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The celebrations were almost ending, as my father and my mother walked to my side and began to pet me and kiss me while hugging me, my mother had not been drinking alcohol, but my father was reeking in alcohol and was laughing and smiling all the time.
“My son is the best!” he laughed. “I love you so much, my little boy!”
“Come on, dear, you got drunk again… Look at you, you’re all red now.” Laughed my mother. “Hahaha!”
“Hic… Ahh… Hehe… My precious wife! I love you so much too…” he said again. “I am happy…” My father suddenly rested over the table.
“W-When I get back to full health…” he sighed. “I swear I am catching a big game…”
“Ahaha, it is fine, father. I am glad you’re happy…” I said. “Don’t worry about things and slowly recover at your own pace.”
“Sniff… My son is so nice…” he cried. “I don’t deserve such a talented young man…”
It seems that my father was the type of drunk that began to praise everyone and open up more when he was all filled with booze. I petted his head and smiled faintly.
We quickly ended carrying my half-asleep father back home with my mother and my grandma behind us, as we placed him on bed.
“Zzzz…”
“He’s really a handful, isn’t he? He seems a bit frustrated he wasn’t able to help, but he’ll get back at it when he gets healthier…” said my mother.
“Yeah, I know. My father is a hard worker… He just has to take it easy for some time.” I said. “When he comes back, I will accompany him in the hunts.”
“Sounds like a good idea… Now, you go back to your bed, dear.” Said my mother, kissing my forehead and hugging me. “Go take a bath first, you reek at blood and sweat.”
“Okay…”
I moved to the bath and had a cold bath at the night, while Eleanora was in her bath form flying outside and speaking to me through telepathy.
“Erika and the other two kids went to their houses now; the rest of the hunters are mostly all back home by now as well. They carried the meat of the boar inside a storage house.” Said Eleanora. “My lord, they seem to not really care about the demons in your bag, so I guess we can keep them.”
“Yeah, I assumed as much.” I said. I used magic to clean myself, manipulating water and washing every corner of my body until I was completely well clean, and I dried myself with some wind magic.
I walked outside and quickly changed clothes, feeling refreshed, it was time to assess some of the gains we got, especially the giant spirit orb and the demon corpses and cores. After all I have to prepare the Duke’s gift.
We moved to the storage room inside of my house as Eleanora entered the window in her bat form and transformed back to her humanoid form, emerging as a small and adorable vampire girl.
“Let’s go.” She said.
We walked into the storage room, and we put the pile of Imp corpses and the Oni. I quickly drained out their blood and converted it into Blood Qi, and then, I asked Eleanora to cut them down into pieces, the Imps were going to be our meat for the rest weeks, so we don’t have to waste money in buying expensive meat in the market.
Meanwhile, the Oni had another fate, as I butchered him out and left his head well clean, putting some spells that conservated it, mostly Death Attribute Spells such as “Preservation”, and the Life Attribute Spell “Disinfect”.
“Hm, it looks quite pretty, my lord, it will be a wonderful gift.” Said Eleanora with a devilish smile.
“Isn’t it? I am sure the Duke will love it.” I said. “Now, these are the Demon Cores, right?”
I looked atop the table, there were several red-colored jewels and one that was larger than the others, the Oni’s jewel. As he was a high-ranked demon, his demon core was way bigger.
All of them were snacks for Gluttony.
I raised my spear and quickly pierced each demon core with the tip. Each core lost their light and became transparent afterwards, gaining some EXP with each demon core, until the spear leveled up.
[Gluttony] has absorbed the [Demon Core]!]
[Gluttony] gained 200 EXP]
[Gluttony] has absorbed the [Demon Core]!]
[Gluttony] gained 200 EXP]
[Gluttony] has absorbed the [Demon Core]!]
[Gluttony] gained 200 EXP]
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[Gluttony] Level has increased from Level 2 to Level 3!]
[Gluttony] Level has increased from Level 3 to Level 4!]
Excellent. It had also gained a bit more of EXP by absorbing the blood and lives out of the ones it killed, so Gluttony had grown plenty of strong now. The one thing that was left was the giant spirit orb sitting there.
And the best way was to absorb it as well, it was no use for me if it was just going to give me a lot of Mana and that was it, it was better to just give it to Gluttony, my weapon, which has helped me greatly in fighting the demons and other monsters.
Actually, by solely absorbing the demon cores, the cracks and damage it had quickly disappeared, and it gained a new black-colored metallic luster, it felt as if it was slowly gaining more decorations and growing more beautiful, as if the weapon itself was evolving.
“So the beast orb is left?” asked Eleanora.
“Yes… Time to eat, Gluttony.” I said with a smile. The spear seemed to somehow understand my words, as it emanated an eerie aura from within.
I pointed it into the orb and pierced the entire orb with the sharp tip.
CLAASH!
CRACK!
The entire spirit orb cracked into pieces, as the energy flew inside of the spear and infused it with new power and energy… Gluttony suddenly felt a great power surging from within it, as I suddenly saw the phantom of the wild boar emerging from it.
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