《Cursed Anti-Hero Against the Gods》


 Ch 1 Cursed for Eternity

    "I died as a hostage, that is all I remember. I was shopping for a gift at the local mall because my sister was to be married. But it was just my luck that the mall was assaulted by a terrorist organisation. Then why wasn''t i save you might ask, well it was because they were the worst police negotiators ever, apparently they didn''t think a mentally unstable terrorist group wasn''t going to shoot their captives at all if they denied the demands. So here I am waiting in an empty white space as far as the eye can see with only a lady who I can only guess is an angel working for god at a desk with a quill, ink and stacks of papers that i assume are files of people who died like me." (Nameless)


    "Next in line, hurry it up, as you can see their are a lot of files here and i want to end my shift on time for once." (Reception Lady)


    "One after another little balls oflight were floating in a line towards the Receptionist and as time passed it seemed like forever and then I saw it, a little white door off in the distance and rather than wait in an endless line, i decided to head towards it, after all why would i want to reincarnate so fast when I was just brutally killed on Earth. Approaching the door I peered inside and slowly floated in, strange, why am I not fazed out over the fact that i have no legs and can fly? Once inside, what I saw was a round table with fourteen seats, almost like the myth of King Arthur. Floating aroundI saw food and what appeared to be red wine. Wondering if I was able to eat, I floated to the table and tried to eat and drink." (Nameless)


    "What?! It seems that I absorb it into me and dissolve it. Too bad there is no flavor at all. Well fine then i''ll just rest in one of those comfortable looking chairs."


    "For what seemed like an eternity i reseted in the largest chair which seemed like a king size bed to the small me who was an orb of light. Then it happened, I heard an angry shrill scream in front of me and I saw the most attractive women I had ever seen, if i had to liken her to someone, it would be Aphrodite the greek goddess of love. But what happened next, I would always swear revenge upon the ten gods for." (Namless)


    "Who do you think you are, to dare infiltrate the holy sanctum of the ten gods and sit in my chair! You even ate all the prepared food and drink. How dare you who doesn''t know their place as an ant beneath my feet cause such a problem." (Goddess of Love)


    "Snapping her fingers a pink cage scented with perfume manifested around me, and then i was forcibly restrained on top of the table in the dead center. And without further ado, what happened to me next was such overkill that wasn''t needed, but it wasn''t until the very near future that I learned why the ten gods did it and i would set me on my quest for revenge for not only me but my eventual saviours." (Nameless)


    Nine more gods arrived, and upon seeing a little ball of light floating in a cage, missing food and wine, with an angry love goddess, they then became extremely irate.Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.


    "I knew I was screwed but I still attempted to plead my case. Ahem, excuse me for the intrusion but almighty ten gods, i was mistaken to come here, i thought this was a to be my afterlife of lounging for eternity in a small room. If you''ll excuse me, then I will leave right away." (Nameless)


    "Too bad for you, today was to be an extremely special day that involves that fate of the world, so your are not getting out without divine punishment." (Goddess of Love)


    "Upon hearing such a remark, I felt a really dark chill go up my spine... wait I don''t have a spine.... anyways this is the worst case scenario. I tried to plead with the other nine gods but honestly I could see that they were just as angry, apparently I really messed up. From what I could gather, a hero was supposed to be summoned to that world I was to be reincarnated into. Maybe the Hero was supposed to come into this room and not me. Oh well. I can only hope that they will be lenient and just cause me some pain or something. Of course that wouldn''t happen." (Nameless)


    You have been cursed by the Space/Time God.


    You have been cursed by the God of Crafts and Cooking.


    You have been cursed by the Love Goddess


    You have been cursed by the Goddess of Magic


    You have been cursed by the Goddess of Light


    You have been cursed by the God of Fortune


    You have been cursed by the God of Crossroads and Destiny


    You have been cursed by the Goddess of Life


    You have been cursed by the God of Medicine and Health


    You have been cursed by the God of Literature, Music and Knowledge


    "No! This was my only thought as I heard these messages resound inside of me, Iactually felt my little light soul body feel like it was being ringed like a towel and then my spirit color changed from the same gold as all the others to black, this was probably to signify i was cursed by the gods. Then I saw what appeared to be a void gate open up in front of the cage. And with evil smiles I heard the oldest looking god talk."(Nameless)


    "You want to leave right? Well then feel grateful that the God of Space/Time shall give you a vip trip to the world you were supposed to reincarnate in. Suffer for eternity as a wandering spirit body that all will know is cursed as it is black and not gold. Now Go!"(Space/Time God)


    "Screaming words of hate, I oathed one thing before all of them that made them laugh, as they never assumed that it could happen. I shall enact my revenge upon all of you should the opportunity arise! With those words i tumbled through the endless dark void towards the supposed world these evil gods ruled."(Nameless)


    "Well then now that this matter has completed shall we wait for the Hero that is supposed to save the world. No doubt, he will come here shining brighter than any other spirity body past present and future. (God of Crossroads and Destiny)


    It wasn''t until days later...well its the afterlife, who knows how time works.... the gods would realize that a hero wouldn''t come and a different plan would have to be made. Of course, as they were all arrogant gods, they neglected on very important fact, they had already forgotten about the little spirit body that they all cursed to damnation as it was such a trivial matter, as he didn''t shine bright, and if they thought about it before hand that a spirit body could even appear within that domain, they would have realized something very important. That little spirit body who swore revenge on them was the hero that was supposed to save the world they governed. Now who knows if that would happen, as they didn''t even have a second thought about the little spirit tumbling through the void.

 Ch 2 Abyss of the Dying Gods

    Within the Void I was moving at extreme speeds towards a small light that I could only assume was the supposed world of reincarnation. Then to my dismay, I heard again what only could sound like a game message that said the following.


    [God of Crossroads and Destinies Curse activated]


    [God of Fortunes Curse activated]


    My spirit body shifted without my consent in a direction diagonal towards the right of the light. There was nothing I could do, the Void was soundless and all I could see was that one small light. Because it was game-like, for whatever reason or another, maybe from the stories I read and I had nothing else to do, I said status. Appearing before me, was many question marks for things like strength, name, class, etc. That is understandable due to my situation. But under the area for [Abnormal Statuses] there were ten curses, then like on the internet a little information button was at the bottom right of each curse. As I don''t have hands, I tried to will all of them to show their contents. Ten definitions appeared before me and reading each one made my heart sink further and further into depression. I couldn''t even kill myself because I was already dead!


    [Abnormal Statuses]


    [Space/Time Gods Curse] All experience required to level anything is doubled, your space is affected by a field of gravity that increases in weight as you level.


    [God of Crafts and Cooking Curse] Anything you attempt to make shall be of almost unusable quality or taste as rotten as possible.


    [Curse of the Love Goddess] Virtually impossible for anyone to love you, all interactions with anyone will make them wary towards you at the first.


    [Magic Goddess Curse] All magic will have a high chance to backlash or fail. (Cannot affect death magic or void magic)


    [God of Lights Curse] Affinity with the light attribute is drastically decreased, cannot use holy (light)magic. Anyone from the church will feel wary towards you. Spells that heal you or remove abnormal statuses have a 65% chance to fail.


    [God of Fortunes Curse] Your luck shall instead hinder you.


    [God of Crossroads Curse] You shall get lost and more often than not end up in places you didn¡¯t expect (affected by luck)


    [Life Goddess Curse] You take 25% more damage. People sense hardly any signs of life from you and will think you are close to death.


    [God of Medicines Curse] Potions and elixirs, or any kind of medicine will have only 40% effectiveness. Your body will be like a poison to itself and be in pain. Pain increases the more you level.


    [God of Literature, Music and Knowledge¡¯s Curse] You will always suffer from not being able to understand others culture and be shunned for it. You can''t write, hear or attempt to play music. You will remember anything and everything but not necessarily understand it which will cause head pains from not being able to forget or stop thinking about. Pain increases the more you level.The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings.


    These are some of the worst possible outcomes! How am I supposed to live a quiet life and settle down with a wife! Honestly, I already was murdered once and I want to just avoid conflict, but how am I supposed to live like this when I am reborn as a kid, my parents will probably abandon me due to that infernal Love Goddess! And they said for an eterinity too so no matter how many times I die, will I always be cursed?


    In a state of mental panic, I was hysterical until when finally calmed down after what seemed like hours later, I looked at the curses again and I noticed a loophole for two things, at least I thought so. First, what if I just didn''t make an attempt at understanding the culture of this world and secondly, it didn''t appear that there was any curse for combat aside from magic, so if I just learned to use a weapon and avoid magic, I should be ok as a solo adventurer collecting herbs for just enough money to live.


    Finally after what seemed like days of travelling, ahead of me, I saw appear before me a black door, the complete opposite of what happened with the original white door, and a sense of foreboding arose within me. Still not able to control my spirit body, I went flying through the door and it slammed shut behind me. Finally, my spirit body slowed down and I landed within the entrance of what I could only call a crypt or tomb.


    There was a long path leading down, with nowhere else to go I floated along the path, only to be scared out of my mind at a what I can venture to imagine is an undead king as it had a crown and something that looked like a mages staff. Around it, was rows upon rows of undead soldiers and beasts. Finally mustering up what little courage I had, I tried to float past them, then I accidentally bumped into one of the undead beasts that looked like a mix of a bear body, snake head, and wings of some type of hawk, it looked utterly horrendous, but apparently since my luck couldn''t get any worse since I was already in a place probably not even an army would come to, it didn''t react to me, probably because I was also dead. With that new knowledge I moved a little quicker past them, just a little though.


    The crypt, had many walls filled with dead bodies and they didn''t just include humans, there were many races I never even heard of, not even in fantasy stories. Everything looked to be made of black stone or i''m guessing something like obsidian but of course this isn''t Earth so I don''t know. After what seemed like a day of travelling, although i''m guessing time and space is warped here, I finally found another black door, that was slightly open. Upon further inspection, I peered inside when an unknown force dragged me within the door and it shut. Many torches with different colored flames sparked and in front of me appeared the body of a massive black dragon that had to be close to a hundred meters in length. Yes, the room was thatnig to contain it, almost like the fighting ring of the coliseum from Earth, butmuch larger,Next to it was a large table, with a heart on it still beating, an orb with purple mist and what looked like a large vial of blood.


    "Welcome to the Abyss of the Dying Gods young spirit, oh how you must have horrible luck to come here, in fact I can sense that the ten little gods messed with you a bunch didn''t they, I can sense seething hatred within you for revenge. And how do I know that? That is because I am the Evil God, I can sense all of your darkest thoughts, desires and the divine power of other gods. Now then, come let us have a chat, us gods, and you the little spirit who had his destiny screwed with by those children that fancy themselves true gods"

 Ch 3 The Sealed Gods Mission

    I was shocked from what I heard, I couldn''t tell whether my luck was horrible or not from the curse because this god didn''t seem hostile and yet I hadn''t been reincarnated, instead I came to an ancient tomb of sealed gods. Even more so, it sensed my absolute hatred for the ten gods. This might must be the chance that is needed. And I need to grasp on to this life line with all my strength. So I cautiously asked, "What exactly is this place, I was supposed to have been reincarnated as a child and birthed into the world that you govern."


    The Evil God started chuckling before he surprisingly answered with a light tone, "There is no need for you to ask in such a non straight forward way. Everything shall be answered now. Theoretically, your curses are what brought you here, and in normal circumstances this would be horrible for you, but, you are not alive and are still dead, this crypt is the inheritance grounds for the four dying gods, usually you would have tokill the army of undead in the previous corridor. In your understanding, their levels are in the hundreds while you are only level one. But there is one sole reason that we''ve allowed you into this area, you are still dead and thus, what you could inheirt from us sealed gods is far more than what a living person who passed the trial would be able to.


    I started to shake visibly upon hearing what the Evil God said, if this was true, then gods levels were probably in the thousands and, I would never be able to achieve revenge, but even if there was a small chance, I would leap at it. Steeling my resolve I made my declaration, "Even if I must walk the path of evil, if you deem me worthy, I would use your blessing to assault the doors of heaven and regain my diginity. This I swear!"


    Contrary to my expectations, the Evil God began to laugh and then I heard three more voices in the area begin to laugh as well. Finally after calming down, the Evil God began to clear up my misunderstanding, "Listen oh ignorant spirit, just because I am called the Evil God, that does not make me evil in the sense that I want to destroy the world you shall live in. I simply govern evil thoughts and actions, of all entities, the populace has been duped by the church into the reasoning that you believe, in all actuality, because I am sealed, enitities committing actions that can be considered evil are running rampant throughout the world because the balance has been disrupted. Now the same thing applies for the three other gods sealed here as well. Respectively they are the Dragon God, The War God and The Death God. We are the last of the true gods and are on the brink of death, we had been sealed by the ten gods combining powers and with the aid of the mortals, they almost killed us without thinking of the consequences, they believed that by killing us, mortals would achieve utopia.


    "But if that is the case then why did they assault fellow true gods and not think it would disrupt the balance?", I said as it was a conundrum as to why a god would kill another god, aren''t they immortal?


    "Gods are not omnipotent little spirit we are what you would call a higher existence, we can''t last forever but our power can, we either reincarnate as mortals and over the span of multiple lifetimes as a mortal in a world without our power and the balance disrupted, we eventually regain our memories and powers or we choose to give all of our very existence to a mortal and dissipate into nothingness and return to the very void that created us. The ten gods that cursed you are not true gods born from the void, they were mortals that achieved some action in their lifetime that the true gods decided to give them their existence itself in order to return to the void. They are I guess, what we shall call second generation gods, but in the end they were tainted by the power they recieved and we believe that they will choose to reincarnate over multiple lifetimes as a mortal instead, but the true goal of a god should be to complete their mission and dissipate into the void after giving their mission to one who is worthy, that is what all the true gods believed that were originally born from the void."This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.


    I was dumbstruck by such knowledge that I learned, if anyone in the next world were topreach about this then they would probably be considered a heretic with no exception, if this was true, then those ten gods were in a sense just humans drunk on power, and as such, have a flaw, if there is a flaw, then it can be exploited and if it can be exploited then revenge is possible. This thought shall be the driving force for me to suffer through all the pain and stand toe to toe with such disgusting higher existences.


    "There is only one problem though, how can I even make it to the world I was to reincarnate into ifI was to be born their as a child, even if I coud inherit your powersnow, wouldn''t I just lose them all the moment I reincarnated? I don''t want topass up this chance but from what you said, to give your existence to a mortal and let them succeed your position then they would probably,based on a hunch, have had power that already surpassed a mortal to even be a vessel for the power in the first place right? They''d have to be I guess what would be called a demi-god beforehand."


    The voice of the Evil God took in a slow deep breath before replying, without even a hint of there being a problem in his tone, he replied with a simple word I had never heard of before. "Body-Casting, you are dead, so right from the start, we can create a body for you that would be able to withstand the power, the only difference is that you would still be level one so you''d need to level up and unlock the power as you go along, but with this we can cement a foundation far stronger to exhibit the power at a scale incomparable to if you had a body already with a weak foundation."


    "Then what about the three other gods, are they going to wait for three more souls to arrive here?"


    "Although they haven''t talked, that is because I am the spokesperson for the other three gods, but you are going to be the first to ever inherit more than one gods power, and hopefully after leaving our mission to you, you can become the most powerful existence next to the void itself. We are the four gods who should have also been at that table waiting to bless the hero, in the end, we couldn''t as we were betrayed. Our mission for you is to slaughter the ten corrupt gods and steal their powers and either use it for yourself or return all the power to the void, and make the world a lawless world where the balance will have to be maintained by the mortals themselves, all that we ask is that since you have seen the corruption of power it caused them, don''t end up drunk on the strength. The choice lies with you."


    After listening to the Evil God, I came to one really simple conclusion, the world is corrupted by human nature and it can''t be erased completely, even so if I could change it even slightly for the better then I would, and if I had to be the bad guy in the worlds eyes, then I would still do it, to be cursed and have the whole world against me if they found out my mission, that was my dilemma. Even so, I still didn''t think I was sane when I told the four sealed and dying gods "I Accept."

 Ch 4 Inheritance and A New World

    Upon my acceptance, the room lit up brightly, then I heard an ancient voice that sounded like it was out of breath, looking at the table I realized it was the orb containing the purple mist, slowly it started to float towards me and it released the mist from within the orb. It began to envelop my black spirit body when I heard the God speak, "I am the True God of Death, with my inheritance you shall recieve my spirit and strengthen yours to the limits of a demigod, with it you will be able to control all that is my power and the body that you shall possess."


    My spirit body immediately felt like it was within an inferno, constant burning pain could be felt all over and my vision went black for a moment but then I saw an amazing sight that I would never forget and that, is the birth of my body from the other three gods, while I was merging with the Spirit of the Death God, the massive corpse of the Dragon God began to morph, it sounded like a mountain and its voice was deeper than any I had ever heard, "The body parts of a god never rot, with my body, although it is missing blood and a heart, it shall become the foundation and vessel toyour power."


    A tall body began to take shape, and then I saw it, the body resembled me from Earth but its features were far more refined and better looking, although there were some noticeable differences, I was a little over five feet tall on Earth, but this body had to be close to seven feet tall, but even more striking than the height or the toned and muscular body was the eyes, one was red and the other was purple, probably to signify the Death and War God. While the hair was completely silver which i guessed signified the Evil God. Then I saw the heart and vial of blood begin to float in the air. The vial opened and all of the blood entered the heart. Slowly, the heart began to move and enter the new body, pumping the blood throughout the body, at which time my inner question was answered.


    "With my heart of the Evil God you shall never falter or question your choices in dire times, May the void guide you to peace. And one day clean you of your hatred."


    Not even a second after he stopped, a female voice resounded in my spirit body more forcefully than even the Dragon God, a melodic voice and yet it felt like it would slice through anything and everything. "I am the Goddess of War, with my blood, you shall feel the lust for battle and burn with a fighting spirit like no other, use my power to minimize the outbreak of war as much as possible, but at the same time remember this, never grow conceited or arrogant, hard work can surpass talent or blessings, those who grow conceited like the gods that you despise, will fail in the end."


    "Thank you, I shall destroy this corrupt problem of a world and rebuild it in the image that you all sought, although, my only question is what about the hero that was supposed to be summoned, will they try to get in my way?''


    The voice of the Evil God descended one last time on the brink of dissipation, "You.... were supposed to be the hero.... whos mission was.... to kill the God of Destruction and Demon God... foran unknown reason....remember there are many more than us and the ten corrupt gods... some are evil, some may aid you....farewell."


    So I was really supposed to be a hero... Well that is no longer a possibility, someone with better qualifications than me will probably be summoned in my stead. And get in my way, so what does that make me...the Anti-Hero, or the Heros stepping stone? That thought made me shudder. No, I definately won''t become anyone''s stepping stone, not even a Gods.


    Blinding light appeared on my spirit body and I fell unconcious, upon waking up I was naked and within a dark forest in the middle of nowhere. My first thought was to check my reflection, standing up I struggled to walk because I was a spirit body for so long. To my right was a pond and looking at my reflection, it was the same as in the crypt of the sealed gods, I looked to be roughly sixteen years old, and all that I had next to me was a small bag which I assume is the magic bag the sealed gods left behind. Then out of nowhere a single message resounded within my head.


    [You have been reborn, the God''s Curses all activate unconditionally]


    Gahhhh! My body immediately felt like it was going to rip itself apart, and then as if it was forcibly being shoved towards the ground.


    [Curse Resistance Learned]


    [Mental Resistance Learned]


    [Physical Resistance Learned]


    [You have reached Level 2]


    Slowly the pain began to increase but then ebb into a constant painful throbbingas I recieved the messages. Standing up slowly, I walked over to a tree in the shade, and after ascertaining there was nothing nearby, I said "Status Open"


    [Input Name]


    My name... I can''t remember it from Earth. Looking out at the water, I saw the reflection of the moon even though it was daytime albeit early morning it seemed. Then I decided on a name, Eradin Silvermoon, now the name might seem random, but to me it holds meaning, under the silver moon i shall eradicate all, it was a simple play on words....sort of...but it made me chuckle. Then another message appeared.


    [Owner Accepted, moving to status page]


    [Name: Eradin Silvermoon]


    [Race: (Unique) Child of the Sealed Gods]


    [Level 2] [Classes: (Unique) Cursed Hero (Unique) Inheritor of the Sealed GodsStolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.


    [Hp: 120] [Mana:70]


    [Str:26] [Endurance:33] [Agi:25] [Int:33] [Luck:-10] [Def:28]


    [Skills]


    [Cursed Slash]


    [Magic]


    Void Magic Death MagicMagic of the Five Elements Darkness Magic


    [Equipment]


    Death Gods Scythe


    Dragon Gods Pendant


    Cloak of the Evil God


    Armor of the War Goddess


    [Traits]


    Mental Resistance: 1 Physical Resistance: 1 Cursed One: Max Draconic Body: Max Godkiller Attribute:1 Regeneration:1


    [Bessings]


    Body of the Dragon God ??Heart of the Evil God ??Spirit of the Death God?? Blood of the War God


    [Abnormal Statuses}


    [Space/Time Gods Curse] [God of Crafts and Cookings Curse] [Curse of the Love Goddess]


    [Magic Goddesses Curse] [God of Lights Curse]  [God of FortunesCurse]


    [God of Crossroads and Destinies Curse] [Life Goddes Curse]  [God of Medicines Curse]


    [God of Literature, Music and Knowledges Curse]


    Looking at my status I couldn''t tell if it was good or bad, there were ten god curses, which I roughly understood, however there were also some good things, at firstI didn''t understand my race, aren''t I human, but now thatI think about it, I am a Mortal soul enhanced by the True Death God, inhabiting a body made of only parts from True Gods born from the void, so in a sense I am like their demi-god child that needs to unlock the skills and power. Scrolling down, it appeared I had two classes clicking on the first one, a message appeared.


    [Cursed Hero: The hero that was supposed to be blessed by the gods was instead cursed by them, with seething rage, the Cursed Hero is the opposite of a Hero and as such, all skills will be the opposite of what a Hero learns, in example, at level one a Hero only knows the skill Holy slash then you would learn of the skill Cursed Slash. Instead of delving into the Holy magics, you are more prone to dark magics.]


    That is easy to understand, so basically when the Hero i''m guessing comes to this world,theywill have the power of light and blessings and I will have the power of darkness and curses. I didn''t even need to read the next class as it was self explanatory, as I leveled up and and became stronger, I would unlock more of the sealed gods power... well I guess they aren''t sealed anymore but dead now aren''t they. Next up, lets see, [Cursed Slash]


    [Cursed Slash: Because of numerous curses upon your body, they even penetrate into your equipment and skills, normal slash, but a slight chance of affecting your opponent with a random level one abnormal status affect. The status effects strengthand debuff chanceincrease the more your mastery and level increase.]


    Oh! I bet the damn Hero''s Holy Slash would probably do extra damage of the holy attribute, but this seems better for a drawn out fight. Further looking down the status page I saw Void and Death Magic, but they were greyed out so it probably meant that I couldn''t use them until I level up higher. Then I shuddered, I almost forgot, all magic that wasn''t void or death magic, would have a high chance to backlash onto me or fail. No doubt that I would need to put in much more effort to cast magic successfully. Looking at my magic bag, a message appeared.


    [Magic Bag of the Sealed Gods, infinite space for anything that is not living Owner: Eradin]


    Thats convenient, well then, taking out the equipment, they all started to float in the air and without my consent the Scythe, Pendant, Armor which changed from female to male armor right before my eyes and Cloak all flew straight at me and forcibly melded into my body. It felt extremely uncomfortable and served to only make my aching body throbb even more.


    [Successfully Fused, you may now summon them onto your body at a moments notice, they cannot be stolen and shall shatter if you die]


    Putting the words to the test, I willed them to appear and a black light flashed on my body, the next moment I was covered in a black, scale-like armor with a black cloak, a giant scythe that had to be close to ten feet tall and a jade pendant, I was basically all black.


    [The equipment will get stronger as you level up and they absorb the souls of entities you slaughter, the stronger the entity the faster they can level up.


    Damn isn''t this sorta broken, from what I can tell, people won''t think I am human due to the curses! I''ll never fit into society! All I will be good at is slaughtering things! Almost breaking down I then came to the same insane conclusion as when I was a spirit, well the faster I get revenge on the gods, the faster I can live a normal life, yes, that is the answer.


    Casually swinging the scythe around, I was reading the traits when another message appeared.


    [Scythe Mastery: 1]


    Why this happened, well basically the Trait, [Cursed One] allows me to acquire exp from other sources, other than killing monsters. [Draconic Body] basically just increased my base resistance all-round and my bodies physical defenses, it just isn''t shown because I haven''t fought anyting that has fire attributed attacks yet for example. [Godkiller], I don''t know much about, only that some special effect will buff me when fighting anything that has traces of a gods power, up to a True God. And it gets stronger the more I kill such entities. [Regeneration] Self explanatory, it came from having the blood of the War Goddes.


    I began walking in a random direction, since I would get lost any way due to the [The God of Crossroads and Destinites Curse], while walking I looked at the most important section of the status page. The blessings of the Sealed Gods.


    [Blessings]


    [Body of the Dragon God] #1 All Statuses increases by another +10 a level (Luck Unaffected) #2 Every 20 levels, multiply all stats by 1.5 ( Luck Unaffected) #3 Elemental Affinity raised. Skills unlock with level increase


    [Heart of the Evil God] #1Cannot be controlled by others. #2 When others would go insane in a dire situation, you remain Icily calm. #3 Dark attribute affinity increases and you can use Void magic without penalty. Skills unlock with level increase


    [Spirit of the Death God] #1 Able to sense when someone you are thinking about is close to death. #2 Able to use Death Magic without penalty. #3 Critical hit chance and damage, and over all damage is increased by 20% when wielding a scythe. Affinity with the Darkness attribute raised. Skills unlock with level increase


    [Blood of the War Goddess] #1 Increases Hp and Mana regeneration. #2 Proficiency in any weapon is easier to attain. #3 Wounds tht would be lethal to others can be regenerated over time.


    These damn gods really wanted me to become a combat junkie didnt''t they, not only am I unable to understand the culture of others, due to these curses. I am unaffected emotionally by any death and slaughter what so ever because of the blessings. I continued to walk in a random direction without a care in the world, when I recieved some messages.


    [Danger Perception Learned]


    [Bloodlust Detection Learned]


    [Prescence Detection Learned]


    [You have leveled up to 3]


    Great..... just my luck, appearing before me was a pack of what I can only assume to be goblin hybrids, usually they are fat disgusting looking things right.... well these had what looked like satyr horns and wings as well, which is unusual for goblins right?And all of their average levels were.....seven to nine.


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 Ch 5 First Battle Adapting to a New World

    The pack of what appeared to be hybrid goblins only stared at the Death Gods Scythe, the few goblins that looked to be melee fighters were wearing what appeared to be crudely stitched together beasthides and they had rusted daggers or chipped and rusted swords, with a carved out wooden shield. Behind them appeared to be what I could only assume was the leader. I couldn''t tell if it was male or female because it didn''t look anything like the clearly male warriors up front but it was seriously too ugly to look female at all. But none the less it appeared to be a mage from what I could observe as it had your typical pointy mage hat that you would see in movies, and it was chanting non-stop. I made an attempt to discern what it was saying but then decided against it.


    Eradin attempted to enter into a stance that would keep the goblins at bay with his weapon''s long reach, then he set his sights on the mage in the back, of all the goblins here, it seemed to be the one that would cause the most problems for him. Eradin felt his blood begin to boil and all thoughts of anything other than the annihilation of the all obstacles in front of him disappeared, his only thought was to kill. He was the first to move, Eradin leaped forward with all the skill he could muster and used long sweeping strikes to spread the goblins in the front, a total of four, into two groups. But when he did so, Eradin felt pressure weighing him down, it was the second part of the Space/Time Gods curse of increased gravity upon Eradin. Not factoring it in, Erading just fell short of the Goblin Mage who had finished chanting. In the next moment, a cone of fire appeared, and the edge of it burned the right side of Tirins face and neck. Then he felt the pain increase from the Life Goddesses curse.


    These damn curses, I forgot to factor them in, I basically have a permanent vulnerability spell on me at all times. Not a problem though, you are not getting away now that you are in my reach.


    [Trait: Fire Resistance Learned]


    [Hp:130/140]


    Eradin didn''t have time to see the messages appear before him, ashe once again delved into a battle frenzy, but the pain of the burn on his face began toslowly ease into a throbb instead,and in the next instant, after adjusting to his new fighting range with the Space/Time Gods Curse factored in, he once again leapt towards the Goblin Mage who was backing up frantically while chanting. The four Goblin Warriors also recovered from the unexpected outburst of Eradin and clumsily charged towards him, but it was too late. With a sweep of the Death Gods Scythe, Eradin cleaved right into the chest from the right and then once again from the left leaving a massive "X" mark upon the Goblin Mage.Then it died and fell apart into multiple dismembered body parts.


    [Souls Absorbed: 1 Soul Points gained: 5]


    [Fused Body Equipment Exp: .5%/100%]


    [Exp: Deferred until all enemies disposed]


    Eradin immediately jumped forwards upon dispatching the Goblin Mage, thanks to the new sensory skills he learned, despite being in a battle frenzy he was able to sense what was around him, with not a second to spare he jumped and narrowly avoided a rusted dagger to the back of his right knee.Eradin swifly turned around and gazed at the four remainingGoblin Warriorswitheyes befitting a battle junkie and they began to falter and have cold sweat run down them.


    [Skill Gained: Deathly Glare]


    It''s about time I finish this, and with that thought, Eradin once again assaulted the Goblin Warriors; They all tried to attack him together but there was no better way to get proficient using a weapon than in actual battle with many unknown variables and with the blessing of the Goddess of War. Although it was one versus four, Eradin was quickly becoming more adept at using his Death Gods Scythe and learning all of its advantages and disadvantages. He would send sweeping attacks to keep them dispersed and in disarray, then when any Goblin faltered, Eradin used the exceptionally long reach of the Death Gods Scythe to corner them and inflict wounds with Cursed Slash and slowly wittled them down while learning and training himself since he felt no danger to his life, perhaps it was because he had the Heart of the Evil God getting stronger as he leveled from one to three, but he was able to maintain some rationality when fighting in a contest of lives despite his blood of the War Goddess boiling to fight and igniting his fighting spirit.


    [Goblin Warrior #1: Afflicted with Weaken Reflexes: 1 Increases time to do anything by 10%]


    [Goblin Warrior #2: Afflicted with Damage Reduction: 1 All physical Damage is reduced by 10%]


    It appeared that for roughly every successful cursed slash, even if it drew only the slightest amount of blood the chance to curse the target with a debuff was relatively low, or so Eradin thought, after the two Goblin Warriors were cursed they became next to useless and tried to run away with the support of the remaining two unaffected Goblin Warriors, but Eradin quickly disposed of three of them as they paid no heed to him and simply ran for their lives and trying to attempt to fly from what Eradin noticed.


    [Souls Absorbed: 3 Soul Points: 9]


    [Fused Body Equipment Exp: 2%/100%]


    [Exp: Deferred until all enemies disposed of]


    Quickly running towards the remaining Goblin Warrior afflicted with [Damage Reduction], Eradin slashed at it with a final Cursed Slash and ended its life.


    [Souls Absorbed:1 Soul Points: 3]


    {Fused Body Equipment Exp: 2.5%/100%]


    [Exp: Deferred until all enemies disposed of]


    Looking through all the messages, Eradin could guess what [Fused Body Equipment Exp] was, and he also knew his equipment absorbed souls. But what are Soul Points thought Eradin? Are they some special Currency I have acces to when I level up? Then he saw the last message and immediately understood its implication, in this world, or at least for him as far as he knew, exp was not granted until all monsters were defeated or combat had ended, meaning one couldn''t save their life by leveling up mid-combat and regain all their Hp, mana and renewed vigor from no longer having fatigue. Eradin was immediately on guard, looking around in every possible direction while using his sensory skills to the limit, and what he found shocked him, within his perception, not visible to the naked eye, he feltrather than sawin his mind what looked like a blob of green light, and when Eradin focused on it, the light turned a dark crimson and he felt bloodlust. It wasn''t a small light either, sensing the Goblin Warriors in the same way they were4 times as small and were gray, probably because they were dead. Ever so slowly the prescense moved toward Eradin and the bloodlust only grew larger as it neared. Finally coming out into the small clearing Eradin was within, a giant figure of at the most bare minimum of nine feet tall was staring at him, and its level was thirteen. Eradin finally realized that he had no type of appraisal skill and hadn''t learned any despite observing the Goblins, but were they really Goblins? He wouldn''t know for sure since the goblins he knew of never had such weird aspects added to their bodies. None the less he prepared for battle against what for now he would call an ogre...maybe?


    The so-called ogre, smelled absolutely putrid and looked the part as well. It had brown hair that was filled with grease and twigs with mud, an occasional bug could be spotted within it as well. Its skin was oddly colored, probably an evolution of living in a forest so there was probably the concept of subspecies based on habitat in this world. The skin was the equivalent of a camoflauge attire from Earth, with multiple shades of brown, green and gray. In its hand appeared to be some type offlail with a spiked ball attached to the end of it that looked puny compared to the size of the ogre. It had a single ring on its left hand that glowed with a ruby light and was wearing a beast skin loincloth that looked like it hadn''t been washed in years.Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author.


    Eradin entered his makeshift stance based on intuition from [Scythe Mastery] and [Blessing of the War Goddess] and activated [Skill: Deathly Glare] only to be met with the message, [Experience using the skill inefficient/Level difference too large]. Looking at the message Eradin sighed while he thought to himself in dismay that it looks like it will be a battle of attrition andthe only available skill to use is[Skill: Cursed Slash] with its low chance of curse debuffs. Deciding to defend instead of attack and place hope on the fact it looked big and clumsy, Eradin waited for the ogre. But rather than charge him mindlessly like the Goblins did, the ogre shouted, or maybe it was a gutteral beast-like roar to be more accurate. My Blood of the War Goddess began to boil even more in preparation for the fight, the moment it ended it''s roar, one last message appeared before it slowly lumbered toward me.


    [Skill: Roar of aForest Lordcauses Abnormal Status Effect: Lowers your movement speed and attack speed by 15% due to significant level difference]


    I could roughly attack once a second if I was chaining my attacks together but I just learned how to do that while fighting the four Goblin Warriors. And it appeared that althoughso farskills don''t have a required mana cost, some of them have conditions before they can be used or have a cooldown timer before they could be used again or possibly both at the same time. I could gather thisfrom the system message and the fact that I was affected with a debuff that had a duration offifty seconds and my [Skill: Cursed Slash] had a 5 second CD timer appear every time I used it. This was probably all to make up for the fact that magic could be used with no conditions and had high versatility but costed mana and it appeared you need to chant it. My analysis is thatskills and magic are limited in such a way that one isn''t overwhelmingly stronger than the other and are equally needed in the world preventing conflict between users of only skills or users of only magic.


    The Ogre kept lumbering slowly towards Eradin thinking he was easy prey after using it''s skill that only can be used if the level difference is more than five levels. Finally it was within range of Eradins scythe range. Using [Skill: Cursed Slash] he manipulated the arc of the scythe blade that most weapons don''t have and made a sweeping strike underneath the Ogres raised weapon slashing its leg. Then backing off Eradin resumed his stance. With no thought other than to kill this ogre and feed its soul to the Death Gods Scythe. Once again, the Ogre approached, albeit more cautiously, it seemed it wasn''t completley stupid, and swung its flail at Eradin in an arc that wouldn''t allow Eradin to use the same attack again. Noticing this, Eradin and the Ogre became interlocked in a frenzied battle, every minute it would use the sameskill and apply a debuff to Eradin, and every time it falteredor used its fist instead of its flail, Eradin would cut it with a [Skill:Cursed Slash],for now the each of them appeared to only have one usable skill, but then Eradin faltered and traded instead of Eradinbeing the only one to apply damage healso took damage from a fist filled with brute strength to his blind spot. If Eradin didn''t have[Trait: Physical Resistance] he might have been knocked unconscious. But then the Ogres ring flashed withruby light again.


    [AbnormalStatus Effect Gained: A portion of yourHp has been absorbed and distributed to the enemy]


    [Hp: 110/140]


    It wasn''t all for nothing though, during that trade was Eradin''s seventh [Skill:Cursed Slash] and it finally applied a cursed debuff despite taking thirty points of damage from a casual swing of its fist because of the [Life Goddess Curse] and what I shall call a Ring of Absorbtion for now.


    [Ogre: Afflicted with Attack Speed Reduction:1 Lowers Attack Speed by 10%]


    The Ogre was surprised and looked at me, it probably now knew I had caused its debuff. But contrary to expectations, it might honestly be stupid despite my earlier thoughts, it flew into a rage and blindly charged me when I heard the message.


    [Lord of the Forests Rage: It has locked all its hatred onto you and all of its physical stats and Hp raise by 25%raise against you and its non-physical stats lower by 25% until you are dead or escape]


    Once again Eradin was in a dire situation, but because of the Heart of the Evil God, he was able to handle it without breaking out into panic. In his battle frenzied state, Eradin calmly sidestepped the Ogre and repeatedly used [Skill: Cursed Slash]. The ogre was now extremely predictable and was being afflicted with more and more wounds but didn''t show any signs of stoppingevery time Eradin sidestepped it. Then from about the eleventhCursed Slash and onwards, messages started appearing.


    [Scythe Mastery hasreached leveltwo]


    [Ogre: Afflicted with Curse Resistance Reduction: 1 Lowers Curse Resistance by 1 level (If it lowers to0then Curses have a much greater chance of affecting the opponent and last twice as long]


    [Ogre: Afflicted with Attack Speed Reduction:2 Lower Attack Speed by 15%]


    [Ogre: Afflicted with Movement Speed Reduction:1 Lowers movement Speed by 10%]


    [Ogre: Afflicted with Attack Damage Reduction:1All Physical Damagereduced by 10%]


    [Ogre: Afflicted with Physical Stats Reduction:1 All Physical stats reduced by 5]


    Eradin came to the conclusion calmly during the fight that the more Cursed Slashes that land successfully and the more injured the opponent was, then the higher the chance that they will have a curse debuff applied to them. This is extremely important thought Eradin, this could change my whole fighting style, but I will be in a conundrum versus someone that has very high curse resistance. But it does seems like it is very hard to level resistances, based on such a strong attack I endured with vulnerability and Physical resistance didn''t increase at all.


    Finally, the Ogre was all but dead, which was why Eradin had time for other thoughts, it was on the ground virtually unconcious from blood loss and all the curses upon it, with no curse resistance, based on the timers Eradin saw floating around the Ogre, they lasted for roughly two minutes which in a battle, one second meant the difference between life and death, but it also gave rise to the notion that although it won''t say it on someones status, even if they aren''t cursed it appears they will naturally have some sort of [Curse Resistance] and need to actually suffer multiple curses to reach level one in the resisrance, no doubt if this Ogre survived, it would reach level one in [Curse Resistance].


    Eradin decided to put it out of its misery and killed it with a final strike to the neck.


    Souls Absorbed:1 Soul Points: 20]


    {Fused Body Equipment Exp: 10.5%/100%]


    [Exp: 340%/100% Bonus Exp from solo killing an elite opponent]


    [You have defeated the first of multiple Lords of the Forest]


    [Title Acquired: Solo Elite Slayer: Increase all damage and leveling exp gained when solo killing an eliteopponent by 15%]


    [Equip Title? Y/N]


    [You have leveled up to 4]


    [You have leveled up to 5]


    [You have leveled up to 6]


    Eradin chose yes and then said "Status Open" to check out his newly acquired skills and Title, because fighting opponents ten levels higher than himself didn''t seem very funor worth the risks, and if his hunch was correct he might have a way to level up slightly quicker


    <table width="514">


    <tbody>


    <tr>


    <td>[Name: Eradin Silvermoon] [Active Title: Solo Elite Slayer]</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td>[Race: (Unique) Child of the Sealed Gods]</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td>[Level: 6] [Souls Absorbed:6 Soul Points: 37]</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td>[Classes: (Unique) Cursed Hero/(Unique) Inheritor of the Sealed Gods</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td></td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td>[Titles]</td>


    </tr>


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    <td>Solo Elite Slayer</td>


    </tr>


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    <td></td>


    </tr>


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    <td>[Hp: 200] [Mana: 150]</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td>[Str:78] [Endurance:85] [Agi:77] [Int:85] [Luck:-10] [Def:80]</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td></td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td>[Skills]</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td>[Cursed Slash] [Scythe Mastery: 2/10][Deathly Glare]</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td>[Danger Perception] [Bloodlust Detection][Prescence Detection]</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td></td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td>[Magic]</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td>[Void Magic][Death Magic] [Dark Magic]</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td>[Magic of the Five Elements]</td>


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    <tr>


    <td>[Equipment]</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td>Death Gods Scythe</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td>Dragon Gods Pendant</td>


    </tr>


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    <td>Cloak of the Evil God</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td>Armor of the War Goddess</td>


    </tr>


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    <td></td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td>[Traits]</td>


    </tr>


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    <td>Mental Resistance: 1/10</td>


    </tr>


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    <td>Physical Resistance 1/10</td>


    </tr>


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    <td>Curse Resistance: 1/10</td>


    </tr>


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    <td>Fire Resistance: 1/10</td>


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    <td>Cursed One: Max</td>


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    <td>Draconic Body: Max</td>


    </tr>


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    <td>Godkiller Attribute: 1/?</td>


    </tr>


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    <td>Regeneration: 1/?</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td></td>


    </tr>


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    <td>[Blessings]</td>


    </tr>


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    <td>Body of the Dragon God</td>


    </tr>


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    <td>Heart of the Evil God</td>


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    <td>Spirit of the Death God</td>


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    <td>Blood of the War Goddess</td>


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    <td></td>


    </tr>


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    <td>[Abnormal Statuses]</td>


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    <td>Space/Time Gods Curse</td>


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    <td>God of Crafts and Cookings Curse</td>


    </tr>


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    <td>Curse of the Love Goddess</td>


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    <td>Magic Goddesses Curse</td>


    </tr>


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    <td>God of Lights Curse</td>


    </tr>


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    <td>God of Fortunes Curse</td>


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    <td>God of Crossroads and Destinies Curse</td>


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    <td>Life Goddesses Curse</td>


    </tr>


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    <td>God of Medicines Curse</td>


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    <td>God of Literature, Music and Knowledges Curse</td>


    </tr>


    </tbody>


    </table>

 Ch 6 Course of Action

    Looking at his status, Eradin was deep in thought, his purple eye was slightly twitching as he processed all of the information he now had from his status. The title was what intrigued him the most and upon further inspection of the description he saw earlier, the slightest trace of a smile would be seen on his face.


    [Title: Solo Elite Slayer: Increase all damage and leveling exp gained when solo killing an eliteopponent by 15%]


    I don''t know how rare such titles are, but if I could learn of a way to equip multiple titles of this nature, then this could at least alleviate my problems a bit when leveling at higher levels, with how quickly I am leveling right now, its only because not much experience is needed. Too bad it specifically states leveling experience, maybe there is a title that makes it easier to level up my Traits and Skills quicker, but it seems they are still affected by the complete double experience required.


    Looking further down the status page, once again Eradin saw, [Souls Absorbed: 6 Soul Points:37] and decided to just leave it alone, when the uses for them arrived he was confident that the system would naturally tell him what they would be used for. And upon reaching his statuses Eradin''s jaw dropped slightly. They were all far higher than what a normal level six would have for statuses. When he leveled up Eradin could make a rough guess that all statuses would randomly increase anywhere from three to six points. And only now did he realize how stupid his body made from the Dragon God was. This is completely broken thought Eradin, Baseline I get the random three to six increase, probably factored by how much I use a certain stat and +10 to all on top of that, it''sthe equivalent of multiple levelsfrom just one level. Not only that, it seems I misunderstood the strength of [Draconic Body] after this fight, it baseline inceases my defense stat and resistances, and makes it easier to acquire resistance skills, that is probably why I learned [Fire Resistance] from half my face being burned, which seems to have healed up nicely thanks to Blood of the War Goddess.


    And it really was true, not a blemish was left on Eradin''s face that was charred before from the time he killed the Goblin Mage to when he killed the Ogre which was roughly twenty minutes based on remembering the exact numerical values because of the damn stupid never forgetting anything part of his curses. At with that thought, it seemed his head throbbing increased from thinking about the curse.


    Further thinking, Eradin sat down in the shade of a tree, and realized the scale of his blessings, they truly could make it easier for him to live in this world, and from what he learned just now, dragons were probably hunted because they would make excellent equipment for resisting attacks depending on what resistances they had and what type of dragon they were since it seemed plausible that all dragons had this trait, and anything that had a strong enough trace of the dragon bloodline would most likely have a variation of the trait.


    It was roughly the afternoon and almost dusk, but Eradin didn''t feel tired at all, probably because his body was that of True Gods, so he decided to try and find his way out of the forest and find some information about this world as he didn''t even know its name. However Eradin was beginning to come up with counter measures to a certain curse that he hated and yet didn''t for one reason.


    [Curse of the God of Crossroads and Destinies]


    It really was horrible that it was affected by luck, and if he tried to attempt to have a clear place he''d want to travel, then he wouldn''t and would get lost, but at the same time it allowed him to get the blessings he has now from the Sealed Gods. So what about this thought Eradin, he would just walk aimlessly and head in any direction, if that happened the effects of the curse might lessen a bit. So for now his best course of action was to simply wander around not trying to find any civilization and instead finished looking at parts of his status that he hadn''t yet because of the fight. And that was his [Fused Body Equipment].


    [Death Gods Scythe]


    [Rank: God]


    [Owner:Eradin Silvermoon]


    [Dmg: ?/?]


    [Traits Indestructible] ???


    [Dragon Gods Pendant]


    [Rank: God]


    [Owner:Eradin Silvermoon]


    [Traits Indestructible] ???


    [Cloak of the Evil God]


    [Rank: God]


    [Owner:Eradin Silvermoon]


    [Traits Indestructible] ???


    [Armor of the War Goddess]


    [Rank: God]


    [Owner:Eradin Silvermoon]


    [Traits Indestructible] ???


    What is all this? Eradin''s face slightly contorted, instead of his purple eye, his red eye twitched this time. I can understand the [Indestructible] trait as they are god level equipment but what is with all the question marks? It might be plausible that it means there are more traits and the conditions haven''t been met to unlock them, after all, a God level weapon not having any other aspects besides [Indestructible] is hard to believe. But still even the damage on the Death Gods Scythe is unknown. To think that they had this many hidden conditions, they must be quite powerful even among God level equipment. And why is that?This story has been unlawfully obtained without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon.


    Reflecting on the past fights, Eradin realized all he could see over the Goblins and Ogres heads were their levels, even in combat, he couldn''t see their Hp or even see how much damage his attacks did to them and only the timers and cooldowns of his abilities used were visible as well ashis own Hp and Mana. But more research would have to be done as it was only his first actual combat.


    Twilight, the time right in between night and day was approaching and yet Eradin still wasn''t tired, even after walking aimlessly and reading through his status page all day, thinking up plans for the future and what to do in the event that he met an intelligent race, he still marched onwards towards the unknown. Until finally, it was utterly black in the forest and he could barely see under the light of the half-moon when he began to feel the forest come alive, in every direction he could hear movement of beasts. But those movements and soundswere oblivious to Eradin as he was in the middle of berating himself over a horrible mistake he made, he failed as an Adventurer. I can''t believe that I forgot to plunder that Ring of Absorbtion off of the Ogre or even look for where its home was, if I had done that, I might have gotten something else as well!


    Of course Eradin already forgot if he actively looked for its hideout, he would only get lost trying to find it because of his curse. Oblivious to the fact the forest was more dangerous at night compared to day time, Eradin began to finally notice his surroundings, all around him danger signals finally were going off within his mind. His blood began to boil extremely hot as if a fight had begun due to all of the prescences. Eradin used all of his sensory abilities and he understoood why his blood was boiling, all around him, many green lights he sensed were in every direction, none of them reached the size or pressure the Ogre had emitted when Eradin sensed it but he was thoroughly outnumbered. But luckily it seemed that they hadn''t noticed him yet. It was probably because his signs of life were so weak due to the [Life Goddess Curse]. Maybe I''d make for a great assassin if I actively tried to hide my prescence.


    With that thought, Eradin found a small tree and climbed it. This was a chance for him to acquire some skills or even traits if he acted accordingly was what his body seemed to be screaming at him. So Eradin just sat up in the tree, it had many insects and countless thorns on it, but he didn''t feel them since the only skin that was bare was his face, from having no helmet. But it was the perfect place to hide with his already weak life signs as it was covered in countless branches and was thick with many leaves.Rather than emit his sensory skill outward, Eradin tried to focus them only on himself, and in his minds eye, he saw himself, but what he saw wasn''t human, it was a humanoid dragon outline, where the Heart of the Evil God was located, it was a black vortex and surrounding it was a purple mist and little red lines pumped from his body, it was different than if he emitted his sensory skills outward, maybe its because I am checking my own body I am able to see such detail, rather than a blob of light. But rather than feel shocked, it confirmed Eradins thoughts that he wasn''t entirely human, rather he had a human-like Soul, Heart and Blood because he was originally human and it influenced it. So Gods can''t really be affected by race unless they have the race in their name such as Dragon God, hence God of Dragons, So as far as I know, the Evil God, the Death God and the War Goddess may or may not have been human. Then a message appeared that Eradin thought physicians or healers would probably use for treatment or combat classes would probably use for attacking vitals accurately until he finished reading it.


    [Skill Gained: Inner Body Perception 1/10]


    [Description: You have successfully sensed the outline of a living body, you can now see others entities inner body outlines as long as you have sensed their prescence. You are the first entity in this world to think of such an innovative method to identify ansomething based on their inner body and as such, no amount of deception can allow anything to hide its true form from you. Immunity to anything that would allow someone to decieve you by changing their appearance. Outline is more detailed as the skill is leveled.]


    [Sealed Skill: Because you have learned [Inner Body Perception] you are unable to learn the skill [Night Vision 1/10] due to difference in usage.]


    Eradin was so shocked by what he saw, he accidentally sucked in air so forcefully it made him cough loudly, causing some of the beasts in the forest to head towards his direction. Without any time to contemplate on this skill yet, Eradin put it to use with his other sensory skill and saw many outlines of beasts coming towards him.


    "Damn it, leave it to me to blunder in such a way that I am going to my self killed in such a fucking useless way." Eradin was so pissed off at himself he started to swear in a useless manner. But it was also time to put his theory to the test. As he noticed some of the stronger beasts probably had sensory skills like he did, and were slowly locking on to his weak sign of life.


    "Well here''s to hoping I don''t have to run for my life."


    Eradin used [Inner Body Perception] and focused completely on the small green light outlining his body that represented he was a living non-hostile entity, then he began to imagine it forcefully being compressed and sucked into the black vortex that was the Heart of the Evil God. At first only a small green strand that represented him moved, but then as Eradin focused more and more because of the approaching beasts, it finally all began to compress into a spherical shape and it sat in the middle of the black vortex like it was plugging a hole that would leak if opened. All at once, a message appeared and the beasts that were approaching the tree, ran to it after Eradin''s signs of life vanished.


    Eradin prayed whatever skill he just learned would work because there were at least ten outlines underneath the tree that were shaped like wolves. But one was twice the size of the others and had a pressure that wasn''t as strong as the Ogre but it was close and it had a pack with it. Then it dawned on Eradin, perhaps that is one of the Lords of the Forest. Looking out over the branches, all the regular sized wolves appeared to be level eleven or twelve and the Lord of the Forest was level seventeen. An elite monster four levels higher than the Ogre, and perhaps stronger individually even though the pressure it emitted was weaker.


    After roughly twenty minutes of sniffing around the tree, the pack left, but Eradin who was slightly cramped in his hiding position didn''t dare to move. He kept whatever his new skill was and all his sensory skills activated to the limit. Before he began to read it.


    [Skill Gained:Complete Aura Concealment 1/10]


    [Skill Gained: Aura Manipulation 1/10]


    [Descriptions: #1 You have learned to erase your life aura better than even master aura wielders that suppress itunderneath the skin into the muscle. You are able to completely erase your prescence from all but the strongest of foes and detection abilities. #2 You are now successfully able to manipulate the worlds Auras.]


    Looking at the skills gained Eradin was quite pleased. His first thought was that he now had many new experiments he could do while traveling to prevent boredom, but looking out at the night sky, Eradin kept all his sensory skills activated to their limits and tried to sleep, for tomorrow he needed to find food and water, but more importantly, he now had his first goal in mind. And ever so slowly, the night passed on amidst the howls and roars of the predators unleashed during the night.

 Ch.7 A Reaper Soon To Come

    The morning finally arrived, the forest was full of mist and humid. For only being the beginning of the day it was quite hot already. Jumping down from the tree, Eradin remembered what happened last night. Night time in the forest was seriously no joke, with his sensory skills used to the limit, Eradin barely got any sleep that night due to the constant sounds of predator and prey alike through out the night. Multiple times, the wolf pack returned underneath the tree while chasing down prey twice the size of themselves, and at the moment, Eradin knew that he had no way of surviving if he encountered them, but they appeared to be nocturnal... for now.


    Looking up at the sky, Eradin noticedcountless black and gray clouds billowed, threatening to cause a down pour of rain and lightning. But that didn''t deter him from his goals for today. Today is the day I stockpile food, water, and most importantly....exp thought Eradin. For that was his goal, after realizing just how weak and pitiful he was to the full might of the forest, this was his first goal, to conquer as many of the Lords of the Forest as he could, and if possible, while doing so, he might encounter other adventurers or even a merchant caravan if he stumbled onto a path and be able to leave the forest, but until then, aside from getting food and water, training and exp grinding was at the top of the list of priorities.


    Summoning the Death Gods Scythe from his body, Eradin entered into his makeshift stance and began to hunt, although he could probably go for months without food or water due to his True God crafted body, Eradin was originally human and wanted to atleast have it in the event he needed it or someone else needed it, if they even were willing to talk with him that is. Ever so slowly Eradin looked at all the countless tracks left by the beasts that night and attempted to make light of them and follow the ones that looked like they were of animals the beasts would hunt.


    More thanhalf a daylater...[Skill Gained: Tracking 1/10] you have learned a skill that belongs to [Ranger Class] ]


    Eradin sucked in a cold breath of air, then he began to laugh at his ignorance, Eradin was so enthralled in his ignorance he began to speak to himself and anyone would findsomeone speaking to themselves loudly very eccentric, "So thats how it works, the trait only mentioned that because I am the Cursed Hero,I could gain experience fromany sources other than killing monsters or crafting. But if I think about it in a complete different mind set, I can gain experience from any source meaning that source is a different class. So maybe all the skills I had learned until now were general skills and class specific skills and I am able to learn the skills of other classes. Which logically speaking a Hero is supposed to be a cheat that breaks the common sense of the world. Interesting, there is much to research in order to most efficiently gain the power to kill the corrupted Gods."


    Once again following the tracks, Eradin found an open clearing, with the prey, the original track print looked like a disfigured hoof mark, and that was in line with what Eradin saw. Before him was what looked to be some type of mix between a cow, and a pig... possibly... it was hard to tell when he didn''t have any sort of skill for appraisal, and the system just called it what ever he thought it was when it died so that was of no help. The level of the said beast was 8 so it wouldn''t be a source of much experience for Eradin who was level six and needed double the experience a normal level 6 would need to level. Slowly Eradin crouched down to the ground. Using all his sensory skills, he searched the area for anything that might cause any problems with his attempt at killing what he would call the Hybrid Cow as it looked more like a cow than a pig. The pig-like parts, were that it had tusks and pigs tail. Other than that, it was a normal Cow-like animal.


    Using [Inner Body Perception] Eradin first observed its movements, and looked at the outline of its body studying it, Eradin had done it without thinking until now but from contemplation he realized that he really wouldn''t be able to use [Night Vision] because if he were to use [Inner Body Perception] at night, his eyes would be closed in order to see the outlines and fight with the outline as a guide of where to strike which was what he planned on doing here. Eradin used [Complete Aura Concealment] while approaching its blind spot, once it was in range of hisweapon, Eradinquicklydispatched of the saidbeastby slashing itshead in an over-head arcthat quickly decapitated it. All of this was done with his eyes closed, the only problem is that Eradin had to remember where everything that wasn''t a living entity was before he closed his eyes. Doing so was easy because of his curses but it increased the amount of pain he felt in his head.


    [Souls Absorbed: 1 Soul Points: 3]


    [Exp: 41%/100%)


    With blood spewing out of the body Eradin realized he had a problem, he couldn''t dismantle thebeast with a giant ten foottall scytheand he had no such experience in dismantling.With a split second decision Eradin, found a pointed rockthatresembled the closest toa knife he could find and began to skin the beast to the best of his ability, but with nosuch luck, the hide was ruined from his attempt. It was all bloodied and full of holes or broke down into strips.It was worthless.The meat itself wasn''t a problem totake out, and Eradin stored all of it in his magic bag.


    Looking at the few strips, Eradin was enlightened. This may actually work in the end and not be wasted. If I can learn [Inner Body Perception] then why can''t I switch the view I see from the inner body of an entity to the so called inner world as well. Grabbing multiple hide strips, Eradin stored them with the meat within his magic bag.He began walking through the forest again, his goal this time was to prepare for nightfall as he had a plan if he could develop the skill he sought. Walking aimlessly around the forest as always, Eradin casually stored kindling and wood for a fire in his magic bag. Luckily, or unluckily... no....definately unluckilyhe came upon a body of water which he didn''t mind, but it was surrounded by countless beasts of every kind fighting for space around it. Most of the levels were 14 on average, and even the Wolf Lord of the Forest was their from what Eradin could tell. This was the most dangerous it had ever been during the day time in the forest.Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.


    Where...where is there a safe spot thought Eradin, and then off in the distance to the right, there was a small creek that was feeding into what could only be assumed was a lake from uphill into a mountain within the forest.


    [Complete Aura Concealment] and every sensory skill Eradin had except for [Inner Body Perception] was channeled to its limits, as the path was to dangerous to walk with his eyes closed. It was filled with many steep drops down into the lake area of the beasts and frankly Eradin didn''t want to enter into that place as it once again reminded him of how weak he was.


    The stench of rotten flesh filled Eradins nose as he approached the creek and in every direction he could sense many beasts, this was most probably the very center of the forest or pretty damn close to it Eradin thought, there is no way with this density of beasts, that it isn''t. Upon reaching the creek, Eradin should''ve almost puked, however due to the Spirit of the Death God, the body parts all over the place didn''t affect him. Countless severed limbs of humans, and what appeared to be demi-humans as well as some races Eradin could only guess as to what they were, all over the place. Blood and equipment was falling into the creek dying it red and heading towards the lake. With a casual swipe of his hand, Eradin emotionlessly grabbed a helmet from the creek and stared into his own reflection, "I really am emotionless to such scenes aren''t I." he muttered, then throwing it back into the creek he made his way to what looked like a pot and stored it into his magic bag.


    This appeared to be a graveyard that all adventurers were taken to after they were dragged here and eaten alive, is that what would happen to me thought Eradin. Just another reason for me to stay on my guard. Slowly foraging around, any pots or accessories that seemed useful, were stored into the magic bag, but for the most part they weren''t. In the end it was a rusty knife and shortsword as well as two pots perhaps for stew originally that were stored in the magic. Then Eradin began filling the pots with water that wasn''t dyed red.


    [Trait acquired: Disease Resistance: 1]


    So it really is a graveyard for the dead if I acquired such a trait, how unsanitary. Eradin left leaving a simple emotionless prayer that they wouldn''t meet the corrupt gods in death. After about half an hour of walking, Eradin still didn''t feel at ease after seeing so many beasts, some of which he guessed were Lords of the Forest and some of which were at or above level 20. So the Ogre was probably the weakest of the Lords and ruled the outer region with those goblins is the most probable cause. Without a doubt they all need to die or I die, it is that simple.


    There was roughly four hours of light left, and Eradin dumped all the twigs and kindling onto the ground from his magic bag. Making sure there weren''t any beasts around he carved the stick and felt elated that it was so simple it couldn''t even be counted as crafting. With it, Eradin laid the kindling onto the ground, and attempted to make a friction fire spining the stick rapidly and just to spite the Space/Time God, Eradin was happy that the extra gravity forthe sticksince he was holding gave more friction when it spun and allowed for a quick fire to be made. And with that fire lied Eradin''s plan. He boiled both bots of water, and put the Hide strips into one of them to clean. Then he roasted the all the meat, fully aware of the [God of Crafts and Cookings Curse].


    After all the meat was cooked, he stored most of it away and attempted to eat it. Eradin immediately vomited it out of his mouth. Holding his throat,he tried to drink the water he boiled and similarly spit it out. Gasping for air because the taste was stuck in his mouth Eradin once again forced the meat and water into his mouth. This time forcefully swallowing and holding them down.


    [Trait Gained: Immortal Stomach]


    [Descrption: To eat food that even the Gods would surely vomit, you can eat anything and everything withoutvomitingand gain experience from itandan extremely low chance of traits from what you ate. You are the depiction of a being that eats anything to survive.]


    "Thanks alot you damned skill, I don''t care about any of that, eating food that even shit would taste better than and water that smells and has to taste like gasoline is not worth it. Keep eating and drinking to a minimum in order to function is my new motto." Said Eradin once again to himself in depression.


    Turning to the strips he boiled, it was now time to train, there was only three hours oflight left to gain a skill Eradin wanted to create. He stored away any usable water and the pots. Then cut one layer of the hide strips into nose and ear plugs. Layering the last strips, Eradin created a headband tied it around his head so even if he opened his eyes it would be pitch black and then he plugged his ears and nose before pulling the hood of the Cloak of the Evil God over his head. After creating a headband, suspicion grew in Eradin, is there crafting professions in this world? If so that is most likely what the curse affects, probably there are classes like armorsmith and such that deal with it. Or maybe I am just so bad that it didn''t even count as crafting.


    Finally, Eradin tuned all of his sensory skills to the limit of his capabilities, which was roughly a 50 meter circle with him as the center. Now I have three hours, take it slow and easy. Within [Inner BodyPerception], Eradin looked at himself multiple times, and studied it, until finally he felt ready, feeling for a rock or anything around him, Eradin slowly tried to imagine an outline similar of the rock without a green light surrounding it that represented life. In an extreme state of concentration, Eradin, kept trying, until the point his body was drenched in sweat. It was virtually nightfall and the beasts were coming out to hunt when Eradin finally felt as if something broke within himself. He looked at his inner body only to see the outline of his eyes were surrounded by what looked like a violet flame. What does this mean? What does this represent thought Eradin? Thenall at once he realized he succeeded as the outline of the forest was visible to him, it no longer was pitch black with only his inner body visible to him. Now that blackness was filled with white lines in the shapes of various cliffs and dead trees. At the edge of the 50 meter circle all was visible to Eradin, no living thing could hide from his sight and similarly he could now traverse the world with this inner vision without fear of falling down a cliff or tripping over every loose stone.


    [Skill Gained: Inner World Vision]


    [Description: You who can see entities for what they are has once again pioneered a new skill which is a first in the world. Outlines of non-livingthings can now be seen. Any thing that would be transformed to look like something else cannot escape your eye.]


    [Bonus: Due to pioneering two techniques for the world that synergise and reveal all within your vision. Exp to next level has been granted. Trait: illusion resistance has been granted at level 9/10]


    [You have reached level 7]


    Seeing the messages, Eradin was happy, but the illusion resistance confused him, if he could see through any illusion, why is it that its only 9/10 complete. Perhaps it has something to due with [Inner Body Perception] and [Inner World Perception] being only 1/10 complete. Better not to think of it for now thought Eradin, instead it is time to polish all these sensory skills, and there was no better way than hunting at night. This night a reaper would be born.

 Ch 8 Subjugation Request and Advancement

    It was time, nightfall had come, and tonight with no exceptions a reaper was to be born, it was the night of the new moon with visibilityat absolute zero, this was supposed to be when adventurers who had night vision were in highest demand, that is, if there was any party crazy enough to come out to the forest. Flitting through the trees as if it was nothing was one such crazy youth, Eradin Silvermoon. Reincarnating into this very forest, he hadn''t left yet. Tonight was to bethe night that he woulddye himeself in blood. With his Blood of the War Goddess boiling just waiting for a fight, Eradin was already lusting for battle, but tonight would be different. It would be a night of assassination and attunement. Eradin still had himself blindfolded and plugged his ears and nose. With his black cloak, scythe and black scale-like armor, he certainly looked the part of a reaper. Relying only on his sensoryskills, even with a double experience requirement, he had no doubts they would all raise.


    What shall be my first target? There! Perfect, a lone lizard beast at level thirteen. It was the only beast within Eradin''s fifty meter circle of sensory vision and would make a prime first target. Eradin already used [Complete Aura Conealment] or he wouldn''t have been flitting through the forest without a worry in the world, of course his detection skills played a big part allowing him to feel at ease. Slowly Eradin approached the lizard beast, from what he could sense through [Inner Body Perception] it had venom sacs behind its jaws, which could be harvested if he was careful enough, then its eyes seemed to be the weakest point as the rest of its body looked to be covered in a scale armor similar to his own. The claws were negligible as they were short and dull, the most dangerous part looked to be the tail which was like a blade and its fangs which could secrete venom.


    Taking care create as little noise as possible, Eradin successfully approached the lizard beast and was in range with his Death Gods Scythe, taking no chances Eradin used [Cursed Slash] and drove the tip of the Death Gods Scythe right through the left eye and into the brain, until eventually it punctured out the back of its head.


    [Souls Absorbed: 1 Soul Points: 4]


    [Exp: 3%/100%]


    Why didn''t I get [Fused Body Exp] again? First it was the cow beast but now it is this? The last time I got anything was when I killed the Lord of the Forest. Perhaps after absorbing a soul that was in every way better than non elite souls, only those monsters can grant experience that is worthy. Or maybe the monsters tied to them count as well towards it. Further testing is required I guess. Then messages one after the other appeared but Eradin had little time to read them.


    Quickly putting the dead body into his magic bag, Eradin moved on. Theres was no doubt, if he stopped moving for too long, even with his concealed prescence, he''d be found out and quickly disposed. Moving along, their were countless beasts to choose from that were within Eradin''s ability to replicate such an attack, and that is exactly what he did. It was either he died or the beasts died, and after seeing just how many beasts were in the forest by the body of water, he knew that there was much work to be done as there were hundreds if not thousands of them, and to Eradin, it was just one large lump of souls and experience. Once he started moving, Eradin started to read the messages.


    [Skill Gained: Shadow Steps]


    [Description: As dark as a shadow, you move silently]


    [Skill Gained: Eviscerating Strike]


    [Description: Only usable on a target that is unaware of your prescence: Increase Initial damage of the attack by 15%]


    [Title Gained: Shadow Assassin: Attacking when a target does not realize it will deal 10% Increased Damage and Critical Hit Chance increased by 5%]


    [Equip Title: Y/N]


    Looking at the messages, Eradin had a smile befitting an assassin as he selected yes, his confidence rose much higher as now he also could flit through the forest without the slightest sound and his killing ability from the shadows just rose enough where he now had a new addition to his fighting style. Eradin''s only regrets, he might not have enough time to kill as much as he wanted before daylight and it seemed that he couldn''t have more than one title equipped for now.


    Country of Algon,City of Elren, Adventurers Guild


    The Guildmaster was looking at the stacks of reports on his old and weathered oak desk. Almost all of the reports stated the same thing, although the beasts of Agralon Forest were typically reserved in attacking adventurers, it seems that from what the scryers have learned, the hierarchy is currently changing at the very same moment he was reading the report, due to this,hundreds, if not thousands ofbeasts and monsters that typically stayed deep in the forest are being forced out towards the border and fights between themselves are becoming more rampant, as well as citizens getting caught in the middle of it and escorts of merchant caravans or the caravans themselves were being dragged into the forest never to be seen again. It was too much for the city to send the army to clear it as tensions with the neighboring country of Brail were rising. As such, the City Lord made a personal request for the Adventurers Guild to send all able-bodied members to the Agralon forest and scout outthe situation and either contain it by preventing attacks on the highways and citizens until such a time the army could dispose of the problems source or send in a well known adventurer party known for their ability to complete jobs to dispatch of the source of the problem. If the first suggestion was done 4000 gold coins would be granted to the guild, if the second was done, then 10000 would be granted to the guild and an additional 200 gold coins for each of the adventurers that participated in the subjugation of the problem source, no matter how little they actually did in the party as long as they solved the problem.


    Finished skimming through the reports as they all basically said the same thing, the Guildmaster stood up, went over to his personal bar and poured some of his favorite brandy made by the Dwarves. After taking a larger than normal sip, the slightly balding and overweight Guildmaster connected to the [Thought Transmission Earring] on his right ear.


    "Lydia, please send for the A-rank party Wisdoms Fallen, I request their prescence at once, it is a matter relating directly to the City Lord."


    A monotone, but authoritve voice responded through the earring, "Right away Guildmaster, they should arrive in the next minute."


    True to her word, in the next minute the Guild Master heard the scrambling of foot steps up to his office and also home on the third floor of the Adventurers Guild of Elren City. Hearing a knock on his door, he finished his Dwarven brandy in one long draft before shouting, "Come on in, no need for etiquette where your going anyways."


    Entering into the room were four women, typically a party filled with only females wouldn''t be found, however, these four were a special case, they were all from noble families trained since birth in etiquette, magic and the way of the sword, as for reasons unknown to the Guildmaster despite his connections, they were the ones that would succeed their parents in ruling their families instead of their brothers. So before that happened, the families all agreed to have them journey as adventurers and learn about the harder ways of life by having to earn their own keep without the reputations of their families or even their aid. All of them started off at the lowest rank with the most basic weapons and armor and worked their way up to what they were now without a single complaint which was what the Guildmaster liked the most about them.Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators!


    Amongthe party of Wisdoms fallen, the Leader was an Elf with hair that was silver much like Eradins but her eyes were golden. Her figure was perfect in the eyes of humans or any other race and high class among even elves. Farah Elenwith, born in the Elven noble house of Elenwith was an [Elven Wind Dancer] with a Long and Short sword strapped to her hips. The second was a human girl with raven black hair and equally black eyes, Stella Ravencrest was a [Wizard] with extreme dark attribute affinity and equally destructive magic. All women of the Ravencrest family would inherit the raven colored eyes and hair. After her was the [Priestess], Mayra Falkren of the Fairy-Human Race, she was smaller than an average human but she had majestic glowing fairy wings growing from her back that suited her lavender colored hair and eyes. Lastly, but the most important for where they were headed was the [Ranger] Scarlet Bloodrain, who as her family name and name suggest, had scarlet hair and eyes despite being human, her arrows, known to rain down on the enemy and cause morale to plummet.


    The Guildmaster was quite happy with this A-rank party and couldn''t think of a better team than them to head to Agralon Forest to nip the source of the problem in the bud. He grabbed the reports and letter from the City Lord and gave it to Farah and letting her read it before saying, "So, do you accept?"


    Farah couldn''t understand why the City Lord was offering so much gold, she understood that tensions were rising with Brail, but there shouldn''t be a need to pay that much. Looking up at the Guild master, she handed back the report, "We accept although why is he paying so much just to lower the population of stray beasts a bit. It should be nowhere near such a sum of money."


    The Guildmaster looked at her, and then realized his mistake, hastily walking over to his desk he picked up the lone report that was by itself astray from the others and handed it to her with a smile on his face. "This is the real reason the City Lord is paying so much money."


    Farah''s eyes widened and grew grim, the report read that the scryers had a visionthat two demi-gods would have a fight to the death in the forest but their levels were low enough that an A-rank party should be able to kill themboth or possibly persuade one or both of them to join the nation of Algon with the rising tensions and possibility of war. After all, a single demi-god could change the situation of a war in a second and every nation had atleast oneor possibly more hidden in the shadows so when war was a possibility, every country couldn''t make even one mistake or they would lose immediately. They were second only to the gods and only in legends did one ever ascend to godhood, all the countries were waiting and hoping for the day their demigods would ascend allowing them to wreak havoc across the continent before they left the mortal plane.


    Finally sighing, Farah and her party agreed, without any time to prepare they ran to their Wind Wyverns and flew towards Agralon Forest in the dead of nightwhich was roughly a day travel riding the Wyverns.


    Agralon Forest


    Currently in Agralon Forest hours after the Wisdoms Fallen left the city, not knowing he was scryed, a youth was running through the forest covered in blood, it was none other than Eradin Silvermoon.There was only a few minutes left until daylight and he was the epitome of death to the point that monsters and beasts were running away in fear because they didn''t even know what was killing all of them, it was to the point that even the Forest Lords were on high alert, hundreds of their kin were killed and their wasn''t even a trace of the enemy. The Heart of the Evil God couldn''t even help Eradin remain rational anymore, he was completely in a murderous state of mind. His only thought was Kill or Die. Survival of the fittest. It wasn''t until he couldn''t find anymore beasts or monsters, and dawn approached that Eradin calmed down. His entire message screen up until now had been, [Experience deferred until all enemies disposed]. This entire message was the reason he worked him self up into such a state of a battle frenzy trying to dispose of all his enemies. The entire forest had turned into an exp grinding zone for Eradin and he killed many beasts with relatively few injuries at all. Finally as dawn broke, Eradin simply waded into a river and washed all the blood off of himself. Once he came out of the cold water, he recieved numerous messages.


    [Experience gained: 723%/100%]


    [You have leveled up to 7]


    [You have leveled up to 8]


    [You have leveled up to 9]


    [You have leveled up to 10]


    [You have leveled up to 11]


    [You have leveled up to 12]


    [You have leveled up to 13]


    [All detection skills leveled up 3]


    [Scythe Mastery leveled up to 5/10]


    [Tracking leveled up to 4/10]


    [Complete Aura Concealmeant and Aura manipulation Leveled Up 3]


    [Eviscerating strike has leveled up to 3]


    [Cursed Slash has leveled up to 5]


    [Regeneration leveled up 1]


    [Skill Gained: Shadow Melding 5/10: You have become adept at melding into your surroundings to the point someone won''t know you are there unless they actively stare at you long enough to see you or have strong enough detection skills or magic.]


    [Souls Absorbed 734 Soul Points: 2569]


    [ You have surpassed Level 10: You now have access to the Soul Shop]


    [You havesurpassed Level 10: Cursed Hero Ability Cursed Star Unlocked]


    Eradin was upset that he could''ve leveled more if he didn''t require double experience and wished the beasts weren''t all around level 14but rather than complain he jumped up into a random tree that was covered in enough leaves so he''d be hidden from sight, while keeping all of his sensory skills active, Eradin said "Status Open" when one final message appeared.


    [You have surpassed level ten.Bodily pain from the curses increases from x1 to x10 and Gravity field weighing you down increases from x1 to x10]


    Eradin immeditaely cried out in pain and the tree branch he was sitting on broke from the force of his weight and the x10 gravity. Eradin didn''t want to give into the curses but his body was spasming andhis consciousness was fading. With a final hate filled remark of, "I shall slaughter not only the ten corrupted gods, but any god that dares stand in my way!", Eradin fell unconscious on the ground hidden in the brush next to the tree, with an extremely weak sign of life.


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    <td width="414">[Name: Eradin Silvermoon] [Active Title: Shadow Assassin]</td>


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    <td>[Race: (Unique) Child of the Sealed Gods]</td>


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    <td>[Level: 13] [Souls Absorbed:734 Soul Points: 2569]</td>


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    <td>[Classes: (Unique) Cursed Hero/(Unique) Inheritor of the Sealed Gods</td>


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    <td>[Fused Body Exp: 10.5%/100%] [Exp: 23%/100%]</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Titles]</td>


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    <td>Solo Elite Slayer</td>


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    <td>Shadow Assassin</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Hp: 340] [Mana: 290]</td>


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    <td>[Str:169] [Endurance:176] [Agi:168] [Int:176] [Luck:-10] [Def:171]</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Skills]</td>


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    <td>[Cursed Slash: 5/10] [Scythe Mastery: 5/10][Deathly Glare: 1/10]</td>


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    <td width="414">[Danger Perception: 4/10] [Bloodlust Detection: 4/10][Prescence Detection: 4/10]</td>


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    <td width="414">[Inner Body Perception: 4/10] [Complete Aura Concealment: 4/10] [Aura Manipulation: 4/10] [Tracking: 4/10] [Inner World Perception: 4/10]</td>


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    <td width="414">[Shadow Steps] [Eviscerating Strike: 3/10] [Shadow Melding:5/10]</td>


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    <td width="414">[Cursed Star: 1/10]</td>


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    <td>[Magic]</td>


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    <td>[Void Magic][Death Magic][Dark Magic]</td>


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    <td>[Magic of the Five Elements]</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Equipment]</td>


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    <td>Death Gods Scythe</td>


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    <td>Dragon Gods Pendant</td>


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    <td>Cloak of the Evil God</td>


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    <td>Armor of the War Goddess</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Traits]</td>


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    <td>[illusion Resistance: 9/10]</td>


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    <td>[Disease Resistance: 1/10]</td>


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    <td>[Mental Resistance: 1/10]</td>


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    <td>[Physical Resistance 1/10]</td>


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    <td>[Curse Resistance: 1/10]</td>


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    <td>[Fire Resistance: 1/10]</td>


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    <td>Cursed One: Max</td>


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    <td>Draconic Body: Max</td>


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    <td>[Godkiller Attribute: 1/?]</td>


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    <td>[Regeneration: 2/?]</td>


    </tr>


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    <td>[Immortal Stomach]</td>


    </tr>


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    <td></td>


    </tr>


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    <td>[Blessings]</td>


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    <td>Body of the Dragon God</td>


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    <td>Heart of the Evil God</td>


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    <td>Spirit of the Death God</td>


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    <td>Blood of the War Goddess</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td></td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td>[Abnormal Statuses]</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td>Space/Time Gods Curse</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td>God of Crafts and Cookings Curse</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td>Curse of the Love Goddess</td>


    </tr>


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    <td>Magic Goddesses Curse</td>


    </tr>


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    <td>God of Lights Curse</td>


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    <td>God of Fortunes Curse</td>


    </tr>


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    <td>God of Crossroads and Destinies Curse</td>


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    <td>Life Goddesses Curse</td>


    </tr>


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    <td>God of Medicines Curse</td>


    </tr>


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    <td>God of Literature, Music and Knowledges Curse</td>


    </tr>


    </tbody>


    </table>

 Ch 9 True Dragons Anger

    The Outskirts of Agralon Forest


    It was just before dawn, Wisdoms Fallen had already been awake long before then formulating their plan. Under normal situations that only involved monsters and beasts, they wouldn''t be anywhere near as cautious, but even an entire country would have to kneel before a demi-god, no matter how weak they were. As the mist began to disperse, vision into the forest became slightly more visible and under the scene of the morning dawn. Farah, Stella, Mayra and Scarlet peered into the Agralon Forest. The stench of blood was absolutely overwhelming, and not even ten feet into the forest, they saw signs of combat. Blood was all over the land, in the creek, all over trees, the ground was wilted red, rocks were sliced in half, entire areas previously of forestry became clearings of nothing but dead trees and blood.


    If not for being an A-rank party, they all would''ve most definately vomited a hundred times over but the most puzzling factor was, where are the bodies? If there is a battle of this magnitude, where are they? Farahs expression became even more grim than when she was reading the report. Is this what the scene of demi-gods fighting is? Is this what their power can cause? Deciding not to wait any longer, Farah gave the signal to enter the Agralon Forest, but with the most caution possible. The more they traversed into the forest, the stronger the stench of blood became. The stronger the smell of rotten flesh became. The more flies, crows and corpse eating animals began to congregate. Farah, motioned for a hand signal to stop moving, when she whispered to the rest of the party, "Do you see where all the crows are circling, that is probably where the most of the fighting took place and probably where we can find the most information as to what happened here. The wind spirits are saying to prepare ourselves for what we are about to witness."


    Collectively Farah heard the rest of them say,"Understood".


    Then as they traversed the smell became almost unbearable to the point that they were all extremely nauseous, the crows started to caw even more and a clearing was opening up, outside of the clearing the party stopped and peered into the open space, what they saw almost made all of the girls except for Farah faint. In the center of a perfect circle clearing of 200meterswas a mountain of hundreds of corpses all starting to rot with a hooded figure in the dead center happilyfidgeting while dismantling the corpses with skill thatwas non existent and ruined thebodies.


    Stella began muttering, "Oh God of Darkness, protect me from all that is unholy in the grounds before me." While Mayra and Scarlet began to make prayers to their own gods with similar context. The only one seriously observing the situation was Farah as being an elf, she had much better vision and what shocked her the most was above that persons head was only level thirteen. How could someone only level thirteen possibly kill hundreds of beasts and monsters and not be closer to her level of 40. Generally speaking a level 40 would not come to this forest but the circumstances demanded so this time. Looking at her companions blanched faces, Farah could only sigh, they had been in many life and death battles before, some of which almost killed them all, but the one advantage Farah had over them was she was also trained to be a military leader and had been to battle fields that contained thousands upon thousands of troops slaughtering each other for no other reason than they hated the other. With this thought she made up her mind, "The three of you, he is only level thirteen, go back to the outskirts of the forest, if I need any of you I will send a thought transmission." And as Farah expected, the three blanched faces immediately regained a slight bit of color as they turned around and sprinted off to their camp. But rather than turn around and go confront the hooded figure, Farah calmly decided to analyze the situation, there was no way this person was normal, for a level thirteen to kill hundreds of beasts and monsters, they had to have some sort of trump card.


    For nearly an hour Farah observed the hooded figure, until the she recieved a message from the wind spirits. "Boss level monsters approach the figure." Still Farah didn''t feel something was right, to her left there was a tall tree and she used her nimble body and dexterity to climb all the way to the top, she wanted to see the black hooded figure fight and if he was about to die, she might save him depending on if she felt he could supply valuable information. Without a second to spare, what she saw wasn''t one or even two boss level mobs, it was a whole pack of them, with the highest being level 20, all just sitting outside the circle clearing. It seemed that the figure hadn''t noticed, and then the moment she saw one paw of a wolf boss level beast at level 17 step into the clearing, she noticed the figure immediately stop, stand up and face all of the boss level beasts. Out of nowhere, tons of danger signals went off in her mind, but she continued to watch as a giant black scythe appeared in the figures hands from nowhere. The wind blew and caused the hood to blow back off of the figure and to Farahs surprise, they only looked to be sixteen years old, the same as her, but they had beast hide in their nose, ears and covering their eyes. Just what is he thought Farah, does he not have any senses aside from touch. But finally she watched him enter into a stance with the scythe and heard him say something that confirmed all the danger signals she had. "I''ve been waiting for you, Lords of the Forest, can''t you see my blood is boiling for a fight."


    Earlier in Agralon Forest Eradin POV


    Eradin woke up to a splitting headache and body aches all over, struggling to sit up, four messages were before him, much like last time, he really realized how broken it was to have a body forged from the body of the True God known as the Dragon God.


    [Mental Resistance has rised to 2]


    [Physical Resistance has rised to 2]


    [Curse Resistance has rised to 2]


    [Trait: Spatial Resistance has been learned]


    [Description: Through the infinite adaptability of the Dragon Race, you have learned to withstand an environment with strong spacial laws, their effects on you weaken slightly]


    Once again just like when he first came into this world, Eradin came to enlightenment about resistance even more so, and that was, they were seriously hard to level up. When he was slaughtering the beasts, he leveled up regeneration to 2 after getting hit enough, but he still didn''t increase in any other resistances and now when he had x10 effects, then they would increase. It sure is terrifying, the thought of having to withstand x100 pain and gravity makes me want to die again, but then i''ll just reincarnate with the same curses! "Ahhhh, curse the damn gods, your all just humans in the end that like to flaunt your fake powers compared to true gods!"


    With the venting out of the way, Eradin, began to look at his new skills.


    [Soul Shop: Spend Soul Points to gain some of the skills of the sealed gods instead of learning them on your own.]


    [Cursed Star: The Cursed Star, much like the Cursed Hero was cursed for no reason, it is the star that absorbs and stores curses. Whenever you begin combat, a list of curses will appear, choose one that is most appropriate for the fight and apply it to your weapon. Stronger Curses and the number that can be used at once increase with proficiency in this skill]


    Eradin immediately said [Soul Shop Open]


    In front of him were only one skill from each of the gods. The way the shop seemed to work is that there was one skill per ten levels as far as he knew, so Eradin could choose from four skills. For level ten they were as follows:


    [Rage of the Dragon God 1/?: Temporarily Increase all physical stats by 100%] Cost: 1500 Cd: Three Minutes


    [Dark Shield of Evil Thougts 1/?: Cover yourself in a mist of Negative Energy, Increase Defense by 50% and mana regeneration by 5/sec] Cost: 1500 Cd: 15 Seconds


    [Deathly Aura (Passive Skill) 1/?: For every entity Killed, Increase all Stats and damage by 3% up to 30% lasts for one hour.] Cost: 1000 No CD: (Passive)


    [Asura Aura (Passive Skill) 1/?: Aura That only gods who delve into endless combat were known to have. Increase Attack Speed and Critical Hit Damage by 2% for every 5 seconds you are in combat up to 20%] Cost: 1000 No CD: (Passive)


    Of the four level ten skills, it seems I can choose two. Either both passives or one of the actives and one passive. The one to cancel out immediately is the Evil God Skill, I have no use for mana yet. I''ve already pissed off the Lords of the Forest so I might need a fail safe for when I fight them and I don''t really have a defensive skill so one must be [Rage of the Dragon God] which can be offensive or defensively used. In single combat, Asura Aura is better, but in combat that has many people, Deathly Aura is better. In the end although Eradin felt that he''d commit another massacre like last night, [Asura Aura] would be the most beneficial for when he fights a Lord of the Forest.


    [Are these your final purchases?]


    [Y/N]


    Eradin clicked yes and a bloody red light illuminatedhis bodyfrom what he could seewithin [Inner Body Perception], he still kept himself shut off from sense of sight, sound and smell to further hone his sense skills, and frankly subconsciously Eradin knew that silver hair aside, if he met someone with his red and purple eyes, even without the Curses affecting him, they would think he was a demon. With everything out of the way concerning statuses, Eradin went about creating a clearing with the limitof his new sensory range of 200 meters. His plan was simple, now that he had enraged the Forest Lords, they were coming for him anyway, so why not create an open area where he had plenty of movement and range to swing the Death Gods Scythe. Then after roughly two hours passed, Eradin was finished and releases the hundreds of corpses that he gained from his night of reaping. He then began to wait for the Lords of the Forest for he knew they would come at the sight and smell of such a massive mound of their kin.If you spot this story on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.


    And so Eradin began to practice dismantling, a skill every adventurer should know, or so he thought, it was different in this world, it was known as a crafting profession and was a class, so unknown to him, [God of Crafts and Cookings Curse] was active for any dismantling, hence the reason he was so horrible and ruined the previous pelt. As he happily worked away,Eradin didn''t notice the A-Rank party scouting him outside his 200 meter range, he was simply waiting for the Lords of the Forest to take even a single step into the 200 meter circle that could be considered his all-seeing domain. And after another hour his wish was granted. Eradin stood up and turned towards the Wolf Lord that he knew. Taking out the Death Gods Scythe, Eradin readied into a stance after the wind blew off his hood and he switched his title to [Solo Elite Slayer] and with his line that he''d been thinking of for hours, he said "I''ve been waiting for you, Lords of the Forest, can''t you see my blood is boiling for a fight."


    Present Time


    There were five Lords of the Forest in the clearing, all of them were Elite Boss Monsters ranging from level 17 to 20, but that didn''t bother Eradin, after recieving all his power ups from the experience grind, he was ready alot sooner than he anticipated, and he''d fought at a ten level deficit of three to thirteen which was much more dangerous than a deficit of four to seven levels from level thirteen where he had much more variability in his actions.


    Combat immediatlely started and each side commenced their buffing and debuffing. Appearing in front of Eradin was the [Cursed Star], it was only the size of a fist, but it was gray and emitted an eerie feeling.


    [Cursed Star Choices]


    [Absorbtion 1: As long as you touch the opponent entity it will drain ten Hp from them and redistribute it to you or aleve a small amount of fatigue if you are above 80% Hp]


    [Physical Stats Reduction 2: Reduce all physical stats by five and stacks five times]


    Eradin immediately knew which one to take in this situation considering the [Asura Aura], with but a thought the Cursed Star entered the Death Gods Scythe and caused it to emit a grayish light that gave off an even more enhanced eerie feeling. Then he heard the message, [Absorbtion: 1] has been applied to Death Gods Scythe. Then Eradin readied his stance as he recieved his debuff.


    [Lord of the Forest Unity Roar: Attack and movement speed slowed by 20%]


    The battle commenced, Eradin put all of his sensory skills to the limit of their capabilities and simply waited as the five Lords of the Forest began their assault. Rather than wait for a dire situation, right as they all converged on Eradin, his entire body glowedin a black auraand the silhouette of a black dragon to others but known as the Dragon God to Eradin appeared behind him and let out an earth shattering roar that shook the ground itself causing a mini-earthquake. Eradins muscles bulged and all of his physical stats, even the ones not seen on a status screen such as attack speed felt like they increased to double. Eradin immediatly made a sweeping motion with the Death Gods Scythe that cleaved at all of the Lords of the Forest, all except the Wolf Lord was slashed with a [Cursed Slash] causing their Hp to be absorbed and keeping Eradin from getting fatigued. Then the message appeared. [Four Lords of the Forest: Abnormal Status: Movement speed Slow 2: -20%]. A new discovery appeared to Eradin, if multiple enemies were slashed with the same cursed slash, then the same curse was applied, if that was the case, the answer to winning the battle was CLEAVE!


    As the fight progressed, [Dragon Gods Rage] subsided after one minute and its three minute cool down began, but in that time, all Eradin did was cleave, cleave, and cleave again. He managed to afflict the same four Lords of the Forest with [Lower Attack:1], [Lower Physical Stats:1] and [Weaken Reflexes: 1]. They were also all roughly half Hp, but as Eradin expected the Wolf Lord was not only fast but intelligent, it was biding its time while the four other lords blindly attacked. Once again Eradin cleaved with [Cursed Slash]. Multiple cuts appeared on the four lords as Eradin chained his attacks together with the attack speed bonus of [Asura Aura]. Blood was spewing everywhere flesh was falling off of the Lords, yet the Wold Lord seemed to be waiting for something, it was still circling Eradin even though he was keeping track of it through all of his sensory skills. Then Eradin cleaved one last time and it caused the four lords to rage.


    [Lord of the Forests Rage: The Four Lords have increased Hp and Physical Stats by 25% when attacking you but lowered Non-Physical stats by 25%]


    They all blindly rushed at Eradin, and he once again cleaved, and would non-stop repeat the same action while taking care to watch the Wolf Lord, until finally when the four lords charged a final time as they were mostly sub 10% Hp from what Eradin could guess, he slashed, and just happened to step into the only puddle of lord''s blood that was capable of making him slip. Eradin immediately corrected his posture while slipping and cursing out loud, "Why now of all times you fucking trash God of Fortune", but that was the slightest opening the Wolf Lord needed and it ran at full Hp, unaffected by curses, right into Eradin like a battering ram and bit into his shoulder as hard as it could. Eradin grunted in pain as the lords took the opportunity to get in amultipleattacks as they were on the brink of passing out from blood loss, buteven with the [Life Goddess Curse] he still had a phenomenal physique for his level and not to mention the Armor of the War Goddess and Cloak of the Evil God. Even with a 24/7 vulnerability on himself, Eradin was able to correct himself despite taking considerable damage and swung the Death Gods Scythe with his left hand and slammed the blade right into the shoulder of the Wolf Lord tearing all the muscle fibers, ligaments and puncturing its lung forcing it to disconnect its bite from Eradin. Its whole plan was to immobilize Eradin and let the other four Lords slaugher him before it snuck in the finishing blow. But as it backed away in pain, it saw an image of something it would never forget even in the afterlife. That was the anger of a True Dragon.


    [Hp: 173/340]


    [Hp Regen: 4/sec]


    Eradin had his eyes locked onto his Hp, if that went on any longer he seriously would have been in danger. Even more so he wasangeredto the absolute limit for the fist time in the entirety of his two lives,Eradin could''ve almostdied had from the slip up due to his bad luck, his promise to the sealedgods, who were technically his parents now, was almost broken and that was something Eradin would never do.His anger was not the anger of a human, it was the full wrath of a demi-god that inherited the traits of the king of beasts, the lord of evil, and the aspects of death and war themselves. The full might of his anger was brought out because of his hatred towards the gods that ruined him leading to his first time in such a close life and death scenario that could have never happened. Screaming out at the top of his lungs, it was not the scream of a man, but what came out was a dragoncry no less violent than the [Rage of the Dragon God]. The cool down of [Rage of the Dragon God] reset even though it had thirty seconds left and activated immediately and this time the phantasmal figure of the Dragon God did not disappear. Grasping the Death Gods Scythe, the hide straps blocking Eradin''s senses were distintegrated by the aura he was emitting, his red eye was lit with a red flame, while his purple eye similarly had a purple flame, spewing from his body was black and purple mist. The gray aura emitting from the Death Gods Scythe increased to envelop the whole scythe instead of just the blade. Under his fury, Eradin took note of every Lord in the clearing to make sure that none of them would escape.


    [Hidden Skill of the Cursed Hero Unlocked: Absolute Anger of the Cursed]due to hidden conditions being fulfilled.


    [Hidden Skill of the Cursed Hero:[Absolute Anger of the Cursed] evolves to [Demi-God Cursed Child of the Sealed Gods Absolute Anger] ]


    [Demi- God Cursed Child of the Sealed Gods Absolute Anger: Absolute hatred and rage brought forth that even the Heart of the Evil God can''t quell from an event that caused the Cursed Child to becomeextremely emotionally unstable to the point of insanity. All Physical Stats rise by 100%: [Rage of the Dragon God] cooldown isalso instantly reset and remains active until the rage subsides. All regeneration effects are increased by 150%, all damage dealt and attack speedis increased by 100% and cannot use any magic aside from death magic, void magic or fire magic. You will suffer from extreme body painthat is undescribeableafter the skill ends due to forcefully unlocking a portion of the potential hidden within the True God body. Lose all rationality and only focus on erasing whatever caused such anger that should never be unleashedwithin the mortal plane]


    [Condition: Can only be used in extreme life and death conflict and theextreme anger of the Cursed Child is unleashed from the events happening in said conflict is unleashed into the mortal plane.]


    The earth around Eradin was cracked, his anger was the epitome of a true dragon that was enhanced by the aspects of death, evil, and war. If one had to describe Eradin in one sentence, it would probably be he was the Evil True Dragon God of Death and War for he combined all the aspects of his blessings into this one skill. Every step he took toward the Wolf Lord cracked and broke the ground, the wind rose into a typhoon and the clouds turned black and caused a downpour of rain, thunder and lightning. Eradin casually swung his scythe and decapitated the four unconscious Forest Lords as he passed them. All that was left was the Wolf Lord, Eradin simply stared at it as he approached into its range, it couldn''t do anything with a torn up body and that demonic stare from Eradin, it physically couldn''t move.


    [Deathly Stare has evolved into [Petrifying Soul Gaze]


    Eradin swung down the Death Gods Scythe, the impact was so great that it didn''t cut the Wolf Lord. instead it completely flattened the Wolf Lordin one hit.All of its innards littered the ground, blood spattered everywhere and caused even Farah who was watching in terror to almost vomit. For this scene was something even she hadn''t seen on the battefield, it was an unspoken rule between countries even if they had absolute hate to not commit such acts,they were unspokenHumanitarian Laws and meant scenes like this where even afterthe Wolf Lord was dead, its corpse was still being ravaged and was no longer recognizable would never occur. But Farah watched on as she saw Eradin turn to thedead Lords and repeat the same process, but he still wasn''t finished,afterwards not even the over 700 bodies that were already starting to rot were spared of desecration. Then even after that was finished, while releasing multiple dragon cries, the clearing almost doubled in size under Eradins wrath causing Farah to retreat multiple times in the hope he wouldn''t notice her. Finally after what seemed like an eternity, Eradin began to calm down, he recieved messages but was oblivious to them and simply passed out unconscious with his body in a seizing condition because he really was too low level right now and should not be anywhere near close to using such a skill that unlocks a portion of the potential hidden in a True God body. Finally, to Farahs everlasting shock, she witnessed all of his equipment fuse into his body while he was seizing.

 Ch 10 False Legends

    Farah POV


    Utter destrcution was all that could be seen for 400 meters in any direction. The previous mountain of rotting corpses was just a large puddle now with bone shards and shredded pelts. The stench was unbearable, so much so, even scavengers that eat rotting corpses wouldn''t come near this clearing, there was no doubt that for miles in any direction, beasts and monsters would be in hiding and cowering for days to come because of the absolute oppression that represents what a dragon is. And the source of it all was a naked youth in the center of said clearing seizing non-stop and covered with blood. Farah had been on a dragon hunting expedition before withthousands of adventurers and even the gods had to descend into the mortal plane to seal it for it surpassed any dragon fought before, It was known as the War of the Aspects where the entire continent participated as allies. For her, even now its level representation to her would be [???] because it was so powerful. They were the strongest beings next to demi-gods and gods. And if she didn''t know any better she would''ve thought it was adragon that caused such violence and not the youth in front her who was even the same age to boot! The rain hadn''t stopped yet to which she was thankful, it began to wash all of the carnage downhill slowly but surely. From what Farah could tell, this was definately one of the two demi-gods that were supposed to fight. If not, there was no wat such power could be explained that made even her pale in terror.


    Slowly coming out of hiding, Farah realized that her whole body was shaking, her legs felt like mush, and as she tried to approach the youth, danger signals and common sense would keep telling her to turn back and she would shake even more. But her duty came first, to dispose of or get the aid of one of the demi-gods. Slowly Farah took out her short sword as she was now standing over the youth, as she was about to end his life like every signal in her mind was telling her to do. For some reason she didn''t, rather, she felt extremely wary of him which was not normal, even after witnessing such a seen, she is the daughter of a noble elven house, she shouldn''t be wary of anyone. Even more so, it was also the same with theemotions she felt towards him, it was as if, they were being forcibly blocked and she couldn''t qutie understand why. As a noble,Farah should be able to converse easily with anyone, even if they were hundreds of levels above her without even flinching. Instead, she turned him over, avoiding gazing at "that" as much as possible, she took off her cloak and covered the boy while gazing at his face.He was truly refined, hair not any less silver than hers, but the most striking feature were his eyes from earlier, even remembering the sight from so far away, they seemed endlessly deep and the color was not normal at all, especially having two different colors. Also fascinating was although he appeared human, his ears were shaped like an elfs but also seemed similarto theears of the very same dragon that she saw get sealed with her very own eyes. Of course it was already a known fact elves and dragons had similar ears as they were tworaces known as higher existences. But if Eradin ever heard hersay that right now, he would have probably screamed ather on the spot that only thegods and the voidwere higher existences, although no race in the mortal plane knew of the void asit was only a myth.


    Unable to withstand staring at him anymore, Farah finally forced her nerves to calm, regaining her stern look, she picked up Eradin and slung him over her shoulder. But she almost fell down, from the weight that was absolutely not normal when her [All Non Physical Status Resistance Ring: Raise All resistances to anything that is not physical by 1] shined with light meaning she was affected by an abnormal status. It was the ring that symbolized she was to inherit the right to rule her house and was one of only3 on the continent that she knew of and they all were in the possession of elven houses. Farah put down Eradin, and looked at him before saying "Status Open"


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    <td>[Name: Farah Elenwith] [Active Title: Winds Companion]</td>


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    <td>[Race: High Elf][Racial Trait: Bonus Max Mana capacity per level and increased move speed]</td>


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    <td>[Level: 40] [Exp:98%/100%]</td>


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    <td>[Classes: Elven Windancer]</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Titles]</td>


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    <td>[Winds Companion][Aspect War Veteran]</td>


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    <td>[Hp: 2350][Mana: 1930]</td>


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    <td>[Str: 440][Endurance:385][Agi:483][Int:356][Def:390]</td>


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    <td>[Skills]</td>


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    <td>[Elven Wind Dance 9/10] [Magic Perception: 9/10] [Prescence Detection: 9/10]</td>


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    <td>[Night Vision:Max][Bow Mastery 5/10][Etiquette:Max][Horsemanship:Max][Aerial Riding: Max]</td>


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    <td>[Wind Step: 7/10]</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Magic]</td>


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    <td>[Wind Magic: 5/10][Lightning Magic: 4/10]</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Equipment]</td>


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    <td>[Wind Fairy Set: Set Bonus: Agility and movement speed are increased by 10% in combat.</td>


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    <td>[Cloak of Eternal Wind]</td>


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    <td>[Wind Fairies Long and Short Sword: Set Bonus: Increase Attack Speed by 10%</td>


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    <td>[All Non Physical Status Resistance Ring]</td>


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    <td>[Traits]</td>


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    <td>[Highborn: Bonus of +10 mana every level] [Elf: +10% movement speed and have High Wind Affinity]</td>


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    <td>[Race Trait: All Elemental Resistance: 2/10]</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Abnormal Statuses]</td>


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    <td>[N/A]</td>


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    That doesn''t make any sense thought Farah, he for sure is much heavier than he should be. Slowly she stepped toward Eradin and touch him with her status page open, then when she did so a message appeared under [Abnormal Statuses]


    [Space/Time Gods Curse: As long as you are touching the Cursed Child, you are affected by the x10 gravity weighing him down.]


    Shocked,that was what Farah felt right now as she once again almost fell, he was cursed by one of the ten Gods that descended into the mortal plane during the Aspect War. But even more terrifying was the fact that she realized by coming here, events would probably be set in motion that she didn''t understand, but she was sure her father would, as long as she could bring him out of the forest and to the city, all answers could be found. This was faith that never faltered when it came toFarah''s father. Once again Farah picked up Eradin, this time ready for the curse and braced herself. With him slung over her back the way she learned in the army, Farah ran through the blood soaked forest until finally she returned to camp, where her party mates were carelessly eating without a care in the world. Upon seeing her arrive with the youth slung over her back, they all spit out their food in unison.


    "Farah Wh...Wh...Why did you bring that beast out of the forest, quickly put it back before it wakes up, didn''t you hear the cries of the beasts throughout the forest!" Scarlet, the resident [Ranger] was fidgeting while she made that response, what Farah was holding was in no way an intelligent race in her eyes, even if it was 1/3 her level, it still was absolutely dangerous and needed to never leave the forest for in her eyes a calamity would occurr.


    "No that cry you heard was this youth, and he is the same age as us, but even more importantly we need him to lead us to where the other demi-god is, perhaps we can acquire two, but also we need him to meet my father as soon as possible. Get the appraisal orb, I need to check something."


    Stella reluctantly began to grab the appraisal orb out of her magic bag, but not beforeScarlet caught what Farah was implying, "Gold be damned, if he really is a demi-god, all the more reason to put "IT" back into the forest that it was rampaging in, you saw just how violent it is, anything that is as unstable as that should not be messed with unless we want Algon destroyed!"


    Farah began to twirl a strand of her hair around her finger while her face grew slightly contorted in annoyance, "We cannot leave two weapons of mass destruction unattended,end of story, none of you understand what I witnessed within the Algaron Forest and frankly you won''t see them ina memory orb until I show them to my father. Either way, its time for conformation."


    Farah grabbed the Appraisal Orb from Stella andmoved Eradin''s hand and placed it upon the orb, this was typically extremely rude to peak at anothers status but the situation demanded it. But there was only one thing visible within his status[Eradin Silvermoon: Status: Child of the......] and before Farah could finish reading, the Appraisal Orb shattered. While everyone else almost fainted as this never happened before, even Demi-Gods status normallycould be seen when appraised. But Farah withdrew her Short Sword and seriously tried to cut Eradins wrist, but before she could, a black light appeared and Eradin''s body was once again covered in his god equipment, with his scythe emitting eerie sounds as if threatening her to try andrepeat the same action. It confirmed Farahs suspsicions that what she witnessed was true, he had intelligent equipment fused with his body which was unheard of even for demi-gods.


    Rather than try to wake him and risk a calamity of the scale that she witnessed, Farah simply covered Eradin in a blanket and sat down with the other girls. After taking a moment to organize her thoughts Farah began to inform the other three. "From what I know he is most definately one of the demi-gods we were looking for, multiple boss level monsters were of no match to him, and from the state he was in that caused him to pass out, I am quite sure he could''ve slaughtered me if I was found out. Our mission remains the same, there is still another demi-god and based on this ones powers, the other one could be just as strong, a walking calamity on the scale of a True Dragon at the Great Wyrm stage is the best case scenario if they were allowed to grow in strength. The worst case, they could destroy entire countries with one attack."


    The more Farah described the situation, the more the looks of understanding finally dawned across Mayra, Stella and Scarlets faces. Finally for the first time during the entire quest, Mayra spoke out meakly, "Then...then... thats why we were chosen for this quest as an A-Rank party, if we don''t tame these beasts, then it could mean the end of Algon as we know it once they grow into what they are truly capable of. But if that is the case, why wasn''t a stronger A-rank party chosen or even an S-Rank? We are only leveled into the forties?"


    Scarletsharply looked atMayra with her equally sharp scarlet eyes, she understood better than most that level didn''t necessarily influence the rank of a party but how much they can accomplish . "We both know that in the city, currently we are the only available A-rank party, with the rumours of Death Lords floating all over the place, the other higher leveled parties are undertaking anything that falls in line with the Death Aspects. So as the only team left, we are the ones with the responsibility and every S-Rank party has left on the same mission, one of which that we are not allowed to be informed of All we can pray is whatever they are going to kill, it won''t be on the level of the Aspect War."


    Stella who had been watching Eradin in a state of extreme caution finally spoke out,"Well it won''t be long until we getthe answers we are looking for, he''s waking up, ready your weapons, he might attack."


    They all hastily scrambled to the opposite side of the camp and gave Eradin plenty of space with the fire between them. In a state of absolute silence they watched Eradin wake up, and in the next moment what they didn''t expect to occurr happened. He didn''t even notice them and was in a state of muddled confusion. Muttering things about experience, they could only assume that he was looking at his Status. The first to regain their composure was Farah as always, slowly with absolutely no sound, she walked towards Eradin, then very carefully she called out to him as if she was talking to a wounded animal in distress, "Sir Demi-God, are you able to talk with us."


    Right awayshe wished she hadn''t mentioned a word, Eradin turned around immediately and his gaze turned to that of an animal that was hostile, his eccentric eyes drilled right into their very souls petrifying them. Picking up his Scythe, he once again began muttering under his breath before a stalemate occurred and he entered into a stance.


    Eradin POV


    Eradin was in an extremely groggy state, upon waking up he kept hearing messages in his head and when he opened his eyes he was bombarded with messages. Without any time to check his surroundings, Eradin just scrolled through it all to lessen his headache even a little.


    [Title Earned: Lord of the Forest: Within a Forest movement speed is increased by 10% and Attack Speed is increases by 5%]


    [Equip Title Y/N]


    Eradin chose no just to quickly move on and resumed looking at the the other messages.


    [Heavy Restrition has been placed on [Skill: Cursed Child of the Sealed Gods Absolute Anger:Max] ,the skill can only be used in times of extreme life and death danger and only when something causes the Cursed Child to be driven emotionally to the brink of insanity]This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it.


    Looking at the skill description, Eradin understood what a terrifying skill he unlocked. But rather than ponder that or worry about such a dangerous skill,his first thought was to laugh at the soon to be Hero someday. "I bet you won''t have such an OP skill because you need to follow morales and act like a bootlicker to the oh so wonderful ten gods the continent worships the most."


    [All Sensory and Aura Skills not originating from a God uniformly level up to 5/10 due to using them to the absolute limits fighting five boss level entities]


    [Cursed Slash and Scythe Mastery are now 6/10]


    [You have leveled up to 16 from 13]


    [Bonus Exp from Title/Small Party Bonus/Multiple Bosses in one fight]


    [You have leveled up to 17 from 16]


    [Due to unlocking a hidden skill and leveling up seven skills to the 50% mark in one day, exp to the next level has been granted.]


    [You have leveled up to 18 from 17]


    [ Total Souls Absorbed:740 Total Soul Points: 389]


    [Fused Body Exp: 22.5%/100%] [Exp: 12%/100%]


    Eradin couldn''t believe what he saw but after rechecking what it said, he muttered a small spiteful remark to the Space/Time God, "Haha, take that you crotchety bastard, I did so well I directly bypassed your shitty curse that requires double experience as a reward. Score one for me!"


    [Deathly Glare] has evolved to [Petrifying Soul Gaze]


    [Cursed Star is now 2/10]


    [Surviving the potential of a True God Body being unlocked partially when you absolutely weren''t ready raised [Physical Resistance] and [Mental resistance] to 3]


    With that final message, Eradin finally felt a little better, but the pain in his body didn''t hurt much less, it was a burning and stinging sensation everywhere, the resistances helped a little but they weren''t strong enough to counteract a gods curse yet. His vision finally cleared of all the messages, Eradin finally came to his senses and heard a womens voice trying to sooth him.


    "Sir Demi-God, are you able to talk with us."


    Eradin turned around and saw an Elf of level 40, she had silver hair just like he did but about her was a dignified aura that he didn''t like as it reminded him of the ten gods. Staring directly into her with hostile eyes, Eradin stood up and readied his scythe. Ready to activate [Rage of the Dragon God] at any moment even though he probably shouldn''t. Slowly Eradin looked at the group of four before taking into account his curses make people who meet and see him for the first time wary. Even without the curses, people would be wary just based on his appearance.


    A slight wind blew around the Elf and to Eradin''s shock, she unstrapped her weapons and threw them onto the ground before kicking them towards him. Before signaling for her companions to put down their weapons. Once again she looked at Eradin, "Let us retry that, I''m going to be honest, something about you just puts anyone on edge, but i''ve already seen you rampage around, if I have to guess you are still recuperating from the consequences of using so much divine power. All I ask is that you retract that giant scythe into your body and have a chat with us."


    Eradin was surprised at her statement, she didn''t seem as cautious as she should. That means she must''ve seen me fighting the Lords of the Forest and brought me here when I was unconscious, that would explain why she is having an easier time talking to me than those other three who are extremely hostile looking. Slowly stepping back, Eradin directed a piercing gaze at the elfs companions before closing his eyes. "Have that girl stop whatever curse or dark magic she''s chanting, it''s easy to tell she''s trying something that would more than likely seal me in some way."


    Stella immediately stopped chanting and her eyes almost bulged out, "How do you know what attribute I was using! That shouldn''t be possible unless you can recognize the exact chant of which there are millions of different combinations!"


    Eradin didn''t answer and only kept his eyes closed, through [Inner Body Perception] he could see a dark mass congregate around the girl when she was speaking, going by color and what little he could guess about dark magic and the form it was taking,it probably indirectly affected a person. But the real reason he could guess she was attempting a curse or sealing spell is because on Eradins own body he was coveredby ten dark symbols that he noticed once his [Inner Body Perception] leveled, and he assumed they were his curses. The symbol taking form around the wizard girl was quite similar with only minute differences, compared to the god curses it was lack-luster and didn''t feel like divine power but the shape and feelings he got from it was similar, hence he made his guess.


    Farah stared angrily at Stella, "Enough! To think a sealing spell would work against a Demi-God, throw down your weapons, he isn''t hostile...for now. But make no mistake Demi-God, if you are to turn your scythe against the city, we have been ordered to slaughter you."


    For once, Eradin finally calmed down at that remark, he had been living these past days living by the scythe so direct remarks like that got his blood boiling,"Fine then, it seems you need something, so let''s trade. Give me a head band to cover my eyes, and we shall sit down and chat."


    "Why do you need a headband? You had beasthide blocking your senses when you fought as well?"


    Eradin grew annoyed, he didn''t want to reveal his one of a kind sensory skills, "Surely you can understand that I won''t just tell you my reasons after we first met, all that I''llreveal is it''s a sense of comfort. I feel more secure with my eyes covered and as you can see, my eyes are not normal. If I met you, then that means there are others quite possibly, and I''d rather them think I am blind than see my eccentric eyes. Besides I can function fine withut my vision." Trueto his words, Eradin did feel a sense of comfort. With sight, hearing and sound blocked for training purposes, Erading grew to rely on his sensory skills, honing them to the limit, they were still only half complete but could be considered close to other sensory skills that were completed in training. The ease given by complete awareness in a 200 meter circle that would only grow larger as it was improved was something that Eradin needed, whether he needed to be in that state all the time was different, but it was his choice.


    Deciding not to question him any further, Farah agreed, she took out a knife she had hidden on her back, which was the only reason why she threw her weapons at Eradin, she was always armed, removing a spare cloak from her spatial ring, at once it was shredded into strips and then layering the extremely thin fabric, Farah took out thread and sewed them together with her extremely agile hands. In less than five minutes, a headband of higher quality than what Eradin made was completed. "Here, now let''s chat, come sit by the fire."


    Eradin accepted the headband that was silky, but effectively blocked his vision, closing his eyes underneath the headband, once again all sensory skills were activated. Sitting down at the fire, Eradin simply waited for Farah to speak, as the atmosphere was tense and frankly those other three girls looked like they wanted to string him up and cook him like a whole hog over an open flame for torture, especially that raven haired cranky wizard.


    "So let''s get straight to the point, we were dispatched here for two reasons, one of which was to find the source of the problem with the beasts and monsters, that still hasn''t been finished but you thinning the numbershelped, the other was to either kill or get the aid of the two demi-gods that the scryers said were supposed to have a fight to the death in the forest. And you are the first one that was found so priority goes to you overthe other one if you agree to return to Elren with us and help with the other demi-god."


    Eradin simply sat in silence and soaked in the information, but his thoughts were running wild, Score for the God of Fortune, to think there were scryers in this world. To think I hadn''t met any people, but the first ones I do meet already knew I was a demi-god. My luck really is trash, to think I wouldn''t be able to hide it for even a few days. But at least, that also gives me some leverage, they don''t know what I am capable of. I don''t remember much but if I made a strong enoug impression when I was in rage mode, then I might be able to find a loophole out of this.


    Keeping an emotionless face, Eradin began to realize this was a chance to learn about the world. Twirling his fingers and avoiding the murderous gazes of the three girls that he could easily sense because of the bloodlust, Eradin only tried to think that Farah was here and ignored the other three. "What is Elren? Where is this place?"


    Farah was shocked, had he been living in this forest his whole life, if so, then she really might be able to get him to side with Algon who had the fewest demi-god representatives, but their strength made up for the disparity in numbers. But then again,logically speaking, he did have a curse or possibly more on him so that must be addressed first, anyone that was affected by one of the ten creator gods must have a reason. The only problem, how to ease into such a topic, it was not polite to know what others were affected by unless they told you themselves. Steeling herself with thoughts of courage along the lines of, I am a noble high elf, the prodigy of my father, he wouldn''t falter so I can''t either.


    "This is the Continent of Aspects, where the gods who each rule over a specific aspect lead and thus bring either prosperity or calamity. Currently we are in the country of Algon, within Algaron Forest. We are a mountain and forest nation on the edge of the continent. With the sea at our backs, we only fear the land ahead of us, occupied by other countries. Elren is the city closest to the border of multiple nations, one of which is Brail who we are currently having a high possibility of going to war with. The reason is rather simple, we are a country that doesn''t have racial discrimination, we are a mix of everything, even necromancers are allowed to study here as long as they don''t cause any problems. But also, as a nation with numerous mountains for mining rare minerals and plenty of lumber, we are like a gold mine for other larger countries. The only thing stopping all the countries from fighting over us is that although we don''t have even half as many demi-gods as the next smallest nation. Ours are of higher quality, as a country that has to survive with the fangs of other countries always at our neck, it has forced every last ounce of talent out of the people that live here, even those who don''t fight, they are still of a better stock than any other country."


    Eradin grinned slightly, even in this world there was racism, if anyone said anything about him, since there were no rules he would slaughter them. As he was imagining rampaging through battlfields, Eradin felt an even greater bloodlust from Farah and realized he started to ignore her. "My apologies, I was soaking in the information." Phew, glad I noticed quickly women are seriously scary if they are ignored.


    Farah gave him a death stare but continued. "Another deciding factor is because we are a nation loved by nature and doesn''t have a high a population, countless monsters, and beasts, some of which are frighteningly strong and could take on entire armies alone and require S-Rank parties to have casualties to kill, call this place their home because of two reasons, since there is more land uncultivated and it hasn''t been used to depletion, the over all magic density here is higher than other places. I''m sure you have sensed that, it is why the low level beasts like goblins which shouldn''t be able to use magic are able to more often than not. But the biggest reason is that it is said the King of All Beasts is to be born here someday. The legend states that one day, an egg shall be found by someone destined to be its rider, upon the day they both rise to be unrivalled by even among the demi-gods, the beasts will all submit themselves to it and the people will submit themselves to the rider, with such a pact, a new nation shall be born from the ashes of another filled with riders and their beasts alike,this does not include beasts that would harm the population or monsters though within the pact supposedly. To lead into an era of prosperity, this is supposedly linked to the hero legend that states the hero will come to the world when gods descend into the mortal plane against the laws of the gods, and save the races. But it is not proven that the hero blessed by the ten creator gods, and even other benevolent gods, is to be the rider, although there are many who wish that would be the case, as who doesn''t want to flaunt as a country that a hero of light saved the world from the evil gods with his partner King of All Beasts."


    Eradin almost couldn''t hold in his laughter, King of All Beasts, Evil Gods, Ten Creator Gods, what a load of complete bullshit, do these people in this world have the equivalent of drugs from earth that make them high and have delusions. The King of All Beasts was the Dragon God, the Evil Gods were the ten Creator Gods, but they weren''t even creator gods, but second generation gods! The hero saving the world, that was also a load of complete and utter delusional beliefs, at most, Eradin believed some person would be summoned or reincarnated, probably some otaku -not that Eradin hated them as he enjoyed such hobbies as well- that would only care about themselves and their self centered mission to save the continent and kill the gods who were evil only becausethey told were to by some mush-brained idiots that were the ten gods who just wanted all gods that went against them out of the way. Then to top it all off, they would be egotistical and expect everyone to kneel before them because they were the chosen one and needed lots of attention and treasures to aid them in their quest, which was just glorified stealing from a person as an immature brat. There was no doubt in Eradins mind, that the day the so called hero arrived, they would be exactly like that, and when that day comes, Eradin would just watch and laugh at the drama series unfold.


    "Now that I have given you some information about this world, it''s time you answer one simple question. Why are you cursed by one of the ten creator gods?" When she said that, Eradin could sense a slight amount of anger directed at him form Farah and boat loads of it from the other three.


    Rather than hide it, Eradin would make it simple, if they wanted his help, since they already knew his secrets because of the bastard known as the God of Fortune by just happening to scry him and somehow notice his curse. Then they would have to be in for a rude awakening about the true behind the scenes problem this shitty world had, and realize just how inept they were to think that everything would be all right if they put all their lives on the whims of gods that definately shouldn''t be trusted so easily.


    Eradin simply smirked at them and as he was about to let it all spill out, his hatred for the gods, one final thought went through his mind.


    Let the drama series on this world begin for my enjoyment begin, who needs a hero, who needs to follow rules and morals when they are meant to hurt you, who needs faith in fake gods that will curse you for a simple case of not understanding you were supposed to be there. Despite not looking how they thought you were supposed to look. It''s time to bring these people out of the hell known as absolute faith and blind devotion, and plant the seeds of doubt that every living thing should feel in their lifetimes.

 Ch 11 False Bravado A.K.A Bluffing

    Let the show begin, that was Eradins thought. Feeling the anger from Farah and the girls because he was cursed by one of their sacred gods. That was territory they should not traverse lest their world is shattered from the truth. And what did they do, they blatantly just brought it up; Eradins sore point, that was a sin they would have to live with as of this moment, even if he was beaten to death by them, they would hear and learn of the real image of the gods. But it was not without a plan, what would the Heart of the Evil God be if not for allowing Eradin to remain calm in what all men, no matter the race would agree was the most dangerous existence, so much so to the point they would ratherwant to fight a dragon naked with no equipment.....and that..... was a womens anger. Assuming it was a world of magic, and based on novels Eradin had read in the past, there had to be some sort of binding oath where one would be smited by the heavens if they told even a single word of a lie under said oath after pledging to tell the truth.


    With his plan mapped out, Eradin started his most dangerous battle in his entire two lives, he barely survived his sisters wrath once although the memory from Earth was fuzzy, so why couldn''t he traverse these dangerous grounds again if his safety could be guaranteed against four women. Ready for action although he had a slight cold sweat going down his back, Eradin started thisfight with a simple question.


    "Are there magics or oaths that smite you if you dare break them or lie underneath them after pledging to tell the truth?"


    Farah''s eyes twitched, her anger was slowly rising as he avoided the question, if not for max level etiquette she would probably have smacked his face into the ground for not answering the question, she was a woman that hated deception to the point it was unhealthy. "Yes there is one type, it is contract magic in the view of every god, if you break your contract, you will be punished accordingly by the heavens depending on how bad youfailedthe contracted requirements."


    A smile began to form across Eradins face, which he quickly hid after feeling the bloodlust rise for every second his smile widened. "Then are you capable of said contract magic, otherwise you learn nothing and I will just walk away, letting you fight this other demi-god on your own, and if you tried to do anything to me....well take a moment to remember what you saw in the forest, do you really want such a thing to happen to you instead, a body so unrecognizable that your parents wouldn''t recognize it, then again basedon your logic about said ten Creator Gods, people in this world are happy to die by the hands of anyone with divine power because of blind devotion to them, in which case i''d be happy to oblige if thats what you want."


    After such a statement, Eradin had a slight evil smirk across his face, and he stood up before starting to casually walk away towards the forest which even now still smelled like blood and rotting flesh. Eradin played his bluff, and was preparing to activate [Rage of the Dragon God] at any moment. It was all up to Farah now, if his carefully planned action failed, he could really end up dead in the next minute, a full A-Rank party of talented womens anger seriously wasn''t something he wanted to ever deal with and true to his thoughts earlier, he''d rather fight a dragon at his low level right now naked.


    The killing intent of Mayra, Scarlet, and Stella surged at the sight of Eradin walking away so half-assedly in such a care free manner, and his statement even more so made them furious to the point Scarlet raised her bow nocked with an arrow, Mayra blessed it and Stella began chanting her most destructive single target dark attribute cursed spell. Only Farah remained frozen in place, andbased on what he just said, she blanched in fear, despite the anger she felt at that remark,Farah had to admitEradin checkmated her even after she carefully broached into the topic without letting out as much anger as possible. She could not forget what she saw in the forest for the rest of her life, that was a fact, even so, Eradin was the first demi-god she had met despite being wary at first, her thoughts towards him were filled with endless curiosity as well.Looking at him so casually walking away, that only sparked her curiosity more. Then Farah felt it, power congregating behind her, and she realized it, it was a test, most definately a test, if she didn''t stop what her companions were doing now and comply, then they would all be slaughterd under Eradin''s wrath without a moments notice, he was giving her a chance to show if she was capable of trust and making an oath, a demi-god was doing that, how many people had the chance to earn the favor of a demi-god in their life-times, even if he was only level 18 at the moment, he certainly had the potential to destroy an entire country if given enough time to grow into his power. Even so, he looked talented even among demi-gods, although Farah didn''t have anything to compare him to other than the gods that descended into the mortal plane during the Aspect War.


    Without a second to spare, Farah immediately stood up and jumped in between Scarlet and Eradin, with a look of determination she began to berate them, "What in the name of the ten Creator Gods do you thinkyou are all doing. Can''t you see this is his test, if you guys shot those at him, we would be dead without even a chance to plead for our lives. Do you all think that just because the report said an A-Rank party can kill him because he is only level 18. No, that is absolutely not true, it said we should be able to but the scryers are not 100% accurate at all. They only see glimpses of the future. If you don''t believe me then I can take you to that clearing again and show you the sight of what happens when you anger someone with divine power!"


    Eradin stopped moving, to think his bluff worked so well, he turned around and leaned onto his scythe while adding oil to the fire. "Good on you to recognize the only path ahead of you oh wise one. If only your companions had a tenth of your common sense and quick thinking. So do we have a deal?"


    "We simply can''t accept such blatant words of provacation, we wouldn''t be daughters that gained the right to inherit the families ruling rights if we were so softhea....."


    Scarlet, Mayra, and Stella all began to quiver in fear. Eradin knew he needed that extra momentum to win the stalemate, so without hesitation he activated [Rage of the Dragon God] and once again a giant black phantasmal dragon appeared behind Eradin shrouding him in a black aura. In unison with the image, Eradin also released a dragon cry that shook the very earth and caused the Wind Wyverns who were sleeping nearby to wake up and begin cowering under the aura of a true dragon, bloodline suppression was a shackle they wouldn''t escape no matter how weak the aura was because of Eradin''s level. He possessed the purest bloodline of the Dragon God itself because it''s body was his body, there was not even a True Dragon at the Great Wyrm stage that wouldn''t feel instinctive fear of this aura, much less a few Wyverns and girls that thought they could challenge such a divine force.


    Farah was the only one who understood, this was what the demi-god did before he went on a rampage, but this time he was only standing there, obviously giving her one last chance before unleashing whatever skill that made him lose rationality before. Leaping at it, she immediately charged her companions, grabbing Scarlets bow, she fell to the ground trembling, thenFarah lightly hit Stellas chin to disrupt her chanting, lastly she shook Mayra to stop the blessing she was chanting to put on the bow and brought her out of her trance before facing Eradin. "I will agree on their behalfs, as long as they don''t have to be under the magics effects, please don''t go on a rampage with your divine power on those who are unworthy of it."


    Eradin canceled [Rage of the Dragon God] although his breath was slightly ragged from the after effects, he still had his imposing prescence not showing weakness at all, "Then they cannot hear what I have to say and must go somewhere else if they won''t accept the pledge. I won''t travel with them or allow them to help with the demi-god subjugation. Until the day they learn to not be immature and make it so easy for their killing intent to be seen, I will not associate with such people. The only person I shall trust is one who is bound by an oath, meaning you, because I have information that even other demi-gods don''t know about the gods."


    Hook Line Sinker, it was a saying Eradin already liked and was perfect for this situation. All Farah had to do was take the bait he set with his words that he had information even the demi-gods of the continent didn''t know and he would have a connection that he knew he could at least get information from in the event he ever travelled to Elren City under her guidance so he wouldn''t get lost.


    "I accept, as long as you spare my companions, I shall have them leave and under the pretense of making a report to the Guildmaster of Elren Cities Adventurer Guild. Is that enough for you, as long as we aren''t murdered and you swear to at least not take action against the country or join another until meeting my father, that is all I ask.


    Eradin laughed inwardly, those were the for the most part, conditions he wanted. Joining a country without relevant information was just suicide. He didn''t have the strength they all thought he had yet so that was fine because his bluff worked. And meet her father, that was just another grand library of information. With a light grin Eradin was happy at such an outcome, he had played his hand right and got out of a womans wrath. "Let''s begin after they leave then. I don''t want them attempting to listen in on what I have to say."


    Scarlet, Mayra, and Stella were all in a pitiful state. They all heard what Eradin said, and by the look of Farahs eyes that were sorrowful yet determined, they knew they wouldn''t have any room to argue, if not for her they would have all died. The demi-gods words hurt but they couldn''t do anything about it, as they were going to assault someone that had their back to them and possessed divine power recklessly. They were lucky just to survive, and hope that the demi-god didn''t notice the small puddles that formed on the ground underneath them after they sank to their knees in terror. That black dragon that manifested from his body was simply too oppressive, it was not something a mortal could fight against. Even so, the thought and feeling that manifested itself in all of their hearts the most was the horrible position they just put the leader of the party in, they made Farah sacrifice her dignity which she normally wouldn''t do under pain of death to make sure they all survived, and now she was to be bound to this infernal monster alone in the wilderness by a contract. Immaturity was a compliment to them based on how horrible they screwed up. But in the end they still weredense to the point that they tried to argue with Farah who was writing to letters that had the exact same content, they were basically mirror images, one of which was for the Guildmaster and the other for her father.


    "Please let us stay Farah, you will be in too much danger if you are alone here, whatever happens, we can''t accept it if anything were to happen to you because of the demi-god or any monster in this forest, don''t you need a [Ranger] in the first place to guide you!" Scarlet was frantic, whatever happened, she was the most attached to Farah in the group because Farah saved her life before in the Aspect War and she still felt that she hadn''t repayed her debt,


    Farah now was starting to get angry, not only hadn''t they listened to her originally, it forced her to submit to the demi-gods conditions and bind herself which she never thought would happen until she became the head of her house which was a stain on her pride, but worse was the fact they almost provoked a demi-god into wasting its divine power to kill them even after she told them to stop as the leader who was supposed to make all the decisions in the group. And yet Scarlet still spoke up in defiance with the others nodding their heads in agreement. Her patience was really at an all time low.You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story.


    "Don''t you dare attempt anything like staying, you all are to head back to the city and deliver one letter to the Guildmaster and one to my Father with due haste and take my wyvern as well since we will probably enter the forest for a period of days. Don''t force me to make any actions that would hurt the family bonds between us, that would stain my soul to the point I would want to die. If you all have any faith in me as your leader then carry out this task as quickly as possible and don''t return lest the demi-god changes his mind and decides to kill you. Didn''t you hear him sayhe will not travelwith you threebecause you can''t control your feelings and wanted to kill him, I would do the same in his position at such ignorance.Don''t force me to disband Wisdoms Fallen and drive you all away with the demi-gods help in order to save your lives and mine."


    Reluctantly, the three girls stood up, with tears in their eyes at causing their leader such emotional pain, they said one last vow before leaving. "We shall not fail our leader, every order will be fulfilled perfectly."


    They all packed up their own possessions, loaded them into their backpacks and spatial rings, then left with sorrowful looks as Eradin watched them leave with a big evil grin. Watching the Wind Wyverns fading in the distance, Farah felt a weight life off her chest knowing only her life would possibly be sacrificed now, but it didn''t last for long as Eradin turned to her and said with a sheepish smile, "The name is Eradin Silvermoon, let''s get this contract out of the way and go hunt a demi god."


    That weight on Farahs chest came back ten fold, but she sucked it up, feelings of curiosity were also present as she was to learn information that was confidential. Without waiting Farah took out a knife and introduced herself, "I am Farah Elenwith, let us get this contract over with. There are only two contract magics, one is on paper which is used for making deals with merchants and the such and to be kept on record. But for us that will not be the case as it is for two individuals. Instead we will use a blood binding contract which is far more significant, it will bind our very lives, if one breaks the contract, they will die under heavens tribulation, to date not even a demi-god has survived it which is why I want this contract instead of one on paper which demi-gods are known to ignore because the punishments can''t hurt them at all. It is quite simple, I shall draw the rune and chant the spell to activate the rune, we shall each step onto the activated rune and state our conditions, once we have reached an agreement, we shall slit our wrists and drain blood onto the ruin letting it mix, then we shall shake hands, making sure our wounds mix blood into the other and the contract will have been finished and the rune shall heal us while putting a symbol that represents us on the other person as a tattoo until the contract is deemed complete."


    Eradin felt fine with such a contract as the conditions were the most favorable for him, he just couldn''t kill those girls, which he didn''t have the power to do anyways, and had to meet Farah''s father while not pledging to join a country during that time period. The conditions upon Farah would be harsher. Farah drew the rune on the ground with her knife and once it was finished she chanted the spell. At once the rune lit up blood red and the scent of blood filled the atmosphere. Eradin and Farah both stepped onto the blood rune starting the ritual."


    "I Eradin Silvermoon hereby state my conditions. What I am about to say is the complete truth and nothing but the truth, if I say even the slightest lie about what I reveal, let me be slaughtered by the heavens tribulation one hundred times. I hereby state that Farah Elenwith is not to tell, write to or communicate in any way, shape or form what I am about to tell her unless I give her permission to. She is forbidden from taking any action or convincing someone else to do something that would kill me. She is to aid me when I go to Elren City as long as the help I need is legitamite and doesn''t take advantage of her or breaches the contract. These are my conditions do you accept?"


    Farah was shocked, her mouth was slightly agape, in a blood contract, people never put conditions on themselves when stating their conditions, they make it as favorable as possible for themselves. For the most part, it seemed fine from what she could tell, she had to help him when needed, as long as it was legitamite, that was easy to understand as he''d never been to even a village from what she knew. Not killing him, that was impossible anyway and she couldn''t tell anyone what she heard without his permission. These were some of the most favorable agreements she could ask for, she thought they would be far more demanding based on the fact her comrades were going to attempt to kill him.


    Perhaps it won''t be so bad thought Farah, I can make this work. "I Farah Elenwith hereby state my conditions, the demi-god Eradin is not to kill me or my party as long as they don''t attempt to kill you again in which case you are free to do what you want to them. You can''t pledge yourself to any nation until meeting my father. You are to aid in the demi-god subjugation request. You are to come to Elren city with me after said request and must not kill anyone on a whim unless they show killing intent towards you specifically or you witness a crime within said city. You are to form a party with me and may not leave it. These are my conditions, do you accept?"


    The come to Elren City condition Eradin expected, but not the don''t kill condition. So she fears me that much, well for the most part, it is still easy to live by.


    Within the blood red rune, Eradin took out his scythe while Farah similarly held out her knife, with determined looks from both of them, in unison they said "I accept" and slit their wrists, letting the blood mix on the ground, they then shook hands mixing the blood of their wounds within each other. The rune lit up and healed them, thunder shook the sky and the contract was complete.


    Once the contract was complete, Eradin felt a prickling situation in the back of his mind when it hit him full force. "Hey.. Farah, is there a time limit to the contract, meaning once the conditions are fulfilled will it dissipate or is it permanent."


    Farahs heart dropped to the underworld, such a simple thing was forgotten in her haste and nervousness, who knew what would happen as their was vague parts of his and her conditions. Hers was that he had to be in a party with her, but she didn''t state how long they had to be in a party, that could be interpeted that they couldn''t disband the party for fear of death, With Eradin she had to help him as long as it was legitamately needed. Unknowingly the God of MisFortune struck again for Eradin. Score two to zero! They were quite possibly bound for life.


    Elren City, Elenwith Noble House


    Hours later, in the mansion grown out of trees, Duke Elenwith was waiting for the Guildmaster impatiently. Once the Guildmaster read the message he rushed over to Elenwith Noble House for an emergency meeting with the Duke. After arriving, he saw three out of four of Wisdoms Fallen as expected. Waiting for him was an angry Duke Elenwith, but the anger was not at him but the girls who usually saw him as a kind old uncle. The bond between their four noble families was as strong as a family sharing the same blood and they all had an agreement to freely discipline the children as a whole. His eyes were blood shot after reading the letter. His daughter was in a dangerous predicament by herself that involved a deathmatch between two demi-gods. That was something he could not accept, even for him the Duke known as the most controlled and logical of the four Dukes. As to why he was the most furious though, he was waiting for the Guildmaster because it was his job to punish adventurers that made horrible mistakes.


    Once the Guildmaster arrived, Duke Elenwith looked like he was on verge of exploding. "I thought you all were smarter than this! Not only did you force my daughter and your leader to sacrifice herself to save your lives, which to her I know for a fact is a stain on her pride for having to submit, even to a demi-god. You little mongrels even were going to attempt to kill a demi-god because you thought you had a level advantage when he had his back turned to you, didn''t you ever learn that level doesn''t mean everything in a fight! But no, that isn''t even the worst of it! You almost got yourselves all killed from it the moment he released his divine power and if Farah hadn''t stopped all of you, then I wouldn''t even know where your bodies were! But, that still isn''t even the absolute worst case scnario! You little immature brats caused her to be forced to enter into a contract, and it had to be a blood contract because demi-gods aren''t affected by paper contract punishments, who even knows what conditions he imposed onto her and then when you get back here you all even try to lie to me about this and pin all the blame on the demi-god, no wonder he wanted to kill the three of you for your ignorance. If Farah wasn''t smart enough to think that you would all try to get the whole city to hunt and kill the demi-god and let me know about it in this letter, thousands of adventurers and soldiers alikewould have marched to their deaths! Your punishments will be the absolute worst that the four Duke Houses and the Guildmaster can come up with for such transgressions! Guildmaster, I leave them to you, I need to convene with the three Dukes." Duke Elenwith stormed out of his office in fury at the thought his daughter might die at the hands of two demi-gods fighting to the death in Algaron Forest.


    Mayra, Stella and Scarlet were terrified, their plan to get Farah back was seen through by hercompletely and failed miserably. They could only tremble as an oppressive aura from the Guildmaster enveloped them. He looked like a demon from the north of the continent. Cracking his knuckles he also had bloodshot eyes upon hearing what they had done and were about to do, the lives of all his adventurers could have been lost had they succeeded. With a big grin that didn''t reach his bloodshot eyes the Guildmaster approached the three girls who had been paralyzed by fear while cracking his knuckles. He lightly hit them on the back of their necks causing them to pass out. With an evil smile he began to strut towards the door with the three of them slung over his back. "It''s time to make these brats go through hell a million times worse than what Farah is going through right now. Breaking the worst adventurer rule, Don''t lie about a situation no matter how dire, don''t manipulate the circumstances to one of misunderstanding. This was the golden rule, and the three of them just shattered it. As such, the Adventurer Credentials they possessed would be revoked until they earned trust back and went through punishment."


    Later that night, the screams of three girls in extreme painduring a personal "Training Session"with the Guildmasterand all of their mothers watching happily could be heard through the Adventurers Guild making all the lower ranked adventureers shudder in terror.


    Four Dukes Meeting Chamber


    Duke Elenwith forced himself to calm down as he made his report to the three Dukes, currently they were to come up with a plan of action to rescue Farah and dispose of the demi-gods if needed. The three dukes were furious that such a transgression came about as the result of their daughters immaturity, but that wasn''t the problem now. What they needed to do was figure out a way to dispose of the current problem with as few casualties as possible.


    "Duke Elenwith rest assured,although they are in a blood contract, we just need to learn of its contents and figure out a way to fulfill it quickly. That shouldn''t be to hard, the problem is whether she dies before the demi-gods kill eachother or gets caught in the crossfire." Duke Bloodrain was trying to sooth the tension in the air but it didn''t work.


    Finally the oldest of the dukes spoke up, with one very simple suggestion, Duke Fairlin of the Fairy-Humans stood up and said the easiest suggestion. "Well then, if it''s demi-gods, then to prevent the casualties of sending adventurers and armies, let us go ourselves, we are old and can be replaced."


    At his suggestions the other Dukes nodded. Then at once, all of them headed for their respective armories. For the first time in decades, the four dukes known as the Four Calamities would head out in preparation for battle on their Gryphons. With no armies, or any warning,at the light of dawn the next day, the entire city was schocked at the sight of theFour Calamities leaving the city in the direction of AgralonForest as fast as possible, no one knew why, onlytheCity Lord could guess what happened that would make the Dukes act personally, and that was something happened toone of the proud daughters of their families on the subjugation request. Whereas the Guildmaster and the Dukes Wives knewexactly what was happening but when people asked, they stayed silent,even to the City Lord who asked if one of the daughters went missing.

 Ch 12 New Path

    After The Blood Contract / When Duke Is Reading Farah''s Message


    Farah was currently extremely depressed, from what she knew, the party was now permanent even if all other conditions were fulfilled due to her blunder. Farah and Eradin were forced to be in the same party and she had to help him whenever he needed it. All because she was nervous. But then out of nowhere, she felt an extreme pain in her right arm, it felt as if a sword was being dragged through her veins and a burning sensation occurred. Quickly removing a part of her [Wind Fairy Set], Farah saw images taking shape upon her pale white skin, they were runic markings older than the ones used in magic today, they were the symbols of the Ancient Language, a language from the very first race of the Aspect Continent. Further more they were symbols she knew all too well, as they pertained to the Aspect War. Individually they represented6 different meanings, Cursed One, Dragon, Evil, Death, War, Void. Each one took a different color. Cursed one was brown, Dragon was black, Evil was silver, Death was purple, War was red and Void was white. All different colors were now present on her right arm. Four out of six, Farah recognized, they represented the beings sealed in the Aspect War. They were so powerful that they neared the power of the ten creator gods and were forcibly sealed. Entities she would never forget, the Dragon King, Evil Emperor, the Death Sovereign and the War Amazon, they fought together but were sealed eventually. But no one knew where and the gods didn''t say. However the last two, Farah only could squint hereyes in frustration, what wereVoid and Cursed One, even more importantly, why did such images appear for her tattoo? Was that the information Eradin had? Did he know where theSealed Existences were? Turning towardsEradin, she was shocked speechless, his entire upper right portion of his body armor and the cloak retracted themselves, and hedidn''t seem to be in pain at all like she was when his tattoo showed up,but that wouldn''t beenough to shock someone like Farah, rather it was what appeared on his right arm. Not just a portion, butrunning the whole length of hisarm, from the wrist all the way to covering his back right shoulder blade, was black and green markings intertwining, theywere vines and leaves began jutting out of them as well, until finally they converged intotworunic symbols on his right shoulder blade, the symbol came from the ancient elf runic language meaning Cursed Sovereign.


    Cursed Sovereigns were said to be existencesequal todragons. They were the peak of the races that mastered the dark attribute to its limits, second only to the gods. They were a race said to die out and go extinct, but originally they were only legends anyways, maybe Cursed Sovereign wasn''t a race but a title for one that has complete and utter control over an attribute. As it stopped forming, Eradin didn''t even looked worried, he simply looked at Farah and said, "Cool, I always wanted a tattoo." Then at once, his body armor and cloak parts that merged with his body during the process once again came out covering the arm.


    "Do you even know what a Cursed Sovereign is! They have unparralleled control over curses and dark attribute magic! None had ever been seen, not even once! They are existences in legend and all you can say is you always wanted a tattoo! What a dumb addle-brained person i''ve become contracted to!" Farah really wanted to cry right now, how could such random things happen around this youth demi-god who was the same age as her. Even worse, she was stuck with him for life!


    Eradin on the other hand was not concerned in the slightest, it wasn''t anything new for him to be involved with curses, he was even growing fond of the ones he could use himself, but not the ones affecting him, he couldn''t wait for the day he removed the gods curses and return all the pain into one massive curse on all of them, that was his goal, to create a curse so powerful even the gods would fear it. Turning to Farah, Eradin only laughed, it wasn''t like he would be the first to break the blood contract.


    "Hurry up and form the party before you die, and we can head into the forest while I begin to explain stuff that will shatter your beliefs in the so called creator gods."


    Farahs heart immediately clenched at his words. But she went and did as told.


    [Disband party of four members Y/N]


    [Yes]


    [Sendparty requestto entity Eradin Silvermoon Y/N]


    [Yes]


    Eradin quickly accepted. "Well lets get going, the subjugation begins now, and without further procrastination on my part, i''ll let you know all you wanted to hear, but don''t blame me for it later, I already pledged before the heavens that what I am about to say is the complete and utter truth lest I be smited down with a hundred tribulations."


    They began walking into the forest. Under Eradins directions Farah began to lead him to the center of the forest where he once found the human graveyard. Then he began to talk, but the first words shocked Farah.


    "Have you ever met a god? Have you ever really had the chance to talk with them?"


    "No I never have, I have seen them during the Aspect War though. It was a war where the creator gods descended into the mortal plane and saved the races from the Dragon King, Evil Emperor, the Death Sovereign and the War Amazon. I participated in that war."


    Eradin heard Farah say such a remark and burst out laughing. "Oh how ignorant you are, well this will be where I start my story then. I have met and talked with the "Creator gods" and they are nothing more than humans drunk on power. Before I was born into this world, I was cursed by all of them. You mentioned those legends involving a hero right. Well I was to be that hero, but instead the gods didn''t like that before I was born, I entered into their domain on accident not knowing I was supposed to be the hero since apparently I didn''t look like the spirit body they were expecting. I couldn''t even plead my case, they simply cursed me and then threw me into the everlasting void."


    Farah contorted in agony, she couldn''t even call Eradin a liar as he pledged in the contract it was the truth. To think he was supposed to be the Hero of legend. But rather than admonish him, she could even validate it herself as she saw one of his curses, but that was only one, to think he had nine more afflicting him. Finally curiosity grasped her heart again, "So what happened next, what is the void."


    Eradin was glad she didn''t pass out and faint from what he said, it was considered heresy to talk about such things. "Can I share my status with you now that we are in a party? It''ll be easier if you understand what is afflicting me.]


    Farah grabbed her water pouch from her spatial ring and while taking a sip she said "Yes you can, although it is considered rude to look at anothers status."


    That didn''t bother Eradin at all, he simply willed his status to be viewed by her.


    [Entity Eradin Silvermoon wishes to show you his status, do you accept Y/N]


    [Yes]


    Eradin remained quiet while smiling gloomily as she almost vomited the water she swallowed back up. Farah began to frantically read through all of his stats and realized just how overpowered demi-gods were, even if they were cursed. But rather than feel happy she could see ones status, Farah actually felt sorrow. To think his body was in a constant state of pain to the point it was leveling his resistances. All these curses were just disgusting, even more so, she realized why her feelings toward him felt like they were blocked and people felt innate wariness towards him, it was the effect of the [Curse of the Love Goddess]. No wonder he had lived in the forest, he couldn''t escape from it like it was a prison an he wouldn''t find the same place twice if he thought about it. Looking through his entire status, many things stood out, his [Blessings], [Equipment], [Classes], and[Race] were eerily similar to the names of those sealed in the aspect war, no it was not a coincidence at all, he was blessed by those same beings!


    [You have gained resistance to the[Curse of the Love Goddess] due to learning the truth about the Cursed Child.You are the only person aside from the gods that is unaffected by this curse, you no longer will have emotions blockedor feel wary every time you meet the Cursed Child]


    So now I can talk to him normally eh. Nice to know. "So do you mind explaining why you are related to the Aspects War?"


    Eradin also got the same message about her gaining resistance and felt elated, so it seemed that the curses weren''t absolute, then again the only thing in this world that was absolute was the void. "Well now that you''ve seen all my stats, it will be easier to explain. Once I was thrown into the void, I''ll get to that later, my bad luck and get lost curses activated, the only ones active because I was still technically dead, I ended up in the inheritance grounds of the sealed gods. Usually that is horrible luck for someone only level one but I was dead at the time so its ok. They weren''t mortals in the Aspect War either. They were gods that were wrongly sealed through your efforts. The way the world here works is gods rule aspects right. So if you take the evil god out of the equation what happens? Evil runs rampant through the world because he isn''t there to balance it. Every god is needed, even gods of destruction are needed. They explained to me the mission of gods which you will now learn; The creator gods were originally humans. Gods are not immortal, they are not omnipotent, the only thing that can be called as such is the void. I guess it is what I will equate to a mass of energy that created everything, even the gods. And a gods goal is to return to the void after completing their mission for many milleniums which is balance. In the beginning they are what you call true gods, and they can do two things at the end of their missions, reincarnate as a human over multiple life times to regain their powers in a world disrupted because they are not there to balance the aspect they govern, or they can give their entire existence and power to a mortal to succeed the position and mission.Because their power is immortal and originates from the void as they were true gods born from it. I am one of those mortals who recieved multiple true gods existences and power, but I am a special case. That is how demi-gods can ascend, they either naturally become a god by governing some new aspect created or they inherit a position."


    Farah went numb upon his explantions, no wonder he wanted her to have an oath, if anyone from the church heard him say this, he would be executed as a heretic. But she didn''t have time for questions as he continued in an increasingly spiteful explanation about the gods. " Your so-called creator gods are ten such humans that inherited said powers from true gods, and there are more gods than just them and the sealed gods. However, the only true gods that were left had been the ones you all sealed. I''m sure you know this but it is in not just humans but instead any living thing not directly born from the void like a true god to have emotions such as greed. So these bastards cooked up the horrendous plan that you participated in and sealed the last true gods not understanding that once you remove the one that governs an aspect, balance is disrupted. Haven''t you wondered why dragons are persecuted for no reason and hate all the races, or why evil actions are rampant, people die more because of evil actions but also die less because of longer life spans due to death being unregulated, war is all over the place because there is no god controlling it. That is my mission, I am the inheritor of the Sealed Gods but also the cursed hero, rather than be the hero andserve the corrupted gods as intended, I am the anti-hero who will get revenge and instead kill them when I fully learn to use my hidden strength. What happened in the forest was me rampaging because a portion of the power was unlocked before I was strong enough to control it. My body is not born like every other person in this world, I am a special case. That dragon you fought, the Dragon God, I have inherited its strength and its body morphed into this form. I merged with the Spirit of the Death God so I am strong enough to move in this body. The Heart of the Evil God replaced the Dragon Gods missing heart and Blood of the War Goddess replaced its blood. You saw their blessings and the effects they provide. I am the child of the sealed gods who have returned to the void. I havethreechoices. Give the power I steal from the gods I slay to a worthy mortal or return the power to the void, or use it for myself. Frankly after the shit thats happened, i''ve lost faith in everything and plan to return all the power to the void and make the world a place where the mortals govern themselves and don''t rely on gods for balance. I shall become a new god with the body of a true god, once my mission is complete, just like any other god I will return to the void as is my mission. Now you know the truth, I am not what you think a demi-god is, I am a variant. My race is Child of the Sealed Gods because I was born from their body parts, that is why their items can fuse with me. There is nothing else that I can say, you know everything and you''ve seen my status so you know everything about me. Since we are in a permanent party anyways, I will not force you, but if you''d be willing, I need a guide, after all I am still cursed to have no direction sense."Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation.


    The story finally ended, Farah couldn''t believe that what she had heard was the truth of the world. To think gods were just higher existences that weren''t omnipotent and worked for a giant mass of energy. To think that there were more than the ten creator gods, to hear that they were originally mortals. She participated in a war to seal the last true gods who were betrayed, she learned the way to ascend. To think that the gods she believed in were corrupt. Even worse, to think they abused their power because they were corrupt and cursed the hero of legend that was supposed to arrive and unite the continent under their blessings. Just where did the world go wrong to have such misguided beliefs. But the worst feeling of all that she had was depression, but not for herself, but the fellow person next to her that was the same age yet could enjoy none of the things she could; To be cursed to the point he couldn''t even walk in a single direction for an extended period of time without her help guiding him. Just how much mental strength do you need to suffer through all of that and act like nothing is wrong. To level up resistances was not an easy thing, and only the rich could afford a ring like hers. It just wasn''t feasible how Eradin was so calm to her. Even with his blessings, she wouldn''t want to be in his position, not even the slightest bit, he couldn''t even hear music, that was how bad he had it.


    Perhaps it was pity, or maybe because of her sense of duty, maybe it wasbecause she wasn''t affected by the [Curse of the Love Goddess] anymore, or the fact that what she heard was the truth and she could feel perhaps even the slightest amount of anger towards the gods Eradin had. Perhaps it was all of those reasons together and not one; but Farah stroked the arm with her new tattoo and made up her mind after a few minutes of silence. Understanding what the symbols on her arm represented dawned on her mind which probably influenced her the most. Cursed One represented all of Eradins pain and suffering while the rest of them represented the things that gave him hope. Perhaps that tattoo was put on her arm to tell her to become one of those symbols, become another symbol of hope he could rely on to finish his mission and live a life a peace before dying and returning to the void. To become theunwavering beacon ofhopethat would guide his path straight forward towards his destiny that was forcibly changed to something so unreasonable. This was what Farah felt resonate deep inside her.


    With conviction befitting one who was supposed to be a leader and a noble of a high elven house, Farah decided to lookat a person for the firsttime for what they were, not what they had become. He was just a simple teenage boy the same age as her that wanted to enjoy all the same things anyone else their age would. In her eyes as of now,he wasn''t the unique race called the Child of the Sealed Gods, he wasn''t the Cursed Hero, he wasn''t a Cursed Sovereign or a Variant Demi-God. He was a simple living entity like her that wanted to live life. Not worry about revenge, anger or the mission granted to him which forcibly changed his destiny to that of suffering. Although she knew that anger and revenge clouded his heart despite the calm outward appearance, at the end of all that pain, she for the first time, saw an entity that wanted to livefor the sole reason of living before they ended up dying.


    Farah stared at Eradin, she finally mustered up the courage and walked in front of Eradin stopping right in his path. "You are just a grown up child, that is what I have learned after all this,to think you can''t even walk in a straight line for an extended amount of time without me guiding you like the child you are. It''s no wonder your bad luck kicked in and made it so the duration of our blood contract is infinite, because you need tohave something to rely on, and I am theonly one that is crazy enough to do it. So long asyou hold up your end of the blood contract, I shallbe your guide for now and forever,even in death I shall lead you to peace of mind andmake sure youdon''t get lost in the eternal void while looking for aplace to sleep for eternity. That is my conviction you are now stuck with because you are unable to do anythingproperly and just had to end up with such a largeTo-DoBucket Listbefore you die in some stupidmanner due to that horrendous luck. Who is supposed to make sure you can even finish all those things without getting lost. The answer is me, the one that will be known as the crazy elf that became corruptedand led the Cursed Hero in is heretic quest to slaughter all the gods and make the world a place that the mortals have to govern themselves without the gods balancing it behind the scenes. So lets go to the training dummy, a.k.a the demi-god you are to kill."


    Eradin could only listen in shock at what he heard, he knew it was a bit much to ask of her, even so, he was desperate on the inside to have at least one person he could talk to normally, and after the [Curse of the Love Goddess] no longer affected Farah, that feeling in his heart grew even more. It was a dying hope that was reignited, and then it flared up into an inferno within his chest as he heard her statement. He was no longer on a path of solitude, he would have his one new friend that chose to suffer with him instead of leaving after the truth came out. Once again Eradin was thankful for always covering his eyes for he didn''t want Farah to see his eyes slightly tearing up on his supposed to be emotionless body that only craved violence and slaugher.


    Simultaneously for Farah and Eradin, messages appeared.


    [Eradin]


    [Even the God ofCrossroads and Destiniesand the God of MisFortune can''t completely consign you to failure with their Curses due to the power of chance and probabilty, just because they have power over these aspects that doesn''t mean they have complete control of it or they would have complete power over every living entity. Due to such an encounter that changed your fate to a different one of the myriad fickle fates: Reward has been attained: [Eternal Guide Obtained: Farah Elenwith] [Luck has increased by +2]


    [Abyssal LIfeform: The power of the Abyss from which Abyss beasts, Darkness,Deathand curses originate from has accepted you as one of it''s lost children. You shall not be harmed by the power of the Abyss and instead be healed and strengthened by it.]


    [Farah]


    [Title Gained: Cursed Childs Beacon of Dark Light: You who has pledged to be the Cursed Childs guide for eternity into places you as a mortal shouldn''t goand you the one who shall soothe and calmhim should his anger that should never be unleashed in the mortal plane erupt shall undergo changes to allow you the abilites to comply with your vow. One more title can be equipped because this one is always assigned to active.]


    [ [Level Dropped to 18] [Experience is now linked to the Cursed Childs Experience] ]


    [Race Change: High Elf --------> Abyssal Elf]


    [Class Change: Elven Wind Dancer -----> Dark Priestess of the Cursed Child]


    [Titles Lost: Wind Companion / Aspect War Veteran]


    [Title Gained:Companionof Darkness and Fire] [You can communicate with Fire and Darkness Spirits]


    [Abyssal LIfeform: The power of the Abyss from which Abyss beasts, Darkness,Deathand curses originate from has accepted you as one of its lost children. You shall not be harmed by the power of the Abyss and instead be healed and strengthened by it.]


    [Stat Changes: [Str: 180][Endurance:185][Agi:223][Int:196][Def:190] ] [Hp/Manawill not decrease to that of a level 18]


    [Skill Changes]


    [Elven Wind Dance -----> Shadow Dance] [Wind Step -----> Abyssal Step]


    [Magic]


    [Lost Magic: Wind Magic / Lightning Magic]


    [Acquired Magic: Dark Magic / Fire Magic / Abyssal Magic]


    [Skill Gained: Soothing Song of the Abyss Mother] [A song said to calm even the most violent of abyssal beasts]


    [Skill Gained: Blessing of the Abyss] [Bless the target with the power of the Abyss. Increase Defense and Endurance by 10%]


    [Skill Gained:Abyssal Aura {Passive)] [Aura that can be used to heal a target with the power of the Abyss given that they have the affinity to recieve it''s blessings instead of its curses. Or cause defects to one that has not been accepted as a child of the abyss]


    [Equipment Change]


    [Wind Fairy Set -----> Abyssal Nymph Set: Intelligence and movement speed increased by 10% in combat. Mana Regen increased by 5/sec]


    [Cloak of Eternal Wind -----> [Cloak of Eternal Night: Allows you to blend into your surroundings until virtual invisibility, Cursed Child can always see you]


    [Wind Fairy Long and Short Sword Set ----->Long and Short Swords of the New Moon: Coated in Abyssal Aura decreasing opponents attack speed by 2% and increasing yours by 2% every second for 5 seconds]


    [Tome and Staff of the Abyssal Night: 10% Increased Chanting Speed, 5% increased Intelligence]


    [Abyssal Elf: +5% movement speed / High Darkness / Fire / Abyssal Affinity]


    [All Element Resistance has raised to 4/10]


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    <td width="738">[Name: Farah Elenwith] [Active Title: [Companion Darkness and Fire] [Cursed Childs Beacon of Dark Light] ]</td>


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    <td>[Race: Abyssal Elf]</td>


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    <td>[Level: 18] [Exp:23%/100%]</td>


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    <td>[Dark Priestess of the Cursed Child]</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Titles]</td>


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    <td>[Companionof Darkness and Fire] [Cursed Childs Beacon of Dark Light]</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Hp: 2350][Mana: 1730]</td>


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    <td>[Str: 180][Endurance:185][Agi:223][Int:196][Def:190]</td>


    </tr>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Skills]</td>


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    <td>[Shadow Dance 1/10] [Magic Perception: 9/10] [Prescence Detection: 9/10]</td>


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    <td>[Night Vision:Max][Bow Mastery 5/10][Etiquette:Max][Horsemanship:Max][Aerial Riding: Max]</td>


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    <td>[Abyssal Step: 1/10]</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Magic]</td>


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    <td>[Abyssal Magic: 1/10] [Darkness Magic: 1/10] [Fire Magic: 1/10]</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Equipment]</td>


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    <td>[Abyssal nymph Set: Intelligence and movement speed increased by 10% in combat. Mana Regen increased by 3/sec]</td>


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    <td>[ Long and Short Swords of the New Moon: Coated in Abyssal Aura decreasing opponents attack speed by 2% and increasing yours by 2% every second for 5 seconds]</td>


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    <td>[Tome and Staff of the Abyssal Night: 10% Increased Chanting Speed, 5% increased Intelligence]</td>


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    <td>[Cloak of Eternal Night: Allows you to blend into your surroundings until virtual invisibility, Cursed Child can always see you]</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Traits]</td>


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    <td width="738">[Highborn: Bonus of +10 mana every level] [Abyssal Elf: +5% movement speed / High Darkness / Fire / Abyysal Affinity] [All Element Resistance has raised to 4/10]</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Blessings]</td>


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    <td>[Abyssal Lifeform]</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Abnormal Statuses]</td>


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    <td>[N/A]</td>


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    </table>

 Ch 13 Center of the Lake

    Black light enshrouded both Eradin and Farah. It was the power of the Abyss. Eradin was only enshrouded momentarily, then a permanent extremely thin layer of whathe could only assume was the aura of the Abyss started to glow around hisequipment. It was almost skin tight and barely rose above his body. A feeling of darkness and death basically further weakenedEradin''s alreadyweak signs of life although he was perfectly healthy. Thebest that theauracould be compared towas a skin tight cloud that was the color of pitch black ink covering his already black equipment. Eradin didn''t know what to think upon hearing the term Abyss, he didn''t even know why it accepted him as its lost child.


    Is the Abyss an existence equal to that of the Void? Or is it another form of energy birthed from it? Was it because I managed to change my fate to a different destiny from the one that I was originally headed towards the reason I recieved its blessing with Farah. Or is it because of the blood contract tattoo saying I am a cursed sovereign since apparently they were masters with complete control of darkness and curseswhile the Abyss is the origin of those things. There is much to learn. The only way I can do that is to keep trudging forward and gain the power to enter the Abyss myself and find an answer.


    While Eradin was thinking such thoughts, Farah finally was no longer enshrouded by the power of the Abyss. She had taken much longer as it directly fiddled with the magic and cells that made up her body, changing her to an Abyssal Race, the Abyssal Elf. Once the light died down, Farah looked similar to her previous form but with some key differences that would cause someone like her father to not notice her unless he looked closely at her face ignoring the changes and only focusing on what hadn''t.Farah''s body became much more refined because of being enshrouded in what Eradin thought was divine power the same as how his body was body-casted. Her silver hair remained but one strand was a pitch black streak of hair which only served to make her look more attractive in Eradin''s opinion. Her golden eyes also changed color, perhaps the Abyss had a sense of humor because they were different colors. Her left eye was a lavender purple like Eradin''s while the right eye became silver but with a weird twist, it seemed to be shrouded in a flame-like dancing navy blue aura with tints of blackthat became more visible if it was focused upon and almost invisible if it wasn''t payed any attention. Her figure for the most part was the same but more refined. Farah''s skin becameslightly darker instead of the pale white it used to be. Covering her body was no longer the green armor that was basically a mix of leather and chainmail. It was virtually the same as Eradin''s armor but made for a female warrior, it looked like the War Goddess Armor before it changed to a male form to suit Eradin. It was blackscale-like armor and had plate areas covering the chest. However instead of leg plates,Farah had a purple scale-like skirt that also had leather mixedin ending a little more than half way to the knees. Her boots were black plate and went up to the knees. The gloves were also black plate going up to the elbows. Strapped to her sides were two swords. A long sword that was dark blue with black streaks running through it and a black short sword with dark blue streaks running through it. Chained to the front of her waist, situated in front of the right leg was a black tome that had gold edges and blood red text that was titledAbyssal Night Tome. In Farah''s hand was a staff that was black and had gold rings melded into the wood. Towards the tip, it changed to a bowl shape with pillars coming up around the sides. Situated inside the space was a purple flame that had streaks of black, blue and gray within it dancing wildly and would sometimes take different horrifyingshapes ofbeasts that Eradin could only describe as abyssal beasts since he was just blessed by the Abyss. Farah had a black cloak and two earrings both crimson colored. Lastly it seemed she was covered in the same Abyssal Aura that Eradin was, although maybe because they were both blessed as the Abyss''s lost children he didn''t sense her life aura being weakened although she looked perfectly healthy.


    Cautiously Eradin approached Farah, taking everything into his eyes, he could come to one conclusion, she was stunning to him. The most attractive being out of any he had met past and present. Even the love goddess couldn''t compare to her, although thatshould not be the case but because the moment Eradin was cursed by her he purposefully began imagining her as a wrinkled old hagsince she was the whole source of the problem and the reason he was the way he was now.


    Slowly words began to tumble out of Eradin''s mouth, "How do you feel suddenly having everything about you changed. Is there anything wrong? Is there any way I can help."


    Farah was currently in awe, but frankly she didn''t feel anything was abnormal, the only thing that she would miss was being able to communicate with the wind spirits who had aided her since she was a child. But for the most part, she didn''t feel like she became something worse than a High Elf but rather a sub species of the Elves that was of a higher ranking. She innately felt in her blood that a High Elf was significantly below her in everything, from looks, to innate power if they were the same level or social standing. Really, all that mattered was she remained an elf, it didn''t matter the sub species to her, but shehad heard of people that evolved to a different race from some action they did and hated it although it was rare and very little information was written on the subject in books. The only difference in her eyes is that she suddenly became more powerful and had been granted a power that would bring out her talents to thelimit even more so than her previous class, race, and powers. When she was once again level forty, she had no doubt that she would have more than double the strength she used to have. In Farah''s mind, evolving into a form that brought out your talents was not a bad thing. She was originally talented in magic, but because there was no melee fighter in Wisdoms Fallen, she had taken on such a role as the melee fighter and theleader always entering into the danger first before her companions. Now she could take on a role with more magic in it because Eradin was strictly a close combat fighter for now until he learned magic. To which Farah decided she would eventually teach him while traveling around the continent with him.


    Farah simply looked at Eradin and smiled, "I am fine, if anything, I may have lost levels and strength, but in return I have gained a much more solid foundation upon which all my talent can be utilized to its limit rather than what I had been before as a melee fighter who was more talented in magic, although I was quite the vicious fighter as well, if you ever forget that, I shall pound you into the ground under the pretense of a training session. As for changing race, honestly I don''t see a problem asI remained an elf, I am much higher class if you ranked elves based on race. If my previous race of High Elf was tenth best then as an Abyssal Elf I am ranked first, does that make sense? I evolved into a better version of myself. Although I am not truly ranked first, I feel from the very essence of my blood that I am tied with multiple elf subspecies that are equally as powerful for firstalthough I don''t know what they are. Now come, let us hurry towards the center of the forest." Farah started briskly walking ahead not waiting for an answer from Eradin.


    Eradin was happy that she felt better instead of worse. Quickly following Farah, they arrived at the body of water that Eradin had found once before. The objective was the small island in the center of what could be described as a small lake in which the other side could be seen easily from a distance, it was the most secluded and probable place to find the demi-god because the most monsters and beasts were gathered here before and it was the deepest part of the forest. The sun was dipping below the horizon as they arrived at the shore. The water was not clear at all and was so dark that you couldn''t see a hand only slightly submerged below the surface.


    From within Farah''s spatial ring, she withdrew a small rickety rowboat onto the waters surface. She sat at the bow and simply pointed towards the seat the oars were connected to with a sheepish smile at Eradin. And as the full moon rose, under Farahs directions, they paddled out to the island. Roughly twenty minutes later they landed on the island to immediaely be assaulted by a heavy pressure. Eradin at once channeled his sensory skills to the limit. And at the very edge of his all seeing perception, there was a figure directing it''s bloodlust directly at him alone. Through the outline, Eradin could tell what it was. A mighty being he had read in fantasy novels from Earth was now making it''s appearence, and it truly was every bit as terrifying as described in legends. It was the monster known as the Hydra, and from Eradin''s inner vision, he could tell that it was large, far larger than the ogre he originally fought. This was the true Lord of the Forest, Eradin currently didn''t have a way to confirm whether it was the demi-god or not. The only way to tell is if his godkiller attribute activated like it was supposed to if he fought anything with the traces of a gods powers. However, based on the pressure being emitted from it, Eradin was sure that it had to be the demi-god, it was as far as he knew, the strongest entity in the forest. Withdrawing the Death Gods Scythe, the [Cursed Star] appeared before Eradin.


    [Only Option]


    [Curse: Sever Divinity 1: Every attack is aimed at the very essence of the divine entities existence. Every attack that lands will temporarilybring it closer to the existence of a mortal. Reducing all damage they deal by .5% for every successful attack up to a maximum of -25% until you fail to attack within10 seconds. WARNING: All existences that are considereddivine entitieshave this power although each individuals form of severing divinity is different.]


    [Godkiller Attribute:1 Activated:Very fewgods, usuallygods of war and combat or certain true gods can have such a power.Even demi-gods do not have this power to so openly defy gods. As a demi-god who has inherited the body of the last four true gods fused into one, you have unlocked this for waging war on the Divine. All statuses are increased by 20% when fighting anything with divine power. Even among those with this attribute,you alone have the power to steal the power of the Divine upon killing them and use it to further increase your strength. WARNING: If you fail to kill an entity of divine power and didn''t die after this attribute has forcibly activated, your total level will decrease to compensate for the cost of activating this trait before you are a god in place of the divine power that should have been absorbed to stop your level from decreasing due to this trait activating before godhood. Kill Divine Existences to level this trait. Will only activate when you formally enter combat with a divine existence, whether intentionally or unintentionally.]


    "What bastard came up with this system! What if I encounter a divine existence I can''t kill because I am severely under leveled! Well whatever, I don''t care anymore, this is all a load of shit anyways, I am probably the only person to ever have a trait that loves and hates me at the same time. Farah I need whatever blessings you can give me. Don''t get involved if you don''t have to, this is my fight, no matter what happens, if I can''t kill this demi-god who is probably the weakest of all of them aside from me then I have no right to even attempt for revenge and should live my life in shame."


    Farah completely understood Eradin''s feelings; she was perhaps the only person aside from the four true gods who died to allow Eradin to live that understood him. What he felt was apprehension and the need to prove to himself that he could take the first true step onto the path towards his destiny. She would gladly wait at the side if it meant Eradin could get even a little bit of self esteem and courage from this fight. But if it truly went downhill for him then she would step in and aid him for if the party ended with his death then it meant death for her as well. Taking out her Abyssal Night Tome, Farah began to chant in the runic language sentences within the tome to bless Eradin.If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.


    [Blessing of the Abyss recieved: 10% increased defence and endurance]


    Recieving the blessing Eradin felt empowered, for once he wasn''t just itching for battle because of the Blood of the War Goddess, but he wanted to delve into it on his own as well. This caused his blood to boil even more. So much so to the point the scent of blood could be smelled coming from Eradins [Asura Aura]. Visibly he began to change as well, his entire demeanor became that of a war mongerer that lived for battle. Slowly he waited for the hydra to arrive. Through his inner vision, Eradin kept track of it all the way until it was on the shores of the small island that would contain their battle. Once it entered into the clearing, through his inner vision, Eradin was now able to clearly make out the hydras level at 33. Next to it''s name was also the word raid. So it was the equivalent of a raid boss and not just a regular boss monster. That was easy to understand as it was half god.


    The Hydra had three heads, probably because it was leveled in the thirties. It was completely covered in sky blue scales and the size of it''s body was somewhere along the lines of twenty meters, probably only a juvenile. Each head had a different pair of eyes. One was green and secreting what looked like venom from its fangs. Another had blue and frost could be seen from its breath while the last head was colorless and appeared to be creating a gust of wind every time it took a breath. But what was most noticeable to Eradin was that he felt traces of a true dragons aura from the hydra. It was probably a descendant of the dragons and as for how it became a divine existence, Eradin didn''t know. But every one of these things, he was able to sense from inner vision. This would be his hardest fight and without his sensory skills active and his eyes closed, Eradin wouldn''t be attempting such a fight right now. Especially as it was a raid level boss monster. meaning it probably had abilities close to that of someone in the forties levels.


    Slowly Eradin began to break the stalemate and approached the hissing hydra. In not even a second, it began to attack. raising all three of its heads, the hydra prepared a breath attack. It spewed venom and frost at the same time while amplifying them with the wind from its third head. Eradin spun the Death Gods Scythe as fast as he could while now sprinting at the hydra. Diving beneath its body, Eradin chained multiple attacks into one continuous attack that mixed in a single [Cursed Slash]. [Petrifying Soul Gaze] was attempted but it seemed that the Hydra was only slightly affected as it onlly stopped moving to stare at him for a millisecond. Coming out at the end of its tail, Eradin slashed as hard as he could into the joint connecting the tail to the body, but only superficial damage was taken.


    Eradin was able to sense to the front of the hydra wasravaged ground that remained of his original location. Poison that was almost like acid had spread everywhere and frost so cold that even rocks broke had turned the area where Eradin was originally into a sea of death because the area of effect was amplifed by the head that spewed gusts of wind.


    But in the end it didn''t surprise Eradin, it was a raid boss level monster after all, so why wouldn''tit have synergistic abilities. Eradin used [Cursed Slash] while avoiding the Hydras heads, and fierce combat ensued, a deadly dance of attack and retreat between the true Lord of the Forest and the one that was attempting to usurp its throne. Every time Eradin dodged a sweeping atttack of the tail or avoided the heads, adrenaline would kick in to its limits. Constant small cuts appeared everywhere on the Hydra but Eradin wasn''t so lucky to get out unscathed. One second during the deadly dance of the divine was enough for him to suffer ablast of frost directly to the front of his body.


    If I get hit by such an attack then i''ll definately take serious status defects and damage. But it''s only taking minimal damage, just how hard are the scales? Please don''t tell me I will have to chain attacks under the [Rage of the Dragon God] in order to put any serious damage into it. That would just be a pain to deal with.


    [Abnormal Status Gained: Frost 1: Movement speed /Attack Speed is slowed by 10%, you take bonus damage of the frost attribute from attacks]


    [Trait Gained: Frost Resistance 2/10]


    [Hp: 1105/1240]


    [Hp Regen: 80/min]


    Eradin was freezing cold, but once he gained the [Frost Resistance] trait, it eased a bit. This time, Eradin didn''t get angry to the point he used his hidden skill. He wasn''t going to die anytime soon, not while he had a blood contract to fulfill. A promise was a promise whether specified in a contract or not. Quite quickly Eradin learned through the multiple exchanges for over five minutes now that the Hydra also possessed a regeneration skill weaker than his own but, the damage Eradin was applying was small enough that it could regenerate quickly.Even though he was severing it''s divinity. It was still fifteen levels higher than Eradin. The highest difference he had ever faced, and it was even above a boss monster in rank at the raid class.


    The hydra was also an intelligent entity, all divine existences were. Slowly it was beginning to understand this opponent didn''t have the ability to seriously harm it. With such an outcome, it would surely win. However it also realized that the very existence of its opponent was on a higher plane than itself. If it could sever its divinity and eat it, there was a chance that the body parts might merge with itself and allow it to evolve one step further on the path to the divine. Although the chance was insanely small as absorbing divine strength that was not specifically yours was virtually impossible. However if its opponent was allowed to escape then it could quite quickly grow strong enough to slaughter itself in perhaps a year, maybe earlier, that was something it couldn''t let occurr. Raising its heads to the sky, the Hydra began to spew frost into the sky, letting it become a cloud, then after it was created, the hydra spit it''s venom into the cloud as well. It was the domain skill that it had. [Domain: Acidic Rain of the First Poison Dragon] that was within the very few inherited memories it had from it''s ancestor the true dragon of poison.


    It began to rain, this much Eradin understood quite easily, and he knew that if he touched even a drop, acidic poison would severely hurt him if he didn''t take proper precautions. So Eradin couldn''t hide it anymore, every three minutes when [Rage of the Dragon God] came off of cool down, he would have to activate it to raise his physical stats and resistacne enough to fight seriously with the conviction to kill. Two minutes down time were when he was in the most danger would happen multiple times. But this was his plan, and if he really couldn''t kill the hydra alone, Farah could hopefully heal him and then aid in combat with her new powers.


    The black phantasmal image of the Dragon God began to appear behind Eradin, his muscles bulged and he began to crack the ground under the pressure that was being emitted. Staring right at the Hydra, Eradin and the Dragon God image released their most powerful dragon cry yet while using [Petrifying Soul Gaze] before charging at the Hydraand dodging all the acidic rain due to his physical stats being forcefully risen.


    The Hydra was affected to the very existence of its soul. It all of a sudden felt terror from the very depths of its bloodline when it felt the aura the small being emitted. It felt as if it should kneel and prostrate itself from such a divine might. In that split second, Eradin chain attacked more than five times. Constantly attacking without rest for a full minute while releasing [Cursed Slashes] every five seconds. The Hydra only stayed shackled in place for the first [Cursed Slash] before forcefully fighting against its bloodline and attempted to fight Eradin. The fight ensued once more. Eradin constantly attacked to the point his [Sever Divinity:1] was fully stacked. But it wasn''t without its dangers. Eradin was closing in on the one minute mark for [Rage of the Dragon God]. In that time although the cooldown began when he used the skill, two minutes downt time with weaker physical stats would really hurt him. In those times he would have to make sure the divinity he severed didn''t reconnect to the Hydra and he''d have to rely on his regeneration to heal him when he inevitably was hit by the acidic rain. But at the end of his continuous assault. The Hydra was covered in bloody wounds double the size of its previous ones. And Eradin was able to inflict the curses, [Lower Physical Stats: 2] and [Reduce Physical Damage: 1] with a duration of two minutes and a chance to be refreshed in he landed more [Cursed Slash] attacks. These were his savings grace, the Hydra would be weaker physically allowing Eradin even one more second to recover when he was damaged. All he had to do was constantly refresh his [Sever Divinity: 1] for two minutes without letting it drop off and endure the pain of the Acidic Rain.


    Ten Minutes Later


    [Hp: 560/1240]


    Farah was watching every second of the fight. She was getting a close up look at the power of the Cursed Child when he hadn''t released his divine anger. The Hydra and Eradin were both riddled with wounds. Multiple burnand frostbite marks covered Eradins face and he looked physically tired while breathing extremely heavily from three consecutive activations of [Rage of the Dragon God] every time it came off cooldown. Blood was dripping off of the Death Gods Scythe, this blood belonged to the hydra who was also seriously injured. Its poison head had lost a majority of its fangs and one eye was on the ground crushed after being gouged out by Eradin. Large portions of muscle and sinew were carved out of it''s body and more than half of it''s tail was cut off. Even so it was still alive. Slowly it was regenerating, but it was not enough, the damage was piling up. Both of them were complete monsters figuratively and literally. Even some adventurers close to level fifty would not be able to survive the wounds that the two of them had. Once again, Eradin used [Rage of the Dragon God], he was going to make it his all out attempt, for once he used Spirit of the Death Gods ability to sense someone he was thinking about and whether they were close to death. The ability clearly showed that the Hydra was infinitely close, basically a walking undead at this point even though it was still considered very much alive with the way it was moving.


    With a bloody scream, Eradin who was covered in wounds, staggered slightly but sprinted to the Hydra, in a last ditch effort he jumped with all his might evenunder the effects of the x10 gravity he had from the gravitational laws being warped around him and propelled into the Hydra with all the strength he had lefteven if itdrained ten times the stamina from his body, but with the extra momentum he slammed into the Hydra horizontally with the Death Gods Scythe. Eradin drove the Death Gods Scythe as far as he could into the chest of the Hydra that already had flesh gouged out. The Hydra futiley attempted to use it''s breath attacks, but Eradin simply dodged all but the poison breath and didn''t even flinch as he mustered through it suffering even more burns as he continually shoved the Death Gods Scythe into it''s chest piercing the heart and causing it to dismember into multiple pieces.


    Eradin [Hp: 323/1240]


    The Hydra went rigid. Eradin backed away and fell to the ground in pain. He retracted the Death Gods Scythe into his body as the Hydra fell down to the ground dead. Many messages appeared but he couldn''t notice any of them at the moment. Farah rushed over to Eradin and began using the Abyssal Aura in an attempt to heal his wounds while chanting runic sentences from her tome. As Farah attempted to heal Eradin, a beacon of black light fell from the heavens onto the dead Hydra, Eradin and Farah. Right at that moment, four people clad in battle armor on gryphons entered the scene with dumbfounded expressions. One of which also filled with worry looking for his daughter.

 Ch 14 The Dukes arrive

    Under the light of the full moon, history was being made at this momet. Witnessed by only five people. Farah and the four Dukes who watched from afar in an awestruck state of mind, although all they saw from the distance of just entering the lake was the black beacon. Once the beacon of black light descended from the heavens, Eradin''s wounds began to heal at a faster pace. Then once they were fully healed, Farah quietly backed away from Eradin to the edge of where the light from the heavens beacon touched. Slowly under Farah''s gaze, the body of the Hydra slowly disintegrated to bones. It left behind only two things. One was an egg which formed and took shape from the flesh that was disintegrated, which much like Eradin''s equipment, forcefully fused with Eradin''s body leaving a small tattooetched with theancient runic symbol meaning "rebirth" upon his left shoulder blade unbeknownst to him andFarah sinceshe couldn''t see his back. Then all that was left from the Hydra was a golden light orb. This orb was the soul of the Hydra. Eradin''s Death God Scythe forcefully revealed itself and allowed the golden soul orb to enter it. Finally from all over the surrounding area where the battle occurred, any blood or body parts and even the bones left behind,anything at all that was a part of the Hydra began to release an aura. This was its divinity that was severed and stolen. Slowly as the beacon of black light faded,the severed divinitytravelled to Eradin and fused with his aura. The effects were unknown until Eradin checked his status, but at the moment despite having a healed body and having leveled up, he was mentally tired, completely and utterly exhausted. The level up should''ve rid Eradin''s body of fatigue as if he slept for an entire day, but even so, with a body that consecutively used an ability like [Rage of the Dragon God], it couldn''t be recovered completely at his low level. So with his faith in Farah and not knowing that their were four Dukes with the title of Four Calamites flying over, Eradin simply passed out.


    Farah didn''t see anyone after a quick glance, her sensory skills were quite high but with people at the level of the Four Calamites,it was no use. The egg confused her quite a bit, but for now her utmost priority was Eradin. At once thinking there wasn''t anyone around, she began removing daily necessities from her spatial ring and set up a camp quite quickly. Farah started a small fire, covered Eradin in a blanket, and set up a small two person tent. After everything was finished, Farah began to make herself some food and opened the Abyssal Night Tome to study the runic spells of the Abyss while waiting for Eradin to wake up. Her new level was 28. But right as she began to get comfortable reading, a deafening cry of a Gryphon shattered the night. Farah looked up over the lake to see four people fully clad in combat armor that she recognized quite well approaching quickly. The blood red armor of Duke Bloodrain. The Black Armor of Duke Ravencrest. The gold armor of Duke Elenwith her father, and the light blue armor of Duke Fairlin with his fairy wings spewing light from his back. They were the Dukes she knew as the Four Calamities, the last time she had seen them fully armored riding their gryphons it was in the middle of the Aspect War where they were rampaging in bloodlust at a level no less than the demi-gods. They were four of the pillars holding the country of Algon together, and also their ferocity was the reason that the city closest to the border was their home. No country wanted to send people to invade with these four Dukes being the first people that they would encounter.


    Duke Elenwith had bloodshot eyes, he was furiously angry. There was only one reason that he knew that elf before his eyes was Farah. There was no one else this deep in the forest, and after seeing a black light fall from the skies, he could only assume that it was the demi-god accompanying Farah. Unmounting his Gryphon, the Duke rushed over to Farah and forcibly dragged her away from the demi-god.


    "Dad what are you doing! Stop dragging me towards the Gryphon. I can''t leave, do you want me to die!" Farah shouted vehemently, she could see her father wasn''t thinking at all. He completely forgot about the blood contract and wanted to bring Farah home and never have to get involved in something so dangerous again. If she left, there would most certainly be ramifications for leaving Eradin behind in the forest. She might not die from the contract as long as she didn''t break any of the conditions, but you could never be too careful with something so fickle. The slightest mistake could lead to everlasting torment even if the breach of the contract didn''t kill you. But Farah''s greatest reason, she was Eradin''s [Eternal Guide] and couldn''t just leave him behind. They were bound in life and even in death.


    The three remaining Dukes who heard Farah say those words were in clarity already and understood the implications behind her words. If she left the demi-god, something would happen, something terrible Duke Elenwith would regret for the rest of his life. They all scrambled to stop the incoherent Duke Elenwith that was still dragging Farah to his gryphon.


    "Duke Elenwith stop! Do did you forget about the blood contract!"


    "Don''t do something you will regret! Return to clarity from anger!"


    "Don''t you dare leave without listening to her report, she is an adventurer who sacrificed herself for the masses first and your daughter second!"


    Duke Elenwith continued to ignore them. He knew full well she was in a blood contract. But there was also a time-limit to said contract. As long as the contract time ran out and neither side fulfilled their conditions, then it would dissipate without either party coming to harm. The best solution was to lock Farah away where even this demi-god wouldn''t reach her until it ran out of time. In that time, he could let his anger subside while understanding the changes to his daughter from her account. If she was changed in any way for the worse permanently changed, he would unleash the full force of the city upon this demi-god. While Farah screamed, and the other Dukes attempted to stop him. An aura appeared behind him, it was weak at first, but it grew ever stronger, then it took on a draconic form. Turning around, Duke Elenwith saw a dragon. It was the exact same dragon he participated in sealing during the Aspect War. The aura was exactly the same. This dragon was phantasmal and surrounding the youth who was now standing, directing all ofhis anger, rage and bloodlust at him alone. His eyes were turning into reptillian slits, the pressure emitted was far stronger than any level twentyeight on the continent. It was closer to that of a level forty. Even then, it seemed endless and the ground was beginning to crack under his pressure.


    Eradin simply looked at Duke Elenwith, he could already guess these were four prominent figures. They hopelessly outclassed him at his current strength. Even one of them alone could easily take him on. That didn''t matter to Eradin, he was on the brink again for the second time in only two days. Seeing Farah being dragged away, Eradin''s anger was teetering on the edge of his absolute anger being unleashed again. With his current level now, if it was unleashed, the destruction would be on a scale completey different than when he was only level thirteen. The Dukes would certainly kill him, but not before he unleashed every ounce of his strength trying to keep Farah from being dragged away. She was now his only lifeline to not going insane from solitude and anger. Without his one and only friend in the entire world, he wouldn''t be able to contain his rage.The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.


    Eradin only said one line, "Let her go, before you see something that you definately don''t want to see." Then he simply stood their trying to contain his anger.


    Farah knew that he was on the verge again, simply seeing his eyes turning to reptillian slits, that never happened before meaning somethingabout Eradin changed when he leveled up, he quite possibly was becoming more dragon-like as he grew stronger, if so she couldn''t let such a walking time bomb explode. If he raged again, she didn''t know what would happen. Turning to her father, Farah began to plead, "Please at least let go of my arm before he goes on a rampage. I have a memory that I shall transfer to you in order for you to understand. He is not like other demi-gods, compared to them, he is far more dangerous. If you don''t let me go, the whole world would eventually be ravaged under his anger." Without waiting for an answer, true to her words, Farah chanted in the runic language and spread her previous memory of Eradin raging to the Dukes. At which, Duke Elenwith finally let go of Farahs arm understanding finally thatEradin was a monster that shouldn''t be provoked despite his low level while the other three attempted to understand what they were witnessing a level thirteen do in their minds.


    Farah approached Eradin while using [Soothing Song of the Abyss Mother], her melodius voice channeling softly towards Eradin, as if she was singing to a child. It''s effects were immediate, Eradin began to lose the aura, his eyes returned to normal and once again he came back to sanity. Due to waking up while already fatigued and almost forcefully using [Cursed Child of the Sealed Gods Absolute Anger], in such a state,Eradin faltered in his intimidating posture. He fell heavily onto Farahs shoulder who stroked hishair and kept singing as if she were using a lullaby on a baby under the gazes of the Dukes who couldn''t comprehend the situation. Eradin''s aura returned tothe virtual nothingness it should be when he wasn''t fighting, all his life signs faded once again, and he was breathing in heavy ragged gasps.Eradin''s eyes glazed over, the stress on his body at an all time high and he once again fell unconscious. Despite starting to be affected by x10 gravity of the worlds pressure causing Farah to suffer from using x10 energy, she sat down and let Eradin''s head rest on her lap. Farah didn''t care about being affected as it was far easier to deal with when you had full strength, she could only imagine how much stress it put on Eradin''s weak body.


    Under the Dukes gazes, Farah took out her Abyssal Night Tome and chanted in the runic language, she was attempting to channel the power of the Abyss to regain her energy that was lost from even the simplest of movements. Then, Farah finally switched out her lap for a clumped up blanket once she knew Eradin wouldn''t wake up again for at least a day. While constantly channelingAbyssal Aura to Eradin, her gazewent piercing towards the Dukes who were silent and the aura around her silver eye became much more visible due to her sharp words and anger at her father."You should all count yourselves lucky. To think that his divine wrath was almost unleashed on a scale incomparable to when he was only level thirteen. That is what is truly terrifying, even if he only leveled once, I am almostcertain that it would increase his strength in that state exponentially. Now then, what you all wish is a report? Thats what is most plausible to guess." Her words stung their prides for having the titles Four Calamities a bit, but they waited for her words, all except for Duke Elenwith who was moving his hands towards the long sword strapped to his side.


    That motion didn''t escape Farah''s eyes, "Dad, don''t even think about killing him, I am bound to him in life and death. If he dies then I die. It is that simple, now you can kill him while killing me, or you can act like the person who is supposed to be the most controlled and logical of the Four Calamities. Your choice, it won''t bother me either way, the moment you thought of killing him I knew just based on your eye movements from him to me,at which point a rift was formed in my trust of you whether it was your anger or not."


    Duke Elenwith was furious at his daughter for blatantly disrespecting her father, he didn''t even need to think of it now, that demi-god permanently changed her in a bad way to be rebellious towards him, she never acted in such a way even once. Her appearance and personality were not the same, this demi-god didn''t need to be disposed of, he needed to be tortured and slaughtered the moment the blood contract dissipated. "Don''t you dare act so disrespectfully to your father, you haven''t earned the right to act that way at all! The moment the blood contract ends, he is dead!"


    The three Dukes only watched, it was a fight between father and daughter, they didn''t need to get involved. Then from Farah, they saw a black cloudy mist come from her body and surround the area. This was Abyssal Aura. Her silver eye now looked like it was on fire from its auradue to how angry she was, it was clearly visible for all to see. Farah had once said she was a higher rank in every way than ordinary elves and she meant it. Only Duke Elenwith felt it though. His blood felt like it stopped moving, almost like it became shackled in place. Much like how the hydra momentarily felt the urge to prostrate itself in fear to Eradin due to bloodline suppression. Duke Elenwith was fighting the very same feelings. In the end he didn''t, but a cold sweat was going down his back. This....this was his daughter?


    "Let me rephrase that, the blood contract is infinite due to my destiny. I am not allowed to tell you all anything about what I learned without Eradin''s permission. What I can say though, is it is my choice to be with Eradin, he needs me far more than any of you understand. Now if I so wanted to, I think I could take over as head of the house since I am a superior race in the Elenwith House compared to before. What I can tell you all as well is my conditions for the contract. Eradin''s and my party is permanent, if it dissolves we die. He is to come to Elren City and meet you first before deciding to pledge his allegiance to any country, although that condition is considered fulfilled since he just met you, albeit on bad terms. He is not to kill anyone in Elren City unless they direct killing intent at him or attempt to kill him or if he witnesses a crime for the time he is in the city. All conditions except for the party will fulfill themselves when he successfully visits Elren City once and follows the blood contract. These were my conditions. As for the ones he imposed on me, they were simply to help him and a don''t tell secrets without his permission or attempt to kill him in anyway, whether I attempt it or try to get someone else to. That is all, if you want to learn anything else then you need to wait for him to wake up."


    The Dukes faces all blanched to pale white. Duke Elenwith even more so. His daughter was bound to a demi-god for the rest of her life, and it was her choice! Who was supposed to inherit his position now as she was clearly implying that she would not inherit his station. Despite that, all the Dukes simply mumbled their agreement in defeat. They all set up their own camp next to Farahs, and avoided her and Eradin. All answers would have to wait until the demi-god woke up.

 Ch 15 New Plans

    Eradin was busy sleeping while Farah was sitting next to him reading her Abyssal Night Tome. Currently she was researching all the spells it contained, she wanted to master them all, and if Eradin was going to learn magic despite the [Magic Goddess Curse], he would need a patient teacher that could constantly teach him at all times of the day. That would be her job, since they would travel together from now on and originally she was the most talented in magic, Farah decided to take that role. Whilescrutinizing and studyinga spell from the fire magic section which would cause an explosion enchant on whatever it was applied to, Duke Elenwith approached slowly. After taking the night to calm down, he thought things over and made an all out effort to understandhis daughter''sthought process as to why she wanted to spend the rest of her life with Eradin who she had only known for a little over three days now,instead of inheriting the position of Duke from him. Hetried to think of anythingother than the obvious scenario ofa young teenage girl in love with the fantasy of having the honor of being wed to a demi-god as Farah didn''t seem like the type of girl to fantasize such things. Duke Elenwith could only come up with two other thoughts, one was Farah had mentioned it was her destiny, so maybe through this demi-god, she somehow caught a glimpse of her future and what she had to do during her life span,or maybe it had to do with how she changed so dramatically in appearance, as it was obvious she was no longer a High Elf Noble. He could only hope that she could answer one of these thoughts.


    "Farah, is it alright if I talk with you, I promise to the heavens I will not attempt to do anything that would harm the demi-god until I at least hear him out. I simply want to ask questions, hoping you can answer at least one without the blood contract taking effect. I didn''t even come over wearing my long sword, I just want to talk father to daughter and understand your line of thought as to why you so drastically changed your lifes goal in three days. I''m sure you can understand that it isn''t typical to change your lifes goal so suddenly, I just want to know why."


    While Duke Elenwith was fidgeting with his fingers, Farah sent a piercing gaze at him, deep in thought, it was as if Farah was contemplating whether or not to trust her father after she told him that she lost some trust in him. Finally, since he had sworn to the heavens, Farah slowly replied, "Well, it''s nice to have the logical and controlled side of you back, I haven''t seen you that mad since the Aspect War. I can''t make any promises to answer you but I will try."


    Duke Elenwith finally heaved a sigh of relief. It seemed that he hadn''t lost all of his daughters trust. If that was the case, he would be heartbroken. While looking at Eradin sleeping on the ground roughly 4 meters away, he began to speak. "Well I have a few questions I was hoping you could answer. They pertain to this youth over there. Why was he covered in a phantasmal image and aura of the Dragon King. Have they been unsealed? Do we need to go into another Aspect War but this time you are aiding the entities that we sealed?"


    Farah understood why her father was worried, Eradin had body parts of the sealed gods. And over 90% of it was the Dragon Gods body, while the rest was Blood of the War Goddess and Heart of the Evil God. It wasn''t surprising now that Farah thought of it. Eradin was bound to exhibit the sealed gods traits as he grew stronger. He inherited their entire existences and even their bodies. So having increasingly draconic tendencies and features would be a natural course of growth. The only problem, she couldn''t outright say that to her father lest she be killed. " I can''t explain that, I do know the answer and it is not what you think, however my blood contract states that I can''t say anything that is confidential which I learned from Eradin without his permission. Certainly you should understand as a demi-god he knows more about these things than us mortals."


    Duke Elenwith felt his body go cold, in his mind, if she couldn''t answer his question then it meant he was close to the truth. Are the sealed existences unsealed? Is this youth their apostle of destruction? If so why would Farah be joining him? But it would have to wait until he woke up. Rather than think of it further, Duke Elenwith kept it in the back of his mind, but he didn''t dare forget about it. He conitnued without trying to make the situation awkward. "Then did you get a glimpse of the future? You mentioned it was your destiny and he needed you far more than we realized, that is what you stated."


    He didn''t even have to wait for her to think as she curtly replied, "No I did notsee the future, and it would be in your best interest to aid him as well if you want a peaceful life and know that the family will live on for generations should he succeed."


    That was something Duke Elenwith understood quite easily, Farah found a loophole in words for him to understand a little. She didn''t see the future but made a prediction. Eradin was on a quest, one of which that could lead to prosperity if it was successful for perhaps anyone involved with him. Duke Elenwith was happier because he understood a bit more of Farah''s train of thought and it was a step in the right direction. Duke Elenwith however couldn''t quite shake off the feeling that this youth was dangerous, it was as if something was telling him to be extremely cautious and wary of this youth, at least until he got to know him. Then he slowly broached the subject that he was the most sad of. "Are you no longer a part of the race High Elf Noble?" Duke Elenwith''s words turned slightly bitter at that remark, it was something he wouldn''t forgive the demi-god for doing, at least until he understood what changed about Farah.


    She replied instantaneously further adding to his depression, "Yes, everything about me has changed, down to the very core of my being. I am no longer a High Elf Noble. I can''t explain the particulars of my race, class or abilities as you would need to hear some of the confidential information prohibited by the blood contract."


    Duke Elenwith felt as if the nail was put in the coffin. His daughter was no longer a part of his bloodline. She had evolved into a completely new elven subspecies. Although it was rare, it was also known to happen. Atleast he could rejoice in the fact she remained as an elven subspecies instead of becoming a new race all together. There were some people he had heard of who evolved into a new race and hated it whether they got stronger or not. Slowly Duke Elenwith forced out a half smile. He tried his best to get some information. All that he could gather was Farah believed that their house would prosper if she aided him. At least she had the proper interests at heart.Just as he was about to walk away, Duke Elenwith heard Eradin stir, and then as he turned around, he saw Eradin had noticed his prescence once he escaped his state of grogginess. Bloodlust thicker than any he felt, even in the Aspect War started to come his way to the point it was leveling his detection of it. "Hi there demi-god, don''t mind me, I was just talking to my daughter, I''ll let you have a chat with her before we have ours." Duke Elenwith for the first time in his life, shuffled his feet and walked quickly to escape the prescence of a person who was a lower level than himself because of the uneasiness and wariness he felt.


    Eradin finally woke up, he felt much better aside from the fact that he knew the warped spatial laws around him were forcing him to use even more energy for the simple task of sitting up. His bodily pain also increased but surprisingly, for whatever reason, none of the curses doubled or tripled the pain or problems he had. They increased slightly but not to the point he was leveling resistances. Once he got Duke Elenwith to go away with his bloodlust, Eradin finally had time to look at his statuses. Farah simply resumed reading her tome as she knew that was the first thing he would do.


    [You have leveled up to 28]


    [Fused Body EXP:40.5%/100% Exp: 21%/100%] [Extreme level up reason: Bonus Exp was granted due to Title / Small Party Bonus / Monster Rank / Killing a Divine Existence]


    [All stats are multiplied by 1.5 instead of increasing]


    [Problem: System has noticed a glitch: Stats are too high for given level: Restriction forcibly being placed to prevent the bodysurpassing the boundaries that are set to prevent causing imbalance. Wait until more of the potential of the True God body is naturally unlocked and level is sufficient. The Restriciton will be released when balance within the body is properly restored.]


    [Restriciton: All stats are multiplied by 1.5 every 50 levels instead of every twenty.]


    [All detection skills rose one level]


    [Title Evolutions: Solo Elite Slayer ----> Raid Hunter Lord of The Forest -----> True Lord of the Forest]


    [True Lord of the Forest: Increase previous bonuses by 5%]This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.


    [Raid Hunter: Increase Exp bonus to 20%]


    [Petrifying Soul Gaze is now 3/10]


    [Cursed Slash and Scythe Mastery are now 8/10]


    [Rage of the Dragon God is now 2/? : Increase bonus by another 10%]\


    [Cursed Star is now 3/10]


    [Wind Resistance: 1/10 gained]


    [Poison resistance 2/10 gained]


    [Due to exercising extreme will power and successfully preventing [Cursed Child of the Sealed Gods] from activating until Dark Priestess of the Cursed Child could sooth you has awarded the following.]


    [Mental Resistance: 4/10]


    [Due to regenerating horrendous wounds successfully, award has been granted]


    [Regeneration: 3/?]


    [Due to using [Rage of the Dragon God] consecutively in a single fight and surviving the strain and stress put on the body that already suffers from the strain of curses, award has been granted.]


    [Physical Resistance: 4/10] [Curse Resistance: 3/10]


    [Godkiller is now 2/? bonus rises to 25%]


    [Stolen Divinity: Despite having a True God body, you were originally human. Demi-god refers to one who has atleast 1% left the realm of a mortal and stepped onto the path of the Divine, which extreme few have. Stealing Divinity allows you to leave the realm of a mortal quicker. Current Progress: 3% / 100%] [Even if you achieve 100%, you will only have reached the first step into becoming a higher existence, and will either need to create your own aspect to govern or for an aspect position suitable for you to govern to be given to you by one of the gods. In either case, whenthis has occurred, you will beallowed totake your first steps on the path of ascension.]


    [New Soul Shop Merchandise available up tolevel twenty skills, soul points are insufficient for level twenty skills.]


    Eradin''s first thought was that he wanted to strangle whoever made such a system. It was absolutely a shitty system, the bastard that made it must''ve been drunk or high off some substance similar to drugs of Earth. Perhaps both. Eradin had never heard of such a bullshit excuse of stats are too high for given level and it would cause imbalance, imbalance for what? Being stronger than any other level twenty eight in the world? Who cares! He had the body of a true god, how much imbalance could there be! The God of MisFortune really liked to mess with him, and his luck had even increased by +2 not even two days ago!


    But Eradin''s mood wasn''t down for long,he didn''t care about ascension either as that was a whole different problem to deal with when the time came.Eradininstead had a plan for when many of his skills reached 10/10 or MAX. That was skill evolution or fusion. If someone could evolve under the right circumstances like Farah had, then why couldn''t skills or traits evolve as well. This was exciting for Eradin to think about since it was one of the few things he enjoyed, that was thinkingthe infinite possibilites for skills and traits,as for his resistances leveling up, that should be surprising, but honestly speaking.withthe draconic body,Eradin expected them to level up passively as his curses strength increased and he encountered scenarios and fights where they would level up naturally like today when he endured mass amounts of acidic poison.


    Finally finished looking through all of his new statuses. Eradin had a clear cut understanding of the situation. There were new skills, and new problems. Unknown to him, there was an egg fused with his body, and Farah already forgot about it due to the hectic events. The future was unknown. Eradin turned to Farah finally and called out to her. "So who are they?"


    Farah looked up from her tome and was happy Eradin was ready to talk, "One of them is my father, the one you directed the bloodlust at, while the others are the fathers of the other three girls originally in my party. Together they are known as the Four Calamities. Due to them acting like you, simply rampaging on the battlefield without a care in the world, they achieved that title together. I sincerely apologize for how my father acted but he has agreed to not act so irrational again. He was just thinking with my safety in mind. If you could find it in your heart to forgive him then I would greatly appreciate it. They are four of the pillars, not including our demi-gods that hold this country together despite other countries fangs always being at our necks."


    Eradin simply turned his head in a crooked way. "Then why was he trying to drag you away from me, the moment he did that, I had woken up from the screaming you were doing, something felt like it broke inside of me and I was as angry as I was when I almost died fighting multiple Forest Lords. I was ready to attempt to slaughter any of them for trying to steal my life line to this world that keeps my sane, which is you. Now that I have you as my only friend, if I lost you, I don''t know what I would do."


    Farah felt happy to hear such words as his [Eternal Guide], "Well don''t worry, I need to be there in order to prevent you from getting lost in big cities just trying to find a bathroom. So, onto important matters. I think you need to get a faction on your side. When the time comes and you are strong enough to fight all the gods. I find it hard to believe they won''t just replicate what happened in the Aspect War and seek the aid of mortals. That was why I am guessing the Sealed Gods lost and were sealed. If you could create a faction that would fight it out with the other demi-gods and mortals, then all of your attention could focus upon the ten gods. I understand with the curses, socializing will be hard, but that is where I come in. The right people will listen and help. It doesn''t have to be ashort term goal, it might take years before you ascend. I think starting with the four Dukes would be a perfect foundation. Then the adventurers of Elren City until finally the whole city supports you. Then we could expand to the entire nation, and possibly others. Our enemy would be the church, but nothing is absolute, they can be rooted out. But in order to do that, I need permission to tell everything to the four Dukes. If you trust me, then let me guide you onto the right path as is my duty."


    Eradin soaked in the idea, it had its merits and demerits. But honestly, there wasn''t any fault in the reasoning. If he didn''t have to worry about mortals and demi-gods. That would make his life easier. Socializing could all be done by Farah and he just had to play his part, mainly slaughtering anything that went against him.


    Yup I am definately a villain-like protagonist in this world thought Eradin. Just slaughter anything that gets in my way. Break all rules and morals. Don''t give a damn about anyone elses feelings aside from Farah''s or she''ll kill me. Other than that just use this whole damn world as an experience farm. With agrin at the thought of a world for an experience farm Eradin replied happily, "I grant you permission to spew the information to the four Dukes, build us a faction to slaughter anything that gets in our way. But your payment, make me a new headband to cover my eyes, the last one was destroyed by the acidic poison"


    Farah only laughed heartily, Eradin really was a battle junkie and would probably go through many headbands unless one was made from the best of magic materials. And with that, the two of them had evil smiles while walking to the Dukes with a plan in mind for the future, starting with gaining control over the four noble houses of Elren City.


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    <td width="427">[Name: Eradin Silvermoon] [Active Title: Raid Hunter]</td>


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    <td>[Race: (Unique) Child of the Sealed Gods]</td>


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    <td>[Level: 28] [Souls Absorbed:741 Soul Points: 1289]</td>


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    <td>[Classes: (Unique) Cursed Hero/(Unique) Inheritor of the Sealed Gods]</td>


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    <td>[Fused Body Exp: 40.5%/100%] [Exp: 21%/100%]</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Titles]</td>


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    <td>Raid Hunter</td>


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    <td>Shadow Assassin</td>


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    <td>True Lord of the Forest</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Hp: 2153] [Mana: 1750]</td>


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    <td>[Str:366] [Endurance:376] [Agi:364] [Int:376] [Luck:-10] [Def:369]</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Skills]</td>


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    <td>[Cursed Slash: 8/10] [Scythe Mastery: 8/10][Petrifying Soul Gaze: 3/10]</td>


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    <td width="427">[Danger Perception: 6/10] [Bloodlust Detection: 6/10][Prescence Detection: 6/10]</td>


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    <td width="427">[Inner Body Perception: 6/10] [Complete Aura Concealment: 6/10] [Aura Manipulation: 6/10] [Tracking: 4/10] [Inner World Perception: 6/10]</td>


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    <td width="427">[Shadow Steps] [Eviscerating Strike: 3/10][Shadow Melding: 5/10]</td>


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    <td width="427">[Cursed Star: 3/10] [Rage of the Dragon God: 2/?] [Asura Aura: 2/?] [Cursed Child of the Sealed Gods Absolute Anger: MAX]</td>


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    <td>[Magic]</td>


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    <td>[Void Magic][Death Magic] [Dark Magic]</td>


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    <td>[Magic of the Five Elements]</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Equipment]</td>


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    <td>Death Gods Scythe</td>


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    <td>Dragon Gods Pendant</td>


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    <td>Cloak of the Evil God</td>


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    <td>Armor of the War Goddess</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Traits]</td>


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    <td>[illusion Resistance: 9/10]</td>


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    <td>[Disease Resistance: 1/10]</td>


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    <td>[Mental Resistance: 4/10]</td>


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    <td>[Physical Resistance 4/10]</td>


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    <td>[Curse Resistance: 3/10]</td>


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    <td>[Frost Resistance: 2/10]</td>


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    <td>[Fire Resistance: 1/10]</td>


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    <td>[Spatial Resistance: 1/10]</td>


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    <td>[Poison Resistance: 2/10]</td>


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    <td>[Wind Resistance: 1/10]</td>


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    <td>Cursed One: Max</td>


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    <td>Draconic Body: Max</td>


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    <td>[Godkiller Attribute: 2/?]</td>


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    <td>[Regeneration: 3/?]</td>


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    <td>[Immortal Stomach]</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Blessings]</td>


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    <td>Body of the Dragon God</td>


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    <td>Heart of the Evil God</td>


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    <td>Spirit of the Death God</td>


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    <td>Blood of the War Goddess</td>


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    <td>[Abyssal Lifeform]</td>


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    <td></td>


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    <td>[Abnormal Statuses]</td>


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    <td>Space/Time Gods Curse</td>


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    <td>God of Crafts and Cookings Curse</td>


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    <td>Curse of the Love Goddess</td>


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    <td>Magic Goddesses Curse</td>


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    <td>God of Lights Curse</td>


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    <td>God of Fortunes Curse</td>


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    <td>God of Crossroads and Destinies Curse</td>


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    <td>Life Goddesses Curse</td>


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    <td>God of Medicines Curse</td>


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    <td>God of Literature, Music and Knowledges Curse</td>


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    </table>

 Ch 16 Half-Truth

    The four Dukes visibly shook a little at seeing Farah and Eradin arrive. They didn''t like the thought of Eradin rampaging around even if they could easily kill him. Although the most prevalent thought was why Eradin had his eyes covered. But, nothing escaped Farahs eyes. Pointing at Eradin''s she addressed their thoughts and quickly put an end to it. "He covers his eyes and uses skills to navigate. His eyes are too eccentric for normal people and he doesn''t like the attention, he''d rather people think he was blind. As for my eyes, I don''t care what people think."


    Duke Elenwith didn''t question her, Eradin''s eyes were abnormal, it would be weirder if he wasn''t self-conscious about them. Deciding to be the spokesperson for them, he was the one that responded. "That is fine, now, have you attained permission? Do we have to make oaths or is contract magic required?"


    Farah nodded her head and her eye with the aura around it flared a little at her words. "Yes, I have attained permission. I will speak for Eradin until he feels the need to speak. However you require an oath of not attempting to kill us when you hear this and you can not tell anyone without our permission, as it is considered heresy by the church. We will pledge it is the truth. Don''t ask questions until the end."


    The Dukes all nodded, then they pledged, "We pledge to the heavens that we shall not attempt to kill either of you after hearing the heretical information and attempt to understand what we hear and give honest replies."


    Farah in return with a slight smirk also pledged. "I Farah, pledge to the heavens that anything I say about this information is the truth."


    The Farah began. She explained how there weren''t the ten creator gods but others as well. She explained how the so-called creator gods were corrupt in their self-important ideals, that the sealed existences were betrayed, they weren''t evil and were gods, she also told them of the concept of aspects and balance that she learned from Eradin. She didn''t tell them about the void or the concepts of ascension. So it could only be considered a half-truth as she didn''t reveal everything but what she did say was true. Finally she concluded that Eradin was a being born from the Sealed Gods last powers and she neglected to mention about being able to inherit a gods existence. He was to eventually ascend and free the world from the corruption of the gods and make it a place where mortals governed themselves and not the gods passing whims. Her job was to be his guide as he was cursed and it was infringing upon his quest. It was all half true, there were just facts Farah purposefully didn''t mention, she was using her ability to be cunning to the limit.


    The Dukes were in a stunned state, their brains practically stopped functioning. They just learned secrets of how the world worked, and it was all true. The church of the ten creator gods was lead by gods that were corrupt, and there were more than ten gods, four of which theyparticipated in sealing. This demi-god and Farah were to fight the gods by themselves, that would be impossible!


    Thankfully they knew it was true. Duke Elenwith was the most controlled as should be expected. He was the first to respond. "So that is what you meant by saying we would prosper if he succeeded. We can escape the churches false teachings and live by governing ourselves. Are you saying that we should drive out the church? They are rooted in every country except for the demon country."


    Farah only smiled, she had entrapped them, her father was already thinking of helping. "Nothing is absolute in this world, as you can see from the fact I told you that us mortals had participated in sealing gods. Think logically, what was the deciding factor to cause four gods who were equal to ten others in combat to lose and be sealed?"


    The Dukes all went silent, there was only one factor they could think of, in unison they all replied with the exact same words, "Mortals".


    "Yes, mortals, so here lies the problem, what is to stop the gods from repeating that same action on a single demi-god instead of four gods. I can assure you, the day that Eradin fights the gods, he could overwhelm them one versus ten, but that is not factoring in the mortals. If you are willing to aid us in freeing the world, we need to prepare the mortals of Algon for another Aspect War, but this time to stop the gods from calling their believers to aid them. We would be against the world. However that isn''t implying we can''t get aid from all over the world, Eradin and I aren''t going to be rooted in this country, we need to travel the continent. We can''t sway the population immediately, the church is rooted too deep. Covert actions to subtlely change the public opinion is required. Starting with our four noble houses and the Adventurers Guild. It is possible because I believe it is."


    The Dukes listened intently, they weren''t stupid or they would have died long ago and their families wouldn''t be the ruling powers of Elren City. If Eradin and Farah were to fight divine existences, they would need help from all over. Algon was the smallest country but their people were of better stock than larger countries due to the higher level of magic density and the constant threats of war. If an army was to be built, there was no better place to start than in their own families. That much they agreed upon.


    "Well then, how do you plan to get the four families involved? We can''t control all of them individually, you know that even a few of your cousins are devout believers in the church Farah."


    Farah could only laugh inwardly, if she hadn''t thought that far, then what was the point of starting basically a revolution. "Well you wanted to know my race right. Well let me put it this way, if you are ranked tenth as a High Elf Noble, I am ranked first. You should feel it from your bloodline. I am an Abyssal Elf now. Gain control of the four families by telling them I evolved into one of the legendary subspecies of the elves. Use an area of effect blood contract to bind them. Get them all to believe from their bones that I was chosen to be the [Eternal Guide] of the Cursed Hero who shall free us from our oppression that we didn''t even know of until now. All of this will be done in secret. Then once oaths of loyalty and secrecy are established, begin to sew seeds of doubt and discord into the populace. It doesn''t have to be now, it can take years to accomplish. It will be years before we are strong enough to fight gods. I''d recommend getting the Guildmaster involved as well so we can get the Adventurers Guild on our side. Anyone in the families that refuses to be a part of the revolution, execute them for treasonin secrecy. Do anything to win, even foul methods, if craftsmen who believe that the gods make their crafts work are around, give them a blueprint so hard to make that even they can''t make it, destroy their work secretly, anything at all. There are no rules when it comes to fighting gods. Anything will work, how you get it done, that is up to you. Just once, I will show you my status so you all understand, I am an Abyssal Elf, there are very few other subspecies that are ranked equal to me. I became this race in order to accompany Eradin to places a mortal should never go and I shall be the one to guide him towards his destiny, and that first step, build a faction he has absolute control over."


    The Dukes eyes almost exploded from their sockets, what the hell were all these skills and stats, a level twenty eight should not have such specs! This....this was leverage they could use, if they were to fight gods and get a faction full of mortals to aid them, something like this could be twisted with the right speech. A legendary elf from legends, a demi-god who was cursed but still fights in order to end corruption and oppression. That was a story that they could spin into some crap about how they were the chosen ones and needed the help of everyone to save the world. It was a secret they were putting absolute faith in the four families as expected, etcetera. If anyone couldspew shit a mile long that sounded wonderful, it was a noble with the reputation of always being honest. And there were four of them right here!


    "Well, if it can right the wrongs we did in the Aspect War causing balance to be disrupted, then we can do that, you should know we can make flowery speeches as required of any noble."


    Duke Elenwith then sent his gaze to Eradin who only sat silently letting Farah do all the talking. "You demi-god, Eradin, I can forgive you for changing Farahs race, I can apologize for sealing your gods, however, I will not let her travel with you, not without at least knowing how strong you actually are. I know you are far stronger when that hidden skill activates, you lose rationality for the sake of your potential being unleashed. I won''t fight you under that effect, I would still win anyway but, I shall test the extents of your power beore I dare let you take my daughter anywhere for an extended period of time. I can''t get this dangerous feeling and cautionary feeling I have towards you under control. I will not budge upon this request, if you decline, I will take it as you giving Farah back to me and never seeing her again."


    Eradin heard Duke Elenwith, but all of it left his reasoning capabilities. All he focused upon was the Duke will take Farah away if he declined this fight. Eradin''s bloodlust once again rose, if it was a fight that the Duke wanted, then he would gladly comply, no matter if he was one or a hundred levels above Eradin. No one should expect to not fight him when they said something about taking his one lifeline he gained that would keep him sane.


    "Fine, I shall comply, let''s get this over with, Farah is my one and only friend in this world, if you dare to take her away, don''t blame me for going on a rampage and insane. She is the seal on my anger, don''t unleash it or you will regret it."


    Eradin stood up and withdrew the Death Gods Scythe from his body. His goal, get in at least one hit. The Duke was level [???] so he was certainly much higher than forty. There was no chance for Eradin to win, even so, he would gladly accept this fight, not only to improve himself and discover his limits, but to prove to this bastard that Farah wasn''t only his. But as Duke Elenwith walked towards him and stopped, the next words just pissed off Eradin.


    "I shall suppress my strength to your level. That should be more than enough even if you are part god."


    The Duke readied his stance after mentally forcing his body to decrease its strength and seal itself to that of a level twenty eight. Only extremely high level people with complete control of every muscle in their bodies could do this. His weapons and sword were a much stronger version of Farah''s previous [Wind Fairy Set]. Speed was all the Duke cared about, infinite speed to crush his opponents. He was confident that his speed suppressed to that of a level twenty eight would still be triple what a normal twenty eight was capable of. Then his expectation was shattered. Eradin didn''t even wait for anyone to say start, he used [Rage of the Dragon God] that was now a 110% bonus and rushed at the Duke. All the Duke had time to comprehend was a large black dragon appearing and releasing a cry that caused a mini-earthquake and the ground underneath Eradin begancracking. With his strength suppressed, all that pressure was now baring down on him and he couldn''t move. Just barely, he dodged a strike with the intent to kill. Unconsciously, he raised the strength threshold to level thirty five andhe felt he was back to normal movement. The Duke could now see Eradin. He once again entered his stance and dashed towards him. They clashed weapons, Eradin, would attack from angles that only a scythe could provide and the Duke constantly thrusted or slashed from many angles only a sword could. The two constantly clashed, a flurry of motion that was distorted, one mistiming of a counter and the other would most certainly incur a severe wound. Bloodlust from both of them was rising, Eradin pushing out his power to the limits, the Duke unsealing more and more levels of his power. Then unexpectedly, a smile was beginning to appear on both of their faces, and yet not even thirty seconds had passed from that exchange.


    The [Cursed Star] appeared and gave Eradin the power of [Physical Stats Reduction:2] and [Reduce Physical Damage: 2] Now that the [Cursed Star] was at 30% mastery, he could use two curses at once. The Duke unsealed his strength up to level forty three and wind started to gust around him. The two of them collided again, this time incurring wounds from both parties. Eradin was stabbed in the leg, while multiple cuts appeared on Duke Elenwith''s arms. Eradin''s movement was hampered, but the Duke was now cursed. Even so, they still fought in ever increasing battle momentum. Eradin''s [Asura Aura] was fully stacked, so even after [Rage of the Dragon God] subsided, he was still attacking close to two times in one second. The two of them kept incurring wounds, multiple deep cuts appeared on both of them. The other Dukes and Farah could only watchin awe, they knew that these two werespeaking in their own way to each other but it wouldn''t last for long.The Duke now unleashed once again another level of power. Now a level forty fours strength. Then Eradin began to lose horribly, constant cuts appeared on his body, even though he reduced the damage and physical stats of the Duke. Eradin began to stay on the defensive, focused only on countering until [Rage of the Dragon God] came off of its three minute cool down. But the fight didn''t last that long. There was no way it would last that long, the Duke kept unleashing higher levels of strength until Eradin finally fell to the ground, with a long sword at his throat.Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work!


    "You rely on that skill which increases all of your physical abilities far too much. Once it ends and is on cool down, you don''t have a trump card. Save it for the moment you are about to take serious wounds and catch the opponent off guard. Inflict a counter with your full strength at that time. It could end the battle in that one moment. Had you done so, I might have lost immediately. If you can''t kill the enemy when you do so, rely on it to its limits to run away if they are out of your league. Don''t just use it every time it is off cool down. Bad habits can lead to death and I intend to break you of such habits now. Had you have had years to train properly instead of learning to fight on your own, you might have already haddoublethe strength you have now. But you pass, as you level up and get better at fighting, I am sure you will reach a realm I can only dream of. But you have earned my approval, I support Farah going along with you on your journey."


    Eradin was currently vomiting up blood, but he and the Duke were able to get their feelings across from that fight with no rules. Eradin could say that he truly understood a second person''s feelings in this world. The Duke had infinite love for his daughter, and he showed that in this fight. Eradin showed that he would use all of his power to fight to the death and never give up, the Duke could respect that, not many people would be willing to die fighting and would instead not care about anyone else''s lives while attempting to save theirs. Such occurences happened all too often in life or death situations and he would not risk it with his daughter.


    "Well then glad to be broken of it. Thanks."


    "No problem, I am sure you will be an Emperor of Slaughter on the battlefield and attain a title similar to ours called the Four Calamities. There is no way that you are not going to attain such a title. I dare say that in a level range of roughly ten levels, you can be considered invincible. I used strength at the level of a forty four, but it was much stronger than average as my strength originally surpasses forty four by far. To fight sixteen levels above your range is quite impressive. But no, you aren''t broken of such habits yet in only a few minutes, so when we return to the city, I offer an invitation for you to stay at my mansion. I shall beat those bad habits of yours out of the body and show you how to really fight, it is not all about brute strength in a fight. Skill, timing, countering, deception, intelligence, techniques, Health and Mana management, managing your cool downs, all of the unknown variables, whether you are alone against multiple enemies, one on one, fighting as a team, there are many more aspects than simply using brute strength. Even if your level doesn''t increase during your stay, I dare say your ability to fight will increase quite a bit."


    Eradin paled a bit at the thought of realizing how he fought all this time. There was still much to learn. But there was one thing the Dukes didn''t realize, he couldn''t ride a mountfor extended periods of time. They would end up being affected by the pressure of the world, they would need far more energy to fly than normal. That was just a death sentence.


    "Well I am sure we can fight every day and night on our way back to the city, I can''t ride anything that is alive. They would be affected by one of my curses. The pressure of the world would increase upon them and force more energy for even the simplest tasks to be used. Unless you have another method, I do not see how we can travel back to the city in one day."


    The Duke only smiled. After learning from Farah during the time she was explaining everything, he already understood for the most part that Eradin couldn''t be as strong as he was without some demerits. That much he understood when Farah explained he was cursed. The most forthwright of them. He was affected by the worlds pressure. If not, how could he have learned to emit such pressure on others. Spatial magic warped these laws and he as the Duke had come across wielders of such magic in the Aspect War.


    "We are not riding gryphons back, the Dukes and I already sent a long distance transmission the moment we realized we were staying the night or even heard of your situation. So you can only ride something non-living for it to be unaffected right? Well wait for about ten more minutes. And you will see the benefits of befriending anyone with a profession or class in crafting."


    True to his words, Eradin heard what sounded like shockwaves through the Algaron Forest. In that next instant, something Earth had never been able to accomplish appeared. A massive airship that was sending sonic shockwaves as it travelled was heading towards their direction. Countless crew were maintaining it. Cannons were adorned on the sides. Many runic symbols covered it anda massive light shooting from a crystal was shining directly on their location in the shade of the island, illuminating all of their positions. But there was one problem. The Dukes and Farah were farther away from Duke Elenwith and Eradin. So the scene that the crew saw was much different.


    They saw a bloody area, one of their Dukes riddled with wounds and his long sword out next to an equally blood covered Eradin, although his wounds were for the most part healed aside from a few scrapes and the hole in his leg. Orders were immediately relayed and a medical team descended with a combat team. Before anyone could tell them to stop, a magic formation was launched. Seperating everyone, only Eradin and the combat team were within the formation. The Dukes all started screaming but combat already began. Eradin didn''t understand what was going on. There werefour elves all in armor similar to the [Wind Fairy Set], there was also a mage who started to chant. All combatants were ranged from thirty-six to forty-two. Enough of a force to challenge Eradin a bit.


    Eradin applied what he learned from the Duke. He waited for the four elves to descend upon him, attacking in the same manner the Duke had attacked, this made them predicatable. Eradin waited until they fully committed to their attacks. One to the front, two to the sides and one jumped into the air and slashed down. While multiple blades of wind were shot towards any area he could escape to.


    Just as they thought their target would be easily dispatched. The moment the attacks were about to connect. A black dragon phantasmal image appeared around Eradin. In unison, a dragon cry was released. The ground shattered, Eradin turned the Death Gods Scythe so the duller side of the blade was pointing towards them. Then he countered with all the strength he had. The elf who jumped and was fully committed in a downwards slash was sent flying by the shockwave and slammed against the barrier of the magical formation. The one directly in front of Eradin recieved the back of his scythe shaft to the head andfell to the ground unconscious. The two remaining elves dodged successfully while regrouping in front of their mage who was chanting once again. This time fire was beginning to surround the area. The temperature increased, and multiple balls of fire came falling from above Eradin. But what was the Death Gods Scythe? It was categorized as indestructible! He slashed and cut all of the meteors into many small pieces. Looking at the remaining elves he began to run towards them.


    The barrier lit up, Eradin felt as if all his strength was being sapped. His innervision blurred slightly and saw the two elves charge at him. I will not die, I will not die, I will not DIE! Eradin''s thoughts was only one, survive by any means. He forced himself to keep running, his vision cleared, and for the first time he tried to forcefully emit more pressure than the [Rage of the Dragon God] naturally emitted.


    [Skill Gained: Dragon Gods Aura 2/10]


    [You have learned to manipulate the aura of the Dragon God, all opponents that are within it''s area of effect are weakened physically. All physical stats reduce by 10%]


    The Elves movements slowed down, then they stopped, although they should be able to move because the aura only weakened them, they were terrified. They sensed the aura of a true dragon from this boy, and it was pure, so pure they felt it was stronger than any aura a true dragon could emit. Eradin only approached them and with the shaft of his scythe, knocked them all unconscious. But he was barely in control, he wanted to leave, he wanted to see Farah, he hated the feeling of his strength being forcefully absorbed. All he wanted was to relax and ponder his fighting style the rest of the day because of learning from the Duke about his flaws. And yet there was another group of elves descending into the barrier. This time there was twenty of them. These ones were all over level 50. Looking up at the ship, there were even elves that were [???] level for Eradin. As they all began to slowly approach in a combat formation. The barrier lit up even more. Eradins inner vision went black. He couldn''t sense any of the elves. His danger levels were increasing. Eradin tried to back up, but he felt that it was too late, all the elves had surrounded him. He was directly in the center of the circle andthere was blade to the back of his neck whena single female voice whispered intoEradin''s ears.


    "Die for your sins."


    Just as the general of this escort squad was about to personally behead Eradin, a shockwave resounded. The barrier shattered. Eradin who could be considered blind right now didn''t know what was happening. If he was able to take off his headband and be able tosee right now, all of the escort squad would be trembling within his vision but he didn''t dare to move as for whatever reason, he was still alive. Four people had shattered the barrier. They were all instantaneously standing around Eradin and the general, whocurrently had her hand with the blade to Eradin''s neck wastrembling.Shehad a longsword, a bow, a warhammer, and atrap runic spell beneath her feet, all on her as their target for elimination. She immediately began to quiver, dropping her blade, she began to stutter in fear.


    "My lords...what...what...is..thi...."


    "Don''t speak Emerila, you completely misread the situation, to dare assault the young master that our houses all respect. To dare assault someone who is a lower level and already wounded with twenty trained combat personnel over level fiftyfrommy house without my orders and deploying the magic formation. Furthermore, he is only level 28 and not properly trained in the ways of fighting. Just tell me, why shouldn''t I personally behead you for this transgression against my authority. You didn''t even ask if I needed help. Do you really think I who is well over level 100 need help against someone who is level twenty eight?"


    Emerila quickly shook her head, only now did she realize her mistake. This youth was far stronger than anticipated. With her Duke covered in blood all she cared about was his safety and the elimination of all threats. But never did she think that the Four Calamities of legend were all aiming at her life if she even cut the surface of this boys skin. She simply dropped to the ground and prayed for forgiveness.


    Eradin still didn''t move, he was trying to release his [Dragon Gods Aura] in a panicing state, doing anything that would enable him to sense his surrounding, but he couldn''t. Duke Elenwith could guess what he was doing based onhis actions. "Farah come over and escort Eradin as you are supposed to. Your are his [Eternal Guide] are you not? And Eradin, everything is fine, no one shall attempt to kill you, Farah will lead you onto the air ship. You probably won''t be able to use your sensory skills or even see with your eyes for a few hours, that magical formation is nasty business that should only be used in war. Not against one person, all of its effects that are usually spread across multiple enemies was concentrated on you alone. She will guide you to a room. I shall come in later to express my apologies, but right now, with the aid of the three Dukes, we need to instill proper loyalty again into these useless bags of trash."


    Farah came over, she simply grabbed Eradin''s hand as gently as possible but he still flinched. He had never been able to truly not see. His inner vision sufficed. To think if he even opened his eyes, that he''d be blind. He was truly vulnerable for the first time in his second life. But even so, Farah still tried to help him towards the ships as he stumbled and flinched at every little rock he kicked. Farah didn''t care, she went as slow as needed for Eradin while holding his hand, despite her energy rapidly being drained. She even began to sing [Song of the Abyss Mother] to calm Eradin. Finally after nearly ten minutes, she got Eradin to a room and sat next to him. He was slowly falling unconscious to her singing and finally he slept on the bed. While outside, every single crew member was being beaten savagely as they were all forced to fight together against the Four Calamities. They were experiencing a hell far worse than any before. The personal wrath of these four people who were pillars of Algon was not to be aroused. Constant screams of pain rang out through the day until finally at sunset, they were realeased from the "Special Training". The return to Elren had been delayed by a day.

 Ch 17 Flying to Elren City

    When Eradin awoke it was well past sunset into the night,and when he had awoke, his headband was no longer on him, he took in his surroundings through sight and not senses.Eradin was in a dimly lit room with one bed. Multiple crystals were adorned upon the walls barely emitting any light. There was a small nightstand and upon it was simple bread, soup,and acup of water. Eradin hadn''t eaten in days, and he certainly didn''t want to. But when he looked up, Farah was in the corner of the room sitting in a chair that had a small light crystal as well shining upon her tome. She had been reading the spells within it all this time. WhenFarah saw Eradin look at the food and quickly look towards her palely, she simply raised a finger and pointed at the food with a smile on her face that never reached the eyes. Farah knew every one of Eradin''s curses, she took great care to remember them all word for word. Even so, she wasn''t going to make Eradin not eat food for the taste. He was to eat just like a normal person whether he had the body of a true god or not. Eradin only blanched in terror and slowly grabbed for the bread and water. He adopted the strategy of eating as fast as possible, giving his body as little time to taste as possible.Eradin almost vomited, even with the [Immortal Stomach] trait. The water still smelled like gasoline to him and tasted just as bad. The bread tasted as if it was left out for years. The soup, that was the worst of it all, it was a mixture of what looked like beef broth, filled with a mixture of meats, vegetables, and what looked like spices. When Eradin brought it to his nose, it smelled like garbage that was under the hot sun fordays and hadn''t been disposed of. Very quickly, Eradin mashed all of it into a pulp before mixing the broth with it. Eradin didn''t use a spoon to eat it, he instead chose to very simply pick up the bowl and chug down the soup as if it was his favorite drink. Once all the food and water was gone, Eradin paled, his stomach felt horrible, a new resolution came to mind. Avoid Farah whenever it is time to eat. But finally it seemed as if she was ready to talk to him sincehe ate food from the underworld itself.


    "Come on, get up, the food was horrible for you, but you still need to eat. Your headband is on the nightstand. Let''s go to meet my father up on deck. Also, we are roughly a few hours away from the city."


    Before Eradin could even respond, Farah began to leave the room, obviously cutting off the conversation. Eradin quickly grabbed his headband and wrapped it around his eyes. Activating every sensory skill, Eradin confined the range to roughly a five meter circle around him. It was training for when he arrived in the big city, too much information might overload his brain if it all was witnessed at once. Eradin planned to get used to it and slowly expand his sensory range as headapted to being surrounded by many people. The moment he stepped out of the door, Eradin was surrounded by the very same group of elves that almost killed him. In record time, faster than ever before, Eradin withdrew the Death Gods Scythe and readied into a stance while emitting the [Dragon Gods Aura], his anger and anxiety rising. Farah understood immediately how Eradin was feeling.


    "Eradin, listen to me, this is their punishment. From now on, until our stay in the city ends, they are to be our escort. If they so much as disobey one of my orders or fail to protect us, even if we get a slight scratch, they will be punished again harshly. What happened was all a big misunderstanding. Trust me, I won''t lead you astray."


    Ever so slowly, Eradin retracted the Death Gods Scythe into his body. Then he let the [Dragon Gods Aura] dissipate. Eradin looked towards Farah with a disgruntled expression. Although it was kind of a failure since no one could see his eyes. "Fine, as long as they follow your orders, but don''t expect me to get along with them that easily."


    With the situation under control, Eradin followed Farah while surrounded by nineteen elves. When they approached the deck, Farah''s father was waiting for them with the general who previously almost killed Eradin, but she had lost all of her air of dominance and seemed meek.


    Duke Elenwith shoved Emerila towards Eradin, "Come on, what do you say when you messed up so royally and almost kill the person you were supposed to escort back to the city."


    As if it were the hardest thing to admit in her entire life, the general trembled slightly, she attempted to look up at Eradin but his figure was imposing, he should not be able to seem as such when she was almost double his level but Eradin was simply a freak of nature, he shouldn''t be able to fight people even six levels above himself. FInally she just forced it out, " I...I... Iam sorryfor my rudeness, I had not known the Duke and your grace were sparring. I will be your escort for the duration of your stay in Elren City as my punishment, let us get along from now on."


    Eradin only grunted before he turned to Duke Elenwith, "So what did you call me here for?"


    "Right to the point I see. Well first off, it was for this over zealous subordinate of mine to properly apologize to you. Now, there is a few hours until we arrive at the city, so I plan to spar with you and afterwards explain some things until we arrive. Now, hurry up, let us begin."


    The Duke suppressed his strength to level forty, he once again readied his stance. Eradin similarly entered his own stance. But to his surprise, not only the Duke but the other three as well walked over. All of them with the aura and strength of someone at level forty.


    "Ahhhh, I forgot to mention, more often than not, you and Farah will be outnumbered, so the four of us shall all fight you one on one and then two on one until eventually it is four on one. Then when we are about to arrive at the city, we will stop and I will teach you about the city, this world and the country. Suck it up, you want to let Farah not have to worry about you all the time right? You are part god, you should be able to take far more of a beating than all these trashy subordinates of mine who scream at the slightest amount of pain!"


    All of the elves in the vicinity paled in fear. They began to remember the torment that they went through hours ago. This boy was to have all four of the Dukes undivided attention. That was an even more terrifying thought. However, what the most stunning thing they saw was not the Dukes, but instead the boy, he actually smiled! Was he a battle maniac like the Dukes?


    Eradin only laughed inside, "I couldn''t be happier, I shall gladly put all of your subordinates to shame, beat me to a pulp all you want, my blood shall flow, I will be wounded, but I shall not kneel, if you want to beat me, then knock me unconscious."


    "Then I shall be the first to accompany you in combat. Don''t dissappoint me boy." Duke Fairlin readied his warhammer and the training commenced. All the elves escaped as far away as they could to watch safely. But in the end, the airship deck was built to last even in war, it was durable to the point that only the Four Calamities could damage it.


    Two Hours Later


    Blood was scattered all over the deck, the elves were watching in awe, no exterior part of the airship was untouched by combat. In the middle of all this carnage was Eradin. Currently he was fighting every Duke at once. Multiple holes were covering his body that slowly regenerated. Blood drained every second. Bones were fractured. Bruises no doubt covered his body underneath the War Goddess Armor. Eradin''s headband was long since shredded. And yet to the surprise of the elves, he still had his eyes closed for this entire training session. Never once did he cry out in pain, never once did he ask the Dukes to ease their power. Worst of all, there was still a cheeky smile on his face, no matter howragged he was breathing. Sweat drenched Eradin. He had entirely put the crew, some of them who were [???] levels to Eradin, to complete shame. He had done what he said he would and really did put all the elves to shame. The Dukes were also covered in wounds and multiple curses. They were also sweating, no doubt if they all increased the level of power from forty to forty-one, Eradin would have absolutely no chance, however they were having too much fun, five battle maniacs were all fighting and they wanted to make that last as long as possible. But what made Duke Elenwith extremely pleased was how Eradin fought. He was extremely talented in fighting, and not just because of his blessings. Eradin had yet to use [Rage of the Dragon God] even once, this showed the Duke he had listened and he had learned. Eradin''s talent for combat was simply limitless. But the fight was just about over. Eradin had virtually no stamina left. He pushed past his limits, forcing himself not to use [Rage of the Dragon God] in order to break his habit and focus entirely on what he could do, that was to watch and learn. Every single blow he exchanged had been a plethra of knowledge, even if the power of the Dukesweresuppressed, their skill in fighting, especially as a team was not. For Eradin to survive this long, it was due to a heightened state, similar to a battle trance where nothing but he and his opponents existed, and yet he was aware of his surroundings enough where it would not hinder him. This was a state that many fighters could only dream of attaining even once and Eradin used it to learn, his skill was rapidly rising by the minute, and he had fought in this state for a full two hours.


    The final exchange was about to happen, all of the Dukes readied themselves. Duke Ravencrest conjureda magical orband enshrouded it with black flames and launched it towards Eradin. Duke Elenwith and Duke Fairlin attacked from the front. Duke Bloodrain pulled his bow, and a magical arrow appeared. Eradin didn''t remain still either, he simply waited, waited for this moment. When they all thought he was at his weakest. Just as the weapons collided and the orb almost touched Eradin, he finally used [Rage of the Dragon God], for once, Eradin opened his eyes in a fightand they were reptillian slits, glowing with a flame-like aura of their respective colors, the pressure of a dragon came from Eradin and he forced it out even more with [Dragon Gods Aura]. The airship shook but remained stable. The shockwave from Eradin disintegrated the flaming orb and he forced back Duke Elenwith and Duke Fairlin, slashing in a sweeping manner, he cut them across their chests down to the legs. Under a heightened state of regeneration due to all physical stats increasing, Eradin was healing quite quickly, but it couldn''t replace lost stamina. Despite that, while the two Dukes were backing away to reassert their stances, Eradin bolted past them and towards Duke Ravencrest, but as he slashed outwards, the Duke only smiled. A magical trap rune appeared underneath Eradin, chains appeared that were black and seemed to be made of molten rock latched on binding Eradin and burned him, flesh was searing and turning black. Eradin''s vision went black, and he stopped moving, no longer having the stamina to struggle.That was when Duke Bloodrain finally shot his arrow. It flew right through Eradins legs, forcing him to drop down to the ground, then another arrow pierced his stomach, forcing blood to vomit from Eradins mouth. Massive holes were in his legs and they started to regenerate. But the fight was over. Duke Fairlin and Duke Elenwith were standing over Eradin with their weapons poised to kill. That meant he had finally lost. The chains released from Eradin and Farah quickly ran over, beginning to heal him with her [Abyssal Aura], whilethe Dukes drank potions to restore their wounds. Meanwhile as Eradin was healed, he finally found the slight strength to sit up. He was so weak at the moment andhe was beginning to lose focus and regain it, all in a constant cycle. His armor was covered in blood and so was his weapon. Rather than attempt to wash it, Eradin simply retracted the Death Gods Scythe, Cloak of the Evil God, and all the War Goddes Armor from the waist up into his body. This was Eradins method of cleaning the blood off of himself. Sinceblood couldn''t come into his body, it forcefully was ejected with enough momentum to land on the deck floor around Eradin. Even though he was tired, Eradin still was excited, all of his hard work these past two hours paid off, he had new messages.Unauthorized use of content: if you find this story on Amazon, report the violation.


    [Lightning Resistance has been learned]


    [Earth Resistance has been learned]


    [Darkness Resistance has been learned]


    [Holy Resistance has been learned]


    [Scythe Mastery and Cursed Slash have now been mastered due to fighting multiple opponents who have all mastered many skills for an extended duration and surviving.]


    [Dragon Gods Aura has leveled to 3/?]


    Eradin didn''t level but he was quite pleased, he essentially had resistance to every attribute thanks to Duke Ravencrest using magic from everyattribute. The only ones Eradin didn''t have were for special magics like his void or death magic.End of training analysis,[Draconic Body] and dragons in general were overpowered. This was Eradins one and only thoughtwhen it came tomagic and resistance. That still wasn''t the best part inEradin''sopinion. [Cursed Slash] had a new description.


    [Cursed Slash has been mastered to the point even the War Goddess would be impressed. It is now passive and every successful attack has a chance to curse the opponent. The chance Increases the more the opponent is injured and the more attacks aresuccessfully able to connect.]


    This was extremely synergistic with [Scythe Mastery], now Eradin could manipulate a Scythe to its full potential without any wasted energy and curse an opponent at the same time, this was all thanks to fighting opponents who were originally far superior in level and skill. Had he not fought them today, or if he hadno talent originally while also neverobtaining blessings from gods that were well versed in the art of combat, thenthose two skills could have quite possibly taken years to master.


    "Well how should we rate him?"


    Duke Elenwith was genuinely puzzled, Eradin was talented, but he never thought that even among demi-gods, he had this kind of talent. If he was given room to grow, then the Duke honestly thought that Eradin could become so powerful, every countries armies, and all the Demi-gods combining forces would not be able to defeat him. Quite possibly, he would end up being able to destroy entire countries if he ever seriously attacked by himself. No one would be able to stop him, except for possibly Farah and Gods. That was quite the terrifying thought, just who had he gotten himself involved with, and even worse, it was already too late to turn back. If he betrayed Eradin, he would face not only his wrath when he grew, but also Farahs, which was much scarier. May the gods protect him if he ever made Farah angry to the point she wanted him dead and she had gained the methods to do it. The Duke understood that Farah was the only one with the power to soothe Eradin''s anger should it be unleashed. In his understanding, Farah had a world destroying pet as long as Eradin was given the time to grow into his powers.


    The Dukes were all silent, until finally Duke Fairlin spoke out for every single person aboard the airship to hear.


    "I think he has untappedpotential unlike any this world has seen before. He shall lead Algon into a new future where we don''t have to worry about any nation and instead we would destroy and plunder their countries if we wanted to. All we need is to stall for enough timeto letEradinto grow into his powers.We have already agreed to aid him, so why shouldn''t we start now. Dukes, I think it is time, let us begin our revolution here. Do we all agree?"


    "Yes let us begin." Duke Elenwith took the lead, all four Dukes released their entire strength. Merging their auras together, they all stood next to Eradin while staring at all the Elves of the Elenwith House aboard the airship. Duke Elenwith released his killing intent and scared all the elves into submission.


    "This killing intent is not directed at any of you. But instead towards the gods themselves! It is time for you all to learn of our true objective for respecting this youth. He is the Hero oflegend! However, the legend is not what any of you had learned as children. No, the Four Calamities have learned the truth, and now so shall all of you. We are going to starta revolution against the Church of the Ten Creator Gods and the world itself!The Hero didn''t come to the world to work for theTen Creator Gods. No, he came here to destroy them, they havebetrayed us and only rule us on passing whimslike a king of tyranny would treat his peasants! There are not Ten Creator Gods, there aremore! Four of them were sealed in the Aspect War by our own hands as mortals! They stood up for us, they wanted to let us be free, and instead, we were tricked into the idea that they were going todestroy the world! With the last of their power, thisyouth Eradin wasborn intothe world as their apostle of destruction, not to destroy mortals, but to destroy gods! To freeus from our unknown oppression!But he cannot do it alone because he was cursed by the ten gods, so Farah was evolved into the legendary elven race known as the Abyssal Elf to be his guide. The task will be virtually impossible without our help, for the Ten Creator Gods will surely call on their believers who have been tricked and once again repeat the Aspect War. WE CANNOT ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN! We shall create an underground faction that shall manipulate from the shadows and rise up in the Hero''s time of need. Anyone that doesn''t agree with this and wish to not participate, they shall be.... EXECUTED FOR TREASON! I pledge to the heavens that what I have said is the truth. If you all wish to join us, then enter into the Area of Effect blood contract magic and pledge yourself to secrecy, pledge your allegience to the new Hero, pledgeyour allegience to thefaction hidden in the shadows which shall be called "Eternal Abyssal Night". Anyone that considers this heresy, come up to me right now, I shall gladly behead you for attempting to make the world fall into slavery. For there is no greater mission than to aid the Hero of legend in his quest! Anyone that shall join us, enter into the blood contract, become an agent of freedom. Release the world from the chains that bind it! Who is with us!


    At first, no one answered, but slowly, ever so slowly, one elf after another approached the Dukes and Eradin, they pledged their loyalty to the faction and waited for the blood contract. Sadly there were a few elves that tried to escape from the airship, Duke Elenwith quickly killed every single one of them, until everyone on the air ship that was left was considered a member. After that, the blood contract began. Every Elf, the Dukes and Farah all participated. They pledged themselves to Eradinwho they called"Cursed Sovereign of the Ayssal Night", they pledged themselves to the "Eternal Abyssal Night, they pledged themselves to serve until death and to die before they gave information to an enemy. The final pledge, to serve for eternity even if the gods were defeated, to make sure the world always remained free. Eradin could only guess that his title came from his tattoo which was nowvisible,and the fact Farah and he were considered [Abyssal Lifeforms], just from quickly glancing at it and remembering his daughter''s status, who would''ve thought that the Duke would really be able to spin it into a flowery speech that aroused his people.


    Upon the completion of the contract, every single person kneeled before Eradin and said, "Hail the Cursed Sovereign of the Abyssal Night", "Hail the Cursed Hero". And thus, with the sunrise slowly appearing over the horizon, and the city of Elren just starting to come into view, the underground organization, "Eternal Abyssal Night" was formed, albeit much earlier than expected. Eradin could finally see that despite his curses, even if his faction would be wary of him and more than likely serve the Dukes an Farah while avoiding him, there was a tiny thought, completely at the back of Eradin''s mind, but it was still there none the less. Perhaps, just perhaps, my path won''t be one of solitude, perhaps I can rely on others even if they are wary of me. The first tiny step has been taken on the path to freedom. But there are still many unknown plans that have to be thought of and completed before I have enough power to reallyfight inthis world and continents second Aspect War. And the solution, break all rules, shatter any mold that society tries to place on me, do what I want. That is how I shall come to the finish line quickest.

 Ch 18 Crash Course of Everything

    Elren City was just coming into view over the horizon. The crew had returned to all of their stations. But this time, every member aboard the airship was tattooed. On the left arm, every person had the ancient runic symbol meaning "Eternal", most likely to signify that they were now bound for eternity with this job. It was an easy place to conceal as well, so anyone who was a part of the "Eternal Abyssal Night" wouldn''t be found out so easily. Everyone made sure to hide the tattoos underneath armor or clothes. Well... they hadn''t even begun to do anything that would allow them to be discovered anyways...yet. The airship steadily approached the city, but at Duke Elenwith''s urging, they slowed down their speed slightly in order for the Duke to give Eradin a crash course about the city, this world, and how to act. The Duke didn''t even clean himself, he simply ordered for the crew to bring a table and a few chairs so they wouldn''t have to stand.


    "Eradin, this world is pretty simple, it''s a sterotypical scenario of the strong flourish and the weak don''t. There areseven countries. Algon, Brail, Taligan, Ayren, Halidon, Gelentra and Melgarren. Algon is the smallest and considered the weakest. However, that isn''t quite true, despite being the weakest under appearences, I am sure you have learned at least the basics of our country. Since our population is low, and there is more nature than man-made structures, the magic density of the surrounding environment is higher. Spells are easier to cast, they are more powerful, and the citizens are innately gifted with deeper mana pools than all the other countries. This has also led to many powerful beasts and monsters living in the forest. But the high density beasts are really only there because of the legend passed down within their very bloodlines about the rider of legend. I know you have heard of it so I won''t go into detail. As far as rankings go, beasts and monsterscan evolve to higher rankings, but obviously the higher they are ranked when they are born, then the higher their talent is."


    "The rankings include, Normal, Boss, Raid, Legend, Calamity, Mythological, andDeity. Normal is well... normal, Boss and Raid you have already fought. But once Legend comes about, even I need to be careful if it is near my level. That is when they begin to have many unknown and hidden abilities that can make up many level differences. Now with Calamity, let''s put it this way, if Legend Rank is a walking weapon that takes multiple parties to subdue, then Calamity level is at a scale of natural disasters, armies are called in to subdue those. And if they appear on a border of two countries. No matter how much those two countries hate each other, they will work together to dispose of it. Mythological beasts are virtually unknown, it is said that there are at least one or two in every country. All of the countries pray that one of those are never disturbedso they won''t have toforce a demi-god to subdue itbecause theyfear assassination by another demi-god will occurr in that fight. As for Deity, those are on a level where even a demi-god would struggle and need to go all out in order to kill. A Deity level beast hasn''t appeared since the Aspect War, which turned out to be your dragon benefactor. Now I have only talked about beasts, but monsters fall under those rankings as well, although they rarely, if ever, even achieve calamity level. For the most part, the highest a monster has ever been seen, was one the verge of becoming Mythological, but it was killed in the middle of evolution when it was most vulnerable by a demi-god. But usually they are Legend and below. That is all for this worlds rankings of monsters."


    Eradin listened intently, he knew that he had to learn all of this anyway. Although his head was pounding, with the curse of knowledge, he didn''t forget a word. All the ranks and information cemented itself within. However, what Eradin was interested in was not beast ranks, but Adventurer ranks. "What about the Guilds? How are they classified?"


    The Duke smiled, it seemed Eradin was making an earnest attempt to learn despite it being a cram session, so he continued with ever increasing enthusiasm." There are five guilds universally known throughout the continent. At the border of every country, there is a neutral city not underneath any countryknown as Tiridale. It is run by a council of the five leaders of absolute authority over their respective guilds. They include the Adventurers Guild, where brawn is more important than knowledge, the Mages Guild, a place where the study of magic to its limits is undertaken, andthe Alchemist Guild, where potions and elixirs are brewed. The Healers Guild isa place independant of the Church where anyone with magic capable of healing goes, and lastly the Crafters Guild, a workplace where anyone with skill or classes in tailoring, enchanting, dismembering, or blacksmithing join, but those ae just a few of the crafting professions."


    "In every city on the continent, there is one of every guild. As long as you have the slightest ability, you can join, but there are conditions after you join such as if you don''t earn your keep, aid the guild in any way, or break rules,then you would be kicked out and banned from returning. They all follow the same ranking system. F, E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, and SSS. If you become a B rank in any guild, that is already an accomplishment. A Rankis also respected. But the true respect is given to S and above. One S Rank team is the equivalent to a Legend Rank almost on the verge of evolving to Calamity. SS can fight a Calamity Rank, while SSS is non-existent, there hasn''t been one of those teams in decades. The last one had successfully slaughtered three Calamity Ranks simultaneouslythat were assaulting one of the cities to the north. But they got cocky and attempted to attack a Mythological Rank, they never returned. No one knows howmany CalamityRanks are equal to one Mythological Rank, at the least, we know that they are more than capable of killing three CalamityRanks with hardly any effort.The Mythological Rank that was disturbed, it attempted to destroy the entire country of Taligan and their demi-god had to kill it. Keep in mind this is the power status for the Adventurers Guild, I do not know how to achieve S rank and above in the other Guilds."


    So the power ranking in this world was so distorted. Thinking in a logical manner based on the information given, Eradin already deciphered for the most partwhat the power rankings were, simply because he was a demi-god and fought at much higher levels than himself, or maybe because he had the body of the true King of All Beasts, the Dragon God. Tens of normals probably could equal one boss rank, then five or six boss ranks could equal one raid level. That was easy to understand, but just like any magical world, the higher your level, the more the difference one level or rank was taken into account. One Legend Rank could probably take on multiple Raid Rank with ease, the same with Legend versus Calamity. So if the same ratios were taken, one Mythological Rank could take on at least six or seven Calamity Ranks, possibly even more, without much effort. As for Deity, that was the only one Eradin didn''t know, assuming Deity Rank meant it was an actual god, then no, not even a demi-god or tens of Mythological Beasts could defeat them. As of now, Eradin had a clear cut understanding of where he needed to be when the next Aspect War descended upon the world. He needed to be able to kill Mythological Rank beasts with hardly any effort, and that was a long way to go....


    What Eradin couldn''t understand the most was why the continent was after the weakest nation, because the moment they did, all the benefits would leave, and since the Duke was here, maybe this question could be answered. "Then what about the countries themselves, Farah said we are under threat of war with Brail. Why are they after our territory? I don''t see why higher magic density in the environment is so important. It will just decrease when they destroy all of it."Support creative writers by reading their stories on Royal Road, not stolen versions.


    The Duke only grimaced, he knew better than mostthe reason all the countries were out for Algon, and that was it''s rich resources, they wanted to make it into a desolate land, extracting all the resources before Algon could use them to become a force that could actually be a threat with their people who had higher natural talent, but also in Algon there were many races and even necromancers, there wasn''t any discrimination. This disgusted the other countries who were all racial supremacists that belived their races were the pinnacle of evolution. There were only three deterrents that allowed Algon breathing room. First, if one country moved to ensnare all of Algon for themselves, then the other countries would not let that happen. Then there was Algon''s demi-gods. Although the country had the fewest, they were also the most talented of all the countries. But the biggest deterrent of all, the high density of beasts and monsters in Algon''s Environment. There were many times more beasts and monsters than the other countries. Boss and Raid Rank were spotted much more than in other countries, which gave rise to the notion that there might be more than a few Legend and Calamity Rank, as well as the possibiliy that there were more than one or two Mythological Ranks. Given the countries small size, the chance of encountering them was much higher than average. No country, not even a demi-god wanted to fight multiple Mythological Rank beasts at once.The other countries could not risk the chance of two Mythological Ranks fighting one of their demi-gods at once. That could leave the demi-god fighting them open for assassination by another countries demi-gods.


    The Duke could only answer in the most straight forward way possible, he wanted Eradin to understand that Algon was abnormal. "We aren''t your typical country, Algon does not discriminate against any race or profession. Necromancers are allowed here as well, as long as they don''t cause problems. The other countries want our resources, and hate that we aren''t racists. It is that simple, Brail is the one we are closest to going to war with right now, they seems to have a hidden trump card that all the other countries are scared of, or they wouldn''t be so flamboyant and causing trouble at the border. They are a race of demi-humans who excel in physical strength and combat. Taligan is the race of Elves that are known for spirit magic or maybe it is better to call it spirit contracting. Ayren is far to the north and the most mysterious, they are the demon race and haven''t been heard from in centuries. Halidon is the races of the gnomes and dwarves who excel at crafting weapons beyond our wildest imaginations. Gelentra is the proud half monster races who have the physique of monsters but are far more intelligent and talented. Melgarren is the country of humans, they aren''t the strongest or the smartest, but they have wit, wisdom, ingenuity and a willpower like no other race on the continent, that makes them the most dangerous as we don''t know what they will do, they are unpredictable. Lastly is us, Algon, we are the mixture of any race. We don''t discriminate, we are most feared forour magic and the talented individuals of this country, but we are left alone because of the threat that belongs to being a part of the unknown. We are an unknown country, we have become totally self-sufficient due to a mixture of multiple races and don''t rely much on trade. Even we don''t know how many Legend, Calamity, or Mythological Rank beasts are in Algon. But we don''t dare disturb them, they are the reason we stay unknown to the rest of the world like Ayren who also avoids contact with the other countries. That is all I can explain about the world for now. In the end, it is just a continent with multiple countries that have high tensions with one another."


    "Then are we done here, the city is in view and approaching quickly. I want to be with Farah at that time so I don''t get lost." Eradin was slightly grinning, in reality he wanted to see how different the architecture and society of this world was compared to Earth. In the end, he was still not an entity originally of this world so everything sparked curiosity. But, the Duke didn''t give a warm grin, instead it was devilish.


    "No, we are not done here, after all you are being escorted by the Four Calamities into Elren City. Did you think that we can just waltz in without being noticed? No, you are going to learn the proper etiqutte befitting a noble, you are going to get washed up, have a hair cut and get into proper clothes. Living in armor for days on end is not healthy for the body whether you are a demi-god or not. We can''t present another demi-god to thecountry that looks like a ruffian. After all, have you seen your reflection lately? You are covered in dirt, your hair is caked in mud and blood. The lower half of your armor is also drenched in blood and smells like a sewer while your naked upper portion has blood stains and bruises, we need to clean all of that off of your tattoos as well. We shall all prepare and look presentable before the city. You are now the leader of "Eternal Abyssal Night" so you need to look the part as well. Considering people are always going to have a bad feeling about you whenever you meet them, you should use that to your advantage. Give them the intimidating impression of a noble and an overlord. The tattoos already add to it. So just act the part, assert your authority and don''t let anyone sweep you into their factions, after all, no matter how weak a demi-god, to have one in a faction is a large boost to reputation."


    So for the next hour, Eradin was dragged by Farah to the baths, he washed all of his body, and afterwords, clothes were set out for him. They were simple short sleeved white tunic that left his tattooed arm visible, black leather pants, and knee-high boots that were also brown, lastly for a finishing touch, the Duke procurred leather armguards and a ring that had the runic symols representing the four houses etched within. They were respectivey, a tree, fairy wings, a blood droplet and a raven. After he put on the attire, Eradin summoned the Dragon Gods Pendant.He also tied another new headband around his left wrist because for first impressions, the Dukes unanimously agreed if Eradin wanted to intimidate the people and set the tone for any conversation then he needed to show his eyes that seemed to pierce into the soul. But what Eradin thought was the opposite. I look stupid, I am basically a pirate prince from some random pirate movie. All I am missing is a goatee and a parrot on my shoulder with a pirate hat. I''d really look the part then...


    Finally as they approached the airspace of the City, Eradin recieved a quick lesson in proper greetings and the way society worked. All the Dukes were dressed similarly to Eradin, the only difference, they kept their weapons on them, and their rings didn''t have all four of the houses, they represented their individual houses. The airship was finally about to land, but Eradin didn''t look at the escorts waiting from the four households, or the army waiting for them. All he saw in his vison was Farah, for the first time, he noticed that she must be a twelve out of ten. The flame aura around her silver eye might intimidate others but to Eradin it accentuated her looks. She was dressed in a purple dress, a golden necklace anda ring representing the Elenwith house adorned her. Finally her tome was chained to her side as alwayswith her staff in her right hand.


    "So how do I look, am I worthy to stand next to the almighty demi-god?" Farah smiled sarcastically, she already knew Eradin''s thoughts as his jaw had slightly dropped. It made her feel nice on the inside. She was used to lewd looks from men, but it seemed Eradin wasn''t thinking about that, he just thought she was stunning.


    Eradin quickly slammed his mouth shut so loudly the Dukes glared at him. But he didn''t care, Eradin simply tried to stutter his thoughts. "You.....You... You look Divine, much better than that old hag the Love Goddess;"


    With that final sentence, the airship descended and they were all greeted by an older man leaving a carriage escorted by the army. This man seemed to be a human in his late sixties. Covered in a robe, and a simple oaken staff he approached the airship. This man was the City Lord of Elren City.

 Ch 19 Currency, Clothes, and Books Oh My!

    The city was teeming with activity. After the Dukes aburptly left, the Elenwith House Airship suddenly left as well. This was a sign that some important event occurred that the Four Calamities had to personally involve themselves with. As was tradition, the city from the slums to the royal quarters were cleaned, everyone from peasant to soldier prepared for the return of their Dukes. They were the only reason that this city on the border wasn''t ransacked yet, and as such, many people felt deep loyalty to the Dukes. When the airship finally appeared over the skies, the citizens lined the sidewalks while the city walls and streets were crowded with the four noble families and the army. But when the airship landed in the designated landing area, the people closest to it began to shiver in terror. It didn''t matter if they knew what the aura was or not, or how weak it was, this was the aura of a true dragon. Descending from the ship was Eradin. He was simply following the wisdom of the Dukes and looking as intimidating as possible in order to set the tone for his stay in the city and prevent annoyance such as factions trying to subtlely get him under their control. If he appeared strong and dignified from the beginning then there was a good chance that they would leave him alone until he was strong enought to where he didn''t need to rely on the four Dukes households.


    Eradin looked the same as the Dukes, the only difference was he didn''t have a weapon out like the Dukes. He simply had his headband tied around his left wrist. Under the light of the sun Eradin''s silver hair shined, his multi-coloredeyes pierced into the very souls of the people that were brave or stupid enough to look at them, his tattoos and [Dragon God Aura] further enhancing the intimidating atmosphere. Many of the people, whether from the noble houses, the army, or if they were simply a citizen began to have cold sweats drench their clothes as Eradin descended with Farah at his side like a mistress and the Dukes as escorts. Eradin perfectly fit the persona of a warlord returning home victorious from the battle field. The entire surrounding crowd was silent, the only thing that was clearly audible to all was the sound of some peoples heart beats increasing. Finally to break the silence, a voice called out, an old man slowly approached Eradin and his company.


    "Why if it isn''t the Sir Dukes and Lady Farah, it is nice to see you all return in good health. Now who is this young noble exuding such a dignified aurathat doesn''t emulate his young age at all who I have the honor of meeting.?"


    Farah bowed and responded in kind, she didn''t have a mastery level [Etiquette] for nothing. "Good morning Sir City Lord. This young noble is Eradin Silvermoon, he was the one who solved all the problems involving Agralon Forest. As of now, the beasts that were abnormally aggressive should have become more passive, the demi god that was killed belonged to the Hydra subspecies and with its death and a little thinning of the monsters and beasts within the forest, the problem has been solved. Eradin grew up in the forest, and as such he is not accustomed to a city or even small villages, due to our urging, he has agreed to come stay at the houses of the Dukes and I shall act as his guide until I amno longer needed."


    The City Lord understood Farahs implication and the signet ring upon Eradin''s finger further shed light. He knew better than most that Farah wouldn''t easily submit to someone else, so this child that didn''t seem to be a child was actually one of the demi-gods seen within the scryer''s visions. The hydra must''ve been the other demi-god, although how it stepped onto the path of the divine was unknown and would remain a mystery. But he also understood that based upon Farah''s words this demi-god youth had been living in the forest his whole life and was extremely unaccustomed to society, hence the reason that the Dukes took Eradin in. They would raise him into someone that wouldn''t use his power that transcended those of the mortals against Algon. With any luck, he would be another demi-god bound to Algon, that was something priceless for the country with the fewest demi-gods. This was probably the best case scenario since the Dukes were quite powerful but also honest. They were probably the best faction within the city to raise a demi-god. But for now, the time wasn''t right, only a select few knew the true situation. It was for the best that no one knew he was a demi-god for now, at least not until he was strong enought ot protect himself.


    "Well then I humbley welcome such a young hero into Elren City. Everyone, let''s get this festival started!"


    Shouts slowly started to rise up from the crowd, althought they were scared from the aura Eradin was emitting, it seemed that the City Lord knew this youth and he was the hero that solved the problems within Agralon Forest. If given a reason to party, who wouldn''t take it? Everyone began to hurredly prepare for a simple festival in the center of the city square. The Dukes walked off with the City Lord and their wives. The Elenwith House Airship ascenended into the air and travelled to the hangar where it belonged. All that was left of the original group was Eradin, Farah and their escort.


    Eradin looked around bewildered, ,he had no clue where to go. The architecture was very similar to victorian style housing but it had a larger flare of the medieval times as well. It was clear that science was at an all time low in this world and magic was used to do everything that involved daily necessites. Well to be more precise, magic crystals capable of being crafted to do certain functions. Such as the lights on the sides to the streets. They were almost identical to ordinary city lights from Earth, however, instead of a light bulb, they had a magic crystal that was somehow able to gain energy on its own and emit light.


    Farah and the escory squad could only attempt to hold in their laughter, Eradin really was like a child sometimes. To think he would be enamored by the street lights. Just how void of common sense could a person be?Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.


    Farah finally walked in front of Eradin, changing his view from the street light to her. "Come on let''s go, there are some places I want to take you before the festical starts. We don''t have alot of time, so stop day dreaming and looking at street lights, it isn''t like they are going to move anywhere anytime soon."


    Eradin blinked a couple times, clearly realizing just now that he had been in a trance-like state. "Uh, alright, you lead and I will follow." Shaking his head a couple times, Eradin returned to clarity, he walked beside Farah with the retinue of elves close behind watching for any sign of danger, although there wasn''t any in this city, crime was at an all time low while loyalty and faith in the Dukes was at an all time high.


    As Eradin walked with Farah, many people avoided them. Eradin''s [Dragon God Aura] was still leaking out andeven without it,he alone with Farah looked quite intimidating already, there wasn''t even a need to have an escort squad behind him. As they walked towards a store that looked like a clothing store. Farah busily explained the currency system. "Eradin, the currency in this world is quite simple. There is Copper, Silver, Gold, White Gold, and Platinum. They are in a ratio of 100:1, so 100 Copper is equal to one Silver and 100 Silver is equal to one Gold. It is that simple. But try to refrain from using larger currency at small shops who won''t have the change for you. Don''t use Gold at a fruit stand would be a good example. They typically only have silver and copper with the rare gold coin. But when you get to established stores like the clothing shop we are headed to, it is better to use the larger currency because that is what they typically work with. Do you understand?"


    "Yes....yes I understand." Eradin was suddenly depressed, he hated shopping for clothes. All he needed was something that fit and didn''t look anything aside from normal. But with Farah, normal went out the window. In the shop she made him try on no less than fifty different combinations of clothes. Luckily Eradin managed to make it so the clothes he was originally given were what he bought. So in the end, he bought ten pairs of basically the same thing, that was good enought for Eradin. The totals cost was five gold coins. After purchasing set of clothes, there was little time until the festival was going to take place, but out of the corner of his eye, Eradin saw a store with a book on its sign.


    "Farah is that some type of bookstore?"


    "Yes, that is a bookstore I have been to before. It contains thousands of books from any topic. Would you like to go there?"


    Eradin smiled and shook his head before replying "Yes". Now I have a way to obtain some reliable information. From different fighting forms to geography or magic, even the history of this continent and the races. Entering the bookstore, Eradin was assaulted by a sea of books. He immidiately abandoned Farah and the Elves. Starting off in the history section. There were hundreds of books to choose from, however three caught Eradin''s eyes, they were, Complete History of the Aspect War, Aspect Continents Myriad Races and Itemsand Hidden Legacies. Immediately picking up those three, Eradin moved on to many other sections. He grabbed a few from every area of knowledge. From different books on martial arts and weapons, to aura and stances, skill and trait developing books, professions and crafting, even magic and alchemy. Lastly there was a book on the geography and a book on ancient legends of the continent. All in all, there were fifteen books. The total price coming out to four gold coins as they weren''t valuable books and easily copied.


    With new clothes and books in his magic bag, Eradin and Farah proceeded to the town festival. They became the attraction of the crowds attention, although they all shied away from Eradin, so in the end, they just sat and quietly enjoyed the atmosphere and street perfomances. Eradin began to intertwine his fingers and was in deep thought. Not being able to come to a decision, Eradin decided to ask Farah.


    "So where do we go from here? We are successfully out of the Algaron Forest, but where do we go. On an adventure? Will we just travel the continent? I don''t know what to do."


    Farah smiled lightly and the flame aura around her silver eye flared. "Well, why don''t we just roam around as nomads. I know exactly what you think of this world. You believe that its just one giant source of experience that will lead you to the gods. Well for starters, how about we research legends, search for mythical treasures, find other gods, level up, or just adventure. We don''t have to rush, For now we need to get individually stronger and also build up the "Eternal Abyssal Night". I believe we need to set the foundations for this organization by establishing an intelligence network, a source of income, and also gather equipment and talented individuals. We can start off with the Dukes resources as they are a part of this organization, but before long people might wonder what they are up to and why they will buy merchandise they shouldnt need, or basically any other actions that will be ill percieved. Then after that, why don''t we get you an adventurers identification pass to which we will then travel the continent as adventurers while the organization builds itself off of the foundations we set. That is the best course of action. If we establish trustworthy connections while travelling, that may lead to more allies and investments of money, manpower and resources into our cause, so it is a win-win as long as the church or anyone who would destroy us doesn''t learn of our existence."


    Cunning and intelligent, that was what Farah was to Eradin, she could think so deeply and far ahead about such things. He was just going to leave it all to the Dukes and hope for the best. Eradin could only chastise himself for being so dense. "Well, if that is our first step, then why don''t we cause a ruckus wherever we go, how about we make Brail our first stop. And if we feel like it, I am sure with your brains and my brawn, we could send the country into chaos which will buy Algon more time."


    "Yes that sounds like a great plan, then starting tomorrow, let''s build up the foundations of the "Eteranl Abyssal Night", but for now, let''s just quietly enjoy the festival."


    Ever so slowly the night went on as street performers performed. Many citizens partied while enjoying good food and drink. Merchants, Inns and restraunts made profits due to the masses of people. But in the midst of all that, Eradin and Farah simply planned for the future while enjoying thier surroundings. To others they may seem boring, but just sitting and relaxing for the first time in days felt like bliss to them.

 Ch 20 Abyssal Enterprises

    The night quietly passed by. Everyone partied all night, so the next morning the city was especially quiet. One of the few active people was Eradin simply because he avoided all of the food and drink for fear of vomiting. He was currently within the Elenwith Estate, it was just a large mansion grown from a tree sapling through the help of spirits and magic. The entire mansion was a living entity to say the least. Within the room assigned to him, Eradin was engrossed within his novels that Farah purchased. Currently he was reading up on the Aspect War.


    The Aspect War was a time of great turmoil for the entire continent. WIthin this time period, four deity level beings appeared for the very first time in the history of the continent. They were the Dragon King, Evil Emperor, Death Sovereign, and the War Amazon. So mighty was their strenghth, it nearly surpassed the Ten Creator Gods. In order to save the continent, the Ten Creator Gods called upon every country to send all able bodied memebers to war. Not against each other, but instead against what we now call the Taboo Ones, for no one dares to say their names aloudlest they die of horrible luck. This is the continents darkest time and the world itself came very close to eternal damnation.


    During the final battle, countless soldiers died, but many more were permanently crippled or scarred for the rest of their lives, whether mentally or physically. Thousands died simply from the aura of the Dragon King. Souls were turned to nothingness by the Death Sovereign. People turned on one another or disappeared into an unknown space to never be seen again through the Evil Emperors vile magic which is still unknown even to this day. And the War Amazon, she was the worst of them all. She lusted for combat, the most damage was caused by here rampaging throughout the battle. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers were maimed for the rest of their lives from the reaping of her weapon.


    Then finally salvation arrived. The Ten Creator Gods themselves descended into our lowly mortal plane. Through our conjoined efforts, the four deities were sealed were forced onto the defensive. The Ten Creators Gods occupied almost all of their attention. Had they not, far more mortals would''ve died that day. After what seemed like days of fighting, the four deities were finally cornered and sealed. Faith in the Church went to an all time high and Aspect Continent became a free land once again no longer under threat of absolute destrcution. We shall never forget those who served in the line of duty and marched to a certain death. We shall never forget what is now called the Aspect War.


    What a load of complete and utter garabage. Just how stupid does someone need to be to write such bullshit. "We shall never forget..." Never forget what! None of you knew anything worth remembering from the start! Eradin was quite annoyed. His face contorting into a scowl, his hand threatening to shred the book in two. Of all of the novels, this was the once he had been looking forward to the most, a detailed account about the Aspect War. But there was nothing within it, just the same cliche line of how the continent almost ended and the Ten Creator Gods saved them all. It was basically that one sentence rewritten many different ways.


    Just as he was about to rip the novel to shreds, a knock resounded through the door. Farah entered the room and simply sighed at seeing Eradin about to rip a book to shreds. "Even if it is wrong, the rest of the world believes it to be true, so just live with it for now. Instead, come to the coucil chambers with me. It is time to kick this new faction off properly, we need to strategize for the future. As the leader, you need to be present whether you want to participate or not."


    Eradin put down the book and sulked, the worst feeling was whenever Farah said something logical and ruined his mood. That was just the worst, why couldn''t he just rip the book that pissed him off even a little. Farah was ruining all of the joy of getting angry. "Fine then let''s go."


    They exited Eradin''s temporary living space and walked through the many corridors. Eventually what appeared to be a cast iron door with ancient runic symbols engraved within entered Eradin''s line of sight. In the direct center there was a small hole about the size of his signet ring. Then all doubts were washed away, Farah raised her family ring and pressed it into the little hole. The door hummed with magic power and opened. Inside was a round table. The four Dukes were gathered around it and talking in a serious manner, so much so they hadn''t noticed Eradin and Farah arrive.


    "Father we have arrived. Let''s get down to business quickly and not waste any time, the sooner we all come to a consensus the better."


    Duke Elenwith looked up and managed a half smile, he was currently in a bind. The Dukes were starved for ideas about how to support an underground organization. In the end, they were still battle maniacs, most financial or social aspects of their lives were left to those trained in such fields or their wives. "Hurry up and sit down then, let us continue where we left off. Eradin, do you have any ideas as to how "Eternal Abyssal Night" will keep itself afloat financially, are their any special things we need to address as of now? Now is the time while things can easily be changed. Once we get the gears turning, it will be much harder to change our course of action.But right now, we are currently starved for ideas."


    Eradin creased his eyebrows and unfocused his eyes while pondering. There wasn''t much he could think of because there wasn''t much he knew about the world or it''s economic system aside from currency. For all he knew there wasn''t anything like taxes or factories to mass produce goods. Everything was simply done with magic, just like the city street lights. The street lights..... "I got it!"


    Eradin almost screamed in joy, the street lights reminded him of how low this worlds level of science was, if it even existed at all. "Do any of you know of the terminology called science?"


    Eradin only recieved blank looks from everyone, they all wondered if he had hit his head or finally went insane. But Eradin didn''t care about their looks and continued. "Science is the study of the world and its laws. There is many different fields. One such field is the study of biology, also known as the study of life itself. There in lies our way to make profit. If you all aren''t familiar with science then that means it is nonexistent here. One field within biology is pharmaceuticals. In other words medicine. Now this isn''t medicine like potions which simply restore life. These are much different!" I shall introduce you to the world of pills, vaccinations, and antidotes."You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story.


    Eradin went on to explain the concepts of medicine, vaccines and antidotes. Then he talked about the belief that anything can be negated. If there was a poisonous substance, then there was something capable of stopping its poison. The law of conservation of mass and energy, Physics, Chemistry, Math, any subject that could be related science and Eradin could remember was brought up, even if he couldn''t remember much, he was still able to get the basic concepts across.


    As for Farah and the Dukes, they had no idea where Eradin came up with such a crazy idea. This was fine, but how were they supposed to fund something like this without other people wondering what they were up to. Duke Elenwith still shook his head in frustration, "How are we supposed to turn that into money?"


    "Well that is the easy part. We create a company, it shall be called "Abyssal Enterprises". The four noble houses will invest money into the creation of this company, then with the proper people, you can research into medicines to help the everyday population. Once we expand upon this, different fields of research can be employed, for example, once we get a steady income from the pharmaceuticals department, we could do research on anything from anatomy to magic tools, anyting that can be sold to the average person and would aid them in a way the amgic used already isn''t able to. The quickest way to make money is mass production of pills that would aid in people everyday health. Haven''t you ever had days where you are sore, or your head aches, its a high price to get someone to use recovery magic for something so simple I bet. And yet that is all due to your body giving off little signals that can be interpeted as the feeling of pain, So what if we made a pill that can block those signals and thus ease the pain. I have no doubt that many people would buy this. Or what if they don''t have enough blood in the body, then make a pill they can take once a day that naturally speeds up the bodies ability to make blood. There is a cure for any ailment, disease, or even poison. It simply has to be discovered. Unlike the potions and elixirs of the alchemist guild which are only temporary and have their roots in magic. Medicine isn''t magic, it is finding the right materials to counteract whatever the problem is. The only danger is making sure the strength of the pill isn''t so strong the body can''t handle it and instead it kills you like poison. This isonly the beginning, we could make a business empire that spans across many fields of research. We would be the richest on the continent and have no need to worry about money."


    Duke Elenwith finally caught on and understood what Eradin was trying to convey. The races all lived in this world for thousands of years, and yet no one took any time to attempt to understand how it worked. The concept of science not only would allow for the money to flow in, but it also could be a weapon of mass destruction. If research was done on what caused mass plagues and diseases and Algon''s people were immune to it, that would be ahuge advantage.If theywere able to understand what the plague was, where it came from, how it was transported and how to negate it''s effects or bolster them. Then potentially, Algon would remain unharmed while the countries who sought to destroy them would suffer. But this concept could be applied to any field of research. From how to kill more effieciently to consumer goods that aided with daily necessities. The possibilities were endless. The only limit was your will power.


    "Then what other fields could be researched and give an advantage? I would assume there is a way to implicate technology into this as well right? Because from what you are saying, what I understand is this. Whoever is more advanced technologically will have the advantage in any situation it is applicable. So instead of relying on magic for everything like the rest of the world, we are to not only continue research into magic, but also into the world itself and invent things with no connection to magic?"


    Eradin grinned broadly for the first time in days. Atleast one of the Dukes were beginning to realize how important this was.


    "Yes that is precisely what I mean. We could eliminate using magic for useless daily necessities by replacing them with inventions that do the same thing. Or even better, we could mix technology and magic. But think about it, if everyone has magic in this world, then why shouldn''t we prepare a hidden card. Create weapons that don''t rely on magic. Create vehicles that don''t rely on magic to fly. If we were able to advance technology and magic at the same time, then we could create something so complex that the other countries would need to take extreme measures to fight against. That is how we will fight the other countries when the time comes, we need to increase our understanding of the world and magic to the limits of their capabilites. So if there was a situation where magic couldn''t be used, our superior technology would allow us to win and if magic could be used but our technology couldn''t, then our understanding would be beyond that of any foes so we still win. The best case scenario, magic and technology in perfect synergy where there are hardly any flaws. The only way to do that is to learn and srudy. Knowledge is a great weapon if properly made use of."


    The other Dukes and Farah finally began to understand, they didn''t have to be ready in one day, as long as Algon remained the country everyone wanted to plunder, then no one would make reckless attempts to invade as the other countries wouldn''t allow it. This would allow Algon to finally begin to tap into their resources and advantages while creating hidden weapons that would be unveiled upon the day they were invaded. It was a plan years in the making, but Algon certainly had a few years before anything serious would happen....hopefully.


    "Well then let''s begin mapping out our plans. It doesn''t matter if we fail at first. One of my favorite saying is this, "If you want to succeed, fail one hundred times first and learn from those failures", now then we have all day so let''s not wait any longer."


    Eradin took the initiative first, the first step to being a true leader was successfully taken. Now with a vison, all it had to do was come to life and allow the next step to be taken on the path to the strength that would shock the world. Along with the Dukes and Farah, many plans were now to be put into action. Hiring personnel, build a company headquarters, begin the research. There were many things to do, but Eradin had prior other concerns and left it to the Dukes to bring his vision to life. What he had in mind was to acquire an Adventurers Pass and to see the guilds.

 Ch 21 Adventurer I.D.

    Within the meeting room Eradin was creating the general outline of the company with the aid of the Dukes and Farah. So far the timeline was set at an estimate of five years to get the field of pharmacology up and running. In those five years, many conditions had to be met. They included collecting talented individuals, supply of materials, creating the actual "Abyssal Enterprises" headquarters, advertisement, where they would sell the created products, transportation of goods, and creating a stable source of income so investment of the Dukes was no longer needed. It was an arduos task and many problems would more than likely arise, but should they successfully be fulfilled, the benefits would be extroadinary.


    "Well the first thing we need to do is figure out what would make a pill that can ease the aches and pain of your everday worker with preferably no side effects or there is no point to making a field of pharmacology. Are there any plants, beasts or monsters, or anything at all with effects that treat pain?" asked Eradin with a furrowed look.


    After his question it was virtually silent, the only noise that could be heard was Duke Elenwith''s finger tapping the table. There were places to obtain such materials, but in a vast quantity, that was a different story. The more dangerous the environment, the more potent the materials, that was a given in this world that was governed by the leveling system. However,ratio of obtainability versus potency had to be taken into account as well. What was the point of creating a product that was ineffective. There was only only one such place within the country of Algon that met such requirements. It was known as the Celestial Mountain Range.


    Duke Elenwith finally stopped his tapping and looked to Eradin with a slight smile, it was the only option but it would take multiple parties to obtain what he was thinking of in large quantities becausehigh level people didn''t go to low level areas unless special circumstances arose. "The Celestieal Mountain Range is our best bet, we can find what we are looking for there."


    "And what might be there, or rather what is the Celestial Mountain Range?" Eradin asked with a slightly demanding tone, time was of the essence with him, everything he had to do needed to be done as efficiently as possible, the longer it took him to level up would mean more problems would arise which wouldn''t occurr if he had a high enough level.


    Duke Elenwith glared at him a bit, he knew Eradin was rushing so he deliberatley waited a minute before responding. "The Celestial Mountain Range is one of the largest in the whole continent and said to luminously glow under the moon, hence the name celestial. The higher up the mountain you go, or the deeper inside of it you go, the higher the level of the beasts. The highest level that has ever been seen was one around level 63. Ideally this would be the next place for you to level up because you fight so many levels above yourself. But, there are also medicinal plants known as Kilsker Flowers. The nectar they produce is known to numb pain. That isn''t the only thing though.There are alsobeasts and monsters who possess high regenerative properties since it is a higher level area used to make healing potions. If we can mix materialsthe materials they provide into one pill or make two seperate pills, then that could make a fortune. Since from how you explained it, a pills effect should last for hours ata lesser potency where as potions and elixirs are very quick with a high potency. If pills could be made thatallow the average person to possessthe trait of atleast [Regeneration: 1], so much money could be savedfrom buying potions or hiring healers who charge high prices and it would change the tides of war."


    Eradin contemplated this, if what he learned was true thenthe economy would shift, at least in Algon. Healers wouldbe forced to charge lower prices or onlyaccept patients in dire need,and theAlchemistGuild would need to change how they worked. Itwould probably be best to force them into dire situations where at least in Elren City they would fall under the control of "Abyssal Enterprise" by making a business deal with the company.


    "I think this is the proper course of action. I''d suggestthat we create theactual headquarters underground in a hidden locationto prevent any problems. Then we should open a small shop in the city oncethere is merchandise. Find anyone who is confident and can invent a pill. Bind them to our faction as well. Farah and I will head to the Celestial Mountain Range and obtain the required materials while levelling. If you all can set the foundations and create a functional headquarters with the staff, then we will be able to start research and eventual production immediately upon our return."


    On that note, Eradin stood up and left with Farah in the lead. He had another task at hand before leaving for the Celestial Mountain Range. Most importantly what Eradin wanted to do was obtain an Adventurer I.D. With it he would be able to enter the other countries for the most part because he wasn''t bound to them under a technicality of being an adventurer. However, he had no plans to join any country, if he had to in name onlythen it would be Algon.


    Eradin and Farah left the meeting chambers of the Dukes. Leaving the premises all together, they made their way through the city towards the Adventurers Guild. The afternoon sun was shining sparsly through the clouds and it threatened to rain at any moment. Most of the street side stalls began to pack up and people began to either shop inside or go home under the looming black clouds. After roughly ten minutes of casual strolling and idle chatter the guild came into view. Outside of it were many people that belonged to many kinds of races and classes ranging from as low as level ten to over level seventy. As they approached Eradin unconsciously began to release his [Dragon Gods Aura] causing people to move away, the only ones who didn''t were those almost double Eradin''s level or even higher who instead elected to stare at him with questioning looks to which Eradin simply ignored them.


    "So Farah, how do I obtain an Adventurer I.D? Is it easy, hard, or different for everyone?"


    Brushing her hair to the side and adjusting herself under the looks of everyone in the surrounding area, Farah also elected to ignore them and focus solely on talking with Eradin and leading him inside the precipice. "It is different for everyone. For you it will be very hard in everyone elses points of view, but I have no doubt that you will at the bare minimum recieve the rank of C as it isn''t about your level or quality of your equipment, or even how prestigious your reputation. Althought those are factored, they don''t have anywhere near as much weight in the final decision compared to the level of skill you can show your proctor. It will be a one versus one fight with a high level representative of the guild who decides where you are placed. The Adventurers Guildis supposed to be just one big family where a level one is treated the same as a level 100."


    As they entered the building, many of the different parties all stopped their conversations, feeling the aura emitted from Eradin and seeing how dangerous he and Farah looked together played a big part in the sudden silence. After all, two level twenty eights showing such strength without even doing anything was unprecedented. Some of the level forties even slowly put their hands on the weapons at their sides. Farah lead Eradin to the reception desk. Behind the old oaken desk was a women who looked to be in her mid thirties. Above her head for Eradin was [???] for level and she had a piercing glare that wasn''t in any way inferior to Eradin''s. However, Eradin had put his head band back on to avoid people staring at him any more than they already were.


    The reception lady was Lydia, she was secretly the Vice-Guildmaster of this branch in Elren City which was why none of the older and highest leveled adventurers messed with her, after many years of being here, even if she hadn''t told them they knew that she was the second in command.Eradin barely heard someonespeak thesaying in this branch, "May there be pity upon the one that angers Lydia the Dragon" for when she was mad, it was equated to a dragons wrath. But who knew, she was only staring at Eradin with a dangerous look.


    Eradin didn''t speak since Lydia was suspicious of him the moment he entered the building, that much was obvious based on the faintest hint of bloodlust he felt from her even though she hid it well under her monotone smile. But if he was actually using his eyes to see instead of his senses, Eradin would see that her eyes were colder than anything he had ever seen, and they weren''t looking at him, but rather they were looking throug him as if she saw his very soul.


    Noticing the pressure Eradin was emitting every secong increased when he locked his attention onto Lydia, Farah hurriedly began introductions before something disastrous occurred. "Lydia, this is Eradin, he would like to apply for an Adventurers I.D. If that is alright with you, can he please register. I know for a fact that he should at the very least be C Rank. I will recommend him as an A Rank and vouch for his skills, he is not suspicious but just has a natural intimidating atmosphere about him."


    Lydia continued to stare at Eradin, seemingly peering into his very soul, she never took her eyes off of him for a moment as she responded in her equally monotone voice. "Is that so, well then, I shall appraise him, then because I haven''t stretched in a while, I think I will proctor him myself."


    "May the Gods have mercy on him."


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    "He is an unlucky bastard."


    When everyone around heard Lydia they all felt pity for Eradin, anyone proctored by heralways recievedmultiple ranks lower than they deserved because she was extremely harsh. Your rank alsoaffected what requests you could take which was even worse if you were supposed to be a B Rank and instead were placed atD Rank by her. There hadn''t been anyone in years whoLydia ever placed higher thanC Rank. Even the Guildmaster was more lenient when he proctored.


    Farah''s face blanched and became pale. She was remembering what happened when she tried to appraise Eradin. Farah knew she needed to act quickly before suspicion aroused at the sight of what would happen. "Lydia, please listen to me for a minute. I have been here for years, if you really want to appraise him, then let us do it in a different room, away from anyone that would see even a little of what is to come."


    What was this request? That is unusual? What makes him so special that he gets treated any different than the others? These thoughts were prevalent in Lydia''s mind. However, she had known Farah for many years, deciding to place her trust in her since this was the first time Farah ever requested anything of her, she authoritively and forcefully said "Follow me then." with not a hint of the monotone voice from before.


    Farah and Eradin followed Lydia into a back corridor. They headed down multiple flights of stairs and entered into the training arena. Lydia sealed the door and with a flash of white light, she was clad in leather and chainmail with a long sword and a dagger strapped to her waist. She took out an appraisal orb and held it in front of Eradin. "Place your hand upon it."


    This appraisal orb was more than twice the size of the one that originally shattered. Eradin took his right hand and hovered it above the appraisal orb, the closer he put his hand to it, the brighter it lit up, finally he touched it.


    [Skill Gained: Appraisal Resistance: MAX]


    The appraisal orb that was more than twice as strong as the previous lit up and showed the messages [Name: Eradin Silvermoon] [Age: 16]. Then just as what happened previously, the appraisal orb completely shattered. Its shards went flying in every direction but luckily it didn''t hurt them. All over the arena ground little shards of glowing glass were now apparent. Farah only sighed, and Eradin only looked slightly confused with his mouth hanging slightly open, however, he wasn''t to surprised considering the abnormality that his existence was, with the body of a True God, he probably would only be affected by an appraisal skill of a god until the day his strength was on par with theirs.


    Lydia was stupefied, never in the history of the continent had anything like this happened before. Even demi-gods had to adhere to being appraised when needed, and yet this sixteen year old youth simply shattered the appraisal orb. That was an extremely terrifying thought, he could keep any information about his skills and traits hidden, he could even lie about them and no one would know about it. To truly not know anything about a person''s skills was perhaps one of the most dangerous things in the world. This is even more so if they reached high levels as every country had dossiers on all the notable powerhouse of each country including their own, whether they were a demi-god or not.


    "How..how can this be, no one has ever avoided appraisal by an appraisal orb, even if it didn''t work, one that was larger and had more magical power would be used. Just how did you do it? This could change our countries fighting strength. If no one could appraise us then we would always have the upper hand. The other countries would be forced into a cautious and easily predictable course of action since they would never know our true fighting strength. Please tell me, how do you do it?"


    Eradin shrugged his shoulders and responded with a dry voice that was almost a mimicry of Lydia''s voice earlier. "I don''t know how I did it. I am just an abnormal freak so pay no heed to it, only I am capable of it and it can''t be transfered to someone else either."


    Lydia''s eyes narrowed, she didn''t necessarily believe him, there was no way such an overpowered skill of this sort was unique to one person, there absolutely couldn''t be, he had to have found some ancient manual from the very first race on the continent and monopolized it for himself. They were mysteriouscivilization and any ruins of theirs that was discovered, no matter if nothing was within it would be carefully excavated. The greatest testament to her reason for thinking this was because Eradin emitted strength that seemed stronger than a normal level twenty-eight so it was quite possible all of this came from ruins of the first race. He also had a vibe that put her on edge, as if the moment she turned her headaway from Eradin, heattempt to stab her in the back.


    "Well then, is your strength also unique to you? I highly doubt it, I think that I should beat you into the ground for attempting to lie and thoroughly figure out what it is your hiding. I''m sure Farah mentioned that the Adventurers Guild is one big happy family where there are no secrets, everyone knows all the strengths and weaknesses of eachother. I will not allow you to join us until you start spitting out what it is that makes you think you are special, as far as I am concerned you just got lucky and obtained some inheritance from the Primordial First Race of Aspect Continent. That is nothing to be proud of as you didn''t rely on your own strength but someone elses." Said Lydia viciously in a voice filled with sarcasm.


    Right as Farah was about to interject, Eradin looked at her and she understood the look in his eyes. He would handle this in his own way, probably the same way he dealt with her father. Eradin then looked at Lydia in anger, she was trampling on his pride of being the inheritor of his technical parents since he wasn''t born into this world through the"Normal Way". Eradin then let his fused body equipment come forth from his body, all of his clothes that were previously being worn shredded and fell to the ground.


    Looks like I will need to stockpile many sets of clothes when I have the money. That is going to be annoying, there is no doubt about it. But enough of that, I gotta kick this ladies ass into next week and teach her not to assume things just because she has multiple times my strength. If I had to guess, she is on par with the Dukes.


    Eradin clicked his tongue in disgust at Lydia, then he raised his scythe and pointed it to Lydia while sarcastically sending out a challenge. "How about we find out if my strength is my own or from some random ruins that you seems to worship. You are the hardest proctor to please right? Well I will put all the people who you proctored in the past, present and future to shame. If you think that I will submit just because I am far below you in level, thenyou are quite misinformed about my personality which you simply assumed that you understood inside and out after meeting me for not even an hour. I''m not a crying little child that will do anything and everything you want me too like the rest of those adventurers who shiver at your name. Sorry Ms. Lydia theTerrifyingly Annoying Dragon,you won''t break me even if I die. You aren''t even anything compared to a real TrueDragon, their existence is far more majesticthan you can imagine. To be called a dragon in atitle is simply an insult to the real thing, you are certainlyno dragon, you wouldn''t even be a shitty cockroach beneath their feet eating their leftover scraps.And as far as making me tell you anything after you beat me into the ground? Not even a god could make me submit if I didn''t want to, so what makes you think that you have that right, you are definately not a god. However, you do act like them, stuck up and arrogant becuase you think you are strong, I guarantee that if we were the same level, you wouldn''t beat me even once."


    Lydia placed her hands on her dagger and long sword. Her bloodlust was clearly sensible now, no one had insulted her in such a manner in decades. No one ever had the gall to even dare trying to for fear of their life. And yet, here was a sixteen year old child that was only level twenty eight and wanted to fight her,he even dared step all over her pride as someone with great strength that would make armies tremble in terror. That was inexcusible, she would beat him to the ground, extract all his secrets, take his equipment and destroy it, then release him out of the arena naked and as an F Rank adventurer, that would teach him to have respect for his elders. As for Farah, she was disappointed in her for getting involved with such a shameless piece of trash. She would teach her a lesson afterwords, possibly demote her rank and then send her back to her father for a well deserved reprimand.


    With an evil glint in her eyes and a voice so cold and sharp that it could cut stone Lydia accepted. "Fine then, as you wish, I shall teach you a lesson about respecting elders. As for you Farah, I am deeply disappointed in you, to think you''d get involved with this sort of person that I always advised you to avoid. I can tell from your appearance you changed a great deal, probably for the worse because of this trash. I will send you to your father after this for a well deserved punishment so you never make such a mistake again. Now then, I will suppress my level to yours, it is only fair. Now you can''t say I bullied a child."


    Farah was angry but didn''t say anything. Eradin hadn''t increased in level but ever since his sparring sessions with the Dukes, he had grown a great deal in the technicalities of combat. She would let Lydia learn from this transgression. And when things got too bad, she could always call her father to deal with the problem, but as of now, she for once wanted to just let Eradin loose to wreak havoc on this old woman who was caught up in her self-righteous prideful manner.


    Eradin on the other hand completely focused on Lydia''s words. Since he had the body of the Dragon God, he no doubt had his own "Reverse Scale". That bottom line was his promise to the Sealed Gods and Farah. He would enter his terrifying divine angerif he felt he couldn''t uphold his promise. The other part of it was Farah. She had become his, and if anyone was to cause her pain he would teach them a lesson in anger. But if someone mortally wounded her, killed her, or attempted to and was almost successful, then he would also become extremely irate to the point the restriciton of being in a extreme life and death situation would possibly be removed and he would unleash his absolute anger. Farah became the seal to his contained anger, but she was also the key to unlock it as well. And right now....Eradin wasn''t on the brink, but he was irate to the point that he wanted to shatter every bone in Lydia''s body on the chance that she "Might" do what she said she would do to Farah. WIth his violent thoughts, the pressure emitted from [Dragons God Aura] increased multiple times. Eradin entered his stance and simply waited for Lydia to suppress her strength.


    She shall learn very quickly not to touch what is mine. A dragons treasures should not be touched. Just try to do it and you are in for a world of torture and suffering. All your bones shall be shattered you spiteful woman who is acting high and mighty when you are really just an immature brat. Let me show you a world of pain far worse than what you would do to Farah. Far worse.....

 Ch 22 Not a Battle Junkie? But an Idiot?

    The training arena roughly made up a square box that was300 meters in every direction and underground. Multipleenvironments to train an adventurer for fighting in differentterrains were installed. There were areas that emulated steep mountains, or plains that had grass waist high and entangled equipment. There were also swampy marshes or sandy dunes like the desert. There was even a pool zone that had water waist deep to over thirty feet deep. The area that Lydia, Farah and Eradin were in right now was the forested area. It was much like the forest that Eradin had lived in for his first days in this world. The forest was full of overgrowth, knocked down and splintered trees, branches in every direction and angle, and many hills that were extremely rocky but also very easy to lose footing on.


    Lydia suppressed her strength to that of a level twenty-eight, she readied her stance with her long sword at the front while she reverse grip heldher dagger to support her long sword when the need to block arose. Lydia''s confidence and pride as an adventurer came from her dexterity and raw speed while imbuing her weapons with the elemental power of lightning which was known to drain mana and have highly destructive piercing power. Perhaps a rapier would''ve been a better weapon, but Lydia preferred to use a long sword instead, simply because it was an all round type weapon and didn''t specialize in any one form of attacking.


    As lightning cackled upon Lydia''s weapons, Eradin similarly readied his stance. However, this time he was going to wait for Lydia to attack first. A forest area wasn''t the best to use a scythe in, but Eradin had mastered using a scythe so that problem would no longer affect him as he would automatically know how to use a scythe to its limits in any terrain or situation. The Cursed Star then appeared with three options since Eradin could now use two curses at once.


    [Cursed Star]


    [Drain Life 1: When you land a successful attack that has dealt damage and wasn''t nullified, put a debuff on the target that drainstwenty Hp a second for 15 seconds. Half the damage dealt is returned as health.]


    [Physical Stats Reduction 2: Reduce all physical stats by five, stacking up to five times. Duration of ten seconds. Damage refreshes the duration.]


    [Mana Absorbtion 1: Every successful attack drains ten mana from the opponent.]


    [Drain Life :1] and [Mana Absorbtion : 1] are my best bet. Since every attack is a cursed slash, I am sure her physical stats will reduce. However, I should probably take into account whatever resistances she has. More than likely physical, mental and curse are all included for her since shehas such a high level. But that shouldn''t be too much of a problem if I know about it.


    They finally squared off. Each combatant with intense anger and bloodlust directed at the other. Eradin silently waited, he had his scythe in an underhand arc while putting all of his weight on the left leg to pivot at a moments notice. What he finally realized when fighting the Dukes was that the scythe wasn''t a brute strength weapon like a war hammer, it wasn''t a piercing weapon like a spear and it didn''t focus on slashing like a sword. The proper way to use a scythe was to constantly chain attacks calmly. Continuos attacking that flowed like water so it could easily change direction at a moments notice, that was what made the scythe dangerous. In one second, if the wielder was skilled enough, they would be able to change the trajectory of a scythes attackmultiple times. It''s unpredictability was the most important aspect, not the brute strength way Eradin had used it in the past.


    Lydia grew fed up with the stalemate and slowly advanced, her steps barely heard on the the leaf covered ground of the forest area. A deadly glint could be seen in her eyes, she took note of theglowinggray aura covering the scythes blade and concealed herself as much as possible since her opponent was stupid enough to fight blindfolded. When she was just about to enter into a range where she could strike, Eradin who was so still that he was almost like stone suddenly pivoted toward her andslashed out. The moment Lydia would attempt to enter into the range of his scythe or more accurately his sphere of control or territory, he would lash out in a calm manner that was completely the opposite of how he used to fight.It was far less savage and had more technical aspects to it.


    Constantly probing with her attacks, Lydia started to grow confident and felt like she was beginning to understand Eradin''s attack patterns, or so she thought. Diving with a movement skill into his sphere of control, Lydia parried the first slash, then the second, and the third, but as she was about to connect an attack upon Eradin''s body, the shaft of the scythe came upas the blade was going backwardsalmost as if suffering from recoiland slammed her against the ribs. The force of the impact successfullycaused Lydia to fly out of Eradin''s territory that was roughlythreemeters in every direction. He successfully used Lydia''s own momentum against her to keep his attacks continuous and used the shaft end of the scythe to attack, it might not be as much damage, however he now had a way to utilize his weapon in a slashing and blunt manner of combat.


    Just as Lydia was about to land on the ground, she regained control of her body and flipped until she was in a crouching postition with her weapons out front defensively. Eradin simply resumed his stance and waited for her to enter within his sphere of control once again.


    Lydia was furious, this brat successfully hurt her and it didn''t even look like he was trying too hard. Was he really not bluffing when he said that anyone the same level as him is not a match? Do I really have to increase the level of my strength? To what extent? And what is that equipment? It came out of his body and is so hard that my weapons feel like they might chip or crack if I am not careful. Is this the strength of the Primordial First Race?


    The pressure in the surrounding area increased. The leaves on the ground swept up into the air, the smallest branches cracked and split while the larger ones swayed. Wind started to gust. Lydia raised her level of power to thirty four. She finally had to admit that no matter how it was obtained, this child had strength far beyond that of a level twenty-eight. Perhaps within the whole continent, at level twenty-eight or maybe even up to level thirty-two, he was invincible. Lydia''s pride would not allow her to lose to someone at such a young age and level, she would rather take the shame of using her power to bully the weak. For now, she had to see how far his power could go.


    Raising her weapons Lydia once again slowly approached with a renewed cautionary gait. "So whether or not you learned from ancient ruins, you really know how to command such strength. That much I will concede to you, within a few levels of twenty-eight, you really are invincible within the whole continent. I shall see just how far you can go."


    Eradin sarcastically retorted while slashing in an overhead arc. "I didn''t find this power on Aspect Continent, this is all my strength." This was another half-truth, it was strength that Eradin inherited and didn''t find in ancient ruins or even on Aspect Continent.


    The talking stopped almost as quickly as it began. A small flurry of wind began to build up around Eradin and Lydia. They were in a constant fight to gaint control over Eradin''s "Territory", his [Asura Aura] was fully stacked and with the fast movement of the two, the wind flurry began to increase in speed. If Eradin stopped his continuos attack and had to reset itor if Lydia stopped deflecting and countering, reprecussions would occurr. In the blink of an eye, more than fifty exchanges started and ended, all in a tie, neither person gaining ground. But they weren''t idle, slowly Eradin and Lydia were approaching the sandy dunes of the desert areawithin the training grounds as they moved about in heated combat.


    The sandy dunes were as desolate as a real desert, the prospects of training here were to master your footing in a place devoid of solid ground as well as learning to fight with dust and sand blowing into your eyes. Not that it mattered to Eradin, he had his blindfold. Bothcombatants switched their stances when theyentered thisarea, in a place of loose footing, Eradin dug his feet into the sand in an attempt toprevent himself from slipping, even if it hampered his movement. Lydia was the opposite, she used magic to allow her body to glide across the sand.


    No matter how angry Eradin was, he was able to remain calm this time, heremained in complete control of his actions. Gripping his scythe, Eradin feintedretreat for the firsttime in any of his battles. Lydia jumped at the opportunity, sending her lightning clad weapons directly forwardsinto Eradins vulnerable chest area. The tip of the dagger wasn''t able to penetrate Eradin''s armor, but the lightning shocked him.Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there.


    [Hp: 2072/2153] [Mana: 1700/1750]


    Thankfully it was only a dagger and it hadn''t penetrated his armor or it would have been far worse. But that flesh wound was worth it as Eradin now had his chance. Rather than retreat anymore, Eradin quickly stabilized himself and at a speed incomprehensible for a level twenty-eight to have, Eradin shot out a hand and gripped Lydia''s dagger arm. Sand dunes immediately exploded, an extreme pressure forcefully came out of Eradin''s body. Underneath his headband, Eradin''s eyes became reptillian slits. The ground began to crack and the image of the Dragon God appeared with it''s earth shattering cry.


    All of Eradin''s muscles swelled to twice their size, his draconic aura had magnified multiple times and also it proved its name as well, Eradin''s temper seemed to flare the more he used the skill, it seemed to slightly change him every activation. With Lydia in his grasp, Eradin slammed her into the ground and before she even had the chance to raise her level threshold even more, two long slashes appeared upon her sword arm.


    [Mana Drained] [Hp Draining]


    [Lydia Cursed: Agility Reduction 2: Reduce Agility stat by 30 points]


    Even though his mana was capped and unable to be used, siphoning it from Lydia was just as important. And now Eradin had a heal over time as well, which was a large part of his reasoning when making the split second decision to feint retreat. Taking the opportunity while Lydia was slammed into the ground, Eradin directed all of his [Dragon Gods Aura] on top of her sunken figure and slashed once more with the the Death Gods Scythe.


    The attack barely grazed Lydia''s skin before power began to emanate from her body, she raised the strength threshold up to level forty.She forced Eradin away while quickly retreating. Never in her wildest dreams would she imagine having to use the power of a level forty to suppress a level twenty-eight. This stain upon her pride could no longer be allowed to continually harass her.


    "Well I have decided, you shall witness something I haven''t shown in years...."


    "Hooooh? What might that be? You already disgrace yourself to the point of using power far beyond my own. Just what else can you show me oh terrifying dragon."


    "What I shall show you is precisely what earned me the name of dragon."


    All traces of pressure dispersed from Lydia. They were underground and yet a black mist appeared to form at Lydia''s feet. She began chanting in the ancient language and that black mist coiled around her body like a snake, then it began to shoot out azure lightning in every direction.


    BOOM!


    All at once, the black mist dispersed and enveloped an area of 100 meters. Blocking all vision within its radius. The lighting constantly shot out and struck Eradin. Although it hurt and was certainly reducing his Hp and Mana, with such a tough body and high regeneration he wasn''t worried. And with his senses, despite what Lydia thought, he could still find her without the least bit of effort.


    "Child, feel honored, I haven''t released this ability in years. No one has ever come out of this unscathed and fit to walk as if nothing happened."


    Really? It doesn''t seem that bad, every minute I am regenerating all of the lost Hp and mana. And it doesn''t seem to hurt.... oh it even leveled up my resistances, how nice, I guess she isn''t so conceited after all.


    [Lightning Resistance has leveled up to 3/10]


    [You have learned the skill [Magic Resistance: 1/10]


    Wait? What is this? Does that mean all of the magic I gained resistance from was only the properties themselves but not the magical energy? So I if I was struck by lightning it would increase the elemental resistance specifically but not magic resistance? Hmmm? It''s probably because she is so high leveled and attained such a high level of mastery in magic that I gained resistance to it. [Draconic Body] is the most broken piece of shit to ever appear within this world. Hehe.... and I shall make great use of it.


    "Hey! Is this lightning supposed to hurt, I don''t even feel anything, it actually feels kind of like a tingling massage."


    Lydia almost vomited her innards, this magic she mastered decades ago and was her signature move that no one came out of unharmed didn''t hurt him. Even worse, it was like a massage..... Just how much lower of a blow could he land.


    Wait..... that means he must have [Lightning Resistance] and if he had [Physical Resistance] as well which strengthened his body overall.... just how much of a freak is he! There is no way he obtained all of that from ancient ruins. Does that mean he was telling the truth and it is his innate power?


    "So are yousaying that you want me to up the strength of my lightning domain? Don''t blame me if you fall unconcscious for a while."


    Eradin smiled, he still had thirty or so seconds left with [Rage of the Dragon God], that would help tremendously at the start, but the real battle was when it wore off.


    "Farah, give me [Abyssal Blessing] and prepare to heal me when I fall unconscious. Today is a prime time to level up my resistances.


    Farah gawked at Eradin, was he so masochistic before.... this damn battle junkie, always looking for a stupid way to advance quickly, most people at his level would already be dead from this domain. Hardly anyone across all of the countries acquired a domain. Whatever.... if he dies then so be it.... but then I die.... you goddamn idiot!


    Farah continued grumbling curses as she took our her tome and began to chant in the ancient language. Black light enveloped Eradin further enhancing the black glow that already surrounded him at all times.


    [Abyssal Blessing Recieved: 10% Increase to Endurance and Defense]


    With roughly twenty seconds left on [Rage of the Dragon God], Lydia increased her strength threshold to forty-two. This was about the absolute maximum that Eradin could fight against, any higher and he would have no chanc of winning. The azure lightning domain also multiplied in strength at the simple increase of two level. The thickness of the strands of lightning almost doubled, the metallic burning smell also noticeably increased. But the most noticeable difference was they became far more numerous and violent. Eradin''s Hp began to plummet. But for now with the increased regeneration he had from [Rage of the Dragon God] on top of the already numerous regeneration abilities that he had, the damage would equal itself out.


    It when the cool down started that Eradin began to falter. His body was charred and he smelled like burned flesh. Metallic tastes were prevalent, which tasted far better than any of the food any water that he''d consumed thus far. However his Hp was a little more than 50% and his mana pool was all but gone. But it wasn''t without its gains.


    [Magic Resistance has leveled up to 3/10]


    [Lightning Resistance has leveled up to 4/10]


    The pain eased, but even so, Eradin was now on his last legs. He was standing, but barely conscious. His whole body was fried and certainly didn''t look appealing at all. But he wouldn''t be the one to quit, he would persist as long as Lydia persisted, he wouldn''t submit, and his regeneration was slowly catching up due to his body slowly taking less and less damage, but then as he was about to pass out, all of the black mist and azure lightning abruptly stopped. Farah rushed over and began to heal Eradin.


    [Hp: 367/2153] [Mana: 0/1750]


    Lydia slowly walked over to Eradin who was barely remaining consciousness. She had no idea what to think at this moment. All of this exorbitant power shouldn''t be possible, it should only be possible if he robbed some ancient ruins of the Primordial First Race, but from what he showed today, it seemed it was his own strength and willpower. It was the likes of which she had never seen before. Many people would have cried in submission or pleaded to have the pain be eased. Eradin on the other hand didn''t utter a single groan of pain, and only then did she gain a sliver of insight into his vast well of untapped potential. What did he go through to be able to withstand a domain ability of someone over fourteen levels higher than himself. And because her level was originally far higher than forty-two, at that subdued level, she would be able to fight multiple people in the forties at once.


    She could only grimace, her pride was hurt, however, she didknow a person with extreme untapped potential when she saw one. Perhaps, just perhaps, she might have been to quick to judge this youth that Farah brought in to obtain an adventurer I.D


    "I guess I shall concede for the first time in decades. You win young Eradin Silvermoon. You have earned my respect and an apology. I will not say such things about you or Farah again. Once you are able to stand up, let us go register, someone like you who is loud, boisterous, headstrong, daring, and has an unbridled tongue certainly belongs in the Adventurers Guild, that much is certain."


    Eradin could only groan, but he had a slight grin upon his face. It seemed the best way to get around the social aspect of the curses was to talk to people through his actions in a fight. Only then would they understand him.... provided they were a battle junkie as well. Slowly he sat up and let his Hp regenerate. It was time to get his I.D and leave the city in search of a place to farm experience. After all, Eradin only thought of this world as one giant melting pot of experience to allow him to enter the realm of the gods.

 Ch 23 Adventurer Rank

    Rumors within the Adventurers Guild began to spread the moment that Eradin left for his proctored combat to determine his rank. Almost everyone was certain that he would be placed at F Rank with how under equipped he appeared. In the corner of the guild, small bets of copper and silver coins were being placed to see where Eradin would rank. There were some priests who prayed for him and some people that felt pity. That was how dangerous it is to be proctered by Lydia.There were even those thatwould rather have "Special Training" with the Guildmaster than have to fight Lydia or listen to her scathing toungue assessing their skills and combat proficiency, andthe "Special Training" was so terrifying that some adventurers would think that heading to the underworld is a vacation so there was certainly much to be said about Lydia''s personality.


    Just as Farah, Lydia and Eradin were heading up from the training area, over forty-five bets were already placed with high amounts of silver and copper coins. For the most part, everyones guesses flucuated from D to F with the majority being E and F Rank. Many of the resident adventurers were all waiting specifically to here the final verdict since it was also rare when Lydia proctored someone, even if she placed them ranks lower than they deserved or did get the rank they deserve, most of the people who were proctored by her ended up as a quite successful adventurer.


    The moment of truth then came, silence ensued when Eradin appeared with Lydia and Farah. The sight of Eradin actually wasn''t half bad in some people eyes. He only smelled partially like burnt flesh. His hair wasdisheveled and a black burn mark was apparent on his right cheek.Although that was only because they didn''t see all the bruises and burnt spots hidden underneath his armor, but, regeneration at level three also helped alongside Farah''s healing. Originally they were far worse, but as of now Eradin seemed to look like he functioned properly, which was far more than most could hope for against Lydia. No one ever died, but some had to be carried out on magic boards that were enchanted to float.


    Everyone stared at Lydia who was actually showing a slight smile for once. She returned behind her desk and grabbed the necessary registration paperwork. Even more terrifying, she was humming, it was almost inaudible, but some people managed to hear it. Just what happened within the training arena.


    Taking a quill and ink bottle, Lydia filled out the required portions that she needed to fill out as the receptionist and then she slid the paperwork towards Eradin. "Alright, this is a bunch of jibberish that states you will not attempt to betray the Adventurer Guild. You have to pay a tax every three months based on your rank, and you also need to take a minimum of one job appropriate for your rank once a month, but you can take jobs one level below your rank or any amount of levels higher depending on who is in your party. Since Farah is A Rank, even if you were F Rank, you would still be able to go on A Rank missions, but since you wouldn''t participate at all as an F Rank, you wouldn''t get much of a reward or money, the experience of higher level monsters would be enough of a reward, however such acts are not widely recommeneded as it would tarnish your ability to fight since all of your skills and traits would be lower than your actual level, leading to a serious disadvantage.All you need to do is prick your finger and sign your name with your blood to seal the contract, and I should warn you, don''t break contract magic, the punishments won''t kill you like a blood contract, but a paper contracts punishment is still nothing to scoff at."


    If Lydia could see Eradin''s eyes right now, they would appear to look very sarcastic. Eradin already learned from Farah about contract magic. If a demi-god broke a paper contract, they would easily be able to endure the punsihment without batting an eyelid, of course this was assuming they had a sufficient level which Eradin didn''t have. However, he wasn''t to worried as he wouldn''t be bound by this contract forever.


    Under the gazes of everyone in the guild, Eradin pricked his finger and signed his name with his own blood. Little did he know that demi-god blood was actually quite precious and one drop could be used to increase the potency of any craft or elixir. However, it wasn''t given out freely. High level demi-gods didn''t drain themselves of their blood everyday for whichever country they belonged to. It was actually quite rare for them to even give out a single drop of blood, typically only to someone who would craft them something that would personally be used by the demi-god, or it was given to the people they trusted the most.


    The contract lit up and successfully completed. It split into two copies, one for the Adventurers Guild and one for Eradin. He stored it into his spatial bag and when he looked up, all of the adventurers were gasping at him. Right in front of his face, Lydia was holding a badge that identified a B Rank adventurer. He was only a level twenty-eight and recieved a B Rank badge, this was unprecedented. Although it wasn''t influenced much by level, it still held some degree of importance. A level fifty would certainly not have an SS Rank as they had no way of fighting against a calamity level beast. Some parties rarely achieved A Rank at forty like Farah did, but they all started at quite low ranks originally and had to climb up. To start at B Rank this early meant going right to the quests that payed well, which was from high level C Rank quests and up. It truly was a privelidge to be jealous of, Eradin even felt bloodlust from other adventurers similar to his level that were only D Rank.This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it.


    One such adventurer actually decided to speak out against it.


    "Oi, Lydia! Why did you give him special treatment? Aren''t we all supposed to be one big family here that doesn''t play favorites? Or did you finally succumb to some bribe from a noble house?"


    Silence, utter silence. Everyone began to plead for the stupid boys life in their heart with many prayers. Lydia sent a piercing gaze at the D Rank adventurer known as Parker and gave an extremely dangerous smile. Not at all like the one she was slightly showing when she left the training room with Eradin. The tempreature in the room actually seemed to physically drop whenever her stare locked on to someone with anger and disgust.


    So what did Lydia resort to? She reverted back to her old habit in a split second and verbally lashed out with scathing words that trampled on not just Parkers but everyones pride in the vicinity.


    "Well oh stupid and ignorant boy. If you were proctored by me when I suppressed my strength to your level and you were able to completly and utterly wipe the floor with me even as I raised my level to that of a level thirty eight and even then still be invincible against me. Wouldn''t you want at least C Rank. However if you were to say, withstand my lightning domain at the strength of a level forty-two for over a minute while remaining a level twenty-eight and successfully stay conscious, why then..... wouldn''t you want to have B Rank instead. I''ll tell you what, you are level thirty, but I will give you a chance right now, if you can withstand even five seconds of my lightning domain at the level of thirty-six, then I will promote you to C Rank under the pretense of survivng something that you shouldn''t be able to with sheer tenactiy and willpower.


    All that could be heard was everyones heart rates increasing. Just what kind of monster was this child that showed up. In less than an hour he managed to get B Rank from Lydia who only gave D Rank most of the time and he even was invincible in a range of roughly ten levels. How dangerous would he be if given the chance to level up into the hundreds.... no doubt it would be terrifying. But that wasn''t even the worst of it, he could withstand a domain with his vitality and body alone. Not many people could boast about taking on a domain alone when the effects were meant to be used against multiple people. Having all that power concentrated on annihilating one body was simply terrifying. In everyones eyes, Eradin gave off an extremely dangerous feeling that couldn''t be quelled.


    Eradin simply ignored everyone else as he stored the I.D. into his spatial bag. What other people were thinking was of no concern to him, he only cared about anything that affected him or his assets directly, no matter if those assets were living beings like Farah or his new company that was soon to be born. Now it was time for the most important task of the day, the Celestial Mountain Range. Since Eradin and Farah were going there anyways, there must be some quests that involved that area.


    Ignoring all of the jealous stares, Eradin focused solely on trying to chat with Lydia. "Farah and I are heading to the Celestial Mountain Range, do you have any quests or useful information within that central area?"


    Lydia ruffled through a stack of papers and handed then to Eradin. "These are subjugation requests for some of the beasts and monsters in that general area. I''d recommend more than just you and Farah taking on the Boss and Raid Ranks though. There have been rumours of a Legend Rank as of late. Ahhh... here is one more, a request to gather New Moon Flowers. They only bloom under the new moon and have a range of uses in the field of alchemy. I would avoid heading into the higher elevations of the mountain range as they average level forty-five and higher, but what do I know, when you hit level thirty five, you are probably going to venture up there anyways."


    "Thank you, Farah and I will be fine even if we encounter Boss or Raid Rank, we can always run away. Now if you''ll excuse us we need to be on our way. Thank you for your time."


    Farah lead Eradin out of the Adventurers Guild, she had an annoyed look andEradin immediately realized he must''ve done something that angered her. But he still took the risk to ask.


    "Are you mad at me, did I anger you in any way?"


    "Anger me? ANGER ME! You are a blundering idiot, did you forget while fighting Lydia that our lives are bound together! I don''t want to follow you into death so soon! Be more careful you masochistic battle junkie that has no commone sense!"


    "Ohhhh"


    And the trip to the Celestial Mountain Range already started off on a bad note for Eradin. He was already in trouble with Farah, if he wasn''t careful, he might get hit or zapped by her magic which was terrifying, who knew what she would do when angered as she became very irrational."

 Ch 24 Celestial Mountain Range

    Eradin and Farah had been travelling on foot for more than a week already, and only just now were they able to see the Celestial Mountain Range upon the horizon. During that entire week, Eradin had engorssed himself within the books that contained information on the world, monsters, materials, legends and rarities. When he turned through the pages, there was even a brief section about the Celestial Mountain Range.


    The Celestial Mountain Range has been on the continent since the creation of the world itself. It is neither the tallest nor the most dangerous, but it is the one surrounded the most by mystery and legend. Centralized inbetween the city of Elren and the Capital of Algon, anyone that can''t fly must travel through this area without exception. With monsters and beasts averaging from level thirty to forty in the lower elevations, it is relatively safe to travel through the mountains with an adventurer escort of D or C Rank.


    Under the light of the full moon, it is said that theyhave luminous glowwhich can''t be explained encompasses the entire mountain range. There is a legend that has traveled across the continent as well. Some people swear on their lives they see an azure wolf larger than even the a dire wolf by three times that hassilver stripes and the deepest sky blue eyes ever seen up at the higher elevations. However, when the strongest of adventurers travelled up to the very peaks themselves and resided there for months on end in an attempt to find it, nothing would appear. After years of this sighting occurring, no one knows whether seeing this wolf is a blessing or curse. In the end it sunk into legend, further adding to the numerous mysteries of the mountain range. Some go missing, others come back with treasures beyond there wildest dreams. If there is ever someone that says there is nothing abnormal about this place, don''t ever take advice from them.


    In conjunction with the Lydia''s information, the novels information, and the information printed on the requests he was currently looking through, Eradin attempted to summarize it all and create an image of the mountain range in his mind.


    Ok, so this place is not supposed to be dangerous and yet many people have gone missing. There is some random wolf that is probably what I guess will be called the Lord of the Mountain for now randomly appearing and observing people who enter its territory. But it seems to be smart and knows they for the most part all caravans passing through without attempting to cause problems. The beasts and monsters here all have at least one skill or trait that regenerates health or heals wounds. They have tougher bodies and are more inclined to earth and wind which is prevalent in their abilities, proabably because it is a mountainous terrain.


    The mountain is barren ofvegetation and instead is fraught with caves and small little groves of trees or there are gorges that fall for hundreds of feet. Some creepy magic is more than likely the cause of the mountains glowing under the light of the full moon, its probably some ritual. The deeper I go into caves or the higher up the mountain I climg, the more dangerous it becomes. Some people apparently get lucky and find things that make them rich in the common peoples eyes.


    As for the plant life, Kilskir Flowers are commonly found within the gorges or deep in the caves growing in the darkness instead of sunlight. Great...that will lead to trouble if they are too deep in the caves. New Moon Flowers look like weeds in the day and only bloom under the New Moon, they glow with a black light when blooming and are coveted as treats for any monster or beast whether they eat meat or not.


    So what is this place? It is a land of hidden opportunities for my level. But with these opportunities awaits many problems that are sure to arise. The Celestial Mountain Range is without a doubt much more dangerous than it is given credit for. So let''s give myself a challenge, just how much experience can I grind out before enough Kilskir Flowers and corpses with a regenerative property are obtained.


    As the sun approached the highest point in the sky, Eradin and Farah approached the foot of the mountain range. From here on countless rocky slopes, small thickets of trees, caves, gorges and so forth would appear. If they continued to follow the road, it would lead directly through the mountains but that was not the objective.


    "I guess we are pretty much at the beginning of our next journey, what do you want to do first? Look for the Kilskir Flowers or explore."


    "I just want to kill things."


    Farah put her hand on her forehead and sighed. "Why did I even ask, of course that is what you want to do. Exploration it is then."


    With Eradin in the lead, the two of them started to casually start walking off of the path and upwards into the Celestial Mountain Range. At the very base of the mountains, Eradin and Farah were virtually invincible so they decided to bypass the lower elevations directly and climbed a decent elevation until a small grove of trees came into sight. On the cliff just above it, a small cave came into view.


    Eradin and Farah nimbly climbed the slopes that were covered with loose rocks. As they approached the caves, Eradin and Farah began to ready themselves. Eradin summoned the Death Gods Scythe and activated his sensory skills at maximum output, Farah held her staff and unchained the magic tome from her waist, ready to chant a spell immediately when the need to arose. Under the light of the sun, they entered into the cave. Eradin able to see all of the outlines with his inner vison and Farah using [Night Vision] were able to navigate it quite easily.


    The cave started out with narrow walls that would hinder a scythes wide movements. Then as they traversed further and further into the cave, the width slowly started to expand and branched off in many directions. The walls and cave floor weren''t wet, and yet they were slick and slippery to the point that they could have been mistaken as being soaked. Many jagged rocks pointed out of the walls that threatened to impale Eradin or Farah should they slip. Because of this, there were no areas where they could grab quickly to stabilize and balance themselves lest they be imipaled.


    As they traversed, Eradin and Farah finally entered a small clearing. The cave split of into two directions. One shining with a black light which could be seen in inner vision but was also visible to the naked eye. The other was just darkness. Yet in either direction, Eradin was able to sense many entities. In both directions combined there had to be over twenty monsters or beasts.


    "Farah, are you able to sense what I am sensing? Did you notice any magic? Because there area monsters and beasts no matter which path we take from here on out."


    "No I can''t sense anything or see anything yet. I noramally can in a range of fifty or so meters. How far are you able to reach with that weird ability of your?"


    Eradin shrugged his shoulders while responding with a simple "I don''t know." He absolutely knew that his Inner vision was able to sense well over 200 meters. He just didn''t want to tell Farah that, after all he was already enough of a freak of nature in her eyes, did he really need to make it any worse?


    "Really? You don''t know? I find that very hard to believe. Well whatever, no matter how well you can sense, you still get lost like a child so easily."This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.


    "That doesn''t matter right now, what path do you want to take, the left with that black light, or do you want to take the path on the right with no light but more opponents."


    "Well obviously the path with the light, its not like they can catch us off guard with a trap. Since we know they are there, then without a doubt there could be a trap and we should be on our guard. That is if they are smart enought to make such things. And if they are beasts, then we should just kill them without worryfor traps."


    Before heading into the left corridor, Eradin switched his title to [Shadow Assassin] because it made much more sense to ambush and the probability of Boss Rank or higherlife formsappearing wasn''tvery likelysince they weren''t that deep into the caverns yet. Approaching the left path, Eradin and Farah ventured inside. As they traversed further in, the walls widened and an opening began to come into view.


    Eradin whispered to Farah while beginning to activate his concealment skills. "Use that fancy cloak of yours and attempt to subdue your prescence. We shall ambush them and create an advantageous position."


    Melding into the darkness and moving silently, Eradin approached the clearing stealthily without leaking out the slightest bit of his aura and prescence. What he saw was a room shining in black light. The walls were reflective and created countless shadows. A putrid smell assaulted Eradin''s nose, although it was nothing compared to when he had to eat food, that smell was thousands of times worse. The source of this was a group of monsters sleeping in the corner of the room. As for what they were, Eradin cursed not having some sort of appraisal ability, he didn''t even see them in one of his books that outlined the different races and their abilities, strengths, weaknesses, average levels, etc.


    The figures of the monsters looked grotesque. They appeared to be bipedal humanoids that had fangs close to five inches in length. They were muscular and covered in red fur. The muscles were three times the size of Eradin and yet they were all the same height as him, give or take a few inches. Shabby rags were the clothes they had on and broken shields with rusty weapons were the equipment. The most notable features had to be the set of hooves they each had for feet and the extremely long claws onthe human-like fingers.


    Thankfully this time, unlike when he was alone in the Algaron Forest, Eradin had a walking treasure trove of knowledge accompanying him this time. "Farah what are the abominations?" whispered Eradin in an attempt to not wake the monsters.


    "They are known as the Vyhild andare commonly found in caves such as these. Their strengths are having tough bodies that ordinary weapons can''t cut through. They are usually in packs of ten or more like we see here. Weaknesses are simply that they are extremely unintelligent and that is putting it mildy. As long as you can survive the initial charge that they all do at once, you should be fine. To make it even more favorable for you I shall enchant your scythe with the power of darkness that I was able to learn the other day."


    Chanting almost inaudibly, Farah invokeda spell from the  Abyssal Night Tome that came from the enchantment section. A message with its description appeared before Eradin.


    [Enchant Weapon:Chains ofDarkness: Enshroud the target weapon with the power of darkness. The weapon corrodes any wound that the weapon inflicts like poison. The target takes additional damage every second (Scales with level of caster) and has a chance to be entangles in chains of darkness whichnegatively affectsthe speed of any movement, chanting, or attacking by 15% for ten seconds. Duration: ten minutes]


    I am beginning to think the spells in her tome are not normal. There is no way that a spell that she can cast at such a low level will have this effect. At the most it should be 5% given our level. Although I know nothing about magic in this world, if I had to guess there are tiers to spells like in any other fantasy world. If this is a tier one or even tier two spell, then what would she be capable of at even higher tiers? She might possibly become a legendary sorcerer. I''ll need to be very cautious around her the more we level up, if she wanted to use a high tier spell on me....


    Eradin shuddered at the thought of a sixth tier spell -If there were even spells that high in level- being used against him. With such a thought, Eradin began to approach the Vyhild. They all fluctuated from level thirty-three to thirty-seven. Not a match for Eradin at all. He simply took the Death Gods Scythe and with a powerful underhand slash, he slit each of their throats so deep that they couldn''t scream or even have time to breath with [Eviscerate].With the bonus damage of his title, the first Vyhild didn''t survive.


    Not looking behind himself, Eradin simply walked up to each of them before they could wake up and repeated the process. A giant puddle of blood began to form on the cave floor when Eradin was finished. The Death Gods Scythe was a gods weapon after all, just because they had tough bodies for monsters of leveled in the thirties, it didn''t mean they could withstand a divine weapon.


    [Experience: 28%/100%]


    [Souls Absorbed: 12 Soul Points: 135]


    I already predicted it, but it seems that soul points are governed by rank and level of the soul. So a normal rank monster such as this will give a rough estimate of eleven and a half soul points. If I could find many packs like this then unlocking the gods skills or traits from the soul shop shouldn''t be too hard as long as the price doesn''texponentially increaseevery time I unlock more skills to buy.


    Flinging the blood off of his scythe, Eradin began to notice the surrounding area. In the center of the cave room, there was a small patch of flowers, about ten of them. They all emitted a black light. To the right was a chest which Eradin could only think was where the Vyhild stored their loot from killing people. There was nothing else of value in the room.


    Eradin looked at the corpses and couldn''t tell if they were worth taking. He looked over to Farah who was approaching the chest and called out loud enough for her to hear him but not so loud that it would alert anything to their prescence. "Are these corpses worth storing away? Can whatever healing or regeneration ability they have be used in pill manufacturing?"


    "Yes, any monster or beast above level thirty should have at least the lowest level of [Regeneration]. That is one of the racial characteristcs that belong to them alone since they reside in nature. Most of the intelligent races don''t normally have a regeneration ability or something similar until they become exceptionally high level. Not many people, beasts, or monsters have maxed regeneration at 10/10 though, to level it even once towards mastery is extremely hard as you would need to suffer countless wounds that need to become more serious the higher the level of regeneration in order to increase its skill level by one. Since it is a racial trait of beasts and monsters, their blood is used in the creation of elixirs and potions with healing properties. If you can even three, that would be enough, my spatial ring might be able to hold one, so I would wait until we kill something that has a stronger healing ability."


    Regeneration maxes out at 10/10? Then why does mine have a "?", can it level up indefinately or does it evolve? What does this mean? I''ll need to pay more attention to this skill as well as the [Godkiller Attribute: 2/?]. But enought of that, it seems Farah doesn''t know about my spatial bag.


    "But my spatial bag can store anything that isn''t alive."


    Farah went numb, she should''ve expected it, how else did a pile of over 700 beasts all appear at one spot in Algaron forest. At this rate, nothing in the world would be able to surprise her anymore except for Eradin and his actions. "Fine then, store the corpses and pick the Kilskir Flowers as well. I shall look into the chest."


    The Vyhild were sucked into Eradin''s spatial bag and he picked the Kilskir Flowers, although they were harvested, they should still be alive for atleast a few hours so Eradin wasn''t sure if they would enter his spatil bag. But he still attempted it. To his surprise it worked. Maybe any plant that was harvested no longer counted as alive.


    Eradin began to walk over to Farah who was rummaging through the chest. All Eradin could sense was an outline of things that looked like rags and maybe rusty weapons. "Did you find anything useful?"


    "Not really, there was a small pouch that contained a few silver pieces and one gold coin. There was also a few potions that had a minor healing effect, but for us it really isn''t too noticeable if we drank it. It might sell for a few silver coins. Shall we continue deeper into the cave, it shouldn''t have been that long since we entered this cavern."


    "Yeah, let''s continue. I hope this cavern has enough experience to get me a single level."


    Farah sighed, this idiot still only thought of the world as a gian experience farm. But Farah headed deeper into the cave to explore with Eradin without any complaints. Their adventure within the Celestial Mountain Range had only just begun and wouldn''t end anytime soon.

 Ch 25 Redemption as an Adventurer

    With the Vyhild easily slaughtered in their sleep, and the room looted of its meager resources, Eradin and Farah continued deeper into the cavern along its path. Although Farah had [Night Vision], the cave seemed to get darker and darker the further they descended. Finally, as they rounded a corner, torches with violet flames began to appear on the cave walls, in the distance a door resembling obsidian appeared. Standing guard were two humanoid monsters.


    They were each armed with hide armor, a wooden greatshield and rusty polearms. They had bat-like features that included cone shaped ears, a pushed in snout, fangs close tofour inches in length, blood red eyes and clawlike appendages similar to human hands but they were comprised of two fingers and a thumb, each armed with sharp claws. Sprouting from their backs were very small leathery bat wings which looked as if they could only support a minute of flight at the most.


    Eradin looked over to Farah and thought about how she was slowly becoming a walking textbook full of information in his eyes. It sure was great to finallylearn the identities of things he encountered. "Farah, what might those things in the distance be?"


    "They are known as the Kvaldir, they are typically servants of masters that live in caves like these, none have ever been known to rank up past boss rank and typically don''t get much stronger than level forty. They are very agile which makes up for the weak body strength they have. A strong sense of smell and keen hearing makes up for their lack of eye-sight. They are pretty much blind. As for weaknesses, lightning or fire based attacks work on them the best, or connecting an attack accompanied with brute force since they don''t have very tough bodies."


    "So.... basically they are humanoid bats that can''t fly. That''s easy enough to understand."


    Shadows seemed to fuse as Eradin melded into them. With [Shadow Steps] he was able to move silently. Attempting to one shot unsuspecting foes was his plan right now. Under the cover of darkness, he sneaked towards the Kvaldir. They began to notice someting was wrong when they felt the Death Gods Scythe on the back of their necks, but it was far too late to escape their fates. Deep cuts appearedupon the back of their skulls. Being able to innately deal more critical and regular damage for wielding a scythe, his titles effectand [Eviscerate] synergised quite well and would lead to an extreme advantage, even if the target remained alive.


    [Experience Gained: 29%/100%]


    [Souls Absorbed: 2 Soul Points: 58]


    Pitiful, just pitiful. I need to find creatures worth more experience and in high quantity. This is far too slow compared to when I was in Algaron Forest. I had killed hundreds in one night, and yet in one day, I have only killed twenty-two. There better be something beneficial behind this door or the cave here was a waste of time.


    To kill hundreds of creatures in one night was an extroadinary feat. It was actually Eradin who had a warped way of thinking. Even with his requirement of obtaining double experience, he had leveled to twenty-eight in a little over a week. That was unprecedented in the continent. He should still be around level ten, but tolevel from one to twenty-eight, on average it would take an adeventurers a few months.


    Eradin didn''t know what the door was made of, but he assumed it had to be something close to obsidian as it had the same characteristics of a black luster and smooth surface. Upon it was an engraving of a bat. There wasn''t any sign of an aura, but there was someone or something behind it. From Eradin''s inner perception, he was able to sense what appeared to be a Kvaldir within the room, but the life sign it was showing had to be double or triple the life signs of it''s subordinates.


    With blood beginning to boil, Eradin switched his title to [Raid Hunter]. Putting both of his arms against the door, Eradin shoved with enough physical strength akin to that of a frontline fighter despite how he actually appeared. His tall and toned body hid much more physical strength than people would be led to believe on looks alone.


    Slowly the door parted and gave way to Eradin, slowly it began to rumble with the sound of stone grating on stone until it was fully open. The room came into full view under the light of the torches. To the immediate right was weapon racks and armor stands. The left side of the room had chests, what looked to be a table that had a magic grimoire upon it and a small shelf with books and alchemical ingredients. However, the center of the room was currently occupied.


    A massive Kvaldir was present, it was more than twice the size of the other two Kvaldir. And this one wasn''t so measily armed. It had chainmail which had hardly any rust. A large tower shield that was enjeweled, and a mace that it was carrying one-handed, but for anyone else it would be a warhammer. Hovering above its head was the symbols for levlethirty-eight and boss rank.


    There we go, this is worth it, a boss rank and a room full of loot. Now if only there were more caves that had one boss or raid rank, that would be the most ideal.


    Eradin entered into the room and the very moment his foot had touched the ground within, the Kvaldi locked onto his presecence. It stood up and entered into a stance of complete defense. With it''s tower shield and warhammer facing towards Eradin.


    The sight of the Kvaldir didn''t perturb Eradin in the slightest, instead his blood boiled even more. The Death God''s Scythe seemed to be craving a soul to reap. The [Cursed Star] appeared and Eradin chose [Absorbtion: 1] and [Weaken Reflexes: 2] from the available curses.


    Taking the initiative, Eradin released [Dragon Gods Aura] and reduced the physical capabilities of the Kvaldir. Even so it didn''t move, despite the sudden oppressive aura of a true dragon, it remained in a stance worthy of a sentinel.


    You won''t be like that for long. Not when I am done with you. No matter how strong the defense is, a weakness is always prevalent somwhere. And they become much easier to find when you have a companion capable of magic.


    "Farah, do you have any enchantments that I can make use of?"This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.


    "I think that there is something within the tome to match your personality. You want to be oppressive and tyrannical right? Well then, here is something that suits you perfecty."


    Farah began to chant from her tome, a ring of fire began to appear around her, then under the urging of her words, it began to coil like a snake and slithered across the ground over to Eradin''s scythe. Climbing the shaft of the scythe, the flames began to converge upon the blade and mix with the gray aura of Eradin''s curses. Until eventually they merged into a completely gray flame.


    [Weapon Enchanted: Explosion Enchant] evolves into [Weapon Enchant: Cursed Exploding Flame: All attacks that land explode and have a chance of applying curses imbued upon the Death Gods Scythe.]


    Hoooh? This will be useful. Time to test it out!


    Without waiting any longer, Eradin seemingly haphazardly charged the boss rank Kvaldir. His movements were fast enough that flames trailed in the air behind him. He swung out in a diaganol angle which would allow his scythe to use it''s arc to bypass the tower shield curving around it. But despite having virtually no vision at all, the Kvaldir was able to somehow read Eradin''s actions. It clinched its mace and tower shield together in an attempt to lock Eradin''s scythe in betweenits shield and mace. In the Kvaldirs mind, it was thinking that it had superior strength to the scrawny human and would shatter the scythe blade within his clinch. But looks are very decieving.


    Eradin may only look as if he had toned muscles, but the entire body of the Dragon God which was over one hundred meters in length and was quite wide as well had condensed itself to form his body. All that raw muscle and fibers were forcefully compacted on top of eachother, giving rise to the capability of extreme physical strength that could also be extremely explosive. Combined with a god rank weapon that was indestructible, it became aweapon capable of extreme force that could bludgeon something to death, but also so sharp it could cut through anything without any resistance.


    That mistake led to the Kvaldir being at a disadvantage. The force of the scythe struck so heavily that the tower shield was forcefully slammed to the side. With its heavy weight, the Kvaldir was being dragged in the direction of its shield leading to an opening. That was when the flaming scythe slashed downwards in an overhead arc. A long cut appeared from the chest of the Kvaldir as it''s chainmail was split down the middle, but it wasn''t over, first it became cursed, but the worst of it was just beginning.


    After the cut appeared, the gray flame that was cursed exploded upon the wound causing multiple burn marks to spread around it. Before giving ita chance to stabilize itself, Eradin regained his posture and steadied his breathing, even if he had high endurance anda True God body, it would not do to waste any energy especially when cursed to use more than x10 energy.


    As blood dripped from the wound of the Kvaldir, it began to grow angry, in the end, it had low intelligence even if there were many books in this chamber. It''s long wound slowly began to regenerate, but it was nowhere near as fast compared to Eradin''s regeneration capabilities. It wasn''t even visibly to the eye. Instead it was just fast enough where the blood began to clot and stop the excessive bleeding. With multiple curses now affecting its body, the fact that the Kvaldir could even stand was surprising. It hadn''t even attacked once and it was already so grievously wounded.


    Nice! With Farah at my side, as long as it doesn''t exceed level forty, I should be able to fight without relying on [Rage of the Dragon God]. To think it was this easy to fight boss ranks with a weapon enchantment. This is exceptional, we must learn to fight together now, who knows how much support Farah might be able to give. After all she doesn''t seem to be a mage or a priest. A mage can''t heal but deals much more destructive magic. On the other hand a priest can heal but deals less damage and relies on blessings. So where in the line does Farah lie? To heal, enchant and be able to bless. If she is able to cast destructive magic as well, we would be able to make up a typical five man party with only two people!


    That wasn''t an exaggeration in the slightest. A typical party had a mage, a priest, a frontline fighter and sometone that could fight at range with a bow or up front depending on the situation. Eradin already was a frontline bruiser, his exceptional range with a scythe made up for the fact neither he nor Farah had a bow. And Farah herself was basically a priest and a mage that could heal, enchant, bless and most certainly use highly destructive magic even if she hadn''t used it yet. It also helped substantially that Farah could also fight as melee when needed. So with a two man party, they had the strength of a five man party. No boss rank monster below level forty would be of any threat to them. If there was a raid rank, they could always run away as they had phenomenal physiques for their levels.


    As these thoughts ran throught Eradin''s mind, he prepared to assault the Kvaldir again, however he didn''t have to take the initiative this time. The Kvaldir moved towards him instead.


    Thud! Thud! Thud!


    Under the weight of the tower shield, it was like the Kvaldir was a moving fortress as loud metallic clangs resounded through the chamber. Then those consecutive metallic sounds rang out multiple times faster as the Kvaldir began to run at Eradin with what looked like some type of skill involving a shield. The tower shield lit up in a resplendant blue light and a phantasmal image of a spear appeared in front of the fast approaching shield, with its spearhead pointed right at Eradin''s throat.


    Most adventurers might''ve panicked been impaled for hesitating. At time like these the Heart of the Evil God was really a cheat. Eradin''s mind was icy cold and full of clarity. He was able to read the Kvaldirs movements and retaliate. With a simple side step to the right, Eradin dodged the attack completely as the Kvaldir appeared ubablt to change its path. In that moment of vulnerability, Eradin struck. His flame coated scythe cut through the chainmail and pierced multiple organs in its slash. Keeping the momentum, Eradin pivoted and channeled the force of the attack into an upward slash that struck the Kvladirs wrist holding the mace and amputating it.


    Graaaaaaaah!


    This Kvaldir screamed in pain, so much so that the wound on its chest spewed out fresh blood along with its wrist that was also very quickly draining of blood. Not even Eradin had regeneration capable of regrowing lost limbs and appendages. So for a Kvaldir, even at boss rank, its regeneration was almost non existent as it began to bleed out. In the end, Normal monsters and boss rank monsters up to level forty would never be able to kill Farah and Eradin, even if there were hundreds of them all converging upon them, they could always escape. Especially when they worked together in sync, which thus far, all Farah did was apply enchantments or blessings upon Eradin. If she also began to attack as well, nothing would live under their combined onslaught in these lower elevations of the Celestial Mountain Range.


    [Boss Rank Monster: Kvaldir Lord: has been defeated.]


    [Souls Absorbed: 1 Soul Points Gained: 260]


    [Fused Body Equipement Exp Gained: 1.8%]


    [Bonus Exp from Small Party Bonus/Title/Boss Rank or Higher Monster]


    [Experience: 42%/100%]


    [First Tier Skils in Soul Shop are available for purchase]


    Boss Ranks are definately worth it. Only they can actually take a small chunk out of the required experience I need to level even once. The thought of trying to level when I reach a thoroughly high level really makes me want to vomit. The only way to level quickly, do things that give me a static amount of fixed experience. Yes that is the way. But more importantly, I can for the first time right the wrong from when I killed the Ogre Forest Lordand gain redemption! Let''s plunder some loot like a real adventurers is supposed to!

 Ch 26 Mage Loot? I Cant Use Magic!

    Despite how trivial it may seem in the eyes of anyone else, Eradin always felt that he failed as an adventurer the very moment he was birthed into this world. It was very demoralizing to remember the magic ring of the ogre that he slaughtered. Even if it wasn''t very good or if it was a treasure from the heavens, to forget to loot was a blunder he wouldn''t forget. This time, there was much to look through and he would take his time carefully scouring this chamber for anything of use.


    The first thing in the room to catch his attention was the bookshelf and grimoire. Although Eradin had never seen a grimoire in either of his two lives, this one just seemed abnormal for a number of reasons. First, why would a grimoire be in a cave like this, they should be highly valuable. Based on the dust coagulating upon it, it hadn''t moved in years, actually the whole room was covered in dust so perhaps the Kvaldir had found this place by chance. Then, it was upon some table inscribed with runes. But the most confusing part, the grimoire was emitting an eerie glow of crimson light and was chained shut. The closer he moved towards it, the more the glow illuminated itself which was taking the meaning of creepy to whole new levels.


    Finally, when he was standing next to the table, the crimson glow had turned into a resplendent light that enveloped the whole chamber dying it red. If Eradin didn''t know any better, he could''ve sworn this grimoire was calling out to him and would''ve attempted to unbind the chain. Thankfully, he was far more abnormal than this grimoire. The Heart of the Evil God allowed him to remain calm and think clearly in such situations. So rather than touch it and possible have something horrible befall him, Eradin instead turned to Farah who was steadily becoming a wealth of knowledge for situations like these.


    "I really don''t want to touch this yet. Are you sure this is safe?"


    Farah inclined her head towards the grimoire and looked at the runes etched upon the table, even she was having a hard time understanding their meanings. It was a chain of the same symbols repeating. They were the symbols for Blood, Fusion, Companionship and Spirit. As for how they were interconnected, it was beyond Farah''s level of comprehension. There wasn''t any runic symbols upon the grimoire either. It simply had a blank cover with a black spine while surrounded by a black chain locking it shut. The crimson luminescence was increasingly illuminating the longer that Eradin stood next to it.


    Just how are they connected? Assuming this is certainly magic, there has to be some type that works with blood. Even so.... what does blood have to do with companionship and the spirit? It should only work like that in blood contracts as our very lives are held at stake. What would fusing blood do, and what is it being fused with? Too many questions are at hand, but at the same time, this can''t fall into the wrong persons clutches, who knows what secrets this grimoire holds. It might be one of a kind within the entirety of the continent, but that begs the question of why it is in such a lower leveled area?


    It was important to not leave this grimoire here for some ignorant adventurer fledgling that hadn''t developed the skills to know something was wrong with a scenario such as this, after all who wouldn''t want arare treasure. But what would happen if Eradin touched it. The Grimoire was clearly somewhat sentient or it wouldn''t be increasing the light it emitted the closer Eradin got to it.


    If it were anyone else, Farah would have told them to simply leave the grimiore and then she would have someone of a sufficiently high level that studied magic such asDuke Ravencrest or an important figure of the Mages Guild come and take this away. However the person with her was Eradin, he was a demi-god and really couldn''t suffer anymore than he already did on a daily basis. If it was him, something might happen that was beneficial instead, and if there was a problem, he should be able to deal with it.


    Her mind was made up, they would take this grimoire of a mysterious origin. "Eradin, if it was anyone else, I would tell them to not even think of touching this grimoire, but if it is you, I am sure that whatever happens, you shall be fine. Take it, we can''t let anyone else have it."


    A cold sweat went down Eradin''s back, he certainly felt the urge to touch it, but he really didn''t want another curse. "Are you really sure about this, I know that I am an abnormal freak, but should your faith be so strong to someone like me?"


    Farah''s started to grind her teeth slightly. Eradin was right, but it didn''t matter, if disaster was to befall anyone, it should be them instead of some young adventurer that had a much brighter future than the horrible destiny that she and Eradin were marching towards. "It doesn''t matter, you have a True Gods body. Of all the innumberable powerhouses in this world, the only one qualified to not fear a backlash should be you because of your hidden potential."


    "Alright, I shall try, but if something happens, we will escape as fast as possible."


    Eradin retracted the Death Gods Scythe into his body and raised his right hand. Instead of grabbing the grimoire, he was only going to touch it quickly first so if the event something terrible occurred, he might have a chance to escape with Farah. As his palm was about to rest on it, with not even an inch of space between them, the crimson light intensified more than ever before. Then against all expectations, Eradin couldn''t even move his hand. The guantlet formed by the War Goddess Armor was forcefully retracted into his body and the chain unbound itself from the grimoire. A force unknown to Eradin forcufully pulled his right hand onto the grimoire cover. The chain that was unbound forcefully rebound itself around Eradin''s arm and hand. The area where his hand was grew spikes from the metal and pricked his fingers. Blood drained out onto the grimoire dying five spots red.


    Eradin had a slight trace of fear, but he didn''t move an inch. He silently let blood conitnue to drain out onto the cover. After what seemed like an eternity, the grimoire finally unbound the chain again and allowed Eradin to lift his hand. It felt as if a pint of blood was taken from his body. But it still wasn''t the end, the black chain morphed into a much smaller chain and attached itself to the spine of the grimoire. Then they both began to float in the air and shrink until they were the size of a pocketbook and a very thin chain that was the width of what a necklace should be, instead it was the length of Eradin''s waist. It wrapped around Eradin''s waist and snuggly hung at the side of his right thigh much like Farah''s tome but it was nowhere near the size of hers. It was only one third the size.


    The Grimoire was still the exact same as it appeared except that it had five red dots of Eradin''s blood and drastically shrunk in size. As for what it was he had no clue, even the message recieved was of no help.


    [Binding Successful!]


    [You have bound a sentient grimoire that can only be used bya master and his disciple. When you achieve a sufficient level, the knowledge within will be at your disposal. No one can replicate what is within this Grimoire, it is one of a kind and the knowldege within can only be used by its master or his ONE disciple who will inherit the grimoire upon the masters death.]


    Well that is useless, I won''t ever have a disciple and it gives no information. Who gives a shit if its one of a kind. At least tell me what the hell this god damn thing is useful for!


    Eradin turned to Farah with anger easily discernable upon his face. "What the hell is this thing. The message didn''t give me any information at all! Whats the point of obtaining something high level when it can''t be used for a long time. I don''t even understand why it is in a place like this."Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.


    Farah was tapping her fingers against her outer thighs, from what she saw, there was a couple of truths that came to light. This was most definately a sentient grimoire, even if it couldn''t speak with them, it was a given based on its actions. It was a one of a kind rare that had no other copy of itself in the world. As to whether it was a boon or a detriment. Only time could tell, but considering it was bound to Eradin, Farah most certainly thought that it could help him in the future as his strength soared to new heights.


    Finally Farah simply sighed, too many weird events would occur around Eradin. Only time would unravel all of this so what was the point in worrying about it. They weren''t normal so why would the things that occurred around them be normal, that was a simple philosophy but it explained the situation quite well.


    The other items in this chamber were all lack luster compared to the grimoire, but even so it was time to search through them, there was no point in letting all of it go to waste. Found on the weapon racks were magical weapons that would be an upgrade for adventurers that belonged in this mountain range. But with Farah''s and Eradin''s equipement which was given to them by higher existences, everything else simply seemed like trash. They were however in good condition and should fetch a decent price within an auction house so Eradin stored everything. The armor was not so lucky, the majority wasn''t magical and had rusted out in this damp cavern.


    On the left side of the room where the grimoire had been was a few alchemical ingredients that neither Farah nor Eradin recognized but they stored them away as well. The rest of the books were about subjects far beyond Eradins grasp of understanding. They included magic theory, enchanting, alchemy and all sorts of other genres that involved tampering with magic to its limits. Some of the books Farah was able to recognize so they weren''t valuable, but they kept them for the future whenEradin would learn magic. After all, when you had a spatial bag with infinite space for anything that wasn''t living it was expected that you''d become a hoarder.


    All that was left in the room were the chests.There were two in total, one was almost double the size of the other. There wasn''t anything abnormal about them. Simple wood chest with padlocks were the most normal thing in this entire chamber. When Eradin approached the smallest one, he forced the tip of the Death Gods Scythe into the lock and broke it. Lifting up the handle, Eradin saw through his inner vision what was a bunch of papers.....papers?


    Why would there be papers here? What are the contents? Why would there be a chest in the middle of nowhere containing many papers? Better yet, why was such a place in such a low leveled area? The cave was easily spotted from the path that lead through the Celestial Mountain Range, so why was this place undisovered until now?


    Eradin took a few of the papers and handed them to Farah. "So what does it say, I don''t feel like taking my head band off, read it to me."


    The papers were old and worn, but they appeared to be the work of a very old mage. The more Farah read the papers, the more her mouth opened to an "O" shape.


    "We need to get this back to the city without anyone knowing about them. This is all research of a rouge mage who probably reached a level where he could fight on par with demi-gods or was one himself. There are countless lab experiments on potions and elixirs. From this paper alone it tells the most efficient way to make a potent antidote for some of the most dangerous pandemics that have occurred in the past. There are even papers on this mages magic theory here. His insights must''ve been legendary, I don''t know who it was but now we know the reason this place was here, no one would suspect a legendary existence living in a lower level zone so his research was safer here."


    The more Farah was reading through it, the more she realized this could sway Algon in its attempt to defend itself from all the other countries. If "Eternal Abyssal Night" could produce these things and use all of this research then it would be a jumpstart into the field of pharmacology, even if these were potion and exlir recipes. They would most certainly be of great help because the way regeneration potions were made now was to mix the blood of beasts and monsters with high regeneration together with plants and rare materials that had a healing effect. This was all done randomly so one batch of potions could have one that had no effect and one that had a very potent effect. These papers showed that this was wrong, proper materials and ingredients had to be mixed in finite proportions to have the greatest effect.


    Only now did Farah realize how low the level of knowledge was in this continent, even as people leveled up and their stats increased, so to would intelligence, and yet such simple insights were not within there sights. It seems that only the legendary few that have a flash of insight and enlightenment can discover such things.


    Farah gingerly put the papers back in the small chest and closed it as if it were the most fragile thing in the world. "Eradin store these away and wait until we return to the city. If we can figure out how to use these recipes to make the pills you told us about then we could not only have the potions and elixirs for instantaneous effects; we might also be able to make the pills with long terms effects that are less potent but work efficiently and have a decent effect."


    Eradin absorbed the small chest into his spatial bag without questioning Farah in the slightest, if these old papers were enough to make her think they were a treasure beyone compare then he wouldn''t doubt her. All that remaine was the larger chest. Eradin repeated the same action with the Death Gods Scythe and opened the lid of the larger chest, but in this one there was only a letter with a ring sitting on top of it and a small knife that had a visibily sharp edge, this was obviously a magic knife enchanted to be extremely sharp to the point it could probably cut stones with a little effort.


    Reaching down into the chest Eradin picked up the ring and the letter. This time his curiosity was intrigued enough that he took off his headband and began to read the letter himself.


    To whom it may concern,


    Hello, I am the mage Arcturias. I will keep this simple, if you managed to see through my illusion and found this cave then I shall leave everything here to you. It isn''t much as I was always more interested in research of the unknown instead of combat. As for why all of this is here you might ask? Well that is simple, I didn''t want to be disturbed, after all who in there right minds would disturb someone who spent hundreds of years studying magic to its limits in a place where the average level of anything is in the forties.


    If you are reading this letter then it means I have died attempting to figure out the mystery behind the legends of this mountain range. Even if it is a low leveled area, for whatever reason I do sense a dangerous prescence, which is my reason for leaving this letter. Bind this spatial ring with your blood, it contains all the true culminations of my research and insights, everything else in that other chest is stuff I learned on passing whims.


    If your thinking there will be items of vast fortune and the such in that ring, well guess what.... your wrong! I don''t care for material wealth so there isn''t even a copper coin in there! Well best of luck to you, may my small enlightenments guide you on the path of magic if you are able to even wield it that is! And if you can''t wield magic, then why are you still reading this, go give my stuff to someone that actually cares about magic you stupid oaf!


    Oh yeah, in hindsight I forgot to mention one small detail. That grimoire on the desk is something I have never been able to understand. Whenever I tried to unbind its chains it would attempt to strangle me with that nasty chain. That...thing...... has been my one true nemesis in my entire life. If you ever come across the chance to subdue it, make sure you torture it fore me!


    What a eccentric old wizard. What type of personwrites such a letter that insults its reader..... Well it doesn''t matter he is dead anyways. As for why all of this is here, it seems that my [Illusion Resistance] was why I could see this cave. Maybe the Kvaldir simply got lucky and stumbled into this place. Or when they accidentally came here the illusion was dispelled. Meh, who cares, I don''t understand any of this and it was all a waste of time, I can''t even use magic without it attempting to kill me. I am losing experience by the hour.....


    Eradin bound the ring and didn''t even bother with looking at its contents. With Farah following closely behind, they left in search of other caves after looting the entire chamber. The journey in the Celestial Mountain Range was just beginning, and certainly wouldn''t end anytime soon, not before Eradin got all the experience he could possibly obtain.

 Ch 27 The Gambling Duke

    While Eradin and Farah were off journeying within the Celestial Mountain Range, Duke Elenwith was busy accomplishing everything that had been discussed. First and most importantly, all the Dukes congregated every member of the four houses together. Not one person was left out. Using the exact same speech, the Dukes all revealed their plans and what needed to be done and just as before, they ordered for a blood contract or death under the excuse of treason against the noble houses and intent to incite rebellion within the families. Sadly out of roughly one thousand members of the four families combined, close to two-hundred had faith in the church that was more important to them than their own bloodlines but they wouldn''t escape.


    The meeting area was already sealed off and surrounded by every current member of the Eternal Abyssal Night and a magical formation was implemented to prevent escape. Not a single member of the houses that wasnt'' going to pledge ended up escaping despite their attempts. After the plaza was dyed red with their blood, Duke Elenwith looked on with eyes so cold that he could appear as a tyrant. Even he didn''t want to kill his own family and he would forever have to live with that guilt, but in dire times with other countries baring their fangs and having so many tasks, betrayal would end up being a risk that couldn''t be taken. If the houses were to hate him or the other dukes then so be it, he''d live with the consequences of his actions until the day he died.


    With all of the defectors dead, it became a very simple task to bind all of the remaining members under the blood contract rune that was already drawn onto the entire outside courtyard. The exact same conditions applied to all of the new members of Eternal Abyssal Night. The runic tattoos symbolizing their membership all appeared and everyone was allowed to return until they were needed. As they left under the watchful gaze of Duke Elenwith, he finally sighed in sadness and relief.


    I will probably go down in the history of this family as its worst tyrant that went insane for power under the temptation of an evil demi-god. But that is one more thing off of the list. Now on for the most problematic task. Where in the world am I supposed to make this headquarters at?


    This task was going to be quite problematic. Constructing an underground base might seem like a very simple task, however that was absolutely not the case. Far more precautionary measures needed to be taken when making something underground as there were many unknown variables. This was even taking into consideration people who knew how to use magic for construction and reinforcement of buildings. Some of the most important variables were that if it wasn''t built properly the whole thing could cave in and collapse on itself. But that wasn''t even the most headache inducing problem. What was the worst included earthen magical beasts or monsters that accidentally burrowed into the headquarters or if it wasn''t fortified enough, then it would be subject to attack. Unlike the city air space and walls that were protected by powerful magic, underground fighting tactics weren''t that common. So with the price of concealment in a place most people probably wouldn''t think of they would run the risk of the entire place being attacked through unconcentional means that had never been thought of before. After all who would think to fortify something underground as it would prove annoying trying work with tons upon tons of earth.


    Most of all, the greatest problem lying in the shadows that Duke Elenwith felt creeping closer and closer to himself everyday was time. It was supposed to take quite a few years to get all of these plans under way, but rising tensions with Brail was causing time to longer be on their side. They were becoming increasingly aggressive at the border and the information that could be gathered was limited as in this world there was certainly tactics but information gatherieng was extremelly difficult, each courntry hid all of their cards well, so much so to the point that spies were useless. Because of this, the plans had to be slightly rushed and all that the Duke could do was pray that minimal problems would occurr.


    Duke Elenwith returned to his office while contemplating all of this. A slight frown was visible on his face but his elegance as a noble was able to quite easily hide it. He didn''t know whether to feel joy at the fact things were going smoothly for now or if he should feel apprehensive, perhaps a bit of both was how he felt.


    Looking at his desk. there was a pile of requested dossiers. They all were the notable figures within the city from the City Lord, to the Archbishop of Elren City. Even thepowerhouses in the dark guilds were present in these files. As for why they were sitting on the desk had to do with the Dukes resolution. The game of politics was something that he thoroughly hated, scheming was not his strong suit. He''d rather just kill the person he was at odds with instead of attempting to manipulate multiple schemes that all had their elaborate functions to increase political power. In game of war, nothing was unfair. Abyssal Enterprises would not only use legal channels to obtain what they needed, anything that was illegal in the eyes of the law would be made use of as well, there would be a very thin line between good and evil if that was what it took to rise into power.


    After glancing through all of the dossiers, Duke Elenwith could only sigh in trepadation at the thoughts of all the problems to come, but it was too late to back out. While deep in such negative thoughts, a solid knock was heard upon his offic door that was quite loud and jolted him from the almost trance-like state.


    From beyond the door the Dukes wife, Duchess Elenwith then walked into the room. She was not pleases to see her husbands haggard look due to all the work and stress that was now upon his shoulders. She gracefully walked over to his side before speaking in her melodic voice that all women of the Elenwith House seemed to possess.The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement.


    "The magic craftsmen that you sent for have now arrived and are waiting in the lounge area. Shall I call them up here or do you want to go greet them yourself?"


    Duke Elenwith forced himself to escape the feelings of stress and tiredness he was feeling, he needed to appear as a proper noble befitting his title. Sitting upright in his chair and quickly wiping off his clothes, the Duke once more appeared awe inspiring in his aura and mannerisms. With a fierce glint in his eyes and a steeled heart, he was ready to negotiate without budging an inch.


    "Send them up here and bring the us all some fine dwarven brandy, we need to make sure these esteemed guests feel at home. There is no need for them to drink elven wine which is no strong enough to be called alcohol in their eyes."


    "As you wish" Said the Duchess, she then gracefully walked off to escort the craftsmen to the office. She too was prepared to do what was necessary to accomplish their goals, for she was the complete opposite of her ferocious and wild husband that held the title of Calamity. What she lacked in fighting strength, she made up for in being able to help her husband when it came to political matters, if she didn''t, there was probably no way he would stay a noble as he would rather talk with his sword instead of deceptive words.


    A few minutes later another loud knock was sent resounding through the office. Then as the Duke invited them in, the door opened and the sight of two small but stout dwarves walked in. At the very most the first dwarf might''ve made it a little past Duke Elenwiths waste in height, but his width easily surpassed the Duke. With hair so dark so orange it appeared fiery he had a calm air about him. On the other hand, the second was a dwarf that was slightly shorter than the first, with his width only half as long as the first. He was the opposite of the first dwarf and had a fiery temper and permanent scowl across his face. Under all of his pitch black hair he looked like a giant ball of fur with almost no visible facial features except for his piercing blue eyes and a very large hooked nose.


    Duke Elenwith waved them to the seats opposite of his desk and forced out a charming smile although he wasn''t in the mood to act exceedingly positive and curteous. As the Duchess brought in the dwarven brandy, he began the introductions.


    "Welcome to my humble ablde sir craftsmen, I sincerely appreciate the both of you taking time out of your busy schedules to come and meet me. I am Duke Elenwith of the Elenwith noble house. Might you be so kind as to allow me to hear your names as well."


    The fiery tempered dwarf simply ignored him like a spoiled brat and swiped some of the dwarven brandy, he was clearly uninterested in being here and only came because the other dwarf forced him. However the calm dwarf simply ignored his companiion and took a sip of his own drink before politely responding in his voice that sounded scratchy which seemed to be the trait of all dwarves, even the females.


    "How do you do sir Elenwith. I am Fray and my grouchy companion over here is Trell. I apologize for his rudeness, maybe he''ll cheer up when we get down to business."


    Duke Elenwith only chuckled as he watched the two of them who had completely opposite personalities. These types of people were to his liking, they weren''y overly polite and didn''t try to curry favor with him with senseless flattery. They simply wanted to talk money and that was something he could respect because he was also a person that liked to keep things blunt and to the point if he was able to.


    "Well I won''t keep you guys waiting, I will be very literal with the two of you. The reason that I have called for the two of you specifically is because of these."


    Duke Elenwith then pulled out their dossiers and threw them at the two dwarves who each put on a serious expressions. Clearly they realized with the appearence of those files that this was not an ordinary contracting job.Quickly reading through the information about them that was amassed, Fray and Trell both had a dangerous look that was aimed right at the Duke as if telling him to tread carefully as he was in dangerous territory.


    With an evil smile and an equally dangerous look, the Duke finally seemed to have set the bait. "Now do I have your attention. As you can see I didn''t call you here for a conventional reason. I have a particular need for people of your...skills."


    Trell simply remained silent, but he no longer had the grouchy mannerisms about himself. Instead he was staring at the Duke with a serious expression since this clearly wasn''t a normal business deal. but he remained silent as Fray remained completely composed. His greatest ability was knowing how to act for the most gain and minimal losses, and he was sensing right now that he would either gain something that would change his life or he might lose his life depending on his words. But he wasn''t one to back down from such a situation and responded in kind, this time without the politeness he had earlier.


    "Ok, you have my attention, you obviously need us for something right? I am also guessing that if we decline there is a high chance that we will die correct? You are no innocent noble, that much is for sure, how else would you obtain the title of calamity."


    The Duke narrowed his eyes and slowly responded in an ice cold tone with a hint of killing intent. "Yes I do have a need for you. I am not soemone that will only follow legal actions in the eyes of the law. I am not afraid to break rules. Now you have two choices, and I will make it very simple. You can aid me with your phenomenal crafting abilities and you other...skills.... and be paid well for it. Or you can walk out now and I will find some other "Special" people to help me."


    Then as Duke Elenwith made his final statement, clear bloodlust could be felt within the atmosphere, "I shall warn you once, and only once. If you agree, there is no backing out, you are sucked in for the rest of your lives and the only way to escape will be death. After all, many changes are going to take place starting in this city, and then the country, until the whole continent is changed. If you join me then you could become richer and have more power than you ever imagined and if you don''t, well you might die on your own during the changes that take place on the continent in the future. And I will have an answer today."


    The two dwarves only narrowed their lives. So there was to be a gamble with their futures at stake. Clearly the Duke wasn''t joking either. No doubt he could find other, but if he came to them first then obviously there was a reason that they were needed and as such they had a bargaining chip. If it was gambling and negotiations this noble wanted. Then it was what he would get.

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    Hey Team,


    I missed a chapter Monday and I am missing one today as well.


    Basically I haven''t been able to get out of bed unless its to go to specialists involving muscles and bones around the hip. I work out alot so what I thought was sore muscles turned out to be small tears in the labrum and minor fractures of the left hip. Of course because of the idiot I am, I didn''t think about it until the pain became almost unbearableafter the minor tears and minor fractures turnedworse because I had continued running and lifting heavy weights on leg day.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.


    I have a sceduled MRI, I need to follow up with my primary care doctor and figure out how to fit physical therapy into my life because its getting harder to walk.


    I''ll try to make up chapters where I can and will delete this post after I put up those chapters.