Eye System

While Lex's clones hunted Sky Mortal beasts, that would be used to refill the beast storages, Lex cultivated and the fox beasts devoured as many beast cores and as much beast meat as they could.

[System can you explain the cultivation process of the fox beasts in more detail and tell me about their origin] asked Lex, hoping the system knew more than he could gather from his observations and brief knowledge about beasts.

{Ding, the system has some knowledge of the fox beasts that the host has come across, but most of it is not yet allowed to be revealed to the host.

However, what the system can tell the host, is that the fox beasts are rare and it will be almost impossible to come across anymore.

The way they cultivate is just like the host has observed and their bodies can consume almost any form of energy that will be stored within them. Then during their sleep, their bodies will digest and absorb more energy from the atmosphere to improve their bodies and breakthrough.

However, they cannot rely only on absorbing energy and sleeping, as the energy capacity of their bodies increases by them surpassing their limits through combat and training and just like humans, beasts can reach bottlenecks} answered the system.

Lex was slightly let down by the revelation of there being information that was being withheld from him, but it also excited him to find out more about the fox beasts and watch them grow.

The strain on the Self-Cloning Eye after cloning, was hard to bear especially when the clones were far away from their host, which would put more strain on the link with the clones, making it hard for Lex to do much.

Circulating his energy and absorbing energy, using it to temper his body internally and externally, Lex continued to cultivate to soothe his pain in his eyes.

Meanwhile, the fox beasts wolfed down large amounts of beast meat and beast cores, that would have caused other beasts to explode or be overwhelmed by the energy, and after each fox beast at their fill, they all fell into a deep slumber.

Each fox beast seemed to have a different capacity to the amount of energy they could store within their bodies at once, which varied slightly between them and also signified the speed at which they could increase in strength.

The last 5 that continued to eat were the 5 Unit Leaders, that with their strong wills to succeed and please their master, were able to surpass their limits and all entered a deep slumber.

While they slept, all the fox beasts had a faint golden glow around their bodies, as their bodies absorbed energy and digested the energy stored within their bodies.

After an entire day, Lex finally began to see a few fox beasts leaving the storage area, and all of them were the young fox beasts that couldn't store much energy.

They all jumped around Lex wanting to play, and Lex couldn't help but play with the cute and young fox beasts, like he used to do with Kano from his past reality.

They continued to chase after him around the fox tribe, and Lex was only jogging and testing out their speed.

Although in comparison to himself, their speed wasn't amazing, but comparing it to humans he had come across at the same rank as them, they were much faster.

After a while, more and more fox beasts had left the storage area and most of them could not eat any more, as they had reached a small bottleneck.

Lex returned to cultivate and allowed the fox beasts to play and train between themselves, still waiting for his clones to return after running dangerously low on energy or coming across a threat.

After a few days, all of the fox beasts had left the storages apart from the 5 Unit Leaders that were still in a deep slumber.

[It seems as though the Unit Leaders will breakthrough without needing to surpass their limits through combat. The pressure placed on them as leaders must already be enough] observed Lex.

"All of you will train between yourselves and wait for your Unit Leaders to return" ordered Lex to the fox beasts awake, that all followed his instructions.

While they trained between themselves, Lex pulled on the link with his clones, signalling for them to return.

But as he did so, he was shocked to feel that one of his clones was suddenly killed as the link with the clone was forcefully broken and caused Lex backlash.

Instantly there was immense pain in his eyes as he blurted out a curdle of blood from the sudden shock that his body was put through.

Lex pulled on the link with the final two clones and urged them to return as quickly as they could, worried that his body couldn't handle the backlash from them also being killed.

He quickly began to circulate his energy and attempt to recover his body as his two clones rushed back towards Lex.

The three clones had split up to cover their own areas, and the unlucky clone, that had the Spacial Eye relayed, came across a tribe of powerful beasts, and before it could turn to retreat, despite its strength being at the peak of the Sky Mortal Rank, it was still killed.

The two clones returned to Lex's side, who didn't reabsorb them back into his body until he felt he had mostly recovered.

It took him two days to feel comfortable with the health and the stability of his body before reabsorbing his clones.

He began to scour through their experiences, hoping that they may have seen what had happened to the clone with the Spacial Eye relayed to it.

But after doing so, he found nothing unusual within their memories and experiences, that were also transferred to him along with everything else.

[It seems I have underestimated the beasts in these Underground Coves] thought Lex to himself.