The Last King Of Darkness
Chapter 159 - 116 Victory Journey_3

Chapter 159: Chapter 116 Victory Journey_3

Even so, most warriors couldn’t last a day.

After a trip out with Rod, they lay in the fortress like dead pigs for several days before they could recover their spirits.

Rod, on the other hand, was always full of energy, vigorous, and did not even need to meditate beside the Guardian Fire.

He gave all opportunities to others, which moved the Sword Pass warriors immensely.

Of course, it wasn’t that Rod was selfless; there was a reason for his behavior.

First of all, he did not particularly need to recover his Spiritual Energy.

The recovery effect of Frost Blue was very noticeable; the longer the battle duration, the more enduring he became.

In the wilderness battles, the intensity was actually very low, yet they lasted up to twelve clock hours, which hardly put any pressure on him.

Then, Rod found that when he was too close to the Guardian Fire, not only did his recovery not accelerate, but he also felt very uncomfortable, experiencing a strong sense of rejection.

This feeling did not occur when the Guardian Fire was housed in a lantern, but it became very obvious once it touched the ground.

As long as he was within twelve yards, he felt a strong resonance, but beyond twenty yards, there was no discomfort, only the faint warmth and comfort felt by everyone else.

This immediately reminded Rod of the scorching Holy Grail during the Fire Trial.

He had not actually passed the trial and was not in the sequence of Fire Holders.

Initially, Rod had let down his guard, but now it was raised slightly; he had many secrets that could not be revealed, and he had to act carefully and cautiously to not give himself away, otherwise, he could be exposed in some examination.

Rod carefully reminisced for a while, and aside from some changes in personality, the biggest risk was now the Polluter Sect.

Upon returning, he definitely needed to find ways to hasten their extermination and wipe them out as quickly as possible.

But for now, no one suspected in that direction.

Steel Hand, Beowood, and Reslin even joined forces to persuade him. They explained the principles countless times, but after discovering that Rod truly did not need recovery, they no longer insisted.

Instead, they were all marveling everywhere about how powerful Rod’s second Fire Spark, "Grass," was, wondering why they did not have such a powerful Fire Spark themselves.

At that moment, even the members of the Spirit Fire Series regretted not having awakened to Starfire, thinking that "Grass" might have been their own.

In response, both the Sword Pass warriors and the members of the secret branches were extremely envious; they took turns every day asking Rod what "Grass" felt like, even writing the Soul text of "Grass" on their own clothes, weapons, armor, and even their bodies in hope of gaining the protection of "Grass" to recover more Spiritual Energy.

Some mischievous individuals even tattooed the word in unspeakable places, hoping to gain more enduring abilities.

From some time on, it had become popular in the grapevine to link the endurance of Spiritual Energy with another kind of endurance, assuming both were correlated.

From this inference, Rod’s endurance was deemed to surpass that of mortals.

This made Rod quite troubled; wherever he went, both men and women looked at him with eyes full of reverence and longing.

Of course, the content of their reverence and longing was not quite the same.

There was just one person who firmly disbelieved, and that was Anna.

This senior student from the fourth term of the academy insisted that rumors were just that unless tested personally; unless Rod and she could test it, she would never admit that Rod was very tough.

But her little schemes were mercilessly mocked by Mina, who called her an old cow wanting to eat tender grass, with crap wanting to land on the dining table.

This infuriated Anna to the extreme; if it weren’t for Beowood and Reslin stepping in between, the two might have come to blows.

Though there was a slight discord, the overall operations at Sword Pass Fortress were running very smoothly, smoother than ever before.

The teams hunting Evil Spirits achieved unprecedented results, significantly reducing the number of Evil Spirits, thereby preventing any impact from the incoming surge of Evil Spirits on Sword Pass Fortress.

Beowood and Reslin’s patrols cleared a large area behind Sword Pass very efficiently, ensuring that supplies from Giant Fortress didn’t face any delays; the environments of remote villages like Rock Village and Southwind Town improved immensely, and Jon from the Seventh Defense Zone even wrote them a letter of commendation.

The team heading to the Big Swamp to hunt Crawlers also returned loaded, successfully recovering many Crawler ashes.

Under Mina’s maintenance, the Spiritual Power Generator was now functioning normally.

It discharged Spiritual Energy along the established meridians, strengthening the entirety of Sword Pass Fortress drastically, boosting its hardness significantly and also dispersing impact force effectively, making it very difficult to destroy.

And the best news was that the battle at Dawn Fortress upfront was going extremely smoothly; the super-sized Spiritual Power Cannon, "Dawn," vaporized more than half of the incoming dark tides and the elite combat groups and Defenders surged out of the city gates devastating the remaining monsters.

Therefore, the Monster Tide that might overflow to Sword Pass would be minimal, giving Sword Pass’s warriors much more time to prepare.

After rotating through seven different assistants, Rod finally managed to gather the 50,000 souls without spirit necessary to create Soul Firewood.

With Evil Spirits becoming increasingly scarce in the wilderness, yielding lower returns than even the sewers, he no longer wished to go there.

Thus, after returning to the best room in the fortress specially prepared by Steel Hand, Rod locked the door, rolled up his sleeves, and entered the Dream Realm.