2: A World Beyond Ordinary
[Personal Information]
Name: Loranhil Fallenstar
Race: Human (100% Ancient Human)
Identity: Witch of Stars and Miracles
Status: Healthy (No Abnormalities)
Sequence: None
Talents:
Star’s Miracle [Mythical]: The fate-weaving starlight threads are plucked, turning coincidence into inevitable miracle. (Unknown, not fully awakened, host to explore on their own)
Sky Blue Wind [Mythical]: A constitution as pure as the sky. Sky, atmosphere, and wind are under your control. All things are within your perception, as clear and real as hair on a mirror. (Greatly enhances sky, atmosphere, wind, perception, and purity-related domains.)
Abilities: None
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New Quest: Form your own supernatural core, become a supernatural sequence. [Easy]
Quest Reward: [Library Card] *10 (Can access books recorded in the system from Earth, each card allows access to one book.)
The system then displayed some explanations. Talents were innate and couldn’t be learned or acquired later, while abilities could be cultivated over time. According to the system’s explanation, the quality of abilities or items could be roughly divided into 8 levels: Flawed—Normal—Excellent—Outstanding—Rare—Perfect—Legendary—Mythical.
Although the system showed that she had two seemingly powerful talents, Loranhil felt no substantial difference. She still felt powerless, thinking she’d have to run from any wild beast that appeared. It seemed these were mostly supportive talents.
Survival in the early stages was most important, she sighed. Not dwelling on it further, she continued to browse through the system’s auxiliary functions.
There was no method provided for cultivating a supernatural sequence, how strange.
After reassuring herself, Loranhil wrote down her task for today: find a place to sleep.
Looking at the sun’s position, Loranhil estimated she had about 4 hours before the sun would completely set. She needed to hurry.
Having made up her mind, she hesitated no longer and began to move through the forest, following the stream on both sides to search for a suitable place to stay.
Her gaze quickly swept over the receding scenery on both sides. Even with just a glance, she could easily discern the specific conditions of her surroundings. Perhaps this was the effect of her talent.
Unfortunately, there was no particularly suitable spot in this forest. Finally, she chose to rest by a mountain wall. Firstly, it was drier there with fewer insects. Secondly, those huge rocks would be clean after a bit of tidying up.
Just as she was about to gather some firewood, she suddenly sensed a chaotic airflow rapidly approaching from not far away.
Focusing her gaze, she saw a red dragonfly about 6-7 meters long flying straight towards her, its huge reflective compound eyes looking terrifying.
Below the compound eyes was a saw-toothed mouth, followed by several barbed tactile legs, appearing quite ferocious.
Loranhil blinked in surprise. Is this what dragonflies look like in another world, so enormous?
What surprised her even more was the information displayed by the system.
[Giant Red Dragonfly]
Species: Dragonfly Subspecies (Red Dragonfly)
Status: Healthy (Hungry)
Sequence: Primal Sequence 2 · Red Dragonfly (Rating: Excellent Black Iron Grade)
Talents:
[Compound Eyes] (Excellent): Wide-angle vision and dynamic visual capture ability, providing excellent reaction capabilities.
Ability: [Air Current Manipulation] (Normal): Ability to manipulate small amounts of air currents.
Skill: [Air Blade] (Normal): Form invisible blades from air currents that can cut through matter.
Seeing the dragonfly diving straight at her, Loranhil knew without thinking that this creature was surely coming to prey on her.
Taking advantage of the dragonfly’s swooping interval, she pushed off with her right foot, rapidly dodging to the side.
The speeding transparent wings drew a long arc in the air. The girl tilted her head back to avoid its flight path, but a few strands of her hair were still cut by the air blade at the edge of its wings.
After this narrow escape, Loranhil had no time to wonder about this magical dragonfly before the red creature began to turn back. Its vibrating wings emitted a low hum, as if surprised that this ordinary human could actually dodge.
The dragonfly flew diagonally upward, followed by several transparent cutting blades that sliced through the air, flying towards Loranhil in four arcing trajectories, completely sealing off her sides and escape route. It was clear this red dragonfly was quite skilled, having used this move to hunt down other opponents many times before.
Faced with this oncoming attack, the girl, relying on her supernatural perceptive abilities, instinctively knew that retreating would result in death. Without hesitation, she charged straight at the dragonfly.
Seeing this, the red dragonfly thought this human truly foolish. It extended its sharp, barbed tactile legs and fangs to meet her head-on. A red and a white figure rapidly intersected in mid-air.
Then the girl landed gracefully from mid-air, while the dragonfly flew unsteadily and crashed directly into a large tree opposite, breaking the tree.
What had happened? Loranhil knew her fingers and arms were not as sharp as the dragonfly’s tactile legs, so in that instant of contact, she had avoided these hard parts and instead reached around to the back of the wings, tearing off part of the transparent wings.
Then, due to the damaged wing shape, the dragonfly could no longer maintain balance in flight, causing it to crash into the tree.
Watching the dragonfly plunge into the branches, its wings torn to shreds, Loranhil breathed a sigh of relief. It should no longer pose much of a threat now.
However, the dragonfly was still struggling constantly. The girl couldn’t bear it, so she picked up a few stones and crushed it to death.
Only then did she have time to carefully examine the system data, wondering what Primal Sequence 2 meant.
According to the system’s classification, supernatural powers are divided into many types based on cultivation methods and attributes, but their common source is Mana, this mysterious force that exists in the atmosphere, water currents, and all things, which can be sensed by some living beings with consciousness and soul.
If one masters a certain cultivation method, they can condense it into a core and become a supernatural sequence, ranging from strong to weak as Sequence 10 to Sequence 1.
The initial Mana continuously condenses to form the core of the Primal Sequence. This is a cultivation method that naturally formed through millions of years of evolution and elimination in nature.
Although primal, it still possesses considerable power and is the sequence of many ancient and powerful creatures, such as the historically renowned Primal Sequence 10 · World-Ending Dragon · Bahamut.
Other cultivation methods will transform Mana into magical power of other attributes before condensing into a core, such as Dragon Sequence, War Sequence, Magic Sequence, Undead Sequence, and so on.
A kind of energy was continuously dissipating from the dead dragonfly’s body. Loranhil guessed this might be the Mana the system mentioned. She walked to the side of the dead dragonfly, and at this moment, the system popped up a prompt.
[Do you want to condense the Mana from the dead creature? Yes/No]
Choosing [Yes], threads of light points then emerged from the corpse, gathering in the air, until finally a transparent jewel fell into the girl’s hand. It was about the size of a thumb, reflecting enchanting colors in the sunlight.