12 Third Energy

A groan resounded from Lucas's twitching mouth. His lips are barely having a reddish color, obvious that he is pale right now. His hands were placed on top of his body while he was lied down on a bench.

When he opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was a light from a stone on the ceiling. His eyes ventured to check the area and saw himself on a bench that was supposed to be for receptionists.

The receptionist area wasn't crowded, instead, only a minimal number of personnel are standing before him facing their backs.

As he groaned again, staff noticed his presence, looked at him before speaking.

"You're finally awake. Please stand up and pay for the excess payment, you overstayed." A male staff glared at him with a disdainful eye. Though Lucas wasn't intimidated by it, he just nodded before sitting down and caressed his temple.

He remembers that before he passed out, he was drilling his body to make a passage for his third energy; now at the present, he has 3 kinds of energy, flowing inside his veins.

He checked his new pool to see if there are abnormalities with it and smiled when he saw none.

'Even though it is still green and can't be compared with my dantian and core, it is still helpful since I can double up my speed in cultivation.'

His body has an energy absorption ability which gives him ease in absorbing energy. However, it existed inside his core which makes it questionable that it can absorb spiritual energy. Thus, he concluded that the reason he got reached the peak of Apprentice Spirit Realm was because of it.

If the other half of his absorbed spiritual energy just goes straight to his dantian, maybe he already reached mid-level of the Warrior stage.

He sighed before looking at his cultivation base.

"2nd level Warrior Spirit Realm. Surprisingly, it was fast." He mumbled.

However, there is still one thing that he can't measure; it was his third energy. If somehow, he can measure it and know its purpose, he might get a use for it.

Since he already knew that it was a result of mana and Qi, which category should it fall? For cultivators or mages?

The only difference between cultivators and mages is the specification use of their energies. Mana is for magic while spiritual energies are for extraordinary abilities and attacks. But the difference between them, especially for Lucas is quite vague since he only had a little grasp of being a cultivator.

He stood up slowly and asked a staff about his excess payment.

"Excuse me. I was from room 14, can I ask how much time did I overused?" He asked at a lady who was passing by.

The female staff stopped and checked his record. "It was 5 hours."

"Shit." He swore, realizing that he doesn't have enough money to pay.

'Wait… if I was right, I haven't used the monster cores. Maybe I can use it for payment since it has a value with it.' He thought.

"Do you accept monster core as a payment? I kind of used all my money at my order."

The staff widened her eyes and was speechless with Lucas's words. When Lucas noticed it, he instinctively took back his words.

"Oh. Sorry if I requested to pay using my monster cores."

"No, it's okay." The staff spoke. "I can accept it. What cultivation base was it?"

'Oh, so they accept?' He thought.

"It's at least at the 7th level of Apprentice Spirit Realm."

"I see. Please wait a moment, I will get a recorder for it. Just prepare the monster core and I will have an appraiser to check for it." The staff said before leaving him.

'Thank goodness I asked it!' He smiled and took out a monster core from his storage magic secretly.

Moments later, the staff came back with an object in her hands.

"This… Please place the orb to check the quality of the core." She said.

Lucas nodded then put the monster core inside the object that seems to be a resemblance to a bowl. Even it was a ridiculously strange object, Lucas didn't mind it as he has more to learn about the world's objects.

Minutes later, the appraiser glowed in yellow. "This is average quality. You can have the equivalent of 50 hours for it."

Lucas raised his eyebrow when he heard the staff. He asked to know why she calculated it by hours.

"Hours? Can't it be exchanged as money?"

The staff shook her head. "No sir. We exchange resources for service hours. If the cultivator doesn't have money to pay, they can exchange using their resources without service. This appraiser calculates the stored spiritual energy within the resources."

"I see… That was knowledgeable. So what happens here?"

"I will deduct your overused time to your exchanged hours to I can give you 45 hours of service." The staff said.

"Okay… So… I'm good?"

"Yes, sir. Please take this recorder, you have 45 hours there." She said before handing out a card-like object that resembles more of a jade slip. "Just swipe it on a vacant room's door and the 45 hours will be transferred to the room for you to use."

"I understand. Is there more that I need to know?" Lucas asked.

"If you want to have another trade just present that recorder and we will transfer a time in it."

"Thank you for explaining."

After it, the staff left him with a bow. Since there's nothing that Lucas has to do, he searched for a vacant room and used his time.

Inside the room, he sat in lotus form, looked at the properties of his third energy.

He inspected it if he can use it for magic, thus, he activated a spell using his third energy.

After few seconds, he successfully conjured a small ball of fire as he wanted.

"This is awesome. I still don't know if I can use it for cultivation attacks but this is still awesome. My stocked mana can be used to produce this type of energy while I absorb spiritual energy!" He excitedly cried in joy.

However, a problem emerged after celebrating his third energy; it was the secrecy of it. If other people get to discover his unknown powers, it would be worse to handle them.

Since there are people living in this vast world that are stronger than him, he can't be complacent using it in the public. Furthermore, he can be used as an experiment or used for others to acquire his third energy.

Thus, what's needed to be done is for him to be vigilant using it. Leave the mysterious aura that can be felt from him, if somehow, he gets into trouble, he can just use magic to escape them.

An idea just didn't get into his mind. Everything can be reasoned out by saying it's an effect of a treasure. However, he still doesn't know the vast use of treasures in this world.

In his previous world, the common term for treasures is artifacts. Seemingly, it also appears that he unconsciously take things into account, making him learn things without being aware of them.

Even it was too late to be wary, he thought that even he is still in lower heavens where immortals don't exist, he still doesn't know how the world works with plenty of cultivators.

"So, I need to study this world's standard's power. Then powerful people who can put a fight with me. This is not the same world that I lived in, this is wider than it. Even I don't have a purpose and just enjoying experimenting, I can't let a tragedy happen before enjoying this life." He mumbled fiercely as his teeth are gritting from each other.

"I need to raise my cultivation and find a way to hide it from others. While I observe my core to be sure that it won't reject spiritual energy, I have to live with vigilance before settling for good." He continued before focusing on cultivating.

2 days later, he finally finished cultivating. The doors of the room opened then he stood up leaving the room.

Within that 2 days, the process of his cultivation became weak. He only got to break through 3rd level, however, his third energy's cultivation reached higher than his cultivation base.

If measured with the cultivation standard, he is currently at the 7th level of Warrior Spirit Realm.

Leaving the building with a smile, Lucas finally decided the next things he should do, and it is to earn money to buy some martial techniques.

Since martial arts was his weakness in his previous life, it wouldn't be the same since cultivation enhance the martial arts abilities of the individual.

Thus, he left the city and went straight to the forest nearby to hunt for monster cores. Even he doesn't know where he can sell monster cores, he still has a clue that he can sell it somewhere since there is a building that sells lower qualities of it.

"I need to buy martial technique, that's my goal right now. If I can use this third energy in martial techniques, it would be crazy! Let's go travel the world after this!" He exclaimed in joy.

Though it is unwanted, he still remained vigilant until he had a good foundation on his cultivation. He can't just use magic every time, now that he knew that this place is the lowest among the other heavens.

And if he wanted to live with other immortals, he at least needed to raise his cultivation and preserve his mana since the world was scarce of it. And he doesn't have the specialty where the most people needed to live in this world, he was left with no choice but to try to convert into a cultivator without forgetting being a mage since it is where he came from.

Now, he is only left with the idea of blending the knowledge of magic with the knowledge of cultivation which is he is about to learn.