Chapter 90: Time is Gold!

"Don't trip on the slime trails you guys leave behind"

After saying so, Shane sprinted into a dark alley, before the surrounding soldiers could even do anything.

Even though the beast tide took only a few hours with Shane taking charge over the soldiers for less than two hours, he felt extremely tired and only wanted to sleep for a few hours.

Fortunately the inn he rented a room in, was still intact without any elemental attacks damaging it which was quite fortunate, considering the close position of the inn towards the northern wall in addition to the hundreds of holes that pierced through the wall, only to demolish a few newly built houses.

Seeing him, the Inn owner eyed him weirdly, as if he was insane because he left the Inn so hurriedly before.

After greeting the owner, Shane went inside his room, only to throw himself on the bed without the energy to change his clothes left.

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Waking up a few hours later, he straightened his back, only to work out, wash up and change into a fresh set of clothes, before he walked out of the inn with hurried steps.

His next steps had to be careful because they were extremely important.

From the rumor he heard in the alley while walking around, the Wolf den's threat should have been completely taken care of, while hundreds of expert stage soldiers died, dimming Shane's mood almost immediately.

He didn't know how many casualties humanity faced since a few hours ago, but it had to be in the thousands if not tens of thousands, while almost all of them were seasoned soldiers, which was a painful sting in the military's strength, even though they had more than 10.000.000 soldiers in total.

The military was segmented into three main sections and their names were exactly the same as the dimensions.

Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced.

10 million soldiers might sound much, but they were distributed in more than 35 Basic dimensions, 10+ intermediate dimensions, and few advanced dimensions, with humanity's shelter established on them.

In the end, the 10 million soldiers weren't supposed to work all the time and they required a lot of time and resources to increase their strength in order to strengthen humanity's defense, while their private life wasn't meant to suffer.

Over the whole year, they were allowed to take a leave for three months in total, which they could distribute however they wanted, as long as nothing major happened.

These 10 million soldiers were barely enough to take care of Igra, all shelters, and their defenses because each shelter in the intermediate dimension required a shocking number of soldiers each day.

If humanity wanted to establish even more shelters they would have to increase the number of soldiers while they would have to be nurtured too.

In Shane's opinion, the Radiant mountain-ring shelter was the best way to increase humanity's economic situation for the Basic primordial dimensions, while the Intermediate and Advanced shelters could take care of their own situation without the need to fund all Basic shelters, as long as everything went smoothly.

Shane knew that the military only worked thanks to the resources provided by his family in the beginning, while other large clans had to do the same in order to secure the weaker classes, which was fundamental to survive the threat of foreign beasts in the end.

Protecting each other was something Shane's family was used to and proud of, which caused him to be equally proud of his family, because everyone contributed to a rather peaceful life, even though it might be hard sometimes.

Walking through the market that opened, even though a beast tide happened barely a few hours ago, Shane saw many stalls with all kinds of miscellaneous items he was interested in.

However, his funds were almost negligible and he had more important things to purchase for the next step of his plan.

Less than half an hour passed as Shane left the market with a mountain of preservable food, scent dissolving potions, concealment potions, and nightsight potions.

He received a discount and a small part of the preservable food was thrown into the beast sealing card he expelled out of himself.

Within his spatial ring, the food would stay good for an unknown, yet long time, while it would go bad in the beast sealing card, which was the reason for him to divide the preservable food mountain into several parts.

Walking outside the shelter, Shane decided to wear the devil gas mask in order to have a rather smooth trip, without anyone disturbing him, as a thick iron stench permeated the air penetrating even through the low-quality gas mask's filter.

The whole landscape around the shelter was demolished and filled with holes, large blood puddles, and parts of beasts, while everything from humans was carefully picked up.

Shane wasn't sure when the funeral of the fallen soldiers would be but he noticed that not a single human part laid around, which made him weirdly proud.

'What's wrong with me?' He asked himself, as he saw a few crystalized feathers and lizards scaled lying in his surroundings.

'With more time left, I would gather everything here for some small pocket money' Shane told himself, as he circulated the mana within him before he began to jog towards a particular direction.

Less than two hours passed before he stood next to a familiar lake in front of an ordinary cavern entrance that seemed to have contained elemental crystals before someone mined them.

It was the elemental crystal cave Shane used to accomplish his [Mythic] mission in, which was only a few days ago.

Somehow this information shocked him quite a bit because a lot happened over the last few days and entering the elemental crystal cave, Shane immediately noticed an eerie emptiness permeating the whole cave as if it was deserted with nothing left behind.

However, the most important thing and the reason for him to come back to the elemental crystal cave was still there.

The mana- and elemental crystals were still there!!

"My dear treasure trove" Shane exclaimed, as he slowly inspected every notch and cranny from the first three layers of the elemental crystal cave, only to confirm his prediction with a joyous shout.

"YES!!"

Jumping around like a small child, Shane felt like he could let loose for a few minutes before he regained his composure by telling himself the harsh truth.

"Shane!! Time is money and you don't know when other beasts start to invade this territory…"

Only then, a weird thought emerged in his mind.

"The three sovereigns of this area should be dead or at least driven away, right? Will the surrounding races and sovereigns annex it in the next few days? How much time do I have left?!"

Thinking about the unknown amount of time he had left, Shane felt somewhat scared about the treasures he might have to leave behind if something were to happen, causing him to take out his [Mortal-(Extraordinary)] Ambrulite-pickaxe.

In the end, Shane was back at the elemental crystal cave, he was forced to leave because of the thunder wolves intruding the cave, trying to fight for the right of it.

However, neither the thunder wolves nor the scaled lizards would have ever imagined, that a lone human might overshadow the two races, allowing him to annex everything for himself.

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