As soon as Liam took out the mana cores, the entire shop became quiet, and both the fairies and humans alike looked at him with shock and awe.
No one had expected him to possess so many mana cores. Both the parties were well aware of just how difficult it was to obtain these mana cores, so they swallowed at the sight of so many heaped in front of them.
However, the person Liam most anticipated still did not pay attention to him. Tilia was once again nowhere to be seen.
"Hmmm…" Liam decided to ignore it again. "Let me see just how long you remain indifferent." He grinned as he walked out of the store.
He then summoned his undead condor again and hopped on top of the beast.
Before falling asleep, he had once again asked his minions to surveil the city and the towns and villages around the city for more signs of mana zombies.
So now he had quite a bit of work cut out for him. He started paying visits to all his soul minions that called for him one after the other, stopping and forging mana zombies at every spawn point.
His limit was yet to be reached, so he continued this grind for the rest of the day, only stopping when he had finally run out of mana zombies.
Liam then stopped at a quiet place before once again beginning to inspect these soul minions. However, it looked like his luck for the day had run out. He was not able to discern anything at all.
"I still can't figure these out." He sighed and gave up after a while.
He summoned the condor again and decided to return to the hotel base for a hearty dinner. He planned to take the entire day off before attempting the next floor of the dungeon.
Otherwise, he had a feeling that things might become too much for him to handle. The first floor, or rather the sixth floor, had Orc Elites ranging from level 50 to 65.
The seventh floor had Hulking Orcs ranging from level 65 to 75. The eighth one had titan orcs that were of level 75 to 85, while the ninth floor had Abomination orcs that were around 85 to 95.
With the help of his soul minions, Liam was able to tackle the titan orcs somewhat, but when he ran into the abomination orcs, he had to go all out in all seriousness.
He had even equipped himself with various items and had also used the black dragon sword in his fight against these orcs, using some of the strongest moves in his arsenal.
However, he still ended up getting injured and only barely making it. In fact, he was not even sure that he finished the entirety of the ninth floor.
So the next trip to the dungeon was undoubtedly going to be much more challenging. "Maybe I should first test the waters with the other one." He quietly pondered as the condor elegantly glided down to land near the hotel base.
Coincidentally, a group of people were leaving the hotel building at the exact same moment to scout and hunt for more beasts. Shen Yue as well was standing with them.
Liam smiled as he saw the beautiful woman waving at him shyly. He hopped off the condor and walked to her in long strides with a loaded grin, but out of nowhere, a white figure pushed her aside and flung herself to him instead.
Kyuuu! Luna jumped on him and greeted him with a sweet and adorable smile of her own. "I missed you, Master." Liam shook his head helplessly as he pulled the fox off of him.
"Are you all headed out?" He turned to pay attention to the group.
Everyone from the main team was there. Alex rolled her eyes at him. She had clearly not put the earlier incident out of her mind.
Mei Mei came forward and gave him a hug. "Brother, you better still have my crown. I am close to reaching Level 20."
Liam patted her with a nod. He chatted with the group for a bit, inquiring where everyone was going. He then waved goodbye and walked inside.
He had half a mind to stop Shen Yue from leaving, but he didn't want to hold her back too much. They were anyways going to return in a few hours, so perhaps he could meet her again before heading to the second dungeon for training.
With a lazy grin, he walked up the stairs, had some grilled meat and washed it down with a few drinks. He held the next drink and clinked it with Luna as the duo stared outside the window and silently savoured the taste of the beer.
It was nice to drink a little after a hard day's work, and it had been a while since he had worked this hard.
Though it felt counterintuitive, he really looked forward to going back to that dungeon and testing his limits with whatever waited for him at the next level.
He knew it was going to be painful and probably life-threatening. He might even have to sacrifice a few of his soul minions in order to escape from the dungeon. Yet he still very much looked forward to it.
Sometime later, the duo once again fell asleep, with Liam sprawled across the giant King sized bed of his luxurious penthouse suite and Luna's ass sprawled all over his face.
The two of them were sleeping so peacefully that they did not look like they were going to wake up any time soon, but suddenly a loud bang resounded in the room.
Barely a few hours had passed by when Alex barged in once again. Liam groggily rubbed his eyes, once again staring at the hot-headed redhead, whose chest was heaving up and down.
"Hmmm?"
Unexpectedly, this time she seemed to have more important things on her mind. "We have a problem." Alex panted as she looked right at him.
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