Is that a Wisp?

"Die!" Bellowing at the top of his lungs, the gash-riddled man plunged a sword into Feifei's back, laughing upon seeing her spit out blood. "Die! Die! Die!"

"Gah!" Feifei screamed, using her claws to grab the sides of the blade peeking out of her stomach, preventing it from going up. She then slowly turned around, coughing out blood as she wheezed, "The one…who'll die…"

"Is you!"

Suddenly, a pair of claws dug into his neck from behind. Before he could react, his head was bitten off by a Monster Gecko. Spitting out the head, the Monster Gecko swatted the man's body to the side, grabbing hold of the hilt before pulling it out slowly, causing Feifei to grunt in the process.

The moment the sword was thrown away, she collapsed on the ground, lacking energy to even move as blood dripped out of her body. Fortunately, she didn't die. Thanks to the healing effect from the numerous Water Essences she had swallowed, her wounds were slowly healing while her blood was getting replenished.

The Monster Gecko vanished as Feifei carefully sat up, applying pressure on her back and stomach by tying it with a cloth that she tore off from her pants. She then looked around, noticing the numerous carcasses around her as she sighed. "Finally, it's over."

"All my enemies are dead now!" She relaxed, feeling a heavy burden being lifted off her shoulders. She then thought of Krune, clenching her hand into a fist. "I'll head up to Layer 2 soon. Wait a bit more, Krune!"

She was assured that Krune would wait for her in Layer 2. After all, even though she was a couple of seconds later, Krune was still able to notice her presence and react accordingly. That was enough of an assurance for her.

'He might have changed a bit, but he's still the same Krune.' As she thought of it, she couldn't help but laugh. "He's wearing Monster Gecko armor. It was pretty comical.'

As she laughed, blood spurted out of her stomach, causing her to control herself as she sighed. "Soon, I'll head to Layer 2. Now that I have an active ability..."

She muttered while gazing at the claws that had formed on her hands, retracting them to gaze at her normal hands. "If my active ability is how I think it works, I'll have to change my entire repertoire of passive abilities."

A day later, Feifei washed herself using the ocean water, making a set of clothes using pieces of fabric she tore off from the numerous carcasses around her. As for the Supreme Monster Gecko, it had turned into dust by now, beginning to vaporize.

Having recovered enough strength, Feifei looked around, muttering, "This empty Primary Landmass is in the perfect location. I can use it as my base while I hunt in the surrounding Primary and Secondary Landmasses."

"I'll extract and assimilate the strongest of passive abilities while I'm at it. But first..." She dusted herself, jumping into the ocean above. "I'll have to experiment and see how it works."

…

Krune was anticipating in silence as he watched Hazak stare at the Tier 6 Demon Core. Three years had passed since they started this task. Krune had already reached the peak of Tier 6, shredding the Demon God's corpse easily every time it necessitated.

Hazak then fed on the parts and had begun to show more signs of black on his skin. But, after a while, the signs of black had stopped growing. It was apparent that only eating the Black Demon's body wasn't enough.

So now, Hazak was about to consume the Tier 6 Demon Core.

"Don't worry about it. You'll be fine, I'm sure of it." Krune smiled, motivating Hazak.

Finally, it had gathered enough courage as it picked up the Tier 6 Demon Core and swallowed it whole. Nothing happened for a moment, but a couple of minutes later, the shade of black on its skin began to increase once again, turning darker.

As for Hazak, it sat cross-legged, faintly absorbing the miasma it had generated. It controlled itself, beginning to slowly digest the Demon Core, slowly turning into a Black Demon.

Upon seeing its growth, Krune nodded. "I guess it's time to leave this place. I'm now prepared enough to exit the city."

He then arrived at the first reservoir, looking at the numerous bone trees. He broke pieces from some of them, turning them into tiny spheres that he packed. After that, he picked up a black fish, one of the few that had appeared, making a tiny cut on its body as he touched them to the bone tree.

The black fish's blood was swiftly sucked dry. A week later, the bone tree had grown in size. Krune plucked the fruit that it had produced, feeding it to a black fish. Also, as the bone tree was wilting, he made a cut on the black fish and touched it to the wilting bone tree.

This way, he produced a Blood Essence Crystal. Unlike before, he no longer had to suffer from any side effects. It wasn't because the side effects had disappeared, but that he had become strong enough to remain unaffected. Plus, by using some of his healing effect, he could make the side effects vanish.

In the same way, Krune turned all the bone trees into Blood Essence Crystals, repeating the same process until Hazak finished evolving. He also used the flesh of the black fishes to create a highly rich Healing Extract.

He only stopped when he had created 1000 liters of the Healing Extract. As it was made from the black fishes, it was brimming with energy. It was enough for him to last a day with just a couple of milliliters of this Healing Extract.

As usual, Krune just went overboard.

As for the Blood Essence Crystals, he stopped after making around 10,000 of them. He had only stopped because he had depleted most of the fish. Any more and the population of the fishes would never increase ever again.

Krune then arrived at the Ralk family mansion, smiling upon seeing the grandfather and granddaughter duo that had both reached the peak of Tier 6 thanks to him. "It's time for me to leave."