When I had devoured the corpse of the three-headed Demonic Gray Wolf, my Demonic Arm had also digested the entirety of its body and assimilated it. I had already done many experiments before when I created this arm and saw how it was capable of absorbing and assimilating powers from other living beings, specifically demons.
It was more like a gamble if it would turn out with it, but at the end, it seems that the gamble was worth it. My Demonic Arm had acquired the three-headed wolf's special Demonic Eye, the Demonic Eye of Gravity!
By using a large quantity of Demonic Energy, this eye is capable of creating a Gravity Field where a foe can be trapped inside. In this Gravity Field, the foe cannot move easily and will be restrained. Its powers can be still unleashed, but both its mind and body will be in complete shambles.
The Lesser Basilisk was furious, roaring everywhere. It tried to attack but ended rolling over its own body while floating in midair. It seems that the ability to assimilate eyes is also a thing my own Demonic Arm possess. Those wolves eyes were too big to fit into my own skull anyways, so this makes things easier…
However, I cannot endlessly use my Demonic Eyes. Each use puts a strain into my entire body, and they require Demonic Energy, which I might not always have available. If we put things into numbers, my total Demonic Energy quantity would be less than 600, and each Eye activation costs roughly 200 or more.
I've already used my Demonic Eye of Paralysis before so I had almost exhausted my Demonic Energy, but thanks to having devoured the corpse of that wolf using my Demonic Arm, I recovered a good amount, roughly 400/600.
That's enough for two activations of the Demonic Eye of Gravity, or a constant activation that quickly drains away the Demonic Energy completely, which was what I was doing right now!
My friends seemed confused, but choose to act now and ask questions later, pointing their weapons at the floating Basilisk as magic and weapon techniques rained over its body.
CLAAASH! BOOOM! CRAAASH!
The Basilisk mustered its last Demonic Energy and attempted to turn me into a stone statue by firing a beam of such power against me, fully figuring out that I wasn't able to properly move while using the Demonic Eye of Gravity unlike the original wielder of this eye could.
However, I simply had to sacrifice my Familiars!
"Sacrifice yourself!"
A Fenrir and an Orcus jumped ahead, as the two mustered the entire beam by themselves, quickly turning into stone statues and then breaking apart into particles of light quickly after.
The Lesser Basilisks screamed in pure frustration, as I decided to let go of the Gravity Field and behead it with Gluttony now that it was too weak to even move.
Its head rolled wonderfully across the floor, as a fountain of delicious blood sprayed out of its sliced neck…
Everyone quickly dropped into the floor, completely exhausted.
However, I slowly walked towards the Basilisk's head, and devoured it using my Demonic Arm behind everyone's eyes, trying to get the Demonic Eye of Petrification.
"Hmph, so it didn't work this time?"
It appears that there's only a chance for the Demonic Eye to be acquired through this method. Perhaps this eye wasn't even that "authentic" as this Basilisk wasn't a true one but made out by two Vipers merging together.
Well, at the end, I still got a good amount of EXP, my grimoire showcased the numbers after a brief calculation.
[Calculating EXP earned…]
[You earned 214200 EXP]
[Your Level has increased from Level 11 to Level 13!]
[All Your Stats increased]
[You gained Bonus Stat Points and Skill Points]
Good, I leveled up again. This is the third time I level up this day. This exploration has surely been quite fruitful in regards of EXP, and that Basilisk alone gave out 55k EXP. It seems that powerful enough foes will grant a nice amount of EXP right away.
And now, we should really just continue, I am sure we'll reach the Swamps if we walk a few more minutes… However, everyone is too tired to move.
At the end, I had to take a break and feed them more of my revitalizing food, I also gave them all an Apple created through Apul I've been stocking up in my Inventory for a while now, I had near a hundred of them, so I didn't mind sharing so they could get back up to full energy.
However, the small snack time didn't come without annoyances, as many questions were bombarded my way almost nonstop. Mostly how I was able to use that Gravity Field. I had to simply tell them it was a Gravity-Attribute Spell, but it was too tiring to showcase it again.
"Now what are we going to do with these Viper bodies?" Wondered Chris. "Will they fetch a good price?"
"They'll definitely fetch a good price." I said. "I was thinking on selling around half of them, alongside half of the Basilisk's materials, the rest we'll keep them for ourselves, mostly so I can use them on alchemy. I could make you special accessories or other items with them, what do you think?"
"Ooooh!" Eric quickly was hyped over my offer. "That would be awesome! Maybe you could teach me as well, Blake!"
"Sure, I don't mind, you've got the talent, Eric." I said with a smile.
"Cool! I heard that the necklace you made for Erika was made through Alchemy! My aunt and uncle said that the creation of magic items through alchemy is even more complex than potions, and can only be done by masterful alchemists, you're surely amazingly talented! …Ah, I wonder if I can even learn that then…" Sighed Eric. "I don't have an Alchemist Talent like you after all."
"Don't worry, the Druid Talent would do just fine." I said with a nod. "I learned the Alchemy Skill even before acquiring a Talent, so I am sure I can do the same for you."
"Oooh! You're getting me all pumped up!" Eric seemed to shine with talent, I had to polish this diamond in brute.