In the host space, the [Cosmos Revolving Grimoire] emitted a dazzling purple light before the five-meter-tall Sylvester flew out and over to Jody's space, sitting aloof next to his host seat. Instantly, Jody felt a massive influx of blood force course into his body, invigorating his blood and organs, assimilating with his flesh! It was incredibly violent in its reckless invasion, thrashing through his twilight veins. Jody felt his body lurch, and he likely would have spit out blood without the focus provided by his pendants.
Luckily, his matrix reacted naturally to the threat in his veins, melting the Twilight essence pearl within and sending the refined essence into Jody's Twilight veins. In this process, it started to fuse with the raging force to enhance his entire being. The twilight essence completely purified the ragin blood force, assimilating it into its essence.
"Woah…this is amazing," Jody exclaimed in pure ecstasy at the marvelous feeling, but he swiftly regained focus.
He felt his body growing stronger on a fundamental level. This was an improvement of his body's overall potential! Was this a benefit of the Twilight Essence Pearl? It even allowed him to refine vicious blood force like it was water. This time, it was only a slight improvement, but what if they kept fighting stronger vicious beasts? Or even stronger than that? Jody realized that he had indeed been short-sighted before. Why had he never purchased items at the store before?
Was he such a miser?
Still, who could know Sylvester would be this useful for his transformations? This was likely only the tip of the iceberg, as the disdain in Sylvester's voice had yet to ease in the slightest.
Due to this improvement, Jody suddenly felt it was surprisingly more comfortable to refine these two astralis. However, he could barely appreciate this under the insane pain. He felt like he was taking a jackhammer to his soul. It almost drove him nuts, and he had to fight hallucinations of massacring masses of people with his bare hands like a psychopath. These hallucinations were terribly vivid and were beginning to leave a deep imprint on Jody as they persisted.
Good thing he used to watch horror movies all the time.
"Endless Carnage… the path of slaughter!"
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An hour later, red trails of steam rose from Jody's body as he formed forces next to Hughes and three other nobles in the middle of the forest.
Hughes had a big headache when this kid decided to suddenly close himself off from the world, but as he was the young master, there was nothing Hughes could do but call for back up to ensure the brat's safety. This back up arrived in the form of one handsome and elegantly dressed brown-skinned male who looked to be around 20 years old, and two pretty fairy-like twin little girls, with creamy white jade-like skin, pointed ears, and emerald green eyes and hair, who looked around 11-years-old.
One had on a fashionable blue dress, and the other had on an elegant green dress, but they both wore the Frozen Night division badge on their shoulders. If Jody were currently paying attention to his surroundings, he would recognize this brown-skinned young man to be the Rondo whom he had once seen in a battle above the clouds!
"Hughes, I see you broke through once again. Perfected Gold Mage, impressive," said Kold Rondo motioning to pat Hughes on the shoulder. Merely, Rondo's hand only landed a bit above his elbow as Hughes' frame was simply too massive, "You can be promoted to an honored elder if you wanted! What a pity…"
"My loyalty is to the Frozen Night, not the the House of Trillwolf," Hughes admitted directly.
"House of? How old are you again?" Retorted Rondo in mock confusion.
"You don't think it is pitiful to work under one such as her for always…" said one of the pretty fairy-like twins, who had a vibrant and bubbly smile.
"…and forever?" finished the other twin who was shy and held on to the back of her sister's arm at all times.
"It is nothing to be pitied. You should not question your master. Our destiny is not limited to this country," Hughes was far more gentle when speaking to these two pretty elven girls.
"We do not question the mistress..." replied the shy fairy.
"...we only question your thoughts, silly!" said the bubbly fairy with a giggle.
However, this was a point of view that Hughes had never once tried to conceal. In fact, many other elders of the house were quite discontent with this subtle giant, who always stood half a step behind the first lady of the house. Hughes imposingly overlooked the surroundings on full alert. Vicious beasts frequented this area, after all.
"No, it truly is a pity! As a newly promoted honored elder, I can not challenge a mere normal elder to a duel. It is beneath my status." Rondo beat his chest once before continuing, "Yes, it is very pitiful for me. I thought you might be a good warm-up for the Wolf King Tournament in three years."
"You overestimate yourself," snorted Hughes aggressively, as pale purple force momentum subtly built up around his steel like muscular body.
"Hey now, that's no way to address this honored noble, is it?" Rondo had his hands on his hips, and his head cocked to the side like a gangster.
"You overestimate yourself…your honor," Hughes rolled his eyes and replied.
"Hahaha! Now there, buddy, was that so hard!" Rondo patted Hughes back as the elven twins giggled at the friendship of these two warriors. "All is well, all is well, haha!"
"So..." Rondo said, intending to get down to more important matters. "What's the story with the kid? I thought you were escorting him on his pilgrimage to the Young Wolf Celebration Dinner."
"Indeed, I am currently in the middle of that task. However, while taking some time out to train the young master, he unexpectedly demolished two first-level Vicious Earth Spirits. Both had elemental forces awakened. After that, he seemed to have comprehended something from this experience. The brat is scary indeed." Hughes sneaked a glance at this curly headed young master of his who sat lotus style amongst a flurry of emerald flames a few meters away.
"Oh my," said the fairy-like twins in unison.
"Wow, so strong? That's really not bad." Rondo rubbed his chin in admiration, "Definitely the lord's rumored prodigal son."
Meanwhile, Jody was totally unaware that he was the topic of this conversation.
He was sweating bullets, and his skin looked beet red as red steam shaped energy came from his body. However, considering he was surrounded by flames, this didn't seem out of place.
Though it remained concerning...
Two hours later, Jody suddenly stood up and roared to the heavens as a dense pressure was released from his body, the wind causing a mild breeze to spread and snuff out the surrounding flames. Jody's body had cooled off, and his skin now looked smooth and lustrous. His muscles were deeper and visibly more defined. With a thought, the [Cosmos Revealing Grimoire] appeared in a flash of purple light and flipped open to the first page.
[Name: Josiah Goldwolf]
[Age: 8 years, 5 months.]
[Status: 125% Health, 36:49]
'Sagacity: Origin Scholar Sage Realm, Basic Sophomore rank, 15 BP.'
'Berserk: Level 9 Wimpy Man Realm, 89 BP (+41).'
'Guardian 1: Cosmos Devouring Sky Wolf, Compatibility rating: 64%.'
[Tier 1 abilities unlocked]
'Guardian 2: Mighty God Sky Wolf, Compatibility rating: 57%. '
[Tier 1 abilities unlocked]
"Haha, awesome! It feels so great! This is definitely the best feeling," Jody laughed boisterously, "Ninth level Wimpy Man. I should be the first, haha!"
This was a great achievement!
Forget second level vicious beasts, Jody currently felt like he could take out weaker third level vicious beasts in just one blow! Of course, this was if the vicious beast was totally unguarded, and he used a well-timed Destructo Fist. Otherwise, it was still impossible. However, Jody felt he at least had some capital to protect himself in this these crazy wilds now.
"Wow, how handsome."
"Hello, little handsome."
Jody realized with a start that there were the faces of two amazingly pretty girls positioned directly in front of his own face. He could feel the wind of their breathing against his skin. He stared with a blank face for a full minute before reacting, "Um, hello. I'm Josiah of House Trill. Who are you pretty big sisters?"
When Jody said 'pretty big sisters', the two little girls looked at each other, and then giggled. The girl in the blue dress spoke up first in a sing-song voice, "Hi handsome little brother Josiah of Trill, I'm Sophie of Magnolia! This is my sister, Levi."
"You're too big to be a little brother though," said Levi shyly from behind Sophie.
This prompted Jody to reflexively extend his spiritual awareness outward out to observe himself and the area.
Indeed.
Shockingly, Jody's height now solidly surpassed a meter reaching about 165 cm. Jody rubbed his nose, embarrassed at this discovery. The three meter tall Hughes, the only one who Jody felt should have been shocked as he just grew several inches in a day, just looked on nonchalantly. As a child he had had many sudden growth spurts after formulating energy as well, so this didn't seem strange to him.
"Well…I'm only eight this year…so. Hey! I know you!" It was at this moment that Jody noticed the well dressed young man next to Hughes with stars in his eyes like he was meeting a famous musical artist from his old world.
This man had left a deep impression on Jody when he had first come to this crazy world! He could said to be responsible for Jody wanting to be a Sage. His mother had told him many things about this man, and even recruited him after that day! He was an amazing sage who could defeat sages from an entire realm above. He was also an honored elder and even had a title!
"You're the Inexhaustible Flame, Kold Rondo!"