Vel watching the glow go into his body then seeing Aurelian pass out was confused. thinking to herself, 'what the heck did he do, I've never seen anything like that.'
With her food in hand she approached Aurelian's passed out body. As she got closer she felt a distinct change in the aura of his soul.
It felt denser, closer to what an awakened soul would feel like. However, he hadn't awakened, 'so what did he do' she thought.
Sitting down next to his body, placing his head on her lap she waited for him to wake up, stroking his hair.
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A couple hours later Aurelian woke up to a soft feeling under his head. looking up he asked, "Vel, what happened why are you giving me a lap pillow."
Finally realizing what she was doing she blushed but quickly regained her confidence saying. "You passed out falling backwards on your head so I thought it'd be good if I checked your head and placed it somewhere more comfortable." then quickly looking away.
think for a second Aurelian said, "thanks Vel." Sitting up and turning to face her and continuing, "I think I found a way to get stronger, also it might help you to."
"Yes I felt your aura get stronger after whatever you did." Pausing, Vel then asked, "how can it help me though."
from his instincts that came with his lineage he could tell three different things that came with putting the soul of the beast into his soul signature space.
"Firstly like we both felt my soul grow stronger." After explaining the details of what he actually did to Vel he added the second thing he felt.
"Secondly It seems any soul that comes in contact with mine will also get stronger. Additionally, it seems that soul will take its true form when inside mine." Going on to tell he the changes in the wolf.
Seeing what he was getting at Vel said, "so you think I'll get stronger and my body will start to grow again."
nodding he started to explain a plan he thought of, "I think I should first experiment with all the other monsters here over the next few days. Then try with your soul."
agreeing she asked, "how many do you think you can get done in a day."
Looking at the bodies he said. "Today I'll do 2 more, then around 8 if I go all day tomorrow. Then the rest the next day."
"Okay rest of for a while before you do the next one." She responded.
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After another 2 hours, eating and resting it was early afternoon and he was ready to start the next one.
As Aurelian approached the monster. In his mind he went over the experiments he needed to conduct during the next two souls he transferred today.
Firstly he needed to test if he could stay in the soul space. Although he already had an idea. 'As I get stronger I can stay longer.' Aurelian thought.
He also wanted to test if he could bring multiple souls at a time inside. But he couldn't yet.
The last thing he had already thought to test was beinging it back out from inside once it transformed.
Once he was sitting by the next wolf he chose. Aurelian put his hand near its chest but this time without making contact to begin to strengthen his interactions with souls in general.
After starting to probe for it soul he realized that with lower the time it took to find and extract the souls he needed.
It also considerably dropped the mental fatigue build up.
once he pulled the wolf soul into his body he had only been there for half an hour. And that was without touching the body.
In Aurelian's soul space he saw the same bright light, then the wolf emerged. This time it was the same size, and had the same dark black fur.
However, even without the changes the leader had you could tell it was purified of being a monster all the same.
This time he was still taken out of the soul signature space pretty much immediately. However, he didn't pass out, only felt a little tired.
Aurelian thought This was good. After just two he thought to himself, 'I can probably do multiple at a time eventually. maybe even by the end of the wolves.'
He rested for an hour. Then tranferred the soul of the third monster, in what felt like just short of the half hour from last time.
Inside he felt like he had like 1% more control over what he could do and how long he could stay.
Only being able to stay just long enough to bring all three wolves together. Which was about a minute long on the inside.
Afterward, it was early night outside so he walked back to where Vel was sitting. Aurelian sneakily laid his head in her lap then said, "I'm feeling tired from working."
"Only today you can do this, I can tell your barely even exhausted." Looking down at him then turning away as she spoke.
Aurelian didn't respond and just fell asleep. In the morning he woke separated from Vel by the campfire.
Getting right to it he started with the next set of souls.
As time passed, by the end of the day he was able to stay inside his soul space for around 5 minutes at a time. Going up about 30 seconds per soul added.
From this he estimated that awakened monster souls would all increase his strength about the same. And the length would go up for stronger monsters. he was also eager to find out how Vel increased his soul strength.
The next day by about 11 in the morning he only had 10 of the 30 total left and he wanted to try multiple at a time.
Telling Vel his plan he started with just two souls at once. However, he came across a major problem.