“Oh!” Ning’s eyes widened when he finally realized what this was. “Dual Cores?”

It was the same as Princess Alena. “Is this how the princess got her Dual cores too?” Ning asked.

“I see,” Ning said. “How many Dual cores are there in this world?”

<92. Of which only 35 are in the Essence Manifestation realm and above with a single core.>

“I see,” Ning said. “That is very rare. And you’re saying these little ones can learn that.”

Ning smiled. That wasn’t a bad one at all. “Can it be used by humans as well?” he asked.

“Great!” Ning said. “I want both of those.”

Two books were created in front of Ning, one for the beasts and one for the human. 𝒐𝗏𝓵xt.𝗇𝓔t

“Wait, so Umbra can’t use this, right?” Ning asked. “I assume she has too much Essence to survive the pain of having the Essence core split in half.”

“Guess that’s done too then,” Ning said. “Although we will have to decide what Essence it is better for them to learn. If possible, I would want them to learn Pure Essence. As for the other one, it might be better for them to learn Shadow Essence, so that they can remain a Shadow Puma.”

Ning tossed the beast’s book to Emma. “Again, your responsibilities,” he said.

“I know,” Emma said with a bit of a pout. “You don’t have to keep reminding me.”

Ning chuckled a bit and flipped through the book he received. He went through it for a bit before his eyes narrowed in confusion and curiosity.

“System, am I missing something with this book?” he asked. “Why does it mention nothing about the dual cores? It only says that you can split your cores. Nothing about how many times.”

of the human. One’s body can only handle so much pain.>

Ning thought for a moment. “I can probably do that,” he said. “But you mentioned something about it being time consuming. Just how long does it take?”

Ning flipped through the book to find something, but there wasn’t anything there for him to find.

“20 years? That long?” Ning asked. “Shouldn’t it be 4 years?”

“I see,” Ning said. “Well, that’s done with then. Let’s move onto the next topic.”

What was the next topic going to be? Ning foudn himself stuck a bit. He had an idea previously, but now that he had learned about splitting cores, things changed quite a bit.

“Alright, so I need to decide just what sort of Essence I want to gather, huh?” Ning thought. “Emma, what Essences do you want?”

“Uhh… any good ones? Sounds like I can have 2,” she said.

“You can have 4 if you work diligently,” Ning said. “I’m sure it will take you no time to reach that level. It will certainly take some time though.”

Emma thought for a bit and asked, “Was it really fun being a regular person, going around this world?”

“Yes, as fun as it can be,” Ning said.

“Hmm, then I think I will get the four basic ones. Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth,” she said. “How does that sound?”

“That… sounds fine,” Ning said. “If that’s what you want.”

“I’m sure that’s what I want,” Emma said. “I don’t need the other fancy Essence. You can keep them.”

Ning shrugged. “Sure,” he said. “I’ll use the other ones then.”

Ning now had to decide what Essence he wanted. He was certain that he could get to 8 Cores by the time Emma reached to 4, so he had nothing to worry about.

He knew for a fact that he was going to get 3 Essences, none of which were Pure Essence. With 8 different Essences available for him to use, using Pure Essence still would be rather stupid.

“System, give me a list of all the different Essences I can use and I can absorb to reach the Divine realm,” Ning asked.

The system gave him a list of Essences, which surprised Ning. There were a few there that he wasn’t aware existed at all.

“Are you serious? We can use these?” he asked the system.

“What counts as a small scale?” Ning asked.

“Huh! Not bad,” Ning thought with a bit of a chuckle. “Guess I’m using only the best ones then.”