'Let it come,' I said to them as I stopped. I had not wanted to fight any monster, but this one was different; it had sensed me despite there being a huge distance between us. With the current level of progress in my stealth method, it is very hard for them to sense me from such a long distance. All the monsters had sensed me before had been within five hundred meters of distance, but this one was little more than a mile away, and it had still sensed me; it couldn't help but fascinate me. Growl! It stopped in front of me and growled while I looked at it, slightly confused, as it looked wolf and also a dog. It has grey fur with red strips across its body; one of the red strips goes between its eyes, giving it a quite menacing look, which is also the element that confuses the hell out of me. It might be a hybrid between them, as there are dogs in these ruins, and I had fought against a few of them. It did not matter what it was; what mattered is this wolf-dog monster was powerful. Very powerful that I wouldn't have been able to fight against it a year ago without burning my blood. "Come, little doggie!" I said to the wolf-dog looking at me. Growl! It growled and jumped at me; at the same time, I have moved my sword toward its razor-sharp claws. CLANNNG! They clashed against my sword, shaking me from up to down, forcing me to take a step back. It had even injured me enough that blood had come out of my mouth, but it had become so normal in the battle against these monsters in the past year I stopped worrying about such things. CLANNNG! Like all the monsters, it reacted immediately, appearing to my left and swiping its claws at me, but I had been expecting it. It attacked again and then again, but I have defended; I have gotten so used to such attacks that I could even defend against them with my eyes closed, but of course, I would not take such a risk. Soon, twenty seconds passed, and a smile appeared on my face, and surprise and horror appeared in its eyes. "You are quite smart," I said, seeing it trying to retreat, but it had become slow enough that I appeared directly in front of it and attacked. I have developed a method to wrap the strings around the monsters' bodies faster, and this weave is very tight and already powerful. As I put more layers on it, it slowed it down further till it couldn't move anymore. One and a half minutes passed, and I was finally able to freeze it; then, it was a matter of a few seconds for me to kill it before depositing its body inside my core. With the monster dead, I resumed my journey toward my safe house. Soon, one and a half hours passed, and I have once against reached the gates of the monastery, my safe house. Buzz! I waved my hand, and formation came out of it; it had stuck to the door before it buzzed, and a few seconds later, I heard the clicking sound and pushed the door open. "You guys, take care," I said to Ashlyn and Nero. Both of them have no interest in coming inside; rather, they would enjoy the freedom outside. I entered inside, and the door closed behind me while I walked toward the black door. It had been the longest I had been away from the monastery; as usual, I returned within a month and stayed at least a week before coming out, but this time, it had been nearly two months since I had come back. I have achieved a lot in the two months I have been out, and now, I am going to stay inside for at least a month, working on my inheritance and meditating. I loved it in the monastery, and if I did not have to go out to collect data and test my methods and other things, I would have stayed inside and worked on my inheritance, which obviously would have taken quite a long to create the inheritance. I opened the black door and walked through it; the moment I entered the other side, powerful divine energy hit me. I smiled, seeing that, before turning into the plants, two thousand, one and thirty plants. Every two months, I would collect the flowers and use some of the seeds to plant them till I had planted over two thousand plants, and aside from a few who died, every plant was growing exuberantly. Soon, I reached it and looked at thousands of flowers before beginning to harvest them. Like all the trees, this tree is also growing with the divine energy that is primary-II. So, at each harvest, they would grow a little more powerful, and with it, the flowers. It means the flowers of each harvest would be faintly higher grade than the ones harvested before. I had harvested them ten days before leaving, and now all the flowers are matured; I could not see even a single flower that was not filled to the brim with the amazing nectar. I have a big plan for this nectar, and I would need as much as possible because if I succeed in achieving what I am doing, then I will have a great thing in my hand. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮 If I fail, then not only am I going to lose a lot of nectar, even my life will be in danger. Soon, I finished harvesting all the flowers; I will soon need to extract all its nectar and hand it to Ashlyn tomorrow; she will take it to the place she had taken in the past two times. I did not immediately leave; instead, I looked at the first batch, which had reached the lord class finally, and now, the buds had started to form. The flowers will grow, and within a month, I will have knight-grade flowers; I will harvest half of them and plan to do that at each level. As it will be tremendously useful in the growing next generation of powerhouses in the academy. The academy had become powerful, but it still paled compared to the supreme. If we are able to defeat the big Grimms, I will wipe all the Grimms; Ramona Hawthorn was not able to do that, with them hiding in their artifact, even after gaining the power above the limit, but I will. With my abilities, it is not a big deal for me, and I have prepared for it. Only a big Grimm needs to die, and within a week, I will wipe out all the Grimms inside that bloody artifact. Once the Grimms disappear, and after we, the power dynamics in the world will change, and I want the academy to survive in those dynamics, and for it, we need to be strong. It is not a big thing for me; nothing is except for a big Grimm. Once I defeat it, everything will be easy. A laugh couldn't escape from my mouth; even now, there was a 99% chance that big Grimm would bury us all dead, and unless we killed it, there was no need to think about the future. As with it, there isn't any.