It was another boring day for Seth. He stared plainly at the white ceiling.
'We met again.' He thought.
Seth wished there should at least be an insect or animals scurrying in the ceiling. Like the ceiling lizards in his previous life.
Unfortunately for him, ever since the world evolved, no creatures smaller than a building exist. It was that terrifying.
The smallest known creature is a Gigantic Beast called "Tink."
It is a 10-meter tall insect-like creature, with a body of a flat and oval shape shell. They have ten short sharp limbs and a cute oval head.
Seth saw this creature once when Tina went for an errand in the farmlands. Tinks are mostly used by farming since their limbs could easily pierce any surface. And more importantly, they could use the Tink's excrement as a fertilizer, which is more effective and efficient than any man-made fertilizer.
Although puppet doesn't eat for energy, Tinks have a special organ in their internal system that could convert the garbage into nutrients. And since Tinks don't have combat capabilities, they were allowed in farmlands on the east side of Outer City.
Seth heard the doorknob turned. A new occupant. He thought.
It was already late at night, in the morning, after their celebration, he was taken back to his usual room.
Ever since Tina had 'second awakening', she was no longer pardoned to keep hold of Seth.
Seth saw a fatty walked into the room. The acquisition of 10 abilities improved his field of vision to around 180 degrees.
Based on his Pillow Inheritance. Seth's pillow body uses the energy of the attachment abilities to lived. The further he gathers attachment abilities, the further he could upgrade his body.
Seth could also feel the energy wrapping him, when he focuses his vision, the energy would also compress and act as his eyeball. For now, he still couldn't move his view.
Normally, a person couldn't sense the energy of attachment abilities. And even if they were able to detect it, no method is known to take interest in the energy, except for establishing puppetry to beasts carcasses yet they could only do it directly.
Even Seth doesn't know how or when he learned. His usage of the energy was natural like his body was made for it.
"Wow. This room is well maintained."
Seth saw the fatty traced his fingers on the desk. The man has a plump body that was embellished with an expensive-looking white tuxedo.
His hair was gelled to the top. Seth could somehow feel the vibe of a foolish aristocrat in him.
"The review said this room is so comfortable they would feel rejuvenated in the morning," The fatty took out a phone. After confirming that it was really what he remembered, he stroked the fabric of the bedsheet.
"A fake review?" The fatty frowned. The texture was worst than he thought it would.
"Well, it's not like I'm here for vacation," He shrugged as he sat in the bed and took out a laptop from his bag.
Blocked by the huge body, Seth couldn't view its contents.
"The Battle Of Puppeteers will start the day after tomorrow," The fatty's body trembled in enthusiasm.
Seth could see his fat vibrate like an old Nokia. But he couldn't blame the fatty.
Battle Of Puppets. A grand tournament between puppeteers that transpires once a year.
It was a big event for the people in every stronghold, it was almost like a festival. Maybe even livelier. It was rare for them to catch a glimpse of Goliath Puppets fighting mano-a-mano.
Seth was also excited about the tournament, but he wasn't sure if could watch with his body lounge in the Inn. He could only hope that Tina would bring him to watch.
"Damn, I should cultivate. The contestants this year are more difficult to confront than expected. Even the prodigy, James Smith, would be participating," The fatty took one last look at his laptop before putting it aside on the desk.
After that, he waved his arms into the empty air.
Then to Seth's awe, a translucent barrier covered the whole room. The fatty closed his eyes and sat in a lotus position. In his hands were three green soul cores.
Seth intensely stared at the fatty—who's sitting in a lotus position.
'Is this how you cultivate puppets?' It was his first time seeing someone cultivate. He had only heard vague information about Goliath Puppetry, thus it wasn't enough for him to cultivate himself.
Just like what his inheritance affirmed, his energy eyeball could detect the soul energy absorbed from cultivation.
He further compressed and concentrated his eyeball, until it halved from the size of a fist.
'So that's it!' Seth was delighted by his discovery.
In the area around the fatty, he could see the fabric of space contort, gradually they became microscopic black particles. The soul core also blatantly released dense black particles.
(Note: Reality wasn't a bit affected. The black particles were floating around the space only revealed themselves to Seth(and only Seth) because of his 'eyeball')
Seth knew what these particles are, they were called soul energy, or black matter on Earth.
Soul Energy was discovered when they first awakened an attachment ability.
Soul Energies are just like oxygen, they were invisible to the naked eye and had shrouded the whole world.
But unlike oxygen, they were everywhere; enclosed spaces, places with intense heat, etc.
Puppeteers could also plunder soul energies from the soul cores. Which, is much abundant than the soul energies in the air.
The black particles or soul energy were soon sucked by the fatty's tattoo. The tattoo was a blue outline of a boar, tattooed in his stomach.
The blue tattoo released a faint blue light as it devoured the soul energies.
Seth could somehow feel the entity—or more specifically, the Goliath Puppet—on the man's tattoo gradually increase its strength. It was a minuscule improvement but Seth knew it would attain obvious advancement sooner or later.
Seth finally understood how to cultivate a Goliath Puppet. If he was given any corpse of a beast, with the attachment abilities he acquired, he could cultivate without any difficulty.
Attachment Ability not only developed the power of the puppet, but it also could use it as a medium for cultivation after transforming it as their soul core. Since his body has 10 abilities, he could pump 10 mediums of the black particles in the puppet.
To cultivate a Goliath Puppet, the attachment ability needs to be separated into two, transforming the two into two different soul cores. One for the Goliath Puppet and one for the Puppeteer. The soul core for Puppeteer would be placed in the same imaginary space as the attachment ability.
6 hours have passed and all the soul cores have shattered. Seth guessed it was drained from soul energy.
The fatty couldn't even stand as he was immediately got knockdown by fatigue. It was one of the negative effects of cultivating Goliath Puppets.
Thump!
His heavy weight crashed onto Seth. In the past, he would never have a sense of touch. But as he gained attachment abilities, his soul slowly assimilated with the pillow.
His original senses as a human have slowly incorporated into the pillow.
Sooner or later, he would found himself as a living organism. Seth felt it was weird as he invaded the fatty's mind.