Chapter 242 Back Home

[Ace POV],

The rank 1 level 33 wolf's performance proved that it was weak, just as I had suspected.

I was also three levels above it, and because the wolf couldn't use magic, it was simply delivering itself to my feet to be my bag of primordial records, but even though the wolf was weaker than me, it wasn't something I could kill in a very short time, but it still only took a few minutes to kill it.

With the aid of the runic dagger in my hand, I immediately harvested the wolf's core after it had been killed.

I used this in my battle with the monster. I wasn't going to miss the chance to meet my alchemy job requirement by adding another kill.

The wolf is very different from the monsters I ran into on the way to the alternate dimension before the cat people interrupted me.

The other monsters quickly lost interest in me after noticing that I paid no attention to them and just kept running, in contrast to the wolf who continued pursuing me despite me running from a great distance away from its pack.

Only this one kept chasing after me, acting as though I had stolen its partner.

In any case, it ultimately just served as primordial records for me, so after I finished taking the wolf's crystal core, I quickly left while running while burning my body's clothes.

I had no way of knowing if the wolves could track me, so I made the decision to burn my clothes and run around commando for a while to use the wind to get any trace the wolves could use to find me off. Once this was done, I called out the primordial chronicle in my head and went to the store section to buy some clothes for myself. I also wandered around randomly in the woods to make sure I wasn't being followed, and then I quickly ran in the direction of the alternate dimension.

I took more time to get to the grassy hill that held the stairs to the bronze door because of the detours I had to make as a result of the things that happened after I left the dungeon area, and I increased my guard whenever I passed through dense woods.

I didn't want to end up in a situation where I was surrounded by people of a different race or anything else.

Why they even attacked me in the first place is the question.

It might be like the Anna case, where they wanted to abduct me to get information, or it might be like the Emma and Chris case, where they wanted to take advantage of the situation by using my primordial chronicle. It might even be both.

I'm not sure which, but it didn't seem like these cat people were the type to engage in polite conversation.

Whatever the case, I was fortunate not to have encountered the cat people's leader. However, this did not make things any better since I could also be unlucky once more to come across another race who just so happened to have their ruler with them.

I needed to grow stronger, and the only way to do so was to evolve, which I was already very close to doing. Just a little more planning is required.

I finally made it to the grassy hill that led home as the night in the true world grew darker. After doing the customary things to hide my tracks, I walked slowly down the stairs until I reached the bronze door, which I opened to let the darkened atmosphere welcome me.

By coincidence, it was nighttime in the alternate dimension and without giving it much thought, I headed to the mansion first to take care of something that had been on my mind for a while: powering up the magical structure.

The magical structure needs energy to operate, and it gets this energy from crystal cores, according to the information I learned from the Primordial Chronicle. In this scenario, the crystal cores serve as fuel, but the fuel must at least originate from a level 34 crystal.

The magical building had always been dormant because I lacked this, but now that I did, I had more than one level 34 crystal core and even a level 37 crystal core, which was three levels above the minimum necessary crystal core.

After discovering that no one was home at the moment, I made my way to the basement as I thought about these things.

The magical structure used to change the mana in crystal cores into its energy was also located in the basement.

After descending to the basement, I went straight to the room that was a little distant from my lab and opened it. It was one of the many empty rooms there.

Apart from a structure in the middle of the room that was half a man's height and had a small bowl on it, the room was quite small and barely furnished.

Due to the information that was inputted into my head as a result of claiming ownership of the magical building, I knew that this was the object I would use to power the mansion with a crystal core. It was a thin, chair-like structure that was underneath the bowl.

Simply placing a crystal call in the small bowl made available would cause the oddly shaped object to work and use the crystal core embedded in it to power the mansion.

This was what I knew about the magical structure, and after giving it some thought, I chose to begin with the level 34 crystal core, which was the minimum required level, and see how things turned out rather than starting with the higher levelled crystal cores.

I'd use this to observe first before acting next time.

As I was considering these things, I removed the level 34 crystal core from my storage ring and carefully set it on the small bowl in front of me.

The bowl in front of me began to emit a dim light immediately after I put the crystal core inside of it, and a few seconds later, something changed in my surroundings.