Chapter 137 Plans

It might have seemed like a genuine gift, but to Eren, it seemed more like they were testing him. They saw Delia and her group’s ability to transform those Array Formations unlike anyone had ever seen before.

They gave away these precious materials because they wanted to test the limits of the talents that they showcased.

"What are the things we could create with this?" Sierra asked enthusiastically. "Any amazing Array Formations that you know?"

Delia considered it deeply. "From what I could see, it seems that we could easily use it to create a large, wide-scale defensive Array Formation that would protect our Territory in its entirety.

These materials are perfect for a turtle defense. We can create a lot of traps and hidden artillery that would be found everywhere in the Territory.

What do you think, Eren?"

Everyone’s eyes turned towards Eren. He thought about it for a second before saying: "The sensible and safest thing we could do is to use these materials for defense. But in my opinion, that’s not going to help us win this Second Test.

We must get on the offensive. Let’s use this to take back what is rightfully ours. They think that they can hunt us down? We’ll show them that they have picked the wrong target.

That’s the only way that we will get rid of this bounty in our heads. We can’t turtle in our territory every day. We’ll be surrendering our fate to others that way."

Hearing Eren’s words, Sierra and the others were inspired by his words. Truly, they were not going to win the License Exam if they didn’t exert themselves fully.

Complacency was the biggest threat to progress.

"Eren’s right," Celeste said. "I truly believe that we can all beat the other groups as long as we’re together."

"Yeah!"

"Let’s go!"

"Who’s afraid? I’m not!"

Every single one of their members were now completely enthusiastic in Eren’s plans of offense.

But on the inside, Eren wasn’t confident at all. Sierra, Abe, and the others weren’t the most skilled Awakeners in the License Exam. they could barely be considered as a passable ’beginner’.

If they were going to fight against the big groups like Magnus or Dantes, then they would surely be overpowered not only in quantity, but in quality as well.

Of course, Eren didn’t say that out loud in order to keep their spirits high. They were still useful to him, despite their lack of power.

"What are we going to do next?" Sierra asked Eren.

Eren then pointed towards the outside tunnel. "First. We’re no longer hiding in our Territory. We’ll be going back to our previous camp and taking every single resource that we left there.

Then, we’ll spend a few days just preparing ourselves for the next phase of my plan."

It was risky going out now, but Eren made a little request to Pang Cai. He asked for some guards to escort them back to their previous camp territory.

The chubby scion of the Cai family easily agreed to his request, especially since Eren added in a monetary aspect to this favor. In exchange for 200 sunspores, they were safely able to go back to the Pitted Cavern without being ambushed by the opportunistic groups there.

More numbers meant they didn’t look as easy to defeat as they were before.

It took them a whole day to transfer everything they had from the previous camp to the Volcanic Territory.

This included all of the Skyward Herbs and other ingredients they stored there.

Eren looked at the thousands of yellow, star-shaped leaves in front of him and couldn’t help but nod his head.

"Abe, Paul, Henry. I have a job for all of you," he said to them. "Do you remember what you did the last time with these Skyward Herbs?"

"You mean when we crushed them into paste?" Abe asked.

"Yes. I want you to do that again. All of you. Anyone who has hands should be processing these Skyward Herbs as much as possible."

His requests were met with enthusiastic cheers led by the three boys. Abe, Henry, and Paul were more than happy to get their hands dirty, especially since they felt useless before.

Delia and the others helped. They didn’t know what this was for, but they didn’t question Eren’s plans. He took them this far. He had shown that he was trustworthy.

And so, thousands upon thousands of Skyward Herbs were processed by Eren’s group.

Of course, Eren also taught them how to process the other ingredients to create the Physique Accelerant paste.

It took them about three days before all of their Skyward Herbs were processed into its essence.

Eren now held a bowl’s worth of this yellow liquid. It was basically gold at this point with how precious this material was.

Then, using the same process he did before, he quickly put his hand over the bowl and shook it till a pollen-like material was left in his hands.

He spent another day simply processing everything until he got enough to turn everything into the Physique Accelerant Paste.

And then, using leaves, he began to roll them into a container, each one enough for a single use.

By the end of the day, Eren had a hundred Physique Accelerant Pastes in his hand.

"What is that?"

"I don’t know what he’s making, but it seems like it’s important."

"It looks like some kind of lotion..."

They all saw him create the Physique Accelerant Paste. But they didn’t know what for.

Eren then unfurled a few leaves of the Physique Accelerant Paste and began to apply them all over his body.

This was his plan. He was finally going to open the rest of his meridians! He had 6 opened, meaning there were 6 more just waiting to be awakened.

If all went well, Eren would be able to have a Meridian positioned all over his body, allowing him to use Full-Body Reinforcement even without looking at his own body!