The Bizarre Wizarding World

Chapter 608 - 391: Cave Factor_2

Chapter 608: Chapter 391: Cave Factor_2"And then, I felt something smack me on the head," he recollected, reaching out to discover precisely this book... these notes."

’Dragonfly-like bizarre cave creatures, huh...’

Colin nodded silently, then after a moment cast a glance at Alec and waved his hand gently.

A pale blue chill spread through the air, but this time, he did not freeze Alec again. Instead, he constructed a vast cage around him, akin to the iron cages used to imprison humans for food within the cave.

Having done all this, Colin instructed Onions to keep a close watch on the remnants of the Wood Family and then withdrew alone to ponder in the Quiet Room.

He harbored some doubts in his mind.

Alec’s words were evidently not lies; he had questioned him many times, and there were no inconsistencies, nor did his witchcraft checks reveal any deceit.

But... within Cumberland’s re

Having understood all this, Colin no longer delayed and, as evening approached, he hurriedly brought Onions to the cave area.

He left only three Frost Shadows to guard the underground laboratory in the wilderness.

After a round of gathering and fighting, before dawn broke, Colin returned to the wilderness underground with the harvested cave beasts.

He planned to first understand what exactly was influencing the efficiency of the Giant Mountain Breathing Method’s training within the bodies of the cave beasts.

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Half a month swiftly passed, and the progress of the research was much faster than Colin had anticipated.

After capturing a few samples of cave animals and plants,

after some screening and comparison, Colin soon successfully identified the parts within them that affected the training of the Giant Mountain Breathing Method!

It was a special energy existing within the bodies of the cave creatures, which Colin named the "Cave Factor."

The Cave Factor was basically present in most of the cave creatures’ bodies. The reason Onions mentioned only some plants was simply that he had only eaten those few cave plants.

But Alec was different; over hundreds of years, he had eaten almost all the common cave creatures found in the shallow layers of the cave, and they all essentially helped with the training of the Giant Mountain Breathing Method.

This was consistent with Colin’s research findings.

According to the tests, the Cave Factor was not only difficult to detect but also inherently inert, not reacting with magic power, spirit, or even blood energy or fighting aura.

If ordinary people consumed cave creatures, the Cave Factor would enter their body, but only temporarily, gradually fading away with time.

However, the situation was different with knights practicing the Giant Mountain Breathing Method — the Cave Factor would linger in the body for a long time and gather towards the heart!

The specific reason was still unknown, but Colin speculated that it might be related to the fact that the Giant Mountain Breathing Method directly strengthened the body, rather than indirectly through blood energy.

Normally, for regular knights, the enhancement of the body is mostly brought about indirectly by the nourishment of blood energy, which becomes more apparent later on.

After all, common physical exercises are most likely to enhance external muscles but are hardly able to improve internal aspects, such as vision, senses, or even digestive abilities.

And the reason why the knight’s practice is also considered a transcendental path is because the nourishment from blood energy can bring about improvements in all aspects, something that simple physical exercise can’t achieve.

However, even with the nourishment of blood energy, the enhancement of the body has its limits, typically reaching its peak at the Great Knight stage.

At that time, it becomes a competition of blood energy accumulation and combat experience.

The Giant Mountain Breathing Method, however, was not like this; it directly strengthened the body, not indirectly through blood energy, and could continue to do so even at the Great Knight stage.

Due to practicing too many different Breathing Skills and having an exceptionally strong body, Colin had not noticed this before.

Even now, having recognized it, he still couldn’t find any difference between the flesh directly strengthened by the Giant Mountain Breathing Method and flesh indirectly enhanced by Knight Blood.

However, since the Cave Factor showed different reactions to the two, it suggested that there was indeed a difference, one that still required further research.

Unfortunately, time was always short; half a month had gone by.

Colin planned to return to Golden Barley first, as the time he had given Welber to cover for him was only half a month—although the latter had said even two or three months would be no problem.

But to be on the safe side, Colin still planned to head back to Golden Barley for now.

Moreover, he needed to figure out a way to handle the guard duty to focus as much energy as possible on knight research.

Although, according to the current pace, it would take at most another half a year for all the Breathing Skills on the Golden Paper to be fully integrated and break the limit.

But to practice the integrated new Breathing Skill to the point of limit-breaking and to advance further on the knight’s path would likely take several more years.

And if there were breakthroughs in the research of the Giant Mountain Breathing Method, perhaps the time required could be greatly reduced.