Death... and me
chapter-2567

[Alright, here's the deal. It is pretty obvious how powerful is the Gravitational Pull of those pieces. If you simply take them into your bodies, you will be dead. To absorb those pieces, you will have to break them into their most basic elements. Only then can you bring those elements into your bodies.]

Rean and Roan nodded. "And how do we do it?"

[The boring and painful way,] Sister Orb explained. [Use your Sky Energy and Blood Essence to slowly refine those pieces. All of that while keeping yourselves in close proximity to the pieces. That is part of the process to bring your two bodies to the next level. Don't expect it to be over in a moment. It will definitely take several weeks of painful work.]

"Several weeks?!" Rean was taken aback. "We could barely keep near such gravitational pull for a few minutes! How do you expect us to resist these pieces' gravity?"

[First of all, their Gravitational Pull is not as strong as the Dwarves themselves,] said Sister Orb. [Most of the Gravitational Pull of the Dwarves comes from the even more dense insides. These two pieces you two acquired are pieces from the very surface. They don't have even half of the force of the Dwarves.]

[Of course, it doesn't mean it will be easy. If I wasn't purposely using the system to nullify their power over the Dimensional Realm, things would be looking quite interesting inside this place now. Anyway, with less than half of the gravitational force, you won't need as much energy to resist it. You should be able to keep yourselves close to it... It's just that you will have to spend a lot of energy, and it will indeed be painful.]

"So that's how it is," Roan immediately approached the black piece of his Black Dwarf. It seemed to be floating inside a bubble, which was created by Sister Orb and the system. Once inside, Roan quickly activated his Sky Energy and sat in front of it. He purposely made a cut on himself and let some of his blood come out while his Sky Energy also enveloped the Black Piece.

Rean watched that and could see that Roan's expression turned dark almost instantly. He definitely didn't care about pain, but it didn't mean he liked it. From the looks of it, this is bound to be a torturous process. "Sigh... guess I can only go with the flow."

Rean's White Dwarf Pieces wasn't any easier to deal with. He felt his insides being pulled in the direction of the piece and had to work hard to prevent that from happening. Sure, he could tell it was much easier than when he was on the surface of his White Dwarf. Nonetheless, it was still hard to deal with.

Kentucky looked at those two and couldn't help but ask. "Now what?"

[Nothing,] Sister Orb answered. [If everything goes according to the plan, the absorption process should be over in a few weeks. As long as they do that, their bodies will be upgraded to the Sixth Grade. Simply put, they will have bodies even stronger than Divinity Realm humanoids that use their Divine Origin Energy to fortify themselves.]

"My body is already that resistant. Would they reach the same level as me?" Kentucky asked again.

Sister Orb laughed. [Hahaha! As resistant as you? As if it was that simple. Minokawas are already ridiculous when it comes to defense, and you have a Regal Minokawa Bloodline. Last but not least, you had the system's help all this while, so you are even more ridiculous than you were supposed to. They should get quite close to your defense, but it still can't compare with your race's innate defensive ability.]

Kentucky stuffed his chest with pride. "As expected of me, I'm always the best!" He then took flight and left the area in a good mood.

Sister Orb ignored that and looked into the Yin and Yang Starlight Body Cultivation Technique. In this Universe, the system created seven grades of the cultivation technique. Rean and Roan were trying to acquire the sixth grade, so there was still one remaining after that. [They can't compare to Kentucky with a sixth-grade body, but a seventh-grade... Hehe!]

Time passed slowly, especially for the twins, who kept suffering inside those bubbles. Every few days, they were forced to take some distance from the pieces of their dwarves due to the lack of strength to continue. However, Sister Orb warned them they couldn't stop the process, so they kept within the gravitational pull range. They quickly absorbed many Divine Origin Cores to replenish their strength and returned to the pieces' sides. Everyone now and then their blood would lose effect, so they had to keep throwing even more of it at the pieces. If one looked at the twins now, one would wonder if the twins were alive or were ghosts instead due to how pale they were.

It wasn't for nothing, though. Both Rean and Roan could feel how their bodies' resistance grew as their strength increased. Thanks to that, it was getting easier and easier to resist the pieces' gravitational pull, especially since the pieces were getting smaller in size as they were absorbed.

By the time two weeks went by, Rean and Roan had no need to distance themselves from the pieces anymore. Their bodies had evolved enough to resist that pull as long as they were provided enough Starlight and Divine Origin Energy. At the moment, they are basically staying in their own Dwarves' backyard, so one can imagine just how much Starlight Energy was available for them to absorb.

Finally, almost a month after the process started, Roan was the first one to completely absorb that piece. Rean didn't take much longer, finishing his side just an hour later. Seeing those two, Sister Orb felt satisfied. [Congatulations. It might have been a little anticlimactic how you finished the process, but you two have successfully acquired Grade Six Starlight Bodies.]

If she could, she would smile. [So, wanna take a look at what you need to get the seventh level? Hehe!]