The Incarnate felt his black slam against something hard and dusty… unfortunately.The body of the foul-smelling, shaggy dog falling on top of him right after, made him taste the flavor of dirt before he realized that wherever he had fallen or sunken into, was very, very dark.Panic set into the Incarnate. He blinked furiously.Where was he?How did he get here?This unknown was much more vexing than the pain in his flesh and bones right now.He tried his best to stand, and when he did, he realized that while the Valiant Subject’s Ward was in his hand, Tenyen’s mace was not. It must have fallen from his grip when he slammed on the ground.‘That’s not good.’Just as the Incarnate began sweeping the ground with his legs to see if he could locate the weapon, he heard the growl of the remaining dog once again. It pounced.Determined to not feel the sweet sting of his ribs again, the Incarnate dived to the right only to smash into a wall… somewhere, face first.Perhaps because th

The Incarnate steeled his resolve and took a step forward. There was no other choice. The call of the Spirit Essence from the doorway made him believe that going down the slope instead was a terrible mistake. Maybe other Incarnates who chose something similar were rolling in their supernatural graves right now. ‘Well, I guess I could always come back. Maybe,’ Incarnate ^8001 thought morbidly. He placed his bare foot on the first step. The floor was a lot colder here, maybe because of the Spirit Essence. He continued on the path, feeling the light brush of energy against his skin. Silently, the Incarnate scaled the stairs, finding with each meter he traversed that he had a decently long way to go. That was both a good and a bad thing. Even though he didn’t have much trust in his Equipment when thinking about the horrors to come, he still held them both tight. The Valiant Subject’s Ward had most of the Incarnate’s faith, though, after all, the mace, as the glowing tablet identifie

The Incarnate screamed.This time, he lost himself for a few seconds, and that ended really badly for him.It seemed the katana had actually missed its desired target on his body when it hit his side. Like the Incarnate, the sword’s master seemingly wasn’t capable of seeing through the dark. Or perhaps, it was the Incarnate’s erratic movements as he fell that prevented the enemy from aiming properly at his vitals?Whichever was true didn’t mean much.After all, once the sword exited from the Incarnate’s back, it turned… and started stabbing at his back brutally, and rapidly!This successive stabbing plus the tumbling down the stairs was torture for the Incarnate and for a moment, he almost lost consciousness!However…“NOT YET!” the Incarnate roared, pushed his feet against the ground with as much strength as he could muster, and leaped up!The force of his jump caused him to rise and slam hard against the ceiling of the narrow corridor and then plummet to the stairs, but his

[Your entirety embodies the notion of greed and ambition. Your flesh desires to devour more than its designated portion of gifts in the world. It desires double, and so does your soul. You seek things beyond what you were afforded in your last life][You are a rare case where flesh and soul are in mutual agreement][You, Incarnate ^8001, are a true Hollow Demonling].The Incarnate was taken aback.“What?”He couldn’t quite wrap his mind around these words. As he understood it, they came right after he attained the Hermetic Vault, his first Unique Quality.What exactly did they mean?A true Hollow Demonling?Right then, the collection of the Demonling’s properties appeared in his view.===Name : None (Incarnate ^8001)Privilege : 1Race : Hollow Demonling---Far Ji (Unique Quality) :>Hermetic Vault---STR : 1AGI : 1END : 1---Spirit Essence : 150---Kanva (Acquired Skill) :>Sundering Bunt---SeiJo (Equipment) :>Valiant Subject’s Ward>Bash Brain

The Incarnate spent the next few hours revising and discovering everything he knew about his Unique Quality.We had thought he would have a difficult time because of his injuries, but his Demonling body infused with Spirit Essence allowed him to do this comfortably.His flesh clamped down on itself, covering the tears in his muscles. The Incarnate had even though he was slowly healing, but he decided to wait a little longer before deciding that that was what was happening.In any case, while his body felt sore, he could move around just fine.When testing more about his Hermetic Vault, he found that this power had a lot of ins and outs (pun intended) that could be extremely useful, and most of them stemmed from its description, which read:‘Allows the user to store and retrieve anything – any entity and the forces applied on them – within a two-meter radius, in a special, sealed chamber.’Apparently, the Incarnate didn’t need to touch something for it to be added to the vault. A