Seeing the gorilla's bloodline power on his status page, Blake cheered inwardly as it meant that his own bloodline power had worked without fail.
'Let's try this out right now.' Blake thought before pouring nether from within his body into the new demonic runes on the middle of his chest.
Just like when he activated his own bloodline power, Blake didn't need to do anything else other than giving the demonic runes the nether from his body before the runes glowed on their own.
And just like what he had expected, the moment the runes that he got from the gorilla started glowing, rocks started appearing on the surface of his body starting from his chest.
The shape of the rocks looked practically the same as the rocks he had seen appearing on the two gorillas before. However, different from the two gorillas, the rocks that appeared on Blake's body were almost pure black in color, with only a faint tinge of brown could be found after squinting his eyes to see closer to the rock armor.
With Blake's current body that still wasn't as huge as a bodybuilder, but rather looked extremely fit like a calisthenics athlete, the black rock armor also followed the outline of his body and produced a compact and aerodynamic-looking armor that was different from the bulky, heavy-armor that formed on the gorilla's body.
After the armor finished forming itself, Blake stayed in place for a second as he took a better look at himself to see the full body armor that appeared on his body.
'Hmm… I guess Vera was correct. If the darkness affinity is high, then it means their compatibility with nether would also be high. I thought I would be getting the partial body armor from Robus since he only had partial body armor before, but I guess my high darkness affinity was also boosting the earth affinity so that I could have a full body armor.'
'But it seems that it wasn't literally the same earth armor as before…' Blake thought to himself as he saw the significantly darker color of the armor that was almost all black compared to the dark brown armor that he had seen earlier. But remembering the skill's name and description in his status page,
'(Earth Ape Demon) Dark Earth Armor
A variation of earth armor that had received a massive amount of darkness element. On top of the ordinary protection you get from the original earth armor, the darkness element would also enhance the defensive capability by absorbing some of the elements that were thrown into the armor to reinforce itself.'
Blake nodded in understanding as the body armor that he was currently wearing right now was most likely dark earth armor instead of the ordinary earth armor that the gorillas used before. Hence the difference in color.
'But I wonder…'
Blake then tried moving his body which was literally covered by rocks from head to toe except for the front of his face. He expected his movements would be greatly impeded by the heavy weight of the rocks since just from looking at them, he was sure that they looked hefty, but when he actually moved his limbs, Blake didn't feel any difference from his former movement.
'Is this because of the empowering feeling in my body that I felt earlier when I just received the gorilla's runes or is this because that's just how the earth armor works?'
He still remembered the fact that the muscles on his body had developed to a certain extent and his skin had become tougher the moment after the gorilla's runes appeared on his body, and remembering that both Robus and the other gorilla's speed also didn't decrease when they fought with the earth armor earlier, Blake concluded that it might have been a mix of both that he was able to move around just fine even with the bulky dark earth armor covering his body.
And with that newfound power, of course, Blake would test it out first by punching woods and rocks, imitating the ancient Shaolin movies that he watched back on earth.
Blake walked over a tree and casually punched it without any forms or anything like that, only depending on his raw strength and his dark earth armor. And the result was far from disappointing.
Although Blake couldn't chop down the tree with a single punch, he made a sizable crack on the tree's body with his hands being completely protected by the dark earth armor and not even feeling a thing when cracking the thick and tall tree.
He always thought what the shaolins could achieve just by punching things thousands or maybe hundreds of thousands of times repeatedly and something called qi or inner body strength was awesome, and he was even tempted to learn it himself once because he couldn't use any mana. But the reality is often disappointing as he couldn't find any legit-looking Shaolin temples that teach real authentic Shaolin teachings.
He was even devastated when he found out some of the so-called Shaolin temples used mana instead of qi or inner strength to achieve breaking concrete or boulders with their bare hands.
But now that he literally had a rock for hand without even training anything, he fell in love even more with the nether, the demonic runes, and the demon's bloodline power.
While Blake was recementing his love for his new life as a demon, Robus, the gorilla that had made the covenant with Blake, was also looking at his own body that felt familiar yet different at the same time.
The first most noticeable difference was that his fur and skin had turned several shades darker and his body which was full of wounds before had been completely healed after the new demonic runes had appeared around his original runes in the middle of his body.
Different from Blake that had the runes on his body visible at all times, the runes on Robus' body were covered beneath his thick fur and the runes would only become visible after he poured in his nether into it, but still, he was still able to feel the changes happening since the moment the new runes were drawn onto his body, Robus could feel a change deep inside his body.
Other than he felt a connection with the humanoid demon in front of him, which he suddenly knew the name of, he also felt the nether in his body increase its presence as if it had risen up in quality several times compared to before. And additionally, when Robus tried to move his nether to his runes, he felt it had become much, much easier than before.
Before, when he tried to activate his bloodline power, Robus would feel like he had to push a large boulder from his heart to the middle of his chest, but now, he didn't even need to try, he just thought of moving his nether, and the nether moved on their own following his command.
The realization had finally seeped into him that he had indeed gotten stronger, and along with that, a certain feeling was appearing in his heart. Robus didn't know what it was since it was rare for him to even think of something abstract such as a feeling, but the moment he heard Blake's words, he knew what that feeling was.
"So, are you ready to take your revenge?"
"ROARR!!"
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"Do you know where to find that thing?"
"Rrrr!"
"Alright, let's go!" Blake said as he prepared to run beside the giant gorilla next to him.
"Rrrr."
"Really? Okay then!" Blake had actually wanted to test out his current physical strength to see whether he had actually gotten stronger with the little changes he felt in his body earlier after making the pact with Robus since the status page didn't indicate any point increase in the physique stat. He wondered whether the system didn't actually register the change in his body or the change was probably too minuscule to be counted as a whole point increase.
However, when a very huge gorilla the size of a monster truck had suddenly offered him to ride on its back, of course, Blake would put the testing of his physical ability aside for later and decided to take the free ride.
Robus gently grabbed Blake's small body and then placed him on his wide back and told Blake to grab onto his fur since he would be running at full speed. Blake quickly nodded his head and grabbed a bundle of fur right away as he looked forward to the amusement-park-like ride.
Blake then stopped supplying nether into the runes in the middle of his chest to make the dark earth armor disappear as he didn't want to add weight to Robus' back and then patiently waited for Robus to finally start moving.
And just like Blake was ready, Robus, now with a fully-healed body and a newfound power and ability, was also ready to settle his business with the other gorilla that had trampled on his face just a few hours ago.
Then with a single casual kick from his feet, Robus easily jumped almost 10 meters forward before delivering another kick to the ground, propelling himself forward once again as he traversed through the demonic forest at an unbelievable speed.
And on top of his back, Blake, who was expecting a roller coaster-like ride, was certainly not disappointed as he felt the wind blowing on his face and the up and down sensation from the constant jumping that Robus did.
The two continued their journey like that for about 15 minutes, but in those 15 minutes, Robus had easily traveled about twice the usual distance that Blake was capable of moving with his two small legs. And they could have traveled around some more as Blake was still not bored from 15 minutes of constant jumping around, but the reason that they actually stopped was because they had finally found the target that the two of them were looking for.
A gorilla that had the same size as Robus, with a deep brown colored fur covering its whole body, and a few piles of the fruit that the boars liked to eat on its side, Robus had finally met the gorilla that had just defeated him.
With the connection that Blake also felt with Robus, he knew that the gorilla was now preparing both his body and mind to fight, and he decided to take the initiative to jump onto another tree branch, some distance away from the place using his darkness tendril so that he wouldn't be meddling in Robus' fight, but not too far away so that he could still watch it properly.
The moment Robus felt Blake moving away from his back, Robus released a deafening roar in the direction of the other gorilla, which made the latter drop the fruit that it was about to eat to stare in the direction where it heard the roar was coming from.
Although Robus' body was mostly in a shade of black after the pact he made with Blake, with his whole body almost as big as the trees, there was no way the other Gorilla wouldn't notice his presence that was only about tens of meters away.
Seeing that another gorilla beside itself had appeared, the brown-furred gorilla quickly replied to Robus' roar with its own before jumping forward and ready to fight head-on to determine which of the two was stronger.
Of course, Robus didn't back down and also jumped forward and took on the brown-furred gorilla with its own two fists. And with his new appearance, the brown-furred gorilla didn't seem to recognize Robus as it bravely tried to trade fist with Robus, resulting in the other gorilla getting pummeled after a few exchanges with Robus' superior physique.
Blake didn't know whether the pact had some other benefits that he wasn't aware of aside from the ones that the system mentioned, but seeing how Robus fought currently and comparing it to how he fought earlier, Blake noticed that the current Robus was much more confident in his every punch as the moment Robus had committed to a punch, he would throw in his shoulder, rotate his hips, and planted his feet on the ground and delivered a full-powered punch to the other's gorilla's body, most often its face.
Robus also used the same attack in his fight earlier, but the frequency went up in the current fight that the other gorilla had become much more disheveled than before that when it finally decided to active its bloodline power, several deep cuts from Robus' fists had already decorated its face even though it didn't have any of them in the before.
Seeing that his enemy was going to use its bloodline power again, the thing that made him lose despite his total superiority in the earlier stage of the fight, a hint of nervousness appeared in Robus' heart, but only for a split second.
As the next moment the nervousness appeared, Robus quickly erased it with a reverberating roar before he commanded the nether in his body to go into the runes on his chest. He had never activated his new bloodline power that was upgraded by the pact because Blake had cut him off the moment he wanted to test it out. But seeing Blake used the full-body earth armor before, and how the armor had looked very strong compared to his armor before, Robus cast away the doubt in his heart and went all in to trust Blake's promise.
It used to take him a few seconds to activate his bloodline power, but just as he had found out earlier, his ability to command the nether had increased by several levels that he only needed about 1 and a half-second to activate the demonic runes on his chest and for the rocks to start appearing on his body.
Seeing its enemy had finished activating their bloodline power in half the time that it took to activate his own, a seed of worry started to be planted in the brown-furred gorilla's heart and it grew even more the moment the gorilla saw the other gorilla in front of it had also had full body armor just like itself, furthermore, the full-body armor that the other gorilla used looked incredibly ominous with almost pitch black-colored rocks covering its whole body instead of the usual dark brownish rocks.
But the brown-furred gorilla had never lost with its own fully body earth armor, so it tried its best to suppress the seed of worry and doubt in its heart as it brandished its fist to clash against the unknown gorilla that had suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
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