Monster Integration

At Every step, the density of the curse energy would increase; even before I reached Glow Palace, the density of the curse energy had already reached four times outside.

I feared that curse energy inside the building was going to be even denser, but I could not do anything about it.

Since I decided to come here, I had already prepared to face such scenarios; I hope that my preparations would be sufficient to deal with the difficulties I would face here.

The Glow Palace is too huge that it would take me months to sort through it whole, and I barely have a weak. Before coming here, I had already decided on the places in Glow Palace I would target, and I am going to stick to those targets.

There are three places I have to go, one is on the northern side, and two are on the eastern side; I am going toward the eastern side first.

Hun!

I was moving toward the eastern side when suddenly, I stopped with a smile on my face. I had noticed a couple of flowers, trees, lilies to be exact, and they are of a peculiar shade of the violet and have think smoke coming out of them.

These are Rowbridge lilies; while they are not as rare as the black ink lotuses, they are still pretty rare, and they are just lying here.

As I had said, one just needs a method to enter Glow Palace, and they will find as many resources they need. The dense curse energy produces powerful resources; even a simple blade of grass here is an envy-worthy resource for powerhouses.

Resource availability is one of the reasons I chose this ruin. Even I did not find a divine crystal or extremely rare treasures; I would still leave with all the supplementary resources of curse element.

I collected all the flowers, leaving not a single one behind. It took me few seconds to harvest the hundreds of flowers; my vines make doing things like that extremely easy, even if the process of doing it is a little complicated.

An hour passed by, and I had reached the glow palace and could touch its glowing orange walls. These walls are giving off dense curse energy six times outside, and it will become even denser when I enter inside this huge glow palace.

I collected a few precious herbs that were by the wall of the Glow Palace and entered inside; just as I did, I felt the energy became denser, reaching that of seven times of the outside.

I am at the northern side of the building; it will take me two to three hours to reach where I need to be; I am okay with it.

There are a lot of resources lying around; by the time I reached that place, I would have collected more than half of the supplementary materials I needed.

Chew Chew

Few more minutes had passed when suddenly, Ashlyn chirped in my mind, and a scene appeared in front of my eyes for a few seconds before disappearing.

There is a leader class Grimm Monster not far away from me; it is hastily collecting resources, and I could understand why the curse energy is eating away its shields, and if it did not quickly getaway, its protection would go down, and without it, it would not be able to survive.

If I had been a leader class Tyrant, even the weakest one; I would have surely gone for it, even it had been peak leader class Tyrant, as I would have only needed to engage against it for a couple of moves before the curse energy here would have done the job.

Regretfully, I am not a Leader class Tyrant, but an Elite class, and even if it is in precarious conditions, I will not attack it. It will be like a hare is challenging a wounded lion; a lion is always a lion, no matter how wounded it is.

I shook my head and changed the directions, but I had just taken a step when I suddenly stopped.

'Fuck Ashlyn!' I cursed loudly in my mind seeing it going for the Grimm Monster; I had opened my mouth to curse but stopped it before it was too late. The slightest sound may alert it, seeing the distance between it and I is just of few hundred meters.

I screamed at Ashlyn to stop in my mind, but she did not listen; she went for the Grimm Monster as I watched with sheer horror as she reached closer and closer to the Grimm Monster.

I had also prepared myself; even if I am no match for the Grimm Monster,  I will fight it to save Ashlyn.

Ashlyn went closer and closer to it, but Grimm Monster did not seem to discover her. The Lionman seemed too focused on harvesting those Opel Thistles; its eyes seemed full of fervor.

While the Opel thistles are quite precious, they are still not precious enough for leader class Tyrant to such big risks. It must have needed them for something important; otherwise, it would not be taking the huge risks as it is taking right now.

Its shields are in a dangerous state, the way curse energy eating them, they would not be able to last more than five minutes, and this Lionman is still not caring about it and very delicately harvesting those thistles.

Ashlyn reached close to it and went for its neck, it did not discover Ashlyn at all, and it was quite hard.

That invisible fire of her not only makes her invisible visually but also makes invisible to soul senses, and it also burns the sound, which makes her very hard to detect.

Shik!

It suddenly seemed to notice something as it abruptly stopped harvesting Opel thistles, but it had already become too late.

Ashlyn's wings have broken through its protection and drawn long, thin lines across its neck, through which blood begins to splutter out.