Chapter 1817 Astral Bond "You are holding out better than I before." Aeliana muttered as she noticed how Nux hadn't fallen for the past hour even when she had been attacking him constantly. Before their break, this man could barely face her for 5 minutes, but now, it looked like he could continue without stopping. Just... how did this even happen? Wasn't his rate of improvement already too high? How did he improve even further when they weren't even training in the first place? "What can I say? I have been blessed with great teachers from the very start." Nux chuckled. Aeliana narrowed her eyes, not buying it. "Well, I also have great wives." "What are you talking about?" Aeliana questioned, and suddenly, Nux extended his hand forward and, BOOOM The pressure around Aeliana rose up, was as if some foreign force was trying to push her to the ground. Aeliana resisted. As a Primordial, most of Nux's abilities were useless against her. This one, however, was affecting the environment around her, so her 'higher phase quality energy didn't help her. The Vampire quickly noticed that her feet had sunk into the ground. She tried to move, but her body felt heavy. She finally understood. "I didn't know you had the ability to manipulate gravity." "Didn't I say it? I have great wives." Nux chuckled and, BOOOOM The pressure around Aeliana rose even further, and the Vampire's knees trembled. Now, unlike Vyriana, who specialized in strength, Aeliana was a well-balanced warrior. In other words, strength wasn't her strongest point, so against this gravity that Nux had strengthened a thousandfold, she was having a hard time, and Nux knew it. Using this chance, he quickly disappeared and appeared next to her, ready to punch her. This would be the first time he would ever land a hit on Aeliana. Or at least that's what he thought, but... Before he could punch her, Aeliana turned into mist. Nux tried to capture her, but suddenly, all the energy around him went out of his control. In the end, he was forced to use his own energy, but by then, Aeliana was already far away. "You severed more connections." Aeliana's voice echoed throughout the battlefield. "Mhm." Nux nodded. "An ability to manipulate gravity, and to do it to this extent, it is quite strong. The being you severed must be quite special." "It is not just one ability" Nux corrected. "What do you mean?" "I combined two abilities. Gravity Manipulation and Astral Bond." "Astral Bond?" "It's an ability that belongs to a race called Umbroknights. It allows me to borrow the Power of Stars." Hearing those words, a frown appeared on Aeliana's face. "An ability to use the Power of Stars...?" Aeliana had never heard of such an ability. Of course, she knew the Universe was vast, so the fact that such an ability existed didn't surprise her. What did surprise her was, "I didn't sense any other energy." If an ability allowed Nux to use the Power of Stars, then at the very least, Aeliana should be able to see or feel the exchange of energy. She should be able to sense a foreign energy around Nux. Then why did... "Wait..." Aeliana's expression changed when she saw the grin on Nux's face widen. "You used the Stars of your own Universe." She realized. "Before, every time I devour a World, my physical strength increases. It is a big boost, yes, but other than enhanced physical strength, I do not get anything else from it. But now... With this ability, I can now use the Power of Stars. It means that if I designate these worlds I devour as 'Stars, then I can not only use these worlds' physical strength, but using this Astral Bond, I can even use these worlds' energy. And unlike in a normal scenario, where the 'Star' decides how much energy it would share with an Umbroknight-usually depending on an Umbroknight's affinity with that particular star-in my case, since the 'Star' belongs to me, I decide everything." "So you are telling me..." "Mhm, my energy reserves are now as high as a Lowest Level World, two of them. actually." Yes, before, Nux's energy reserves were absurdly high. This man had repeated the cycle of cultivating and devouring his cultivation-essentially doubling his energy with every single cycle-so many times that the amount of energy in his body had reached a saturation point where repeating the cycle didn't even matter anymore. Obviously, his energy reserves would be much higher than any cultivator at his level. Heck, Nux knew that his energy reserves were higher than that of a Primordial, and if it wasn't for the difference in the quality of energy, he could have thwarted a Primordial using his energy alone. Even then... Nux's energy couldn't possibly be compared to a World's Energy. Well, at least that was the case before. But now... Because of Astral Bond, things changed. Nux now had the energy of literal worlds, and unlike his physical strength-which was severely limited because he couldn't use all his strength in a different Universe-his energy had no such limitation. After all, the source of his energy was his own Universe. An unknown for the main Universe. The main Universe wouldn't even be able to track all this energy, let alone sense something wrong. "Energy of Worlds..." Aeliana muttered. Because of her conversations with her father, she knew what that meant. If Azriel was correct, then the amount of energy Nux could use was somewhat comparable to an Eternal-level being. Yes, this monster had surpassed a Primordial and a Transcendent and had directly jumped to the Eternal Level. 'How does this make any sense...?" Aeliana thought inwardly. Her body materialized in front of Nux. "So... when you say you can combine Astral Bond and Gravity Manipulation..." "It means I can use the Energy of a World to use Gravity Manipulation, increase the gravity of this place a thousandfold, which is the limit at my current level, and since my energy reserve is pretty much endless, 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂 I do not have to worry about what area's gravity I manipulate. I can manipulate the gravity of this entire dimension and increase it by a thousandfold, and I won't feel a thing."