Chapter 190: Hair (2/2)

From what she said, it was safe to assume that the grimoire performed a knowledge transference on her and taught her a variety of spells, including Dark Alchemy. As for the magicks to make people slow and stupid…those were probably curses.

Based on what she said so far, the grimoire entering her body was a positive thing and shouldn’t cause too many problems…

‘Well, even if it did, it wasn’t like I could do anything about it anyway.’

Giving it a quick count, I discovered that the time the grimoire went quiet was slightly before Mo Na’s egg was about to hatch.

‘Perhaps it already chose her as a successor before she was even born.”

Come to think of it, it could be said that Mo Na’s true birthplace was the Land of the Dead. She then spent the most part of her life as an egg, incubating within the Prison of the Dead. Moreover, all she ate were Soul Flames. Adding that string of happenstances together, it probably led to her affinity for Undead Magic being extraordinarily high.

With no other explanation in mind, I could only attribute the grimoire’s choice of possessing her to that.

Naturally, all that was just a guess, whether or not it was true…would become evident with time…in other words, it was all up to fate…

Because each Red Lotus contained a highly concentrated mass of pure energy, it only took one fruit to fill up Mo Na. As for the remaining two fruits, I ate them both and as expected, I evolved to Four-stars…

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Or not, I guess that was just me being overly optimistic. There was no evolution to be found after consuming the first fruit and nothing as well after the second. However, that didn’t mean that those fruits had no effect on me.The moment I swallowed the last bit of the second fruit, my body started to heat up as if I had just ran a marathon. Furthermore, the heat seemed to be spreading even further, all the way up to my head.

My whole head started to itch, in particular my forehead and…

‘Hold on, my horn seems to be growing!’

My horn was severed by accident during that fight with Duran in the human realm, and remained severed ever since. Because of that, my magic always felt a little hampered. Adding on the fact that Ferti’nier had absorbed a large portion of my mana, my horn remained severed even after I evolved to Three-stars. After eating those two Red Lotuses however, my horn began to grow, along with my internal mana pool. Though I didn’t evolve in the end, my mana grew by at least a tier or two.

Not only did my horn grow out, I even grew a whole head of long, blueish-purple hair…that’s right, a whole head of sleek, shiny, deep blueish-purple hair that flowed all the way down my back.

With my golden single horn and unusual hair color…it honestly felt like my body had grown a little strange.

“Mama, you have hair! And a horn too, so pretty!” Mo Na clapped her hands in excitement and surprise as she beamed at my unexpected change: “Mama is so great, Mama is so great!”

“What do you mean great, I don’t even know what’s going on here.” Reaching to grab her head, I couldn’t help but run my fingers through her silky hair as I patted her on the head. With each stroke, the feel on my hands just grew that much more comfortable.

“Mo Na wants to play as well.” Perhaps she thought that I was having fun playing with her hair, she decided to get in on the fun as well. Flapping the little wings on her back, she hopped into the air and leapt onto my neck where she promptly hugged my head and messed up my long hair. “Mama’s hair is so nice, so comfy.”

“Alright, alright, that’s enough playing, No.3 and Big 4 are back.”

This was the third time they came back from scouting. The first two times, the report they brought back was basically identical: they didn’t encounter any other devils or danger. This time…judging by the expression on their faces, there was probably nothing new to report as well…

However, something of note was the worm like creature Big 4 held in his claws. It was wriggling about impatiently, not quickly but certainly it was a concerted effort on its part.

A Demon Fire Worm.

“Master.” X2

“Mhm, any discovery?”

“Nope.” No.3 shook his head. “Basically the same except for some Red Lotuses we harvested. Oh right, we caught a Demon Fire Worm as well.”

The Demon Fire Worms could basically be described as a fireproof earthworm, even its wriggling resembled that of an earthworm and creeped me out just as much. Thus, with one simple wave of my finger, I gave the order: “Kill it.”

“Understood.” Big 4 took the worm and gave it a forceful tear, ripping it in half in an instant. However, the noticeably bifurcated worm was still struggling even in its newfound state, spewing blue blood all over the ground as it did so.

It was actually alive!

“Throw it on the floor.”

Big 4 obediently tossed the halves of the Demon Fire Worm onto the floor and lo and behold, something miraculous happened. Both halves immediately began crawling towards the lava river upon touching the ground. Even more strange was that they ran away in different directions…did it have earthworm genetics as well?

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