10 10 - Gaining strength

"This human has no blood?" a male voice asked.

"Yes, but it's like this is water, no matter how much blood I drink, none of it quenches my thirst." A female voice said in an irritated tone.

If Souls God saw this scene happening he would recognize the place these two people were talking to. This was the cave he had killed the Boss in!

"That's weird, maybe he's a puppet?" the man asked.

"It's possible, but you saw the vitality this human had while he was fighting the monster. Puppets don't have vitality like that, they would at best be lifeless bodies that moved by magic. Not to mention why someone would make such a puppet weak? A puppet is as expensive as a city, no one would waste something like that for such a weak body." The woman said still angry and confused.

"Well, ignore this human, we still have the monster's blood to drink, this human has already saved us the trouble of dealing with it." The man said as he went back to looking at the monster's corpse.

The woman left the body to one side and came back, decided to focus on the monster corpse beside her before leaving with a full belly. If they stayed any longer they would see Souls God's body disappear after a few hours.

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After starting to use the Souls God tactic to kill monsters, players greatly increased the speed to kill monsters. Even though the battles lasted longer now, as they spent much of their time rolling to dodge the attacks, the speed to kill the monsters still increased, as few players died and had to waste time running from the Sect back to the Forest.

Seeing this improvement, not only the players were happy with it, but mainly Arthur was happy to see his amount of points going up.

During the previous day, most players only averaged 15 points for the mission, there were some good players with more points, while others were with less.

But today, in just a few hours after starting to use the Souls God tactic, this average has soared to 37 points.

Considering there were 99 players, this gave Arthur a total of 3,663 points!

If all players reached the 100 points needed for the mission that would mean 9,900 points for Arthur! That's not counting the extra points that more experienced players would accumulate.

Excited, Arthur decided to open the system interface to convert these points to improve his Mana Core.

Curious, he looked at the point conversion table.

[Low Mortal Core - 0 Points ] - Owned

[Mid Mortal Core - 500 Points ] - Owned

[High Mortal Core - 1500 Points ]

[Peak Mortal Core - 2,000 Points ]

[1st Elementary Core - 4,000 Points ]

[?????? - ?????? Spots ]

But seeing this table Arthur was shocked.

'Why is it written 1st Elementary Core? Shouldn't that be called Low Elementary Core?' Arthur asked himself confused.

He had read in a book in the family library that after Mortal Core the Mana Cores were called Elementary Core, he had even seen a book call this Mana Core Low Elementary Core!

"System, why are you saying the Mana Core after Peak Mortal Core is called 1st Elementary Core?" Arthur asked confused.

[This is the name of this Mana Core, probably the user read a book with wrong information about the actual division of the Elementary Core. ]

Arthur was surprised by this, but he didn't think it was such a shocking thing. The books he had access to in the family library were very limited, he knew that books with deeper knowledge were kept in safer places.

"So Elementary Core goes from 1st Elementary Core to 4rd Elementary Core?" Arthur asked.

[No, the Elementary Core is divided into 9 levels. ]

Now Arthur was shocked. The book he had read had the explanation for this very wrong!

"Maybe that book was left there on purpose?" Arthur asked himself in frustration. Upon discovering that his knowledge of Elementary Mana Core was wrong, Arthur knew that he would have to discover for himself the strength of each level from the Elementary Core.

Looking again at the prices, Arthur felt that for him it wasn't such a high price for each upgrade to his Mana Core, but for players that price would probably be too high.

"Is this price the same as for the players?" Arthur asked the system.

[No, the user price is more expensive as the user's Mana Core supports more Mana than the player's Core. ]

Curious, Arthur looked at the price of the upgrade for the players System set.

[Low Mortal Core - 0 Points ]

[Mid Mortal Core - 100 Points ]

[High Mortal Core - 200 Points ]

[Peak Mortal Core - 400 Points ]

[1st Elementary Core - 1,000 Points ]

[?????? - ?????? Spots ]

But Arthur was shocked after seeing the price for players. "System, the price for players is too low, does that make them weaker than other common humans in this world?"

[No, their Mana Core is average compared to the average for this world. ]

Hearing this, Arthur became more carefree. Even though the price for his upgrades were so expensive, Arthur wasn't too worried about it, as he knew his Mana Core was special and held a lot more mana than usual.

With the 100 points players would receive for completing the mission, they could now upgrade their Mana Core to Mid Mortal Core. But even if someone got 200 Contribution Points they couldn't advance directly to High Mortal Core, as it was necessary to buy Mid Mortal Core first, so reaching High Mortal Core required 300 Contribution Points.

Looking at the amount of player points, apparently only Souls God could collect 300 points by the end of the mission time.

Seeing the amount of points he had, Arthur didn't think twice and upgraded his Mid Mortal Core to High Mortal Core, and then later to Peak Mortal Core.

Even though there were only 2 mana left to reach High Mortal without needing to buy from the System, Arthur knew it would take him at least a few weeks or even months to gather that mana by himself, so he preferred to just pay for it with points of contribution that players yielded to him and speed up that process, as he intended to kill the last remaining Elementary Core monster to complete the system task tomorrow.

As soon as Arthur paid the 1,800 Contribution Points to the system, he felt the strength inside him build at an alarming rate! Unlike the feeling of drinking a condensed mana potion, paying to the system caused his Mana Core to fill up immediately, absorbing large amounts of mana from the environment at tremendous speed.

*Boom! *

Arthur felt a strong explosion in his Mana Core, the mana that before he thought was a lot, was now gushing through his body like an infinite fountain, purifying his body and expelling impurities with extreme speed.

Arthur's muscles were undergoing a major transformation.

What had once been much tougher muscle than a normal human was now becoming as tough as a tree!

*Boom! *

Another explosion happened in Arthur's body, causing the amount of mana circulating through his body to triple!

His muscles that had previously been developing rapidly were now evolving even faster!

Arthur was sitting in the Lotus position, but because of the large amount of Mana invading his body, Arthur fell to the ground on his back and began to clench his hands tightly to keep from screaming in pain.

Initially he just felt that his body was getting stronger with a comfortable layer of Mana, but because he evolved his Mana Core twice in such a short time, the amount of current Mana was unbearable for his body.

Instead of the gentle mana he felt before, now it was like he was drowning in a dam that had burst, it was too much water for him to handle, and it was consuming a lot of Arthur's mental energy right now,

But Arthur endured, despite the great regret he felt for doing something so stupid, Arthur knew that as painful as it was, if he could handle it his body would have a much greater improvement than if he did it the ordinary way. .

Injecting such a large amount of Mana into such a weak body, it was nourishing its base, causing even the weakest and most distant muscles in the body to overdose on mana and strengthen to a much greater level than a person. normal.

It took Arthur 3 hours to stabilize his cultivation and sit down again.

Luckily he was in an isolated place in the Sect, where players couldn't see him, otherwise they might think 'the NPC was buggy'.

When Arthur got up, he felt that the power in his body was infinite, that with a small movement he could move mountains and destroy cities.

But these thoughts didn't last long in Arthur's mind, he knew that the difference between the amount of Mana from a Mid Mortal Core to a Peak Mortal Core was not very big, the biggest difference was that the quality of that mana was higher, besides that having a few more Mana was much better than having less, after all, a person with 5 mana could destroy a person with only 3 mana, whereas Arthur, who had at least three times more mana than a normal person ? He believed that if he found another person at the same cultivation level as himself, that person wouldn't even be able to hurt him.

"I need to stabilize my strength to deal with the Elementary Core monster that is missing for the mission tomorrow." Arthur said with a serious expression as he quietly exited the Sect and infiltrated deeper into the forest.

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Players were excited. Some had thought that it would be impossible to get accepted into this sect and that they would miss the opportunity to play the Beta of that game, but I could imagine that a player would use another game's tactics to achieve this, and that the game's NPC wouldn't not only did it prevent it, but it also taught, encouraging this player to share this technique with everyone!

Players who previously had only 15 points, have now accumulated approximately 50 points in total. They knew that as long as they kept up the speed of killing monsters tomorrow, they would definitely be accepted into the sect!

But while the players rested and chatted in the sect, one player ran in scared.

"Brothers, I think I discovered a hidden mission!" The player yelled alarming the other players.