Nanomancer Rising: Divine Alchemist Reborn as Academy's Worst Teacher Chapter 32: Unleashing the pot

//\\ //\\ Several monts earlier //\\ //\\

"Second step, huh?" Theo stared at the question that lingered before his eyes even after he opened them up.

A part of him wanted to just push ahead right away, using the sense of focus he maintained throughout the first step.

The much bigger part of his mind, however, pushed his eyes to open and his body to move.

'I've spent way too much just sitting and eating. No matter what, I need to move around a bit!'

Standing up from the ground, Theo stretched his arms out before leaning first to the left and then to the right, pushing his upper body to the side as far as the elasticity of his hips and waist allowed.

"Woah..." an involuntary gasp of amazent escaped Theo's mouth as he noticed the difference between his body right now and the body he already got used to over the last two days.

Curious, he then continued with a full stretching routine, replicating whatever steps of it Hive AI produced for him after a quick request, testing the limits of his remade body.

This slight exercise, although nowhere near enough to push Theo even close to his new limits, was still enough to sweat out so of the stillness from the long period of ti he spent pretty much motionless.

His sweat, however, wasn't like what he expected, appearing not like watery, see-through drops designed to cool his skin but like dark-gray drops, too sticky and stinky to even be called sweat!

"Is this what I've read in all those cultivation novels?" Theo muttered as he raised his arm up to inspect the sweat on his forearm more closely. "The cultivation removing the bodily impurities, huh?"

Theo squinted his eyes.

This made little to no sense.

How could cultivation help remove filth and imperfections from his body, when his nanites should've long since done so on a much deeper, scientific level?

'Hive, any ideas?'