Chapter 49: Trying Out A New Type Of Meal!
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[Day 31]
Ugh, I had the mold nightmare again.
Due to my fear of being attacked by zombies in the middle of the night, we ended sleeping in the sky, it wasn"t so bad, I can maintain myself afloat indefinitely anyways.
Before that, we found three Molded Ice Rabbits, they were strong, stronger than you would imagine.
But they all fell to my magic anyways, so there was no real challenge.
Despite that, there was a feeling of dread to all of this, a feeling of mystery that I could not get out of my system.
And I carried it all the way to bed because I had a nightmare over it.
But aside from that, I have been surviving with pears…
Any monster we find around here is infected by the mold… Which is definitely creepy.
I guess we won"t be eating any fresh meat any time soon.
Unless I decide to eat a smelly molded corpse.
But no thanks, I would prefer… not to do it.
Yuki is always scared of them, but she has learned a mini version of icicle spear, and she killed one of the Molded Rabbits with it, so she"s getting past her fear to an extent.
A little, very little extent, however.
But… we are getting somewhere I guess.
After eating as many pears as we found around the pine trees, we began to find more molded zombies.
This time they were two… two Ice Wolf Leaders.
They were monitoring the place aimlessly, and then we found there were also four other Molded Ice Horned Rabbits.
They seem to cooperate despite being of different races, probably this mold thing has some kind of hive-mind connection of sorts.
I should just ignore them… I don"t have a level-up System, so unless I eat their Mana Cores I won"t get any stat, and I don"t want to touch the corpses to take out the mana cores.
But… I feel like there might be something even bigger later on…
Although I can fly, it is slow, and I can"t get too high, or my mana will begin to drop a lot.
I am forced to fly to a small distance above the ground…
What if I find Bird Zombies or something? I am done for!
But it really is not that bad to kill them, so I do.
I feel like I am doing a good thing by doing so, this way, they can rest in peace.
Yuki helps me as we shower the monsters with Icicle Spears and gusts of wind, they drop dead after a bit of struggling and trying to bite me, but now that I got the high ground in the skies, I am unparalleled!
Actually, no. I can"t shoot magic and fly at the same time for too long, my Mana is almost gone, so I am forced to touch the ground.
My Mana, however, recovers quickly, so I don"t have to stay in here for too long.
I have grown fond of the skies a bit…
I decide to grab a branch and inspect the corpses, touching them.
The mold pulsates a bit, it still somewhat alive, but the beast is dead, and they can"t raise it again.
I do the ultimate test and touch the mold, it doesn"t do anything, but the system alerts me of something…
Ding!
Oh?!
Right, I was immune to parasites!
This happened when I evolved before, my Immortal Body had gotten some extra effects, which included parasite immunity.
It hasn"t upgraded since then though… but maybe one day.
I thought it was going to come in handy to not get fleas or something, but I guess… it even works with this thing?
Does that mean that I can actually eat it?
Uagh, I don"t know if I would want that either way.
I like fresh meat, not rotten meat.
However, I decided to harvest the Mana Cores and eat them up.
I then gain a few little stats, too little to make much of a difference, but they are stats nonetheless.
Yuki glares at me as I glance at a molded rabbit.
She begins to wave her hand as I slowly approach my jaws towards it.
She keeps waving her little head, but I keep approaching it.
Suddenly, she slaps my back.
"KYUU!"
Hey, let me take a bite, I am immune to this s.h.i.t anyway!
What if I can become a Parasite Dragon by getting these Abilities as Skills and become unbelievably OP? Wouldn"t that be nice?
"Kyuu! KYU!"
You"re pretty annoying, and you are not going to order me around, I eat whatever I want.
I open my jaws and eat the entire Horned Rabbit.
I bite it with my teeth.
The mold is actually… sweet? Wait, what?
But it has a cheesy smell, a bit rancid.
But I swallow it and it"s gone.
Ding!
Ugh, that first message scared me, but I guess I am completely immune to it.
Hah, I guess I am literally the antidote to it!
Come on, extract my blood, and quickly make a vaccine out of it!
…No, better not.
I suddenly sense as if I gained a few stats.
Oh?! So the parasites do give stats.
It was probably 1/4 of a mana core stats, but it was something.
And so, as Yuki cries in horror, I begin eating all the Molded Corpses one by one.
d.a.m.n, I am such a gluttonous b.a.s.t.a.r.d.
Phew, but it is done.
And I am all stuffed.
Neutralized! Neutralized! Neutralized!
Muda! Muda! Muda!
I guess I was made to destroy this parasite.
…But I am yet to get any Skill.
But imagine if I could get the Unlimited Stamina and then couple it with Immortal Body, I would seriously have all the benefits of Immortal Body without it consuming energy!
Or what about infecting people and brainwashing them or something? That would be rad too.
But I didn"t get anything.
My dreams have been shattered.
But at the very least, my fear over the mold is banishing… As long as Yuki keeps her distance from it.
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