Monster Integration

Sigh!

I couldn't help but take a sigh of relief when I saw the lotuses recovering; for more than a minute, I thought I had made a huge mistake when I saw the lotuses begin to wither; a few seconds after, I mixed the corruption.

Now they have not only stopped withering but also begun recovering with the powerful corruption I have added. Still, it would take them more than a day to recover naturally, but in this core, nothing worked naturally.

It wouldn't be long before they recovered and advanced to the next stage.

I looked at further damage for a while before turning to the biggest tree in my core, the mysterious tree, which was now growing rapidly.

I had never seen it growing so fast, even when it was a small plant; it was already a little over meters long, and now, it is growing even taller. Seeing its speed of growth, I couldn't help but wonder whether it would touch the sky; while the sky is quite tall, it does have a limit.

I began to walk toward the tree and only took a few steps when I suddenly stopped.

Hun!

"I shouldn't let my guard down," I said and resumed walking, but this time went toward the formations which had been defending me from the beguilement.

By the time I returned from looking at the defensive formations, the Grimms had been nearly drained.

One of the most powerful beings in the world had turned old and grey in a matter of minutes; those who would look at it wouldn't recognize it for the mighty figure it was a few minutes ago.

Dhub!

Twenty-seven seconds passed when finally, the mighty Grand Lord disappeared in the smoke of dust, leaving behind the most beautiful essence rose I had ever seen in my life.

It is fully violet in color, and its petals gleamed with power that those below Grand Lord would feel suppression with just coming closer to it. They would not be even able to touch it, and nor I would let them touch it; it is too dangerous; if the energies inside it exploded, then even a Grand Lord would have a hard time escaping unscathed.

Buzz!

I only got a second to admire it before my core buzzed, and I felt like the world's oceans began to fill me; saying the amount of energy is huge would be an understatement, and the quality it had, I have no words to describe it; other than saying crystalline essence thick as lava floating into every part of my body.

"My Lord!"

I gasped, seeing the speed at my strength begin to increase; it had even surpassed the speed advancement during my breakthrough; even the boost felt pale in front of it.

I have thought about the strengthening essence of the Grimm hundreds of times and overestimated it, but still ended up underestimating it.

It is above my imagination.

The Grand Lords are no simple beings, they are the limit powerhouses, and nobody is stronger than them. Each one, be it a host of inheritance or bloodline, have a powerful core, which provides them with limitless power that could turn the whole world asunder.

It is a kind of blessing that the world does not have many Grand Lords; otherwise, it would have been destroyed a long ago.

It now had changed, and I feared for the fate of my world.

I controlled my thoughts and focused on the most important thing, the growth energy; I had to divert it toward certain resources. There are a few resources I need to take to the Grand Lord class first; as for other resources, they will need to wait for some time.

I took a deep breath and took control of gentle growth energy, but the sheer amount of it and its quality made me feel like I was holding a raging river in my hands.

It is very hard to control.

I greeted my teeth and used every bit of willpower I had to divert the growth energy to nine plants in varying amounts, which made things even more difficult, but I have a habit of multitasking and am somehow able to manage.

Hun!

The one plant that took the most energy is, without a doubt, a metal essence tree; I have allocated a massive 25% of energy to it alone, and it is swallowing it all without a pause and growing rapidly, which, to be honest, surprised me.

It had stopped growing for quite a while, and I thought it had reached its limit. Each essence tree is different; it depends upon the world in which it had born and the place it grew into.

It is growing, but I do not think the growth energy is the one that is the most responsible for it; it is a huge amount of growth energy I am giving it, but from what I read about the essence, it is still not enough to grow it like this.

So, in my opinion, the biggest reason for its growth is the dried half-bronze tree floating above it; thick bronze energies like water release out of the dead tree and seep into the metal essence tree.

The bronze energies are not the only thing that tree is absorbing; it is also absorbing all the twenty-four metallic essences placed around it. It had already sucked more than 30% in a matter of seconds, and it wouldn't take more than a minute for it to absorb it all.

I have more stored, and I am going to add to it; it is quite regretful that nine-metallic essences are the last one I have, or the world have; various organization has given me everything I had, and even after that, they are only enough to produce only two metal-essence fruit at Grand Lord grade and one at Grandmaster or High-Grandmaster if I am lucky.

Metal essence is extremely rare, especially in the Grand Lord class; I need to refine the massive amount of metal to produce a single drop, and I have them in gallons.

I could see the changes appearing in the fruits as they began to advance from High-Grandmaster to a Grand Lord class.

They are not the only ones that are advancing; there are other plants too also advancing toward it; the most beautiful among them is the blood-soul stainless lotuses.

They have already recovered, and now, they are advancing while guzzling a huge amount of growth energy. It is the reason why, despite there being over seventy-blood soul lotuses at peak-High Grandmaster class, I am only providing the energy to the thirty lotuses.

If I had growth energy to spare, I would have used it on these lotuses, but I am already providing 15% of the growth energy to it; I could not provide it anymore.

The 15% should be enough to take those lotuses to Grand Lord, especially with the Grand Lord level corruption, which they are sucking in wild abandon; that couldn't alarm me.

Looking at the amount and speed of corruption they are sucking and the growth the lotuses are having, I am afraid even producing two hundred Grand Lord lotuses would be a challenge, which is quite different than the five hundred I had expected.