Chapter 2: Awakened White Ox
However, his practically useless Soul Ability wasn’t the end of all hope for him. There were many people in the Beast Domain who had grown exceptionally strong thanks to strengthening their bodies using Beast Cores dropped by the beasts they kill.
...It’s just that they would never be as strong as someone who had done this, as well as had a strong Soul Ability to back it up.
Someone with a Soul Ability ranked as Radiant, the highest there could be, had a much higher ceiling than someone with a Mundane ability. That was just a fact. It would take some supreme genius to bridge the gap between ranks of Soul Abilities — or a heavenly opportunity.
Sighing, Nick packed up his belongings and prepared himself to disembark his makeshift campsite and make it back to his Sanctuary, War beast Sanctuary.
Like the name suggested, Sanctuaries were the only place in the entire Beast Domain where humans were safe from beast attacks. They weren’t built by Humans, in fact they were there when the human race first entered the Beast Domain. It was unknown whether they were made by the Beast Domain, or some mysterious beings had built them long before they had stepped foot in there.
The Majority of people had long given up on trying to understand the reason behind this, but there were still a few dedicated scientists doing their best to research it, as well as the Beast Domain as a whole.
That White Ox Nick had killed earlier was the fourth beast he had killed ever since entering the Beast Domain — which coincidentally, would be the last time he planned on hunting any more White Ox. Well, Mundane White Ox, at least.
The more one consumed the same type of Beast Core, the less of an effect it had each time. Four was the maximum that people had been able to do before trying it a fifth time, only to receive no new Soul Seeds from consuming the Beast Core.
Still, his luck was absolutely rotten when it came to consuming Beast Cores and gaining Soul Seeds.
The whispers of the Beast Domain itself said that each consumption of a beast core could give anywhere between 1 and 50 Soul Seeds from each kill, but somehow Nick always found himself gaining them on the lower end of the spectrum...
’Shitty gambling system!’