Amon looked at the meat.
"Raw?" he was being forced to eat meat by the lion's cub, that too his own father's…
'Raw? What does it mean?' lion's cub asked him.
Amon was silent and looked at the cub. "Do you have any name or anything like that?" he asked him.
'Name?'
"What does your father call you?"
'Kiddo?'
Amon understood that this lion's cub didn't have a name, and thought about naming him, but again he was not anything like him so he decided to call him Kiddo for now.
"Can fire burn this meat?" he asked Kiddo.
'Fire can't hurt us' Kiddo said to him.
'This is it… I can only eat this raw…' Amon sighed, even though he was raised in an orphanage, he never ate anything raw…
'I always wanted to go out of this forest, but the outside world is very dangerous for us. Father said if any strong person sees me, I should run! or else, I would become their pet. Since you are not strong, I didn't run away' Kiddo said to Amon.
"Tsk…" Amon picked up the raw meat, he hesitate a little before bitting it, it was too hard… he couldn't take a single bite! He gave up bitting and looked for a sharp rock.
Kiddo didn't say anything, he just went back to the top of the big rock and slept there.
After searching for some time, he found a sharp rock, it was good!
Bang bang
He tried to cut the meat, and with that rock, he was able to cut it into pieces.
'Hehe, looks like with this rock, I can damage Kiddo, but he had a barrier around him…' Amon thought and looked at Kiddo who was peacefully sleeping. However, he didn't attack, he felt he needed a good time to attack it.
'First this…' he picked the small piece of meat and placed it in his mouth. He started to chew it.
"Fuck…" he couldn't chew it so he directly swallowed it.
Amon could feel it going through his food pipe… just as it entered his stomach, it melted like liquid.
"Ha… what is this feeling," Amon said, he could feel warm inside his stomach and it was spreading all over his body in no time…
Kiddo looked at him. 'What is wrong with you?' he asked him.
"Nothing… it was just that when meat entered my stomach, I feel warm energy all around my body," Amon said to him, he didn't know what it was, so asking him would be a good thing too.
'Warm energy?' Kiddo looked at him but didn't say anything.
"Do you know anything?"
'No'
"Tsk, and here I thought you know somethings," Amon said, he was expecting something, since Kiddo was strong.
Kiddo didn't say anything and went back to sleep.
Amon started to gulp meat pieces and enjoyed the feeling.
'This blood is still fresh…' he could feel there was blood in some pieces. He cleaned them with leaves only after he checked they were good.
After eating some, he was full, there was no way he could eat another piece.
'Cultivation…' he remembered he could cultivate now! He was in a world with unlimited Star Essence!
He looked for a good spot, it was forest, so there was not much good surface here, so he sat on top of a big tree branch, he asked Kiddo if any beast would come, but he said no, they wouldn't get close this place. When he asked why he didn't say anything.
"First, take a deep breath, and try to calm my mind," he said to himself, he remember reading about this in his kingdom. Even though it was a mortal kingdom, it had some good stuff about magic, martial arts, and cultivation.
But he didn't know anything about how it works or anyone who tried them before. But he decided to try them himself, daring to face all the problems alone; he was sure that he would be able to come up with something, no matter where. everything starts from one, If things do not work for him, he would create them himself.
He calmed his thoughts and controlled his breathing, he read he would be able to sense the Star Essence in the air if he do it like this.
After trying 3 times, he was able to sense the Star Essence and tried to breathe that into his body through his nose.
He snuffed very hard and Star Essence entered his body like that.
'Wait… this feeling…' he felt something familiar… 'this feeling when I ate the lion's meat… that means that meat has Star Essence?' he was surprised by that! He didn't he was eating Star Essence till now!
"Fuck this! I will eat everything then!" Amon thought but didn't stop cultivation, he wanted to test this out too.
He did take some Star Essence from his nose, it was how it was described in the book he read.
"This process is hard and time taking, but that is easy… and that feels better than this!" he said after cultivation for more than half an hour? He didn't know the time. It was almost sunset.
He came down from the tree and made a small bed with bushes. He wouldn't be able to sleep on the rock, it was too hard to sleep for him.
At night he again ate some pieces. It was hard chewing, but when it entered his body, it melts like liquid. It was very magical.
'I don't know if I should say this or not… but you should eat the heart first' Kiddo said to Amon.
"Heart?" Amon looked at the half eaten corpse.
'Yes, that is where the real power exists' Kiddo said to him while eating his dinner, no one know when he caught that thing.
"Then… why that white tiger didn't eat it?" Amon asked him.
'I don't know, ask him'
"You… sigh, but this is confusing a little, why did that white tiger kill your father? And didn't eat the most important part?" said Amon, this was a little suspicious.