After Jennifer handed over the core to Ed she went back to work . She was happy that Ed was alright. She had accumulated a small debt from hiring an apothecary to treat her son so she had to work some over time.
Ed was currently resting even though he felt better, the swelling in his ankle had started to dissipate, after resting for about an hour Ed finally sat in his meditative posture the lotus stance and started to concentrate.
After reaching the meditative state his mind was calm , this condition was required when cultivating the Divine Dragon formula. Currently Ed was not aware about the hierarchy of cultivation in the Thetes continent. From the information available from the beast skin he had previously seen he found that it belong to the silver grade, he had no idea if it was high grade as it was claimed to be.
From his knowledge of Divine Dragon formula he knew had a bottle neck every 3rd layer ,all in all a total of 4 bottlenecks. He would require external help in the form of precious herbs to open such bottlenecks.
But that was for a latter time, he knew that if nothing unfortunate occurs he could cultivate the entire 12 layers in 20 years this timing was based on the Chi concentration of Earth.Since the Mana here was concentrated he could achieve the same result in 15 years.
Ed planned to stay low profile atleast until he reaches 13 yrs of age(then he can be considered an adult in this world)
Ed started the chants for the Divine Dragon formula , he held the core near his dantian and started to absorb the Mana in the core, the energy was circulated 9 great circles inorder to purify the energy and store it in his dantian, Ed was unaware of the time as he was totally concentrated. When the energy flow stopped he slowly opened his eyes and found that the fist sized core had been reduced to ashes in his hands.Ed didn't find this unnatural as he had no idea as to what he had done. In the Thetes continent apart from the magical beasts that swallowed the cores no other beings can absorb the core 100%. Even the strongest Human emperor wouldn't be able to do it. If others found out about this then Ed would be tortured to obtain the technique.
A lot of time had passed and he found that his mother as not to disturb his cultivation had left a loaf of bread by his side and left to work.
Ed stabilized his cultivation before sending his consciousness towards his dantian. Previously the dantian was empty but now it held a small puddle of deep red qi. It has very pure and thick.This was the peak stage of the first layer of the Divine Dragon formula.Ed knew that he needed a lot of resources to further cultivate but he didn't lose his confidence. Ed was happy with his progress. After he ate the bread he stood and stretched his body, it gave popping sounds. After some time he decided to go out and look for his friends . The group of 5 kids were playing nearby, after some casual talk with Rose he went back to his home. He realized that his mother would be working late for sometime and this was the best time to sneak out to the woods to obtain the herb. So Ed started to prepare so he could leave immediately.
In a far away kingdom in a stone tower and old frail man was trying to perform divination about the future.
Abraham was the chief magical adviser to the King Bergass , the king of the Strongest human kingdom Britania. Abe had lived for over 200 years, he was well learnt and his predictions had never failed. The recent beast man agitation from 5 years before had unnerved all the surrounding countries and his king had ordered him to find any clues in his prediction.
The divination process was long it required 10 days to complete, for 9 days he had not found any bad omens and felt quite relieved but on the 10th day dark clouds covered the entire sky and thunder storms could be heard. It was at that moment Abe divinated a flying serpant spreading its wings and the entire world was bowing before it. It was so terrifyingly realistic and the pressure it gave off scared him witless and Abe had a heartattack. Abe with great effort managed to write a dying message to his liege and sent it on a carrier falcon before collapsing dead.
The message read "beware of the dragon.....", it was incomplete.
No one knew the entire prophesy except Abe who was know dead. It couldn't be divinated again.
Abe had made the prophesy at the exact moment Ed had broken through to the 1 layer of Divine Dragon formula.