After waking up 1 week later, intense pain assaulted his head again. He recieved a new wave of information in his mind.
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[Nascent Aura]
[Tier 1]
[The unlocked potential of a strong soul]
[Known abilities:]
[Insanity - the creatures targeted by this aura will start slowly losing their sanity and will act irrationaly. Other uses the user will need to discover by himself]
[Fear - the creatures targeted by this aura will be easier induced by fear and will lose their will to fight. Other uses the user will need to discover by himself]
[Determination - the creatures targeted by this aura will have their spirits lifted up and they will find making decisions much easier than before. Other uses the user will need to discover by himself].
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[Nascent Aura has devoured The Shard of Gluttony (tier 1)]
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[The Nascent Aura has gained a new ability]
[Hunger - the creatures targeted by this aura will start feeling hunger, the longer they are targeted by this aura the stronger the hunger, until they begun devouring themselves. Other uses the user will need to discover by himself]
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[The user have discovered a new use for the artifact {The Gnawed Leaf}]
[Known abilities:]
[Deep Hibernation - ...]
[Stone Teeth - the user's teeth gain the texture of the mountain rocks, obtaining sharpness to cut through iron].
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After all of the new information he received, his resolve to live became even stronger. With this new power the comletion of his goal has became a tiny bit closer.
'I should think about everything I've been through' thought Frank and started moving in the direction of the spider room.
After entering the room, the first thing he noticed was the disappearance of the spiders' corpses. He thought that the crypt have devoured them back. This means that the Scorat's corpse is gone too. The only thing he didn't know was if the corpses have disappeared because too much time have passed, or because he had left the room.
He decided to look if the eggs and the other things have spoilt in his cocoon bag. They have. He didn't know how he didn't notice the rotten smell before.
He left the rotten eggs and the venomous glands on the floor of the spider room and left the room, only to enter the room again and not see the things anywhere, which confirmed his early theory.
He choose this room because it was the most comfortable one for him, with enough light and warmth. He started testing his new abilities.
He first decided to see if he can control The Gnawed Leaf's petrification.
He used the Stone Teeth ability first, to have a feel for how the petrification works. He was sitting on the floor cross legged, concentrated on his teeth using the ability and cancelling it, again and again. He wasn't feeling anything for first 27 times. But on the 28th try he felt something moving in his mouth. He continued doing this until on the 63rd try he felt his tongue starting itching, like several hundred of ants were moving from it as the anthill to his teeth. He tried redirecting these ‹ants› into his arm through the bloodstream, but they have ‹died› before even reaching the shoulder, he felt slight numbness in his right shoulder, as if his bloodstream was blocked for some time.
After a lot of tries. And I mean a LOT of tries. Frank succeded in bringing the ‹ants› to his right forefinger, and then released his control of them. A big number of greenish-gray runic symbols broke out of his forefinger, converging on it's outer layer, with a lot of runes still inside. His forefinger turned into stone, gaining smooth texture, and his nail turned into a sharp stone blade.
With new ability, a new wave of information exploded in his mind again.
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[The user have discovered one of the main abilities of {The Gnawed Leaf}]
[Petrification (not complete)]
[The ability {Stone Teeth} is a component of the main {Petrification} ability]
[The known abilities:]
[Deep Hibernation - ...]
[Petrification - the user can turn his body parts into sharp mountain stone. Other uses the user will need to discover himself]
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Nodding to himself, Frank continued practicing his new ability. He was practicing until he could use the petrification on his whole right arm and whole mouth with lips and throat included, so he could eat harder things in the future, because eating made his soul stronger. It took him almost one month to do this.
His soul was strong enough already to not feel hunger for almost a month, he didn't need to drink as well. Also, his body have stored a lot of nutrients from his eating spree last time.
Getting up, he decided to do some warm up, because he didn't move for a month his body felt rusty. After warming up he decided which room he will go in. He will go into the front door (the room with the words is behind and the room with the ‹gluttony› is to the right).
After going through the darkness, what met Frank was another Scorat. He threw his trusty TFK at it, which was as good as new even after all this time. With his soul strengthened, he could use his telekinesis to push TFK so it pierced deeper into the monster's eye. Frank started running when he threw TFK, arriving near Scorat three seconds after TFK pierced it's eye, Frank struck TFK's handle with his petrified right arm, pushing it deeper, killing the stunned Scorat instantly.
He pulled the dagger out of the Scorat's head and has decided to name his dagger finally. He was tired of thinking TFK this and TFK that.
'You shall be called The Seeker from now on, my trusty friend' thought Frank, sinking deeper into insanity, calling his knife as his friend. He called the knife as ‹The Seeker› because it will eventually become homing after Frank's soul strengthens.
After finally coming out of his useless thoughts, Frank has decided to start preparing the Scorat for cooking. He cut the tail away because he will not eat it, cutting the stinger from it and the venomous gland from the stinger as well. He decided to use the Scorat's skull as the bowl, cutting some meat, which he dried of blood, and venomous gland for the bittersweet flavor, he threw them into the ‹bowl›. (I don't think that cooked venom will work)
He put the bowl with meat into the campfire with his petrified hand. This room, by the way, had only two of them at the center with 2 meter distance between them, the Scorat was standing in the middle. The campfires were the ordinary red ones.
After cooking the dish for 30 minutes, Frank decided that it was ready by the nice meaty aroma floating in the air. After petrifying his fingers to hold the scalding hot bowl and his mouth to eat, Frank begun eating extremely hot meat using a bone spoon, which he sculpted with The Seeker while the dish was cooking.
'Wow. This thing is tasty' thought Frank, not knowing how he could feel the taste with his mouth petrified.
After eating, he understood that he wasn't full, so he decided to pick some twigs from the campfire to make a barbecue.
After eating a half of the Scorat, Frank finally felt full so he went to sleep, using the Scorat's corpse as a pillow and thinking about testing his aura tommorow.