Chapter 12

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

When the wolf was no longer struggling, Roger waited for a moment before releasing the magic that bound the black wolf, just to be safe, and let it fall heavily to the ground.

He slowly walked to the black wolf’s side and used the halberd to stab the black wolf’s body a few more times. After confirming that it was dead, he removed his armor.

Roger was confused. He had never seen this wolf before, so why had it attacked him with such prejudice?

While thinking about this question, Roger stared at the black wolf and felt that it was somewhat familiar. He had a feeling that he had seen it somewhere before.

However, Roger could not put his finger on it. Why did he find it so familiar?

A thought came to his mind. He remembered that one of the little black Wolves among the second-rank savage beasts he had killed during the day did look very similar to this black wolf.

No wonder the black wolf was so determined to kill him. It turned out that he had killed the other party’s child that noon.

After solving the mystery, Roger harnessed his earth and stone magic. After crafting floating human hands out of stone and earth, he extracted the beast core from the black wolf’s brow.

However, when the black wolf’s core was lifted by the hand of earth and stone in front of his vision, he suddenly had a desire to devour the core.

It shocked him. He took a few steps back and quickly distanced himself from the enticing core.

In order to test if there was anything wrong with his body, Roger took out the other beast cores he had obtained during the day from his backpack.

He placed them in his hands one by one to test if he had the desire to devour them.

After a series of tests, Roger realized that he had the desire to devour them all.

However, the desire to devour the lower-ranked cores was so minuscule that he had not realized it.

That was why he had not felt strange when harvesting them during the day.

After understanding the situation, Roger immediately took the black wolf’s third-rank beast core and observed it carefully. He wanted to see if there were any differences with it.

Roger suppressed his desire to devour the beast core. He carefully and repeatedly observed the beast core a few times.

Other than the fact that the energy within the third-rank core was several times higher than that of the inferior cores, he did not find anything unusual.

Roger suppressed his desire to devour the beast core and placed it on the ground. He began to sift through his past memories to see if there were any records of the connection between beast cores and magic.

Roger’s eyes suddenly glimmered with realization. He looked at the core as if it was some kind of treasure, and his face was full of glee.

Then, he picked up the beast core and said with a smile,

“All it took was a single trip outside.”

He had been thinking about how to break through his bottleneck.

“Now, the method has delivered itself to my door.”

From his previous memories, Roger knew that mages could break through bottlenecks and reach new realms by absorbing a certain substance in beast cores.

If not for the black wolf’s sneak attack in the middle of the night, it would have taken him a few more days to find the way to break through the bottleneck.

In order to prevent other creatures from disturbing him, Roger set up several layers of defense around himself. He took the black wolf’s beast core and tried to absorb the energy in the beast core via meditation.

After Roger started meditating, the energy in the beast core grew restless, but it stayed in the beast core and didn’t come out.

After Roger meditated for a few minutes, the energy in the beast core finally began to flow out. It flowed through the meridians in Roger’s arm and into his mind.

As he felt the energy of the beast core continuously flowing into his mind, Roger was overjoyed, thinking that he had finally found a way to break through his bottleneck.

However, as time passed, even after he had completely absorbed the beast core’s energy, he still could not break through his current bottleneck. Moreover, the beast core’s energy disappeared without a trace after entering his core.

Just as Roger was wondering why there was no reaction, thinking that he hadn’t absorbed enough beast cores, he suddenly experienced a flash of darkness between dimensions.

After a flash, Roger returned to the dark space where he first saw the crystal.

This time, Roger realized that this lay within his own consciousness.

However, he had not fallen unconscious, nor did he have any intention of entering this space. Why was he here?

In the midst of his confusion, he suddenly saw the black wolf that he had killed rapidly reassembling less than ten meters in front of him.

A few seconds later, the black wolf, which had just been reassembled, looked around blankly. When it saw Roger, it grew enraged and charged at him.

Its sudden appearance and ferocity had started Roger. However, he quickly grew enraged and met it head-on with his halberd.

Although he didn’t know what was going on, he had just killed the black wolf. Even if it was back to life, he would just kill it again.

After all, he was now in his own sea of consciousness. How could he let an outsider bully him, let alone someone who had been defeated by him a few minutes ago?

As this was Roger’s sea of consciousness, Roger was only here in spirit.

Therefore, Roger wouldn’t be restricted by his physical body when fighting here. He was able to move as he wanted.

It did not take long for the beast to be subdued again. Roger stepped on black wolf’s dying body with one foot and said,

“If I can kill you once, I can kill you a hundred times.

You’re in my world, and you’re being so unreasonable. You really don’t know your place.”

After he finished speaking, he decapitated the beast.

Roger looked at the black wolf’s corpse on the ground and recalled the fight that had just happened.

His blood started boiling. Without his frailty getting in the way, he had looked like an entirely different warrior.

While he continued replaying the scenes in his mind, the crystal that was originally suspended in the air suddenly flew away from its original position.

It floated above the wound on the black wolf’s forehead.