Tales Of The Throne Seekers

Vadne

"...18,19,20,21," hearing the last person among the expedition member being counted by Gashna the others looked around to see if they could tell who was missing. Thirio looked around like all the others to cast less suspicion on himself. Looking through the crowd three times Thirio stopped after noticing that quite a few people had already stopped looking.

"They're late and we won't be waiting any longer," no one paid any extra attention to the missing four any longer, making their way back through the portal they appeared back in the hall they departed from that not had a new addition to it.

A large door frame made from a forest green metal was erected a short distance from the exit of the room, "right on time. This is a scanner, we'll use this to check if any of you are hiding the mission objective in any spatial equip, well quite a few of you should be used to this already."

Thirio looked at the soldier that had led them here now standing beside the scanner, 'so this is what rain was referring to, lets hope my guess was right.' Quite a few people had already passed through without much problem and after handing in a 2nd rank flower they were allowed to leave.

Stepping forward, Thirio approached the frame with steady steps that didn't show the slightest hesitation brewing within his heart. A few more steps saw him through to the other side, "your good, just hand in a flower, and you can leave," without a crack in his composure, Thirio placed the flower in the soldier's hand.

Taking a seat in the building lobby, Thirio waited quietly, though he didn't have to wait long as the person he was hoping to see had taken a seat beside him. The two sat in comfortable silence with neither saying a word.

Rian looked over at the young man beside him. If he was being honest with himself the young man had given him quite a lot of shocks within the short time they spent together; 'he should have started cultivation recently which show that he has a good enough talent for it and also enough caution that with enough time he could make it quite the way.'

"Just ask what you want to ask about, it's not good to linger here too long," hearing the transmission from Rian, Thirio having already decided on his most important question wasted no time, "What did you mean about that elf being halfway into that stage."

Having expected this question, " other than the three stages in the foundation realm there are two others, you aren't usually taught about them as without the right resources it's not likely to achieve it. Another problem is the number of resources needed varies from person to person based on talent, so without showing extraordinary talent most people only cultivate up to the known peak before breaking through."

Thirio listened quietly while digesting the information while bringing up points he didn't understand before getting to the meat of the matter, "How does one reach the fourth stage," this was what he wanted to know the most right now after reaching a sufficient understanding.

"There isn't one set way to reach it as it varies from race to race but the one thing that is common among them all is that many people stated to have achieved their breakthrough after exceeding the energy limit of the realm," seeing that quite some time had pass Rian rose to his feet to depart.

"Thank you for the information. Does this stage have a name?" Thirio stood to his feet as well.

"The Extreme stage," with those final words, Rian left the building.

Thirio stood still for a moment before a smile came to his face, 'the extreme stage, seems I have something else to add to the talk now,' leaving the building and making his way to the teleportation station Thirio barely paid attention lost as he was in his thoughts until he arrived.

"Where to young man," looking to the soldier speaking to him Thirio thought for a while before deciding against moving to his base from here, "Vamond."