Earth Guardian Arrives!

The familiar sun rose again the very next morning, giving life to the creatures as it awoke Lyrian and the others. Today was the 16th day of the exam, with not even half left to pass.

By this time, Lyrian had taken into account his individual points from the cores he gathered, and in total, he had no more than 185 points. This was by no means little, but if he was to want to pass the exam with this progress, he would surely fail.

Still, passing via points was only a plan b, an insurance of sorts. His main goal was to get the core of the golden-tiered creature. He wanted its core to pass, the prize that came from it, and also the soul of the creature.

Thinking on it, Lyrian said to himself, 'Even when I get its soul, I'm not going to fuse it with the Hobgoblins. It's too valuable to let go to waste like that. I'll just have to wait until there's another soul storage slot open...'