Chapter 317 I Learned From The Best

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The pair at the guild were certainly peculiar. I had never expected that young lady to already be taken by the guild master, an old man on his fifties, or so he looked to be in his fifties… The lady was probably in her late twenties, but definitely not in her early thirties.

For now, however, that didn't really had anything to do with me or my life, so we moved back to my house after we were done putting the corpses back in the underground hideout I had. Vampiric monster corpses were valuable as materials for me.

Although I won't directly consume them or something, I can still make Vampiric Essence potions out of their flesh and bones, which can give me a bit more of Blood Ki to enchant my Physique. I like to use every little material available for me if possible.

As we went back home, I looked into the Grimoire, which I've been ignoring for some time now. There were new texts showing up inside of its pages, apparently I have yet to test if killing normal humans give EXP, but killing those transformed by Eleanora or those transformed by demonic body parts do give EXP.

And plenty of it.

[Calculating EXP Earned…]

[You earned Bonus EXP]

[You earned 26800 EXP]

[Your Level has increased from Level 1 to Level 2]

[Your Level has increased from Level 2 to Level 3]

[Level 3/30] [EXP: 5800/30000]

[All your Stats have increased]

[You gained Stat Points and Skill Points]

"Oh, what a bountiful harvest… Two levels in a row!" I celebrated. Eleanora had also felt she leveled up the same time I did.

"This is certainly amazing." She said. "Killing humans converted into Vampires is the best source of EXP!"

"Don't say it out loud now…!" I reprimanded her.

"A-Ah, right… I am sorry." She apologized.

Nonetheless, the amazing efficiency of EXP was insane. It was roughly 1k EXP for each Bandit converted into vampiric monster, that's already an amazing number. Isn't that higher than Onis sometimes? If the Oni is weak enough, they often give less than 1k EXP from what I remember from the war… So this is certainly incredible numbers.

Maybe due to the power and rarity of this type of monster such as vampiric creatures, the EXP they give out is way higher. And the best thing is that even those that die midway through the transformation also gave us 1k EXP, so it works either way!

I guess I've found an efficient way to abuse Eleanora's power and at the same time, get rid of all the pest threatening this village or any adjacent village as well. Monsters are now recovering their population, but even then, it would be more efficient to level up hunting bandits. I never thought I would be giving a favor to this people's society by killing their own kin. I suppose that was a thing in my previous life as well, but I am amazed that it is overly convenient for me.

When we got back home, my mother reprimanded the both of us. Eleanora was rather frustrated she was added into the scolding, but she was already like her daughter too.

"I am sorry, we ended getting sidetracked when we began catching some horned rabbits, look, I even got a new Fish Summon!" I said, showing my mother the big Moby, which surprised her a bit. The enormous fish appearing out of the blue was indeed quite shocking.

"GLUOP!"

"Uwaah! Get that thing out of here, Blake!" My mother angrily said. "We were just worried about you, try to not come back so late, okay? I know it is hard to control your impulses for hunting, which seems to be the thing that gives meaning to your life at this point, but be more careful out there… Recently they said there are bandits near the canyon."

"Ah, don't worry about it, it was just reported someone exterminated them when Eleanora went to get her rewards for hunting the rabbits." I said.

"Y-Yeah! That's right." Said Eleanora.

"Ohh… I guess they're working pretty efficiently now, huh?" My grandmother said in the side.

"Come on, Mary, the boy is a hunter like his father, don't get angry at him. Haven't you seen the army of beasts he got? He also handled tons of demons back then! For once, trust his strength a bit." My father said, trying to get my mother off me.

"SIGH… Sometimes it feels like I am the only one worrying here." My mother sighed.

"I am sorry, mother." I sighed. "Here."

I took out something from my pocket, it was a small bottle with a mixture of floral oils I had extracted to gain EXP through Alchemy some days ago. And also, it was a gift I prepared for her.

"Eh, what is this?" She wondered.

"This is cologne I made for you, it has the scent of various flowers I've made out with Alchemy." I responded.

"Ohhh…" My mother gently opened the small bottle, smelling the scent. In seconds, she felt like she was in the clouds.

"Oh my~ W-What is this~?!" She cried in shock.

"It is so you can always have the sweet scent of flowers, like the beautiful flower you are." I said with a gentle smile, trying to get in her good side.

"G-Geez! Complementing your mother at my age… F-Fine, it is a beautiful gift, I'll take it." She said, kissing my cheek. "Alright, let's go eat dinner, it must be ready by now."

"Sure."

My father looked at me in disbelief, almost flabbergasted.

"You're good at this." He admitted.

"I remember you always had her a small gift whenever she got angry too." I said. "I learned from the best."

"Heh, and you're good at complementing your father as well, huh? You brat!" My father said, scratching my head roughly.

After that, we had some peaceful dinner. Mother had made her famous meatloaf, this time with a combination of horned rabbit and gray wolf meat we had leftover, it was rather delicious.

After that, I moved back to my room and locked it, quickly taking out my gains, thirteen Blood Spirit Orbs. I'll slowly absorb them over the course of the night.

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