While My Mage Wife Grinds, I Power Up Idly-Chapter 101: Eat Quickly

Ashu, holding a try-it-out mindset, went to the market and bought various kinds of food one after another.

From meats to grains, from common mortal food to the bones of magical beasts.

These were all "dead things," not live sacrifices.

He brought these foods into the Church’s basement and fed them to the Demon one by one.

Ordinary food brought only minimal changes, until Ashu threw a magical wolf’s leg bone to the Demon.

"Gugaga!"

The Demon’s eyes almost flashed green when he saw the magical wolf’s leg bone flying through the air in a parabola. He immediately leapt up and caught it in his mouth.

Then, he swallowed it whole.

The magical wolf’s leg bone distorted his throat as he swallowed it, but he forced it down with sheer will.

After swallowing the magical wolf’s leg bone,

the Demon’s legs immediately showed obvious changes. His leg muscles bulged like coiling dragons, growing so strong they looked out of place compared to the rest of his body.

He excitedly jumped up, but that small leap was enough for his head to hit the basement ceiling.

"Thud—"

The Demon fell to the ground, rubbing his head, and became much more docile.

Seeing this, Ashu activated "Reaper’s Eye" to observe the Demon.

"Didn’t expect this guy to have the ability to evolve by devouring—eat what he needs and improve accordingly. And the conversion rate is even higher than I thought."

Just now, Ashu fed him only a magical wolf’s leg bone, with most of the meat scraped off, leaving only bits of sinew and muscle fragments.

Even so, after devouring it, this guy immediately had life signs equivalent to a cultivator apprentice level.

"I’ll just call you Gugaga for now," Ashu said, while using a small knife at his waist to cut open his palm.

If this guy reacts this way just eating a magical wolf’s leg bone, what would happen if he fed him some fresh Archmage blood?

Ashu wrapped about 10 milliliters of his blood with Magical Essence, then used Divine Grace to heal the wound on his palm.

He floated the blood in front of Gugaga.

Looking at the Summoner Lord’s blood, Gugaga’s eyes widened, so nervous he forgot to breathe.

"Let me see what kind of changes you’ll have."

Saying this, Ashu forcibly sent the blood into Gugaga’s mouth using Magical Essence.

As the fresh blood poured in, Gugaga immediately writhed on the ground in pain. Ashu was puzzled—could his blood be toxic to Demons?

But he remained indifferent and didn’t try to intervene, only quietly observing nearby.

Soon, bright red blood seeped out all over Gugaga’s body. This blood coated his entire skin, turning him into a blood-red Demon.

Ashu had no spiritual perception talent, but now he had "Reaper’s Eye." With enough observation, he noticed that different life forms have different fluctuations in their life energy.

At this moment, after swallowing Ashu’s blood, Gugaga had officially reached cultivator level.

"The efficiency boost is indeed good, but where is your upper limit?"

Ashu didn’t believe the evil god Cidi would just drop a pie from the sky—that one mere sheep could summon a Demon with infinite growth potential.

So, Gugaga definitely had a limit, but his blood couldn’t be wasted recklessly. Gugaga would have to go hunt for himself.

Being an official cultivator level, he was just fit to go up into the mountains to hunt wild beasts and magical beasts.

Therefore,

that very night, Ashu used some means to send Gugaga up into the wilderness.

The moment he entered the wilds, Gugaga’s Demon nature was awakened. He immediately began tracking the living creatures in the mountains and started hunting.

Meanwhile, Ashu sat down right there and meditated, as if he was letting a pet dog run wild in the wilderness. He continued his cultivation.

However,

it wasn’t long before a loud explosion came from afar.

Ashu opened his eyes from meditation. Under the night sky, the distant mountain ridges rolled like waves, and beyond the crests, the golden Holy Light was dimming.

He immediately entered "Reaper’s Resolve" mode to raise his realm and activated "Reaper’s Eye" to observe.

Through Reaper’s Eye, he saw five humanoid figures chasing after a Demon in the distance.

That Demon was Gugaga, and judging by their life energy signatures, the five humanoids were between peak Archmage and Magister level.

"Talk about bad luck—going out hunting at night only to run into wild Exorcists?" Ashu sighed helplessly.

As the Bishop of the "Riven" town branch, he could be certain that none of the Parishes under his jurisdiction had any special operations going on, and no Exorcist five-man teams had been dispatched.

So, the other side was either civilian Exorcists or people from other branches.

At this moment,

Gugaga was clearly injured. His life signs had dropped abnormally low, regressing to his initial state.

After all, he had only just reached official cultivator level and was specialized in crude Martial Techniques, while the other side had five opponents, with the lowest among them at peak Archmage strength. Naturally, Gugaga was being brutally beaten.

Seeing this, Ashu didn’t hesitate. He stood up and took flight to rush over.

As he arrived nearby, cloaked in the darkness, his black robe blended seamlessly with the night.

He saw that

the five had surrounded Gugaga in the center.

"Gugaga—"

"Hmph, where did this bastard Demon come from, daring to attack us?"

"Heh, don’t expel him yet. This is the ’Luminous Saint’ Parish—perfect for us to use this Demon for our own purposes."

"Oh my god, are you out of your mind? Our most critical mission right now is to ensure the Queen of the Kingdom of Ankgarde completes her deal. We’re just messengers. If we disturb the ’Luminous Saint’ and prevent him from attending the Imperial Princess’s coming-of-age ceremony, do you want to ruin the carefully laid traps set by the big shots?"

"But he killed Lord Kakarim’s entire family. If he’s vengeful, he won’t let us go! If we don’t find a way to disrupt him for two months, what if he takes this chance to retaliate against us?"

"Shut up! Even if we have to act like dogs, we have to survive this period quietly. No matter what, we can’t ruin the big shots’ plans upstairs—otherwise, the retaliation will be worse than hell!"

...

Ashu melted into the night, secretly eavesdropping on their conversation.

The voices sounded somewhat familiar, and after listening carefully to the conversation, Ashu understood clearly in his heart—these five were exactly the five branch Bishops from the last "Kakase" sermon conference, the five lackeys of Kakarim.

He had completely forgotten to kill them back then!

Ashu felt a sharp pang of regret and anger at his own mistake. He had thought that after Kakarim’s death, these five would find a new master. Instead, not only were they still attached to Kakarim, they had conspired with others to try and kill him.

"I was too kind-hearted. I need to get rid of this bad habit from now on," he thought to himself.

With that resolve, Ashu dropped the disguise and stepped forward, hovering above the five men.

A Grand Archmage-level pressure pressed straight down on them.

The five looked up in terror, only to see a black-robed shadow wielding a huge scythe.

"What? Wh-what is that?"

"Grand Archmage? We are Bishops of the Holy Cultivator Guild branch. Anyone who dares harm us will be punished by the Holy Cultivator Guild!"

"The radiance of the Divine Mother Goddess shines upon us!"

"Could it be the Death God Devotee?"

"W-what do you want?!"

Faced with the five Bishops’ questions, Ashu smiled coldly. With a gentle swing of his giant scythe, a black sword energy shot out, turning one of them to ash on the spot.

Since activating "Reaper’s Resolve," Ashu’s strength had reached Grand Archmage level, while the highest among these five was only Magister.

His attack was absolute domination.

"What am I doing? Obviously, taking your lives," Ashu replied.

Hearing this, the remaining four turned pale with fear, their legs weak.

They recognized the voice and trembled in horror: "A-Ashu? Impossible! You’re the ’Luminous Saint’—how could you possess such extraordinary Evil Power?! Have you betrayed the Divine Mother Goddess? You fallen one!"

"Tch—"

Ashu was too lazy to argue. He lunged forward, sweeping his ten-meter giant scythe horizontally, cutting the four remaining men in half at the waist.

"Quick!" he shouted to Gugaga. "Eat fast! It’ll rot soon!"

Only then did Gugaga react, rushing to the corpses.

Though the four were cut in half, their consciousness did not immediately fade. They watched with wide eyes as the Demon, under Ashu’s command, devoured their bodies.

"The ’Luminous Saint’ is commanding a Demon... God, I die with regret..."

"Damn Demon! Damn, damn, damn!"

"I... don’t want to die..."

Gugaga had been beaten back to his original weak form by them, essentially a weakling, but now, after devouring the first Bishop, his body began to twist and deform.

Ashu looked over by moonlight and noticed that Gugaga’s form was starting to resemble the Bishop he had just consumed.

His flesh, bones, and physique were all changing accordingly.

But Ashu had no time to investigate further. He kicked the other corpses toward Gugaga, "Eat quickly, hurry up, or the Death God will snatch it away."

Because of the large contact area from the waist cuts, black energy was corroding the bodies from both sides. If Gugaga ate too slowly, nothing would remain of the corpses in the end.

Gugaga’s eating speed was decent, but compared to the speed of the black energy’s corrosion, it was still a bit slow.

In his urgency, Ashu forcibly helped Gugaga shove the remaining corpses into his stomach.

Even so, one person was still missed.

At this moment,

Gugaga, who had devoured parts of three branch Bishops’ bodies, had already transformed into a form indistinguishable from a human. His facial features combined traits from all three people, but his eyes remained chilling and eerie.

After all, a Demon is still a Demon. Even though it had grown human skin, mentally it was still a Demon.

But Ashu didn’t care about these details. He examined Gugaga’s current level, and after consuming so many corpses, his rank had reached the peak of Magister.