Monster Integration

It had been over ten minutes since I was hiding in this place and the battle was still going on between them.

It seemed to have become even more intense, seeing I was sensing their power more clearly. Which made me feel more relieved seeing I had decided to hide rather than leave.

These Grimms are powerful, and this place isn't a plain ground, where I will be able to run easily.

It is filled with broken formations where one needs to take the measured step. If I am in one of such areas and even if I sensed the Sky Sovereign, before it could sense me, it will be hard for me to find a hiding spot quickly enough.

So, the trade-off of a few hours for safety is a brainer for me.

It is not like I have been wasting the time in waiting. I have sealed all my power and, in my core, joined my clone in understanding the formation.

Which is quite a reckless thing to do, considering I am in a place filled with broken formations. 

It is a little reckless, but I am feeling restless due to the Sky Sovereigns so close to me and the runes are the things, that calmed me down.

A few more minutes passed and finally, we understood the formation and there was a big smile on my face.

I understood how formation works, and it is quite simple. Its genius designer had made it complex intentionally. So, people wouldn't be able to break it so easily, and those who could, he is welcoming them do that.

The door acts as an entry and also as a checker.

It will give entry to those who have the key and subtract the point from it. 

I feared it would work with special signatures, that the keys and doors have and only matching those will open. 

No, there is nothing like that, it's why I said the creator had made formation complexes, but for those who could solve it, there is no other problem for them.

I will have to solve the formation, and it is not an easy task. The creator had made it exceptionally hard.

Thankfully, it is common runes that they used, and my understanding is deep enough that I feel like, I could solve the formation.

So, wasting no time, I started to work on solving the formation.

Hun!

Time passed, and I worked with my clones to solve the formation, when I suddenly stopped and opened my eyes.

The aura of the native disappeared. The waves and waves of it disappeared; I could still feel the aura of Grimms coming through short-range waves, but not from the native.

There are good chances that the native had been killed.

I am not completely confident of my assessment, and they could have escaped, through some method that would hide their aura and there are methods like that.

Still, my experience told me, that the native had likely died.

I stopped thinking about it and paused short-distance waves. I don't want the Grimms to sense them if they came. They might not sense seeing how I have designed them and the forbidden power they contain, but I don't want to take the risk.

Hun!

Without the soul sense and soul waves, I am completely blind in here; the only thing, I could sense are the energies coming at me.

I focused on the energies for a few minutes before closing my eyes and focusing on solving the formation.

I did that for one and a half hours of outside time before I opened my eyes again.

I took a deep breath and released the short distance wave and a few seconds later; it came back, and I released another, which went a little further than that.

After I received it back, I sent another and then another.

I couldn't stay in hiding forever; one hour is more than enough and now, I want to see whether there are Grimms and taking a cautious approach.

It took a few minutes before my wave had gone a few hundred past the building, before returning, giving me the data.

The data said there are no Grimms. Seeing that, I sent off a barrage of waves. These waves are stronger and provide me with more data.

They returned a few seconds later and studying the data they had brought, I have finally got up.

I stepped out of the hiding spot and made the journey to the building. Sending waves around me and receiving them. 

There may not be any Grimm present where I am going, but there might be some coming toward it. I want to know if someone is going to the place where I am going.

Especially the enemies that I couldn't see.

For nearly two hours, I had reached nearly the gate. Unlike the first one I saw and the red one which I am trying to break, this gate is grey iron, and it has only one thing, but that thing is precious.

So, much that, I am willing to spend two points of the key on it.

I looked around and spread my soul sense wider as I moved toward the building and was glad that the sky began to dark just them.

While darkness didn't affect things much, especially the artificial one, it is psychologically comforting. 

Soon, I reached the gate of budling and inserted the key, without wasting time and twisting it.

Click!

The clicking sound rang out, and I pushed open the door.

Hun!

As I did, a surprise couldn't help but appear on my face. The place I had gone to earlier had thousands of types of things, and they were in large quantity.

Here there is only one thing and only four units remain of it.

I appeared in front of the thing, before taking the unit in my hand. It is a crystal rectangular shaped and is of blood red color, with a silvery translucent sheen on it.

This is blood-soul crystal. 

It is a very rare resource, and, in my hand, it becomes even more, thanks to the blood-soul stainless lotuses I have.