Since they estimate that they will stay in one place for at least a month they settled on training to pass the time.
With all this food and training the had many molting sessions at a small span of time.
Three weeks in they had already gotten in a routine of eat train sleep repeat, when something unexpected happened, one of the molting procedures of the male took too long to finish and his body elongated and bulked up considerably as opposed to just adding segments to his torso.
Also an sudden wind picked up, furthermore it was getting faster and faster.
~Crack krcrack~
Noises, like breaking bones, were heard towards the end of the phenomenon.
The centipede that emerged out of the molt was completely different; he was as long as the bear tall, the black carapace lustre had gotten a metallic sheen, his legs had become a matte gold color from bright orange that it was, it's mandibles, legs and antennae lost most of their joints and have become straight with slight carve (the mandibles inwards, the legs downwards and the antennae upwards) and were sharp on both edges. Lastly the glow in his eyes attained a deeper glow.
He looked like a killing machine!
"Hey, you look so small now" he said
'Wait, what? You make weird sounds now?' she asked guffawed
"Not only that I can also wield mana now" he answered
'What's that?' she inquired again
"Dunno" he replied
'Huh?!' She exclaimed exasperated
"It comes with a language though" he added
'What is a language?' she questioned, now calmed
"The sounds I make and the scratches are language" he responded at her
'Then you can understand the scratches?!' she asked again agitated. 'Then what is this?' She added showing the Tome.
"Mind's Eye Triangle Auxiliary Manual" he read
'What does it do?' she continued the questioning
"It reads:
The mind is the second most important aspect about life and cultivation, second to the soul but more on that later, and this technique allows the practitioner to potentially achieve complete control of it, then the rest of the aspects of cultivation, like mana and such.
But it encompasses an auxiliary aspect of cultivation so at the initial stage of practice it only mildly influences the mind and increases comprehension ability, for this isn't a cultivation technique but a foundation enrichment manual.
Upon further mastery of the manual with the awakening of the of Mind's Eye gives you the ability to consciously influence your own mind however you see fit, do practice caution though that some times there could be irrevocable damage if not absolutely certain of it's influence the Mind's Eye it shelf. That was the introduction, also it has a way to use mana to check my inner mind state."
'What does that mean about inner mind state?'
"Let me check"
A cooling feeling overcame him but that was about it, except the lingering coolness settled at it's previous channels of flow, indicating them to him with most of the cooling energy gathering in his head and 1/4 of the way of his torso from his head.
"Nothing much happened, except it seems I obtained a second center of thought"