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72.72% Deep In The Abyss / Chapter 8: Chapter 8 – Failed Plan

Chapter 8: Chapter 8 – Failed Plan

With a floating feeling I reappeared in the cave, walking into the cave I took out the demon cores from my hunt today.

I had 39 demon cores, 37 demon cores from my hunt today, and 2 demon cores from my hunt yesterday.

My body was still full of wounds because my manaku was only 30%, I didn't use the <Creation> skill so that my head wouldn't hurt more.

I sat down and took the demon core that I had absorbed some of its energy and absorbed it to recover my mana.

My mana started to recover and my wounds also started to heal, the vitality inside the demon core can heal wounds and increase energy as it contains life energy.

30 minutes passed and I was back in top shape, my mana was full again, and my wounds healed perfectly.

"Demon cores are great, but 1 demon core also symbolizes 1 demon life". The 39 demon cores I have means 39 demons have died, but I've only killed 7 demons.

"With this efficiency, I should be able to evolve safely"

I lay down and began to close my eyes to sleep, although my energy had fully recovered but the demon cores couldn't cure mental fatigue.

Time passed as I opened my eyes, morning had arrived as the cave's visor glowed reddish.

"Good morning myself"

I stood up and stretched my body.

"My body should have adapted already"

I sat back down and picked up one of the demon cores that still had full energy and absorbed it.

3 hours passed quickly as the third demon core in my hand turned to dust.

"My body has become lighter but I don't know the exact difference, and my mana has increased by 3%."

I stood up and did some light combat moves to feel my body become stronger.

"With the demon cores I have, I can stay in the cave for 10 days without entering the celebration grounds again."

Although the more demon cores I had, the better, but if I couldn't absorb all the demon cores, there was no point either.

Entering the celebration area is also fraught with risks like yesterday, if I'm unlucky, my head could fly off without me realizing it.

But if I stay in the cave and absorb all the demon cores I have at least when I enter the celebration grounds, my strength will increase, and my safety will also increase.

"This seems like a good way, I can have time to train while increasing my strength."

I picked up the demon core that I had absorbed energy from while thinking of the idea that had crossed my head yesterday.

"I hope my idea works, if it does then my combat power will increase."

What hinders my <Creation> skill is the amount of mana I have, to make something I need mana and the more powerful and complicated something I make, the more mana is needed.

With the mana I currently have, I can make a knife as a weapon, but my claws are stronger than the knife I made.

So with the amount of mana I have, I can't make anything more useful than my fists and claws.

But with a demon core that can recover mana, this gives me access to a large amount of mana depending on how many demon cores I have.

"With that much mana, I can create great things."

I thought about making a sword or spear as a weapon.

"Spears have a wider range, but swords are cooler ehehe"

I held the demon core in my left hand and started using the <Creation> skill in my right hand.

<Creation> can create anything I know, although I don't know what I'm creating in detail but as long as I know what I want to create, I can create it with more mana.

A golden light appeared in my right hand as I envisioned a simple yet sharp and powerful sword beyond my claws.

My mana began to decrease rapidly as the tip of the sword appeared very slowly.

Damn the mana I need is so much, I start absorbing mana in the demon core.

This is very hard, absorbing demon cores requires high focus and using skills also requires focus, but I can do it by slowing down the speed of absorbing mana so that I can split my focus to use skills.

Damn it looks like this doesn't work, the speed of losing mana is many times faster than my speed of absorbing mana, even my speed of absorbing mana when I'm 100% focused is many times slower than the speed of losing mana.

With me splitting my focus which made my already slow mana absorption speed even slower, my mana was quickly left at 30% when something bad happened.

ahhhh damn, my head started spinning as I lost my concentration, my skills were interrupted as the golden light disappeared from my right hand, but the bad thing was just beginning.

The control over the foreign mana that I had absorbed but not yet refined into myself was lost as it began to interfere with the mana inside my body.

"aaaaa..."

I dropped the demon core I was holding and spat out a mouthful of blood as my mana started to get out of control and damage my body, I endured the pain in my body and concentrated on controlling my man.

My manaku began to calm down as I regained control of the foreign mana in my body and refined it into my manaku.

"hah... hah... hah... shit"

My body swelled in various places as blood flowed out of my pores, and my head hurt as my mana dropped below 30%.

While enduring the pain, I picked up the thing I made.

"Ahahaha what is this?!"

A metal sword tip with a length of 5 cm that I managed to make, I frustratingly threw away the metal and closed my eyes.

Damn, looks like my plan didn't work. I opened my eyes again and picked up the demon core that I dropped.

I carefully absorbed the demon core to recover my manaku, 20 minutes passed as the demon core in my hand became dust.

My manaku recovered 80% as I started using <Creation> to recover my injured body, slowly my body recovered as I picked up another demon core to recover my manaku again.

20 minutes passed and I was back in top shape.

"Looks like I'll still be using fists and claws"

I walked over and picked up the metal I had thrown away, scraping it against the wall, I felt no resistance, I scratched my skin as my skin opened up and blood flowed.

"This thing is indeed sharp, but if it's this small, it's useless."

Storing the metal in my soul space, I sat down and thought about what I was going to do.

"I have 10 days to strengthen myself".


Chapter 9: Chapter 9 – Art

1 day here is the same as on earth which is 24 hours, I will make a target that I will achieve in the next 10 days.

The thing I have to do every day is to absorb demon cores up to my body's limit, the key to how fast I can evolve is to fulfill my body's daily limit so that I get stronger every day until I reach the peak of my mana as a demon child.

Currently I can only absorb 3 demon cores per day and it takes 1 hour for every 1 demon core I absorb, so every day I have to spend 3 hours absorbing demon cores.

As for sleeping time as a demon child I only need to sleep for 5 hours, the physique that demons have is different from humans. High level demons don't even need to eat, drink, and sleep as long as they have mana.

I also need to train my physique although the thing needed to evolve is peak mana not peak physique, I don't want my weak physique to be an obstacle on my way to the strongest.

Demons are creatures famous for their high amount of mana even surpassing dragons and also their mastery of magic. But since I want to be the strongest I must also have a strong physique, in my opinion someone who is said to be the strongest is someone who has no weaknesses.

In Inheritance, a person with a strong physique can control the life energy/vitality in their body to strengthen attack, defense, and speed. This technique is called Ki, if magic uses mana then Ki uses the vitality in one's body.

Similar to [Body Enhancement] magic but Ki has no enhancement limit, how much enhancement is determined by how much you use Ki, the amount of Ki a person has is determined by his physique so the stronger his physique is then the more Ki he has in his body.

But as a demon to use Ki is not an easy thing because the demon's physique is not as strong as its mana, most demons will not practice using Ki because for demons mastering magic is easier than mastering Ki, and Magic is more versatile than Ki.

To make the physique stronger the same way as training muscles in my previous life is to destroy them and then new muscles will regenerate to become stronger and more elastic, but it's not just about muscles but it's about the physique, the physique is divided into Skin, Flesh, Tendons, Bones, and Internal organs.

Maybe in my previous world training the body other than muscles was impossible, but here it became possible because of a miracle.

And about destruction, I have a very precise skill here, <Destruction> can destroy anything and I can control what I want to destroy, usually I won't destroy myself but for physical training I will use <Destruction> to destroy my physical.

"I hope I don't die, but this must be painful"

I shuddered at the thought of my body being destroyed and felt the pain, as a former human who lived in a peaceful era without war, the most painful thing I had ever experienced was being sliced by a knife while I was cutting food for cooking.

The various wounds I got after becoming a demon are much more painful than knife cuts, fortunately I have the <Creation> skill so I can heal my injured body quickly.

"I should also practice my mana control"

Mana control is very important in using magic, although now I don't need mana control because I only use skills, but in the future I will definitely use magic so practicing from now on is the right step.

Skills are like body parts so I don't need mana control because the mana will move automatically.

"But how?"

I sat down and pondered what could train my mana control, remembering the fantasy story in my previous life as a reference, I came up with an idea.

To practice mana control, I have to take the mana out of my body and move it in complicated patterns, maybe I'll split it into two and control both so that I can practice my multitasking ability.

And the last thing I need to do is maximize the use of my skills, just like I did with the <Creation> skill before by making poison, blinding light, etc.

Creating techniques that can maximize the use of skills is also called Art, Art is a technique that is done by using skills, magic, and Ki to create new techniques that are more useful in certain conditions.

<Destruction> is a very powerful offensive skill, but I also have to think about what I can do with <Destruction>.

While <Creation> is a very versatile skill, the things I can do with this skill are very broad.

Broadly speaking, skills, magic, and arts are divided into 4 categories: Attack, Defense, Movement, Support.

"Maybe I'll start with making art"

Practicing mana control is not my priority right now, so I'll put it at the back of my schedule, and for physical training using <Destruction> is very dangerous, I need to create various types of arts to support my training.

"For attack types, I need area attacks, and single target attacks"

I thought with 4 categories as a benchmark.

"For defense-type arts, maybe I'll make something that can increase elemental resistance considering most demons have elemental-based skills"

"For movement-type arts, I honestly don't know what to make"

If I knew I would die and be reincarnated as a demon with the skill <Creation> I would learn various knowledge considering information was very easy to obtain in my previous life.

"For the supporting type arts, I've made some before so I'll name them"

I have previously created poison, blinding light, and vitality, they belong to the arts but I haven't gotten around to naming them yet.

{Poison}, an attack type art that creates poison that can be coated on the claws, the poison works after entering the target's body and will slowly damage the body's functions.

{Healing}, a support-type art that creates vitality that can heal wounds and replenish energy in the body. This art can also help me to train my physique as I need to heal the wounds on my broken body.

{Flash}, A support-type art that creates a bright light that can temporarily blind enemies. This art has the lowest mana consumption I have"


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