Arthur stayed his place for days while absorbing everything he could from this world and hitting the bases higher constantly.
"My old core formation stage had around nine stages, but I think my core is different. It's three cores not just one after all," he thought after raising a couple of bases already and feeling himself getting stronger.
The number of stages in each major base was universal back in his days, and that was thanks to the fixed nature of every core of each base. For example, the current core formation stage had nine stages in it based on the shape of the core and the time needed to condense and purify it.
To transform the core into a nascent soul it took around nine steps before the final jump in the end. But right now he had three of the top cores he ever heard about, and so he hypothesized his own core formation stage would contain more minor stages.
"At least fifteen, maximum is twenty I guess," he thought again when he hit the fourth base, "but leveling up here is monstrous, I had only trained for four days and reached stage four. If I have a month here, I would be able to exceed the nascent soul base or even higher."
He inwardly sighed before focusing again in training. Disturbing thoughts were something detrimental to any cultivator, and he needed to use this rare chance to accommodate for the shortcomings of being here.
"Ding! We found something interesting," the system suddenly said in the early morning of the seventh day, "Ding! It's a relic it seemed."
"A relic?" Arthur opened his eyes and exhaled a long breath of air mixed with his faint blue spiritual energy. He just broke through the seventh base, making him slightly content so far with what he accomplished.
"It's a place where each original world held its greatest secrets," the golden dragon said before adding, "and also an opportunity according to those who reached that place and successfully explored it."
"Opportunity, huh?" Arthur stood up before asking, "which direction? Guide me there."
"Ding! It's a long way there," the system said, "Ding! I recommend taking back the scorpion queen and summoning it again. You'll be surprised by her now."
"Really?" Arthur smiled before adding, "what she ended up to be then?"
"Ding! Let it be a surprise."
"Alright, come back," Arthur then called his queen before the next moment he added, "Come forth."
The scorpion tattoo in his hand shone brightly and strangely it made his dragon tattoo resonate and shine as well. Arthur glanced at this before the queen appeared next in front of him.
"Wow, you finally decided to take a look at me," the moment she appeared, she jumped at once to hug him with her sexy human body.
Arthur pushed her slightly away and feasted his eyes upon her sexy grown up human body. She turned to a stunning beauty, one that could easily rival Amanda and Amelia, making his heart palpitate and his desire burn.
"What?" she winked before acting shy, "do you like what you see?"
She had a crystal green skin, a strange skin with luster and sparkles all over it. the sparkling tight and long green dress she wore added more to her alluring figure. Her eyes were dark green and her hair was black, thick and long, reaching her back and wasn't grouped together, falling over her forehead and face with many slightly curly strands that made her look like a girl waiting for him in the bed with shyness.
And this image made him swallow his throat, feeling much heat inside his body right now.
"You are… sexy."
"Hehehe, I know, right?" she laughed as she jumped around while spinning around herself to show him more of her figure. "Like it? wanna a bite?"
He swallowed his throat again before saying, "later, we have many things to do."
"Yeah, that relic, right?"
"You saw it?"
"It's an old fortress I guess," she mimicked a deeply thinking childish reaction over her face, "but I felt a strong aura coming from it, so I didn't venture there."
"I will go and discover it," he said before asking, "can you transform to your monster shape? Take me there?"
"Hehehe, you'll be surprised more by my monster shape," she laughed before the next moment her skin gleamed in green light and then she changed.
Before she was a gigantic scorpion, two tails and a very strong body. Yet when she changed, she ended up in a much smaller body. She had soft green scales covering her body, one curved tail, and two wings!
"A flying scorpion!" he muttered in surprise, "this time I'm really much surprised," he added.
"I know, right?" she laughed before adding, "come, let's go there and see what that forretress is hiding."
Arthur jumped over her back while she warned: "Hang tight, I fly fast."
He couldn't hold himself with anything but those five curved horns in the middle of her head. They looked like smaller versions of her tail, and the next moment she flew up.
"Wow, you are really fast," he exclaimed in surprise as she moved in a speed that was even comparable to his own. Just a flap of her wings forward and both ended up tens of miles ahead.
"We are getting closer," she said while he was busy examining the ground.
The fight was still going on everywhere. Any place he spotted had a group of his monsters fighting a group of the hostile monsters, yet the advantage here lied in the hands of his side.
"It's over there," she said and Arthur looked to the horizon to see another hill from far. "It's like my own starting point," he muttered before asking, "have you found any more hills here?"
"No, there is only this one and yours," she answered.
"Have you met any strong monsters there?" he asked again, while trying to make sure of his own guess.
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