A breeze kept blowing.
An Kai's Orc Bone Finger had been exposed five times.
Each time, the orc beneath his foot happened to see it.
He figured that if this Tier Two, seventh-stage orc had any means of passing on a message, he should have done it by now.
So he stopped hesitating.
He stomped down hard.
The orc's head burst like a firework...
He put the Orc Bone Finger in his sleeve back into his Storage Ring.
At his beckoning, the [Guardian Treant] atop the dune came running like a lapdog, wagging its crown.
Without further instructions from An Kai, it plunged into the former orc settlement, where scorching heat still lingered everywhere.
When it emerged again, burns covered its body, and even its crown gave off the smell of scorched wood.
Deep within its crown, however, were Magic Cores and some Orc Insignias the [Guardian Treant] had retrieved from the Orc Settlement.
There were 31 Tier-One Magic Cores (Lv1→Lv10).
There were 12 Tier-Two Magic Cores (Lv11→Lv20).
Together with An Kai's reserves, he now had 232 Tier-Two Magic Cores.
He had originally obtained 300 Tier-Two Magic Cores through Summoning over the course of a year.
But after running out of Tier-One Magic Cores, he had been forced to use Tier-Two Magic Cores to power the [Beast Meat Refining Station]. Thus, after a year, only 220 of the original 300 remained.
An Kai was in no hurry to exchange these Magic Cores for skill points. After a year and a half in seclusion, he still had 101 skill points left.
He had not used them all up.
All five of his spells had also reached their current maximum levels.
This was the first time An Kai had emerged from seclusion with resources left over...
Unfortunately, this orc settlement was rather