Book 1 - Chapter 4: I need to earn energy stones (2)

2 weeks passed since Richard started teaching the young imperial prince about the royal family's cultivation art, the "Heavenly Dragon Sutra", and to his shock, the imperial prince was indeed a talented individual as the prince actually able to learn the very first step to activate the cultivation art!

That was in just 7 days of his class with the prince! Immediately, he went and reported it to his imperial majesty, the emperor. This made the emperor, along with his father, as well as with the other ministers and siblings of Eric, to be shocked. 7 days! That was just a week! The 10th imperial prince was also 5-year-old only! This was actually a miracle and they could indeed take the imperial prince as a genius in his own right!

Eric's father, the emperor, was also delighted with the news brought by Richard and reason why he allowed his son's request, that was for more energy stone allocation. Although the energy stone allocation was an automatic thing for the people who cultivates within the royal family, Eric's request was to have more of it. The emperor was then suddenly got curious and ask Richard on why his son requests for more energy stones, the latter answered, "The 10th Imperial Prince said it improves his cultivation speed, but… I am also baffled about this process, normally, with the energy volume the 10th imperial prince takes, it should've made his body burst of excess energy as well as damage his body, none of which happened but only made his learning and cultivation speed of the heavenly dragon sutra faster."

The information provided by Richard to the emperor became a shocker to all within the throne hall, including the emperor himself. Take note, the emperor himself was detected as a world grade talent, but he himself never had his son's experience when cultivating the sutra during his younger days. Despite only having heavenly grade talent, Eric's cultivation speed was truly of those world and void grade talents, he quickly doubted the test made to Eric, but he erased the thought as he never detected any anomaly during the test, he also went the same process before and everything was correct.

So… what was wrong with Eric? The emperor was immersed in his thoughts, then, his father, Eric's grandfather, made his suggestion, "My grandson, is a heavenly grade talent but he could've been a higher tier talent within heavenly grade talents and that would make him same with those of the world grade talents, cultivation wise. But that was just my suspicion as never in our history had someone like my grandchild appeared. This could be a blessing in disguise despite his talent grade."

"Father, you might be right, then, I'll give him more energy stones and we'll see what limits he'll reach during the next few months." The emperor nodded.

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As for Eric, within the two weeks he spent with Richard, with the help of the system, he quickly learned the "Heavenly Dragon Sutra" as the system said to him that its compatibility with his body was 100%, thus, his progress was abnormally fast.

He also checked his status screen if there were changes happened and it shocked him.

[STATUS]

Cultivation Talent: Heavenly Grade / Rune Talent (Hidden)

Cultivation Level: 1ST Stage Mortal Realm

Cultivation Techniques & Levels:

· Heavenly Dragon Sutra – Stage 1 (30%)

Login Points: -

Energy Points: -

Energy Stones: 50 Low Grade

Gold: 500

Inventory: 2/500

The status amazed Eric and it made him much more motivated to cultivate! The more he cultivate, the more energy stones will be allocated to him!

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3 months passed.

Eric has reached the maximum stage he could reach, that was the "Heavenly Dragon Sutra – Stage 1 (100%)". His own cultivation level also didn't disappoint as he reached the 6th stage of mortal realm. And as the system calculated, in order to break through to stage 2 of the heavenly dragon sutra, Eric must reach the 2nd stage of Soul Realm, that was quite a long way as his road to 7th stage of mortal realm was still at 50%. He needed quite a few weeks to breakthrough so, he just kept learning the cultivation techniques taught by Richard.

These techniques were the Dragon Strength, a skill that multiplies the strength of a user twice, the Dragon Flash, makes the user travel instantaneously within a certain distance, and the Dragon eyes, makes the user's vision see far away and see things in molecular sizes.

These three skills were essential towards the heavenly dragon sutra as they were all 100% compatible to each other. As Eric learned these skills, he quickly practiced them and reached the 50% of each skill through stage 1.

His continued improvements were always reported to the emperor which made the latter happy to the bottom of his heart as another dragon has been born in their family, that which will continue to make their family's empire longer!

On the other hand, Eric's siblings were not happy with his show of talents as it only made them anxious and guarded toward him. They were also convening plans with their mothers on how to fight back with Eric's talent and their father's favor toward him.

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6 months passed and Eric was delighted that he has reached the maximum stage of mortal realm and he only needed some time to breakthrough towards the soul realm. After that, his allowance of energy stones will increase again!

[STATUS]

Cultivation Talent: Heavenly Grade / Rune Talent (Hidden)

Cultivation Level: 10th Stage Mortal Realm

Cultivation Techniques & Levels:

· Heavenly Dragon Sutra – Stage 1 (100%)

· Dragon Strength – Stage 1 (100%)

· Dragon Flash – Stage 1 (100%)

· Dragon Eyes – Stage 1 (100%)

Login Points: -

Energy Points: -

Energy Stones: 1,250 Low Grade

Gold: 5,000

Inventory: 2/500

Within those months, he also made simple worlds for the system to asses how much they costed, and initially, he was disheartened by how much those words he designed were. Some costed millions of low-grade energy stones and some costed hundreds of thousands of low-grade energy stones. So, he lowered down his design schematics and designed simple worlds, and, it didn't disappoint him as he found the best world design he could make with his available energy stones.

That was the monster island world! In this world, there would be only one big island, and in the middle of these flatlands, a castle with four stone walls was erected. There, any users will be spawned inside. All the users needed to do is defend the castle and never let the walls be destroyed. If the castle walls were destroyed, the game will be over. The enemies were monsters based on online games Eric played before and all of those monsters will have strengths from mortal to eternal realms.

However, the rule would be that monsters will only have the same cultivation realms as the users. So, if the highest cultivation realm within the users was a divine realm, then, the highest monsters that could be summoned would be from mortal to divine realms.

Then, the gameplay would be a monster wave rush, which literally means, all the users could do was defend and kill monsters who continuously attacks the castle walls.

The final part of this world would be the Kill Score. The world would have its own scoring system where the users with the highest kills would be awarded additional experience points aside from their accumulated experience points from their kills.

The maximum number of users that could get inside this world would be 1,000 only.

For the cost of this world, Eric needed 5,000 low-grade energy stones.

So, he needed at least 4,000 low-grade energy stones to create the world. The last thing he needed to pay attention to was where he should install the world. What device should he install it to?

[to be continued]