He could already figure that the foreign entity now residing inside him is not just an AI, but a part of Genes.
However he did not dwell on it and rather focus on what is at hand right now that needs much more attention.
"Ah" He exhale sharply.
Looking at the cat Ancestor, he could see it visibly shaking and what else is not in the cave before are the kittens that are at the back of it.
Trying to hide from Nil sight but still taking a few curious gance at Nil here and there.
"I'll be needing the core of a couple of those younglings."
Nil said to the cat Ancestor not bothering to glance at it as he start approaching it.
"No, you, not take." The cat Ancestor said using it's body to shield the little kittens.
He understood that they will need to die for their core to be taken out, and he have watch Nil kill enough of it's kin already, he is not going to let it kill the rest of it's kin.
*Ahhhhh*
The cat Ancestor suddenly drop to the ground, feeling an immeasurable pain assaulting it.
Pain that was assaulting him because he is openly resisting something Nil want to do.
But he still did not submit easily now. He endured the pain, focusing all his will to endure it.
He is not going to let Nil kill more of his kin.
"Make, it stop." The cat Ancestor finally begged, he doesn't want to continue feeling the pain.
"What an amusing situation." Nil smile not with amusement, but something more...
With understanding.
"But you are the one that can get yourself out of that situation."
The cat Ancestor did not accept what Nil said, he also understood that he could only get himself out of the pain if he stop trying to stop Nil.
But stop openly resisting also meaning letting Nil take the kittens which is not something he can allow now.
"Well, you know what? I'm not taking any of the younglings core anymore, neither am I going to kill them."
"Enough of your kind have die by my hand already." Nil said, showing a bit of humanity.
Nil decide to leave the younglings core.
He could feel the emotions of the cat Ancestor through the contract between the both of them.
"However you are coming with me and the younglings are staying here."
He have to leave this cave, more matters have to be solved outside of the cave and he cannot afford to take the kittens with him, they will only a nuisance anyway.
"Let them follow, please. All the adults are dead so they will have to take care of themselves an they are not equipped enough to take care of themselves yet, they cannot go hunting by themselves yet, they are still too young to face the world,, they are—"
The cat Ancestor did not even open his mouth now while speaking to Nil, he was speaking to Nil through the contract between them.
"Cut the crap, I am not giving you any more reprieve, if you want them to be able to survive, if you want them to take care of themselves teach them now.
I'm giving you 5 hours."
Nil said, then he turn back towards the entrance of the cave, leaving the cats behind.
'That won't be enough time to prepare them for what is to come, though.' The cat Ancestor thought to himself with a bitter smile.
But he did not dwell on it much and started teaching the kittens how to survive by themselves as much as he can.
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—5 hours later—
"I am done.. my lord"
The cat Ancestor announce himself to Nil trailing towards the end, it is as if he cannot accept the fact that he have to call someone his lord.
He himself is referred to and looked at as lord before, so it is perfectly understandable that he is struggling to accept his new reality.
"Lead me to the heart of this cave first." Nil said jumping down from the stone the cat King uses as it's throne.
"Yes, my lord."
The cat Ancestor led him back through where Nil came from but at certain intersection they make turns.
And Nil did not even try to remember the way they pass to reach where they are right now.
"Finally, finally." Nil mumbled to himself, after reaching where they are going.
Right in front of them, a coule of meters is a glowing orb that is suspended in air, releasing tendrils of energy.
Furthermore the amount of energy it is radiating is so overwhelming that the quantity is not something a small form like the crystal is supposed to house.
If it were normal human they wouldn't have been able to even novel thus close to the orb, but Nil is not just any human, he is more..
Even the cat Ancestor with a cultivation at the first stage of Crystalization realm is having trouble staying at the position he is currently at.
"Let's start." Nil moved to the core an start what he wants to do.
Moving his hand, he start drawing with his finger in the air, not with his bare hand only but with pure mana he have condense at its tip.
Moving his hand, glowing figures can be seen materializing where his hand had been before which is slowly morphing into rune.
[Ding!]
[You have become a rune initiate.]
Nil ignored the message swiping it away with a thought before he continue the process.
"My lord?" The cat Ancestor called out to Nil through the link between them.
"Speak."
"Are you attempting to remove the dungeon core?" The cat Ancestor asked hoping the situation is not what it seems like.
"As you can see, yes. I want to remove the dungeon core." Nil replied.
"Ahh, my lord, if you remove it the dungeon, it will all cave in and the kids, the kids are still living in the cave, they'll all die, they'll..." The cat Ancestor voice trailed off fearing that all the kittens will still die at the end.
"Tsk, tsk. Caty, just this one more time, just this one last time." Nil said backing away from the core.
"Thank you my lord." The cat Ancestor thanked Nil.
But he knew action speaks louder than words so he is not going to just thank with his words alone but with his action.