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“You hate demons yet you’ll transplant their pieces into your body… How different are you to the cultists of this world then?”
“I am merely using demons as my tools, Eleanora. Also, these limbs have already mutated. Can’t you sense the Blood Essence coming from them? I believe they have absorbed a large quantity of vampiric energy from the bodies of these three.”
“T-That’s right…! I guess it could be different from demons themselves… It feels more like you’re making a custom vampire arm without getting their aftereffects because it wasn’t originally their arms, actually. Eh?! Wait, a second, that’s really smart!”
“Heh, so you’ve realized…” I said with a smile.
Of course, I had actually not thought that far, but Eleanora was right. These limbs were of demons that are not weak to sunlight, silver, and other of the stupid weaknesses of vampires. If I enhance it with vampiric power but it still not the actual arm of a real vampire, then it won’t have their weaknesses but gain a lot of their power.
“This is pretty interesting then… But you said you were enhancing the arm even more, right? How are you doing it?” She asked curiously.
“I have planned to use Magic Runes to enchant the arm and also let it absorb more things with its newly developed power.” I quickly told Eleanora what I had in mind.
“I-I see… It might actually work then.” She replied while nodding.
“Well, for now, I’ll absorb these two Vampiric Spirit Stones first…”
I looked into the two Vampiric Spirit Orbs in my hands, both from Scrawny and Midget. They had a Catfish and a Small Hawk as Spirits if I recall it correctly. That would make for a second Bird-type and… a new Fish-type Spirit. Well, that’s if they actually become Familiars, if not, then I won’t be able to do anything about it.
[Two Spirit Orbs with a large quantity of energy have been detected]
[Absorb?]
<Yes> <No>
“Yes.”
FLASH!
Both Vampiric Spirit Orbs turned into red essence, flowing directly into my hands and then into my body. The power I gained back then quickly emerged once more, a smile emerged in my lips as I felt my physique growing stronger by the second, my stats once more increased by a small amount, but all of it accumulated over time, so every little point counts.
[You have successfully absorbed the Spirit Orbs]
[Your Stats have increased by a small amount]
[Your Physique has grown stronger. Physique Tier Rank has increased from Tier 2 Rank 1 to Tier 2 Rank 2]
[You acquired the [Fish (G)] Summon]
I couldn’t acquire the Bird Summon, but I got the fish. Interesting! What can Fish-type summons do anyways? I would guess it can just shoot water like it did originally? I do remember that Familiars usually have special abilities that are often common in their Summon type, such as Beasts being good at physical blows, birds at scouting, plants at inflicting status effects, and Lizards… I don’t know, magic? Maybe they’re not as restricted either… Well, I might as well name the new summon and check it.
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Name: Moby
Type: Fish
Rank: G
Race: Big Lake Catfish
< Health Points: 120/120 >
< Strength: 60 >
< Agility: 20 >
< Vitality: 80 >
< Intelligence: 20 >
< Dexterity: 20 >
Buff: +4 Vitality, +4 HP
Skill: [Swimming] [Water Splash]
Growth: 0/30
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Interesting. This creature is not as I had originally thought. I remember seeing it fight before. It splashed water at high pressures which was rather powerful, and it was quite fast too, but now that I see its stats, it is incredible slow and relies on physical endurance. It has a large amount of HP and Vitality, with a good enough Strength amount and its buffs are also related with resilience. It is also the first Familiar that can buff HP.
It might be on pair with Orcus in being so low at Intelligence but having a body made to tank hits… It is also looking at us with a very dumb looking face and can apparently float in midair without problems. I had already tested Flare’s Skills; they were both offensive ones. One allowed her to slap something with her tongue covered in flames and the second to unleash a fire breath.
But don’t Moby’s Skills sound a bit simplistic? Well, we can always test it.
“Moby, use Swimming.”
“Gluop!”
The fish gave a strange sound, and then suddenly began to swim in the ground itself. It was as if it was treating all of its surroundings as liquid water… Interesting. It is a pity it is so stupid, so I can’t really command him to do anything remotely complex. If he was, I could ask him to infilter places by passing through the walls.
“That’s an interesting ability.” Eleanora said.
“Indeed… Now, Water Splash.” I commanded.
“Gluop!”
Moby suddenly splashed us with a large amount of lake water…
SPLASH!
“Ugh…”
“…”
“So it does nothing more than that?”
“I… Erm, well, it seems to be the case-“
[Your Evasion and Agility have increased by +20% for 10 minutes]
“What?!”
“Huh?”
In a moment, I felt strangely more flexible and agile. What is this? It is merely just some water the fish splashed on us, but we suddenly turned incredibly fast and flexible…
“It seems that Moby’s ability is a temporal buff, it activates when splashing water in a target, and it increases their Evasion and Agility by +20%… It cannot seem to be able to attack other than body slamming though.”
“Huh… Well, that might be handy. If we splash your Familiars with this, we can all become speedier for ten minutes! Isn’t it quite good? And the Cards buffs are Vitality and HP too! At the very least you could have one for the buff.”
“Yeah, I’ll keep this one and see if I ever need to adjust my stats to become a Tank, but for now, I’ll keep replacing some with more Flare Cards.”
However, for now, I had to concentrate in another thing… the Demon’s Limbs.
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