"Fool, this planet is no longer normal. Its part of us now, it lives like us, so it can only die like us." She shouted to the sky as if Mr. Bell could hear her.
Damon was now back on the main deck with Calvus and Fang. He finally enjoyed a good warm meal while telling them about his solo adventures. They all shared their solo travels, Calvus and Fang had run into infected beasts as well, they never was able to kill any, but simply managed to escape. After they had made it back to home base, they made a daily routine.
It turned out they would travel for hours on end everyday looking for Damon after they lost contact with him. In doing so they too ran from many beasts that were stronger, but also increased their skills while fighting for their lives in situations they had no choice.
"Our time was a mess, but mannnn, your story is darn right tragic. You're the luckiest guy in the universe if you ask me. " Calvus spoke.
Damon had told them everything he told Mr. Bell, however he never mentioned anything about all of the new skills he had acquired and didn't plan on it. He would let them see first hand when time permitted itself. They knew about his new affinity, but not his new skills.
They talked and laughed for hours until Fang decided to call it a day. They all were incredibly tired, Cason had informed them of their room numbers a while ago when they were talking.
Damon room was on the first floor on the far side of the ship near the cargo bay. He felt Mr. Bell made it that way to give him a little comfort about the cub. He checked on the cub who was sound asleep in a small cage.
Damon could tell it had ate as their were bones scattered throughout the cage and a small tub of water inside as well. Going back up the hallway, he entered a luxurious room that had a huge bed with white fitted sheets with a purple gold blanket neatly laid across.
Also laying on the bed was a nice plush robe and a set of clothes that had Bellcorp written in purple and gold.
"Man, Mr. Bell really loves these colors." He thought.
Multiple gold marble lamps and white nightstands were on each side of the bed. Walking in the bathroom there was a monitor on the wall in the shower, and one on the outside where the bathtub was located.
The next minute, Damon was soaking in the tub with his head tilted back in full relax mode. The tub had heated jets keeping the water warm. He sat in relaxation for about five minutes before the words of Nuka crossed his mind. Leaning up he went to the skill core cloud and took out the core of Nexas.
He didn't pay much attention to the details of her core back then, but now looking at it, it was a two tone color of cherry red and star white with clear crystals clumps protruding out of the core. It was very different from any core he had seen and had a reflecting shine as the light touched the clear clumps of crystals.
"Please work, please work." He whispered with his eyes closed.
[Core manipulation has been activated. This mid matured core is very unique. Manipulation time will have to be estimated depending on the cores will. Estimated wait time is 24 hours.]
A white cloud emerged sucking the core Inside.
"The hell, so..... I'll have to wait a full day before I will know the manipulation time. Well at least it's telling me it'll work. I just hope it's not a ridiculous wait time like that grand prime core." He thought laying his head back down relaxing.
He wanted to go over everything he had at his disposal. Including the cores, beast bodies, craft material, new skills and all, but really just wanted to be lazy for a little while longer.
Hours later he woke up realizing he never got out the tub. He was more tired than he thought, so after getting out and getting dressed. He got in bed, curling up with two firm pillows.
He was out cold until he heard someone knocking on his door. Opening it up, it was a blinking image of Calvus. Everything was blinking except his right arm and face.
"Dude, we've been waiting for you all day, it's five in the evening. You slept most of the day away. We will be in the training room on the upper deck on the south side of the ship in 30 minutes if you want to join."
The image blinked away just like that, the whole time Damon was rubbing his eyes trying to wake up. He stretched and yawned while thinking how he finally got a good night rest.
Looking at his stats, he remembered he didn't have any attribute points remaining.
[ Status.]
[Name/Race: Damon Blade/ se-ah-rah]
[Health -1500/1500
[Plasma pool- 1000/1000]
[Soul level-37.]
[Exp-2300/5000]
[Attribute points-0/20.]
[Cloud beast chambers- 1/2.]
[Inner voltage- 50,000]
[Affinity Shards 6/500]
Strength -28
Speed - 37
Agility -15
Vitality -18
Stamina - 23
Luck-39
Will-0
"Cloud chamber one, open "
A swirling cloud emerged and seconds later so did a all white panther cub with sapphire blue eyes and sapphire blue patterns of small clouds on its coat. It jumped up clawing playfully at his legs.
"It's been a while little buddy, how you doing." He said picking it up sitting on the bed. It licked his face and pulled on his hair with its teeth.
"Be still "
The cub stopped and laid on his lap.
"Low matured beast my ass, he understands me already."
Thinking back to the first cloud beast he obtained which was originally a high maturity, but once it became a cloud beast it's level went down by one making it just a mid matured beast.
"A name...hmmm."
It didn't take him long with Kaiva on his mind, but because the cub was a boy, he came up with a similar name to its mother.
"How about, Kaiba."
Going into the system he mentally decided on the name Kaiba and received a surprised notification.
Ding!
[Cloud beast of chamber one has been named. Cloud beast Kaiba has not developed an ability therefore will inherit one from its new bloodline.
[Blight Panther of the (se-ha-ra) race. A Beast uniquely created through cloud manipulation with the ability to travel through cloud ports.]
[Kaiba-Stats]
[Beast level- 4]
Speed- 6
Agility -10
Strength -5
Stamina - 10
Durability -4
Sixth sense -15
[Skills]
[Beast sense- unique passive- the ability to sense Hidden ill intent.]
[Cloud port- Lvl 1- the skill to open small cloud gates for travel. Range 10 meters.]
[Blight Double- Lvl 1- the skill to create a physical copy made of clouds]
[For Kaiba to level up in power and skills, beast cores of its level or one level higher is needed or hunting experience.]
The cloud shaped pattern on its coats began glowing sapphire blue. A small cloud appeared in front of it, he entered, disappearing and reappeared as another cloud formed behind Damons leg.
Kaiba leaped out of the cloud biting at his feet. He instinctively knew how to use his abilities as if he had them the entire time. Damon was left in awe once again by the system's power.
Picking him up with a smile thinking how crazy all of it was. He played with Kaiba for ten or so minutes before leaving the room to meet Fang and Calvus.
"Glacial Masssssssss!
Fang yelled while posing stiffly with his arms out and partially bent knees. Calvus began holding his stomach dropping to his knees laughing. Fang looked at him with cold eyes, frost crawled around Calvus legs freezing him to ground. Calvus continued laughing while simply image swapping out of the frost.
"What are you guys doing."
"Damon, you gotta see this, look, look. Fang, why don't you show Damon your ultimate attack pose."
"It seems Ima have to teach you another lesson." Fang looked at Calvus coldly again saying.
"Oh relax, lighten up. I'm sure that pose will attract many girls.... "
Fang squinted his eyes while conjuring an ice staff gripping it tight. Damon looked at them both realizing they seemed a bit different, more playful than before.
"Alright, show us yours, It seems I need a little guidance from the great Calvus Hughes." Fang said with side eyes in a haughty manner.
Hmph, alright. I've been working on this since I awakened. Let me show you how it's done. Calvus took a mid low stance while sliding his fists back on the side of his waist.
Taking in a deep breath flashing images began generating all around him. First it was five, then ten, then twenty images blinking fast like a flicking light. Using oculus Damon tried to keep up with Calvus image swapping speed, but after he reached twelve images, he lost him.
They all moved in sync slowly raising their fists. In second's it looked as if over a hundred strikes were being thrown at once as they punched while flashing in and out.
"Phhhaaaan.....tooooom....strike!
Calvus and his images disappeared completely without a trace. Damon and Fang turned looking around in confusion. They knew he was moving fast, but not fast enough to just vanish.
Hearing a toilet flush and a door opening off to the side. They looked to see Calvus exiting the bathroom.
"So you just did all that to go use the bathroom."
Calvus smiled while pointing at Fangs side, looking down an image slowly appeared with its fist pressed firmly against fangs ribcage. Another was behind him, and another appeared in front pausing a uppercut to his chin. It was like they all were frozen and none of them were blinking.
"My ability isn't just me being able to swap places with my images. I can lapse them, but only when my transferring speed reaches a certain point."
"Not only that, as you can see, they were completely undetected by you, to answer the question I'm sure you guys are probably thinking. They are real, but only for a limited of time."
"That is all I'm sharing for now. Can't let you guys know all of my secrets. Who knows, we can become enemies in the future."