Monster Integration

Chapter 4424: Middle Section

I reached the middle.

I have come to the middle, but I had remained at the edge of it, but this time, I am at the true middle.

As I did, the earth rustled and a moment later, a thumbnail-sized piece of blue sartil floated out of the ground before landing in my hand.

It’s a first piece, but I need many more for my needs.

So, I moved forward, carefully. Keeping my presence wrapped in the stealth to avoid any monster or other threats.

Till now, I had not sensed any, and I am considering it a good sign. Though I didn’t let myself think too much about it and jinx it.

This time, I am moving faster than the last time.

Not because I am in a hurry, but because I am powerful and my methods are better.

It is why, two and a half minutes later. Three tiny stones came out of the ground and flew toward me until they reached my hand.

My strings are around me, to bring the metals, without me stopping for a moment.

A few minutes passed, and I suddenly slowed down and focused. A few seconds later, a surprise couldn’t help but appear on my face.

I had sensed the monster, but it wasn’t moving.

It is sleeping, actually, deep in the earth with its den covered in material that makes it very hard to discover its location.

It is not alone; there are also little monsters with it. I can’t tell the exact number due to it being deep, but I know there are little monsters.

I am surprised that I am able to sense it.

I wouldn’t have, if not for the new life detection formation. It is one of several I am using. It senses one of the unique energies that fauna life emits.

I didn’t think this would work, because that energy is very hard to sense and needs to be in a sufficient amount to be sensed.

It is why it was able to sense the sleeping monster, as it had been in its place for weeks.

The monster isn’t dangerous, but I still avoided the general above it. I don’t want to be a trigger that will wake it up.

The monster is very powerful, and I would rather not face it, unless I have no choice.

Soon, I moved away from the area, and heaved a sigh of relief. The last time I experienced it, I had quite a fear in my heart of these monsters, and I would avoid them as much as possible.

I had just stepped out when my strings found another nugget of the blue sartil.

It is the first piece I sensed me; all of the pieces I had collected had been sensed by my tools, and I could see why.

There is a thick layer of karusine covering it. It is one of the metals found in the ore, but it is always present in small amounts; however, here it covers the whole nugget.

I removed the layer of it, and what I found inside made my eyes widen.

"My god!" I said as I looked at pure blue-sartil.

It is the purest one I have found, with a purity level of over 98%. I had not found such purity in all the nuggets I had collected.

It means this little store is worth three times its size when compared to the average nugget.

Making it the biggest one I had found.

If I found the pieces like this, it would save me a lot of time, but unfortunately, it won’t happen. However, I kept the hope alive in my heart.

I resumed the journey and soon found more nuggets, but nothing like the pure one.

The density of metal is better than I had thought; it would be. I am constantly finding it, with the pile in my storage getting bigger with every new nugget.

It filled me with the hope that I will be able to find all the metal I need in the middle section of it.

If that happens, I will be out of this place before the afternoon.

A moment later, I pushed away the thoughts and focused on the work. Those thoughts are useless because they will not become reality until I have all the metal in my hand.

Nor do I have enough data to make that conjecture.

My tools didn’t discover all the metal; nearly a quarter of it, and that makes a huge difference.

Soon, I finished with half of middle-region and got a good amount of metal.

Hun!

A few minutes passed, and suddenly I stopped and hid behind the tree.

A few seconds later, I saw the monster. It is the familiar snake, slithering gracefully.

It is the first moving monster I’ve seen since coming here. Compared to last time, when I saw a monster at every hour.

It couldn’t help but make me relieved that the host wouldn’t be here. Even with the strength increase, I wouldn’t want to fight someone that powerful.

The hosts aren’t just powerful, but those bastards are also harder to kill.

Most importantly, I will not fight one, but two, when dealing with a host. As the foreigner also remains there.

I pushed those thoughts and focused on the snake, while keeping my mind calm. The stealth is good, but the monster could sense the emotion, especially bad emotions targeting them.

So, it is better to keep the thoughts as clear as possible.

A minute and a half later, the snake disappeared from my senses, and a minute after that, I resumed moving.

Seeing the monster, I became more careful. I had felt its power, and it brought me back from the high I was feeling from my level-up.

Time passed, and I kept moving, collecting more and more nuggets till I finally stopped.

I had finished the whole middle section and got only around 72% of my needs. I need more, and there is only one place I could get it.

The central section.