Chapter 935: Blood Essence (2/2)

”Well, I'll know once I try it out.” Krune shook his head and began to retreat, scouting across the mountain range to find caves that were hidden and wouldn't fall under the radar of the Monster Geckos.

After all, most of them didn't leave the forest of bone trees. As the caves were on the very edge where nothing grew, there wasn't a chance they would try to roam there. Moreover, Krune discovered a couple more routes to climb up the mountain range, apart from the one he arrived at the start.

Unlike that route, these were more secluded and weren't beside any bone trees. So, his worries were lessened. As the fruits from the bone trees were the food of the Monster Geckos, the Monster Geckos on watch outside all across the mountain range would only arrive through places that were nearest to the forest.

And since they were able to walk over the walls as if it was normal, they wouldn't even need the help of the paths.

Eventually, after a couple of days of scouting one side of the place, Krune managed to find 10 caves that fit his description.

He already planted the branch of a bone tree in each, intending to grow them soon enough. After that, Krune hunted a Monster Gecko daily, capturing it alive before making a small cut on its tail, attaching it to one of the bone tree branches.

Once its blood was completely sucked dry, he stored the meat and bones in his cave. Upon seeing that they began to grow into a tree at a rapid pace, he kept up with his hunt, training with the Whale Tooth Sword and making traps during his free time.

From time to time, he could hear the screams of some Monster Geckos from whose bodies a bone tree began to grow all of a sudden, causing them to pull it out immediately. In most of those cases, the Monster Gecko was fine, having treated it swiftly.

All they suffered was a flesh wound that healed within a couple of weeks. As for the unlucky ones, they died when the bone sprouts growing from their bodies were pulled out. Their roots had already tangled with the leg bones of the Monster Gecko, bringing them along when the bone sprouts were pulled out.

To ensure that he wouldn't alert the Monster Gecko village too much, Krune also began to make longer trips, soon approaching the vicinity of the second village as he began to hunt the Monster Geckos from there. Just to make it seem fair, he also laid down traps during his frequent trips. This way, both villages would suffer.

Through such a schedule, he soon filled his cave with enough meat to last him for the rest of his stay on the Primary Landmass. When he reached that point, Krune began to consume more and more meat voraciously, training and working harder so that his body would burn all the food he was consuming.

With such conditions, he trained his body even more roughly, depending on the water in his cave at the end of the day to heal any fatigue and strains developed in him. This way, when he woke up, he felt fresh, without any sore muscles.

His training continued at a steady pace as Krune was able to swing the Whale Tooth Sword at least three to four times before his arms started to ache, a considerable improvement from the start when he wasn't even able to make a proper swing.

Another month passed in such a fashion as Krune looked at the massive fruit hanging before him. It was as big as him, looking no different from the one he had seen before. Similarly, all the other nine caves also contained the same fruit.

Until now, he wasn't discovered, a massive thanks to the passive ability, Sonic Radar. Krune realized that he wouldn't have been able to do anything without the two passives that he relied on for everything.

Neon Radiance and Sonic Radar. They had become one with him now, having used them for literally everything. Moreover, as he used them, his expertise with them was improving, now being able to use them with greater precision. With that, his scouting abilities had also improved.

Finally, as the day he thought approached, Krune took great pains to capture a Monster Gecko alive and dragged it all the way to one of the caves, keeping an eye on its expression all along. Upon seeing its excitement when it noticed the massive fruit, Krune smiled, thinking that his conjecture had indeed worked.

After all, it seemed the fruits of the bone trees directly nurtured the Monster Geckos. So, if one lived long enough and had consumed a lot of the fruits, it would eventually turn into a Mutant. And if it lived even longer and consumed even more fruits, it would become a King.

But, the massive fruit shortened this process, allowing a normal Monster Gecko to become a Mutant within a week. All the fruits on the bone trees were concentrated blood essence that seemed to develop the monsters drastically.

After his numerous experiments, Krune was able to say that with assurance.