Seeing Octavia casually doing a dissection of a still living creature , made Konrad somehow uneasy even though it was an evil monster that attacked him. That she used her metal infused slime as a scalpel wasn't the problem though but the fact that he was pretty sure she could make them sharper already was a reason for consideration. 'Maybe it's the stress...' He thought.
That's she also cauterized the wounds with ice fragments was a matter of course but stabbing them fiercely into the wounds and occasionally the legs also wasn't a requirement but it must have been because it's her first time and she was inexperienced...
In the beginning, Konrad worried that she would be scarred or disgusted but apparently it was not a problem for Octavia. Even if it was though, the creature was actually completely black inside out, so it wasn't really that disgusting.
The dissection brought a few new information.
First. There is a lot of resemblance to an actual cat. All the intestines and bones, disregarding some slight deformations and the obvious size difference, were exactly like that of a normal cat. Of course it wasn't easy to tell with everything being almost the same black colour but that led them to the second discovery.
Second. The black colour...
The body appeared to be oversaturated with the dark energy that practically seeped out of the creature in the form of the black smoke. The seeping energy would be then released into the atmosphere where it would lose its dark attribute and turn back into normal Mana that would be then absorbed back into the dark creature by some kind of dark magical core in its heart.
This made Konrad ponder. Why was the energy seeping. This didn't make sense unless...
Suddenly his eyes went wide when Konrad tried to feel the energy present in the creatures body. It was much less in comparison to the time, when he sealed it in the Magicless field. Much less than it was supposed to be when trying to heal it's wounds!
It seems like he accidentally created a field capable of slowly weakening the creature by removing the ambient Mana created from the released dark energy. Konrad suddenly had a new theory, but he needed to heal the monster before he could check if he was right...
"Octavia. That's enough. We don't have to dissect it's remaining three legs. One was enough. We still need it alive."
*Ok Daddy! I'm already satisfied anyway!* She said cheerfully and Konrad tried to figure out why something didn't feel right to him in her reply, but he soon shrugged and went to the Creature's side to continue his experiment.
He directly poured his own Mana into the creature i. order to allow it to heal. He could only do it like this because they were still inside the Magicless bubble and the creature was lying on the formation under magically induced sleep.
He was really careful not to give out more than was needed but soon enough all the limbs and the open chest closed up in a gruesome fashion, once again appearing in a pristine condition. The fire induced wounds though took much longer to heal. Something else to confirm its weakness to fire.
Wen he was certain that everything was finally properly healed, Konrad stopped using his Mana and focused on the prison formation. Then without anything else to do, he simply activated the levitation ring, causing the creature to raise into the air.
It continued to expel the dark energy involuntarily, but before it could absorb it back as Mana, the transformed energy would be pushed away by the Ambient Mana Repelling Dome.
That was his experiment! He wanted to see what would happen when there was no more dark magic inside of the monster! He couldn't remove it's magical core because that would require opening its heart, and even though Octavia pierced it with her slime like a needle and 'peeked' inside, she didn't see anything. It seemed to be somehow intangible or elusive.
but as she took out her needle appendage from the Creature's heart, it turned out to be completely blackened from the dark energy so Octavia instantly cut this fragment off from her body. the cut iron-slime needle lost its black colouration after a few seconds all the dark energy dissipated into the air but Octavia refused to reabsorb the needle just because it was it once housed this disgusting taint.
That of course led them to believe that this dark energy was actually naturally expelled by living creatures and made them question what was that that thing in the heart of this monster.
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Since they had nothing more to do than wait for the dark magic to dissipate, the duo went back home and continued with their training. Konrad estimated that it should take around a weak before anything should change, so until then the creature would be kept in the magical sleep in the forest. They would of course be checking for any changes to happen but he wasn't expecting any before the weak was up.
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He was wrong...
The changes happened already on the second day...
It wasn't even hard to tell because...The creature was two times smaller than yesterday...
//Short chap but I felt like it was the perfect moment to end it. Hope you liked it! I wonder who can already guess the the faith of the monster? No spoilers for me though haha. Anyway ENJOY!//
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Current Status
[• Konrad Caster •]
Race - Human
Class - Magic Swordsman
Status - Healthy
Mana ~ 1075/1075MP
Mana Regeneration ~107/min (2x5%/min)
Blood Capacity - 6500/6500ml
Blood Replenishment - 500ml/4daysx4 = 500ml/day
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Stats:
Strength - 24
Perception - 23
Agility - 26
Intelligence - 20
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Skills:
- Language Comprehension:
- [@π&¥@&€#∆££#&∆¶$
- Language Of Birds
- Health Regeneration: x4
- Mana Regeneration: x2
- Lesser Mana Affinity
- Space Storage: 14 m^2
- Observe: Basic
- Status Deterioration Block
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Soul Bonded Artifacts:
- Cooking Grimoire
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Familiars:
- Octavia [ Slime ]
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Description:
Konrad is a...
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...Hard.
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//Konrad's inventory list//
- Steel Broadsword
- Steel Gauntlets
- Steel Armour Chest Piece
- Compass Of Random Journey
- Map Of Revealment
- Medium Health Potion
- Teleportation Formation (->Greece)
- Teleportation Formation (->Gacha Space)
- Teleportation Formation (-> School)
- Bunch of different experimental magic formations
- Smartphone
- few changes of clothes
- Jar of dirt
- two buckets of wet cement (for later)
- four empty buckets
- Pure Orichalcum = 21kg
- Orichalcum Ingot = 5kg
- Pure Mithrill = 6kg
- Mithrill ingot = 5kg
- Pure Adamantite = 7kg
- Konrad's favourite knife
- Konrad's personal Grimoire:
- Fire magic ( Fireball, Fire Wall, Fire Javelin, Fire wave, Heat adjustment, etc. )
- Light magic (Light Ball, Light Lance, Flashbang, Invisibility, etc.)
- Wind magic (Wind Ball, Wind Blade, Air Wall, Vacuum Sphere, sound muffling, etc.)
- Mind magic (Aura of ignorance, etc.)
-Water magic ({needs water} - Water Jet, Water blade, Water ball, Water Wall, etc.)
- Gravity magic ( Weight Manipulation,)
-Combination magic (Flight, Ice Magic,)
- notepad for quick observations.
- •Apprentice Tome Of Swords And Shields•(completed)
- •Advanced Tome Of Swords And Shields•(completed)
- bunch of different trinkets he thought might come in handy someday...
- Spelunking equipment
- Diving equipment
- Hiking equipment
- Climbing equipment
- Prize orbs:
[} User targeted Summoning (Another World Hero) {]
[} Common Gemstone Draw {]
[} Lesser Mana Potion {]
[} Lesser Health Potion {] x5
[} Pure Iron Dagger {]
[}Mana Capacity +1{] x3
[} Steel Gauntlets {]
[} Pure Iron Broadsword {]
[} Medium Health Potion {] x2