Suddenly, Ruger's expression shifted.
The Spirit-Suckers followed the branching paths of the scarlet long fur. Every spiritual lead ultimately pointed to the same answer: these hairs were all a single strand. Previously, Ruger had only known that a larger concentration of them lay in one region inside the ugly little sea beast's body, and had assumed that was where the hairs converged. But the tracking carried out by so many Spirit-Suckers revealed that it was clearly not as simple as he had thought. There was a ball there. A single strand of fur had formed a ball, then split into many branches.
Ruger dearly wanted to quip, Even this fur has split ends.
He really wanted to throw a Spirit Fur Nourishment spell at it and see what happened.
And so a name was born in Ruger's mind, even though he had yet to truly bring the method into being: the Ball-Forming Symbiotic Fur Cultivation Method.
Ball-forming symbiotic fur was the name he had chosen for this strange scarlet fur.
In fact, he had another major advantage when it came to devising a cultivation method: this ugly fish.
The fur was on its body, but he was not studying it by plucking hairs from the fish. The fish had not grown this fur. It had been introduced later and established a symbiotic relationship with the creature, so the fish had become one of Ruger's research tools as well-and an excellent living tool at that.
After an unknown number of days, Ruger began trying to feed the ugly fish. By now, he could no longer be bothered to call it a little sea beast.
Even while feeding it, he continued to control the Spirit-Suckers and observe.
That was precisely why he was feeding it. Beside him, a crystal pen moved under