"You were very hard to deal with, you know. If I had taken one more of your attacks, even I did not know whether I would be able to survive it or not," I said as I straightened myself.

  I am in really bad shape; nearly all the bones in my body had been broken with its bloodline energy in me, which fortunately I had sealed temporarily, but it would not remain sealed for long. It is already struggling hard, and I will have to deal with it as soon as possible before broke those seals and rampage in my body.

  Before I deal with Bloodline energy, I first have to deal with the source of it. It is a danger that I have to deal with as soon as possible.

  'Ice Dome!'

  I said and activated the Ice Dome; just as I covered myself and it in the ice dome, my strings have appeared. They had covered 90% of its body, and I began to pour more energy into them to cover it up 95%.

  I could not take any risk; even with strings covering nearly every part of it am struggling hard. Using one more after another to break through it, though the strings are strong and have sealed all its energy points, so it could not release its energy outside, I still do not want to take the risk.

  Puch Puch Puch

  Half a minute later, my vines have covered it by 95%. As that, thousands of sharp ends came out of the vines and pierced through the body of apeman. Its defense is very strong that I had covered, each of sharp end with an aura of sharpness that totem artifacts enchantment has.

  As the vines entered inside, they immediately met with resistance of its Bloodline. The resistance is so powerful that I had to up my energy transmission to the vines to maximum; it would take hours if my vines grow inside it using its own energy.

  I begin to pour huge energy into my vines, making them grow. As my vines spread, I got a clear look at its body and was a little surprised when I noticed the signs of essence extractions; though the signs are minute, still, I, who is an expert in essences extraction, were easily able to see them.

  I was right earlier; its attacks were powerful because it was burning its essence for them. If it had not done that, I wouldn't have ended up in such a condition.

  While the peak elites are powerful, they are still within a range I could handle. If I had chosen to fight the Frogman, I wouldn't have been in a state as I am currently in, but Frogman would not have given me what I needed the most; this one could give me what I wanted.

  Though it is a very precious moment for me, and as this day, I would be able to fill the remaining honeycombs and reached the limit of power an Emperor could, dealing with the bloodline energy is also important as it could kill me.

  Hun!

  I was dealing with the Bloodline energy when Green and Silver runes came out of my body and began to spread on my vines. It took them little more than ten seconds to spread over all the vines, and the harvesting process started after that.

  Thick crystalline bloodline energy came at me; it is dense and big bloodline crystals. If bloodline essence crystals in Bone Snakemans bloodline were like millions of shiny little points, then the bloodline essence crystals in the Red Horn Apeman bloodline were like sand specks.

  The difference is clearly visible, and I am very happy to see it; I have only three hundred cells of Honeycomb left, and I hope it will be enough to take me to the peak elite stage.

  Hun!

  Suddenly, my runes stopped taking the bloodline essence, and the bloodline essence that was supposed to come at me divided into the other parties.

  I am not surprised to see it happen; my runes have reached the limit; they could not absorb any more of the bloodline energy. If I want to absorb more of the bloodline energy, I will have to level up to Tyrant, and this time, there is no loophole like expander I could exploit.

  There is one way that can take my limit even higher, but I have no interest in choosing that way.

  A second after my runes stopped feeding on the bloodline essence, my runes shone, and strengthening energy flooded inside me. It took them a mere second to reach every corner of me, and just that happened, the cells of Honeycomb began to open themselves and take the energy in them.

  Thousands of cells began to get filled every second, and with it, my strength started rising. Not only my strength started rising, but the serious injuries I had suffered also began to heal rapidly, and that within few seconds, all the injuries I had suffered healed completely.

  Seconds passed by, and cells kept getting filled and merged with me when finally, the last cells got filled by the last bit of energy and merged inside me.

  The whole Honeycomb got filled; when I had first designed the Honeycomb, I had never thought I would be able to make the cells of it four times bigger or even able to fill them in such a short time. I had thought it would take me years, but I had done it within one.

  I couldn't help but feel a little proud about it.

  Shake!

  I was about to analyze the increment I had just got when suddenly my body shook heavily for no reason, and I blacked out for a moment, and when I came to myself and saw what was happening, I got completely blown away.