33 Risen#re - Chapter 329

When Lirian finished looking through the changes he turned his attention to another important alert, one that he saw last time he took in the toxin.

[Hosts energy points have received severe damage from the toxin, host won’t be able to cultivate for 13 days and 6 hours 42 minutes]

‘The amount of time has decreased by 12 hours from last time, it must be because of my resistance,’ Lirian concluded, a few hours had already passed since he was poisoned, last time he had to wait 14 days before he was able to cultivate again.

‘Lets see if I can speed this up,’ Lirian activated his [Flames of Nirvana] and focused them on his energy points.

The flames started to work rapidly, in five short minutes Lirian was able to wash of a five hours of his recovery, but that’s when another problem came up his energy reserves were hitting dangerously low, he only had a few hundred energy remaining.

Currently he had about as much energy as a true novice cultivator was supposed to have, he chuckled at the irony as he stopped the [Flames of Nirvana] from healing him.

‘How do people restore their energy in this place without succumbing to the poison?’ he wondered and accessed some of the memories he looked into since arriving on this world.

After scanning through the memories he found his answer, it was actually very simple they ate, the most informative memories he had were Izlandi’s, since she was a noble she could always return to her chamber to restore her energy.

But she knew of how the general populace restored their energy, in short the only means that they had to restore their energy was to eat, which worked out to be much more feasible than renting a cultivation chamber.

However that solution was no good for Lirian, the general populace of cultivators were all novices, and they were novices who only focused on a single centre of power.

The maximum energy one of them could hold was around 330, whereas Lirian’s needs were infinitely higher he needed to consume 80 080 units of energy, and only half of it would be available to him unless he released his heavenly suppression.

His energy requirements were in a league of their own, higher grade cultivators depended on their power to hunt powerful creatures to provide sustenance.

Lirian waved his hand and shot out a bunch of flames that started to burn all the waste and filth in the alley, the flames hungrily devoured everything in sight, and since his energy carried [Voids Encroach] all the consumed filth turned into void energy.

Lirian hurriedly activated [Conduit] and started to absorbed the void energy, once the flames went out Lirian checked his energy and found that it increased by about 10% of his expenditure, it wasn’t much but it was a start.

And so Lirian embarked on a grand quest, through the back alleys of the city, he was performing his labours like a good citizen and he asked for no thanks of reward.

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When morning came, the residents of the city woke up to a smell they had long forgotten, fresh air.

They took in long appreciative breaths, and when they left through the front doors of their homes, they were greeted by a wonderous sight, yet it was also somewhat foreign.

The city looked like it had been reborn, the cobbles stones that made up the roads, looked brand new, all dirt, sooth, and crap that stained the roads over the years was cleaned away.

The roads were a sparkling white and resembled a marble city, like those spoken of in stories and legends.

A few curious citizens bent down to inspect the ground and before long they started to shout praises as they realised that not only were the road clean, but they were so clean that they could show you your own reflection.

More shouts of praise echoed in every corner of the city, even the nobles were drawn out by the strange development, and they were met by an onslaught of questions by the citizens, who wanted to know how the current miracle was made possible.

But answers they had none, the minor nobles all turned their attention to house Kurt for an explanation about the miracle that occurred.

The people from the merchants guild were standing in front of a long que of nobles to enter the keep of House Kurt for an audience.

They came with several carriages decorated with their flag and emblems every single carriage was filled with coffers of gold, with only one goal, they wanted to buy the secret to clean up the city, they knew how much this would sell for in the major cities even the capital.

If they were able bring this secret back to the merchants guild, they would easily be able get a position amongst the directors the merchants guild, it was far too good of an opportunity for them to waste.

The head of the merchant guilds branch, never felt happier about his position in such a remote part of the world, and he didn’t care how much he had to spend to get the secret, 10 000 gold, 50 000 gold, 100 000 gold, why would he care about such a price.

The line grew longer and longer, yet for some reason the gates of the keep remained shut, and no messenger came out of the keep.

‘Is this some ploy of House Kurt to gain an even larger audience,’ the merchant guild leader wondered as he twisted his moustache.

‘I never knew that they knew how to be so theatrical,’ he thought with a wide smile, he didn’t mind waiting, he’d wait for weeks if he had to, and he was sure of his ability to buy the product, no matter what curve ball House Kurt threw his way.

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While the city was a buzz with excitement at the great clean up that took place, the cause of all the clean up was leaning against a wall with his legs spread out lazily on the ground as he patted his belly in satisfaction.

The night was a busy one for Lirian, as he roamed the streets of the city, when he found rotting food he shot a wave of flames, and boom he gained some energy, he found some dirt, and boom it was turned into void energy and consumed by Lirian.

He found biodegradable waste and in the next second it was flaming pile of void energy, whether it be manure, human waste or the dirt that was ingrained into the cobblestone.

If it could burn, Lirian didn’t allow it to remain, and he was desperate to restore his energy, and after one full night of efforts he managed to push his energy to the 60 000 mark.

Lirian was still completely unaware of the commotion he stirred as he hid in a desolate alley that hadn’t seen living occupants in what Lirian presumed to be many, many years.

Lirian activated the [Flames of Nirvana] and started to rapidly to heal is body, in under an hour his energy points returned to normal.

Lirian immediately started to cultivate, he knew what the result would be, but he wanted to test something out.

A short while later that familiar burning feeling entered his body, but it was a lot more bearable than before, and Lirian managed to cultivate for about 3 minutes before things became dangerous.

Lirian didn’t worry to much about his condition as he looked at the systems analyses and his eyes lit up when he read the message.

[Hosts energy points have received severe damage from the toxin, host won’t be able to cultivate for 12 days and 11 hours 59 minutes]