Chapter 14: Heart

Z, opted to not absorb the orb at the moment. 'Not gonna make the same mistake this time. Dunno what kind of beast these corpses would attract.'

He then moved to the corpse of the concave headed monster and tore it open. To his surprise, he cannot find a core.

"What?.. How come?"

"Ice Element..." he murmured

Just as he was about to give up, he saw that the heart of the monster was emitting a green glow.

"What the--?"

When he touched the heart, he felt that the energy inside was trying to enter his body. This was the same feeling he got when he first touched a beast core. "Curious" he murmured

He decided to find a cave to absorb the core and the heart. After travelling deep into the forest covered in white, he finally saw a cave. He first checked if there were beasts inside. Luckily, there were none. He went deep inside the cave and immersed himself into absorption.

He first absorbed the green core first, which added 2% to his light yellow core. It is now at 12%. He would have to wait until it reaches 100% before compressing it into 10% fair yellow. The old man told him that this was the most efficient way to ensure that he does not lose any power.

He then moved on to absorb the heart. Different from the core absorption, the energy he absorbed travels in a specific path which then enters his heart. After observing the flow of energy, he learned that there is a specific pathway to which the energy travels. It seems like a circuit spread throughout his body. The circuit ultimately goes back to his heart where the energy he was absorbing is stored. He noticed that the energy inside his heart emits a light red glow. Different from the world energy he first absorbed, he feels like this was already at the natural state. It was already engraved with his name!

'It seems like it also follows the power growth of the core' he concluded.

After an hour, the energy from the heart was completely depleted and his heart was filled with the energy! It was 90%!

"Haha! Another source of power. But, how do you use it?"

He tried to release the energy from his heart and condense it like what he does with world energy but it was too thin. It does not hold its shape, it dissipates the air.

"Oh, well. Maybe I can learn what this is from the academy as well."

Putting his hopes in the academy, he got out of the cave. He deliberately avoided the path with the corpses for fear of encountering even stronger beasts.

"I can not defeat a mere green level beast. I wouldn't be able to go anywhere with this. I need more power" as he looked expectantly at the sky.

After calming his desires, he continued his travel and went down the mountain.