Two days later, Cole is in meditation at his dwelling place.
Wood Peak, as stated by its name, was a mountain full of towering trees. And as if living up on its name, the disciples dwelling, their room for the rest of their stay on the Peak, was a cave carved out from the tree. When Cole saw this tree for the first time, he was very amazed as it looks like a condominium made of wood. Of course, he was also amazed by the tree itself since its body was as big as a buildings from planet Earth, if not bigger.
He really love his place. It still maintain its touch, look and connection with nature.
And as the whole Wood Peak practically looks like a forest more than anything, the Wood-Energy were plentiful, more plentiful than any other forest he had been to so far. In addition, the Energy felt more pure as if refined. It was easy to absorb and integrate as his own.
It's not just the Wood-Energy were plentiful here. As he could use almost all the types Energy, he could feel that the Light-Energy was also plentiful in this place. Due to this, he thought that this should be the second mastery of the Wood Peak, the Light.
Of course, Light-Energy were always present, be it night or day. However, in here, the available Light-Energy here was almost double. It was refine too like the Wood.
This was also why Cole was currently cultivating as his Light-Energy improved with half the effort. If it was to be estimated, the available Light-Energy on his Dantian was like a Third-Level Mana Gathering-Stage.
Feeling too happy with his current visible improvement, Cole continuously run his [Dantian Genesis Cultivation Method] and improved for every second.
The [Dantian Genesis Cultivation Method] was truly a magical method. He was not a fan of meditation since he felt that he could achieved levelup with his exp received when he kill his foe. However, now that he was in meditation and absorbing the different energy, he saw what make it special; it could absorb any type of Energy!
But it was only his theory that the method was magical and amazing since both his other was not design for absorbing Energy. For instance, his [Myriads Beast Soul-Branch Technique] was meant for splitting his soul as well as strengthening it while the [Heavenly Beast-God Technique] was for his body and physique. The latter may be able to absorb energies, but it was limited to Space and Earth-Energy due to Shelly as his chosen Soulbound Beast to cultivate it with.
The [Heavy Mountain Cultivation Method] was also limited on absorbing specifically the Earth-Energy.
Moments later, Cole stir and exhale foul energies and impurities, then he open his eyes. He felt the urge and wanted to eat. He was from Earth and not eating even one meal for a day makes him feel less human.
After he ate, he then check his status panel;
User's Name : Cole
Class : Tamer
Profession : ∅
CS : Core Formation Stage (First Level)
Progress : 23.5%
CM : Myriads Beast Soul Branch Technique (Peak-Third Stage), Beast God Technique (High-Fifth Stage), Dantian Genesis Cultivation Method (Mid-Third Stage)
Innate : Heavenly Eyes
Skills : Find Loots, Time Heal, Teleportation
Weapon : ∅
Equipment : Summoning Grimoire
Martial Spirit : Messiah Tree
Tamed Beast : Fire Lizard (-), Armored Demon Treant (-), Flower Bell Fairy (-), Lightning Illusionist Fox (Fifth-Level Tier-2), Water Spirit Carp (-)
Soulbound Beast : Blue Land Turtle (-), Grandmist Paratism White Dragon (-)
System Store : Beast Store Available
System Points : 200 points
The [Teleportation] is the skill he managed to learn in his 'sleep session' in the formation.
After he checked his status, he sleep. However, he was just started to enter the dreamland when he felt a stir on his soul and he immediately open his eyes, joy apparent in it.
Someone from his tamed beast finished their breakthrough and finally become a Tier-3 Beast!
He will and the Summoning Grimoire appear in his front. He chanted, "Summon, Blue!" and Blue came out from the summoning circle.
Blue look at him excitedly with a gaze not far from humans. Eventhough Blue was just a Tier-2 Beast and should just be instinctual beast to be considered normal, he was actually more intelligent despite his level and age.
Blue was inside the [Inner World] just awhile ago and he knew and saw what had just transpired inside. He understand it and was happy or just happy for Cole.
"Protect this while I'm inside, alright?" Cole said to Blue which the beast answered with a nod. Cole ruffles Blue's fur, then chanted, "Gate!" and a portal open to the [Inner World]. Without any second more, Cole immediately step inside and the portal closed.
Cole appear near the Messiah Tree. All of his beast still on their position like he had seen last time, all of them look sleeping, or looks like it; Shelly was withdrawn to his shell, Bell was floating with her eyes closed, her body started to look like a porcelain doll, Groot had his eyes closed while looking like a demonic tree with his body touched with red color due to his affinity with Blood, Celia was in her human form meditating with purple mist circling her while the Water Spirit Carp was covered by a blob of water.
But Coal, the Fire Lizard, have his eyes open! Feeling and seeing Cole near him, Coal walks towards him.
Cole felt exhilarated. This was truly a great news! Tier-3 Beast was equivalent to human's Core Formation Stage. With him being awake, his survivability increased.
It was known that beast was always more strong with their human counterpart, so eventhough Coal was just a First-Level Tier-3 Beast, he knew that Coal could defeat a normal human with strength of Second-Level Core Formation-Stage.
Cole caressed Coals' head which the beast happily receive the affection.
Of course, after his breakthrough to Tier-3 Beast, there was also a little change with the beast appearance. First, his height increased by atleast half. His body size also increase, Coal look more buff and meaty. Some of his scales also look more jagged like thorns, specially to his legs where it look more apparent. Also, his heads had two bumps as well as his backs. It looks like he would grow something out of it.
When Cole saw those bumps, he immediately thought that two bumps on Coal's head will, most likely, grow horns and the back will grow a wings. In his mental image, he thought of Western Dragons.
Species Name : Fire Lizard
Beast Name : Coal
Level : First-Level
Rank : Tier-3 Wild-Beast
Loyalty : 90%
Potential : Arcane
Affinity : Fire
Race : Beast/Lizard
Innate : Burning Tail
Beast Skill : Claw Swipe, Tail Slam, Fire Breath, Limb Regeneration, Rough Scale, Fire Coat, Rend
Burning Tail
Passive
Indicator of the beast life force.
Rough Scale
Passive
The Fire Lizard now had a body with jag, rough scale. Increase damage and also deal damage when defending from physical, close attack.
Fire Coat
Active
Cover the whole body with Fire. Attributeless attack will also deal Fire damage.
Rend
Active/Attack
With the intention of tearing his opponent apart, bite the target with its powerful jaw.
About his Fire Lizards status, it doesn't change much after his breakthrough. It just have an addition of three more [Beast Skills]. However, although this was just his visible improvement, Cole knew that it was more than just that. Afterall, Tier-3 Beast should not be underestimated.
After he check Coal's status, he bonded with it for a moment.
Afterwards, he leave it near the Messiah Tree and instructed to guard the others although there wasn't a threat in the [Inner World].
Before he leave the [Inner World], Cole check the different herbs that was growing inside as both Celia and Bell, the responsible for growing these herbs, wasn't available for a moment due to them on the process of breakthrough to Tier-3.
Fortunately, he didn't see any problem. They were growing just normal and healthy. There is also no herbs who are sensitive to its requirements to survive, after all, this was all just a [Wild Herbs] which was growing on the forest he had been to. They were just growing by nature before. In addition, the [Inner World] also had an aura the Messiah Tree passively emitted which helps the herbs grow more quickly and healthy.
Before, he planted this herbs in the [Inner World] just to gave it more life and greenery. However, now that he knew the existence of the precious pills, he gave it more importance. Pills were made of different herbs, afterall. Come may time that he may need this herbs or he could just sell it for money if he needed one.
After his check-up with the herbs, Cole return to the outside world where he saw Blue looking at the door vigilantly. Blue immediately relax when he saw him.
Cole ruffle the beast head as it position itself to its favorite place, his shoulder.
Cole shakes his head, feeling happy. He then walk towards outside. With his current emotion state right now, he knew that he can't return to his meditation. So, he decided to complete his registration as a Outer-Peak disciple of the Wood Peak.
As he was walking towards outside, he can't help but ponder why only the Fire Lizard finished his breakthrough. After all, him, Shelly, Bell, Groot and Celia attempted to made a breakthrough at the same time. And the most likely reason he could thought about was Coal only had a single elemental affinity which was Fire. Most of his tamed beast had dual affinity, meanwhile Celia was a higher species which was a Dragon.
However, he was confident that they will make it. With the Messiah Tree beside them, failure in levelup is almost non-existent.
"Are you finish in your cultivation, Junior Brother?" A guy, who's named Hard and assigned to guide him for a week, asked him the moment he stepped out from his room.
Cole smile and nodded, "Yes," he answered.
"Do you want to complete your registration?"
"Yes,"
"Great! Let me take you there!"
Then Hard started to scale the Wood Peak.
"So, you're going to register as a Outer-Peak disciple of the Wood Peak." Hard started to talk. "There's a three type of disciples for every Peak and that is, like us, the Outer-Peak disciple, then Inner-Peak disciple and lastly, the Core disciple. And different disciple all had different treatment. For instance, us Outer-Peak disciples stay on the near the base of the mountain of the Wood Peak, Inner-Peak disciples are on the middle and the Core-Peak, as well as all the important figures of the Wood Peak are on the peak of the mountain. Although this may just look because of location but it isn't."
"Every Peak had their own [Energy Gathering Formation] installed all through out the whole mountain and the Wood Peak had the formation called [Rich-Light Forest-Energy Gathering Formation] which as estated by its name, it absorb and attract both the surrounding Light and Wood-Energy to enrich both the Energy available on the whole Peak. You can already felt the effect, right?" He asked Cole.
Cole nodded, "Yes, that is true. I felt it too, that is why I requested to have a two day meditation before I fully register myself." He answered.
Hard face instantly beam thinking that Cole was a maniac when its come to his cultivation, even thinking as far as seeing him as the hope of the Wood Peak, or the Outer-Peak at the least.
What he didn't know that Cole only meditated because of 'spur-of-the-moment' and most likely, several days later, be back to his 'lazy with meditation' self.
"Wonderful!" Hard can't help but respond happily. "However, will you believe me if I say that the Inner-Peak is three times more rich while the Core-Peak is doubled than the Outer-Peak?"
"R-Really?" Cole stuttered in shock. How significant was that? When he cultivated in the Outer-Peak, he received twice the effect, but how about in the last two Peak? Thrice the effect? Quadruple the effect?
"It's true. But don't stress yourself all about it." Hard said as if advising Cole. But after all those boasting, it sounds like a great joke to Cole.
∞
In this story, generalized dragons were those with resemblance with snakes, like these image below;
While Western Dragons were those with resemblance with lizards;