Curiosity and Voices?!
[Day 3]
Ms. Emberwing turned around as fast as lightning to face the opposite direction of Abel, quickly buttoning up the blouse that still had the buttons intact because the two scum didn't want to wake her.
Abel realized when he had turned around that he was not attracted to the kind teacher like he was before turning into a Husk.
Upon this realization, a panic rose within him: 'Am I not going to ever find a woman attractive again? Will I be a virgin in this life too?'
Thoughts upon thoughts of superficial scenarios appeared within his mind, which were soon extinguished by a cheeky little fairy's helpful reminder, "Master, you still have the four bodies to use Envelop on.
What I suggest is using it on the human bodies in your Inventory so that you aren't mentally challenged anymore."
Abel, hearing Omi mention the bodies, looked at Ms. Emberwing, contemplating how he should go about using Envelop on them.
Deciding to close the curtains around one of the beds and asked her through Omi not to come past the curtain for the next 8 hours.
"Ms. Emberwing, my Master asks if you could give him some privacy behind the curtains around one of the beds for the next 8 hours if possible." Omi asked with a polite smile on her face, fearing that Abel would punish her if she was cheeky anymore.
"Uhm... do you maybe have any food to eat?" Ms. Emberwing asked after hearing Abel's request.
Abel felt like an utter idiot, realizing that Ms. Emberwing must have been starving since yesterday already.
He had to ask her through Omi to wait just until the 8 hours were over, and then they would look for food for her, as he would just be too slow compared to her.
Whereas if he used Envelop on the bodies first, he would be able to keep up with Ms. Emberwing and even exceed her and other humans' physical and mental abilities.
"Ms. Emberwing, Master asks you to just wait these 8 hours; otherwise, he will just slow you down when looking for food." Omi said while bowing in midair, while Abel did the same, to Ms. Emberwing to apologize for the delay.
"Oh, you don't need to apologize; if it helps to keep us safe along the way, I can understand the need to do it." she said this while waving both hands in protest like a panicking anime character.
After sorting that out with Ms. Emberwing, Abel went behind the curtain and took out the two scums' bodies, proceeding to use Envelop on Aldricht and then the boy named Lance after recovering his mana fully.
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On Ms. Emberwing's side of the curtain, she heard a sound similar to when you drop something in acid from the other side of it happening twice, followed by 4 hours of silence each time.
Causing her mind to race with ideas of what was happening and building up her curiosity, she wanted to go towards the curtain and peek behind it to see what was going on, on the other side.
Unknown to her, she had unconsciously approached the curtain, which is when she heard strange sounds coming from the other side, similar to popcorn popping.
She quickly connected the sound to that of bones breaking yet somehow healing, just to repeat it again, accompanied by the sound of what seemed to be millions of maggots or worms wriggling around.
This was when she backed away from the curtain on instinct by stumbling backwards into the bed opposite the curtained bed.
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Abel, on the other side with Omi, had just finished enveloping the second body and was just about to finish recovering his mana.
He was standing up just as it finished recovering to look at his stats when abruptly he fell to the ground and started to writhe like a worm from the pain of his bones breaking and reforming, which caused the sound of popcorn popping.
Thinking it couldn't possibly get any worse, his flesh started to move under his skin like maggots and worms squirming to get free.
Feeling something forming where his eyes and voice box were meant to be, he squirmed, trying somehow to free himself from this irritable pain.
This kept going on for a good 30 minutes, where his limbs and appendages lengthened and his skin started to regain its smoothness to an unnatural degree, followed by him gaining enough weight to have a slight chubbiness added to his body once again.
Trying to stand up but finding it awkward because of the new length of his limbs, he stumbled, resorting to holding the bed's frame for support.
Pausing to take a breath and look at his stats to find out what had happened to his body.
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[@%$&#%! $%@# System]
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[Name: Abel Obsidian] | [Age: 17]
[Race: Inferior Husk]
[Physique: Unknown]
[System Lvl: 0]
[System Exp: 0/10]
[Host Lvl: 0]
[Host Exp: 0/10]
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[Stats]
Health: 6910.5/6910.5
Mana: 1255/2510
Strength: 21.1 | Dexterity: 19.005
Constitution: 20.1 | Intelligence: 11.2
Vitality: 39.005 | Wisdom: 13.9
Agility: 19.005 | Spirit: 31.2
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[Skills]
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{Novice Skills}
[Appraise: 16%] | [Wither: 39%] | [Corrupt: 4%] | [Nurturing Corruption: 0%] | [@%$&! Envelopment: 3%]
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[Trait(s)]
[Usurp: 4%]
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[Storing]
[Enveloped Beings: 0]
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Looking through his stats, he noticed some obvious and not-so-obvious changes to the screen.
Addressing his low mana before bringing up the obvious change to his race.
Looking for Omi for an explanation, he found her standing on the bed, so he asked with a melodical yet etherical deep voice, catching himself off-guard, "Why is my mana only half full? Wait, why can I even talk? Probably caused by what happened with my squirming muscles."
While thinking of this, he waited for a good minute, but Omi still hadn't answered his questions, so he looked back at her.
What he saw was a fairy with a bright red face staring with her mouth agape while looking at his face with wide eyes.
Touching his face, he proceeded to look at Omi with a lifted brow in question and ask, "Is there something wrong with my face, Omi?"
She looked at him and proceeded to point at his face with confusion written on her own face: "You..."