Fleabag by SomeoneToForget

Author:SomeoneToForget
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Podium Publishing
Published: 2023-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20

Constantly creating skin sacs full of modified blood to feed the human, eating them, and then repeating the process a couple hours later for what must have been a day or two was fairly boring.

But at least that rest had let it realize some of the mistakes it had made early on before they became a problem.

To start with, the wolf finally realized why its rib had snapped from a mere six-foot drop back in the pit, something that shouldn’t have happened from its meager weight and Endurance points, even if the human had added some of her weight onto it.

It had made its bones too hard. Bones didn’t snap and crack at every impact because they could bend, and the wolf had somehow just … not considered that. In its attempt to make its bones as hard as possible, it had also made them brittle. Thankfully, taking the connective tissue that made up its bones and making it a little bendier would be easier than it had expected. The idea, surprisingly, came from its eyes.

The insides of its eyes had smooth muscles, which were muscles that were small enough to be on the cellular level, and were numbered in the “billions,” a number it couldn’t quite conceive of but vaguely understood. These muscles were called ciliary muscles and helped with altering the shape of the lens.

And technically … it could also make tendons small enough to be on the cellular level, with them being some of the stretchiest while also relatively tough tissue that bodies had.

It just had to grab a bone and weave microscopic strings of tendon tissue throughout the white strands, partially fusing them together.

And that thought brought it into a rather sudden contemplation.

The new way of using its skill that it had discovered after the fight.

It could directly grasp onto its current body and start making changes, which were affected by time in a normal fashion, like when it stuck its bones together and healed them in a matter of minutes while asleep by using its mind like a physical force, a direct and immediate approach that was severely limited due to the gradual nature of most changes, while this method of use was almost entirely manual.

If it wished to give itself an eye using this method, for example, it would have to sleep for the entire time the alteration took place, or the change would simply stop the moment the wolf stopped paying attention to it. It was only really good for moving in its sleep and for emergency fixes, which it’d never had to do until just now, and probably why it hadn’t even unlocked this way of using the skill until then.

The usual way the skill worked was by grasping onto a more conceptual body, with far more time to consider and tweak changes that would only start applying themselves as soon as it decided it was done altering itself.

So, manual, real-time change, or conceptual dreamscape change that would only truly begin once it decided that it was fine with said changes and had let the [Devourer] skill fade away.

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