Second essence assimilation

The latest news caught Nicola off guard. He did not expect a hydra to have a heavenly essence within its body. Now that he thought about it, he understood why the monster's defenses were so high, it was probably because of the effects that the Heavenly Essence it had. 'Yes!' He thought, authorizing the extraction and assimilation of the Earth Heavenly Essence into his body.

A stone came out of the hydra, similar to any cobblestone that could be found in the depths of a river or on any road, the difference here was the strong emanation of the earth element mana from within it. Nicola could feel two dormant forces inside the stone when touched it with his fingers.

Nicola suspected that the hydra did not know about the existence of this treasure inside its body or did not know how to use it properly, this essence, besides guaranteeing a much greater affinity with the mana of the earth element. It had the characteristics that Nicola discovered some time earlier about this element. But he was going to wait for the stone to be integrated into his body before asking the system to be sure.

[Initiating the Earth Heavenly Essence assimilation, work in progress. 1%, 2%, 3% ....]

The process would still take some time, so Nicola used that time to keep the beast's corpse inside its space ring. Preserving it for his own experiments later. He looked around before sending messages to his companions inside the spatial artifact and getting them out. Kin, Gin and Tuatha came out of the artifact and looked around, except for some damage caused by the recent battle, the place was beautiful and had everything they needed. Then they turned to Nicola, who held a stone between his hand just to see as it turned to dust and entered inside his body through the heptagram in located in his belly.

"This will be our new home. What did you think?" Nicola asked them before while also was removing Beatrice, Antoinette and the army of undead from within his spatial ring, he handed the queen of ants to Kin, ordering him to build walls and physical barriers around the terrain and gave the queen of bees to Gin, for the construction of magical protective arrays around the place.

The army of the living dead were handed over to Tuatha, whose mission was to defend the territory from attacks and protect the boy and the girl. Nicola also sent the nine sulfur beetles in different directions to keep an eye around on the territory.

[Ding! Assimilation of the Earth Heavenly Essence finished]

[Earth Heavenly Essence successfully assimilated. Host now has superior control over the earth element]

[Host unlocked special passive ability thru the essence assimilation. Vitality field enhancement]

[Host unlocked special passive ability thru the essence assimilation. Mineral field enhancement]

[Host have leveled up]

[Host reached level 39]

Nicola was not surprised to level up, the last time absorbing the darkness essence into his body he had gone up two whole levels. If anything is here, he is actually a little disappointed that he hasn't leveled twice again. He did not know that with the help of the system he could recover elemental essences from the bodies of his enemies. It was a pleasant surprise for him to discover that.

Nicola decided to take a look at his dantian, inside it was even more like a solar system. The great multicolored sun was in the middle shining with the colors of the rainbow, around it orbited a planet made entirely of dark fog, surrounded by six moons that were connected to its surfaces through tentacles of darkness fog, that was the Heavenly Darkness Essence surrounded by the sin cores.

And now he had received another member between his collection of planets, now another essence circulated around the great elementary core, that planet was earthy brown and full of tips of rocks, cristal and metals coming out of it and forming mountainous terrains, on its surface there could also be found some herbs and trees that were beginning to populate the planet, it was the heavenly essence of the earth.

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(In the Balta's Family Palace)

"Sir, we have spies in the imperial army informing us of an action made by a large number of troops mobilizing to the forest on the borders of the Opus City. I fear that something has happened."

"Shit! Tell me what is happening there." Emanuel broke a wine gobblet with his bare hands in a fury mood.

"Except that some inside people tell me that Nicola was seen running out of the forest and entering the Mercenary Guild he was no longer seen around there. I fear we may have lost our trail, but I sent scouts into the forest to look for him, he certainly won't be hiding for long." The leader of the Balta Family's spy service delivered his report on the latest news.