Monster Integration

A second after the golden beam stopped by me, it had turned into the giant golden cube which had enveloped me and the sphere.

The protection of the cube seemed extremely powerful; from what I could sense, its defensive power is comparable to the old monsters who are fighting invisibly, and if that was not proof of that, then the clashing of invisible attacks is.

The mirrors have disappeared the moment the cube has appeared, and invisible attacks clashed against it, but they were not able to do a thing against it, not even shake it.

It seemed to have made that person even angrier, and it had attacked with even more powerful attacks, but it was not able to do anything against it. Seeing that everything outside is beyond my control, I decided to refine the Grimm Monsters, in the essence roses.

Buzz!

I just shifted focus back to the essence roses when I heard the familiar buzz I had been waiting to hear, and for a moment, I had thought it might not even come, but it finally did, and to my surprise, the silver and green runes came out from my core, instead of my body as they usually do.

The runes have begun to spread through me, and I covered myself and the sphere into the mist to obstruct the vision of those watching.

The runes did not emit any fluctuation, so people could not sense them even if they were somehow able to seep their soul power into the cube that was protecting me. So, all I have to do is obstruct their vision, and I did with mist, which is not a regular mist but one with heavy rule-bending power.

Buzz!

It took a few seconds for the runes to spread, and as they did, I felt the thick and powerful crystalline bloodline essence coming at me. It is thick as what I had felt in the bloodline ruin, even slightly powerful, and this time, there is no restriction on me, and I could enjoy it to my full extent.

The only regret I have is that only two Grimm Monsters have the bloodline in all the fifteen. It would have been fantastic if a few more of them had it, especially the Stone Lightning Tigerman; it would have given me an immense boost.

While I am saying the Stone Lightning Tigerman had it, I really did not wish it had. It would have made my job a lot harder, and I might have not been able to defeat it if it had the bloodline.

Those with bloodlines create a lot more resistance than those with Inheritance. If it had the bloodline, I would not have been able to seal its core and all the power points in time, and that means I would have died; if those people in hiding failed to save me.

Hun!

As the thick purified bloodline essence came into my body, I received another surprise. Instead of getting divided into multiple streams as it usually does, all of it had gone to my core.

I was quite happy for a moment at the thought of getting the whole share instead of the usual four, but soon, reality hit me when I noticed that I was getting at my usual 25% while the rest was going to three people, that is in my body.

I looked inside my core and saw Ashlyn there sitting by a small lake, and I was not one bit surprised. If Nero could come in, then there was no doubt in my mind that Ashlyn also could come into my core; she is just as strange as Nero, more stranger.

As for the last bit, it disappeared as it entered my core. It obviously went to the hidden existence in me, which is now seemed to change its residence to my core.

Like before, the runes are not only helping me harvest the Grimm Monsters with bloodline but also those without it, just like before. 

If it had not helped, it would have taken me a lot of time, especially Stone Lightning Tigerman, which had practiced body refining method and lot more difficult to harvest than the usual Grimm Monsters of similar level.

Seconds passed by, and I focused my all on harvesting, especially looking at an aspect of Tigerman as the ruines harvest it.

I am going to be facing more such enemies, and I need to develop a better method to harvest them more efficiently. The runes are not going to help me always; they need bloodlines, so I need to get better at harvesting as I would not all the time in the world on the battlefields.

My core continues to absorb the purified bloodline essence as it did; I begin to feel the faint changes happening to it and the runes it connected all over my body. This is not surprising; this sort of thing used to happen to my old runes, too; the powerful the Grimm Monsters' bloodline would be, the more significant the change they would bring to my runes.

A minute and a half passed by, and runes have finished harvesting the Grimm Monster; if I had not received the help from the runes, I would have needed more than ten times to do that.

Buzz!

A second later, I saw my core shine again, and it had released the huge amount of energy that had first spread into my runes before the runes released into every part of my body.

My aura begins to climb as my body absorbs the energy; the rise is very slow. If it had been regular elite in my place, this much energy would have been more than enough to take them to the peak elite and break into the leader class.

The rule-bending power had helped me bend the rules and regress my level but gave me more strength than a Master class Tyrant, which gives me immense potential.

This is the reason why I had forged my core in rule-bending power; it gives me immense potential and power to break the rules. While other elements of mine would have offered me more offensive power, they would not have offered even 1% of the potential that Rule Bending Core is offering me.