Is That A Wisp?

Dima then asked Krune.

"The condition to wake up Spirits is random. The Spirit Awakener has to feel it himself and work from there. However, it seems like you're simply throwing countless amounts of different combinations, am I right?"

Krune was surprised that Dima could tell it with a single glance. With that, he responded.

"That's correct. However, there seems to be another point you're missing. I'm actually throwing random conditions and laws. Even though that's the case, every time part of a condition is right, the equipment appears to retain it. The equipment will then accumulate those parts as they pass by, ultimately gathering everything necessary to awake. You could say that this is a brute force awakening method. I just didn't expect that the other equipment and even the building itself would take advantage of the escaping energy."

Dima nodded as he said.

"I understand. To be honest, other people and demon beasts tried this method in the past. However, they didn't even get close to forming as many random conditions as you. Just what is this Dark Cloud of yours? I can feel all elements and laws inside. At the same time, it's as if they aren't there at all."

Krune didn't try to lie since everyone had seen it already.

"This is a law or an accumulation of it, I guess? It doesn't have only Laws and Elements. It has everything, including destiny and karma. I call it the Calamity Laws."

Dima and Roben narrowed their eyes, with Dima asking.

"Calamity Laws? Is there such a law in the God Realm?"

Krune shrugged his shoulders as he replied.

"How would I know? It's something I comprehended by myself. I have no idea whether other people or beasts can use it or not."

"Alright, keep these Calamity Laws of yours gathered. Let me see if I can comprehend it in any way."

Krune knew that Dima wanted to see if he could use it as well. Unfortunately for Dima, Krune was certain that he wouldn't be able to.

"It won't work. For you to comprehend the Calamity Laws, you need to be targeted by it."

Roben and Dima were taken aback.

"Targetted by it? Since when did Laws target others on their own?"

Krune shook his head as he said.

"I don't know. I just know that it's like that. Of course, I can keep it gathered for you, but I don't think it'll go anywhere."

Dima pondered for a bit before nodding.

"Let me call the other elders who are free and then try it out. If it doesn't work, then so be it."

Krune didn't mind and waited for Dima to bring the elders to the room. After that, Krune kept the Calamity Laws gathered in his hand for an entire day. Eventually, everyone gave up.

"Forget it! It's impossible."

"I can't comprehend it at all. I can feel that it's there. However, every time I try to comprehend it, it disappears."

"I know, right? When it disappears, I try to feel it again, and then it's there."

"I don't understand this thing. How could it be there and not be there at the same time?"

Dima understood what Krune meant with needing to be targeted by it.

"Most likely, if you aren't this laws' target, it will look hidden to you."

Krune agreed with Dima.

"That's correct."

Krune wanted to say that he was targeted by the Laws every time he broke through and that it had been happening for hundreds of years. However, he decided to not go that far. First of all, everyone was born at the Peak of the Mortal Rejection Realm in the God Realm. If he said that, it would be obvious that he came from the Lower Realms.

The problem is, everyone knew that ascenders should only come when they were in the Peak of the Nascent God Soul Realm. Krune, obviously, was far, far behind that.

"Krune, how did you become its target? Also, what does it mean to be targeted by it?"

Krune shrugged his shoulders as he answered.

"Do you think I know? When I noticed, it was already there. I have no idea whatsoever why it selected me. As for the effects, it will make your life very, very complicated. Because it even has karma and destiny involved, it can mess up your future really bad. I'm very lucky to be alive at the moment. Fortunately, after I've obtained a basic understanding of it, the Calamity Laws lost their power to affect my future."

Roben couldn't help but ask.

"Wait, your comprehension of it is just at the basic level? What do you mean?"

Krune then explained.

"It means exactly that. As you know, Laws have their own sub-laws. Each sub-law have their four states of comprehension. Initial, Intermediate, Advanced, and Culmination. However, my understanding of it is so shallow that I don't even know what the sub-laws of this thing are."

Krune pondered for a bit and continued.

"No, I guess this is the wrong way to put it. Calamity Laws have all the laws. There's a good chance that the Calamity Laws don't have sub-laws to start with. If I were to think about sub-laws, I guess it would be each customary law's sub-laws instead. Errr... I guess I made it somewhat difficult to understand. However, that's how I feel it to be. In any case, my comprehension of this thing is extremely poor. I just know enough to prevent it from affecting my future."

Dima nodded and then looked at the other elders.

"You guys can leave already. I need to talk with Krune alone."

The elder nodded and left, leaving Krune and Dima behind.

"Krune, I'll be very honest. This thing of yours is too dangerous. The way you put it, it seems like you can wake up any level of equipment spirit without any issues. Th other Spirit Awakeners won't like it at all. After all, the Spirit Awakener is supposed to be the hardest profession."

Krune immediately shook his head as he said.

"That's wrong. It was easy to awaken all those Spirits because all the equipment was at the lowest level possible. As for the building, it wasn't a piece of equipment to start with. If you give me a Two Godly Fusion Stars Equipment, it will take a lot longer to do the same thing."

"Is that so? However, you can still do that as long as you keep going for it, no? Let's use the two stars equipment you mentioned as an example. You would need two days to awaken that Spirit instead of one or something like that, right?"

Krune shook his head as he explained.

"No. The reason is simple. I'm far too lacking in comprehension to do that. For example, do you remember those other pieces of equipment who wanted to finish waking up and came after me?"

Dima nodded and waited for Krune to continue.

"They were bound to die in at most one or two days even if I finished waking them up. In fact, even if you didn't kill the building's Spirit, it would die in the next few days as well. The only equipment that would stay alive is my shield, that's all."

Dima was taken aback. He was sure that the building had fully woken up.

"Why is that?"

Krune then explained.

"That's because it's impossible to focus on more than a single piece of equipment at once. As I mentioned, I used the Calamity Laws to find all the right conditions as I threw them inside my shield. However, the conditions picked by the building and those other pieces of equipment had nothing to do with me. You could say that their Spirit was completely flawed and would collapse sooner or later."

"This... I didn't know such a thing could happen with this method."

Krune nodded.

"It's this problematic. There are just way too many random conditions happening at once. It's impossible for me to focus on more than one piece of equipment at once. Even if my cultivation increases and my comprehension of the Calamity Laws becomes better, this point won't change. One piece of equipment, that's my limit."

Dima nodded before asking.

"However, you still didn't answer my question. You can wake up any level of equipment even if it's only one each time, no?"

Krune laughed after hearing that.

"Of course not! Hahaha! You should know it better than anyone else in this city. The higher the level of the equipment, the more complex they are. That being said, the more strict the conditions to wake up a Spirit is. Naturally, it also applies to my method. At my cultivation level, I guess I can do that to a Three or, at most, Four Godly Fusion Stars Equipment."

Krune then continued.

"Also, you're forgetting one thing here. I was lucky!"

"What do you mean?"

Krune shrugged his shoulders as he said.

"Did you forget? I'm throwing in countless random conditions into the equipment to wake up their Spirit. Do you think I can be successful every single time? That's ridiculous! I was really lucky to succeed in waking up my shield's Spirit. I kind of feel bad about it."

"You... feel bad?"

Krune nodded, saying.

"That's because I will probably wake up Spirits that are bound to die in the next few days. Waking up a good enough Spirit that won't die is just too hard. I really don't like this feeling."

Dima nodded. Although he killed the Building Spirit, it was not as if he liked to do that.

"In that case, you can simply stop before that happens. You should be able to feel if the Spirit you are awakening will survive or not the closer you get to completion."

Krune pondered over it for a bit and nodded.

"Well, that's true."

Dima then asked something else.

"Even if you say that you can't wake up Spirits with a 100% success rate, you still have it several times easier than others, right?"

Krune pondered over the question before asking.

"What is the success rate of a Spirit Awakener?"

"About 0.05 to 0.1%."

Krune nodded. Roben told how he only woke up just so many Spirits in his career, so he expected the chances to be small.

"I'm not sure about what my success rate is since I tried it only once. However, I do know that I was seriously lucky with my shield."

Dima nodded as he offered.

"In that case, you can stay in the guild and try it out for the time being. Fortunately, your ability isn't as heaven-defying as I thought. That would really be a huge problem. However, if your rate of success is just a little higher than others, then that's fine. It would be profitable for you and easy to deal with in the guild."

Krune couldn't help but smile.

"Does that mean I'm a Spirit Awakener of the guild now?"

Dima nodded as he laughed.

"Hahaha! But of course! In fact, I wouldn't let you escape to start with. After all, who do you think will pay for all the damage in the city? Good luck!"

Krune's smile froze at that moment. He just found out that not only was he poor, but he was also in debt!

"Well fuck!"