From the backlines, without lifting a single finger, Eiro watched Jess, Jas and Krog fight against masses of dog-sized spiders.
Of course, he was a bit busy making sure that Leon and Avalin didn't see anytihng that was going on, but Eiro still sensed everything that was going on around here nonetheless. Eiro thought about how exactly these three would fare against the masses of spiders inside of the place they turned into their nest.
After all, even if they were doing well right now, that was only the case because they had relatively much space to fight. The tightly-knit system of trees, rocks, and underground tunnels that was the spiders' nest had none of that. There would be monsters all around them from any possible direction, and they would need to fight their way through there according to Eiro's instructions if they wanted to get stronger. Each for their own reasons, of course.
Eiro crossed his arms and looked through the area. It didn't seem like there were too many spiders around at the mont, and the ones that were were simply scouts that didn't think they could survive attacking them. They would probably still do so at so point, but for now, this was a good chance.
"Update ." Eiro exclaid toward them, and with breaths that showed that they were far more exhausted than they were when they first ca here they slowly opened their statuses, and Eiro quickly got the update he asked for by looking into their eyes.
Jas had leveled up four tis in total, and Jess and Krog three tis. It was surprisingly quick, really. But this just showed just how little these guys had actually been concentrating on gaining strength. Money was probably their priority, so they took requests that brought them money even if it ant that they couldn't grow too much stronger with that thod.
Eiro was a bit disappointed, but he figured it wasn't that unreasonable in the end. With a wave of his hand, the Demon started extracting the blood from the different types of spiders, "Gondos, Nelli, clean this up alright?" Eiro asked, and the two spirits quickly did as asked. Since they also knew that they could calm down for a little bit, the others inquired about sothing they were wondering about for the past few hours.
"Why do you..." Jess asked before trying to swallow with her dry mouth, "... collect all that blood? And then refine it?"
With a slight sigh, Eiro pointed at the flask at Jess' side, "Drink sothing first. You use chants while spellcasting, so don't let your mouth and throat dry up." The Demon said, and while Jess quickly did as told while Eiro started to explain, "And well, it's rather simple. Clean Monster blood is really useful. So Nelli and Gondos are removing any impurities in it so that I can use this blood to play around a little."
As Eiro explained this, he moved the bits of blood that Nelli and Gondos just finished to the orbs of blue blood of different shades and amounts above his body, "What do you an you want to play around with it? As in like... Witchcraft offerings?" Jas asked with a light frown.
"Heh? Where did you get that from?" Eiro replied imdiately, "Of course not. Sure, I'm trying to read up on witchcraft, but it's illegal everywhere I go so I can't find anything on it anywhere. No, what I an is that monster blood is a good fodder for seeds."
"Seeds? What'd'ya an?" Krog asked with a confused expression as he kept looking around to make sure they wouldn't be approached. Eiro wouldn't warn them right now anymore, after all.
After a bit of thought, Eiro just shrugged and explained, "I know that all you've seen do is carve wood for practice, but you know that I'm not a carver, right? I'm a prosthetist, I learned that profession for years. Being a prosthetist doesn't just an carving prosthetics, at least not to and my teacher. It ans imbuing a piece of wood with life. It's like the prosthetic becos your child, so you care for it from the mont it is born to the mont you hand it off to another person. And of course, you make sure that the other person is a good fit for it as well." Eiro explained, but Krog still didn't fully understand, sothing that Eiro could tell imdiately.
"Alright, then let say it more clearly, sorry. The skills that I currently have in relation to my profession amount to three. Interdiate grade carving, as well as apprentice botany and zoology. My first goal is to bring botany and zoology to interdiate as well. I'm trying to achieve both at the sa ti. I take the lives of Monsters to learn more about them, and then take both that knowledge and their bodies to create new life in the form of my work." The Demon said, trying to be more clear this ti around, "So, once I get my hands on the right seeds, I'm going to feed this blood to them to create the right trees. Then I will use the wood from those right trees for prosthetics." Eiro added, and finally, they all understood.
"Then what kind of seeds do you need?" Jas asked the demon, who thought about it for a few monts, "I'll tell you when I find it."
"Wait, you can't just use any? You need specific seeds, but don't even know if they exist?" Jess asked, and Eiro just looked at her with a light smile, "Technically, yes. But I'm pretty sure that seeds like the ones I'm looking for exist. And if not, then I'll improvise a bit." Eiro pointed out and then slowly turned his head over toward Jas, "And yes, it's the sa with you. We need a specific seed to grow a tree that would be a good prosthetic for you. It has to align with your being, so it might take a while to find the perfect fit."
"Hm, I'm doing pretty well with this one though, don't you think? Why do I need a perfect fit?" Jas asked, and Eiro started lightly frowning, "Because I made the choice to help you, and I don't half-ass things. I'm going to make you a limb that even you can't distinguish from your arm back then. For you, I already have a rough idea of what might fit, but I don't know its in-depth scent because I didn't have this ability when I last saw it." The Demon explained, "So I'm just going to find that seed and see if it works for you. If it doesn't, I'll look for a new one until we have a match."
A bit surprised at Eiro's rather aggressive reaction, Jas raised his brows, "Listen, I just told you that even this arm is an amazing fit. Who knows, maybe Light Elves just have a good adaptability for this kinda thing. Either way, I'm just saying that you don't need to stress yourself out to make sothing unnecessarily 'perfect'. Just because you disagree doesn't an you need to be such a bitch about it." Jas told Eiro with a deep frown, and the Demon stared back at him annoyedly.
He could feel that he was getting angrier and angrier, sohow. Maybe it was because of the lump of ambient mana inside of his body, but his anger was amplified many tis more than normal.
Eiro wasn't entirely sure why that was happening, but he was convinced that it wasn't a good thing. Hopefully his body would really use that lump during his evolution like Eiro wanted, or else this would be pretty botherso. Maybe he should just put all his extra stat points into willpower, because this was a bit too annoying. But before Eiro could actually do anything, his mouth moved and he spoke without properly thinking about it.
"Jas. For the next encounter, you're not allowed to fight with your daggers. Fight bare-handed. I know that you have the skill, it's the main way you used to fight back then." Eiro told Jas, more than just annoyed "Don't worry, I know the risk. I'll intervene if it gets too bad, but I want you to realize that your arm is anything but a good fit at the mont." The Demon said clearly, and Jas ground his teeth angrily as he stared back at him.
"Are you fucking with ? Do you want dead or sothing? You want to fight them with my fucking fi-"
"Quiet. Don't swear in front of the children." Eiro interrupted, and Jas just pushed the two daggers in his hands into their sheaths, "Fine. Just watch . I'll show you that you're completely wrong." Jas said with a confident grin on his face. He turned around and started to continue walking, practically announcing that the short break was over.
With annoyed groans directed toward both Jas and Eiro, Krog and Jess followed behind the Light Elf and prepared for any sort of attack from the spiders. An attack they didn't have to wait for for long.
There were only few spiders this ti, just three of them, but they were probably three tis the size compared to all the spiders before.
"Huh, now, let's show him." Jas said with a grin and stord ahead, while Krog quickly followed behind. Jess prepared to cast a spell while they were doing so, and soon, Jas just jumped straight onto the body of the first one.
He kicked its face right above its mandibles and just below its eyes, seemingly doing a fair bit of damage to it just like this. The spider squeezed its eyes closed while Jas proceeded to climb over its body onto its abdon.
With a quick punch with his prosthetic, Jas hit directly onto the abdon nurous tis. It was rough and just seed unpracticed. Jas probably didn't use hand-to-hand combat for years either, so it beca just as rough as Eiro expected it to be. At so point, the large spider's abdon cracked open and blue blood splattered onto Jas' wooden hand, sothing that he was lucky and skilled enough to avoid as much as possible until now.
But at the mont, it seed like Jas didn't care. He just wanted to show off and show Eiro that he was wrong, while the demon was simply watching silently. After he broke through the exoskeleton, Krog ca in and swung at the opening, cracking everything open further and just causing imnse damage by directly attacking the internal organs.
Soon, this spider fell down dead. In the anti, Jess had been casting spells on the other two spiders to keep them in check, and the flas had been doing fair amounts of damage to them. She extinguished those flas for one of them to let Krog and Jas attack, but without waiting even a mont, Jas jumped onto the smoking spider's body and repeated practically the sa thing as before.
This ti, the exoskeleton broke nearly instantly after damaged this much by the fire, so Jas hand travelled right through and ended up being covered in blood even more.
He practically ripped out the spider's organs and killed it, while Krog changed the direction of his attack and instead swung his heavy axes at the next spider and shattered its abdon as well. After these three spiders were dead, Jas stood up triumphantly and stepped over to Eiro.
"See? It all worked out perfectly, right?" Jas asked smugly from afar, and Eiro slowly approached Jas. Without hesitation, he stared into Jas' face with an angry glare, "Get your shit together already? Worked out perfectly? Look at your arm."
Confused, Jas turned his head toward the prosthetic, seeing that it was covered completely in the blue blood.
"What, you're angry I got it dirty?"
"It's not the blood, you idiot. I an the fact that you dislodged the joints of your index finger and didn't notice. And that you let hot blood slowly congeal around your elbow joint, which would end up clogging it up within maybe ten minutes.. And most importantly, that you didn't treat it as a hand, but as a weapon."
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