The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 352

352 Remi's Habits

The next day was an off day from the line, and an off day from classes as well, which left everyone a bit confused as to what they should be doing. Both Tessa and Lotus were assigned to Karl's team and not to the healers' corps like the other clerics were, so they didn't have duties, and that was a new feeling for them all. It was a bit like being back in the hospital, sitting around and waiting for something to happen, with nothing actually happening to keep you entertained. Very dull for someone used to being constantly active.

Instead, they all spent most of the morning in meditation, while Karl worked to push the energy level in the focuses back to peak, so he could spread another layer over the spaces.

The progress was going much more smoothly than it had the first few times that he had done this, and the extra practice was likely going to save him days per cycle once he had it fully mastered.

Every little bit was an improvement on his growth speed, and Karl was feeling optimistic that this time might be the one that was going to yield actual results for him.

He managed to finish the layer just after lunch, and stabilize the new focuses before dinner.

The first sign that things were going right was Remi's change of habits. She made herself a cleansing scrub out of coarse sand and bits of the crystalline plants from her space, then soaked in a bath of monster blood, which was normal for Rae, but out of character for the cleanliness obsessed snake.

The blood softened her outer skin, and a few minutes of rolling around in the cleansing scrub had it all peeled off and her new skin nice and shiny.

Then, she began to expand, the same way that Hawk had when he ate all the magical resources as a juvenile.

Remi had been living on that level of resources so far, as everything that the others had collected was a valuable resource in its own right. But until now, there had been no large changes, and she had just slowly progressed from a tiny snake to a small snake.

Energy was surging around Remi, and Karl noticed a sudden imbalance in the space as the other beasts began to push more energy into her portion of the mental construct, flooding the excited Spirit Snake, and allowing her body to continue to grow as she eyed a morsel that she had been saving. Someone had given her the heart of the Royal Rank Frost Giant, and while the organ resembled a blue crystal, it seemed to be flexible enough that Remi could squish it into a tube with her coils so that she could eat it whole.

It would have been easier to cut it into chunks for her, but it seemed important to her that it was intact, and her body began to swell as the lump moved down her throat and began to rapidly deflate, being digested in a matter of minutes.

Remi still looked like Remi, but her power level was certainly at the Commander Rank now, and she had grown so much that Karl wasn't certain anyone else would recognize her immediately. She certainly wasn't going to fit in Lotus' pocket anymore, and Karl wasn't certain the dainty Nature Cleric would even be able to carry her anymore.

Remi might only weigh twenty kilos, but she was three metres of solid muscle now, and as thick as a baseball bat. Karl got the feeling that she was still far from fully grown, and that she would keep increasing in size, but she didn't show any signs of evolving into a Naga, and remained as the same blue and gold Spirit Snake that she had always been.

But some things had changed. For example, she was now playing with ice balls in the air above her head, blowing them around with controlled gusts from [Blizzard] while the crystal trees in her swamp glowed with power.

It became obvious that she was working on something when she brought out her totems to cast fireballs over the surface of the swamp, keeping the water warm. At first, Karl thought that she was trying to create a new skill by combining Fireball with Blizzard, but what she was actually working on was much different.

The totems expired, and Remi made a new set, this time three instead of the two that she could create before, and with two Lamia back to back, looking around and firing in different directions.

That was an impressive increase in the effectiveness of her totems, but it was a side effect of reaching the Commander Rank and not the actual goal of her experiment.

It was the fog at the boundary that she was trying to create, the melted snow and ice from the blizzard, infused with all of the water magic, but none of the cold. Then, she began to cast chain lightning into the fog.

It wasn't doing anything much at the start, or even for the next few hours before Karl began to get ready for bed. But when she did finally make it work in her space, Remi had proudly created a brand-new skill for herself.