24 The Power of a Team (2/2)

A large estate that had a water fall running through it and it was well lit, like the early morning skies. The Party explored the area before taking brake, Fei Lei seeing that although they weren't exhausted from fighting just 1-Star threats, they still used a decent amount of their Mana.

”Let's rest up here.” Fei Lei said as he started to head inside the house.

The rest of the party started to remove and perform various maintenances on their gear, Fei Lei searched inside the house and saw that it had a kitchen with wood burning stove, and several rooms, outside of the house was a large lake with a single waterfall running through the area.

”Set up base camp, the recovery zone will be how we survive this next level, if you get tired or run low on Mana, you'll be sent back here while the rest of us continue to battle on the floor below,” Eriks called out to his troop, his three followers started spreading out, collecting water and claiming their rooms.

Fei Lei smiled and headed to the kitchen, he started to prepare a huge serving of meals cooked from food he stored inside his ring, he brought several stocks he had saved up over his time at his place, even managed to get a few farms off the ground, and the best part was the spatial rings ability to keep things fresh.

Before the party knew where Fei Lei went their nostrils were suddenly assaulted by a delectable scent, it filled the cavern up with an irresistible aroma that made them all salivate.

After a few minutes, Fei Lei walked outside carrying a large tray of 3 Star Magical Beast meat, along with what looked to be blue rice, and many of his vegetables, and fruits that he found on his mountain.

Fei Lei then pulled out a wooden table that was inside the house with his telekinesis and placed the food down in front of everyone, he then set up 9 large stone carved plates and handed them out.

”Eat.” Fei Lei said sitting down.

Yan Mei, and Hina was the first to start digging in, ”Delicious!” The two called out, making the other competitors / allies swallowed their saliva.

Seeing that it wasn't poisoned everyone started to dig in, they all let out cheers on how good it tasted as they filled up their plates. Everyone but Fei Lei and Eriks had started eating.

Eriks looked to Fei Lei and asked, ”Why aren't you grabbing your plate?”

Fei Lei laughed and said, ”I already have, I'm just letting you guys grab what you want first.” Fei Lei pointed to the plate that had the all the food on top of it.

Eriks lifted a brow and said, ”Isn't that too much?”

Fei Lei smiled and said, ”Fill up your plate so I can eat please.”

Eriks looking bewildered shrugged his shoulders and started eating, after tasting the food he quickly filled up his plate and started chowing down. Fei Lei then sat at the end of the table and started to eat faster than everyone combined, everyone except for Yan Mei and Hina stopped eating their meals to stare in shock at Fei Lei.

Fei Lei was like a black hole, as he chowed down on the food and dispersed the matter into energy his Sigil glowed over his head, making many people shocked.

He had managed to keep his Sigil a secrete throughout the whole tournament and kept people guessing, but know that he revealed his Human Transfiguration Sigil, the Party didn't know how to respond.

Fei Lei continued to eat, and watched as the small mountain full of meat vanished into his stomach, he then stood up and excused himself as he went to his room to practice his Breathing technique.

As he walked away, Eriks looked to his back when Udo said, ”Hey Cap, does he look like he got a bit larger since we started this whole ordeal?”

Eriks frowned and nodded his head, ”He's been slowly gaining muscle mass every moment he's been in combat.”

Fei Lei smiled as he heard them say this, continuing to his room he thought, ”What an observant fellow.”

Fei Lei was indeed using this opportunity to build his new muscles up; before when he was working up muscles gained through training, he thought that building the muscles in combat would be better suited to making a stronger frame than just his usual training.

He decided to use his next compression to create Combat Muscles as his second layer. Fei Lei went to his room and sat down, starting his breathing technique he continued to temper his body relentlessly, after eight hours or so, the group was ready to head out once again.

They all reached the second floor and once again monsters started spawning from the walls, floors, and ceiling. The used a similar set up to how they fought this far and continued to cut through hoards of these shadowy figures. Fei Lei started to release the natural muscle building steroid he mixed out of his own organic chemicals.

Little by little Fei Lei's body started to grow more muscular, he constantly dosed his body with his muscle growth formula and discovered that it was taking much longer to build up his body compared to before. As he swung down his hand he felt his power growing, the 2 star monsters were no threat to him, only their sheer number was the issue.

Gun shots echoed throughout the cavern as Eriks shot his Elemental Burst Pistol and swung his Jet Sword around like it was made of a sheet of paper, long, middle, and short ranged combat all combined together in a massive battle.

A large explosion went off at the corner of his eye, he turned back to see Yan Mei smiling at him, Fei Lei smiled as he dodged the attack a 2-Star beast and crushed its face in with his bare fist. A large rack was thrown at his head when suddenly, a barrier of water appeared before him and blocked it, Hina shouted, ”You're welcome!”

Fei Lei then took a look around him and saw everyone fighting alongside him and thought, ”It sure is nice to have allies.”