A normal-looking boy was heading to the Cat-Bench Tavern with lots of fruits with him. As I went inside, I saw that Lilla was still there.
"Hey Adam, are you sure you're not coming with us?" she asked.
I denied it, thinking she must be out of her mind. I had seen her group fight, and I didn't think they could handle a group of many C-rank and B-rank beasts. Even if that B-rank beast had just broken through to B level, it was still a B-rank.
She added that I could build some connections with her team, as Kaven had declared he possessed S-rank talent in magic. An S-rank magician can go to an SS-rank city.
From this conversation, I learned that anyone who is not a resident of the city by birth cannot enter a higher-tier city unless they are invited, on a mission, or possess S-rank power.
Because before S-rank, all other rankers are like stones in front of truly powerful people. In their eyes, they could kill as many as they wanted without consequence.
"No Lilla, I won't be accompanying you tomorrow. I have some work to do. Take care of yourself," I told her, then went to my room.
I was thinking about how they would survive. Even if they had talent, they couldn't kill a B-rank beast right now. Maybe they had some kind of assurance like an artifact or something similar.
I closed my eyes and then opened them. From afar, I saw Jumbo running toward me like I was his mommy. He pushed me down and cuddled with me. He saw apples in my hand, and his trunk started moving toward them like a snake going after eggs. I laughed hard. I moved the apples from one hand to the other, and Jumbo started running around me, trying to grab the tasty apples. I could even see some saliva dripping from his mouth—he really needed those apples.
After having fun like this—something I hadn't experienced much, as I never had a pet or friend—I got a little emotional, thinking about how my previous life was. Jumbo noticed my mood drop. He wrapped his trunk around my neck like he was trying to hug me.
I offered Jumbo an apple. He took one and then gave it back to me. I could tell he really didn't want to, his face showing some resistance.
"Don't be sad, take this tasty apple… which I really don't want to give. But seeing your devotion towards my well-being, I can give you one… only one of my tasty apples," his face was trying to convey all these thoughts, trying to cheer me up.
I ate the apple—and it was really tasty.
I watched Jumbo eating and making "nom nom nom" sounds, which made me laugh even more. I had also brought more seeds of different fruits. I pulled Jumbo out of his apple-euphoria, and with the help of his little trunk, I dug the ground, planted the seeds, and watered them using some of Jumbo's drinking water.
After we were done, Jumbo started napping. I sat a little further away and began practicing the Supreme Spiritual Scripture. This scripture was deeply connected to this land. The Bloodline Source directly connects to this vast terrain. As I grow in spiritual power, the land will also grow.
At some point in time, I'll be able to control the land—shape it however I wish. But for that, I need to transform this floating rock into something ruby-like, red in color. After that, my spiritual power will grow so much… I can't even describe it.
I started pushing my spirit toward the boundary to force it to expand. If Adam had his eyes open, he would have seen that the rock representing his spirituality was pulsing with spiritual energy—waves expanding outward, trying to push the boundary further.
After doing this for three hours, my concentration finally broke. I turned left and right. My eyes first landed on my first friend, Jumbo, still napping like it was his first time, his mouth softly munching.
I shook my head. "I don't know how I'll take care of this greedy little friend of mine."
But that's a worry for the future.
I turned toward the boundary again and saw it had moved—just a little, less than a meter. Still, I wasn't disappointed. I knew that when I finally broke through the limit, I would receive a massive advancement in spiritual power. Until then, this slow pace was fine.
After repeating this process two or three times, I started practicing my Supreme Strength Scripture.
This scripture had lots of extremely difficult body postures… ones I thought only snakes could pull off. But on the later pages, that idea faded. It stated that once your power multiplication reached four times for further multiplication, the focus would shift entirely to strengthening the inner body.
I knew that every body part I had now was already far different from a normal human's, but this scripture claimed it could even strengthen the body of a Dragon God.
This was all written on just the first few pages. First posture was not that difficult but hard to achieve I could feel pain in my lower part of the body the scripture said I have to stay in this posture for 5 hours straight and I have to do this for 2 months to achieve first layer of the scripture.