Chapter 68 68: Animal Style



[Mindless Legs (Stage 5: 199%)]

"Mindless Legs still hasn't reached level 6?" Yoze's mind raced to produce all sorts of ideas to try to fulfill that last gap.

"Stage one is Soft Steps, Stage 2 is Sticky Steps, Stage three is Silent Steps, Stage four is combining all three, and Stage five was me improving their integration and making it more instinctive."

"Most of the previous stages had a technique that needed to be incorporated. Should I create a technique and integrate it?" Yoze closed his eyes as thought of what kind of technique Mindless Legs needed.

He first thought about creating some type of speed technique but he rejected it because he lacked experience with those kinds of techniques. Mindless Legs never focused on increasing his speed and relied more on Yoze's strength and speed to push his body faster.

Then he thought about creating a fighting technique before also rejecting the idea. To Yoze Mindless Legs was merely a movement technique and shouldn't be muddled with trying to fight an opponent.

Yoze's mind raced faster as he began to feel that his mind was being dragged into a black void. As he looked around he saw that he was in the spiritual space where his Spiritual demons appeared every time he absorbed another Spiritual Body Cultivation Talent.

But he didn't find any of the demons in the space except for the Goat. With the Goat simply wandering around the black space Yoze found that he could see its every movement. From its muscles stretching to when it contracts. How it breathed and even how it twisted and turned its body when it suddenly started climbing a vertical wall with ease.

Every detail became engraved into Yoze's mind as he knew that he had the perfect opportunity to close that gap and breakthrough. Yoze's body began to move strangely, this way seemed less human and more similar to a four-legged animal but for Yoze's body it seemed almost completely natural.

At first, Yoze's body moved slowly, and with caution but as it gained experience its movements became smoother and quicker. By the time Jewel finished her training, she saw that Yoze seemed to have mastered his movements. As he moved around so naturally that she felt that he would have been mistaken for an animal if he wasn't so large and muscular.

[Mindless Legs (Stage 6: 1%)]

"Finally, I broke through to stage 6." Yoze sighed with relief as he could feel that his body's movements were much smoother and even acted on their own from time to time.

After reaching level 6, Yoze knew that Mindless Legs was much more efficient and more able to escape all sorts of dangers. If he was ever in danger that he couldn't escape from his body would act to move him to a safe place. Even if that meant he got closer to the threat.

"Level 6 is going to take much longer to reach the peak but it's going to be much stronger when I do." 

If the previous levels of Mindless Legs simply made it look like his legs moved on their own then level six was when his whole body gained a mind of its own. To reach this level Yoze created a movement technique he liked to call Animal Style. This style was the central core of level 6 and by incorporating different animals' movements and instincts Yoze trained his body to know how to react to any situation.

Yoze hypothesized that at the peak of level 6, he would have encoded the instincts and movements of tens of different animals and would be able to be comfortable in any situation and environment.

To be able to reach that kind of level would take many decades of studying the movements and habits of each animal individual and would take a normal person decades to accomplish. Even with Yoze's talent in movements, leg arts, and research it still would take him years to be able to achieve the level that Level 6 required.

"I could speed it up if I had more animal talents." Yoze thought shifted to his only animal-related talent, Goat.

After Yoze got this talent from Leah, he had been occasionally sending his talent mark onto animals but even to this day he hadn't found a single animal that had a talent related to their species. Yoze at first didn't comprehend why these animals didn't have their own talents but after coming into contact with demons he had some semblance of what was happening.

It all came down to awareness.

Every person has some talents but if they never got the chance to use or become aware of that talent then they would be considered to be talentless. 

It was the same thought that a child from a rural village could be the greatest math genius that the world had ever seen. So much talent in fact that his introduction to the field would revolutionize the whole industry.

But if that rural child never came into contact with math then he would never be able to use that math talent. And this would lead to that rural child and the world into thinking that child didn't have any math talent.

It was similar to animals and their talents. They were animals so they didn't have the awareness that they were animals and that acting as those animals took on the form of talent. 

For demons, it was another story as they were aware that they were demons and even were aware that they could strengthen their bodies using their Spiritual energy. That meant that every demon made full use of their spiritual body cultivation talent and was able to show up on Yoze's Second Best System.

As for Leah, he mentioned that he had been aware he was a goat ever since he was born. So Yoze was able to copy his Goat talent using his cheat.

In theory, as long as Yoze could make someone aware of their hidden talents he could be able to make them show up in his cheat and therefore copy those talents.

Even the talent of being human could be in existence just waiting for Yoze to find and copy.

"Either I find animals that are aware of their species or I can try to make them aware."