"Wasn't it a two days period? What happened?" he asked in surprise and much doubt.
"Ding! You didn't leave the world yet, so it can still deal with the monster as easier now using this world's energy to suppress it," the system said before adding, "Ding! These are just my speculations, not its reply."
"And its reply?"
"Ding! Ahem, it says why are you complaining of having more time when you really need it?"
"…"
"This garden… hahaha, I like it," the golden dragon was very amused by this answer.
"Alright," Arthur helplessly shook his head, "how about things here?"
"Ding! The monsters are now dominating their enemies, but…"
Arthur understood the point, "they can't totally exterminate them, right?"
"Ding! Yes, that's the case."
"Send for the queen and make her start hunting the portals," Arthur said before adding, "make her seal them using these arrays," he took out many sealing arrays he had in his ring before adding, "and let the garden try to absorb the worlds attached to the sealed portals."
"Ding! The garden says it can't do this on a large scale now."
"No problem," Arthur nodded, "any help is appreciated."
"Ding! There is one more issue."
"What?"
"Ding! I can relay your orders but can't deliver the runes to her."
"Sigh, come back," Arthur then canceled the summoning of the queen before adding, "come forth," and then he resummoned her.
The moment she appeared, she angrily looked at him. "Why did you call me back? I was having so much fun!"
"Listen then to have all the fun you need," he helplessly smiled as he recalled how brutal and sadistic this queen of his was. "Take these arrays, find the portals leaking all those monsters here and seal them."
"Isn't it better for me to enter those portals and clear the worlds inside?" she asked.
"It's indeed better, but we don't have much time here to waste," he shook his head before adding, "we have less than six days now, so don't hesitate to use any means to crush those monsters by then."
"Tsk, if only you agree to bring those armies of warriors from inside," she groaned.
"They won't do any good here," he stayed on his past decision, "just use all the monsters I send your way to upgrade and strengthen them."
"Alright," she went to the arrays then added, "give me a ring then."
"Here," he casually threw her one.
"Oh dear, my first ring ever came from you… that's so sweet my love," she playfully said while he gave her a reprimanding look. "Don't play around, we need to crush everything here before the deadline."
"Acting like you are the one on the shorter end of the rope here," she muttered, yet he heard her perfectly.
"Don't underestimate them," Arthur warned, "these monsters are somehow related to that mysterious voice. I'm pretty sure their top fighters haven't shown themselves up yet."
His words didn't make her frown in worry, instead they made her quite excited. "Are you sure? That would be great! I'm sick already of fighting all those weak monsters."
He didn't say a word while watching her take all the runes and leave. Before she went away, he gave her some arrays he took from the castle of the sky underground storage. "Use these to accelerate your kill," he instructed, and from her reaction he knew she wouldn't do as he wished.
"She won't use them," the golden dragon stated the obvious.
"Sigh, I just hope she won't throw herself in deadly situations with her thick head," Arthur shook his head before returning to combine his two energies together.
This time he wasn't pressured like before, and it seemed his lack of this kind of stress was beneficial to him.
He felt more ease at merging the two energies together. His absorbed spiritual energy flew smoother than ever, and he started to rise more bases in a shorter time.
Before the end of the third day, he managed to rise up all the way to the pinnacle of his core formation stage.
"Sigh, seeing me level up like this makes me wonder what the hell I was doing back in my previous life," he amusingly muttered when he examined his condensed mega core, ready to break through to the next big stage.
The core was now like a shiny star, rotating slowly and connected to all his body meridians like a spider queen on top of her own spiderweb kingdom.
He focused more on merging the two energies in the past two days, and yet he wasn't quite satisfied by his gains so far.
"I need to breakthrough to the next base," he thought to himself before asking, "if I level up again, reaching the nascent soul stage, will I have another tribulation test?" he asked.
"Ding! I don't have a concrete answer for that, but I believe you'll get one tribulation test, or even having the first test harder."
"Harder…" Arthur hesitated before sighing, "no problem then, I need to deal with the urgent things I have in hand right now."
He then took a deep breath, calming down his stirred up thoughts, before returning to train again.
This time it took him one day to condense enough energy inside his meridians to be enough to jump this milestone ahead. "Time to form my nascent soul," he muttered while recalling the best process for that.
The core was considered like an outer shell for the soul, and the soul formed here was taken from his own. A strand that was tiny yet would make a huge difference in his future path. Yet the price of taking it was severe.
"To do that," he took a deep breath, "I'll need to cut down part of my soul using the great cleavage of heaven and earth."
He knew this sounded simple, yet the pain and weakness that would follow such a process was still lingering in his mind from his past life experience.
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