"Young Master Altima, Please Wait.", Melissa, whom at least a 2nd Stage Warrior Practitioner of Zen tier, was running until she was about to lost her breath, is panting for a while when she manages to had Altima stopped from leaving.
"What do you need, Lady Boulduin ?", Altima speaks politely.
"Here, is two scrolls among the 5 Ancient Recipe I've said before when you are presenting us with the treasure.", Melissa immediately pass the two scroll to Altima without any hesitation, where else if seen by other people, they would think that this is a love letter instead.
"of course, this won't be free!", Before Altima speak a word, Melissa immediately stated that there will be a request for this two scroll to be given to him.
"Lady Boulduin, Please speak the terms then.", Altima, getting all ears ready to listen to her request.
"in the next 1/2 week time, there will be a Great Festival of Weevil Forest to be conducted within Boulduin City.", Melissa says.
"Great Festival of Weevil Forest ?", Altima questioned even more.
"What a country bumpkin!", Melissa teased Altima straight away, due to the ignorant behavior is shown by Altima.
"Great Festival of Weevil Forest is conducted once a year, on the same day, to Hunt for the Upcoming King Coronation of the Weevil Forest Overlord, the Crystal Legged Empress of Weevil, Amarak. Each year, Amarak will send all of the children belonged to her out to the whole forest to hunt and get stronger, until each time, there will be a total of 10 Childs is left."
"Within the 10 Child, Only 1 could stay to Breed with the Empress itself, Thus impregnate the Empress so she could Deliver countless child throughout the year. For the reason why we call it the Great Festival of Weevil Forest, it is due to the number of sacrifices and dead beast are all contributed into grooming the Crystal Legged Weevil. The Weevil will then Produce a ball of strings, which is called as the (Gift of the Emperor), are what we are hunting."
"Each (Gift of the Emperor) could be added to a bigger and bigger Ball of strings until the remaining Weevil is only one left. It then will go to the Empress herself, to be eaten as a supplement, as well as for her to use as her Sack of Eggs later after the Empress Weevil is impregnated. Meanwhile, the Emperor Weevil will be devoured, and have no remains left untouched."
"During the period when the Weevil is on their Growing time, any indigestible Food source or Material the Weevil couldn't process will be disposed into the Lair, which scattered all around the Weevil Forest. Their Strength ranged from 1st Stage of Warrior Practitioner, and could go up to around 7th or 8th Stage of Warrior Practitioner. Meanwhile, for the Empress of Weevil, she had been alive for almost 300 Years, as old as the Boulduin Family History.", Melissa finally finished with her explanation.
"So.. What would the Great Boulduin Family wish me to help with ?", Altima gets to the right topic.
"We would like you to craft us some of the Mid Grade Healing Ointment, as well as the Yang Essence Revitalizing Pill. For the recipe, what we Boulduin Family asked is in future, if the Recipes could be used, we just hope that only Boulduin Auction Hall of Myriad Treasure have the qualification to source this item out.", Melissa explains their terms and evaluate Altima attitude, be it he will accept or reject.
"Of course, I agree, after all, this is a Recipe that nobody will have in their Library.", Altima Explained, agreeing on the terms set by Melissa.
"But one more thing. Can I participate in the Great Festival of Weevil Forest ?", Altima asked as he is interested in entering this Forest and checked on the festival itself.
"Why would you want to participate ? The Event is Mainly for people below Master Practitioners, plus with your ability, you could obtain any ingredients if you are willing to pay for it.", Melisa speaks honestly.
"Lady Boulduin, Many things are not purchasable, such as experience, enlightenment, Vision, Luck, and Opportunity. If this festival has some lucky ingredients or blessings this time, but this opportunity are not grasped, so where will I be in the next event ?", Altima speaks as honest as possible he could toward Melissa, but in a very respective tone.
"If in that case, I will go back to ask for an Allowance Tag, where non-Citizen could use this tag to participate in the Great Festival.", Melissa replied, and walked away.
With haste, Altima quickly return towards the Thousand Members Guild, rest a while and start inspecting the few item he received from the Auction. But before that, Altima have Mobi processed the total of 13 Revival Fruits, which increased 26% experience to the Private Cultivating Farm - 34% / 100%. Next, Altima scanned on the Rejuvenate Scripture.
"Scanning Complete!"
"Martial Art is Identified, Time used, 4 hours and 50 Minutes!"
Great Way of Rejuvenating Scripture - 18 Essence Absorption Door Enhancement Technique
Skill Description: Through mastering this Skill and applied in Basic Daily life, the Cultivator will have an amazing Essence Utilization and absorption ability, which Reduce Energy Usage by 15% and Increase Essence Absorption rate by 15% in Early Proficiency Stage, 25% for both when in Advance Proficiency Stage, 50% when in Peak Proficiency Stage. Rumoured were when one totally Mastered this Scripture and able to manage its Master Proficiency, a total of 100% performance is applied on the practitioner, giving them a double the effect results.
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Current Mastery: 1%/100%
Next, Altima opened the action containing the first scroll.
"Revised Recipes - 10% Experience Obtained in Master Concocting Practice."
Dragon's Gate(Long Men) Lineage - Titanic Tempering Pellet
Ingredient: (10) Snake Core(any kind) / (10) Flying Core(any kind) / (10) Mammal Core(any kind) / (10) Insect Core(any kind) / (10) Demon Core(any kind) / (10) Pure Demonite Stone / (500) Energy Yin Pill / (500) Energy Yang Pill
Effect: One of the Previous Flourishing Sect Tempering Pill, Used to temper the Sect practitioner and increase their overall cultivation and Martial Arts.
Success Rate: 1% (if concocted by 3rd Stage Concocting practitioner / Above 5% (if concocted by 5th Stage Concocting practitioner)
Optional: Higher Refinement and Research will increase Success Rate.
And lastly, On the second action, which contained the next as well as last scroll.
"Revised Recipes - 10% Experience Obtained in Master Concocting Practice."
Dragon's Gate(Long Men) Lineage - Mental Tempering Pellet
Ingredient: (100) Demonic Beast Blood(Animal) / (100) Demonic Beast Blood(Human) / (100) Exhausted Yin Orb / (100) Exhausted Yang Orb / (10) Pure Demonite Stone / (1) Soul Infested Spring Water
Effect: One of the Previous Flourishing Sect Tempering Pill, Used to temper the Sect practitioner and increase their mental and Essence Manifestation.
Success Rate: 1% (if concocted by 3rd Stage Concocting practitioner / Above 5% (if concocted by 5th Stage Concocting practitioner)
Optional: Higher Refinement and Research will increase Success Rate.
With both recipes are revised and checked, the next task Altima would require are to look for the most important item, the different type of Demonic Cores(only available to warrior practitioner beast and above), as well as the Exhausted Yang Orb and Soul Infested Spring Water. For the Yang Orb, Altima only choice is only to find Skeletons or any parasitic infested place, where it's strong with Yang Essence undulations, as for the Soul Infested Spring Water, it can be only made from refining Essence Water from the Mixture of Essence of the Dead Corpse Pool(1) as well as the Spring Water from the Wandering Soul River.
With all the prerequisite task and research are completed, Altima spends his next 8 days throughout refining his Skills, as well as trying to obtain news regarding few certain materials all around the Central Southern. After a long time of research, Altima finally found out that the closest Wandering Soul River are located on the border between the Central Southern and Upper Southern.
Although the location is dangerous, Altima aren't decided yet to quickly venture towards the location, due to the first reason of being limited in his fighting ability, and secondly is due to the upcoming Great Festival of Weevil Forest is almost there. Trying to participate and look for some treasures, Altima believed that it is the time he should go out to carve a name for himself, so he could efficiently protect himself and his interest, might as well create his own Power along the way.
Very quickly, the timespan of 8 days is over, where Altima participates along with the Great Festival of Weevil Forest together with a total of 4,000 Cultivators, whom all of them are below Master Practitioner Tier. Within the group, 10 Youngster whom age between 11 to 13 are to be careful, due to the heavy Essence undulation is strongest, which means they are pretty much half step into the Master Practitioner Tier.
After all the different practitioner are divided into a total of 10 entrance, the Festival Starts Now, where all 4,000 Cultivators are rushing into the Deeper of Weevil Forest, which is the closest as well the biggest Forest within Boulduin City. This Forest is categorized as a Difficulty above Warrior Practitioner, due to the heavily infested forest which serves as the heaven for the Demonic Beast, Insect, and many other opponents.
Upon entering, Altima quickly had his 3 available Action Points to be used to Conduct few different series of orders.
"Thorough Scanning, Outer Layer!"
"Thorough Scanning, Moving Targets!"
"Thorough Scanning, Ingredients!"
"Unlocking and Deciphering Scroll (Second Chapter in progress, Time passed, 8 days and 6 hours."
With a 4 action in control, Altima quickly ready for his first Out of protection battle after being in training for so long!
"This time, I will slaughter anyone who tried to disturb me or make me a target as prey!", Altima speaks to himself and directly charge towards the deeper forest, where a few shadow could be seen within the bushes and Trees.
Writer's Note:
(1)Mentioned in chapter 9, when Altima filled 5,000 Pouches full of Essence Water from the Dead Corpse Pool.