Chapter 372 Secret of the Lakes


    Extending from the entrance to stretch out like a fibrous root system was a series of mountain ranges, the sole stable structures of existence in the Brimgan Empire.


    As to why they were the sole stable structures in such a massive Empire? The answery beyond the fibrouswork of mountain ranges.


    A stretch of water, extending from one end to the other of the Lotus Range. But, it wasn''t a uniform stretch like a sea. No, it was a series ofkes ced adjacent to one another.


    The walls of eachke spanned a thickness ranging between a kilometre to a dozen kilometres. But they weren''t mountains in the sense of being stable entities. No, they were like sponges, expanding out of the ground when necessary before contracting into nonexistence.


    One suchke was situated close to a mountain range. The walls of theke reached a height of ten metres above sea level, appearing porous, resembling coral at first nce, but one covered by dirt and moss.


    Theke formed as the walls protruded out of the water body, separating the water in theke from the rest. Theke currently upied an area of three square kilometres, nothing worth mentioning in terms of size.


    It had a depth of eight hundred metres, too shallow aspared to the Brimgan Sea right beyond the Lotus Range whose depth reached close to ny kilometres.


    The strange thing about thiske was the fact that the water body there prior to the appearance of the walls had a depth close to four kilometres. At present, forming ayer underneath thekebed was the porous wall, expanding and contracting as it pleased, with nary a pattern.


    Five minutes after theke formed, the water level within it began to recede. An hourter, theke was empty, with the water having been drained through the porous walls. As time passed, the walls of theke began to shrink into the ground. Once they moved below the sea level, the surrounding water gushed in.


    This was the chaos happening in a singleke. Tens of thousands of suchkes were undergoing a simr phenomenon, with each of them littered next to each other.


    Thesekes covered the majority of the area within the Lotus Range, forming the bulk of the Brimgan Empire''s territory, uninhabitable for the most part.


    When water filled ake, anotherke got emptied. Simrly, a smallke would appear within argerke and split it into multiple portions. Or suddenly, the walls of a bunch ofkes would copse to result in argerke, due to which strong tides formed.


    This chaos wasmon in the Brimgan Empire, with thekes changing shape, size, depth, and water level at erratic intervals, the shortest of which amounted to a couple of minutes.


    It was stated that the region enclosed by the Lotus Range was once uninhabitable, as no living being was able to adapt to the region.


    If a marine Pranic Beast were to enter ake, it would find itself suffocating once theke gets drained, causing it to writhe in pain on the dry sand bed until it dies. Simrly, if and-based Pranic Beast were to enter an emptyke, it would drown once the walls move and send in water.


    Even being an amphibian type wasn''t enough, as the mineralposition in eachke differed tremendously. The mineralposition in oneke might be beneficial, but once the water there gets drained, the new water gushing inter would have apletely different mineralposition, even poisonous depending on the creature''s body.


    Due to this, forget Pranic Beasts, even nts had an impossible time surviving here. As a result, for a good majority of the time in Sumatra Continent''s history, the region within the Lotus Range remained bereft of life.


    That all changed when a certain Free Human arrived, a legendary genius unlike any other, one of the first entities that managed to cause a Mystic Empyrean Tentacle to treat him as an equal.


    Records about him existed but were hard to believe. He was like a legend, a tale of myth that seemed as if a story was created around the existing environmental factors, not the other way around.


    This man was an enigma, an entric individual who intended to peer into the secrets of Sumatra Continent. During his journey, he arrived at the Lotus Range and observed the strange phenomenon happening there.


    Lakes formed and vanished, water appeared and disappeared without any source or sink, and a mysteriouswork of porous material that doubled down as mobile ranges and a pipeline to transport water.


    This man,tering to be known as the Brimgan Founder studied the secrets of the region for a long time. Eventually, he figured things out, understanding the secret of thekes, information he never shared with others.


    Through the secret he found out, the Brimgan Founder devised a way in which humans and Pranic Beasts could take advantage of the environment and live there. With the Lotus Range acting as their safety, they could prosper without issues.


    It might seem as if thekes formed and copsed erratically, not to mention the mineralposition in them changing continuously. But there was a pattern, a flow if one might ponder deeply.


    There existed awork of operations that caused tens of thousands ofkes to change every few minutes, a problem ofplexity deemed impossible to solve. The sole exception was him, the Brimgan Founder.


    He gically created an existence that allowed life to be sustained on these ever-changingkes. It could be called a nt, a tree, or a leaf. All were apt identifications suitable for it.


    Geyser Cup!


    A leaf-shaped object resembling a cup, acting as a boat that stayed afloat on the water. Each Geyser Cup spanned an area ranging from four hundred to ten thousand square metres. It had a mysterious property in that it had an affinity towards a certain type of mineralposition.


    Thereby, it was drawn in that direction, rowing itself towards the flow of water bearing the respective mineralposition, able to travel from oneke to another promptly. And its structure made it hard for it to sink even when powerful waves mmed into it.


    Geyser Cups became tforms for people in the Brimgan Empire to live. Depending on the materialposition it was designed for, the Geyser Cup created and environment within its cup portion, having umted soil there by absorbing minerals for hundreds of years.


    Each Geyser Cup sported a unique soil texture and environment. Living on some were Pranic Beasts; houses were constructed in the others; many were left to contain wild forests, etc.


    The Brimgan Founder''s story seemed absurd because it was quoted in his legend that he had personally created every single Geyser Cup.


    Being nt life, Geyser Cups grew clones of themselves on their border. Over time, the clone matured and took charge while the original wilted and was then consumed by the clone. This way, maintaining the same structure and gicposition, the Geyser Cup was reborn again and again innumerable times.


    Thanks to these, it was possible for life to sustain itself in the region within the Lotus Range.


    And once the Brimgan Founder created the Geyser Cups, he also gically modified Pranic Beasts and made them adapt to a life on the Geyser Cups. Following that, he created the first version of Gold Kinesis Art, the cultivation technique employed by the Brimgan Empire Royalty.


    Due to the sense of safety posed by the Lotus Range, not to mention the rich, almost endless reserve of minerals being pumped into thekes every few minutes, Free Humans flocked to the region. Eventually, the Free Humans formed a group under the banner of the individual that practiced the Gold Kinesis Art,belling themselves the Brimgan Kingdom.


    It eventually became an Empire and stood tall to this date.


    But shockingly, the Brimgan Founder had disappeared mysteriously. No matter how much they had searched, they were unable to find any traces of his existence, as if he had been erased. Countless eras spanned past after that. And today, the Brimgan Founder was a mere legend.


    There must have been a founder for the Brimgan Empire. It was this logic that adhered to the existence of the Brimgan Founder in the minds of the citizens, but no one knew anything beyond that, treating all legends regarding him as another drunkard''s tale, one among the tens of thousands of lies that had been weaved over time.


    ''But, the Brimgan Founder was real. And he didn''t vanish mysteriously.'' In thought as he set foot into the Brimgan Empire, seeing a mountain range stretch forth before him. To the sidey a series ofkes that extended without an end, appearing and disappearing erratically.


    In stared at thekes and muttered, "A man that became one with his legend."


    The Brimgan Founder didn''t vanish for no reason. Rather, being the entric individual that he was, he desired more secrets regarding Sumatra Continent. And the conclusion he ended up at was the Bolt of Transcendence, a streak of destructive lightning that also contained a sea of knowledge.


    He wanted to absorb Bolts of Transcendence, as much as possible, taking advantage of all the secrets he had unveiled until then to conceptualise a n. Once ready, he began his breakthrough to reach the Transcendence Stage, summoning Bolts of Transcendence towards him.


    That wasn''t enough. He wanted more. More! And even more! Using all his knowledge, the Brimgan Founder was able to draw in Bolts of Transcendence dozens of times greater than what was necessary for him to be a Transcendent.


    And obviously, he had swallowed more than he could chew, losing his life in the process. Fearsomely, he came frighteningly close to sess, bing a terrifying Transcendent had he seeded. But since he died right at the cusp of sess, his gains were refined by the Bolts of Transcendence into a Major Treasure.


    That was none other than the Major Treasure of Attribute!