What? Each skill book now only costs 100,000 mana cores?
The entire guild couldn’t believe what they were hearing. How many times had they gone inside the magic shop and looked at these skills, yearning to buy a few and power level themselves?
But, 1 million mana cores was simply an astronomical amount that no one could afford. No matter how much they wanted, this was just a pipe dream.
However, now… 100,000 mana cores? Yes, it was still a huge amount, but it was no longer an unattainable goal!
Everyone watched in envy as Alex quickly opened both the two books she had received and learned the skills.
The knowledge of the skill was engraved in a rune that was inscribed on the inside of the book. When she opened the book, the rune disappeared, leaving behind just an empty parchment sheet that immediately disintegrated.
Alex’s eyes widened in surprise as she could feel an instant change somewhere within her.
“It’s your soul,” Liam explained. “The skills directly get added to your soul. Now you should be able to use them freely. It’s an instant effect.”
“Ya, you are correct.” She quickly tried out the healing spell on a scratch that was on her hand. Right in front of everyone’s eyes, divine energy gathered in her hand, and the wound was gone without a mark.
Everyone watched in awe, and Liam used this chance to remind the guild.
“I know that you have all suffered a lot fighting against these isons, and it happened only today, but if you can push yourself, then this is an opportunity that perhaps we will not get a second time.”
“Your levels, your combat experience, your skills, there is a chance for everything to go up! Let’s use this and push for the top!”
Liam’s words sounded loudly in the otherwise silent room as everyone stared at him in shock. After that, it did not take long for the realization to sink in as the guild collectively roared with vigor!
Who did not want more skills and more strength and power?
Especially after feeling so helpless just hours before, everyone’s blood boiled as they thought about fighting that damned nightmare one more time and reclaiming the victory that should have been theirs in the first place!
After Liam’s rousing speech, the morale of the guild was high.
Liam immediately gave the signal to Luna to start the trip without any further delay. She nodded and made a move.
One by one, all the wyverns also flapped their wings and elegantly rose high up in the sky. These majestic draconic creatures struck fear and respect in the hearts of everyone who watched them from afar.
All the civilians who were currently in their houses resting and recovering from the battle rushed out to watch this scene.
Even in their pathetic wounded condition, they couldn’t help but feel a sense of pride that these creatures belonged to their guild, to their guild leader. Everyone stood silently as they watched the whole gang disappear further into the skies.
However, the majestic procession did not go too far, as they made a quick stop at the hive hill before leaving the guild base zone.
Here, Liam alone jumped down from Luna and collected everything that his soul minions had harvested so far.
There were several impressive heaps of ison body parts, their poisonous body fluids, some unhatched eggs, and, lastly, glittering pieces of orichalcum metal slabs.
On the side, there was also a pile of mana cores which was separately being guarded by a soul minion.
All the guild members watched this scene with their mouths agape as Liam casually went from one pile to another, collecting everything in sight as if it was nothing.
Something like this was possible only by him or, rather, the tirelessly working soul minions.<.com>
In just a few hours, almost all of the isons had been harvested, with only the hive hill now remaining. This hill which was entirely made of precious metal, was also partly harvested.
If not for the difficulty of breaking it apart and procuring the metal slabs, this work would have also been completed by now.
Now they understood the rewards Liam had mentioned. No wonder he was able to get two skill books so easily.
With these many mana cores up for grabs, it was time to get as many skill books as possible and boost their overall strength and power levels.
As for the golden hill…
“It’s fine. We can get to this later.” Liam rubbed his chin and made a decision.
Surviving this second wave and preparing for the worst came first. They need to become stronger. The other things can wait.
Leaving the half-mined metallic pyramid standing there just like that, the group once again took off. Since Liam already knew the location of another one of these hive hills, he directly asked Luna to go there.
The white fox shot through the sky in that direction, and the ten wyverns followed her, struggling to keep up and only barely succeeding.
The entire journey took about two hours since Luna did not use her [Blur] skill, and finally, the group arrived near the area.
The first thing that everyone noticed was how the land around them was charred and battered, with small craters here and there. The places that were not destroyed were dyed red in color.
This was blood?
They could feel the thick stench of blood that still had not cleared out of the zone. The whole place had an aura of death that blanketed it from top to bottom.
There were rotting corpses smeared everywhere, most of them decayed and desiccated beyond recognition. These were definitely the tell-tale signs of a huge battle that had gone down not that long ago.
If the isons they were currently up against was one thing, then this was an entirely new kind of evil.
After the entire guild observed the battleground in silence, they couldn’t help but look at Liam next.
For some reason, without even any explanation, they could already tell that the reason for this bloody battleground was none other than their beloved guild leader.
So when he had rushed over to help them back at the guild base, this was what Liam was fighting against? Just what all dangers were looming around them in this new world?
Liam saw this and laughed. “This is a long story. I will fill you guys in a bit later. How about we do some training first?”
He then raised his hand and pointed at the golden pyramid-like structure in the distance.
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