Chapter 29: Decisions

'Now I have to figure out how to get stronger so I can be safe while hunting' Allen thought

I had the Mid-level Knight grade sword as my weapon and Turtle shell armour for defence.

The turtle shell armour can give me protection even against a peak-level specialist stage monster without getting a scratch.

It could even protect me to an extent against low-lever corporal stage monsters. So I don't have to worry about my armour for the time being.

And with my new sword, I can fight against even a high-level corporal stage monster with my current strength and defeat it within the hour.

I have to find a way to increase my strength other than the mana exercise as it is not good to rely on a single method.

The mana exercise increased not only my strength but vitality to heal quickly and my soul power to have a greater sense of my surroundings and think more clearly.

Currently, I'm at the eleventh move of the third set which is great for anyone at my stage. If others come to know about it, I will be called a freak as only a handful of people can achieve this.

I searched the internet using my new holo watch and found that a lot of restrictions have been removed since it is created for the Elites.

I was able to find a few methods to improve my strength, vitality, soul power and speed.

Right now my speed is good, but when levelling up and fighting against higher-level monsters, speed is also important.

Being fast will help to attack and defend quickly, If required speedy retreat to escape from unbeatable monsters at my current stage.

One of the methods is potions. There are portions to make one grow their strength, vitality or soul power.

But they are too costly and I have to save all my earnings for at least three years without spending single credit to buy one portion.

There are a few other ways too, but the most basic thing is learning new skills. Right now I can't use any skills to their full potential as my strength and mana is not high enough.

But I can learn them and can use them by little and can get few benefits from it.

First, I need to increase my speed as it is the most lacking in the rest.

Fortunately, I have fire ability which will help me to increase my speed by a notch at my current level. But once I level up, this method won't be of much use to me.

Right now my fire ability is also very low as it is still red. I have to find a way to increase my fire ability through Serina to get more power in all.

It can be done by feeding Serina tiny parts of higher fire ability monster cores and by chance the fire ability will increase. It has a very very small chance to increase, but it is worth a try.

I went to the hunter's guild and sold my 2 two-handed grade-2 swords and bought a few healing, mana and vitality portions.

I don't have many credits to use any of the methods to increase my overall power and to get the credits I have to hunt.

Hunting should be done with high risk as the low-level or mid-level specialist stage monsters will fetch a minimal amount of credits.

I have decided to hunt high-level and peak-level specialist stage monsters and also try to hunt fire ability monsters to get more credits and fire ability containing mana cores for Serina.

It will still be easy to hunt for me with my new sword and armour, but if any higher-level monsters come to the party, I have to tuck my tail and run.

Since already it is afternoon, I have decided to hunt tomorrow. I will also have to plan my hunt as I can't continuously hunt every day.

Rest is also very important to increase power and to stay alive as overexertion will affect the fighting power of anyone.

I planned to continue operating the mana purifier and see how many times I can do it when not in a battle.

I also continued performing the mana exercise as I had not made any progress till now after reaching the eleventh move of the third set.

I went home directly and on my way ordered food for me and Serina using my holo watch. The food was delivered to my doorstep before I reached home.

We both ate the food and Serina went to sleep. I sat in the lotus position to gain more concentration and started performing the mana exercise and operating the mana purifier.

I continued doing it till night time as I did not feel any tired. After that, I went to take a shower.

After showering I prepared food for us using the meat from the monsters we hunted yesterday.

We went to bed after finishing dinner. But I couldn't sleep as I was in shock.

I kept operating the mana purifier for eight hours straight without getting tired. I was also performing mana exercise which was painful.

But I did not get any tiredness or felt exertion but was feeling very normal.

I decided to continue operating the mana purifier from the time I wake up in the morning till I go to bed at night the next day.

I also decided to postpone the hunt to the next day just to test how long I can operate the mana purifier.

I slept after making the decision as I need to be fresh and relaxed tomorrow to find out how much time I can operate the mana purifier without tiredness.