"Where the fuck is Boiboi?" Fanfan shouted in anger upon seeing the rest of his team mbers arrive after their diarrhoea session. Even as he waited for a while, Boiboi hadn’t shown up. He turned to glare at his team and barked an order, "Bring him here, NOW!"
The team quickly rushed into the Trailing Waves Battleship and eventually managed to reach Boiboi’s quarters. The cabin was empty. Frowning, the mbers searched around and soon heard grunting sounds coming from the bathroom.
"Boiboi! Are you there?" One of them banged on the door, "Answer if it’s you behind the door."
"It...it’s ." Ca a feeble response. And a few minutes of annoying wait later, the door opened as a sunken-eyed Torq walked out, shedding tears, "I’m...sorry."
"What?" A glance at him and they felt the change in his being. The team mber standing closest to Torq gasped in shock, "You...what happened to you?"
At present, Torq no longer emitted the presence of soone at the Body Stage. Instead, he seed to have regressed to the Spirit Stage. "How did this happen?"
"I’m not sure," Torq shook his head with a crying expression, "I had diarrhoea just like the rest of you, but only more violent. And then...and then..."
He collapsed on the floor and bawled his eyes out, "My Spirit Container shattered!"
Torq hoisted up so sludge and uttered, "The body I built using Gentle Coral leaked out."
"I...what should I do?" He asked, grabbing the closest team mber’s leg and pleaded, "Please help ! I’ll promise to repay this favour once I regain my strength..."
Thud!
The team mber pushed Torq away, with force, shouting as the latter slamd into the door to make a dull thud, "Don’t cling to , dammit!"
"I don’t want you to steal my accomplishnts too!" He cursed in anger. Since Boiboi was known as soone who even stole the talents of Runthral, their Deity, the Cooter Clansman felt Boiboi could do the sa to him too.
They all never liked him in the first place anyway. And even when Boiboi tried to interact with them, they only responded curtly, making the minimal-most conversation possible, only related to the task at hand.
"We’ll find another Clansman to maintain our boat." Snorting in disdain, the team mbers rushed out.
"Please!" Torq shouted, crying aloud in grief, "Don’t abandon ! I need this accomplishnt to better my life...!"
"Don’t leave behind!"
"It’s...it’s not my fault this happened!"
"I promise to do better...do..." He kept crying until he couldn’t hear the sounds of their footsteps anymore. And then, he stopped, "...better..."
"That’s better." He promptly got up and walked to the Maintenance Crew cabin and locked the door. He took out his storage, set it on the floor before him and took a seat. ’Now, I’ve managed to buy so ti.’
"There are a few ways I can go about increasing my strength." His Prana capacity was currently at 90 units. He had purposefully hard himself and forced stress to accumulate on his Spirit Container, ending up cracking it.
That caused the portion of his body–built using Gentle Coral–worth 10 units to leak out through the pores on his skin. He accumulated it as the sludge, which he showed to the other mbers.
He was still at the Body Stage, having only lost 10 units of his Praa capacity. As for his presence showing his status at the Spirit Stage? The Narlakk Pet had unleashed it, after a bit of effort from his side.
He had cried mournfully enough to seem as if the entirety of his Gentle Coral Spirit Pool had leaked out. And the ssy way in which he showed a scoop of it on his palms only served to reinforce that notion.
However, it was all a trick done to paint such a hopeless picture. And once they concluded Boiboi was useless, they simply decided to find soone else to assist them.
They could use an Elixir to elevate Boiboi to the peak of the Spirit Stage imdiately. As long as he could endure the pressure from 100 units of Prana on his Spirit Container and ensure it doesn’t end up cracking, they could build a new Spirit Pool for his consumption.
Once Boiboi builds a new Spirit Pool, he will regain his strength. But the question was, why the heck should they do it? Not only were they unsure if Boiboi could prevent his Spirit Container from shattering once again, they also didn’t have the ti to wait until he built his body.
It would take days for him to finish building his body. The first ti, Torq took 5 days.
Had he been extrely close to the team mbers, they would have still prepared so ans to regain his strength while they focused on the mission at hand. But since they didn’t have such a relationship, they simply abandoned him.
Staring at the storage lantern before him, Torq thought of his options, ’I can increase my Prana capacity by 40 units once I consu all the Parute Fruits. That’s like adding a bit more moisture to a droplet of power, completely useless.’
"Gentle Coral is too weak." He frowned, "I would have continued using it for the mont if I at least had a larger reserve of Prana."
"And unlike the furball’s plan, getting a Lightning Plasma Spirit Pool is a fool’s dream at the mont." He muttered, ’Runthral Pet will still need to grow more before I can begin my plans in that regard.’
"Trying to obtain a new Spirit Pool is...possible." He had the Eureur Pet, so once the new day begins, he could obtain the Rippling Tsloch Spirit Pool through her, ’That is a decent option.’
"But it’s a heavily skill-heavy Spirit Pool. Even Clansn who had been using it for more than a century still have shit skills." He then recalled from mory, ’It would take decades to reach Captain Trotro’s level of skill, where having that Spirit Pool would truly make it a worthwhile investnt.’
"I need sothing that can satisfy my needs for the mont." Thinking as such, his eyes fell upon the storage lantern, "It would be a waste of resources if this doesn’t work as I expect."
"But I think there’s a chance of success here." With a mild grin, he patted the storage lantern, "I’ll use this to upgrade my existing Spirit Pool."
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