After that little event, Gabriel let his creations roam free around the surroundings again. But this time they would have to go in small groups and not lower their guard against their enemies.
If it hadn't been for both the Fox and the Wolf underestimating the Goblins' strength, it was unlikely that either of them would lose their lives even if they were outnumbered 2 to 1.
He didn't want his creations to die without purpose and he wanted them to not only become strong but live long.
It didn't take long for the surroundings to be completely purged of any traces of Goblins. The orcs weren't much of a problem either, because unlike the first one he faced, he didn't have skin that was impenetrable to cuts, so he could be killed with enough damage.
Obviously my creations also took damage, but I was able to heal them using one of the new Stigma functions on him.
Currently my Stigma skills were: [Entity Creation], [Entity Strengthening], and [Entity Reform].
The first is self-explanatory, the second allows me to enhance the innate traits of a previously created entity to a certain extent, the last ability, which cost even more, allows you to reshape an entity by adding new properties to it and also improving it in the process.
Using the Third ability could also heal a damaged entity, but that itself was a side effect of his reform ability.
Its only problem is that unlike the first two, it takes time to Reform an entity, this can last from hours to days depending on the degree of improvement. In all the time of reform, part of the life force of the owner will be consumed, so in this time he would be lethargic and tired.
He could manipulate the degree of life force absorption to some degree, but in the end he would still feel a sense of weakness.
There was also an improvement to his entity creation ability, being that he could now create an entity long term instead of having to do it on the spot.
Basically the improvement in his ability was that he now had a breeding space where he could spawn entities long term. This worked by creating a kind of egg in which the entity would slowly gestate, but you can't keep many entities gestating at the same time, because they passively consumed a part of his life force to maintain the egg.
One could at any time direct the life force from him to advance with the progress of the entity creation, thus he could breed entities that he normally could not do normally.
Obviously, the stronger the entity, the more time it will take and the amount of life force will be necessary, but that was not an impediment considering that it could create even stronger entities.
Currently the only creatures in this space were the Wolf and Fox who had died and been reformed.
The progress of both was still at 0 percent, this because they had not yet provided any vital force to move forward with their reform.
He was thinking of supplying some of his life force to further his reformation, anyway he had nothing to do since his creations were constantly killing all the monsters around.
Because of this he had gone from level 6 to 8 in just a few hours, which was amazing.
He remembered all of his advances so far.
His first battle had given him level 1, while advancing from level 1 to 3 was a quick process.
Level 4 and 5 he got from the experience gained by the Black Wolf, while level 6 he got soon after killing the first Orc.
Currently at level 8 of his, he was only two levels away from advancing to level 10, but he knew that these two levels would be very difficult to obtain.
Already with the fact that all of his creations had killed a few dozen Goblins and a few Orcs and still didn't seem like he was anywhere close to leveling up indicated how difficult it was to get through the gap from 8 to 9 and how long it would be. from 9 to 10.
He could only sigh and brace himself against the increasingly stronger monsters.
If he had to guess, the next monsters to come would be the Ogre, Troll or Cyclops. He didn't know the exact difference in strength between them, so it could be that they came at the same time.
If so, things would be very complicated for the future of him and his creations. But he doubted that would happen anyway, at least not for now.
While he was thinking about what to do, something somewhat crazy occurred to him.
"What would happen if I use [Reform] on a Goblin or an Orc?"
It was something that hadn't really occurred to him until now.
The reform ability of that skill wasn't clear if it could only be used on my creations or any entity, so I quickly notified one of his creations to bring him a Goblin corpse.
It didn't take ten minutes for a Lion to appear dragging the corpse of a Goblin. She thanked him and said that if he wanted he could rest next to him, which he didn't deny, lying down next to him to relax.
She smiled seeing the Lion sleeping next to him.
"He looks like a Big Kitten," she mumbled weakly only to receive negative feelings from the Kitten next to her.
Ah, you seem to hear me.
Pretending nothing happened, he shifted his gaze to the corpse in front of him.
The Lion only grumbled and continued sleeping.
Gabriel stretched out his hand towards the corpse in front of him and activated his Reform ability, only for his body to be surrounded by an aura of greenish light, it was then that inside his head a warm voice was heard. .
[Master, do you want me to analyze the Lesser Wild Goblin?]
He was glad to know that he could use his ability on other entities aside from his creations.
Without even hesitating, he agreed and let Stigma do the whole process.
With his confirmation, the body enveloped in the greenish aura began to turn into particles of light that entered his body, or more specifically, his Stigmata.
[Starting analysis]
Wait expectantly for the scan to complete. Five minutes later his voice was heard again.
[Analysis completed]
[Low Grade Wild Goblin can be Reformed]
[Do you want to reform it?]
[Warning: This action will consume a large amount of life force, it is recommended to be on safe ground before starting the reform]
Knowing that he was completely safe in this place, he began the reformation.
Immediately and as with the Black Wolf, his body felt very tired and slowly his consciousness fell into the world of dreams.
***
In a place where there was no light, Gabriel woke up.
He felt confused and somewhat upset, but he quickly realized that he was in some kind of dream. He didn't know exactly how he was aware that he was in a dream, but he quickly realized how he knew about it.
"Stigma, are you here?" Ask even knowing the answer.
It was then, that a figure that was neither male nor female appeared in the black void. The figure was not wearing any clothing, but it wasn't like he needed them considering he didn't have any reproductive organs and was also missing his nipples and navel.
His body had a fair complexion, almost pale, he had silver hair so long that it was bigger than his entire body. Her silver eyes were as bright as the moon and more beautiful than a goddess's.
Gabriel was surprised by the almost divine figure that Stigma had, he expected that it was actually a copy of his original body considering that Stigma was created from his desires, emotions and thoughts.
[Master] his voice was heard closer than ever, and a trace of happiness could be noticed even with his mechanical tone.
[Create this body from the master's tastes, do you like it?] I ask a little expectantly.
Gabriel just nodded and his eyes couldn't help but cover every part of Stigma's body.
He originally viewed Stigma as a part of himself, so he unconsciously treated it as an arm or a heart, an essential part of oneself but in specific circumstances it could be abandoned.
Once he found out that he had his own consciousness, he planned to treat him like a little brother. But now with the spectacle before him, he couldn't help but have dark thoughts that he couldn't suppress no matter how hard he tried.
[Master?] Stigma asked blankly, but it was clear from his tone that he was a bit nervous.
Gabriel somehow managed to control himself and smile as naturally as he could. "You look good...very good" It was the only thing he could say before closing his mouth almost saying something he didn't mean.
The almost depressive atmosphere around Stigma changed to a warm one as he blankly said [I see].
This is going to be hard.
Gabriel thought knowing that this dream would be very, very long and stressful.