[A/N :- Hi Readers, thank you for reading my novel, I was not able to post a chapter because I am traveling for 4-5 days and have issues with wifi for the moment. But I am done with the 6th chapter.
So enjoy and please leave a review or comment so I can improve my Novel.]
Levi's Apartment.
Levi was sitting with the 2 corpses in front of him. Both the corpses were a little mangled but still in a better condition to sell. However, Levi wanted to experiment a little with his talent on living things, and the corpses of the Dark Claw Bears were the perfect material for it.
"Alright. No time to waste. Activate!!"
As soon as he used his talent on one of the corpses, his eyes showed only a few pictures of items he could deconstruct, blood, bones, and flesh included he could see two more items, a round monster core and another liquid like substance he had not heard of before.
"Hmmm.... I thought I might be able to deconstruct cells since they are the building blocks for all living things." Levi pondered after using his talent.
'If that was possible, I could just deconstruct the hearts of living beings and kill them with ease. Although my talent is mysterious I forget sometimes it's just a normal grade talent.'
His eyes landed on the 2 special items, the core and the liquid substance. Both were blackish in color, they looked like they were related to the Dark Element affinity the Dark Claw Bear monsters had. Levi knew about the core of monsters, the core was like their essence of life which gives them bloodline skills and inheritance once they form them. However the level of the Dark Claw Bear is very low and they can only inherit one skill, [Dark Claw], from their core. Levi was happy, Monster Cores are hard to get from corpses because if the corpse is dismantled too badly the core might get damaged and become useless. People rely on their luck when they dismantle the corpse to dig out a Core without damaging the body, some rich families even have methods to dig out those cores perfectly retaining their power without any loss.
Soon his eyebrows furrowed because he did not expect a liquid like substance to appear from the corpse of the bear. He racked his brains but found nothing.
'Seems like this is something that only my talent can deconstruct and recreate. Dismantling won't work for this.'
Levi knew the process of dismantling even though he did not indulge in this business having some information is always better than knowing nothing about it. So he instantly knew that this was something unique that only his talent could find.
Levi began to pour his energy into the core and liquid like substance to fill their pictures. Levi's energy depleted very fast, by the time one of the pictures was half filled he had already used up 1/3rd of his energy.
'Shit, I won't last at this rate.' Levi panicked but kept the flow of energy, while thinking about the current problem, he did not know whether he could continue after taking a pause to refill his energy.
"Hmmm… The FIRST SEED!!" He immediately activated the first seed. He felt as if his reservoir of energy instantly doubled. Taking off a lot of pressure.
Soon the 2 pictures were filled and made corporeal. The core was a solid object, but the blackish liquid was not. Levi already prepared a bottle for the liquid substance to store it.
"Huh!? What the hell? Why is the core transparent !"
Normally, a Dark Claw bear has a black core due to its affinity but sometimes it has a different color if the bear unlocks additional affinity while growing up. However, a Tier 1 bear always only has a black core because they do not have time to know other affinities they possess until they reach Tier 4.
Levi slowly shifted its eyes towards the black substance in the packed bottle, he knew that it was not some dangerous thing. But the unknown was always a risk, so Levi decided to take one risk this time.
"This black goo might be responsible for the transparency of core. I can only take a sip of it and find out what it is."
With great difficulty, he took the bottle and hesitated a little before making up his mind and sipped the bottle.
Contrary to his expectations the black goo/substance was not bad in taste in fact it was a different kind of taste he had never experienced.
After absorbing a sip he did not get any boost in strength immediately, it was very confusing because no change happened. He looked at the remaining liquid in the bottle and chugged it whole.
There was still no immediate increase, just when he was about to forget about it and looked at the core. He felt a sudden stream of information in his head, it was unlike his talent which comes from his soul.
'What's this?'
Levi swiped with his fingers in the air which had a dark sheen of coating, as soon as he swiped in the air the dark light soon became corporeal advancing into the air before dispersing.
'Dark Claw?? But how?? Did I have affinity in dark element?'
Levi knew that talents had an affinity and when they are used with skills related to those affinity they unleash their true power. Like the Dark Claw bear's skill [Dark Claw], however, instead of talent the monsters rely on their inheritance and monster core to fight. While humans had randomness in talent, the monsters had quite stability in growing up due to their inheritance.
Levi had only scratched the tip of the iceberg in learning about his talent. He did not know that his talent had Dark Affinity or any affinity in fact.
"Hmmm... is it because of the black goo? Does that mean I can deconstruct people's affinity from them and use it for myself? The Core is transparent because I have taken its affinity from them. The Core has only the purified energy at the Tier 1 Elementary Grade."
He recovered his energy after some time and began to do the same to the other corpse, he immediately took its affinity and core from them. Drank the black liquid again but with no hesitation this time, he found out that not only had the affinity improved but he had also learned more about the Dark Claw.
'It seems not only the affinity with dark element has improved but the knowledge of using the skill the deceased user used before has also been recorded in this Black Liquid. Let's name it The Essence of Affinity. It's time to absorb the energy and increase my level.'
After he was done he kept the 2 cores around him and began to absorb the energy inside them, He was careful not to get bloated due to overload of energy. Originally, he wanted to avoid cultivating so that his body could adapt, but no such caution was needed, the accident of overloading of energy was due to his carelessness, however, Levi was not one to repeat mistakes. So he took his time absorbing the energy this time.
He circulated his energy for a while, when he felt a massive increase in his energy, it was the second seed, he filled the seed until it was filled to the brim, and started with the formation of the third seed. After some time of absorption, he then depleted the first core while forming the third seed and filled it to the brim. After the third seed was formed he felt as if he could still unlock the fourth seed.
The energy inside the cores was very strong especially when the affinity inside them had been extracted and only pure energy was left in them. Levi did not want to stop midway, so he got the 4 bottles of monster blood of Advance Grade Tier 1 monsters he had bought on the day he got his origin accumulation manual. He purified them afterward just so that he could use them.
He began again after arranging them and absorbing them all together, he absorbed the energy in them however no matter how much he devoured, he could not seem to form the fourth seed.
First, the core depleted, then the first bottle of monster blood, then the second bottle. When it reached the 3rd bottle he felt something in his body as if a small shackle was attached to his body. he sensed the opportunity, and this time drank the leftover bottles, to breakthrough with the rapid rise in his energy. The bloated feeling appeared again however, it did not disappear since he wasn't able to form the 4th seed. He kept the circulation at full speed and attacked the shackles of the realm, like a hammer hitting an iron chain, after persistently attacking for 30 seconds which felt like agony to Levi, the shackles finally broke and the 4th seed formed which absorbed the energy in the two bottles like a vacuum. Fortunately, the two bottles were enough to fill the 4th seed to the brim.
'Finally, Tier 1 Intermediate Grade !!' Levi thought with satisfaction at the new feeling of strength inside him. Now that he had broken through the Intermediate Grade he had received both a qualitative as well as quantitative boost in strength.
Now he can fight with the strength of 5 Intermediate Grade Tier 1 people, with the 4 seeds and his own strength.