Since Michael had been in the Lord Rift for 100 hours, unconscious for a week outside the Origin Expanse, recuperating for two more weeks, and not functioning properly for an additional ten days, he had some catching up to do – quite a lot actually.
However, before he started extracting the monster corpses that had been stashed up in six different warehouses, Michael handed the recipes of the Energy Nourishing Pill, Blood Replenishment Pill, Body Strengthening Pill, and Warrior Enlightenment Potion to his Alchemists.
He provided enough ingredients to concoct a few batches of pills and potions before trusting his gardeners and the Botanic Magician with the plants, herbs, trees and various flowers he had collected in the Lord Rift. Michael was not sure how many of them could be replanted, but he was confident that his Summons were capable enough to save most of them. He trusted their capabilities!
Afterward, he handed Lilica the highly valued monster parts of more than 1000 Superior Existences. Lilica stored the body parts of the Superior Existences and rushed over to the Underground Forging Hall where the body parts would turn into high-quality armaments.
Michael also had several tons of ores that could be used to forge high-ranked Tier-2 and Tier-3 armaments. However, instead of handing them over Michael came up with a different plan with them. He had the Relic of Draka, which he handed to Tiara, who was tasked with the construction of a heat and fire-resistant room inside the wooden manor.
Even though the Relic of Draka may look more aesthetic and pleasant in the Underground Forging Hall, it would be much more secure in the wooden manor. It was a Relic, a magical smithy, capable of creating Artifact-like Armaments. Even low-grade ores could be turned into unique weapons with effects similar to a natural low-quality Tier-1 Artifact. Something like that was better secured in the center of his territory rather than the underground ecosystem. At least, he could supervise and research the Relic much better inside the wooden manor where it will be always in his sight. Michael wouldn't have to run around like a headless chicken all day.
Once the monster parts, the exotic recipes and the Relic of Draka had been handed out, Michael began to sort out his spatial pouch and the storage space of his War Rune.
He retrieved everything and asked several hundred Summons to help him out in sorting through the loot, and store everything they didn't need.
Afterward, he gave his best architects, engineers, and Enchanters a new mission; They were told to work on constructing the teleportation array.
Michael was aware that the creation of a teleportation array was not easy. It would probably require several weeks of hard work, the detailed coordinates of the destination, and various complex engravings. Michael actually didn't understand the mechanics and logic behind the teleportation array completely, but he hoped that it could be used to create a connection between the Untamed Jungle and the Sacred Desert.
The array he wished to set up was only a 'short-distance' teleportation array, but that was something Michael could achieve given the vast knowledge and information he had obtained inside the Lord Rift. One could say that the Laxarta Library was now stored in his head along with the highly advanced knowledge that was lost in the Draconia Era.
Michael had purchased a few memory crystals to store his memories about certain books inside them. Using memory crystals was much easier than allowing someone to read his mind with the reversed effect of his Mind Reader Soultrait. The idea of using memory crystals was something he came up with inside the Bartholomew Shop. He saw the crystals and the item description by chance and fell in love with it immediately.
It would take a while to sort out and store the knowledge of the Laxarta Library in the memory crystals for others to easily access and learn, but it was worth it. After all, the content of the Laxarta Library was not restricted to the history of the Draconia Era, but also its technological knowledge, unique martial art techniques that had gotten lost over the course of time, various Beastarium, Information about Artifacts, Monsters, the Origin Expanse's Will, Ancient Ruins, various races and so on.
But the memories Michael had stored in the memory crystals were mostly about the creation of teleportation arrays, how to overlap or alter them, and so on. The team responsible for the teleportation array would have to research the memory crystals for weeks, if not months before they could start experimenting. Only then would they be able to alter the short-distance teleportation array to 'possibly' connect him to the Sacred Desert.
Once he was in the Sacred Desert it was only a matter of time before he found the hidden region and both the reason Danny died, and who killed him.
Michael could also try to find out who Mr. Klein's master was, but he was pretty sure that this would be a lot more troublesome given his current strength and nonexistent influence. Searching for the truth in the Sacred Desert was bound to be much easier in comparison.
Once his Summons finished organizing his loot, they put everything in the warehouses.
"6817 Summoning Scrolls, 118,041 Summoning Scroll Fragments, 195 1-Star Tier-2 Artifacts, and 2006 rare blueprints. I should have sold the Artifacts and blueprints to buy more Summoning Scrolls," Michael thought with a grin on his face.
If he fused the Summoning Scroll Fragments to create ordinary Summoning Scrolls, Michael would have more than 10,000 Summoning Scrolls. He was pretty sure that expanding his territory's population by 10,000 would be beneficial – given the influx of Soul Power he would receive from the additional Links of Loyalty.
But he was not sure if they had enough space to house everyone. Furthermore, Michael had yet to extract thousands of monster corpses that had been stored in the large warehouses.
That was what Michael did in the next few hours while patiently waiting for his Master Alchemists. The first batch of Body Strengthening Pills should be completed soon.
"Extraction on Tier-1 Monsters reward 25 Summoning Scroll Fragments on average. They have a 60% chance of dropping an Ordinary Summoning Scroll, a 45% drop rate for blueprints, and 3% for a Tierless Artifact," The attendant next to Michael said after they returned to him with their statistics.
"What about Tier-2 Monsters?" Michael asked all while computing the statistics on his own.
"My Lord, Tier-2 Monsters have an irregular drop-rate according to their strength ranking, and rarity," The young attendant answered hurriedly, only to calm down a little after he saw Michael smiling kindly at him.
He felt stressed being Michael's attendant for today's report, especially because their Lord wanted a detailed report about today's loot and the mass summoning he would initiate later.
"But we made a rough calculation. Tier-2 Monsters are likely to drop more than 3 Summoning Scrolls with Extraction's use. More than 60 Summoning Scrolls can be extracted from every Tier-2 Monster corpse. They will also drop at least one blueprint, and the drop rate for Tier-1 Artifacts is also quite high at 3%, while Tier-2 Artifacts drop with a probability of 0.09%." The young attendant read aloud while golden streams swirled around him.
The golden streams of extraction finished dissecting the monster corpses in the sixth warehouse, and dozens of Summons picked them up to store them properly.
Small piles of Summoning Scrolls, Summoning Scroll Fragments, Artifacts and blueprints were placed all around Michael. The goods had been appraised and everything was noted down precisely to give Michael better insights about the goods in his possession.
"Adding the last batch of goods, 3842 Tier-1 Monster corpses and 891 Tier-2 Monster corpses have been looted and perfectly dissected. 158,420 Summoning Scroll Fragments, 5870 Summoning Scrolls, 2628 blueprints, 115 Tierless Artifacts, 28 Tier-1 Artifacts, and one Tier-2 Artifact have been harvested."
A trace of excitement was laced in the attendant's voice as he calculated Michael's gains. He was happy for his Lord and felt pure joy at the thought of the territory's expansion after the mass summoning. Michael smiled at the innocent young man before he made his own calculations.
"Combining the loot from the monster of the Lord Rift and the prey of my hunters I have a total of 12,687 Summoning Scrolls, 276,461 Summoning Scroll Fragments, 4634 blueprints, and a shitload of Artifacts at my disposal," Michael mumbled before he fell deep in thoughts.
If he fused the Summoning Scroll Fragments to form ordinary Summoning Scrolls he could add another ten thousand Summons to the 12,000 he was bound to summon later. However, adding more than 20,000 Summons to his territory would be too much. Michael didn't have enough treehouses, food, and other necessities in place to take in so many summons at once. Even an expansion of 12,000 ordinary Summons was a bit of a stretch given that his territory housed less than 30,000 citizens at this moment.
Fortunately, his Summons had already predicted the occurrence of such a situation given that Michael had been away for several weeks. Hence, they continued constructing treehouses and prepared everything for a mass summoning in his absence.
Michael felt truly proud when he first heard that his Summons thought so far ahead. It was as if a huge responsibility had been taken off his shoulders and he was happy to have such thoughtful subordinates.
But even they hadn't expected their population to double at once. Thus, Michael decided to turn the 270,000ish Summoning Scrolls into 27 Mythic Summoning Scrolls. One of his Summons found a stash of 5,000 Summoning Scroll Fragments in the warehouse and handed it to Michael, allowing him to fuse a 28th Mythic Summoning Scroll.
Once that was done, Michael called everyone who was currently not busy with the Summoning Gate. He retrieved all Summoning Scrolls in his possession and cleared his throat to command everyone's attention in the vicinity.
"Let's welcome the new members of our family!"
