Damien stared at the shadows swirling around the seed in his hand not realizing that his body had also taken on the properties of the seed. His body surrounded by swirling shadows his glowing eyes tinged with purple. He threw the seed all the way to the other side of the room and watched as it melded into the floor.
"Release" he though as he closed his fist. The training portion of the rec room was about 35 square meters and could be changed electronically to fit an environment of the users choice. Damien left it a blank white room so he could see the full extent of his strength. After eating the three seeds his strength and archetypal power had raised by 175% for his base strength and 350% for his souls archetypal strength. The reason being is the boost doubled for each seed he ingested. So including his Title his archetypal strength was 375% stronger than his base right now.
Without boosts his seed would've exploded in a five meter radius. But with all his boosts the tendrils reached 18.75 meters this covered roughly 53% of the entire training room. The shadows swirling around the tendrils were darker and seemed more solid than those that hovered around the seed or Damien's own body. Seeing the area affected both Damien and Tepmin couldn't believe their eyes. This was far beyond anything either of them imagined. How strong would Damien be when he was a young man, a young adult, or a full fledged man? Hell even right now he could mark up to some small fry soldiers.
Damien watched as the tendrils disappeared leaving a dense dark fog around the affected area, he counted the seconds to see if the time frame lasted longer as well. Sadly it did not, when the seven seconds passed the ominous fog dissipated. The biggest questions were for Damien right now is how much damage did his blessing do at this stage, and how much damage could he do with this own body.
"Hey, Uncle Tep?"
He turned to see Tepmin still staring at the empty space where his attack had been, his mouth was wide open and drool had dribbled a little bit down his thick beard.
"Uncle Tep!" He spoke a little more sternly.
"Huh, ohh what.. what?!" Tepmin looked around and wiped the drool off his face. "Oh sorry Damien that blessing is really something."
"Thats alright, I just wanted to test it more, could I get a rural setting with some opponents to attack? I also want to see where my strength lies."
"Yeah I can do that just sit tight." Tepmin went to an interface next to the door of the training room and went through a list of selections before he found what he wanted. "How many opponents do you want little tike?"
"I think five should be fine."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes Uncle Tep, I'm sure"
"Well alright, let's see what you can do."
Tepmin pressed a few buttons and a small rural town area structured itself around Damien. In a few moments Damien found himself in what seemed like a marketplace. There were vendors and customers and everything. The funny thing was Damien could tell who his opponents were immediately, because they spawned in directly opposite of him on the other side of the town area.
Damien sighed "Well, I guess it was just supposed to test how strong I am not actually be a challenge." He formed another seed and started hefting it in his hand. after a couple of tosses he drew his little arm back and threw it with all his might. "Fwoosh" the seed took off like a bullet, Damien couldn't keep up with it with his eyes. A moment later the leader of the five was launched into the wall of the training area his body folded in on itself. His buddies all turned in unison to see their buddy crumpled on the ground before turning back and locking on Damien.
They instantly went into a dead sprint "release" Damien balled his fist and two of the opponents were impaled and wrapped up in the tendrils. Their bodies convulsing as if in severe pain. The two forward runners were inches away from the area of effect and pushed forward. Damien wasted no thought process before propelling his little body forward to meet his adversaries. *Boom* even with how small he was, cracks in the earth showed from where he launched himself forward, covering more than half the distance in one leap.
He planted a foot and launched himself again. Seeing his trajectory the one on Damiens right planted his feet and crossed both arms to block. The one one the right swiveled and immediately launched himself towards the two trying to get the pincer in. Damien chose to ram headfirst into the mans crossed arms as his own were too short. *crunch* *crack* the sickening sound of breaking bones were heard as Damien collided with the man. *Fwoosh* *BOOM* the man went flying straight into the wall the first man had hit, not a single bit of life left in his now broken body, before he faded out like the rest.
The last man had reached where Damien had met the other and had already jumped into a flying kick right for the side of Damiens head.
Damien dropped to his back waiting for the man to be right over him and palmed him in the back a seed resting on his flat hand. The strength behind Damien's palm flung the man in an awkward diagonal angle up and to the left caused by the mans initial inertia before *release* Damien balled his fist and the man turned into a balloon of black tendrils reaching out in all directions. Damien had to jump to his right to avoid the area of effect, not wanting to see what happened if the lingering shadows touched him. As he exited the range the simulation came to an end and the set fell back down to an open white room.
"Dayuuummm" Tepmin whistled as Damien walked back through the sliding door to stand by him. "So this is the power of an infant who was born with the ability to slot souls?"
"Correction Uncle Tep, this is the power of an infant who has slotted two souls beside his own, I am not using just my own power, I'm borrowing from them as well."
"Ahhh, oh speaking of which, you need to speak with your sister tonight, I believe she either already has her first soul lock or is about to have her first soul soul lock, she probably wants to ask your permission before entering."
"Really? So will her passing give me another boost in strength?"
"Yes it will"
As they talked Tepmin had picked Damien up and started walking downstairs, neither of them realized that Damien's initial headbutt had actually cracked the back wall of the training wall so bad that even with its self healing it left a small mark.