Chapter 2696: Red-Dust Hills Note: The Privilege now has 50% off. 'This bastard!' I cursed in my mind; just a few minutes ago, I was happy that Nero was interacting, but now he is exacting the pleasure from the buxom of countless girls. Seeing his face squeezed between the buxom of girls, I wanted to drag him back into the core and never let him out. I am not the only one who is mad at him; nearly all the men sitting are. They also wanted to pet him and cuddle him, but he did not go toward them; he only jumped from the lap of one woman to another, and the thing is, every woman wanted it, even old and stoic like Roya couldn't help but pet him. Thud Thud Thud! Three hours and nineteen minutes passed when I activated the shuttle, and everybody landed on the red dust hills. It looked like, as its name says, it is a red color hill that had luminescent red dust flying around it. The strange thing about the dust is that it never flew away from the hill; it always remained around it, covering it like a blanket, never scattering away, not big fast wind is. We don't know much about it; before us, only two people have come here. One was a High Grandmaster a few decades ago, and the other was Lord Yazdi; both of them did not spend more than a few minutes here. This place was chosen by me due to the particular type of resources that this hill produces; I was quite surprised when my clone examined the resources from this place, as all of them contain a special type of herbal energy, which I really like. 60% of plants from this place would be used in the project, which is absolutely shocking considering, we use not even 5% of resources that came from other places. I want to investigate it, and it is a good thing; I have a great partner for that, who finally came back on my shoulder after taking all the pleasures of mortal life. "I have divided this place into areas, and each area had been assigned to you for harvesting the resources," I said as I tapped the few buttons on my holowatch, and their holowatches lit up. "Go; I hope we will be able to harvest the resources from this place by night," I added, and they scatted immediately, except for lord Remus. "Lord Zaar, I don't think we will be able to harvest by night; it will take the whole night, even a morning tomorrow," He said, and I smiled at that. "If we did not face any obstruction, we would be finished by midnight," I said with a smile, and a hundred strings released from me, and a few seconds later, he saw the resources around him disappearing rapidly that by the end of the minute, no resources remained in the three hundred meter diameter around me. Yesterday, I harvested as many resources as all the people I had brought; the strings made such things too convenient. "Your methods are really out of common sense," He said with a shake of his head and walked away toward the area I had assigned to him. Since he came here, he has had to contribute. As for bodyguarding, he could do that for distance; with his power, it would need him bare seconds to reach me, and I have enough confidence that I could stall any danger for at least a few seconds before he arrives. "You go play around; if possible, find me some luminescent pools," I said to Nero, "I will not disappoint you, father," he said and hopped out of my shoulder excitedly and disappeared into the hills. I couldn't help but shake my head seeing that before I walked away while my strings stretched around me, harvesting the resources. The harvest is not simple; since these plants are high level, they require a unique method to harvest. Thankfully, my strings are versatile; they could envelop the trees, morph into the formation or even create a small domain around the plant. Harvesting is not a challenge; the real challenge is controlling hundreds of different strings and doing hundred of different things. It is very strainful that even now, I am feeling a headache and sometimes end up destroying a plant, but it is a price well worth for such amazing harvest speed. The harvesting could be more efficient if I handed control of my strings to my clone, but I did not, as my clone has hundred different things to do, and using it to harvest would be such a waste since it is a thing I am capable of doing myself. Hun! It had been a few minutes, and I had begun harvesting when suddenly, I sensed something and immediately extended my string toward the star 22, who had just now been hit by a High-Grandmaster class luminescent burst. It had taken all the energy to contain in the seed, which is fine considering no harm had come to the host. Though it would have happened yesterday, he would lie on the ground, with dangerous pores appearing all over his body. Yesterday, I collected enough data about the luminescent that I have modified my seeds and now they are better equipped to deal with, even could take High-Grandmaster class luminescent burst as it did now. My string reached him and piece into his body without him knowing and began to charge the seed, which had lost nearly all its power; while it was happening, I continued to harvest, and half a minute later, the string finished charging. It came back and resumed harvesting. Time passed, and I became happier and happier as more and more resources began to pile inside me. They are going to help the project tremendously, especially now when we have started to burn them with careless abandon. In the missive I sent to the team, I have removed the restrictions on the D class treatments. The D class treatments consume a lot of resources but provide only a quarter of the benefits compared to C class treatments, and we did not use them unless we had no choice due to their consumption of resources. Now with that thing coming, progress is the only thing that matters, not the price we are willing to pay for it. The donations and the resources coming from the ruins wouldn't be enough to sustain us, and I really hope that the Grand Lords would be able to enforce the hawthorn protocol, which they have activated. Everything is good, except for one thing, the Grimms; unlike yesterday, there are no Grimms at the seeing distance. Though Ashlyn had detected them near me, I did not hide the aura of the shuttle when I came. I really hope the Grimm come for a fight. If it did not, then I am going at it when I finish harvesting because this is the thing for which I came to this ruin, and my battle yesterday with Bloodfire Hyenaman has already provided me with a huge amount of data. The twelve-arm move has been much more efficient than I had throught, and now, I have to quickly become good enough at controlling them that I would be able to use the mountain cleaving style through them. Just imaging the power I could project when all twelve arms using those moves couldn't help but shake me with excitement.