Gravis grumbled for several minutes about his body. ’An electric eel? Really?’ he thought with frustration. ’Is this so kind of joke?’
Gravis blew so more bubbles in frustration. ’Anyway, I’m stuck with it now. I can change it however much I want in the future. At least, the body is only at the level of a ferocious beast.’
’Actually, the more I’m thinking about it, the more I think that it wasn’t Heaven that made inhabit this body. The highest Heaven probably won’t allow the sa mistake to happen again. It probably still keeps an eye on this middle Heaven and . I think that’s just my lack of Karmic Luck.’
’I rember that the first ti I appeared in the lower world, I have been transported to the top of a volcano. Since I still had my Elental Synchronicity at that ti, this couldn’t have been considered bad luck,’ Gravis thought as he tried to scratch his chin, unsuccessfully.
’If Heaven chose my body, I would probably have entered a body that was already at the Unity Realm. At that point, I wouldn’t be able to achieve Unity again, making my path more difficult in the future. I wonder, does a lack of Karmic Luck work in the way that it chooses the thing worst for , or sothing that the majority of people would consider bad luck?’
Gravis thought about this for a while.
’Enemies are good for , yet, I still run into them, even though I would count that as lucky instead of unlucky. I guess most people would think it’s bad luck if they were transported into an electric eel at the bottom of the food chain.’
’Yet, that’s good for . I have a lot of ti and evolutions to redesign my body. Interesting,’ he thought.
Whoom!
Gravis used his Will-Aura to stop a fish that was just about to swallow him. It was rather huge with a body length of over 20 ters. ’High-grade Demonic Beast,’ Gravis judged. ’That would be pretty devastating to a newcor inside the body of a ferocious beast.’
The fish remained still inside the water as Gravis’ Will-Aura was delicately suppressing it. He didn’t want to completely destroy it. After all, he needed food to survive and beco stronger.
Leisurely, Gravis tried out his new body. Moving his fin wasn’t an issue, but the new flexibility of his body felt weird. His signals were being sent to entirely different places. When Gravis tried to bend to the right slightly, he felt his whole body coil. It was like his chest was going all the way to his tail.
After so minutes of trying out his new body, he turned to the still-frozen fish. ’Ti to eat,’ he thought.
He swam around the fish to inspect it. ’Am I just supposed to bite into it? I haven’t eaten raw at before. I wonder if it tastes different to beasts.’ So more bubbles ca out of his gills as he sighed. ’Well, let’s just try it.’
Clank!
’Ouch!’ Gravis thought as his teeth bounced off of the fish’s scales. ’Seems like I can’t bite sothing off of the fish. The power difference is too vast.’
Another frustrating thing was that Gravis wasn’t able to weaken his lightning. As soon as he entered his new body, the inherent connection between his centers of power had vanished. Apparently, Unity wasn’t possible without all three centers of power working together.
Gravis analyzed the fish more. He looked into its mouth. ’I could eat the tongue,’ he thought. Then, he moved to its back and saw its behind. If he were a human, he would show a conflicted look right now. ’The ass is also a weak part...’
Then, Gravis shook his head. ’I won’t eat so ass,’ he thought. ’Anyway, let’s first kill it.’
CRRR!
A tearing sound could be heard as Gravis’ Spirit tore the fish’s brain apart, killing it imdiately. Gravis also tore the tongue from its mouth with his Spirit and made it float in front of him. Then, he bit into it.
His teeth bit into the tongue, but he couldn’t even draw blood. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t tear the tongue apart. After so seconds of trying, Gravis released so bubbles as he groaned. ’Change of plans.’
CRRR!
The whole fish was torn apart into tiny pieces, which quickly vanished as they got absorbed by his Spirit Space. ’I’ll just swallow them whole. It’s like using a knife and fork.’
Gravis summoned a small piece of at and shoved it into his stomach with his Spirit. Then, he watched. Gravis still felt hungry due to the small size of the piece of at, but he didn’t know what would happen if a beast ate at that was way above its league. So, he first wanted to see what would happen to the current piece.
After so minutes, his stomach started digesting the at, or, at least, it tried to. Sadly, his stomach wasn’t able to digest this al. When Gravis saw no progress after several more minutes, he groaned again and shoved the piece of at out of his stomach.
’Great, so I have to find weaker prey,’ he thought as he looked up. ’I’m not sure if the beasts at the surface are more powerful or weaker, but I’m sure of one thing.’ Gravis looked down. ’I saw a ferocious beast at the bottom. So, I should check down there first.’
So, Gravis swam downward. Yet, he wasn’t very fast. Seeing his slow progress, Gravis groaned again. ’Okay, fuck this.’
Whooom!
Gravis used his Spirit to shoot himself through the water. At the sa ti, he also used his Spirit to move the water to the side. Like this, his body wouldn’t get destroyed by the water resistance or pressure. ’Why didn’t I think of this before?’ he thought.
After so seconds, he reached the floor again. He also saw the small particles of the forr crab. Gravis decided against eating that. The previous crab could only be described as dust now, which probably didn’t taste very good.
Gravis inspected his surroundings with his Spirit and quickly found so other crabs and similar animals. He also found a tasty looking flounder, but...
’Low-grade Spirit beast,’ Gravis judged. ’Maybe the beasts at the bottom are stronger after all. Maybe the crabs can only survive down here since the powerful beasts don’t care about them. I doubt that any Energy Beast or stronger would care about such weak prey.’
Yet, Gravis wanted to test his hypothesis. Using his body, he slowly swam to the flounder and circled above it. Sure enough, the flounder didn’t react at all. After so more seconds of circling, Gravis stopped above the flounder.
Whoom!
A small ring appeared in front of Gravis, and he held it with his teeth. It was the Life Ring. ’Ti to harvest!’ he thought.
SSSSSHHH!
The sound of rapidly moving water appeared as all the ferocious beasts in a ten-kiloter-radius shot into his ring. Absorbing such weak beasts was as easy as breathing to Gravis. Though, he didn’t have a lung. So, breathing might actually not be that easy.
The flounder noticed the commotion and locked onto Gravis. What was this weak eel doing? Actually, it didn’t matter. This weak eel had disturbed its rest.
The flounder shot upward at Gravis, but instead of biting him, it was also absorbed into the ring. ’Sucks to be you,’ Gravis thought.
His Life Ring didn’t only have land, but also a humongous sea. Keeping all these animals there wouldn’t be an issue. The flounder was incredibly confused for a second but then imdiately knew that its master had summoned it to its ho. This Life Ring was its ho, and it would serve its master.
Seeing that there were no more ferocious beasts inside his Spirit’s range, Gravis tried to smirk but failed. With a nod of satisfaction, Gravis summoned one of the crabs and tore it apart with his Spirit. He quickly separated the edible from the inedible parts. For information, Gravis considered the organs as inedible. The worms and beasts weaker than ferocious beasts would surely be happy about his leftovers.
Then, Gravis shoved the whole crab into his stomach. ’Okay, this might’ve been a little much,’ he thought as he felt bloated. However, his stomach quickly went to work. In comparison to the previous ti, his new al was being dissolved.
Yet, Gravis frowned, or, at least, he tried to. ’I rember that Skye achieved a swift breakthrough after eating, but this digestion is taking forever. Does the digestion speed up the more powerful I beco?’ Gravis mused.
So more bubbles ca out of his gills as he sighed. ’Well, I can’t accelerate that. Might as well make myself comfortable here,’ he thought.
So, Gravis laid down on the soft sand.
’Wow, I actually feel sleepy. It’s been forever since I slept,’ he thought. ’It seems like this body requires sleep.’
Whoop!
The massive flounder appeared. It was actually over 200 ters long and quite chunky. Even though Skye was way stronger than this flounder, the flounder would tower over her.
"Master," the flounder transmitted to Gravis.
"Protect while I sleep. If you see anything you can’t deal with, wake up," he transmitted back.
"No worry, master. This my turf, oh, your turf!" it transmitted. Spirit Beasts weren’t very smart, so its transmission was just barely coherent.
Gravis wanted to be careful. His body was weak, and if so beast assaulted him while he slept, he might actually die. Gravis also used his Spirit to keep the pressure at bay. Sothing as simple as that didn’t require any conscious effort. It would even work while he slept.
So, like this, Gravis went to sleep for the first ti in several years.
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