B.F.HUUPS

Chapter 56

Aaron could barely keep his laughter down on the next attempt. He had survived a direct attack from a peak E-grade beast, and he had energy to spare.

Consuming the last of his adipose reserves, he shot into the air, chasing after the retreating bird with [ Gust Step ].

He was still healing from the wounds as he flew after it, but he cared little for details like that. His Vitality Heart was pumping hard, and with each chest-thudding pump, his wounds healed further...

Chapter 55

Aaron would have to be a little smarter against this foe. It wasn’t just an attack that could hit him, but one that exploded like a shotgun that he couldn’t predict.

Unfortunately for the crow, that was precisely the kind of challenge he welcomed.

Attempt number two went about as well as one would expect. However, he had gauged the range of the explosive shockwaves. Even if he couldn’t predict the shockwaves himself, if he knew how large they were, he could effectively dodge...

Chapter 54

Sitting in the training room, Aaron felt for the energy he had sensed when peering into the troll. As he inched closer to the sensation, he felt his heart thump with power and reached out.

His heart was something else. More than what it had been before the Integration. Like a power station for his body, it created Vitality and rejuvenated him when wounded. But there was more to it, and he delved deeper in search of concrete answers.

Health was fundamentally different from Mana and...

Chapter 53

Club strikes and monstrous claws flew through the air, but they always fell short of Aaron, who danced around the towering troll with the elegance of a superpowered Muhammad Ali, slipping attacks like it was his day job.

However, his body was mostly on autopilot. His thoughts were elsewhere, focused on the mana he was pushing into his attacks.

Even if the troll stood there and took his attacks without firing back, killing it would be no easy task. Sure, his haymakers caused damage...

Chapter 52

Aaron stopped himself short of starting the trial. Mo’han’s distraction meant that he still hadn’t hit level 20 in his Profession, and he wanted to quickly cross that off his to-do list before heading back into the trials.

Hanging out with Mo’han had been fun, and some much-needed rest and replenishment, but it was time to get back to work. And that meant delving back into his contemplations around cooking, which the asura had dragged him away from.

As he burned through th...

Chapter 51

“You haven’t even been in here yet?” Aaron questioned as the hulking asura craned past him to nervously take in the spectacle that was his cooking.

“Quite the concoctions you’re making over there,” Mo’han grimaced. He was a polite alien, but even he couldn’t guard against the offensive scents assaulting his senses, and soon, his purple skin was blanching as he struggled to hold his stomach down.

“You okay, big fella?” Aaron raised a concerned brow.

“I�...

Chapter 50

Returning to the hallway, Aaron glanced around in search of Mo’han for a moment before turning to his status screen and placing his remaining free points into Perception. 

Perception mightn’t have seemed necessary to an extent, thanks to the mana sphere, but Aaron was quickly understanding how important the Stat was.

Perception seemed to govern how one saw everything. He had long been wanting to improve it, as it aided his ability to follow many threads of fate at the sam...

Chapter 49

From all around, the toxic fumes rushed toward him, and a smile formed on Aaron’s face. He still had work to do with his senses, but he had learned all he was going to from this mana. Further improvement would require exposure to various Skills and mana types. So, for now, he was happy to make this trial a little more exciting.

Oozagh’s powerful breath wasn’t going to save him from this, he quickly realized. Whatever was pushing this attack toward him was well and truly compensati...

Chapter 48

Chain Quest: The Trial of Dominance

Stage four of [ Trial of Dominance ] COMPLETED!

You have tested yourself, subjugated a town of lizardmen and their leaders, and survived. 

Quest Rewards: Sphere of Binding [ Rare ], System Store upgraded to level 4!. 

Experience rewarded for completing a quest stage!

“Seriously, no level up? Damn, that’s just downright unfair,” ...

Chapter 47

Tutorial days elapsed: 56.25 (225 Days in Trial time)

What a little cheat, Aaron thought as he revived in the hallway. The dirty move only made him that much more determined to see his fist through the face of the backstabber.

Charging straight back into the trial, Aaron used the lessons he had learned to speedrun the first parts of the trial.

He didn’t waste time dueling with the spearmen, quickly landing shots to their weak spots and beating the...

Chapter 46

“Well, that was to be expected,” Aaron grunted as the familiar question marks filled his inspection notification. He really needed to find out if there was a way of fixing that, if possible. But at this point in time, he had bigger problems to worry about.

The fat-lipped toad turned to face him, dressed in shamanic rags and mana swirling around its suction-grip fingers as it prepared a spell. He hadn’t really had much of a chance to gauge the toad’s combat abilities last time, n...

Chapter 45

Aaron threw ingredients together like a possessed child let loose in the kitchen, grabbing items solely based on what boons they offered, caring little for what the recipes might taste like. 

It was lucky for him that he had the gut of an ogre, because the path Oozagh had set him on had nothing to do with flavor. This was purely about buffs and boons. About foul concoctions designed with a singular thought in mind: how many buffs can be squeezed into a single meal?

Swirling t...

Chapter 44

Moderate Blessing of Oozagh the Rotund.

Provides: Trait unchanged from Minor Blessing.

+5% All Stats

Skill [ Epic - Legacy ] Adipose Fusion.

The ogre chef Oozagh requires vast amounts of energy to fuel their cooking and transmutation of ingredients, and to do this, he harnesses his greatest asset—adipose tissue. The ogre god takes the storing of energy within his adipose tissue to an entirely...