Chaos Heir

Chapter 1163 Ambition

A few days later, Khan found himself on Coravis again. Upon his return, Garret had put him through all kinds of tests, but he had headed for the open sea as soon as that mandatory procedure ended.

The afternoon light still shone on the quadrant, illuminating the sky with a cozy blue color. Khan occasionally glanced at it while a tall rune shone before his chest, creating a gravitational pull that bent mana, air, and water.

Four upside-down waterfalls rose from the sea and converged toward the cross-legged, floating Khan, seemingly attracted by his very existence. Their large tips broke into drops and energy, which flew toward the glowing rune. The [Blood Vortex] then cleaned them, turning them into mana Khan stored under his skin.

The alien training technique had yet to start hurting, and Khan believed it would take him a few more days to reach his physical limits. Still, he planned to push that session further than usual due to the finality of its nature.

Much had happened during the short trip to Zoyama's moon. Admittedly, the soldiers were having a harder time listening to, accepting, and believing those events, but Khan also had his share of difficulties.

The Great Old One had revealed one of its innate abilities while controlling Khan's body. It seemed it had only become able to use its full power after Khan inherited its genes, but that skill belonged to him now, and its utility wasn't something he could dismiss.

Khan had never had problems healing. His recovery speed had always been inhuman due to a series of factors, but the Great Old One's species seemed to possess something even stronger, which almost bordered on the miraculous.

The Great Old One was a proper alien, but its serpentine body did share a few traits with Earth's snakes. That ancient creature could shed off its injured tissues, instantly replacing them with healthy ones at the cost of the nutrients in its body.

It suddenly made sense why Khan could eat so much. His body didn't need that much food, but some of his new innate abilities had uses for those profound reserves. Instantly healing deadly injuries was one of them, but Khan believed he could apply the same process to his inhuman strength, too.

Moreover, Khan wasn't only might. He had the mana, which had already proven able to join his cells' energy to provide better results. He could use both nutrients and mana, gaining access to far vaster reserves.

Khan believed his body could do more than that, but the problems started there. The Great Old One had depleted its consciousness to process the remaining foreign memories in its final moments. That would theoretically mean that Khan had complete access to its immense knowledge now. Except he didn't.

Even with the ancient creature's help, Khan's brain remained too human, limited in size and capacity. He couldn't possibly absorb the knowledge accumulated throughout millennia, especially in such a short time. At least, his conscious side couldn't.

The Great Old One could only send that torrent of information to Khan's subconscious to preserve his brain's integrity. He had still obtained that knowledge, just not in the normal sense. Khan couldn't access it but could feel it on an instinctive level.

Khan had obtained that massive knowledge in the shape of instincts and hunches. He couldn't put it into words, but his brain knew the answers to some of his questions. That did little to uncover his new body's abilities, but the Nak and the nearby quadrants were another story.

Khan looked at the sky again, and his brain came alive. Lights of wisdom lit up inside his head, telling him tales through instincts and hunches.

Whatever Khan searched for, his brain knew. The Great Old One had spent millennia studying those quadrants, making itself pretty much all-knowing about them. Khan had little use for most of that knowledge, but everything else was priceless.

The Great Old One had looked for the Nak for a long time, studying areas that stretched far past what humankind had investigated. Khan had cross-referenced what he had learned with Garret, and the scientist couldn't confirm or deny anything without sending probes into the uncharted universe.

Yet, that inconclusive knowledge had still brought valuable results. Khan now knew where to go and what to expect for a decent stretch of the journey. Moreover, Garret could start planning additional checkpoints, which Khan would definitely need as he ventured farther into unexplored space.

Khan couldn't help but lower his gaze to look at the horizon. Coravis was developing well, and more structures were bound to arrive in the following period. The terraforming process was still in its initial stages, but space stations and more could be added to the planet to transform it into a proper checkpoint.

Of course, Khan had no role in those projects. Everything was up to his more than capable scientists, while his job was elsewhere, doing something only he could accomplish.

That put Khan at a crossroads. Realistically, he had two options. He could stay on Coravis and exploit the natural atmosphere as much as possible to increase his attunement with mana, or depart immediately, chasing after the new information obtained from the Great Old One.

Space didn't allow Khan to work on his attunement, so he should make the best of that valid checkpoint. The Great Old One had also criticized his power, claiming it had no future, so working on it would be wise.

Khan didn't have explicit answers for that critique, but some might arrive in the form of instincts and hunches during prolonged training sessions. That would be the most reasonable course of action, but it had problems nonetheless.

Khan had only increased his attunement with mana by one point after two months of restless training. He could focus on it more now that he didn't have to worry about the foreign memories, but the results wouldn't change. If anything, they would worsen due to the increasing difficulty of that practice at the higher levels.

Instead, leaving immediately featured the usual problems. Khan wouldn't be able to train as freely anymore, but the journey could provide the enlightenment he needed.

Besides, the clock was still ticking. Khan didn't know how long he had before the scarlet eyes' threat fell upon his side of the universe, and his mission wasn't complete yet. Finding the Nak promised a grand reward, which could be his best shot at winning the imminent war.

'I never could stay still,' Khan sighed, feeling the new crown on his head. 'What greater ambition can you even demand? I'm trying to save the universe here.'

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