Chapter 27 - Cultivation
The next morning, all the Hazegrove mercenary squad members except Ajax were gone escorting the Mason family's caravan.
As soon as they left the building, Ajax went to his room to start his cultivation.
'Ding,
Cultivating heaven and earth elemental refining technique consumes 100 units of the essence of nature,
Do you wish to cultivate it???
"Yes, I will cultivate", Ajax said in his mind.
' Ding,
100 units of the essence of nature are consumed
Main cultivation technique is cultivated
As soon he said 'yes', some foreign information flooded into his mind as he sat cross-legged and observed all the information.
'Ding,
Name:- Ajax
race:- human
Body force:- 1600 jin(+640 jin)
The essence of nature:- 520 units
Main cultivation technique:- Heaven and earth elemental refining technique (level 1)
Body cultivation:- Soldier realm level 1
Note:- Based on the body force of the user, he has the strength of level 7 soldier.
Spirit cultivation:- Spirit soldier realm level 1
Note:- Based on the essence of nature that can be stored in the user's body, he has the strength of level 5 spirit soldier.
Number of elemental spirits:- 3
Equipped items
1) Item name:- Sigmis black pendant
Grade:- medium grade artifact (Evolvable)
Effect:- 40% increase in user's defense
Special effect:- 20 percent increase in attack power when fighting enemies.
Special skill:- Summon of the dead (level 5)
Description:- Helps the user to summon 5 undead soldiers. (Upgradable).
Number of Summons available:- 2/5.
rating:-good
Description:- It is the final product of Sigmis, many years of hard work and research, However it is upgraded to medium grade with the help of upgrade stone.
Soon he checked his stats in the user interface.
Now it is showing his cultivation level ie., for body cultivation level, it's level 1 soldier whereas, for spirit cultivation, it's level 1 spirit soldier.
But what shocked him more is, his essence of nature is only 120 units.
" If 100 units were consumed, it's 620 units, then the remaining 380 units were, may be absorbed by the elemental spirits", Ajax felt regret because he didn't know beforehand that the essence of nature can be used to strengthen the body and increase the body force, but there is no medicine for regret in this world.
Leaving that matter, he focused on the Main cultivation technique.
"Ding,
Heaven and earth elemental refining technique (level 1)
Need any 999 units of the essence of nature to upgrade it to level 2
" What??, for level 2 it consumes 999 units for the essence of nature
Ajax didn't have that much essence of nature anyway, so he didn't waste much time on it.
He next focused on his level
'Ding,
need 100 units of the essence of nature to reach level 2 body cultivation.
Do you want to level up??
"No", After some thought, he decided to reject it for now.
After that, he tried absorbing the essence of nature using heaven and earth refining technique.
Soon the various elements surrounding the Ajax rushed into his spirit consciousness albeit the speed is much less than when he absorbed from spirit stones.
When he thought of spirit stones, he remembered the space ring given to him but Edmond and his eyes lit up with excitement.
As soon as he looked into the space ring, he saw three types of spirit stones placed separately.
" Fire, water and life element spirit stones, combined together, they can be over 100 easily", Ajax took out a fire spirit stone and absorbed it using the cultivation technique, and soon he was immersed into deep cultivation.
Within two to three hours he completely absorbed the spirit stone and he opened his eyes.
"Now, it's much faster than absorbing the spirit stone without a cultivation technique", Ajax filled with joy.
" If level 1 is helping me this much faster, then if it becomes level 2 or more, then How much faster will it be?" Ajax didn't dare imagine it but it takes some time to upgrade it to level 2.
He checked his essence of nature in his body with the help of the system to know how much it increased after absorbing a spirit stone.
'Ding,
The essence of nature:- 530 units.
"What? did it increase by only 10 units? If I want to upgrade the main cultivation technique to level 2 I should absorb nearly 50 spirit stones. Even if I absorb 10 spirit stones daily it will still take 5 days, it's too long", Ajax sighed.
If anyone heard what Ajax said just now, they will beat him to death because beginner cultivators can only store 500 units of the essence of nature and it will take them many months to years, just to increase their cultivation technique to the next level.
Now he just wants to increase the main cultivation technique to the next level and then level up his body cultivation.
Ajax didn't want any time. He took another spirit stone and started cultivating.