Chapter 67: Chapter 67: Esper
Dear readers, the last Chapter might’ve been a little bit confusing, I will try to explain it better in the future.
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A moment after he swallowed, his body heated up to absurd levels, steam came of him through the nose, mouth and even his pores.
His muscles expanded and contracted, his blood became thicker yet flowed faster, his heart beat grew stronger. His claws became sharper and stronger.
His scales became shiner like polished obsidian. His entire body grew much stronger. The effect of the rank 4 black crystal core was much greater than the others, he felt like he was twice as strong as before and there was still one left.
When the process ended he lied down and breathed heavily. The pain was almost unbearable, these cores reminded him of something.
Beast cores, when he first ate a beast core he experienced something similar but to a lesser extent.
At that time he thought the beast core was strengthening his body when in actuality it was strengthening his soul, the body grew stronger as a byproduct.
Unlike these crystal cores which strengthen his body instead. Also the beast cores were less effective than this, to the point he doesn’t even remember when was the last time a beast core actually worked on him.
Even when ate cores of higher ranked beasts there’s was barely any effect. He sighed and looked at his right arm, even that level of body strengthening was not enough to regenerate it.
He decided to eat the second one before leaving. The process was less painful this time and did not last as long but the effect were lower as well.
As he thought, the more of them he ate the less effective they became. But atleast his body alone was now more than two times stronger than before.
It should be mentioned that it was already as strong as some of the weaker rank 4’s so right now he could probably be an even match for an avarage rank 4 with his body alone.
If you include his powerful will then he would be above an avarage rank 4 in terms of strength which was crazy. After that he limped away on his three legs and left.
It took a while but eventually they arrived at the rabbit settlement after crossing the river which seemed to have grown wider. Goldi and Pulse came with them. The rabbits were in a festive mood which was strange to him.
They might’ve won but at a huge cost, of the 70 rabbits that went to war only 17 returned and only one rank 1 rabbit survived, the rest were rank 2 and the only rank 3 besides White but that did not dampen their mood.
To celebrate they had a feast and sparring matches, unfortunately he couldn’t eat vegetables anymore, that was until White brought him a huge leaf full of vegetables that had essence in them.
They smelled a bit enticing and he tried them out, while he couldn’t say they were great atleast he was able to eat them without throwing up.
It seemed he can eat spirit plants atleast. The rabbit continued their celebration until morning but he went to sleep early.
The next morning he was woken up by the sounds of battle, he jumped up thinking they were being attacked but he got angry when he saw who it were.
A small hippo was having a bout with a rabbit, both were rank 1 and they were fighting right next to his head.
It seems at some point Pulse went to retrieve her clan members and now the young ones were fighting and he was almost certain the rabbit started it.
Based on the hippo’s angry face and the fact that the rabbit was grinning. He shook his head and sighed. ’ What is White teaching them?’
Every single one of them seemed to be battle maniacs, they fight on a drop of a hat. Irritated he flicked a finger and generated a powerful gust that swept the both of them away.
Since he had already been woken up he chose to take a stroll around the settlement, he didn’t get to see it yesterday. But before he could get far he saw a cute rabbit walking towards him.
Above it was a giant floating leaf with a huge fish placed on it, the fish was atleast 6 metres long and had the aura of a rank 2 beast.
Using it telekinesis ability it placed the leaf infront of him, telekinesis is an ability they all seem to awaken once they reached rank 2.
He nodded as a sign of acceptance and ate, when he was done he explored the place. The garden he had started years ago had grown larger.
The rabbits population had also grown significantly larger than before. He watched a few matches between young rabbits and nodded.
They were all very strong but their love for fighting was a bit too high. He lied down under the shade of tree, it was time to check his status and the notifications.
Name: Ved Zhakrii
Species: Juvenile Sea Drake( 13 years/ 2300 years) ( 7.23m/ 15m) Peak Sky grade
Rank: 3
Abilities( 3/3) Trait Assimilation, Haki, Aspect Intergration
Traits(6/8): Poison secretion, Herculean strength (460x), Aquatic, Flash (340x), Iron Scale( 30 000x), Web Secretion
Evolution points: ( 6.54/ 40)
His status screen had not changed much, his evolution points had barely risen even after almost cleaning out the swamp, he sighed,it looked like his path to rank 4 will be even harder.
Then he checked the system notifications. There were too many informing him he gained evolution points or new traits he can obtain.
Ofcourse most of those traits were rubbish and getting them would be a waste of slots. What he needed right now was a long range powerful attack but there very few creatures with something like that.
It was a pity he couldn’t absorb awakened abilities. Then he checked the most recent notifications. ( Notice: Host has absorbed a Negative energy type: Esper. Results- Body enhancement.)
’Negative energy type? What the hell is that?’