Abel wasn’t sure what would happen, so he decided to place the three dark-golden crystal core pieces into the Horadric Cube first. When he did, though, the synthesize button became grey. This meant that he couldn’t combine the pieces into a better piece. He would have to look for other ways to find himself the materials to create an advanced level rune.
While Abel had never used an advanced level rune for his research, he did have his fair share of experience when he was back at the Holy Continent. Any runes that were above #10 would require advanced-level ingredients. He knew that much. In other words, runes from #11 were supposed to be synthesized with lower-level runes.
He would leave the runes for some other time. Abel felt that he was being too hasty about it. Right now, he should be focusing on how to save up his crystal cores. After upgrading all the pieces into dark-gold quality, he decided to put them all inside his kong kong spiritual beast bag. He didn’t want to waste the space in his personal storage box.
That’s 132 crystal cores pieces into four dark-golden pieces. Because of how small the blue howling rabbits’ crystal core pieces were, he could easily train himself with any number of blue-quality pieces he’d like. Obviously, it was for the best if he was using dark-gold pieces every single time, but his body was simply not sturdy enough yet.
The Blood Moor was a perfect breeding ground for the blue howling rabbits. It was warm. There were no natural predators to be afraid of. The rabbits could breed with nothing to stop them. They couldn’t move to the Cold Plain since it was too cold there, so they would pretty much stay in Blood Moor until the end of time.
So, the super oak tree, the blue howling rabbits and Blood Moor. Together, they were much much the same as an automatic factory for producing crystal cores. Not only could this ecosystem produce an unlimited number of crystal cores, the more rabbits there were, the faster the production rate would exponentially and infinitely grow.
Apart from the four dark-golden pieces in Abel’s hand, there were eight other blue-pieces that he reserved. It was meant for his meditation session. Other than those, he’s also got a few crystal cores from the intermediate spiritual beasts he countered. Instead of using those on himself, he was planning to create more magic staffs with them. Magic staffs had a daily usage limit, so he was planning to make a bunch of them to store inside his portal bracelet.
Again, there were two ways of making a magic staff. One was to use the soul of a spiritual beast. The other was to use the crystal cores of a spiritual beast. So far, Abel’s really liked the later option.
It was a lot easier to make magic staff if you were not trying to collect the soul of a spiritual beast. “Soul collecting’ was a spell that only a few wizards could master. Besides, even if the souls were successfully collected, it would take multiple tries to successfully make a magic staff from them.
Using crystal cores was a lot easier in comparison. The only requirement was to solidify the core in at least two hours after it was collected. Right now, Abel’s had the crystals of the ghost-face tarantula and the blackrock python in his personal storage box. Since the personal storage box was stopping the time flow of everything that was in it, he didn’t have to worry about the two-hour limit.
Suddenly, his druid spirit started tingling inside his mind. It was time for his daily meditation session. He couldn’t afford to miss even just one session. Wizards had to meditate once a day. That’s once every twenty-four hours. For every hour that’s delayed, he would have to waste more time to resume his training. Time was precious, no matter how fast time flowed in the dimension that he was in.
Whilst sitting underneath the super oak tree, Abel set up his magic circle and had one blue-piece in each of his hands. He then placed an intermediate gemstone in the center of his magic circle. When he thought about it, it had been a few days since he last meditated in the dark world.
When Abel commenced his meditation session, he started to realize that something was different. The crystal cores he was holding were injecting mana directly into his brain. They were targeting where the level three novice wizard rune pattern was. The mana was pure–absolutely pure. Only the Horadric Cube could produce something this pure.
It wasn’t the first time Abel trained with crystal cores. Yet, it was the first time that mana he injected into himself were purer than his own mana.
“This was fast!” Abel exclaimed. It only took a few minutes to charge up his level three novice wizard rune pattern. It didn’t stop there, though. When the level three rune patterns were drawn, the crystal cores started drawing level four novice wizard runes. He was still a novice wizard, yes, but as of now, he was already a master in terms of his understanding of magic runes.
And there. His very first level four novice wizard rune pattern. He was a level four wizard now. Still, that wasn’t the end of it. Abel was holding two pieces of crystal cores, after all.
The level four rune pattern was started to be filled up. Instead of being completely filled up, though, the meditation session was coming to its end. It had already been an hour. Wizards couldn’t extend their meditation sessions. They had to follow a very strict training schedule.
After Abel woke up from his meditation session, he realized that the mana around him was extending outward. He didn’t like having mana leaking out of him. Luckily, since he had his transformation necklace, he could just switch into another mode to stop the mana from leaving his body.
Abel finally became a level four novice wizard. That just reminded him of Carlos. He was now the same level as him. If Camille was still in the same rank as when he last saw her, he would’ve been in a higher rank than her now.
When Abel was looking at the mana that was stored in his level four novice wizard rune pattern, he realized that it would only take one meditation session to fill up a tenth of its total capacity. In other words, he would only need ten days to rank up to the next stage. He just needed about ten more blue crystal cores.
Abel didn’t feel like going back to the Holy Continent now. He wanted to stay for at least ten more days inside the dark world. He could return after he became a level five wizard. Ten days here was the equivalent of half a day in the Holy Continent. He told Carrie that he’d come back within a day, so he still had a lot of time on his hands.
Still, he didn’t have enough blue-quality pieces right now. If the dead rabbits weren’t enough to make up for the amount that he needed, he was willing to kill a fraction of the rabbits that were fully grown.
With that in mind, he immediately connected his power of the Will to the super oak tree. He told it exactly what he was thinking. He wanted more crystal core pieces, and he wanted a few roast rabbits to eat. He really liked the taste of the rabbit meat he had on that banquet the other day. Obviously, he was going to leave most of the job to the tree. Even if he wanted to take care of breeding the rabbits, there was no way that he could do a better job than it.