Caring for the Wounded Body

At home, Drayan put the blue meat in a plastic container he had in his backpack. He took some bandages from his backpack and placed large bandages on his left and right cheeks. He also placed bandages on his abdomen, and on his arms. Even his shin was injured, so he wrapped bandages around his legs.

Drayan took a vial of rubbing alcohol and poured the clear liquid into the wound on his right hand. He used bandages to cover his hand.

Drayan didn't want to put alcohol on the other wounds on his body. He had already suffered enough, and he didn't want to suffer any more with the alcohol burning in his wounds.

In fact, Drayan's entire body was already on ardent like never before. He felt like he had wet his body with hot pepper.

Quickly, the white bandages turned red. Drayan had to place more layers of bandages over his body until the bleeding stopped.

Drayan wasn't able to stop the bleeding completely, but he managed to decrease the amount of blood lost from his body. Only parts of the bandages were stained red now.

He searched the wardrobe for new clothes to wear. Drayan found a green shirt and pants that fit him well. He summoned the mutated wolf and the Smiling Canine into a room with a sofa and rug. Drayan took the blue meat from the plastic container, and made the two animals smell the blue meat.

"Is it poisoned?"

"Woof! Woof!" — The mutant wolf barked sitting.

But Drayan doesn't understand what that means.

"And you, small Canine? Can you feel anything?"

Canine didn't respond, just continued sniffing at the food. After a few more seconds of sniffing, he opened his mouth and bit into the flesh.

"Hey! Drop it! Release now!"

Drayan pulled the piece of meat from Canine's mouth, but Canine pulled the piece back.

"If it's poisoned, you'll die! I can't let a piece of meat kill you after working so hard to have you!"

Drayan used more force to pull the meat from Canine's mouth. No longer resisting, Canine let go, and the piece of meat flew towards the ceiling. The meat fell to the ground with a hollow sound, like a falling stone.

Drayan picked up the meat and noticed that no scratch had been made on the meat, although the Canine had bitten into it with its high-level modified teeth.

Canine might be in his puppy form, with a weak body, but he was still a modified creature.

Drayan examined the flesh shaped like an 'icosahedroh'. Drayan used his finger to tap the flesh, and felt like he was hitting some kind of metal.

"This is too stiff..."

*Did the modified killer fish just not eat this because he couldn't chew it? Modified creatures cannot eat something very stiff.*

If his theory was right, the meat posed no danger. But there's a problem, the modified fish couldn't eat the meat but managed to get a piece of the sea creature? Something was wrong and Drayan didn't know what it was.

But if the modified fish and Canine can't chew it, that means only someone with a mutated body can eat that meat.

Drayan still had a high level evolved body. However, he had the wolf's mutated teeth. With the mutated wolf's bodily genes, he is able to grow his teeth, creating strong, pointed teeth.

With the mutated teeth, he could chew the flesh.

"Sorry Darkening, but I'll use you."

Drayan held Canine in his arms so Canine wouldn't get in the way.

Drayan brought Darkening into his body and used the body growth genes to grow his teeth, then he ripped off half of the flesh to feed Darkening.

He summoned Darkening again and gave the meat to the wolf. Drayan lost his wolf teeth when invoking the Darkening.

Drayan could not use his wolf ability genes when Darkening was summoned, as the wolf genes served to form Darkening's body. There actually was a way to invoke and use the genes at the same time, but it's not recommended to do so.

Darkening sniffed the food, bit into the meat and swallowed. Drayan was stroking Canine's head in his lap, waiting to see what kind of reaction the wolf would have.

Drayan was confident that nothing would happen with Darkening, but he still wanted to confirm that. After a few minutes, the mutated wolf didn't show any strange behavior.

*Really, the meat is not poisoned. The only problem is the toughness of the meat.*

Canine was still wanting to eat the food, he was lifting his little paws to try to take the meat from Drayan's hand.

Drayan brought Darkening and the Canine into his body, and activated the wolf's teeth. He ate the rest of the meat that was left, chewing and swallowing.

An energy invaded Drayan's body, but it wasn't big.

"Just that? I don't feel that much difference. But at least I must have gotten some cells from the sea creature."

*But if I can at least get the ability genes... I can strive to feed the sea cells and keep them alive for a while, although I don't know if I have the necessary nutrients to keep them alive right now. There are few cells of this creature in my body, so it becomes easier to keep them alive.*

*I still have to find a way to kill that creature that took my crystal.*

Drayan lay down on the wooden floor as he looked up at the hole-filled roof.

*Did the Carnivore plant cells manage to survive in my body?*

Drayan would only discover the answer tomorrow. It was night and he was very sleepy, but he couldn't sleep now.

Drayan began to work on his control over the Smiling Fang's not-too-strong microorganisms. He could only perfectly control the weak microorganisms.

If Drayan could control the strong formation cells within his body, and form the Smiling Fang's body within himself, he would only have to replicate that later, outside his body.

He had to imagine and feel the cells and the microorganisms within the cells moving in his body, circling, coming together, separating, forming geometric shapes. Drayan had to be an architect, a draftsman who knew the anatomy of the Canine's body well. He did this for two hours before bed.

The day dawned, and Drayan almost drowned with his blood that had made a pool of blood under his body.

*Shit! I'm going to die if I keep losing so much blood!*

If Drayan didn't have more blood than a normal person, he would have died a long time ago.

Evolved or higher level hunters have the incredible ability to regenerate blood.

The blood in his body can regenerate over time, so Drayan was managing to stay alive with blood regeneration, but Drayan was losing more blood than he was recovering.

In addition to the ability to recover blood, his cells are very small, smaller than normal people. So there's more room to carry more blood inside your body. Modified, mutant, and so on level cells are even smaller.

The higher the body level, the smaller the cells. The smaller the cells, the more blood the body can carry. Blood regeneration also becomes faster if you have a high level body.

Drayan took off his clothes, and looked for clothes in the wardrobe, he tore the clothes he found, and used them to wipe the blood from his body.

When he finished cleaning up the blood, he had to change his bandages. As he did yesterday, he used several layers of bandages over all the wounds on his body. Face, arms, abdomen, legs.

*I need to find more bandages.*

Drayan now had to regain his strength. He searched his backpack for the common class fishes he had caught in the sea, and ate the fishes.

He didn't cook the meat. Drayan was already used to eating the flesh of creatures without cooking, so eating these fish without cooking is normal for him.

Drayan was still extremely weak, and needed more food. He would have to hunt some Beetles from the city of 'Dallen' now.

*It's time to hunt.*