Monster Integration

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“It is time to leave,” as I wore the new set of clothes before summoning my armor; I had trained for three hours and gotten a new strength completely under my control.

Click!

Soon, I walked out of the abode and put it back into my core before appearing beside the door and started moving the bones on the door, and a minute later, I heard the familiar click.

I pushed open the door and walked into the art room and again couldn’t help but sigh in wonder seeing the art it had made. It is truly beautiful, and I really wish I could take some of the pieces; there are many places in the academy and the Pyramid where I could put them.

Alas, I could not; the formation covering them is too complicated and dangerous to solve; it will take me days and comes with a lot of danger.

So, I could only sigh in regret and walked toward the exit door.

“The puzzle had changed,” I said softly and sat down; with Lady Yui and Rhea leaving, the puzzle had changed again, which means I would have to solve it, and I had wasted no time doing that.

Click!

It took me little more than one and half hours to solve the formation, and just as I did, I moved the bones, and soon, I heard the clicking sound, and with it, I pushed open the door and walked out.

“The collection,” I admired as I stepped inside the final hall; I wish I had some time; I would have definitely spent some time here, researching the bones of all these beings, which I could take, but still could collect a lot of data by observing, but regretfully, I do not have much time.

I have about a week in this ruin, and I have to do the job for which I have come to this ruin, collecting the combat data and, on the way, kill some Grimms.

It had been extremly hard before with them preparing against my abilities, but now, with the boost I have got through my rules and the bones, my chances of killing them have increased a lot, and I wanted to do that as soon as possible.

I reached the exit and began solving the puzzle on it; this was the last puzzle; solving it, I would walk out of this wonderful.

Click!

Two hours and seven minutes later, I heard the final click and pushed open the door. I did not immediately walk out; instead looked back for a second before stepping out of the vestige.

The bone gates closed behind me as I watched; in the future, if I had the skills and strength, I would come back to take the treasure that had remained here.

Technically, I am still a Master, and this is a High-Grandmaster class ruin; I don’t know whether I would be able to reach the High-Grandmaster class, which seems too far away currently, given I have not even reached the Grandmaster class, but if I do, I will definitely come here.

With the strength, I will have that level; I don’t think escaping any danger will be a problem for me; till then, I will study hard and sharpen my skills, so I will be able to solve the problems quickly as possible.

I felt the dense luminescent energy as I walked through the collapsed underground space. I am very careful and have activated my stealth method; I did not forget how dangerous this place is and hope to entangle with any monster, if possible.

With the increse in the strength I had, it would be hard for any monster to do me any serious harm, but still, I would like to remain as hidden as possible and quickly reach the castle; so I could prepare my assault on the Grimms.

“Nero, scout the way,” I said to Nero, “Sure, father,” he said and jumped out of my shoulder.

Usually, it is Ashlyn’s job to scout, but Nero also has stealth abilities that are no weaker than Ashlyn, and it could even be said, his abilities are far more flexible than Ashlyn’s.

Nero disappeared, and I followed him.

It took me a few seconds to walk out of the underground space before running through the forest. I hate to admit it, but my stealth method is not good as Lady Yui’s; I could not fly stealthily. I could fly, but my speed would be much lower than Lady Yui’s; compared to that, I am faster on the ground.

I speed through the forest at a blurring speed; with Nero guiding me, I was easily able to avoid the monsters while clearing more and more ground.

“Father, there is a Grandmaster class luminescent pool below me,” he said as he suddenly, “Good, mark it and keep an eye for the High-Grandmaster class pools,” I said to him. “Yes, father,” he said and sped up.

I am not willing to stop for anything other than the luminescent pool of High-Grandmaster class; I have to use it to strengthen my flesh; it is a wonderful resource.

Currently, my flesh is more than strong enough for the strong bones, but I want to strengthen it further, and luminescent does not strengthen only flesh but bones too.

So, the boost will be even bigger.

It would be great if he finds a couple of them; there are many High-Grandmasters would be able to benefit from it, and the best thing is, I wouldn’t need to be present here. I would need to prepare a formation for them like I did with Rhea, and they will be able to enjoy its benefits on their own.

Hun!

Time passed when suddenly Nero stopped; I did not think much of it, thinking he might have found another luminescent pool when suddenly, he changed the direction sharply.

I did not ask him anything, just followed him behind.

Nero continued moving for about half an hour, and I was about to ask him the reason for that when he stopped, and his vision became colorful, instantly showing me the thing that was not there before.

“Grimm,” I said, and it was not one of five High-Grandmaster class Grimms that were present in this ruin. ‘Just how many High-Grandmasters these bastard Grimms have?’ I asked myself as I looked at the familiar Grimm Monster.

This Grimm may not be the Grimm of this ruin, but I have met it before and even fought. It was more like attacking, and I was defending with my shields before being rescued.

Still, I could not understand why they had sent it here; this bastard is a water elemental and stays near the water.

‘Maybe the strange method it is using might be the reason behind it?’ I asked; it is using a method that would release extremly faint waves of energy that would spread miles into the underground before coming back to it.

It worked a little like my own investigative method.

It is clearly searching for something deep underground, and I want to know what, but more than that, I wanted to fight it; last time, it had nearly killed me, and now, I am going to take revenge for that.