’A few minutes more,’ I thought as I ran around the traps.
The people have refreshed the traps, and some looked very recent. They are likely the people who had come here for blue-sartil recently.
It is why people don’t trust cultists.
I avoided every trap. I don’t mind taking a few minutes extra to travel the distance, rather than dealing with the mess those traps would create.
I am confident that I could walk through many of these traps without triggering them, but I would rather not take the risk.
It had been four and a half days since I left for this place. Sleeping only for two and a half hours, I need to recover from the method.
It didn’t affect me much. Especially when I don’t spend time in my core, I could go weeks without sleep if I didn’t spend time in my core.
The main reason I sleep every day is because of the core. It takes a lot.
Minutes passed and stopped as I reached the edge of the crater.
Below me is the violet field, spread over a hundred kilometres, which is nothing to me, much less to the strongest, but despite that, no one has been able to reach the centre of it.
I watched for a few seconds before starting to climb down, reaching the edge.
I didn’t enter. Instead, I stopped at the edge. A moment later, several tools appeared in my hand and entered into the mist, while the door appeared behind me, and I stepped through it.
I want nothing more than to walk inside that violet zone, but I am not in my best state.
I wanted to be fully prepared and rested.
The data and tools that would be collected would also be helpful. Seeing what happened last time, I want to be as much as prepared as possible.
The bastard might still be there. I don’t want to take the risks.
Last time, I had survived, but there was a lot of luck involved. I am more prepared and powerful this time, but I don’t want to take needless risks.
I freshened up and walked into the kitchen. It’s a little early for dinner, but I’m hungry.
I am skipping lunch since I begin the journey. I don’t like to do that, especially when I am out.
An hour later, there was a meal in front of me, which I ate while watching the realistic view of the crater.
Earlier, I used to eat in a room, but now and then, I started to bring out the view. The change helps with the loneliness.
Once I finished, I went directly to the practice.
I could have waited till midnight, but I want to get a good night’s sleep tonight.
I fell down as I finished the last pose of the dance. I wanted to lie down slowly, but the tiredness of the journey and lack of sufficient sleep had made me really tired.
It was a miracle that I was able to practice the methods successfully at all.
When I woke, it was early morning as usual. I am feeling refreshed, like I have not felt in the past couple of days.
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I didn’t get up immediately. Instead, I closed my eyes. A moment later, I appeared in my core, before walking toward my clone.
I am still on the edge, and every hour receiving the data from the violet zone.
One of the tools I had designed would collect data every hour and bring it to the abode. With the quality of tools, this time, I had collected a lot of quality data.
Most importantly, the location of blue sartil metal in the middle region.
These tools are better than they were last time, and they have found a lot of metal. It’s not enough for my purpose, but it will put me on the way.
I looked at every graph and studied every line of data. It didn’t take me long, seeing my clone had already studied them.
A few minutes later, I walked out, and two hours after that, I was standing at the gate.
"I hope I will be finished in the single trip," I said to myself and stepped out.
This time, I am more prepared and powerful. If possible, I want to finish it with a single trip and return, before anyone realizes I had gone anywhere.
I appeared at the edge of the violet zone and took the step inside.
Immediately, I felt the powerful restriction. Even with my breakthrough and large increase in power, I couldn’t bring out my soul sense.
I wonder if that would be the case when I make a breakthrough into the Prime.
Though I won’t be here to find out.
It will take me years, decades to make the breakthrough, that is a lot of time. I don’t want to spend that much time in this forsaken place.
I cleared my thoughts, and a moment later, formations activated, sending the waves of energy.
It couldn’t be compared to the soul sense, but it is the only option I have, and thankfully, this time, my method is much better.
I could now not only sense things more clearly than before, but could also sense things for longer.
It will help me a lot against the dangers, the monsters, and others.
Speaking of monsters, my tools had sensed only one monster, and it looked calmer. Which is good, but I cannot trust it fully.
The sample is small, but I am considering it an encouraging sign.
I don’t want to face the monsters here. I have seen how powerful they are, and despite my advancement, I would try to avoid engaging with them.
I moved through the violet zone, and my speed isn’t fast, but it’s not slow either.
The last time, I had scanned through the outer part of the violet zone.
So this time, I am going directly to the middle and hope I will get all the blue-sartil I need there, or I might need to ventral central part of it.
I really don’t want to do that.