"Sigh, another failure." Felix smiled bitterly while walking back to his place.
He didn't know if he messed up something or the new method wasn't correct in the 1st place.
But he wasn't planning on giving up on it without attempting every possible solution. However, he needed to check with the Jörmungandr first if he was treading on the right path or not.
"Elder, what are your thoughts about my method?" Felix inquired politely, "Is this the way to increase the poison potency?"
"You are doing great." The Jörmungandr plemented but said nothing else after.
This was how he was teaching Felix about poison manipulation.
Jörmungandr let him explore it on his own and when he was utterly blocked, the Jörmungandr provides him with a small tip or advice to smoothen his path just slightly.
When Felix ends up finding a method, he always checks if it was correct or not lest he ends up giving up on the correct method and waste his time on the wrong ones.
Hence, Felix was more than glad to receive positive confirmation.
Now, he could continue exploring this method until he finally lands on the correct way to condense the mist and increase its potency!
He knew that this was a big leap in his poison manipulation since if he kept condensing the mist, he could turn it into liquid!!
But now, he didn't think about it and just focused on finding other ideas.
He spent more than 5 hours on this matter until his brain was squeezed from every last drop of juice it had.
Yet, all of his ideas turned to be a failure, leaving him scratching his hair in irritation and confusion.
"I tried to merge hundreds of tiny bombs until they reached a normal-sized bomb forcefully and their color was almost black. Yet, why did it also fail?" Exhausted, Felix laid on his back and started gazing at the white ceiling of the room.
He knew that he could tap out and ask the Jörmungandr for the answer. He would give it to him since Felix had given up.
But, Felix wasn't known for being a quitter and he still had a couple of hours to find a solution before the game.
Minutes went by then hours and Felix merely kept his eyes closed while thinking slowly and rationally about everything he did in the past hours.
Every small detail had been probed multiple times before Felix switched to another.
He kept doing so until he realized a mon theme that was connecting all of his merging attempts!
The Outside!
He was merging the poison bombs externally!!
"Holy shit, I am actually a retard!" Felix's eyes snapped wide open as he jumped back on his feet.
"I am still in the inner manipulation stage, so why the f*ck am I trying to increase the potency of the poison outside of my body?!"
Ashamed, he looked at his hands and used one to slap his cheek as hard as possible to awaken some mon sense into him.
'Idiot.'
'Hahaha. It only took you a couple of hours to figure it out.'
Upon hearing Jörmungandr's usual laugh, Felix didn't know if he was being sarcastic or truly praised.
Whatever it was, Felix didn't let it affect him as he was glad that he got an indirect confirmation by the Jörmungandr.
He got quite excited to try it out. Alas, it wasn't as easy as he assumed.
Usually, he needed to make an image of a tiny poison bomb in his mind and his energy would surge from his pores and shape it up on the outside.
However, now he needed to order the energy to shape up the tiny poison bomb inside his body and keep it there while he continues creating others to merge them!!
All of this needed to be done inside his body!
So it wasn't an easy process since the moment Felix lost concentration about those 1st created bombs, the energy would break apart and continue swimming in his body.
However, Felix had soon found out the trick to pull it off. That was by merging a bomb to another the moment he created them.
This would always leave one bomb which would make it easier not to lose focus on it.
Just like this, Felix kept merging one bomb after another until he felt that the bomb had reached the size of a regular one.
Immediately after stopping, Felix opened his eyes while extending his palm forward.
He had already given the order for the bomb to emerge from his palm and now he was gazing at the dark red mist that was ing out from his pores.
He couldn't help but smile widely after seeing that the mist had gathered together to shape up a dark red bomb.
It appeared exactly like the versions that he created hours ago but Felix could sense that the mist was emitting chilling air unlike earlier!
Felix grinned widely while walking towards the dummy AI. After reaching its side, Felix floated the bomb next to its face made it explode.
Poof!!
Both Asna and the Jörmungandr lifted their heads to gaze at the small black screen with Felix.
They didn't need to count as Felix was doing so in his mind.
'1...2...4...5!...6...Hahah!...9!...It's working!..15...'
Felix laughed in pure delight while continuing to count in his mind. He already reached 20 seconds yet the black screen still didn't display the poison details.
"Good job." Asna praised with a smile before cursing Felix, "You are still an idiot though."
'Little Asna, you are not doing much better with your 597 loses to 5 victories.' The Jörmungandr playfully addressed Asna in her mind.
'Old snake! If you dared tell him about it, I would not play another game with you!' Asna threatened with her cheeks flushed red.
No one knew if she was angry or embarrassed by having such an abysmal loss ratio.
Felix didn't hear any of their banter and if he did he most likely wouldn't bother mocking Asna for it.
Currently, he enjoyed the euphoric feeling of actually solving an issue on his own instead of relying on others for answers.
Nothing could beat that sense of satisfaction in one's own achievements.
Ti-ring!
>Lost consciousness for 30 seconds!Possible permanent brain damage5 seconds more of the effect and the brain would have been dead.
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