280 A Lot

Atticus stared in front of him where his stats were on full display. His eyes immediately landed on his exposure numbers for his space bloodline.

It had increased significantly compared to the last time.

'Damn, to think I wasted a lot of time,' Atticus couldn't help but admonish himself.

If he had been focused on unlocking his space element from the beginning, he would have trained it to an acceptable level by now.

The space element was very overpowered. Although he hadn't used it before, but from what he had seen from Astrion, it was a great element he was very much looking forward to unlocking.

And one of the things he was most looking forward to using was gravity control. The ability to increase and decrease gravity in a certain range would be incredibly valuable during battle.

Atticus was already anticipating it!

Looking at the rate at which the exposure numbers increased, Atticus surmised that it would take about 3000 teleportation runes to reach the required number to unlock his space element.

Atticus felt that it would be lower, but it was better to plan for something higher than lower.

'I would need a lot of Academy points,' Atticus thought.

The small 200 teleportation runes he had bought were a staggering 2,000,000 Academy points.

But now Atticus would need about 3000 teleportation runes, which meant,

'30,000,000 Academy points, wow.'

Even Atticus couldn't help but open his mouth wide when he reached this conclusion. 30 million Academy points was a lot, a whole lot of points.

It had to be remembered that for him to even gather the 2 million academy points in the first place, he had to kill thousands upon thousands of beasts, something he doubted he'd be able to do again considering the fact that in the entirety of the cave, only the Shadow Seraphon was present.

Atticus' eyes turned towards the Shadow Seraphon, a dangerous glint appearing in his eyes, causing the beaten up beast to feel a shiver down its spine as it struggled to move.

'I wonder how many points it would give,' Atticus pondered.

The wolf sized beasts Atticus had massacred were mostly intermediate, with some even being novice+ rank.

And Atticus had discovered that killing each of them brought about 17 academy points.

But what if he was to kill a master- rank beast? How many academy points would that get him?

Atticus shook his head, 'It's not worth it. It'll probably be less than a million academy points, and I'll be losing a good training partner,' Atticus concluded.

Killing the Shadow Seraphon now would be a big mistake. A mistake he wasn't ready to make.

'Looks like I'll be going on a killing spree for a while.' Atticus sighed.

'And I will also have to start engraving lots of teleportation runes too,'

Atticus had initially wanted to purchase all of the teleportation runes from the academy shop.

This was partly because he had so many points that he didn't know what to do with them.

And the other part was that he hated the side effect of engraving runes. He didn't want any feeling of demotivation.

But after seeing how many points he would need to completely awaken his space element, he had decided to engrave some of it himself.

The teleportation rune was fortunately a grade one rune. And currently Atticus could engrave about 14 of those before he felt completely demotivated to do anything.

He would just have to make sure he engraved a certain acceptable amount.

"16 a day should be okay," Atticus muttered.

He would first engrave 8, and then he would drink the will renewal potion and wait until he was fully recovered before engraving another 8.

His thoughts couldn't help but shift towards beasts.

He and his division members had been killing these beasts for over a month now, and although they each got points for each beast they killed, what about the beasts' bodies?

Many of them had simply been storing the beast carcasses in their space rings not knowing what to do with them.

Some of them also chose to cook what they killed, for those who could cook, of course.

It was a good thing time was almost nonexistent inside storage rings, but it still moved, albeit slowly.

The storage rings were engraved with runes that have a temporal effect, creating an environment where time appears to be almost nonexistent.

While the runes significantly affects the perception of time within the storage ring, it doesn't completely halt its progression.

But it felt like a huge waste. Beast parts were used in crafting weapons and sometimes potion making.

But given the fact that none of them knew how to do any of this, the beast carcasses were slowly rotting inside the space rings.

Atticus stopped thinking about this for now and left it for later.

After coming to all these conclusions, Atticus swept his gaze towards his other stats. All of them had hardly budged except some of his elements, and even then, they were very negligible.

Although his stats had hardly reflected any changes, Atticus still felt very refreshed. He hadn't held back when he battled the beast.

Atticus could subtly feel an increase in his power, although it was still very negligible.

He closed his eyes, entering a state of focus as he began absorbing mana into his core.

With each increase in rank, Atticus's core was growing millimeters by millimeters, increasing the total amount of mana that could be stored in it.

Although the entirety of the mana was contained in the core, the fact that it was in close proximity, literally inside the body, meant that the mana from the core would continually influence the body.

If said body doesn't adapt, the mana core could never evolve.

That said, the amount of mana one needed to advance in the expert rank was staggering. Compared to the other lower ranks, it was a lot of mana.

For a regular person with transcendent talent, advancing one rank in the expert rank would take multiple years.

And this was if they were very diligent in absorbing mana into their mana core.