Epic of Caterpillar
chapter-1005

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[Day 361]

Today I had decided to mostly concentrate on cultivating and gathering energies, now that these new Realm Core Abilities were available for everyone, alongside the Temple which will boost my growth of Law Comprehension, it is necessary to meditate and calm down, while comprehending the Grand Dao that encompasses heaven and earth!

…Like hell I would do such a boring thing!

I already have over 50 different bodies controlled by my own soul doing all of that, so today was an experimenting day!

I rushed with my family inside of the Babel Tower and the first thing we began to do was slaughtering monsters!

Well, technically not monsters, Divine Beasts!

I wanted to see if by killing measly divine beasts, I could get dropped items from the new Ability I created for the Realm Core.

BOOM!!!

And a giant Lightning Draconic Lion fell right in front of me, with his tongue sticking out and his eyes as dead as they could be.

Fafnir was laughing while flying with little wings above it, it had killed it with a single punch of his enormous stone arms which he had created through his Dao of Geomancy.

However, Valentia emerged at his side killing four of the same monsters with a single breath attack where she gathered her Shadow Attribute Affinity into it! The Divine Beasts were being slaughtered quite easily…

"Uwah! Gaooo!"

Fafnir didn't know how to speak yet but he flew near his older sister and admired her strength.

"Hehe, that's how you do it, Fafnir! You got a nice grip in that fist but you gotta use your other powers, if you're a dragon, try out using your breath," said Valentia.

"Gao!"

Fafnir rushed into the group of Divine Beasts nearby and decided to utilize his breath attack for the first time, gathering energy within his throat and releasing the greatest attack he could muster through it.

FLAAAAASH!

A giant wave of Earth attribute energy flew towards his front, disintegrating a group of Demigod-realm Thunderbirds into oblivion…

BOOOM!!!

Valentia opened her eyes wide open as she glanced at her little brother with fascination.

"Nice one! Holy shit, that was awesome! You're such a cool little brother, you know? We might get along pretty well, you and me!" laughed Valentia, as Fafnir nodded cutely.

"Gao! Gaooo!"

As the two siblings fought against the divine beasts, Gaby and Lilith at my side commented over their newly found partnership.

"Gaby your daughter might influence my son badly!" said Lilith.

"Eeeh?! Valentia-chan is a pure-hearted girl! What are you talking about?" asked Gaby as her shark tail hit the ground with a lot of strength…

"No, no, you don't get it. I mean, he has to train his Earth Magic some more! If he just goes out with his other abilities he'll forget the rest!" said Lilith.

"Sheesh, why do you worry?" sighed Gaby.

"Well he got a Dao, so he has to use it to make it stronger," said Lilith.

"Valentia will get a Dao soon! You'll see!" said Gaby.

"Girls I believe this conversation is completely pointless. Can you two stop?" I sighed.

"Ah… I guess so," sighed Lilith.

"Well she started it… but you're right dear… Our kids will all get along, so you shouldn't worry! And if you want Fafnir to practice his Dao, you can also help him, right?" asked Gaby while rubbing her chin.

"Right… You're right. I guess I got angry because said a swear word," said Lilith.

"Oh… Yeah, we gotta tell her that, she shouldn't have to say that in front of the little Fafnir, it will be bad influence indeed…" said Gaby.

"I don't think it's that bad to say swear words…" I said.

"Eh?! You think that?" asked Lilith.

"Swear words are fine as long as you are in between adults I suppose," said Gaby.

"But still! I don't like saying swear words, you know? My father always taught me to be a decent girl, back on the farm, I was often seen as a pretty gentle and educated girl because I never said swear words… In fact, most of the kids back then did!" said Lilith.

"I didn't know that… I guess we are still knowing each other's past huh?" I sighed.

"Yeah! So swearing is bad, end of the discussion," said Lilith while crossing her arms.

"Ugh, fine, I will tell Valentia later to not swear. I feel like you're exaggerating though… Are you telling me you never swear against your enemies when you're blasting them off into pieces?" asked Gaby.

"Well, I do it often… I think the last time I did it was to lure Zeus into attacking me. The old bastard ended falling for it and with that, I managed to kill him- Agh, I said a swear word," I said.

"Yeah! That's what I thought… It's like ingrained in you lot… Well, I should stop talking about this because I am pretty stupid myself. So maybe judging others by saying swear words is not a good thing," thought Lilith.

I feel like this conversation surged out of absolutely nowhere.

I guess this is what having multiple wives is about. Well, it always has been.

"Yeah Lilith, calm down, there's nothing bad with swear words… For us adults, but let's teach Valentia to not say them in front of the kids. Nonetheless, Valentia is already an adult, she's just a wild girl," I said.

"Yeah, she's just wild, and that's how we love her," said Gaby.

"I believe Fafnir might end up being like her a bit, and a combination of Ryo," I said.

"Eh? Well… I guess it is fine, the two are nice kids so a combination of both should be even better," said Lilith.

"Now girls… Look at this," I said while grabbing a crystal from the ground.

"Hm? What's that thing?" asked Gaby.

"A Divine Material of sorts…" said Lilith.

These two girls are a bit… Erm, let's say they don't know about stuff.

"You two don't realize what it is? I am pretty sure both of you have Appraisal already," I said.

"Ooh!"

The two dummy girls quickly caught up to it and sued Appraisal, while I did so as well.

The Jewel in my hands is nothing else than a new type of item created through the Realm Core Ability…

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[Attribute Value Crystal (Demigod Rank)]

A special type of crystal containing the essence of a slain enemy can randomly increase the stats of the one that consumes it. As a lesser type of item from this subcategory, it increases stats by a low amount, and there's a certain limit of how much an individual jewel type can increase stats.

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Definition of this item: Broken.

"An item that gives stats?! Wait… That's crazy, the last time I remember anything giving permanent stat boosts were those mortal items that don't take any effect on us anymore," said Gaby.

"Yeah… So this crystal can actually help us increase our stats? It has been some time since I devoured many Divine Beasts because they don't give any power boost to our Divinities, not even the Great God Realm Divine Beasts give much of a boost, it is usually better to use them as materials for crafting," said Lilith.

"Yep! And this will resolve that problem. Although this little crystal will only increase one of your random stats up to 100 at most, dozens are being dropped as we slaughter more and more Divine Beasts. You can continue consuming them until reaching the cap of the certain jewel, and then move to another type one, such as the ones dropped from a different type of divine beast… If everyone constantly grinds these and consumes them, you'll be able to grow your stats exponentially!" I said.

"Damn, that's crazy though," said Lilith.

"I feel like this is illegal somehow," said Gaby.

"Well, I am the only one that can get a part of the stats and other things from the beings I devour, but all of you rest cannot get as much of a boost, and even this boost is limited as you're not the wielders of Gula," I sighed.

"This way we can increase our stats constantly, that's what you mean?" asked Lilith.

"Bingo! However…"

I absorbed the crystal, but there was no effect.

"When you grow too strong, they won't take any effect on you, there's a limit for you all. But for now, you girls should absorb as many as you can. There are new species of Divine Beasts being born every day, so there shouldn't be any limit to how many you can absorb as long as you move to the next new divine beast… And there are so many that I guess it might never end, which is honestly pretty nice," I said.

"I get it! I guess you can't absorb them?" asked Lilith.

"Not this one, I gotta go grind Great God Realm Divine Beasts and see if I can get some stats from their crystals, if not you can use them too," I said.

I quickly gathered my family and began to explain this to them, alongside that, I later explained it to all my subordinate Gods working inside my Divine Realm.

I also wanted them to use them, but I was also offering to buy them from them in exchange for Contribution Points or Divine Energy Crystals.

Of course, they can grow pretty strong out of it, so it is not wasted if they use it. All of them are pretty much way too loyal now, and even if they ever try to betray me, I will know and eat them anyway, so I don't care.

However, this brings forth a new era to this divine realm as a whole! A new era of grinding crystals to gain stats for all living deities and above. Now, everyone can have around half of my incredibly fast progression!

This way, not only I will grow exponentially stronger, but everyone!

And this Ability affects anyone that is enlightened by me or has my blessing, so it works on all.

Of course, mortal monsters don't give a crap, but divine beasts do!

However, I also discovered through this that Divine Beasts will not give out Law Crystals, nor Dao Crystals… But they do drop Divine Energy Crystals of lesser quality, which can be refined into a higher quality one inside a formation!

This is quite literally unlimited power for everyone!

Well, not really! Everything has a certain limit, sadly… But for now, it is a pretty fast progression.

All of my family were discussing how amazing these new crystals were, and continued to grind alongside me for hours and hours. We could actually continue doing this nonstop.

I also realized that this alleviated the necessity for Dual Cultivation to an extent, although Dual Cultivation is still a nice way to merge and refine energies and essences.

But perhaps not all the girls that are not my wives will desire me in bed so much now?

I mean, I still have Mao, the Slime Family, and the Dragon Maids on standby… I should really get to it.

I also want to bed Gaia and Hydros, which were promised to be bedded after Hodhyl, who was happily grinding crystals right now while flapping her wings around, in her giant wyvern form, of course.

I suppose I will arrange something tonight, I do have the desire to bed these girls, but maybe they don't really want to be my wives? They were more interested in bedding with me…

Hmm, but what f they end up pregnant?! Yeah, I better just accept them as wives… There are so many already… But thanks to my ability to divide and be with everyone at the same time while sharing the same soul with all bodies, it is never truly an issue to be with everyone.

I suppose I am quite insane in that regard…

We continued to grind crystals for hours and hours until we decided to take a break. I absorbed a pile of thousands of Great God Realm Crystals, and they increased my stats very little, by around 6700 each… so nothing big of a difference, at this point I will need trillions.

However, perhaps the crystals of strong beings such as Great Gods of high Ranks might offer a more delicious number of crystals, hopefully!

After everything was over, I decided to move into some important duties, such as meeting with Hydros, whom I have called just recently.

She had grown quite strong since the first time I made her reborn and is now quite the strong Goddess of Water.

She has been recently practicing special Water Cultivation Techniques using special formations made from divine materials to increase and hasten her cultivation. However, I suppose with Dual Cultivation those things won't be necessary anymore.

She answered me telling me that she was mostly ready, so I decided to use Instant Teleportation and get into her Divine Realm, which had been reformed when she was raised to a Goddess. Her new body had made her something of a Pseudo Goddess, so she had to raise up through the ranks of divinity again.

"S-So it is my turn already?" she asked rather shy… I didn't expect that of the one that was so eager at first.

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