"I would like to have my payment for the day." Ragnar said. His words brought Sally back to reality. She was exhausted and her last move made her wonder. She felt like she had surpassed some kind of a hurdle while engaging in combat with Ragnar. She took a small pouch from her ring. How can she do that? You might ask.
The answer is that it is a common accesory in the current time. Dimensional Manipulation to contract space into a small size is something that has been observed to be a part of the hunting world for a very long time. Prolonged research found that by using the resource we managed to gain from the dungeons, spatial manipulation can be carried out and artifacts such as storage rings, storage pouches and more were created.
While rings were handy they were difficult to manufacture when compared to a pouch. Hence, pouches were the general accessory that low level hunters carried with them. Cadets like Ragnar didn't even have access to these dimensional accessories. To think he would gain one from Sally was surprising.
"This pouch will be the storage medium in which I will be providing your payments. How about we meet tommorow at the same time?" Sally asked.
"As long as you pay me, we can have another session right now." Ragnar said.
"I am too exhausted for that." Two hours of continus fight took quite a bit of toll on her body. She was surprised that Ragnar managed to hold up so well even after she injured him with the last attack.
"Fine. If you will be practicing from now on, make sure to keep my pointers in mind while performing the moves. Your moves are too rough and hence the sword art is creating a toll on your body. You can improve your skills while reducing the burden given you are able to regulate that aspect of your body properly." Ragnar said.
"Thank you." Sally said.
"Thank you for your kind payment for my services." Ragnar said as he left the hall. Meanwhile he walked out and stopped in another room before falling to the floor due to the pain he felt.
"This shitty body. I need to train it even harder than before. Now that I have energy stones, I need to proceed with channel excavation. Once I manage to excavate ten percent of my channels, I would be able to begin body tempering and refining with the Troll arts and Human arts I have in my memory. I don't know what this blockhead was doing entire being possessed by me. Bitch." Ragnar cursed at his body and then cursed at his situation as well.
He immediately returned back to his home from the academy whole carrying the pouch. Once there he entered his room and say in a lotus position. He then began to use the Troll's Breathing Method and began to excavate his channels.
Once the first one was done and he felt another wave of inhuman pain, he decided to rest and then took out the pouch from his bag. He then released all the things which were stored in it on the ground. Once done, he began to look through the stuff until he found what he needed. There were 3 middle grade stones and ten low grade stones. The quality of stones in the current time was way different than the past. It seemed that the overall quality of the stones which were being used as of now had decreased.
Ragnar remembered that the stones which they considered to be low grades one were red in colour, but the low graded ones in his hand were dark brown. The middle grade stone had a hint of red, but even that would sigh when compared to the red colour he remembered. Nevertheless, the stones possessed the energy he needed to catalyse the process.
I will begin with low graded stones and will not stop untill all of them are completely exhausted. This is what Ragnar said to himself.
You must be wondering what he was going to do. Well, read ahead to know.
Ragnar sat on the floor and held the ten stones in his hand. He started to perform the breathing method. As expected, a much denser form of energy entered his body and he immediately started the excavation process. Black goo could be seen being forced out of his body, while veins started to pop on his face and his eyes started to go red due to the pain he was feeling. But he didn't want to stop.
The process continued. Two thing were observed in particular. One was the increase in the amount of black goo out of his body, which contained a deep hint of his blood, while the other one was the stone slowly turning into powder. One by one they began to turn into dust, until the last one ran out and Ragnar fell back on the ground, while blood flowed out of his mouth and his body was shaking.
The shock experienced due to the pain was immense. Ragnar decided to sleep for the moment and allow his body to heal up. If he had held out for anymore time, he would have died for sure. His body was already on its limit due to over exertion.
Ragnar's eyes opened up the next day and he tried to climb up, but his body was aching all around. He could feel the lingering pain in his bones, blood vessel and channels. He tried to rise up and go do physical training, but his body didn't allow him to do so. Hence he decided to practice the breathing method while lying.
It was painful and the output was also low, but something was better than nothing for Ragnar. He managed to climb back up around two hours into the morning and he decided to go to school to earn the stones.
He had planned to use low graded stones for now and excavate around ten percent of his channels. Once he do that and is able to heal his body to a good enough extent, he would use all the middle grade stones he had collected till that time to do a massive excavation as well as increas the purity of his blood at the same time.
"Ragnar Avalon(Ragnar Grime/Avalon( past))
Level:4
Strength: 25
Endurance: 20
Agility: 20
Mana: 46
Intelligence: 13( 1000(locked/ancient/past memories)
Wisdom: ??
Ability: Body strengthening (E-rank)
Sword Arts(E-rank)
Troll One-Body Martial Arts(E-rank)
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(closed slots)
Skills:
Steel-Heart Sword Style
Flash Sword Style
Ranger Heavy-Sword Art
Sand-Swift-Sword Art
Hundred Wave Art
+5
Bloodline:
Troll (Low-level awakening)
Elf(Dormant, mid-level conc.)
Dragon (Dormant, mid-level conc.)
Flame Fairy(Dormant, mid-level conc.)
Aqua Fairy(Dormant, mid-level conc.)
Wind Fairy(Dormant, mid-level conc.)
Rock Fairy(Dormant, mid-level conc.)
Metal Fairy(Dormant, mid-level conc.)
Illusion Fairy( Dormant, mid-level conc.)
Druid(Dormant, mid-level conc.)
Human Weapon Bloodline(Dormant,High-level conc.)
Giant Bloodline(Dormant, Mid-level conc.)
Flame-steel Dwarf Bloodline(Dormant, Mid-level conc.)
Demon Blood(Dormant, Low-level conc.)
Angel Blood(Dormant, Low-level conc.)
Ancient Beast Bloodline (unidentified, multiple traces, low-level conc.)"
His mana stat was increasing more and more as he excavated his channels. Ragnar expected the mana stat to almost double by the time he manages to excavate ten percent of his channels. At the same time he decided to train his body and swords arts for sometime, allowing his body to get adequate rest for the next big excavation.