As the morning came, I opened my eyes. I had been sitting over the floor in silence for all the night, slowly absorbing one Blood Spirit Orb at a time, usually between intervals of thirty minutes. The Blood Essence flowing across my body was truly amazing in quantities.
Blood Essence was another term for Blood Ki, but I usually only use it when this Blood Ki is so rich and concentrated with Mana as well that it turns into something called Blood Essence. Ki with Blood Element is just Blood Ki, but when Mana is added, it becomes Blood Essence. But there can also be Blood Essence without Ki.
Nonetheless, I had awakened the Ki of all the Bandits before killing them so I could maximize profits, something I had missed on doing with Fat, Scrawny, and Midget, my three guinea pigs which helped me learn a lot of things.
I now know the most efficient way to acquire materials to enhance my Physique cultivation and also the richness of my Blood Ki, all while increasing a bit of my stats permanently each time I absorb them, and there's a bit of a chance to get a new Familiar Summon as well.
I looked into my Grimoire as the sunlight from the morning bathed my body.
[13 Spirit Orbs have been absorbed]
[Your [Physique] has been enhanced from Tier 2 Rank 2 to Tier 2 Rank 4!]
[All your stats have increased]
Oh, my physique just jumped two Ranks! Usually, each Tier of a Physique brings a new Ability, and they have a total of ten Ranks to reach the next Tier, jumping two Ranks at once is nothing but insane. Absorbing spirit orbs is really the way to do it.
Normal Spirit Orbs were not giving me any permanent stats at all by now, but the ones from these bandits still gave me a few bonus stats to keep permanently, so it is quite a good deal. Although I don't know how long that will last before I grow too strong for the spirit orbs to give me any stats anymore, just like those of monsters I usually hunt here, which are too weak.
And well, there was something else than stats…
[You acquired [Bug (G)] Familiar]
[You acquired [Plant (G)] Familiar]
I got only two Summons this time. It was slightly disappointing after absorbing 13 Spirit Orbs, but there's only a small chance to get the Spirit into a Familiar. It could be said I didn't had good luck this time around, two out of thirteen is not a good number at all.
Nonetheless, both of these new Familiars are interesting new finds. Bug G is a big, palm-sized bee like the one that one of the bandits had. It is yellow and covered in golden brown fur, it has a big and sharp stinger, and seems rather tame.
Secondly, the Plant G Summon is definitely different than Spore. I do not recall any of the bandits using a literal apple as a spirit, so it is new. Plant G is a small Apple with a face on it, which rolls over the floor.
Of course, although their appearance seem small and disappointing, I am sure they have some sort of interesting ability at the very least, even Moby had something to go for him. I am hoping the same for these two. This is the first Bug type Summon I get as well… I wish I could had gotten the spider though, that one looked way better.
Race: Wandering Apple
< Health Points: 60/60 >
Skill: [Fruit of Life] [Magic Juice]
First of all, there was the apple. This creature seemed to have no offensive power whatsoever, and simply rolled on the ground. Sometimes, it would grow roots and walk, but then would continue rolling until I gave it an order. It had a high amount of Intelligence so it can understand them fairly well. His combat abilities are useless, but he has a special ability, well, two.
This Familiar is made for consumption.
It has two Skills, and both are a one-time use power that also "sacrifices" the Familiar itself, and both are Skills that restore health or… mana.
Sacrifices the Familiar and turns it into a shiny red apple named [Fruit of Life] which can restore 500 HP upon total consumption.
Sacrifices the Familiar to turn it into Apple Juice named [Magic Juice] which multiples natural MP recovery speed by x3 upon total consumption for 24 Hours.
When I looked at this I was completely shocked. This small apple, no big than the palm of my hand… It had such amazing abilities! The first one restores a fixed amount of HP which doesn't escalate by %! 500 HP for me is more than the maximum amount I have. Eating one of these apples would restore all my HP, and probably most of the HP of anybody I know.
Probably Ellergest would only restore like 30%, but still, it is as amazing as a high-grade health potion, if not better due to its fixed recovery and not percentage based.
Also, Health Potions usually don't recover HP right away, but hasten the normal recovery of the body and also stop bleeding, but this… this is insane. It is way better than any potion. And the Magic Juice is also very good, tripling MP recovery speed means that I can refill my MP three times a day, or probably full, meaning more Skill EXP. And the best thing is that it lasts 24 hours…
Wait, what if I use them as alchemy materials? Wouldn't that make even better potions? Hm, I'll have to test it out.
However, the only drawback was that the Familiar Spirit disappears afterwards.
No matter how much I think about it, the drawback seems like nothing much at all. The cost of summoning this Familiar is roughly 70 MP, but in exchange I get either x3 MP recovery speed or a 500 HP recovery item! Isn't that better at the end?