Shane was surprised to read through a forum thread from humanity's government, stating that the RadiantRing shelter within the radiant mountain ring dimension had established their wall and defensive measures. The government was now officially allowing all civilians to enter the shelter.
This meant the shelter could be defended against the more powerful beasts in closer proximity and would in turn allow Shane to enter the radiant mountain ring immediately.
'That news came sooner than I expected...' Shane thought with a frown. Initially, it was planned that the construction would take at least another week which was a relatively short duration when compared to the time taken to build an average shelter.
Looking at Umbra's almost one-meter-long body, Shane could only sigh deeply before he picked him up.
Umbra was too large to coil himself around Shane's neck, so he lay on his shoulders, radiating a cold and calming aura.
This decreased Shane's tension slightly as he smiled foolishly at Umbra. His reptilian friend had already reached the highest capacities of his quality, which was the peak of the 4th Wild stage, a whole rank higher than his racial limit.
It was only when Umbra reached his quality limit, that a change in his evolution section could be seen.
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Possible evolutions [Shadow-snake (Rare)]
1) [Common] Shadow-python (5%/100%)
2) [Uncommon] Darkness-python (0.6%/100%)
3) [Rare] Colossus Darkness-python (0.001%/100%)
4) [Extraordinary]
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A completion rate appeared in front of the possible evolutions, indicating how much mana Umbra had accumulated and stored to evolve.
After looking at the percentages, it was quite obvious as to which evolution path was more powerful. The evolution path that required the most mana would have to initiate the strongest evolution!
If Shane was honest, this change further cemented his decision to patiently wait until Umbra reached the [Extraordinary] quality. He could then see the difference between the Colossus Darkness-python evolution and his [extraordinary] evolution to figure out if the former was worthwhile for the future of his other tamed beasts and Umbra's future evolutions.
The extraordinary evolution must be very powerful, but was it really useful to upgrade his tamed beast's quality with a huge fortune in order to have a 5% stronger beast?
And the answer was extremely simple: Yes!
For beasts within the basic primordial dimensions, 5% might be a small number that one could easily overwhelm with a few subordinates, a landscape advantage, or maybe even some strategy. However once beasts reached a certain realm, a difference of 5% in one's combat prowess would be like the difference between heaven and earth, unimaginable and Shane liked thinking of a long-term investment.
Roughly one week had passed since Shane's physique had broken into the 6th Mortal stage and not much had happened, except that his desire of growing stronger was now turning into an obsession..
In this single week, Shane and Umbra had hunted beasts worth slightly more than 20 gold coins. His cultivation and body refining had also undergone minor changes.
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Title: [Berserk-Hunter(F)]
Occupation: [None]
Name: Shane Suro (Orus)
Race: [Human 100%]
Cultivation Level: Mortal-8th [Purity 7.18%]
Body Refinement: [Mortal-7th]
Cultivation Manual:
→Mana purifying [Tier-1 (Bronze)]
→Mana gathering [Mortal-(Platinum)]
Body refining manual: [Tier-1 (Bronze)]
![Artemis' Blessing]+
[Innate Skill]: Taming |Common-★★ (+)|
Finances: 20 gold coins, 85 silver coins, 69 bronze coins
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After Shane broke into the 7th Mortal stage with his body refining, the common nutrition solutions were inadequate and couldn't provide enough nutrition. Using four common nutrition solutions at a time was roughly equivalent to using a single uncommon nutrition solution.
A single common solution was priced at 50 silver coins while an uncommon nutrition solution was priced at 1 gold coin. Using four common solutions instead of a single uncommon nutrition solution was a waste of his wealth but he had to utilize his stock in order to switch to the uncommon nutrition solution.
He was still left with 10 [Uncommon] nutrition solutions in addition to 4 [Uncommon] fist-sized mana stones.
Not only would his body refining process slow down but also the purification speed within his mana pool decrease, as its size increased by 10% every time he broke through.
Additionally, Shane's mana pool was 30% larger compared to his peers' mana pool since the beginning of his journey.
Adding the 10% increase to [Artemis' blessing] the Ancient ring of the Susurro, Shane's mana pool was roughly 2.9 units in size when compared to the size of 1.9 units which humans without a blessing had.
As such, it was only normal for his cultivation progress to slow down because his mana gathering and purifying manuals weren't the best.
But Shane didn't consider that as a problem because his thought process had drastically changed.
Previously his plan was simple: Become as strong as possible in a short period of time in order to live freely without his father or someone else intercepting any of his decisions but that had changed somehow.
After Shane noticed how many resources he would have to accumulate throughout his cultivation journey, he sensed that a perfect foundation was important if it was not the most crucial aspect of being a cultivator.
If the foundation was shabby, unstable, and full of flaws, the building that he constructed above would be demolished faster than one could count down from three to zero.
Shane didn't want to do anything half-heartedly and if he had to do something that didn't give him freedom from his dad's clutches, could you really call it freedom?
Having thought about that for the past few days, Shane came to a decision.
He wanted to build a perfect foundation if possible and in order to accomplish that, Shane had to do two important things.
First, obtain a [Perfect-(Mythic)] body refining technique on every cultivation stage in order to have a flawless body and for the second requirement, Shane had to get his hands on a [Tier-2 (Mythic)] mana purification manual.
With this purifying manual, Shane would be able to achieve a mana purification of 100% which was a perfect purified mana pool.
Each of the two requirements was extremely difficult to achieve and until now, nobody had been capable of accomplishing any of the two requirements for a perfect foundation. This was because the resources and time required to re-refine the first three stages were incomparable to the following stages.
As such, it was seen as a futile effort by most humans to waste their precious time within the basic dimension for a long period.
And if Shane was honest, there was no need for him to struggle in order to receive a mythic perfect body refining manual.
He believed the system wouldn't neglect hard work.
As for the 100% purifying manual, an unknown number of humans had tried to fulfill the requirements and solve the missions in order to obtain the purifying manual but it had been futile.
Nobody had achieved it and only the most powerful beings belonging to renowned martial art families, special body traits, wealth, and support from outside were barely able to achieve a mana purity of 90%. While only a handful of humans had been able to solve a mission that gave out a mana purification manual for 95%.
In the end, Shane would be more confident in solving the mission to obtain the [Tier-2 (Mythic)] mana purification manual, if he had a flawless perfect physique.
He was still young and only 16 years old and living for a few hundred years wouldn't be a problem.
What problem was there for him to use a few years of his youth in order to obtain massive benefits?
Obviously, Shane wasn't aware of the exact benefits that he would obtain after liquefying his mana with 100% purity, but he could imagine an overwhelming enlargement in his mana pool size with a large physique amplification.
As for a perfect physique foundation, he just didn't want to waste some time in the future, and if he could prevent that while slowly building up his combat prowess to solve the [Mythic] purification manual mission, that would be even better.
Furthermore, he doubted that a perfect physique wouldn't give him any benefits in terms of strength.
Because Shane was still in the Mortal stage range, he could already accept the [Mythic] mission for his mortal stage perfect body refining manual, where one requirement was for him to gather 1000 gold coins on his own.
There was something essentially ironic with the [Mythic] missions.
The mission was different for everyone and nobody knew what it could be before one would accept it.
Failing the mission would immediately shatter one's dream to obtain the wanted [Mythic] manual and the chance for Shane to construct a perfect foundation.
As such, he would have to accomplish all missions without fail in the first shot that left him no room for error.
Shane was confident in his own strength and determination. As he gazed at the blank sign of the [Mortal-(Mythic)] body refining technique he had blacked out for a second, subconsciously lifting his finger and clicking on the [Request mission] button.
He pulled his hand back, shocked that he had moved without realizing it early enough.
'F**K! I'm so stupid!!'
Shane wanted to reach the 10th Mortal stage in both cultivation and body refining before he would dare to descend into Hell, but now his plan was shattered.
A message appeared within the blank sign, and Shane read it reluctantly. A smile blossomed on his face as he shouted out in joy "YAAA…...W-WHAT? 48 hours???!!".
If one were to see Shane, nobody would believe he was still alive, because his face had visibly turned ashen-pale as all the blood had temporarily drained of it.
Shane gazed at the notification with lifeless eyes before he regained his senses as the countdown was initiated.
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