Discoveries in a Corrupt Core (1)

The Cursed Beasts System being something called: Corruption of Understanding, it is normal that a Core named: Corrupted Core of Understanding, is so sought after.

That's right, it is possible to find information about the Cursed Beasts System inside them.

However, for now, this is not important.

Klaus doesn't have much information about it, and besides that, there is a big difference between what he remembers from the novel and what this world is now. All he knows is that getting one of these Cores is an incredible touch of luck, even more so because, in this case, he was able to find two.

After investigating them a bit, he realized that they were indeed Comprehension Corrupted Cores. So, he decided to study them in depth.

As far as he knew, to do so, he simply had to study them as if he wanted to understand them in depth, using their energy—basically, he had to stare at them.

That's why he began to do it slowly. It was a long process, which would also buy him time to recover from his wounds.

'They're not from a very powerful beast. I feel like they don't have much understanding or energy, so they should be from a beast that was born with Core... From what I understand, these are the most likely to have abilities. I wonder if I'll be so lucky this time.'

Delving into understanding a Corruption Core is not an easy thing to do. In fact, it's ideal not to do it if you haven't reached an acceptable level of understanding of the energy. This is because if you do it without having the right level, you risk being corrupted by the cursed energy of the beasts, and you will have an uncertain future ahead of you, possibly dying.

This is something Klaus still doesn't understand, but he knows it.

If the cursed energy is the same in both Sorcerers and Cursed Beasts, why could it corrupt him? It may not make sense, but he thinks it has something to do with the Cursed Beasts System itself. Its name of: Corruption of Understanding, must have an important motive. That reason can't be simple, but he lacks knowledge about it for now.

While he knew that energy could corrupt him, he didn't care. As a scientist, he often took risks, and more so, as someone who came up from the bottom. He wouldn't still be him if he didn't take a risk like this.

After about 10 minutes of seeking to understand the energy in the core, he gained some understanding of the way it moved. It was constantly moving back and forth inside, but it was not random; it followed a pattern.

'The movement pattern appears to be a circle...' He frowned.

The movement was very slow, so he couldn't see its entire path. At this point, he wished he had a way to emulate this sort of thing or to speed up this process, for he had a feeling that this movement, which appeared to be a normal circle if emulated more than ten thousand times, he would find that the normal circle would gradually change its shape and move as if it wanted to form a star.

That was an atypical motion, considering that the energy is inside a somewhat triangular object and the central motion is circling.

Still, in Klaus' mind, it seemed to have some logic to it when he thought about it for a moment.

'The human body...' He thought, his eyes sparkling as he realized something.

'The simulation I imagine would have that strangely circular motion inside a triangle, forming neither a circle nor a triangle. Instead, it would form a star shape. And it turns out that the human body itself is like a star.'

'If you can stretch your legs and arms up and down, counting your head, it forms the 5 Points of a Star. Therefore, at that point, this atypical movement would no longer be atypical and would make sense.'

Although it was an interesting theory, the movements were circular at the beginning, and only after thousands or tens of thousands of times would they take on that star shape, simulating a perfectly stretched body shape.

And that main fact that governed the movement of energy must have been something important. While investigating the patterns that adorned the Core, he realized that they did not tell him anything, because he tried to understand the energy even more deeply, but he could not do it through them. Perhaps they meant something else, which he still did not understand.

3 hours later, he sighed and looked at the cave's ceiling.

Several hours had passed, and that circular motion had barely taken 110 turns, which is not even 1 turn per minute. That is too pitiful, considering that the minimum he needs to confirm his little theory is 10 thousand; possibly, that number amounts to more than 50 thousand repetitions.

'The circular movements, I understand, are to form the basis of the movement so that all subsequent movements will be more perfect and stronger.' He thought.

Suddenly his eyes flashed. 'Base of the movement...'

Although he was looking at the ceiling of a rocky cave, where there was evidently nothing but dark, moldy rocks, which only glowed because of the strange particles attached to them, he somehow could see as if there was a body in front of him.

In that body, he tried to do the same simulation he had wanted to do, moving the energy one hundred, one thousand times, until suddenly he stopped, sat up straight, and stared at the Core.

"I see..." Realizing something, he quickly grabbed the Core and stared at it again.

Unlike items that the System could study and understand, Cores were not like that. The System would never activate with an object like this, as it was a special type.

In addition, you cannot ask questions or anything like that to this System because it only serves a few purposes, such as Showing basic information about the person and their skills and describing a non-protected or special item.

Thanks to that, Klaus could see the core without obstructions.

Studying an item like this was a bit difficult, but after looking at it for dozens of minutes, he smiled a little.

Suddenly, the cursed energy inside the Core swirled and seeped out of every corner of it, out and into Klaus' body in a moment. His eyes glowed with intensity and power then.

'I understand. So, the understanding that a Cursed Core can give me comes from clues and their connection. This one, in particular, had an understanding of the movement of the cursed energy within the body. That was just what I was missing; I didn't understand the cursed energy properly, so I couldn't absorb it. That means that the Adaptation process of cursed energy differs from that of positive energy, right?'

Klaus frowned. 'No... The process must be the same.' His eyes soon sparkled as a light went on in his head. 'I see, it's because I'm a Reared in the Mist. I don't need to go through an adaptation process...' He closed his eyes and looked inside himself as he thought about this.

His Cursed Core had been dormant all this time, but now it shouldn't be the same. He wanted to confirm this. If he could use cursed energy before going out to complete his mission, then he would have a better chance of winning.