"A bestial core?" I asked while raising my eyes to Claire's face.
"Yeah," the girl nodded, hardly paying any mind as if I just asked for a definition of an apple. "It's akin to our spiritual core, although it's an elent of the bestial cultivation that persists throughout the ranks, as opposed to how we, human cultivators, constantly change its shape and use."
'So, it is…'
I gulped my saliva down.
"Would it be correct to claim that as the main elent of their cultivation, it's the source of the imnse strength and size of those beasts?"
By now, it wasn't even a suspicion… but more of a certainty.
Even though Claire had yet to confirm any of my guesses, sohow made feel as if I was right on the money with this guess!
"Yeah," surprise surprise, Claire went ahead and confird my theory, only further solidifying my idea in the realm of reality.
"So, what if that AI… infected the spiritual core that those beasts then absorbed? And what if…" I bit down on my lips, holding myself at the very last mont from throwing a suspicious, wary glance all over the place as if to check if any of the staff was listening in on our conversation.
The staff, however, was too busy with their tasks around the kitchen to care… Only by acting extrely off myself could I strike their curiosity hard enough to make them actually interested in the details of my conversation with Claire.
"Would we be able to procure every last thing that one can get from a hunt? Every tiniest thing? And by that, I an the spoils of hunt conducted over the beasts that survived within that zone…"
There was no point in ntioning the exact na of the location I had in mind. There was only one zone I was familiar with anyway, so just by putting an emphasis on its selection, I made it pretty obvious which place I was talking about.
"I an, you would have to take part in the hunt to get an easier ti figuring out your next enlightennt," Claire quickly pointed out, as if worried I didn't understand her lecture from before.
"Yeah, that I'm fully aware of, I just need to take a look at all the items you source from those beasts. Its bestial core included," I added just to make sure it was spelled out before moving on and forgetting about this detail until it beca relevant again.
'And on that note, it really won't be that bad of an idea to start figuring out what the next rank is all about…'
Previously, I opted not to even try doing so in hopes of receiving further instructions from Chihiro, given how he already overco all of the trials of my current cultivation stage.
But after giving it so thought… If I kept going, then at this rate, what was I to do once I reached the level beyond Claire's father? Or how could I ever grow stronger than Chihiro if I always relied on his expertise to figure out the hurdles ahead? .
'This stage… I think I will try going through all on my own,' I thought only to finally grab a fork from the table and pierce three different pieces of heavily sauced, grilled veggies.
Then again, this wasn't the right ti to try to analyze it. Not when all I knew about the process of breaking through to the seventh stage of cultivation was limited to just a few of Claire's and then a few of Chihiro's words!
That's why, I put the grilled delicacy in my mouth, as I turned my thoughts to the idea of butchering the bestial carcass - all for the sake of obtaining that sweet, sweet energetic at that I could turn into a proper cultivator's al, as opposed to those energy-less delicacies Claire's chefs were serving us.
"Are you really sure you don't want to hunt a beast yourself?" Claire insisted, hooked on the idea of having hunt for so reason I couldn't really see.
"I'm sorry, but after the last ti?" I laughed out a bit only to then shake my head. "Nah, I think I'm good. Let's say I don't have many good mories of that place," I added in a slightly joking manner.
"That's…" Nigh instantly after my words sounded out, Claire's face contorted as a mixture of grief, guilt, and sadness popped up all over her face.
"Ah!" I uttered a small cry as I reflected upon how this poor girl was likely to interpret my last sentence. "I'm sorry, that's not what I ant!
So, hold your horses and listen to for just a little bit longer, okay?" I asked while reaching out to grab Claire's hands… and just hold them, with no intention of going any further than that as I simply stared into her eyes with a pleading expression painted all over my face.
I shook my head only to then break off my hand-holding with Claire as I leaned slightly to the back of my chair, all to gain access to more space that would fit within the girl's vision.
"All I ant is that all the ti it takes to get there, get through all the control points, reception, reservation, paynt, tipping, and the likes, to then spend as long as it takes to execute a proper hunt and then… repeat all the previous steps in reverse…"
I let my words hang in the air for a while while slowly shaking my head to the sides. "It just feels like one hell of a big waste of ti!"
"I an…" Claire groaned a bit while leaning to the back and looking away with her entire face, only to end up looking fully away as if she couldn't bear the sight of anymore.
A mont later, however, her chest suddenly jumped up and down a bit, only to then do it again… and again, only for Claire to then break out laughing, as she turned right back to with a massive grin on her face.
"Ti, ti and ti… I'm not sure if you've realized, but isn't it a word you bring up quite often?"
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