When I arrived back at Nua's home, I was greeted by Nua's father, who approached me slowly, and then patted my shoulder before saying:"Hey there, Minato. I heard quite a lot of gossip about you and my wife. You didn't even taste the daughter, and you want the mother now?!"However, his words came with a joking tone as there was no malice in his eyes, it was quite obvious he didn't put the gossip into his heart, but he still had the time to joke around about it.He was a funny guy, I chuckled awkwardly and shook my head, making him laugh as he said:"Nua is inside. she said that if you are hungry, she will provide you with more blood."I nodded at him and decided to drink some more of her blood. It would be needed to get more memories about the blood elf tribe without having to ask around. That would lead to my cover being blown.I went inside the house as the father decided to leave us alone, her mother was nowhere in sight as we were the only ones in the house.Oh, they were already
Narwa had just finished the story when her husband walked in, seeing us talking to each other with no Nuwa in sight made him understand that she got quite exhausted after our 'actions'.He made a serious expression as he wanted to listen to the conversation, but it had already finished."What have you two been talking about?"Narwa looked at her husband and then told him that she had informed me about Nuwa's situation."Oh, so now you know why she had chosen you this quickly?"I nodded, and responded:"It seems like she is on the rebound after losing her former boyfriend, and she is now leaning on me for support because I'm one of the survivors, she is most likely projecting his image over mine."Narwa's eyes widened as she listened to my logical and mature response. Even though I was young, that didn't mean the bandits didn't teach me how to seduce, it all came in the same pack with acting!Getting a heartbroken woman on the rebound was rather easy, but it wasn't going to be a long o
The guards listened to me and decided to come to my house a few days later, just as I instructed them.It was most likely that they would report what happened to the higher-ups, but they would see it as an opportunity to use the blood elves' infighting to get rid of them!It was hard to sleep with a wolf as your neighbor, the rumors about the blood elves' hunger and instability made them enemy number one in the humanized elves' eyes, combined with the fact that they became more and more distrusting, paranoid and hateful as they accepted the human lifestyle made them as unstable as the blood elves!The humanized elves accepting human nature was the worst thing that could happen to the elf race, but it was a very good thing for me!I found an empty house and decided to rest there, sometimes doing simple shadow-boxing matches with imaginary opponents to keep my wits sharp, other times experimenting with the blood-hardening technique.I would need to become quite proficient with it to con
Even though he wasn't fully conscious during this 'rage mode' he was using, Zichi could still follow me around and recognize me.Did I strike such an intimate cord to the point his hatred was this intense?Despite his recognition, he was still as uncontrollable as ever, so even though he could follow me around, that didn't mean he didn't create mass destruction everywhere he went by. It got to the point that the training troops of the blood elf tribe had to be summoned to retrain him, but as soon as they arrived, the humanized elves' reinforcement came, and they started fighting with the blood elf's troops!It was pandemonium, the children were crying, and the elderly were shaking as they tried to protect their grandsons and granddaughters.The able-bodied men tried to fight it off with the humanized elves while protecting their weaker compatriots, the troops were trying to take the fights away from the living areas, but the humanized elves didn't care!They used elemental magic combi
I could feel the energy I got from eating Narwa settling inside my body, even though the changes in my body had been finished, there was still quite a lot of energy that needed to be digested, and my body still had room to improve from this meal.The energy inside Narwa's body was immense, and even though she was diseased, the energy in her body didn't disappear, she was just unable to use it!The bone disease would flare up, and injure her marginally every time she tried to use her energy, thus she was unable to compete as a fighter in the army anymore.The bone disease came from a fight against one of the dark elves' generals. Normally, such a disease should be easily healed by the elders of the tribe, but from her memories, I learned that the procedure was too dangerous for her, she would need to keep her consciousness while her bones were all removed and replaced, enduring the pain of having her bones removed while conscious wasn't something that Narwa was able to endure, regardle
The further we went up on the tower, the higher the gravity became. The first time when I entered, the higher level of gravity had been turned off, so I wouldn't be turned into paste, but by the time we reached the 4th floor, I could feel my internal organs shake due to the immense amount of pressure that was put on them.My will was tenacious, so I was able to endure, but the pain of having such a huge load put upon your shoulders, then on your internal organs, muscles, bones, and even brain was something that I could barely endure.It was somewhat similar to the feeling of disintegration I had when I ate too much.To be frank, gravity also increased the body's heat, making me sweat buckets, thus affecting my balance and almost crushing me under my weight.No matter what type of gravity we experienced, Sikaw looked nonchalant as he meditated and waited for me to adapt.It looked like his body had most likely adapted to the same level of gravity as the elders.Blood magic was only ten
In the dream, my parents were happily teaching me how to milk a goat, when all of a sudden, everything trembled, their faces turned dark, and they pointed at me saying:"Run! Run!"They told me to run, and I did, but I seemingly couldn't move. My parents looked at me with horror as my mother was snatched, and my father's head flew into the sky, then a geyser of blood came out of his cut neck.It was just like 9 years ago... I was 16 now, and I was 7 back then.Life had changed so much...I closed my eyes for one second as the dream changed how I saw fit, the decapitated body disappeared as the corpses of all of the bandits appeared around me, all of them with their heads cut off and impaled on spikes.I had gotten my revenge, but I was still feeling empty, this dream reminded me that my mother was still out there, but even though I was empty, I also did not care about her, or her wellbeing, it was strange, almost contradictory, my consciousness wanted me to see her, but at the same ti
In the uppermost city of the elves sat a gigantic castle made out of golden metal, it was inscribed with elvish runes, encrusted with precious gems, and it had a special aura created from a barrier that made it nigh impenetrable from the outside.It was a fortress and the home of the ruling class of humanized elves.A general who wore a special armor colored blue as the sky could be seen banging at the doors of the castle, asking for permission to enter so he could report the situation of the underground city.The doors opened, and he was let through. The man had been previously in the castle. Still, his eyes couldn't help but wander to the opulent sculptures, tall spires, and beautiful but outlandish and perverted paintings of naked young men and women of different races mingling together.Maids were running around, doing errands, butlers awaiting orders, and some of the young men who had royal blood were even pushing down maids right there in the hallways that lead to the throneroom
(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