EP = 10/350
Aryan slowly awoke from his forced coma with a fuzzy head, "What happened? Did I Succeed?", however, before he even looked inside his body, he knew the answer, his surroundings were tens of times clearer and he could see many times further, and his sight wasn't the only sense that improved, all of them did. Only then did he sense inside his body, where there laid a glistening bean-sized crystal, with 10 distinct layers, that seemed to not physically exist, but was more of a flickering hologram. Not only did his senses improve, but he seemed to have also gained an extra one, a six-senth of sorts, when he emptied his mind of all thoughts, he could sense or feel an additional substance all around him, in the air, the ground and in the bodys of the wolf carcasses. He could also feel that he could somewhat absorb it as well, so that is what he did, not knowing what to do he decided to try and breathe it in, and to his surprise, it worked, the substance in the air and ground, even in the nearby corpses, started to be pulled towards him and into his mouth and nose. It then traveled to his stomach and pooled around his Sovereignty Seed, after which it slowly seeped into the first layer, starting to slowly fill it. After breathing for about an hour the first layer's capacity had reached about 1%, he also realized he could channel the substance into his stomach storage, at which point into would convert into EP.
However, he decided it would be best, to keep it simple and keep all of the new substance in the Sovereignty Seed and all muscle mass from the food he has eaten as EP using Bottomless Organs, so as to keep the balance between body and this substance equal. He then began to test what he could do with the new substance that he decided to term Universal Energy, he tried to move the Universal Energy from his Sovereignty Seed to anywhere but he wasn't able to, it seemed that he could only absorb the energy and nothing else. Seeing that his experiment was a failure, he decided it was time to fill his EP reserves and increase his strength again, looking at the wolf corpses ravounessly, he quickly started a fire at began skin cooking and began practically inhaling the meat, as the carcasses began bones his EP rose dramatically, as well as his strength.
After 2 hours of constant eating his EP storage had risen back to 9600 and his strength had tripled, "Ooooh.", letting out a relaxing sigh, Aryan, limbered up and decided to set off to increase his strength even further, not being able to decide what direction to go, he decided to use his newly acquired 6th sense and began to sense the direction with the densest Universal Energy, as it was most likely the location with the strongest creatures, he soon found that direction and quickly headed off deeper into the forest, towards its very core. Aryan spent a week traveling, hunting creatures every once in a while, and absorbing Universal energy during the night as it seemed meditation could be used as an alternative to sleep, which increased his amount drastically, as well as his senses, which he was pleased to discover. His location was now far denser than before allowing him to absorb more Universal Energy quicker, which was very helpful as it took longer to fill up his Sovereignty Seed, as its capacity increased.
He was traveling through the forest as usual when his improved hearing heard a faint rustling of branches about 50 meters away in the trees, intrigued Aryan decided to investigate the disturbance, thus he changed his direction and carefully ran, making sure not to make too much noise, lest he is discovered, he soon realized that the sound was moving, so he increased his speed to catch up. It wasn't long before he discovered what was making the noise, a troop of monkeys, about 10 in number, were swinging from branch to branch towards a certain direction, however, these monkeys were certainly no regular monkeys, they were about the size of gorillas, with sleek silver, gray hair that resembles steel, and incredibly large arm muscles, that seemed to not fit the rest of their bodys. However, instead of outright attacking the creatures, Aryan decided to follow them as he could sense that they were heading in a direction with very dense Universal Energy, he followed as the sun fell and when the sun began to rise again, the Silver Monkeys finally started to slow down.
Making sure to stay far enough from the Silver Monkeys, so as not to get noticed, Aryan inspected the location in front of the monkeys, in a slight clearing, sat a robust, large hill, roughly 100 meters in height, with a large cave at its center surrounded with smaller caves. Hundreds of monkeys were seen weaving through the surrounding forest, entering the caves with food and items, and leaving empty-handed, however, the largest cave was steered clear from, absent of monkeys, except for 5, much larger monkeys, standing at 3m tall, covered in what looked like metal more than fur, with raging crimson eyes, that begged for carnage. The moment Aryan looked into those blood-red eyes, he knew he stood no chance in a fight, his life would be taken without a doubt, realizing this, he decided it would be best to focus on the small groups that left and came frequently, he quickly found a group of four Silver Monkeys traveling away from the hill, and decided to follow. After about 10 minutes of traveling, he decided they were far enough away so as not to be heard by the large monkeys, closing in quickly but quietly, Aryan pulled out his hoe and struck at the Silver Monkey furthest to the back, before it could react, the hoe plunged a couple of centimeters into its extremely tough neck, Aryan, surprised by how little damage the attack did, realized the monkeys fur did not only look like metal, the creature screeched and jumped away, dislodging the hoe at the same time, now profusely bleeding it called for its fellow monkeys for help, to which they quickly responded. Surrounded by monkeys, Aryan realized he might have underestimated the power of these creatures that surpassed the Alpha Flaming Wolf in defense.