Undying Warlord

Of course, Dilan had no idea how long the Hordes of Chaos and Destruction would take to reach the Sanctum of the Old Vampire Lord or Shiron, but it was still necessary to create a small goal for which he would have to work tirelessly to attain it.

To advance to Tier-3 in the next 30 days, Dilan would have to work extremely hard and even then he would face a time crunch.

However, he also knew that it might not even take a month until the Hordes of Chaos and Destruction would reach the Undying group.

It was already very risky to say that he had 30 days in hand to advance to Tier-3 without any hindrances, but it was not as if he could take every possible future scenario into consideration.

Overthinking would make things only worse which was why he would rather work hard than overthink anything.

"The only issue I have is that I require more Essences than others to level up. Furthermore, I have the Hyel Destructo Armor set that can be upgraded to the Peak of Tier-2 as well.

At Platinum Tier-2, the Armor set would be of exceptional use, which meant that he would have to upgrade it from Platinum Tier-1 up to Platinum Tier-2. That would require lots of Essences though," Dilan thought and he scratched his head in frustration.

He was currently still in the town that belonged to the Scorpionmen, and a few more people other than Sven had joined him.

"Can't you just use Essence crystals from the Scorpio Shop to upgrade your Armor, and the ability [Switch]?" Yvonne asked while slurping on the soup Bianne had prepared.

It had been quite a while since they had eaten something good but Bianne came over to the Sanctum of the Old Vampire Lord a while ago. She was busy cooking a lot of time in the kitchen and her ability naturally became stronger the more she cooked.

Her cooking skills had improved drastically and Yvonne couldn't help herself but take one helping after another. Despite having a rather small body frame, she could eat all day. It was almost as if her stomach was a black hole that could take in a lot of food.

"The Scorpio Shop?" Dilan asked and he began to contemplate.

"Oh, that's right. If you can sacrifice the body of monsters you've killed, you can buy Essence crystals from the Poison Points. You might not get many status points or much Essence from essence crystals that the others have procured but it will be better than nothing…I guess?" Kathrine exclaimed, giving her sister a thumbs up.

Dilan nodded his head after a while as well before he added, "I know what I'll be doing for the next few days, but you guys need to become stronger as well, you know…"

He didn't plan to sound arrogant or to blame anyone for being too weak but it was obvious that the entire Undying group would have to work hard to increase their strength.

In the last few weeks, the people who had been staying in Shiron hadn't faced a single issue. Their life had been extremely easy, the numbers of humans and Ascenders who had joined them kept increasing and it almost looked like Shiron would become the first revived city after the Primordial Ascension.

That was great if life was still the same after the Primordial Ascension had occurred. Unfortunately, that was not the case and things had changed a lot. Strength reigned supreme and the moment someone slacked off, their strength would stagnate.

In the early stages of the Primordial Ascension slacking off could be considered to be a death sentence if nobody with supreme strength was around them to protect the slackers.

Dilan was at the center of the Shikan plains, far away from Shiron to be unable to help them if something were to happen. Thus, he didn't really understand why they would start slacking off already.

However, that was human nature. The moment humans felt safe and could live a life full of luxury and without any complaints, most would be satisfied and stop doing something to change their life, to improve themselves.

Comfort was one of the worst things for humans even if most would say that this was not the case. Most humans would say that comfort was something good, something one should work toward, but was that really the case?

Maybe in other times, it would be somewhat acceptable to seek comfort but not in the Era Milarn had entered. Numerous races from all over the Universe were keen to receive the benefits the Primordial Ascension provided. These races would give their everything in an attempt to get their hands on the system that accompanied the Primordial Ascension, whether it was to become a stronger race overall or to break the shackles of individual beings.

Dilan didn't really care about others because he was not involved with them but the people of the Undying group should have understood by now that life was not as simple as it seemed after the Primordial Ascension.

They had fought against Vampires in Shiron, after all!

"I think everyone here knows that we have to become stronger…the question is just how we can do that in the most efficient way. Would it be smarter to level up to the maximum level that a Tier-2 Ascender can reach and get our natural stats to 150 Units as quickly as possible, or would it be smarter to work hard to procure more equipment, while would indirectly increase our stats?" Victoria asked herself quietly, but everyone listened intently.

"Or should we focus on improving our abilities, while fighting monsters to level up and so on? Or should we learn more techniques from the first trial of the Blood Monarch's Sanctum? Or do we do something entirely different? I mean there are countless ways to improve but choosing one and changing our path midway won't give us the best result, right?" Kathrine sounded rather frustrated as she spoke.

She eyed Dilan, who was deep in thought and tried to figure out what he was thinking. It was obvious that he would use the Realm Gate to enter the dimension where the Instance Dungeon of the Blood Monarch's Sanctum was located.

There were many powerful Tier-2 monsters and lots of Tier-3 monsters as well. Dilan would decimate them all, increase his level and stats and become even stronger.

Sacrificing the corpses to the Temple of Scorpio would give him many Poison Points, which he would use to buy even more Essence crystals. His strength would increase even further afterward, widening the gap between Dilan and everyone else.

Slowly but steadily, he would lose all connections with humans because he would encounter other existences that were more on his level and just as powerful as him.

He would befriend some and travel around with them, or so Kathrine imagined.

"Everyone could try to come up with a specific combination on how to use all their abilities in a balanced way to upgrade them. After defeating the monster, you could just absorb the Essence crystal, and sacrifice the corpses to procure points that could be accumulated to purchase high-tiered and high-quality equipment," Dilan said calmly just for him to add,

"Building a powerful foundation is more important than merely focusing on one thing. I focus a lot on the increase of my stats, but that is mostly because I don't have abilities similar to you guys.

Blood-Ice is a very powerful trait that can be used in a versatile manner. Even if your other stats would be rather low, as long as Victoria has enough mana and she focuses on strengthening her Blood-Ice, she might become strong enough to defeat me.

That's obviously just one of the many possibilities to become stronger and I know that everyone's path is different than my own….so just do whatever you feel is the correct way for you…"

Dilan felt that he was blabbering unnecessarily which was why he shut his mouth after a while.

Yet, after looking at the expressions of everyone around him, he felt even weirder than before.

"Why is everyone looking at me like that?" He asked in confusion but nobody said a word as everyone stared at him with a gentle smile on their faces.

'Looks like he won't even think about abandoning us…'