The Cavern's Purpose II

The first thing he learned from the flow of information was how to respond to the calls of the soul. The second was how to see if a soul still remains in the body of a corpse.

The last of it would be the ability to command the souls that are inside his body. Calling upon a soul will be tough as it would require a lot of Mana but that is just at first.

The marbles inside my body do not only contain the soul of the monster but also the blood that once flowed in the veins of the monster. In order to summon the monster into the world once again as one of my soldiers, he must recreate their body with the soul as its core and its blood as the anchor that keeps it to this world.

To summon them into this world he would need not do anything other than think of them and they would come out. But at with my current self, I can only summon one of them and I would collapse shortly after.

To effectively use this newly gained power of mine I need to ascend to a tier-5 Mage, meaning he needs to reach Pink Diamond-grade.

I am only a Gold-grade Mage. I still need to cross Platinum-grade and Diamond-grade to experiment with this new power of mine. = "Shame." =,

I meditated and while I was doing so I did not notice at the time of Lethias' expression. She had a weird look plastered on her face, = [He already inherited it? Isn't he two years younger before this happens? Wait, this is actually plausible. Even if he does not reach the proper age, he can inherit the power if the blood of Noble Monster Blood is pumped into his blood early on and let him get used to it. It seems like giving him Imperial-Grade Monster Blood was a good thing. This is good, if we can take advantage of this and learn it before they detect him then 069 can become…] = Lethias's thoughts were flowing like an unending stream.

This should be enough. I went out of the passage and then found my way into the hall where I found the Overseer. I looked around and found Viryon and some other people resting.

= "Good work in surviving, 069. You may return to your room or wait for it to end, either way, you shall receive a message in your UIR for when the next trial shall take place." =

= "Understood, I shall now head back." =

Life is but a series of repeating what you do in order to improve and then ultimately survive. I went back to my room that day and went out of my way to train and train and train and train and train in order to enhance my strength and control over Mana.

A month passed and my efforts seemed to have paid off as my control of Mana and a breakthrough to Platinum-Grade Rank-1. It was an elating feeling to reach such level and when I tried calling out for Orc, I managed to bring it out.

I learned another thing after getting the Orc to Manifest. I used all of my Mana to make the Orc Manifest and a nice surprise managed to make me feel satisfied with the effort I have done.

After I made the Orc Manifest. I did not need any more Mana when I call it out. The Orc became a Soldier for me. And after seeing that its capabilities had been retained when it was still alive, I proceeded to test something… I killed the orc and to my disappointment, it did not return to my Mana Core as a Marble.

The soul was destroyed and disappeared forever. It was a shame truly, but it was not that bad, because I was given the chance to know this early on.

A day after this we were called to have another Trial, my strength had been updated to Gold-Grade Rank-1 after I let the Overseer know of my breakthrough (I simply let him know that my Silver-Grade Rank-3 strength had increased to become Gold-Grade Rank-1).

With my breakthrough, the level of strength the Monster I was made to face increased to be the same level as mine. The enemy this time was a Dragonrhino, a Monster with the strength that is said to rival that of an infant Earth-Dragon.

I battled it to a standstill and did not lose out the slightest. I only used Tier-1 Spells but I still managed to make it unable to make any big moves. But to my dismay, I did not manage to kill it with such means so I used a Tier-2 Spell.

It was a good thing though, Lethias had let me use Quick Cast Tier-2 Spells (Quick Cast Spells has less power) to even the playing field. I managed to slay it and was graded with 25/100.

Just like this, I managed to steadily increase my strength and become stronger in terms of my mana manipulation and mana control. My comprehension has also increased by a lot and my knowledge be vast as I learned more from Lethias.

In some parts of the Cavern, there were people who were improving madly. Viryon had also improved and it seems like he awakened a new element that lay dormant in his body and became a Triple-Elemental making him one element below me. The other element he managed to get was Lightning Element.

It became natural that he called for another Elemental Guardian. He refused to show me the new Elemental Guardian he just called out.

At this time I did not know that some people were quietly observing the Cavern.

= "The new seeds are quite good. We have found good saplings that can bloom to become Duke Candidates. Then we managed to produce Two Crown Prince Candidates and an Adjudicator. In three months, we shall let them face a Grand Trial and to those who pass will be allowed to enter the Vault to find a piece of suitable equipment for themselves." =

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