Seeing their faces whilst killing the ranger was priceless! Especially seeing their faces distort when I swallowed the dam thing. However the rest of the whole encounter was rather dull, there just was no thrill to it.

I need to get better with the rapier or find another way to enjoy this kind of things.

That's when I realised: that I need a hobby.

That can wait, because I have something valuable at hand. I tore open the mages chest with fang and claw. Just below the heart was what I was looking for, a mana core.

My monster core is worlds ahead of this mana core in efficiency. But the mana core is of higher quality and rank than my core which further proofs just what an advantage it is to be able to raise monsters like katle. The difference between an item crafted from a monster core (m core for short) and a sentients mana core is that whilst the m core has a kickstart the mana core doesn't stop growing in power.

The mana cores keep the soul and counsicness of their living self. Which is why it's life threatening when one's item outgrows one since they can remove your soul at some point and posses your body.

That's also why the gods forbid humans to be born with mana cores and I was their successful attempt of sidestepping that heavenly order.

It's only a matter of time until the next successful specimen was born and after that one two more would be born. After the two four would follow then eight, sixteen, thirty two, sisty four. Then there would be enough to experiment with subspecies and crossbreeding. After that every possible evolution would be documented and studied.

And once the countess orders it specimen would blend into the crowds of people and successful spreed the cores into the populations.

That's how the demon eye plague mysteriously went extinct.

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All of the sudden people with ungodly strong cores would be born in the countesses territory and those people would spread the cores outside the territory.

A religion fueled uprising between the pure blooded followers and the fiends with cores would cost blood and a lot of noble bullshit inside the country. Then the uprising either calms down or spreads world wide.

Actually the uprising might not happen, we're talking about humans after all.

After generations upon generations only the inbreed nobles would be left core less and that's how society's standard would change. The strong would be seen as commoners but not be disrespected and the frail and weak as nobels.

With such men humanity's military power would by far outpace the other races. The mages could be easier trained since they can bruteforce their way with equall if not greater efficiency than the arcane arts of other races.

Shield bearers would be able to withstand ridiculous amounts of force to the point where the endless march might actually happen.

Blade dancers would be flexible and swift enough to even dogde the fucking wind. Pretty sure I heard a tale about about a monk who figured out the secrets of the wind using grass or somethin.

Knights.....yes the knights of the empire will probably end up looking like the gate guardians. To heavy to ride a horse and lighter subspecies would take that role.

Marksmen, not sure really. They might lean into a more magical direction.

Pikemen and spearmen will probably become the Jack's of all.

And a fencer like me? Well, we're gonna see how that ends.

I put the mana core in a bag, I'm not gonna absorb it.

Absorbing a mana core isn't possible to be absorbed by a mortal but as a monster I crossed the line for sub-mortal, old age can lick my ass. But I didn't want to absorb this mana core. It's lightning attuned which cuts its growth potential by a lot, its good in certain scenarios but I need something that doesn't depend.

II straightened my back and looked over the corpses, three lay infront of me. The other is in the fields.I need to retrieve it or else the crops will be poisoned.

I took a deep breath and grew in height, my hair turned blond with dark tips and my eyes became orangish brown.

I followed the smell of rot and decay, she dragged him quite far. A lot of wheat would have been damaged if they weren't still green and soft.

After a pregnant amount of walking the corpse came into view, it was savagely chewn and discarded. A few guts are missing but that was to be expected.

I walked towards the corpse whilst musing to myself, I never ate human before, no? They didn't want me to have a taste for human.

But before I could reach it the ground beneath me disappeared.