The moment i collapsed on the ground, i felt as if my body suddenly began to heat up to the point that i was beginning to feel as if a volcanic eruption was currently talking place inside my body .
I then felt that something in my body began to appear, something akin to a new organ of sorts, probably that was the Mana Core that he said will appear, i wasn't able to feel it clearly, but if i'm able to feel its effects on me .
If i wasn't wrong then my body was currently being Baptized with Mana being the base of this kind of change .
Even though the whole process was painful, i still felt that it was still quite manageable, i don't know if my passive skills were at work to make my body resilient or something else was at work here, but either way it was making the pain bearable .
I find it a bit ironic that i first appeared in this world without any kind of blessing, yet i was getting one now, rightly from the hand of a demon, i really hope to at least reach the Ruler level of strength, or else things will be quite problematic .
Suddenly without any warning the process seemed to have came to a sudden halt, i felt my heart yearning for it, something that i never had before .
But luckily the process resumed after 2 or 3 seconds, i couldn't help but wonder about what exactly happened, the process of Baptizing as Ludo called it was still ongoing, i was beginning to feel that Mana Core more and more clearly, my mind became a lot sharper than before .
I felt as if there were some sort of swirling air circling on my mind, something akin to a breath, but just as i tried to inspect what it was, it disappeared as if it didn't exist .
My body was now burning even more to the point that i was engulfed in Lava or Magma, if i were to look at myself from an outsider point of view, i would have been surprised about how correct my guess actually was .
I was engulfed in fire, my skin was as black as charcoal and lines of red fire was running through my veins, i looked like a small fire golem that was exactly similar to these seen in video games, i was put on something hard, at least more hard than the normal ground that i was in before .
Even though the process seemed to be triggered by something and the speed rate of how much the changes to my body were happening increased by quite large margin, i couldn't help but wonder when will this end and how much my body will change after going through this kind of transformation .
My Mana Core had completely formed its place was in my upper chest, little lower to the place where my heart where .
My Mana Core shone of different colors, blue, light, green, silver, black, red, gray, white together with yellow and purple, there were a few colors that i couldn't identify, the whole Core was flickering with light as if it was alive, then it began to absorb the Mana from the surrounding area and siphon it all .
All that refined energy then began to circle through my veins and meridians, instead of the heat that i was feeling before, the heat disappeared, i was beginning to actually feel warm, but there was still no sign of me waking up .
I was beginning to hear a few hums like someone was talking beside me, then the heat once again began to burn even more harder than before, to the point that if i was now conscious, i would have been probably screaming agony .
But weirdly this time the heat didn't last for long, or so i at least thought, a few seconds later i was able to feel a something being hot being poured on my back, then the agonizing pain soon came once again, then again and again and again..... .
It continued to be like that for quite the long time, i was even beginning to feel numb to all the of what was going on, i also lost the count of how many times this have been going for .
I felt as if i was returning to that special dimension where i was fighting my Inner demons as per Ludo words, but even though it felt quite similar, yet there was much difference between the two .
Here i was completely conscious of what was going on was me, i was beginning to change inwardly and outwardly as well, i felt as if i had grown another heart, but if i wasn't in some weird illusion or my eyes were not playing a trick on me, then i will be very shocked to see that my new heart was now actually black in color .
It was connected with my first heart, i felt that my back was itching, but i currently weren't able to tell what exactly was wrong with it, this new sudden change after the appearance of my Mana Core was something that i don't believe that was coincidental, not by a far chance .
I was beginning to feel that the insides of my body began to shift in a random way, reorganizing the location of my organs, then my tendons then my muscles, my whole body seemed to be changing to become something else, what, that was currently completely unknown to me .
But i did feel that my strength seemed to be explosively increasing at an alarming rate, every time that a transformation was done, i was also beginning to feel different about that new explosive strength of mine .
I believe that feeling was what i thought of changing the power system that i was using before for, the chance to have some real strength not the illusionary one that i used to have before .
The Mana that i kept sensing its moving inside my body through my vains filling me with a huge amount of strength, actual strength that originated from me and belonged completely to me .
I was getting more and more curious about how would i look like after this transformation was done, that reminded me of another thing, i didn't know how much had i changed since coming to this world, at least i don't think that i noted how i exactly looked before this transformation .
I was completely sure that i have gotten quite taller, by how much i can't tell, but i do still remember my facial features clearly, oh right, now that I'm undergoing this transformation would my hair turned back into becoming black again or would my blonde hair still exist or will it revert to normal .
All sort kinds of questions was now circling in my mind, but one question stood up from all of the other questions .
When will this transformationend, luckily the suspense didn't continue to be built up, i suddenly began to feel connected back to my body, so i tried raising my eyelid and it actually moved, then i began to try and completely open my eyes up .
But it was quite difficult to do so, after a few tries, i was finally able to open up my eyes faintly to see that the whole around me seemed to have transformed, but then again i was powerless to stop my eyes from closing back up .
Then as if triggering some new kind of transformation in me, my brain began to hurt as if he too was swarmed by lava, so much pain that i found myself gritting my teeth in exasperation just to somehow barley able to manage, my ears were still buzzing, but i was now able to hear Ludo words now more clearly, he was saying :
This is the last step to finish your transformation, you will have to coordinate your Mana Core with your Mind Power to allow your new body to get used to the new way of maneuvering it .
His explanation deepened my confusion about what was exactly going on even more, but at least i was able to find out that there was no problem with me, it was a another part of the transformation that i was currently going through with, how to coordinate my Mana Core with my Mind Power, but then as if the final part of the transformation he was talking about came, i saw that in my mind the breath of air from before, began to roam randomly in my body as if searching for something .
I felt that i was able to sense its movements and even influence the path which it was taking, i was able to finally understand what he meant by coordinating Mana Core with my Mind Power .
I began to influence the mysterious breath of air to the place where my Mana Core now lay in, influencing the white breath of air, my supposedly Mind Power, i allowed it to take a few detours to where my Mana Core currently was, resulting in its quick arrival to its destination .
The moment that white breath came into contact with the glittering Mana Cora that had recently formed, they clashed slightly, but that gentle clash results in brilliant sparks appearing all over my chest, if i had the ability to see how my body looked like now, i will be able to see that entire area of my chest was now glowing, that glow began to move around my entire body .
After the two parties clashed with each other a few more times, i felt cold all of a sudden, but then the cold vanished and my body began to become more and more warmer .
The white breath of air which was allegedly my Mind Power went back to stay inside my mind as if resting after already finishing his job, then a second later i opened my eyes .
I saw that we were still outside of the cave, Ludo hovering wings sounds was what first came to my ears then i shifted my sight up where he was currently flying, he looked at me with a smile on his face .
Seeing him like that without even an ounce of hesitation i directly went to him and slapped him, but just as my hand was about to touch him it stopped, due to the burning feeling that i was now beginning to feel in my chest, it was the first time that i felt somewhat glad to be feeling like this .
That was the binding contract taking an effect on me, but what this implied was what i was happy about the most .
The meaning of it taking an effect was that my slap currently was enough to kill the ridiculous guy in front of me which triggered the Binding Contract .
3 seconds later of standing like this, i was beginning to get goosebumps all over my skin, something was ridiculously wrong, i began to feel the sound of something hovering behind me, but i was currently focused on what was going in front of me .
My hands weren't looking as they were used to before, my hands was now blue, in panic i checked other parts of my body and saw that my body was too blue in color, what was going on here, i looked at the demon hovering in front of me and saw that his eyes were now too filled with horror .
From the lenses of his terrified eyes i was able to notice that he wasn't looking at me but at a monster that was behind me, a blue monster that appeard to be quite similar to a big blue Troll with massive black wings hovering behind his back, i thought this can't no longer be called a coincidence, looking at how massive my limbs were compared to before, i finally came to realize that the creature that Ludo seemed to be terrified by was none other than me .
I wrecked my brain trying to find any sort of explanation to what was going on with me right here and now, suddenly i recalled the world that were spouted by Ludo before i wake up like this, if i was recalling correctly, he said that :
YOU ARE GOING TO BECOME A DEMON .
I completely thought that he was kidding or cursing at me or something, but never would i have ever believed that something like this was even logically possible, i really turned into a demon, what did he do .
As i was about to ask, the wings that were hovering behind me suddenly stopped their hovering, then i began to free fall from all the way up in the sky back to ground in a heavily crashing manner due to the heaviness of my new body and my body new size .
I concurred that i was even larger than back when i used Obsidian Armor, more than 4 meters tall as i was thinking of this, i finally crashed like a meteor on the ground, i wasn't injured but a few scratches on my hand and legs were apperant .
But i was wrong about crashing into the ground, what i crashed into was a massive pile of stones, some of those stones were barley flickering still .
Then my body began to shrink and my wings began to fuse with my back, once again i returned to my human form, but even in my human form, i felt that something was incredibly wrong was my body, i felt quite weakend, my muscles were much bigger than before yet i was still on the lean side of muscler .
My tall have increased to reach close to 2 meters, my whole body limbs seemed to have gotten stronger, thicker too, my body also seemed to be screaming at me as if wanting something, finally that guy Ludo moved and while still having a weird look in his eyes, he still dropped a quite hefty amount of Mana Stones on me from the skies, the moment these Mana Stones came close to where i was they began to lose their glistening and soon turned into a pile of stones .
I was finally able to satisfy the severe craving that i was feeling the moment the Mana from those stones were sucked into my bodies, my whole body seemed to rejoice its arrival .
I was also able to understand that my body was craving for energy, but i couldn't help but wonder about the huge pile of stones that i was laying down on my back in, i had a considerable amount of questions that i need an answer to, did i really turned into a demon .
A few seconds later after absorbing and refining all the Mana that i was able to gather in my body, leaving most of the left energy that i was unable to guide my body to dissipate, my body suddenly once again began to be enlarged and the wings on my back reappeared once more, with its appearance the pile of stones around me began to scatter and the heaviness of my body began to squish the stones under my body, Ludo landed on the ground beside me and said :
What a huge waste .