A few minutes later , Mitchell was sitting down on a rock , panting heavily. The fight took a lot from him and relating to the fact that he does not even know how to swing a sword . The fight proved to a good thing for him. For example , he made a breakthrough to the ninth stage of the qi condensation realm. One more and he could transcend.
'Great fight , you tried for your first time' jack said to the panting Mitchell , who took a while to answer him.
' Yeah , I guess I did ' Mitchell replied after catching his breath. ' So where are the monster cores you were talking about'.
'You sure you're all right , you could rest for a bit and try to stabilise your new stage' even as he said that he was still surprised at how a person could make four breakthroughs in a fight. That's unprecedented, even geniuses can't attempt what he did unless they used a treasure as they fight.
'His cultivation is too fast, he's breezing through stages like they don't exist. No they do exist, just not for him'.Jack thought inwardly to himself.
'Come on I wanna see how the monster cores look like' .Mitchell said tiredly , after all he killed these ugly beasts just to see them.
' Um... Er ... , check their heads you should see them in there ' .
Mitchell did just that , although digging through monsters brains felt and smelt groos. His curiosity made him persevere. He found one in the brain of a monster . It was small and round , like a pebble. And felt polished like it was crafted naturally.
The monster cores had the same colours as the monsters, so he had nine identical monster cores .
" Now , where is some water. " Mitchell mumbled to himself as he backtracked his steps back to a pond that he saw. Not forgetting to gather the tails of the beasts that he had killed as that is proof that he killed them.
"Aha , here it is" .
He said as he bent down to wash the monster cores. They glimmered in the light reflected off them and Mitchell was tempted to put it in his mouth. He wanted to resist but then smelt the aroma coming from it . It smelt like candy . The good kind as well.He didn't think twice as he threw it into his mouth. It also had a sweet taste as it dissolved in his mouth.
'Haaaaa, what are you doing , did you swallow it ?,spit it out now' jack screamed immediately Mitchell swallowed it.
People never ate monster cores they absorbed them,because when you do your body would explode from too much spiritual essence.
Mitchell hearing jacks words was confused and wanted to obliged but the monster core had already dissolved on his tongue . He couldn't spit it out even if he wanted.
Immediately he felt his strength increasing steadily at a fast rate. He broke through to the tenth stage .
'W-what is happening , jack .' Mitchell face was flushed as he broke through without his own consent.