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Jason added, "I fear most people will not get anything after the 6th potion, and it is a loss to waste these precious potions after the 4th. So about 10 points is about the average limit for a ranker."

Warden nodded as he became even more interested in slaying these drakes. They are really ideal for growing attributes even if they were harder to kill than your regular wolves.

"The only problem we have now is storing all this loot," Jason said. "My dimension cube is only big enough to store the essentials like the cores and hearts."

"The Drake meat is pretty awful to the human tongue," he continued. "But their scales could be used in various artifacts, and so can the meat be cycled in potion making or cultivating peculiar herbs."

Like there was a kind of mushroom that eats meat to grow.

"If it's about storing the load, it's not a problem at all," Warden said. Concentrating on his will, he summoned a portal into his subspace, in the form of a bigger hole than usual. It materialised in front of him, ominous with swirling dark and forceful energies. Most importantly, they couldn't see through what was inside.

"What is that?" Nina asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Just a glorified storage," Warden answered and shrugged. He pulled one of the lesser drakes in his arm and threw it into the dark portal. "It has a lot of space."

"You always come up with useful abilities at times like it's nothing," Jason said, but did not question him further. He too joined and threw in more drake remains into the portal.

After they were done with the minions, they finally came across the problem of the day—the cursed drake matriarch--it was simply too huge to be thrown into the portal. From the look of it, Warden was unable to enlarge the size of the gate to more than 36 square feet.

The size of the gap was big enough for a human to pass easily, not that he would let anyone inside, fearing the consequences they might face.

Where was The drake matriarch was already as large as 50 feet in length, and weighed a bazillion kilograms.

"There is no other way," Jason said, "we have to cut it through."

"Do you even realize how stupid that sounds?" Nina said. "Although it's dead, it'll take hours to cut into small pieces to throw into whatever that black hole is. And in that time, who knows how many more predators come along."

"It won't take that long," Warden said as he brought out his sword again.

Under their gazes, he increased only the size of the blade, lengthening it over two metres. It was still not enough to match the breadth of the Drake matriarch, not even half, but it did not matter.

Void energy has destructive power, but that is not the same as sharpening, or cutting power. For example, a hammer could be destructive but could not cut as well as a sword. So here, intent came into play. Intent was very versatile; it could be anything he cultivated. But since he cultivated it through a spear, it had gained more piercing power.

Of course, piercing power was not the same as slashing, but there was more in common between them than the potent force of destruction.

He infused his full intent completely on the blade, taking his stance. Finally, his intent came to materialization with tiny sparks of malevolence. It was something he picked up from the accursed valley, though nothing substantial yet. He synchronized acute tendrils of void energy into it, trying to boost the destructive power.

It was almost impossible to reinforce the two together at short notice, but with the Drake dead, he had all the time he needed.

Breathing slowly and evenly, Warden prepared taking about half a minute. Then he slashed at the upper midsection of the dead drake matriarch in one clean, full arc. The blade plunged into its tough scales, breaking through to descend into its inside to meet the bones. Finally, the intent weakened, as he had to leave it all to the energy, which to failed to sever it completely.

Unfortunately, even with all the empowerment, it was unable to cut through the bones. The blade jammed halfway into the huge creature's gut.

"Still not there," Warden muttered as he yanked back the blade. "Still a long road ahead."

"This is insane," Jason said with a gasp. "Warden, I can't be sure, but you are probably very close to that S-grade now."

Warden simply nodded as he returned to cutting the beast into pieces. He would probably be able to properly savour the creature when he finally would be able to reinforce his intent and energy in perfect synergy.

The looting did not take an hour like Nina said, but it did take a lot of Warden's energy as synchronizing the two powers together was quite tough on his body, not to mention he had to expend all his abilities in the fight before.

With a thought, he summoned his status page to check. Possibly to set a goal for himself in the coming four days.

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[Warden]

Race: Human/Celestial (Prime/Corrupted – 31%)

Title: [Dungeon Eater] [Indomitable] … [Redacted]

Fatelock: [Void Prison Realm]

Unlocked Aperture: [The Palace of Toil, (Left Palm)], [The Gate of Spirit (Wrist, Heart Vein)]

Bonded Artifact: [Cloak of Void Radiance (Legendary)], [Maya's Protection (Legendary)] [The Divider (Rare, Growth: 7%)

Disposition: Chaotic

Rank: [Broken Calamity (Iron)]

[Core: Unique, Void Element. Unable to determine further.]

Attributes:

[Strength: 95.4] | Efficiency: +45%

[Dexterity: 84.3] | Efficiency: +25%

[Mind: 25.4] | Efficiency: —

[Spirit: 84.4] | Efficiency: +85%

[Recovery: 104] | Efficiency: +90%

Abilities:

[Imbuing: Iron 89%] [Regeneration: Iron - 99%] [Indomitable Will: Spacial]

[Left Hand of Calamity: > 10%] [Void Space: Grade-9]

[Runesmithing: Tier-5] [Intent: 43% (Spear type/Malevolment Attunement)]

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Still, he had managed to recover a third of his energy with the superior recovery power. With the 90% efficiency in recovery, the 104 points worked more like close to 200 points. Well, probably less considering the exponential growth of point units instead of linear.

Still, it was a good experience considering he managed to increase his intent by another percent, standing right at 43 now.