When he returned to his personal realm Akasha checked up on the girls before finding himself an isolated area too. As he was walking through the vast field he was thinking to himself.
'Heh, I'm finally able to progress more.' As he thought this, he clenched his fist. 'I need to get more strength quickly. There's so much unknown surrounding my whole existence.... Mother... who are you really?'
For the first time, Akasha, he thought seriously about his whole situation. Even though he liked to go with the flow of things and enjoy life. It was truly hard not to think about this bizarre situation he was in. His mother, someone he never even met, somehow was able to grant him with the opportunity most would dream of. Looking up into the beautiful cosmos that surrounded his realm, he had one thought before immersing himself into cultivation.
'I don't know how long it will take.... but one day I will come to you for answers.... Mother.'
Seeing him like this Luna had many thoughts but she ultimately decided against speaking out.
Sitting down cross-legged Akasha begin to calm his mind before cultivating. After a few minutes he started bringing in the elements from the atmosphere. All the elemental mana was flowing into him in droves. Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Thunder, Light, Ruination, Blood, Space, and Time were all washing of his core.
If one were to see a visual of this then it would look like different colored streams of energy was flowing into the center of his body. The streams entered just below the navel, as the streams entered his body, they constantly washed over his core. The core looked like an empty shell that was colorless, but after making contact with these elements, the core slowly started to take on the color of these elements.
Currently it has been a little over an hour since Akasha started this process. In this time, he was able to move from Early to Middle Stage. Now that he was at the Middle Stage process, he needed to begin fusing the affinities with his core.
Although this process will be similar to before there is one key difference. Instead of gently washing over your core, this time you will need to pierce into the core. This will allow you to begin the process of fusion.
As Akasha started this process his pace of cultivating never faltered for a second. His face was calm and collected, he looked as if he had done this process millions of times before. Although he didn't know why, but these elements just felt as if they belonged to him. This connection to the elements made his process much smoother.
In the second hour Akasha easily broke into the Late Stage. If before his core looked like an empty shell that was colorless, then now it looked like a glowing rainbow that was filled to the brim. The surface of the core was smooth and pristine except there was one small crack.
'Hmm, when Liora explained she said our core would be full of cracks, right?' he thought as his core looked far from having a lot of cracks.
"Luna what's going on?"
[Well, it's pretty simple actually. Your core is not full, although it looks full its far from it actually. This is why reaching the peak of this realm normally takes a few months because filling the core takes time. Your core is different from others, the more affinities you have then the more time you will need.]
"Alright." He said simply before going back to his cultivation.
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2 weeks later inside of The Sanctuary
After two weeks of cultivating Akasha finally reached the Peak of Golden Core rank. He was currently walking towards Raven and Elara to check on their progress. When they came into view, he was mildly surprised that they both were sitting cross-legged having a conversation.
"What are you lovely ladies chatting about?" Akasha asked casually as he approached and sat down next to him.
"Not much, we were wondering where you ran off to." Raven said as she was looking at him with a smile. Ever since their evolution their infatuation with Akasha grew to deadly levels.
"Yea, we woke up from cultivation about a week ago, but we couldn't find you. So, we have just been getting to know each other better." Elara added on as she too had a beautiful smile on her face.
"Well, I was cultivating as well. I didn't want to disturb you guys, so I moved away from you guys. How are you two feeling?" He asked them
The girls nodded at him before saying
"Yes, cultivating here is perfect. Peaceful and abundant energy, you can't really ask for more." Elara said before her and Raven exchanged glances at one another. This didn't escape the eyes of Akasha either. But he waited to see what they had to say.
Raven nodded after seeing Elara look.
"Akasha, we don't mean to be rude, but..... are you blind?" She asked in a low voice. Although it seemed like a dumb question, the girls were truly curious. In a world of fantasy and cultivation you can never be certain about anything.
Hearing this question and seeing the looks of curiosity on the girls' face
[PFFT! Haha] Luna appeared out of thin air laughing while holding her stomach.
"HAHA, why did you make it seem so serious?" he asked the girls.
Seeing the two of them laughing the girls blushed a bit. The really thought it might be rude to randomly ask about someone's eyesight. After Luna calmed down, she explained the situation to them.
[Hehe, no Akasha isn't blind. His eyes just attract too much attention!] She said slightly pouting.
"Yea, whatever she said, I guess. I will show you guys later, but let's handle something a bit more important. We are all now Peak Golden Core and it has only been one week on the outside. With so much more time on our hands why not break through to the next rank" he said casually while shrugging.
"But we don't know anything about reaching the next rank. Should we go ask Liora?" Elara asked as she didn't mind getting stronger at all. She was determined to be worthy of her mate.
"Well, we have my dear Luna." Akasha said with a smile while looking towards the white-haired beauty. When she heard 'my dear' she slightly blushed.
[Cough... the next rank is the Ultimate Core. This is the first step beyond mortality, that's because you will begin to comprehend 'Laws' and you will also be able to fly. Fights in the Ultimate Core rank are fights people in the Golden Core rank simply cannot partake in.] Luna said to the trio.
"What are Laws though?" Raven asked as this was the first time she has heard of such a thing.
Even though all these students come from top factions. The progression in ranks is not talked about much and that's because it's left to the Academy. At most these geniuses are helped to the Early Golden Core rank before Academy admission.