838 Absorption 2 (1/2)

Hua…

The cave that Garen was in had its size increased from the original 10 meters' width to 20 meters.

The White Peacock Stone that formed the wall had also begun to turn yellowish; apparently, its purity was decreasing. The ground had now accumulated a thick layer of fine white powder.

The water snake had been hiding in the lake, circling around while waiting for Garen. Its pair of green eyes stared at Garen's location with curiosity and awe.

Cough cough…

After a few coughs, a figure walked out from amidst the white powder. It was Garen who was wearing his black protective clothing.

The surface of his protective clothing was covered in white powder and his body had returned to its original state without any abnormalities.

”There's nothing left to absorb… The quantity this time is very good. But compared to the accumulation that was transported for me to absorb previously, the efficiency is not much higher. The stones that were collected by them were all high purity stones and their quantity was also significant. The absorption from that time was equivalent to a third of what I absorbed here.”

Garen brushed away the powder on his body and compared the harvest this time.

”Even so, the advantage of coming out is that I can freely do the absorption. As long as I find the place, I can absorb straight away without any repercussions.”

Looking at his Attribute Panel, the progress of the Fifth level had increased again.

'Secret Technique — Hellfrost Peacock Technique: Living Secret Technique, Fourth Level, Fifth Level completion rate: 72%.'

”If I could find such a place again, I should be able to completely break through to the Fifth level,” Garen was in a great mood.

Looking around at the powder on the ground, it was all high-energy fuel powder. Although it was not purified and there were a lot of impurities, it could still be used.

Garen stretched out his hand and blue threads came out.

”Devour!”

The skill was activated fully and the places where the threads made contact, all of the white powder there disappeared soundlessly.

At the same time, Garen felt that the Distorted Seed in his chest was growing heavier and larger.

A few minutes later, the entire layer of white powder, which had been more than a meter thick, was completely absorbed into Garen's body.

He already had a bulge on his chest.

Rip!!

After a ripping sound, a hole appeared at the bulge on his chest. Garen quickly pulled down the zipper on the protective clothing. With a sticky sound from the hole, a ball of flesh was squeezed out.

The hole in the chest quickly closed up and recovered.

Garen pressed on the wound. There was not a single hint of pain.

”It was as I thought, this Living Secret Technique is a path of evolution, and the more I move forward, the less human I become,” he murmured while looking at the lump of flesh in his hand.

”This is the Distorted Seed?”

The meat ball was the size of a rugby ball. Its surface was smooth but covered with the white and red muscles that branched all over like a web.

”What's the use of this thing?” Garen did not find a way to use it with the Living Secret Technique. He gently threw it away and took a few steps back.

The Distorted Seed fell on the floor and squirmed for a bit.

Peng!!

A violent explosion occurred and a large amount of blood and transparent liquid burst out, affecting a wide area which was more than half of the cave. All the places that were affected were all covered in a thick layer of blue frost.

”What is this? A portable bomb?” Garen shook his head. ”Completely useless. If it was in the ancient times, the power is certainly strong, but in this age of technology, the power is too small, the area it covers is also small and the way to manufacture it is also inconvenient. As expected, the Distorted Seed was a liability.”

Garen looked at the water snake in the lake, where it was trying to shrink itself. It seemed to fear the ice that had been produced from the explosion.

”Come here,” Garen beckoned it over.

The water snake sprang out of the lake's surface and slithered to the Garen's side while hissing.

”Bring me to another place that's like this.”

Without any hesitation, the water snake motioned for Garen to grab on to its tail, turned around and slid back towards the lake.

This time, the water snake took only a few minutes before finding a similar cave.

Garen spent another half an hour absorbing the essence of the cave. The completion of the Fifth Level reached 92%. Then, the third time…

Repeating this over and over, Garen did not know how many times he had let the water snake take him to find the White Peacock Stones. Sometimes it was in caves and sometimes it was at the bottom of the lake, but there was never a time that he returned empty-handed. A large amount of powder was swallowed up by him to form Distorted Seeds that were left at each location.

In this manner, he stayed at the Colorful Lake for two days until the agreed time to leave the border. Garen was reluctant to leave the Colorful Lake. After checking the aircraft, he flew towards the direction where he came from. At the same time, all the Distorted Seeds that he had deposited were all detonated at the same time, forming an ice cold zone at the bottom of the lake. This was to eliminate any potential danger that could come out of others discovering a large amount of highly explosive powder.

That water snake was given a name, Black Line. At the time when Garen was leaving, it circled around Garen many times to display its reluctance. This snake was considered to have quite a high intelligence similar to trained dogs. Now it had some kind of attachment to Garen. After swimming for a long time on the surface of the lake, it slowly dove down. Before Garen left, he had fed it a little bit of his blood as repayment for its help during these last few days. That drop of blood contained the transformation power of the Hellfrost Peacock, but he did not know whether the water snake could absorb it.

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The border of the Polar Region

In the red glow of the evening sky, there were milky, translucent circles fluttering about. They looked like smoke rings in the yellowish red sky tinted with light green, similar to someone using a paintbrush to leave traces in the sky.