Ultimately, I decided on Superimposing Sia once again.
"Superimpose Sia" I said to myself in my mind palace.
The same thing happened again. The brush moved, a new empty card came out and Sia's original card disappeared. They merged and a new look Sia appeared on the card. I quickly left my mind palace and summoned Sia, eager to see the differences.
Name: Sia
Card Type: Beast,
Loyalty: 100
Bravery: 100
Strength: 25
Agility: 30
Primary Element: Wind
Secondary Element: None
Description:
Born out of love. A Man's best friend. Willing to die for her owner.
Status: Upgradable
Copies available: 96
Upgrade copies (Yes/No)
Wow, this was a qualitve leap of strength in my opinion. Her strength shot up to 25 and her agility to 30.
I also noticed her fur becoming longer and there was a tinge of red like blood at the ends of her fur.
I went to pet her and realized that her fur was softer than before. Her size also grew two times more. When I first summoned her. She looked just slightly bigger than the Sia I remembered in my other life. Now she looks like a proper monster, her canine teeth were out even with her mouth closed. I took a look at her claws and they were now two inches long and looked like the sharpest of daggers. I would not want to know the feeling of being attacked by those claws or canine teeth. She seemed even more intelligent than before too.
All these were good changes in my opinion, the stronger Sia and myself became, the higher the probability of survival in this new world. I still remember the brothers telling me that most of my peers who are at my age group are now Copper level Warriors. Remembering this, I forcibly lowered my happiness about the current development and encouraged myself to work even harder so as to catch up to my peers. What a night! I chose to lie down on Sia and it was like putting my head on the most comfortable pillow. Before I knew it I fell into deep sleep.
The next morning the brothers came to me to start our daily routine. When I saw them I happily greeted them in excitement. They looked at me and Big One said, " you broke through again. So fast! Congratulations."
I smiled in contentment. When they saw Sia who was now the size of a horse, Big Two made a slight whistle and said, " Wow, she has gotten even bigger. If I'm not mistaken she seems to be Copper level already."
I got visibly excited upon hearing this. Now I can at least figure out the numbers and how they are related in terms of strength.
Big Two then said. "With you now being a stage 3 Dust Warrior, we can finally head to Hibiscus town. Let's wait 3 days. My brother and myself, we still want to hunt a few more beasts so we can sell their parts when we get to Hibiscus town."
I agreed and we then went for our morning run. This time they picked up the pace even more and I find that I can keep up with them with my new strength. After the run we had a light lunch of fruits and fish before I went to practice on my archery.
Today I wanted to try shooting while I was riding on Sia. I told Sia to search for the rabbit like beasts. Riding on Sia was extremely comfortable. I felt as if I was floating. I imagined if I superimposed Sia once more, how much more comfortable will that be. But unfortunately I can't. Apparently there was a limit, only when I broke through will I get the opportunity once again to Superimpose her.
Soon I saw the rabbits, there were a lot of them. As soon as they saw Sia, they scattered, running away at extremely fast speeds. I wondered how fast the brothers must be to have easily hunted them while depending on their own speed.
I drew an arrow, nocked it and aimed at one of the rabbits while Sia was excitedly racing towards them.
As soon as I let go, I heard a 'whoosh' sound as the arrow flew to the rabbit I aimed. With a screech the rabbit fell. The arrow pierced it in the neck. I then took out another arrow, aimed and let go. This time I missed. All in all I managed to shoot down 6 rabbits. But I missed far more.I consoled myself as this is already a huge improvement on my part. I gathered the 6 rabbit carcasses and brought them to our camp site.
The brothers had managed to take down another white boar. Today's dinner is going to be sumptuous with both rabbit and boar on the menu. All three huskies were also fed some boar and rabbits and they were very happy.
After dinner, Big Two said to me," Do you remember I said that we are hiding and in the run from an enemy that is persuing us? The reason is because the Wang family owned a skill. This skill is said to allow warriors to temper their body all the way from the skin to the marrow. Mastering this skill would not only increase the person's strength tremendously, it will also make the skin, blood, bones and organs tougher and the person will even gain more vitality. It's a Heaven tier skill that everyone yearns to have. Alas this skill became a calamity for the Wang family. As the family grew, most in the Wang family became softer and not many practiced this skill as the requirements are very harsh. Over time the family grew weaker and many vulchers set their sights on gaining this skill. One day a massacre happened. Everyone except for the two of us were killed. We were lucky only because our father brought us out to train us. When we got back home and saw all our dead family members, our father told us to run away. He gave us a parchment which contained the skill and told us to only seek revenge should we ever reach the Earth Warrior level. For us the Earth warrior level is still a long way to go but nevertheless we will both work hard towards it so we can avenge our family. Our father alone confronted our enemies, he brought down a lot of them before getting killed in the process.
I listened to them pouring their hearts out to me. I did not know what to make of this. Are they telling me this so that I can assist them to avenge their family? Sure I have already considered them as my brothers but I'm still way too weak.
Upon seeing me in thought,Big Two said," we are not asking you to assist us in our revenge. Rather we sincerely treat you as our little brother. We have talked about it and we have decided to pass you this skill as well. In the event that we die out here in the forest or while we are getting our revenge, it will soothe our hearts knowing that firstly, the skill will not be lost and secondly, it will never be in the hands of our enemies should we fall to them. Rather it will be with you.'
I was momentarily speechless. They then passed me a parchment which looked extremely old. It was a leather parchment. From which animal or beast, I could not tell.
I gently opened the parchment and the first lines I saw were,"Heaven's Body skill. There are 6 stages. First is skin refinement, 3 stages. Once one mastered up to the great success stage, one's skin cannot be pierced by blades or arrows.
I was visibly excited. I forced myself to stop reading at this point and I looked at the two huge brothers who were smiling at me.
I said, " this is too precious. Your thoughts are enough for me. You both need to create your own families and pass this down."
Big Two stopped me there, "yes this is indeed precious, precious enough to get our whole family killed and us hunted to this day. Brother, you call us brothers, so please, let us not stand on ceremony. To us, you are part of us, out little brother. You trusted and gave us such a big gift that if others knew can cause you to be in similar problems as us. Take this and become stronger. When we get to Hibiscus town, we have a small house and a yard there that you can use for yourself. We only hope you get stronger brother. At the very least we are happy that you will be the one to inherit this skill rather than our enemies or for it to be lost forever.
After listening to them I made up mind and made a vow, "Brothers, although we may have different surnames, I, Xu Hao swear from this moment that you two are my brothers, your enemies are my enemies and I will work hard so that I will become stronger and fight together with you to avenge your family. We will go through happiness and disaster together. One day when you have your own families, I will personally return this skill back to the two of you. I won't say much now but know this, my word is my bond."