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Chapter 124: A Delicacy That Surpasses the Cockatrice?

Before wrapping everything up, Ed asked the system about the Equipment set he got.

[After activating it, you will be able to see an interface where you can make equipment presets. Anyone preset that is saved can be changed into in a fraction of a second. You won't have to change your clothes or anything like that. However, it is limited to five presets only.]

Ed carefully examined the words told by the system and made sure he understood them. 'Basically, this is another one of the Game interface elements that weren't included'. Ed reached such an understanding. This 'Equipment set' was similar to the ones from certain games. Even the explanation was almost the same. Still, Ed was glad that he got such an ability. This way he would save up on time.

Ed looked up at the red sky. The sun was just about to set, so he decided to train rather than simply end the day. He also wanted to see the changes that came with his monsters' evolution.

Ed vs. Raikou. Suika and Garu vs. Sieg. Gobuta vs Goburou. All of them decided on such team composition and started sparring. Ed was finding it difficult to keep up with Raikou without using his skills. A gap was created between them when Raikou leveled up. Ed was now thinking about annihilating the floor to attain Heavenly Establishment. After activating many of his skills, the spar was more or less at a standstill.

Suika and Garu could force a draw with Sieg by now. Although they were incapable of breaking his barrier, keeping him at bay was easy enough. Garu's evolution gave the highest all-rounder abilities out of all of Ed's monsters. His durability, speed, and power were all top notch. Even some of the lower leveled Heavenly Establishment monsters would pale compared to him. Especially if he were to use Nen.

"Woah!" Ed and Raikou who were in the middle of sparring were surprised by a purple flying slash. Ed looked at the source and noticed that Gobuta was looking at the sword in his hand. Apparently, a simple swing of his blade was enough to generate such a force. It seemed like he was unable to gauge his new found strength. Goburou was now fighting with elegance. Every move of his was filled with finesse. His sword slashes had an impressive speed that managed to hit with pinpoint accuracy. Gobuta who was able to react to these slashes deserved some praise as well.

The dark went completely dark a couple of hours ago, but Ed created some fire stands to help light up the area. Usually, he would just cook on a campfire, but it was far more convenient this way. The spar sessions ended and Ed was now cooking dinner. It was the camels that they hunted before. The meat of the camel that he butchered was darker compared to beef, but as soft and lean. Maybe even more than beef. To his surprise, the best part of the meat turned out to be the humps. They were filled with tender and juicy meat. Ed could only suppress his hunger while thinking. 'I'm so hungry I could eat a camel!'. As he was preparing the meat, he noticed that all of his companions were intrigued by the delicacy. Even Sieg, who had gotten used to eating food with Ed and the others, seemed interested.

After eating the first steak, Ed and the others couldn't stop. Every piece tasted completely different than the one before. The humps were indeed the best part. None of the meat tasted dry as the camel was a young one. At least it seemed that way. Ed ended up preparing, and cooking, more than three whole camels before everyone was satisfied. 'This might be better than the cockatrice. Maybe I should save one to treat Emilia and the others.' Ed thought back to the small party they had back in the academy. Thinking back at his time there, it was filled with both loss and gain.

As time passed, Ed and the others gradually fell asleep, with their bellies filled. Only Sieg couldn't share with them the delicacy of sleep. Since Ed spent time sparring in his dimension, not much time was left before it would wear off, so he undid it himself. He got some tents he used and they all slept inside it. Ed almost slept before doing this. It would have been a disaster if the dimension was undone while he was sleeping, and they froze from the coldness.

No monster approached Ed's group. Even if they did, Sieg would take care of it.

After waking up, Ed and the others started searching for monsters again. On the way, Ed was tinkering with the Equipment set he had gotten. The interface had a body in the middle with squares indicating the different pieces of equipment he could set. He did three presets first. All of them had the same thing, an underwear (obviously) and his chainmail armor. The first preset was his usual hunting attire with the leather set. The second one was the black disguise set, while the third one was his white one.

Ed was able to control the switch between them by using his mind only. He didn't need to push any buttons or anything. He played with it a little and noticed that the switch time was almost instantaneous. He kept thinking about what he should use for the last two presets, but he couldn't think of anything.

The group was attacked by a couple of giant worms on the way but was able to dispatch them easily. Upon reaching their destination, Ed noticed that the monsters were a hive of lizard with spikes on their bodies. Sadly, none of them were exceptionally strong. Their most amazing ability was shooting flaming spikes from their body. These spikes would explode upon contact with anything. At first, it didn't seem like a dangerous thing. But as they fought, they noticed that the great number of monsters made it difficult to dodge these spikes from close range. In the end, they simply used long-range attacks to annihilate them.


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Shigun Shigun

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Chapter 125: A Pyramid in the Distance

As per usual, Ed spent one-month hunting in the floor. He was lucky to encounter the camels another time which allowed him to stock up on more than twenty of them. He also managed to level up to Earth Establishment level 10. Sieg and Raikou both leveled up to Heavenly Establishment level 2. Suika and the rest managed to breakthrough to level 1.

Everyone's abilities underwent a drastic change. Those who could use Nen more or less managed to build the foundation for their Hatsu. All that remains is to work on the ability and develop it. Sieg who couldn't use such an ability managed to come up with new techniques thanks to Ed's help. His imagination worked very hard this past month. His ability to control the dimension improved as well. He was now able to keep it up for four hours with a gravity multiplier of 25 times. Without the multiplier, he could keep it up for eight hours. Similarly, if he reduced the multiplier, the amount of time he could handle would increase as well.

"Scan." Ed scanned himself to check up on his stats.

Name: Edward Avalon.

Level: 46. (1.300.000/1.700.000) [Earth Establishment level 10].

Stats:

HP: 1002/1002.

MP: 718/718.

STR: 495.

AGL: 439.

INT: 445.

DEF: 450.

STA: 501.

Skills: Three-sword style, Etiquette, Haggling, Strategy, KI control, Driving, Calligraphy, Programming.

Abilities: Mangekyo-Sharingan, Spectral Shadow Steps, Wind magic, Fire magic, Space magic, Voice Disguise, Shunpo, Nen, Berserk, Water magic.

Monsters: Raikou, Suika, Gobuta, Goburou, Garu, Siegfried.

Evaluation: Not bad.

He was very close to leveling up to Heavenly Establishment himself. If the same thing that happened with Earth Establishment monsters repeated itself, then he would be able to level up after killing a Heavenly Establishment level 5 or higher monster. He guessed that the experience points that he would get would soar as well.

"We'll try to find the boss today." Although Ed stayed in the floor for one month he was unable to find the boss. The desert was simply too large. When he first noticed this, he started advancing tens of kilometers every day to cover the most surface while maintaining a high kill rate. The seven of them left together but went in separate ways. Every one of them would be able to hunt alone without much trouble. Another reason why Ed let them go on their own, without being afraid that they would lose their way, was because of his Space magic.

Ever since Ed leveled it up to level 2, he unlocked another ability. Although he could teleport attacks with Space magic, that was already doable with level one. Ed struggled with it and didn't train much at it. Leveling up to level two simply gave him a boost in control over Space magic. But the true ability that was unlocked was long-range teleportation. Ed was over the clouds when he first found out. He was simply checking out his skills' description when he found out. His ability wasn't broken enough to allow him to teleport to any destination that he had visited before.

To be able to use the long-range teleport, Ed needed to make an inscription on 'something'. He would be able to teleport to that position. He had some metal pieces left over from crafting from way earlier when he made weapons for his family. He couldn't decide on what inscription he should use, so he simply used his first and last name initials. 'E.A'. He gave each one of his companions a piece, and also made many more. He also made some disposable ones using some rocks as the base.

As Ed was traveling at his top speed, he didn't stop to hunt. He wanted to break out of this floor as soon as possible. He still needed to clear the tenth, eleventh, and a twelfth floor before a year passes.

Before Ed could pass through one of the regions, something caught his attention way into the distance. 'A pyramid?' The shape that he saw was one that looked strikingly like the pyramids back on Earth. Ed didn't know if such shapes existed in this world before seeing it here. Unless someone from Earth got teleported into this world as well, then this world should have them as well.

"I'm not going to have to fight 'The Mummy' now will I?" Ed asked himself while smiling wryly. He switched his direction towards the pyramid and accelerated at top speed. Unfortunately, before he could reach his destination he fell into a sand hole. What he actually fell into looked more like a room rather than a hall. It was similar in size to a college lecture hall, and many stone tablets were thrown in the ground. Ed was intrigued by these tablets so he started checking them one by one.

Time and sand did a wonderful job at making the tablets almost unreadable. Ed did his best to decode them, but he was unable to. They were also broken which made them even harder to understand. Ed almost left before he noticed something. The way the tablets were broken looked as if they were joined at one point. 'That took me a while…' Ed could only mock his own lack of insight at this moment.

After gathering all the tablets, he could more or less make out some of the stuff. It was still barely readable, but he could understand it much better. He could see two half circles, both at the extreme right and left of the giant tablet. Between them, a 'tube' extended from to the other, joining both of them together. This was all Ed could understand from the tablet. Although he understood the drawings, he didn't understand the meaning. Ed decided not to waste any more time, so he stored the giant tablet and broke out of the room.

Once again, Ed made his way towards the pyramid that was still so far in the distance. It took him almost an hour at top speed to get close to it. The closer he got, the more he doubted his earlier assumption of it being a pyramid. Once he was close enough he had a wry smile.

'This is no pyramid. This is…' Before Ed could finish his thought, the pyramid 'moved'.


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