Chapter 52 - Ways to Awaken the Extraordinary Seed (Part 2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After watching the number of players gradually dwindling, Meng Yang did not spend much more time on the training ground and quietly left.

After watching Phoenix’s method of awakening the Extraordinary Seed through training, he could more or less understand that this method was not as elegant as he had initially thought. It was a way of advancement through exercise and stimulation of the body; It was almost impossible for game players to rely on this to awaken the Extraordinary Seed.

They were playing a game, so who in their right minds would be willing to spend so much energy on it?

After leaving the training ground that Phoenix was at, Meng Yang once again looked at the situation in the mission hall. Many of the missions in the mission hall had been claimed. Some missions were uniquely made for one person, and others were common tasks such as collecting materials and exploring, which several players could do simultaneously.

The whole camp gave out a feeling of being inside a lively market. The players were really trying to experience this other world’s novelty, while the survivors felt joy from the bottom of their hearts after seeing so many outsiders.

Although the two sides’ communication was sometimes completely incongruous, it was still better to see a person than a monsters’ sudden appearance.

Perhaps because it had only been a short time, but Meng Yang took a general overview and noticed the players were obviously more comfortable with this relatively slow start mode. Quite a few of them were still making a stew, and of course, there was also a couple of them who were still acting lowly to test out being kicked out of the game and to wait for resurrection.

This situation would typically present a warning alongside an extended resurrection wait time. After a repeated number of offences, Meng Yang would immediately issue a ban and cancel the summoning contract.

“This feels quite right.”

Meng Yang looked at the lively camp with a strange feeling in his heart.

This was possibly because there had always been a sense of crisis and urgency since he had first entered this other world. Moreover, there was also a lot of difficulties in communicating with people from this world.

However, after the players’ arrival, he regained that sense of familiarity when speaking, as well as now being able to operate on a similar style of thought. The strangeness and fear of being in this other world were significantly eliminated thanks to these players now being here.

“I’ll go and have a look at how Hera’s doing.”

Meng Yang wandered for a while and walked in the opposite direction of the camp.

In Meng Yang’s eyes, Hera’s abilities belonged to the mysterious side of the power system in the Land of the Forgotten. As for Phoenix, both her archery and close combat skills, although mighty, still belonged to the category that ordinary people could understand.

His Summoning Pixie was actually somewhat similar, but only to a certain extent. It would be more appropriate for him to deem the Summoned Pixie an artificial intelligence system.

However, the natural force used by Hera to heal other people’s injuries, get rid of negative states, and the ability to refine potions, in Meng Yang’s view, belonged to magic or some kind of mysterious supernatural side of the power system.

“If you want to self-awaken through nature, you’d need to maintain your state of mind, meditate, be still and quiet, and imagine that there is a seed inside your heart. It needs to absorb the earth’s nutrients and nature to be awakened from its frozen state bit by bit before breaking through the dark and icy space. Then, it will grow into a bud little by little. Such is the process.

“No one can help you during this process, and all I can teach is the way of mediation. The state of awakening does not necessarily occur during your meditation; it may be during battle, when you are walking when you see a green leaf or kiss a flower, all kinds of things. All of these will trigger the awakening of the most extraordinary seed in your body.

“After awakening the Extraordinary Seed, you may feel the increase in physical strength, or just mental power, or closeness to a specific element or even a natural force. So, don’t rush and feel it with your heart…”

As soon as Meng Yang approached Hera’s residence, he saw more than a dozen players sitting cross-legged at the door from a distance. There were males and females, but the majority were female players.

He did not know if these female players were innately more willing to play as a healer, or simply just worried about they way they would get compared when standing near Phoenix. In any case, they preferred going over to Hera’s side.

Hera stood among the players as she seemed to be teaching them how to awaken the Extraordinary Seed naturally. Despite this, Meng Yang only heard a few words before he concluded that this method was much more mysterious than Phoenix’s teaching.

Sure enough, many of the players who sat cross-legged in the open space began to evacuate one after another after just a few minutes. There were a few new players who just joined in, and these were also the ones that came from Phoenix’s side only to have a taste of this experience instead.

“It’s no wonder that the two of them did not resist when I asked them to teach the players. According to these methods, I estimate that only a few players will awaken even after a few months or even a few years.”

At this moment, Meng Yang had a better understanding of the awakening of the Extraordinary Seed. Needless to say, he felt that the potion awakening method would be one of the most mainstream ways to awaken the Extraordinary Seed. Even if the probability of awakening was on the lower side, the players were not afraid of death, and after countless attempts, they would eventually succeed.

Phoenix’s awakening method was ​​a long-term training process that needed to stimulate the body and willpower, as well as other aspects. In short, it was more inclined toward the traditional cultivation system.

Hera’s way of natural awakening was more mysterious. It seemed to test the players’ aptitude or other attributes and looked easy from the surface, but was, in fact, more difficult.

When he gave it further thought, Meng Yang felt that this was way more reasonable. This world had an extraordinary power system, but if the people in the Land of the Forgotten all managed to awaken their extraordinary powers, they would not be completely reduced to their current state even in the face of the Magic Tide and powerful monsters.

The number of survivors in the camp he was in initially had fifty to sixty people. However, only Phoenix and Hera had awakened their Extraordinary Seed. Taking this as an example, the ratio did not seem to be that bad, but it definitely was not high either.

‘I think, in the future, there’ll not be too many players who will be willing to come to Phoenix or Hera to awaken their Extraordinary Seed.’

Meng Yang thought to himself. This was a different world for these players, and they would be willing to try all kinds of novelties. However, if they could not see the result, they would definitely not stick around for a long time.

Even so, this was expected. This was a realistic different world, so it was absolutely impossible to achieve powers so easily.

The potion used to be the last resort in the Land of the Forgotten, not to mention the significant risk it involved. However, this kind of trouble was not even worth mentioning to the players.

“The potions will be an important leveling system in the future. I also want to shift the player’s focus to this method.”

Meng Yang was planning to bring in as many players as possible before the Magic Tide. Once these players enter, if they want to have the ability to face various monsters, they had to improve their own strength.

He had yet to properly learn about the advanced system of this potion from Hera. However, Hera had mentioned before that it was a very complicated and huge system. She had only mastered the first-order awakening potion and did not know a lot about the formula. In the future, if more powerful or extraordinary potions were needed, the materials would be hard to find, and the formulation would also become an issue.

Fortunately, these were problems for a later date. In Meng Yang’s eyes, the first issue that needed to be solved was the survival issue. He could think about the long-term problems in the future.

“Your Excellency Meng Yang, there are too many people in the camp. I’m afraid that our movements will soon attract the monsters lurking around.”

“Do you know what other monsters are around our camp?”

Just as Meng Yang was deep in thought, Hera, who had finished teaching the players, walked over to him quietly and said with a worried expression.

When Meng Yang heard this, he immediately became alert. Many of the players had already left the camp, and he had also released an exploration mission. He had not at all considered the possibility that this might attract more monsters.