Chapter 260: Nether Is My Bitch?
Hu.... Liam let out a long breath in exhaustion.
Several minutes had passed now and Liam was still continuing to harvest all the moss covering the walls and feeding it to the egg.
The continuous slow manipulation of mana was exhausting, especially in a place where the mana concentration had already thinned down.
He didn't know how long he would be able to keep this up.
"Are you feeling better now, Luna? How much more are you planning to eat?"
Liam chuckled wryly and looked behind to see the bald tunnel walls that looked weird without the layer of moss that was covering them previously.
He had fed all of that to the egg and she still needed more apparently. However, he did not mind.
"This tunnel has loads of this crap. Eat to your heart's content but please be okay." Letting out another long sigh, Liam took another step and repeated the whole process again.
This continued for a few more minutes when the first signs of the problem arrived. The mana concentration became so thin that Liam could no longer replenish his reserves.
He drank a bottle of mana potion, but he was running low on those as well. Previously, he had used a lot of potions while fighting against the death knights.
He had done all the hard work only for someone else to steal away the final prize and in this process, he had also exhausted a lot of his reserves.Embark on an odyssey to the core at Nøv€lß¡n#★
Without enough mana potions and no mana in the air, he would definitely not be able to keep this up for long. He would soon run dry.
"Damn it." Liam cursed his bad luck. Earlier he had mana, but he didn't have enough herbs. Now he had the herbs, but he did not have mana.
He truly did not think that Luna would still need more herbal essence after feeding her this much. Not that he knew what he was doing.
He only roughly hypothesized that this herbal essence was healing her bit and bit and helping her regain her strength back.
But this was just his theory. In reality, she might still die in the end after all of this. This thought terrified Liam.
"Let's not think about that now. I will first try everything that I can." Liam calmly looked around, sensing the thick wisps of nether swirling around.
On the contrary, the mana present around him was practically non-existent.
So how to get more mana in this situation?
"Hmmm... " Liam's gaze wandered around aimlessly. In reality, the solution to this problem was right in front of him.
The only issue was that he did not have the confidence to try it. He would be risking a lot because the time he used to attempt this method could cause the egg to crack further.
On the other hand, if he did not try this, then he wouldn't be able to extract anything in a few minutes when the last 10 mana potions also ran out.
He calmed himself down and slowly willed the energy coiled in his hand to circulate around the moss stuck on the wall.
But once he did so, the process seemed convoluted. It was as if he had the access to the entire sea and he was using only one cup of water.
A sudden thought popped up in Liam's mind.
He abruptly stopped moving his hand and stopped channeling the nether through his body.
Instead, he directly willed the nether swirling around.
"No. This is ridiculous. This can't possibly work. Without a mana core or what a nether core? How could I command such a huge quantity of nether?"
Though he spoke these words, Liam still ignored the obvious flaw and tried to feel and command the nether swirling around.
He did not try to take it in and simply willed it to gather around the moss.
Almost instantly something unimaginable happened. Liam staggered, taking a step back in shock. He even almost dropped the egg on his hands.
"What the hell is this?"
"Why is it behaving like this?"
He stared at the scene in front of him with his jaw on the ground. Not just him but no matter whom... they would have reacted in the same way.
It was because... as soon as he had called... almost every single wisp of nether in the vicinity ran over to Liam as if they were his...
In fact, so much had gathered that a small tornado was beginning to form, one that was made purely of nether.
Seeing this, Liam snapped out of it and quickly tried to focus all of this nether on the wall in front of him.
Now all he had to do was to use this energy to draw out the herbal essence that was within the moss.
"Extract it. Bring it out. Slowly. Steadily." He was so focused and tensed that he did not even realize that he was mouthing out the words loud.
But the next second... something even more blasphemous happened.
It looked like... this time also... he did not even have to try.
He didn't have to lift a finger or bat an eyelid.
As soon as he simply thought about it... just willed it... the entire wall in front of him glowed and sparkled!
It was dazzling as if they contained millions and millions of diamonds!
Countless specks of light started slowly appearing on the moist muddy wall of the tunnel and flew in towards the egg.
The egg as well sucked in everything like an insatiably hungry vortex.