Chapter 71 Abyss Runes
After Alex and Alina were able to run away from the scary Divine Knight that they t, Alex decided that they should venture out to the nearest Monster Sector.
Going to a Human Kingdom is not a choice, as they will just most likely be attacked.
After a week of nonstop walking, Alex and his companions reached the next Monster Sector, which was ruled by a giant Treant.
Alina easily tore this Treant into pieces, turning him and Alina as the leaders of this Sector.
Both of them and the little kids then took residence at the middle of the Sector, with Alex using this free ti to train.
As for Alina, she spent so ti training too, but she spent the remains of her ti playing with the little monsters.
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3 weeks later.
"Well at least so of my hard work had paid off." Alex muttered to himself as he observed his body. "Spending most of my ti training isn’t a waste."
Contrary to what Alex had believed, his training speed actually got slower once he created his Abyss Core.
Instead of gaining an accelerated growth period after he reached Grade 3, what Alex got was a slight decrease in training speed.
Because of that, even after 3 weeks, Alex was still unable to step into Grade 4.
"Sigh..."
If Grade 3 was all about creating an Abyss Core, Grade 4 was all about engraving Abyss Runes on the body.
The Abyss Core was there to serve as an engine to promote power circulation throughout the whole body.
As for the Abyss Runes, they were there to improve the casting and firing rate of Abyss spells.
These runes will automatically streamline and conserve the use and consumption of Abyss Energy
But unlike the creation of the Abyss Core which requires brute force to create the core, the engraving of the Abyss Runes require skill and precision which Alex unfortunately lacked.
Since the engraving of the Abyss Runes require Alex to do it on himself, Alex had no choice but to be precise as he will be the one to engrave the Runes on his body.
Because of this deficiency, Alex has no choice but to learn the way of precision from the eager Alina.
His training seems to have borne fruit, as Alina just declared earlier that Alex is already free to engrave Abyss Runes on his body.
And to make it better, Alex also found out earlier that the amount of Abyss Energy in his body was also enough to warrant an attempt for him to reach Grade 4.
This ans that Alex is free to try reaching Grade 4 right now.
But Alex did not rush to do this right now, as he knew that there is only one attempt for each person to reach Grade 4.
Through so inquiries with his Abyss To, Alex discovered that if he sses up a little in the engravent of the Abyss Runes, they can easily cause an explosion that could kill Alex.
"Slow and steady..." Alex muttered to himself as he tried to calm himself down.
A serene and peaceful mind free of distractions is needed to engrave Abyss Runes, and Alex is trying his best to achieve it.
But right now, that endeavor seems to be impossible.
"Receive that!" A jovial voice sounded out, breaking through Alex’s ’serene’ mindscape.
"Muu... That is too high for !" A second voice replied, sounding a little affronted and angry.
"Well, you can just use your insects to catch them, right?"
"No! You are still cheating!"
"What the hell." Alex opened his eyes as he realized that there is no way for him to be calm now. Distractions are just around him, and he is powerless to stop them.
He looked at the voices that he heard earlier, suppressing his urge to sigh.
"Really, what a drag."
The voices that interrupted Alex ca from No. 4 and No. 5.
Both of them were playing volleyball, although the ga was sowhat ill-fitted for their physiques.
No. 4 has a body made up of insects, making it hard for her to even move the ball.
As for No. 5, he was a literal skeleton, which ant that he can strike the ball, but his current body made it hard for him to pitch the ball well.
Watching the two intently was Alina, who for so reason, was officiating the ga. She was even wearing referee clothes which she could have just pulled out with her powers.
These trio all made their noises in the ga, with No. 4 incessant complaints, No. 5 snarky replies, and Alina’s exhausted but also happy retorts.
"Alina, can you tone down whatever that is that you three are doing?" Alex said to Alina as he saw her excited look. "I am doing sothing important here, you know."
"Well, if we are noisy to you, then you can just go sowhere far, right?" Alina replied as she tilted her head. "These kids are having fun here, and you disrupting them is not good."
"..."
"What?" Alina muttered as she saw Alex’s incomprehensible look. "If you want to get so quiet, go do your stuff sowhere else that is far from us."
"Fine..." Alex mumbled as he shook his head. "You really love those kids now, right?"
"Well, they deserved to be loved."
"..."
Because of Alina’s bonding with the little monsters, they beca more and more closer together, managing to make even soone like Alex jealous.
Of course Alex did not show this jealousy, but it was becoming increasingly hard to hide this, with him seeing Alina blatantly siding with the little monsters, just like what happened now.
"I get it that Alina misses her sister, but isn’t her way of making the little monsters her new family seems to be too much?" Alex mumbled as he slithered away from Alina, No. 4, and No. 5.
"You are just jealous that she is not getting lovey-dovey with you... "Soone replied to what Alex said, although the voice that Alex heard from the reply made him frown in annoyance.
"Go away Asteria, I do not need your help in this." Alex said as he tried to swat away Asteria, who was seating on the top of his head.
Just like usual, Asteria was still the insufferable tattlemouth of the group.
"Oooh... it seems like what I said has struck ho." Asteria said as she basically gave Alex a sad look. "Are you scared that Alina gets stolen by the kids?"
"Hey! Are you even in your right mind?" Alex almost bellowed as he felt scandalized by what Alina said. ", getting scared by those kids? Those honey that you ate must be so kind of drugs that makes you always high!"
"Well, I can tolerate the highs that I get from my honey." Asteria replied off-handedly, as if she already treated Alex’ s dilemma earlier as solved. "As long as I eat the right amount, the hallucinations that I get are tolerable."
"What?" At this point, Alex forgot his breakthrough dilemma, or even his slight jealousy of the little monsters. Right now, there is sothing more important that Alex must tackle.
"Are you telling that honey is like a drug to you?" Alex said, feeling sowhat disconnected from what he heard. "You are joking, right?’
"Hehehe, got you there." Asteria replied as she stuck out her tongue to the sowhat petrified Alex. "You really think that I, an Honorable Fairy Queen, will get high from sothing like honey? Of course not!"
"F**k, good thing you are just pranking !" Alex muttered as he rubbed his chest. "I almost had a heart attack from what you said."
"Eh, really?"
"It’s just a figure of speech, okay? Tsk you should learn so common sense sotis dumb fairy."
"Bleeh!!!"
"...."
Aside from Alina and the little monsters, Alex’s another dilemma in his training was Asteria herself.
After all, having soone as lackadaisical and obscene as Asteria whispering in your ear was sothing that was enough to piss of anyone, much less soone like Alex.
If not for the fact that Asteria hides behind Alina whenever Alex wanted to catch Asteria, then all of Alex’s sufferings from Asteria could have ended already.
"You will see, I will really punish you soday." Alex swore to himself as he reached his destination.
In front of Alex was a 50-ter tall tree, with its base hollowed out.
One look at the hollowed part and it was enough to see that this place is a good resting spot.
Multitude of tiny chairs and tables littered around the area, sowhat giving Alex a sense of peace.
Alex entered the hollowed area, with him showing no trepidations at all.
This place was sothing that Alex made a week ago, in order to find himself a way unwind, away from the chattering little monsters and irritating fairies.
Asteria could have entered along with Alex, but she did not do so as there was sothing in the tree that was always bothering her.
"Hmph, I really hate this tree!" This is the first thing that Asteria said as Alex entered the tree. "For so reason, I do not want to enter this tree! Urgh! I hate it when this happens! Alex, you are just exploiting my weakness right now!"
"Well, its too bad for you." Alex said as he gave Asteria a smirk. "I do not know why this tree makes you feel bad, but I am using it on full advantage on you."
"Hmph, I really hate you!" This is the parting words that Asteria said as she flew back to where Alina was.
Alex shook his head upon seeing this, knowing that Asteria will be pranking so of the little monsters again.
"Well, with Alina there, I am sure that she can tone Alina down." Alex muttered as he began sitting on one of the chairs. "Oh, and there is that Teresa too. Too bad she still refuses to talk to us."
During their 3-week break, Alex and Alina tried to talk to Teresa, but the only thing that they got from her were her basic info like nas and family.
Any more question after that was just t with a glare or with a nonstop shout.
One look at her face, and it was quite obvious that Teresa was unhappy with the both of them.
Alex was highly sure that Teresa heard on what happened with his deal with the golden guy, especially the part where the golden guy had no choice but to leave Teresa behind.
But instead of making Teresa compliant right now, this info just served to make Teresa’s mood worse up to the point that only Alina can talk to her.
"Well, we still have ti to talk to her later." Alex muttered to himself as he looked down on his body. "For now, it’s ti for to engrave so runes!"
Just one look at Alex’s face and it is not hard to see that he is ready to go all-out already.
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