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My physical body is extremely drained, so are my clones, they are on the verge of hibernation. I sigh but what can you do? It was a tough fight, with a bunch of successes with the added benefit of 400 fragments, he is only around 250 away from filling his core. But he ended up using way too many arrows.. 5 arrows gone, only 6 more, which is only slightly more than the amount he used to kill the other.
I waddle back home drained, excited and immensely burdened by carrying a tone of corrupted materials. Due to the memory, the user has to endure all the thing he has put in, but in exchange it gains a storage space equivalent to a garage.
I see Tom, swinging, it's been 2 days of trekking through the forest. Due to being extremely limited on essence, having to abuse the blank tunic armor, damaging my soul while trying to survive the groups trying to fill the vacuum of the K9 ruler.
Tom looks in my direction, and gasps. He runs to me and help me walk. "thanks dude." he helps me to a chair. "what the fuck happened? Did you get surrounded by nightmare creatures?"
I chuckle. "I did some clean up~" his eyes widen and wants more answers. I grin, my cocky attitude zooming back up to the max, while my body cultivates essence twice the speed. I pull out the essence shards of the tyrant, As well as the surviving corpses. sighing in relief from losing that heavy burden I look at the face he's making.
"…Luke… I need answers. Right now." he looks at me like I'm a mad man, which I am. i mean who dumps transcendent shards on the ground with corrupted corpses!!
"I am Luke~ the one and only survivor of the great unknowns~ who survived a full year as a sleeper without society, who spent months hunting down corrupted as a mere awakened, a pioneer of modern spell tech and Runic Sorcery! A human with a Monster Core! I am the only one, no, WILL be the only one, mad enough to hunt 37 Corrupted demons and 1 corrupted tyrant and won!"
He looks at me with a look of madness, disbelief and the insane reality of an awakened doing that 'on his own' I grin, my essence refilling back to full. "I'm going to bed, don't tell anyone about this achievement yet, I'm far too busy with important matters." I head inside, grabbing a change of clothes and bandages.
I realize that my wounds are too grievous that I might bleed out and head back out and to the healers of the Raven heart. Some people give me strange looks but they are very used to this sight by now, after all it is the dream realm, the natural habitat for battle, blood and gore. As I walk by, a pretty looking women with deep black hair and eyes walks down the street,
'hands of a warrior?' but I sense no essence? But then I feel something weird.. Like a someone is watching me. I look around confused, and creeped out.
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'how peculiar..' Sunny thought to himself, while looking at the weird abomination in front of him. 'a divine aspect holder? No.. the monster core seems to be built on, but only suitable because of his endurance. 'another mad man~ bravo' he falls deeper into the shadow, becoming unnoticed.
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'the strange feeling is gone..' he looks around again but realizes getting his guts to stop falling out is far more important. He finally arrives and gets treated for his injuries.
"hey sir, your wounds seem very severe…" the nurse out front says, using her aspect to soothe me.
"well, I'm short on time, how much is it to get a full heal as fast as possible?" after the spell became an integral part of society, healing aspects are widely sought after, making them a very important part of health care. Though people with weak healing aspects only work in the government because the strong ones are recruited to the clans. But after the antarctica incident, clans have been more open about their healers, willing to use them on civilians or solo awakened, but only if they pay the price.
"I'm sorry sir, but its going to cost a lot more than-" I place 2 transcendent shards on the table "look, I'm really short on time, so I'll pay in shards if I have too."
"coming right away sir!" she brings me to the back, of the building. Most of the rooms, are taken up by severe case injuries, which will probably take days to heal fully.
"here we are sir, these 2 healers, can heal you right up immediately, for 3 Transcendent shards~" I place down 3, which surprises the two healers, after all I am an awakened, with no crest means no backing clan either.
They heal me still confused on how I got those shards, but there's no need to explain. After all everyone has secrets. "all done sir."
I flex my hands, and stretch my body. "thank you~" I walk out and go to the hot springs next. These ones are free, since Raven heart is known for its hot springs there are multiple, some with healing properties, but there is no need. I hop in letting the blood and sweat flush away from my body. Soothing my mind and spirit, "I wish I could heal the clones but that will cost too much…
Currently, his clones are in his soul sea, healing away all the strain they were in. they eat up essence to get them back to full, so currently I'm circling my essence twice over to make sure I can keep up and not get immediately drained. But since I'm in a relax mode, I'm using all my minds to start. Now my essence is no longer stagnant and is actually filling up.
I leave the springs refreshed and with full cores. My clones have taken all their essence they need, all they have to do is heal now. I go home, walking down the street. The noise of the bustling market makes my instincts of danger calm down more.
I finally reach home and take a nice, Long rest.
The next day. I wake up early and start making more arrows and fill up brooches. Currently, I only have half a brooch full of essence, each one can hold up to a single core. As I fill them up placing them on a neck chain, I'm working one of my minds in making more arrows, using a tiny engraving tool to add precise and more intricate runes.
although these tasks are tedious, I plan on obliterating the ant queen which I presume to be a terror the next time I see her, so I need to hurry and also get enough fire power.
After 8 hours I finally fill up 6 brooches and made 1 arrow, but now my production speed can become much higher, as Silverworn is now available. Though my arrow production is much higher, my essence brooches will slow down, only having one line of thought working on it.