Some there had even lived hundreds of thousands of years, they were practically walking libraries of knowledge and power. The only problem was their difficulty passing the realm because of their main vulnerability.
Kayden and Felix spent about 10 days doing their own thing before reuniting the guild. During all this time, they only managed to get two more members, which left the group with 9 people. It was the biggest group Kayden had ever been in before. The two mages who entered were support mages and were found lost in the city by Aqua. In direct recruitment, they have not had any success.
From these two, Kayden felt threatening vibes even though they were supports. The two were brothers and had the characteristics of a lizard, with strong green legs, a slimmer face, and a large nose. Their race was strong and they had a great ability to perform physical and support spells. They both responded by the name Junior, there was no way to identify exactly who was who. Fortunately, Thomas came up with the idea of dressing each of them in a color and calling them by their colors in combat situations.
"We won’t be able to leave the next floor until we defeat one of the main dungeons. They are filled with undead from the fourth realm, at least a few thousand. We’re leaving in three days, and first, we’re going to get to know each other in remote areas with few monsters," Kayden just listened and didn’t comment.
He would probably have to take the lead and organize this guild. They could all be very talented and brilliant, but their lack of experience was clear to Kayden. Only the two newcomers, who should have climbed the tower the hard way, represented anything to Kayden.
Three days later, everyone was ready in front of the house and flew to the city. On the way, Thomas stopped to buy food and tents. Kayden looked at these items with disgust but didn’t let it show in his eyes.
These were such mundane and common people’s attitudes. Kayden didn’t think those in higher realms would do things like this, but in the end, they were just ordinary beings with great talents, nothing more.
"We have to go hand in hand to go to the same place," Thomas explained, and everyone joined. The portal in front of Kayden was immense and easily exceeded the 1-kilometer margin.
The strange thing was that the number of people passing through it was very high, which made it seem like a huge interplanetary war was starting. The gate gave off a strange vibration the closer they got.
As soon as Kayden’s body passed by, he found himself in another environment. It was so fast that he couldn’t assimilate the change in environment, but it became normal for him during these years.
Kayden found himself in a cold world with low temperatures. It was a space with green grass and trees normal to planet Earth. It had been long since he had encountered something like this. Even the humidity and wind reminded him of Earth.
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The only difference was the humanoids with their bodies destroyed and dripping a blue liquid every few meters. The group was lucky to land in a place without many monsters, practically a perfect resting point.
"Let’s find a cave and set up a rest point. The construction task will fall to Malphite. Afterward, let’s go hunt some monsters." Thomas took control of the situation quickly.
It didn’t take them long to find a good resting spot. It was relatively easy to dodge the undead. They didn’t have a great spiritual sense nor a high sensitivity to mana, at least not those weaker ones.
Malphite erected a temporary home inside a cave with several rooms and a social area in just a few minutes. Kayden had to admit that the rock man had a talent for this.
"I think we should fight in groups of three to make organization easier. We have three support mages, two melee fighters, and two ranged mages. Kayden and I are mixed," Thomas took the lead again.
Even though he was a flower in the greenhouse, Kayden had to admit that the boy had a good level of education and knew exactly what he was doing in terms of organizing a guild.
"I’m going to keep Kayden and Felix in a duo and add Aqua. You shouldn’t have much difficulty working together. Me and Gnar will team up with the red Junior, while Malphite, blue Junior, and Shiva will be the last pair." Kayden was pleased with his arrangement. With just one more person in his circle, he would have more freedom to exercise his leadership, especially considering that Aqua’s personality was not the strongest.
"We will do a perimeter sweep where we will meet every few kilometers. Each trio will follow a diagonal path and report to the other when they meet. We will test these trios tomorrow in one of the low-level dungeons."
Low-level dungeons only had monsters from the third realm and a few dozen from the fourth realm. They were perfect for a little training and for looting some treasures with some luck.
The next day, they found some dungeons within a perimeter of hundreds of kilometers. To measure their strength, it was very easy: they just needed to find the guardian, who usually had a mana chain connecting him to the dungeon entrance. Guardians could be from different kingdoms, but most of the time, they represented the intermediate force of a dungeon. Each dungeon had a few floors that went down to a boss or just a straight boss.
Kayden and his group found one with a difference in floors. The monster in front was only a fighter in the fourth realm and not even intermediate. It didn’t even take a minute for Thomas to kill him.
"Let’s split up and meet at the end of this dungeon," Thomas gave simple orders and they split up. Kayden and Felix already had a ridiculously strong strength together and their rapport was pretty high because of the years they spent together. Aqua was left a little on the team. She was a mage specializing in area spells and at the same time rapid energy and wound healing. The only problem was that the monsters weren’t strong enough to do anything to Kayden.
"Felix, they have a weakness in their response time when faced with simultaneous attacks," Kayden was explaining to the cat, but his words were actually for the audience who were watching him. Any attempt to speak that came from the world of luck caused the system to beep warning of imminent death and Kayden didn’t want to test his luck. The monsters had strength, but they didn’t seem quite capable of applying it in the right way. This became less and less apparent as the monsters increased in strength. Kayden came across one that used a very special move.
The blue liquid that dripped from his body disappeared upon touching the ground and was transformed into mana to boost his physique. It was a silly detail, but Kayden could sense the phenomenal secret behind it. First, it was the transformation of something physical into mana. Any information on this subject was very helpful to Kayden. After that, the beast could regenerate this mana and use it as fuel for its actions. Few beasts could do this decently, but just this detail doubled their attack strength. They were practically two different monsters with opposite strength levels.
"There are two great benefits of killing these beasts. The first is for you to drink your blue blood and quickly recover mana and stamina. The second is a small glimpse of how to use that blue blood on yourself," Aqua’s speech made Kayden interested. This was one of the best paths he could take to try to get closer to the same state he was in in his advancement to the fourth realm. A few seconds later, Kayden easily killed another monster.
"Is it just drinking? Doesn’t it need any purification?" Kayden asked as he took liters and liters out of the beast.
"Yes, the problem is that you have to drink it all to have the effect. The rewards aren’t worth the suffering," Aqua said those words, but she didn’t expect Kayden to start swallowing it all like it was nothing.
A few dozen liters went into Kayden’s belly. The strength of his muscles meant that he did not appear to be full even after drinking dozens and dozens of liters. The boy sat on the ground and felt his inner strength and mana regenerate on their own. It was practically like using a good fourth-realm pill. Regarding knowledge about the blue liquid...
It was little, Kayden only felt a small connection with the blue liquid that was in his stomach, he felt as if he could mold it to his will, but it was ridiculously small.