Chapter 181: Focus On Mutating
While Dhruv was getting freshened up, the trio had already reached the house and was waiting for him.
"What do you think Master has called us for?" Vexar wasn’t patient enough and asked this question to his big brothers.
"I don’t have a clue," Azarex simply replied.
"It may be something about the final floor of the goblin dungeon or something like that," Alaric replied after thinking for a while.
"I just don’t want it to be about me," Vexar said while keeping his head low as if he was really embarrassed about something.
"Why would this be about you?" Both of his brothers said in unison.
"Well... I didn’t know what a dungeon core was supposed to be. The second thing is that when I told Master that I had burned the boss’s body, a hint of panic appeared on his face. I just hope I didn’t do any irreparable damage," Vexar said, his face bearing a slight expression of guilt.
"Well, the latter one isn’t your fault entirely, but how come you didn’t know about the dungeon core?" Alaric asked with a confused expression.
Vexar was about to say something, but Azarex cut him off and asked, "What is a dungeon core?"
Alaric was about to say, ’Even you, Azarex, I had thought of you as better than this,’ but he stopped after remembering that Azarex hadn’t come with them into the dungeon and knew nothing about this. Turning his head around Alaric faced Azarex and said,
"It is an item that will be formed after killing the unique monster which has ’boss’ in their name. This is an essential item to operate the portal. The same portal which would help us travel between the floor in the dungeon." Alaric explained everything he knew about the dungeon core to Azarex.
After explaining, he turned to Vexar, lifting his eyebrows, and said, "Hadn’t you seen Master place the core in the portal of the first floor? How come you haven’t thought of that?"
"I was excited about fighting, so I didn’t focus on anything else..." Vexar mumbled while still keeping his head down.
"You and your obsession with fighting. You should purchase some skills to increase your thinking capabilities," Alaric mentioned.
The moment Vexar heard the word "skill," he remembered something else, that had slipped his mind.
’I didn’t even mention about me not having the skill Mana sense. Should I mention this as well? No... let’s not mention this today. I will confess it some other time.’ With this thought in his mind, he closed his mouth and began to wait for his master like the others.
They didn’t have to wait for long, as five minutes later, Dhruv came to the meeting room. Looking at the trio who had stood up in respect, he swiftly ordered them to sit down comfortably.
"So, what were you guys talking about?" Dhruv inquired with a smile on his face.
"Nothing, Master," Vexar hurriedly replied. He wasn’t going to gamble that his brothers would keep their mouths shut on the recent conversation they had.
"Well, that was quick..." Dhruv said with an awkward smile on his face. He didn’t press the matter further and simply moved to the topic he was about to discuss.
"How far have you gone in your mutation?" He asked.
"Not much, Master," Alaric answered.
Vexar and Azarex nodded as well, agreeing on the fact that recently their mutation has stagnated
"I thought so," Dhruv whispered.
After thinking for a while, he turned to face the trio and addressed,
"I want to mention that we are getting far behind in our mutation compared to all the other things, which isn’t healthy at all... This whole thing is great, but I want all of you to begin eating as many monsters as you can and gain essence points at every possible opportunity."
"I know that these Tier 1 or Tier 2 monsters wouldn’t provide as much essence energy as we need, but we have to start from somewhere. I want all three of you to reach the maximum mutation of every organ before we reach the next evolution. Is that clear?" His voice rang throughout the room with the weight of authority in it.
"Yes, master..." All three of them voiced their affirmation at the same time.
After pausing for a few seconds, Alaric looked at Dhruv and asked, "Master, should we have to keep ourselves hidden during the consumption, or can we do it in front of everyone?"
After hearing the question, Dhruv paused for a few seconds, facing Alaric he opened his mouth.
"I will address that tomorrow, and hope for the best."
Dhruv hadn’t given a direct answer, but Alaric understood what his master meant.
"So, after the announcement tomorrow, no matter the reaction of everyone else, we can consume monsters without the need to hide it," Alaric thought.
"Is there anything else?" Dhruv asked as he looked at the trio.
"No, master..." Alaric replied.
"Vexar, are you all right? You look nervous today. Is everything all right?" Dhruv asked as he looked at the sword demon.
"Everything is well, master," Vexar said while keeping an awkward smile.
"If you have any guilt regarding the incident that happened today, then relax. It was just a mistake, a mistake anyone could have made. The only difference is that some make it one time while others make it multiple. You just have to try your best, right?" Dhruv tried to lift Vexar’s mood.
"Right, master," Vexar said with a smile on his face.
"Right... so let’s meet at dinner." Dhruv dismissed the meeting.
Everyone was about to leave the room when Dhruv remembered something.
"Alaric, drop the corpse of the Tier 3 shaman here. I will try to... get some essence points from that today," Dhruv said with a slightly pained expression.
Alaric nodded, without wasting any time he brought the Shaman’s corpse from his shadow and placed it on a metal sheet that Dhruv had just created.
"Anything else master.." Alaric asked.
"No, you can go," Dhruv answered.
Bowing toward Dhruv, Alaric left the room, leaving Dhruv with nothing but a corpse for company.
’How am I supposed to eat this thing?’ Dhruv couldn’t help but imagine himself eating the corpse.
