Chapter 6 - Gathering Information (1/2)

I wish I could say that time flowed quickly, but it actually moved excruciatingly slow.

I'll gloss over the embarrassing moment of being fed for the first time as a baby, even though, let me tell you, it was quite the experience.

Not for the reasons you'd believe either, I mean, yeah, Cinyah is hot, but that's my Mom now.

No, It wasn't as simple as just drinking milk. It was more like a transfer of energy. Cinyahs body seemed to be radiating energy of some type that caused her to have a faint hazy violet aura of energy that not only covered her but me as well.

Instead of simply drinking milk, it's easier to say Cinyah was transferring part of her XP to me through her own body, this, of course, was only my conjecture, but as the feeding went on, I noticed the minute changes that she seemed to be going through.

It's a commonly excepted fact on Earth that matter and energy must come from somewhere, and while I may be in a new world, it appeared to be the same here.

If I had seen her System Panel, I'm sure It would have shown her Xp slowly dropping with each gulp of milk I drank. So from a logical standpoint, I could only conclude that she had already prepared for this scenario.

Once my little belly was filled to the brim, the embarrassment continued as Cinyah spent the next 15 minutes lightly patting my back, trying to force a burp from me. Which eventually came surging up, much to my surprise.

”Urp”

”AH! Little Cynrik's first burp EEEEK, How cute!”

I tried my absolute damnest not to show just how mortified I was at her words. But, never being great with having attention directed towards me or receiving praise, the babbling baby talk that Cinyah kept throwing my way made my face darker and darker.

Mind you to Mommy Dearest, all she saw was her adorable and fully content newborn son looking at her with an indecipherable expression.

And So time moved on slowly while I spent my days being utterly useless to the family, between using my Mana Breathing skill, completing my Occular exercise, eating, pooping, and lastly, sleeping. There wasn't exactly much for me to do.

While all par for the course, it was extremely aggravating how easily and quickly my new body was tired out. In my previous life, I was lucky to get 3 hours of sleep a night, but now my former habit had been completely obliterated, it wasn't surprising for me to be unconscious for 10-13 hours a day.

However, my regular activities weren't entirely wasteful; my parents were very lax with their tongues due to my being a baby. Thus I extracted quite a bit of information by listening to their casual conversations and observing things from my narrow perspective.

My father, Rikard, was hardly home. From what I gathered, his job is similar to what you'd expect from, say a hunter, or member of some guild. He would leave early in the morning and could be gone for days on end.

'Well, what can I say? From my perspective, The world of Vinestra falls under the category of ”fantasy world” thanks to my filters in the Hall of Gods, I know there are monsters and dungeons. However, logically based on all the novels and such I've read, there's always Hunters or Adventurers.'

Every time he came home, it wasn't hard to tell how many new injuries he had received from the raid he was on. While he had bathed and changed his clothes before coming home, it wasn't enough to hide the fresh wounds and bruises he had collected as spoils of battle.

It wasn't just Rikard who had this job, from what I had gathered, before getting pregnant with me, Cinyah was also in the same profession, but apparently, she had retired after receiving news that she was with child.

From their conversations, I Detective Ty...I mean, Detective Cynrik learned several key phrases and names.

For starters, while the area we live in is relatively safe. For the last several hundred years, portals have been opening all over the planet. These portals, or as I would like to refer to them as ”Spatial Tears,” were officially dubbed ”Spatial Egresses” or simply Egresses.

They would randomly appear all over the place without any logical directionality, and each Egress would have its particular classification.

If they just opened and had no effect on the surrounding area, I suppose it wouldn't be much of an issue. Still, these Spatial Egresses would do one of several things based on their classification, represented by both the size of the portal and the glow emitted by it.

Depending on what category it fell under, it could represent many different things. For example, it could simply dump a cluster of powerful creatures on the spot it opened, which in itself was extremely dangerous but in a way more manageable than the other types.