The yellow-rated mission was situated in the northern part of the galaxy, while we were currently in the western part. It was quite a long journey to take, even with our current speeds, it would take at least 2 weeks of non-stop traveling. Unfortunately, green color missions were easy to do even for the most basic Alliance member, so the majority of people would take them the moment they were posted, resulting in a shortage of green-rated missions. I guess I could consider myself quite lucky that I have even been able to snatch one green-rated mission. Well, it wasn't like I could improve my soul if I just destroyed planets from above the atmosphere... The green difficulty planets were easy to destroy, but that meant no improvement in the soul department for me. I'm pretty sure those demons at the Yellow difficulty and above should have created some type of barrier or they should have created something else to protect their planet from outer attacks that would end up destroying th
I kept my senses alert and open to any dimensional attacks from The Devil, now that I was on his territory, I needed to keep my guard up 100% of the time.Seeing how I was becoming serious made the green-skinned demon slowly lose his drunken stupor as the bones he used to pin my wrists and legs became sharper and tried to dig into my flesh.But the moment that happened, clanging sounds came from the contact between my metalized flesh and the bones that were attempting to dig into my body.I smiled at his attempt to injure me as I drew the sword out of my armor's storage space.I enhanced the blade with a golden sheen as I slashed forward, sending a flying slash directly toward the green demon who bent his back backward as if he had no bones in his body, barely dodging the flying slash as it flew ahead and cut into the other demons who were fighting with Shira and were unable to get out of the way in time, transforming them into mincemeat.Shira glanced back at me as I shrugged my shou
After the destruction of the first yellow-difficulty planet, we started to travel towards the second one, which wasn't that far from the first one. Shira and I dropped directly through the barrier, creating a crater on the surface of the planet. We looked around as we were immediately encircled by demons, this time around it was just like I thought it would be. Even the 7 sin wielders came forward and started to fight us, using their annoying abilities to keep us in check while the lower-ranked demons tried to exhaust and bleed us out. Unfortunately for them, we weren't dumb enough to come to this place without a plan, plus our strength was quite higher compared to theirs, so it was easy to make them think they were winning at first before dealing them a thunderous blow that made them stagger and lose all of their strength. The encirclement was broken as we killed four of the seven sin wielders, the other three capitulated and said they wanted to become our subordinates, but we h
Shira didn't say anything as we slowly started to float into the air. After we bombed the planet into smithereens, and we found no fragment of a world item once again we slowly began to fly towards the last yellow-mission planet. Shira didn't even look in my direction as she flew slightly farther away, keeping a distance between us. it was obvious she was extremely upset with my words and actions, which would affect her future battle capabilities, and the increasing difficulty of the missions meant that she might become a burden. I did love her, but that didn't mean that I would let her skulk around for the wellbeing of some nobodies that she wanted to save. I knew that Shira's opinion was important to her, but I was unable to accept it, especially since it made her do such useless things. She had gone through such dangerous situations, she backstabbed, and her father wanted to take over her body to complete his power since she has been conceived, and yet, she was still quite pur
Well, the natives could wait until we got rid of the demons in front of us.The canon fodder had already been mostly taken care of, leaving us to deal with the seven sin wielders and the 3 peculiar law users.The sin wielders were easy to guess since we had prior experience with the type of abilities they wielded, the problem was dealing with these 3 new law users.I and Shira nodded at each other in unison, we had to blitz the sin users to lower the difficulty of the fight ahead.I and Shira appeared directly in front of the wrath sin user, hitting him directly in the head with a combination attack.My metalized hands broke his face in while Shira's fiery fists burnt it into cinders, removing his head from his shoulders and killing the demon instantly.One sin down, six to go.Our movements were too quick, but the demons weren't dumb and they understood that we started to get rid of the weaker party to pave our way to victory.So the demons started to pair up, standing back to back.
Shira and I forcefully descended through the barrier after we have finished killing all of the demons.The barrier cracked and broke under our combined weight as we made our way toward the planet's surface.This place was filled with yellowed-out trees, small jungles, and a few deserts, the oceans that were supposed to be more prominent were already quickly losing water as drought was seemingly being unleashed onto the planet by a superior force.I frowned as I could feel that the hand of the devil fragment was at work here, the fragment had two ways to awaken, one, take the seven sins from the demons that had gotten their paws on them while he had been sleeping, which most of the time wasn't possible since the demons wouldn't let their powers be taken willingly.The demons respected and listened to the devil's orders, but if the orders went against what they wanted/needed to do, the demons might refuse them.Unfortunately, for the devil, a fragmented consciousness that wasn't fully a
Shira was slowly realizing something as her red eyes stopped trembling and her crying stopped.She used both of her hands to clear her eyes from tears as she looked up at me and said slowly:"I-I- understand now, I understand why you want to reach the ultimate level of strength, you felt stifled once, just like me now, you wanted to control your fate, you didn't want to feel that sensation of powerlessness ever again!"I nodded at her words, even though my situation was certainly way more dangerous, and life-changing than hers, I was sure that she was slowly molding into a more serious version of herself after this event.It was impossible to go from being determined to do something to being dead-set on that certain thing after one setback like this one.Even though Shira had been quite angry at the loss of the natives' lives, this wasn't anything too important in the big scheme of things, thus her 'loss' could only be considered quite small, but at least with this experience, I hoped
The familiar cold aura came from Hanzo, the leader of the Ice Palace... We had refused his invitation to his sect one year back, and I wasn't sure if he held a grudge for that.At the time, he truly looked like he needed someone to inherit his mantle as leader of the sect, and our refusal should have put him in a tough position, especially since Malavai had injured him in that brief fight they had.He was approaching our position at a quick speed along with tens of what seemed to be his subordinates.I wasn't sure since I couldn't poke with my soul sense too close, or they would be able to realize that I was spying on them.However, they were already coming quickly toward our location, meaning that they should have found out about us already.Hanzo might have even sensed my soul sensing, but he didn't seem to say anything to his subordinate, he just looked forward as he flew through the space in front of him, making his way toward our location as his subordinates followed behind him s