Kieran awoke with a start, still on the floor.
Standing up, he didn't find anything strange about himself.
He looked around but he saw nothing. No skin, no blood, no dust, no organs nothing!
"Was it all a bad dream? No way. The pain was too real. What happened?"
Looking at his system, Kieran found his skills and sure enough, there it was.
[Skills: Erotic Scent, Divine Fingers of Pleasure, Matter Over Mind]
Kieran deliberated for a moment before he gritted his teeth and attempted to activate his Matter Over Mind skill, but nothing happened.
"Eh? What's going on? Was I scammed or something?" Kieran felt a little aggrieved. He went through all that trouble and he wasn't even sure how to activate this supposedly 'Supreme Skill.'
None of his other stats changed at all either.
"Tch. What a lousy skill this turned out to be. Got excited for nothing." Kieran scoffed.
Unlike his other skills, there was nothing that came with the skill. No explanation or description. It simply assimilated into his body and now it was in his skill bar.
Kieran decided to forget about the skill he had put a lot of effort into getting for now and go eat. He had reached peak Foundation Establishment and wasn't supposed to get hungry often, but for some reason he was starving.
After getting ready and covering his face, he left his room. After he left his room he felt that something was off. After a short while he suddenly realized why it felt weird. It was morning!
That meant he had been asleep for nearly an entire day!
Kieran felt even weirder about the events of yesterday now. After all, losing an entire day like that wasn't normal.
Deciding to not ponder on the matter too deeply he eventually made his way to the cafeteria.
Halfway there he was suddenly stopped.
"Hey, Kieran. What are you up to?"
A girls voice floated into his ears. Turning around, he noticed it was Laylia from the bathhouse.
"Oh, hey." He replied coolly just trying to get some food. "Yesterdays bathing session wore me out. Not sure I can go for another for a while haha. I'm starving."
"Yesterday? That was three days ago. You feeling alright?" She said reaching out to touch his forehead.
Kieran felt incredulous that so much time had passed, but he figured the more focused on it the more dissatisfied he would become. This skill seemed to be more and more useless and inconvenient every time he learned something new about it.
As Laylia reached out to touch his forehead, he suddenly moved his head out of the way.
"Eh? Come on I'm just trying to help." Saying this, she reached out again but he moved his head just a couple inches and her hand went past it.
"Why are you dodging?"
"Uhh. I'm not."
Kieran suddenly had a thought while watching himself dodge subconsciously, but he didn't wanna believe that it was true. If it was, he would have suddenly become incredibly overpowered overnight. Or, more like over three nights.
"Hey, Lia, can you spar with me for a moment? No special techniques, just fists. There's something I would like to see." Kieran abruptly said excitedly.
"Uhh, sure? I can restrict my cultivation realm to peak Foundation Establishment."
After discussing things briefly, they both got into stances.
"Ready, go."
Saying so, Lia immediately took the initiative to attack. As she closed in, she swung a fist toward Kieran's chest.
Kieran stood there doing nothing but watch it come. At the very last minute he suddenly turned to the side of his own volition and returned a violent uppercut to the girl, striking her across the jaw and sending her flying in a single move.
"Uhm. Lia, I need you to use your full cultivation with me please."
Kieran could hardly contain his excitement. It seemed what he thought to be the case, actually happened.
Lia, standing up off the ground was really upset that she had been bodied to such an extent and it left her feeling dissatisfied and upset, losing to someone like Kieran so she immediately agreed.
"Fine. We can go ahead and do that. But don't blame me if you end up needing medical treatment."
Saying this, Lia immediately lifted the restriction on her cultivation and powered up to the early Soul Formation realm. Three whole realms above Kieran.
"I'll go easy on you, so don't die." She smirked with confidence and immediately went for Kieran again.
With gliding fists, Lia disappeared and reappeared in front of Kieran.
After she unleashed her first strike, Kieran suddenly closed his eyes.
This nearly sent Lia into a rage and she changed her mind on the single strike, before unleashing a barrage of blows that couldn't even be seen with the naked eye.
More surprisingly, however, was that Kieran managed to dodge every strike, his body adjusting slightly between every blow.
With a loud yell, Lia charged up again and started to incorporate sweeping kicks into her attacks, but Kieran still effortlessly dodged and weaved between them, lifting his leg or leaning back to avoid a kick or punch.
Suddenly Kieran opened his eyes involuntarily when a roundhouse kick was being sent toward his chest.
He unconsciously reached out and quickly but simply pushed Lia backwards lightly. With her center of gravity altered, the kick went wide and she landed facing away from him.
Kieran quickly took a step forward to close the distance that had been created and Lia tried to throw an elbow backward at him, but Kieran simply placed a hand just above her elbow, not allowing any force to come with the blow.
He swept a leg under her and pushed her forward into the ground before he regained control of his body.
Kieran smiled widely to himself as he looked at this downed core disciple.
"Yeah. I'm basically Goku now."