Is that a Wisp? Chapter 979: Entering the Final Phase

“Now, how do I deal with this mess?” Krune frowned, feeling a headache as the Neon Radiance King turned out to be stronger than he had thought. Though surprisingly, he didn’t mind them thrashing about. After all, each Neon Radiance King had been locked in a separate cage of its own. 

And these cages were made to withstand the attacks of a monster king long enough while the ocean water would heal their damage. Krune glanced around, noticing numerous pipes scattered throughout. They were the rope pipes transporting water to every rock pillar. 

The farther they went from the wall, the greater the cluster of water pipes that formed at the topmost cave since it was where the water was being drawn from. Then again, the Seamstress did a fairly great job at preventing everything from being too clustered. 

She replaced some of the pipes by increasing their diameter, allowing them to transport a greater flow of water from the water tank. This way, their work was done quickly. 

Once the tanks for the nine Neon Radiance Kings were filled, Krune sat near the tank of one of them, closing his eyes in thought, even going to the extent of shielding his eyes with his hands to prevent going blind. The Neon Radiance King was unleashing insanely strong beams of light without rest. 

The moment it heard a sound, it would unleash light in that direction. This was just the light it emitted. Its physical prowess was on the same level as a Monster Gecko King. Krune didn’t bother with them for the time being, feeding them bone tree fruits daily.

He first fed them the normal bone tree fruits while going about with his other tasks. 

The Motor Fishes were increasing in numbers pretty well. So, in order to cause a population boom, he only created more pools for them to live within, watching with giddiness every time their population boomed. 

As for the Great Dipper, upon noticing how he was struggling to manage them, he gave them all to the Seamstress, who was more than happy to accept them all. As she was focusing on them, the ones he had grown were tremendously helpful for her. 

After hugging him once in happiness, she rushed forth, leaping in joy from time to time as all the Mutated Great Dipper Pupa and Adults he had created numbered around thirty by now. On top of that, it seemed that his methods were greatly different from hers, so the Mutated versions turned out slightly different. 

To the Seamstress, this only meant she had a higher chance of succeeding. After she left, Krune increased the size of his Motor Fish farm, also using all the pools that the Great Dipper Pupae were using before. 

With that, his work was halved while his efforts were bound to fruition faster. This was why he gave all the Great Dipper Pupae and Adults to the Seamstress. On the scale of efficiency, he had achieved the highest with the Motor Fishes. 

When the group of Mutated Motor Fishes in a pool had reached the limit, he killed them all. After that, he scooped the pool water that was filled with their blood and watered all the bone trees, feeding the produced bone tree fruits to the other growing Motor Fishes. 

Once the pool was empty, he cleaned it and filled it with the ocean water, bringing two Mutated Motor Fishes into it. He then left them to their devices to mate eventually, ensuring he fed them with a lot of bone tree fruits daily so that their excess pent-up energy would cause them to mate more. 

When he checked the rankings, he noticed that some of the top rankers had already left Layer 3. Not only that, but it seemed they already managed to obtain an active ability, shocking Krune. “I guess there are strong individuals everywhere.”

As ten million people were brought into the layer every month, geniuses from numerous continents appeared one after another, swiftly going up the rankings. Most of them struggled for the first couple of years, accumulating strength. After that, they began to hunt in the Primary Landmasses, reaping a profit of 10 Godly Points every year. 

There were those that had already entered quite a few Secondary Landmasses, managing to obtain at least 20-30 Godly Points each time. Because of this, the rankings continued to change constantly as new people entered the top hundred while the old ones headed for Layer 2 once they thought they had obtained enough benefits from the place. 

Krune was checking the rankings intensely for the first two years during his stay in the Secondary Landmass. After that, as the rankings continued to change constantly and since he was only staying in the Secondary Landmass, he stopped bothering about it after a while. 

After that, he only checked a single ranking, and that was the ranking of the Kings. At present, there were eight of them in total, signifying that eight people had managed to obtain an active ability. Among them, Krune noticed two familiar names, Princess Zamuria and Cultivator. 

As their names were dull, it signified that they were either dead or had left Layer 3. Since all the other names were also the same, Krune knew that they had reached Layer 2. He couldn’t think how someone with an active ability could die in Layer 3. 

He then looked at the sole flashing name in the ranking. It was Gehen. Having decided to settle in Layer 3, despite being unable to obtain Godly Points any longer, Gehen was still making wide strides. 

He was capturing a Primary Landmass once every two years. And the people that arrived were able to head towards these Primary Landmass to survive. 

Shaking his head, Krune continued to work. A year later, by condensing the Blood Essence of a Neon Radiance King and causing another Neon Radiance King to swallow it, killing it after that, Krune repeated the cycle until he finally obtained a Neon Radiance Emperor.

He determined a simple solution for that. He tossed a Blood Essence Crystal to the first Neon Radiance King, watching it swallow that as its body was filled with energy. When the energy ran out, the side-effects kicked in, causing it to become immobile for a while. During this time, he easily killed it, repeating the process until he killed the final of the nine that had become an emperor by this point. 

After absorbing the Blood Essence Crystal resulting from it, Krune had obtained a new passive ability, Neon Radiance King. The only difference in the name as displayed in the tablet was the suffix King. While using it, he noticed that it was more powerful than his previous Neon Radiance. 

He was able to expend a greater level of energy while activating it than before, causing the intensity of light to be even stronger. Thanks to it, all his other abilities had also experienced a boost. On top of that, he noticed that its potential for development was higher than Neon Radiance. So, Krune was happy with it.

“Now, except for my Sonic Radar, all my other abilities are the strongest of their king,” Krune muttered, laughing in joy. He wasn’t worried about others obtaining an active ability before him. It was because he was taking his time to train and develop his passive abilities to their strongest state. 

Having witnessed Layer 4 and Layer 3, Krune could easily guess that Layer 2 would be no different. He would remain a mortal there as well. So, in that case, it was better to take time in his base of comfort and head to Layer 2 only when he knew he was truly ready enough. 

12 years since he arrived in the Secondary Landmass, Krune beamed with a smile, gazing at the six Tongue Fish before him that had reached the Emperor status. They were all brimming with enough power that even he shuddered while looking at them. 

Nevertheless, he wasn’t in the least scared by them. After all, they were fully tamed by him now. Since birth, they hadn’t killed even a single living being, living solely on the bone tree fruits. This had dulled their vicious nature. 

Moreover, since they were being fed with Motor Fish blood-based bone tree fruits that forced their evolution to proceed in such a direction, they had practically become a harmless species. Moreover, due to the instinct of the Motor Fish becoming dominant in them, they had completely submitted to Krune. 

They hadn’t just reached the status of an Emperor, but had already reached the peak for it. They no longer had any room for growth. Just in case the experiment failed, Krune didn’t wish to lose all his progress. 

So, he placed two of them in a pool for the first time in their lives. Urged by his commands, it didn’t take long for them to mate. A month later, four eggs were laid. Another month later, they hatched. And, they reached adulthood within six months, reaching the status as a Mutated monster. 

Upon seeing that they had all the traits as their Supreme Monster parents, Krune made the others mate as well. A year later, he had enough contingency measures to kickstart the plan to fruition soon after. 

He then took in a deep breath, causing a bone tree to absorb the blood from now one, not two, but all five at the same time. During the past year, he grew this one bone tree from scratch, using only the blood of the Emperor Monster that he determined as the strongest of the six and had the highest potential for growth. 

And now, he simultaneously caused this particular bone tree to absorb the blood of all the other five Emperor Monsters. When the blood of five Emperor Monsters was absorbed at the same time, a mysterious reaction of sorts seemed to have been sparked as their bodies began to shrink. 

It took a month for the process to end as not even their skin was left behind. As for the bone tree, it had grown to a height of 50 meters, requiring an insane supply of water daily. Otherwise, it began to show signs of wilting. 

Moreover, the bone tree seemed to be absorbing essence from the rock pillar itself as it began to show signs of cracking.