Meanwhile, as Kyran was exacting his tedious task, Rex was still cramped inside the castle.
He was not aware of what Kyran was doing at this moment.
Since he purchased the information about achieving the tenth-rank realm from the System—he was surprisingly guided by the System in his subconscious, through holographic cues. He could see strings and lines as he viewed the medias inside his body with his inner eye.
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Instead of trying to remember the process, while meditating—Rex, could focus solely on the meditation as the holographic lines helped him show the place and step he needed to focus on with his arcane mana, slowly beginning to pave the way to the tenth-rank realm.
And as expected, achieving the tenth-rank realm is not an easy process.
Its process began with Rex shaping his heart media to the next form, the required form.
He needs to shape all of his medias before continuing the next step.
Currently, his heart media take the form of a glowing uneven ball with many bumps.
Rex needs to change the shape of the heart media—into a smooth, circle—as smooth, as the best statue a famous sculptor makes and coat it with his arcane mana to turn the media from its basic form into its elemental-specific identical to those in the tenth-ran realm.
From the System's interface, Rex knows exactly what the finished product would look like.
Because of that, it's easier for him to finish this process than others.
Like molding clay—he needs to shape his heart media using his arcane mana as his hands.
As opposed to the uneven circle the heart media looks like right now—Rex needs to turn into a smooth circle, that is cracking with the power of black lighting. Since he was cultivating his lightning elements—the outer layer of the media, if he succeeds called the mana scale would also be empowered by his black lightning.
Mana scale would differ according to the current cultivated element.
If it's the water element then the medias would be coated with water and so on.
Doing this takes time as the process is meticulous and detailed.
Additionally—since this would be the most important process, to reach the tenth-rank realm, he couldn't rush it either—as it would affect his speed and success chance in connecting his soul with Devo's soul.
Rex had to take his time in doing this, it needs to be absolutely perfect.
Not only would it affect his progress, but one wrong move would also destroy his media.
If something like that happened, his realm would take a huge blow.
He would probably even fall a couple of big realms because of it, and that's extremely bad.
Even then, Rex was not discouraged by the difficulty.
Something has to be hard to obtain if it has any value whatsoever—and reaching the tenth-rank realm is definitely an achievement—so it was obviously hard. Having confidence, in his control over arcane mana, he expected that he would excel in this.
Despite its disconnection, this is more or less the same with controlling his kingly energy.
Just like the kingly energy—the sensation of controlling mana or arcane mana to this degree is basically the same. One key difference is that—the kingly energy should be way harder to control as it also strains the physique instead of only his mind.
Moreover, the fact that his affinity to his elements is high should also help quite a lot.
Controlling mana and arcane mana should be easier for him.
But Rex was dead wrong for thinking this.
"Eurghh..." Rex grunted and snapped out of his meditation state.
One could see his chest heaving up and down rapidly, he was panting and sweating heavily.
He was smoothening his heart media, with his arcane lightning mana—the process turns out to be akin to doing heavy lifting, it included mental, and also physical exercise. Even with his robust power and control, he needed to rest after what seemed to be an hour of cultivating.
Usually, time flies during meditation—but time seems to be dragging in this one.
It barely moves while he is in meditation.
Like a snail—Rex thought that days had passed, from the start of his meditation, but he was wrong and the System confirmed that it had only been barely an hour. It came as a shock to him as this meditation was the shortest meditation he had ever done.
Moreover, he had gold to spare—and he was going to fully utilize it.
As the sayings of the old adage—knowledge is power, and that's what he needs right now.
<Pitting the user's current spirit: Devo and Amanir with other equivalent spirits with different elemental properties could help achieve that—but currently with the user's current situation, the user couldn't do that alone>
<Does the user want to purchase the knowledge to increase spirits' aptitude?>
Seeing this, Rex smiled knowingly as he was right—the System did know a way around this.
Just when he was about to ask for the cost, several notifications appeared suddenly.
<Notice: One of the user's vassals, Delta, is currently mutating!>
Upon seeing this, he paused for a second before he looked to the side, expanding his senses beyond the castle. He closed his eyes and searched for Delta. Surprisingly Rex could not find her for a moment, he couldn't pick up her aura.
Eventually, however, he found her aura but it was light.
Rex needs to focus more than normal on finding Delta, there was a barrier suppressing her.
A barrier that suppressed the scent of her energy.
But sensing the people around her, Rex nodded his head in affirmation.
It seems like Flunra, and Prof. K were overseeing Delta's mutation—seeing that the two were near Delta. Both of them were probably the ones who created the barrier to suppress Delta's energy, and that's good.
"System, is there any way for me to know what her mutation would be?" Rex asked again.
<Negative, Delta is not a part of the user's pack. In order to determine Delta's mutation—the user needs to view her directly, to begin the scanning process. However—the mutation for a mutated animal is highly influenced by the source of their energy that triggers the mutation>
Upon reading this, Rex nodded as with this—he could already make some guesses.
"Not touch anymore? Seems like the scanning feature was also upgraded" Rex mused.
Pondering back to Delta—he smiled expectantly, "I guess she would mutate according to the Passues she devoured. I hope she became faster, the world is bigger now and speed is more important than ever"
As Rex was about to resume, more notifications came from the System.
Seems like that was not the end of the news as he received another important notice.
Compared to the news from within the city, these notifications came from outside of the city.
<Notice: Kyran Cervantes is establishing a specification for his occupation!>
<Processing...>
<Kyran Cervantes' occupation has experienced an upgrade: Beta -> Beta Enforcer>
<A Beta Enforcer will experience an increase of 30% in stats—a 100% increase in aura—and gain Dark Rash skill within the Silverstar Pack's territory and its affiliation. All enhancements would double, while protecting the border or protecting the Luna—and Beta Enforcer would also obtain a +1 slot to be bestowed a skill by the Alpha>
<Congratulations on having one pack member possessing a tier 2 occupation!>
<Bonus stats from Kyran Cervantes has been increased from 5% to 10%>
<Pack member Training feature has been unlocked!>
<Now, the user can upgrade the existing skills of the Silverstar Pack members>
<Congratulations, the user has completed the Beta Enforcer achievement!>
<Obtained 10 million gold and 20 Pack Skill Upgrade>
Rex was not expecting to see these notifications, he didn't even plan on any of this.
However, he snapped out of his trance when he could see his body steaming with moonlight energy that rejuvenated his entire being. It took a second before it disappeared, and when it disappeared, Rex felt he had gotten stronger.
Clenching his fists a couple of times, he feels his increase in strength, feeling surreal.
"Now, how do you explain this, System?" Rex mused, sucking in a cold breath.