Chapter 288 - Borrowing Some Books
The last time he absorbed the Great Earth Essence Liquid, it took him around six hours or so, this time, he did it within four hours. His absorption speed when it came to cultivating had increased significantly with the increase in his strength, as well as elements.
'At this rate, if I were to enter the trial land again and focus fully on cultivating, I shouldn't have a problem with getting to the Overlord Plane within six months.' Grey thought while rubbing his chin, '*Sigh* Unfortunately, that's impossible.'
He entered the Chaos Space to see what grade his darkness element got to, he expected it to be around the purple grade at least, and he wasn't disappointed. Now of his six elements, the fire element was cyan, the lightning and wind elements were blue, the earth, water, and darkness elements were purple.
The only disappointing thing about the increase in his darkness elemental grade was that he still didn't break through to the Sixth stage of the Origin Plane, but he could sense he wasn't far from it.
Three days later.
Grey walked out of the decayed-looking shack while stretching his body, it was finally time for them to leave this place, and he couldn't be happier. He brought out three disk-like wooden objects, and lightly tapped on the middle of each of them. A hologram appeared above them, and four lights could be seen, all very close to each other.The origin of this chapter's debut can be traced to N0v3l--B1n.
It was just as Grey planned, they were all only linked to each other, so they couldn't track the ones he got from Quinn, only his own could do that. He kept them in his storage ring, before taking out his crude-looking own, after tapping on the middle, a hologram appeared.
"This should be either Alice or Reynolds, Klaus is most likely the one who is farther away," Grey muttered as he looked at the hologram.
Two were not that far from his location, and two were quite far. It wasn't hard to differentiate between which one belonged to Klaus and the people who made it, one had a single light source, and the other had multiple light sources around the same area.
The one Grey felt belonged to Klaus had moved a significant distance compared to the last time he saw it, and since Klaus was the only one he knew who was on the move amongst the three, he felt his guess was right.
'Where are you?' Grey asked Void through their mind links.
'Academy, why?' asked Void.
One month ago.
Two days after the trial land closed.
In Quinn's family compound. In his father's office, a man could currently be seen kneeling with his head bowed, afraid to look at the enraged eyes of Quinn's father.
"You're saying none of them made it out alive?" Quinn's father asked with an infuriated and sad look.
"Yes my lord, the arrays had already disappeared, but there were no signs of them." The man kneeling replied with his head still bowed in fear.
Boom!
The table in the office was smashed into smithereens by Quinn's enraged father, his son whom he had high hopes for was dead, of course, he would be annoyed.
"My... my lord," The kneeling man called out, trying to calm Quinn's father.
"What?!" roared Quinn's father.
"According to reports, they seemed to have found the treasure," The kneeling man said.
"What?! Where is it?" Quinn's father asked agitatedly.
If Quinn was able to find it before his death, that means that his death was worth it, the only thing now is that he was not able to personally bring it home.
"The treasure is actually the Great Earth Essence Liquid, I believe my lord has heard of it," The man said, only managing to raise his head now.
"The Great Earth Essence Liquid? Where... where is it?" Quinn's father asked, stuttering.
"They found it, but couldn't take it, rather, it was stolen by a group."