Zach didn't know how much time it will take him to complete the nutritious bath, he hoped that it wouldn't take more than 3 days as he had only a month left to deliver the book and there was still at least 2 weeks of travel to reach Constantos. Zach returned to the main street, this time seeking for an inn.
Zach didn't have much difficulties to find a good one, there was an inn almost every 150 meters, he chose one that seemed to be quite high class. When he entered a man that should be in his twenties politely welcomed him. "Hello young sir, how may I help you ?" "I would like a quiet and peacefull room with what's needed for a nutritious bath" Zach responded.
The man nodded and thought a few seconds about what room he would give him, he then reached under his counter and pick a small white rock and said.
"I have the perfect fit for you, it's 5 gold coins per day." He wasn't sure if Zach had enough money but he offered him this room to see, after all the one he offered was one of the best of this inn.
Zach thought about it and replied "Good for me, I will take it for a week." He then took out 35 gold coins he had left in his pocket and put them on the counter, the man pushed the small white rock towards Zach and took the coins.
However Zach was totally oblivious about this small rock so he asked "What's the use of this rock ?"
The man was confused for a second but after taking in consideration the age and the fact that many people went by Yosa it wasn't too much out of the ordinary, so he explained. "This rock is the key of your room, when you are inside and you put it at its place it will activate the formartions which include the one for protection."
Zach had an understanding look, he then thought about it, it was vastly different from his old world.
'You can't close the room from the outside but in fact it's logical, you can't go with the rock leaving the room close and with the spacial rings precious things could always be carried.' Last but not least Zach asked for directions to reach his room.
Once he entered his room Zach was in awe, the room wasn't as lavish as he thought but the craftmanship of each of the furnitures was exquisite.
There was a table with 4 chairs, 2 armchairs and in the back of the room there was a french window which lead to a beautiful small pond. Directly next to the entrance was stairs which lead to the floor with a big bed and huge bathtub, it was almost a small pool.
Zach placed the stone in its emplacement which locked the room and went upstairs to start his nutritious bath.
He filled the bathtub with hot water, he threw the herbs, the void plant and both the mana cores of the fox and wolf he killed then he waited a few minutes to let the herbs infuse in the bath. He took off his clothes and entered in the bath, the moment he entered the bath he felt the powerful energy in it.
He sat in the bath and took out the vial of nothingness from his shadow. He looked at the vial opened it and took a good sniff, he approached it from his lips and started to drink it.
Once he finished it he felt that it was resonating with his whole body.
It made his whole body hotter than ever, Zach started to use the method to absorb the energy from his bath. The moment he started he felt a torrent of energy entering his body, however this energy started to conflict with the already existing energy in Zach's body.
The energy coming from the bath coursed through his whole body, his bones, muscles and organs. The energy went and clashed against the energy inside Zach's body, when they clashed the energy from the bath tried to devour the energy inside Zach's body.
However Zach's eneregy wasn't passive and was also trying to devour the energy coming from the bath, all of this put Zach's body in an indescribable pain. But he felt that little by little the energy coming from the bath was devoured by his body and it improved the overall fitness of his body.
His muscles were compressing and becoming harder and more powerful, his organs became more efficient and his bones more sturdy and resilient. He felt his body becoming more and more powerful, he felt that his cultivation was slowly rising.
At the begining his body was still at the mid rank 1 level but right now it had improved to the high rank 1 and he still hadn't consumed all the energy in the bath.
Pain continued to course through his whole body and if he hadn't almost died a few times in his whole lives he would have fainted from it.
'That was a good choice to pick a peak rank 1 set for the nutritious bath.' Zach though while gritting his teeth. The process continued and once again his muscles, organs and bones were being reinforced, he had another break through, his physical cultivation now should be at the peak rank 1 level.
Now the energy left in the bath was faint but there was still enough to push a little farther, maybe he will be able to break through the last barrier and have a low rank 2 physical cultivation. He continued to absorb the energy even though it gave him a great pain.
He felt that he was absorbing the last bit of energy however he failed to attain the low rank 2 with the energy present in the bath. Nevertheless when he absorbed the last bit of energy he felt something else, it was another feeling than when he absorbed the energy.
This time the it was like something melted in his body and didn't try to devour the energy in his body, as if they were the same energies. This energy found an echo with and in Zach's body and all of sudden another wave of energy reinforced his body once again.
This time he felt the improvement was more profound than it was before, he felt like something in his body rebirthed and just as he had this thought he heard a notification from the system. He found this odd as he didn't do anything to get a notification from the system so he took a look at it.
[Ding ! Host's Void affinity has improved, Host now has a Greater Void Affinity.]
When Zach read that his jaw was on the ground, he knew that the vial of nothingness would give him a great boost but never he would have thought that it would be this much of an improvement. He felt everything differently, he had a clearer understanding of his surroundings.
Before he could sense everything around him but now it was deeper, right now he could not explain clearly what he felt but he knew that he had gotten a better awareness.
He left his bath as he had depleted every bit of energy in it and the plant of the void and the vial of nothingness had their effect. He took a look at how much his physical cultivation improved in the end so he summoned his status.
[Host status:
Level : 27 (physique : mid rank 2 soul : low rank 2 dantian : low rank 2)
EXP : 1030/2300
Title : The one who cheats Death (Cooldown : 2 months)
HP : 960/960
Mana : 590/590
Strengh : 64
Speed : 64
Stamina : 64
Spirit : 59
Intelligence : 59
Charisma : 15
System points : 0
Skills : |Death from the shadows| lvl 1
Hell fire| lvl 3 : 3-75 mana per minute
Death gaze| lvl 3 : A quarter of host's mana; minimum 40
Souls : 349]
Zach was very happy, his physical cultivation had improved to a bit more than the mid rank 2, now he would be safe if he went to the Constantos, he would not have to fear every single person. He was safer and stronger than yesterday but weaker than tomorrow.
Zach descended and went in the courtyard, he threw a punch in the air to test his strengh. After he threw the punch he saw that the space around his fist was wavering and bending.
'Is this an effect of having an affinity with the void or is it coming from the Void conqueror body or both ? I don't know for now.' Zach was curious about what it would do on someone. He started to wonder about what the improvement of his affinity would do aside from bending and wavering the space.
He was not far away from being at the peak of the first part of the Void Conqueror body human stage. Sooner or later he would need to go seek the second part to not become stuck at the peak rank 2.
When he thought about it, this bending reminded him of the times he ran with all his power, he saw similar bending around him, but he still didn't know what this bending did.
Zach was exhausted after all the pain he got from the bath, he decided to take some time to rest before resuming his journey towards Constantos. He climbed and laid on his bed and instantaneously fell asleep.