I Devour the Multiverses and Collect Worlds, Beauties, and Trophies

Where Are We and the First Body Forging

The kid didn't say anything, just looked at me. Eventually, I decided to ignore it and move on to what I need to do for now.

'Kitty, can I use any of my rewards in this world?'

[Yes, the first chapter of all of them can be used.]

I thought about what to do next. I have body forging, swordsmanship, cultivation, and a choice of something else.

'What would be the best thing I could use the choice reward on?'

[I can't tell you what's the best; it's up to you. But I would recommend something that will help you get more powerful in this world.]

'Show me what I can choose from.'

The system display showed a long list, a very long list. Everything from cooking to music to crafting weapons to combat techniques were in the list.

'Filter out all the music, cooking, and crafting stuff.'

The list reduced, but still had lots of things I didn't need in it. After filtering out many other miscellaneous things, I was left with combat techniques, magic spells, arrays, runes, and a few other useful things.

I decided to go with Kitty's hint and filtered out everything that wasn't from this world's power system and saw everything took mana to activate.

'Kitty, I don't have mana, so how can I use this stuff? Can my energy act as a replacement?'

[You must create a mana core and use a technique to absorb mana and create mana rings. No, your pure energy shouldn't be a replacement; it would be like using a lightsaber to boil water rather than a stove.]

I imagined the picture; the water would instantly vaporize and might even split into its base atoms.

Okay, so I need mana. I'll look to see if there's a technique like I got for cultivation for mana.

After half an hour of scrolling, I found it. From the description, it was made by someone who had their mana core destroyed and embarked on a journey to rebuild it, something considered impossible, but he succeeded and even became the strongest in the world. I bought it and started reading.

Over the next three days, I just sat there reading. I don't know how many times I read it. At first, it was a bunch of gibberish nonsense, but eventually, I began to grasp the meaning of the words and connect the pieces together.

Once a day, someone would come and throw a chunk of bread into the room, but no one ever entered. The kid still darted out and grabbed it, but eventually, it moved slower, trusting that I wasn't there to harm it or steal the food. It spent its time observing me while I stared at the system panel, trying to comprehend the book.

On the third day, the kid crept up to me and set down a piece that had been broken off the chunk of bread thrown into the room that day before moving away again and waiting behind the crates. I couldn't help but smile; I knew the kid must be hungry as there wasn't even enough food for itself, let alone to give me some. Yet it still gave me some, thinking I must be hungry after these days even though it might starve itself. How kind of it.

I used my devour skill on the bread, then produced an apple and a small knife, slicing off a piece of the apple. I devoured the rest of the apple and knife, then stood up and walked over to where the kid was hiding. Looking around the crates at it, I could almost feel its fear. I squatted down and held out the slice of apple towards it, then set it on the floor so it wouldn't have to come closer to get it before returning to my original spot.

I could have given the whole apple, but I remember hearing that something about if someone hasn't eaten enough then eats a bunch, it can have consequences. So, I decided to slowly give it more each day.