Liquidation: From Big Boss to Bloody Demon Sauce Chapter 34: Chapter 34: Familiar Form

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She then cheered slightly, completely dropping her professional facade, as she used her strength to move aside a massive boulder to expose a hidden, perfectly round tunnel leading deeper into the mountain. "Could they be educated? Be trained and turned into proper, usable demons for our workforce?" I inquired, aggressively hoping that these four-dimensional beings could have the potential to contribute to our syndicate, maybe even become highly durable potential allies or security minions. "Not the mindless, environmentally spawned creatures. But demons that come into being from previously living creatures do retain a small, fractured part of their previous intelligence. They are called 'Wandering Demons', and they can be educated and trained, it just requires a massive investment of time and resources," Grimora continued, tossing the rock aside. She then gestured toward the newly discovered tunnel, preparing to lead us in. As we crawled slowly on our hands and knees through the tight, claustrophobic stone tunnel, with Grimora taking the lead, I tried my best to examine my new, dense humanoid form that could barely fit in the small tube. Or, I tried to focus on my body, but Grimora's tight leather skirt hid absolutely nothing from my angle, and her panties seemed to fit extra tight today. Now that I possessed a physical form that was much closer to my old human shape, complete with the appropriate hormonal feedback loops, I was starting to experience highly distracting biological urges. I wasn't sure if it was all due to my new, upgraded form, or maybe just the heavy connection, absolute loyalty, and deep trust that seemed to just ooze from Grimora every single time she looked at me. Our prior pact had definitely left a lingering, intimate connection. It was highly unprofessional and slightly embarrassing to be physically turned on right now during a tactical breach, but I couldn't help it. With the constant mental link we shared, she probably knew exactly what my feelings were towards her assets, but at least she was polite enough not to officially mention it to the HR department we didn’t have. I was highly pleased with this new, upgraded form, but there were still so many pressing, analytical questions spinning rapidly around in my corporate mind. Would I instantly return to my previous, pathetic blob-like state if I expended too much energy or lost my capital? Or would I permanently maintain this humanoid form? The better, more pressing question was: if I absorbed more, would I become smaller and significantly more solid? Try as I might, there was absolutely no mental command to shrink my body back down, but I actively noticed that since condensing the energy, my body was significantly firmer. It possessed real tensile strength. If that was any logical indication of how I would continue to evolve along the Dao of Absolute Acquisition, it stood to reason that I just needed to aggressively consume more assets, and then physically condense them. While it was just a working hypothesis, I was pretty confident in the math. The other major thing that I wanted to immediately audit was the strange, lingering feeling I had since my fight and subsequent shrinking. It felt exactly like I had gained some kind of specific, active ability or magical trait, but this wasn't some fantasy video game where I could just pause reality and pull up a convenient skills screen to see my stats. That left me with the highly dangerous option of trying to figure out my new ability through live trial and error. But that was only something I could actively think about doing after our current, high-risk situation was fully resolved. Focus on the immediate ROI. In the middle of my deep corporate musings, I was abruptly, violently snapped back to reality. We had finally crawled our way out of the suffocating tunnel, and what greeted us in the new cavern was simply, breathtakingly astonishing. It was an impossibly massive cavern, its vast ceilings filled ent