Victor reviewed the information about the extraordinary path in his mind. The first step on this path was to feel the active dark energy in the air. For this feeling, the method people used was the breathing method. Feeling dark energy with this method was not too difficult. Because dark energy was quite active on this planet. Finding the energy sensation was therefore not difficult. The only important point was to grasp the key steps in the breathing method and cooperate with the breathing method.
When the energy sensation was realized, people needed to focus all their senses and concentration on this energy sensation. This first energy sensation was the most important moment for the human body to take the first step of change.
The first energy beam felt needed to be absorbed into the body and create the spark that initiated the change. In this part, the key information of the special breathing interval and breathing rhythm came into play. In this case, people's sensitivity to energy was of the utmost importance. There was a saying that people always liked to use, "99% sweat, 1% talent." However, that 1% talent part was much more important than the 99% sweat part. There was a huge difference between ordinary people working for 5 hours and geniuses working for 5 hours.
However, Victor was not too worried about this. Because the probability of people being geniuses and the probability of being energy-insulating trash was almost the same, which was a very small probability. It was expected that almost all people would have average abilities between these two. It would only take time for people to accept this. Victor also thought that he had a pretty good mind in this regard. The difficulties of the last 10 years had worn him out and taught him that he was an ordinary person. He was probably an average talented man when it came to dark energy.
The first piece of energy that people absorbed into their bodies had the quality of being the catalyst for all the change in the human body. This change was like a drop of ink dropped into pure water, an event that started the change towards its own color. The human body did not have the hardware to use this energy. The thing that would create this hardware was the dark energy absorbed from the air being carried to the heart and the energy seed being formed.
This seed formed a new organ in humans that had both virtual and real sides. When this hardware was created, the human body could continue to slowly transform with dark energy even if it did nothing. However, this period was a very long passive development process. For active development, it was necessary to cooperate with the breathing method and both accelerate the absorption of dark energy and absorb it in a wider area.
Every piece of energy absorbed needed to be integrated into the blood with the nine movements learned at the beginning, purifying the mixed blood that did not contain any extraordinary energy with energy. The only function of this energy was not to purify the blood. The energy stored in the energy seed created the energy needed for people to make extraordinary movements and skills used in battle.
Ordinary people initially had no extraordinary elements in their blood. Their blood was mixed and the most ordinary blood. The energy seed formed in the heart aimed to change this and make the blood circulating in the body and the whole body more compatible with energy. However, for this situation to create a qualitative development, the energy level in the blood needed to develop to a certain point. Before this qualitative development, people still belonged to the ranks of ordinary people. However, to distinguish people who had formed blood seeds from other ordinary people, extraordinary people called people in this state blood seeds.
The blood seed state ended with the qualitative change in the human body when the dark energy state in people's blood reached 10%. What followed was the primitive body realm, which constituted a new level of life. While the seed level before the primitive body realm was still level 0 life in terms of life level, the primitive body realm was taking a step towards becoming real level 1 life. This was a real breakthrough in terms of life level. Also, according to the information here, every 1% increase in the energy concentration in the blood with the breathing method and postures made circulation in the human body easier, and the veins adapted more to the energy density, encouraging the transformation of other organs. 10% meant that the body as a whole had developed to a certain level and differentiated from ordinary organs to a certain extent.
However, reaching this state was not as easy as it seemed. The first 9% already represented each part of the 9 postures, and when 9% was reached, these postures began to lose their effectiveness. The remaining 1% constituted the most arduous part. To accelerate this process, the information said that only things like extraordinary fruits could be used, and there was no other special method.
Also, making breakthroughs between life levels was very difficult not only for humans but for all living things. And one of the reasons for this difficulty was the racial limitations set at the beginning. Humans were not creatures that evolved to be gods, but creatures that consciously tried to become gods through training. This required fighting against the hidden rules of the universe.
Also, the information here could only bring Victor up to the primitive body realm, and the information's function ended here. Victor felt the deep evil once again. A warrior who had just entered the primitive body might have some power in the village, but he was insignificant in the city.
He posed no threat to the administration and could easily be controlled. If he wanted to develop further, the only way out was to join the city lord's mansion and become one of the bandits working under the city lord. Also, when he saw the information here, he understood the city lord's power even more because although there was no information on how to develop, there was a small introduction about people who reached the 2nd and 3rd life levels. For the transition from the first level to the second level of life, the energy concentration in the blood needed to reach 30%. For the transition from the second level to the third level, the minimum concentration was 60%. At the end of the 3rd level, all of the blood was blended with 100% energy, and every cell in the blood became a carrier of dark energy. Therefore, the 2nd life level was called the mysterious blood realm and the 3rd life level the extreme blood realm. However, people had stagnated at this point. At this point, people had no idea how to reach the 4th life level.
Victor knew that all 8 city lords were in the extreme blood realm, but he had no idea how far they had progressed in this realm.
Victor increasingly understood why the old village head had given him such a reminder as he spent more time contemplating these facts. Every time people increased the dark energy concentration in their blood, they also needed to increase the amount of food they consumed. This was because, during this phase, ordinary blood would be expelled from the body in greater amounts, and the production of new, energy-filled blood would be stimulated each time. In this case, the body constantly needed external food supplements to regenerate itself. And this situation continued to increase exponentially with each step of increasing blood energy density.
Additionally, this blood exchange placed an extra burden on the human body. To reduce this burden, it was crucial that the consumed food contained more energy. If the body couldn't regenerate itself adequately with external food, it could even collapse on its own. This was because it couldn't obtain enough external energy to run its internal systems. Victor considered his own situation. It was impossible for him to eat such extraordinary foods like energy-rich fruits and herbs. Therefore, he needed to compensate by eating more ordinary food. If he couldn't compensate, his body would start to weaken instead of getting stronger. This was a situation Victor didn't want.
The old village head's initial warning to Victor was precisely about this. Ordinary people like Victor had to endure much more pain than their peers in the city if they wanted to change their destiny. No one hunted for them, and no one placed free meat and fruit in front of them; they had to do all these things themselves. That's why the old village head was so pessimistic about people in the village who wanted to be extraordinary.
Because he had gone through this path himself and knew how difficult it was to walk. Victor thought again about the mushrooms he had stored at home. These mushrooms, though ordinary food, were enough to last him half a year without doing anything. Now he understood that these mushrooms were not sufficient for his development to the primitive blood realm.
Perhaps they would end up without much progress even in the seed stage. However, he remembered that there were still 10 days until the solstice. Although he knew he couldn't use them all in these ten days, he needed to start preparing for the remaining 10 months. This food situation was insufficient for his development, and the mushrooms he grew clearly wouldn't support his development either. Therefore, he needed to prioritize hunting when he went outside this time.
This meant he would have to risk his life sooner or later. For this, he needed strength. Victor ultimately came back to the same sentence. In this world, if you want to live well without thinking about tomorrow even a little, pursuing strength was inevitable. Victor noticed this situation almost from the first days he arrived, so he disciplined himself with daily routines and archery practice every day. However, there was no one to teach him hunting, so he could only do what he knew from his past life.
But the environment here, even the light during the solstice, was very different from his past life. Since hunting was much more than just aiming and shooting, Victor hadn't achieved much despite trying for several years. However, this time he might succeed because if he entered the blood seed stage and made some progress, his strength would increase, and he would be more confident.
He would be able to go deeper, shoot arrows faster, and run faster. The strength gained from the blood seed and energy concentration was no joke.
According to the information in his mind, this development also represented development for his body.
The body was transforming in every way and beginning to step into superhuman levels. Even a 1% change in the blood seed realm could lead to gaining hundreds of kilograms of strength. Any human stepping into the first life level could have 1 ton of strength. While Bolt ran 100 meters in about 10 seconds in the Olympics, just a 1% energy concentration in the blood seed realm could bring people to that level. However, there was no detailed explanation of how much this development could be. After all, while the strength gained was easier to measure, it was difficult to measure human speed and reaction in the same way. And as speed increased, it was inevitable that this increase would gradually decrease.
There wasn't a geometric increase like the strength increase. However, what Victor cared about was being faster to hunt and being able to penetrate the defenses of monsters when he shot his arrows, so he could hunt them. When he tried to hunt ordinary animals before, he gave up because he wasn't as fast as them. For slower but stronger animals, he didn't even think about hunting them because he couldn't penetrate their skins and would become their food.
If he could get strong enough in the remaining 10 days here, he could change this situation and perhaps stock up enough food to advance to the primitive blood realm. Of course, this was the ideal scenario, and there was always a possibility that another hunter would hunt him while he was hunting. Therefore, it was a priority to be careful with every step outside and not bite off more than he could chew.
Even the warriors who hunted in the city were aware of this, but it's not for nothing that greed is one of the 7 deadly sins of humans. Perhaps people who obtained something good outside would die not at the hands of monsters but at the hands of some malicious people who robbed them and took that thing for free. The law of survival here is that cruel.
Victor realized that he had been distracted and lost in deep thoughts again. It was normal for him to be constantly distracted because every piece of information he controlled here became something that determined his life. After all, he was thinking about a series of problems that would affect his life with his next step here.