Monster Integration

I looked inside me and saw all types of energies flowing; I saw ice and fire elemental cosmic energies, divine energies, and even diamond energies, and where all this had come from since I had already digested them all, it is a very good question and needs more than a minute find an answer.

The short answer is the Honeycomb broke and melted away, and now all the energies that used in making it and all it absorbed to strengthen it has separated.

I had designed the expander in mind that it would create a small pack that would absorb the energies and then merged with it to strengthen my body and soul. It did just that but now all the cells filled, the Honeycomb had melted away like the cast; I had not programmed this.

It is the work of my runes; they have done something which had melted the Honeycomb and released its energy, and to my surprise, my body and soul did not collapse as I had expected if something like this to happened, instead the packets of strengthening energy that had been stored in it begin to spread inside me more equally.

As it happened, I felt my body and soul became even more uniformed; the little friction that used to exist before had disappeared.

While the packets of energy had merged with my body, these energies of Honeycomb are still inside me. They could not be merged inside me as I had reached the limit, and I hope they will not circulate around continuously; while they are not doing any damage to me, that fact could change at any moment.

Buzz!

I had just thought about what would happen to these energies when suddenly, my runes lit up with a buzz, and all the energy moved toward it. 

My runes started to take the energies; it had quite surprised me, as the amount of energies my runes could take depended on my body and soul, which had reached the limit, which means the runes had also reached the limit and they should not be able to do what it is doing right now.

I had remained confused for a few seconds and frantically searched for the answers, which I had found a few seconds later.

'So, that is where the energies are going,' I said to myself. 

In one way, my runes are taking the energy. Though they are not consuming in a whole sense, they are just feeding it to the part of them, which is capable of bending the rules. The runes are feeding the energies to my pseudo bloodline; this part of runes incorporated the rule-bending power the most and could bend some rules in a small way.

It feeding on these energies and getting stronger rapidly, which is not surprising; the energies it is consuming are extremly precious and powerful. If my body had space to merge with these energies, I would have received a huge boost.

It took nearly eleven minutes for it to absorb all the energies, and from the colorless crystalline color, it had gained light pink color.

It had become powerful, and I would have loved to test its power, but I will do that later; first, I have to check my own strength.

It took me few seconds, but I was able to analyze my own strength, and I was shocked.

The filling of three hundred thousand cells had barely been able to push me to peak elite stage, which I was hoping for, but when Honeycomb broke and all the five million packets of strengthening energy spread uniformly across my body, my strength had risen again.

I am still an elite but at the very top of it, at the absolute edge that now even the smallest step would take me out of the elite stage, but this smallest stage is not easy to take. While for me, it is impossible to take without reaching the Tyrant stage, for others too, it is extremly hard, as taking a step means becoming a leader class Tyrant.

This strength is more than I could imagine, and not to mention my bloodline had also gotten stronger, which I am sure would be very helpful in capturing the enemies.

I don't think I would need to do that with elites unless they attack me with large numbers. With a huge increase in strength I just had, there is barely any elite that could match me.

After being satisfied with myself, I had turned to the apeman, which had turned to husk already. I took out the essence roses from its before stripping it off, of all the treasures it has, including its storage. When I looked inside its storage, I couldn't help but blow away; there is really a huge amount of good stuff here.

Its storage did not disappoint me at all; aside from the herbs, there are many different types of treasure, some of which I wasn't able to identify, but they seemed quite important.

With everything done, I removed the Ice Dome and saw Danielle sitting in the corner, with the body of one mid elite not far from her. As for the bodies of the other two Grimm Monsters, I did not have to ask where they went.

She was already very close to finishing her battle when I had summoned the ice dome and killed the Frogman not long after that. I was looking at everything with few strands of the soul senses I had spread around the hall.

"I had expected to see you all bloodied and broken, but you seemed fine, more than fine," Danielle said with clear surprise in her voice as she looked at me. I did not answer, just smiled; it is not something cloak with the lie, so remaining quiet is the best option.

"Here, take this one; I had taken the two," Danielle said as he motioned toward the body of Grimm Monster. "I did not do anything; it was all your efforts," I said and rejected her kind offer. It is she who helped me throughout the battle; if not for her, the battle for me would be a little harder.

"Take it, in exchange, give me one or two plants in these domes," Danielle said. I wanted to reject her, but after thinking for few moments, I decided to take the body.