HBWnovel Chapter 12: Astral Ascension
Chapter 12: Astral Ascension
Chapter 12: Astral Ascension
The rock calmly pondered over its class option. It did not hurry to choose it, nor did it delay in choosing it. It was a simple being, and after briefly considering the implication, but not too deeply, it picked it, no further hesitation.
Because it was in space now. Away from the mountain, away from the ground. It was no longer rolling. Now it was more like... spinning, really. Could it really consider itself a [Rolling Stone], if it no longer rolled?
One had to be true to themselves.
Congratulations!
You are now a level 10 Meteorite!
Size scaling factor increased from 1.5 to 2!
Stats up!
Mass (m): 16706.7kg -> 133653.3kg
Diameter (d): 2.31m -> 4.61m
HP: 55 -> 89
New Subability Gained!
Pivot Point: Orbital Slingshot
Lock into orbit around an astral body, gradually gathering speed, then launch yourself forward!
Skill Shift!
Avalanche -> Meteor Shower
Gather other rocks around you, and take them along for your astral voyage!
The rock looked over its changes, satisfied. Two skills had changed, not in ways that significant, but changed nonetheless. Additionally the stone had grown quite a bit larger.
It rather liked that.
Then, like the prompt thinker it was, the stone moved to the next issue on its list: The gemstone of rich mana lodged within it, that it had yet to begin absorbing.
It reached out with tendrils of mana, poking and prodding at the crystal, slowly but surely absorbing it inside it, drinking deeply of the magic and growing its cultivation base.
Stolen Cultivation Activated!
Converting Artifacts to power...
Complete!
Level up!
1000 / 1000 Magic
You have reached Cultivator Level 6!
You are now in the [Molten Core] Realm.
The gemstone was rich in energy, having powered a whole citys entire mana shield, so the rock wasnt too surprised that it was enough for the breakthrough. Butwell, few things could surprise a rock. It had a stoic countenance, reacting to whatever came with the same stony calm.
And thus, once more it grew.
Stats up!
Energy Level (E) = 1 000 000W
Core Heat: 1000 K
Progress to next realm =Breakthrough needed.
Then, having finally solved the first two issues on its list, the stone finally turned to the third: Its circumstances. Perhaps it had subconsciously put it last, out of a vague sense of avoidance. Because the stone did feel annoyed.
Very annoyed.
Quest:
Current Altitude: 363 300 000m
So far. Further than it could have ever imagined going. It had been so close. So close! Almost reaching that desired goal, seeing it before its eyes. The numbers had been only two digits before!
And now, as the rock used [Orbital Slingshot] to remain in place as it thought, there were nine. Nine digits, when it had been almost one.
It could still remember the visage of that jade statue at its journey's end, the form of a graceful woman clad in a toga, reaching up to the sky, as if to welcome the rock home from its long voyage. The rock had leaped out, grasping for those arms, but fallen short.
As it wasit was too weak. It could still remember the iron grip of the gravity spell upon its stone flesh, forcing it up and up. It... did not want to feel that again.
Soit would not hurry. It would travel the starry sky, and collect a greater following of rocks. It would grow even larger. And then once the time was right
It would return. And not be turned back again.
Quest:
Current Altitude: 370 200 123m
With a final glance at its distance number, the rock gave a silent goodbye to its home world, released itself from the [Orbital Slingshot], then used [Energy Shift]changing Qi to momentumand began accelerating more and more, away from its home, towards the other gatherings of rocks it could feel. Towards that great field of stone in the distance.
It would be back soon. In the timescale of rocks of course.
A rock had all the time in the world, and the patience of stone. And it noticed one last detail, after continually using [Energy Shift] to accelerate forward.
Current Velocity: 751.7 m/s
It was no longer slowing down.
Full Status:
[Unnamed]
Title(s): Line-Ender, Patient Ambusher, Bane of Demons, Grandmaster of Closed Door Cultivation
HP: 89/89
Mana: 0/0
Level: 10
Experience: 0/5000
Class: Meteorite
Sub-class: Cultivator 7
Race: Gneiss Stone
Gold: 100%
STATS
Diameter (d): 4.61m
Mass (m): 133653.3kg
Energy Level (E): 100 MW
Core Temp (T): 2000K
Domain size (d) = 1.0km
ABILITIES
Collide
Steer
Energy Shift
Pivot Point
Pivot Point: Orbital Slingshot
Just a Rock
Meditate
Diamond Skin
Stolen Cultivation
Meteor Shower
Kin of Stone