Our attempts at making the liches stop their fusion were very slow.The attacks we were doing on their melted bones could only scratch them on the surface as an energy shield was protecting them, and even my sharp sword was unable to cut through it in one attempt.I needed to hack at the shield 2 or 3 times at very quick speeds to break through, and the bones were also able to recover in the blink of an eye.This was problematic.I looked at Ludeus and he nodded back at me as he said:"I have a magic that should be able to break the shield, so you can go ahead and destroy all three of them!"Ludeus started to gather energy in his arms as fire exploded from his body and it all concentrated upon his arms.Sweat drops started to drip from his forehead as his face flushed and he coughed some blood due to the internal injuries he had sustained in the fight beforehand when he was 3v1.I started to insert a lot of energy inside the sword as I waited for Ludeus's signal.I combined three elem
Seeing how I was being skeptical about his decision to stay on the human continent, Ludeus couldn't help but chuckle as he said:"I got quite a huge improvement from fighting those three for such a long time, it might not be visible now since I'm quite exhausted, but you will see very soon. The talent of this girl you gave me is so high that it surprised me more than once since I have taken control of her body!"A flaming aura engulfed Shira's body as Ludeus controlled the energy inside of it, making me narrow my eyes as I felt slightly pressured by the amount of energy that seeped from that aura.I took one step forward as I unleashed my aura, making Ludeus rise his eyebrows as he asked:"Hey, I have an idea, why don't we spar a little bit after I rest up?"Ludeus smiled as he looked at me and continued:"It's been a while since our last spar, and this time around, I think that this one will last quite a little bit more compared to the last one."I was wondering how strong did Ludeus
"Let's start with the easy things."Alliron glanced back at me as he said:"For starters, to increase the overall level of our planet, we first need to gather all the living beings on it and make them all strive for improvement together.""However, most of the inhabitants on this planet would never give a second thought to the plan that I and mother had put up. They are selfish, and they would go against it, and might even band together to go against the elves and the world tree even if we gave them some good benefits, just like we did to you.""Most people are stubborn and don't want to change their view on things, thinking that the way they are going is right, even though most of the time it's so wrong.""But they are blind, oh so blind to the truth."Alliron sighed as he told me all of those things before he continued:"For starters I want us to first enslave the Orcs in the Duramato continent since they are the closest and after that, we can move on to the other civilizations, eve
The fight was slowly escalating as the three Old Orcs were slowly reaching the peak of their anger.The energy around their body was slowly turning crimson from the previously pure white color that had encased them.Their physical strength and the potency of their magic had also reached another level, slowly starting to push me back, making me have to rely on more than swordsmanship to get the upper hand.I knew a lot of techniques, and all of them could be combined with my wielding of the sword!The bloodline inside of me continued to seethe and yearn for battle.My hearts pumped as the hot blood inside my veins was making me roar:"HAAA!"My brains worked in unison as my soul filled my body at a perfect angle, making the potency of my attacks increase as I reached soul resonance!The soul resonated with the body, reaching the full potential that the individual that got this milestone could achieve in battle.The power in my blade strikes increased up to two times as I pushed back th
My head felt like something pounded on it too many times, and by the time I woke up, I realized that I was still in the same place where I have fainted.Alliron was near me as he waved at my barely conscious form and he said:"Finally woke up?"I didn't bother responding to him as I heard my hearts beating like two drums, the blood inside my body had achieved the evolution required to awaken the bloodline of those two primordial elves.However, I only felt slightly stronger, and there was nothing special from the awakening besides that.It wasn't like with Sahrona when she instantly got stronger after awakening her bloodline and the more she fought using her bloodline, the stronger she got.It was quite different for me.Seeing how I was slowly understanding the newly awakened bloodline in my veins, Alliron declined against commenting, as he knew that the bloodlines of his younger and older brother were quite different from his.Especially now that they have been mixed.Things are goi
Alliron dusted his clothes as he got up and said:"We shall leave the Orcs to their own devices, for now. Follow me to the northern continent, with your awakened bloodline. You might be able to gain some experience and help me convince the dwarves to ally with us.""Let's go."My response was short and to the point, Alliron nodded and patted my shoulder as we disappeared from the hot desert we previously were in before we found ourselves in a tundra filled with ice and snow.The sudden change of temperature bothered me for a few seconds before I adapted, I looked at Alliron, and he had his eyes closed as he said:"It looks like the dwarves had changed their location, but it's not surprising as they are nomadic people."Alliron's soul energy exploded from his body as he scanned the continent, and his eyebrows rose as he said:"Quite a lot of undead of unknown origin on the surface, they must be the lackeys of the demons. I also found the dwarves, they have noticed my snooping around, s
Alliron patted my shoulder as we disappeared from the surface of the northern continent. I blinked once and the snow-covered fields that were previously in my view had transformed into medium-sized buildings that looked quite advanced as they were made only from white bricks, they oozed a special aura as they seemed to be imbued with souls! I glanced around and I saw that we were encircled by Dwarves. Small people who weren't taller than 1.4 meters, strong packed physiques that were full of muscles, black or brown beards that hung to their waists. They all had full-body runic armor on their bodies, and they wielded runic swords, axes, hammers, and spears. They seemed to be proficient in them as well, as I could feel a little danger from these Dwarves that surrounded us. Their auras weren't anything special at first glance, but they didn't seem to unleash their full strength, also the weapons they wielded were only a little bit worse compared to my sword! Their armors were slight
Red Hand's smile was quite predatory as he looked at Alliron and said:"You know, I have always been making a special training room, just because you always broke apart the public arena when we sparred!"Then he sighed as he continued:"But you have disappeared for such a long time, that room had already been gathering dust for a few hundred of years."His eyes turned serious for a few seconds before they returned to a jovial mood as he told Gold Hand:"Now it's up to you and that young man to test the durability of the training room I created!"At this point, any fight between Alliron and Red Hand would create too much of a commotion, they could already somewhat understand what type of strength each other had, so they wouldn't be fighting anymore no matter how much their hands itched.I followed Alliron and Red Hand while Gold Hand stood near me as we walked towards the special training room that Red Hand had constructed.It took us a few minutes to arrive at one of the biggest build
(WARNING, VERY LONG CHAPTER AHEAD!) The devil's red eyes were hypnotizingly horrid as they taunted me insidiously. The way he raised his eyebrow as he kept the leaders of the alliance bay e made me know that he was slowly getting his strength back. Sooner or later, he would be able to push both of them back and kill them! His body language told it so, the facts told it so, and the two alliance leaders knew it as well, it was obvious from the perspiration that was flowing down from their foreheads that things weren't as good as they seemed on the surface. Was death that close to me? I could feel blood gurgling in my throat as the devil sent a claw through space to immediately appear in front of my throat and pierce it. However, my instincts were still as sharp as ever, so I was able to barely take a step back before the claw would fully penetrate my throat and tear it out. I glared at the offending appendage that almost ripped my throat out, but a finger snap made the insides of
The devil didn't have enough time to retrieve all of his fragments, thus stopping at the strength of around 24 mastered laws. However, this amount of strength was still too high for me to deal with. The two alliance leaders nodded at each other before looking at me and saying: "You have done your best, but your incompetent allies dragged you down, you can go now, there is nothing you could do in this type of fight anymore." I wanted to leave since I was given permission, but could I? The devil's red eyes targeted me immediately after he regained his bearings from being hit by the dual uppercut. "You... yes, the fragments told me about you." "You have interfered with me countless times, do you think that I will let you go that easily?!" The devil opened his mouth and started to spit flames at me, his gigantic body immediately shrunk to a smaller human-sized form as he fought back and forth with the two alliance leaders, he knew that he wouldn't be able to recover all of his frag
I could feel my hearts jump into my throat as I looked at the recovering magic circle, I failed?I clutched my chest as I growled at the encircling demons, making them take a few steps back as they understood that they were way over their heads by attempting to attack me, even though I haven't fully recovered my energy after I launched that nuke at the immobile devil fragments, the 17 laws that flowed around my body created an impenetrable shield that not many people would be able to break.The demons may be scared by me, but they were all emboldened by the fact that one of the fragments had survived and melded with the magic circle!I wasn't entirely sure what the circle was supposed to do, but it was certainly nothing good.I wanted to fly towards it and break it apart now that there was no one to protect it, but the demons that were previously scared of me started to create a wall of bodies as they tightened the encirclement around me, the morale of the alliance had already dropped
The distance between the two black difficulty planets was quite far away, so it took me ten hours of traveling at my quickest speed to reach it.This time around, this new planet was on full defensive mode, the fragment I killed must have told the other nearby awakened pieces about what I had done to him before his death.But at this point, where my strength had reached a whooping 17 laws, 4 of them being a specialization law, how could the flimsy barrier around this planet even withstand my strength?I punched forward, making the barrier crack and break without even having to find its weak spots.The demons that were on standby for defense crumbled along with the barrier from the shockwaves of my initial attack...Most of them were weaklings that didn't even learn one law, it looked like the devil only left behind cannon fodder...There were no ambushes as I dropped down on the planet, the weaklings that were dumb enough to get near me were squashed to death by my aura as I didn't ev
The organs of the devil fragment were certainly quite larger compared to the demons or other races that I have encountered up till now.They had a certain heavy weight to them, and I could feel that they were hard to the touch, almost like a rock.They were also in different shapes compared to the average human, or even the average humanoid specie.The heart was in a triangle shape, the lungs were square, and the liver was just like a small ball.The intestines were quite short as they seemed to have evolved for utmost efficiency in energy conversion from the stomach to the whole body.I continued to analyze the shapes of the organs before I couldn't help but be curious about their taste.I took the triangle heart with both hands since it was quite heavy and big, and I started munching on it, splattering some blood on my face.The taste was very bland, toxic even, the organs of the devil were filled with a certain poisonous substance that even bypassed the poison-proof constitution th
After comforting Shira for a bit, I could feel my hands becoming quite itchy as I felt the need to test my newly gained strength.Even though the seven laws I have plundered could be considered inferior, quantity could still be used to crush the quality opposition when it was in a high enough number.As long as my opponent had eight or below laws, I should be able to easily deal with them, as for nine and above. I had to fight someone at that level to understand my place on the strength scales a little better.I wasn't sure about the powers of the top dogs of the universe, so I had to slowly find out while messing with the devil's plans in passing.A fully awakened devil fragment who was able to get his hands on the seven sins would be equal to a normal being that had learned and mastered seven laws.He would be the perfect test partner.Fortunately, I could easily infer the location of such heavily infected planets through the alliance's medal.I was able to find out about the locati
After we left the vacation planet, we started to attack low-level corrupted planets that had a few law-wielding demons.The experimentation started from there.I started by dissecting the demons and seeing how the laws were embedded in their bodies after they have mastered them.I have attempted to learn from introspection, but I could not properly see all angles inside my body, and some places were obscured for some reason.Now, by dissecting these weaker demons, I was able to infer how the laws would settle in the body, and by extension, I might be able to learn how I could apply the devouring ability to strip them of their laws and make them mine.From what I found out, the first law would settle near the heart in the form of the element that was comprehended.The second would go onto one lung, the third on the other...Atleast that's what I thought it would go like considering that I was only able to slay and dissect demons that wielded up to 2 laws.I was able to somewhat see the
With the usage of a few bribes and some 'honeyed words' I was able to immediately regain control over the organization.I sat in the control room of the barrier as I made some adjustments to it, slowly incorporating the runes and other features that I have been able to master during the time I have been controlling the Ice Palace's barrier.This place needed an upgrade, and all I had to do was change a few things on the medium to make those changes, no extra materials were needed! Quite convenient.I had to fill my time with something while my underlings were doing their best to find out the things that I inquired about.Surprisingly, this academy had a library with quite a lot of books filled with neat tidbits of information. However, during my time in the academy, I didn't seem to be able to find such a library, even though I had visited most of the corridors and other important rooms of the academy...Quite strange...I even asked Shira if she knew that the academy had a library, b
Shira seemed to be the same, but also quite different at the same time, almost as if she was a familiar person that I haven't seen in a long while that changed so much that she was almost unrecognizable, but I would still know her because of small things, like her voice, her face, etc...Shira took my hand into hers, it was cold, very cold, it looked like she had entirely changed from her previous fire-based nature to an ice one, such a drastic shift... it should have been really painful and deadly for her.And she didn't even come to me even once when she thought about doing such a thing, was she thinking for my sake, or did she think that I would dissuade her from doing such a perilous experiment?I hugged her tightly, and she hugged me back, while her appearance and demeanor had small changes, her personality seemed to be the same.Shira giggled lightly as she broke off the hug and said:"Oww, you were worried about me?"I nodded lightly at her question and asked with a little worr