Every step I took in the central section made the energy denser.
It increased the suppression and lessened the range of my senses. The effects become more powerful as I reach deeper into it.
Soon, I stopped as my senses reached the area that I had only heard about.
The core area. It is part of the centre area and it is less than a mile in diameter, but nobody was able to go there; even the strongest reaches the limit here.
My abilities are well-suited for this, and after the new inheritance and the changes I have made. My armor has become more effective at withstanding the effects.
I moved my eyes away from that area; that area might be small enough for me to take a second to cross from one end to another, but it is extremely dangerous.
More dangerous than this central region, where I am already sensing three monsters.
Here, each monster has a domain over a very small area. Outside, monsters of their power control an area hundreds of times greater than this.
There is one reason for it: the energy.
It is so dense here that if I were to fight here now. The monster a few hundred meters away won’t be able to sense it all.
This is both good and bad, as I would have come across someone like a host with the same power difference. It would be very hard for me to survive as I did last time.
Here, I am pushing my methods to sense those three monsters.
I need the range to sense the monsters before they can sense me. If they sensed me, it would be terrible for me.
I pushed those thoughts away and started walking, with my strings moving around me to dig out blue-sartil from the ground.
Due to the energy, it had become even harder to find the metal.
The area my methods cover is much shorter than before, which means. Despite being smaller, I might need more time to sift through this area.
I would be able to save any trouble if I found one big pig. That would immediately solve all my problems.
I had just thought that when I found the first nugget of the central section.
When it appeared in my hand, a smile appeared. The piece is nearly twice the size of the average and purer. Not as one as the pure one I had found earlier, but pure.
It made me happy, but I became excited when I found another piece a few minutes later.
It’s about the same size, and most importantly, the purity.
I put it in my core and moved forward, sensing and collecting more and more of these nuggets. Reaching closer and closer to my target while avoiding the monsters.
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When I suddenly stopped. I noticed something, not far away from me. Even after what I had experienced, I had nearly fallen into it.
There is a plan in front of me, like the one I had encountered on my trip last time, and now in my core.
This one is a lot more powerful.
Now, I had found it, I could sense its power, and it raised all the hair on my body. I am quite powerful, and monsters weren’t enough to make me have this reaction, but this plant does.
I had come thinking. If I found such a plant, I would try to pull it into my core, but seeing it all, the thoughts about it had vanished.
The plant is far too powerful.
The difference in strength is even slightly bigger than what I had with the plant. So, no matter how much I want it, I would not go for it.
It made me feel so much regret. The plan is amazing; just one drop of the core drop was enough for me to recover my essence rapidly.
This one being stronger will have an even stronger essence.
I pushed those thoughts away and walked forward, avoiding its territory and some more. I don’t want to take any chances against it.
It might be regretful, but I have a plant and it is growing stronger.
It is now stronger than it was when I fought it. It wouldn’t take much longer for my core to reach the power of this plant.
I am working toward it, providing the plants everything they need, including the monsters. I had captured some on the way and sent it to my core.
More than half of them went to it and were killed by the plant. The rest are fighting against the bees.
Though right now, the bees barely have an interest in the monsters. They have a target, and they want it, and it wants them too.
Always trying different methods to attract them.
I avoided another monster and picked out another nugget. They are higher density here, not only because it’s close to the core, but also because very few people can come here.
In the whole realm, fewer than ten people have the power to come to this place, even fewer to walk like I am walking, for the time I am doing.
They could barely stay here for a few hours. Me, a lot longer. Only the three could compare to me.
A few more minutes passed when I suddenly stopped. A few minutes later, the familiar wolf sped past. It was barely a hundred meters away from me, but it didn’t sense me.
It made me relieved and gave me greater confidence in my abilities.
It is the closest monster that has come to me here, and it didn’t sense me. Still, I didn’t move for several seconds before resuming walking.
Time passed, and I collected nugget after nugget of the blue-sartil metal, when finally, I had stopped.
This time it’s not because of the monster or something I had sensed, but because I had accomplished my mission. I had gathered the amount of blue-sartil that I needed to finish the tool.