The Witch Hunter System
chapter-604

604 Startling Discovery

Sunrock Bazaar, Gravity Chamber Center

"Thirty mid-rank mana stones…!" Jihaad gritted his teeth with red eyes as he performed high-intensity physical exercises under twofold gravity. He felt extremely indignant with the cost but didn't dare idle inside his Gravity Chamber.

It had actually cost him an extra twenty mid-rank mana stones to power the Rank 1 Gravity Chamber for an hour…!

He thought he had brought quite a fair bit of wealth, but he didn't expect an alarming portion to disappear on a mere Rank 1 Gravity Chamber. That said, he had no choice but to admit that even a mere Rank 1 Gravity Chamber was surprisingly effective for his training.

Only fifteen minutes had passed since the start of his training, but his whole body was drenched in sweat. There wasn't a spot within his body that didn't burn like it was on fire. He felt encumbered with heat and exhaustion.

Normally, he would only reach such a state of exhaustion after performing his clan's high-rank physical exercise for a whole hour. However, the reality was that he had achieved it in fifteen minutes under the effect of the Gravity Chamber.

The twofold gravitational pressure didn't merely improve his training efficiency twofold but actually fourfold!

He had saved three-quarters of an hour in training!

Nevertheless, reaching the state of extreme exhaustion was only the real starting point of body refining. Only by pushing the body to the limit would one have hopes of surpassing their physical limitations and improving.

Jihaad didn't expect much from a Rank 1 Gravity Chamber at his level of cultivation. However, the truth surprised him. When he pondered why that was the case, he realized it was due to his internal organs!

They weren't used to the pressure. Thus, the burden on them was the greatest! The sense of exhaustion came from them! Not his limbs!

The actual feeling was hard to describe.

The exhaustion of his internal organs felt different from the exhaustion in his muscles. It was like his heart itself was doing situps nonstop; even if it felt extremely tired, it couldn't stop pumping in overdrive.

Such a situation actually gave Jihaad a sense of trepidation and fear. He felt like his heart would burst if he pushed himself too hard.

Nevertheless, Jihaad himself was addicted to this sense of danger. It was exciting and thrilling.

Even though his physical strength wasn't improving, his internal organs were consolidating, becoming sturdier and more resilient. The benefits of consolidating one's internal organs were more than just enhancing endurance.

After half an hour of training, Jihaad felt his aura becoming smoother and easier to control. Consolidating internal organs made it easier to compress his aura. As such, it also allowed him to produce strong aura-powered attacks faster.

Just by having better consolidated internal organs, Jihaad felt like he was stronger than aura users of the same level.

More importantly, the bottleneck preventing him from becoming an Aura Grandmaster also seemed to be loosening.

'The quality of one's internal organs determines one's achievements in aura cultivation!' Jihaad seemed to have comprehended something great as his eyes lit up brightly.

Nevertheless, his arms and feet never stopped moving as he threw out unnatural punches and kicks. But despite the unnatural movements, there was also a sense of smooth, natural flow in them.

It was quite puzzling and contradictory to a normal person, but there was also beauty in it.

A regular person wouldn't understand.

…

As Jihaad wholeheartedly trained, making full use of his time in the Gravity Chamber, Vaan's situation was the complete opposite.

Vaan was physically idle as he studied how the magic circuits and arrays hidden in the center panel generated omnidirectional gravitational pressure. At his level, the twofold gravitational pressure had absolutely no effect on his body, not even his internal organs.

His entire body was firm and seemingly indestructible. It would never bend to such meager gravitational pressure.

As such, Vaan would rather use his time to acquire new knowledge. The Great Ratholos Empire's Gravity Chambers would surely benefit him if he wanted to raise his own army of Body Refiners.

Nevertheless, Vaan realized the magic circuits and arrays in the Gravity Chambers didn't work together to produce their own gravitational pressure. The core of the Gravity Chamber's gravitational pressure came from a piece of star iron.

However, it wasn't just any regular star iron either; it was star iron from the Black Mountain.

Such star iron must have originated from an especially powerful star in the vast sea of stars. As such, its quality was incomparable to the star iron commonly found in Pangea.

'These circuits and arrays don't produce gravitational pressure; they only amplify the gravitational pressure that already exists within the star iron,' Vaan understood.

Although the truth was a little disappointing, the knowledge was useful nonetheless.

More importantly, Vaan made a startling discovery when he powered the Gravity Chamber with twenty mid-rank mana stones.

The Gravity Chamber was just one of many Gravity Chambers in Sunrock Bazaar. There were far more throughout the Great Ratholos Empire. Furthermore, the Gravity Chambers in other regions of the empire were of higher quality as well.

In other words, the demand for mana stones would be astronomical.

If other Gravity Chamber Centers in the empire were also as busy as Sunrock Bazaar's, the daily consumption of mana stones would be unimaginable.

However, the witch kingdoms occupied the best lands and monopolized the abundance of mana spilling out from Gehenna. Even if the Great Ratholos Empire received a great import of mana stones from other countries, how could it possibly keep up with the daily demand?

Mana stones were used for many things, not just Gravity Chambers.

The total consumption of mana stones in the Great Ratholos Empire should have plunged it into a severe mana stone shortage long ago.

However, there was news regarding such a matter.

So what did this imply?

It implied that there was still a steady circulation of mana stones in the Great Ratholos Empire. It was not short on mana stones. Based on that fact alone, the Great Ratholos Empire was by far wealthier than the Holy Knight Empire.

Where and how did the Great Ratholos Empire acquire all these mana stones to keep up with its consumption?