The Runic Artist Chapter 9: Chapter 327 - Nascent Vessel

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Chapter 327 - Nascent Vessel Nate sat across from Ankh’aris in a room buried deep inside of the Risen Sun Sect’s temporary mountain residence. A single day had passed since the return of Hrung’Jak. Gwen and Fili had barely left the orc’s side as he recovered from the grievous wounds he’d sustained defending a Calikex city from a beast wave. Luckily for Jak, the Calikex had held onto his missing arm. So, Gwen’s reattaching of it had been a relatively simple operation. However, the orc was all out of Divine Energy and Ankh had forbidden Gwen from using any of her own, which meant Jak would spend a couple of days in recovery. Ankh’s demands had been well received by Jak, owing to the fact that Jak had shifted his Embodiment from Stalwart to Heroic. The orc couldn’t have been happier and had talked Nate’s ear off in lieu of the still missing Wulfgar. With one of the four now handled, at least in terms of getting them to the right Embodiment, Nate had asked Ankh about his Divine Vessel. That was how Nate found himself down in the depths of the mountain that Ankh had literally carved a path into the stone with his very presence. “So, your Vessel has reached satiation?” asked Ankh, still in humanoid draconic form. Nate glanced at the sphere of destruction Ankh was manifesting around them and decided that the ancient dragon knew how to keep their conversation a secret. “Yes. It’s at what The System would have classified as five percent. It refuses to accept any more Divine Energy.” Ankh’aris nodded, “You have completed the Vessel stage. You’ve made your body a place where the Divine Energy of our Reality can gather. But your body is finite and, so far, that is all you’ve been empowering. Right now, you’re taking the power of this Reality into yourself. The next step is to start connecting your body to the rest of Reality. Before The System came, this step was called the Nascent stage.” “And I do that through artifacts that are already connected to our Reality?” asked Nate as he thought of the names The System had given to the items he had collected. “Yes. You have at least one on you, right? The one you competed for?” Nate produced all three items from his Created Space , taking a second to make sure Vicoli remained bound in the created prison. Satisfied that the Void Disciple was still secure, Nate focused on the three items before him, his eyes strobing up with colour as he activated Conceptual Sight . Nascent Wisp of Destruction Nascent Seed of Creation Nascent Spatial Spirit The Nascent Wisp of Destruction looked like a black, gaseous cloud with a nugget of pitch black stone at its heart. Nate could feel how it wanted to destroy the stone table that Ankh had crafted for them. In the presence of the ancient dragon, it also seemed to be quieter than Nate remembered, as though it recognised a greater power. Then there was the Nascent Seed of Creation. A small yellow seed that brimmed with possibilities. Except, it felt like a hardened shell in the presence of Ankh’aris, as though protecting itself. Finally, the Nascent Spatial Spirit buzzed like purple broken glass, assuming shapes and forms that both should and shouldn’t exist. Unlike the other two nascent artifacts, this one was kept in place by Nate and didn’t seem to care one whit about Ankh’s presence. The ancient dragon peered forward and looked over them. “I’m impressed that you already have one for each of the aspects of your Vessel. How did you get them?” “Two from The System for my victory in the World Reaping. One from Worldhammer’s Vault. He’s a Greater Divinity of…” Ankh cut him off with a wave, “I don’t care about the insects. You won. That’s all that matters to me. You showed these weaklings what a true Path looks like, even if most of them are too blind to see it. Now, do you know why Kali’Terra names these artifacts Nascent? What makes them different?” Nate leaned back and stared at the artifacts. He knew the simple answer, but his understanding of why was lacking. I