Chapter 1815 Suffering from Success

Chapter 1815 Suffering from Success

"Indeed," Eren smiled before responding.

"I just need around 20 A-Rank Practitioners, preferably following the Rankers' Path," he said casually as if he were buying vegetables.

"As for the B-Ranked Practitioners and lower, send them to me in batches, as many as you can without alerting anyone. I'll pay you as per the quality and quantity, like the last time."

Eren had recently lost his seventh pseudo-avatar, and his fiend army could only do so much. He needed additional supplies for the experiment, aiming to increase the sample size to enhance the chances of finding a compatible pseudo-avatar in a shorter time.

Of course, Eren also wanted to extract the Faustian Rune Fragments from the B-Ranked and lower-level demonic Practitioners. Since they didn't need to be put into the pseudo-avatar creation experiment, Eren didn't have stringent requirements.

This wasn't the first transaction Altair Argas had done with Eren. He had sent numerous captured demonic entities to Eren over the course of a few years, knowing full well that they were as good as dead. However, Eren paid well and provided many benefits. Besides, being a fellow Anfangian and having his granddaughter attached to him were reasons enough for Altair to cooperate with Eren.

Altair didn't need to ask Eren about what he did with the demonic entities. Knowing Eren, it wasn't something he wanted to know anyway. Some boxes were better left unopened.Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m

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As for the supply of the B-Ranked and lower demonic Practitioners, it was obviously for the genuine demons hiding within them.

Eren had hit some form of a bottleneck after devouring a certain amount of Faustian Rune Fragments. His Ranking Status as a late-stage A-Ranked Grandmaster was partly to blame for this situation. But that wasn't the whole truth.

Eren had kept on doing what he had been doing in Anfang– albeit on a higher scale than before. Yet, there was a catch this time.

No matter how many Wrath Flames he extracted, how many foreign Elemental Attainments he assimilated, or how much Lifeforce he extracted, this bottleneck wasn't something he could get rid of simply by devouring too much.

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This was not all.

Eren had experienced something really peculiar after making use of the pseudo-avatars. His Elemental Attainments were somehow getting diversified through the use of multiple clones and living multiple identities at once.

Eren's Ranking Path was incredibly broad and all-

encompassing. It wasn't a path that one could follow using traditional methods. The more Rank Upgrades he received, the more challenging things became for him.

At the periphery of the S-Rank, an almost impassable bottleneck awaited him. Unbeknownst to this, Eren had inadvertently started to get rid of the bottleneck through his pseudo-avatar plan.

Eren had essentially used his enemies as nutrients, leveraging their foundation to fuel his progress. However, all of this needed to be ironed out before the Rankers' Calamity struck him.

Thankfully, the pseudo-avatars Eren had cultivated during these five years helped him do just that. They allowed him to compartmentalize his Elemental Attainments, Weapon Comprehension, Professions, and Sin Series powers.

Each pseudo-avatar was given access to a select part of Eren's Individuality. This fragmentation enabled him to refine these fragmented parts with better efficiency and efficacy.

The use of the pseudo-avatars also enabled him to observe his own Elemental Attainments from a third-person perspective, deepening his knowledge about his own strengths and weaknesses. This was not something achievable through living a singular life.

In layman's terms...

The use of the pseudo-avatars allowed the butcher to divide his broad Ranking Path into manageable lanes. Although his Ranking Progress had essentially stagnated during the last few months, this was not necessarily a drawback for him.