Click! I had just come from freshening up when the door opened and Jax walked in with a painful expression on his face. "How much?" asked Rim directly. "7%," he said as he walked toward the bed. There is a round whip mark across his stomach, with blood dripping through it. "Lie down gently," I said to him. He did it without saying anything and I took out the healing cream from the storage and apply across the wounds, before closing my eyes and distributing the energy. The healing energy of the balm is stronger than yesterday's, but I am also handling it much easier. All my energy had been changed, which was making things quite easier. Five minutes later, I opened my eyes and bandaged his wounds. Thankfully, I have to go with them, or I would have needed to tear more clothes apart to make the makeshift bandages that are covering Ranya's body. Her injuries have been healed, but she is keeping the bandages for a day or two. Which is a wise choice. Soon, I finished and went back to my bed and laid down, before closing my eyes and entering inside my core. "It feels good," I said as I looked at the core. My four clones are working, three on inheritance, while one is on the daros crystal. The five-crystal placed in five formations, and they are slowly purifying it. Two of them are faster than the other three. It would have been faster if I had let the minute impurities stay, but I did not. I want a completely pure crystal, and for it, I will wait a few hours extra. I check the progress of the purification and entered the library and sat in my usual seat and studied. I had picked quite an endeavor, a very hard one, that will not provide me with benefits quickly but it is necessary. I am learning the ancient runes. There are three types of runes. The common runes, the ancient runes and primordial runes. It is said that one should only touch the ancient runes after reaching the Sovereign. Learning them so early, I might be overestimating my abilities. I am not. I am perfectly aware of my limitation, but I need to study them now, as only then, I might use them after reaching the Sovereign. It will take me decades, even centuries, to learn only the basics of it. "It's dinner time," Rim announces unenthusiastically. A minute later, I opened my eyes, and we all went out of our rooms for that distasteful meal. An hour later, we returned; there was a hidden excitement on my face, that I had to work very hard to hide. I lay on my bed and entered inside my core and looked at the second formation. It is less than ten minutes away from completely purifying the daros crystal. It is burning thousands of crystals by a minute, but I do not care. Daros crystal is more precious than them, despite being on the same level. They could not even be said at the same level. Primary-I of my native world and Primary-I of the prime world had a vast difference. So I do not care, even if I burn all the energy crystals I have. Buzz! Finally, the formation buzzed, revealing a fingernail size daros crystal. I was a grey and thumb size when I put it into the formation, and now it is light yellow and thumb size, but I could feel the thrumming power inside it. It is huge, despite being in P1 grade. I took it in my hand and felt slightly warm. It contains huge energies, which could be used in alchemy to artifact refinancing and even recharging. Buzz! I threw it into the small formation and a moment later; it activated, and I felt a stream of energies coming inside me. It filled me, despite being a level lower. It is why the daros crystals are so precious; they provided the energy that is far purer and more powerful than most energy crystals at their level. Those who have too much wealth used them in their breakthroughs. I stopped the formation and brought a tiny crystal in front of me before dividing it into several parts and sending them to different formations. Using daros crystals to refine daros crystals may seem like a waste, but I do not have any choice. I want to have them in good quantity for my uses and emergencies. I watched the formation for a few more seconds before turning to an important thing. I could not just mine and think of ways to escape, I also need to increase my strength. Currently, I may be seemed powerful enough to fight Primary III, but I am pitifully weak. Those I have defeated are the worst of this world's stock. I need to be strong enough to fight even powerful Primary-III and currently, there is only one in front of me. To use the refining method, they have so usefully provided. I have the toxin from the daros crystals, and I had refined it further according to my needs, and now I am going to use it. Buzz! After checking the privacy barrier around me, I activated the formation. The moment I did. A stream of toxins came into my body. It is lacerating and it will be even more painful when I circulate it. After taking a deep breath, I circulate it and as I had expected; it is even more painful. I did not stop and continued circulating. The more I circulate, the greater pain it was giving me, but I bore it and continued. My pains bore the fruit, and I was able to finish the first circulation but is just the beginning. If I want the results, I need to circulate them for the forty-ninth round. Only after doing it will I get results. It reminded me of the supreme combat exercise. That was painful, and it is even now. I had created the ninth seal, but even after trying thousands of times, I have failed to create the tenth seal. Even Marina had stopped at the same juncture, as it was damn hard. I continued circulating until I couldn't. I stopped at the seventh round. My whole body had become sweaty, which I had vaporized and rested for a minute before trying again. I failed again, but that did not stop me. I continued trying, failing over and over again, but getting every time, till I couldn't anymore. I circulated it till the twelfth around, which is significant progress for the first day. I had asked around and everyone had told me how difficult it is to practice this method and till now, only the person here seemed to have done it. Looking at the data on Ranya, I know she had succeeded. It had taken her more than a month. She only accomplished it two days ago. I think this is likely the reason that prompted her to escape. The silly girl should have waited at least till she had erased the weakness of toxins, but she was too impulsive, or rather, it became too much for her. It is difficult to adjust from the king of the world to a mining slave.