Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
After sending the message, Gray did not rest any longer. He carried the dragon egg on his back and immediately set off on his journey.
Due to accidentally coming into contact with the Void Undead crystal, he had already wasted quite a bit of time today.
If he could not seize the time to find the mana crystals, the worst-case scenario would be that the dragon egg still could not hatch today.
Thinking of this, Gray’s mood was a little heavy. A powerhouse like Aikasha had already evolved her troop to tier 3 on the first day. Although, based on experience, as the level increased, the amount of life force required would also increase. However, by the third day, it was likely that there were already people trying to reach tier 5.
Gray did not want to compete with other people in terms of levels. It was obviously meaningless to do so. Other than temporarily satisfying the vanity of the Guardians, it would not bring much value.
Moreover, his troop was the strongest SSS-class troop recognized by the system. As long as he could survive the initial period, the advantage of his troop would only become more and more obvious as time passed. Sooner or later, he would stand at the peak of all the Guardians.
However, the prerequisite for all of that was that Gray had to be able to survive the Beast Tide in a few days.
In the beginning, due to the special circumstances, it wasn’t scary to be left behind by the powerful Guardians. However, Gray couldn’t allow the gap to be too big that he couldn’t even keep up with the standard of the normal Guardians.
It was already the third day, and most of the Guardians would be leaving the safe house by the end of the day.
If Gray hatched the dragon egg by the end of the day, that was barely enough to catch the last train of the first echelon Guardians. He was trying his best to rely on the special characteristics of the SSS grade troop, and perhaps he and the dragon egg would be able to catch up with the group of powerhouses who had started hunting on the first day.
However, if the dragon egg still didn’t hatch today, Gray would have to consider focusing his activities on collecting materials for upgrading the safe house.
After all, the most important thing at the moment was to survive the Beast Tide.
Compared to the continuous hunting and catching up progress in the last two days, where the strength of his troop and the safe house were both at a lower and middle level after seven days, if during the last period of time, the focus of his activities was on gathering resources, it was obviously more beneficial to strengthen the safe house to the extreme.
After all, the Guardians only had a few things they could rely on to survive the Beast Tide. With focusing only on the safe house, the chances of success were much higher than if the strength of the troop and the defense of the safe house were both mediocre.
However, it was unknown whether it was because of the earthquake in the morning, but the beasts were startled and fled from their familiar territory.
Gray and the dragon egg trekked in the jungle for a long time, but the dragon egg did not sense the presence of a mana crystal.
To be honest, the position Gray and the others were in was already very dangerous.
Today, because they did not hunt at all, they were basically still moving .
This also allowed Gray to travel much farther than during the previous two days.
In other words, if he continued his search, Gray would most likely not be able to return to the safe house before nightfall.
This would require Gray to make a choice between taking a risk and moving forward or retreating for the time being.
After nightfall, the beasts would enter a berserk state, and their attack power would increase. It would become troublesome, and even the strong Guardians who had started hunting on the first day would not choose to spend the night in the jungle.
But now, Gray was really unwilling to return to where he came from.
Just like what he had thought earlier, if he missed today, Gray would have no choice but to change the direction of his next course of action.
Moreover, if he returned now, the entire day’s journey would become a waste of effort. Not only would he waste a day’s time, he might not even be able to find traces of the mana crystal at this distance the next day.
It was very likely that things would turn out like this. On the seventh day, it would not be that the safe house and the troops would barely be able to bring out their strength. Instead, it would be that the safe house would barely acceptable in defense, while the strength of the troop would be a complete mess.
Thinking of this, Gray made up his mind.
He would continue to search!
No matter what, he had to find the remaining two mana crystals today!
Originally, considering that he would be heading deep into the forest today, Gray had brought a little more food and water than usual. If he used it sparingly, he could persist until the next day.
As for whether he could rest safely at night or deal with wild beasts, Gray had his own calculations.
At the very most, he could find a sufficiently safe and secretive place to hide for a night. With the Dragon’s Might of the dragon egg, he believed that it was enough to help him avoid a lot of trouble.
Most importantly, once the dragon egg hatched successfully, Gray would have an additional fighting force by his side.
Moreover, Gray had always guessed that only the strongest batch of tier 2 wild beasts would produce mana crystals, which were simply materials used to hatch the dragon egg.
Once the dragon egg hatched, its strength would definitely not be too weak!
With the combined strength of the two of them, it should not be difficult for them to survive in the jungle for only one night.
As the saying goes, wealth comes from danger. What’s more, this time, there was no choice for him to avoid it.
Gray didn’t stop walking as he pondered.
But in a short while, he had already gone quite a long distance.
Just then, the dragon egg’s sensing came. It had finally found a target.
Gray’s spirit was roused. He thought that his decision to go deep was worth it. He didn’t expect to get something so quickly.
He hurried to confirm the exact location of the mana crystal with the dragon egg.
The dragon egg pointed to a location in the east. Gray was about to set off when the dragon egg’s sense shifted slightly toward the south.
Gray realized that the situation might not be right.
Although the direction indicated by the dragon egg was only a small deviation in his perception, Gray knew that it was because the dragon egg could only transmit the approximate location of the mana crystal, and it could not share the specific location of the mana crystal with him.
If this deviation was proportional to the forest in front of him, then it meant that the beast was moving at an extremely fast speed!
Gray hurriedly confirmed with the dragon egg.
“The beast on the other side is moving?”
The dragon egg gave a confirmation, and at the same time, it revealed an anxious look.
In its perception, the beast’s movement speed was too fast. If this continued, it was very likely that before they could find the it, it would have already fled.
Gray clearly knew this, but he had to be calmer. He continued to instruct the dragon egg:
“Tell me the direction and speed of movement you feel.”
The dragon egg indicated the location where the mana crystal appeared in Gray’s mind, and then changed it every second to show the speed of the other party.
Gray used his eyes to roughly confirm it in the forest, and then compared his own footsteps, making a decision in his heart.
The path of the beast on the other side was basically a straight line, and Gray had to walk in the direction that would intersect this straight line.
Stop the beast before it arrives!