After teleporting to a city in the North of the gigantic forest of Feynwoods, Adam had Neith head toward the East, to the Valley of Dragons.
Although monsters were not all treated as enemies and even welcomed into the cities of Feynwoods, not every monster was friendly too. Many of them were hostile to others, and just like other monsters in the rest of the world.
Moreover, as Adam approached the border between the Valley of Dragons and Feynwoods, he started seeing monsters that looked like hybrids between dragons and other races.
This was one of the characteristics of dragons, they were known for their lust and procreation need. The reproduction rate of dragons while in-mating was low, but when breeding with other breeds their fertility was bigger than any race, which resulted in many hybrid races known as Drakes.
Drakes had strange genes though, and were often very hostile monsters that would attack everything that wasn't dragon, and were generally disliked.
Although dragons were one of the strongest races, if not the strongest race individually, not many people liked them, because of the drakes. Even a Gold Rank Dragon had the ability to transform, meaning they could change into most races to mate, including those of the Racial Powers, and create drakes within their ranks.
Drakes would be used as slaves or servant within the Valley of Dragons, but in the outside world, no matter what they did, be it slaughter, rape and scavenging, the dragons would not take responsibility.
This was also why Adam dared to do what he was going to do. Even if he slayed so many dragons, he would most definitely be protected by all three racial powers of the Light Faction. And even the Dark Faction powers most probably wouldn't support the dragon clan to kill him since he didn't offend any of them.
As usual, Adam let Neith take care of the monsters on the way as he focused on his meditation. Of course he would still kill quite some monsters as he practiced with his skills, meaning he still got some XP.
The monsters on the way were mainly between Level 80 and 110, with some slightly higher than that. They even met a Level 110 Elder Drake at some point that had needed Adam and Neith to work together to defeat.
Three days later, Adam and Neith finally entered deep into the Dragon Valley, where the true dragons were. To be more precise, they were appraoching the region where Water Dragons resided. After all, dragons were a wide race, and had many sub races among them, and what Adam needed was a Water Dragon's reverse scale. Well, 50 of them…
The point was, they were about to meet and slay the dragons. Adam also found out that the more he approached the valley, the more reluctant he felt. Wasn't it for his promotion quest, Adam definitely wouldn't kill those dragons for just an armor.
But he had no choice now, and so he had begin to think about ways to protect his guild. The obvious way was to strengthen them, but it was more of a long term solution. Well, maybe he would find a solution later on.
The Water Dragon territory was a gigantic lake with many islands of various sizes here and there. The closer one came to the center of the lake, the bigger the islands would be. The waters were occupied by, of course, the Water Dragons and their Drake subordinates, and no other monsters were allowed. If one saw a being that wasn't of either races, then they were either a guest, or an invader.
Dragons were very territorial, so they didn't take it well when people came in uninvited. Unfortunately, they were set to be upset today.
With Adam's help as he created a current, Neith swam on the surface of the lake. From time to time, they would stop on islands and observe their surroundings, to spot dragons as soon as possible.
But even an hour in the lake the only things they had met were drakes, and no signs of dragons were spotted.
But it was when they passed by one of the smallest islands that looked quite inconspicuous that Adam felt a familiar pulse coming from his hand.
In a moment, he understood he had located yet another part of the Godslayer's Heart. He had Neith land on that island and followed the pulse.
The island was very small, and no drakes or dragons lived on it. Adam then had Neith excavate the ground, as she was the best at doing that.
The two had to go five meters in the ground to finally reach what they sought. A firm layer of ores blocked their way to the two hearts. Adam guessed those were special ores, maybe magical, or enchanted, as he couldn't feel anything amiss even from where he was.
Adam sent a look at Neith, to order her to remove the crystals, but he saw her gaze was fixed on the crystals, and some saliva dropped from her mouth.
'Neith?'
Neith woke up with Adam's telepathic message as she regained her bearings and replied 'Sorry, it's just those ores. I have to eat them. They are very precious to me. They can make my promotion to the next rank much easier.'
Adam was surprised, but he didn't care about the ores himself anyway so he gladly told her to eat as much as she could. Neith happily did as she was told, and soon, a hole had appeared in the barrier formed by them.
With this hole, Adam started to feel a strong energy coming from the hole. Hadn't it been for the pulse, he would have never known there was anything here.
What excited Adam was that he could feel there wasn't just a Godslayer's Heart in there, there very might well be a second one. But more importantly, there was a third energy source, which didn't lose out to the two hearts in the least.
Instead, it felt even stronger than the two hearts in term of energy. Once the hole became big enough, Adam was finally able to see the situation inside.
It wasn't just a small space, as Adam had originally thought, but instead a big room like space surrounded by the strange ore. The room was even bigger than Neith herself, which was impressive by itself.
The room was filled with Gold Coins, there were literal mountains of them. And in the center of the room, was a small platform, on which three items sat: Two Godslayer's Heart, and a blue fruit.
Seeing the gold mountains and the fruits, Adam was incomparably excited… or so he thought. Next to him, Neith was even more excited as she nearly couldn't restrain herself.
With a frenzied voice, she said to Adam mentally 'I can use this room to level up to level 50 and promote to the Elder Rank!'
Adam's mind was brought away from the literal mountains of gold as he looked a Neith with surprise. During their three day travel, from Feynwoods to Dragon Valley, Adam had leveled up to Level 42, while Neith was now Level 45.
To go from Level 45 directly to Level 50 and even get promoted, this room must be very important to Neith. Adam quickly took all the gold coins in his inventory, leaving only the three central items.
The two Godslayer's Heart would allow him to unlock another sealed power from his Godslayer's Heart, as for the blue fruit…
[Lesser Holy Water Fruit]
Requirement: Affinity to the Water Element.
Effect: +1000 to all attributes, +1% understanding over any Water Concept. Can only be eaten once.
Adam's eyes went round as he saw the fruit's attributes. It was definitely better than the elixir Thalia offered him. Although it gave out the same amount of stats, the requirements weren't as nearly hard to meet. But more importantly, this was one of the rare treasures that would allow one to deepen their understanding over their concept.