The Tales of Draconic Warlock

Chapter 120: Me in the Core (1)

It's time to start hunting,

It's a fine morning and the weather looks nice. I feel that I am going to hit the jackpot soon enough. Though I don't know what it is, I got this feeling since I woke up.

Whatever is supposed to happen will happen when it should. There is no need to waste my time thinking about it. Whether it is good or bad, I have to concentrate on the present rather than on the future.

Whatever I am feeling, it is just a feeling. Though it felt as if it was supposed to be important, I could only deal with it later. Now I have to level up quickly and find as many resources as I can.

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I continued my hunt, this time in the core area.

This area was abundant with many Tier-4 monsters and there are many resources that became mine from the moment my eyes fell upon them.

Hunting these Tier-4 monsters would easily push my EXP higher and faster.

With two leeches attached to me, I can only hunt Tier-4 and above and this was why I am here in the first place. Moreover, eating Tier-4 monster meat would easily give me attributes, much better than when compared to eating Tier-1 and Tier-0 monster meat.

I am sure that my attributes may even near the 2,000 mark by the time I exit the realm as long as I eat only Tier-4 monster meat from now onwards.

Finding Tier-4 meat outside is not easy as it costs a lot and I won't have any opportunities to hunt them either. So I need to clean out the core area of Tier-4 monsters, maybe even some Tier-5 monsters if possible.

Though I have no idea if I can defeat the Tier-5 monsters here, I can clear all Tier-4 monsters and possibly a few Tier-5 as long as I fight them with my full strength. If there is a group of Tier-5 monsters, I should skip at this point, maybe when I am at peak Tier-4.

This is what I decided before entering the realm. Most of my plans have changed and may be I would have to deal with a group of Tier-5 monsters.

Hope I don't encounter them.

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Day in, and day out, I was hunting the monsters, eating and resting. Except for these three, there were no other activities. Though Inari might be gone, I decided not to indulge in sexual activities while in the secret realm. It would be much more dangerous than sleeping.

There is no chance of taking a bath either. It has been fifteen days since I entered the secret realm, but I took a bath only twice and that too with the water I brought with me. It was Inari who wasted most of my water, everyday.

I am saving some for the last day, the day we have to leave this realm. I don't want to appear disgusting when others see me. There should be a lot of people waiting for us outside, the staff of the academy and possibly the parents or guardians of the students who entered the secret realm.

I mean we were like a month away in a dangerous place. they should be worried about us.

There are lakes and rivers, but they are dangerous and there aren't many to begin with.

These water sources are home to many dangerous monsters like River Ice crocodiles, Flying Fish and monsters that can eat a human within minutes.

Though they won't pose a problem for me, it would be a hassle to fight them in their domain. They can attack whenever and however they want. Also, they can simply run away, as soon as they see that the battle they are fighting is not in their favour.

If it was a lake, they would go deep into the lake. Most of the time, the lakes would be deep enough for them to escape unless you have water skills. There also would be plant monsters that live in the water, which are the true problems when entering a water body.

When it comes to rivers, I don't need to explain. They can swim away from you and in water, their speed would be very high.

Most of these aquatic monsters would have water skills as they are pretty dependent on the water around them. These skills make them almost invincible when in water.

Of course, there are ways to kill them even if they are still in water but that's only possible when they are on the surface and the kill has to be done fast enough so that they won't escape into the depths.

Unless you are a strong powerhouse venturing into lakes and rivers is not advised.

This is the core area, which was left untouched by humans for centuries. There are a lot of resources in this area and those are the ones I retrieved and should have formed recently.

Most of them should have been consumed by the monsters in the area, especially in water regions, where land monsters would normally not dare to enter.

So the monsters became powerful over the years, which was good to me in a sense but at the same time not.

I mean, most of the resources are consumed by these monsters, except for resources that take too much time to be ready for consumption.

Even then I made a profit. These monsters can only eat resources like fruit at once but can't use resources like magic crystals. They can only bask in their presence and absorb the power passively. Many such resources became mine in the end.

Moreover, with a high quantity of Tier-4, I am improving faster.

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As days went by my rank levels increased and so did my skill levels. With improvement in rank levels and having Tier-4 meat daily and Tier-5 meat a few times, my attributes soared.

I had to struggle when I encountered a Tier-5 monster and that ends today. Now even a Tier-5 monster would be killed in seconds. Pretty soon I will see what this secret realm is all about.