I'm a proper student; I only take nine kinds of potions every day.

The thing inside seemed to sense the threat as well, and the brass zombies that were wandering around instantly fixed all their chilling gazes on Evan.

The footsteps that had been creaking just moments before were now deathly silent.

Those pale eyes, filled with madness and bestiality, stared straight at Ivan.

"Holy crap! What a classic horror movie scene!"

Faced with this situation, Ivan couldn't help but sigh.

"If this had happened to me before, I probably would have been sweating in my crotch by now!"

At this point, Ivan took a deep breath: "But unfortunately! I have a monster hunter now!"

This is the effect of the injected Daylight Potion on him.

Monster Hunter: When you face monsters, your willpower increases significantly and your fear resistance is greatly enhanced.

This means that Ivan doesn't have to worry about his past scandals resurfacing.

As Evan was lamenting, the zombies charged forward like madmen.

Faced with this situation, Ivan immediately activated his bronze form and began his slaughter.

These bronze-colored zombies were no match for him.

The overall texture is no different from those Martin controlled before; normal humans definitely can't beat them.

But to Evan, these guys were no different from insects.

In less than a minute, more than forty zombies covered in brass skins were completely crushed by Ivan.

Stepping over the remains of these zombies, Ivan strode forward and smashed the statue's abdomen open with a bronze-colored punch.

Then, inside that abdomen, he saw something that looked like a large bird egg.

It is entirely white, but its texture gives a relatively soft and warm feeling.

It looks like it just hatched; its shell hasn't hardened yet.

At this moment, all the extraordinary energy in the entire space was continuously being poured into this thing.

It's clear that this is the very thing being nurtured at the core of this magic array.

"This must be one of the ghoul artifacts that Dr. Armitage mentioned, right?"

Thinking of this, Ivan directly covered his head with the Fog Brain Plague, raised his hand and grabbed the thing in his palm.

This thing feels like a water bag when you squeeze it, and you can feel a faint, heart-beating sensation coming from inside.

Ivan played with it in his palm for a moment, then opened his mouth wide and was about to shove it directly into his mouth.

In that instant, the thing seemed to sense danger, and its already slippery surface suddenly secreted a special kind of mucus.

The slime made it incredibly slippery, and it slipped right off Ivan's palm, flying down his left shoulder and outwards.

Seeing this, Ivan sneered, "You think you can just fly away from a duck that's already in your mouth?"

But just as Ivan was about to turn around...

Whoosh!

A figure suddenly jumped out of its own crucible, and then a small, hairy claw with sharp nails pierced the creature's skin. With a tumble, it snatched the creature off and held it in its arms.

"Meow~"

At this moment, the little orange cat seemed quite pleased with itself, as if it had caught a mouse and was showing off to its owner.

"Good cat!!"

Seeing this, Ivan immediately gave a thumbs up with great joy.

"As expected of my Evan's cat! It's already serving its owner food at such a young age!"

At this moment, the little orange cat's two paws were deeply embedded in the middle of the soft thing, so that no matter what kind of mucus it secreted, it could not get out of the cat's paws.

Evan happily squatted down, and just as he was about to reach out to touch the cat's head, the white thing suddenly shattered.

Immediately afterwards, a large amount of white and black intertwined things, resembling maggots, surged out from inside.

"not good!"

Evan grabbed the kitten by the scruff of its neck and swung it around a couple of times, trying to throw it away.

Unfortunately, this thing reacted very quickly, and at this moment, it went straight into the cat's body through its two paws.

"Holy crap! What the hell?!"

The moment the thing entered the little orange cat's body, Ivan saw the little orange cat's body begin to wither rapidly.

"Meow……"

The second cry was completely different from the first; it had become weak and feeble.

As the body withers, you can see the orange fur on the little orange cat starting to fall out, and its skin and flesh beginning to tear, as if something is about to swell out of its body.

"Damn it! How dare you kill my cat?!" Evan was furious.

As the first pet he ever had in this world, he couldn't accept that his little orange kitten, whom he hadn't even warmed up to yet, had ended up like this.

Then, with a wave of his hand, the sub-brain, which had fully evolved, appeared. Its entire body was deathly white, and a black obsidian-like gem was embedded in the back of its claws.

The moment the secondary brain appeared, its entire body instantly became like oil, and it pounced to envelop the little orange cat.

As the secondary brain finished enveloping the little orange cat, the power from the Ghoul King within the Mist Brain Plague form seemed to resonate with the power within the orange cat's body.

The power that had just gone berserk and was approaching a state of chaos was gradually suppressed and entered a relatively peaceful state.

"Thank goodness, it seems the Ghoul King still loves me!"

Ivan breathed a sigh of relief, then quickly began to think of how to rescue his little orange cat.

As the secondary brain enveloped the little orange cat's entire body, Ivan also discovered a special effect of the secondary brain that could only take effect in actual combat.

At this moment, the secondary brain is like a stethoscope, enveloping the little orange cat's entire body, allowing Evan to clearly sense the condition inside its body.

"Hmm!? How come this kitten has so much of my own spirit inside it!?"

"Wait... not only does it possess spirituality, but why are there also traces of magical potions?"

It was only at this moment that Evan realized that the little orange cat's physical condition was not ordinary.

He could clearly sense the remnants of his own spirit within the orange cat's body, as well as some of the magical potion ingredients he had drunk.

These substances have been integrated into the little orange cat's blood and body, becoming one with it.

Ivan quickly went through the process in his mind and then understood.

"I've been drinking rat blood for a long time now, drinking it with my mouth directly into the wound."

"So there's my saliva residue on the wounds of those rats."

"The little orange cat was probably trying to save trouble by eating meat into the wound, so it swallowed my saliva."

"Plus, I had just drunk potions a few times before, and my blood addiction kicked in, so there might still be trace amounts of potion residue in the rats' wounds..."

"And the little orange cat eventually ate all the rat carcasses, thus completing the enrichment of the components."

Thinking of this, Evan suddenly understood. He looked at the little orange cat, whose voice was weak and who was panting heavily. He was so thin that he looked like he only had one breath left.

Ivan made up his mind: "We've been friends for a long time, after all!"

"I absolutely cannot let you die like this!"

He then quickly began to think.

"The core problem now is that the cat's flesh is severely torn and deformed, and the nutrients in its blood have been drained due to the mutation."

"Then we need to address the cat's physical and blood-related issues first."

Thinking of this, he took out the Moonlight Potion, which he had refined but hadn't had time to drink, from the bag at his waist.

The witch's mechanism was very sophisticated; the potions and clothes that had been confiscated were returned to him when he came back.

Moonlight Potion: Within ten minutes of ingestion, it greatly increases the body's flexibility and blood quality.

Negative effects: Decreased blood quality and physical condition.

"Continuing like this will surely lead to certain death, so we might as well try anything!"

Evan patted the little orange cat's bald head as he spoke: "You're so young and already bald, it must be tough on you."

Whether you can overcome this trial of the grass and become a demon-hunting cat depends on you!

Then Evan pried open the kitten's mouth and carefully poured in one-third of the dose.

As the potion was ingested, the little orange cat, who had been very weak just moments before, began to swell rapidly.

The blood that had been drained was now being injected with a massive amount of new blood and began to flow through the body.

The skin and flesh that had been torn due to the mutation are now beginning to reconnect.

The little orange cat, which has gained great flexibility, can now barely withstand the tearing sensation brought about by those mutations.

"My spirit resides within this orange cat's body, and I am now the darling of the ghoul king."

"Since the power inside that bird egg comes from the Ghoul King, then there is a possibility that the two could merge!"

"With the secondary brain still in charge outside... there's a chance!"

Then, Ivan gradually released the suppressive force of his secondary brain, and the mysterious power that had been dormant in the little orange cat's body began to take effect again.

The little orange cat's body began to swell continuously, quickly growing from a kitten that was not yet an adult to the size of a dog.

During this process, through his secondary brain, Evan was able to clearly sense those black and white, maggot-like things seeping into the kitten's entire body through its blood vessels.

This thing doesn't seem to be able to survive on its own; it's currently actively fusing with the cat.

As the fusion process progressed, the kitten let out continuous screams, and its newly plump body began to shrivel up again.

Feeling deeply distressed, Evan immediately cut open his wrist, collected the traces of his poisonous blood, dug out a piece of blood, and stuffed it into the kitten's mouth.

As Ivan's life-giving blood was injected into his body, the kitten's body, which had been drained by the extraordinary power, was replenished once again.

During this process, Evan clearly sensed through his secondary brain that the little orange cat's aura and vitality were rapidly increasing.

Even some of the cat hair on its body is now gradually growing back as the fusion is complete.

You can see that its skin becomes tougher and its bones become stronger.