A few hours later, looking at his panel, Nash couldn’t help but smile.
[Nash Navre
Rank: Void Warrior (230%+)
Merit: 470,305]
"Tsk, advancing another 100% saturation in just a few hours is cool!" Nash grinned, pleased with his progress.
However, thinking about how over 2 million merits were nearly wiped out, his joy was slightly dampened.
Three weeks of hard work, gone in just a few hours!
Sighing, he thought of his soul saturation rate.
With his body’s void saturation breaking through 100%, he can also start increasing his soul saturation rate.
However, using the basic soul manual tested his patience.
Without a dedicated module system, Nash had to absorb the elemental crystal manually.
Just like physical training, the process was painfully slow and inefficient.
After a few days of trying, he hadn’t even consumed a single elemental crystal.
Not wanting to waste time, Nash put aside his soul training to focus on optimizing the [Sensing Module System].
Once he could see, hear, taste, smell, and feel the presence of void energy, he should have partial perception of his soul.
That was enough for him to study the runic programs, commands, and patterns that made up his soul.
Once he learned the fundamentals, creating a soul runic module system would be easy.
Until then, he could only focus on earning merits and increasing his body void saturation while improving the [Sensing Module System].
Stretching up, Nash left the Training Hall to shop until his time in the Dark Plane was up.
He replenished his potions, got complete armor protection from helmet to boots, picked up backup knives, a new high-grade spear, and more.
Turning toward the mounts, Nash could only shake his head.
"It’s too expensive..."
If they were just regular mounts, like horses, mules, lizards, ants, beetles, or similar, it would only cost hundreds of thousands of merits.
But for more advanced ones like tigers, eagles, giant wolves, golems, etc., it costs millions.
Much less the exotic ones, like Wyverns, Griffons, Pegasi, and the like, even a cub or an egg already costs tens of millions of merits.
A fully matured one ready for battle could even go for hundreds of millions.
Soon, after buying everything he needed, Nash was left with just over a hundred thousand merits to spare.
Teleporting to the Dark Willow Shelter, he returned to the real world.
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The next day, Nash met up with his teammates on time.
"Boss Noir, you finally arrived! I thought you ditch us again."
"I said I’d meet you today. I always keep my word."
"Haha, just kidding. Anyway, your outfit today looks solid, boss!"
Seeing Nash wrapped from head to toe like a proper warrior, they couldn’t help but feel a bit envious.
"Unfortunately, there wasn’t any decent armor or weapons here," one of them said.
Because of the expensive teleportation fee, they were reluctant to visit a main shelter.
"Next time, after we get rich, let’s go to a main shelter!"
"Haha, that’s right! Once we’ve got a million merits, we’re going!"
"Alright, time to work—don’t waste time."
Leading the group forward, they headed into the Willow Jungle.
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A month later, in the real world.
"Finally finished!"
After over two months of tinkering, the [Sensing Module System] was finally upgraded.
Uploading the newly enhanced module to the golden runes, Nash suddenly felt the world shift.
From 2D to 3D, the world seemed to open up.
The void energy he could only see before now became something he could feel, smell, hear, and taste.
Breaking the barrier between illusion and reality, Nash felt liberated.
"This feeling..."
As he closed his eyes to heighten his senses, he felt the void energy shift with every breath he took, every beat of his heart, and every thought he made.
The once-invisible runic programs that took countless hours and days to find now appeared like a flawless beauty slowly removing her dress.
Even the slightest movement let him feel their individual functions, like cogwheels in a machine.
Being able to identify and individually activate these runic programs, the difficulty of learning them was reduced a hundredfold.
Instead of his earlier estimate of five years, maybe in a month or a few weeks at most, he could identify all 2,322 fundamental runic programs that controlled his body.
Once that was done, not only could he revolutionize all his runic module systems, he could also build and upgrade them at a faster rate.
More importantly, as the void energy flowed inside him, he finally saw the ethereal presence of his soul.
Although not fully, with just a little void energy absorbed from the Elemental Crystal, he could now feel the presence, shape, and even texture of his soul.
This meant he could finally analyze the mysterious blue runes that governed his soul and start building soul runic module systems!
"Huh~ Calm down..."
Holding his beating heart, Nash reminded himself to take it step by step.
At this moment, he had to increase his saturation rate, buy astral arts to deduce a higher-quality manual, analyze the blue runes, create a basic soul runic module, train his soul, decode the remaining fundamental runic patterns in his body, and optimize all his runic module systems.
"Calm down. Step by step..."
After thinking it through, Nash opened his eyes to the vibrant world.
Feeling his senses interact with the void energy, he felt endless energy flowing through him.
Diving into the virtual pod, Nash first entered the Virtual World to notify his teammates that he couldn’t join them for the day.
With such a good opportunity, he decided to raise his saturation rate to 300%.
After a month of hunting, he had already gathered a staggering 5.2 million merits.
Having more than enough to reach maximum saturation, the God Body Astral allowed, Nash didn’t waste any time.
After telling his teammates to take another day off, Nash headed to the Iron Fall Shelter alone.
Choosing the familiar training hall, Nash began his next void saturation training.
[Nash Navre
Rank: Void Warrior (230%+)
Merit: 5,201,575]
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