Chapter 77 Progression

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After trying many ways, I ended realizing that the best way to hide the wolf was by putting it inside of my Shadows. Indeed, thanks to my Link with Eleanora, I can not only get 10% of her Stats as invisible buffs, but also, I decided to link with her Shadow Sneak Ability, which allows me to manipulate my shadows slightly.

Fusing this Skill effect with Shadow and Darkness Magic Tier 1 Spell "Expand Shadow", I was able to store the wolf inside. Of course, I cannot store anything else than these spirit summons because they're actually materialized, but if I try physical objects, they cannot get inside.

I don't know if I can fit another four of them inside, but if I can, I will try to summon them over time so I can always have five very weak mobs to back me up… at least I can get +5 Agility and Dexterity if I have all five of them summoned…

I looked to my own Spear with a bit of surprise, this thing had brought more than I had expected. To say the least, such a thing was very unexpected, but it isn't as if it was unusual lfor me. In my previous life I had many powerful weapons, within them, there were those capable of being "embodied" into beastly forms.

Perhaps because Spirit Orbs are Souls, this is the weapon's way to "summon" these souls and the shape of these souls make these spirit summons into different classifications. It seems their ranks can increase as the spear "devours" more spirit orbs as well, which only makes it more interesting.

It could be said that the spear is an extension of my own powers, as it is already connected to me through the Grimoire… Although I don't know if I could be able to use its powers without wielding it, I am not someone that is so bad at fighting with one to end up losing my own weapon…

…Although I better not say another word in that regard, life always has surprises.

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It has been three days since the "hunt" I did against the Demons, and I've been spending these days training my own Skills, Spells, and also Techniques, while also beginning to slowly teach my new disciples, Chris, and Eric, all about Qi. Well, to a small extent without making it suspicious… If I show to them that I know too much, it will seem a bit weird to them.

Aside from that, I have not gone to hunt in the Second Layer yet. Why is that? Well, because of the difficulty of the battle. Although I have indeed grown stronger after leveling up, and now I even got a strong weapon with me, it still not a feasible thing to risk my life as much as I did that night every single night.

It is simply not feasible; I require some days to rest and settle down before I attempt anything risky. If I don't, I will feel like I am trying to kill myself, wasting away my life like I once did in my previous life.

That's not something I want to do.

For now, I have been practicing weapon techniques using my spear, but I don't seem to be able to learn a "Spear Technique" Skill no matter how hard I try. Perhaps I would need to get a "Job Class" before even thinking about getting specific weapon technique skills…

Nonetheless, Skills are meaningless other than by enhancing my ability to use certain abilities or do certain things, I can still very much use Spear Techniques even if the Grimoire doesn't give me a Skill regarding that. I don't need this power that Lucifer has given to me to grow stronger.

Even if it took a long time for me to level up, I had already been growing stronger on my own ways all this time, and I plan to do the same as I continue growing up as a child.

I don't like being dependent on such a power. My own power is still the best one and the one I can always trust the most. I've been using these days to cultivate my physique. The special ability I had engraved into my body using the Blood Qi I had gathered from the demon's blood.

As the physique is refined, my physical stats naturally grow higher, although very slowly at that, I need immense quantities of Blood Qi to even make a big difference, but gaining strength over time is fine by me, I am a patient man.

I suppose one of the useful things about this Grimoire is that I can see my progress through numerical values, which makes it slightly more clear to me. Nonetheless it is not like I cannot tell when my muscles and bones grow stronger, or my skin becomes tougher.

The Vampiric Blood Emperor Physique is a special Physique I had created using the knowledge of thousands of years I had accumulated through my previous life. It contained the best aspects of every physique I've ever have, and holds incredible potential, as it grows stronger through the refinement of Blood Qi in my body, it might unlock special superhuman capabilities within me.

As of now, slightly increased physical strength, heightened senses, and the ability to jump higher are already included and permanently added into my repertoire of capabilities.

But there are more ways I could use Blood Qi… Such as the Vampiric Blood Emperor Techniques, the strongest techniques I know which I have refined in my previous life to the level they could fight against Lucifer himself… but they cost Blood Qi, and Blood Qi is used to enhance my physique… therefore, I cannot give myself the luxury of wasting this precious Qi in techniques to fight, when the others work just fine.

For the moment, that is.

And as of now, the three kids that I've known in this life since I was a year old, were sitting around me, for yet another lesson of how to fight using martial arts.

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