Dual Cultivation: Beasts and Women!

"Congratulations on your breakthrough." Felicity approached Liam while most of the people in his group were collecting items from the bodies of the enemies in that wooded area in the middle of the night. "But what exactly was that you did?"

Grace and Nance approached Liam, while his other companions stayed where they were, curious, of course, but less inclined to question him.

But Liam surprised them by explaining in detail. "It's something special I got by combining those strange keys we received when we joined the sect."

"That?" Felicity frowned as she remembered how she had told him not to take any chances with such a thing.

"Yes, that gives us access to a mission called the Secret Hunt. We basically have to hunt down other fellow sect members, especially those who are enrolled in this Secret Hunt mission.

It gave me the chance to consume the vitality of enemy demons and make my Spirits stronger. But make no mistake. This is a very dangerous mission and if anyone here tries to get involved in it, they'll end up with people like me, myself included, as their direct competition."

The group listened to his words carefully, for a moment becoming interested, but then changing their minds. Perhaps this information would become interesting to them in the future, but none of them would accept the risk of going against him after everything they had seen.

Even Felicity and the others sighed as they realized the opportunity they had missed.

"I didn't realize there was such a mission..." Nance looked at her faction leader and saw the woman agree with her.

Liam closed the subject by saying, "Anyway, keep that to yourselves. I've now completed the second phase of this mission, but I don't know what might happen. If anyone here wants to try their luck, wait a year. I don't think I'll be your competitor by then."

He looked at the bodies in the area and decreed. "I'll keep only the belongings of my mission competitor. The rest of the bodies and their belongings can be divided between you according to your affinities."

It took the group about three minutes to refocus on what they had in mind before Liam's explanation, but they eventually concentrated on their night's gains. Even though the enemy group had a third of their numbers, the enemies were much stronger than most of them in terms of cultivation and had enough for almost the entire group.

The Arcane Crystals of the 11 killed in the area were left in the hands of the strongest of the group for them to give to their Spirits to consume. Liam kept only the valuable crystal of the blond enemy, something he would give to the Silver-Winged Leopard in the future.

For the moment, he was no longer worried about the quality of Thal'Korr and the Incubus. Both Spirits were strong by the standards of not only City Thirteen, but even the continent.

Liam needed to learn a lot about this world, but he already knew that the Sage grade wasn't simple. Even in powerful forces like the Demon Gate, a Spirit of this quality had to be respected.

Not by chance, phase two of the Secret Hunt mission had the Low-level of the Sage grade as its completion requirement.

'I'll see how I can collect my prize when we return to the city in a few days... I hope to get something else before the fight against William.'

Liam returned to the area where they had been earlier, where his group dismantled the camp so that they could set off elsewhere.

It was the middle of the night, but it wouldn't be smart to stay near where so many corpses valuable to the beasts of the forest were.

In less than 10 minutes, the group was moving on to another place to spend the night. It wouldn't be until the next morning that they would be hunting for beasts and Arcane Crystals again.

...

Over the next two days, the group managed to hunt down the missing Spirits, but they still hadn't completed their plans outside of City Thirteen.

Liam intended to continue the hunt for another day so that everyone could complete their hunts for Arcane Crystals for this month and the next. But they already intended to return to the city the following day, a day earlier than originally planned.

The previous enemy group had helped them a lot in getting resources and important advances, so their journey had been cut a little short.

This morning, Jane got what she had been looking for on this trip and made her breakthrough to the third realm, the last of the group to do so.

At just 16 years old, Jane became a Spirit Earth cultivator!

Taking advantage of the fact that they were already hunting, the group helped her to find her third Spirit before once again stopping to rest at nightfall in this forest region.

The last hours of the hunt would be fairly uneventful for the group. When the last of them had got their remaining Arcane Crystals, the group stopped to rest and wait for a quieter time to continue their journey to the city.

Time would pass and when the dawn of a new day was coming to Demon Gate, Liam led his people back to City Thirteen.

He now had the goal of organizing the succession of power in Leopards, leaving his two allied factions in a position to continue helping each other and, most importantly, spending as many of the next few hours as possible cultivating with his women!

In less than 48 hours, it would be his fight against William Semple and after that, he was sure he wouldn't be staying much longer in City Thirteen!

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Back in the city, Liam separated from his group after passing the Records Hall.

He promised his women that he would see each of them before the fight against Willian, but he also promised Leopards' men a big meeting in 5 hours at the coliseum.
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But first, Liam headed for the Lotus Temple, already with some plans in mind from the last few days and eager to put them into practice.

He was pretty sure that he had achieved what he needed to build Third Class enchantments during those days out of town. With the intention of gaining recognition from Eliakim Badders on the last day under that man's tutelage in town, Liam left 200 merit points at the Lotus Temple to be entitled to four hours of training in one of the level three rooms.

He ignored the beautiful women flirting with him on the way to level three and was soon in an individual cultivation room.

Later, he would bring each of his women to this place to cultivate and spend the merit points he had left. As for going to the Library or doing anything else with his resources, well, he had no more time for that and he would not try anything outside what he had already planned.

Hence, that was the end of his journey in this city!

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"Guardian Watt, I bring news of Initiate Liam Porter," said one of the First Officers under Amzi Watt's command in City Thirteen.

The eyes of the big, fat man sitting on top of Peak Thirteen opened with a glint. "Speak."

"I'm 99% sure that Initiate Liam Porter is already a Spirit Earth cultivator, senior. He's hiding his cultivation and I can't state his exact level, but in two days he'll be fighting William Semple in the Combat Arena." Explained the man dressed in black, but without any items covering his face.

"Where's Eliakim?" the Guardian asked with a mixture of doubt and anger that the man had most likely kept this from him.

"He is in the inner wing of the sect. But he should be here tomorrow for Liam Porter's last class before his fight against William Semple."

"Perfect. Say nothing to him. I'll attend Liam's last class in secret. I want to see why he kept this information from me," said the old man as he closed his eyes again. "For now, keep everyone who might have found out the same as you quiet. We'll sort out Liam's situation soon."

"Certainly, Guardian."

...

Meanwhile, at William's official residence, he had just found out about Liam's return to the city.

"It looks like he's really going to honor his promise," said William's combat master, interested in what Liam had in store for the fight in the next few hours.

"Maybe he doesn't want to have a competitor like me in the inner wing of the sect, either." William observed the subject, having already finished his preparation and now waiting for the moment to fight Liam.

"It'll all be over in the next few days. I'll have my last victory in the city and then I'll become an Officer. I'll take whatever made him so strong so quickly when I get his spatial ring."

The Officer next to William didn't disagree with his disciple, confident that Liam Porter wouldn't be a match for the man in front of him. But he was curious to see the abilities of the surprising boy who had emerged in the city over the last 13 weeks.

'This is going to be a good fight. Will we finally meet that boy's first Spirit?'

wondered the Officer.

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Meanwhile, Liam didn't care about the groups talking about him and was finishing his time in the level three room of the temple. There, he was finishing his first enchanted item made entirely from Third Class runes!