Book 2: Chapter 87: Ascension


    <strong>Scarlet</strong>


    It only takes a few minutes for me to reach my suite, and I immediately head towards my room afterwards before sitting on my bed.


    So how do I ascend?


    <strong>I would rmend taking your magi-tech armor off and maybe wearing something you wouldnt mind getting dirty, </strong>Tar says, making my eyes narrow at that. <strong>And not sitting on your bed.</strong>


    Okay


    I deactivate my magi-tech armor, leading to me sitting on my bed wearing a regr shirt, ck and red jacket, and ck pants. Then I get up and go to my closet to change. Only to pause as I remember the clean skill.


    <strong>Some things are <em>too</em> filthy to clean with the skill, </strong>Tar suddenly says when he sees me turn around to go sit on the ground somewhere. So I once again turn around and continue heading to my closet.


    Something I wouldnt mind getting dirty I dont really have any swimsuits, so I guess Ill just go with my old workout outfit from before I became a Guardian of a sports bra and shorts. Something I would only wear using my own personal workout equipment, and not a gym.


    I quickly go to change beforeing back to my room and pausing.


    If I really am going to make something <em>that</em> dirty, then do I really want to do this in my room where Ill be sleeping?


    With that thought in mind, I decide to go somewhere else to do this. To the bath which I almost never use thanks to the clean skill.


    A ratherrge and wide open bath at that. Quite luxurious.


    I lie down in it before asking out loud, So how do I start the ascension process?


    Without Tar even getting the chance to answer me, the Systems voice suddenly registers in my head.


    <strong>[You havepleted all the requirements to reach ss II. Would you like to ascend?]</strong>


    Yes, I would, I state out loud in response to the System.


    <strong>[Confirmation received. Ascension to ss II will now begin.]</strong>


    Then nothing happens.


    I stare up at the ceiling from my spot awkwardly lying in my empty bath for a few seconds before I open my mouth to speak, only for a burning pain to suddenly re up all throughout my entire body. And at the same time, I feel a very simr feeling but also quite different at the same time as when I first awakened as a half demon return to me. My vision suddenly begins to shift between a red tinted vision and regr vision over and over again, I feel my hearts begin beating faster and faster, and extreme pain radiates from my head, particrly in two different ces. Behind and around my eyes, and around where my human ears are.


    <strong>Im sorry, but I cant help you this time, </strong>I hear Tars voice through the fog of pain in my mind. <strong>Not like I did thest time.</strong>


    The pain suddenly spikes, and Im left screaming on the ground as I feel some sort of liquid leave the pores of my skin all over my entire body. And through the haze of pain, through the fading and reappearing red tint in my vision, I can see that the liquid is blood mixed with some sort of ck substance.


    <strong>The ck liquid are all of the impurities in your body that the ascension is removing, including the ones left behind by the burning of your human genes, </strong>Tars voice echoes in my head, not helping with the pain at all. <strong>Ill stay quiet.</strong>


    Time passes, and the pain only grows worse and worse. But no matter how bad it gets, its as if its simply impossible for me to fall unconscious during this process. A damned cruel fact that is.


    At some point the pain around my eyes begins to fade a little, but at the same time, a vicious pain surfaces around the very center of my torso, along with another one around my fingernails. And after a few seconds of this pain, I can begin to see ck ws forcing their way out of my fingers, ripping my fingernails off in the process and making my screaming go up an octave.


    Fortunately that part of the pain onlysts for the brief time my ws came in. And then the ws suddenly transform into regr fingernails again as if they had never appeared in the first ce.


    But the pain at my core continues burning at me for a while, meanwhile I can see a bright crimson lighting from my eyes reflecting off of the mirror in the bathroom.


    Then all at once, the pain vanishes, leaving me slumping in the bath feeling half dead while covered in my own blood and ording to Tar, impurities.


    Without an ounce of hesitation, I immediately use pain diffusion to get rid of the lingering soreness and difort Im feeling despite the pain being gone. Because at some point the skill started letting me remove other feelings aside from just pain. Like regr difort, and even stress.


    Whiches in very handy right now.


    Ascensionplete.


    User is now ss II.


    No more pain then?


    <strong>No more pain, </strong>Tar says in aforting manner.


    I just nod my head, not really wanting to talk about that experience again.


    <strong>I would like to say that it gets better, but that would be lying, </strong>Tar says while floating above me and looking down at my clothes. <strong>To be blunt, it actually gets worse. And I would rmend burning those clothes.</strong>


    Its at that point that I notice the rank smell. An absolutely <em>putrid </em>stench that has my nose scrunching up and me immediately jumping out of the bath, only to realize that that didnt do much good. Seeing as Im covered in the stuff too, with my clothes soaked in it.


    Damnit. At least new clothes arent a problem. Actually, I have plenty already.


    And these System messages can wait till I get cleaned. Because I am <em>not </em>reading them like this.


    <strong>I wouldnt be surprised if there was some sort of cleaning chemical in the bathroom here meant for ascensions, considering how luxurious this ce is, </strong>Tar randomlyments, making my mouth open for a second, only to close again immediately when I feel some of that gunk get into it, almost making me vomit immediately.


    <strong>Oh, and you might want to look into the mirror, </strong>Tar suddenly says, reminding me that I should be 62.5% blood lycan now and only 37.5% human. So I turn my head to look at the mirror, only to not really notice much different.


    Until Tar floats over to my head and points at the side of it, where I finally notice something missing.


    I dont have human ears anymore.