442 Smelting Trial 1.5 (2/2)

The requirement to ascend to the second floor is to kill at least one thousand Lesser Imps. If one haven't encountered any lesser imps before, they might start thinking that this requirement is easy to surpass but once they face one, they would soon understand that this is already a high number.

The Lesser Imps on the first floor could easily take down a Hero Knight Expert should they become careless. Since Lesser Imps travel in groups, even a Champion Knight expert wouldn't casually charge at them without a solid plan. This is already enough to slow down their hunt of the imps.

Additionally, as they ascend to higher floors, the Lesser Imps will become stronger and the requirements will become steeper. Which is why most of them decided to take their time.

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Whilst the rest of the participants tried their best to fulfill the requirements as quickly as they could, Raven on the other hand was still stuck within his deep slumbering state.

As his physical body stayed afloat, the large mass of green light that the Heavenly Elk released earlier had now visibly shrunk. Right now, there are no visible changes on his body. It also doesn't seem like Raven was experiencing a difficult problem as well. His face was peaceful, anyone who sees him would think that he's just sleeping.

But the truth was far from that…

Within Raven's body, a scene representing chaos was unfolding. The reason behind this was due to a simple reason…

The seal on his Chaos Force were now removed.

When Raven started cultivating the Book of Chaos, his cultivation path had been different. Due to the unique quality of his constitution, it required Master Geezer to bestow him Cosmic Energy in order for to continue cultivating. But Raven was weak back then so Geezer had to place seals on his Cosmic Energy in order to prevent Raven from imploding.

Due to him experiencing Soul Rebirth, Raven's soul could already bear the burden of the total amount of Cosmic Energy he has. Unfortunately, the same couldn't be said for his physical body. Which is why Raven trained his body extremely hard since that's the only way for him to slowly loosen the seals on his chaos force and use them however he likes.

There are a total of three seals placed on his Cosmic Energy but Raven only managed to release one. And that took him more or less five years to do so.

After that, he was placed on an awkward situation since he could feel that he's barely scratching the surface of the second seal even after consistently trying ways to improve his physical strength. He lamented over the fact that he can't cultivate any other techniques since his foundation for the Book of Chaos had been solidified. He would've loved to try out some Body Forging Techniques but he couldn't.

Which is why he could only sigh and continue doing what he's been doing since there's no other way, that's until now that he met the Heavenly Elk.

Right now, the rest of the seals were broken in one go and he wasn't even aware of it. He was in a deep slumber as his body was currently experiencing a chaotic change.

Previously, the amalgamation of his Cosmic Energy took the form of a sun within his inner world. But now that the seals were broken, it exploded with a loud bang that shook Raven's whole body.

There was a fierce storm on his inner world. Thankfully, the items he placed within weren't touched nor damaged by it. Still this massive storm was like that of the apocalypse. As it rages within his inner world, Raven's whole body was greatly affected as well.

If Raven was awake right now, this scene will for sure make him panic…