{What Aiko does when no one's watching...}
i just fell asleep. There was so ti before Aiko could start bothering her without actually waking her up. She would use this ti to get rid of all the impurities stored in her tails!
Aiko sneaked away, only the Dragon noticed, but he would not tattle on her, so it was fine.
She rushed through the forest.
During her tile around the 'garden' she noticed strange holes in the ground. Aiko didn't like those holes, since the sounds inside were incredibly creepy.
She stopped in front of one of such holes, staring down deep inside she could see so cobwebs.
'Perfect place to ditch this filth.' Aiko nodded happily and placed her tails above this place before using the [Tails Storage] to dump the impurities down.
A great waterfall was created all thanks to a single Fox.
Once the 'water' hit the bottom, it made a disgusting squishing sound. It sounded like soone shat themselves and then so.
Aiko recoiled from that voice, but she wanted to dump the rest of it into the hole.
*Hiss*
A very disgusting hiss sound from deep inside the hole. It was reminiscent of the spider's hissing.
'Better burrow them completely with this.' Aiko believed that she was inflicting justice on those vile spiders!
The dumping took a whole hour before it was finished. The cave down was half flooded with a thick browny-black substance.
Just looking at it made Aiko want to puke, but if that didn't do it, the sll definitely did. It was much, much worse than your common diarrhoea!
Aiko shivered before leaving this place. She didn't like staying away from i for too long, just in case she would encounter another creepy, enraged Beast!
...
{Back to the current tiline}
i was focusing on creating the 8th Grade Human tamorphosis Pills, everything was in place and she started to pick up Herbs.
One after another were slapped inside by i's Divine Sense. The insides were toasty, but Aiko could see i adjusting the temperature for each Herb individually.
'Isn't this a bit too difficult?' Aiko gulped. She would certainly be unable to recreate this skill.
Aiko would need to spend more Skill Points to match i's skill!
Aiko watched i closely as the day passed, but i was still not finished.
'Isn't it supposed to take at most 6 hours?' Aiko was confused.
i was only halfway through the Herbs, but a day had already passed. How was that possible?
i never stopped moving her hands. It was difficult to create a 6th Grade Pill, much less 8th Grade. Each Grade was not as simple as twice the power, but it could result in 20 or more tis of power. As such, the requirents, in order to create such a precious Pill, were likewise much higher, especially for those who do not have Immortal Qi.
Another day passed and i finally used all Herbs, but this was not the end. She now needed to mix the Herbs in a specific combination, or all of them would be ruined.
i was constantly frowning and she also started to munch on the supporting Pills. They would replenish her reservoirs well for the ti being...
Another day passed and i was panting. Her face was flushed and she was focusing intently. She was currently in the final stretch of coagulating the Pills.
This step was likewise hard, since if the Pill was too hard, it would be difficult to absorb, but if it was too soft, it would turn into a gooey substance and decay quickly.
As one of the final steps was happening, the sky darkened and clouds erged.
"She is overdoing it again." The Dragon clicked her tongue. "We should make room, i's Pills will be blessed by the Heavenly Lightning."
The Dragon guided everyone away while setting up a boundary, so that no one could invade i's alchemy place.
Satisfied with his work, he calmly waited.
The clouds gathered above i, ready to strike any mont, but for so reason, they were waiting, like they were unwilling to strike it to begin with...
i was calm, she knew that the hardest hurdle was already past her and the only thing she had to do now was to guard against this Heavenly Lightning so it didn't strike her!
She gathered her Beast Core Energy to form a protective film. It was not as powerful as normal Qi protective film, but since i still had more Beast Core Energy than Humans, it would offset this difference.
The clouds roared as the Pills were approaching their final form. The mont i would lift the lit, it would strike the Pills, blessing them in the process.
She was waiting for it patiently...
Now!
i lifted the lid and the Heavens roared down on her little Cauldron. It was obvious that they didn't want to do it, since this force would surely shatter her Cauldron.
But that didn't matter to i as the Pills were finished and even blessed!
The Heavenly Lightning connected with the Cauldron, blinding anyone in its vicinity. Right after this, a dical scent spread all around the forest. It was a thick and soothing sll, one that could drive Beasts mad.
Yet none would approach this place, as the Dragon's tyranny was well known.
The light subsided and the Pills erged in a beautiful green colour and round shape. Added to that, there were streaks of lightning running across the Pills. The maximum amount was 9 streaks, but for this instance, i could get at most 5.
Why? Because she lacked Immortal Qi to improve the Pills further, but even without that Immortal Qi, she got solid 5 out of 5 streaks across most of them.
8 Pills had 5 streaks, while 2 Pills had 4 streaks running across them.
It was a very good harvest for i.
One Pill was used as a filth gatherer, so there was one black putrid Pill, but since that one was isolated, it didn't ruin the other Pills.
i was happy with this outco as she stored the Pills inside the special bottle that she had prepared in advance. It might not be able to store 8th Grade Pills for long, but it should be long enough for i to find a better container!
"Is it finished?" Aiko asked curiously. She never imagined such a disastrous outco!
"It is finished." The Dragon nodded and i fainted.
"i!" Aiko was startled and chased after i.
She was sleeping soundly on the ground, but that wouldn't do! Aiko moved i to a proper bed so that she could recover.
"Should I store the Cauldron for the ti being?" Aiko asked the Dragon.
"No need to bother, that one is beyond saving." The Dragon shook his head.
"Why are you so negative, it's still intact." Aiko shook her head as she approached the Cauldron to pat it, in order to demonstrate that everything was alright.
Aiko gently patted it, but her hand went through and the whole thing turned to dust.
"HUH?!" Aiko was shocked and recoiled. "I didn't break it!" She didn't use that much strength, yet the whole thing crumbled into dust!
"Of course, you didn't do anything." The Dragon chuckled. "The Heavenly Lightning was the one that did it." He snorted.
"Why?" Aiko tilted her head.
"Because Heavens do not favour Beasts." The Dragon chuckled darkly. He would pay the Dao a visit one day and break it completely!
"What do we do now?" Aiko asked the Dragon.
While the place was not destroyed, it still slled of charred earth, which was not nice on her sensitive nose.
"Leave it be, leave it be." The Dragon sighed. "i will solve this issue once she rests properly.
Aiko nodded gently and headed to i. She would help her rest properly and ask questions later~!
...
A week went by quickly. Aiko was taking care of i and practising her Divine Sense when she was too bored.
As such, her Divine Sense underwent a great change, thanks to i's demonstration during her heated Alchemy.
The Dragon was still unsatisfied with the wolf, but there was little to do about it. Aiko would have to subdue it over ti or just banish it altogether.
The next day, i finally woke up. She groaned unhappily before wrapping herself with Aiko's tails.
Aiko already knew this would happen, so she wasn't as affected as before, but that didn't an her face didn't heat up.
It took so ti for i to properly wake up and sit down, but Aiko patiently waited for that ti.
...
i rubbed her sleepy eyes. Her Beast Core was pretty much empty and she was recovering slowly, all thanks to Aiko's overflowing Vitality.
i would definitely ask Aiko later about more Vitality, so that her Transformation becos so much smoother.
Aiko gently caressed i's back, trying to inject so of her Beast Core Energy into i, but since she was not familiar with this, it was a failure.
i still appreciated this gesture and nuzzled Aiko.
This shocked Aiko and she didn't know what to do. i was gentle, but Aiko could feel that psychological weight on her body.
She could not bear it and collapsed back onto the bed with i on top of her.
i soon dozed off again and Aiko had a flabbergasted expression on her face.
'i was such a bully...' Aiko thought in her mind.
...
Another day, the duo separated. Neither of them spoke a word, that was especially so for i, whose face was completely red. She could not believe the fact that she let her guard down completely.
She glanced at Aiko, but when she noticed that; she blushed away.
'Cute...-' i thought that Aiko was cute, but then she was startled by her own thought process. Everything changed so abruptly after the Alchemy.
Was she really that weak that she would just throw away everything and let her guard down?
Was Aiko truly that harmless?
She did not know the answer to those questions, but what she did know was the fact that her body was rested and her mind replenished.
Even if Aiko had a strange system and skills, these things greatly aided i, so she could not be unhappy with Aiko just because...
i would have to observe Aiko further, but it seed like Aiko did not mind i all that much.
She was quite accepting of her 'strange' advances, which troubled i.
'I hope she is not like this with others...' i ford a strange fantasy in her mind where Aiko would freely hug others.
A not-so-beautiful frown ford on her face... she no longer wished to leave this continent and go to the mainland.
While this continent was shitty, it was not as shitty as the mainland, with constant wars. Moreover, marriage for connections was commonplace on the mainland, which i hated!
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