Even from afar, they saw a few dozen animals surrounding the tree without facing each other. It was obvious that they were just waiting for the moment when she would release her seeds. According to the report that Kayden read in the kingdom’s library, the tree released its seeds in various directions around it. At least a dozen came out of its branches and settled on the ground a few kilometers away. Its growth was extremely aggressive and killed all other trees around it. When it became old enough, it should move out of the region through its roots and let the body it previously cultivated die. This was done so she wouldn’t be killed by her father.
"We should just wait and try to get some seeds, no animal will start a fight before it has the treasure in its hands", Lucas spoke again and everyone agreed. The tree had red leaf tips, symbolizing that it was very close to releasing its seeds.
As soon as they got close, they saw dozens of different beasts, from giant birds to tiny rodents that released a density of mana that didn’t match their small body. Practically everyone here was at least at the fifth level of the first realm.
"I’ll take a seed myself," said Kayden after seeing the general level and marking which beasts he shouldn’t contest. "You guys should be able to do that as long as you don’t fight the high-level beasts."
Then they organized themselves into who would go in which direction and what were the best beasts for each of them to face. When you reach the mage level, even support is a considerable attacking force and is capable of holding your own in some way against beasts and opponents of your level.
A few hours passed and it finally reached the point where the world tree would release its seeds. The leaves turned entirely red and a large concentration of mana was drawn into the tree. Kayden had never seen so much mana before.
The seeds were thrown at a ridiculously high speed. Kayden couldn’t even feel a trace of them before they left his spiritual sense. Then several animals went in different directions.
Choosing a direction without peak beasts, Kayden flew at full speed. In just 1 minute, he reached the place where the seed had fallen. It was impressive that she had already started to put down small roots.
Kayden chose the direction correctly and only saw a few level 5 and two level 6 beasts. Within a few minutes, the two-level 6 beasts decimated the rest and began to face each other. All this time, Kayden just stayed hidden controlling the leakage of his mana.
This was one of the benefits of rationality. Kayden didn’t need to face the beasts with brute force. He just had to wait and a few minutes later the lion that was facing a kind of camel with water blows towered over the corpse of the other beast.
Three lightning bolts instantly fell on him, freezing his movements and causing some damage to his body. Then, Kayden performed an aura strike strong enough to decapitate the lion, but the beast managed to defend the attack using one of its metal claws.
This caught Kayden by surprise. He didn’t expect the animal’s claws to be this strong. Unfortunately for the beast, Kayden only let out another dozen bolts of lightning while mixing in a few aura attacks. In just a few seconds, the beast was reduced to a sliced piece of meat.
The seed was on the ground swallowing mana without stopping. Kayden cut its roots with the katana and stored the seed in its expandable bag. Furthermore, it cut off the mana input to the bag. He realized that this was just a second-realm seed. Probably the peak beasts went after the strongest seeds.
Kayden returned to the meeting point and saw that he was the first to arrive. Meanwhile, he began to think about the concept of loneliness. His teammates returned about an hour later. Only Lucas and Asiva managed to get a seed.
"I want to use my seed, let’s look for a place to take shelter," Lucas was the first to speak after everyone met. His proposal was accepted by the majority of the group and within a few minutes they found a small cave to take shelter.
Lucas placed some protection and alarm runes at the entrance after they made sure that the inside was not inhabited by any beasts. Instantly after, he ate his seed and began cultivating. Asiva and Kayden followed suit. Kayden experienced for the third time the great density of mana that the seed brought to his body. Unfortunately, it was ten times less than that of the fourth realm.
Even so, he made the most of every minute and managed to make his cultivation advance tremendously, saving him a few months of hard work, considering the density of the environment they were in, it would only take him another week or two to advance again.
As soon as Kayden opened his eyes he saw Asiva and Lucas moving forward, this was a good sign for the group which suddenly got a huge increase in strength, but Kayden had to be careful about having a very strong leader.
"Let’s rest for a few hours and then move on" Kayden took advantage of this situation to continue cultivating, he knew he had several treasures that needed to be harvested quickly, but it was important for his group to be in the best possible condition.
A few hours later they went back to looking for treasures, Kayden tried to collect everything that had a high mana density, in addition, he also obtained several useful treasures that could be used directly.
If he waited and refined them into medicines they could have almost doubled their value, but the strength he gained now could save his life, especially in a situation where he had no external support at all.
Some treasures helped the boy improve his vision, others his physical strength and the density of his muscles, Kayden began to doubt why there were so many treasures scattered around this place, it was a little strange for all this to appear out of nowhere.
’what the fuck?’ Kayden was taken by surprise when he felt a point with ridiculously high density in his spiritual sense, the worst part was that it wasn’t just a point but a kind of lake with.....