Chapter 461 - Camping: Refinement (1/2)
In a world dominated with pink and violet, quite similar to Nik's spiritual world, a blonde boy in a comfortable silkworm onesie stammered in surprise as his outburst pulled the attention of the silently crouched pink-furred Manticore named Kitty and an arm-length, thin serpent named Hissy. ”What is that?!” The spiritual form of the Skydream Ice Worm blurted as he saw three spirits emerging from Nik, the cold-hearted murderer who didn't even wait to let the poor worm finish his introductions before stabbing a cone of death that literally tore him asunder. If it wasn't for his quick wits and instantly forming an extremely one-sided contract with Ray, effectively becoming Ray's 'possession,' then he would have died.
But now, the three spirits started absorbing his million-year-old spirit ring at a high pace. This, of course, made the spirit worm float around in glee only to find that instead of exploding from the extreme bloating of spiritual energy, Nik stood with an impassive expression. ”This shouldn't be... even a Titled Douluo couldn't absorb my spirit ring even when I co-operated... how could this... how could this smelly man get the ring!!!”
Since Ray couldn't connect to his spiritual world, many things, despite his knowledge of the spirits were unknown. While Nik assumed that Ray's spirits were sentient, it wasn't the case at all. Ray simply encountered a few timely fortunes in the manner of gaining important information.
”Meow~” The manticore learned a few things from Sunny and mewled in confusion as Hissy hissed towards his counterpart as if directing something important.
”It's not like that, you guys! Sigh! I am not jealous of him... well... he has a rugged charm! But no! I like to look clean and cute!” Skydream shouted in indignation.
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Within a world with a starry ceiling and the land dominated by violet and crimson, Nik stood naked in between the divided the land once again. The black dragon totem over his spiritual avatar now covered his entire abdomen. Still, with greater priorities, Nik focused on the glimmering ice-blue egg as a thick stream of golden energy invaded the spiritual world from the giant opening in the sky. With his three martial spirits committed to absorbing the spirit energy, Nik needed to pick the task of refining the egg with the spiritual energy. The theory was quite simple. Since the spirits needed compatible spirit rings to unlock their true forms before truly absorbing spirit rings to augment their abilities, Sky wanted to replicate the need of the spirit rings using the unadulterated spiritual energy the three spirits would refine from the potent spirit ring. Since the martial spirit was still incubating, there was a distinct possibility that the unawakened martial spirit could passively absorb the spiritual energy and be born in its true form itself.
Of course, all these were conjectures but Sky being the top master of two concepts already gave substantial gravity to her words. Such actions based on intuitions are what made the experts of Sky's and Kaal's level so terrifying. With their phenomenal battle strength and terrifying instincts, every rank 9 expert dominated galaxies under their belt. Now, such an expert with her terrifying instincts took action personally after a long time, allowing Nik to realize how lucrative the benefits to this egg would be. Not failing his focus, credits to [Multi-task,] Nik continued to refine the egg using the method described by Sky. It was ingenious and simple. As the spiraling spiritual energy drilled into the sky blue egg, the shell glowed with a tinge of gold as the passive absorption of the egg kicked in, as Sky hypothesized. With a single part of his consciousness now retreated to enjoy the wonders of his spiritual world and also observe the soul but as large as a tree thrumming and pulsating occasionally, Nik's entire task soon grew monotonous.
The absorption continued for another two hours in between which Gojira returned and stood near Klas to understand the situation, which she replied reluctantly. Gojira now seriously questioned her choice of getting addicted to hugging Klas while sleeping. Meanwhile, Moon, still intimidated by Gojira buried into Klas's embrace as it showed surprising vigor for a beast supposed to be lazy during the daytime.
”Huff~” Nik exhaled deeply as his spirits retreated into his body while the last dregs of spiritual energy got absorbed by the spiritual egg that now trembled continuously as if on verge of awakening. By now, everyone understood that the birth of the spirit egg as its true spirit is already a fact. The thought of being able to absorb a spirit ring to augment his spirit instead of unlocking their true form truly titillated Nik to no ends. He could officially become a spiritual master.
'Ah, but I have already shown two spirits... welp, not that I am showing off to anybody...' Nik smiled and looked back, looking at the distressed Ray who eyed Nik and mouthed in annoyance.
Help me.
After mouthing this, his words came through the chat.
[Gods! I never knew a spirit could speak so much. Take him from me. Please!]
Nik smiled and shook his head, [Just use him and block his connection. What else can he do to you? If he grows for the better, reward him with candy or something... anyway, let's begin hunting for my spirit before continuing with yours.]
Nodding helplessly, Ray found his comfort in Sunny. The succubus now truly understood why a pet was extremely important in one's life. Meanwhile, Ray also severed his connection with the sassy spirit and stopped Yar from attacking it. Since the familiars are a strange hybrid between physical and spiritual lifeforms, they could possibly confront martial spirits without any support. Of course, Ray didn't wish for internal strife within his own body, so, Ray accepted the next best task and made Yar took Ray's shape and a huge donger in between and 'force' Skydream into submission.