Chapter 23: Exploring the Unknown
John's feeling right now is amazing.
It's been a month since she signed the contract with Lily, and Lily has been recuperating from her own burned soul tentacles for a whole month before repairing them.
After Lily's soul tentacles were repaired, although she was still terrified of the experience of burning her soul, Lily had to obey John's orders. However, after his soul tentacles came into contact with John, there was no imaginary burning - John did not let the soul fire burn in order to observe the soul tentacles this time, but suppressed his soul fire so that the soul tentacles could touch him.
Without the burn, Lily felt a little better, but she still didn't relax herself, it seemed that as soon as there was a change, she would take back her soul tentacles - really use her soul to touch John's soul, not to mention that her real name was in his hands, and she didn't dare to really use charm on him, even the soul like a flame was not something she could touch.
John didn't pay attention to Lily's thoughts - yes, after coming into contact with Lily's soul tentacles, John was able to see Lily's emotions, and even Lily's thoughts, John could see them clearly. Whether it was her fear or her hope, John could see it.
When she saw John wave her hand, Lily immediately withdrew her soul tentacles, as if she had touched the cat's paws of a burning charcoal fire. John didn't care about Lily's movements, and sat aside to savor how he felt. Lily, through a month of getting along, already knew John's habits, and seeing that John had sunk into deep thought, she knew that she couldn't bother now. In the past, when John was pondering, Lily knew that John would not be angry and ran over to tease, but I didn't expect John to have some experience at that time, when he raised his head, the soul fire luster flashing in his eyes almost didn't scare him to death, and from then on, as long as he saw John fall into deep thought, he hid far away.
After Lily left the cave that the two had found in the jungle, John threw a handful of dead leaves into the nearby fire, allowing the campfire to continue burning, which was already about to be extinguished. Although John didn't need this campfire to provide light and warmth for himself, but now that Lily had gone out hunting, she could use this fire to roast meat when she came back later—although in purgatory, the demons were still in a state of drinking blood, even if they were called beautiful succubi, they just took raw meat and gnawed it, and blood and meat residue were stained all over their faces, even if they had a face that was more beautiful than most of the stars in the Rough Stone World, John didn't think it would make the people of the Rough Stone World like it.
After getting used to eating cooked food, Lily, a demon, has also changed her eating habits, but she has just come into contact with cooked food, and she can't cook barbecue well, and it often happens that one side is burnt and the other side is still bloody. Because she didn't dare to bother John, if John didn't give her the meat she roasted, whether raw or burnt, she would stuff it into her mouth. Every time John roasted meat, he would grill a lot more, and in addition to eating it for himself and Lily, he also had to prepare jerky. Jerky and hides are the hard currency of Purgatory, and if not a particular infernal species, the jerky and fur of other infernal creatures are measured in terms of the most common hare. But limited to the process, the jerky and fur here are raw, just dry them directly in the sun, and the taste of the jerky is very unpleasant, not to mention, the fur is not durable.
Both of the most common needs were not qualified in John's eyes. But I don't know what to do with it, so I can only roast them over fire. Although there are methods and principles of nitrate in the knowledge of the original stone soul, there are no tools and no raw materials, so we can only use this simple way. Anyway, the demons won't be able to tell the difference.
Now Lily was wearing clothes made of John's roasted hides. The temperature difference between day and night in Purgatory is very large, and not all demons are as fearless of the cold as John's current Purgatory Dragoon, and demons like succubi, who rely on magic rather than a strong body, do not have enough heat preservation measures at night, and it is easy to get sick the next morning. Therefore, the reason why this campfire is not only lit during the barbecue is because Lily needs it.
"I can see you care about this succubus. Catherine looked at John with empty eyes. John threw another piece of wood into the fire: "I don't care, it's rare to come across a magic that I haven't seen before, and I'd love to figure it out." "Obviously, I can directly hand over this magic to you, and you still have to work so hard. Kamary said as she looked at John. John shook his head: "I saw a quote in the rough world: exploring the unknown is the greatest trait of humanity. Someone in the Rough Stone World divides a person's needs into five levels, the lowest of which are physiological needs and safety needs. You know, I can't really die right now, so those two things mean nothing to me. But the next three levels are social needs, respect needs, and self-actualization needs. Strangely, I didn't feel that way, in the past I didn't have to communicate with people, I just had to fight all the way through. Here, really, no. Therefore, I would like to be able to live in a different way. After all, I'm not a waste running for the survival of the world, just an ordinary person who can't die. ”
"That's why you're leaving this succubus behind to practice interacting with people?" Catherine seemed to find something interesting, and looked at John with curiosity in her eyes: "Ha, you're such an amazing person." ”
"It's not just that. John said: "In the past, I only needed to concentrate on the life of the world, and it was easy to gain power, but now, I want to explore the unknown through my own efforts." I've seen sages of this kind before, and I remember a magician named Logan in the big hat, who didn't give up even when he went crazy in order to explore magic. I've heard that exploring the unknown is fun, and I wanted to find something for myself to do. ”
"I don't know what to do, it's not easy. Learn from that primordial soul, find a bunch of people to play war, and see which of you can unify this continent. Oh, by the way, I don't know if Master An told you that purgatory is not just this one world, but is composed of thirty-three small worlds, each of which has a monarch, and you can find a small world that is pleasing to the eye and unify into your own country. Carmary made an idea on the side: "Anyway, when Master An thinks of it, he will connect Purgatory with the Source Continent, and then you monarchs will attack the Source Continent with the warriors under your command." It's fun to think about. At the mention of this, Catyline's eyes lit up, as if she had seen a very interesting scene, and she kept encouraging John.