The Bloodline Essence continued to come at me, each drop containing hundreds of thousands of the shining Bloodline Essence Crystals.

I could already see the changes happening on my runes as they begin to consume the crystalline bloodline essence. 

My runes are not the only thing that is going through the changes; the egg of Nero also going through the changes, the faint crystalline patterns are appearing on it.

I couldn't help but feel exasperated when I looked at the egg; it had gone through many changes, and each change of it brought me hope of Nero coming out, but that never happened. He will come out when he is ready; until then, I will feed him whatever he wants.

The thick bloodline essence continued coming inside me, and its being shared by various parties. I am sure all the parties inside me are quite satisfied with the quality of the meal, it is much better than previous which was best we ever had.

I wonder how many cells would it able to fill; there are around one million and two hundred cells remained in honeycomb, and there is a chance that this thick bloodline essence will be able to fill all of them.

No, matter how many cells it filled, this Bloodline essence going to increase my strength enough that I won't have to fear any elite. I might not be able to defeat them, but they will sure as hell won't be able to kill me; I won't end up in the desperate condition I am in now while fighting an elite.

The Bloodline Essence continued for minutes more before it stopped; the runes have harnessed every bit of the bloodline essence the Bone Snakeman has. Now it is dead, and its whole body is dried husk that I could crush with a simple touch.

Buzz!

A second later, the floodgates opened, and very thick energy filled every part of my body, making me feel like over expanded balloon that if cells of honeycomb had not started to fill themselves, I would have exploded into a bang.

The moment after cells started filling and merging with me, I stopped burning my essence, and just as I did, I felt a weakness like never before. 

It is too powerful, and if not for my body is being supplied with precious strengthening energy, I would not be standing in my place, albeit shaking. I am not the only one shaking; the ice did; I am also shaking; it looked like it could collapse at any moment.

Despite feeling immense weakness, I poured my energy into stabilizing the ice dome before I closed my eyes and let the energy and honeycomb do its job.

More and more cells continued feeling it, and that helped elevate my tiredness; within ten seconds, I felt fine enough to function.

The strengthening energy this time is very pure and concentrated. It is more than two hundred times stronger than the strengthening energy I had got from the werewolf. So, even though the size of cells has remained the same as the last time, the quality of the energy is much better.

Each cell is provided me more than double the strength of the energy of the werewolf, and it couldn't help but make me very happy.

Thousands of cells got filled every second, taking my strength to a completely new degree. Due to it, much of the tiredness had already vanished, and the rest that remained could only be relived through the rest or sleep if I had time.

Finally, the last cell took the last bit of energy and merged inside me. The strengthening energy was able to fill around nine hundred and fifty thousand cells of a honeycomb, nearly a million cells. Seeing that a bright smile couldn't help but appear on my face.

The boost I had received this time was more than I had imagined. I have now become so powerful that if I had fought against the Bone Snakeman now, I wouldn't need more than twenty minutes to defeat, and it would be without my vines.

With this increse, I have now entered the league of powerful elites; 80% of elites out there are no match of mine, and the rest 20% won't be able to kill me if I fight them one on one.

The amazing thing is, this isn't my limit; there are still three hundred cells remaining to be filled. If I find especially powerful Elite and filled them with its energy, my strength will increase further, and I will make my name in peak elites.

A few months ago, I had not thought I would reach this stage. While I knew I would be able to reach the Elite stage but it barely crossing that stage, not reaching this far, and had a chance to go even a little further.

I calmed down after a few seconds before I took out the Essence Rose from the Bone Snakemans body and also everything precious it had, including its storage.

I looked at the beautiful violet while rose; this rose contains a huge amount of energy. It had the complete essence of Bone Snakeman. I admired this wonderful thing for a while before I stored it and turned toward the storage of the Grimm Monster.

When I looked inside, I was not disappointed at all. It had the storage of powerful Elite; it is filled with things that would make my eyes go wide, both in happiness and horror; it is filled with all sorts of things, from precious herbs to half-eaten human bodies.

'What is that?' I said to myself when I going through the storage of the Bone Snakeman, I had seen something very interesting in the crystalline storage box.

'Gasp!'

I took out the crystalline box and opened it; just as I did, I couldn't help but gasp loudly. It was less of a gasp and more of a shriek of extreme happiness.

It is a Miracle Fruit, not a normal miracle fruit; regular miracle fruits did not interest me anymore. The miracle fruit inside is 'Curse' elemental Miracle Fruit, and going by its fluctuation, it is quite powerful.