“I used the third serum not long ago, and when I bring it to the top, my power will go up to 600 units. That will make me six times stronger than the strongest person on Earth before the invasion.” Miles thought to himself. “Every serum in G-Series increases muscle power by 200 units.

When I use the fourth serum, it will increase my power to 800 units. After that, F-Series serums. The amounts will increase tremendously from then on. Even the first F-Tier Serum will increase my power to 1200 units. With that much power, I should be able to throw a car with ease.”

Miles got excited as he dreamed about those days. But he still had some time before he could use F-Tier serums. Using two serums took almost a year. It was mostly waiting because he didn’t have any money to buy the second one, but still, he didn’t think he could use the fourth serum before half a year.

Miles sat on the ground and reviewed the Exaltedness of the Creator. The art wasn’t complicated, at least not in the first level. From the second level, it got a little bit more confusing, but still, with detailed schematics stored in his mind by Jelly’s mother, he could understand it.

“Art is better than anything I have seen so far. It has no limitation whether body, mind, or energy, it cultivates them all. Although the first two levels mainly improve body strength, it also has small effects on mind and energy. Still, unlike monsters born with energy, humans are more pertinent to practice this technique. After all, the first level has to be practiced before the body has any energy center, whatever that means. How did Jelly’s mother practice it then? Or did she at all?

All of a sudden a bolt of lightning struck in Miles’s brain. “Could it be that she had never practiced this technique? She did say that my body was a lot different. Then how was I able to control Culga—my first pet— if it was not her power? Could it be, she had never practiced this technique?” Miles wasn’t sure, but he thought it was highly possible.

It was her breath that intimidated Culga, not her mastery over the technique. Because it was too strong, Culga bowed in front of me, and it was me who tamed her. Still thanks to Jelly's mother, but now that I think about it, the breath didn't feel like the Exaltedness of the Creator.

Then he stopped worrying about it. He couldn’t know it by thinking about it a lot nor could he go and ask. So, he rose to his feet and started to practice. Like the Moon Essence Art he stole from Ivan Strankov, he just had to move his body accordingly, and his body would adapt to technique. The charm of the technique would improve his body.

He couldn’t practice Moon Essence Art for the time being, because he still didn’t have the required cool mind type of superpower to practice the technique, so for now, he could only repeat the available moves to improve his mastery.

He of course wouldn't skip his training with it. After all, the premoves allowed him to speed up his strengthening and with the help of new art, he could use serums even faster. But lack of a superpower still hindered his advancements. Despite trying for such a long time, he still couldn't use the side technique Crater Punch. Even the entitled Ivan could use it. Miles was sure, as a person with more talent and physical strength, he would have been able to use it if it wasn't for unmet requirements.

The Exaltedness of the Creator had a different set of movements. It was mostly forcing the practitioner to move every muscle in their body to extract the smallest potential in the body. Since he wasn’t yet above the mid-tier, his muscles were more prone to be squeezed after serum, and Miles thought it would be more effective if he were to practice the technique now. And it was working too. In no time at all, he felt muscles he never thought he would possess were moving, and working.

Miles kept practicing without stopping for hours. Only after he felt he was hungry, he ordered meat and consumed it with Rayen, before returning to practice more. Art had no technique or whatsoever for the first level, and it only increased strength in small amounts, but once practiced enough, by using it, Miles could increase his strength temporarily.

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Miles left his apartment after he was done with Rayen’s affairs. She was registered by the Cross family, and she had a legitimate id by possessing an AI. With Dodo’s help, she would learn many things she had missed while she was held captive, and catch up with the world.

“Time to purchase the materials and test the elemental minerals. I will take my first step towards becoming a Craftsman. With the help of minerals, I can try to create even without anyone helping me to melt the cores.”

“Where do you plan to do those?” Coin asked.

“I will set up a small workstation in the isolated room of course,” Miles answered.

“Do you have enough money for that?” Coin asked. He was keeping an eye on Miles's bank account, he knew he didn’t have money to buy even the fuel for the workstation.

"I have to sell the cores I was stocking for this. But now that I am going to practice, I will have to use low-tier cores instead. From the last hunt, I gathered quite a few pinnacle-tier monster cores, most of them being psychic or poison elemental. They should fetch up enough money to purchase an average workstation.

"Wouldn't it be a waste to use Elemental Minerals for practice?" Coin asked.

"It is." Miles nodded. "But I have a cave full of them."

"And a cave full of monsters guarding them, right?"

"Small details. We will figure it out."