Earthling in Uncharted Dimensions

"Gillian, are you perhaps suffering from memory loss?"

Upon hearing the response, the leader frowned. The next second, he realised something.

'Share among yourselves!'

The frown changed to a surprise with a smile as the boy bowed respectfully and went back to the crowd. He remembered what Lee Shen had said before and the students divided the cores among themselves.

"D, tell me about the Sword Will progression."

Lee Shen mumbled as he was worried about D's silence all this time. He couldn't dismiss the chance of the Dimension Sovereign completely integrating with the weapon.

[Looks like I will be unable to leave the sword. The progression is at 98% and the situation demands my presence at all times.

Since the foundation of Sword Will was forcefully created, I will have to stay put inside the sword.]

'I get it.'

[A few more minutes and the integration would be complete. Then you can take out the sword and use it.]

'Copy that.'

Saying this, he jumped from the branch on which he sat. Using Flight, he did a controlled descent but the students attributed this action to his immense Mana reserve.

From their evaluation of Lee Shen, the students assumed that the professor was at Lord level Mastery.

"Gillian, report."

Upon hearing the professor's voice, Gillian turned around and spoke-

"All are well and uninjured. The fox meat is cooked and piled up. Each student is given 2 Glass Scorpion cores. We are ready to move."

A smile of satisfaction was on Lee Shen's face as he flipped his right-hand palm upside. A spatial ring that he acquired from the cultivators came out of his spatial ring.

"Take this spatial ring and store the meat inside."

Gillian gasped in as he extended his arms to take the spatial ring. The seemingly normal ring had independent storage space in it and this fact made Gillian to almost cry out in excitement.

The spatial rings are not objects that everybody gets to get their hands on every day!

Gillian quickly walked to the pile and let the remaining students know of this gift. Without wasting any time, he stored the cooked meat in the ring.

---

=====

8 AM.

5,975,800 Essence harvested.

=====

When the notification came in, the party was walking eastward to the exit portal. Except for Lee, nobody in the sub-space knew the information about the portal.

But it was Lee's opinion to walk towards the sun.

'Let's see.'

Lee pulled out the sword from his storage. He could feel the presence of D inside the sword but it was faint and almost concealed. Maybe it was the effect of the Sword Will creation, he thought.

[Haa....fresh air, beautiful!]

As soon as the sword was brought out, D blissfully expressed his freedom from the storage space. He asked Lee to not to place the sword in the spatial ring under any circumstances.

The twin stars that illuminated Utopia she'd it's light on the sub-space. Under the gentle warmth, the party of 14 strolled carefully.

Their path was full of danger and trial. The students came across numerous beasts and they effortlessly defeated them.

There were some instances where the students were injured. When they began to fend off beasts with D.I.V value above 5, the beasts were successful in hurting the students.

Beasts like Hexapod Horse, Winged Panther, Swamp Serpent, Poison Porcupine, Blackmane Lion and Stone Skeleton injured the 13 candidates of Ruin expedition.

But it was nothing when compared to what the students had to go through when they confronted a pack of Gargoyles!

The skin with thick unrefined mineral deposits was impenetrable with elemental attacks and melee strikes. The students could feel their Mana reserve slowly depleting in vain.

Sensing the difficulty of the situation, Gillian ordered a retreat but the Gargoyles were not ready to leave them be. The winged beasts attacked and the students could not guard against the powerful attacks.

If it wasn't for the monster duo, the students might not have made it back alive. Zena and Fero were inactive until when Lee asked them to assist the students.

Though the Gargoyles were powerful than the duo, the elemental trait of Lightning instilled caution in the hearts of the Gargoyles. This gave plenty of time for the students to retreat from the territory of these beasts.

---

=====

11 AM.

5,975,800 Essence harvested.

=====

3 hours have passed and the students were thoroughly refined in body and energy. The continuous combats have pushed their body to new limits and they can tell the increase in their physical and magical capabilities.

Lee was chewing on a piece of properly burnt fox meat as he followed the students. The academy robe he enchanted with more defence helped avoid any life-threatening wounds. Except for a few bruises and scratch-wounds, there were no severe injuries.

As the party neared the cave, Exel raised his hand and gestured to halt. The party halted their steps and observed their surroundings.

[Looks like he can detect the aura of the portal.]

Lee Shen was also detecting the steadily increasing aura of the exit portal. His senses were so powerful that he could accurately pinpoint the position of the exit portal even if he is blind.

With enough concentration, Selene and Val also detected the presence of the portal in the vicinity. But it's position underground made them hard to locate it.

"Search for the portal so that we can leave as quickly as possible."

Gillian spoke and the group began to scatter as they walked further forward. They could detect the steadily improving intensity of portal energy and exhibited much vigour to uncover it.

[Cunning bastards!]

The resentment to cultivators was well evident in those words as Hudson opened the Map in front of Lee Shen. Through the panel, he saw numerous cultivators homing in on their position.

The signature green colour robe of Long Sect people was simply unavoidable!

Three among those cultivators were slightly slower than the entire group. Hudson conveyed that the backlash upon disintegrating the puppets was successful.

[Yet...I am unable to dismiss the sensation of danger.]