The trip toward the Demonic Beasts' Forest would have been unremarkable were it not for Krann's booming footsteps that shook the earth and left deep prints within the ground. The noise reached such a threshold that Konrad could no longer endure it.
"Krann, use your Transformation Skill to adopt a human size."
"As you command, master."
Krann replied before executing Konrad's order. Just like Konrad, he was equipped with a Transformation Skill that could deceive even Saints and help him conceal his cultivation and true form if need be.
Using it, Krann went from nine to 1.7 meter, turning into a short and stocky monster that obediently walked behind Konrad. Though less imposing, the change in shape did nothing to diminish his powers.
As they reached the forest's edge, through mental orders, Konrad signaled for the nearly eight thousand demonic beasts to make their way toward him in orderly fas.h.i.+on.
Again, the earth s.h.i.+vered. The stampede of the beast legion creating a much more horrifying sound that the lone Krann ever could.
The beasts soon reached destination, stopping before Konrad in order of strength. The Monstrous Beasts stood at the helm while the Lesser Beasts formed a platoon at the back. Between the two were the Superior, Voracious, and Intermediate Beasts.
Although Konrad saw them as rabble, if unleashed in the outside world, those creatures could effortlessly flatten any low to mid-level n.o.ble house.
"System, exchange two-hundred million exp for two-hundred low-grade Transcendent level Blood Restoration Pills."
"Alright."
The system completed the exchange, causing the two-hundred Blood Restoration Pills to drop by Konrad's side.
"Krann, you keep a hold of those pills, every time I weaken, feed me one."
"Understood!"
Krann waved his clawed hands, firing a surge of telekinetic power that pulled the Transcendent Blood Restoration Pills toward him.
Konrad then stretched out his arms, letting the vast demonic energies concealed in his body erupt, and coalesce into one hundred purple orchids that hovered around him. Each of those orchids contained large quant.i.ties of demonic power, and their appearance caused the previously docile demonic beasts to subconsciously become restless!
Greed shone within their eyes as they stared at those orchids that had, to them, turned into the most sumptuous delicacies under the heavens.
Konrad gashed his wrists, using his telekinetic powers to split his dripping blood into hundreds of droplets which he infused the orchids with. From purple, they turned crimson, but the demonic energies within them only grew stronger, heightening the craving of those demonic beasts.
As Konrad's blood loss reached a life-threatening level, Krann fed him a Transcendent Blood Restoration pill, stopping the blood loss and regenerating what he'd lost.
Konrad then waved his hands, firing the one-hundred Blood Orchids first toward the eighty-seven Monstrous Beasts. They each swallowed one, and the thirteen that remained were consumed by Superior Beasts.
