Chapter 91 – How to Stab and How to Slap
*Stab*
*Munch**Glare**Munch*
*Level up*
"Ummmm..." The Sect Leader didn't know what to do. She ate just a bit of meat and the little Vicious Cub was like this.
*Stab*
*Munch**Glare**Munch*
*Level up*
Mei meanwhile had a hard time containing her laughter as she watched her little sweetie trying to intimidate and glare at the Sect Leader.
She wouldn't stop glaring and always menacingly stab the piece of meat, before ripping it apart and munching it.
"Can you eat... less menacingly?" The Sect Leader asked gently.
*Glare*
*Stab*
*Munch**Glare**Munch*
*Level up*
"No." Aiko glared at the Sect Leader, while savouring the delicious meat, how unfortunate that she wouldn't be able to enjoy it properly with this ugly nuisance.
"HAHAHAHA" Mei was finally laughing out loud prompting the Sect Leader to blush.
"It's not my fault, I wanted to taste your cooking." The Sect Leader's smaller ears drop down dejectedly.
"Who told you to eat her meat?" She laughed out loud.
"But..." The Sect Leader was speechlessly looking at them.
*Stab*
*Munch**Glare**Munch*
*Level up*
"Will she do this till the end?" The Sect Leader didn't know how to handle the little one.
"Unless you leave." Aiko spat at her, holding herself back from cursing. She was still the Sect Leader, she would let her retain some of her pride.
The Sect Leader cried in her mind. She just wanted to eat some homemade cooking, but was immediately placed on the to-kill list and kicked out of that place.
"It's better to leave for now." Mei gestured to her.
The Sect Leader sighed. "But finish the meat quickly, we are approaching the Roc territory, it would be bad if we got ambushed by them."
"Got it." Mei nodded. "You heard her."
Aiko nodded.
*Stab**Munch*
*Stab**Munch*
*Stab**Munch*
*Stab**Munch*
Aiko gave Mei a thumbs up with filled cheeks.
Mei shook her head, finishing roasting the last few pieces.
...
Aiko woke up refreshed. Her belly was full and she didn't need to do anything. She postponed her Rune Research as they couldn't finish the massage chair and Mei refused her from blueprinting the flying feather.
Aiko was bored. So she left that place, not knowing that the smell of meat was still on her body.
The Foxes gave her strange looks, but Aiko ignored them.
She arrived on the deck in front of the very familiar, but strange duo.
"Why are you doing this?" Aiko was so bored that she socialized!!!
They looked at each other. "We are training."
"How does that work?" Aiko asked.
The Blazing Fox was the first one to answer. "Well, it's simple. I'm continuously using my flames, slowly improving my control over them. In turn, those flames refine my Beast Core, slowly burning the impurities. That allows me to increase the intensity and possibly Grade of the flames. And you repeat that cycle."
The Glacial Fox was the second to answer with a pout. "I have a similar way, but in my case, I have to freeze, encase and spit. You freeze the impurities, encase them in my ice and spit them out, improving the Beast Core purity."
Aiko was a bit fascinated. She didn't have Fire or Ice affinity, but it was fascinating how different elements took care of their Beast Cores.
"How about the Grades?" Aiko asked with interest.
"You can improve them by either finding wild flames and subduing them or by feeding your current flame materials that burn well." The Blazing Fox was yet again the first one to answer.
"For Ice it's different, you have to compress it, freeze it, melt it." The Glacial Fox was yet again a beat late. "Depending on the type of the Ice, you either compress it until you run out of Beast Core. Freeze, in other words, decreases its temperature with materials. Melt it, to strengthen some types of Ice to be more resistant to flames."NewW novels updates at novelhall.com
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'I also have to find from where those fish came and roast them alive.' Aiko narrowed her eyes, she was upset since she was unable to activate them at the same time, so her anger was directed at them.
'It's not like I can't do it, but it takes too much concentration and I always fall asleep.' Aiko frowned. She would make sure that those fish are well boiled, roasted, steamed, dried...
She practised the double meditation for a week, with little to no success, but she realized something.
[Beast Cores(50%): 1,423 -> 1,615 (33,645)]
[Moonlight Qi: 1,320 -> 1,512]
[Seed of ####; Nurtured 25,000/100,000 -> 25,192/100,000]
If she was successful, she was actually able to nourish that strange seed. This made her really happy as she didn't need to spend her precious Beast Core Energy on it!
'But then, wouldn't [Nourish] be useless...?' Aiko paused for a moment to think. 'Well, shit... I know it was for free, but having it so useless...' She sighed. She turned into her fox form.
She didn't like when something was completely useless and was kept in her system. Looking at you [The Ever Shaping Caldron].
Aiko sighed when she felt a peck on her head.
She turned around to find a small strange creature sitting on the railing. It had two pairs of wings and stared at Aiko curiously, with hints of hunger.
It pecked her again with its long beak, but it didn't hurt Aiko, her Toughness was beyond of normal Magical Beasts.
*Peck*
Aiko was upset as she couldn't think.
*Peck-Slap*
She slapped that beak away and that creature stared at her again.
*Peck-Slap*
They both narrowed their eyes.
*Peck-Slap**Peck-Slap**Peck-Slap**Peck-Slap**Peck-Slap*
There was a small battle of pecking versus slapping, but since Aiko was superior in her speed that little pecker never pecked her again.
"Give me food." Crackled the little bird.
"No." Aiko refused.
...
The Great Roc Mother was startled as she couldn't find her little baby anywhere. She sensed his Bloodline far away from her nest and panicked.
With one flap of the wings, she flattened her surroundings and with the blink of an eye arrived near her baby.
She wanted to destroy the kidnappers, but something strange happened...
*Peck-Slap**Peck-Slap*
"Give me food." Her little baby said.
"No." The little fluffball said.
She stared at her little baby speechlessly. How could he be like this, but soon she also smelled that alluring smell of meat.
She stared down at the little cub.
The Cub was growling at her baby, while her baby was clicking at her back.
She blinked several times before she said anything. "Sweetie, what are you doing?"
The little Roc was startled. "Mom, I'm hungry..."
The Great Roc Mother's clicked her beak. "You are always hungry, let's go back."
The little Roc reluctantly left his meat and flew away with his mother.
Aiko stared at them with relief, unaware that there was an audience watching the peck-slapping competition.
This wouldn't be a calm night...