Waking up some time later, Frank noticed his soul stregthening once more. Strengthening wasn't that big, 3% maybe, he wasn't sure.
Remembering what he wanted to do today, he got up and did some exercises. Following this he cooked some barbecue for breakfast and after eating it he sat cross legged in the corner of the room.
Concentrating on his aura he tried to use it like he used the petrification, only to fail miserably. He didn't feel a thing at all, as if he didn't have the ability.
'I'm doing something wrong that's clear' thought Frank while recalling his Nascent Aura's information.
'The aura's abilities are called like emotions, maybe I should feel the emotion to use the ability? That should be it'.
Frank began imagining things he have been through trying to cause some emotions. First, he imagined his first encounter with death, slight aura started seeping out of his body. It was the aura of Fear, but it wasn't strong because his death was fast and painless, the only fear he felt was right before death, when the ceiling started cracking and sagging over him.
He tried to control it, but it was hard, much harder than controlling the runes with telekinesis. He couldn't even change where the aura will go to, and the aura was affecting his thoughts making him remember his first encounter with Scorat, which caused his aura of Fear to grow even bigger. It became too strong to control, Frank's fear grew and grew until his heart stopped and he turned into the stone statue.
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Frank woke up unknown time later feeling a little fearful of his own aura, which caused his aura to burst again causing him to black out once more.
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Waking up again, Frank tried to supress his fear, blocking his aura from bursting out. He did notice though that controlling his emotion of Fear became easier than before.
He activated his Fear aura again, he has still blacked out, but a little later than before. He had noticed his aura becoming a little tamer this time, it was almost like it was telling him to try a little harder.
And he did. He had been training for a long time, not really knowing for how much. Repeating the routine of using his aura, blacking out and waking up again and again, and again, and again. But he wasn't getting tired of this, the feeling of improvement he felt each time he waked up made him intoxicated.
He could choose which direction his aura will go in now, and he could hold it for 10 minutes straight. After ten minutes he will turn into stone though, with everything in the room feeling the fear strong enough to stop their hearts. Not everything really, but the things he met will absolutely die, aside from Gluttony, which will get a heart attack max.
Anyways, Frank got hungry again and he had already ate the Scorat, so he has decided to go to the right room (the spider room is behind) to find some food. He didn't know why his aura of Hunger didn't burst though, maybe it was because he has got it from devouring The Shard of Gluttony so it needs stronger feelings to be activated. He felt that he was right remembering how his Fear aura had activated.
Walking through the darkness, Frank saw no monsters in the room, what he saw was a very big formation of two meters big boulders in there, leaving almost no space to move. The formation looked like there was something at it's center, but Frank couldn't see through walls, so he had decided to climb the boulders to see what's in there.
After climbing the boulders he started crawling on them to the center of the formation, finding a silver key lying in the opening with boulders surrounding it. He picked up the key and got out of the formation.
After walking around the formation he saw that the room had only two doors, the one he has come from and the one to it's right, which is the room there he fought Gluttony.
Going back to the barbecue room Frank has decided to go in the door to his right (the silver key room is behind). In this room Frank saw a new monster. It was a centipede, normal aside from it's size. It was 15 cm thick, 30 cm wide and 2 meters long with two long stingers at it's end and two worm-like antennas at it's head.
'I looks like a Blue Leg Centipede' thought Frank while holding his disgust back, this thing looked hideous. But.
'But it's head looks somewhat cute with these black little eyes and worm-like antennas' added Frank in his mind, while throwing The Seeker at centipede's mouth and hitting bullseye easily.
Centipede was astonished by what was happening - some strange being that it have never seen before went into its domain, radiating feeling of disgust and throwing something at it. When The Seeker went into its mouth it became enraged and tried spewing it away while dashing in the Frank's direction trying to kill him by stinging him with its tail.
Frank seeing emotions in the centipede's eyes was stunned. Artificial monsters that he had met before didn't have any emotions, that means that the centipede was a resident, like a Gluttony. But he didn't feel like it was a human before, which means that there are different intelligent species out there in The Universe and the crypt.
Anyways, he had already gone through killing and eating of intelligent being before, so he has quickly became cold again. Turning his right arm into stone, Frank dodged to the left and striked the centipede in the head with his knife hand.
But the centipede have dodged unexpectedly quickly, throwing its big body to the left (its left) and using its tail like a whip, it striked again but with more power and speed this time.
Frank, not having enough speed to dodge, turned his forearms into stone and crossed them, blasting his Fear aura at the centipede to lessen it's will to fight.
Centipede's tail have slowed down a bit, being blasted by the aura, but still hit hard. Frank's forearms were filled with cracks, his face paling by a few shades from pain.
His emotions got out of control for a second and the aura of Insanity burst out of his body. Frank almost blacked out, but still constricted it within himself using the experience of using the Fear. But the centipede being hit by the short burst of aura went berserk for a few seconds, and with Fear still working, it's nervous system got overloaded which made it faint.
Sweaty Frank quickly constricted his Fear, turning the aura off. He bent down, took The Seeker from the centipede's mouth and started stabbing it in the head hitting the brain and killing it.
This room was empty with no boulders or campfires, but there was a bomb lying in the middle of the room. The bomb looked like a black tennis ball with a button and a BOOM written on it. There were only two doors in the room, the one he came from and the one opposite it. Putting the bomb in the cocoon bag, Frank went into the barbecue room, dragging the massive centipede with him.
'Never ate a fried centipede before, should be tasty' thought Frank while cutting the centipede's leggs off to cook separately.
He started cooking the centipede, which he cut into different pieces. He have cut the smaller meaty pieces to cook in the skull bowl and the rest he barbecued.
'Wow, it's was really tasty, I should have eaten something like this when I was alive' thought Frank while licking his fingers.
When he went to sleep, planning what to do then he wakes up. He didn't notice his forearms still being petrified and rapidly healing the cracks in them.