Chapter 196 Assessing My Gains

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The next morning I woke up quite early. I only had a sleep of around 4 hours but that was more than enough to be honest. Before doing anything, however, I suddenly began to think about my life and how much I've experienced so far. As of now my mother will probably given birth to my twin siblings in a few months, which might also align with my eight-year birthday. Although I never mention it, this is one of the things that always lingers in my mind. I do remember that I detected she was pregnant just a few days before I reached seven years of age. Now it has been almost seven months, and my mother's belly is rather big. I often go inspect her state and I've researched some things with the priests too, finding out that children in this world have various gestation stages.

Apparently it is not insane to see mothers that might hold their children for more than eight months, sometimes ten months. Depending in the children's developing mana and their spirit orb, which might take some time to develop if they have exceptional talent, some mothers had given birth after a year of gestation, which was odd for the humans I know, but these humans might be completely different from the ones I always knew. Their Spirit Orbs are a clear sign already… Perhaps my mother might gestate the twins for over eight months, this is why the assumption of giving birth near my birthday came. If that means they'll be born even stronger, then I hope she takes as long as she wants.

Anyways, moving on to other topics, I had a lot of corpses to take care of from yesterday's hunt, and a big pile of Beast Cores and Demon Cores as well. I rushed into the storage and began butchering them with the help of Eleanora one by one while my parents and grandmother were soundly asleep. Using the Deafening Barrier Tier 1 Wind Spell, I was able to easily deaf any sound we made inside the storage, so things went rather well. There were over twenty corpses from Gray Wolves and Imps which I would later on sell. Wolf meat is nice, but we already got a lot of meat stored in the house, both monster and demon meat I and my father have hunted over this entire time. I'll still leave some for reserves inside my Inventory Bag, but the rest will be sold.

Except the blood, and even Imp body parts are still precious for my experiments, so I'll keep them as well. I can make demon potions out of them and also eating them restores demon energy. So they're going mostly for me. The Cores will be absorbed by Gluttony while their souls were already eaten by Eleanora's spear. Eating the Cores of Demons strengthens my spear a lot, and after eating twenty of them plus the Oni Demon Core, it gained a great upgrade in Attack Power. Additionally, devouring the Monster Spirit Orbs made Fenrir reach almost the necessary threshold to evolve again, needing around 8 more Gray Wolf Spirit Orbs. I will buy them whenever I find them in the market.

As for Orcus, a single Wild Boar Spirit Orb filled 5/10 growth points, it seems that Orcus can grow quicker because the Spirit Orbs of Wild Boars are rarer and bigger, so a single orb gives him 5 Growth Points while Gray Wolves only can give 1 Growth Point to Fenrir, the same for Spore. I just need to find another of these incredibly rare Wild Boars and I might be able to evolve Orcus. He's already useful as a tank and a powerful heavy hitter, but I wonder if he'll become as big as an actual wild boar if he evolves… We'll see whenever that happens, Wild Boar Spirit Orbs are too rare, just as rare as the monster itself.

There was a lot of blood as well, which I converted it all into delicious Blood Ki, with this enormous quantity I got over a single night, I was finally able to use it to upgrade my Physique. The enormous quantity was quickly poured all across my body, as I felt my entire body self-strengthen itself to an even greater level. Physiques have Tiers, and each Tier brings an enhancement to the body and even special abilities. Having used all this Blood Ki, the Tier 1 Muscle Strengthening was completed, giving me a nice bonus to my Strength Stat and other physical stats. And with that, I have finally entered Tier 2 of my Physique, which has finally let me unlock Vampiric Eyes.

It could be said that Vampiric Eyes is the ultimate form of Evil Eyes, it can evolve into multiple ways, and each Vampire can develop different abilities with their Vampiric Eyes. My Vampiric Eyes immediately absorbed the Demon Eyes I had acquired, and even improved it, turning it into Vampire Eyes of Paralysis. The paralysis is stronger, and I can now use Mana as well to activate it. But it become stronger when used with a combination of energies, Blood Ki, Mana, and then Demon Energy. Also, the physique also detected the demon energy flowing through my body and assimilated it even more into my body. I might even become something like a Quarter Demon in the future. Although I hate demons, I have to recognize that if I can get Demon Magic, that would be very useful. Most creatures in this world have little resistance against it as well.

I had yet to acquire any Skill regarding my Physique or the power of my Paralysis Eye, so I guess Skills are ruled by other things, and mostly show up after certain things, and are also somehow restricted. Apparently those that reach max level in their Talent can upgrade their Talent somehow. I have yet to learn how they can do this though, so I should ask someone later. Perhaps I'll be allowed to get a Talent after reaching Level 10… I am not so far from there anyways.

When we finished our butchering work with Eleanora, it was already almost 6 AM and my parents were already waking up, so we quickly saved everything and then went to take a bath… together. Eleanora insisted in "cleaning my back" so I had no option but let her bathe with me. I had considered this as something very intimate, but she seemed okay with it. I am very fond of her and I trust her more than anybody, so I think she would be the only one I would allow to take a bath with me.

After having a breakfast with my parents, I rushed outside of the house towards Eric's house. Today he was going to lend me a lot of books in exchange for teaching his parents a bit of magic, and awakening their Ki as well, which is very easy. I am quite knowledgably about alchemy and everything else, but the plants of this world and everything else is a complete mystery to me. His medicine books and medicinal plants and mushrooms encyclopedias made by his own family will be of great use to my research.

I was honestly surprised when Eric offered me such valuable books, I suppose he had really grown fond of me as a friend. I can't help but feel rather happy that I have someone so loyal to me this early in my life.

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