[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-re-evolution-online":3,"chapter-re-evolution-online-re-evolution-online-chapter-349":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Re: Evolution Online",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1706828,2181,"Chapter 349 - Breakthrough?","re-evolution-online-chapter-349",349,"\u003Cp>Liam clenched his fists in excitement. He knew what he needed to do next. It was time to grind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He grinned and leaned forward to grab the little fox who was silently nibbling the fresh bear meat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that he thought about it, he quickly connected the dots. The little glutton was eating all the time!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Didn't you just eat? How are you hungry already?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing his words, the little fox's face instantly changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It went from a loving, adorable smile to great shock and then realization, followed by a pouting, sulking, pitiful expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liam was speechless. He only stated the obvious, so why was this girl's reaction so exaggerated!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sorry. Sorry. I misspoke. I meant… since you haven't eaten much, you should be hungry now. Aha ha ha.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liam smiled and continued coaxing the little fox. \"How about you take these guys and do some hunting?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They are very dumb, and they don't know heads from tails. How about you take them under your wing, protect them, and teach them to kill?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can you do that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Liam's gentle face, warm smile, and soft words, the little fox instantly flipped 180 degrees and nodded her head enthusiastically with a bright, bubbly smile on her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kyuuuuu!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She even sent Liam a mental message.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Yes, master. Luna will make them strong.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good girl.\" Liam chuckled and dropped her down. \"Don't wander off too far, and if there is any danger, immediately talk to me or come back to me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The little fox nodded and then swung its body to face the small ghost army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kyuuuuu!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She growled, commanding the spectral beasts to follow her, but the undead only responded to Liam, so he also had to wave at them from the back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The group then swiftly left for their hunt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liam watched them go and let out a deep breath. He had a lot to do and a lot to finish before the others returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned around, leaving in the opposite direction to find more bears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked like forging Level 25 beasts was currently his limit as this in itself placed a lot of stress on his mind and body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few seconds later, Liam spotted another couple of spiked mountain bears, and just as he was about to lunge toward them, another party beat him to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A couple of fireballs landed on the spiked mountain bears from the other side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmmm… who is here?\" Liam quickly activated [Stealth] and then cautiously moved forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, just after a few steps, he halted in place. The scene in front of him was too surprising.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five wandering goblins were fighting with a pair of lesser dryads. From the looks of things, the dryads were on the winning side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that was before they aggroed the two spiked mountain bears. Now both the goblins and the bears were charging at the lesser dryads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could the Level 20 lesser dryads possibly handle this big group of monsters bearing their claws at them?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unexpectedly, at this exact moment, another new person entered the fray.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At once, the goblins, the bears, and the lesser dryads all turned to look at Liam. Whose side was this enemy on?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liam grinned in amusement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He unsheathed his sword and made a quick work of the goblins and the mountain bears, just leaving the dryads alone unharmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucky for the dryads, it looked like their savior arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two lesser dryads gawked at the human being in puzzlement. What a lovely person!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However… the next second, the purple sword once again flashed. Liam had not stopped with the goblins and the bears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, his main targets were the two lesser dryads!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SLASH. THUD.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a couple of carefully placed moves, the first one was critically injured and collapsed on the ground with just a sliver of health left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SLASH. SLASH. SLASH.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next one was directly killed with no health remaining. It turned out they weren't lucky after all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liam quickly kept his sword back and then focussed on the soul-bead seeping out of the lesser dryad's body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There it was!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was what he wanted all along. This was a beast that could cast magic spells. So would the resulting undead also be able to cast magic spells?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to find out!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hurriedly stabilized the soul bead by infusing the small thing in dense mana and then started his refined process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not want to take any chances this time so he started with two huge mana hammers and proceeded from there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>DANG. DANG. DANG.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slowly and patiently hammered the small bead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, the difficulty in forging this soul bead was much higher than the spiked mountain bear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though the level of this lesser dryad was lower than the bear, its essence, the soul bead was probably more complicated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liam felt a crushing weight on his body and mind, as pain rippled all over. It felt as if his hands were holding something colossal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, it felt as if his entire body was lifting something colossal. The pressure was simply unbearable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every single time he tried to manipulate the mana, his body twitched in pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he willed the mana hammers to descend on the soul bead and forge it, it felt as if a pair of giant hammers was beating him down as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Liam gritted his teeth and bore the pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though everything was just one step away from collapsing entirely and probably giving him a huge backlash, he felt as if he was close to something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he let this slip, he had a feeling that he would be missing out on something important.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After getting a taste of what this power could be, Liam couldn't bring himself to give up without putting up a fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This dryad could push his undead followers to a new level. He needed the two magic damage dealers in his lineup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He needed stronger followers faster!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His reddened eyes shone with resolution as his greed and pain warred inwardly with each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this was not a process that Liam could do blindly. He needed to be very conscious and very aware of what he was doing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not think it would be this difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, he wouldn't have attempted it, and now he was far too deep to back out. He had to keep going. That was his only option.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he bore the pain completely and continued the forging with all of his mental acuities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unfortunately, that was not enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liam felt the pain tear through his consciousness. This was his limit. There was simply no stretching it further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as everything was about to collapse and backfire on his face, he remembered something crucial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The loot that they had picked up in the last dungeon! There were five fire essence crystals in the haul!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liam did not want to expose everything about Luna in front of everyone so he had stored them away for later use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now he couldn't help but think of those fire essence crystals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past, he had obtained these crystals from slimes and he had also absorbed them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They in fact improved his ability to manipulate the fire element and gave him a damage buff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So if he absorbed these five crystals now, could that help him get through this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was this forging so tricky because the soul was branded with fire magic or something like that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several theories and conjectures popped up in his mind but Liam knew that he did not have time to think. He had to act NOW!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He quickly summoned the inventory space and took out the fire essence crystal from within it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another pang of horrendous pain tore through his brain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Liam bore everything and crushed the crystal in his palm. \"ABSORB!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shouted out loud. He could no longer think clearly. He was on the verge of collapse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, his efforts were not in vain.\u003C\u002Fp>",1340,"2026-06-06T14:49:04.731Z",1,"novelbin.me","0306798b13bad8fd3794d37faacf7ffb9b4dcfcb8b41ce7feb425095542a27ba","re-evolution-online-chapter-350","re-evolution-online-chapter-348",1446,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fre-evolution-online-cover.jpg"]