Seeing the tiger split into two, I laughed to myself. This damn thing almost killed me! And because of it, I couldn't recover from my injuries now, as the 'repairer' was damaged. Looking at the beast, I walked over to its upper half and touched its skin.
- ACTIVATING THE AMPLIFIED 'EXTRACTION' FEATURE.
After the extraction started, I felt relieved. I could feel my life energy recovering as time went by. At no point did I turn off 'hide', as its energy consumption was almost zero and I didn't want to draw the attention of that demon bird.
- ENOUGH CREATURE LIFE ENERGY TO ACTIVATE THE 'CUT' FEATURE.
- ESTIMATED EXTRACTION TIME: 72 HOURS.
'A prize'
Hearing the report I received from D, I stopped the extraction of life energy when it reached 25%.
'D, is it possible to apply 'hide' effects on the corpse?'
- YES, THE POWER CONSUMPTION OF THE 'HIDE' FEATURE WILL INCREASE.
'It doesn't matter.'
After receiving confirmation from D, I searched for the tallest and largest tree in the area. After a few minutes of searching, I found it and then proceeded to execute my idea. I applied 'move' on the heavy carcass and made it fly towards the tree I had chosen. It cost me 20% of life energy to make it fly and get it up the tree. After I was finally able to get the two parts of the tiger up, I proceeded to climb the tree. Sitting on the large beast, I said:
'D, apply 'hide' to the beast. I don't want any other beasts to get in the way during extraction.'
- UNDERSTOOD.
'D, you are in charge of extracting and activating the 'cut'. 72 hours is too long for me.'
- UNDERSTOOD.
'Wake me up when 72 hours are up. You're in charge.'
Leaving all the burden to D, I closed my eyes and proceeded to sleep. D was able to move my body at will. The reason he didn't do so was because of permissions; that's why I gave him permission to do so when I wasn't conscious.
[72 hours later]
- THE CREATOR IS PROCEEDED TO BE AWAKENED.
- THE CREATOR IS PROCEEDED TO BE AWAKENED.
- THE CREATOR IS PROCEEDED TO BE AWAKENED.
- THE CREATOR IS PROCEEDED TO BE AWAKENED.
'Silence.'
Waking me up from my dream was the annoying voice of D. That mechanical voice was terrible to wake up to, as it played directly in my mind. Opening my eyes, the first things that entered my sight were the rays of the sun falling from the sky, beautiful as ever. Then I saw the huge tiger beast, well, what was left of it. Apparently, someone had been eating it.
'Report what happened in these 3 days.'
- VITAL ENERGY OF THE VESSEL: 100%
- UNKNOWN ENERGY: 100%
- THE 'CUT' FEATURE CAN BE USED ANYTIME YOU REQUIRE IT
- THE 'COMPRESS' FEATURE CAN BE USED ANYTIME YOU REQUIRE IT
'Did you also wake up 'compress'?'
- YES, THERE WAS ENOUGH POWER TO ACTIVATE IT.
'I see. D, I have a doubt that's been bothering me. If you deactivated 'heart of ice', why am I still alive?'
'You told me earlier that if I deactivated the ability, my heart would explode.'
- THE SKILL 'HEART OF ICE' HAS ALWAYS BEEN WORKING IN A PASSIVE WAY. WHEN WORKING IN A PASSIVE STATE, THE ENERGY EMISSION IS ALMOST NULL.
'So you left 'Ice Heart' working at the minimum power allowed.'
- CORRECT.
'I understand. D, make a list of the characteristics and abilities we have.'
- UNDERSTOOD.
- WE CURRENTLY HAVE THE FOLLOWING FEATURES:
• ANALYSIS [AWAKE]
• UNDERSTANDING [AWAKE]
• AMPLIFICATION [AWAKE]
• EXTRACTION [AWAKE]
• REPAIRER [AWAKE]
• RECORD [AWAKE]
• TRANSFER [ASLEEP]
• MOVE [AWAKE]
• COPY [ASLEEP]
• PASTE [ASLEEP]
• CUT [AWAKE]
• COMPRESS [AWAKE]
• MARKER [ASLEEP]
• HIDE [AWAKE]
• DELETE [ASLEEP]
• MISTAKE [??????????]
- SKILLS INHERITED FROM THE RECIPIENT:
• HEART OF ICE [AWAKE]
• BLESSING OF DARKNESS [ASLEEP]
- REPLICATED SKILLS:
• INVISIBILITY CLOAK [ASLEEP]
• IRON SKIN [ASLEEP]
• SHOCK WAVE [ASLEEP]
• REGENERATION [ASLEEP]
'I see we have a lot of features awake. Why didn't they go through the same 'move', 'cut', 'compress' and 'hide' process?'
- THE ANALYSIS, UNDERSTANDING, AMPLIFICATION, EXTRACTION, REPAIR AND RECORDING FEATURES WERE ACTIVATED WITH THE VITAL ENERGY OF THE VESSEL'S MOTHER.
I was speechless at D's statement. Activating multiple characteristics using a single individual's life energy was, without a doubt, the equivalent of death.
'Will the vessel's mother die because we took her life energy?'
- NO, THE MOTHER OF THE VESSEL HAS LARGE AMOUNTS OF VITAL ENERGY. AS LONG AS SHE DOESN'T HAVE MORE CHILDREN, HER LIFE SHOULD NOT BE IN DANGER.
'Ok, so those features were already active before I was born?'
- CORRECT.
After receiving the full report from D, I took a look at the tiger's carcass, well, what was left of it. The upper half of the tiger was almost bone and bones. Without hesitation, I asked the author of this:
'You were eating it?'
- CORRECT.
'How did you manage to break the flesh of that thing?'
- DUE TO THE USE OF THE 'EXTRACTION' FEATURE, THE CREATURE'S TISSUE WAS ABLE TO DRAMATICALLY WEAKEN.
'How useful is that feature.'
Eating these creatures is not easy. Since they lack teeth, it is not possible to chew properly. So until now, he had only been swallowing pieces of soft organs and blood. But D found a way to eat even the creature's tough skin.
'Well, it's time to test the feature that will get me out of this forest of evil.'
After examining the tiger's condition, I stood up activating 'heart of ice' and proceeded to deactivate the 'hide' feature that had been active for the past 72 hours.
"Let's see, what do I try 'cut' on?"
After some thought, the black horn of the tiger caught my attention. I walked up to the creature's horn and touched it. Soon after touching the horn, I imagined it splitting, and to my surprise, the horn separated from the creature's carcass without making a sound.
"Hahahahaha, are you serious?"
- LIFE ENERGY USED IN 'CUT' FEATURE: 1%
"Hahahahahahahahahahahaha."
The laughter that was coming out of my mouth could not be contained. With 'cut', my chance of surviving this forest was 99%, according to D. After calming down, I proceeded to plan my course of action.
"This black horn will be my weapon."
I decided that the creature's horn would be my new weapon. While 'cutting' was my best weapon, it didn't hurt to have an extra weapon in case of emergency. After mentally preparing myself, I climbed down from the tall tree, leaving the tiger's carcass behind, and headed deeper into the forest once more.
"Come on."
After walking for 2 hours, I started noticing drastic changes in the area. To be more exact, what changed was not the forest, rather it was the energy that was present in the environment. I could feel the 'unknown energy' in abundance to such a level that I found it difficult to keep my breath.
- UNKNOWN ENERGY PRESENT IN THE ENVIRONMENT MAY BE TOXIC TO THE RECIPIENT.
- UNKNOWN ENERGY TRIES TO ENTER THE PORES OF THE BODY BY FORCE.
- UNKNOWN ENERGY WAREHOUSE FULL.
- THERE IS A RISK THAT 'HEART OF ICE' MAY EXPLODE.
"Tsk. If the problem is too much energy, then let's waste energy like crazy."
The idea that occurred to me to solve the problem was to increase the energy consumption of 'heart of ice'.
"Increases 'Heart of Ice' consumption to 100%."
- UNDERSTOOD.
Shortly after the energy consumption of 'Ice Heart' increased, I felt an absurd amount of energy coursing through my entire body. I felt extremely powerful despite having the body of a baby. I calmed down soon after, as D reminded me that 'Repairer' was out of action. If for some reason he hurt me, I was going to have a bad time. With 'Ice Heart' functioning at 100% capacity, I was at risk of breaking my bones and damaging my internal organs, but thanks to D, that wasn't going to happen. D's control over 'Ice Heart' was perfect.
"It worked."
Shortly after increasing the energy consumption of 'Ice Heart', I managed to stabilize the energy entering my body. Soon after, I continued walking through the surrounding dense energy. After a couple more hours, I received the report I had been waiting for.
- THREATS DETECTED.
- UNLIMITED BLOODTHIRST.
- CHANCES OF ELIMINATING THE THREAT IF CAUGHT UNPREPARED: 100%
- CHANCES OF ELIMINATING THE THREAT IF FIGHTED HEAD ON: 0%
- IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THIS CREATURE IS EXTREMELY SENSITIVE TO UNKNOWN ENERGY. 'HEART OF ICE' IS DEACTIVATED.
"D, are you ready?"
- YEAH.
With those words, I headed toward my possible death alongside D.