Refining

Soon after Eric spotted the carriage it had already reached the camp's front gate, at said gate three were several high-ranking demons. The demons had badges on their uniforms signifying their rank, stripes were for foot soldiers the more stripes the higher ranking. Stars are for captains, a captain could have up to 300 foot soldiers under them, and a pentagram was for generals, a general could have up to 20 captains under than.

The more points a pentagram had the higher ranking of the general, once it gets to 9 points then the badge would have a horn above it, which signified a lord, a single lord could have up to could have 10 high-ranking generals under them at once. The camp Eric was in only had 1 lord. There were 3 captains greeting Asies, each had 3 stars on their badge.

"damn. Well, I was gonna have some 'fun' but seeing as what I can only assume is a royal pain in the ass just arrived in gonna go back to my tent. I have some stuff to do anyway. See ya." shivering at Eric's casual mention of 'fun' the guard turned around to see him walking away.

Back at his tent, Eric was debating whether to turn the hell cat into a new coat or do what he originally planned for the day. 'eh, it'll take a while for the skin to tan anyway, might as well do both' grabbing the hell cats head Eric pulled out one of the larger teeth before coating it in aura, 'that'll do the trick' using the makeshift blade to skin the hell cat Eric began at its severe neck, working down to its tail before peeling the skin off.

Placing the skin somewhere it wouldn't get dirty Eric walked over to the tree he cut down earlier and took a few of the larger and stronger branches to make a tanning rack. After about half an hour Eric had set up the pelt to tan and was ready to continue with his original plan.

In one of the corners of Eric's tent sg1 was laying down. If anyone else were to see him they would simply think that he was asleep as he had no signs of harm on his body and was just laying there. In reality, he had been effectively tortured for the last few months by having his body torn apart and regrown repeatedly, just because he could heal from basically any damage didn't mean that he didn't feel the pain.

Walking over to the old magic circle Eric began to rewrite it. Over the last few months, he had changed the sacrificial circle in quite a few different ways. As he used it more he gained a better idea of how it worked and would 'fix' it accordingly so it would work better. A way to explain this would be to go from using a bike to getting somewhere to driving a car. While both did the job one would do it faster and easier than the other.

The circle he was currently drawing was what he was calling the 'refining circle' With a little bit of tinkering he had managed to turn what was known as {physical enhancement} to {body magic (bigginier)}. Body magic did what it said, it used the body for magic. Physical enhancement was just a very crude way of using mana to temporarily strengthen the body, this was a basic use of body magic and would even be used to permanently strengthen the body, compared to Eric's natural strengthening, however, it was quite lackluster.

While the sacrificial circle used flesh and blood as the medium to give Eric powers and skills based on others' gifts, it was fundamentally different from body magic. The refining circle was a mix of body magic, black magic, and a tiny little bit of sacrificial magic.

Before dragging sg1 over to the refining circle Eric did what could be considered the last collection of flesh. This would have to be a big one though so for the next few hours, all he did was cut off their arms and bleed them before waiting for them to grow back and do it again. After a sizeable pile had been built, he dragged sg1 over to the circle and placed him in the center which looked like a mix of a furnace, an anvil, and one of those scrying orbs you would see in the fortune tellers' tents.

What he was planning to do was 'refine' sg1 into a kind of artifact. He got this idea from those evil sects in cultivation novels. While it wasn't going to be a soul lamp that he could burn a soul in for 100 years, it would still be pretty evil. What he was going to do was turn sg1's body into what he was going to call a 'flesh seed' which he could use for sacrifices and other things that would need a large amount of flesh and blood.

While he could just drag around sg1's body and cut it up whenever he needed some flesh, that would be a little annoying as time went on. And he was planning to make the flesh seed reusable anyway. With everything ready Eric began to pour a massive amount of energy into the circle. With the circle ready, it began to absorb the pile of flesh and blood. Unlike in the sacrificial circle where the flesh and blood would wither and disappear, in the refining circle, it began to compress and refine itself into a purer and more powerful version.

Once the newly refined flesh and blood were ready, it was sg1's body's turn. Eric planned for the flesh seed to grow as time went on so he wouldn't have to make a new one every time the old one was outclassed. The easy he would do this was to make the flesh seed a 'living thing' this way it could absorb energy and grow on its own. To do this he would use sg1's unkillable nature to his advantage by sealing his soul in the artifact and connecting It to his own soul.

Once the structure of the flesh seed was finished he began to form its core. Because it was no longer a 'person' and now was a 'thing' he didn't need to worry about where to form the core. Pumping massage amounts of energy to the flesh seed Eric began to form the basic outline of the core. Once this was done he used soul magic to trap sg1's soul inside the flesh seed and connected his soul to it.

After all this was done he was left with a bright red bead the size of his fist that would acasanaly best like a heart. "there, all done. If everything went according to plan I should be able to use this like I want." he then looked over to his status to make sure.

{name: Eric

Gifts: potential, adaptation

Realm: energy gathering 1/9

Powers: energy refinement, physical refinement, passive growth

Skills: enhanced intellect, rapid learning, black magic(intermediate), sacrificial magic(intermediate), puppet control, soul magic(beginner), multi-minded, body magic(beginner)

Energy: demonic/mana

(NEW) Equipment: flesh seed(growth type)

Stats:

Strength:100

Agility:100

Perception:100

Intelligence:100

Constitution: 100

Mp:7,500 (100%)}