Mining mana and elemental crystals for days on end was a boring affair. Though, he had learned something extremely beneficial on the third day, while he experimented a little with his newly obtained mana gathering technique.
Shane pondered for a long time, wondering what he should do with the fortune he had earned through mining crystals. In the end, he decided to invest everything for himself, while leaving enough for Umbra's next quality upgrade.
Compared to others, he had earned a fortune and by the third day, he had already purchased all the necessary manuals to reach a 60% mana purity, with a good mana gathering technique. He had even gone ahead and purchased a [Tier-2 (Gold)] body refining technique.
Now he had nearly everything needed to improve his cultivation and body refining and with his multiple manuals. He also had to think of ways in order to protect himself in a better way, because his equipment mainly consisted of Tier-1 items.
This led Shane to accumulate funds in order to procure better equipment, with which he would be able to kill or at least injure all kinds of beasts within the Basic Dimensions.
Because his goal was set, Shane's mining speed increased further as a steady influx of gold coins motivated him to work harder. The Elus-merchant hundreds of thousand galaxies away laughed heartily in his incorporeal form because Shane who was seen as a small fry, sent him tens of thousand crystals, bringing him a fortune and a good reputation among the Elus nobles.
While mining, Shane also practiced his newly acquired [Tier-2 (Gold)] mana gathering technique in order to accomplish several tasks at the same time.
As his focus was unstable, he could only gather a small number of mana particles at a time. But due to his amity with mana, coupled with [Artemis' Blessing], it was still enough to fill his mana pool.
After the mana gathering process was done, Shane switched to his [Tier-1 (Gold)] mana purifying technique instead of the [Tier-2 (Gold)] one, because he didn't want to bother about mixing the two techniques.
He couldn't let his mana purity cross 28% before he acquired the [Apprentice-(Mythic)] body refining technique.
Some might call him stupid or naive, but a simple mistake could lead to him accidentally practice the wrong technique.
As such, Shane sealed the technique with the help of his system which could be unsealed only when he ordered the system to do so or once he achieved his set goal.
Cultivating while doing something else was extremely difficult. If he were to be honest it was a negligible amount one would achieve within a few hours in focused cultivation, but Shane was still happy with his achievement after another three days.
Six days passed and it was midnight when Shane remembered something important that happened four days prior.
2 days after his emotional outburst on the family group chat, he had received a few notifications, while Aunt Kia had messaged him privately.
The notifications were from the academies telling him that he was accepted. It was not really something noteworthy in his opinion because his cultivation and body refining rank were already quite good compared to average peers.
Owing to his high consumption of the [Mortal-(Mythic)] body refining technique, Shane was slower than others. But, his funds balanced this out, allowing him to stay at the same rank or even above peers from average households.
Because he knew that most higher households and nobles didn't bother about academies, Shane never doubted that he would be rejected by any academy, but Aunt Kia's message was still something he didn't expect.
'Huh? Aunt Kia became the principal of the [Shirai] academy? Since when..' Curious about his Aunt's decision, Shane continued to read the message when he read something particular.
<I hope you'll attend the [Shirai] academy. I can roughly understand your reasoning and I think your chances to enter the Dimension-spheres are the best here. Furthermore, I won't tell your dad, so don't worry.
You don't even have to attend classes if your grades reach a certain threshold and you can learn other stuff in the meantime, because I taught you most things, notwithstanding the books from the Primordial library.
If you don't come, I'll be sad…>
Sighing, Shane realized that he was in a tricky position.
'If I don't have to attend lessons and only sit the exams plus if the ranking system determines who'll enter the dimension-spheres, it will be much easier for me to learn other stuff within the primordial dimension and more importantly Aunty won't be sad…
BUT why does it have to be the [Shirai] academy? Isn't that one of the worst? ….
Well..even if it's the worst, does it affect my plan??... Come to think of it, it doesn't even matter which academy I join, as long as they have a dimension-sphere with a few decent skill tomes and martial art manuals.'
In the end, Shane sent a simple message to his Aunty Kia, while being reminded about her childish, yet somewhat formal personality.
<Aunty...you don't have to be sulky!! I'll attend the Shirai academy! But don't force me to do anything else, alright?>
Somehow, since Shane had escaped his father's grasp, he hadn't liked to be controlled anymore. It was also the reason for him to bother about the tiny strand in his mind, which was the implemented system.
It was neither uncomfortable nor had it harmed him to date, but he couldn't come to terms with the sensation of being supervised all the time.
While continuing to mine crystals multiple hours a day and passively cultivating, Shane didn't slack off and worked extremely hard.
He gave his best and used some of his spare time in order to break into the 10th Mortal stage, while his perfect physique also improved significantly.
Having used up all of the previously purchased cultivation resources, Shane was shocked to notice that the demand for a perfect physique was still higher than he had expected.
In the end, he would have to make another large purchase costing him 500 gold coins which included 75 [Tier-1 (Trash)] mana stones and 12 [Tier-1 (Trash)] nutrition solutions.
Because he was already shopping at that time, Shane decided to purchase a better leather armor and new daggers.
He purchased a [Tier-2 (rare)] leather armor with protection runes inscribed in it for 380 gold coins with a dagger set costing him 370 gold coins.
Both daggers were [Tier-2 (Uncommon)] Tempered Railore-iron Daggers; one of them was curved with a length of 28 centimeters, while the other one was straight with a length of 30 centimeters.
In order to protect his face, he also purchased a [Tier-2 (Common)] pitch-black mask with two horns protruding out of the forehead for 25 gold coins.
Adding everything together, Shane had purchased goods worth more than 4000 gold coins in a single week, which shocked him greatly.
But this didn't mean he had nothing left. He quickly checked his status panel and smiled lightly.
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Title: [Berserk-Hunter(F)]
Occupation: [None]
Name: Shane Suro (Orus)
Race: [Human 100%]
Cultivation Level: Mortal-10th [Purity 10.59%]
Body Refinement: [Perfect Physique→Mortal-8th]
Cultivation Manual:
→Mana purifying [Tier-1&2-(Gold)]
→Mana gathering [Tier-2 (Gold)]
Body refining manual:
→[Mortal-(Mythic)]-[Tier-1&2 (Gold)]
<Skills/Techniques>
![Artemis´ Blessing]+
[Innate Skill]: Taming |Common-★★ (+)|
Finances: 1336 gold coins 45 silver coins
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Every aspect of his status panel seemed to increase slowly yet steadily and Shane couldn't help but be astonished about the fact that he had barely entered the Primordial Dimensions 40 days ago.
So much had changed in such a short time, that it almost felt like an eternity, when a sudden memory re-emerged.
'Sh*t...I almost forgot the academy!! How late is it?!....' Gasping, Shane noticed that it was already midnight. He had to attend the first day of the academy, even if he didn't want to bother about it.
Even if he didn't necessarily need to learn skills or martial art techniques from the dimension-spheres, it was excessively cheaper. He wouldn't have to pay thousands of gold coins for it, which was the reason for him to enter any academy in the first place.
Not wasting funds!!
As such, Shane charged out of the elemental crystal cave, as he passed a few weak Wild stage beasts that slowly began to inhabit the area around it.
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