"Ahhh!"

  I couldn’t help but moan in contentment as my body and soul continued to absorb more and more thick crystalline energy and became stronger every second.

  It had been ten minutes already, and the energy was still filling me, giving me more power than I had imagined it to be. Even before level up had completed, I began to feel invisible that bit down urge to move my hand to shake the space around me.

  Another minute had passed when finally thick crystalline energy from my runes began to thin out, and a couple of seconds later, it had completely disappeared.

  I have now officially reached the middle level of the Tyrant stage and became a Leader class Tyrant but have the power of Grandmaster. Feeling the power, a big smile couldn’t help but appear on my face.

  People dream of gaining the power I have, but barely few are able to get it, and they take decades, even centuries, to get it, and I had not even needed a decade since I began practicing before I got such power.

  I wanted nothing but to test the power, but I controlled myself; there was one more thing I had to be before I could stand up.

  The Grimms Grandmaster is powerful, especially the Bullman; I had seen it fight against the Hog Monster, and the power it had displayed is tremendous, far more than what regular initial Tyrant class monsters should have.

  I want to be sure that I could deal with it, deal with both of the Grandmasters if they came at me together.

  My strength has increased tremendously, but I want to advance it more to be more confident in a fight, and thankfully, I have a way to increase my power further.

  It is my art, which had been restricted due to me reaching the limit, but now that I have leveled up, I would be able to practice it. I have time to do that, as looking at the formation Goatman is creating, it would take a lot of time to create the formation to pass through the broken formations.

  I looked at my core and found it quite changed. Its size had remained the same, but it became powerful and looked even more like a world than before.

  The clouds could be seen when one looked from outside; one could get a faint peek of the island if one looked long enough.

  It is not just the core, but the moon has also changed; I could see faint cyan spots on its body.

  The blinding cyan power it had given to my core is not even 10% of what it had gotten from that formation; it had melted. There is still a large amount of it stored inside it, and it seemed to have no intention to release it.

  Like before, it had again begun to absorb the chaotic energies around me, and this time, it is not restricted by limit and releasing nine times more speckled crystal dust than before, and specks now are twice bigger than before.

  Hun!

  I looked at my core from outside before I went inside and felt shocked and disappointed at the same time.

  The disappointment because the size of the island had not changed, and neither is the flow of time inside, but other than these two things, shocking change comes to my core.

  The first change is the density of energy; it had five times denser, and the tiny lake on the island has also become slightly bigger with soul energy inside much purer than before and more powerful than Grandmasters would salivate for it.

  The inches thick crystalline speckled dust that had accumulated on the surface had disappeared, merged the soil of my core. When I took soil in my hand and tested its quality, I couldn’t help but be surprised.

  With such soil, I would be able to grow many more plants with an even greater probability, which is great news.

  Speaking of plants, there is no change that had occurred in them, and nor I had expected to occur; I am just grateful that no harm had come to them. I had throught something might happen to them during my breakthrough, but nothing had happened.

  Seeing everything alright, I moved my hand, and many buildings and things appeared back in core and moved toward their original place.

  Fearing something might occur to the precious things I have stored in my core during the breakthrough, I have stored them in my storage ring. It seemed like I was fearful for nothing; some dummy stuff I had kept inside were left unchanged.

  I would not have to take the trouble of moving stuff around during my next breakthrough, which is good news.

  I looked at Nero and Ashlyn and saw them fine, just sleeping, and moved toward my destination, the forge.

  There is no change in the forge; it is the same inside and outside. Through, I was surprised to see barely any change in the phantom, despite huge change occurring in me. It is still faint muddy grey as before.

  I plan to finish the whole first stage in a single session. It would not have been able to do it when I was elite, my body and soul would not be able to bear that, but now that my strength had gotten stronger, I don’t think it would have any problem.

  I did not waste any time and threw a huge amount of resources into a furnace; unlike before, I now would need more resources.

  Higher levels require a higher amount of resources; I would likely require more resources to practice the remaining 29% of art than I had a need to practice the 71% of it before, but I am not worried about it as I have a huge amount of resources in my hands.

  TING Ting ting

  As I added the resources furnace, the whole forge lighted up, and the beings picked up their tools before they started hitting the huge phantom of mine, giving me a pain that I hadn’t felt in quite a while.