She calmly met their stare. Dozens of pairs of bloodshot eyes met her two crimson ones.
"Why didn't you bother looking at what you were putting in your mouth? You only have yourself to blame."
Saying so, she beheaded their leader and showed them its face.
This act might seem barbaric, but Roy could tell a lot of thought went into it.
'She is making full use of my advice.'
He had told her that she wouldn't win if she didn't kill the pack leader at the start, but the opposite side of this statement is now that she has killed it, she won't lose!
When the hyenas saw the head of their leader, they panicked.
And in their panic… they made countless mistakes!
Their leader was dead.
The best candidates that could lead them in place of their leader were also dead. Dead as hell!
With no one to lead them, they were like headless chickens, scampering here and there as Delilah picked them up one by one.
She dared not get too close to the pack and only killed those who were left behind, those who were far from their pack.
In a matter of minutes, she killed ten more of them.
Again, she earned EXP.
This time she earned double the amount of experience points as compared to the last.
Like a good boss, Roy didn't eye her tips.
He let her keep all the EXP.
The sub-array was stopped from transferring EXP to him while the main array worked its wonder and used the EXP to refine her aura sea!
980 EXP were used to refine the aura sea of Delilah, and she underwent a massive change!
She didn't know what it was, but she felt a strange energy in her inner world.
Normally, anyone would freak out if something unknown appeared in their inner world. It was, after all, the source of their strength and the core of their beings. But she remained poker-faced. She was already familiar with it. This is the third time it has appeared in her inner world. The previous two times, it hadn't harmed her, only blessing her with advantages. So she assumed that this time too, it would benefit it.
As expected, it compressed her aura sea to the size of a ball.
This ball seemed round from the front, but it was flat from behind. Its flat side was in a gaseous state. While its front side was in a solid state.
The creation of this ball was a sign that one has reached the advanced level of the weapon master stage! It had another name. It was called the nucleus. All the energy was stored in it. Of course, this wasn't the final form of the nucleus.
But the good news is that it just being in her inner world signified that Delilah had leveled up!
Her eyes widened to the size of saucers as she couldn't believe it.
"How can making a breakthrough be so freaking easy?!" she exclaimed as a funnel opened overhead and columns after columns of the world's energy rotated down the sky and entered her, filling her inner world with life.
The pale and gold nucleus became less transparent and more full of energy.
A energy vortex formed around her, giving off an intense, suffocating feeling. It would swallow and shred anyone that dared to get close to her at this moment. As this vortex formed, the energy of the world going into Delilah's recently formed nascent energy nucleus quadrupled.
Looking at this scene, Roy blinked in surprise, "This phenomenon… wasn't it mentioned that it only takes place if you are blessed by the continental spirit. Except for the protagonist, no one had the privilege to enjoy it in the book. It helped him form the golden energy nucleus. She is experiencing the same thing. Would she form it too? What dogshit luck she has!"
Roy wasn't jealous of her.
He was actually excited like a child!
The stronger she became, the better it was for him!
It's just that he didn't expect her to gain this fortune.
It made one wonder whether she had something to do with Far West.
The vortex grew in size. Previously, it was 5 ft tall. But now, it was expanding outwards and showing no sign of stopping. Roy had to fly away to avoid getting caught in it. That's how big it grew. It finally stopped after growing a few hundred meters in size.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
It excluded thunderous shockwaves that crashed on the pack of hyenas.
The impact was so strong that some landed face-first on the ground while the legs of the others gave up, and for a moment, they were all sent into a daze.
The three shockwaves were actually a sign.
As Roy had read the novel, he knew what it signified.
"If the vortex releases one shockwave, it means that the nascent energy nucleus has been upgraded to the bronze level. Two means a silver-level nucleus. And three means a gold-level nucleus! The nucleus she formed is truly one of the best. It's comparable to the protagonist!"
The nascent energy nucleus was divided into four levels. Iron was the weakest of them all, and gold was the strongest. The one she initially formed was an iron-level nucleus. But the world blessing upgraded it three times, upgrading it to the best energy nucleus!
"Far West doesn't make a move unless it's something concerning. Why did she help her?"
Roy wondered, but he couldn't get an answer.
The energy nucleus of a person depends on their talent. That talent doesn't necessarily have to be innate. It could be artificially obtained through the help of different Heaven and Earth treasures.
Upgrading the nucleus required immense resources.
No one could bend this rule.
So it went without saying that the soul of the Far West Continent, whose human incarnation was married to the Sun, had dumped a considerable amount of resources on Delilah.
As far as Roy knew, she wasn't the type to help others without reason.
So why had she helped Delilah so much? What were her motives?
"It couldn't be something simple."
"The last time she gave me a soul shard, I was "coincidentally" made to enter a pit of snakes. If I weren't strong enough, I would have been killed by the followers of Chaos and become one of the corpses there."
"She might force Delilah into a similar situation."
