Reborn as an Extra - Chapter 256

Chapter 256: The Essence of Healing… Part-7.
Every individual have a unique ‘Path’ to walk on in their life.

It’s the dream and ambition that you choose yourself and would want to pursue for your whole life.

It is a condensed version of your self-belief and is the result of your egotistical desire to have your own place in the world.

May it be talentless or talented, realizing your own ‘Path’ varies in difficulty for everyone.

Some realize it as easy as breathing, while others have to go through various hurdles to realize it.

In the end, it all depends on a whim, a thought and a desire to become a better version of yourself.

A Path is different from a sudden ‘interest’ or a ‘hobby’, you can’t just one day go and say that ‘I like this thing and I will do all my life’, your words must have real determination in them.

Realizing the ‘Path’ sounds simple but it isn’t really that easy.

Once an SS ranker said: ‘Your path is something that links you to your destiny, it can’t be abandoned, as you would rather die than abandon it…’

‘Those who abandons their dream and ambitions never progress further, and not being able to see yourself at the ‘peak’ that you could have achieved is a great shame…’

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Queen’s Garden

During the whole week, Syvis didn’t even budge from her spot and stood in the sky, always keeping a careful watch on Riya’s every move.

If Riya was really in any fatal danger, Syvis would have saved her immediately.

Even after seeing Riya fail countless times, Syvis wasn’t disappointed in the slightest, instead, a smile hung over her face as she thought to herself,

‘Yes… keep going, you are progressing, it won’t be long now…’

Riya had chatted with Syvis and Aria for a long time on the first day of the training, that chatting was not pointless.

In those few hours, Syvis had tested out Riya’s personality and attitude quite a few times.

Although, with the intuition of an SS-ranker, Syvis already noticed that Riya was definitely lost in her own thoughts, she didn’t know what exactly it was.

That was the reason why Syvis referred to Riya as ‘Lost Sheep’; she wanted to convey that Riya already had lost her path long ago and needed to find it back.

{Only you yourself can find your true self}

With a small push from Syvis, Riya was able to progress further.

When Riya was on the verge of collapsing on the last day’s evening, Syvis thought that maybe she had been a bit too harsh on Riya.

Seeing Riya cry, Syvis’s heart melted, but just as she was about to end the training reluctantly, she stopped as she noticed the changes below.

Riya was staring at the “Rose” as she experienced a sudden realization.

Syvis noticed the brilliance and determination returning in Riya’s eyes, and thus she stopped herself from moving.

Originally, this one-week training was for Riya to realize her ‘Path’, but even Syvis wasn’t expecting anything more than this.

She thought that even after realizing the path, it might take Riya a few more months of practice before ascending.

Even her most talented students took years to reach rank A, not to mention Riya, who has been an awakener for barely 2 years now.

Even though she already had high expectations, Riya’s immense talent far exceeded them.

Dark clouds formed in the sky, and condensed thunder started to brew up instantly.

An immense amount of mana started to condense around Riya and form a tornado of mana.

If it were only that, Syvis would not have been so shocked.

*Rumble**crack*

The thunder in the clouds turned dark purple, and it’s aura became immensely strong, even the space-time fabric started to crack from the pressure created by those purple lightning bolts.

Seeing those purple bolts of lightning crawl around the clouds, Syvis’s eyes trembled.

“T-this is… ‘heaven’s jealousy’!? The purple tribulation…. That’s heavenly punishment! Th-this!?”

Syvis was so shocked that she had no words to speak.

‘Heavenly punishment, or Heaven’s Jealousy’ appears with a purple thunder tribulation.

The space-time fabric itself generates these purple bolts of thunder; thus, even if you are in outer space or anywhere else, you will still be hit.

The ‘Heavenly Thunder’ and the purple lighting have a ‘guaranteed hit effect’, it can’t be avoided.

In the legends and myths, it is stated that the heavenly punishment only appears when the heaven’s itself feels jealous of an individual or an artifact.

Heaven’s jealousy also appears when you try to ascend above the demi-god realm.

Most SS-rankers don’t die of natural causes.

But nearly 85 percent of them die in an attempt to break through to the next realm.

The reason why no one has ever been recorded to have broken past rank SS is because no one has ever been recorded to have passed the heavenly tribulation.

In all of history, only two people have ever survived heaven’s jealousy.

One was King Allen von Reinhart, and the other was Link Rex, who survived it because of Ashtel Rex’s support.

There has never been anyone else in this world who has survived this immense calamity other than these two.

The purple thunder carries the power to annihilate the ‘soul’ of an individual.

If someone below Peak Rank SS gets hit by this purple thunder, they will die instantly.

Even peak SS rankers can sustain permanent damage to their souls from this purple thunder.

The best way to counter it is to never let it touch you.

And that’s exactly what Ashtel Rex did for Link: Ashtel ripped apart the space-time fabric itself, causing the purple thunder to fall into the void.

The purple thunder that Link attracted at his birth lasted for a whole month, even Ashtel was exhausted by such an intense battle.

Just when Syvis was worried about Riya’s safety, Ashtel and all of the other SS-rankers came flying instantly.

Each of them had a solemn expression as they saw the heavenly tribulation brewing in the sky.

Gradba looked at the sky and said in a thoughtful tone:

“This thunder tribulation looks weaker than the one that appears when an SS-ranker tries to go beyond… but still…”

All of the other SS-ranker nodded their heads too.

They all knew that even if this thunder was weaker, it was still too strong for a child to withstand.

*Clack*

Ashtel cracked his knuckles and said in a calm tone,

“Who cares, I have repelled it once; I don’t care if it comes again now-”

Although the other SS-rankers dared not do the same things as Ashtel, they had no doubts that Ashtel couldn’t do it.

Everyone in the world knows that Ashtel has tanked the purple thunder before to save his son from the world’s jealousy.

Just when Ashtel was about to go ahead and help out Riya, he suddenly stopped mid-way and narrowed his eyes while looking at her.

“This is?”

A look of doubt appeared in Ashtel’s eyes.

The mana in the atmosphere started to condense on it’s own and formed two gigantic hands made out of pure condensed mana.

Those two hands slowly covered Riya in their gentle grasp, as if they were trying to protect her.

“Wh-what the!? This is insanity!!”

Gradba shouted at the top of his lungs when he saw this mysterious phenomenon.

All of the SS-rankers stepped back and made their distance in an instant.

The lower-ranking SS rankers even felt a slight threat from those two hands, which made their eyes tremble.

Even Ashtel had to back off a bit to avoid the aura of those two hands.

Syvis’s eyes widened in sheer shock as she stared at those hands made of condensed mana.

“Th-this is… the ‘World’s Blessing’!!! The world itself is protecting her!!”

All SS-rankers knew that this world is filled with strange phenomena, but all these phenomena are nothing when compared to the phenomena that are manifested by the world itself.

Even SS-rankers can’t bypass the restrictions created by the world itself.

Which means that these two hands, which are protecting Riya in their grasp, are immune to the attacks of any SS-ranker present here.

Those two gigantic hands were giving off a threatening aura to warn all of the nearby SS-rankers not to get close to Riya.

Once the two gigantic hands had fully covered Riya in their gentle embrace, the heavenly thunder fell.

The bolt of purple thunder was as wide as half a kilometer and was made up of condensed ‘laws’ and ‘phenomena’.

But even with all that might, the heavenly thunder wasn’t able to scratch those two gigantic hands.

Seeing this, Ashtel and the others finally heaved a sigh of relief.

With the blessing of the world protecting her from harm, Riya was safe, that’s all that mattered at the moment.

After the first thunderbolt failed, the space-time fabric started to tremble.

The thunder clouds in the sky became denser, and another gigantic thunder fell immediately.

But once again, Riya remained unharmed.

Unaware of what was happening outside, her eyes were closed at the moment and she was solely focused on herself.

[Ding! You have learned the true path of a healer!]

[Ding! The world has recognized your ambitions and desires…]

[Ding! You have been granted the protection of the world itself!]

[Ding! All conditions met! You have seen through the essence of healing…]

[Ding! You have achieved the legendary rank passive Skill ‘Heart of Eternal Nirvana’…]

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Author’s Note.

Yo! It’s your beloved author here!

Damn! Who could have thought I would end up cooking so damn good! It took a while, but the end result came out great.

Question of the day:.

How long do you think the author was cooking for this scene?

1. From the moment they came to the Elven Empire?

2. From the moment Riya stopped eating candies?

3. From the moment Riya was unable to save Zach?

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