Exhausted… I'm fucking tired… I am still processing what is happening. Ok, let me see.
A room filled to the brim with dresses and clothes. Towering racks of clothing lining up near me. Dresses that are so fancy that they must be so f*ckin expensive. Why am I here again?
"Ok, Tomo-chan~ You can look at the mirror now~ Gosh, you are so cute, even cuter than before, hehehe~"
What the hell is my mother saying? What am I doing exactly? And gosh, why is my body feeling kinda heavy, am I wearing something big? I walked closer and closer to the mirror and turn around to finally look at myself.
Who… the hell… is this?!
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Ugh… I'm feeling kind of hungry, I am in no condition to fight. I guess there is a limit to what my resistance can do about the side effects. I'm currently fighting multiple groups of monsters that my siblings gathered up for me.
I don't know if there are insane or what but the weakest group here is around the threat level of B- with the strongest group being a threat level of Special A, and I'm currently fighting all of them. I'm pretty sure that this is not how you train people to get stronger. But based on my skills and learning and getting experience more quickly than what was normal, this is the level of difficulty that I need to do.
Still, it is rather insane for them to give me multiple Special A's to fight at once considering I am slightly lower than that, A+ to be exact. Special A is considered a Calamity Class, a threat that could topple a country's government, and yet I'm forced to fight multiple of these?! Granted, they are in the lower spectrum of Special A but I mean, c'mon you gotta give me some slack here.
It has already been a while since we fought those dragons but I think they are still kind of salty and now they are using me as a means to vent out their anger. Also, according to the investigation done on why there were dragons that suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
Apparently, those dragons were exiled out of their home for causing so much destruction in these peaceful lands and it seems that after that happened, they flew all the way here just to wreak havoc, good thing we stopped it.
The neighboring Dragon Kings apologized for this and promised it will not happen again, at least they are civilized, unlike some dragons that I've read about in novels.
Anyways, back to what I'm doing, I'm extremely tired. I've been fighting for so long without rest, and there is also this issue of my hunger. From what I can tell, it wants me to eat something but I don't exactly know what it is.
"Survey Completed. From the data gathered, it appears that the side-effect that gives you insatiable hunger to devour anything wants you to eat the souls of livings beings."
Oh great, no wonder I was feeling hungry all of the sudden when so many monsters showed up. So I have to devour all of these monsters? Will it worsen my condition if I do that?
"Answer. It will not worsen your condition, in fact, it will make your hunger subside for a bit. However, it will make your skill stronger the more souls or beings you devour making it incredibly dangerous."
'I mean, what do you expect of the skill that was literally compared to a black hole by the strongest demon lord in that slime isekai, of course, it is dangerous. And now it is going to be more dangerous? Man, I might manage to evolve this thing into an Ultimate Skill sooner than what I thought if it grows this quickly.'
'I don't think that's how skill evolution works but I get what you mean. Also, this is why you need to exercise caution in using them when the time has come for you to gather all of the [21 Mythical Skills].'
'W-What do you mean?' Did she find out already?
'You think I didn't know? I watch your memories all the time so obviously, I know that you want to get all 21 of them. Of course, you might not be able to turn all of them into a God-rank Ultimate skill since it already has an owner in this world, but at least you can get Wrath to a God-rank Ultimate skill if you have the patience. Also, you already have 3 or 4 if you include Sloth, which you would definitely get soon, so you are getting there.'
'Ugh, I hate that you can just know what I'm thinking, huh?'
'Well, I love it. Now, go and eat those monsters up.'
'Alright alright.'
Now for starters, I would be able to wipe out all of them if I just used high-tiered magic or let Aurelia use magic but I wasn't allowed to use magic since I wouldn't be able to experience actually fighting monsters if I just kill them in one shot unless it is for support like [Strengthening Magic] or for blocking, but skills are allowed.
Now, I could just devour the entire area but that would make this test useless meaning I have to do this very smartly. I could probably fight all of them by hand and devour them when they were about to die… or maybe I can split each group into two where I kill the first half by hand and devour the second.
But that would cut down the number of souls eaten by half if I do that… or how about I just do both of them at the same time, eh, might as well give it a shot.
I run to each group of monsters and split them into two, the first half would be killed by hand but just before they die, I will devour them, while the rest would just be devoured outright. This took a long time for me to master it since I have to get the timing right.
It would be faster if I could somehow shape [Gluttony] into a sword and devour them as I slice them or coat my sword with it but that is not how my skill works. Plus, I'm holding a sword with either one hand or two depending on what style I use so using my skill would be pretty difficult.
"Notice. I recommend combining the [Unique Skill: Gluttony] and the sword temporarily to have the same effect. However, it will drain the durability of the sword after using it for a while so it is advisable to not let [Gluttony] be merged with the sword all the time."
Oh, really, I can do that? I mean, I know that putting skills into an item exists but I didn't know I can do that already. How do I use it?
"Answer. It is…"
Oh ok. I'm still kind of confused but that should be enough. I did what it said and it quickly became more efficient. Although, I can really feel the sword slowly breaking every time I use it and it is also quite heavy as well. I might need to fix this before I use it again.
After a while hunting, a few hours passed and I finally finished. It took way longer than what I would have expected but at least I've done it. I was also about to run out of magicules since I used [Gluttony] so many times. I'm freaking tired, at least I don't feel hungry anymore. God, this is going to be annoying.
"Good job, Tomo-chan. You finished relatively faster than what we expected so we are proud. Though, I was wondering what you were doing since your sword looked and feel different from time to time and your sword looks worn out. What did you do?"
"Yeah, I was wondering about that too. I didn't teach you anything like that in sword class, and it definitely wasn't sword aura so?"
"Ah, I mixed my skill with the sword."
"Which skill?"
"Gluttony, the one I used to devour stuff."
Their jaws dropped. What the?
"Gluttony! One of the [Sins Series]?! That Gluttony?!"
"Yeah? What about it?"
"You didn't tell us that you have such an amazing skill!"
"Eh? But I clearly said [Gluttony] when I devoured the dragon corpses, remember?"
"Yes, but we thought it was the name of the ability, not the skill itself!"
Oh yeah, there is also something like that, huh. Now did I think about it, yeah I forgot that there were skills and abilities/sub-skills that have the same name despite being different. There were also cases where two or more Unique Skills or Ultimate Skills have the same name despite being completely different but that's enough of that.
They kept pestering me with questions and it took a while to answer all of them. Both of them were really shocked and almost fainted when they heard I have 3 of the [21 Mythical Skills] and might get another one soon. I mean, I get why they would be very surprised but they don't need to be this surprised.
Anyways, a couple of weeks passed by, and I was given a break. My days have been hectic ever since this semester started but at least I am getting stronger. Now, usually, when I have breaks, I just go to the magic library and read there but I want to do something different.
I am allowed to go outside the palace on my own to train in the woods as long as I wear a bracelet that tells me my location to my family at all times and tells them if I'm in trouble or not, which is good for me since I want to explore for a bit.
I haven't explored this place for real since I only focused on training, I know the terrain and place like the back of my hand but I never really just stopped and admire the scenery and that's exactly what I'm going to do.
I ran around the area, found some animals, and slew some hostile monsters if they threaten me. From time to time, I jump up with incredible force to go high up the trees to look at the place from above, it was quite cool. Sure, it is only white or blue because it is winter all the time here but you will always see something interesting in it.
Like that one over there where there is flowing water… wait. Hold on, there is water, flowing water? In this place? I went there to investigate immediately. Normally there won't be any natural water flowing in here since it is always freezing cold in here, any water would just freeze into ice.
When I got there, I was shocked. Not only there was flowing water but it is a whole freaking river of water! The ground around it is covered in snow and ice and yet the water is flowing. I used my detection skills and detected there was a pond near here, there is even a pond, wow, this is interesting. I might want to investigate this.