Chapter 174 - Alone In The Swamps(4)

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Creature's hunger grows.

The creature is learning to control its hunger. Control increased! 

The creature is still hungry.

If not fed within 20:00 minutes, the creatures HP will start decreasing at a rate of 13HP/minute. 

Current HP: 5800/5800

Time remaining to hatch: 108:01:30:03 (Days: Hours: Minutes: Seconds)

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Arnold let out a sigh when he saw the notification. The reason for his heavy sigh was simple.

'This appetite...'

He was worried about the egg's seemingly ever-growing appetite. The more Arnold fed the egg, the more it's appetite increased. Initially, Arnold only needed to feed him once or twice a week but now he needed to feed it at least twice a day or else the creatures HP will start decreasing.

Although feeding the egg was a comparatively easy task due to the abundance of monsters around the base, Arnold was very selective about the type of monster blood he wanted to feed to the egg.

He was selective because if he fed the egg blood from a rare monster, not only it would quench the eggs hunger, it would also increase its stats. Furthermore, the was also a chance that the creature inside the egg would learn new abilities, in case the abilities were compatible with it. So the more rare blood of the monster was, the stronger the creature inside the egg became. Also feeding the creature more had another effect, it reduced the time required for the creature to hatch out of the egg.

'I fed it so much but still it wasn't enough.' he thought, 'The creature hasn't even born yet, and I'm required to feed it so much... what would happen when it came out of the egg? I just hope that the monsters around the base would be enough to feed it...'

Arnold took out another vial of monster blood and poured it all over the egg, he repeated the process two more times, he fed the egg whatever he had and soon another notification appeared in front of him.

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The creature is absorbing the nutrients from the blood... 

Hunger diminishes...

The creature has successfully absorbed the nutrients from the blood of A ranked mutated monster. 

You've fed the creature thrice today, maximum limit reached!

Hatching period reduced!

The creature would hatch in: 100:00:00:00 (Days: Hours: Minutes: Seconds)

Attributes Increased!

HP: +200

Strength (STR): +12

Defense (DEF): +15

Agility (AGI): +8

The blood of the monster contains two compatible abilities. 

The creature can learn two new abilities from 'lizardmen blood'!

• Yes or •No

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'Two more huh...' Arnold thought, 'The more the merrier right?'

So far the creature had learnt about seven abilities, including the two it was about to learn.

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The creature is learning the abilities... 

Ability learnt successfully!

• [Armament] : (Passive ability) When attacked by a creature from same species as the user, the user's attack and effects of abilities related to offence increases greatly (by 50%) but the defence drastically decreases (by 30%). The effect of this skill temporarily reduces if the skill is used within 2 hours of the first activation.

[ Rank: A ]

[Mana cost: 500/per use]

[Duration of skill: 2 minutes]

[Duration of defence debuff: 5 minutes]

[COOLDOWN: 1:00 hour]

• [Armour Manipulation] : (Active ability) Grants the user the ability to create an exoskeleton using magic or outside sources to construct armour around there bodies. The toughness and durability of the armour are dependent on the level of the user. This ability can be used alongside another ability as well.

[ Rank: A+]

[Mana cost: 1000/per use]

[Duration of skill: 3 minutes]

[COOLDOWN: 24 hours]

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'The armament skill is not super useful, but armour manipulation ability is one heck of an ability. Moreover, they can be used simultaneously nullifying the drawbacks of the armament ability.'

Arnold's reasoning was simple, with the strong exoskeleton armour on top of the creature's already strong hide, it'll have an incredible defence, as well as the armour, being extremely strong it could not only withstand powerful attacks and resilience to many types of damage but also due to the extra hard mass, amplifies of the exoskeleton, the strength of the creatures attacks, durability and chances of survivability would also increase, making the creature an absolute nightmare in battle. Exactly what Arnold wanted... a monstrosity which could defeat even Dread.

This was also a reason why Arnold was dead set on feeding the Wyvern egg only the best blood quality that he could find out there.

After the feeding was done, Arnold tried to place the egg back in his inventory but there was an issue...

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Size limit crossed!

The item can no longer be stored inside the inventory as it exceeds the size limit of it. Please store try storing the item in your domain instead.

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The thing he had been afraid for a while had finally happened. The egg had grown in size once again and was now even bigger than Arnold expected. With the inventory's refusal to accept the egg inside, Arnold had no choice but to store it in the void but then again it would lead to another problem...

'The time flow inside the domain is thrice as fast as the normal time... so it would mean the egg would hatch in about 33-34 days instead of 100 days and that's not even the main issue!'

The actual issue was that Arnold didn't think he was even nearly prepared to raise a half-dragon or whatever came out of the egg. The uncertainty was too much for him to handle at the moment but there was no other way either, he couldn't keep the egg here or someone might tamper with it. He could order his summons to the egg but it would be a hassle.

'Man... it's too much work!'

In the end, he decided to keep the egg in his domain for a couple of days and would think what to do with it later. In the meantime, he wanted to focus on one thing alone - making a relic and completing the ascension quest before the conference with the heads of the 11 remaining heads of the different families which was also scheduled for the next month... unfortunately he was forced to attend it even if he didn't want to, because of... Nicole.

'Let's focus on the important things first.'