Monster Integration

="The top," I said as I reached the top of the mountain.

There are a lot of formations floating around me and the heat coming from the mountain is powerful enough that nobody below the Earth Sovereign could bear it.

Which is not big of a threat.

Seeing even normal energies in this place is dense enough that it will kill anyone below the power of the Earth Sovereigns.

I looked down at the mountain, where it is hallowed in the center. Whatever happened had ripped the mountain from below through the center, tearing everything in its path.

I didn't stay at my spot for long on the top is very dangerous, with all those broken formations floating around, but going down would be even more.

However, there, I could get the things I need.

There is a map and information, but is not reliable, not because it is not accurate, but because whatever happened, had ripped it from the down. So, everything is in shambles, with broken formations everywhere.

What would be a way that could be blocked, an hour later by the broken formations.

Here, one needs luck and a powerful exploring method. One couldn't simply spread their soul sense, as that could trigger many broken formations.

Still, I sensed the waves of soul sense, mixed heavily with the forbidden power. As stepped through the stones and broken rooms, avoided the broken formations, that were floating around.

Most of the formations have been set in their places. Only a minority are floating around, but every single one of them is dangerous.

There are thousands in here that vaporize the Sky Sovereigns in an instant.

I went down through the rocks and broken rooms. My speed is quite fast, compared to others. The soul waves are helping me map the place and my clones are finding the best way to move through it.

I found nothing useful as I descended, aside from the increasing heat.

This might be a dangerous place, but people have come here, and everything is picked clean. I didn't find a single useful thing, but I didn't mind; I knew there were goods ahead and I only needed to reach them.

Over half an hour passed and I finally stopped.

There is one broken formation, shining in red light, but its shine is bright and every few hours, a drop would fall down from it, where it would solidify.

There is a red crystalline splatter the size of my palm had already formed on the ground, completely solidified.

A few strings came out and moved toward the solidified splatter and within seconds, it was removed from the ground safely and brought to my hands by my strings.

I looked at it for a moment, before storing it in my storage.

I have come across a few when I was climbing the mountain, but they didn't interest me. Their grade wasn't high enough for me to waste my effort, and this one did.

It was only a fist size, which isn't big, but it contains huge energies. The deeper I go, the better quality of fire crystals I would get. If I go deep enough and luck is with me, then it won't be a fist-size crystal that I would get.

I stored it to my core and moved forward, and a few minutes later; I stopped again and picked up, another finger-sized fire elemental crystal.

I go deeper and deeper and aside from the fire elemental crystals. I didn't get anything else.

Soon, three hours passed since I began to descend the mountain.

The heat becomes high enough here that, a normal Initial level Earth Sovereign would turn to dust. The broken formations here are also powerful enough that a single one could vaporize me.

Bang!

I was thinking about the explosion when one rang out, far below me. It was powerful, as one would expect, but deep enough that it didn't things this high.

This is good because I don't want to die and hearing an explosion like this makes me feel, I might, and I want to go back immediately.

I pushed away these thoughts as soon as they came and resumed my descent.

These explosions are quite common. It might be hard to believe, seeing as one might think, after thousands of years, things must have settled into the rhythm and it is most true, but also slightly untrue.

These are not complete formations, which are predictable. They are broken and do things, that are not their purpose.

Sometimes, two formations would clash. Most of the time, they would repel, but sometimes, they would explode. One of the rarer times, they would merge and turn into a unique formation.

Sometimes this wouldn't work, and they would explode.

There are many reasons for them to explode, including the interference in the people and some monsters that linger here.

What I want to say is, that things are unpredictable here and one not only needs to be smart and cautious but also lucky, because things here are out of one's control, and if one is unlucky, one will find themselves in one of these explosions.

Another hour passed, and I stopped, looking at the cracked and broken wall with eyes shining.

"It is a good thing, no one had found you," I said slowly, and strings moved. They gently begin to remove the plaster from the wall, before taking out a silvery metallic thing.

It is a storage ring, and it is quite old, and looking at the signs, it is pretty old and suffered quite a lot.

The greatest damage done to it was the explosion that had killed its wearer. It had also gone through a few more explosions, but they were not stronger as the one that had killed its wearer.

It is easy to see it all and in a few minutes, I could even tell how many explosions it had suffered and how powerful they were, but I am not going to do those useless things.

I need to do only one thing and that is to find out whether it is working and if it is, then if still has something, even after this long.

The storage rings are not forever. The space in them degrades over time and the speed depend on the quality of the ring and the accidents it suffered.

I covered the ring with the forbidden energy before sending the sting of energy. It would have been wise to send the ring to my core and my clone to look at it, but I want to do it myself.

The energy touched the ring, and my eyes lit up, seeing the ring was fine and the space inside it, is still in a top shape.

Now, the question is what the ring has and whether the thing inside it is still fine.

I scanned the ring, and a big smile appeared on my face. Many things here, had been spoiled over thousands of years, but there are still many that remained in good shape, and I had seen a couple of things that interested me.

I want to look at them more clearly, but I couldn't do that here. So, with a heavy heart, I put the ring in my core and resumed my journey.