Epic of Caterpillar

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[Day 416]

It has been five days since the last time I mass produced large quantities of Mind Cores, and now I had completely stabilized the amount of energy I can take and refine automatically, while leaving a lot of space for my own mind to seethe and relax.

I was also able to generate even more Mind Cores through these few days inside my Divine Realm, enough to make even more room for even more intense energy gathering and refinement. Through this, I had decided to quickly upgrade my Drain Path Jewel once more.

Indeed! I was going to upgrade it once more. I had discovered with Andromeda that the max amount of upgrades a Supreme-God Rank Path Jewel can get is up to three, and the Drain has gotten one upgrade. Now, I am going to upgrade it twice and see its complete true potential within the Realm it is.

After these three upgrades, it won't be able to upgrade again until I surpass Supreme Goddess Realm… which might be in a long time from now, so I better just use everything I can for now and upgrade this thing to its limits!

Of course, there are other things I've discovered. One of them is that I cannot just make the exact same Path Jewel over and over again to stack effects, so I cannot make another Drain Path Jewel, they're unique and can only exists once.

But that doesn't mean I cannot make one slightly different but that carries similar effects that enhance my Energy Drain Potency! However, I'll leave such a thought for later. But seeing that possibility being real makes me feel more reassured I will be able to find a way to enhance my energy draining powers even further beyond.

And about my babies, Alucard and Emerald had been growing some more, becoming a bit bigger and more energetic. Electra and Fafnir had also become perhaps comparable to a 1-year-old baby now, and had begun to finally walk in two foot, although a bit clumsily.

They're so strong yet they walk clumsily… it is cute. These four newborn babies are practicing their own Dao everyday… without anyone asking them to, they're not being forced to do anything other than baby stuff, but they really enjoying it so far!

Electra is making mechs, Fafnir is making golems, Alucard had begun creating Vampiric Creatures, and Emerald is flying around everywhere, and he's controlling winds to the point he can bring things to him while him doing nothing…

They're quite impressive, those are my babies!

Anyways, I cannot just keep praising them every single second, although I would love to, mommy has things to do.

I was already within the vast Path Jewel Galaxy. Which had been growing in size with each new Path Jewel added or upgraded, and it resembled an even more expansive and beautiful place.

The essence leaked from this place bathed the Path Jewels with a liquid that enhanced their power and effects. It was one of the little effects of the Path Jewel Galaxy, although I am sure I could potentiate that essence if I used it directly instead of just letting them casually bathe on its mist.

I flew near the Path Jewel of draining, and I glanced at my own Divine Points.

I had around 7 Million by now, more than enough to upgrade it twice and get done with this.

The second upgrade would be 2.5 million, and the last one, 4.5 million, so it could be said I was ready for it.

"Andromeda, you're ready?" I asked.

"More than ready, Master!"

Andromeda emerged at my side; her computational powers was going to upgrade this thing according to the powers it could hold until its maximum potential within this Realm of power using the Divine Points.

I nodded and quickly began to infuse more and more divine points without stopping, like a flood of energy, the entire Path Jewel, which had the size of an elephant, began to glow brighter than anything before.

FLASH!

The energies condensed into the path jewel of gigantic size, which only grew larger… and larger…

Ding!

[You've exchanged 7.000.000 Divine Points (Rank 5)!]

[The Path Jewel has been upgraded to its maximum potential!]

[All your stats have increased!]

FLAAAAAASSSSHHH!

A brighter than the sun light suddenly took ahold of the entire Path Jewel Galaxy.

This light continued to spread through my entire Divine Realm, but it was only a split of a second, as it settled down and the Path Jewel showed itself.

It was now as big as a mountain! It looked more like an asteroid at this point.

This majestic jewel floated in midair, its powers effects quickly began to take effect as the entirety of its power was exerted over my divine realm, my soul!

My entire soul began to quickly drain all the energy around me within the world of Genesis, like a vacuum of never-ending hunger.

I decided to check the Path Jewel as I was left in awe alongside Andromeda, it felt unreal that such a powerful thing could even exists. It was all thanks to the Dao of Path Jewels, of course.

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[Absolute Drain and Assimilation][Path Jewel Grade: Rank 5 (Supreme God-Rank)(Upgrades: 3/3)]

A Path Jewel capable of draining energy from all types of elements and environment, encompassing a gigantic area around the user which expands as the user develops and grows stronger. Cannot directly drain energy form living or unliving beings, but anything which has no soul can be drained, even residual essence exuded from a living being counts, but not the living being itself.

Abilities:

[Absolute Drain and Assimilation] (Upgraded!): Over a radius of 200 -> 600 kilometers around the user (divine realm doesn't count), all types of elemental essences can be automatically drained into attribute particles, divine energy, divine points, stats, and primordial essence automatically and periodically. Due to the immense range of the ability, it has a slow absorption rate, but due to being so massive its speed compared to before becomes massive.

[Divine Energy and Divine Points Super Drain Enhancement] (Upgraded!): Enhances the speed in which Divine Energy and Divine Points are assimilated and refined by x2000 -> x6000

[Energy Drain Master] (Upgraded!): As a Master over the power of draining energy and assimilation, the effects of this path jewel are enhanced by +2000% -> +6000% permanently.

[Omega Drain] (Offensive Ability) (Upgraded!): Anything you touch, or your ability touches will have its energy gradually absorbed, its speed is multiplied based in the multipliers of previous Abilities, living and unliving beings can be targeted this way. Draining Speed enhanced by +6000%, Damage Dealt to a foe you're draining their energy from is enhanced by +4000%. While draining energy from a foe, you can ignore +150% of their total defenses while doing damage against them.

[Hastened Divine Points Refinement] (Upgraded!): The speed in which essence is refined into Divine Points is enhanced by +1000% -> +4000%.

[Hastened Attribute Values and Attribute Particles Refinement] (New!) (Upgraded!): The speed in which essence is refined into stats and attribute particles is enhanced by +4000%.

[Drain Dao Lord] (New!): You've persecuted the power of Draining the energy of things to the point that your power over it transcends common sense. Your knowledge and understanding of this concept of Drain has opened the path towards learning the Lesser Dao of Drain. The Lesser Dao of Drain is granted to the user.

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The upgrades were great, but… there was not only that! Out of nowhere, and without none of us expecting it, I got a new Dao?!

FLASH!

The Path Jewel exuded a bright light once more, as it concentrated within it and then released it outside, a small sphere of light emerged before our faces, this Path Jewel, an ordinary Path Jewel… it gave birth to a Lesser Dao, and it was complete too! Not just a measly Fragment, the whole thing was here!

"A-Amazing, Kireina-sama… T-That's a Lesser Dao of Drain?!" asked Andromeda, she was just as shocked as I was.

I quickly caught it almost greedily, and then refined it in an instant.

Flash!

The Lesser Dao flew inside of my chest and then fused into my soul and Origin Core, depositing itself inside of it…

Ding!

[You acquired the [Lesser Dao of Drain]!]

[The [Lesser Dao of Drain] has been fully comprehended]

[The [Lesser Dao of Drain] has been fully assimilated]

[All your stats have increased]

And a second after that, I watched over my Origin Core for a bit, as I found that the Drain Dao was comprehended and assimilated in a very little time…

That was the power of a Dao Child for you! I am also part of the cool kid's club in such a regard, as I am capable of easily comprehending and assimilating Daos, this wasn't so hard to do now. And it even came with extra stats along the way.

The birth of a new Dao out of nowhere was very unexpected to me, I never thought it would come out of a Path Jewel that I fully upgraded to the max potential…

Perhaps it won't happen to all of them, but there could be a small possibility that it might come whenever I maxed out more path jewels.

This only made me wonder the possibilities within Path Jewels and what they could truly be deep down.

However, as the original wielder of its Dao, I am most likely the only one that can reach this far using them, and to the point of such a discovery within this new Path Jewel I had made right after this Dao… I doubt anyone else would be able to create a Lesser Dao out of Path Jewel being upgraded to the maximum potential.

Nonetheless, I decided to ask this question to Andromeda who was more knowledgeable, she was the one that designed these to begin with. So perhaps, she had the clues behind it and how it even came to be.

"Andromeda, do you know a reason behind this? Why did this happened?"

"I… I really don't know. It seems that something completely out of our expectations have happened. A Path Jewel giving birth to a Dao… this by itself feels completely surreal and fantasy-like." She admitted.

"Well! Isn't everything in this world surreal and fantasy-like?" I sighed.

"Oh… Perhaps. But well, there could be a reason behind this… Perhaps your ability as a Dao Child gives you an easier time creating Daos. And with that power coupled with the Dao of Path Jewels… plus all the surplus energy we infused into this Path Jewel… something truly wondrous happened, and this Lesser Dao was born." Said Andromeda.

"I see… Oh well, I am going to share this thing right away. Everyone should get a fragment of this Dao so they can acquire the power of draining energies even more easily…!"

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