C19 Revitalizing Pears

The monkey beast was staring at Kyle with disbelief. It didn't expect Kyle to be so shameless and attack it while the it was in the middle of transforming. Well, it really can't blame Kyle since there weren't rules in a real-life battle.

Due to this mistake... the monkey was now sitting on the ground covered with his own blood. It lost a lot of vitality, due to the interruption while transforming. Its eyes were full of regrets and anger.

Kyle slowly walked to the fallen monkey beast. He didn't feel any shame or guilt on what he did since he only did what he needed to do to win. It is not like he could let the enemy power-up and let it defeat him, can't he?

While slowly walking to the beast, he saw the bloody monkey on the ground. He didn't expect that in just two months... two months, and the monkey beast that he felt so strong, that his eyes couldn't see its speed... Fell before him.

When he was close to the beast... It said something

"Wait, Wait... Don't force me, let's make a deal..." The beast tried to reason with him.

"Deal? Why should I bother, if I could kill you right now." Kyle then replied while readying his fist.

"I said don't force me... I could still force myself to transform, but it would take a lot of my vitality." The monster then replied.

Kyle then stopped his actions. He was looking at the monkey beast while carefully examining it. He wasn't sure if the monkey was lying or not, so he tried to go with the flow and ask it about the deal first.

Truthfully... Kyle was feeling unwell on killing the monkey beast since it accidentally helped him in a lot of ways. He knew this is a world where the strong eat the weak, but since he fought the beast for over two months daily, he felt a little bond with it.

So when the monkey proposed a deal with him, he accepted it despite knowing it was a bad idea.

He was curious about this deal the monkey was talking about so he asked it.

"What deal are you talking about?"

"I bet you're wondering why I am unwilling to leave this place." The monkey told Kyle in a mysterious manner.

"Hmmm," he nodded.

"I am staying here because I am protecting the tree, and waiting for the fruits on the tree to get ripe."

When he heard this, he became ecstatic. 'So there really is a fruit huh.'

"Fruit? what kind of fruits do this tree bears?" Kyle asked then he jumped to the tree branches to look for the said fruits.

When he was above the tree... He saw 6 pear-looking fruits. It has a pink color and it was brimming with vitality. Seeing this made Kyle glad.

"This tree is called a Revitalizing Tree, it is quite famous even in our Beast Empire. It has a miracle-like effect that it could gather tons of Pure energy in the air. Staying near it could increase your vitality and energy, hence the healthy vegetation surrounding this place, but what makes this tree famous is that every 60 years it could produce 6 revitalizing pears, but it would need 6 years to ripen."

"These revitalizing pears could help low Xiantian's bodies evolved, so it was really popular for us monster beasts since we beasts prioritize our bodies. I also heard some rumors that this was one of the main ingredients to create a revitalizing pellet, but I don't know if its true since there were no alchemists in the Beast Empire. When I accidentally discovered this tree 5 years ago, it was just starting to bear its fruits, so I stayed here to protect it from being taken by those lower beasts for 5 years." The monkey told him.

"So what is this deal that you're talking about?" Kyle then asked curiously.

"I'll give you two of these pears, but you must help me protect it a year later." Seeing that the human was interested, the monkey beast tried to goad Kyle with greed.

"Protect? Protect from who?" Kyle asked again.

"When I was guarding this place a year ago. another Xiantian beast accidentally stumbled upon this area and saw the fruits. We fought for days and I defeated it. unfortunately... it successfully escaped and saw the fruit, it knew that the fruits needed another two years to ripen, so I bet it would come back with reinforcements."

The monkey told Kyle honestly. Truthfully... It was very worried about its encounter a year ago. The monkey knew for sure that the rascal he met a year ago will return, so it made some preparations and ask a friend from his tribe to come to help it a year later.

When Kyle heard the monkey beast, he didn't give a response immediately. He wasn't sure if the monkey was lying or not, but he was also wary of the monkey's 'forceful transformation'.

But since it would take another year for the fruit to ripen, he was confident that he could gain the strength to battle this so-called 'transformation' in this upcoming year. But what also made him wary is those 'reinforcements' that will come.

So he was having a hard time making a decision. The pros of this deal are that he would have a revitalizing pear, he was thinking that since this fruit could help low xiantian bodies evolved, he could use it to breakthrough Xiantian Realm as a body cultivator. But the cons of this deal is that... The monkey might be lying and was just buying for time, or the monkey could be telling the truth, but they would have to face these so-called reinforcements.

Minutes later...

Since the pros outweigh the cons, he decided to accept the deal, but before accepting it, he made some precautions.

"Ok I'll accept, but since we would be fighting together in another year, I want you to teach me some close combat martial arts, so we could work efficiently. Oh... and also tell me about your so-called 'transformations' so I could be ready and prepared when facing the enemies a year later." Kyle demanded the monkey.

When the monkey heard his demands, it could only grit its teeth and accepted. It really didn't want to go all out today, since it wanted the fruits and didn't wanna waste its five years protecting this damn tree.

What Kyle asked about martial arts and transformation was only a piece of common knowledge to them in the empire, so it really didn't matter to him if Kyle wants to learn it. It only infuriated the monkey that not only did Kyle had beaten it... Kyle also wanted the monkey to personally teach him.

The monkey felt liked Kyle was mocking him by saying 'hey you lost to me, even though I don't know some martial arts. So the monkey felt offended. But since it needed the human's help, so the monkey could only nod and accept Kyle's demand.

So the two broke off and they searched an empty space and recovered themselves.

.....

It's been a few days since the fight. After recovering... Kyle was continuing to do his daily routine training. The monkey still needed to recover its lost vitality and injuries so it still can't train Kyle.

In these past few days... Since the monkey cant train Kyle, he only asked some questions about the transformations of the beasts.

The monkey told him that, when a monster beast broke through the Xiantian Realm, their body will become smaller and became a more humanoid-like type. Their strength won't lessen just because they became smaller. in-fact, since they became smaller, the monster beast's strength became more contained and concentrated, so their power will multiply.

When they become Xiantian Realm beasts, they also gained an innate skill... the so-called 'transformation'. The monkey beast called it transformation when talking to Kyle to make him understand easier, but the real name of this innate skills is called 'resurrection'.

When they use this innate skill called 'resurrection' they revert back to their old humongous bodies, but these bodies are now evolved with a lot more inmate skills depending on its lineage. When they revert to their large bodies, their concentrated strength won't be diffused... In fact, their strengths will multiply again. Unfortunately... Using 'resurrections' drains their vitality so it was seldom used.

When Kyle heard this... He was shaken. He didn't expect the beasts to have this kind of cheat skill. He can't deduce how strong the beast is when they are in their 'resurrection' mode since he still hasn't seen or encountered one. But judging from the proud voice of the monkey beast when talking about this, he could felt that his current strength couldn't beat a Xiantian beast in its resurrection mode.

Luckily... He got a year to train, so he didn't need to worry about this for now. When Kyle asked the monkey beast about his 'forceful transformation', or 'forceful resurrection'. The monkey just ignored him. Seeing this... He could only stop acquiring about it since there are some secrets that cant be told, and since the monkey already told him a lot, so he forgot about it and he continued to train.