The Golden Experience Point [Part 1]

Chapter 193: "Natural Recovery"

Entering the Liebe Great Forest like this feels like it's been quite a while.

The last time I came here was when I stopped by the grasslands for a while.

Somehow, I decided to visit the cave where I had encountered Kerry and the others.

Back then, I could only set a very small area as my own territory in that cave, designated as a home area. But now it's different. While I can't set a home area anymore, the entire vast forest belongs to me, the master of the monsters.

Just like before, even without light, I can somehow grasp my surroundings.

I used to think it was a service of the initial area, but now I understand it's different.

"The mana here is ridiculously dense. What is this?"

Because of the excessively dense mana, it seems I can feel it on my skin even without the [Demonic Eyes]. Perhaps that's why I can somehow understand my surroundings.

"...Before playing with the player, let's do a little experiment."

<Alright, I'll go check the situation first.>

"Yeah, please."

News of the player's arrival had also reached Sugaru simultaneously. It's part of the communication rules.

Although Sugaru came along to this place, it has been a long time since a player invaded her former territory. She probably can't stay still.

We advanced deeper into the cave and reached the underground lake.

I've washed Kerry and the others here before, but thinking about it now, I did something like that with this cold water. Marion aside, it seems that the cat beastmen and regular cats are different.

Compared to the underground lake at the Abon Mercat Highlands where the Count was, this one seems very small.

But it's enough for a few Hiers Newts to live.

Summoning about three of them casually, I released them into the lake.

Since there were no creatures in the cave, I wondered what to do about their food, but apparently, there is something like white, blind worms inside the lake.

Probably due to the dense mana or some other reason, such creatures seem to be abundant, so I decided to leave them be.

In this environment, they might unintentionally fulfill the reincarnation conditions.

Next, I did something that unnecessarily consumes MP (Mana Points).

It is ideal for verifying the fact that the cave's mana is too dense.

The safest and most efficient way to waste MP is to activate [Philosopher's Egg], heat it with [Athanor] without putting anything in, and then end the process. Then, the lamp and crystal egg disappear without anything happening, and only MP is lost.

These skills have a relatively high MP cost, and the cooldown is not set, probably because they are not considered useful or spammable.

After struggling to reduce my MP to about half of the maximum, I found that just waiting a few seconds returned my MP to its original value. It's an abnormal natural recovery speed.

"Is there such a difference? In that case, the natural MP recovery is not individually set for each character but is part of the game's overall system, properly absorbing the surrounding mana. Or maybe it's constantly calculating the recovery amount based on the surrounding mana concentration. I wonder if LP's natural recovery amount is not a fixed value set individually for each character but is affected by factors such as hunger."