Once all the beasts were dead Aldin lifted Arix and placed him on a light construct so as to move him easily. Aldin went to where the carcasses were.
'It's been quite some time since I last used this,' Aldin thought to himself and brought his hand forward, he used his devourer's touch and immediately the carcasses began vanishing into thin air as he devoured them until he was at the limit of mana he could hold. Aldin then sat cross-legged, he first used accumulation to its limit leaving him still with a substantially large amount of mana. It was now time for the most painful part, the mana that was still in his body, he condensed and it filled his being. The mana began integrating with every fibre of his body the process was excruciatingly painful and Aldin bore it all gritting his teeth as he endured the pain, as time went by the pin he was experiencing grew even more until all the mana in his body was fully integrated with his body.
The pain disappeared in an instant making it feel like a distant memory but Aldin knew better, when Aldin turned he saw Ariz also seated with his legs crossed and drops of sweat trickling down his forehead. Aldin realized that he too was using the body refinement technique.
"This will make training him a lot easier to train him," Aldin said to himself.
But he could not just sit there doing nothing, he looked around at the corpses and remembered what he had promised his parent and he was lucky that he had a huge amount of ingredients lying around.
He got up and walked towards them, he extended his will to them and began compressing them, Once they became a fraction of their former size he added others to them and that was how he made a set of armour for his mother, he also wanted to try out a new trick, since arrays could work together with the armour he began forming one on it, he added the basic ones he could, flashlight since he needed a core to store the mana which he currently did not have with him. He now had a set of armour for his mother that was as tough as his but not flexible enough to block any possible damage, its colour was a very dark grey since most of the items he used were giant lizards. He moved on to making the weapon.
"A whip will work best with her she is of the earth attribute," Aldin said to himself and got to crafting the item. In the end, he had a lengthy grey whip. By then Arix had stopped using the body refinement technique and was just seated back taking a break from all the strain he had had.
"Good thing you are awake, take this back to the city and give it to my mother," Aldin said.
"What about you?" He asked.
"I am going to stay here, I haven't done anything for the day," Aldin said.
"Okay," Ariz said, he had no intention of redoing what he had just done.
He flew off and went back to Aden with Sylvia's armour and her whip.
Aldin then began walking further into the forest.
Aldin Randell
As I walked through the forest I was able to note that the whole forest had several creatures, it was puzzling since not many of them were herbivores, I had come across the Burmese woods in the books I had read and a fact that had been noted was that the creatures here had rapid growth in comparison to others. It was strange and the reason had never been uncovered.
As I walked further into the forest I kept on thinking about it but nothing came to mind. After several metres I came upon a pack of giant earth attributed lizards, they were currently devouring what looked like an earth lizard, it was cannibalism, and the beast being devoured was fully grown, from what I understood cannibalism was when their prey became extremely scarce but for the few days I had been in the wood I killed several beasts they could devour as food. Things were strange, once I was done observing I killed them all and moved on, the behaviour was the same among all of them.
And despite being several beasts packs they were all of the same level. Before I knew it it was already afternoon.
"I should probably get dad a set of armour and a weapon, I wonder which weapon would suit him best," Aldins said as he began collecting carcasses and brought them together, I had carcasses of wolves, snakes, and bats majorly the others were not as many to be that noticeable and since I had more than I needed I had the freedom of choosing from them. I picked a pack of wolves. Using them I crafted a suit of armour, he was much bulkier since he was bigger than Mum and I needed to accommodate his size, for his weapon I did not know his preference so I just used a huge amount of material to make a black block of condensed material, I still could not leave all these carcasses here, once they stared routine it would hit the whole forest hard, I carried them and looked for any pack of beasts I could find nearby and threw it to them, they jumped at it and devoured it instantly leaving nothing behind, it was odd since they were also devouring each other. I want back to the other carcasses and after drawing attention to them left, hopefully, the other beast would devour them.
The sun was setting when I got to the city, I headed home and when I was about to get to the house I saw my father running out to meet me. He did not even spare me a glance as he only had his eyes on the armour I was carrying, I gave it to him but it fell down, he was unable to hold it in his hands. I lifted it up for him.
"Thank you very much for the armour," he said as he struggled to carry it to the house.
When I got in my mum was nowhere to be seen, I went to the back yard where I found her trying to lift the weight while on a bench, she was struggling and straining to lift the weight and her whole body was sweaty.
When she finally noticed me she came over running at me with her arms stretched and I could tell she was coming in for a hug, before she could even get to me I cleaned her of all the sweat she had on herself. She embarrassed me tightly.
"Thank you for the armour," She said.
'Of course, you would only hug me for a set of armour,'
"You are welcome, but why are you lifting weights?" I asked.
"So that I can be able to carry the armour," my mother said.
"Why?" Aldin asked.
"Because unlike you I have never practised any body refinement technique," My mother said.
"Ohh, but that does not mean you can't," I said
"I am not sure about that, let's go to the house," My mother said.
I did as she instructed and went into the house with her.
Dad was still with his armour in the living room, gawking over it.
"Honey," Sylvia said calling over Dad, he looked in our direction and came over, as he walked to us he had a huge grin on his face, like a kid when they got a new toy which was more or less the same case for him.
"How about we tell him?" Mum asked Dad.
"Is it really the time?" Dad asked.
I knew exactly what they wanted to tell me but I wanted to give them the joy of telling me.
"I never is," my mum said.
"What is it, mommy?" I asked to give her the impression that I was clueless and eager to know.
"Let's tell him," Dad said.
"Me and Daddy will be having another child, you are going to be a big brother," My mum said.
Previously I was conscience that my mother would have another child but it never hit me that I would end up being a big brother and the moment my mother said this it hit me the same way my attacks hit the same as when I used my fists in battle.
"Really!" I shouted overjoyed by the realisation." I am going to be a big brother," I went on, to express the amount of joy I felt.
"And that is why I can not practice the body refining method, but your father can," Mum said.
"Will you teach me the technique?" Dad asked.
"Sure," I said. But soon we had a knock on our door.
I went to open it, and in came a man dressed in a suit, I had no idea who he was but he looked very noble, despite all that I could smell the sweat on his body, he most likely was petrified of my parents.
"How can I help you," I asked and the odor of sweat coming off of him doubled and now I could even smell some urine mixing in with it.