Chapter 938: A Yarn of Thread (1/2)

It had been almost six months since Krune entered the Primary Landmass. Unsurprisingly, he was getting rather comfortable in living in the place. His routine consisted of training in his cave after consuming a Blood Essence Crystal before starting a training session that took around two to three hours.

The time varied depending on the intensity of his training. Once that was done, Krune relaxed in the pool, healing all his injuries. For the rest of the day, all he did was satiate his hunger, drink plenty of water, and rest in the pool, healing all his muscle strains.

The intense training burned up his body, causing damage. And then, the healing session allowed him to recover completely, making the prior damaged regions heal stronger. It was akin to forging his entire body.

For the second day, Krune primarily hunted Monster Geckos, using them to water the bone trees he had been planting in the caves throughout the Primary Landmass. From the initial 10, he had expanded to 30 caves. Once he noticed the beneficial property of the Blood Essence Crystals, Krune was unwilling to leave it alone.

After all, it would help him even after leaving the Primary Landmass. It would help him train like mad whenever he wished. Just that alone would make the Godly Points he spent to purchase the ticket to the Primary Landmass more than worth it.

As a mortal, increasing his strength was important. Moreover, as he trained himself using the Blood Essence Crystals, his body became more fit, increasing his stamina. Moreover, he realized that the duration for which he could maintain his Neon Radiance had increased over time.

It wasn't just due to his increased control and understanding of the ability. But, the reserve of energy in his body to fuel the passive ability had increased. Before arriving at the Primary Landmass, if he unleashed his Neon Radiance to the maximum, he would be able to sustain it for 20-30 minutes before he would start to feel tired.

Now, he could sustain for double the duration before the fatigue would kick in. As he continued to train in the ability, his body was evolving accordingly to better wield it. It made him realize a certain fact, muttering, ”Sooner or later, I have to finalize all the passive abilities I would use. That way, I would develop in a set direction. If I keep changing the passive abilities, then my depth of control over their usage wouldn't be high enough. I wouldn't be able to exert dominance over others in the contest of resources.”

His goal was to head to Layer 2 sooner or later. After all, the earlier he went, the more benefits he could obtain. So, he didn't wish to dilly-dally.

With that, the entire second day was spent on hunting Monster Geckos. After hunting them for a while, Krune was able to target them better and better. Moreover, once he expanded his range to the third village, hunting became easier as he got weaker targets to kill.

In every hunting session, he killed three Monster Geckos, no more, no less. He kept his routine to schedule every month. In the latter half of the second day, he spent the time crafting tools that would prove useful for his hunts, especially the traps made using the bone tree branches. He also made tools that would help him after he returned to the Checkpoint Turtle and would have to be adrift on the sea once again.

On the final day, he hunted three Monster Geckos again. For the latter half of the day, he spent the time tracking the villages while laying down his traps. Krune was someone who was a practitioner of equality. Since the first village was suffering from the traps, he had placed some for the second village as well.

And now that he had expanded his range, he began to do the same thing for the third village. The surprising fact was that despite the number of accidents that happened daily, neither the Mutants nor the Kings of the three villages took any action. It seemed that something like this wasn't of their concern.

After all, after the first few days, the Monster Geckos had become somewhat alert, taking action the moment they could feel the pain in their foot intensify. So, the number of deaths thanks to the traps quickly plummeted.

Though, that wasn't Krune's goal in the first place. With that, he was fine with their decreasing effectiveness. After all, what he wished to achieve the most was to incapacitate as many Monster Geckos as he could so that he could conspire against the Mutants and the Kings.

From the day he started his scheme, Krune was indeed trying his best to instigate the Monster Geckos against one another. He was slowly but surely driving a wedge between the different villages, increasing tensions between the different groups.

And in such a fashion, his three-day routine continued until he had lived on the Primary Landmass for six months. At present, even after consuming a Blood Essence Crystal every three days, thanks to the increased number of caves, he had saved up a small stockpile.

Krune planned to increase it to the maximum by the end of his stay. That way, he could continue to train. Besides, he also determined another use, and that was the boost to his passive abilities.

Once he consumed the Blood Essence Crystal, the excess energy circulating in his body amplified his abilities, allowing him to emit more intense light and farther progressive sound waves. This did increase his advantages, allowing him to hunt better.