Monster Integration

With it bound, I wasted no time in beginning the harvest process, but unlike the regular Grimm Monsters, it is extremely hard against the vidette due to their exceptional defense that makes everything harder.

The strings covering the vidette moved, and soon they formed thirty-two weaved strings with very sharp ends.

All these ends have concentrated internal energy on them and do not hold back; I had even coated their edge with the full power of my sword's sharpness enchantment.

With the preparations done, the strings moved toward the vidette and began to pierce inside it, but as I had expected, there was great resistance, but my preparations helped as the strings began to pierce inside the skin slowly before getting inside completely.

As they went inside, they began to spread, dividing themselves into the hundreds of strings, each with internal energy and sharpness enchantment.

The defense of the vidette is stronger even inside, but still, it is not as strong as the outside; otherwise, it would have taken my string hours instead of minutes to do the job.

Still, it took nearly nine minutes to spread the strings inside the vidette while it experienced everything with the horror.

Buzz!

The moment I spread the strings inside, I have also started the harvest process to make an essence rose. The formations in the strings activated, and the process begins.

The energies moved toward its center, and for a second, I had thought the essence rose would really form from the vidette, and it had disappointed me as I had hoped the mysterious tree would take the vidette's essence like the last time.

I was just feeling disappointed when suddenly I felt the pull from the core, and all the energies which were going for the center of the strings moved toward my core.

The essence of the vidette is extremely powerful, and if I did not have confidence in my strings and where it is going, I would have been very scared.

The essence could infect me and could bring out many unforeseen consequences, including killing me or making me an abomination, and to do it, 1% is more than enough.

Hun!

Soon, the essence of the vidette reached my core, and as it did, it had directly gone to a mysterious plant. As it did, my strings went haywire, and they shined up brightly like the sun, and that very second, the amount of essence traveling through my strings increased by twenty-three fold.

It is the highest amount of essence my strings would be able to transport safely and mysterious tree taking it all.

The expressions that appeared on the videttes face are beyond that of pain that even I felt a pity for it for a moment.

The visible changes begin to appear, the shining violet color begins to fade rapidly, and twenty-two seconds later. All the violet color disappeared from it, and it had turned completely grey, aging centuries within a second.

Dhup!

Fifteen more seconds have passed, and the vidette turned into a husk and collapsed. I burned the husk and collected its stuff before focusing back on the mysterious tree, which had absorbed all the essence of the vidette and now growing visibly.

Hun

It is growing visibly, but it did not release the growth energy it had released last time when it was growing as such.

I hope it is due to Grimm Monster being a vidette, and it did not like to share the vidette energy, and it won't be the case when it takes the purified bloodline essence. I truly did not want it to be a one-off thing.

It had given me great hopes, and I did not want it to be taken away; too many things depend on it now.

The tree had grown for about fifty-three seconds, and from being a palm-size, it had now grown to hand size. It still looks beautiful despite the fact that it looks like a normal tree; there is a mysterious charm to this tree that one could not deny.

I looked at the tree for a couple of seconds before continuing my journey.

I wanted to ask it about the humans, but I knew I would not get any answers. The vidette is worse, they always had answers to your question, but answers are not the truth; they are very opposite of the truth.

There is only one option, and that is to explore the ruin and see the sign of any strangeness ourselves.

Thankfully, it would take me less than a day to explore the ruin, and I am not the only one. There is Ashlyn and Nero; with their help, it would take even less. If there is something fishy going on in this ruin.

I have asked Ashlyn and Nero to speed up; the sooner I will find the station of the Grimm Monster, the better chance I will have finding any humans. If any of them is alive.

Three hours passed by, and in these two hours, I have not come across a single Grimm Monster. I am not the only one; even Ashlyn and Nero did not come across any Grimms.

They seemed to have realized that something had happened to their vidette and stopped sending any more Grimm Monsters.

In these three hours, we have covered nearly half of this ruin and were not able to find anything, but I did not lose any hope. There is still more than half of the ruin remain to search, so there is a high chance we might find something.

Chew Chew

Another half an hour had passed when Ashlyn chirped in my mind, informing me she had found something.

Hearing that, my eyes couldn't light up, and I closed my eyes for a second before opening them and moving my hand across the space. The spatial tear formed as my hand moved, and I walked inside it when it became big enough.

One needs to be familiar with the place they want to tear open the space and have the knowledge of the coordinates.

I had not been to the place I was going, but I had a connection with Ashlyn that is extremely strong that if I concentrate enough, I will form a perfect connection with her senses, which is enough for me to know the place and its coordinates.