Book 6: Chapter 24


    <strong>Scarlet</strong>


    The orb of Red gue is so massive that – since we’re right up close – I can’t see anything other than it. It’s like I’m on a. Which I guess I am floating right above a. Just that it’s one made of Red gue.


    Although it looks more like a small sun than a. What with the Red gue asionally jumping out and then back into the massive orb of liquid.


    Except that there aren’t really any gasses around it.


    I admire the thing for a few seconds while slowly backing away. Seeing as the is slowly moving towards me even now.


    And after admiring it long enough, I stop moving away and swipe my right arm through the air while dering, <strong>“I order you to stop.”</strong>


    The of Red gue freezes in an instant. But I can tell that it’s trying to struggle against mymand.


    Since I’m not the true owner of this Red gue yet. It’s trying to merge with me, sure. But it’s not me just yet.


    I have to absorb and devour it, or it has to absorb and devour me first.<strong>“Tar,” </strong>I state without borating, and the new Fae King immediately takes his cue and enters the void.


    It’ll be dangerous here after all.


    Now that Tar is out of the way of any danger, I float forwards before cing my hand up to the orb of glowing blood. Only to blink in surprise when I notice something moments before my hand is about to make contact with it.


    Tar, can you still hear me?


    <strong>“Yes,” </strong>he responds, his voice resonating in my head despite not being here.


    I sense something… strange. In the orb.


    He doesn’t say anything for a few seconds before answering, <strong>“Do you know what it is?”</strong>


    I frown and shake my head.


    No, I don’t.


    <strong>“Then be careful,” </strong>Tar says, leaving it off like that without saying anything else.


    Since when am I not… I don’t think I’m going to finish that thought.


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    I hear chuckling in my head before I reach out the rest of the way and touch the orb. Immediately making the Red gue within it begin rushing into my body as the glowing red veins return to their full brightness and I feel my head jerking back to stare upwards.


    At the same time, light shines straight out of my eyes and I somehow <em>feel </em>the strange symbols throbbing in them. Sending a pulse through my body and into the hand that’s currently draining the Red gue.


    A painful yet also exhrating feeling washes over every inch of my body as the Red gue rushes into me. But as more of it rushes into me, and I devour everyst bit of what does, I begin to realize that it’s growing more and more resistant with every bit thates into me.


    Eventually the sheer thickness of it at the center of the begins to wane, and I realize there really is something inside of the Red gue.


    Something vaguely familiar to me.


    I manage to lower my head again now, no longer overwhelmed by the influx of pure power or the flood of System Messages telling me I’m leveling up. And after just a little bit longer spent absorbing the, right as I’m about three quarters of the way through the process and hit level 2500, the breaks away from me. Making me blink in surprise.


    But what surprises me more is the sensation of somethinging out of the Red gue.


    My eyes narrow at therge shadow rising to the surface.


    <strong>“Holy shit…” </strong>Tar mutters, and I can’t help but nod my head in agreement when the creature breaks out of the surface.


    The creature is several hundred meters in length, with ck scales glowing with an eerie crimson light from beneath them. Kind of like my veins. And the light reminds me a lot of the Red gue.


    More importantly though, I <em>sense </em>Red gue filling the creature’s body. Just like my own.


    The thin has a massive tail spanning about twice the length of its body, with four legs, and a rtively long neck leading to its draconic visage. With two eerie crimson eyes that remind me of my own staring at me with anger and hatred clear in its gaze.


    Then, after a few seconds of staring, the dragon lets out a loud roar that shakes all of thes and stars nearby the two of us.


    I narrow my gaze slightly at the dragon while floating in space a few dozen meters in front of it. But when our eyes meet, I can’t help but feel a faint smirk stretching across my face.


    Out of nowhere, former-King Oberon and Titania appear nearby with shocked looks on their faces. Clearly not expecting this turn of events.


    And I can’t help but smile at that sight.


    Because it means this wasn’t within their predictions.


    It’s new. Not foreseen.


    And I just feel happy knowing something real is about to happen. Something not predicted andid out in front of me.


    I spread both of my hands out while floating upwards a little bit, my jacket and hair billowing behind me in the process due to the aura being let off by the dragon and my own upward movement.


    What I see in this dragon’s eyes. It’s not unintelligent. The thing looks like it’s smart. It knows exactly what it’s doing.


    And despite the fact that it’s clearly got Red gue flowing through its own body, its eyes show that it isn’t 100% Red gue like I am. Because there aren’t any symbols in its eyes unlike mine.


    Add that to the inherent superiority I feel when I look at the creature, and the fact that this thing looks like it’s not ss V but almost ss VI, and this battle is going to be interesting.


    Very, <em>very </em>interesting.


    I transform into my massive wolf form and howl at the same time as the dragon roars once more.


    Then we charge at each other, shing w to w and sending a shockwave out that destroys the uninhabiteds nearest to us.