A long while later, perhaps ten minutes, or perhaps half an hour.
The intense heat had already blurred Gray's perception of time. The boiling heat rising from his stomach slowly disappeared, and Gray's body temperature also slowly returned to normal.
At this moment, his entire body was soaked in sweat, and his hair was stuck together. His clothes were drenched, as if he had just been fished out of the water.
At the same time, he felt extremely fatigued, as if he had gone through an intense battle. Every muscle in his body was filled with fatigue.
In contrast, he felt that his strength had increased by quite a bit. The most obvious feeling was that when he clenched his fists, they were no longer as weak as before, but filled with strength.
Also, he felt extremely hungry, so hungry that he could eat an entire pig.
Picking up a brass bell with a handle from the side table, Gray shook it a few times. Barbara, dressed in a black and white maid uniform, pushed open the door and walked into the bedroom.
As Gray's personal maid, other than taking care of Gray, she was not in charge of the castle's daily affairs. Thus, she had been guarding outside the bedroom. When she heard Gray ringing the bell, she immediately pushed open the door and walked in.
"Young Master Gray, what are your orders … Ah, what happened to you?
I, I … I'll get someone to invite the Pharmacist over! "
Seeing Gray sweating profusely, Barbara was shocked. She immediately wanted to run to find someone to inform the Pharmacist. As a maid who took care of Gray's daily life, if anything happened to Gray, she would definitely be severely punished. She might even be beaten to death.
In the territory of the nobles, the nobles had the power to kill the commoners.
"No need, I'm fine. It's just that I'm a little sweaty after consuming the blood of the blood fiends. Just get someone to prepare a bath for me!"
Gray hurriedly stopped her. Although he was unsure of the reason for this change, it was obviously best not to let too many people know, especially Viscount Fergus and the rest.
"You really don't need it?"
After being stopped by Gray, Barbara's face was still filled with worry.
"Hmm, it's probably because my body hasn't fully recovered and I'm sweating a lot after consuming the blood of the blood fiends. Just get someone to prepare a bath for me."
Gray stood up and stretched his body, indicating that he was fine. Thinking of his inexplicable hunger, he added.
"Also, get the kitchen to prepare another set of breakfast for me. I'm still a little hungry."
"Yes, I'll go now."
Seeing that Gray was indeed fine and had a good appetite, Babla heaved a sigh of relief and hurriedly left.
Not long after, she returned with a tray in her hands. On the tray, there were three pieces of honey bread, a large piece of ham, and a cup of milky white milk.
"Young Master Gray, the bathroom is already preparing the bath water. You should be able to go over after you finish your meal."
Babla said to Gray as she set up a folding table in the room and placed the food on it.
During the period when Gray was injured, he had been eating in his bedroom, so there was always a folding table in his bedroom.
"Got it."
Sitting at the table, Gray picked up his knife and fork and eagerly started eating. His stomach was empty, as though he had been starving for several days. It was really uncomfortable.
It had been less than two hours since he finished his breakfast, but now he was hungry again. Without a doubt, this was one of the "side effects" of the mutation just now.
Barely maintaining his elegance, Gray gulped down a large piece of ham, three pieces of honey bread, and a cup of milk. He felt that he was only half full. To avoid appearing too abnormal, he did not ask Babla to go to the kitchen to get more food. Instead, he went to the bathroom.
After taking a hot bath, he changed into dry clothes and put on his combat armor. Gray went straight to the training ground. He was eager to know how much his body had improved after the "mutation".
As it was almost noon, there was no one else in the training ground. Gray immediately started practicing the blood technique "Wolf of Wind".
Half squatting with his legs apart, body bent forward, hands extended, palms facing down, like a wolf waiting for its prey …
Crawling.
Pouncing.
Biting.
Facing the sky.
After more than half an hour, he had practiced the four postures of "Wolf of Wind" one by one.
After that, he did not stop practicing like he did a few days ago. Instead, he started a new round of practice. In the end, he only stopped after he had finished practicing the first posture, panting heavily.
Taking the towel handed to him by the maid Babla, Gray wiped his sweat and sat on the stone bench in the pavilion. There was a trace of joy in his eyes that could hardly be concealed.
Without a doubt, his body had improved greatly.
With the physical strength of a lower-level Blood Warrior who practiced the power of blood, he could probably practice twice in a row.
Due to the disappearance of his Blood Force, his physical fitness had deteriorated. In the past few days of cultivation, he could only barely endure one set each time. Now, however, he could already endure one set and one position. Clearly, his physical fitness had undergone a great improvement.
"This blood beast's blood is really good stuff. It can actually improve so much just by taking it once. Based on this improvement, the time it takes for me to become a lower-level Blood Warrior should be greatly shortened.
"Hmm, let's not talk about whether there will be such a big improvement the next time I take the blood beast's blood. The effect of this blood beast's blood is really too remarkable …"
Thinking of this, Gray could not help but raise his eyebrows.
The original owner of this body had already taken the blood of the wind wolf twice. Although there was a certain degree of improvement in each of the two times, the effect was definitely not as remarkable as it was now. The improvement in one go was so great that it could not even be described as remarkable.
"Could it be because this body is no longer a lower-level Blood Warrior?"
"No, that can't be right. If it was because of this reason, the two brothers and sister of this body in name would not have taken a full two years to become lower-level Blood Warriors."
Gray thought of the fact that he was no longer a lower-level Blood Warrior and that his body was weaker. However, he immediately dismissed this thought.
Before the original owner of this body became a lower-level Blood Warrior, he indeed did not have any blood beast's blood resources. However, the two brothers and sister born to Viscount Fergus's official wife did.
Even so, the three of them still spent a full two years to raise their strength to lower-level Blood Warrior. It was also because of this that the original owner of this body, who had raised to lower-level Blood Warrior in a year, was valued by Viscount Fergus and received into the viscount's castle.
"Could it be because of this body's aptitude? No, that can't be right. No matter how good the aptitude is, it is impossible to improve so much just by taking the blood beast's blood once."
"The sudden disappearance of the power of blood, and then such a huge improvement just by taking the blood beast's blood once. These two things can be said to be extremely strange. Could these two things be related in some way?"
Gray could not help but connect this to the sudden disappearance of the power of blood.
According to his estimation, the biggest possibility was that some strange unknown change had occurred when he had occupied this body, and it was this change that had prompted this current phenomenon.
"From what happened to my body, this change is very likely to increase my absorption efficiency of the beneficial components in the blood wolf's blood."
"No, perhaps it is not just an increase in absorption efficiency. I'm afraid there are other changes. Otherwise, I would not be hungry again so soon after eating breakfast."
Thinking of his suddenly extremely hungry stomach, Gray felt that the change in his body should not be just an increase in absorption efficiency. Otherwise, his stomach would not have become so hungry.
"The body becoming hungry is due to insufficient energy supply. The reason for insufficient energy supply is that the body's tissues and cells have consumed a large amount of nutrients in a short period of time. Most of these consumed nutrients should have been used to improve my body's fitness."
"Speaking of which, I just exercised a bit, and now I feel hungry again. How could I be hungry so quickly?
Could it be that my power of blood has not disappeared and only needs a large amount of nutrients to recover?
No, this conclusion is a bit forced. "
Gray once again denied this conjecture of his.
"Before consuming the blood wolf's blood, my appetite was just average. I did not urgently need a large amount of food. Obviously, this craving for a large amount of food only appeared after consuming the blood wolf's blood."
"Speaking of which, the blood wolf's blood has not been processed in any way. It is considered to be a living organism. Could it be that by consuming the blood wolf's blood, I have obtained some kind of biological change?"
Based on his knowledge from his previous life, even if he ate raw blood, he would at most be infected with parasites. It would not cause any kind of biological change.
But in this world, it was not the same world as in his previous life. At least, the existence of the Blood Warriors who had strange powers was not something that existed in his previous life.
In addition, there was the precedent of using the blood essence to implant blood vessels. It was not impossible for some kind of biological change to occur.
"What kind of biological change is this?
It feels like the current me is in a rapid transformation. My body needs a large amount of nutrients. "
Gray's furrowed eyebrows relaxed. If he wanted to understand the changes in his body, he was afraid that he would have to observe for the next few days to come to a complete conclusion.