It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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Inside a well lit cave, sat a young man crosslegged and without a shirt on showing his ectomorph body with muscles preaching hard work looking at the things set before him.
The young man lighted the cave by drawing a basic fire spark magic circle which he powered by using the behemoth's demonstone.
The young man's name was Kiyama Kenshiro and right now he chose to walk a path that no one has before now but has been done successfully. He looked at the still bloody meat which he divided into two small parts and three large parts and a small pothole which he filled with 3/5 bottles of the mana liquid.
"With this pothole I don't have to force myself to hold the bottle when I could be in great pain and directly plant my face in. Now two small portions to start off and adopt to. This is not my first bloody meat but still... Whew~ now am ready. YOU CAN DO IT KEN!!"
After prepping and hyping himself, Ken drunk water then sips some mana liquid and proceeds to eat the first piece which was really tough speedily, afterwards sat down silently with his eyes closed. Some seconds later a strong kick like feeling hits his stomach and heart as he then lays on the floor belly down with his face near the pothole.
Ken started to writhe about on the ground after a few seconds; screaming, hitting his head against the ground multiple times as his bones began breaking and blood vessels bursting. His bones and ligaments kept breaking, shifting in unnatural ways and looked like a giant rock being eroded by water.
With no end in sight, he continued to experience the taste of hell. Thinking that he would rather be killed, obviously that was a fleeting thought as he chose this path and so he had no other choice, but to endure.
"You can do it, You can do it, You can do it, You can do it, You can do it, You can...''
His murmurs became incoherent and delirious.
He then dipped his face in the pothole and drunk the liquid which healed him immediately but the pain and mutilation came back almost immediately; teeth falling off and regrowing, blood from all his orifices before ceasing.
Destruction and reconstruction repeats as he forced himself awake.
Obviously, the pain he was going through couldn't be quantified or written down in greater detail but just know only a few people who can see clearly their target, personal goal or have a strong will to live can perhaps endure such an torture.
Changes then began to appear on Ken's body everytime it regenerated. First, his hair lost its original colour, it might have been because the human body has reached it's limits, or some other reason, but his characteristic Japanese black hair rapidly turned blue with white mix.
Next, his muscles and skeleton grew thicker, with several thin reddish black lines appearing within his body. His body underwent the supercompensation phenomenon as his now strong bones supports his now thick muscles.
Destroyed parts were instantly restored, as a result, his body strengthened at an amazing rate. Destruction and reconstruction made his body pulsate with new dimensions of strength. It was a metamorphosis in which he discarded his fragile human body and was reborn.
Completing the ritual as the pain stop, Ken cried out like a newborn and immediately collapsed for the day. He stood up the next morning and finished the meat along with the mana liquid. The pain assaulted him again and he fainted after it stopped.
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Ken's right hand twitched, slightly opening his shut eyes, his wavering focus landed on his right hand. Clenching his fist, scratching sounds was produced as his fingers scraped against the ground. He is alive and ready to go with eyes that could shut down a star.
He released and clenched his fist several times to ensure that he was in control of his hand's movements before he slowly got up showcasing his new Greek god physique aesthetic with thick biceps. He picked his sword and practiced a few swings as to test his new strength.
"Looks like everything went okay.... well the pain was too much for me to bear but it worked out. These lines on my skin were expected but looks creepy for real."
"Hmmm, blue hair eh?. well I was in perfect condition before my transformation unlike Nagumo so it's kind of expected it's not white. Now let me check on my trap" exclaimed Ken with an unusual coldness in his eyes which he had not noticed yet. He picked his shirt, goggles and sword along with some flash bombs as he left his cave.
After about 50meters he came in the area of the behemoth's corpse and intensively surveys around with his goggles as to not be caught off guard.
" It appears the monsters down here are a little intelligent than they seem. After one 'Kicking Rabbit' and 3 'Twin-tailed wolf' fell to my trap the rest stayed clear. well they are my stats and abilities so this much is okay"
Ken then used a deposition spell on the gaseous nano metal shards.The gaseous substance got deposited as crystals, bypassing the intermediate liquid state and fell to the ground.
" I gotta give it to me that this was genius. Using the behemoth's hard body as a dangerous breathing metal gas that will ripped them from the inside out is kind of wicked even for me." He then picked them up and was about to leave but looks at the general direction of Nagumo and thought to himself.
' It's three days since we landed here, so by now he's found the ideal hiding spot after losing his arm. So it should take about four days of crying, mopping and starvation for him to figure things out and break his cage. And that's enough for me'
He shrugged and walked to his cave with vigilance and soon found a perfect flat stone, which he thought it'd make a good hot plate.
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Four days passed after Ken checked his trap and a week since they fell here. During these days he has eaten a piece each off the rabbit and wolf monster and gained their abilities and some extra ones, as for the rest he kept for food.
With [Steel Stomach] he was able to continue eating without feeling the effect but he has to keep drinking the mana liquid as to take care of any hidden injuries and also increase magic and resistance. He has extended the cave and kept training his sword and power efficiently.
After training for a while he sat down, gulped down some water and smeared his blood on his Status card.
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Name: Kiyama Kenshiro
Age: 18 Years Old
Gender: Male
Level: 15
Class: Alchemist
Strength: 550
Vitality: 700
Dexterity: 550
Agility: 650
Magic: 700
Magic Resistance: 700
Skills:
•Atomic structure comprehension
•Language Comprehension
•Potion Making
•Mana manipulation
•Matter manipulation
+Reconstruction
+Deconstruction
+Change state of matter
•Swordplay > Swordsman
•Breath Sense
• Lightning clad •Steel stomach
•Mana body enhancements
+Steel skin
+Strong hind legs
•Greater steps
+Flash steps
+Air steps
+Crushing steps
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"Now it's time to see what Nagumo is up to and also to refill my water" expressed Ken with an expressionless face as he walks out.
{A/N: The plus sign indicates a derivative skill of the main one. And with mana manipulation he doesn't need to chant anymore.}