30 Two For One Special (1/2)
Before Jam could start asking if they were ok, the girls walked over to him and thanked him for saving them.
”Hey! Thanks mate, really appreciate the help. I thought we were done for back there.”
”No problem. Are any of you seriously hurt?”
The girls were all cultivators, thus they knew better than anyone else, the severity of their wounds. They did quick checks, and mostly only had superficial wounds. There was however one girl who had a lung pierced.
Jam gave each of them some of his healing pills. The girl with the most severe injury received a Tier 2 pill, which would regenerate her lungs completely in the next couple hours. The girls thanked Jam once again.
Jam collected the corpses of the ten Saint Realm Demonic Beasts, and none of the girls had any problems with his actions. Sure, those corpses might have been worth a lot of points in the competitions, but Jam saved them. To them, their lives were worth much more than those ten Saint Realm Beast.
Now that Jam finished his business over here, he was preparing to leave, saying his goodbyes, when the leader of the girls raged at him.
”Wait! That's it?” The leader of the girls was flustered at how unassuming and straightforward Jam behaved.
”What?” Jam was completely confused
”I said. Is that it?!”
”What do you want me to do?”
The girl was put on checkmate. Even she didn't know how to respond to Jam's question. What did she expect him to do?
”Can you at least tell us your name?”
”Oh. My name's Jam.”
”Alrighty then, Mr. Jam. We are Squad 4, and I'm Mary. If you're ever bored, we should hang out.”
”Uh, Ok?” Jam didn't really understand Mary's non sequitur; how did she go from introducing herself to wanting to hang out?
'Wait a minute this is something friends would say to one another… Did she just make herself my friend?' If Tzatziki could hear Jam's thoughts he surely tell him ”Congrats Jam. You've made the analysis of the century.”
”Wait a minute. I just realized… you're at the Palace Creation Stage?!” Mary said, with a look of disbelief.
”Yep.”
”Holy shit, that's even lower than us! Are you like a core disciple or something?”
”Yeah” Jam was getting tired of the ”yeps,” so he decided to switch it up a bit and go for a ”yeah.”
”For real though?”
”I became a core disciple like a week ago.”
”Whoa” Said all the girls collectively, at the same time.
”See you guys around at the academy... I guess?” Jam gave his final farewell and then left. He left all the girls there, looking at his vanishing silhouette, still somewhat confused.
Mary looked to her fellow squadmates and said ”Guys. Wasn't this like the perfect time for him to show off and try his luck at picking up one of us girls?”
”Yeah, it is very weird for him to just save us, and leave so straightforwardly.” one of Mary's teammates responded.
These girls were used to the cultivation world. Here, nothing was ever done without a purpose, the usual suspect was self gain. If they were to know that Jam's reason for saving them was because he felt bad about letting them die, and that he wanted more Saint Realm Divine Beasts, it's uncertain how they might react.
Another girl added ”He could be gay.”
”You think?” Mary retorted.
”Well, we are all beautiful, at least that's what most other guys show with the unerring lust plastered on their faces.” These girls were truly beautiful. However, to Jam, be it a good or bad thing, that didn't matter.
”You have a point, he didn't have an ounce of lust towards any of us.”
It's not that Jam was gay, he just didn't understand the appeal of sex. His previous misadventure with Rina led him to read about anatomy, along with its various functions. He knew very well what sex was, as well as its process, and outcomes. It must be that he's not old enough to understand yet; he is after all ten years old.
...
Somewhere in the center region of the Delta Heavy Forest, Jam was back at it again, hunting for treasure and killing the strongest Demonic Beasts his eyes would lay upon. He kept doing this for three days, accumulating dozens of millions of spirit stones worth of ores, herbs, and Demonic Beast corpses.
In the midst of this killing spree, after Jam took in the demonic energy of twenty thousand or so Saint Realm Demonic Beasts, his True Demon Form reached the second level; The Lesser Demon Form.
[Partial Demon Form: Transmute demonic energy into internal demonic power; able to change part of the body into a demon. Unlock increasingly perfect demonic forms — 100%| Evolvable] → [Lesser Demon Form: Transmute demonic energy into internal demonic power; able to change one's entire body into that of a lesser demon. Unlock increasingly perfect demonic forms — <1%| Evolvable]
With this new and improved transformation, Jam could completely transform his body into that of a Lesser Demon. The former transformations that Jam could apply to one part of his body would now be displayed in every part of his body and at all times.
Unlike in his partial demonification, this new Lesser Demon Form seemed to fit Jam's body in a way that made the transformation cohesive.
Jam no longer had blade like fingers and elbows in his arms. Now, his arms fit the metallic armor look of his demonified chest and legs. Jam's head also gained one horn, sprouting out of one side of his head, which looked asymmetrical. Jam's previous demonified chest would give him demonic armor, but the Lesser Demon Form added a demonic core to the center of Jam's chest.
In the future, Jam would be able to use demonic techniques, exclusive to demonic beings, because of his new demonic core.
Jam's hair would grow to be very long while in the Lesser Demon Form, but would revert back to normal when Jam canceled the transformation. Last but not least, the demonic armor that covered Jam's entire body, still retained its metallic look, but seemed to form overlapping pieces of demonified metal, which very closely resembled draconic scales.
Jam looked very intimidating in his new Lesser Demon Form. However, this new transformation would have to wait for Jam to reach the Dao Infusion level in the Demonic Dao to see the light of day, as it would be incompatible with the rest of Jam's abilities until that point.
Jam would have to chose between strictly using his demonic powers, with his Lesser Demon Form, or fight with the rest of his abilities; it was obvious which of these two options would make Jam more powerful.