Chapter 94: Chapter 94

Currently, the total amount of Pollution Secret Patterns on the surface of Ron’s true Light Orb, including those mixed within his Body Secret Patterns, numbered over 2.7 million!

And his current upper limit for bearing Pollution Secret Patterns was only slightly over three million.

As for how many Pollution Secret Patterns he acquired in a single day, this was related to his physical state and the external environment. When he first descended into this world as his Light Orb true form, he had gained over a million Pollution Secret Patterns in nearly a single instant.

But once he had the protection of a physical body, this figure instantly dropped by several orders of magnitude, to roughly four or five thousand per day.

Later, as he came into contact with Transcendent power and continued to climb, this figure also dropped below one thousand, though this was the data while situated in the core area of the territory.

If he went outside the territory, this figure would skyrocket back to around three or four thousand per day.

In other words, if he remained outside the territory for an extended period and was unable to make continuous progress on the path of transcendence, it would take roughly half a year for the Pollution Secret Patterns his Light Orb could bear to reach the upper limit. (Filling the entire surface of the orb)

However, he also noticed that as his depth of contact with Transcendent power gradually increased, his capacity to bear Pollution Secret Patterns was also slowly improving.

Of course, this rate of improvement certainly couldn’t match the rate at which Pollution Secret Patterns increased.

Without the Radiant Maxims, the best he could do was drink poison to quench his thirst, which was useless for thoroughly solving the problem; it merely postponed his date of death.

If he could advance a few more steps on the path of transcendence in the future, he might be able to make his carrying capacity grow faster than the rate at which Pollution Secret Patterns increased.

Only then would he have secured a relatively stable expectation for the future.

This was Ron’s original plan, but this plan lost all meaning the moment the Radiant Maxims appeared.

Even as he was now, he had a way to thoroughly eradicate Pollution Secret Patterns!

Since tallying the total was rather tedious, he adopted a percentage-based approach for tracking the 【Pollution Secret Patterns】, meaning the proportion of the true Light Orb’s surface occupied by Pollution Secret Patterns.

The current ratio was 90%!

Each day saw a fixed increase of at least 0.03%, which was the daily growth figure while within the territory. This number would gradually decrease as Ron progressed on the path of transcendence and his carrying capacity improved, but it was foreseeable that it could almost never drop to zero.

The amount of Pollution Secret Patterns that the Radiant Maxims could purify in a single instance was related to the number of territorial subjects reciting the Maxims and their state of faith. The greater the number and the stronger the conviction, the better the effect would naturally be.

During that session at the Lord’s Castle yesterday before dawn, the effect had been so powerful that it purged the Pollution Secret Patterns from his body, making it nearly impossible to measure the purification limit at that time.

And during the daytime today, Ron had only casually, whether intentionally or not, soaked up the benefits of the territorial subjects collectively reciting the Maxims in the east of town at the very beginning. Afterward, he hadn’t gone out of his way to stay close.

But there was still a rather respectable effect.

For today’s daytime test, he had deliberately transferred a portion of the Pollution Secret Patterns on the Light Orb’s surface that did not exist within the Body Secret Patterns, temporarily moving them into the Body Secret Patterns last night.

The result was that approximately 7,000 Pollution Secret Patterns had been dispelled over the entire day. Converted into a ratio, that was roughly 0.2%!

In other words, without any new additions, it would take at most 500 days to completely purify all the Pollution Secret Patterns from the surface of his true form!

Ron was quite satisfied with this timeframe. Although it still seemed somewhat long, and he also needed to factor in new additions, compared to before when he had absolutely no way to thoroughly eradicate them, this was already a qualitative leap.

What reason did he have to be dissatisfied!

However, situations like yesterday, where he could spend an entire day immersed in an environment saturated with the Maxims, were rare. If he could travel to the Royal Capital of Helios and experience an even denser environment of the Maxims there, the effect would perhaps be even better!

But that was not something Ron could achieve at present.

…

After a night’s rest, Ron’s body had regained its vitality once more. The task for the second day was still road repair, and his partner was still Nar.

But the man’s condition today was noticeably worse compared to yesterday.

“Ron, aren’t you tired? Why are you pushing yourself so hard?”

“Don’t you want to finish the task as quickly as possible?”

“I do! But the entire repair and reconstruction project has long had a plan. If only our section speeds up while the others don’t, it won’t make any difference! Besides, we have to consider the physical condition of the other apprentices!”

Nar stared hard at Ron with a look reserved for monsters. “Ron, tell me honestly, how long until you advance to Knight?”

He considered his own physical fitness to be no inferior to Ron’s. The only explanation for why he was more tired than Ron was that Ron far surpassed him in the utilization of his body.

And when it came to the utilization of the body, that was essentially the Whole-Body Force progress.

For the same task, using only the strength of one’s arms would feel extremely strenuous, but if one mobilized the strength of the entire body, it would become relatively effortless.

Moreover, during this process, one could also synchronize and disperse the exhaustion and fatigue evenly throughout the entire body.

Nar’s poor condition didn’t mean his entire body was in bad shape; rather, it was mainly the muscle tissues that had been exerting the most force that were somewhat sore. Therefore, he believed that Ron would very likely advance to Knight before him.

“Still a long way to go! Besides, doing this work is actually a form of training. If you can wrap your head around that, you won’t be far from advancing.” Ron offered a small hint.

Nar accepted this, but also reminded Ron: “Your desperate push to accelerate progress yesterday has already upset quite a few quasi-Knights. We want to speed up too, but some people, to tell you the truth, might not even compare to some of the outstanding apprentices!

“The project plan formulated by the territory fully takes our actual situation into account, and there really aren’t any issues with it. Besides, think about the other apprentices. Do you think they have your kind of adaptability?”

Nar’s reminder left Ron somewhat silent, but being part of a team did indeed require considering the actual circumstances of others.

If he just recklessly charged ahead on his own, not only might it fail to accelerate the overall project progress, but it could very well end up dragging it down.

Ron, an adult at heart, quickly grasped the reasoning behind it. Yesterday, he had indeed been too absorbed, and since it was the first day, he lacked experience. He hadn’t realized that he had already provoked the dissatisfaction of others.

Looking at it this way, Nar’s reminder might not necessarily have been his own idea; it could also have stemmed from pressure from others or a nudge from above.

“I understand. Today I’ll strictly follow your arrangements.”

“Good. Yesterday, the first day, was an adjustment period, also giving us time to get familiar with things. Today, apart from the normal work, I’ll also explain some common knowledge and experience regarding the Territory Guard, the territory, and even the outside world.”

“Mm!”

Ron hadn’t expected this pleasant surprise. This, he supposed, was the heritage of the Territory Guard. Someday, he might be doing the same thing himself.