GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

He is the most precious cargo because Legion's entire plan revolves around him. Helios sat down wordlessly in front of the tree and began meditating for his breakthrough to transcendence.

The plant spirit lit up with green flames as the tree father descended into it. It extended a branch into Helios's back and into the stigmata on it. The branch entered the Stigmata as if there is a hidden dimension within the Stigmata. The green flames spread from the branch onto Helios's body.

The flame is not an ordinary flame. It is created from the burning of faith which a god does. So the flame is the tree father's god fire. Unlike a normal god fire, it is full of divine power, divine will, and divine life energy. It is more of the spark of life.

The flame got to work on Helios. The divine power began to modify Helios' stigmata according to the instructions of the divine will contained within the flames. The divine will of Stelios within the Stigmata sensed some changes within the structure of the Stigmata and was about to resist when it suddenly calmed down when it noticed that the changes are beneficial to the intent of the sun god. It would have lashed out otherwise.

The tree father modified the Stigmata by increasing its capacity and access to the source of divine power that supplies the Stigmata. The changes hurt Helios enough to grimace but the divine life energy within the flames healed all the damage caused by the Stigmata upgrade.

Unlike other god fires which simply burn, this flame reinforced and strengthen his body. It made the cells of his body undergo limited evolution. The next evolution should be transcendence but the divine power in the flames gave the cells a short evolution and strengthened them to the limit of what is possible for them to achieve.

Then the flames began to work on the other runes on Helios's body. Those golden runes written with the divine energy of the sun god were perfused with the divine will of the tree father. This upgraded them to the rank of Stigmata and performed some finishing touches on Helios's body to prepare it for the breakthrough. Now he is decked with Stigmata capable of evolving with him.

Helios took one more look at his status.

NAME: Helios (Legion-4)

TITLE: Child Of The Virut Plane.

RACE: Giant Of Order.

BLOODLINE: Sunfire Royal bloodline.

POWER LEVEL (BODY): Mana Body (Complete)

POWER LEVEL (SOUL): Soul Reformation (Complete)

PHYSIQUE: Half-Divine Body

HP: 100%

STAMINA: 100%

ENERGY LEVEL (BODY ): Mana

ENERGY LEVEL (SOUL): Spiritual Energy

VITALITY: 5000

ENDURANCE: 5000

STRENGTH: 5000

AGILITY: 2000

PERCEPTION: 1,000,000,000

SPIRIT: 5000

LIMITER (BODY): 80%

LIMITER (SOUL): 0.000005%

DIVINE SENSE (GRADE): 500(B)

OTHERS

MANA AFFINITY: 100%

LAW AFFINITY: 50%

ELEMENTAL AFFINITY (GRADE): FIRE (DIVINE), LIGHT (DIVINE), ORDER (DIVINE).

STATUS: Scheming.

He has finally reached the limit of what a mana entity can handle even with the law fragments in his body. That limit is 5 times what other mana entities can achieve. His agility finally moved too with the assistance of divine life energy. It doubled in number from 1000 to 2000. He has divine life energy which he has been receiving for some years now to thank for these changes.

Divine life energy is an energy unique to the tree father that came about as a result of the fusion of life essence with divine energy. It is so powerful that it can make ordinary mortal trees instantly become transcendent plant spirits. Such transcendents will be reliant on the tree father so they will be perfect vessels for him.

Divine life energy also enables the tree father and his vessels to hide from the senses of others pretty easily. This is because the divine power within divine life energy can hide all the traces of their life energy. They will look no different from a rock under senses different from the sense of sight. It is how the tree father has been able to move secretly under the strict surveillance of the Celestial Supreme.

Helios took in a breath and began to break through. He will not be returning to the sun city to become a transcendent. His loving father might be distraught. Stelios will just have to deal with it.

A mana entity can become a transcendent when their soul core has been reformed into a soul form in the image of the body and when their domain has fused with their body.

The domain of a mana entity is the control of environmental mana due to the fusion of spiritual energy with their divine sense. The divine sense becomes able to manipulate mana on a large scale instead of simply sensing it.

Once the body has adapted to mana and has transformed most of itself to contain mana, the domain can then be turned towards the body instead of the environment. This transfer of external control of mana to internal control is why transcendents have perfect control of their bodies.

To achieve the breakthrough, the domain will cling to the part of the body that has been transformed by mana and hold to it. Then the body will be used to pull on the soul within the soul sphere of the mana entity. So the body becomes the anchor while the domain which is attached to the soul becomes the rope that is used to pull the soul out of the soul sphere.

The soul is flexible, so it will expand as it is pulled from every direction. It is also sensitive and fragile so it must be pulled slowly and with care. The soul will be pulled out of the soul sphere where it will follow the path of the domain.

The domain contains spiritual energy which will serve as a channel for the soul, and since the domain is attached firmly to the body, the soul will be forced to come into close contact with the body, and then they are forced to fuse together. That is the summary of the breakthrough to transcendence.