"400... 400 years... This does not make any sense. You look like a kid" I kept glancing over at Uriel and back at where the Ki had been left. It didn't make sense, how could someone not learn anything in the past 400 years.
How could she still act like a kid, though? Thinking about it, someone could have been able to take away her memories, but that still doesn't explain why she hasn't grown in that time either.
Pondering on this was getting me nowhere, so I don't really care to understand it anymore, so far she's old, but young. It's been an already long enough day as it is. I retracted the Ki, making sure it did not hurt her.
With that being done, I straightened my back, and through my leg around and began walking to the main entrance and just behind me, I could hear the pitter-patter of little shoes running up to me.
With that, I felt her grab at the back of my shirt as I continued to walk down and out of the alley and into the street. Hearing people talking on the street, I was able to pick on some news about that Wilstus guy and how he has become a cripple.
I heard a little more about them saying they have not been able to find any Ki within his body, and how he hasn't woken up yet either, however, they were still trying to look for the man who crippled him.
Walking through the street and hearing what they were talking about didn't faze me in the slightest, however, having something being dragged behind me made it harder to get back to the inn.
Entering in, I got a few strange looks, but I told Ben to send a bucket of water to my room and proceeded to make it back to my room.
With Uriel still holding onto my shirt by the time I entered my room, I reached to pull her hand from my shirt, which scared her into trying to reach back for it, but I brushed her hand away and said "You don't need to follow me around my room"
Leaving her to stand there, I stepped up to the bed and pulled it back onto its four legs, so I could sit somewhere comfortable for once, seeing as though I was going to bed soon, and I didn't want Uriel to sleep with me.
Glancing over at the pillows, on the bed, I grabbed one of them and tossed it over to Uriel, and she caught it quite timidly. She stared at me with a peculiar look.
I spoke with a lazy tone to my voice as I started to lay down, "You are, sleep on the floor" When I was just about to close my eyes. I remembered that she didn't have a blanket and since I was laying on it, I pulled it out from under me and tossed that over to her over.
Before I had a chance to think about a way to plan what I was going to do next, I was already dreaming.
Jolted awake, I swivelled my head away from the wall to see the moonlight entering through the window.
Shifting my body to face the room only to see Uriel sitting there with her eyes glowing in the dark and just to her left was the bucket of water, thinking about it, I asked in a groggy manner "How long was I out for?"
I could see Uriel perked up at hearing me talk to her and that she was going to answer what I asked her, "I don't know, but the sun just went down" she spoke all of that through a smile.
I nodded my head in approval, it seems I was out for about 7 hours, damn that felt too fast, anyway "Uriel why didn't you sleep?" as I saw her face slowly changed to that of nervousness as she fidgeted with the blanket in her lap.
It took a little while before she decided to look my way before she spoke back, "I don't like sleeping"
As I went to lay back down I spoke again in a groggy manner, "you know you're going to have to sleep, or you won't be coming with me tomorrow"
Watching her pull the blanket over herself and continued to dive into the pillow all in one motion caused me to sigh, but I waited for a little while, to make sure she was actually sleeping till I turned around and went back to sleep.
Opening my eyes, to a room that was now being filled by sunlight and the murmuring of the pedestrians in the distance. Sitting up, I could see Uriel was sleeping in an almost similar pose to a starfish.
Standing up, I stepped over towards the bucket of water that was just to her side and picked it up. I took it with me to the bathroom, to get myself cleaned up. Upon entering the bathroom, I placed the bucket onto the floor and was quite surprised to find a mirror inside such a shitty establishment.
Being in the bathroom and seeing my face through the cracks in the mirror made me grimace as I still looked like a bum and at this point, it was hurting my ego because I still look so poor.
Taking a scoop of water with my hand and throwing the water over my face, caused me to wake up a little, and taking some more this time to, splash it onto my hair.
After a while, my hair became sopping wet and that's when I proceeded to try and style it by picking up the cut-throat raze that was left just under the mirror to try and style my hair.
Glancing at the new style in the mirror, I was quite happy with the handiwork, I looked more like a mercenary than a gentleman, with the rough style of cut I now have. I went to clean up all my loose hair, from the bathroom, floor.
Leaving the bathroom, I saw Uriel sitting up looking around and when she spotted me she lit up like a candle, but I just pointed into the bathroom and spoke "There is water in there if you want to clean yourself up," she just looked at me and nodded her head as she got up, to walk into the bathroom.
Hearing the door close behind me, I strolled to the window, using it as a way to think about ways I was going to move forward, I know I need power and right now doing it the old-fashioned way is too slow for my liking.
Plundering people's Ki would be the easiest way, and fastest way, but I would first need a solid enough foundation to handle the influx of somebody else's Ki as well as mine, plus I would, later on, need to reform it which is not too bad.
Sighing, as remembered that I would also need beast crystals as there can in some ways help to reinforce my body as well. People do underestimate their potential, thinking they can only be used for new and fascinating types of technology, as they have done since the day they found them.
The thing that might possibly throw a wrench into my plans are the twins, after all, I tortured their apostles for the fun of it, every time I found them annoying and quite frankly I do not feel like getting tortured myself.
I would also need to start getting my blood essence core ready, and that reminds me, I still have random Ki circulating through me that I need to be reformed them, and since I am waiting for Uriel to I might as well do this step first.
Turning around, I looked at the floor to go and sit down after I lifted the bed, and after a while of sitting there, I contemplated if I should use the Ki to increase my foundation or raise my stage.
It should be about time I rise up in the stages, just in case. Doing this part is easy, Ki just has to be sent into the Ki pool and when the density of Ki inside the pool is reached you would break through to the next stage.
Subsequent once the Ki was reformed I sent it all into the pool, and unsurprisingly, I went up really fast and when all my internal Ki was depleted I started pulling it out of the surroundings.
My body felt like it was quickly shooting through all the Awakened stages, from 1... to 5... and feeling it enter into Essences stages and go all the way to stage 2 before I had to start pulling Ki from the environment.
Hitting the 4th stage was easy enough, but it was time-consuming as this planet's Ki density was very low compared to the ones closer to the centre.
Anyway, knowing that this plant's Ki is too low for my liking, I might as well go hunting and whilst I do that I can get my blood core started, killing two birds with one stone.