God of Time System: Harem in the Zombie Apocalypse

Chapter 316 Spirits

The quest did state that the lair was abandoned for quite a long time. The purpose here was to purify rather than to save. Though, about the hidden pieces of the soul,

"Aarick. Are there more guardians like her? We came from one way, so don't you think there would be more of them there?" I hinted at Aarick. His eyes widened as he looked at me with astonishment.

"Ah! My siblings!" Diaspora, who was almost at her last wits, suddenly got herself out of insanity as she looked at me. Before her eyes turned in a certain direction.

A bright glow consumed her body as she positioned herself in the direction where the other hidden pieces of the soul probably were. And just as she was about to jump…

-Thud!

Dark red chains formed out of the ground, holding her down, rendering her unable to take the leap.

"Do not hurry. We will also come with you. Guide us there," Aarick spoke as he looked at Diaspora. She observed Aarick for a few moments before a bitter expression appeared on her face as she nodded.

"You could have let her go. Would have been faster, don't you think?" I asked Aarick, but he shook his head as he added,"she was exhausting her energy force faster. While it would have been faster, it would have wasted extra power."

I looked at her for a brief moment.

"Did she lose her common sense too with the shock?" I asked. I understand the urgency, but to become this stupid? There is gotta be a limit, you know?

Though it didn't seem like she was listening as she stood up, while her eyes deeply concentrated at the place where her siblings were. And not wasting anytime, she ran, this time at a much slower rate than she was supposed to.

And behind her, I and Aarick followed her without uttering a single word. It took about half an hour before we reached an empty room filled with glowing translucent orbs that occupied the empty room without much energy in them.

"What?"

Diaspora was rather taken aback as she looked at the empty room, trying to understand the situation. Turning around, she looked at Aarick with a quiet, desperate look. If you look at her maddening eyes, you can see the heartbreak she was going through. The shock was probably too much for her…

"Which year is it?" she asked, barely holding on. Looks like she finally figured out that it has been quite a while since she passed away, or perhaps was sleeping for such a long time…

"Which year is it?" Aarick, on the other hand, turned to me, asking the question. I was confused for a few seconds as I looked at him. The heck is he asking me that for?

"2032?" I spoke as I told him the year back on my planet.

"..."

"..."

"What?" I questioned them. It's not like I knew anything about the time here… or maybe I did?

"It's been about a couple of thousand years or more," I said as I read back the quest's information. A couple of millennials, huh? That's a long time.

"Huh? A… thousand?" her eyes widened as she couldn't believe it.

"A couple or more," I corrected her politely, like a gentleman.

"Don't poke her, will you? It's already hard for her to comprehend things… but are you sure it's that long?" Aarick asked as he observed me curiously, and I nodded.

"You gonna bring them back? Her siblings, I mean," I asked as I looked at him. He did it before, right? Surely he can do it again.

"Her siblings' souls and body have evaporated. There is no link left," Aarick answered with a regretful tone. His eyes seemed quite sad at that fact.

"What about those orbs?" I spoke as I pointed at the orbs of energy flowing around.

"They belong to the person who killed her sibling. They probably absorbed the entire energy and then were left afloat," Aarick explained before moving towards Diaspora. I sighed as I looked at the message on my screen.

[Would you like to absorb the Divine Energy?]

I pressed, 'Yes' as I absorbed all the light orbs around while using [Time Reduction!] and [Advanced Time Manipulation!]. Perhaps this time the amount to be absorbed was easier. It took only 2-3 minutes to finish it.

After I was done, I looked at Aarick standing beside Diaspora, looking at me as if I were a freak.

"You really are a freak, aren't you?" Aarick spoke while I ignored him as I asked," shall we go to the next sibling?"

Diaspora looked at me with an absurd look before she observed Aarick. Aarick nodded at her, making her speak out her thoughts," don't just nod. Tell me who is he? How the heck can he absorb all those energies within a few minutes? If he had a heavenly physique or the energy was totally pure, I would have understood it a little. But it was fucking corrupted energy."

"Ummm… Michael… Explain?" Aarick threw the hot potato at me.

"Don't wanna. Though what do you mean by corrupted energy?" I asked without answering her question. Was there something wrong with this energy? And is there a purer form of Divine Energy?

"Well. For starters, Divine Energy is absorbed at the rate of about 10 spirits per day for an average person with an average physique. A comparison of one spirit would be equal to the one orb you absorbed.

Now, the orbs could be denser or more diluted, increasing or decreasing the grade of the Divine Energy you can absorb from them. Like Higher Grade Spirits or Lower Grade Spirits. The one you absorbed was the lowest of the lowest, along with the addition of corruption energy, which made it quite difficult to absorb for one person.

Corrupted Spirits take 10 times more time to absorb and since it was a low grade, it would have taken about a 100 days per spirit for an average man.

Some people are born with a higher physique so they can absorb at a faster rate, as much as 100 times or rarely 200 times faster at best. In an exceptional case of once in a lifetime, there would also be people who can absorb 1000 times faster.

But you don't have any physique at all. In fact, you are as average as you can be. Maybe even below average. Yet, you absorb at a rate significantly faster than the total combined," Aarick explained it to me in a precise manner so I can understand the concept of Universal Energy.

'Since there were a dozen spirits, so…. about 30,000 times faster, huh?' I thought as I still didn't use [Advanced Time Manipulation (Copy)] to increase the effect even further. I didn't know if there was something strange with that energy, so I held back a little.

'I guess it doesn't matter whether I have a physique or not. With these skills, it would be a few seconds before I reach a higher realm. Or at least I hope it's that way…

[Universal Energy: 20/20]

"Is that so?" I mumbled at Aarick's words as I wondered how much is the average Divine Energy in an average person.

"What's the normal range a person has with Divine Energy?" I asked as I observed Aarick, making him look at me with a strange look. Though he sighed before he began explaining that as well…