Chapter 145 – Freedom
Hours passed, and Kaden was still sitting in front of the bandits' territory without moving an inch.
Beasts came—many of them—drawn by the lingering scent of blood and fire. Kaden killed them all, collecting their origin cores to saturate his own.
That's when he noticed something.
"Why is this so slow?" Kaden muttered to himself as he absorbed another intermediate rank origin core, the change barely noticeable. No… to be honest, he felt no change at all.
But he was lying to himself.
Because admitting it meant facing a harrowing truth.
[You are walking toward transcendence. Your origin core is special. You will need at least master-ranked origin cores to saturate it. Otherwise, using intermediate cores will take you forever.]
"Ah… fucking hell." Kaden dragged a hand down his face, exasperated.
Don't think that just because he'd beaten Selene and gone toe-to-toe with Daela, he could easily take down a master-ranked beast.
No. Not at all.
