Chapter 92: Chapter 92

His reaction didn’t throw the rest of his family off either.

Sokram was always opposed to the idea of seeking nobility and ruling.

Instead, he yearned to be free to travel and explore the world.

He consistently declared that he would fulfill the family’s duty to Eversnow and Norwinter.

Still, beyond that, he would refuse any titles or land the King might offer. Thus, hearing his sharp refusal, they all smirked helplessly.

But the one who felt relieved the most was Miralyn, knowing he would never bother to fight his cousins for the right to succeed her mother.

Once they reached Sayuri’s position, they had a clear view of what was happening.

Sayuri successfully lured an Exalted Grey Scaled Anaconda, one that chose to refuse the Records' guidance and remain a Creature of Chaos despite its clear higher level of intelligence.

From afar, Sokram watched the Three-Headed Giant Snake battling a huge White Chested Crow, an Exalted Existence itself.

Three golden feathers protruded from the bird’s forehead to the back of its head, marking it as the King of this mountain.

Alongside the crow, there were another eight crows.

Studying the patterns of markings on their feathers, Sokram saw they were all females.

They were doing their utmost to protect their nest.

Seeing the Nine Crows fighting against more than twenty snakes, Sokram frowned as another set of memories flooded his mind.

Once upon a time, while most of his harem still lived, they had suffered a similar ambush.

His sons and daughters were too young to fight, and his enemies came intending to wipe out his entire family.

He and his wives fought desperately to keep his children safe.

Still, that day, two of his sons died, with one of his wives being mortally wounded and dying not long after they were safe.

Seeing the frown on his face, Sayuri asked worriedly, “Did I do something wrong?”

Sokram snapped from his daze, shook his head, and smiled at her reassuringly, “No, you did perfectly, it's just…”

He felt a pang of regret but quickly pushed it aside, “…those crows are all above Flawless, and there isn’t a single drop of Chaos Energy coming from them; they are Evolved Species. I fear Nhiria might be frowning at us now. But now the only thing we can do is make sure their children live on.”

Sokram studied the terrain, seeing that they could easily reach the nests undetected.

Sayuri picked the best place and route to lure the snakes.

There were many trees, bushes, and boulders, which could be used for cover between the place where the crows and snakes were fighting and the nests.

He glanced at his family with a wry smile. “Let’s go. Sayuri stays here for backup. There are thirty caves, and each of us needs to pick at least five eggs.”

Sokram pulled out a few sacks from his glove and handed them to his family. “But counting by the number of females, there should likely be at least ten eggs on each nest, eight nests in total, but even if we only get seven of them, the profit will still be huge.”

Sokram pointed at the clear route below them connecting various cave entrances.

Hilda frowned, looking around. “You’re planning to go to one of the nests?”

“Mom, not now,” Sokram’s tone was calm but firm, “We’re here as a hunting team, I'm not a kid under the care of his family and nannies.”

Hilda was taken aback, but she relented, especially after receiving some voice transmissions from Miralyn and Sayuri.

They both promised to pay close attention to him.

“To make it easier for you, I’ll go to the closest one, this way Sayuri can reach me fast if something happens,” Sokram said as Dark Lightning flashed silently beneath his feet.

But wanting to lighten the mood again, he shot a challenging grin at them, “The last one here has to kill a snake, too.”

Sokram plunged from the cliff's edge.

Dark Lightning crackled without a sound under his boots, holding him just centimeters from the sheer rock face as he began to hover.

His descent was silent and precise.

To his family looking down at him, Sokram looked as if he was skating down the walls of the cliff, dodging every obstacle with precision.

Leona looked at his feet with a wide-eyed expression, shocked by what she saw and sensed coming from them.

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His Dark Lightning now also flashed slightly red and purple from time to time.

Looking at Miralyn and Hilda, not hiding her surprise, she blurted out, “Doesn’t that count as Fourth Stage Element? Fusing secondary and tertiary elements to work as one?”

Miralyn was also shocked and couldn’t form words.

Hilda stared blankly, not even being able to grasp the formula for that spell.

Leona insisted, “Look, it’s flashing purple too. Red is for Force fused in Lightning, right? From what elemental fusion is that purple coming?”

But it was Sayuri who answered her words barely above a whisper as she was equally shocked, “Aura, he is mixing Aura, that is Spirit Magic.”

She realized that Sokram was showing her that it was possible to use his spells with Spirit Magic as well.

But snapping out of her daze, she told Leona, “Shouldn’t you also get down there? It doesn’t look like he is going to wait for you.”

But looking at her, Leona only scoffed, and in the next moment her energy surged as she called her technique with a thought, ‘…Swift Wind: One Step!’

Just as Sokram was about to reach the entrance of the first cave, he felt a gush of wind brush past him, and in the next second, Leona appeared in front of him, grinning.

“Nice trick, kiddo.” But then, with a smug look, she added, “But mine is faster.”

Sokram finally came to a stop a couple of meters in front of her.

He nodded, praising her, “You have amazing control of the Swift Wind Form, master.”

Sokram looked at her with shining eyes, “I still have a long way to go before reaching that level.”

Leona flashed him a broad smile, her eyes too full of pride both for herself and her disciple. "You'll be here before you know it."

Leona's grin widened. "But that Purple Lightning... Don't tell me that's a fourth-level element? Or is it the fifth?"

“Just an idea to silence the lightning, haha.” Sokram scratched the back of his head, knowing she wasn’t far off, because it was a fourth-level elemental fusion using Force, Wind, Dark Lightning, and Crimson Lightning.

Sokram suddenly sensed a subtle mana fluctuation coming from above and saw Miralyn jumping from shadow to shadow, using Shadow Merge, reaching them in a few moves.

Margiory, using a wand, cast a lightning bolt of her own.

Sokram was surprised to see she used his idea as inspiration.

She isolated the Lightning using a torrent of Wind, so it didn’t crackle.

And suddenly, she appeared beside him in a flash.

Brunhild was more straightforward, simply jumping and using Wind to reduce the impact and the sound.

Hilda and Astrid used their own adaptation of Sokram’s lighting walk. Instead of Lightning, they preferred to use Wind under their feet.

Following what he had done, they also skated their way down, but when the first set of obstacles appeared in front of them, they summoned their staves and channeled mana through them.

They used Force to swiftly avoid obstacles and adjust their trajectory as if they were rowing.

Once they reached the rest of the group, they found Sokram already waiting, his gaze full of approval.

“Amazing! You mastered the spell and re-adapted it beautifully, even switched the core element!”

“Haha, yeah… We just found Wind to be more in tune with our fighting style,” Hilda explained a little embarrassed, because the truth was, they couldn’t adjust to using Lightning.

It was too fast, and without Hyper Cognition, Precognition, or even Mind of Magi, there was no way for them to fully control the spell’s trajectory.

Hilda had nearly shattered her arms more than once while trying to master it.

But wind, although it gave her a boost of speed, wasn’t at the level she couldn’t control.

“Amazing! Your comprehension ability is impressive, Mom.” Sokram smiled sincerely, but he could understand their struggles and wanted to motivate them.

But his praises were sincere, because his spells, although simplified for them to learn with greater ease, weren’t something just anyone could master, especially to the point of using the same formula with a different element.

“Alright, let’s split and meet up there again before either the crows or the snakes reach this place.”

Sokram glanced at the path in the cliff extending like a tree root toward the entrance of various caves, “I’ll stay with those closest to Sayuri’s position to give Mom some peace of mind.”

“The rest of you scatter but pay attention to the fight, the crows might return anytime,” Sokram spoke, looking intently as the Male Exalted Crow fought intently against the Three-Headed Exalted Anaconda.

While Sokram and his family searched from cave to cave for the eggs, the Crow King, a name he adopted after he and his wives became Awakened and accepted the Records, fought desperately to keep the snakes away from their eggs.

The awakening had allowed him to reach the Exalted level, but it also purged the Chaos Energy from his core.

His body retained the strength Chaos had granted it. But his combat prowess was now two tiers lower than any Chaos Creature on the same level.

“Fool! You betrayed Chaos and accepted the Records! Now look at you, who once ruled over this land, now can’t even fight me off without your mates' help!” The Three-Headed Snake’s voice slithered into his mind, dripping with contempt.

“You’re the fool, Nhiria and Natura have received me with open arms in the Path of Evolution, and even if my strength is not the same as before, it’s still enough to deal with you, snake!”

The Crow King rose meters above the Three-Headed Snake, spinning his body.

His wings snapped open in a whiplash motion, hurling feathers like obsidian blades that scythed the air.

A storm of steel feathers rained down, each barbed tip glinting like a dagger.

The Three-Headed Snake was fast, dodging most of them, but its body was too big, and its scales weren’t hard enough.

The feathers struck home, and blood burst from the Snake’s torn scales.

“Hisss!! You coward! Come down here and fight me fairly!”

The Three-Headed Snake hissed in rage, even though she knew the Crow King wouldn’t abandon his advantage of long-distance attacks.

They had been fighting for a few minutes already since the Three-Headed Snake and her children had been lured there.

She was very pissed having been lured only to find her arch-enemy while unprepared, ‘I never even found where that delicious scent of blood came from, these crows can’t find it before I do…’

“Hiss!!” A loud hiss came from the Three-Headed Snake, ordering her children to go look for the scent of blood they had picked up earlier.

The Crow couldn’t understand what she said unless she willed for her meaning to reach him.

But once he saw the ten weaker snakes trying to flee in the direction of his nest, he sent another volley of the same feather attacks from before, killing all of them.

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“You dare to kill my children!”

The Snake raged, and all her remaining children hissed with the same killing intent as her.

“No one will enter my mountain!”

The Crow King raged with a caw, as he and his eight wives dashed upward and dived down, aiming for the snakes.

As the Three-Headed Snake prepared to defend against the Crows’ attacks, a sudden realization came to her: ‘Why are they so desperate to protect this piece of land? Is that their nest or… Their nest!’

When she realized that the Crow’s nest was in the mountain, his desire for their eggs filled her mind, ‘Not only the delicious bloody smell, but now Crows’ eggs too? Today is a good day.’

Venom pooled at the tips of her fangs, the hunger in her belly twisting into a need so primal it drowned her rage in lustful anticipation.

Led by her primitive desires, like all Chaos Creatures, she only cared about feeding and reproducing.