Albis gained a little less, only twenty thousand, reaching one hundred forty thousand.
The one who gained the most was Sophia.
This White Tiger Princess originally had one hundred ten thousand magicules. After slaughtering a large number of monsters, her strength had already surpassed her two companions, reaching one hundred sixty thousand.
"Yes."
Albis sighed. "We lived for hundreds of years, enduring so much hardship, just to reach our current strength."
"But in such a short amount of time, the gains we made are equivalent to decades of hard training."
"Splash, splash."
After finishing her cleaning, Sophia shook the water from her fur, then transformed back into her Beast Warrior form.
"Isn't that great?"
Sophia smiled, clenched her fists, and swung them through the air a few times. "The feeling of getting stronger is simply amazing."
"I just…"
Albis said, "I just feel a bit uneasy."
"After all, the monsters in this forest are completely different from those outside."
Albis's words immediately drew everyone's attention.
Just moments ago, they had been focused only on improvement.
Now that they had calmed down, everyone finally grasped the key issue.
"Every time I kill these monsters, a surge of magicules flows into my body and turns directly into our strength."
There was no concept of evil training methods in the Cardinal World.
Here, plundering magicules from other monsters through slaughter was extremely common.
However, even Sophia, who had grown up doing this since childhood, felt how unusual this gain was.
"More importantly, we don't feel any side effects from increasing our magicules this way."
This was the strangest point Albis had noticed.
"Ah, that's true."
Sophia nodded. "These magicules are very pure, almost as if they were deliberately created by someone to nurture monsters."
From this, it was clear that although the Beast Warrior team appeared to be under constant attack, they were actually the ones reaping enormous benefits.
The monsters of the Great Jura Forest were originally ferocious beings born from magicules.
In theory, the higher the concentration of magicules, the stronger the monsters born there.
So what about the Great Jura Forest.
Just look at the setup here.
Leaving Rin aside, there were two Dragon Gods alone, plus so many Awakened Demon Lords, along with the various domain radiations they possessed.
If the monsters outside were eating rice husks and wild vegetables,
Then the monsters here were feasting on fish and meat every meal, with balanced nutrition and an endless supply of heavenly materials and earthly treasures being stuffed into their mouths.
How could monsters born like this be ordinary.
Not to mention their combat strength.
Just the materials dropped after killing them would be enough to drive the outside world insane.
As for monsters.
By killing these monsters, it was as if everyone had their own monster slaying and power growth system.
As long as they kept harvesting monsters, they could continue to grow stronger until reaching the limit their souls could withstand.
"Rumble."
"Again?"
Wave after wave, rather than attacks, it felt more like someone was deliberately feeding them monsters.
"Boom."
Another hour passed. Sophia's spirit was somewhat tired, but her body showed no sign of weakness. Instead, she looked even more radiant.
This was the positive feedback brought by the increase in magicules.
"This monster is really strong."
Sophia looked at the leader class monster that appeared in the tide and turned to Albis. "But is it really fine to let me take on such a big one?"
"It's just a test."
After saying that, Albis turned to the warriors behind her and asked whether their magicules had increased.
"They increased."
"Mine too."
"So it's not only the one who lands the killing blow that gains magicules?"
"What's going on?"
Sophia noticed everyone's reactions and immediately understood Albis's intention.
That monster just now was already comparable to a Demon Lord Seed within the Special A Rank.
Even the Beast Warrior legion had only managed to defeat it without casualties through coordinated effort.
Only at the very end did Albis give Sophia the chance to deliver the finishing blow.
"Just as I thought."
Albis said, "It's not only the one who kills the monster that benefits."
As the monster fell, streams of refined magicules flowed toward everyone.
Not only Albis and Sophia, but also Fobio and the other Beast Warrior soldiers.
Without exception, everyone who participated in the battle gained a portion of magicules.
"The approximate distribution seems to be that the one who delivers the final blow gets thirty percent, while the rest is redistributed according to contribution."
Albis muttered, "This feels as if someone high above is watching everything that happens."
"If you put it that way…"
"By the way, haven't you noticed how strange this forest feels?"
"I always feel that ever since we entered, there has been some force interfering with my judgment."
Sophia appeared carefree, but she was extremely meticulous. Even during battle, she noticed the abnormalities of the forest.
"According to that, it's very likely some kind of domain type ability."
Albis truly lived up to being Lion King Carrion's top strategist, immediately identifying their situation.
"A domain."
An existence capable of such an ability was definitely not simple.
The only beings Sophia could think of were the Dryads who had lived in the Great Jura Forest since ancient times.
Do not underestimate the Treyni sisters just because they were not very prominent under Rin.
In the legends of the Cardinal World, they were mysterious existences.
Almost every race's inherited records mentioned the Dryads of the Great Jura Forest.
"Ah."
Albis said, "It's an extremely powerful ability, but the other party doesn't seem to have any hostile intent."
She also felt that the one behind all this was very likely the Dryads.
If they were enemies, then the attacks should have already fallen upon them. There was no reason to wait this long.
Nor would they deliberately allow them to realize they were being guided.
Moreover, monsters were being sent wave after wave, increasing their magicules.
If they were enemies, then Sophia's strength had nearly doubled.
Wasn't this investment a bit too absurd.
What kind of faction would be so rich and generous as to nurture a Special A Rank existence into a Demon Lord Seed.
This was practically charity.
(To be continued.)