New Gods of North America

After absorbing the spiritual power,

The lump of "guilinggao" turned into a pool of watery, translucent jelly.

It seems that

The "lump" before was actually formed by countless "tentacles" of different sizes and lengths entangled with each other.

Then after the spiritual power was drained,

It just “fell apart”.

The faint black mist that originally lingered around it also disappeared.

Although Wayne was a little disgusted by the way it looked after being eaten, he didn't really care.

After all, he had even eaten moths before.

Eat these again.

It’s no big deal.

And this extraordinary material,

For Wayne, there was actually a little surprise - after eating it, his mouth felt a little numb.

Wuhu,

I finally got the taste of "numbing" and "spicy" together.

But although it tastes okay,

However, there was a small problem that Wayne still felt a little concerned about.

Still taking the black gas that first emerged from "Grey Wolf" Fred as the benchmark:

If Fred the Gray Wolf is a dog,

The half moth had five dogs.

And this lump of "Turtle Jelly" is probably made up of at least "ten dogs".

Logically speaking,

The effect of eating "Guilinggao" should be twice that of that half of the "moth".

But this time after Wayne "ate" it,

However, he did not feel that he had acquired any new skills, and the growth rate of the "blue bar" in his body was not that large, only about one tenth.

Wayne veiledly told his doubts to the old driver Inessa.

Inissa thought about it for a while and seemed to have figured out the problem, but she seemed even more confused.

She looked at Wayne from head to toe with a bit of surprise:

“There should be two things involved here.

"First of all, Wayne, what you just said about 'seemingly gaining new extraordinary abilities' and 'being able to feel the amount of remaining spiritual power in your body' usually happens when an extraordinary person officially enters the 2nd level.

"In the first few stages, stage 0 refers to the stage of being simply infected by evil spirits or coming into contact with spiritual power. People with weak constitutions will become weak, sick, or even crazy at this time. But they can only passively bear the impact of spiritual power.

"Level 1 is the initial stage of mastering spiritual energy. Some people may think they have received a gift from the gods, or that they have mastered superhuman powers. However, at this time, the changes in abilities or bodies are not yet controllable, and cannot even be used or triggered subjectively and stably.

"From the time you reach Stage 2, your abilities or body changes will begin to enter the stage of being 'controllable'. That is to say, only when you reach this stage can you be considered a 'Extraordinary Person' in the true sense.

"You can begin to use your spiritual intuition to gain a preliminary understanding of your own state and how to use your own abilities. Some Beyonders who have undergone 'body mutation' will also know at this time how to actively enter the Beyonder state.

"So, after you absorbed the spiritual power contained in the moth's corpse, you should have just fully entered the second stage and truly became an extraordinary person."

Wayne thought about it for a moment.

Got it.

After swallowing the moth, I can be considered to have successfully "laid the foundation".

That is, I have accumulated a full tube of experience points.

So I left the novice area and officially upgraded to the "entry" stage.

Then it is easy to understand why after eating the "Guilinggao", I did not gain any new skills and the blue bar was not increased enough:

——After upgrading, the difficulty of subsequent upgrades will often become greater and greater.

However, the "spiritual power" that he had absorbed at the moment was obviously not enough to allow him to upgrade again.

So I can only increase the blue bar.

Just a little bit of my appreciation.

After Inessa finished her explanation, she looked at Wayne, obviously a little sad:

"If you were not even at level 2 before, you were able to survive almost unscathed after a close fight with a werewolf.

"It seems that your abilities, Wayne, are really suitable for combat."

Wayne shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe it's because I'm lucky?"

Inesa did not comment on this. She seemed to think about it for a moment, then looked into Wayne's eyes:

“Actually, I want to ask you formally once.

"I wonder if you are interested in joining the Hunter Association and becoming a 'Hunter'?"

…

Seriously,

If Wayne had to choose one of the several organizations he had heard Inissa and Lina talk about,

Then the Hunter Association,

It is indeed an organization that Wayne has a relatively high favorability with at the moment.

Wayne went through the organizations he knew in order in his mind:

First of all,

They are the Holy See and the Holy Spirit Church, which also believe in the Holy Spirit.

The reason is simple, Wayne doesn't like feudal superstition.

I have to get up early every week to attend church services, and I always talk about the Bible.

Even when eating, we have to "thank the Holy Spirit for giving us food."

Please,

All that food has to be bought with money, okay?

I haven’t seen the Holy Spirit directly give me “living expenses”.

If we really want to talk about faith, Wayne might as well bring out "Internazionale" and let them feel the shock of the hammer and sickle.

And leaving aside the issue of concepts, Wayne is clearly not in the "holy" realm yet;

If he joins them, what if he gets tattooed like Inissa, and then can only work part-time to earn contributions? That's why Wayne won't choose these two.

The second excluded

It is the so-called "truth sect".

The reason is even simpler. Wayne has a unilateral feud with their god, the "Wise Sage".

Can't afford to offend,

At least you can hide.

As for the so-called "school of life\

,"Wayne didn't even consider it.

——I have never heard of any good unit that requires you to recruit a few people before you quit.

It's obviously a pit, maybe even a sinkhole.

Not considered.

And the last Hunter Association,

That sounds cool.

I remember that the previous test manual said:

"The Hunter Association is a mutual aid organization born out of a common goal of 'fighting out-of-control and evil Extraordinary Persons'."

It's quite to Wayne's taste.

But Wayne was still a little worried.

According to the results of that test at the time, it seemed possible that he was in the "natural" realm.

And the "order" field where the Hunter Association stands,

Natural hostility.

Don't be careless one day.

He was sent away directly by a hunter with a tube of reagent.

So Wayne implicitly mentioned this matter to Inissa, saying that he seemed unable to determine his own field in the test.

As a result, Inissa became even more confused:

“You have safely absorbed the ‘dark’ realm psychic energy from the moth’s body.

"And what Lina shared with you just now was the extraordinary material from the 'Abyss' realm that was extracted from Arthur Iverson's body. After you absorbed it, it seems that there is no problem.

"Isn't it that the only realm opposite to both 'Darkness' and 'Abyss' is the 'Life' realm? Why is it hostile to the Hunter Association?

"And you haven't even determined your own domain yet, how dare you absorb the spiritual energy from the extraordinary materials?"

ah?!

Wayne was stunned.

He had been locked up in the "darkness" in the cave for most of the day, and hadn't slept well for several days in a row, so he almost forgot about it.

So when he saw the black lump of "turtle jelly", he subconsciously thought that this was also something from the dark realm, so after he took it back to the room, he directly absorbed it.

What if he is really an extraordinary person in the field of "nature"?

Just this one time,

Wayne estimated that he had already played himself into trouble...

Then Wayne felt a little scared at first, but at the same time, he was more confused.

My spiritual intuition had been telling me:

——That thing is “edible”.