"Sigh, Lucy, we won't have any rest until we translate all of this, or at least just the blood forging method. "

Max didn't worry about language barriers, since he and his pets can communicate through meaning using their mental link if necessary.

Max sat in front of the laptop and prepared.

"Lucy, let's start. You speak and I write.

And no antics like teddy bears. I want clean text. "

Despite not wanting to endure the exhausting process, Lucy still went along.

.......

And just like that, as Max engrossed himself in typing, understanding, and learning.

Time flew by, and before we knew it, two weeks had passed.

Max awoke in his familiar bed, feeling weary and drained, as if he had been battling instead of sleeping.

These kinds of symptoms never left him for the past 2 weeks:

exhaustion just after waking up, sleepiness, dehydration, and an inexplicable itch on his upper back.

Max was helpless about it.

But Thankfully it should all go away once his pet space awakened, based on the simulator's reports.

Looking at the well-furnished room, Max just walked to his office.

3 days ago, after some reconnaissance and judging that the Atyai family didn't send anyone after him, Max emptied his space ring and went back to his old mountain to pick up everything he left.

Of course, being cautious, he took Lucy and let her take control over the mountain there just in case.

Max took that small risk for the plants and other minerals he left behind.

Also, he wanted to bait out the Atyai family if they were following him.

Just to confirm, since he didn't like to be a rat in hiding from them, even now he was strong enough to fight them head on with Lucy.

However, it seems that the Atyai family didn't take further action, but it's not a big deal because Max plans to confront them once he's confident in handling them easily.

Following that, he instructed Lucy to build a suitable home, or rather, a castle fit for a king, this time underground.

There were only specially made tunnels for air and sunlight to come in. Other than that, it was all closed up.

In case someone else decides to teleport inside, he/she will be done for.

Max prepare the last cup of coffee he had, and sat on a well-decorated stone chair, while opening the simulator.

He had already translated everything he needed long ago, and to his surprise, the blood forging method was too simple.

He understood its workings in a single reading session, and he could confidently say that this thing will never function on its own.

The only reason it worked in the simulation was Lucy's innate.

Part of the reason was because the method itself was a little flawed, and the other part was that the cultists were not using it correctly :

-the more creatures sacrificed, and the stronger they were, the better the end results would be. At the same time, the opposite hold true the less the worst the end result.

-However, merging a lot of different species might have a positive effect, but it will lower the efficiency to almost 0%.

Those crazy Bunch were using the blood of beasts, humans, woman or man, old or young, martial artist or a normal person.

With such a mixture, it would take over 10000 years to forge a normal hammer without Lucy's innate.

Other than that, the method is simple and crude and easy to modify, which obviously made Max exhilarated.

However, Max still needs more understanding of the basis of martial arts since both the Earth Armament tactics and the blood forging were of Martial Arts origin.

Thus he has been reading a certain article about martial arts in the simulator, with the title of. ' how to become a monkey in 7 days.'

Although the title made Max speechless, but the contact was very informing about martial arts and gave Max a lot of insights.

This narrative has been purloined without the author's approval. Report any appearances on Amazon.

He was confident that after finishing this article, he would be able to at least lift the Restriction of forging only hammers.

Still, he would be requiring slightly more detailed blueprints for the forging, but that's still improvement.

"Simulator, any suitable world coordinates picked up? ".

Max already knows the answer since he asked the simulator to inform him immediately if something like that happens, but it has become more of a habit to routinely ask the simulator the same question every morning.

Max was honestly regretting the fact that he didn't exhaust the usefulness of the previous simulation world before lifting the lock.

The crows wouldn't have gained much, but Lucy had so much to learn there.

Other than perfecting her current skills, she showed the tendency to learn new ones in certain simulations.

...

Max just shook his head, going back to reading the article. It's better to learn from a mistake than to let it haunt you.

Next time, if he couldn't solve the matter directly by some means, then he at least need to farm each world till there was nothing left.

....

Max just spent his morning reading peacefully until he was interrupted by Lucy.

' something happening down.'

"down? You mean with the Oubach tribe? What is it?. "

The Oubach reached their place a week ago, and currently they were almost out of Lucy's range digging towards Kain-city slowly but steadily.

' people there. '

"oh!". Max smiled immediately.

He has been wanting to find the one behind the scene, and confirmed their intentions for a long time, in order to finalize his own plans about the matter.

Max blinked as his eyes lit up literally, and his vision changed to the underground.

Underground, a small pebble was placed in a corner.

Max looked around with the pebble as the center, he can view in any direction.

His Vision was mostly dark, but he could see the figures of the Oubach moving around with their red eyes shining menacingly.

A few of them were digging or resting right next to him.

Not too far from the pebble, he could see two humanoid figures only visible because of the dim light emitting from the right figure's hand.

"Lucy, throw me next to them, make it look like some pebbles were thrown away while the Oubach were digging. "

Max instructed Lucy briefly but precisely on how to do it.

Lucy didn't disappoint as the Oubach seemed to put too much force into his claws and a few pebbles were propelled towards the two figures.

Clang!! Wooosh!.

The pebble marked by Max stopped exactly under their feet, and as one of them looked at the pebbles, his gaze was interlocked with Max's.

For a second Max thought that he was found out looking into the deep cat-like black eyes.

But soon Max sighed in relief as the figure moved his gaze from the pebbles and focused on his companion.

Max observed them closer. Both of them were wearing thick robes and he couldn't tell if they were human or not, since the cat's eyes alone weren't a strong indicator in this world.

But soon Max ignored their looks and focused on the conversation as the two started speaking.

"The numbers are good, and they are quite healthy." Spoke one of them in a manly young voice.

"Sigh, are you sure about this? Our plan is going just fine. We don't need to attack some city for some petty profit. " spoke his companion, obviously a female, from her voice.

Max was just listening tentatively. He needs to understand more in order to make his judgment.

The man with the hand emitting light just shook his head. "we won't be risking their lives.

In fact, they won't even confront the humans. They're just a distraction.

Now will you use the Mass summoning scroll on them?. "

The woman didn't respond, obviously still not convinced.

"Sigh, will you just use the scroll already? We agreed to let them be a distraction for 20min, and we'll pull them immediately after by using the scroll, so why the worry? "

"oh, no you won't, not on my watch." spoke max out loud, while sipping his coffee.

It's not like they can hear him anyway.

Back underground, the woman still didn't relent. "if too many of them die, we won't be able to meet the quota.

Those madmen will hunt us for it, but what's more important is the fact that we will lose our only chance. "

"Sigh, listen Vanessa, I understand all of that, but I'm doing this for the bigger picture. We need those resources they offered for this small side job, and you know it's not just for me or you. "

Vanessa seems to have relented finally and took out a scroll and opened it, but nothing happened and she stored it back immediately.

"done all marked. I hope you know what you're doing, Van. "

Van ignored the fact she was putting all the blame on him and just shook his head.

"it will be all fine, trust me."

"most probably it won't, not with me here." joked Max, enjoying the last bit of his coffee.

Lucy's Misty figure nodded in agreement with Max's words. Nothing seems to go smoothly with her pet master. it's either accompanied by pain, bad luck or just won't work.

"since we're done, let's leave this place. I don't like these ugly monstrosities. "

"neither do I. They give me the creeps."

Vanessa took out another scroll and opened it, as a spacial gate opened behind them and suck them in.

Wooooosh!.

…

.....

"so I guess we aren't allies."

Max didn't understand everything.

Since the conversation didn't conveniently explain every detail, but generally he got what he needed.

He could see that they didn't actually plan to clash with Kain-city. But He won't have any of that.

He needed the city in a devastated state or at least too busy, in order for him to walk around and get what's he was after.

Still, there's no need to fight the two humanoids since he had other methods to ruin their plans, so he didn't show himself.

Max walked to a certain room and had Lucy open the tightly closed stone door.

Inside was nothing other than water, emerald water, to be exact.

Max smiled creepily, looking at the water he had Lucy produce over the last 2 weeks.

"Lucy, first Kidnappe an oubach for me to scan. If everything checks out we'd rain it down on them. "