A week later, in the Real World, Eastdam State.
After countless days of working and analyzing runes, Nash finally mastered the 618 blue runic programs needed to create the [Soul Training Module System].
Looking at his brand-new runic panel, Nash felt deeply satisfied.
[Nash Navre
Body Saturation: 360%
Soul Saturation: 5%
Red Runic Program: 1,562/2,322
Blue Runic Program: 618/10,818
Runic Module System:
Sensing, Control, Body Training, Soul Training, Autonomous, Overloading, Overclocking, mory, Combat, Recovery]
Unable to rge the two training module systems, Nash had to split them into Body Training and Soul Training modules.
A Runic System is different from a Runic Program.
While the Runic System was like an app, the Runic Program was its building block, and the various functions were used within the app.
Since the two runic systems ca from different runic programs, they couldn’t be rged.
Eager to test the efficiency of the [Soul Training Module System], Nash tapped to open it.
[Soul Training Module System:
Basic Soul Absorption thod - Efficiency: 1 elental crystal/min]
"Start!"
Holding an elental crystal, he activated the new runic system.
Like a straw, his body soon began to actively draw energy from the elental crystal.
What once took hours was now shortened to a re minute.
Even better, as he stood up and moved his body, the [Soul Training Module System] remained uninterrupted.
Pulling out hundreds of attributeless elental crystals from his storage ring, Nash felt a rush of energy in his soul.
Hours passed, and just as he expected his soul to enter a fatigue stage, nothing happened.
It seed his soul was immune to harm, as it continued to absorb elental crystals.
---
After eight hours, having finished his daily exercises, his soul still showed no signs of fatigue.
[Soul Saturation: 13.4%]
"Aweso!"
In just a few hours, his soul saturation rate had jumped from 5% to over 13%!
The efficiency of the runic module system was truly unmatched.
However, his rapid progress was mainly due to his seemingly invulnerable soul.
He read in the soul manual that a soul could usually only endure six hours of intense training.
But even after eight hours, Nash felt no strain.
In fact, he felt energized, like he had a good night’s sleep.
The only problem was the cost of increasing his soul saturation.
After eight hours of soul training, he had spent 480 elental crystals!
One had to know that a single elental crystal held ten tis more energy than a void crystal.
That ant he just burned through the equivalent of nearly 5,000 void crystals for just a bit of progress.
"It seems my soul is cursed too!"
Like his body, which needed ten tis the normal energy, his soul was the sa.
It wasn’t a lack of talent or anything like that, but simply that 90% of the energy he absorbed seed to vanish.
His other issue was the dwindling supply of elental crystals.
Camilla had only sent him 1,000 attributeless elental crystals; now, only 470 remained.
"I can only buy elental crystals in the Dark Plane..."
Still unable to buy items in the virtual world for delivery to Earth, Nash had to rely on the Dark Plane to get what he needed.
Fortunately, elental crystals were a natural resource, not a technological wonder, so he should be able to buy them at a fair price in the Dark Plane.
"Ti to head to Dark Willow Shelter..."
After tidying his appearance, Nash slipped into the Virtual Pod.
But before doing so, a sudden idea struck him.
Continuing to activate the [Soul Training Module System], he scattered all his elental crystals around.
Although his soul would materialize in the Dark Plane, leaving his body behind, a faint connection would still remain.
This is how he could use rits to boost his void saturation while his body stayed in the physical world.
Convinced it was worth a try, Nash looked forward to the results by the end of the day.
---
eting up with his teammates, they checked their equipnt as usual and headed toward the Willow Prival Forest.
With the [Autonomous System] controlling his body, Nash focused on deducing the next part of the God Body Astral Art.
Creating the [Soul Training Module System] had left him no ti to complete the deduction of the God Body Astral Art.
So far, he has only deduced up to 520% saturation of the manual.
Fortunately, his strength was already overflowing.
Unless he ventured into a yellow-level danger zone, he didn’t need more power.
---
Soon, while deducing the following parts of the God Body Astral Art, the [Autonomous Module System] skillfully guided his body through dozens of hours of hunting.
Returning to the Dark Willow Shelter, Nash collected yesterday’s paynt while leaving so teammates to oversee the evaluators sorting and calculating their day’s harvest.
"I’ll head out first. I’ve got sothing to do."
"See you tomorrow, boss!"
"Yeah, sa ti tomorrow."
Leaving his team, Nash didn’t return to reality as usual but headed to the teleportation station to travel to Iron Fall Shelter.
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Iron Fall Shelter, Star Tower.
"Welco to the Star Tower, Sir Noir. How can I help you?" The receptionist greeted him with familiarity.
As a VIP and frequent visitor to the Star Tower, most of the receptionists already knew Nash.
"I’m here to buy attributeless elental crystals. Do you sell them here?"
"Of course, we sell elental crystals at the Star Tower," the receptionist nodded.
Although widely available in the virtual world and on so prosperous planets, the convenience of the Dark Plane was unmatched.
No matter where one was in the universe, they could extract any item they owned in the Dark Plane to the real world.
Though there was an expensive materialization fee to bring items into reality, to the wealthy, it didn’t matter.
Moreover, the materialization fee was based on an item’s void capacity, not its value.
For an attributeless elental crystal, it only costs 10 rit points to materialize.
"How much is the attributeless elental crystal you have here?"
"It’s 25 rits for one."
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