The next moment basic information about the system is loaded into Alex's brain. It was his gold finger.
'Argh Huuu, at last, my gold finger is here' thought Alex
He has read enough novels to know about the existence of gold fingers. What his gold finger does is when a person dies in his extraction range their soul space merges with his soul space expanding his soul space and giving him the items in it. It is completely broken because normally soul space expanding objects are treated as a family treasure only given to the top genius of the family. As he is exiled from his family this would help him a lot.
'Hmm, so that's how extraction range works' he thought.
While fiddling with the system interface there was a loud noise
*ARGH BOOM
Along with the sound of a person dying followed by the sound of the explosion was heard. There was a smoke cloud rising from an alley.
"Jeff!! What's happening"
"Yes my lord" with the reply jeff commanded one of his men to investigate the alley where smoke is coming out
Just as the knight went to investigate in front of Alex the window appeared
< acquired basic soul energy assimilation manual(purple-tier) x1 >
< hosts soul space is expanded to mortal tier-4>
'WHAT!!! a soul cultivation method seems like this matter is not as simple as I thought'
The knight who was sent out to investigate returned.
"Jeff, what happened?"
"Lord it seems there was a fight between a local thug group and a foreigner, the foreigner seems to be a skilled warrior so he killed the people who ganged up on him but as he was outnumbered, he used a peculiar device and perished which resulted in the explosion"
"Hmm, let's move on when we reach the manor I want you to investigate this matter thoroughly for now just report this to the city patrol to clean up the mess"
"yes my lord"
'looks like I first need to clean up the city' thought Alex
After one hour the carriage reached the city lord's manor. It looked like an abandoned ghost house.
"Urgg, just how long has it not been maintained. Lena clean one room for me to rest, and report on the situation of the manor to Sebas to get it fixed"
"Yes, my lord"
"Yes, my lord"
Lena and Sebas bowed and quickly got to work. The knights helped out too and a room was cleaned for Alex to rest. Alex ordered everyone to get rest and get used to their new posts and went into the room to rest. After two hours of nap, he got up.
'If I remember correctly there was a cultivation method in the items I extracted'
Alex opened his soul storage and was surprised by the number of objects in it
"System, where did these, come from"
'so when I was asleep these things got here is there a way to know what are all here'
"System can you show me when and what are in here"
"yes"
And a list appeared in front of Alex
< acquired basic soul energy assimilation manual(purple-tier) x1 >
< hosts soul space is expanded to mortal tier-4>
< absorbed mortal tier-8 soul space x1>
< absorbed mortal tier-7 soul space x1>
< absorbed mortal tier-9 soul space x1>
< absorbed mortal tier-8 soul space x1>
< absorbed mortal tier-9 soul space x1>
< absorbed mortal tier-9 soul space x1>
< absorbed mortal tier-9 soul space x1>
< absorbed mortal tier-8 soul space x1>
<...…>
Just looking at the list goes Alex felt a headache. He couldn't even read it all in one day. He was happy that his soul space increased but this just shows how insecure this place is he wanted to know just what was the family doing to allow a city such as this to grow.
"Huff looks like if I need to survive here, I need to get stronger. Oh, now that I think about it there is a proper cultivation method for me to use"
And he takes out a book from his soul space with the title basic soul energy assimilation manual. This is rare because nobody writes down their cultivation technique as it is normally passed through the family from father to son, son to grandson, etc. if it is written it is low-level ones that were traded. But the system classifies it as purple tier which is pretty high level.
The cultivation technique is classified into a grey tier, blue tier, green tier, purple tier, gold tier, and orange tier with grey with low efficiency and orange with the highest efficiency. As he was hated by the family after the soul space awakening, he only learned the lowest tier of the family's cultivation technique a blue tier one which is used for training recruit knights as commoners doesn't even have access to blue tier ones.
"Hmm let's try this one out anyway it is higher than my one technique"
With that said Alex flips the page of the book reading it. What it says is simple just sit is a comfortable posture that allows one to maintain it for a long time and follow a set of breathing exercises repeatedly which would allow one to perceive the soul energy around one soul and collect it. The collected energy is used to first strengthen the body as well as the soul.it also contained tips written on it presumably by the previous owner.
"Seems easy "
Alex sits on the bed because is if he lies on it he feared he would go to sleep and follows the instruction on the manual and makes use of the tips within 10 minutes he can feel some sort of energy around his soul which gets absorbed by the soul and passed through soul space this energy flowed from his soul space to his body which felt as if his muscles are restless it was uncomfortable at the start but he got used to it. He immersed himself into cultivation as felt this was necessary to survive.
When he was cultivation the system was also tirelessly absorbing soul space that pops up in the city.