Chapter 2367 Quickly Absorb
"Mm, let's begin."
Fang Heng and Abe Akaya exchanged a brief communication. Sensing Abe Akaya's eager anticipation, Fang Heng took a deep breath, keeping calm, and slowly pressed his hands onto the large magic array.
Instantly, a vast amount of mental strength was injected into the magic array!
"Buzz...!"
The giant-sized magic array responded to the stimulation, causing the entire ground beneath their feet to shake violently.
In the center of the magic array, the fragments of the dimensional core levitated into the air, emitting a dazzling white light!
The vampires guarding around the magic array had a slight change in their complexion.
Such terrifying power fluctuations!
They could sense a powerful ripple of energy gathering rapidly towards the magic array from all directions across the land.
As the earth trembled, black masses began to surge up from the horizon of the wilderness.
A large number of primal centaur creatures became extremely agitated!
Densely packed centaur herds surged forth from the darkened expanse, converging from all directions toward the massive magic array at high speed!
The Licker swarm, guarding the outer circle of the magic array, immediately rushed forward!
Prince Carl's voice rang out solemnly, "Everyone, defend the magic array!"
"Understood!"
In the center of the magic array, Fang Heng slowly straightened his body, sensing the operational state of the magic array.
Replacing the Nature's Heart Crystal with the dimensional core as the core of the magic array allowed for the acceleration of dimensional energy extraction from this world.
Previously, the extracted dimensional energy was temporarily stored in the vessel of sacrifice.
However, this time was different. Abe Akaya had already been directly summoned to this world.
After passing the initial assessment of the sacred tree, Abe Akaya had fully awakened to dimensional energy and could directly absorb the dimensional energy gathered through the magic array.
Suddenly, Abe Akaya could already sense the immense energy, enthusiastically waving the vines and absorbing it eagerly!
Instantly, in Fang Heng's view, the hints from the online game were rapidly refreshing.
[Hint: Abe Akaya has absorbed 3,023 dimensional energy.]
[Hint: Abe Akaya has absorbed 6,283 dimensional energy.]
[Hint: Abe Akaya has absorbed 12,834 dimensional energy.]
[Hint: Abe Akaya has absorbed 23,781 dimensional energy...]
"Good!"
Seeing Abe Akaya rapidly absorbing dimensional energy at an exponentially increasing rate, Fang Heng silently exclaimed in his mind.
Everything was proceeding as planned!
Next, all that was needed was to maintain the operation of the magic array.
"Abe Akaya! Drain it dry!"
...
More than ten minutes later, large rifts appeared on the ground, and the sky became densely covered with dark clouds.
No matter how much he improved the efficiency of dimensional energy absorption, the remaining dimensional energy in the entire world was still finite.
In just over ten minutes, the dimensional energy of an entire elementary world was almost completely drained.
Fang Heng opened his eyes and temporarily halted the operation of the magic array.
He spread out his hands, noticing that the fragments of dimensional cores in his palms had dimmed slightly.
Similar to when using the Nature's Heart Crystal, the dimensional core fragments were also continuously consumed.
Fang Heng glanced at the game hint again.
In total, about 30 million units of dimensional energy were absorbed, which still wasn't enough to upgrade to Level 1 dimensional energy,
Counting the time he spent setting up the magic array, he had only spent two hours.
This was just his first attempt at modifying and setting up the magic array, and he felt somewhat inexperienced. If he repeated the setup next time, the efficiency could be improved once again!
Fang Heng turned to Abe Akaya beside him and asked, "Abe Akaya, how do you feel?"
Abe Akaya shook the branch and indicated that it felt really good.
"Good," Fang Heng nodded in response.
According to this efficiency, he would be able to use up all the sacred branches and leaves in two days at most.
Fang Heng felt that he wouldn't need that much time anyway.
There were no valuable leads to pursue for the current mission, and facing the arrogant demonic seed head-on was out of the question.
It was better to focus on rapidly improving his strength during these few days.
With this thought in mind, Fang Heng turned his gaze towards Prince Carl.
"Get ready. We'll head to the next dimensional world as soon as possible."
Carl, having completed a low-altitude flyover, descended and knelt on one knee. He reported, "Your Majesty, everything is prepared. We can depart at any time."
...
Two days later, in front of the teleportation passage magic array, Fang Heng suddenly opened his eyes wide.
After grinding for two consecutive days, Fang Heng finally completed the dimensional worlds corresponding to the 18 sacred tree branches.
[Hint: Current energy of Abe Akaya: 2,962 million.]
Fang Heng glanced at the game hint.
Among the 18 branches, four corresponded to mid-tier worlds, so the dimensional energy absorbed was higher than initially expected, totaling around 3 billion. This was enough for him to level up again!
Optimistically, he might be able to advance 5-6 levels.
Checking the game hint, there were still 27 hours remaining before the special protection from the World of Forests ended.
By then, the pursuing forces from the Holy Realm would likely sense his location and use a special ritual to descend upon him.
"Your Majesty."
Prince Buller of the vampires had already arrived at the teleportation passage to greet Fang Heng. Seeing him, he knelt on one knee and reported, "During your absence, we have eliminated the remaining forces of the Wood tribe and Leaf tribe."
Fang Heng checked the game hint.
Indeed, as Buller had said, the prosperity level of the Leaf Tribe and Wood Tribe had dropped below 3%, and they had been completely removed from the tree spirit tribe. The main storyline now required only the recognition of the remaining Soul tribe and Root tribe.
"Well done."
Fang Heng nodded in praise and then continued, "Any movements from the Root tribe?"
"None for now."
Ji Haiting and the Federation had been conducting 24-hour remote monitoring of the Root tribe's domain.
During this time, the Root tribe had remained within their habitat and had not left. Apart from the black fog emanating from their camp, no other anomalies had been detected.
Although the Federation had never encountered the infected black fog, seeing Fang Heng and the tree spirit tribe on high alert, they had taken no chances. They had evacuated the outer periphery of the primeval forest and attempted to establish an outer barrier to guard against potential unknown risks.
"Is that so..."
Listening to Loeb's account, Fang Heng couldn't help but stroke his chin.
"It's rather strange."
Given Pride's personality, why would he not seek revenge after escaping and instead remain in the Root tribe's habitat?
Could it be that Pride was willing to spare him and not trouble the Soul tribe anymore?
It seemed unrealistic.
"So what exactly is he planning..."
Loeb, hearing Fang Heng's mumbled thoughts, asked softly, "Your Majesty, do you need us to investigate the Root tribe's habitat more closely?"
"No need."
Fang Heng shook his head, his eyes narrowing into slits.
"I'll go and see for myself."
Just as Fang Heng was preparing to venture into the Inner World alone, he suddenly heard Sandy's startled voice from outside the Great Hall.
"Fang Heng! I've found it! I've found it!"