378. Chapter 373 The Horrors of Gods and Demons

After the hidden danger in Ancient One's body had been removed, there was no need for Dilos to remain. Besides, he had other matters to attend to. After exchanging a few polite words with Ancient One and receiving a small gift from her, he left Kamar-Taj through its dimensional exit under the guidance of several low-ranking Kamar-Taj mages. He then immediately teleported back to the underground base on Isla Sorna and replenished his true essence at once.

There was no helping it. Although only thirty percent of his true essence had been consumed while removing the danger from Ancient One's body, Dilos still felt that it was far too much.

True essence was almost impossible to exhaust in the first place, let alone the dust-like true essence condensed and compressed from it. Thus, ever since Dilos had first condensed true essence crystals, he had practically never needed to replenish his energy. That had remained the case until he achieved a soul.

He had never expected the process of achieving a soul to consume so much true essence. Afterward, even the golden vortex in his abdomen had been depleted in order to stabilize his soul. Therefore, during the two weeks he spent handling official business, Dilos had also made time to use life serum and Pym Particles to forge the golden vortex within his body anew, completely filling it with highly concentrated dust-like true essence crystals.

Yet even so, helping Ancient One resolve the hidden danger in her body had still consumed thirty percent of his crystallized true essence. It left Dilos under immense pressure.

After all, achieving a soul and gaining complete control over it had only consumed one and a half layers of the crystallized true essence stored in a fully charged golden vortex.

According to Dilos's calculations, once