And so, the girl and the monkey continued strolling through the rat demons' village. Then, after Tibbers clubbed two shield-bearing rat spearmen and several overconfident rat demons to death along the way, he noticed something strange floating out of one of the corpses.
Tibbers naturally had no idea what it was, so he had no choice but to ask his troublesome little master for help.
"What's this thing?"
|'-')
"Hmm..."
"It seems to be the essence of a rat demon, and there's some strange spirit essence in it... If you refine it using a specific method, it can have an unexpected effect?"
(`)
"For example..."
()°
"Like this?"
(/^▽^)/
As she spoke, Annie took advantage of Tibbers looking the other way and slapped the clump of essence onto him. It instantly sank into his body.
"!!"
∑(｀)?!
In the blink of an eye, Tibbers found that he had somehow changed from a "monkey" into a "rat archer." Even the battered willow-wood club in his hand had instantly turned into a repeating crossbow.
"See?"
Haha
"That's the wonder of magic!"
(-)
"Or should I say, the wonder of this world's spirit essence?"
(゜▽^*)
As she spoke, Annie reached out. A mass of energy, much like the clump of essence Tibbers had just shown her, was forcibly drawn from the surrounding area and gathered in her palm. She quickly sealed it inside a crystal, then stuffed it into a bottle.
"Look!"
(σ)σ
"This is the stuff!"
(`)
"You probably didn't know this, did you?"
After tossing the bottle to the "rat demon" Tibbers had transformed into, Annie began explaining what she had figured out about this world at a glance.
As it turned out, "spirit essence" was a crucial concept in this world. It profoundly shaped the world's development and affected every