Shane was ready to step into the rainy dimension once again. He wore the raincoat he purchased earlier before stepping through the Dimensional Portal which he activated by paying two silver coins.
After selecting the Soul-Onyx-Jungle, both Shane and Umbra appeared in the BlackSoul shelter only a second later.
Seeing that it was raining heavily, Shane sighed. But, it was still advantageous to cover his scent even though he didn't like the rain soaking his shoes.
Fortunately, it wasn't cold but rather warm inside the Soul-Onyx-Jungle.
Looking around, Shane couldn't see many people.
The only people walking around were either guards or hunters in their late 20s. It was considered a late start for someone inside the Basic Primordial Dimensions, at least, if they aspired to reach higher realms.
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If these young people in their late 20s had an above-average combat prowess and were still taking missions to meet the requirement to receive higher graded, mana purification manuals, Shane wasn't sure what they were doing here except wasting their time.
Normally, one would advance to the Master stage before the age of 25 years because staying inside the basic dimensions for any longer would be a waste of time.
As such, older Cultivators were either unable to accomplish the system's missions to receive higher cultivation manuals or they just didn't want to enter the higher Primordial Dimensions because it was extremely dangerous.
Once they advanced in age, they would break into the Master stage in order to stay young and increase their lifespan by 150 years.
It would be somewhat difficult to improve one's cultivation stage further without entering the Intermediate Dimensions. But it was still possible, even if it would take 100 years or longer.
It was slightly astonishing to see that the Soul-Onyx-Jungle Dimension was still so sparsely inhabited despite the Corvi race buying various darkness mana transmutation devices and herbs to alter the mana on the other planets during their conquest.
Shane was under the impression that a vast number of humans would search for Nightshade flowers and similar herbs to gain a fortune. Thus, he was surprised to see so few of them.
Maybe they would come later, or human merchants tried to lessen the publicity of this news in order to gain more by purchasing transmuting objects and herbs for a cheaper price, before selling them to the Corvi race once again.
But even if that was the case, Shane wouldn't know either way and it was definitely a good sign that he had the Shadow-snake valley for himself.
This meant Shane had more Nightshade flowers and even shadow-snake corpses for himself.
Since he had already bought a shop, he wouldn't waste his spatial storage by using it to store corpses.
Instead, the shop's vacancies would store everything for him. As the sun disappeared below the horizon, Shane walked out of the shelter, leaving a nearly dark dimension with beautiful radiating moonlight alone.
It wasn't completely dark yet, but before Shane left the safe radius of the BlackSoul shelter, he gulped down his first concealment and nightsight potion.
With his stockpiled potions, he would be able to conceal himself for 18 hours while the same applied for his nightsight.
These 18 hours would have to be more than enough for him to gather a vast amount of Nightshade flowers and Shane was excited to see how he would fare in his second visit to the valley.
Entering the forest roughly at the same spot he had set foot in more than five days ago, Shane was forced to open a way through the thick bushes and lush grass. This was because the surrounding mana allowed plants to completely regrow within a few days.
Shane racked his brain to search for the Shadow-snake valley which was quite difficult because the Soul-Onyx-Jungle didn't have many distinct features.
It still took him 30 minutes to reach the top of the valley as the weather maintained its steady downpour. A faint smile emerged on his face, as he took a glance at his sheathed weapons before Umbra transmitted him a weird thought.
'He wants to kill a certain Shadow-python? Why?' Shane was taken aback because he believed that Umbra would hate to kill his brethren but apparently, that wasn't the case.
Rather than that, Umbra seemed to hate and loathe his brethren to no end. His loyalty to Shane was much more compared to the loyalty Umbra had to his own race.
After that, a picture was transmitted into his mind and Shane could roughly understand the situation.
Apparently, Umbra's parents were killed because they had entered the main Nightshade field in order to pluck two Nightshade flowers. They had hoped to generate enough darkness mana for Umbra after his birth, to strengthen and nourish their offspring.
This seemed to be a common occurrence and the Shadow-pythons and snakes within the main field seemed to slaughter their own brethren because of that.
Leaving the small shadow-snake hatchling to fend for itself, another shadow-snake began to occupy their burrow and Umbra couldn't do anything to drive it away.
It was only when Shane had finally arrived and killed the intruder shadow-snake that occupied its burrow, taking Umbra along with him, that Umbra's agony had lessened slightly.
When he was finally back inside the Shadow-valley, Umbra wanted to avenge his parents and Shane would support him with that, if possible.
Due to the amplified affinity, Umbra could barely fight 3rd Wild stage beasts in addition to his quality. Shane was confident that Umbra would easily overwhelm 3rd Wild Shadow-snakes.
Adding his own combat prowess to Umbra's strength, left the Shadow-pythons below the peak-Wild and Elite stage no chance against them.
Even if they were faster than them, Shane had five prismarine-luminous crystals at his disposal.
The slightest light was harmful to them and activating the prismarine-luminous crystal with a decent amount of mana, without overclocking would be enough to distract them for a short moment.
Descending slowly into the Shadow-snake valley, Shane looked around carefully. His steps were much firmer compared to five days ago.
As such, they reached the base of the valley within 20 minutes. There were still [2h:10m] left before the effects of his first potion would wear off, causing Shane to smile brightly.
He still hadn't seen any Shadow-snakes but Umbra notified him that there were already a few of them ahead. He could tell from distinct marks left on the mud, while Shane only saw the first Nightshade flowers protrude out of the mud.
Over the last five days, Shane's combat strength hadn't increased much. However, he could both control mana better and use a larger quantity of mana without going off balance while his real combat experience increased by a lot too.
As such his combat prowess was much higher than before and Shane was already resolute in killing beasts which he would have never thought in his past life.
Comparing his new life with the old life on earth, there was much more tension and slaughter in his new life, but if he was honest, the Primordial Dimensions had awoken some kind of adventurer spirit within him along with the desire to get stronger.
His death on earth had been a shame but it had brought him to Igra at the correct time. Shane couldn't complain much about it even though his father was still a complex subject for him.
'Is he searching for me? Enraged? Worried? Or does he even know that I escaped?' Shane couldn't answer it. But, when he compared this situation to his old life, where he was adopted by an abusive family, not much had changed considering that his childhood hadn't been the best on earth either.
On Igra his father was rich but he still forced Shane to do things that he didn't want to. His father had already decided who his son would get engaged to at the age of 16.
Had he been at the mansion, he would have met his fiancee by now. However, Shane wanted to live his own life, doing as he pleased and not what others expected him to do.
Being stronger would be much easier with his father's help but what price would he have to pay in exchange for his support?
Shane would rather endure some hardship instead of following the path his father had laid in front of him.
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