Chapter 92: Radiant Augmentation Index (2)


    His earth sense still worked well enough, and during the time he stayed here there were quite a number of times he detected creatures nearby him. Each time he felt a creature wasing too close, he would prepare his radiant energy to activate Radiant cowl.


    But the moment he did this, the creatures would backtrack and runoff. He guessed that radiant energy must be something that others could sense as well. Perhaps the creatures assumed that it was the energy reading of some higher-tier being and did not want trouble.


    Either way, it was what helped him avoid being eaten for so long.


    After two more hours of continuously circting radiant energy, Lucius felt that he had enough to work with. Now all that was left was for him to let a creature get close enough to hunt without him having to move too much.


    It took just over an hour before a creature small enough for him to handle came walking by.


    The creature followed the scent that clung to his body, and with himpletely halting cirction, it wasn''t rmed by the presence of radiant energy.


    Just as the creature was about to inspect his seemingly lifeless body, he activated Radiant cowl. Radiant energy was injected into his ''blood'' stream,pletely covering every part of his body in a protectiveyer and enhancing their operations.


    ''Kill it'' Luciusmanded, and with that, his tail quickly thrust out and impaled the creature in the head. Once the job was done, he recalled the radiant energy to save as much as he could.


    [Questplete.]


    [+300 exp]


    ~Aghh,~ he grunted inwardly, fighting the urge to jerk in reaction to the pain. Radiant cowl prevented the injuries from bing worse, but once it was gone, the pain seemed to be magnified.


    Now was the tricky part, eating.


    He had thought of a way for himself to eat without making his injuries worse, but couldn''t get around to testing out his n as he didn''t want to waste radiant energy before he had the chance to find a meal.


    During his time here, he had noticed that the vessels that carried the energy around his body seemed to be very simr to blood vessels. This made him wonder whether the outline of the paths they took drew a picture of how his internals worked. And that was when he got the idea, if he could circte energy in the areas he needed for eating, he could save as much radiant energy as possible.


    Of course, it took quite a bit of circting for him to find out what each segment of his body did, but using some medical knowledge from his old world he got a rough idea of his bodily systems.


    However, that''s not to say his system waspletely the same as a human''s, but they had their simrities. For one, he had a digestive system, which was probably the easiest to spot as it came from the area where he felt his ''burning'' hunger.


    He also had a sort of circtory system, with a heart-like organ that seemed to be right in the area his crux was. He could tell this because the beating of the organ seemed to affect the flow of radiant energy.


    Apart from that, he got a rough idea of where his nervous and sensory systems were as well.


    His idea was to only circte radiant energy to his digestive system, his jaws, and his tail so that he could eat. It was sort of awkward at first, as he had to find vessels within himself that looped back to the required areas and didn''t flow to others, but after several minutes of searching, he found adequate paths.


    He then activated Radiant Cowl, and a protectiveyer covering only the specified areas was brought up.


    ~Perfect,~ he thought to himself.


    He then quicklymanded his tail to feed him, and it used its petals to cut a chunk of meat off the creature and feed it into his mouth. He made sure to take slow careful chews, before swallowing the small chunk of meat.


    [Catalyst absorbed.]


    [Growth efficiency increased by 20%]


    [Photosynthesis efficiency increased by 20%]


    [Radiance Production increased by 20]


    [Stats increased by 0.95%]


    [Questplete.]


    [+200 exp]


    [Level 7!]


    [Questplete.]


    [+300 exp]


    If he had to be honest, he was taking a gamble eating this meat. From what he could see using the radiant light that his body was emitting, the thing he had killed seemed to be a six-legged creature very simr to an ant.


    Whether it was poisonous or not was yet to be determined, but if it was, he would be in trouble. So he took the first bites as a test, only taking a morsel small enough to not affect him too badly, but just enough so that if there was poison he would know.


    He then deactivated Radiant cowl, and waited. After seeing no ill effects after half an hour, he continued his meal, this time more freely.


    ~Ah yes, that feels better,~ he thought to himself, now somewhat satiated. Though not a single piece of the creature was left, he had even devoured its exoskeleton.


    ~Now that I''m not so hungry I can think more clearly,~ he thought to himself. All the while he kept his radiant energy circting, he could feel that the rate at which he was producing it was slowly increasing, which somewhat boosted his morale.


    ~Now time to figure out if there''s a ''healing'' equivalent in this index,~ he decided. His sr energy reserves were still far from being enough to perform even a sr pulse, so waiting for sr cleanse waspletely out of the question.


    However, if he could find a technique that would allow him to heal, he might have a chance.


    ~There''s always some logic to the way things work. With the sr index, it was visualization of the general idea of what you want your spell to be. Though it doesn''t work with the radiant index, there has to be some corrtion,~ he thought, before running over how Radiant cowl worked to see if he could reverse engineer it to get something.