Chapter 400: Chapter 400: Evolutions’ Hidden Requirent
Noah continued to stand next to Eve still asleep, but this ti he inched closer to her side.
His mood had settled, and the tension in his shoulders continued to ease as he watched her peaceful face. In her slumber, she looked almost innocent, reminding him back to when she resembled a naive little zombie.
But his eyes also flickered while watching her, thinking about the ti she drank his blood. If he hadn’t already been watching for any irregularities, he might’ve dismissed what he saw as nothing.
At first, it had been her eyes. The physical shape of her pupils hadn’t changed, but the aura they emitted had shown a change, for only a mont.
It was faint, but Noah felt it the mont her gaze t his during the feeding. It wasn’t hunger alone. There was weight behind her presence. For that instant, Eve bore the look of a true vampire, one whose bloodline radiated a power so absolute that even her gaze could bend others to her will.
Noah doubted Eve even was aware of it, but it was better that way. If she also knew that she could get closer to that state by drinking his blood, she would be even more dependent on him. That kind of growth wasn’t healthy, and he feared that she would lose herself along the way.
He reached out, brushing a strand of her hair from her face. Her skin was cool to the touch, yet beneath it pulsed the faint warmness of his blood still flowing through her.
His blood wasn’t fast acting, but he could sense it was harmonizing with her essence. A part of him wondered if that was also why she desired his blood so much. Not just because of its taste, but because it made her feel closer to him.
"You’re growing too fast..." He murmured.
"That’s what happens when she’s surrounded by monsters whose strength continues to make her feel left behind." Ailetta’s amused voice ca from beside him. She walked past him, her fingers slightly raised Eve’s upper length, a flicker of interest appeared in Ailetta’s as she observed Eve’s fangs.
"You know...your blood continues to amaze ."
Noah glanced at her before he looked to Eve with a hint of inquiry. "I feel like there’s more to it than just that... Did you notice sothing?"
Ailetta rely smirked, but then she looked towards him with a curiosity of her own. "Of course I did, but it wasn’t just because of her. This isn’t the only ti we’ve had your blood. Did you notice anything when you consud that last night?"
"What do you an?" Noah’s head tilted slightly, his eyes narrowed with extre focus. He wasn’t asking her directly but as he voiced the question, his mind started thinking back to last night. Before he drifted off to sleep, he faintly rembered a vague feeling. A feeling as if his body felt more stable than before. It was a feeling as when a numb body part was slowly recovering its function.
While Ailetta watched, fixed to let Noah unravel his thoughts. Noah’s palm generated a small amount of mana within his palm that slowly compressed. His eyes furrowed as he felt the mana in the air colliding with his own, but at the sa ti he realized the difference from before. It was a difference that wouldn’t have been discernible without the aid of his abnormal spirit.
His control over his ability had improved, barely, but considering he’d only consud one core; that alone was significant.
Without fueling the mana sphere with enough mana to counteract the world’s mana interference, he could feel the ability about to break down on itself. With no other reason to keep the ability going, he deactivated the skill.
He pondered for a while, thinking about the sensation before looking at Ailetta patiently waiting.
"I can tell that my control over my abilities has improved. No..." He briefly closed his eyes, circulating the mana within himself before opening them again. "It’s more accurate to say my control over mana improved, rather than the ability itself."
Ailetta’s gaze deepened. "That was my initial thought too. But... You have only eaten one of those cores. After having my fair share, and seeing how it’s affecting the others, I started to believe it was sothing else."
Without Noah’s prompting, two slis extended from her body, floating in front of her with each having one large curious observing eye within both of them. However, the two weren’t the sa. One was half a size smaller than the other, and while they both only had one eye, the larger one contained a mouth.
"What I began to understand is that your blood, just like your class implies, is to help us evolve. It doesn’t differentiate between us; its effects on how it affects us are consistent, amplifying our skills and traits." She paused, making sure Noah didn’t have any questions before proceeding.
"If we think about it with that in mind, how does improving our skills help us evolve?" Her gaze shifted from Noah to her slis.
"That’s when I began to realize that your blood is giving us the requirents that we need that are missing for our evolutions that we didn’t even know we had. For instance, take this little one here. It doesn’t have a mouth. In fact, it’s not able to. Not only is it too small, but it lacks the mana to do so either."
She lifted a finger and stabbed into the sli. Within seconds, it began to grow larger, and over ti, when it reached the sa size as the larger one, miraculously a mouth appeared.
"When I use my mana in place of your blood. It gave the sli the requirents to exceed its base form. However... the sa can’t be said for this one."
She hovered over to the other one, stabbing it just the sa. The sli’s body grew larger, but then after a few inches of growth, it suddenly stopped growing, and no changes appeared.
"This is where the problem lies. After a while, no matter how much mana I pour in, this one won’t be able to adapt any further because this is its limit. But with your blood... It doesn’t happen all at once. Slowly it adapts us, changes us." She absorbed the sli back into herself. And afterwards, another sli, almost the exact sa one appeared, but it was the sa size as the other one after the mana injections.
"After a while, our bodies’ base form would be our old limits. And when everything else falls in line." She injected mana into it just like before. This ti the sli changed. Instead of growing bigger, its teeth grew sharper. Another eye ford, and more importantly, its eyes seed to gain a hint of sentience.
"It will evolve..."
With a gesture, the two slis entered back into her body.
"Just like with Eve, she received so much of your blood, but the changes weren’t that noticeable, considering how much she absorbed. But over ti, your blood will change her, prepping her body to fill in the requirents to transcend what she already is. Just like it’s doing for the rest of us. Maybe, improving our innate abilities is just one of the hidden requirents to fulfill it."
Noah stayed silent for a mont, his gaze fixed where the slis had been. The world went silent around him as he absorbed every word.
Everything made sense. Too much sense. But now, if he used her sense of reason to plan ahead, he wondered just what would be the best course of action.
"So, do you think I need to start giving everyone more of my blood than I am already?"
Ailetta didn’t answer the question initially, she also looked to Eve, realizing that Noah was wondering if he should continue to let her feed on him like he did earlier.
"I don’t think you should... If it’s not draining on you then I would suggest that we should have a drop of your blood infused with your mana or with cores at least once a day, if not twice a day. Our bodies would still need ti to change. I believe it’s a process that we shouldn’t rush."
Noah nodded in acknowledgnt.
"Then we’ll start now."
Noah rose to his feet. He didn’t bother to go out to look for everyone, he could already sense those who were bonded to him were already nearby.
With just one call, everyone quickly began showing up inside. The only ones who didn’t were Fenrir and his two pack mbers. Fenrir and Dummy could fit inside, but Pandora refused to let Dummy co in, Fenrir stayed behind to make sure Dummy behaved, as well as the new recruit.
At first, they were curious as to what was going on, but when they each saw Noah’s tendrils breaking off, hovering over their heads, their bodies reacted before their minds caught on.
Noah was about to start forming the drops when Pandora’s illusion form suddenly appeared in front of him.
She was silent, as usual. Noah was having trouble discerning what she wanted besides that she wanted to tell him sothing. It was only when he looked up that he realized what was wrong. His eyes caught the giant snake enviously looking down on them.
Seeing the snake’s unblinking eyes, Noah realized what Pandora was trying to say and why she struggled to speak up. The snake was still without a na.
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