44 Breakthrough

Alaric took a look at his stopwatch, almost 3 hours had passed from when he gave Sonic the order to retrieve magical beast corpses.

Soon, the cthulhu slime arrived, 'My lord! I have retrieved 11 soul shards, 7 rank-3 storm wolf corpses, 4 rank-3 dire boar corpses, 7 rank-2 red fang jaguars, and 4 rank-2 mushroom men!'

As he arrived, a crash sounded, the source being a pile of magical beast corpses, with 11 soul shards to the side of it.

Alaric's eyes lit up, 'Good job sonic! These soul shards are enough for me to become rank-2!'

Although there was a small bottleneck between rank 1 and rank 2, it wasn't as large as the deep chasm between rank 3 and rank 4. After accumulating and fortifying every day, he was definitely able to cross that boundary with 11 soul shards.