27 Lord of Beasts (1/2)
Following the castle's takeover, Kilian used the new Olaf as his intermediary to control the 4,000 remaining guards and dispatch them to gather the needed resources. But although 70% of Ostria's resources now lay in his hands, Kilian focused on the zuri, dra shards, and natal conductors.
Still, as he witnessed the incoming cargos from the top of the castle, Kilian couldn't help but smirk. In terms of zuri quantity alone, Olaf impressed him. A mere viscount, and yet he possessed more than 600 kg of zuri. The entirety of Orloth didn't have more than 700 tonnes, with the average count owning 500 kg, the average marquis, 900 kq, and the average duke, 2 tonnes.
The King of Olroth, Erik von Draken, owned 25 tonnes. Meanwhile, Klaus, the Duke of Kars, owned 100 tonnes. Olroth's military revolved around zuri and dra shards. Whoever could monopolize those resources could run amok within the country. If Olaf wasn't such a wastrel, based on his zuri alone, his military forces would undoubtedly stand on another level.
As for the rest, Kilian counted 367 low-grade Dra Shards, each with 75 dra on average, and 4,126 Natal Conductors. Those numbers remained within his expectations, and he directly got to work.
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[Name: Kilian]
[Race: Human Fehl Mutant]
[Age: 18]
[Magus Rank: top-level Lesser Emissary]
[Battle Prowess: top-level High Emissary]
[Dra Reserves: 11,000]
[Knowledge Points: 55,543]
[Implants: 0]
[Mutation: Stage II Eye of Fehl]
[Innate Abilities: Eye of Distortion, Eye of Revelation]
[Unique Disciplines: Lv. 3 Fleshcrafting\u003c\u003eLv. 3 Transmutation]
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Since Kilian automatically gained 30% kp from those he killed, following the battle, his kp count rose exponentially. And following the eye's rise to the second level, Kilian's Dimensional Rift ability evolved into its true form: the Eye of Distortion.
Presently, it not only enabled him to open spatial rifts but to twist space to create Aversion Fields. Of course, at his current level, many limitations shackled him. First, he couldn't open a rift into a place he neither visited nor could sense. Any attempt at doing so would result in random teleportation. Second, currently, he couldn't open more than two rifts per day. Third, he couldn't bring more than one person with him.
As for his second ability - dark grey rather than crimson - it currently allowed Kilian to get random glimpses into the future, execute every move to perfection, and analyze the nature as well as all the flaws of a structure, battle stance, spell or ability. On the one hand, this ability would allow him to eradicate all errors from his works, on the other hand, his learning pace, battle skills, and creations would rise to brand-new heights.
For the following hours, Kilian relentlessly worked on the production of nano-spiders, pumping his dra to go as fast as he possibly could. Yet, the completion of 2,950 nano-spiders still took him 17 hours. Added to his previous 50, he now had 3,000. Of course, a massive quantity of zuri, dra shards and natal conductors went into that work. Kilian exhausted 110 kg of zuri, 76 dra shards, and 2,950 natal conductors.