As what team number 3 reported, river route number 3 is very suitable for the main ship to sail.
The general direction is also really quite consistent with the direction towards their destination.
On the way, Zen and Red Trickerss also didn't encounter much trouble other than a few small flying monster attacks.
Everyone's mood was lifted with hope.
The idea of reaching the port city of Limittia with a lot of treasure and getting rich seemed very close to them now.
Right now, Zen was walking into Red Trickerss' storage room.
"So this is the items?"
Zen smiled broadly in front of two square boxes with a diameter of 1 meter.
The reason he came to the storage room began when Zen told Martha his plan to collect a lot of Monster Gems for personal consumption.
Martha surprisingly said that she had quite a large supply of Monster Gems.
Originally, this was the treasure that Martha and Red Trickerss had collected to redeem Tiony's life, but now that they had transported a lot of valuables from Frincaal town as well as materials from Stone Drake, the presence or absence of these two Monster Gem boxes no longer mattered.
Of course, Zen doesn't take it for free either.
In the end, Stone Drake's material was his. So, in exchange of giving up the full rights to the Stone Drake materials, Zen chose to have these two boxes of Monster Gems.
"Hehehehe..."
Zen couldn't help but laugh a bit out when he saw a large number of colorful Monster Gems inside both boxes.
Zen became impatient as he thought of the different types of Elemental cores he could form later on after consuming all of these Monster Gems.
Then, from that day on, Zen's daily agenda changed.
He stopped practicing, and then focused on consuming and digesting the magic energy contained within all of these Monster gems.
Farna is a little lonely without Zen's guidance every time she trains, but she has no right to protest.
***
Several times, the Red Trickerss ship received attacks from Monsters.
However, even without Zen's intervention, the Red Trickerss were able to repulse them all easily with their mages, magic cannons, and well-functioning Warriors.
There are no problems at all with their security.
Again, Zen didn't find any place similar to the hut where the Skeleton Necromancer was hiding like before.
It seemed that such a hut was something that was rare.
Bored, Zen, Migell, Rictner, and some of the crew who had free time at the time chose to sit back and fish.
Their fishing rate is high. It's just...
"Ugh..."
Zen smiled wryly as he pulled out his fishing rod and found a Zombie fish stuck in his hook.
Migell and the others laughed at what Zen got.
That's right. The bad side of fishing here is that sometimes, you'll catch Zombie fish instead of normal live fish.
As expected. The existence of Zombies is very disturbing.
Zen began to worry a little bit about whether this entire ecosystem of this world would eventually become Zombie-things.
Zen killed the Zombie fish before throwing it into the river.
Setting up his bait once more, Zen went back to fishing.
Peaceful days sometimes feel very boring, but that's not a problem. Like what Mikell said, no one knows when you'll be able to have as much free time as you can now, so you have to enjoy every second of your free time.
Zen had completed his magic training and [Flaming Punch Technique].
He had also consumed all the Monster Gems in the two boxes he had obtained from the Red Trickerss.
The rest, Zen only needed to slowly integrate the magic energy of the Monster Gems and form Elemental cores within his Dantian.
Zen also thought of familiarizing himself with the practice of using the Elemental cores that he had managed to form until now.
As a reminder, the Elemental core has the ability to convert all the energy associated in the user's body into elements related to the Elemental core.
With that, Zen didn't need to have to change his magic energy element before casting his magic. It greatly shortened the preparation time of the magic output.
However, it was only the basis of the usefulness of the Elemental core.
The true use of the Elemental core was to allow a Cultivator to study Magical Arts that were complicated and required prolonged cultivation.
Zen was still a Martial Realm cultivator.
He had not been able to start studying the Magical Arts before converting his blood energy into blood Qi.
Moreover, his Elemental core was not one formed from spiritual energy, but from magic energy.
There should be some differents on his Elemental cores. So Zen couldn't use normal Cultivator's Elemental core standard to his.
Zen planning to slowly find the uses of his Elemental cores by time went by. He certain that he would find something interesting from his Elemental cores.
After consuming two boxes of Monster Gems, Zen now had a total of six Elemental cores.
1.Fire Core(55%)
2.Wind Core(97%)
3.Earth Core(198%)
4.Water Core(35%)
5.Darkness Core(95%)
6.Light Core(68%)
Zen's Zombie body had no affinity for the elements of water and fire.
Thus, even though the Monster gems in both boxes had a large number of Fire and Water Elemental Monster Gems, the percentage of pure magic energy that Zen was able to absorb was very small.
Meanwhile, just by confirming a few dozen Monster gems, Zen's wind elemental core had reached 97% of the size of a normal Elemental core belonging to a Spiritual King Cultivator.
From this Elemental core, Zen even awakened a new Innate Skill.
It was an Innate Skill with the ability to form a foothold formed by the compressed wind – {Aerodinamic}.
The elemental core of the dark element did not choose development because between the two boxes, there was not a single Monster gem with the element of darkness.
Then, as could be seen, the earth elemental core was the one with the fastest growth.
It had surpassed the normal size of an Elemental core even since it was first formed.
Zen began to ponder what would happen if this Elemental core was allowed to keep growing like this.
And finally, the Elemental core of light element.
Among all the Elemental core formation processes, Zen was convinced that the process of forming light elemental cores was the most painful.
The element of light was extremely fatal to all types of Undead creatures.
Zombies are clearly part of the Undead.
Although Zen's percentage of pure magic energy absorption with light elements was much higher when compared to the percentage of pure magic energy absorption with fire and water elements, in fact, Zen took a very long time to consume the monster gem with light elements.
After all, it was very painful to consume it.
Zen always felt the sensation of being burned on the waiting to burn like a piece of barbecue every time he consumed it.
If Zen wasn't a cultivator with 500 years of long life experience, he might have given up on eating all those Monster Gems.
Also, although it didn't come from the pure magic energy of the Monster gem, Zen also managed to awaken another Innate Skill directly from his own magic energy.
It was an Innate Skill that Zen named {Mana Sight}.
***
Early in the morning, Clark, an owner of an Innate Skill named {Distant Eye}, shouted at the crew who were getting ready to work.
"Attention! We have managed to approach the village!"
The village that Clark saw with {Distant Eye} was an unnamed abandoned village that they planned to be where they stopped and took a short break from all this sailing life.
Martha was out of her captain's cabin when she heard Clark's report.
Smiling, she ordered the entire crew to start preparing.
However, at that moment, no one noticed it.
The existence of three flying ships that quickly flew towards the main ship of the Red Trickerss which was sailing on the river route calmly.
That's right. Even Zen was unaware of the arrival of these three flying ships because it was too far from the detection radius of his