Heavenly Forest Wolf 16 Chapter 16 - Pill Forging

On the other side, there was a pathway leading up towards the sixth stage which seemed less mysterious than the three doorways. Zaro thought it would be more convenient if he could just progress into the sixth stage without having the need to stay, thus he began to walk towards it.

However, as he approached the path, a humanoid-beast walked out from behind one of the doors and looked at him fiercely which made Zaro shudder in fear. The humanoid-beast was covered in brown fur from head to toe and his striking green eyes were absolutely intimidating.

Zaro realized that he was in no position to fight this guy, let alone avoid him and decided to back off and proceed towards a door. As he approached the glowing white layer, the beast spoke out to him which covered Zaro in cold sweat.

"In order to proceed to the sixth stage, you must acquire the souls of nine ent.i.ties inside one of the three dimensions... the white representing the heavenly dimension, the black representing the deathly dimension and the yellow representing the sacred wilderness." The voice was as terrifying as the beast and was very clear but the tone was exceptionally low.

Zaro gulped and nodded his head and without hesitation, he jumped into the Heavenly Dimension out of fear and the need to escape the intense atmosphere.

Soon his jaw was dropping down to the ground when he teleported inside of the dimension. The scene was indescribably beautiful with a vast gra.s.sland, rivers, and streams flowing peacefully. The entrance to the b.e.a.s.t.i.a.l Dimension was nothing in comparison to these lands!

Unfortunately, as beautiful as it was, there were many creatures moving throughout the lands and especially this bright pink and blue crane which had caught Zaro's eye. It was so beautiful but Zaro chose to look away immediately when he noticed the Diamond core!

This place had to have had thousands of extremely high ranked beasts and so he immediately threw on his camouflage and proceeded through the wilderness.

A few hours had pa.s.sed and Zaro was extremely uncomfortable as almost all the creatures were Amber ranked and above! Even though there were creatures which were weaker, they were all surrounded by stronger ones as to not get picked off that easily.

Realizing that he cannot exactly fight all of the creatures, Zaro chose to look for other opportunities such as plants and caves with different treasures.

Fortunately, he noticed a cave not too long ago that he had avoided as he wanted to scope the place out first. When he felt that it was safe enough, he approached the cave that was extremely well hidden yet it had a strong smell coming from it which brought Zaro to its attention.

He cleared some vines before entering and then covered the hole with some plants to cover himself. The cave was mysteriously empty other than the various plants and glowing fungus that covered the walls and floors.

As he ventured deeper inside, he suddenly discovered the skeletons of human-typed bodies scattered around. Although it startled him, he chose to continue further in the cave as he didn't detect any killing intent or murderous aura around.

He carefully stepped over the skeletons and then proceeded into a room filled with more skeletons but more importantly, man-made furniture and tools. Zaro shuddered when he thought of what could possibly kill everything here but shook his head and continued onward.

The furniture fell apart at touch proving that it was incredibly ancient, however, inside one of the drawers was a scroll! Opening it carefully, he noticed that it was the same language he had spoke before he reincarnated and shortly began to read.

The text was a recipe of some sort which demonstrated with sketches, how to craft a pill using a beast core! Unfortunately, Zaro noticed it required him to use fingers and hands which he didn't have either of currently.

Then Zaro had a thought, if there was a recipe on how to make a pill from beast cores, there could potentially be a core hidden somewhere!

Hence, Zaro flipped the entire area upside down looking for cores and eventually stumbled upon a hatch that was covered in fungus.

Zaro clawed away the fungus before opening the hatch and to his excitement, there were three ruby cores laying casually inside-untouched. Next to them were two other scrolls, so, Zaro didn't waste any time and collected all of the items hastily.

The other two scrolls were similar to the first with one describing a method of crafting pills by using the power of the core alone! The other scroll was more of a report based on the pills that you could forge and explained how forging pills can increase the quality of the essence as well as increasing the quant.i.ty due to it consuming natural essences in the process.

Excited with his find, Zaro didn't hesitate to try this method out! It required him to focus on the extreme center of his core and attempt to release some of his own essence to connect with the other one.

The following step was similar to refining essence already consumed inside his own core and purifying it but on the outside instead. After reading through the scroll a few times, he attempted to convert the ruby core into a pill.

Releasing the essence from his core was just like channeling essence around the body but shooting it out instead. Zaro sent out his essence and watched as it curved around the core! He then concentrated heavily and soon his essence was forming different circles around the core.

After an hour of constantly doing this, he noticed the core shrunk to the size of an acorn and kept going! Although it was working, Zaro had noticed that he was extremely inexperienced as it took so long to do it and also because he noticed some essence escape into the air!

Another thirty or so minutes pa.s.sed and he had finally managed to break the core down into a small pill! It was much brighter than the original ruby core when it wasn't transformed and he immediately consumed it.

It tasted extremely sweet and it traveled straight towards his core and he immediately started extracting the essence from it. Surprisingly, it was much easier to extract the essence and he even managed to get all of it without a problem!

Zaro was dumbfounded! He had just discovered something priceless and continued the process on the other two cores. In Zaro's experience of consuming essence, he had never received so much from consuming a ruby core!

What made it better was that he even felt his body enhancing after consuming each pill due to him being able to extract everything! His fur seemed slightly tougher and his fangs felt strange after the other two pills.

In total it took him about an hour and a half to craft the pill and another thirty minutes to extract the essence from it. Of course, after each pill, he was feeling more comfortable and managed to craft one a lot faster than the other.

This discovery was simply legendary but what seemed very surreal was that it wasn't hard to learn as long as one knew how to control their core!

Satisfied with his progress, Zaro decided to venture deeper into the cave but decided to rest first after spending several hours just consuming essence!