As I looked on my new trait and stat upgrade, I thought about the core in my bag and brought it out.
My teachers already taught me about how this worked.
I shattered it in my hand and I started circulating the energy through my whole body. Normally the new energy should form my core or strengthen it but it instead got absorbed by my body and strengthened by my body instead of my core.
I felt approximately 15% stronger then before. If it goes like this, my constitution will rise above others my age like nothing. I also ate some of its meat to satisfy my hunger. It was so good, after eating only some weird paste for whole year day by day made me a bit crazy… I almost cried after eating meat in such a long time!
I felt so good after absorbing the core that I got a dangerous idea. I came to the lake and swam down. At first I thought that it was too toxic for my body to handle, but with my body absorbing the cold a energy so well, how could I resist this?
I was at the side of the lake next to a wall. As I came down I saw a whole that I could probably fit through. Before making my mind in going in, I went back to get some oxygen.
The freezing water instead of being cold, was burning my body like crazy! It wasn't like absorbing a core but I still felt that if I could stay in there for a while I would be able to see big improvements.
I looked on the water thoughtfully and zooming my eyes into the distant waters. I made a really important discovery. The icy water was only half a kilometer long, it wasn't the whole lake like I thought.
Thinking that maybe it was some sort of natural made me really excited and ready to get back to the water and go trough the hole.
So I did.
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After entering the hole, I appeared in a another huge but now underground cave. I saw five fishes in a small pod, that was filled with water that I could barely see through.
I tried to catch one of the fishes but it was way too fast for me to even se clearly.
The water and these weird fishes were all slightly glowing. As I remembered the sensation from absorbing the core earlier I couldn't help but grin a little bit.
I picked my makeshift dagger and jumped after a carp. He didn't even let me get close before disappearing completely. This pissed me off not going to lie, just a little bit tho.
I tried to keep my self calm and try again
An our later. "Come on!!!!!!!! Let this knife decimate you to pieces! Please, please, please just dieeeeedd alreeedyyyy!!!!! Ahhhhhh! Ahaha ha.. ha… HAAAAAA.."
These damned carps are so insanely fast that I just can't catch them no matter what, at this rate I'll get metal problems.
I came to a stupid but right now for my furious self, a great plan. I'll try to drink all the water and then eat them when they won't be able to run.
After that I came three times a day down the underwater cave. every timeI was there I drink at least two liters of the icy water.
After a month of continuous drinking the water and working out in between. my body has undergone some changes. My constitution went from low - high to mid - low.
Right now those huge carps couldn't even swim, the water was too shallow for them.
I could eat them right away, but I was busy looking at something even better. In the middle of the pond was a orb that froze its surroundings.
I picked the orb and then hurriedly placed it back into the pod, my left hand was dangerously cold and i couldn't move it as I lost all my feeling in it. An hour went by and I could still not feel my hand.
After five days of eating eating the carps and taking out storing their cores in my bag, I could finally feel my hand. I could still not move it, I just felt a burning sensation in my whole arm, but better than nothing I guess. Oh And my constitution reached mid.
The next day, i was trying to absorb one of the cores. I picked it up from my bag and placed it in my mouth on my tongue. This is my own unique method that makes me absorb energy faster. I bit into it and started navigating the flow of energy trough my body. As my control of the energy got better with drinking the glowing water and carps I managed to split the energy into four streams, one for each limb.
The burning sensation was almost unbearable, but I needed to continue to expand the energy through my body. If I didn't, and I left a spot with a higher concentration of icy energy, then it would end up like my left arm. Not ready to lose another part of my body, I bared the pain, causing me to raise my constitution into mid - high
I absorbed all of the cores, one day at a time, every time I did so, some of the feeling in my hand came back until it was back in perfect condition. I was relieved but I was also one hell of a greedy ***********. So my next course of action was to once more try to absorb the ice orb. Those cores helped me raise my constitution into high-low.
This sudden growth made my body rusty. I kept some control from continuously working out, but I was still pretty clumsy.
I shut myself in the cave, working out like a devil, doing calisthenics to improve my body control, I hunted bats for food and drank the remaining cold water. It actually started to taste better over time.
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Two moths have gone in a blink of a eye. I wasn't even a fourteen years old yet I looked like I was seventeen. My height went from 170 cm to 180 cm in a couple of moths.
After solo killing a pack of wolfs and not gaining any improvements from cores, I made up my mind on finding out where my captors are.
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On my way, I killed over 20 wolfs. Right now I was facing the biggest one I saw. "Your probably the alpha of these weak *****, huh?"
"Grrrrr"
"Oh, perhaps you didn't like that?"
Then he started running towards me.
I looked at my hands that suddenly got covered in sharp ice, especially the ends of the fingers. "Come!"
I crouched a little dodging its sharp fangs while counterattacking with my with my left hand covered in sharp ice, going for its abdomen, while my right hand went for its neck.
I got sent flying by its left leg, hitting my abdomen. I grinned while looking at his bloodied abdomen while I was comple- "echm, echm, bweeee" **** I may have blocked my body being cut, but I still threw up blood.
"So you do peck a punch after all" I said while staring at its deep wound. I grinned "But I'm still winning"
Standing up I slowly came to finish it. "Ghrrrrrh". It stared at me while growling as if it wanted to warm me, to not approach him.
I didn't care, because this was going to be my win. It tried to once more kick me, I dodged it.
While its leg was retreating I grabbed it with both of my hands, I pulled as hard as I could dislocating its arm. I focused all the energy in me, to cover my left side of the body with ice.
I gave him a good uppercut to the head that went right trough its hide to the skull, while also receiving a big blow from the wolf's leg to the part of my body that was covered in ice. I was left with a deep wound, that was leaving blood as I went to the dying wolf lying on the ground. I came to it and pierced it to its brain.
Before retrieving its core, I used some of the icy power, to stop my wounds from bleeding. After using the core to heal my wounds at least a little bit, I checked my status.