The cold air inside the cave has grown still.
Outside, snow is still falling; the forest looks more of a silver color than green.
Whereas fire is crackling from the bonfire, dead beast bones were thrown on the side of the fire.
But Michael was standing there shirtless with his sword in his hand with focused tension.
He took a deep breath.
Energy surged through his body with every heartbeat, resonating with every beat of his soul. His foundation was far stronger now, and it was time to test his physical control.
With a flicker of inner energy, Michael's body shot forward. His feet struck the ground with precise force, propelling him a few meters in a blur.
"Too much power used... I need to synchronize my breath and step."
He exhaled slowly and started to try again.
As Michael tried again and again, each step echoed faintly off the cave walls like distant thunderclaps.
But it took him 40 hours to stabilize the first stage of the nine-stage thunder sword body, which also increased his strength, as the first stage doubled the brute force using the sword with burst body movement.
Michael looked at the time and was surprised it took him 3 months to comprehend the first stage in his last life but now it took 6 hours which might be due to his understanding of three levels of martial art.
Michael thought of starting second layer of nine stage thunder sword body but thought but energy required for second stage isn't enough as when learned this martial art last life he was already at peak of warlord realm still he need to breakthrough planetary realm to comprehend second stage.
But now he has just broken through the middle stage of warlord and spiritual energy required for the second age can't be produced by mere warlords.
According to information he got from the spirit of inheritance that as long as he comprehends the 9th stage there is a chance that he could form his own domain but still need to comprehend deep enough which is still far from him.
"Don't get ahead of yourself,just go with the flow."
Michael took a deep breath and started to think what he has to do next as there are still more than a few hours left before going out.
Thinking about the Ape demon,he took out his watch and started to look for anything happening in the human base.
"So ,what are they after the map or something else ?."
There was some movement in the alien base according to human spies. There were few powerful warlord presence seen last week.
They were searching for something and five days ago they took a dead body to their base camp but there was no further movement.
Looking at the information even he himself wasn't surprised as he guessed the dead body might belong to some group and he contains something valuable that's why they came after.
Valuable thing they might be looking for is the map, or else there is nothing that can be more valuable for warlord warriors, even 10,000 year old willow plants.
But thinking that someone else got the benefit from their fighting they might feel ashamed.
Michael amused. "At least they don't know a General Realm warrior took their thing."
Same time, I started to check for Ravine city where the inheritance spaces are located.
To his surprise this city falls under the authority of Starlight Superbase which he even himself forgot about.
"So, I have to go to that city," Michael murmured
Ravine city is far from his city; it might take a few days to reach there. Thinking of bloodline activation he can't wait to get there.
There is other information which is most eye-catching about the auction which will be held in Starlight city. According to an article this time Golden stalk auction house might take out treasure from new relics found by the above warlord realm warriors.
"Looks like it might take more time than required." MIachel said as he scanned the screen.
Looking at the date which will be held in a month which is quite short time for he himself don't have enough money to attend the auction but now he can hunt a few wild beasts of warlord level which is still great way to earn money but it depends if he could find the warlord realm except the one.
Or else he has to find more war general level beasts which also have a great market to sell as they are the main product for making different defense materials such as body armor, forging weapons etc
Even beasts material such as blood are used for medical research to develop different serums for body tempering or bloodline awakening serum for those whose bloodline are awakened but not fully controlled.
Miachel looked outside the cave
"Now let's reach the destination early."
Michael started to pack everything to move from here as he needed to reach near the location as well as kill a few beasts to earn money for the auction.
Miachel put on the body armor although it looked more bulky but it didn't make his movement difficult.
It was already morning, which can help him move toward the area with less danger.
Michael moves toward the location marked by the system where he finds out that the location was deep opposite the previous location.
When he was moving he saw a few beasts in the general realm but he didn't attack as isn't an ideal situation for now small composition but alert the warlord beast and he might eat the fruit before it can even ripe.
Warlord realm beasts are generally intelligent beasts which can quickly judge the situation and the danger.
As he approaches the location he starts to slow down as to approach with causesly as not to attract other beasts as well to the party.
Miachel reached a location he was only about 200 metres away from the tree but at the bottom of the tree there was an early stage warlord tiger beast lying.
Looking at the tiger beast he was very happy as fighting with the tiger beast won't be in the same realm won't be easy but here that's not the problem.
Then his eyes focus on the Bloomberry fruit which might be about an hour to ripe and the good thing is there are at least 5 pieces of tree which might help him breakthrough as well but it depends how much energy it has.
As Michael was waiting for fruit to ripe there was a drop of silence in the surrounding area as it is a territory of warlords and not every beast can roam around at the same time.
Michael starts to prepare his sword to attack the Beast as it's time to collect the fruit.
He tends to exert his whole strength to strike down the beast so as not to attract other warlord beasts as his present location is the inner circle of the beast's area.
" It's time to finish."
Miachel exert his full strength using nine stage thunder sword art to strike
With a flash of blade Michael appears in front of the tiger beast.
Swish….
Tiger, who had been waiting for fruit, was startled by the sudden appearance of a human.