Undying Warlord

After Dilan let off some steam, he didn't fight rashly again.

He allowed the others to fight as well and mostly focused on supporting them.

The most important right now was to allow his people to become stronger and to get his hands on as many monster corpses as possible.

Dilan merely focused on killing the four strongest monsters in each group and being at the tip of the spear formation they mostly used before observing everyone's fight.

He might not be the best teacher in terms of his personality because he was not really known for his patience and calmness, however, he could still tell if someone was wasting time and energy in unnecessary movements or not.

Not many Ascenders possessed a passive ability about combat mastery, resulting in the Ascender's prowess being far below the standard they should have attained according to their stats.

The Basic training all Ascenders received was only that…basic training.

No amount of training would match the experience they would gain while fighting to stay alive, which was why Dilan focused on supporting them.

After a few hours passed, Dilan and the others encountered the first few groups of the Porter Unit. They were carrying the corpses to the Sun temple.

Dilan procured some information from them, which was why he knew that the Ligrav and Rasnian race didn't do anything to block his people from entering the town or Sun temple.

In fact, Priestess Brashta and her people were being quite welcoming and kind to all the groups, who came to the Sun temple to offer monster corpses as a sacrifice to the Sun God Valgard's Divinity.

She was overjoyed that Dilan acted so fast because it decreased her worry about the possibility that the Divinity's Fragment would have too little energy to maintain their current life.

At the same time, Priestess Brashta believed that Dilan's actions were a sign that he trusted her blindly.

According to her, if he wouldn't trust her blindly, there was no reason for him to show her just how weak humans truly were.

There were not many powerful Ascenders in the rows of the Porter Unit. Thus, Priestess Brashta and the Eternal Guards were able to conclude that Dilan was not only 'a little bit' powerful but that he was amongst the strongest humans in the surrounding area.

Priestess Brashta was exhilarated after realizing this and she was ready to act even kinder if that was necessary to procure more information.

Slowly but steadily, Priestess Brashta came to the decision that the human race was much weaker than she could have expected. There were only a few Tier-1 human Ascenders, and not a single one of them radiated a dangerous presence.

However, what Priestess Brashta did not include in her train of thought was the fact that Dilan had sent a non-combat unit to carry the corpses to the Sun temple.

Only a few Tier-1 Ascenders had been employed as bodyguards to protect the lives of the weak members of the Porter Units.

Yet, even these Tier-1 Ascenders were far from being the strongest in Dilan's group.

In fact, Dilan was currently intently watching the development progress of the combat unit.

They had already spent a long time hunting for several hours and were currently resting and eating.

Dilan was surrounded by Sven, Yvonne, Kathrine, and the others. A few of them continued to speak about the group's plan for the following days and found ways of helping some Ascenders to fix their most apparent flaws, and how to utilize their gains in the most efficient way.

There were only eight days left to hunt more than ten thousand monsters if they wanted to meet the quota mentioned by Priestess Brashta.

It was not that they had to meet her quota but it would certainly 'improve' their relationship with her irrespective of the fact whether that was truly necessary or not.

"In the evening, I'll go to the Krendel's Underground Valley to trade the leftover Bronze Tier-1 Essence crystals. That should be early enough." Dilan said calmly before the others nodded their heads.

They didn't think that it was necessary to run back and forth to exchange the Essence crystals they had procured with Bronze Tier-1 treasures in an instant.

Dilan could store them in the Penta Item Pouch perfectly fine, so there was no problem to reconsider anything.

They needed Dilan by their side as well, simply because their large group attracted the most attention.

"I don't think it will be necessary to wait until the evening. We shouldn't hunt for more than a few hours today. Everyone is already exhausted and we shouldn't be too arrogant in the Shikan planes. It's the first time for us to enter the Shikan plains after the Primordial Ascension, and there may be things we have yet to find out.

In the late afternoon, dangerous predators are the most active as well. It would be too dangerous for the Porter Unit's members to be out on the Shikan plains that long." Sven commented after looking around.

He had deduced quite some information through the last few weeks. Thus, he knew when monsters were the most active, and what to pay attention to.

Dilan nodded his head without thinking about disagreeing with Sven's commentary. Sven was right with everything he had said, and if Dilan were, to be honest, he was already happy that monsters such as the Blue Tiger had yet to appear.

From the looks of it, the Shikan plains were currently more secure than Rian's center.

When Dilan realized this at first, he found it to be quite weird. But after giving it some thoughts and discussing the topic with Sven, it made more sense.

The majority of humans, which were of high use to monsters, had lived in Rian and all the other cities spread through Milarn when the Primordial Ascension had occurred.

That had probably been the reason for most monsters to flood the city. They became stronger the more humans and other monsters they killed and decided to make the city their territory at the end of the day.

It was only a matter of time before the first monsters would leave the city. Once the first monsters would leave, the others would follow suit.

Only then would it be necessary for Dilan and the others to be fully focused on upping their protection even more than it was already.

Until then, it was best to focus on becoming stronger, which was what they had been doing for the last few hours.

Strength was important to eradicate all their threats, after all.

Everyone had leveled up several times, and the stats of most Ascenders had increased by more than 5 Units!

Even Dilan had leveled up once and he had gained quite a few status points.

Their strategy of hunting in a large group resulted in such a great result. The following days of hunting would become easier the more the Ascenders improved as the strength of monsters on the Shikan plains couldn't change that much in the next few days.

At least, herbivores wouldn't be able to become much stronger in a few days.

However, simultaneously with the Ascenders' increase in strength, everyone's progress would diminish the higher their level would reach.

After all, if their level exceeded that of the monsters they had killed before, the Essence and status points they would receive were bound to decrease rapidly.

The bigger the gap to the being killed, the more Essence and status points one would receive. However, the same logic played an important role the other way around.

If an Ascender was at the same level as the monster they killed, the Essence and status points could be said to be at 100%.

If the Ascender was of a lower level, it would increase exponentially but if the Ascender was of a much higher level, the Essence crystal would slowly lose value, until they wouldn't provide any Essence or status points further if Ascender's level was way too high!

Dilan didn't face many issues with all of this but his Ascenders would have problems to keep progressing at a rapid pace if they would be unable to face powerful monsters.

But Dilan didn't worry about that. His earlier worry had been that his people would progress too slowly to keep up with the rapid speed at which other living beings seemed to evolve and mutate.

It was truly frightening but with the way things were currently progressing, Dilan felt a little bit more reassured.

'As long as we're giving our best, everything will be fine…I'm sure of that!! As long as we don't give up, we'll be able to overcome everything!!'

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