Chapter 4: Empress Cobra Zone

As I woke up, as expected, I was in the Empress Cobra zone. How could I tell? Well with all this swamp around me of course.

With the cube on my right, and a bag with 3 health potions, a dagger, shoes, meat jerky and some clothes.

Alright, now I should use these next 1 year and a couple of months as efficiently as possible.

For now, I need to get out of this swamp and survive.

The original Oliver hid in the territory of a strong beast, I should do that as well.

Then, I need to use Shangs training methods from way into the future. 2 of them actually.

One of them being the self-harm method, which would be piss easy with Monarchs Indifference, and then the consuming of a Beast heart method, which would enhance my physical capabilities by a lot.

I am not sure if I even have an affinity, but that is a future me problem to worry about.

Right now, I don't even know if the beast heart method would work, since I have not undergone the operation yet, so I am not 100% sure if it would work.

The efficiency for that doesn't matter right now. For now, I need to survive.

After all, while Shang paves the way for me on how to advance my body, I will become a weapon-master for now!

So, the easiest way to survive is to find a Truth path realm beast.

The levels of the world went like this:

Apprentice

Adept

True Mage

High Mage

Archmage

Ancestral Mage

Mage Lord

Mage King

Mage Emperor

For warriors it would be:

Soldier Stage

General Stage

Commander Stage

True path stage.

The remaining aren't known since the strongest warrior is at the true path stage, which should right now be the protagonist, Shang.

A True Path beast would be a third realm beast, which would not care about me, who can barely be considered a soldier stage warrior.

So that's what I decided to do.

'Monarchs Indifference: Find a secure place to train under the territory of a Third Stage beast.'

Right as I did that, I felt as if I took a back seat, as all my emotions disappeared and I started to look around the entire area.

Then, I carried the cube and my other supplies and left my location.

I carefully navigated the forest, whenever I heard a sound, I stopped moving and hit my surroundings.

At my current level of power, I cannot fight anyone.

With 0 techniques, 0 power compared to monsters, I have to use my brain more than anything.

In a Swamp zone, moving created noise, so I had to be careful while moving.

While walking, I caught glimpses of a couple of beasts, so I evaluated that the best way to escape in this situation is to blend into the surroundings.

So I simply dipped myself into the swamp, making my entire body muddy, and unfortunately the rest of my clothes too, but that can be fixed later.

Clothes are not essential right now.

After traveling for a bit I was able to find a small cave near a river, and a third realm beast nearby.

The beast was sleeping, completely unbothered by my presence, and that was when my monarch's indifference wore off.

For now, the jerky would last me a couple of days.

I have a river to hunt from which only had early first realm beasts.

I held the cube in my hand and willed for it to become a spear.

It became a 7 feet long spear, which was gold in color and had 2 dragons coiling around its ege to eventually form the tip of the spear.

Perfect.

Now, time to use an insane method of training.

'Monarchs are indifferent, punch this wall until my hand breaks, then jump on top of a nearby tree and fall off, breaking almost all the bones in my body.

After that, rest until my body recovers.'

Ahh, life is so simple.

After that, I just repeated the process.

It didn't take long until I started feeling mana. I didn't even need to use the health potions, with the warriors body, I just had to rest and eventually I would heal.

Hunger didn't affect me in this state as well.

I mean I did need more nutrients, so within 1 day half the food god gave me ran out.

But I was able to wash and dry my clothes before I fell asleep.

Right now, this seems more like a vacation than a challenge.

Well Shang at this point did face the constant fear of death, but hey, who has to fear death when you can cheat your way out of things?

I repeated the cycle the next morning, and could feel that my body broke into the mid-soldier stage.

(Started at early-soldier stage)

In the middle of the next day, I finally saw the Tier 3 beast move, killing an early tier 2 beast and eating its corpse.

Then, it looked towards me and threw the corpse at me.

Now, obviously I could guess its intentions. It wants me to grow up so that it can eat me as well. Probably knowing a human General stage tastes better than a monster.

Welp food for me.

I might just be able to free load my way out of this until I meet the mage that is supposed to send me to warriors paradise.

I mean, the old Oliver was supposed to have survived in this situation, so so can I.

As I was cooking the beast meat, I realized that the heart was already taken by the Third tier beast.

Well, I couldn't really use Shangs training method for a beat so much stronger than myself could I.

Then, I picked up the spear and started to swing it.

Right now I only have two things to do.

Eat, train, break my body and rest.