449 Meritless (1/2)

Raven woke up the next day, feeling somewhat okay but still relatively exhausted.

He ate a hearty meal to recover some of his energy and began restoring his missing ones through meditation. Raven was basically running on fumes at this point, a price he had to pay for his miscalculation of time. He basically has to restore 99% of his total Cosmic Energy this time around, and judging with how much energy his current body could hold, he'll have to endure a painstaking conversion for at least a week.

Raven had thought of turning this room into a time chamber but he ultimately decided against it.

Even if he was severely weakened, Raven was still as alert as ever. He knew that he's still being monitored through various arrays hidden within this room. Although he isn't sure whether it was the Envoys of Ancient Elysium Sect who placed this or the Twin Star Academy, he still maintained his alertness and wouldn't casually expose his secrets that easily.

He could even endure not going inside the Crown Space during the entirety of his Smelting Trial turned into a seclusion, so there's no way that he wouldn't be able to endure for a couple more days.

As for not joining the Tournament, Raven really couldn't care less about Spiritual Treasures.

With how Henry explained it, he estimated that the lowest rank would of course get the lowest ranked Spiritual Treasure while the first place gets the best quality.

Raven had no need to compete for those.

Back in the Martial Emperor Sect, Raven got not only one but two Spiritual Treasures. One of them was an Immortal-ranked Spiritual Treasure which could calm one's soul and strengthen it - well, in Raven's case, could help his soul recover. While the other one, was a Perfected Deity Ranked Spiritual Treasure gloves which could turn into an Empyrean Ranked treasure once he got the necessary supplements for it.

Up until now, the spiritual mat is still helpful for his soul recovery. It could even accelerate his learning speed and his senses, similar to the effects of Moonshine.

On the other hand, the Crimson Dragon Emperor's Glove was already something that Raven considers as one of his trump cards. Because he mainly uses his fists and legs to fight, the gloves raises the strength of his punches to the next level. And with how much Raven's strength has grown during this recent seclusion, the effect of the gloves became even more noticeable.

In fact, Raven used it pretty often during his seclusion. During that time, he formed a solid link with the gloves and gained the recognition of the Spiritual Treasure itself, allowing him to use it more naturally. Due to the spiritual treasure syncing with him, its effects became even more pronounced during the times he used it. It's even safe to say that the gloves and Raven are almost inseparable already.

With this in mind, Raven's decision of not joining the tournament would make sense. But of course, that's not entirely the reason why Raven decided not to join.

Had Henry said that there will be Merit Points to gain for this tournament, Raven would've agreed to join without batting an eyelid. However, during his announcement yesterday, Henry didn't mention it even once. Which of course led to Raven thinking that there will be no merit points rewarded for this tournament.

In Raven's mind, there's no way that a man of such caliber would forget to mention such a simple thing, therefore he was confident that his guesses were correct.

And because there was no Merit Point reward, there were no essence behind this Tournament at all, therefore Raven didn't want to join since it's just unnecessary.

With his experience, Sects who established a system that has something to do with rendering meritorious services would definitely be the focal point of the sect itself. He would know since he established the same system back at the kingdom. With such a system, the value of ordinary currency would drop by a large degree, at some point it would even be useless altogether.

Additionally, after seeing the items that the Ancient Elysium Sect could offer and could be exchanged using Merit Points, even Raven who had experienced two lifetimes were left in awe. He wasn't even a disciple during that time yet he could already tell just how important Merit Points will be within the Sect. Therefore, he was already thinking about forming a plan that could allow him to earn tons of merit points.

Although it was unfortunate that the tournament doesn't offer any merit point reward, he was satisfied to not be forced to join such meaningless chore. Therefore, he could spend all of his remaining time in recovering his energies.