A few days after reaching his new resolution...
Ren sat on his bed, every muscle protesting after his night training with Lin. The mushrooms in his hair barely pulsed, exhausted from another day’s work in the mines.
Correct Maturation: 10/100
Incorrect Maturation: 82/1000
The amount of crystals he’d collected and his mana resistance had taught him something important.
No matter how much he trained or how hard he pushed himself, his limits were painfully clear.
He couldn’t venture beyond 200 meters to work, could only stay for a few hours, and accumulated 4 days of incorrect maturation... Plus, the monsters wouldn’t let him stay in one place for long.
Even 150 meters sometimes yielded better results.
At 250 meters it would be 8 points of incorrect cultivation, and he’d be dangerously close to the bronze ring’s mana levels... He wouldn’t even manage an hour of work there if he considered the time needed to climb up and down.
Or the time to avoid monsters.
Today he’d barely lasted two hours at 150 meters before excess mana forced him to retreat.
His cultivation was oversaturating him as well.
"But if I want to make more money..." he murmured while massaging his aching arms, "I need to go deeper."
The mushrooms pulsed weakly, as if nodding.
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The iron ring and the -100-meter level, with their low mana concentration, were safe but limiting.
Even in just over a month, when they will have their next collection trip, he couldn’t achieve much more than before if he wasn’t able to endure...
The truly valuable materials were in deeper zones, in territories where higher-rank beasts dwelled.
’Ten million crystals,’ he thought while remembering his promise. ’I won’t get them by settling for what I have now.’
Ren knew that even at bronze rank his fungus wouldn’t have the power of a common beast.
Its capability was unique but its raw power and mana processing were far below a common beast.
If he wanted to give his parents a truly comfortable life, he needed access to rarer, more expensive materials.
But with his current level...
Ren stood up and took out the Mirror Mantis core. He had kept it thinking it might be useful eventually, but now that he was closer to being ready...
"A second beast," he murmured while the mushrooms pulsed more intensely. "With the right process..."
He stopped, an idea forming as he remembered a story his father used to tell him before bed.
A tale about dragons and the origin of eggs.
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The world was divided by the abyss, a chasm so deep no one had seen its bottom.
Some said it reached to the planet’s heart. The abyss cut the world into four parts with its two perpendicular lines.
One line was the dead abyss and the other the living abyss.
Yano controlled one quarter of the world. Yino another quarter...
Or so they said.
Ren smiled at the idea. "Control" was a pretentious word when 90% of those two territories belonged to the dragons.
Behind the territory of the dragons guarding the living chasm, the abyss wasn’t the dark and dry void that divided Yino and Yano... fгeewebnovёl.com
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