Inside a workshop that had been specially set aside.
Two Shadow Sailfish had both been thrown onto the floor.
Charles was preparing to extract the essence from these Shadow Sailfish.
Advancing as a Tide Warrior required the flesh-and-blood essence and magic core of a Magic Beast.
If Tide Warriors advanced on their own, they had to eat much more Magic Beast flesh, because they had no means of refining it.
The Magic Beasts' blood could not be wasted either; it would be used to draw totems.
This was a relatively lengthy process, because relying solely on eating to absorb energy had very low efficiency.
The totems on Tide Warriors were not a single whole, but a collection of runes. By repeatedly drawing certain totems, they absorbed power and strengthened themselves.
As for Tide Priests, their method was similar, but its effects were far more advanced.
Tide Warriors themselves had to constantly eat meat and drink blood to absorb the essence.
Tide Priests, however, could use spells to condense the flesh-and-blood essence of Magic Beasts.
They would then guide that essence into the Tide Warriors' bodies and use it to draw totems.
Relatively speaking, it saved more materials.
The way to distinguish between the two kinds of Tide Warriors was also simple.
If the totems on their bodies were complex, layer upon layer, they were Tide Warriors who had advanced on their own.
If the totems on their bodies were relatively neat and fewer in number, they had been assisted in their advancement by Tide Priests.
Charles had learned the old Tide Priest's methods and already knew the entire process like the back of his hand.
He could even confidently say that, in certain respects, he could do better than Tide Priests.
The limits of this plane were right there.
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