If so, then I greatly underestimated that core! It looked like a nuclear weapon of old human days, not just a mere and simple source of energy.

Should I stop? Retreat back to the chariot and shield myself there?

For a moment, I seriously considered doing this. But the next moment I ditched such an idea.

I looked back, and all I saw was fear, doubt, and confusion over the faces of the youths here.

They… Were like kids playing with fire without realising they could start a big fire that might take away their entire home.

So I had to go deeper, unlock more of this energy so they’d learn what they were dealing with.

If I wasn’t around, and one of these youths triggered the explosion of that energy, then things would go south for all of them.-.

Even with my presence, all I could help with was to summon my chariot to help them.

As I decided that, I continued to absorb this energy. This time I had to go all out. So I sat on the ground, closed my eyes, and started regulating my breathing.

I was going to start cultivating, accelerate the speed of absorption so I’d allow this energy to go beyond this level and show its true terror.

As for my safety, I got the feeling that no matter what I wouldn’t get any harm. As long as my arm was there, my secondary dantian was absorbing energy, I’d get no harm.

So I started circulating the absorbed energy into a much faster pace, allowing more energy to gush in. This kept going for as long as it took until the outer energy died down.

When I opened my eyes, I was shocked by what I saw. The entire region got hit hard, like something fierce exploded or caused a rampage here.

The standing part of the old building of the MIT campus got destroyed! Only big pieces of stones remained on the ground, while many were eaten away like they were dry weed faced fire.

As for the ground, I could see deep grooves, extending for ten metres or more. They stretched for hundreds of metres, starting from the spot where that capsule took, and even few reached beyond one thousand metres mark.

This… It was a big damage that I didn’t expect. However, it was good. This way these youths would learn how deadly playing with these cores was.

“Are you alright?” As I went to my chariot, I looked at the ashen white faces of these youths.

“You… Lord… Are you… Alright?!!” the girl asked, as if it was a miracle for me to stay alive.

“Foolish girl,” I messed with her hair before adding, “do you think your lord is that weak?”

“L… Lord… You just… Didn’t see what it looked like!!!”

The girl was still in deep shock. It seemed the magnitude of this was way beyond what I imagined.

Good! Like this they would be extra careful when dealing with these cores. Also they’d know these cores held much more energy to harvest.

If such energy was directed right to serve my kingdom, then a single core would be enough to lighten up and power an entire city for months!

This wasn’t the full throttle of this energy. I absorbed much of it, so only a small amount was left to get out of control.

If just such an amount caused all this damage, then how about the entire thing? Damn! If they were to harvest the energy in a stable and secure way, these cores would be enough to solve the problem of energy for a long time.

As for getting more, I’d have to ask the help of those Hectors. I was quite sure during the upcoming quest, these Hectors would use a huge number of aquatic monsters.

Lily was proof of that. She was very experienced in naval battles. I didn’t know if Hector’s mainland was formed mostly of water or what.

But adding these things up, I knew the Hectors would use aquatic monsters during their next attack. And it was the best option, as my boys were getting familiar with fighting such monsters now.

“Just try other things out,” I said to the girl, “you did the first big step, knowing how to salvage that energy out from these cores. But as you saw, these cores aren’t that safe. They have an enormous amount of energy.”

“Sigh! They are like ticking bombs,” one of the male youths here sighed.

“But if we could regulate the energy output, it would be enough to fuel entire cities for a long time with power, right?”

I knew they were impressed and scared of these cores. They got the wrong impression of these, and I had to help in changing that vision.

I had to let them see the possibilities of taming such wild energy. Like that, these young scientists would get excited and might end up giving me a good surprise.

“Do you want us to keep working on these cores?!” the girl asked in surprise, making me inwardly sigh.

“These cores have levels of energy inside them,” I said before adding, “you just watched the energy getting wilder and fiercer. All I did was to uncover the energy step by step, and you have to learn how to do this.”

“The cores have layers of energy…” her eyes shone in realisation, and she wasn’t an exception. All of the youths here seemed to get something from what I just said, letting me hope they’d start thinking differently about these capsules and cores.

“Go back now,” I waved, “be careful from the deep grooves. Be cautious and try to do things carefully this time.”

“We will, lord,” they said in unison before leaving back to their campus.

Well, this time it was a failure. But they managed to break something here. Next time… I was sure next time they’d give me a pleasant surprise.

As I watched them leave, I returned to my chariot and decided to check over someone.