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The Ultimate Devourer The academy (Part 1)
It didn't take us too much time to arrive at our destination, the bubble surrounding us dissipated as Malavai did a small presentation with his hands, indicating the existence of a gigantic building that floated in space, most likely due to an intricate barrier being constructed around it.The building was fully white with blue lines running to the middle and the sides of it. It had hundreds of thousands of rooms, being slightly smaller than the planet I and Shira had left behind.There were towers, classrooms, living quarters, experimentation sites, etc.It was a fully active academy as I saw students wearing their uniform which consisted of a blue blazer, white pants, black shoes, and a tie, flying inside the building, making them easily seen through the windows.The men wore pants, and the women wore skirts, but some also wore pants, so it looked like it was more of a preference thing.We were barely outside the entrance of the academy, where a few men were guarding it.They were k
The Ultimate Devourer The academy (Part 2)
Seeing we were no longer welcome, Malavai ushered us out of the principal's chambers before motioning for us to follow him toward that Fufflesnake's laboratory. Before I could ask about our new teacher, Shira beat me to it as she asked in a sweet tone of voice: "So, who is this professor anyways?" Malavai continued walking into the hallways, taking turns, opening doors that made us go through certain empty rooms, and sometimes returning the greetings of the students we met on the way. "Old Fufflesnake? He used to be a top fighter in our army, but he retired and decided to teach seedlings in the academy after gaining enough merit and the things he wanted from the Universal Catalog. He is a pretty eccentric person, but he is also quite normal at times, it's like he has two personalities that he randomly switches between. However, neither is too problematic to deal with, so you can easily learn from him whatever you need." Malavai made his way towards a particular door that had the
The Ultimate Devourer Professor 'Fufflesnake'
Waiting was boring, especially since we weren't technically allowed to do actions that might damage the surroundings too much. A small crack or breaking of a table or two was allowed, but activities beyond that range would become too visible in the barrier, so they would most likely send some law enforcers of the academy to penalize us. The small scuffle with Lisar wasn't anything to be taken note of, but if things became too big, things would become troublesome. However, there wasn't much to do besides waiting, and it was quickly getting quite boring, for some reason, my attempts at meditation failed, Shira just kept herself close to me as she moved the desk slightly closer to mine, combining them into a slightly longer desk. She didn't even care about the gaze of Lisar and the other girl (Malaria was it?) as she gave me a deep kiss on the mouth. I rose an eyebrow at her actions, we were in 'public' and we had two spectators right now, was this appropriate? I stopped her briefly
The Ultimate Devourer Practical training
Seeing how we learned the techniques he gave us rather quickly still impressed Fufflesnake, regardless of his personal feelings toward us. And as a teacher, he needed to be unbiased, at least on the surface. He could see from our expressions and the fluctuations in our energy that we have learned the techniques. Fufflesnake nodded to himself shortly before his croaky voice was heard: "Since you two can learn these techniques so quickly, I guess we can move our classroom to the practice area, Lisar, and Malaria should also be able to learn some things from sparring with you two." Fufflesnake tapped one finger on the teacher's desk, transferring us from the room towards a huge and somewhat empty room filled with training devices, heavy weights, meditation mats, sparring rings, etc. "For starters, you two should go and practice the technique you learned while I teach some things to Lisar and Malaria, after that, you four can spar. Of course, Shira and Minato, you two will have to sea
The Ultimate Devourer 'Unique talents' of the Alliance
My speed had been adjusted to their level, or else they wouldn't have been able to lay a hand on me. Lisar was almost out of the ring as he caught himself on the edge, taking two steps forward so he won't drop down. Malaria frowned as she clenched her fist and felt that she was unable to get out of my grasp. However, a small smile appeared on her face as dark purple ooze started to appear on her fist's skin, making direct contact with my palm. The ooze made sizzling sounds as it made contact with my palm, but I felt no need to do anything as I clenched my fist onto her fist even harder, making her feel that the bones in her fist were most likely going to break soon if she didn't somehow get out of my grasp. I narrowed my eyes lightly as I stepped to the side, letting go of Malaria's hand as I threw down the toxic poisonous sludge that was retained on my palm. Lisar had appeared out of my shadow once again, right now wielding a dagger made out of the pure shadow that glistened wi
The Ultimate Devourer Slowly mastering laws
Shira's head moved slightly as she opened her eyes and glanced at me before smiling, giving me a peace sign as she said cutely:"Success!"I nodded at her, then I sat near her as the somewhat weakened and slightly injured Lisar and Malaria sat opposite of us on the meditating mats.Professor Fufflesnake made his way toward us, standing slightly farther from the center of the half-circle we made.He looked down at our sitting forms and coughed a bit to regulate his voice, then he started to explain using a raspy tone:"The metal and poison laws interact quietly through fusion, but instead of going directly to the relationship between these two, I shall start with the easier law."Using his pale skinny fingers, he drew a grey-colored shield made out of energy into the air.He then started to dissect the shield slowly as he explained:"The metal law is made of 3 big segments, sturdiness, sharpness, and malleability.""Sturdiness is how hard you can make your metal be or how hard you can
The Ultimate Devourer Discovering the law limits (Part 1)
This time around, instead of needles being inserted in our brains, Fufflesnake changed the way he imparted the law to us.We were all sitting on the meditation mat, just like before, our eyes were wide open as we concentrated on Fufflesnake's figure.The teacher in question was currently sweating a little bit as he created a small green powder cloud before he opened his mouth to say:"Before I impart you this knowledge and experiences, I will first explain to you about the poison law."He glanced toward Shira as he continued:"Some people can comprehend the poison law from either encountering too many poisons, getting afflicted by them or simply due to the specialty of their bloodline. Even though I have encountered quite a lot of poisons during my life, I belong to the latter category, just like my name indicates, I have a snake bloodline.""I won't go into details about the bloodline, but all I can say is that it helped me greatly to learn and master the poison law."He then glanced
The Ultimate Devourer Discovering the law limit (Part 2)
My train of thought was broken by a quick slashing attack that almost cut through my sides with its sharpness. I had reinforced that part preventively using the metal law's hardness, but it wasn't enough considering how far Fufflesnake was ahead of me regarding the metal law. His appliances were pretty smart as well, which made me copy them and attack him in the same way, slowly adapting to his fighting style while learning more and more about the metal law. Unfortunately, the more I learned, the harder it became to master it. I was slowly touching upon the limits of the laws. They couldn't be mastered immediately in quick bursts, there needed to be delays between them, it was just like muscles and other aspects of the body. Training too much without any rest would lead to the muscles breaking. Any sudden and constant changes would need to be adapted, and it seemed like this applied to the laws as well. The moment I reached 60% mastery, I realized that I couldn't take any more
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The 'Heroes' of the universe fall? (Finale)
(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
Waiting for reinforcements in vain
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
Despair
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 devil makes his move
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
Organ changes
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
Test running ten laws
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
Researching the devouring ability
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
Concrete theories about the time law
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's changes
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
