Chapter 388: 388

Secretly, Michelle snuck out of the Academy and went into the forest to hunt down a beast.

She wanted something small so the little snake could swallow it at once since that was how snakes ate.

And it didn’t take her long to spot a good target.

Just about an hour after leaving the Academy, Michelle was holding a living mountain rabbit by its ears.

It was aggressively kicking everywhere, trying to get Michelle to let it go, but her grip was unyielding.

The poor little creature would be the lunch of her little snake.

The little snake perked up to look at the rabbit, not knowing how to start eating it since it was kicking around everywhere.

“You have to kill, or at least immobilize it first,” Michelle explained.

“There are many ways,” she continued.

“You can strangle it with your body, or, if you have venom glands, send your venom into its bloodstream.”

The little snake clearly yet didn’t know how to do any of that.

It was just a baby.

So, Michelle did it for it.

She grabbed the rabbit by its head and moved her other hand under its neck.

Then, she twisted her hands in opposite directions.

“Now, you can eat it. Or is it still too big for you?” she glanced at the little creature that had moved over to her shoulder to see better.

When the little snake nodded, she looked at the rabbit.

“So, I should portion it for you?” she asked.

Getting a reply, she sat down on the ground and formed a knife from ice on her hand.

She actually quite missed when she could use her spirit energy as freely as at the moment.

It had been a long time since she discovered that she had to keep her spirit energy hidden because Spirit Soul Blood could be felt from it.

Luckily, after cultivating in the Academy, the spirit energy altered by the Heart Twins made it so she no longer needed to hide her spirit energy.

“Which part do you want to eat?” Michelle looked over at the snake.

It crawled off her shoulder and came over to the dead, still warm, rabbit.

After staring at it for a moment, it motioned with the end of its tail to the rabbit’s back foot.

Michelle looked at the rabbit foot and the snake, somehow feeling that the baby was being greedy.

Could it even swallow the whole foot?

Well, but since it wanted the foot, she would let it have it.

Gripping the ice knife in her hand, she cut through the joint that connected the rabbit’s leg to the body and handed the bloodied leg to the snake.

“Enjoy!”

The snake opened its small jaws wide and started trying to swallow the rabbit leg.

At first, it was able to do so, because the bottom part of the rabbit leg was smaller, but when it got higher, it started struggling.

But Michelle didn’t move to help it, and the stubborn creature continued forcing the food down its mouth.

When it was finally done (and Michelle was surprised that it managed to swallow the leg whole), the little snake sprawled over Michelle’s leg, seeming like it was about to fall asleep.

Seeing that, Michelle let out a chuckle before looking at the rest of the rabbit carcass.

She could store it for later for the snake, but she herself also remembered that she needed to eat regularly if she didn’t want to go into the Starving Cub state again.

She wasn’t yet hungry, but eating a bit sounded like a good idea.

So, Michelle proceeded to skin the rabbit, separate the bones, meat and organs, before summoning her Soul Fire.

She simply grilled some of the meat over the fire and ate it before storing away the rest of it.

All that remained next to her were the rabbit bones.

And honestly, she didn’t know what to do with them.

Bones could be used by Armament Masters to create various things, but she wasn’t one.

The only Armament Master she knew was Alexander, and she highly doubted he would ever lack something as simple as the bones of an ordinary rabbit from the upper realm.

Thinking about that, Michelle just carelessly dug her hand into the ground next to her, making a small hole.

She wasn’t even planning to bury the bones, she was just randomly moving her hand around.

When she realized the hole was there, she did consider throwing the bones there.

But just then, she felt her soul energy move.

Serith had something to say.

Michelle waited for a while to read the message Serith signed through the soul energy.

“Why shouldn’t I get rid of it?” she asked after she read the message.

Serith’s answer was simple: “I can use it.”

“How can you use it when you are just part of a soul within my soul space?” Michelle was confused.

Serith went silent for a moment before answering.

“You can pull me out of the soul space.”

Michelle was fairly surprised by that.

“How?” she was also curious.

Also about the fact why Serith would want to leave her soul space since Michelle had yet to encounter the creature that held the other part of Serith’s soul.

“If you push your soul energy into your soul space, I won’t be able to fit into it and I will get forced out,” Serith explained.

Under Serith’s further guidance, Michelle started slowly pushing her soul energy into her soul space.

It was quite the uncomfortable process because not only was it filling the space up to force Serith out, it was also pressing on Michelle’s soul.

And any sensation on the soul was felt much stronger than if the same thing was happening to the body.

So, the pressure on Michelle’s soul bordered pain.

It was like she was going through a sensory overload.

Still, Michelle pushed through it, wanting to know what Serith was planning to do with the bones once she was out of Michelle’s soul space.

And after quite a while, Michelle succeeded.

She felt the pressure on her soul lift as Serith slipped out and into her body.

From there, Serith could get out on its own, through Michelle’s skin.

Once outside, Serith went over to the pile of bones, floating around them to rearrange them.

Michelle watched as the scattered bones slowly got reshaped back into the skeleton of a rabbit, just missing one leg.

After that, Serith actually wrapped around the skeleton, forming a nearly transparent body around it.

“You are holding it together…” Michelle stated, watching as Serith proceeded to move the new body.

Missing one leg, the movement was a bit clumsy, but Serith managed with it.

“Oh, I forgot what it felt like to have a body,” Michelle was surprised to feel her soul energy still forming signs within her body.

“You can still control my soul energy, even though you are outside my body?” Michelle asked.

The rabbit skeleton nodded.

“As of now, I am still bound to your soul,” it answered with the soul energy signing again.

Michelle watched Serith move around for a while before another question appeared in her mind.

“Since I discovered you, I have killed quite a few creatures. Why did you never ask me to keep the bones like now? Why did you never want to come out?”

The eyeless skeleton turned around to look at Michelle.

It was looking at her without eyes.

But that was understandable.

The skeleton was just the form.

The one looking was Serith.

“Just recently did I gain enough strength to survive outside a soul space.”

Michelle raised a brow.

“Your situation has been getting better while in my soul space?” she didn’t expect that.

Serith, the skeleton, nodded.

“Every time you use your soul energy, it causes fluctuations in your soul, which send waves in the soul space. I can consume those to make my own soul grow. It doesn’t affect you in any way and helps me.”

Michelle was still uncertain about one thing.

“But I haven’t been using my soul energy all that much recently.”

Serith shook its head.

“When you formed the contract with that snake, your soul energy moved around your body massively. That caused more waves than ever. I didn’t even manage to consume all of them, but it was enough for me to leave your soul space and hold up a skeletal body.”

Reading that, Michelle glanced over at the snake half asleep on her leg.

It was completely disregarding the movement around it, just digesting the food it swallowed.

It had indeed been way too greedy with how much food it wanted, and at the moment, couldn’t even move from being full.

Being young, it was still stupid.

But hopefully, it would learn quickly under Michelle’s care and not repeat such stupid mistakes.

Serith also looked at the snake, narrowing its eyes.

“That one’s strange. It can clearly understand you and even respond, though minimally. At its age, it shouldn’t even be able to comprehend your words.”

Michelle was surprised to hear that.

She didn’t know much about snakes, and since Mare didn’t point anything out, she thought it was just an ordinary snake.

But maybe even Mare didn’t notice it since Michelle only started communicating with the snake after Mare was back in Michelle’s space.

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