Aleric's stamina has greatly diminished and the statues are not giving him any moment to recover. He has defeated six of them but he discovered that each one is twice as strong as the previous one. Aleric went down on one knee trying to recover his stamina, if not for his heart being his mana core, he would have died from exhaustion long ago. He kept fighting and his steel body couldn't protect him from getting several cuts but he didn't relent. Aleric fought till he defeated them all. "Finally." He said while panting. He noticed he is just a foot away from the core and the one seated as the king is yet to stand up. He was waiting for the king to attack but the strangest thing happened. The twelve statues that he just defeated all came out to challenge him at once. "You have to be kidding me." Aleric complained but still readied himself for the fight."It's the handsome human with the golden hair." Stories about Aleric were circulating among the hunters outside the dungeon. "He has

Why Justin considered it impossible wasn't because dungeon cores couldn't be absorbed, it was because Aleric was absorbing the whole thing like it was just a beast core. Many people increase their mana by absorbing beast core, and some pagodas are built using dungeon core as their foundation and people would always visit the Pagoda to cultivate. Dungeon Core has so much mana that a mere human absorbing it all would be impossible. Even if there is a way to do that, the human would end up exploding from too much mana. They all watched Aleric absorb everything without remaining a single juice. The dungeon core mana wasn't added to Aleric's mana so it didn't increase his mana, the dungeon core just went and position itself at Aleric's stomach as if it's another core for Aleric. While this phenomenon was going on in Aleric's body, he opened his eyes, and everywhere is white. Aleric's consciousness was in a world similar to the one he saw Talia, so he wasn't so alarmed."You seem calm." Al

Aleric and Arya spent a week together in the stream and Aleric had to use everything in him to stop Arya from inserting his hardness into herself. Arya didn't want to leave his side, but Aleric knew he would have to go more dangerous places, and having Arya with him would be dangerous."Remember to listen to Sapphire. And make sure you girls make out time to rest and talk to each other about your days." Aleric and Arya called his other lovers during their one week staying at the stream. They were all happy and Hanna was happy about the people Aleric sent her. Her inn has started and she is already creating a network of spies to gather information. Bella and the rest have also made progress in their skills, even Bella proudly says that Aleric would have to think twice before fighting her. Arya found it funny because Aleric right now has gotten way stronger than when he left for the journey. The only day couldn't speak with was Julia because she is currently undergoing her ritual."Let

Aleric just finished killing hundreds of lycanthropes. Lycanthropes are wolves that can stand on two legs like humans. They have fast reflexes and strong agility and stamina, they hold no magical powers since all their mana is channeled to their physicality. Fighting them took a toll on Aleric but he needed to fight them to see how strong he has gotten. After separating from Arya, Aleric continued traveling south with Draco. The two conquered a few other dungeons and Aleric practiced how to teleport things around using his medium. It was successful and easy to do with inanimate objects, and lesser animals, but for any intelligent creatures like humans, and other races, it would only be possible if the one being teleported agreed to it. So Aleric used the teleportation means to send some of the dungeon cores to Williams for use. Williams has also made progress in the portal and soon it would be up and running. Also, the guns Aleric drew were being worked on but it's not as fast as they

Aleric and Draco kept walking through the darkness and couldn't see a thing. The darkness was so thick they couldn't see their own hands no matter how they tried, even the light he cast with magic was swallowed by the darkness. Half another gone, Aleric noticed that no noise could be heard, the darkness was starting to eat away the darkness. "Draco?" Aleric called but no sound came out. Draco could feel that Draco wasn't far from him but he couldn't see a single thing.'Draco?' he called just to be sure.'I am here.' Draco has also noticed that sound couldn't be heard.'Can you see a thing?' Since Draco has better eyesight than Aleric, the latter was hoping Draco would be able to see in the darkness.'Nothing, even my fire was swallowed by the darkness. I suggest we turn back and leave this wretched land.''That would be a great mistake, turning back doesn't guarantee that we would return where we came from. We might even be working in circles already, so let us keep going and hope w