The group of hunters went back to their original meeting point. Caelus then delegated some tasks for the hunter leader to tell the other groups. He spoke, “My father and the rest of the village will be waiting for you at the village entrance tomorrow.”

The hunter leader pounded his chest with a smile, “Tell the village head not to worry. We still have the food and herbs for them.”

Nodding his head, Caelus headed back to the village with a blur, causing Delton to follow after him.

Jumping over the village wall, Caelus followed the perimeter until he came across a boy dragging a boulder, jogging the perimeter of the wall. Upon closer inspection, the boy was also carrying a large rock on his back. From a distance, the toddler Lucius was cheering the boy on.

Caelus walked up to the boy and asked, “How many laps has it been today?”

The boy looked to not have heard Caelus, as the boy jogged on slowly. Caelus shook his head, then got in the way of the boy, causing the boy to stop in his tracks and drop the large rock from his back. Wiping the pouring sweat from his face, the boy opened his eyes and said, “Teacher!”

"Now did I get your attention? How many laps has it been?”

Marcus quickly bowed to Caelus with his waist bent in a 45 degree angle, “15!”

"20 more should do then.”

"Yes, teacher!” Marcus tightened the rope, which was attached to the boulder, on his waist and picked up the large rock and placed it at his back again. Breathing heavily, he continued on his path. Caelus looked at Marcus, as the latter disappeared from the horizon, then smiled.

Disappearing again with a blur, this caused an exasperated Delton to sigh. Both showed up inside Fortissimus’ house, where the village head was looking upon the map in silence. Without looking up from the map, he asked, “How many?”

"18, with their leader being a blue one.”

"Are you sure you can handle it?”

"It’s been too long since I’ve broken my limits.”

"Just be safe, son,” Fortissimus said with a sigh.

"Don’t worry. This simple place won’t be able to kill me,” Caelus’ voice grew softer and softer as he vanished from the house.

Fortissimus shrugged his shoulders and let out a deep breath, “If only you were here. You would’ve been able to contain our genius son.”

Delton shifted to Caelus a mile outside the village who went up to a tree and dug a hole under it. He brought out two short spears with tips that looked to be serrated teeth. He also placed light armor messily made of skins from different animals on himself. After placing it on, a bloodthirsty aura began to emanate from the boy.

Suddenly, Lucius called out behind Delton, “It must be boring being in this dream. Do you want to improve your mind while you’re at it?”

Delton let out a hesitated laugh, “Your memories are plenty interesting. It’s just I’ve played some games when I was younger that took advantage of fantasy elements. I think it’s best if I take a spectator’s view.”

"Nonsense. My memories are not boring.” Lucius laughed and waved his hand, causing Delton’s soul body to go into Caelus’.

"What the fuck?” Delton saw exactly the same view that Caelus had, but he found that he could not turn his head. When Caelus stretched, Delton felt the same muscles in his body get stretched as well.

All of a sudden, Caelus jumped up to the branch of a tree. Feeling the pain in his leg, Delton screamed out, “Aaaaaaahhhh! What the hell? Caelus isn’t hurt, old man, so why am I?”

"It’s because your soul is too weak. Other than training in the dreams, you can also inhabit another body and by experiencing the same, you can improve your soul at a faster rate. You ought to count yourself lucky. If it wasn’t for me, you wouldn’t be able to do something like this for at least another month. Even then, it would have to be a weak person, such as my toddler self.”

"Fuck you, old man! My legs on fucking fire!”

"Disrespect my memories again, I’ll put you in a worse body,” Lucius smirked as he went back to watching the stories on his phone.

Jumping from branch to branch, Caelus soundlessly ran for a couple of minutes. However, from within, Delton screamed with each step as his soul legs constantly gets destroyed and reformed

Covering his face with a bone mask made from a human skull, Caelus came upon a clearing, where the draconians were still present. They look to be preoccupied at counting the food and materials.

Some of them were laughing, drinking some alcohol brought by the other tribe. Some were transporting the materials to an even larger cart. Others were training. Caelus observed the group as he travelled the perimeter around the clearing.

He then heard a sigh and a rasping voice, “Looking for me , boy?” Suddenly, the tree he was on started to collapse.

He jumped to another tree, only to have it start collapsing immediately. Jumping down and looking at the tree in front of him, he let out a punch. The tree and Delton’s arm exploded and his fist met a blue blur. The clash caused a large boom, garnering the attention of the draconians.

However, the draconians only saw a blue blur going up against a brown blur. Some of the more capable ones shouted, “It’s captain!”

“Captain’s fighting!”

“What kind of opponent did our captain meet?”

“Is it the birdmen?!”

Several loud sounds were heard as several more trees fell. Blue, green, and red blood splattered around the area as the brown blur was knocked down, creating a small crater.

"Make this horrible dream stop. Please, old man. I beg of you,” Delton implored as his soul was like that of a meat paste now.

As the dust began to settle, the draconians were able to see their captain, breathing heavily. The blue draconian’s body now carried shattered scales all over, with green and blue blood oozing from some of the wounds.

On the crater, Caelus’ chest was caved in, and his fists were incredibly bloodied. His skin armor has been ripped apart by the draconian’s claws, leaving deep and shallow wounds all over his body. Gritting his teeth, he reset his bones and gasping for air, he stood up. He stared at the blue draconian and screamed. The scream echoed around the clearing, as Caelus rushed towards the captain, arming himself with the two spears.

Again, the blue draconian turned into a blue blur as a blinding light trailed him. However, instead of the blue blur, Delton saw everything in Caelus’ view as if it was in slow motion and saw that the draconian released his sword. Immediately Caelus made a 90 degree turn causing a pop to sound and the ground to implode. Caelus took a sharp breath as he pounced on a spectating draconian, with a blue blur following closely behind.

Caelus plunged the two spears into the draconian’s body, lodging itself into the body. As a blinding light shined towards Caelus, he turned the draconian he had trapped, only for the draconian to be sliced into two, spilling blue blood everywhere. The surrounding draconians backed away from the scene and some screamed.

The blue blur stopped and revealed a blue draconian with bloodshot eyes, staring at Caelus, and roared out, forcing Caelus to let go of the spears and instinctively cover his ears.

The blue draconian then pierced Caelus through the chest with the blade. However, Caelus had turned his body slightly, such that the sword missed his heart and went through his ribs instead, much to the dismay of Delton.

Even though the draconian missed, Caelus started to cough up more and more blood, spitting it all over the blue draconian. The blue draconian’s arms started to relax. Then, Caelus spat some blood at the draconian’s eyes.

The draconian screamed as he let go of the sword to wipe his eyes, so Caelus began to remove the sword from his chest. Several veins protruded on Caelus’s arms and forehead, as he held his breath in during the removal. He then wielded the sword, as he began his counterattack.

Having wiped his eyes, the two blurs met again, causing sparks to fly as the draconian used his horns and claws to meet the sword.

The surrounding soldiers just stood and watched with their mouths agape, “Is this really a human child?”

"Didn’t this child’s tribe kill Captain Maethon back then?”

After several more clashes, Caelus clumsily performed an upwards slash with the sword, but the blue draconian opened his mouth and crunched down on the sword, causing it to shatter, since it was already cracking from the clashes. Having let go of the sword, Caelus grabbed at one of the horns, which were marred by the sword strikes, and broke it off.

Caelus stabbed on the right side of the blue draconian’s chest with the horn. With his eyes wide open, the blue draconian spoke with a weak voice, “How do you know where my heart is?”

"Your dead soldier showed me. Thank you.” Caelus softly spoke, as he pushed the blue draconian to the ground.

"For…what?” The blue draconian’s breathing became louder and louder and he started to choke on his own blood.

"Because of you, I have broken my limits once more,” Caelus stabbed at the blue draconian’s heart once again, then turned to the other draconians. Having seen their captain defeated, the draconians started to run away, but Caelus chased after them like a death god.

After some time has passed, the clearing was painted blue and green with the blood of the draconians. His skin armor completely ruined and the furs under it dyed blue. His body was filled with cuts and bruises. The sun was already setting at this point.

Breathing out, Caelus sat down on a stump and looked around the dismembered draconians bodies and the pools of blue blood, as the setting sun shined on them. He looked at some of his wounds, and seeing the most of them have started to scar, he looked at the large pile of food and started to devour it.

At this time, Lucius made a gesture and called the thoroughly marred soul body of Delton from Caelus’ body. With another gesture, a light came from his hand that poured all over Delton, reforming his body back to its original form.

"Have you learned your lesson yet, boy?”

“Yes. I’m sorry for my earlier outbursts,” Delton said somberly, as he shivered at Lucius’ slight smile. “Don’t worry. It’s not like you didn’t survive hell and come back without any gains. Feel the energy in your body.”

Delton furrowed his brows and looked at his body. He noticed that it was easily thrice as strong as it was before he inhabited Caelus. “Holy shit.”

"Just know, that this is only your soul body. You can only display its might once you get stronger. I’m not gonna actually let you die. Hahaha. Now did you think it was worth it?”

Thinking for a moment, Delton exploded with anger, “Are you shitting me, old man? I felt my whole body explode at least hundreds of times! Of course, I don’t think it was worth it!”

Lucius waved his hand in front of his face, “Bah! You’ll understand in the future, ungrateful kid.”

Delton, having vented his anger, looked at the lavishly devouring Caelus, as he continued to eat and eat and eat, downing the food with some of the alcohol. “How the hell is that kid even eating that much? That’s literally tons of food!”

"His body’s already much different from a Regular Mortal’s.”

By the time Caelus finished eating, half of the small mountain of food was already gone, but at the same time most of the wounds on his body had healed.

He looked at them and said with a large burp, “To surpass the body’s limits. To make it absorb all the energy from food, not leaving any wastes. I still can’t believe it. Shame that the rest of these resources will be wasted.” He cut off the head of one the blue draconian and carried it in a sack. After having done so, he burned all of the bodies and the remaining food, only keeping some of the precious materials.

He took out a small bottle and after uncapping it, a pungent and foul odor was released, even causing him to scrunch his face at the smell. He began to hack as he splashed the liquid inside the bottle around the clearing, muttering, “Is this really how birdmen smell like … I hope I never meet them in person … I may throw up again like with the slimes … ”

Next to the burnt pile, he placed a tree and scratched on it, creating symbols that don’t resemble the human language at all. He smelled himself, then smelled the air around him and nodded his head. He then spread around several feathers and items. With a quick survey of the surroundings, he ran back to his village.