Primordial Dimensions

Chapter 46: Progress

One week passed since Shane decided on his schedule and many things changed, when he walked towards the shelter gate with blood splattered on his face which gleamed in the afternoon sun rays.

His physique entered the 5th-Mortal stage easily, and Shane faintly sensed that he was almost at the peak of the 5th rank.

Unfortunately, he already used up all common quality mana stones he stockpiled in order to sustain both body refining and his cultivation.

As for the uncommon fist-sized mana stones, there were still four left, because Shane only used two for each breakthrough he underwent in the last seven days.

This was only for him in order to fasten the breakthrough process in order to prevent wasting too much precious time becauser there was too much for him to do.

Fortunately, everything was worthwhile as Shane entered the 5th Mortal stage in his cultivation smoothly with a mana purity of [4.31%].

Leaning on a tree, gathering and purifying mana was extremely relaxing and the last seven days was the most beautiful time Shane experienced in his whole life on Igra.

His stock on mana stones was almost used up and there were only 4x(common) and 5(uncommon) nutrition solutions left.

While this was pressing hard on Shane’s heart, he hunted many beasts in the last week with Umbra’s help which raised his funds from the initial 20 gold coins to more than 30 gold coins.

Because he didn’t have to avoid other beasts and could store all of them within his humongous size spatial ring, Shane hunted everything below high-Wild stage beasts in large groups.

Beasts at the mid-Wild stage could be sold for 1 to 3 silver with rarer ones at an even higher price.

Unfortunately, Shane couldn’t find an exceptionally rare beast race but that was not important as his hunting speed with Umbra could only be considered as extremely fast.

Umbra absorbed a lot of mana when Shane cultivated and refined his physique, as such his strength increased exceptionally, while his length reached a size of more than 65 centimeters.

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Name: [Umbra♂]

Race:[Shadow-snake]

Rank: [Peak 3rd-Wild stage(Low-Wild)]

Quality: [Rare](+)

|Evolution|(+)

Affinity: Lowest Basic-Darkness(Shadow)(+)

Ability: [One with the Darkness(Trash)]

Loyalty: [49%]

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Not only did Umbra reach the peak of the 3rd-Wild stage which was the limit of most shadow snakes with a [trash] or [common] quality, he surprisingly even unlocked his evolution section, allowing it to evolve as soon as he gathered enough mana after maturing.

Furthermore, Umbra was only 1% away from reaching a loyalty of 50% which would accomplish Shane’s upgrade mission to receive the second star on his [Common] quality innate skill.

After Shane broke through in his cultivation many times, his taming skill was also enhanced thanks to the [Cultivation-link] Shane received as he accomplished the quality enhancement of his innate skill.

He was still unable to tame a second beast, but that wasn’t important as the strength limit increase as far as allowing him to control a low 7th-Wild stage beast.

Considering that Umbra would evolve in the future, it was possible that his tamed beasts would be stronger than he himself, as such it was definitely advantageous that his Innate skill’s limit cap was higher than his cultivation rank.

Being able to hunt 6th Wild stage beasts was already good for someone who entered the Primordial dimension for less than three weeks without receiving substantial funds from his background.

Shane already crossed the minimum requirements to enter an academy but he was also aware of the fact that the bare minimum was a bad joke because nobody that barely crossed the requirement would be accepted as too many stronger individuals would apply for the academies.

Humanity was becoming stronger with each day, month, and year passing, while one could only apply for the academies once a year.

Considering that, Shane thought that maybe some fortunate youths were able to enter the Apprentice or even Expert stage even though they were poor before they entered the Primordial Dimensions.

The Primordial Dimensions could change one’s fate completely and it was as easy to gain a fortune overnight as dying within a second.

There were still around two weeks left before he wanted to enter the radiant mountain-ring dimension to receive safety from the constructed shelter walls, Shane had to purchase more resources in order to increase his cultivation and body refining.

Purchasing 30(common) mana stones, 10(uncommon) mana stones, 6(common) nutrition solutions, and 10(uncommon) nutrition solution in addition to a tempered mining pickaxe with a (common) quality, Shane used up his whole saved up funds with the exception of a small reserved amount of silver coins for food and a room to sleep.

It was already evening when a surprising notification popped up.

[[Taming|Common|] Upgrade-Mission |★★|→Increase the loyalty of one of your tamed beasts to 50%, accomplished. Reward: [Growth boost] has been enhanced slightly]

[ Upgrade-Mission |★★★|<Unlocked> Tame a second beast]

Shane was innately extremely happy to note that Umbra’s loyalty increased to 50%, but the reward was more than a little bit disappointing while the next upgrade mission soured his mood completely.

He couldn’t even tame a second beast right now and if Shane was honest, he would rather wait to find a beast with a rare ability, affinity, or extremely high quality, before he would even consider taming a second beast because Umbra alone was already a glutton, bleeding him out.

Umbra ate more than Shane without even considering the costs of increasing his quality to extraordinary.

With his current funds, Shane could barely sustain Umbra’s living expenses and he was more of a quality over quantity fan.

Maybe he would just tame a second beast as soon as it was possible before he would immediately dissolve the connection between them.

Even so, Shane couldn’t tame a second beast right now, as such thinking about it was useless.

Without any wealth left, Shane left the market before he went to an Inn to rent a room.

Pouring hot water into the basin, he put two common quality nutrition solutions within, before he took out five common quality mana stones, placing them around the basin before he went inside.

It was not that a single common nutrition solution was too weak for him to see improvements, but rather than that, it felt like there was enough space within his body to absorb two common quality solutions at the same time, as such he gave it a try with enough mana stones supplying him with mana.

With the vast amount of high-quality nutrition surging into his body, Shane’s eyes gleamed in a vigorous light as his confidence heightened.

Concentrating on circulating the energy and mana within his body into the correct segments, hours passed and another day elapsed with Shane reaching the physique of a 6ht Mortal stage.