Looking at the cultivation manual in front of him.
Tarik still couldn’t believe that it required 1062 elements to condense the Gale law.
His Gale cultivation manual was already the top one in the Library of Arcana, requiring 354 elements.
Yet here, the cultivation manual of a new guild surpassed that.
“Just what is the origin of the guild leader…” Tarik thought solemnly.
He didn’t dare to address Maximus as his idol anymore.
Possessing top talent and a mysterious background.
He felt that it would be blasphemy if he called Maximus his idol.
“With my Rank 7 Transcendent affinity to Gale element, plus this cultivation manual, reaching Tier 9 is no longer a dream,” Tarik muttered excitedly.
To reach tier 9, there is a prerequisite of condensing a law using more than a thousand elements.
Although advancement is still possible even without meeting this prerequisite, the chances would be nearly impossible.
Even then, one would be at the lowest of the low that can be easily killed with just a flick of a finger.
As for choosing a cultivation manual with more than a thousand elements, it still depends on talent and affinity.
Like Tarik, he was more in line with the Gale law, so he could only settle for it.
“You look excited; have you chosen your manual?” Creme, the lady he had asked earlier.
“It’s you. Have you known the uniqueness of the guild library earlier?”
“Of course, one of my senior sisters was one of the founding members of the guild.”
“After she transferred me some credits, she asked me to come here,” Creme said proudly.
“Then how many chapters of cultivation manuals have you bought?”
“It’s only up to tier 3.”
“This is the only thing I can buy at Rank D”
“Unfortunately, you can’t upgrade your rank using borrowed points” Creme muttered proudly.
“Oh,” Tarik was somewhat envious.
He had worked his ass off for over two months, yet he had only obtained the first chapter of the cultivation manual.
Meanwhile, the woman in front of him had simply relied on some senior sister and got more than him.
“Do you know how the guild leader got these books?” Tarik couldn’t hold his curiosity and asked.
After he calmed down, he saw various cultivation manuals here.
Although he hadn’t read them.
Tarik had a feeling that these cultivation manuals were of the same tier as the one he was holding.
“I don’t know…”
“The only thing I know is that the books contained here is on a different level,” Creme said seriously.
With more points, Creme could browse more books here, including cultivation manuals, skills, and professional knowledge.
There were even books that she hadn’t heard of.
The quality was so mind-boggling that she thought they were fake.
However, upon confirming with her senior sister, she learned that all the books here were as real as gold.
“Anyway, you better earn guild points quickly,” Creme teased as she left.
“Guild Points…” Tarik nearly teared up at the thought.
He now had mixed thoughts about the Shadow Hunter Guild.
On one hand, there were rare resources and top skills available.
On the other hand, it would require his blood and sweat just to earn guild points.
“Hey, this is just for now…”
“In the future, I will also earn so many guild points that I can throw them around when I’m happy,” Tarik vowed.
…
At the City of Arcana:
Maximus was in his training chamber, experimenting on the Atomic God Metal.
In front of him was a micrometer-sized surveillance nanobot.
“This should be enough,” Maximus nodded in satisfaction.
It took him a few months of experimentation to finally conceive this nanobot.
Besides its small size, it possessed no aura.
Unless one saw it with their own eyes, they would not know that they were under surveillance.
“The only problem is the signal receiver,” he sighed.
As it didn’t possess mana, to transfer information, it needed some sort of carrier.
What he used was a high-frequency light signal that is more hidden and faster.
The only issue is that it’s only effective for short distances.
He needed more than a million of these nanobots to efficiently transfer information in just over a kilometer of land.
This is a huge problem, as individuals with high enough perception can easily notice this.
“Anyway, I will only use it to monitor the Sun Sea region,” Maximus comforted himself.
“As long as those dumb sea beasts don’t notice, it’s enough.”𝒪𝗏xt.𝗇t
The reason he bothered to do this is because monitoring arrays won’t work in the sea.
With the sea beast tide, the mana becomes quite chaotic, disrupting the monitoring arrays.
Furthermore, it’s also a good idea to expand his arsenal.
In the future, when he creates smaller and more efficient surveillance nanobots.
Then nothing in the Etherium realm can hide from his eyes.
As he was mass-producing the surveillance nanobots.
He felt a change in the amalgamation of will.
“Has Johnson conquered the entire Sun Sea region?”
…
In the Sun Sea Region:
As the last kingdom surrendered to the Moonlight Empire.
The entire world seemed to change, as the mana in the surroundings began to agitate and converge.
This change brought the mana to a whole new level.
It brought a surge that further intensified the mana.
Furthermore, people with bottlenecks broke through easily.
Those of old age begin to rejuvenate, like a new spring.
People with low talent felt that they were closer to the world, as if they had been reborn.
Those having trouble with their professions were enlightened as they progressed at lightning speed.
This massive surge of mana also brought a chance to the sea beast tide.
Originally, there were only occasional Tier 5 and Tier 6 sea beasts.
However, the change seemed to drive these sea beasts crazy, as they surged like a doomsday.
If, in the past, dozens of puppets were enough to defend an island.
Now they were just a mere interference as the sea beasts attack the land.
…
Maximus quickly made his way to the empire after being notified of the changes brought by the surge of mana.
Coming in, he saw the panicked officials busy ordering their subordinates.
“Your Majesty, you’re here!” Doran sighed in relief as he saw Maximus.
“Hmm, how is the evacuation?” Maximus asked directly.
“It’s fine, Your Majesty. They evacuated successfully.”
As soon as the sea beasts managed to get past the puppet blockage.
The places with sub-teleportation arrays were evacuated to other locations.
This way, the puppets would be less scattered, providing better protection.
“The only problem is in those places without sub-teleportation arrays,” Doran said worriedly.
Although the surge of mana made him advance to the 5th Tier.
A smile was not present on his face, there was only endless worry and gloom.
These people were also his family, the children of the Moonlight Empire.
“Relax, I already thought of this,” Maximus comforted Doran and patted his shoulder.
In the places with many of his guild members, he issued a temporary defensive mission.
Even though most of them were only Tier 3 and 4, they could still easily defend the land.
As students from the highest institution in the world, they still have some skills or two.
Killing cannon fodder within two tiers above them was still relatively easy.
As for the places without enough of his guild members.
He released some of the restrictions on the puppets, making them reach Tier 7.
With millions of Shadow Guild members and nearly a hundred thousand puppets, though it appeared dangerous, everything was relatively peaceful.
“Is that so…” Doran sighed in relief, believing what his Majesty had said.
“Just keep everything in order; reinforcements are on the way.”
The reinforcement consisted of his newly recruited guild members.
By now, there were already tens of millions of students he had fooled into being his collie.
With rich rare resources and top-tier skills, these students were ready to do anything to earn some guild points.
Originally, they were getting numb to the repetitive and boring tasks, planning to rest a little.
However, upon seeing the emergency mission, each of them geared up, ready to tear these sea beasts to pieces.
…
Somewhere in the Sun Sea Region:
The guild members geared up, their eyes gleaming like starving wolves, seeing prey.
“How many points would I get if I kill all of these?” one student estimated, firing indiscriminate spells.
“Hahaha, my sword is hungry and thirsty!” a man said as he dove into the sea of beasts without care.
“I hope you last longer, my sweeties…” a weird pervert muttered lewdly as he slowly poured a concentrated poison.
“Just in time to test my new strength!”
These people seemed to have endless energy as they killed the sea beasts faster than the sea beasts could get to them.
They even dove deep into the sea, hoping to exterminate the sea beasts faster.
After all, this was a time-limited mission.
If they couldn’t bankrupt their guild leader, they would consider it their failure.
Thinking of their guild leader’s face when he saw that the resources in the guild exchange list were emptied filled them with energy.
As for when the mission would end.
It would be when there were enough sub-teleportation arrays to evacuate the people to other islands.