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Chapter 58 - Chapter 58: Trolls

"Why don't you take a call stone with you? When you're done with work, come to the Town Gate and call us. We'll pick you up and take you to level up," Oliver suggested as Orion and Yara sat down.

Currently, he wanted Kai to start making Healing Potions as soon as possible—even if they were just Grade 1 Healing Potions.

"That's a good idea. Then I'll head directly to the Town Gate after my work is done," Kai immediately agreed with Oliver's suggestion.

After all, the members of the Candy Team were much stronger than Alex. They should be able to help him reach the thousand mark in less than an hour.

After having dinner and making plans for tomorrow, Kai headed to his room.

Lying on his bed, Kai closed his eyes and slowly drifted into dreams.

[Ancient Calendar: 24 April 0001]

The next day, Kai woke up early. After washing up, he grabbed his storage bag and left the Candy Complex before everyone else.

Walking at a brisk pace, Kai arrived at the Kato Bakery in less than half an hour.

*Knock* *Knock*

Knowing it must be Kai, Alex—already prepared—opened the window and jumped down.

"Let's go," Alex said as he landed beside Kai and started walking toward the Town Gate.

"Wait," Kai said, stopping him. "Tony and the others are taking me hunting in the evening. They gave me a call stone, so I can contact them after I finish my work."

"You mean Tony, Omar, and the others?" Alex asked, frowning slightly.

Hearing that Kai had only come to tell him he'd found new teammates and would be going hunting with them made Alex feel a bit uncomfortable.

Not because Kai had replaced him so quickly—

But because now, he didn't know how he was going to pass on the items his Master had asked him to give to Kai.

And the Candy Team could help Kai level up far faster than he ever could.

Yesterday, after meeting his new team, Alex had racked his brains all day and finally came up with the perfect plan to deliver the item.

He'd even gone so far as to buy an opened Bronze Treasure Chest just for it.

"Yeah, I'm sorry about canceling our plans like this. How about I make it up to you this coming Sunday?" Seeing Alex's expression change, Kai immediately apologized.

If it had been before, Kai wouldn't have agreed to go hunting with anyone else since he had already promised to go with Alex today. However, Kai was now desperate to obtain the [Ki Control] Gift as soon as possible.

"Then I'll hold you to it," Alex said. Since Kai had already made plans with the Candy Team, Alex couldn't do anything about it and decided to accept the offer.

"After you reach the thousand mark, come find me. I have one of the key items needed for [Ki Control]," Alex added as Kai was about to leave.

He would have given it to him directly, but the problem was that everything was already inside the Treasure Chest. He'd have to take it out first to access the item his Master had entrusted to him.

Leaving the Kato Bakery, Kai headed straight for the Honey Pill shop.

"Early today?" Miya greeted him as he entered.

"Yeah," Kai replied. Taking the brewing list from her, he headed straight to his Alchemy room.

[Brewing List]

Name: Kai

Date: Year 0, Month 4, Day 24

Task: 30 Basic Vitality Pills, 30 Body Refining Pills]

"I should refine Body Refining Pills first," Kai decided after looking at the list.

[Clear Mind]

[Heightened Senses]

Activating both of his Gifts—extremely useful in Alchemy—Kai placed the furnace on top of the fire stones.

[Fire Control]

Turning the heat output to maximum, Kai carefully extracted the essence of three Sunlit Blossoms.

After cleaning the pot, he placed it back on the fire stones and added 100 ml of pure Moonwater.

As the Moonwater thickened, he tossed in two Ironwood Roots. After some time, Kai poured in half of the Sunlit Blossom essence he had extracted earlier.

Decreasing the flame output to medium, Kai took a break and began reading a book.

An hour later, he put the book down, opened the lid, dropped in 50 ml of Crystallized Dew, and increased the flame output to maximum.

Replacing the lid, Kai relaxed again and picked up his book.

Half an hour later, Kai poured the pill paste into a mold and produced a total of 16 Body Refining Pills.

Repeating the same process for another two hours—most of which he spent reading—Kai refined a total of 31 Body Refining Pills.

After finishing the Body Refining Pills, it was time to work on the Basic Vitality Pills, which took him slightly less time than the Body Refining Pills.

Around 3 PM, Kai cleaned his Alchemy room, noted down the list of ingredients he had used, and left the room with 31 Body Refining Pills and 33 Basic Vitality Pills.

He exchanged the extra pills for Honey Points, bringing his total accumulated Honey Points to 60.

Leaving the Honey Pill shop, Kai made his way toward the Town's gate.

"How am I supposed to use this thing again?"

After arriving at the gate, Kai took out the call stone from his storage bag and began trying to contact Tony and the others.

After fumbling around for a while, Kai figured out how to use the call stone.

All Call Stones are engraved with two types of runes:

The first rune allows for private calls, and the second is a public rune used to broadcast a message within a 1-kilometer radius.

[Call Stone]

Private Call — Candy Team

Beep! Beep! 

"Kai, is that you? Wait, I'll be there in a minute!"

The call connected, and Oliver's voice came through.

"You guys take care of this Troll, I'm going to get Kai," Oliver said to the rest of the team. He slung his shield onto his back and sprinted toward the Town's gate.

Wearing both his shield and armor—together weighing nearly 100 kg—Oliver was still running at 10 km/h.

Since the extermination of the Silver Wolves, the Candy Team had shifted their focus to hunting Trolls as their primary targets.

Within a few minutes, Oliver arrived at the Town's gate and quickly spotted Kai.

"Kai, over here!"

As Kai looked around, trying to find Oliver, he heard his voice.

Turning around, Kai saw Oliver, fully covered in armor from head to toe.

"Today's your lucky day—we just found some Trolls. You might be able to reach the thousand mark today," Oliver said as they headed into the Dark Forest.

After about ten minutes of walking, Oliver and Kai reached the location where the rest of the team had been fighting Trolls.

However, at the moment, everyone was resting after having killed all four Trolls.

"Kai, hurry up and collect the Ki!"

As soon as Tony saw Oliver return with Kai, he immediately called out, urging him to absorb the Ki from two of the Trolls.

When Kai contacted Oliver, they had already hunted two of the four Trolls, and Tony had harvested their Ki. The team had saved the remaining two Trolls specifically for Kai.

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