last over three hundreds meter wide circular room, floor made from black polished metal. Dozens of colossal pillars supporting even more dominating dome. All pillars supporting dome were built so there could be circle of fifty meters free of them in the middle of the room. All of that was making him feel small and unimportant. Darkness of the room was dispersed by hundreds of small snakes made from small blue light currents swimming in the air. Only middle was covered by darkness, streams didn’t dare to enter middle part. Every step was loud, resonating within hall like a bell, with nerves in shambles he stopped just before darkness. He could hear sound of air moving, but there was something familiar, as If breathing of something big. Slowly he entered central region, every slow and small step allowed him to see very blurry contours of something looking like giant throne. He was so absorbed in ridiculous sight that he didn’t notice that sound of breathing stopped. When that fact hit him, he didn’t have time to back off. Two giant source of light appeared before him on top of throne, his hearth nearly stopped the sources were a lot like eyes filed with constantly moving magma.

-Mortal, welcome in my domain! Giant shape moved in the darkness, giant figure stretch was dreadful thing to see. Even though roof was thirty meters above, the hands of the stretching figure could reach range of twenty meters while still siting.

-Hello, while responding instinctively he was cursing himself for opening his mouth.

-Hundreds of years ago I lost a fight with enemy. Regardless how did it happen, I was forced to run, and I succeeded in escaping. But I didn’t know that my opponent used rare poison to cover his blade. Well, I had to make a choice, to become weak mortal and once again start climbing the path of warrior or to give up. Truthfully I lack will to start over, once again pursue path of Cultivator from scratches is just no longer appealing to me who saw everything and experienced everything. But I couldn’t just die and let my power perish, that would be empty and pointless as if I didn’t even exist. So I decided to gift my legacy to successor of my choice. In order to find him, I distorted the space of this mortal plane witch I have fallen to. And dispersed my power with multiple condition, if full filed the target would be summoned here. But its mortal plane, no one was able to pass trials. But you have gained access by directly grabbing one of my trial currents. So I will give you a chance, you can pick among three trials if you pass any of them I will accept you. First trial is by combat, second by intellect, and last by memory, you can use any means you acquired in your life or artifacts you possess.

There was nothing to think about it he had Implant, could the being before him even know of such technology belonging to little mortal human race of this world?! And he even stated that he could use any artifact. –I pick memory test.

-Memory it is, with one movement of giant hand blue strands of light entered wall, lighting it up from within. Emitting light symbols surfaced on the walls covering every centimeter of it like a sea of letters. -Your quest is simple, remember all of them before your lifespan ends.

Even with implant taking a pictures of entire room took two days of work. Afterword’s it was implant job to first recreate room within its matrix, and second cataloging all of them one by one in order to decipher their mining. Hundred years of human work might be not enough to do it, but for implant it was a matter of few seconds. Quantum computer within needed only instant for text analyze.

Transfer to my mind! In absolute order information appeared within his mind causing slight head aching, but it was all there. According to Implant symbols didn’t have a mining, but the moment they appeared within his mind it was like the time when he was submerged in blue vortex, every symbol had millions different mining’s. It was a language of same mysterious sort. The longer he focused on symbols the more he was confident of their deep profound mining. With time he understood that he could use them to express anything sometimes thousands of wards or even life long history could be told by one symbol. He could hear their sound, and tried to pronounce it. Symbol containing whole of the mining of world resonated within a space.

-Very good, I can sense your knowledge, not only did you remember all of it you had made first step to get to know them. Thys is the true ancient language born at the beginning of cosmos, using it you can finally became my legacy disciple.

Metal floor created small pond of metallic liquid that formed in to pillar filled with one sign. That one sign was more profound then entire rooms signs. Walls were filled with ancient alphabet while one sign on the pillars contained hundreds of them forming one sign, that was constantly shifting changing constantly without disrupting over all sign. One look at pillar made his eyes and head hurt, he could feel pain of exhausted body, but how could his mind and body be so tired after one glimpse, only one glimpse could be compared to one marathon worth of exercises and metal strain.

After resting he could focus on sign once more, he had one goal, to record as much as possible in few seconds that he will have before his strength ran out.

After inhaling lot of air he once again raised his head to look, he could feel his strength leaking, with a cry of unwillingness he stopped after three seconds. He was disappointed only until Implant directly sucked him inside its matrix to show him its recordings. He nearly lost it seeing the amount of data, over millions of changes occurred within symbol, even inside infinite virtual world he felt overwhelmed by amount of it. Even after capturing by implant he needed to transfer all of it slowly inside his mind, symbols were outside of implant analysis ability, machine just couldn’t grasp mystic meaning.

Slowly routine was created, every eight hours he was looking for few seconds trying to copy as many symbol stages as possible, afterworlds he was slowly transferring recordings in to his own mind and trying to comprehend their meaning of relations between every symbol and their changes in stages.

Inside hall he didn’t had to eat, blue energy in air was sufficient to sustain his life and make his recovery rate faster.

With time he noticed changes, his mind was developing he could spend more and more time focusing on symbol, them more of it he could grasp the less it poses a threat to his stamina.

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Little mortal was a monster, he hardly could recall his childhood as it was eons ago but there was no doubt that little insect before him was a monster material. Remembering all of halls symbols normally required years of time not mentioning comprehending and connecting them. But the mortal was able to grasp it all nearly instantly after seeing it just once. Even though his eyes were closed, he could sense everything happening within hall. There was no doubt that human saw every part just one time and didn’t spare another look at the same place. There was something seriously off about little mortal body and there was something that shouldn’t be there in his brain. Probably same kind of evolution, what was surprising in itself, as evolution of the body within lover world should be extremely hard, especially such a completed and completely different form. He would long ago search his mind but he wasn’t willing to risk sanity of such a good seedling. He understood and could appreciate the uncommon body structure. Right now in lower realm he could observe change that shouldn’t have place in cycle of life. Any being trying to attains this child body constitution will die horrible death. But multiplanes were filled with such unexplainable things, and most of their carriers reached frightening heights, exceeding limits.

The symbol little mortal was studding was legacy of path, his lifelong dream work. Perfect energy core, powerful ultimate source, ‘”Blood Core” possessed but one ability to absorb and assimilate, path of “Devouring” .

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-You are ready ! Ancient and powerful voice stated in silent whisper, even if it was supposed to ebe whisper it still shaken his hearth.

-The symbols you were studding were created by me so you can extract my power Core – highest grade power source. After transfer it will lose a lot of its power but still it should be useful to you.

Let’s start, my body will slowly disintegrate leaving behind only core looking like little jewel you just need to grab it while thinking of symbol you have comprehended, only then core will become one with you instead of self-disintegration.

Giant body slowly started turning to ash, bit by bit flow upwards, finally reveling little blue stone the size of little egg, emitting powerful force.

Recalling symbol he have reached hand and grasped little jewel. Infinite hit invaded his body he could feel his skin being burned off. If he didn’t succeed he will die, that was clear. Immersing himself in signs he could feel hit slightly faltering, he could feel that he was overtaking control. But the process will need time, the question was will his body survive until time of success. Implant within his body send its Nano army to his arm, he could feel his arm being healed just to be again burned and the cycle of restoration continued. Core power detected interference and concentrated its power on Nano army annihilating it, little blue jewel wasn’t one to take a no for an answer, sensing Implant interference force was redirected Nano army was murdered an masa. Implant wasn’t normal one as well even bigger swarms instead of focusing on his health charged directly at Core. Core and Implant behaved like two parasites fighting for host body. At the beginning Core had upper hand devastating huge numbers of Nans but with time with every hundreds of symbols were weakening it further, to the point of balance of power. Core feeling its imminent loss turned in to liquid and penetrating his eyes directly entered brain cortex, after finding Implant it surrendered it and tried to directly destroy it but last seals were recalled and Core became powerless, once again turning in to crystal form, creating somehow wired fusion.

Ah well, no problem Implant works, so there shouldn’t be a problem.

His thoughts were interrupted by cracking sound of space cracking and falling apart. All of floating grounds were falling apart, and air itself cracked opening small black holes devouring everything within little realm.

He could only ran, seeing familiar streams of blue light flaying nearby he just thrown himself inside of it. Blue light once again surrendered him taking him away from collapsing realm.