Next morning.
Lukas sat in his room inside the Whitewood Inn. A pillar of star energy as thick as an adult human’s head descended from sowhere deep in the void. As it moved down, the pillar split into two small streams of star energy before disappearing into the stars behind his hands.
This process lasted for a breath of ti. When Lukas’s eyes suddenly sprang open, a look of pure ecstasy was visible in them.
"My completely drained reserves were refilled in just half an hour of ditating. In the past, when I used to ditate with Night Dipper Star Energy thod, it took half a dozen hours. Amazing! As expected of a Rank Four star energy absorption thod."
Lukas didn’t get up but continued to analyze the changes. It was only after the next breath of ti that he stopped ditating and focused on sothing else.
Thinking of the second matter at hand, his eyes narrowed, and a solemn look appeared on his face.
No matter how many talents I have, if my cultivation doesn’t progress against Second Sequence monsters and awakeners at the Blood Infusion realm, these talents would be of no help.
Although high-grade talents can help fight several levels above in the sa realm, every major realm signifies a fundantal challenge in an awakener’s strength. As such, I can’t afford to ignore cultivation.
This was very clear not just to him but to all awakeners. It was an unwritten rule in the settlent: before achieving a Body Refining cultivation of at least Rank 3, no awakener moved out to hunt, spending their ti inside doing odd jobs to earn money as they accumulated strength.
With all these thoughts in mind, Lukas’s thoughts wandered to the next matter at hand.
"The star beast horde might be dangerous, but if I play my cards right, not only can I farm talents and sacrifice points but also gather enough star crystals to buy my ticket back ho..."
Lukas wasn’t clear exactly why, but according to the rumors, the price to use the settlent teleport and head back had been increased to ten thousand star crystals—a gigantic amount that many awakeners might not earn in their lifeti.
Although he had no reason to go back to the real world, he still wanted to check on his little sister. Their eting may have been very brief, but Risa’s kindness had left a deep impression on him.
She had said everything was fine and that he didn’t need to worry, Lukas could tell she was hiding sothing. As to what exactly it was, he wasn’t sure.
The next mont, he shook his head to get rid of all these thoughts. Now was not the ti to think. He’d better focus on the matters at hand.
With this thought in mind, he focused on the Star Eater Body Refining thod. Following its instructions, he pulled energy out from the stars and started circulating it through his body, starting from his head all the way down to his feet. As the energy flowed through his body, Lukas felt an incredibly giddy sensation all over his figure, as if he was getting a massage. Every single muscle in his body relaxed, slowly contracting and expanding, easing all the stored tension. As he continued to circulate again and again, a lightly pale coppery glow erged from deep within him.
This pale glow represented his body cultivation at the Early Body Refining realm. With each circulation of the star energy, the coppery glow beca more clear and defined. This process lasted for exactly fifteen minutes when Lukas’s eyes opened, and a slightly grim look appeared on his expression.
"My star energy—all of it is gone..."
The sensation was so blissful and satisfactory that Lukas completely forgot about the star energy expenditure. In just fifteen minutes, both of his stars were completely empty. If he had continued without noticing, he might have fainted from star energy exhaustion.
Thankfully I stopped in ti... This short session was quite fruitful...
Lukas muttered while clenching and unclenching his fist. He could feel vigorous strength coursing through his veins. Although most of his star energy might have been gone, he could feel his strength had also increased by at least ten percent. If before he could casually throw a punch carrying a hundred kilograms of force, now it had increased to one hundred ten kilograms.
A significant increase, considering the fact that he had only ditated for just fifteen minutes.
The more Lukas thought about it, the more shocked he beca. One must not forget: Star Eater Body Refining thod functioned the best when the user devoured organic matter, not by simply ditating. If instead of ditating, Lukas had devoured star beast flesh, the increase in strength might be doubled. Instead of ten percent, his strength would have increased by twenty percent.
And all of this was when the skill was only at rare grade. Once he upgraded it to epic grade or even legendary, just how fast would his strength increase?
Lukas almost started to drool while thinking about it.
No wonder Body refining thods were so expensive and hard to get even with money.
"Hmm, in the next few days, my priority should be upgrading the Star Eater Body Refining thod to at least legendary grade, if not directly evolving it to Second Sequence..."
While Lukas was thinking, the room door suddenly parted open, and a figure walked inside, drenched in blood from head to toe. It was none other than his roommate Ambrose.
His eyes sharpened, after all this ti had had almost forgotten about her, Lukas’s gaze didn’t linger on her figure but instead moved to the sword hanging on her waist. Compared to how sharp its edge was before, right now the sword was chipped at various places and even looked slightly bent.
All in all, the sword had been seriously violated!
Compared to Ambrose’s dirty but alluring appearance, after resting, Lukas had changed back into a fresh set of clothes—a loose white robe.
Maybe it was the clean appearance or sothing else, but Ambrose seed to have misunderstood sothing and said in a cold tone:
"What a coward! To not even go out to defend your ho! You deserve to have your ho destroyed by the star monsters..."
Looking at his clean appearance, Ambrose had concluded that Lukas had stayed in this room during the last wave, hiding until the danger passed.
Hmph!
Hearing her cold words, a frown appeared on his face.
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