Harvest 

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I turned on "Black Hole" and one after another the bodies were sucked into my bottomless mouth and turned into essence.

The large mountain of piled up bodies was shrinking visible to the naked eye.

My cultivation level and height were constantly increasing due to the essence, the bodies provided.

It was truly wonderful, feeling my body becoming stronger each second.

[Congratulations! You have advanced: 3rd Tier of the Novice realm.]

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[Congratulations! You have advanced: 5th Tier of the Novice realm]

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[Congratulations! You have advanced: 7th Tier of the Novice realm]

It went all the way up to the 7th Tier of the Novice realm until it stopped rising.

'Haha, good! Now I should also be able to activate my affinity. And it also looks like I am not a cub anymore and now am of the same size as an adult tiger, due to the essence also strengthening my body.' I thought in a good mood after seeing my bountiful harvest.

Looking at the sky, I decided to first head back to the cave, since it seemed to be getting dark and I did not want to fight in the darkness without really knowing the terrain.

I also picked one Rabeer with my mouth to bring it back to the cave for the other Tiger that had brought me food before.

I did not know if the tiger was my body's sibling or not, but I did not care.

Since it had brought me food, then I would also do the same for it. Kindness has to be repaid with Kindness.

On the way back to the cave, I did not encounter any beasts, so it was a smooth journey.

A few minutes later I was back in the cave and I saw that the Tiger was already awake and looking at me curiously.

The reason the tiger still recognized me even though I was way bigger than before was probably because he had remembered my scent before.

I put down the Rabeer from my mouth and laid it before the tiger.

The tiger looked at me and I made a head gesture so as to tell the tiger this was for it.

It seemed that the tiger understood my intentions and quickly started to eat.

Meanwhile, I went into a corner of the cave, to undisturbed look at my system panel.

'Status' I said in my mind.

Name: Thiago Khan

Breed: Black Tiger

Species: Animal

Cultivation: 7th Tier of the Novice realm

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System points:/

Affinities

Darkness

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Skills

<Black Hole> Level 1

'Hmm, nothing much changed. Only my cultivation level has increased. Tomorrow I should also convert a bit of the [Essence] into [System points] so that I can finally have a look at the System shop. My strength should also be enough to deal with most of the animals in this region, because they don't seem to be that strong. Maybe I am in a kind of outer area of the forest. This would be the best, because then I can continually move towards the inner region as long as I become stronger.' I let my thoughts run wild.

'Now then, let me test my Affinity.' I decided with anticipation.

I had no idea what I had to do, but I tried to use my knowledge from the novels I had read before dying.

In cultivation novels or magic novels, they say that you have to extend your senses into your body, so that you can sense your magic core or dantian.

Thus, I tried exactly this and tried to concentrate my mind.

I tried to imagine my body and extend my sense downwards to where approximately the magic core would be.

After a few minutes I could still sense nothing and I slowly started getting frustrated.

Twenty minutes later I finally gave up, because absolutely nothing happened.

Now I came to the conclusion that the knowledge from the novels I had read was just plain bullsh*t regarding this topic of sensing the body with the mind without having any mind power yet.

When I did not know what to do anymore, I suddenly had an idea. 'Wait, could it be that I maybe got a starter pack from the system and I have just yet to retrieve it. Maybe there would be something of help in it.'

'Ok, let's try it!'

'System, is there a novice gift pack?' I asked in my mind.

[Yes, does the host wish to open the novice starter pack?]

'Yes, open!', I directly answered without hesitation.

[You received the following items: Abyssal darkness cultivation; A coordinate determination device]

[Receive items?]

'Yes!'

After I saw the rewards, I was really happy, because the cultivation manual's name sounded really badass and also strong, but as for the second item I had no idea what that was and for what to use it since there was also no description.

I also tried to ask the system, but as always, the system was as mute as a stone and did not respond to my question.

I then turned my attention to the cultivation technique that I had just received and that was already implanted in my mind.

It was good that I did not need to learn the technique first, because the technique was already imparted to me as if I would understand at least the basics.

'Good then let's try it out.' I swiftly decided and directly started to run the technique.

As soon as I started to run the technique, most of the mana in the cave was sucked towards me and formed a mini vortex above my body.

I felt the mana entering my pores and it was like a cool liquid washing over my body.

Inside my body the mana was converted into pure darkness mana and then proceeded to enter my magic core to further strengthen it.

What I didn't know at this moment was, that normally people with affinities in this world had no way to get such a pure mana into their cores like me.

It was just that the Abyssal darkness manual was too strong of a technique.

This would bring me many benefits in the future.

Due to the technique, I was also able to feel my mana core, so the next thing I was going to do was to finally test my darkness affinity.

I stopped to run the technique and focused on my magic core and tried to cast mana into my paw.

After a few seconds, a few strands of pure dark mana travelled through my profound meridians into my paw and finally accumulated in my paw.

'Yes! It worked!' I happily exclaimed in my mind after seeing that I now held a ball full of darkness in my paw.

'But I guess that I will need to buy an attack technique to further and better utilize my affinity and my mana in general, because the only thing that I can do is to let my mana levitate in my paw.' I further thought after looking at the swirling mass of darkness in my paws.