《The Man Ruined by The Gods》 Chapter 0: Gods Toy Vincentius, the god who manages the souls that passes between worlds. In other words the god of transmigration or one could call him the guardian of the gates of heaven and hell.Though in truth all he ever does is ensure that souls don¡¯t walk between realms. As easy as the job may seem, it is actually quite tiring, in the sense of tiring his mind. Vincentius may be called a ¡°god¡± but this title he gained only because he has the power to ¡°play¡± with the souls of the living. He may look like a hard worker but in truth Vincentius is a lazy god, his job is very simple and yet many gods still have troubles since in the past millennia multiple souls have been disappearing from their worlds. A few souls may not seem like much but this is still very problematic as the state of souls differ between worlds. An example of this is one soul belonging to a world named Gordia, this soul belonged to a great demon general. In Gordia this soul was a simple general, cannon fodder you could say. But when his soul wandered into a world with a low amount of mana he was able to become something like a demon king. These occurrences happen so frequently that the gods are already having trouble keeping their powers, especially the amount of believers that they have. These gods who own worlds are individuals who Vincentius would never dare to offend but at this time Vincentius is in the middle of trouble. Due to his laziness the gods are all protesting to turn this lazy god into an aquatic plant in a very crazy world where he would continuously become a weak and insignificant being every time he dies and reincarnates. Fearful for his little life, Vincentius thought of a great way to satisfy his laziness and the gods. --- A normal high school on earth ten students were sitting waiting for the clock to hit 5 pm. These students are under detention, among these ten students is Eric Turner. A regular high school boy, no redeeming qualities or special skills, the most normal among normal people. His fate is to be a normal young man and die marrying a normal woman and after which being revived and repeating his normal life over and over again. At this time just as the clock hit 5pm a blinding flash made the vision of everyone in the classroom to blur and the next moment it was gone. Nothing special happened, in the eyes of everyone present the flash was something like a paranormal phenomenon but soon it would be just said to be a powerful flash of lightning that didn¡¯t come with thunder and since only the people in the classroom noticed it nobody dug deeper into the event. Little did they know among the ten students one person was lost, he was a normal student so normal that he almost becomes a shadow that you see in a crowd. After his vision returned Eric opened his eyes wide as a clean white space that extends to infinity was reflected into his eyes. ¡°Hello there little one¡± While he was organizing his thoughts a deep and powerful voice echoed in his head. He turned to find that an old man clad in white was standing a few meters behind him. The old man had long white hair that extended to his waist, his facial features, Eric could only describe them as Gandalf like. ¡°Don¡¯t be afraid, I called you here because I have a mission for you¡± Eric wanted to say something but before he could retort or say anything more he was suddenly pulled away by a black hole, the last thing he saw was the Gandalf like old man smiling at him. The reason that his smile caught Eric¡¯s attention was because the smile he had is not a normal condescending smile but a mocking one. The old man¡¯s smile had a strong mocking feel to at as if he were smiling towards an idiot. Eric didn¡¯t know why but he felt hatred towards the unknown old man, but very soon he would find out why he felt like that. As soon as the soul was thrown away Vincentius looked towards the countless other white clothed men and women behind him. They were all the gods that were far more powerful than him. He gazed at them and said, ¡°Using that humans soul I should be able to fix the problem of wandering souls that have fallen into your worlds¡±(Vincentius)This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. ¡°You better fix it, remember you have a hundred years to finish this by that time all the worlds having troubles because of your mistake should have been fixed, also the wandering soul problem should also stop!¡± A white clothed young man loudly reprimanded Vincentius but although the scene looked so bad for an old man being reprimanded by a young man this is perfectly normal between gods. Higher gods like the young man would be able to change their appearance however they wish but in contrast lower gods like Vincentius could only have the appearance of an old man especially if they are more than a hundred years old. ¡°Ye-yes Florentine¡±(Vincentius) ¡°That should be ¡°My Lord¡± you small lower god!¡±(Florentine) ¡°Yes My Lord-¡± After that exchange the countless gods soon disappeared and Vincentius was left in the white space. He then looked at the young man¡¯s spirit that was revived as a baby in another world. ¡°Now what kind of tragedy shall I make this boy befall?¡± Vincentius was tasked to ¡°clean¡± all worlds that have been invaded by wandering souls. And the method he got was to take the soul of a human and make him do the job. He could have used multiple souls but his power as well as his laziness made it so that controlling more than one soul would be nothing more than purposely throwing a wandering soul into another world. ¡°A hundred years¡­ a century...¡± Vincentius was given a mere century to clean all the thousands of worlds and he could only use one human soul. With this Vincentius made a way so even if he had to work his ass off for a hundred years by the millisecond he would still have a way to enjoy himself. That is, by making tragedy after tragedy befall the human soul that he summoned. With this method he not only finished the job easily he also enjoyed himself watching the human suffer and go through countless tribulations to finish the job he was given. --- A hundred years have passed and in the hundred years the wandering souls problem have been fixed by Vincentius. Technically it was fixed by the human soul that he had picked up but that doesn¡¯t matter, the achievements of the subordinate is the achievements of the boss. With that thought in mind Vincentius couldn¡¯t help but let out a loud laughter, in front of him is the soul of the young man he had called a hundred years back. Looking at the young man¡¯s soul right now he saw nothing but utter chaos. The soul which used to be a pure white is now as black as a sky without light. The only light that could be seen is the whitish glow of his eyes. The soul was the representation of a being that exist, the soul would reflect the beings thoughts and essence of existence. The pure black soul would be a target for extinction if the gods saw it but since that very soul still has light in his eyes and since it was the very same soul that solved the problem of wandering souls the gods didn¡¯t touch it. ¡°With this your job is done¡­ now I will give you your wish¡± Vincentius was filled with joy as he escaped a cruel punishment and also was able to torment a certain soul enjoying his punishment of fixing the troubles he caused. But of course he was still overjoyed at the fact that he didn¡¯t look down on the ability of humans to overcome difficulties. The soul in front of him is a prime example of that, by making it so that he would have to go through tragedy after tragedy, death after death of countless loved ones and the pain of going through all those again and again for more than a thousand time until the multiple realms were clean of wandering souls. ¡°Now then you shall be reborn into a world where I would not have any control over you from today onwards¡± To this words the souls bright white eyes seemed to shine even brighter as he was sucked into a black hole. Eric who has gone through more than a thousand lives and experienced more pain and suffering physically, mentally and spiritually was now free of the endless hell. He was elated, he wanted to kill Vincentius so badly but since he was a mere soul he had no such power. But now he was free! He could be free of this sadistic mad god! But just as he was about to disappear into a new world. ¡°But I have a final gift to you, a thank you gift for all you¡¯ve done¡± As he said this words Vincentius had a smile, that smile Eric saw that more than he saw his own smile. That mocking smile that Vincentius had and the very next thing his vision turned black. In the black space before he was about to be reborn a kind of message popped out and appeared in front of his eyes. <> Just from the name of the curse Eric already knew what kind of ¡°Gift¡± he had received. His anger, resentment and all of his negative emotions exploded out. At the time that Eric was about to be revived and his anger reached its peak a dark soul that was darker than him appeared out of the void, whenever Eric would travel between worlds and be reborn or reincarnated his soul would pass through a dark space. Even gods would need to pass through here before reaching the pure white divine realm or other worlds. This dark space is called the void. The void is a lifeless, soulless space that no one has control over it was just there. But in this space, amazingly a life, a soul has appeared and countless others too. These dark souls, darker than Eric¡¯s all swarmed his soul. Eric wasn¡¯t able to notice or feel anything but currently a million or so dark souls are converging on his soul. Soon the sea of souls all assimilated into Eric¡¯s soul and his dark soul became even more dark. The pure black soul is now a glossy black with a coldness to it, if the gods where to see the state of Eric''s soul they would all shiver in fear, even his white eye changed but the change was a frightening one. On his right eye is a pure white as pure as the white of the divine realm. And his left eye is now a crimson red, the pure red eye is frightening and could make one shiver with just a simple glance. The red eye contained so much negative emotions that it could corrupt even the gods. Currently Eric¡¯s soul had turned to something like that of a pseudo god, if he were to return to the divine realm he would find that he could control the void, if he were to return he could be called the demi-god of the Void. But currently Eric already lost consciousness and his soul drifted onto the body of the vessel prepared by Vincentius. While all this was happening Vincentius was happily waiting for the tragedy to befall Eric¡¯s new life. He found joy in tormenting him and also thanks to Eric, he was able to laze around. In one of the thousands of worlds Eric had gone through he created a barrier that prevented souls from going through, using his divine energy he created these barrier in all the worlds he was tasked to manage and now he could laze around watching and waiting for a good show. As Vincentius was lazing around he failed to notice the changes in the void and in Eric¡¯s soul. Not minding anything else and knowing he had nothing to do Vincentius took a short nap while he waited for tragedy. Chapter 1: A tragic Beginning ¡°Xenados! Son! Wake up¡­ please wake up...¡± The soft crying voice of a woman echoed in the in the cold dark cave, her long black hair that reached towards her hips were wet and her voice was weak. On her body countless cut marks and bruises were present. Her face was beautiful, one could say it had enough charm to cause the fall of a nation but that beautiful face is now filled up bruises and the marks of pain were evident on her whole body. The condition of her body made it so that she would not be able to even talk but for her son, the woman through all the pain and suffering made her way to this cave. The cave was one that she found in the very depths of the dark forest. ¡°Please wake up...¡± Countless drops of tears fell atop her sons pale face, the woman did her best but she made a fatal error. She didn¡¯t realize that her son was poisoned. The mother and son pair came from an encampment, from her traits and features on her body like her pointed tail and small bat like wings and pointed ears it¡¯s evident on that she was not a human. In contrast her son also had a small part of her characteristics. Her son Xenados has pointed ears, though he doesn''t have the pointed tail or bat like wings on his back he had pale white skin and long canines. Xenados, is obviously not like her mother but he did have some of her traits. But of course the woman knew this after all the father of her son is a¡­ Vampire. The Vampire race is a powerful race of beings that are neither human, monster or demon. If anything they would be called demi-gods, Vampires if traced back to their ancestors are descendants of an evil bloodsucking god, but that god was the son of the primal god of chaos. The Vampire race in the truest sense are beings that are respected and feared throughout the world. But not in every continent are Vampires treated as higher beings. Like on this continent of Ador, in this continent Vampires are treated as the vilest of monsters. But in exchange the Vampires also look down on the other races. In these cases Vampires hate half blood vampires the most. Half bloods or Dhampirs are the target of persecution for the Vampires. Of course this calamity that befall this little demoness is the result of her falling for a vampire, but it was not a one sided love. The two were married and had children secretly but the other vampires found out and she as well as her son were forced to get out of the continent. But along the way they were caught in a trap set up by another Vampire clan, the mother and son pair were kept in cages. THe mother being a demoness could fetch a high price if sold to humans as a sex slave while the dhampir son could be raised up as a weapon. His father had some power and for that using the dhampir as a weapon would of course be not only beneficial but greatly supported by those that have past grievances with the dhampirs father. But Xenados¡¯ mother didn¡¯t want this horrible fate to befall her son, through anything even if she had to walk through hell even if she had to beg the evil gods, she wanted her son to be able to live. But all this was put to waste, Xenados was poisoned and the cure was in the hands of the Vampires who caught them. They Vampires planned to use the poison to make Xenados obey. But his mother was able to escape with him. Though they lost the child they knew that he didn¡¯t have much time to live, the Vampires treated this as a failure to get a good weapon but still treated this as a success. They might have lost the corpses but since they were lost in the dark forest where high leveled demon Beast roamed freely the chances of survival is null, and considering that the poison would kill the brat if he didn¡¯t intake the medicine in the next 24 hours they considered the two as already dead. In the cave a demon was crying for the lost life in her hands, this scene¡­ if any human were to see they would undoubtedly rub their eyes after all a demon crying over her child is something that would never happen. But the next moment the demoness stopped crying, her face was filled with motherly love. Her small pale bruised hands extended towards Xenados, her bone like fingers gently caressed her son and then slowly a light moved out of her body and transferred onto Xenados¡¯ body.Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon. This is a technique that demons use to keep the powerful members of their race alive for years, life transfer, but this time the life transferred moved all over Xenados¡¯ body and took the poison. No matter how long the live of a demon is it could never compare to the lifespans of Vampires, even half breeds like dhampirs could last more than ten thousand years. Since that was the case the demoness instead took the poison onto herself and made it so her son could survive. With that the mother¡¯s consciousness blanked and she fell lifelessly on the ground. At the same time, a dark mass went into the body of the dhampir. The dark mass took control of the dhampirs body, and with that it also absorbed the memories as well as the feelings and thoughts of the dhampir. ¡°Mo-MOOM!¡± The dhampir loudly screamed as he rushed towards the corpse of his mother. Eric¡­ no Xenados was crying a river as he held his mother''s corpse. ¡°This Curse! I will kill you, I will kill you all, the monsters who killed mom, that trash of a father and Vincentius¡± Xenados was silent, he was sitting next to his mother that had died and was just staring into space. Xenados knew everything, everything that Eric knew and all the things that he knew. ¡°This body¡­ I am E-no I am Xenados, the son of the demoness Antonia¡± Eric accepted that he is now Xenados, a dhampir whose life is as tragic as all the other lives he had. But what he was sad is that the curse might have been the reason that all this happened. He might be the reason that his mother died. He felt funny to call her his mother but the feelings he have are not fake, they¡¯re real. He may not have experienced them himself but since he already became Xenados he understood from the memories that Xenados was loved by her. The sadness he felt was that he was given a chance to experience the love of a mother. But before he could even merge with Xenados his mother had already died. It happened just as he assimilated with Xenados. What did he feel? Sadness of the loss? His memories felt real like he really is Xenados and he¡¯s been living like this taking in the memories and experiences of many throughout the hundred years of torture. So it could be said that this should be no different¡­ right? But that was not the case, in all his previous lives except his first the parents, guardians and family he had all were evil. They looked at him like a tool or trash, he would live to become loved and important only to find that his hardwork to become noticed, to be loved to be¡­ important would all disappear due to the enemies that would kill his family. He had to experience this over and over, he wanted to stop hopping for a life of love but, his heart was not that of a cold hearted murderer. He was not thrown to have a cold heart that felt nothing. Soon his soul was corroded by negative emotions but he still didn¡¯t lose the feelings of wanting to be loved. That was his one true weakness, he can¡¯t lose the desire to be loved. He wants to be loved. This time he was reborn into the body of a three year old dhampir who was loved by his mother. He could accept it but before he even felt the motherly love that he was thirsting for before he even came it was all flushed down the drain. ¡°I can¡¯t do any-¡± [You can] ¡°Bu-¡± [The world is yours, everything is simple. You want to be loved so bring her back to life] ¡°That is impossible-¡± [Nothing is impossible, all you need to do is remember] He didn¡¯t understand, he felt fear, a voice that held nothing but evil echoed in his head. It was way scarier than any demon lord or demon god he had met. It was scarier than anything he heard but for some reason he felt¡­ warmth. The voice was cold, deep and filled with evil but he felt a certain warmth. Not that of a mother but that of a¡­ lover? He can¡¯t understand but he felt that the voice, wherever it came from wants to protect him, it want¡¯s to make him feel at home. ¡°Remember-¡± [The pain and suffering¡­ with this came the motivation for you to work hard, for you to grow, take all the anger within you and resurface the memories] ¡°Memories...¡± Xenados did as he was told, but he felt different, he didn¡¯t want to remember the past, he wants to keep it hidden deep in his mind¡­ in his soul. He knew that if he ever made the feeling of anger resurface he might lose himself. But¡­ he needed to do it, for his mother, to get back what belongs to him¡­ [recall] ¡°I-I can¡¯t do it¡± [Let me] Following the mysterious voices words he relaxed his body, mind and soul letting whatever it is to take over him. And with that Xenados felt relief, he felt a warm blanket wrapping himself in a cold winter night. He felt comfort¡­ In the cold dark cave, a young dhampir is standing beside the body of a demoness, her body covered in black lines that are like snakes continue to wrap around her body. The demoness has long died and her soul has long dispersed and merged with the world. At this time even becoming an undead is impossible for her and yet¡­ in her body her heart that has long stopped beating suddenly started up once more. The young dhampir looked at the demoness, a trace of longing can be seen accompanied by stubbornness. His eyes were a complete crimson red, the pure shade is not any regular red but a chaotic red filled with various emotions. On his read eyes a pure black insignia was present. The mark looked blurry but it could be seen to be like some winged being opening up it¡¯s wings. Though at the very center of the mark is a pitch black circle, that dark circle could be considered the pupils of the dhampir but the mark makes it almost invisible. In fact the mark could be seen as the dhampirs pupils, only someone with great vision could see the dark pupil at the center of the insignia. Though seeing the pupil would of course warrant praise but currently it could only cause someone their demise. The pupil was releasing an evil aura, like it would consume and devour anything and everything. In contrast the insignia showed restraint, not on the power but on the world. The insignia that kept the power of the evil in the pupils seem to restrict anything and everything. Soon the dark snakes all over the body of the demoness stopped moving, the lines are all over her body looking more like tattoos than evil snakes. At that point, the dhampirs eyes lost the red in them but only one did the other just lost it¡¯s bright shine but is still crimson red. With one eye returning to normal and the other turning pure crimson the dhampir powerlessly collapsed on top of the demoness. Chapter 2: I want to enjoy life ¡°Ugh¡± Waking up on the cold hard cave floor, Xenados¡¯ body was aching all over as he slowly stood up. He carefully examines his surroundings and was shocked, he immediately jumped and started searching as if his earlier sluggish movements were just an illusion. ¡°Oh you woke up?¡± As if removing his distress a soft feminine voice passed through his ears, with a face filled with disbelief Xenados mechanically turned his head to see the figure of a beautiful woman making her way to him. She was deathly pale and now had pure white hair but her facial features and her voice are things that Xenados would never mistake. ¡°Mom!¡± Although her tail and wings were gone, her skin and hair became pure white with dark tattoo like lines all over her body, Xenados would never mistake the face and voice of his own mother. His mother, the only person who cared for him and loved him, sacrificing even her life for her son¡­ ¡°...¡± Before he could even reach his mother to hug her he stopped, looking at her like a stranger the demoness fell silent. ¡°What¡¯s wrong Xenados?¡± ¡°Who are you?¡± ¡°What do you mean?¡± [Can¡¯t you understand? I mean-] ¡°My mother¡­ she¡¯s¡­ de-dead, so who are you?¡± Hearing his words the demoness showed a face of shock before slowly coming to understand. ¡°Don¡¯t you remember?¡± ¡°Remember?¡± ¡°You brought me back to life, don¡¯t you remember?¡± With her words Xenados fell silent, he remembers, but at that time he can¡¯t do it since her soul has already merged with the world. It should have already dissipated and bringing her to life should be impossible but... [Nothing is impossible, all you need to do is to accept your own power and rise up to your rightful place] Xenados felt the presence and heard the same familiar voice but just as it came and whispered those words it disappeared again. Although confused he knew that it was thanks to that presence that his mother was saved so as confused as he may still be he thanked the presence to the bottom of his heart. ¡°I remember¡± Losing all his previous hesitation, Xenados ran and hugged his mother. He doesn¡¯t know why his mother changed so much but he knows that if this didn¡¯t happen he would not be hugging her now. ¡°Okay okay, mommy understands so let¡¯s go eat¡±Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators! Next to a small lake Xenados was staring closely at his reflection, snow white hair, pale white skin and a pair of different colored eyes. Scanning through his memories he realizes that even he had some sort of racial makeover. But the most eye catching of them all are his eyes, his left eye is a deep crimson and although faint he could clearly see that there is some sort of mark on his eyes. He doesn¡¯t know what it¡¯s for but it surely has something to do with his mothers revival. His left eye on the other hand is the same, though his pupils became pitch black when he looks closely his pupils are not simply a cold darkness but a deep black color. He felt a profound aura from his own eyes, though Xenados is not some sort of narcissist but he could see that even he could not understand himself. Closing his eyes he tries to recount everything that happened in his life. Though he was not able to fully merge last time but right now he is fully in sync with himself, you could say the world traveling soul Eric and the dhampir Xenados are now one and the same in body, mind and soul. When he remembers his past he can¡¯t help but curse at Vincentius, the curse he placed on him, it didn¡¯t take even a millisecond before he befall disaster. Xenados is a dhampir born between the demoness, Antonia and the vampire, Sabien. Antonia is a normal demoness she possess not a single trait to make her differ from the crowd. But though that may be the case she still made the Vampire Noble Sabien who is a well known to be picky of everything fall for her. The two people fell in love, married and had a child, but since their child is a half breed that most vampires despise Sabien was forced to throw the mother and son away. The reason being that he will lose all his authority in the vampire society if he keeps the mother and son, especially if he keeps Xenados. In the end, the two were thrown away and vampires who saw this as a chance to go against Sabien tried to take Xenados hostage and sell the demoness to the humans. In the eyes of Xenados that experienced many lives this kind of scenario to him is too much of a template to a tragic life. He feels sad about it but for some reason he can¡¯t express much emotion. If it were in the past even if he already experienced it he would still feel sadness, but after what happened, his mother getting revived and that presence he feels nothing for what happened. [It could be that mother is already alive and father doesn¡¯t care about me so I feel nothing with all that happened?] Those were his thoughts as he tried to make a reason to explain the situation. Although he experienced many lives, as a monster, demon, human, he lived as many kinds of races in all kinds or evil and tragic environments. But even so, he still kept one thing to him, a way of thinking that came from his very first life, the humans way of hiding from the truth. Though not all humans do it, it¡¯s not a lie to say that many humans hide from the truth. And that is what Xenados is now doing, he may not want to face it but he will soon need to. ¡°Do you want to go out?¡± From behind him Antonia came and asked Xenados, she saw her son sitting, facing the underground lake and pretty much understands his feelings. She ran away and in her struggles she found a lake and dived in, underwater she found an entrance, swimming her way to it she found that it led to an underground cave whose only opening is through the underwater cave. Antonia didn¡¯t think that they would be chased by any beast of even the vampires to the cave. First is that the vampires can¡¯t enter the water, it¡¯s one of their many weaknesses aside from the sun. Also the beast that hunt them won¡¯t waste their time trying to get to the cave. Finally there are no aquatic monsters in the lake, there are only a few large fished but these fishes understand that Antonia can easily slaughter them. In a sense the two are safe underwater, what¡¯s more the opening is like an underwater lake as there are still fishes that swim in the water. THe two could live their lives in the cave until they are strong enough to walk among outside again. ¡°No mother I- I was just thinking of something¡± Antonia knows that her son revived her through some inexplicable means and that her son had some changes. No matter what happens she would make sure that her son is happy and that he could feel the love of a mother. ¡°If there¡¯s anything that you need tell me okay¡± With a smile Antonia made her way deeper in the cave where she made some stone furniture with magic. Xenados thought for a while then he walked towards the deeper parts of the cave where his mother, Antonia is. ¡°Oh what is it Xenados?¡± ¡°Mom¡­ do you still love dad?¡± Hearing her son¡¯s words Antonia froze, his father, Sabien. He threw the two of them away but the reason is not simply because he won¡¯t be able to keep his power but also because if that happens when he is taking care of the two they would surely die. Though one thing led to another making it so that they would still die anyway, Antonia still didn¡¯t think bad of Sabien after all he did try to ensure the two of them get out of the continent and be safe but it was not his fault that they almost died. ¡°Yes, I still do¡± Xenados looked at his mother, his eyes didn¡¯t show any emotion whatsoever. His face was calm, though it may look weird but for the whole time his expression was simple null, he had no expression on his face in his eyes. They were not cold, they held no emotion to the very bone. Even his words, his tone were emotionless, much so that it would seem like he experience so much that he became numb to emotions. ¡°Then, I can kill all the vampires in this continent except for father, right?¡± His words shocked Antonia and just when she was about to say something Xenados continued. ¡°I just want to enjoy life, and unless I kill all the vampires who want to kill me, I will never be able to relax and enjoy my life¡± His words struck Antonia and she just stayed silent. As she was organizing her thoughts and looking at Xenados the little dhampir jumped onto her and fell asleep. Chapter 3: My Current Power The next day Antonia went out of the cave to look at the current situation. She may not be able to fight against the monster in the forest but she knows that no one would enter the forest and go as deep as the lake. So she would just stay at the lake and see if there are any kind of presence that entered. It¡¯s not like adventurers powerful enough to enter this deep would never appear, she just needed to see if there are any presences that aren¡¯t monsters. If there are she would go back into the cave and seal the entrance. ¡°Now then ¡± After uttering those words a transparent screen appeared before Xenados. The screen is similar to those that can be seen on RPG games. Seeing this, Xenados was not fazed, surprised or anything. In fact he breathed out a sigh of relief as he looked at the screen. In most of the world''s he¡¯s been to as long as your soul had enough strength you could see information of anything and anyone as long as their soul was not stronger than yours. Of course since Xenados came from a modern world he feels comfort at seeing the information like that of one in an RPG. He looked at his stats and¡­
Name: Xenados Void Age:3
Race: Dhampir Title:[Void Master][Dark Soul][Ruined Man]
Strength: 69
Agility: 50
Intelligence: 100
Dexterity: 150
Mana: -------
Unique Skills:
Skills: Vampirism Lv.1 Enhanced Senses(smell,touch,taste,hearing ,sight, vestibular,proprioception)Lv.1 Enhanced strength Lv.1 Mental Fortitude Lv.10 Pain Resistance Lv.10 Status Effect Resistance Lv.10
Curses:
Seeing his stats Xenados was shocked, although he is in a new world the status screen will never change. This is a fact given that it will show all the information on an individual in the best way for him to understand. With this Xenados made it so that a level 1 on any skill would be equivalent to being experienced. In this case a level one in swordsmanship would be enough to warrant someone to become a knight. A level 4-5 would be eligible to become a royal knight. Heroes and demon kings would have 6-7 and having 8-9 would be short of impossible but it would be enough to be called legendary. And a level 10 would be equal to god. In other words if anything reaches level 10 it would be similar to having the strength of gods. ¡°Just how?¡± Those were the only words he could say, after all even in his past life he was not able to reach level 9 at most he would be able to get a skill to level 8, forget about 10 getting a skill level of 9 is already impossible unless he is a god. But just now¡­ No matter how many times he checks it, the status really shows a level 10 in three stats. Though he would have liked it much better if he got those stats on something more offensive but defense could not be neglected. Also it may be called ¡°cheat¡± but in the end those are just resistances to pain, status effects and mental fortitude. He may have these three resistances but it doesn¡¯t change the fact that he could easily get killed by a god. He may feel less pain from the tragedies that are to come his way but if his body can¡¯t take a hit then this three skills are just detrimental to him. First of all the pain resistance would indeed lessen pain but with his sense of pain becoming numb his natural instincts would not kick in. Having bravery to charge into battle is admirable but that¡¯s that, you are admired but in the end dying if you die, then what? Xenados understands his own body and knows that currently many could kill him without even batting an eye. With this pain resistance reaching a god like realm he fears that if he ever get¡¯s into a fight he would not know when to stop. Even if he were to lose and arm he would not feel pain, that is how powerful the resistance is. But having a weak body with that much pain resistance could only lead to death. Next is his mental fortitude, he found the expression of Antonia weird especially when he told her about his plans. And he just found out when he looked at his own reflection after seeing his mother dive to see what¡¯s happening on the surface. His eyes held no emotion, and when he tried to make himself sad, angry he can¡¯t. It¡¯s like he lost his emotions, he even released his past memories as a soul, when he wandered all the 100 worlds but in the end his expression made not a single change and even his mind which should be in chaos was able to relax and see things in a calm manner. ¡°Am I bound to become an emotionless monster?¡± Xenados thought to himself as he stared at his reflection, his dead fish eyes, one red the other white, both having a dark evil pupil. ¡°If I remember there should be eye powers¡­ but my skill¡­ it could be that¡± Passing through multiple worlds there are many things that Xenados knows would not appear in his status. One of those are powers that are a born of the essence of the soul.If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. Please report it. Unique skills are either gifts from god¡¯s or skills attained by certain individuals after fulfilling certain requirements.These kinds of skills are what one could call the geniune ¡°Cheat¡± not only that these skills have no levels. The reason is simply because unique skills have no limitations, for example Xenados has the unique skill. This skill could be classified as a regular skill and have levels but the reason Xenados has it as a unique skill is due to him having the title of [Void Master]. Skills all differ and have different kinds of effects but these differences appear due to racial characteristics or the most important part the soul. Xenados feels that at the time that the message of him getting the curse something happened to him, specifically his soul. There are changes that he felt from the time he regained consciousness but he was not able to understand what it was. Shaking away the stressing thoughts Xenados instead started examining his other powers. Well all in all unless he understands what his unique skills are he would not be able to use them also his current skills¡­ Vampirism could be sucking blood. Currently the only thing he could try is what kind of powers his eyes have. His eyes are not the same he reckons that both have some kind of power and that they both are different. His left eye having been change so much is obvious but his right eye holds more mysteries, to him that is. In fact no one would think that something is weird with his right eye but Xenados knows for a fact that both of his eyes were like that of a humans save for the red pupils before his drastic changes. No one might notice but Antonia, Xenados and Sabien would be able to notice the change in the color of his right eyes pupils. Of course they wouldn¡¯t think anything special about it but Xenados knows that there is something with his right eye. The easiest way to understand it¡¯s power is to look at the world with that eye. In his experience, when one has eyes with different powers, when using both of them at the same time no changes are seen but when isolated and used on their own the power of each individual eye would shine. Closing his left eye and covering it with his left hand Xenados looked at the world through his right eye. With that although he didn¡¯t cover or close his right eye he couldn¡¯t see anything only darkness. A question and choices pop out of the darkness, when he saw these changes he understood that he could share someone¡¯s vision. Confused at who he would share vision with Xenados chose [Yes]. The next moment he saw blue, no to be more excat he is looking at a world underwater. He moved his vision and saw that the arms that were paddling through the water looked familiar. ¡°Those tattoos¡­ MOM!¡± Understanding this Xenados realized that he could share his mother¡¯s vision and see what she see¡¯s. ¡°This means that I could share my vision with those that have a connection with me¡­ then how about father? Could it be distance?... No it shouldn¡¯t be what else is there, could it be?¡± Thinking about this Xenados came to a conclusion, the tattoos all over his mother''s body are not simple marks of going through some sort of forbidden ritual. Actually those tattoo like marks make a connection between him and Antonia. ¡°Hmm?¡± While realizing how amazing his eyes were he then saw a shadow on top of the water. Antonia slowly surfaced, her head rising only to reveal her clear purple eyes. In her field of vision a group of adventurers were looking around the lake. Antonia dived once again and swam slowly nearing the lakes edge, Xenados understands and knows her plans but he wants to tell her to go back. He then remembers that there is a certain skill that he could use. From one of the hundred worlds, a skill that could make one posses another, but Xenados now only used this to share a body with his mother. As he did he was able to make his sense in tune with hers, an eighth of his soul has merged into Antonia¡¯s body and just as it did. ¡°The demon and her offspring should have dived into the lake¡± ¡°There are no other tracks so they could have drowned¡± ¡°Our informant said that they escaped deep into the forest, both are in bad condition they may very well have drowned¡± ¡°The lake also has not a single monster so they should be underwater, *sigh* let¡¯s go back¡± ¡°Wait! We could retrieve the corpses and make it look like we done them in, that could fetch us some cash while adding some points to our names¡± ¡°They could tell that the two were drowned¡± ¡°Let¡¯s say we cornered them and made them drown to death, also the informant was obviously rich, if we get the two bodies and prove that they are dead we could get some high rewards from that guy, after all he did say ¡°All you need to do is confirm that they are dead and I will reward you¡±, though he could evade it if we simply go out and say that they drowned if we brought back the corpses then we could get more cash. Anyway it¡¯s just diving for two corpses how hard could that be¡± The adventurers started laughing while they undress to dive and take the corpses. Not knowing that the two are still alive and Antonia had already slipped into the cave and closed the entrance with earth magic. [garurun] The ground slightly shook and the five adventurers noticed this anomaly. One of them a magician clad in yellow robes exclaimed, ¡°Earth magic!¡±. ¡°Where?¡± ¡±Where?¡± ¡° Where?¡± ¡°Where?¡± The other four adventurers heard his words and asked in unison. ¡°Underwater!¡± Hearing the mage''s words the four people understood. ¡°They¡¯re still alive huh¡± ¡°A cavern! An underwater cavern they must have hid there and now closed the entrance!¡± ¡°Quick! If we go in now we could still find where the closed entrances is, that large of an earthquake will surely have been cause by some huge moving earth. If we go now we could still find the bloodied knife!¡± The five adventurers dived in haste and just as they found the large cloud of sediments underwater. Since the movement was done underwater the dust that was put into disarray has yet to settle giving out the area at which the entrance use to be. ¡°Puwah! Julius could you open up a passageway?¡± ¡°Heh, something that could easily fit the five of us is easy¡± ¡°Hey we could sell the demoness but since she is a demon it¡¯s not like being used goods would make her price fall right?¡± The five adventurers dived again and before they did one of them said something outrageous. Well in truth demons are treated as monsters but as they are still have some sort of resemblance to humans it¡¯s not rare for these human like monsters to be sold in the underground slave trade. After all having a human slave is a crime but having monster slaves is seen as right and just in the eye of the church. Humans may treat them as filthy monsters but since that is the case turning them into sex slaves is something that is seen as normal, but they still have to be sold in the underground auction, especially demons. There are churches that don¡¯t allow having intercourse with monsters no matter how human like they are, and these churches hold great power especially in this continent. As such people especially those in places these churches are located in are forced to make their hobbies secret. Knowing that even if the demon is not a virgin they will still fetch a high price most adventurers and slave traders would play with them before selling them. Of course a slave trader would only do it once and if the customer has their eyes set on a certain slave they would clean her up and not touch her until the slave trader either picks her up or cancels the contract. With vulgar smiles on their faces the adventures proceed to head into the opening created by the mage as they were thinking of things they would do to that demoness. Chapter 4: Killing Adventurers Inside the underground cave, Antonia flew out of the lake and immediately took up Xenados. ¡°Mom?¡± ¡°Don''t worry honey, it''s gonna be fine¡± Antonia tried to hide the fact that adventurers are coming to attack. Although she was saved by Xenados from the hands of death, she still won''t allow her son to face up against adventurers. Also considering that these adventurers are able to safely reach the lake proves that they at least have the strength of a B rank adventurer. But contrary to her expectations, Xenados stopped her on her tracks. ¡°Mom, we don''t need to run¡± ¡­ Antonia wanted to say something but Xenados has some kind of aura exuding from his body. That aura made her feel warm, made her trust everything her son says. Though she wants to hide him and make a sacrifice, something inside her stopped those thoughts. With a smile Xenados directed his vision towards the lake. ¡°¡± Following his silent mutter two dark portals appeared beside him. From those two beings appeared. With a body like that of a smoke, with the upper body of a human and the lower body of something similar to a tornado. The two beings exude an aura of death. Suddenly two bright lights showed on their blank faces, the two lights formed something like eyes as the two looked towards Xenados. Seeing the frightening beings that she knows nothing of appear out of nowhere Antonia wanted to pull Xenados into her embrace to protect him but she was signalled by him to stop. ((We shall follow our lord''s commands)) Two inhuman voices leaks out of the two beings nonexistent mouths as they look towards Xenados. ¡°Then I order the two of you to kill whoever appears out of the water. Make sure they suffer, torture them if you will, but ensure that they don''t approach ten meters of me and my mother. Also keep at least one alive, I need to drink blood¡± ((Yes milord)) Xenados nodded in approval but for some reason he felt that the two beings were¡­ happy and enjoying this. As if answering Xenados¡¯ thoughts the two spoke in unison once more. ((As expected of our master, to enjoy the suffering of others, kukuku, this is gonna be fun)) Finally Xenados understood a bit, these familiars they more or less came from the void. As such their inherent nature is the same. Since they lowered their heads to him, he should be able to see their status no matter how much stronger their soul may be compared to his. ¡°¡± Once again the status of the two beings appeared before him, displaying themselves as the status of a game character on a screen.
Name: (None) Race: Shade(Void Spirit)
Class:Mythical Rank: C
Level: 1
Unique Skills:
~~~~~~~~~~P.O.V Change~~~~~~~~~~ After using earth magic to open up a cave we entered the hole to find that there¡¯s something like an underground cave. This is obviously how those two monsters survived, kukuku, if it''s this place toying with that demoness would be a lot more fun. Just seeing the anguish on her face when she realizes that she''s trapped here, serving us until we''re satisfied. Ahh~ I can¡¯t wait! There¡¯s the opening, okay time to start, kukuku ¡°Okay demon, strip down and beg if you don''t want your little dhampir baby dead!¡± Guess that would be enough now then- ¡°ahhh!¡± A case of content theft: this narrative is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. What? Just as that scream came another followed. ¡°nooo!¡± ¡°Magic, use magic now!¡± Looking at my two companions who are screaming in agony I found that behind them are two ghastly monsters. Lumps of black smoke that makes an outline of a human and that lower body that''s like a mini tornado. (kuhahaha! These humans aren''t even good to be called a warm up!) (Calm yourself! The Lord has ordered us to torture them but he wants to keep at least one for satisfying his thirst) (The lord does have Vampire blood after all) The two monsters just floated there talking to each other, as if we didn''t exist. How could I accept this? let me show these beast how a mage fights! ¡°!¡± A fist sized ball of red flames gathered on my hand and shot towards the monsters. ¡°Take that!¡± The ball of flames flew towards the monster but¡­ eh? ¡°It-¡± (Something like that would not be able to even make me itch) The monster that got hit by the fireball wasn¡¯t fazed by the attack¡­ could this be one of those legendary ghost? I mean¡­ then does that mean. ¡°Eek don¡¯t come closer¡± I¡¯m just a low level adventurer and the sole reason I got here is because of the¡­ ¡°Ha! You think that I¡¯m afraid of you? Cower in front of this!¡± I stood up and took out a medallion from my bag, this is an anti-monster totem, though it¡¯s a medallion the one who gave me this told me that it¡¯s a totem. Well I don¡¯t care as long as it works. The reason our band of low level adventurers are able to go deep into the dark forest is because of this item. ¡°You think that you can come closer ha! Let¡¯s see you tr-¡± Although I used the item, why? ¡°How...¡± ((Something like that is just trash)) The monsters said, their voice was cold as ice but it felt like they were mocking me. But I understand, no more than that why?! Why did the item not work! This was given to me by the church! This will repel any monster as long as they aren¡¯t ranked above D. But this monster can withstand the effects this could only be¡­ ((Don¡¯t worry we will not kill you all, but our master will)) ¡°Hiii! Don¡¯t come closer! No¡­ nooo!¡± ¡°Stop noo¡± I gotta get out of here while the other two are still¡­ (Where do you think your going?) ¡°Noooo¡± ~~~~~~~~~~P.O.V Change~~~~~~~~~~ ¡°Xenados what¡¯s happening out there?¡± Xenados went deeper in the cave so his mother would not see the battle between his familiars and the adventurers. He may not know the power of the adventurers but he knew that with the skills and his familiars will not lose. They may have but they are still not invincible, but Xenados knew that unless his enemies had a way to destroy the void element or at least seal it defeating his shades are close to impossible. Powerful magics may be able to beat his familiars but Xenados had the feeling that the adventurers are weaker than they look to be. ¡°Don¡¯t worry mother, it will soon be over¡± After Xenados¡¯ words the screaming that has been echoing through the cave has already died down. ¡°Let¡¯s go¡± The two walked towards the lake and what reflected in their eyes shocked the two. Two corpses(if they could even be called corpses) were melted into a puddle, the only way it could be seen as a corpse is the body parts like on eyeball and clothes that haven¡¯t turned into goo. Behind the puddles of corroded human flesh are two other corpses, this time they kept their shape but their skin is pure black. They looked to have been charred but there is no burnt smell in the air. If one examined them closely one could see that their eyes looks like it¡¯s been turned to coal, their eyes looked more like molten rock that dried but there are small fissures that have a faint glow of red. Their hair turned white and their corpses have dried so much that it¡¯s like their flesh was sucked out of them leaving only skin and bones. Xenados wanted to sigh, ¡°Did they forget my order?¡± he thought but when he directed his eyes towards the lake he found that the two shades were floating beside one of the adventurers. Unlike the other four he is still alive only¡­ he was shaking uncontrollably he curled up on the ground his hands clutching the sides of his head. His eyes swam through the room as if looking for something, he could only be described in one word, insane. If this were in a modern world the man would be classified as ¡°Mentally unstable¡±, but his condition is far worse. He¡¯s continuously muttering something as if his life depended upon his words. When Xenados went closer he smelt a foul odor, he looked at the man and realized that this grown up man has soiled himself, the putrid smell of piss and feces wandered in the air. Not wanting to smell anymore he ordered the two shades to use on the man and the air making the foul scent disappear. ((We are sorry master)) ¡°It¡¯s fine, now return to the void¡± Xenados knew that this outcome was expected, after all his familiars didn¡¯t have any type of restraining skills. He reckons that this was the best way they could keep someone unable to fight. As he thought about this the two shades suddenly asked. ((We wish to stay in this realm with our master)) Xenados was shocked, familiars are summoned from other realms or worlds and they would have a connection to their past world and be able to go back as long as their master allowed them to. The cases of which a familiar wants to stay in their masters world are few as even the masters would have to sacrifice a huge amount of mana to keep their familiars in their world. Seeing the hesitation in the eyes of their master they understood the reason for this immediately. ((You have nothing to worry about master, as the [Void Master] you should be able to summon and keep any number of shades in this world as thy desires. This is only for you though as the Void has already considered you it¡¯s master and all things of the void shall bow their heads to you)) The words from the shades shocked Xenados, he doesn¡¯t know how much power he can control using the Void but it is once again one of the power that doesn¡¯t match with his current state. ¡°Another Power I need to use moderately¡± The power to summon a large number of shades and other powerful beast from the void. This could very much allow Xenados to rule over the whole continent¡­. No he could even start world domination. But this is all if he could stay alive. No matter how powerful his soldiers are an army without a king would still fall, Xenados has the means but he doesn¡¯t have the power to back it up. If he starts a campaign for world domination or march towards even one kingdom with an army of monsters from the void, who knows what kind of individuals would be attracted by his power. As powerful as his minions may be there will always be a way to get through them. In this case, if he doesn¡¯t have the power to defend himself that would be the end. Also as much as he desires revenge¡­ ¡°Where is the fun in making others destroy your enemy?¡± Xenados has anger that he wants to let out, he wants to pay back those that made him suffer ten times more! He wants revenge and what better way than to torture, humiliate and break someone with his own hands? ¡°Revenge is sweetest if done with one¡¯s own strength¡± Borrowed power has many flaws and weaknesses but having absolute strength that belongs solely to oneself is a better lifeline. Xenados remembers from the the countless lives he experienced that powerful beings that can topple armies and make the heavens shake exist. And power like that is not impossible. ¡°No matter how long it takes I will fulfill my Revenge¡± To get his revenge he will need to attain the power of a god, but as impossible as it may seem all he needs to do is get power stronger than Vincentius. Vincentius may seem powerful to Xenados now but that¡¯s not sure in the next ten? Hundred years? As long as he is still alive as long as he still has his soul, no matter how long it takes he will ascend into godhood and take that god¡¯s head. And his revenge is not something impossible, in the hundred years he came and go from Vincentius¡¯ place he saw that there are a lot more gods that are more powerful than Vincentius. The reason they couldn¡¯t kill Vincentius may be due to an agreement between gods so they won¡¯t destroy themselves, but if Xenados becomes a god then Vincentius can die, right? Chapter 5: title at the bottom ¡°Xenados¡­¡± Antonia looked at her son with eye¡¯s filled with sorrow. ¡°Mom¡­ sorry, I became like this¡­¡± Averting his eyes from her Xenados didn''t want to face her. Her son who she sacrificed her life for, for her precious son to become a monster, a heartless murderer, he doesn''t want to see the detection in her eyes. No he fears that he would find dejection in her eye, although not personally he knows how much love she has for her son. [Throughout all the lives I¡¯ve lived through, this is the very first one where I have felt genuine love from my parents¡­ my first one, before I was pulled by that bastard god, I felt love from my family but¡­ after a hundred years of experiencing thousands of lives¡­ the memory, the feeling from that life, has already been lost] Antonia didn¡¯t mind what her son has become, she knows that in this world being kind and forgiving is but a naive way of thinking. Her son has changed, though he may not have changed for the better but as a mother she knows what her job is. The emotions of her son are currently in a swirl, he may not have taken their lives with his own hands but it¡¯s not a lie to say that he¡¯s the reason they died. She knows she understands, this is his son¡¯s very first kill, the most important thing is that she is able to lead her son to the right path. Her son was able to easily kill B-rank adventurers if he continues in this path, he would surely bring chaos to the world and to himself. What she doesn¡¯t know is that Xenados can perfectly think things through, he has experiences from many lives and with those he understands how to weigh the pros and cons. Also losing oneself and becoming a murderous monster is something he would never want to become. ¡°Xenados¡­ dear¡± Antonia ran up to Xenados taking him into her arms, she hugged him tightly. Feeling the warmth of his mother''s embrace, Xenados¡¯ mind relaxed. [This feeling of warmth¡­ it¡¯s been so long] ¡°Mom¡­ are you not disappointed in me?¡± Xenados looked up to his mother''s face and asked this question. He fears that he will be hated by her and most of all he fears to be seen as a monster by her. But he mustered up his courage and asked. ¡°Son, I don¡¯t care if you use power for good or evil, as long as you make the right choices and not fall into a path that you can¡¯t return from¡­ I will never hate you even if you did, but I want to see you live your life without having someone chase after you, hunting you down. As long as you live a life that you enjoy I will support you no matter how good, idiotic, evil or naive it may be, mom will always be here for you. Okay¡± Hearing his mother''s words, tears uncontrollably gathered in his eyes, streams of tears flowed down from his face. His eyes that looked cold, emotionless and filled with hate now looked like that of a child''s. His profound eyes that would make even the gods shiver now looked joyful bringing with it more profoundness. In the evil darkness a light bloomed and brought with it salvation to the the darkness. Light dissolves the darkness and darkness blankets the light, the world will always have a good and evil side a dark and light side. Xenados is the same, his evil emotionless personality is but one side of the coin. He may be heartless, he may kill anyone that goes in his way without batting an eye. But he still has a heart, he still knows how to love. All living beings have desires, Xenados desires for revenge but more than that he desires for the thing that has been taken from him¡­ Love, he wants to feel the warmth of genuine feelings of love. [I don¡¯t care what kind of love, as long as it¡¯s genuine love towards me, as long as there¡¯s the warmth that has been taken from me. I¡¯m fine with it, I will protect it, this time, this time I won¡¯t lose it! Even if I have to kill all the gods even if I have to face the whole universe! I will protect this, the one thing that¡¯s important to me¡­ the one thing that keeps my humanity.] On his emotionless cold face a smile was born, it¡¯s been a hundred years since Xenados had smiled from the bottom of his heart. ¡°Mother¡­ I promise you I will protect those that are important to me¡±The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation. ¡°Yes, yes as long as you are happy I will be here¡± ¡°Mnn¡± In a big mansion hidden deep within the blood forest, ten men and women were seated around a large table. The room is filled with various furniture, paintings and expensive works of art. They were all having their meal, various delicious looking dishes were on top of the table. Though no matter how attractive the foodstuff are the person seated on the highest seat of honor was simply holding a glass of blood red wine with a frown on his face. ¡°Father what is the reason for that frown? You haven¡¯t even touched your dinner, we may be immortal but it¡¯s not good to skip meals and just drink blood¡± The person who said this words towards the frowning man is a young man who looks to be 15 years of age. Though he looks like this he is actually more than a hundred years old. And although he called the man father he simply called him that because the man is the person who gave him immortality, the one who turned him into a vampire. Vampires can be born but the fertility of a vampire is so low that it would need them a hundred years of continuous sex to get pregnant. Also when a female vampire gives birth, she loses half of her powers, as such vampires would rather use their blood to turn other races into vampires. When this happens the races turned into a vampire would become the child of the vampire who turned him to one. There are also cases where a vampire mates with other races, when this happens chances of having children shoot up. Especially if the vampire is the male and the female is of another race. But in this cases the born child would never be a vampire but be labeled as a dhampir. Dhampirs are not only shunned by the vampire community but also by the other races, not only dhampirs, half-humans, half-elves, half-orcs there are many races that have interracial relationships but the children of this relationships are all shunned. In the whole world half breeds are seen as the common enemy, the reason for this is the races hate for each other. Since ancient times the various races of the world continously had wars against each other, the hate piled up to such extremes. But love between two individuals is something that can¡¯t be stopped that easily. ¡°That demoness actually believed that you fell for her¡± A youthful feminine voice then entered the man''s ears, with these all the vampires in the room started talking with each other about the relationships of their ¡°father¡± and the demoness. Their ¡°father¡± is of course Sabien, though in Antonia¡¯s eyes his different in actual fact he¡¯s no different from the other vampires, if anything is different it would be his perverted sadistic side. Sabien, if he were a human would be classified as a ¡°Pedophile¡±, he is sexually attracted to ¡°younger¡± women but not only that he¡¯s an extreme sadist. Before he met Antonia he played with many children, and although he lived for three years with Antonia, she was never able to enter deep within the mansion of Sabien. In fact he used the Vampires, his slaves to make it so he seems to be the kind who would move for love. ¡°I really wanted to play with that bitch, well, if she gave birth to a daughter then I would have kept her for longer but since she gave birth to a son and the young vampire princess is travelling and would reach here sometime in the future, I could only throw them away¡± ¡°Father really is worthy of the title ¡°Great Pervert¡±¡± One of the vampires said but Sabien was not fazed, right now he was thinking of what to do since he lost all his playthings. A few days ago he threw the mother son pair away without showing Antonia his true side. ¡°If I showed her my true side and told her what I¡¯d do if she gave birth to a girl¡­ I would love to see the look on her face, it¡¯s just so¡­.¡± Sabien controlled his urge and then a thought came to his mind, [What if I got the human princess as a toy?]. The human princess of the kingdom he is closest to just became three years old. The same age as his ¡°son¡±, if he kept the mother son pair he could have made and arranged marriage and make it as a way for the vampires and humans to make peace. They don¡¯t need to have eternal peace but at least some treaty or agreement, the humans being greedy and all he only needed to show some riches that are a good trade to make them nod their heads. In this way he could play with the human princess whenever she came to his mansion. More than that it¡¯s not like he will give his ¡°son¡± a wife right? If needed he would murder his son and make it so he died in an unfortunate ¡°accident¡±. After which he would direct the marriage towards himself and it¡¯s not like age matter when marrying a vampire so using his son is a great idea that he came up with. But instead of having the title of married man and playing with the human princess, throwing them away for a greater, vampire princess is a better choice is it not? He could try making the engagement for himself directly but if he did, the humans would not accept this. By playing the victim and using his son to make it so the engagement could not be cancelled is a great idea but then again the vampire princess is like a gem among them all. Vampires age slowly, ten years growth to a human is a hundred years to a vampire. In a sense 1 year growth to a human takes 10 years for vampires. Dhampirs are not like this as their blood is not pure. The other thing is that vampires can stop their bodies aging whenever they desire. Though they stop they can''t make their age suddenly continue. This is why most vampires pick to look between ages 18 to 30, only a few "eccentric" vampires choose to look younger or older than that range. Sabien can make one of his subordinates children do this but will that satisfy him? His subordinates are his slaves, they would do whatever he desires, compared to someone like the vampire princess or anyone with a noble lineage breaking this kind of people are a lot more fun and satisfying to him. ¡°I want all of you to kidnap village children from humans, demons or ogre villages, girls only and be sure to not spread the info of who ordered this¡± ¡°Yes Milord¡± After which the nine vampires disappeared and started their mission. From this day little girls would disappear from various villages across the continent. All these little girls would be brought to Sabien¡¯s mansion. When the first little girl was lost, from Sabiens mansion pained cries would be heard throughout the night. Since no one is allowed to enter 1 kilometer from Sabiens mansion and since it was guarded by his most trusted men no one knew what was occurring in the mansion. This event would cause the whole continent and all the various kingdoms in it to classify the disappearance of little girls as a ¡°Mystery¡±. And following this many parents would tell their children to stay indoors especially if it¡¯s getting dark. But no matter what the kings of the various powers do they can¡¯t pinpoint a culprit and no matter what they do disappearances can¡¯t be stopped. As such even the adventurers guild put up a job to hunt for this ¡°Little Girl Devourer¡±. Chapter Title: Understanding and the Great Pervert Chapter 6: Moving towards the north, understanding ones power ¡°guh-¡± Xenados weakly dropped to his knees as he felt his whole body ache. ¡°Xenados!¡± Antonia ran towards him her face filled with worry. The two just surfaced from the water, after killing the adventurers and seeing that there''s nothing good on them Xenados decided to head north. From the information his shades got from the adventurers, south east of their location is a fairly large town with an adventurer''s guild. And to the west is the Mansion of his father Sabien, Xenados when he thought about it realized the incongruity in his father through his memories of him. His experience is not first hand, but it would be similar to watching professional actors acting out scenes. The reason he felt something wrong is that his father''s actions, emotion and expressions to Xenados who watched real life experiences like tv shows felt that his father was plastic. When he watched the events in his memories no matter how much he repeats them, it felt like watching an inexperienced actor working with a Grammy Award winning actor. Also he saw in the eyes of the servants, instead of hate or disgust, they directed mocking or sympathetic gazes when they saw him and his mother. He felt like going back to his father¡¯s side screaming, ¡°Dad, I''m back and stronger so now I will help you fight for our family!¡±. He asked his mother if she wanted to do that but she simply replied, ¡°Don''t get to overconfident, right now instead of trying to fight with your incomplete power, you should start training and getting familiar with your powers. You may be a half-breed but as a dhampir you have immortality, so take your time, mother will always be here for you¡±. Xenados felt warm hearing her words, but that doesn''t change the fact that he feels something of from his father. So not taking chances he decided to head north. If he went south or east meeting human caravans is an assured fact, west would make make them encounter vampires. In the end the only way he could survive is to head north. But it''s not like north would be all fine and dandy, heading north would be like walking on fire. The reason Xenados decided to head north is because there is no one who would go there. More specifically, the north is a hotpot of monsters. To the west beyond the mountain ranges is the mansion of his father, to the east all the way to the south is human territory. The north although dangerous, compared to the other choices is far more safer. Adding the fact that an army of shades could make a way for him and protect him from mindless beast, the only problem he would have are monsters with intelligence. In any case from Antonia he found out that the number of monsters with intelligence, even in this forest alone would not even be number past 10. So the safest route he figures would be through the den of monsters. Anyway if he did have to face monsters he could summon an army of shades. ¡°The next problem would be¡­ transportation¡± Xenados jumped out of his mother''s embrace and started ordering the two shades to bring him a ride. ¡°Posses a monster, a fast one that can carry both me and my mother¡± ((Yes milord)) The two shades after hearing their orders immediately floated towards two separate locations. After they disappeared Xenados summoned another 3 shades from the void. (((We hear thy bidding, master))) The three immediately made some sort of bowing gesture, but their bodies being ghostly made it look weird instead. ¡°I will test out my skill, so I want the three of you to protect us¡± (((Yes, Milord))) The three then disappeared into the ground, a few seconds later the earth shook and a small dome covered Xenados and Antonia. After which from the walls small protrusions came out.Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. The protrusions are flat and not pointed and on top of it a small violet flame emerged. Four other similar protrusions appeared accompanied by four more violet flames. The five flames lit up the inside of the dome but Xenados, after careful examination realized that the five flames were positioned much so that it would be at the edges of a five pointed star. [As long as we''re safe I don''t mind whatever they do, and surprisingly this dome those flames and their positions. For some reason they seem to give me, energy¡­ weird, anyways it''s better to start learning about my abilities.] Unique Skills: A magic using the energy of the void as it''s base. Unlike conventional magics this types of magic that rely heavily on mana this magic only needs one to have a connection to the void. The greater the connection, the stronger the magic becomes. (Current connection to the void, [Void Master], able to use void magic up to expert level, able to freely control void energy) Summons a familiar based of of one''s greatest attribute. (Currently able to summon Shade[Expert level void familiar], Shadowling[Expert level shadow familiar] and Darkling[Expert level darkness familiar]) Able to store any amount of material in a void space (Space is infinite and is not affected by the current world''s space and time) Magic of the shadow element, this allows one to use magic with the power of shadows. Using shadow based magic does not consume mana as the bearer of this skill can take the energy directly from the shadows.(Currently able to use intermediate level shadow magic) Magic of the darkness element, this allows one to use magic with the power of darkness. Using darkness based magic does not consume mana as the bearer of this skill can take the energy directly from the darkness.(Currently able to use intermediate level Dark magic) [So then, I have three types of specialized magics, a summoning skill and infinite storage. But seeing the definition of the skill I think it would be the same even if it didn''t appear. I mean in the end it''s just as long as I can use void magic I can make that storage myself. Though now that I think about it¡­ with that appearing right now I don''t need to train for it¡­ guess it''s not that bad] After reading through the skill information two loud thuds were heard. Antonia and Xenados immediately went out to check what happened and saw two carcasses of what appears to be jaguars. The black fur was still glossy and beautiful but the two beast obviously lost their soul. Xenados turned his eyes towards the two shades. Immediately the two bowed, and after which began explaining. Turns out, the two can¡¯t posses beast stronger than rank C, and these two jaguars are in fact rank B storm cats. Though Xenados was perplexed at how these two large mammals because cats, he simply shut his mouth since the information came from his mother. ¡°But if they are in this state they can''t be used¡± Saying those words Antonia looked at Xenados. Xenados simply stared at the corpses, he didn''t mind anything else then he suddenly snapped his fingers. ¡°I got it!¡± Xenados approached one of the corpses and touched it with his five fingers. His fingers wer position like that of the tips of a five pointed star, a pentagram. [I should be able to create something like an undead¡­] There are plenty ways to create undead but the most common is using mana to revitalize the body of a corpse giving it new life. In this method if the mana used has some sort of element then the undead would have a similar element. With this in mind Xenados circulated void energy through the storm cat''s corpse. The void energy first started at his fingers, slowly spreading. First going through the veins in the heart and then it circulates like oxygen. Then not even a few seconds later the whole corpse was filled with void energy. As one possessing the title [Void Master] Xenados is able to call upon an unlimited amount of energy from the void and use it unconditionally. Just as soon as he thought that the corpse would revive, the timid void energy suddenly.became wild and chaotic. Soon the flesh and skin and everything even the bones were slowly being devoured by the energy. Xenados started to bring the energy back to the void when he noticed something. The copse was devoured but the energy didn''t change shape. As if answering his questions the energy once again relaxed. The corpse was now a beautiful mix of colors but violet was still a dominant shade compared to the rest. But the most eye catching is the eyes of the storm cat. The eyeballs looked like a starry sky and a deep profound aura exuded from the eyes. Then the storm cat abruptly stood up and after which it''s body started changing¡­ no morphing. The jaguar like head of it is now covered by some sort of skull like armor, on it''s back an armor of spinal column like bones sprouted. It''s like it''s bones came out of it¡¯s body. Similarly all over it''s body bones that look to be covering it''s body like armor continuously emerged. In the end the storm cat now looked like a giant purple jaguar covered in jaguar bones. The bones had a darker shade of purple compared to it''s skin. Then the storm cat¡¯s body started glowing, the light was bright enough to blind causing Antonia to instinctively close her eyes. Xenados on the other hand could clearly see the changes. From the center of its purple body various colors and small white spots spread throughout the storm cat¡¯s body. After the glow subsided Antonia opened her eyes and then she was frozen in shock. The storm cat now looked like a celestial being, it''s body was like a universe''s image forming a jaguars silhouette. It''s bone armor didn''t have the celestial tone but its shade made it blend perfectly with the body of the storm cat. (I tried to explain it figuratively but if you have a hard time understanding, then here¡¯s an easier way to understand, Imagine Alien X from ben 10, being purple instead of black. Now imagine that to be a jaguar wearing bone armor) Xenados knows that this is not a storm cat, as such he the looked at its status.
Name: (None) Race: Void Beast
Class: Legendary Rank: E
Level: 1
Unique Skills:
Master: Xenados Void
The rank went down from B to E that''s a lot of levels. But the mere fact that it''s a legendary class, similar to dragons makes it monstrous. Not to mention that it being rank E is just a reminder that it hasn''t reached it¡¯s full potential, yet. But more than that is at the very bottom of the information, it clearly wrote that it has a master and that master is no other than the person who gave it a second life, Xenados. But what made Xenados speechless is the fact that he could name this monstrosity. A beast getting named is like making a soul connection with its master. When that happens the master and servant benefit each other. This time if he did name it, the servant would benefit but the master not so much. Xenados has zome connection, a powerful one in fact with the void, naming a monster that''s already legendary class and at the same time being of the void is already asking for another evolution. [A greater power up¡­] ¡°....hmm¡­ well then let''s call you Pluto¡± [After all Pluto is the god of the underworld in Roman mythology and having that name is good for you, I could have named you Cerberus or something along those lines but¡­ not only do you have only one head, it''s a fact that you came from the cay family¡­ sigh, I just hope that the real Pluto doesn''t kill me for this] (Woof!) ¡°?!¡± Chapter 7: Meeting more adventurers? The Frightening Ironback bear! [swoosh][swoosh] We passed through tree¡¯s, beast and the occasional beast fights. But seriously this place really is virgin ground, well in terms of human exploration that is. Anyway since the start of the journey I¡¯ve been wrapped around mom¡¯s embrace. But I doubt that she¡¯s doing this because of her love for me. I think she loves the Void Beast more than me¡­ but that might as well be my imagination¡­ right? Well no matter, I do understand why mom would come to love this beast so much. After all it¡¯s really pretty, no cool, no it¡¯s amazing. I-I just can¡¯t describe how this beast looks! It¡¯s so amazing just like an animal version of A*i&n X from B*n 1o! Though he may instead have a violet and purple as the core colors it doesn¡¯t change the fact that it¡¯s¡­ I can¡¯t describe it it using words! Well in any case we¡¯ve been travelling for a few days now and we still haven¡¯t gotten out of the forest. According to mom beyond the forest is something that they call the [Frozen Hell]. It seems that the place was named as such since the area is covered by snow and temperatures could kill someone. The [Frozen Hell] caught my interest as it¡¯s said that the last time a person went there is when the human Hero travelled the land to take down the a dragon. ¡°Though are you sure you want to go there Xenados?¡± ¡°Yep!¡± Mom¡¯s been asking me this ever since I told her about my plans, well it¡¯s not that I want to kill myself but I feel like it would be the best decision. Well if I find the cold unbearable even for my status effect resistance then I would turn back and try living in the dark forest. It¡¯s not like I¡¯m gonna have problems living in this place but I do want to become stronger. Thinking about getting stronger I remember that in most of the worlds I¡¯ve been through I was able to live like playing a game¡­ I think that I should have enjoyed my time leveling up and becoming stronger but¡­ well now that I¡¯m free of that god then I could enjoy the concept of gaining experience points and leveling up¡­ But did something like a level show up in my status? ¡°¡±
Name: Xenados Void Age:3
Race: Dhampir Title:[Void Master][Dark Soul][Ruined Man]
Strength: 69
Agility: 50
Intelligence: 100
Dexterity: 150
Mana: -------
Unique Skills:
Skills: Vampirism Lv.1 Enhanced Senses(smell,touch,taste,hearing ,sight, vestibular,proprioception)Lv.1 Enhanced strength Lv.1 Mental Fortitude Lv.10 Pain Resistance Lv.10 Status Effect Resistance Lv.10
Curses:
Now that I look at it¡­ there is no level but I do have the mana and other values but¡­ why is my mana value like that? Could it be that I am unable to use mana since I have the three unique magic skills? Then does that mean I couldn''t use cool ice magic or flashy lightning thunder and lightning? ¡­ Wait if I remember correctly this also happened in one of my lives¡­ what was it that this meant again¡­ That¡¯s it this means that I have some sort of infinite mana supply! If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement. Wait isn¡¯t that a cheat? If it¡¯s like this I could use barrier magic and command my armies right! But still that doesn¡¯t change the fact that I am a weak person who only relies on his cheats¡­ Well I could probably conquer this world but then a god would do something like a divine intervention¡­ goddamn it! Just when I got a great idea and revelation! But I could still use my magic but to beat a god one needs to become a god! An infinite supply of mana and the void is indeed powerful but¡­ The enemy is god, this is not some corny light novel, anime or manga where I battle some sort of demon king then say, Now the enemy is god! Some cheesy lines like that don¡¯t belong here! Well anyway I need to gain power, seriously well at least having these cheats assure me that I can protect myself and mom. ¡°Xenados look over there¡± Mom told me and pointed towards the north-west, following her finger I saw a group of human like silhouettes battling against a large shadow. [Stop] I ordered the void beast¡¯s to stop using mental interference type magic, in simpler terms telepathy. Well this to me is the best method but I could order them by shouting but¡­ I mean when you hear a child scream stop and two frightening beast were to follow it would not look scary but instead look weird and fake. I mean using telepathy makes it look cool not only to me but also those who see. Anyways the reason that there are two beast is because the other one was similarly turned to a beast but I used instead of Void magic a mixture of dark and shadow magic. Well magic is a profound concept and I¡¯m sure that if some high mage would hear how I created the mixture of darkness and shadow magic into Kuro possible is because they technically had the closest ¡°relationship¡± like how light and healing magic match or water and Ice. I pretty much guess that even i told them this they would still look at me as if I were an alien speaking an unknown language. The use of magic is after all more of an intelligence based power, technically magic is more powerful the more one understands it. Take for example using the fireball spell, if one grew up in a fantasy world they would be focused on memorizing the spell, mana is present in their bodies as such it¡¯s possible to create the spell. Chanting or the incantations before spells are just ¡°words given power by the monster of the past¡± as said by many of the teachers I had in magic. The chants are created by experts from the ancients era¡¯s until the present, chants are words or phrases that were forcefully shoved into the world''s laws. Magic in itself is benging the laws of the world through the use of mana, as such the powerhouses, the monsters who created the chants are worshipped similar to gods, in fact some of them are actual gods. The cases of shortening chants on the other hand is when the one practices magic such that he could imagine the phenomena. Magic is bending the laws of the world so to do this one needs to have a clear image in mind. I¡¯ve seen many who rely solely on the countless spells but fail to create their own. When one uses a spell for example fireball, hundreds or even thousands of times they can use one word or no words at all to create a fireball and throw it. In these cases people would be called geniuses but in my eyes they¡¯re just a bunch idiots. First of all the way they imagine the spell, again an example of this is ¡°fireball¡±, they imagine, ¡°A ball of fire appearing on my palms¡±. In this case the mana forcefully bends the laws to create the spell taking some assistance from the ingrained spell in the world. Compared to this I¡¯ve found out how to efficiently use magic. ¡°Flame Pillar!¡± A huge magic circle appeared above the huge beast and then a column of flames erupted encroaching the beast in the hellfire. This is one of the forceful activations, the chant must have been about a paragraph long that¡¯s why they had to wait for her to finish chanting and stall for time. Well this is a pretty normal occurrence when it comes to group fights but¡­
Name: (None) Race:Ironback Demon Bear
Class:Common Rank: A
Level: 40
Skills:
Master: None
The gigantic bear was resistant to heat and the level of the skill is at 5. The way my level system works is that Lv.10 is already godlike so what should be the level of a monster whose skills are at Lv.3 to 6? Well among all the monsters that we passed this is what I could say is one of the strongest. Yeah and judging from the people that are fighting it, the mage alone. If I don¡¯t intervene then these adventurers would die¡­ but they are adventurers¡­ Just as the bear was about to conduct a flaming charge, I realized that the adventurers are not human! Pointed ears dark brown skin and white hair! Elves! No Dark Elves! A fantasy race that I have never enjoyed being with no it¡¯s more like I never enjoyed living in a fantasy until now¡­ [Kuro you go and help them, restrain the bear don¡¯t cause harm to any side] Kuro is the second beast that I turned, after absorbing the darkness and shadow magic mixture, he similarly morphed, but instead of growing bone armor he instead turned darker. His already beautiful black fur turned even more beautiful and from his limbs black flames erupted all over his body black flames emerged but these flames didn¡¯t harm me and mom. But looking at it more closely the flames look more like his mane, he used to be a jaguar but now he looks like a mix between a jaguar and a lion. He¡¯s status¡­
Name:Kuro Race:Absolute Evil Walker
Class:Mythical Rank: E
Level: 7
Unique Skills:
Master: Xenados Void
Well he¡¯s a level below pluto but I expected this since my control of dark and shadow magic is also a level lower than my control of void magic. I have a feeling that if I wanted to I could fully master void magic anytime but let¡¯s not think about those kinds of things right now, I mean we need to save the dark elves first right?! I mean they are dark elves! The most important part of living in a fantasy! Chapter 8: Newfound power and the 2 beast The ironback demon boar charged through the wall of flames, seeing this the group of elves went pale. ¡°Big sis Eli¡­ a-are we gonna die?¡± A dark elf with two weapons of mass destruction asked nervously as she clinged onto the dark elf next to her. ¡°Ha, I guess we really are cursed aren¡¯t we?¡± The dark elf who got clinged to, Eliana Valleth said as she sighed. These group of ten dark elves are all her sisters, they may not be blood related but their bond is more than just blood. These dark elves all have one similar trait. ¡°We, the impure children are really cursed aren¡¯t we...¡± ¡°We¡¯re not impure! We¡¯re just because we aren¡¯t pure bloods doesn¡¯t mean we¡¯re impure!¡± The ten elves were at the point of no return, if they were not half bloods they would not have been thrown out, they wouldn''t need to worry about what to eat the next day, they wouldn¡¯t need to live in constant fear of monsters. ¡°If only¡­ i-if¡­ hic¡± The dark elve clinging onto Eliana started crying, hearing her crying the other elves all looked towards her. They all went silent, what was the real reason they reached this point? Is it their mothers who mated or were raped by other races? Was it the other races who are to blame? Was it their seniors or the head of the village? ¡°This world itself is the problem¡­ no the world simply exist to support life, the reason we all reached this is not the fault of our parents or the village head¡± Eliana looked at all of her comrades, all of them had various differences eye¡¯s, claws, some even have small wings or a tail. But they all had the same dark skin and pointed ears, they all have the blood of dark elves but because of fate their were born halflings, half-breeds who belong nowhere. She looked them all in the eye, her resolute and unwavering spirit flooded out and infected them all, even the crying elf wiped of her tears when she felt Eliana¡¯s aura. ¡°This is all the fault of the gods! The gods followed by our parents by all the people in the whole world! They may have different beliefs and such but there is one thing they all have in common¡± Eliana then looked towards the sky and exclaimed. ¡°They all hate half breeds! They despise us for being born! The reason we¡¯re seen as impure, the reason we we¡¯re entitled dirty since our birth is all because of the beliefs ingrained to our ancestors minds! A belief that came from the gods!¡± ¡°Good Words!¡± While the group of ten dark elves were raising their weapons once more after finding a new reason to fight, a new calling, their real enemy was, God! They want to abolish the stupid ideals of gods! But if they can¡¯t even defeat this Ironback bear and survive through this how could they wish to give themselves a new hope? No even their children or grandchildren? (To think that being at the verge of death would stimulate their inherent talents to bloom) Xenados was riding on his void beast, Pluto when he heard the exclamation of one of the ten dark elves. He noticed that they suddenly gained some sort of power, more precisely they leveled up. In the eyes normal people what would happen is the awakening and their powerup due to their natural instincts to survive.If you encounter this story on Amazon, note that it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. But Xenados had another vision, just as they heard the words of the dark elf about their enemy being god the mana inside the ten women made a drastic change. ¡°Don¡¯t worry everythings gonna be alright¡± Xenados appeared before the ten elves riding with his mother on pluto. The elves were shocked and didn¡¯t know what to do. ¡°Watch out!¡± Just as they came back to reality they realized that the pale fragile looking kid in front of them was in front of the charging ironback bear. ¡°Kyaa!¡± Just as the bear was about to drop its huge claws on Xenados¡¯ body, a cry resounded but the sound of tearing flesh was not heard. The elves opened their closed eyes only to have their mouths open wide in amazement. The paws of the bear that was supposed to be smashing down onto the boy''s body was stopped midair. The huge claws were restrained by black tentacles that extended from somewhere. When they followed the tentacles to it¡¯s source they found that it sprung out from the shadow of a tiger like beast. The bear wanted to move its other paw but the next moment his whole body was restrained. The pale boy then turned towards the bear and as if seeing a ghost the bear looked down and became obedient. The elves were perplexed but then the boy turned towards them, his red and black eyes stared at them intently. The elves noticed the eyes that were filled with darkness and evil but those very eyes looked at them without hostility but kindness. ¡°You¡± Xenados pointed towards Eliana, she looked right and left and behind her then pointed towards herself. The boy nodded and Eliana with a perplexed expression asked, ¡°Me?¡± ¡°Yes¡­ name¡± Xenados could talk properly with Antonia since he had memories of being close with her and he felt the warmth of a mother''s love from her. In contrast, Eliana is a new face it may be weird for him with his experience from many lives but¡­ (Though it¡¯s greeting it¡¯s not like the past where I say hi and the other person''s head flies to the sky) Although he had prior experience with many types of people he can¡¯t say that he has the greatest social skills or he¡¯s at the top of the ladder when it comes to socializing. In fact his experience could be considered as zero, his first life he still had some conversations but excluding that where the only other girl he talked with is his mother and sister, the other lives he had were all filled with¡­ death. In his past lives where he was sent to world just to kill a certain individual he had no time to waste on gaining friends, he won¡¯t even spend a year in each world as he only had to get enough power to kill one person then die. His conversations after he was kidnapped by Vincentius and before he was reborn as Xenados mostly went¡­ ¡°Hi I¡¯m ------¡±(Target) ¡°...¡±(Xenados) ¡°What is there something on my fa-¡± And the next moment a head flies sometimes it would even go¡­ [bump] ¡°Hey!¡±(Target) ¡°Rupture¡±(Xenados) Then a fountain of blood erupts from a body and another man turns to dust. His conversations always went like that, his targets won¡¯t even have the time to ask his name or have a proper conversation with him. ¡°Uhmm¡­ are you asking me my name?¡± Eliana guessed what Xenados meant, in fact she clearly knew that this kid was just not familiar with talking with others. After she knew another person who is like this kid. ¡°Uuuu¡­ why are you looking at me like that big sis Eli!¡± Yes, the big breasted half ogre dark elf, Kaylin Kelvaris. Her mother was raped by an ogre and was saved, unfortunately she was impregnated and thus gave birth to Kaylin. Among all the halflings she experienced more suffering than any of the other girls with her. A seed planted with no love, no matter how great the tree becomes it will still be hated by the one who planted it. In this case the one who hates her is her mother, the land where she was planted in, unlike the other girls who were born of illegal relationships between parents she was left with nothing. Having been born from rape even her mother hated her to the bone, making her have no safe haven. At these times she would stay with Eliana and thus she began treating her as a sister. Kaylin grew up being shunned by everyone thus she had a natural fear of strangers, even the girls she was thrown out with. At first she didn¡¯t talk to them that much but the longer they were with each other the closer they became. Eliana looked at her reflexively as she thought about her similarities with the little boy in front them. She shrugged it off then looked at the boy in front of them, the one who stopped the powerful ironback bears advance. She looked at the black tiger like beast and guessed that if the boy on front of them would be one of those legendary beastmasters. ¡°I¡¯m Eliana Val-, just Eliana¡± Xenados didn¡¯t fail to notice that she was about to say her last name when she stopped, he then thought about the possibility and asked. ¡°Were you exiled?¡± The reaction of Eliana showed that his guess was spot on, but then he was baffled. (Why would they exile powerful warriors like them? If anything they should disregard even the laws to keep the warriors from leaving but-) Just as he was thinking he noticed that the dark elves seem to have some minor differences, he looked closer and noticed something. ¡°Are you perhaps¡­ half-breeds?¡± Eliana shook violently with his words, she was preparing to be left and get crushed by the bear or be killed of by the boy but a minute passed and nothing happened. ¡°You could open your eyes now, I won¡¯t kill you for being a half-breed¡± ¡°Impo-¡± Eliana opened her eyes and was about to say something but she stopped when she saw Xenados closer, he had pale skin, long pointed ears, razor sharp canines and eyes that had different colors. ¡°Are you-¡± ¡°Yes just like you I am a half-breed¡± She was shocked then she looked at Antonia. ¡°She¡¯s my mother, she may be a pure blood but she won¡¯t discriminate between being half-breeds¡­ you can now relax¡± Along with all the other nine elves the dark elves who looked to be battle ready powerlessly dropped to the ground, some weeping tears of joy some rejoicing at being able to survive. Chapter 9: Circumstances and the bond shared by those of similar fate The group of elves were all sitting around a fire, this is a normal scene to them but today they had four more companions. But there should be one more but that companion of their companion went out to hunt for game. Instead of calling it a companion it would be better to call the one missing to be a pet. ¡°So um¡­ about the bear...¡± ¡°You mean Kuma?¡± Xenados immediately replied to Eliana who spoke up first to break the ice. He was now sitting face to face with the ten elves on his right is his mother on his left is Pluto behind them is Kuro. ¡°Did he really go out hunting?¡± Eliana asked, after all the bear was just a wild animal before and now it has a master. Though she personally saw Xenados naming the bear she still didn¡¯t put her guard down. ¡°I-If he went out to get some friends...¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry he¡¯ll come back only with game¡± Eliana wanted to voice out her thoughts, the bear was a wild animal so when he went out the chances of it coming back with a group of similar bears is very likely so she still can¡¯t relax. ¡°You don¡¯t have to worry when I saw it awhile ago that bear¡­ no it¡¯s not a normal Ironback Bear. Did you not realize that it was very resistant to heat and more powerful than your regular ironback bear?¡± Xenados let out a bombshell question, the elves then began thinking through it. Remembering their fight they began to talk but all that came out were questions of realization. Why did that bear not die of the Flame Pillar?, My blade didn¡¯t even put a scratch on it¡¯s fur, or It was¡¯t even fazed by the barrage of fireballs I unleashed¡­ These were the words that mostly came out of their mouths, then as they began to realize that something was off about the bear. It¡¯s defenses were superb and it¡¯s strength is something that is not to be trifled with. Seeing as the elves all focused their attention towards him Xenados let out a sigh and explained. ¡°You see Kuma is not a regular Ironback bear, he¡¯s a half-breed, an Ironback Demon Bear. Monsters and beast don¡¯t care if their kin are half-breeds or not but Kuma is a bear. In nature bears take care of their kin until they can fend or live by themselves. Kuma is not a child but we could say a teen¡± The elves looked at Xenados with great respect oozing from their eyes. They finally realized that they shouldn¡¯t have attacked the bear without assessing it¡¯s battle prowess. ¡°Well if it were a regular Ironback bear you all could have easily hunted it but even if it were a similar race to Kuma, the differences are not that apparent. The only way to realize that they are of a different species or a mixed blood is when they fight, well not all are similar to kuma that looks like a regular ironback bear but cases like this are not that rare¡± Xenados began to say words and information from his past memories¡­ (To think that I know so much but my intelligence stat is this low...) He then remembered his stats, he understood that the stats shown are that of his body, using his soul he would assess his own body and realize that his real intelligence don¡¯t match with his intelligence stat. But Xenados knows that the stats are simply a basis for the functioning of the body in the current world. The soul is powerful but the intelligence stat is mostly used as a basis for things like mana control or things related to casting magic. Each world has different laws, they also have varying types of mana, in this case Xenados understands that the mana of this world is a new one to him. (Having low intelligence is not necessarily a bad thing after all, the only thing I need to do is slowly merge my soul and mana with this world and then it would surely increase.)This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience. When one merges his body with the laws of the world he isn''t necessarily becoming an all powerful being. Most of the time when this is done the soul simply gets more powerful at mana control. Mages store mana in their body, the higher the density and purity the more powerful the spells cast becomes. When merging with the world the acquisition of mana becomes faster and the purity of the mana absorbed gets higher. Of course this only counts for worlds with mana those without well, take earth as an example. (In any case a world with magic has it better of as their life would be much easier but to think that out of the many worlds I¡¯ve been through only a few were able to merge magic and science) Xenados was wondering about this, a world where magic and science was present would only bring disaster, science would counter magic and magic would counter science. The reason for this is magic bends the laws of the world wherein science uses the laws to their advantage. A prime example of this is weapons, in a world of magic mages would use their mana to create a phenomenon to launch fireballs towards their enemies, whereas science would use gas to create a flamethrower. The two sides won¡¯t ever get along but this gave Xenados a great advantage. (Even world travelers failed to notice this, it might be the power of my soul but to use science to strengthen magic is the secret that I use to make powerful magic with low mana cost, let¡¯s not mention alchemy where all I need is knowledge in chemistry) Xenados was snickering as he thought about the idiocy of the scientist and mages who fail to accept that their magic or science is equal. Continuing to believe that their views are right they halt the advancement of the two concepts. While he was snickering and laughing for some reason the elves were looking at him full of admiration. They felt that Xenados who is a beast master and is also knowledgeable with beast and can take down the Ironback Demon bear and even subdue it turing it to one of it¡¯s pets. For all of these to be done by a half-blood like them, at a young age even made them even more proud. [gauu!] As this weird seen was playing out a low roar pulled them all back to reality, the Ironback demon bear came back on it¡¯s back are the carcases of multiple beast. The thing is the carcasses all died in a similar fashion. ¡°All of them died of internal bleeding, they are still fresh and the blood is good enough¡± Yes, Xenados ordered Kuma, the Ironback demon bear to hunt game but make sure they don¡¯t bleed so much that there''s no blood left. In the cave the only thing he ate was fishes and since they were rushing through the forest avoiding beast Xenados only had the ration of fishes they caught to eat the whole way till they met the elves. Xenados casually lifted out a deer from the back and called over the elves. When the elves were next to Xenados he then started telling them what to do. ¡°I will take this deer for myself, I need to suck blood out but I feel like when I¡¯m done all that will be left of this deer is a dried up corpse. The other game you use it all for food and whatever other things it could be used for.¡± ¡°Thank y-¡± ¡°No need to thank me we are after all in similar situations¡± Seeing Xenados acting normally and even being able to talk to the dark elves casually made her shed a tear. ~~~~~~~Xenados POV~~~~~~ The dark elf girls happily accepted my offer and started skinning and draining the blood of the other game. They asked me if I would take the blood from the other game so they would collect them in a bowl, which they had in their bags. I told them I didn¡¯t need it after all already have this deer, the reason I took this deer is because out of all carcasses this sustained the least damage, the only thing it had was a broken rib that punctured it¡¯s lungs causing it to die of asphyxiation. The heart is still better of than the rest and the body still has a bit of warmth, this might be the last game Kuma hunted before he came back. [chomp] The fresh blood of the deer was sucked by my canines, the blood I realized turned into some sort of energy. It¡¯s not mana but something else, let¡¯s call it blood energy, well this blood energy it went throughout my body and improved my muscles. I continued to suck and before I knew it the whole deer already turned into a dried up corpse. The skin was white as ashe and what¡¯s left of the fat deer is only skin and bones. I felt something inside my body so I sat up cross legged and began meditating, this practice was one where I was able to easily circulate energy throughout my whole body. The blood energy turned out to be the reason that Vampires become so powerful, the energy in the blood assimilates into the muscles of a vampire and strengthens it. The mass of the muscles don¡¯t increase but they become harder, this¡­ could it be the cheat to get the muscles as strong as steel? No not only my muscles, my bones, organs and even the blood vessels are all getting stronger but then they stopped and the strength dissipates into my body¡­ The strength gained by my body when using is directly proportional to the strength of where the source. This time the blood energy came from the deer, in which it¡¯s power is all in it¡¯s legs. I guess no I have stronger legs and can run faster also having better endurance than most humans¡­ ¡°Xenados dinners ready!¡± Mom called me and the elves all waved their hands telling me to come closer. We all sat around the campfire and then the elves began telling their story¡­ ¡°And that¡¯s what happened until we met you¡± The elves seem to have gone through much pain especially the little lass Kaylin, she was the most hurt in the village and to think that she¡¯s the one who used the Flame Pillar. For her to be able to cast it at her young age proves her intelligence and skill, she may be one of those natural born mages. Well since they told me their story I told them mine only¡­ ¡° *sniff* To think that you were treated like that! *sniff* ¡± ¡°I understand¡­*sniff* I really understand *sniff* ¡± Not only Kaylin and and Eliana even the other eight elves were quietly weeping at my story. Is that story of being thrown out at a young age that sad? I think that it may be due to my past lives but I feel like this should really be sad. Well what matters is that we have an understanding and so I ask them. ¡°Do you want to travel with me?¡± Hearing my question the elves all looked at me with a sparkle in their eyes¡­ Is traveling with me that good? Well I do have three powerful b east for protection. But their words and reasons shocked me. ¡°If we go together we could start a kingdom, A kingdom where half-breeds and mixed bloods could live peacefully!¡± I have my doubts and feel something ominous from their declaration of kingdom building but let¡¯s see¡­ it doesn¡¯t sound so bad¡­ should I try it? Well let¡¯s leave that for later, first of all we have to get through this forest yeah then we¡¯ll talk about kingdom building. Side Story: A Girl In loves thoughts ¡°Yo-you, you have the same fate as me?¡± ¡°--------¡± ¡°To think that we would meet like this¡± ¡°--------¡± ¡°I finally found you my hero...¡± ¡°--------¡± ¡°Take me, take me with you!¡± ¡°--------¡± ¡°Together we could...¡± ¡°--------¡± Opening my eyes I awaken from that nightmare¡­ again, I dreamt of it again. The final battle that decided the fate of my broken soul. The nightmarish fate that befall me a fallen god and the hero who is pushed to ruin by the gods. Our souls, in that final battle I felt a connection to him. Resonance¡­ the power that many gods desire, the power to make a connection with another and merge their powers. If the god of light and the god darkness could make their souls resonate they could create the ultimate combination, same goes with war and peace, death and life. Many gods have tried to resonate with each other for long. I was the same in my road I almost reached the truth as to why gods can¡¯t resonate but I was attacked. Yes, I was attacked and the one who attacked me is one god. Domnus¡­ the god of beginnings, I can¡¯t begin to express the hate I have for him, he¡¯s my colleague, partner and brother. We grew up together helping each other for the greater good of the gods and the universe but these all¡­ were just illusions of his. The sole reason he did those was to make use of me, when he finds that I am worthless he would end me. The god of beginnings has a counterpart the god of end, but the god of end has disintegrated leaving his place empty. Being one of the hundred core gods his place needed to be filled, my brother was in line for it making him a god with two titles and laws but the gods proposed that me, as his sister is equally qualified. He even supported me but to think that he finished me off, I was about to find the truth when he placed judgement on me. I was given twins to experiment on, the source is my brother, he told me that the twin souls were from his world. Only later did I find out that the souls were the twin daughters of the goddess of Life and god of death. The conclusion? I was stripped of my power and thrown into the void where I drifted across worlds. I got my place in one world. I was aiming for [Primal Chaos] but the realm of gods is too far of from it as such I floated for centuries in the void until I finally reached a world. I became a powerful demon queen, ¡°The enemy in my eyes is GOD!¡±. Those were the words I always say and the god of the world didn¡¯t seem to realize the demon queen was me. But then for some reason a man appeared before me, wearing a pure black robe and tight fitting black clothes underneath, he seems like a dark mage but I felt that he had more to him than just magic. Although I felt power from him that shouldn¡¯t come from humans I fought with him, I thought he was an easy kill but when he got close to me his and his body turned to dust surprisingly his soul was still there. A ghost but unlike normal ghost his figure, no his soul... is pure black. The only light is in his eyes it looked like two stars shining, complementing each other in the darkness. But what caught my attention was that his soul. A soul of pure darkness could not just be born, even the void filled with pure evil won¡¯t be able to produce a soul like his. What intrigued me is that he still had his mind with him, a soul fallen into the darkness of the abyss would cause chaos that even the top gods would fear and in front of me was that very chaos. The soul was powerful but I was a god, who had the qualifications to become a core god, that already proves my power. But with my broken soul I could do nothing but fight him to a stalemate. But that was all broken, a corrupt soul filled with darkness, there is only one reason that the highest most powerful gods would fear such an existence. Souls like these, they had one power that everyone feared, the power to devour, no worlds but gods. Devouring worlds is a trivial matter, gods would have a headache but that¡¯s it, in contrast when the being could devour gods the story changes. Beings like these just like the titans in one of the worlds was bound to be sealed in the darkness of the void.If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. But this one has a mind, he didn¡¯t lose his mind to the darkness and continues to strive for one thing, that is to kill me. He started consuming my soul but as he did a flood of memories came into his mind and also mine. There I saw it¡­ A regular life, completely normal that life that would seem like a pain to live but is actually a blessing. That life was taken, his memories came into me and I felt all his pain, his struggles. ¡°A god, abuse of power, toyed and used¡± The soul in front of me has lived for only half a century but he already experienced more than a thousand lives, more than that he even kept all the memories from the very first regular and uneventful life he had. Souls would go through Nirvana and be reborn as anew but this soul this young man was kidnapped and used by a god. He was forced to fix the mistakes of the god that kidnapped him. ¡°Enslaved, tortured mentally and physically¡± Torture is painful but when one dies he can escape it but this soul was not able to escape it he was forced to bear with it with one thing in mind. ¡°Freedom after finishing his mission¡± He was promised that he can be freed if he cleaned all the worlds that that god caused trouble for. With that goal in mind he did everything to finish the clean up in each world. He won¡¯t even take a few days in one life. To gain enough power to get close to the enemy he would be reborn into the body of someone already powerful. But the most powerful people who could walk through battlefields and defeat demon lords and great heroes are the people who experienced hell. Power doesn¡¯t come for free and the bodies he had all experienced terrible events that forged them into a powerhouse. This soul had to endure and experience all the heartache and pain of the countless lives he took over. ¡°Take, consume and kill¡± Enter a body experience pain, evolve and kill the target, all this would happen in one day, no even just an hour into the world and he already has power and the next he finished his mission. He does all this but he didn¡¯t realize that the souls that he destroyed and devoured they all became part of his soul. He kept his initial personality but the madness and anger of the thousands of souls he already consumed didn¡¯t faze him at all. He wielded the power of the damned and used them to finish his mission, a man toyed by the gods with only the thoughts of revenge left. Being a heartless monster is already normal in this situation but the next moment I found out that it wasn¡¯t a definite conclusion. There are always exceptions in the universe and this soul is one. ¡°Just get out of this world and don¡¯t bother the people¡­ if you do that I won¡¯t have to kill you¡± He said those words, I followed suit and went out of the world and escaped into a lower realm. A world much like [Primal Chaos] but is smaller and less important. This world has been the safe haven of all the fallen gods, demons and other once powerful existances. Here I found the god of the end and was told the truth of his disappearance. ¡°Domnus that bastard¡± Those were the only words I could say before my assistant appeared by my side, for years I have been collecting power to bring me to [Primal Chaos] and start gaining power to rise up back to the heavens but¡­ The man gave me a chance and I won¡¯t forget his kindness, at that moment what I saw in his eyes was, mercy. He had one thought in his mind, I lived for centuries and I could guess the thoughts of mortal souls. ¡°I don¡¯t want a goddess like you to befall another tragedy¡± Those were the thoughts that reflected in his eyes, he saw my memories I saw his, his struggles and his pain I saw and experienced them all he also had the same experience of seeing my memories. As I was thinking so my assistant told me something inconceivable. ¡°Your soul has been bonded with that rogue¡¯s soul. It seems that goddess has been able to resonate finally¡± My apprentice could track anyone with my soul energy and since I was resonating with the young soul she was able to track him. ¡°Where is he?¡± And that is how I came to today¡­ ¡°Dalia where is he now?¡± ¡°Goddess he seems to have been freed and is now in [Primal Chaos]¡± ¡°What!¡± Shock that is the only thing that I felt, that young soul for the last 50 fifty years his soul was bounded by the god of transmigration and is continuously moving through worlds killing souls that have migrated from other worlds. But now he was freed the binding of that bastard Vincentius has been removed. Also he was thrown into [Primal Chaos] gods may not have noticed but this idea is the most idiotic one that they could have decided to do. Well the gods may not care what happens to the soul but since the darkness of a soul can¡¯t be decided until they experience it first hand they may think that the young soul is nothing more than a corrupted soul that will be pulled into the void sooner or later. But they haven¡¯t seen his true prowess even Vincentius should not have realized this, gods are not perfect. They have sins they have thoughts. To become a perfect being a gods must throw away everything and then will he become perfect. But if he did become perfect he would become a law, yes the very same laws that the gods use, if a god becomes a law he becomes a universal law that could overpower gods, but if the laws fight they would destroy the universe. In contrast the gods who could wield the power of the laws although only miniscule that is enough to get them power to be respected by other gods. If this continues that soul he could¡­ haaah, I could go there and we could haa¡­ haa.. *pant* ¡°Goddess there is one problem though¡± ¡°PrObLeM?¡± ¡°The god of transmigration has planted a curse onto him, the curse of tragedy¡± Seems like I will need to go to him, he gave me chance so I will also give him one. That was he might¡­. ¡°Goddess, I know you''re excited but stop drooling. I don¡¯t think that soul would like a perverted woman who drools over himself¡± ¡°Who are you calling perverted! Anyway let¡¯s go! AH! Wait let me finish pilling up my stuff into the storage¡± The goddess opened a door and inside a gigantic room filled with various paintings, sculptures and orbs with images appeared. The light inside was from countless candles and in the middle of the room is an altar. On the altar a familiar face was present, Xenados Void, a soul would transfer worlds but the thing that won¡¯t ever change is it¡¯s appearance. No matter where it goes the soul will find a suitable vessel where it could fit. As such the appearance of the soul that travelled world''s killing a multitude of powerful beings would always be the same. The astonishing thing is that in this very room the face of the young man is plastered everywhere. The scenes of his battles flashed in the orbs each portraying a different opponent. The altar had a huge sculpture with many paintings of Xenados on it, candles lit up the room and the orange-yellow light gives of a weird feeling. ¡°I knew it, Dalia I need a new space world to store this¡± The faithful attendant, obediently stores the whole room into her space world where the goddess could enter any time. ¡°Okay let¡¯s go! It¡¯s time for me to meet my hus-aquaintance!¡± ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ¡°Achoo¡± ¡°Son are you alright?¡± ¡°Yes I¡¯m fine mom¡± ¡°Is that so, hehe¡± ¡°What is it mom?¡± ¡°There''s an old belief that if you sneeze for some unknown reason a person is thinking about you!¡± ¡°Could it be¡­ a pervert?! But mom I only met you and dad and the only person who would think of me is dad...¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry son I¡¯m sure that it¡¯s a beautiful woman! Maybe even a goddess who fell for you!¡± Xenados brushed of the sneeze, he¡¯s not someone who believes in those kinds of things but¡­ he still felt shivers when he thinks of the possibility of a pervert thinking about him¡­ Chapter 10: Level Up! (We¡¯ve been traveling for ten days now and we haven¡¯t even begun to see the end of the forest. We¡¯ve all agreed that our first priority is to leave the forest. What¡¯s beyond is still unknown and is surely virgin ground.I don¡¯t plan to start kingdom building as that requires lot¡¯s of work and it goes against my goal. I want to become a god by removing all the obstacles in my way and the very first one in the way is my father.) Those were the thoughts of Xenados as he rode on his pet pluto. His mother has always like riding with him or maybe she like riding on pluto. Well he can¡¯t blame her¡­ ¡°Ahhh~ Pluto¡¯s back is so soft and comfy, Xenados you can¡¯t let pluto dirty his beautiful body!¡± Those were the words of his mother, this kind of declaration from the demoness is not that weird as even the elves have gotten used to it. In the past ten days the group of twelves people and three beast have been steamrolling their way through the forest. The didn¡¯t make a path or knock down trees but they did knock down all the beast that came attacking them. Xenados looked at the gigantic Ironback Demon Bear, when Xenados explained how he got his Kuro and Pluto to become so powerful the elves, his mother and even Kuma himself wanted an evolution. But to their puppy eyes and pleading Xenados had one answer, ¡°No¡±. When he answered no his mother gave up the elves sighed in regret kuma became depressed and the two beast that have evolved into legendary and mythical beast puffed their chest to show how proud they were of themselves. But the atmosphere changed when they heard the words that followed. ¡°I will not make him evolve now, not yet. Pluto is based of void elemental mana and Kuro is a mixture of darkness and shadow mana if I were to evolve Kuma I want him to be of a different attribute. It may take long but I want kuma to have a different more unique element¡± Hearing his words the elves eyes shone with desire, they wanted to see an amazing creature be born. They wanted to see another void or evil beast to be born in front of their eyes but hearing that Xenados wanted to do it but use a completely different attribute for Kuma¡¯s evolution made the elves desire to help the young dhampir learn more magics. Kuro and Pluto put down their pride as they realized that the bear, kuma would be a frightening adversary when he becomes more powerful. They didn¡¯t fear that he would become stronger than themselves but instead fear of the coming days where their master would take care of the common class bear. They knew that they would have equal treatment when Kuma evolves but before that their master would he allow his weak pet to be bullied? The answer is no! The two beast understood at that moment that their master would care more for the bear than themselves so they began thinking of ways to help their master learn other attribute magics faster. On the other hand Antonia looked at her son with a face full of smiles, of course the reason is apparent. Bearskin is comfy but when evolved, what would it feel like to lay down one''s body on such a comfy surface. Xenados felt like he really has a tragedy befall him already, the tragedy of having no normal people around him. He thought that his mother would be the normal mother but being overprotective and lax she has two contrasting personalities. Before when they were in constant danger Antonia looked like the perfect virtuous mother to him but when they escaped the problem and they were able to relax she was like a spoiled child. More than that she never acted like this in Sabien¡¯s mansion so Xenados knows how much stress his mother had to endure but, he also thought. (Isn¡¯t this what you would call gap moe!) His mother had two contrasting sides and they were both sides of the same coin. At this moment Xenados had a thought. (Mom is cute- Noooooooo! I¡¯m not a pervert who lust after their own mother!) Thinking that he might lose his mind and become like them he looked at it in a different way. (The elves are just respecting the strong since it¡¯s their culture[though I¡¯m not sure but let¡¯s put it at that way yeah a sufficient reason] my pets are just wanting to have a go at the powerful bears evolved powers, truly the muscle brained bunch but I don¡¯t dislike this types of comrades. Then mom¡­ after suffering for so long she was finally able to relax and with her son being so reliable she became like so¡­. Uhuhmm.. This is good yeah¡­. This is reality.) And with such thoughts he travelled through the forest easily, all the monsters and beast that comes their way would either be squashed by Kuma or devoured by Pluto, Kuro on the other hand would always be the support and uses his changes of evil to bind enemies. ¡°I forgot I haven¡¯t checked their statuses for a while now ¡± With that three screens appeared before Xenados¡­
Name:Pluto Race: Void Beast
Class:Legendary Rank: E
Level: 7
Unique Skills:
Master: Xenados Void
Name: Kuro Race: Absolute Evil Walker
Class:Mythical Rank: E
Level: 10
Unique Skills:
Master: Xenados Void
Name:Kuma Race:Ironback Demon Bear
Class:Common Rank: A
Level: 40
Skills:
Master: Xenados Void
The three beast have undoubtedly leveled up but Xenados realized something. (The higher the class the harder it is to level up...) THe three beast were not equal in strength and the powerup they got after leveling up was evident only Kuma, had to level up 2 no maybe 3 times more to achieve the same strength gain that the other two high class beast gained with a few level ups. The world is fair after all so the two high class beast had a harder time to level up and increase in rank compared to Kuma but that is all in the the equality of the world.If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. But if the two beast were to suddenly get stronger at the same pace as Kuma with their awesome strength gain, Xenados then would have no choice but to evolve kuma into either a void elemental beast or an evil element. (Well anyway thanks to my previous lives knowledge, I have a pretty solid grasp on magic) ¡°¡±
Name: Xenados Void Age:3
Race: Dhampir Title:[Void Master][Dark Soul][Ruined Man]
Strength: 69
Agility: 55
Intelligence: 120
Dexterity: 150
Mana: -------
Unique Skills:
Skills: Vampirism Lv.1 Enhanced Senses(smell,touch,taste,hearing ,sight, vestibular,proprioception)Lv.1 Enhanced strength Lv.1 Mental Fortitude Lv.10 Pain Resistance Lv.10 Status Effect Resistance Lv.10 Mana Control Lv.5 Mana Perception Lv.7 Elemental Magic[Electric, Ice, Fire Lv.1, Water Lv.1, Earth Lv.1, Nature Lv.1, Metal Lv.1]
Curses:
(There are three new skills and also my intelligence has increased so did my agility. This increase in level in just a few weeks could be considered cheating or unfair even to the geniuses but it¡¯s actually not.) Xenados has lived for a hundred years travelling from one world to another, sometimes living only for an hour in another world. His aim is to kill a certain person as such he will need power. To do this he takes a suitable body and absorbs the previous owner assimilating the memories, knowledge and identity of the soul into himself. One could say that Xenados in all the worlds he¡¯s been through has been a thief stealing the identities of countless geniuses and individuals but everything he did, he had to. Remembering what he¡¯s done he looked at himself again and saw a monster, but there were words he could never forget. ¡°You¡¯re not a monster, you did your best to escape the curse that has befallen you. Also take a look at all the lives that you have absorbed, see what sins you¡¯ve actually committed, then try reevaluating yourself¡± These words that echoed deep in his heart came not from a beautiful goddess or a kind god but instead the place where he always goes to. An empty space he passess through so often that he felt warmth whenever he goes through that space. ¡°The Void, the voices of the void¡± The void, yes for countless times Xenados has passed through the pitch darkness of the void. The darkness and loneliness could suffocate even the gods. The void is the fastest road that the gods have and yet it rarely has anyone walking through. The fact is the void is the space of origin, before anything else only the void existed, here the two gods were born, one of creation and one of destruction. The two gods used their power to make the countless worlds that are all inside the void. Xenados remembered all the past memories he had, again the feelings of anger, regret and all sorts of negative feelings that would explode out any moment surfaced. But just as they were about to change Xenados into a mindless monster a light shone. The light showed the countless killings that Xenados has done, yes the souls that he absorbed and assimilated with all had grievances with his targets. From the killer of his family to the one who caused the downfall of his kingdom, the countless varying lives he had taken over all had one similarity. They wanted to take the life of Xenados¡¯ targets. (So am I the villain or the hero?) He changed his way of thought but he had another question, what is a villain and what is a hero? And which is he from the two? The voice of the void didn¡¯t answer and Xenados knew that he had to find out himself, thousands of lives thousands of memories. The knowledge accumulated by these lives all showed it¡¯s uses. The souls that those came from all accepted being a part of Xenados and all their knowledge has been imprinted into their saviors soul. Xenados knows that the knowledge of this lives are all in his soul and he has free will to use them however he desires. But little did he know that the souls he assimilated with are all floating in the void waiting for their savior, master, king and hero to call for them. (Our only wish is to be useful to our lord) The voice of the void then resounded once again, Xenados silently nods his head as he comes to an understanding. (The stat of intelligence and skills relating to magic is a knowledge based power, the more one learns the stronger he becomes, experience and knowledge having both of these brings me to a stage where I can continuously increase my power in these fields but there is exceptions even here) Xenados looks at his own three year old body and sighs. (Magic is dependent on what one understands so it doesn¡¯t matter if one is an old hermit or a young lad, as long as he can grasp the laws he could increase his power but when it comes to swordsmanship and the like) Xenados looks towards the elves who are training their swords. Whenever the group takes a rest to stop the elves would prepare the foodstuff than before and after the meal they would practice their swordsmanship. Be it by sparring or just practice swings they would devote their time and energy to practice their skills. Looking at the hard working elves Xenados had the desire to go there and ask them if he could join but¡­ ¡°We don¡¯t have training swords for kids¡± ¡°Wait for a few more years then we will help you in your sword training¡± That is not the only words he would hear most of the time when he looks at the elves, no even when he thinks of trying to hold a sword¡­ ¡°What do you think you''re doing young man? I thought I told to never touch a sword before you¡¯re at least ten!¡± ¡°But mo-¡± ¡°No buts young man, I will allow you to practice magic and experiment on various plants and animals but swordsmanship and other things related to close quarters combat is forbidden! But only before you reach the age of ten¡± He was forbidden from learning the swordsmanship that he desires, the reason he wants to train his body already is so he could ingrain the skills of swordsmanship to his new body. Of course his mother forbade him so he could only silently watch and be envious of the elves whose already old enough. ¡°I have a feeling someone is insulting me¡± The oldest of the group of elves, Eliana said as a cold chill ran through Xenados¡¯ back. (Frightening her instincts are spot on, no maybe this is the legendary woman¡¯s intuition?) Shaking his head to remove the thoughts of swordsmanship from his head Xenados looked at the seed on his hand. (Focus, supply mana, then control it to move around the seed fast forwarding it¡¯s growth¡­ then ensure the distribution is equal before...) ¡°Bloom¡± With Xenados¡¯ words the small seed grew vines and like watching a fast forwarded clip the plant grew until it became a vine on then at the very tip a flower bloomed, the flower had not a shred of shadow, dark or void element. It filled with purely the nature type mana. The next thing Xenados did was use pull out every bit of mana from the flower to make it wilt, the wilted plant was now dry as bone. Using his control of mana he changed the movement of energy and made it focus on a single spot on the dried up flower. Moving the air so that more oxygen would gather around the fire, being careful Xenados made the oxygen that surrounds the wilted flower to be enough to cause a yellow flame. He fears that a blue flame could very well cause a forest fire if not handled properly. Then again he could just cut out the oxygen using magic but¡­ he won¡¯t take risk. The yellow flame burns the wilted flower turning it into ashes. The ashes on the ground then were once again infused with mana to become fertilizer for the soil. The ashes turned into nourishment that made the ground grow grass. With that Xenados ended his training, using mana to create phenomena is the only thing that a mage needs to know. That is the basic if the basics but most mages misunderstand, well that is due to them having limited knowledge about the world. The laws of physics and other scientific concepts, this were all named as is by mortals, these laws explain how the universe works but these laws could take any kind of form, but what Xenados knows the scientific knowledge he gained far outstrips that of his very first life. Using this and mana as a catalyst he started practicing magi, his mana pool is indeed huge but that is only if he uses shadow, dark and void magic. If he uses other magics he would expend more mana. But unlike mages who base their knowledge from books written by archmages he used science as a basis to create the phenomena. With the support of science his magic uses less mana and also is much more versatile than the imagination type of magic that the mages who grew up in this kinds of worlds use. (How about I create guns and the like?) Xenados had the thought but he shakes it off as he remembers how magic works, as long as one is able to learn the concept of science and integrate the laws with magic the flying planes would instead fall and the bullets would be easily deflected. Well bullets could also be strengthened by speeding it up or using magic to create stuff like adamantite or orichalcum but Xenados didn¡¯t think about doing such. The reason? (Guns and modern weaponry are powerful when integrated with magic but¡­ the concept of these weapons is easy to replicate. All one needs is to study the mechanisms and they could easily produce better magic based advance weaponry) Seeing your own weapon and aces used against you, something like that is not a laughing matter. Especially that Xenados knows close to nothing about the world he currently is in. (If magic guns were indeed invented mass production of it is something that is very likely as such, seeing that the monsters are still ruling over some places this is a sign that technology has not advanced that much¡­ right?) With still a heavy feeling in his chest for not being able to create guns Xenados instead thinks of ways to make spells and hasten his leveling up. (Maybe I could even create a spell to fast forward the growth of my body¡­ I hope...) Chapter 11: A Dragon? Let me give it a go! Today the group of elves, a demon and dhampir with their pets were as usual, traveling through the depths of the dark forest. Their aim? The end of the forest where the could start anew and grow stronger. (But I do think that these elves would be adamant on wanting to start kingdom building) Just as these thoughts crossed Xenados¡¯ mind, ¡°Kaylin! Do you think that with that lousy sword of your you¡¯ll be able to protect our future king?!¡± a dark elf shouted furiously at another dark elf who fell to the ground panting. The dark elf Kaylin is good at magic but her swordsmanship is not up to par with even a child. Her body is weak and she would usually rest on Kuma or Kuro but now she is able to at least walk for more than an hour before collapsing. ¡°Big sis Eli~ I am not really good at these sort of physical activities~ I¡¯m fragile lady who is destined to become a mage~¡± ¡°Is that so? I guess I¡¯ll ask the Lord if he doesn¡¯t mind having a fatty by his side¡± Hearing the words of the dark elf Eliana, Kaylin wept silently as she forced herself to stand up and continue swinging her sword. This happened after the dark elves all decided to follow Xenados. After that event Kaylin was left to watch beside Xenados, watching the training of her fellow dark elves. Kaylin didn¡¯t mind it as she had magic, though Xenados is better than her having more mages is better especially in this world of swords and magic. But the reason Kayling decided to start training her body and swordsmanship is due to the words that Xenados said as a joke. ¡°Big sis Kaylin, I heard from Kuma and Kuro that you¡¯ve gained weight!¡± After those words were uttered not sparing a second the dark elf dashed towards her big sister Eliana and asked for a way to lose weight, and after a long while of discussing with each other the current scene became a norm for everyone in the group. ¡°I hope that Kaylin doesn¡¯t overexert herself...¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry Lord we Dark Elves are sturdy especially the women, so that¡¯s why even if...¡± ¡°What do you think you¡¯re saying to a three year old child!¡± The one who got mad is Antonia and the dark elf who said those words full of hidden meanings is, Ytha Krariulvin. (This one again¡­ how many times has it been since we started moving as a group?) While thinking of this Xenados looked at the dark elf getting scolded by his mother. A short stature like that of a 12 year old girl. (She may look cute like a 12 year old but to think that mixing the blood of an elf and a dwarf would have such an effect...) These are the only things that come to his mind after the first question popped up. After all the dark elf has a small stature and a young fresh face. If one didn¡¯t know that she¡¯s a half breed even the gods would have thought of her as a young girl. (The blood of a dwarf made her take the small stature of her father but the blood of an elf made her keep the beautiful and young appearance of a child. Turning her into the perfect¡­ Legal Loli) (A twenty plus year old woman who looks like a twelve year old and a virgin at that¡­)A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation. Xenados doesn¡¯t want to think much anymore, How did he find out about her still being a virgin? ¡°Hey hey! Kid Do you know what a virgin is?¡± This words were the first step of Xenados into the world of the adults though that should have been the case. Having the soul that has been through countless lives he didn¡¯t even make a mistake in blushing or whatnot. In fact Xenados was able to perfectly act like an innocent child as he listened to the talks of the Legal Loli. ¡°And of course I am one of the legendary, pure Virgins that a lot of men DESIRE, so-puh¡± She put emphasis on the word desire, as she was about to reveal her true intentions a huge hand landed on her head knocking her out. The hand was in the form of a chop and came from Antonia. From that day onward Antonia would be vigilant of Ytha as she would always be there to save her son from the dangerous woman. In fact even the Xenados felt a chill down his spine as he thought about what could have been if he didn¡¯t have magic or was cursed to instead have no mana but thinking about this. (Is this perhaps the tragedy that I am facing? The tragedy of meeting and attracting dangerous women! No¡­ that can¡¯t be right? I mean VIncentius is an asshole but he can¡¯t do something like that¡­ right?) Xenados is yet to understand that the curse of tragedy that he has been afflicted with has more than just dangerous women vying for him. (I attracting such dangerous women is the effect of this ¡°tragedy¡± looking for a way to dispel it is top priority) Little did he know by the time that he removed the curse, it would already be too late and the damage has already been dealt, but that is a story for another time. As Xenados was thinking of the curse and all the woman around him a roar resounded in the forest. [Graoooo!] (((Kaw, kaw, kaw))) Following the furious roar and the sound of birds flying towards the sky is a huge explosion. The wind it blew up caused leaves from trees to fly up. The dark elves instinctively stabbed their swords towards the earth and the three beast moved instantly to block the force from assaulting their master, his mother and the dark elf who¡¯s currently getting scolded by Antonia. After the force of subsided what was left of their campside are scattered logs and their things that flew and got caught on the trees. Leaves that were blown up was scattered with their stuff making their camp look like it was struck by a typhoon. ¡°Lord are you alright!¡± The dark elves who stabbed their swords at the earth pulled the swords out and dashed towards Xenados who was covered in leaves. He escaped the large debris and the powerful force because of the large beast but he failed to escape the onslaught of leaves that were blown by the wind. After the leaves were blown they would dance in the air and there being a gap in the path the leaves all flew towards Xenados and his mother who were both hiding in the spot protected by the large beast.(I don¡¯t know if this is right but just for novel purposes let¡¯s put it as it works ) ¡°I¡¯m fine, I¡¯m fine but to think some beast would be able to let out a roar that powerful and cause such a powerful explosion...¡± Xenados looked all over, seeing the various shrubs uprooted and some trees as well which flew due to the force, the total devastation that the explosion caused is not something to be trifled with but the words that came out of the child''s mouth shocked everyone. ¡°Let¡¯s go take a look!¡± Everyone was shocked but the one most shocked is Antonia, ¡°What are you planning to do? Make a contract with a beast who could cause this much destruction?¡±. Her words caused the elves to panic and beg their ¡°Lord¡± stop his foolishness. ¡°Contract? What do you mean contract? Of course I will beat it down and slaw whatever monster caused this much devastation. Also to be frank I don¡¯t like beast that are already powerful at the start, grooming a beast to become powerful by making it slowly power up and evolve is a greater source of joy and accomplishment than contracting a powerful monster!¡± The next words he said even caused some elves to faint, what was he thinking? Defeat? He could barely draw a sword and yet he plans on fighting a beast no slaying one? And something that could already be classified as a natural disaster? Even Antonia couldn¡¯t help but reprimand him but the shine in her son¡¯s eyes perfectly say, ¡°I want to go!¡±. Antonia didn¡¯t know since when it happened but when she see¡¯s her son¡¯s expression to be like that she instinctively feels that it¡¯s better to let him do what he wants. She wants to stop him but there¡¯s some sort of persuasiveness in her son¡¯s face, she wants to speak up again but the words got stuck in her throat. She could only look at her son and sigh as the three beast as well as the elves headed towards the direction of the source of the explosion. Arriving at the site the group was flabbergasted at the sight that awaited them. Standing tall with a height of at least 20 feet and a length of 30 feet what was in front of them is a huge¡­ dragon. Having huge wings that could cover its whole body, muscular limbs that could crush the hardest metal in the world. Fangs that could break the toughest holy sword and a huge amount of mana that it could use to spit fire. It¡¯s scales were jet black and it¡¯s eyes were tinted red showing that it¡¯s not in a normal state. ¡°A dragon, no not only that it¡¯s even in a berserk state¡± (A dragon, with that much power how much exp could it give me? This world may not have the concept of exp but my system makes it so that the power of those I slay will be absorbed by my soul. I don¡¯t know if others do the same but this is the only way that I was able to finish my mission by that asshole god, anyways there is only one line that is perfect for this scenario! A dragon suddenly appears in front of a group of people of course running away would turn me into a useless NPC used for the experience of a her but theres only one way for me to become a powerful individual! And this dragon would be my first step!) Taking a deep breath Xenados looked at the dragon and for some reason the dragon similarly looked at him, they had eye contact and at this moment. ¡°A dragon? Let me have a go at it!¡± Chapter 12: Young Dhampir(Naive youngster) vs Old Dragon(Old Monster) Part 1 As he said those words Xenados riding on his steed Pluto charged towards the dragon of course his mother was taken by Kuro. The child and beast charged towards the dragon. The dragon seeing the little boy charging at it riding a large beast could only laugh but he didn¡¯t belittle the pair. He felt the child was normal although he is a dhampir a half-breed, in the dragon''s eyes the dhampir was nothing but a worm. On the other hand the beast that the dhampir was riding on made the dragon vigilant even wary of the it. It was a dragon an Epic class monster, he may only be a normal black dragon he is still powerful enough to be a rank S epic class monster. But the four legged wingless beast charging towards it made the dragon feel inferior. Dragons may be powerful and most of them are muscle brained they still know how to asses the situation and in the eyes of this top class Epic monster only the beast gave it fear. But the beast was making the small insignificant dhampir ride on it. This showed that the dhampir may not have power but he should more or less have some special skill to take over monsters. Feeling that he shouldn¡¯t underestimate his opponent the dragon let out a breath. It was not the standard fire but corrosive dark smoke. As a black dragon this beast had the power of darkness and with it is the corrosive darkness breath which it is proud of. Even the most powerful magic barrier of the elves would have a hard time stopping it¡¯s onslaught. Xenados looked at the dark corrosive smoke that was charging towards him. He didn¡¯t faze or even flinch, instead he closed his eyes and pushed both his hand in front of him. ¡°Break!¡± With his exclamation the frightening breath attack of the dragon for some reason was turned to nothingness. The corrosive breath that was supposed to destroy the puny dhampir disappeared. The dragon looked at the beast and made it his prime target. The dragon completely ignored Xenados as it didn¡¯t think that an insignificant dhampir would be able to stop the breath much less make it disappeared entirely. But unlike the dragon the group of elves and Antonia saw what had occurred, they even rubbed their eyes as they thought that they seen something impossible. The most shocked of them all was Antonia. Xenados grew up learning not even a word from his father and his mother knew only a few magic spells. But just a moment ago, when Xenados pushed his hands outward. As small as those two palms were a magic circle appeared from it, without any incantation whatsoever a magic circle appeared and with only one word, ¡°Break¡±. The breath disappeared as well as the magic circle. While the group were left speechless Xenados was secretly heaving a sigh of relief as he stared at the black dragon. The breath attack earlier was frightening and Xenados knew that if he was even touched by it he would become ashes. But he was also confident in stopping the breath attack, although he hasn¡¯t any problems with mana consumption as his mana is infinite but the problem he always thinks about is if his mana would someday have a value. The reason he¡¯s training mana manipulation and practicing how to use mana effectively and efficiently is because nothing will last forever. The value of his mana has for a long time been the same [-----]. But the future is obscure and uncertain, if he will have an infinite mana tomorrow or become a measly amount lower than that of humans he still doesn¡¯t know. Though his soul is directly connected to the mana he has he still can¡¯t be too complacent. Also in his memories having an infinite amount of mana doesn¡¯t make one powerful, if the one using magic is simply throwing spells left and right because of his infinite mana pool he would sooner or later fall because of fatigue.Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author. The hardest thing that he doesn¡¯t want to face is to fall because his body is unable to use that much mana sometimes even explode. In a sense his body is something like a machine that is powered up by mana but too much or too little would make it explode. As such he painstakingly trained his mana control, perception and his control of the elements. Looking up the black dragon was just making circles around the sky, Xenados is not an idiot who would belittle this dragon as someone who experience many lives he could only wait for a right moment to attack. (Black dragons, no matter what world they are in the dragons would all have the same characteristics¡­ black dragons are powerful in magic combat especially their defense against magic. They have an almost complete resistance to magic, save for forbidden or god class magic black dragons won¡¯t fall even if an army of mages were to merge their powers to defeat it) Looking at the flying dragon Xenados passes a mental communication to Kuro. (Take the swords of the elves, tell them I will borrow them for a while, also Pluto cast a barrier around this whole crater, such that only me and the dragon would get damaged when we fight) With a face filled with confidence Xenados jumped off from the back of Pluto and the beast howled towards the sky then dashed towards the outer edges of the crater. Pluto sat like a watch dog at the edge and then a dark barrier formed in an instant, the black dragon tried to escape but it was too late. He and the small dhampir were stuck inside and seeing the beast at the edge it knew that this was the plan of the dhampir. Filled with rage the black dragon flew down like a german dive bomber wanting to become like an atomic bomb and destroy the dhampir and turn it to mush. As it felt that victory was too easy the dhampir disappeared, the small body that disappeared reappeared behind the black dragon the weird thing is that he was floating on a sword. The black dragon didn¡¯t have time to react before he dropped to the ground he felt nothing due to his scales but was annoyed. How? How was a mere dhampir able to avoid him? He felt shame and rage towards the little bastard and like a mindless monster he turned completely berserk. The change of the dragon was weird after all dragons are cunning beast. Although it had prior signs of going berserk it now is completely berserk. It¡¯s eyes that were crimson red glowed with a light filled with thirst, a thirst for blood. The killing intent in the dragon''s aura soared right now the most feared monster of the whole world became a monster that would kill relentlessly. If this were seen by kingdoms they would not dare to throw their armies at the dragon fearing for it¡¯s rage to get stronger. The reason an enraged dragon is so frightening is because it could cause devastation not only to warriors but the whole area and even the surrounding nations. A dragon''s rage is hard to quench and stop. As such if the dragon is not dealt with immediately many kingdoms could fall, but in this barrier Xenados was fearlesly fighting such a dragon. (Dragons are frightening because of the fact that coupled with their strength is a cunning mind but when they become enraged and turn berserk they become similar to a mindless bull. If a warrior is smart slaying this dragon is but an easy task but many casualties would appear) Xenados dodged another breath attack, he asked the elves to give him their swords so now Xenados has in his hands or possession ten iron swords. The swords would not be able to pierce the dragon but infusing it with mana would make it possible for him to atleast scratch the scales of the dragon. But what Xenados wants to do is slay the dragon as such he focused most of his attention towards engraving magic formations on the swords. The formations are based of void magic as it¡¯s the type of magic he¡¯s most proficient with. He didn¡¯t try putting darkness or shadow magic in them as the dragon he¡¯s facing is a black dragon. Doing so would only create more trouble than solve it. As he dodge the attacks that hit the barrier and get absorbed the dragon would charge at him but all these attacks and charges are in vain as Xenados would dodge every single one of the dragon''s attacks. The dragon on the other hand would only grow angrier as his attacks are dodge continuously by the puny Dhampir. Dragons are prideful beings that would rather die fighting than surrender but most of all they would never allow themselves to be humiliated. Powered by his anger and rage the dragon continuously attacks not realizing that he already fell onto the trap of Xenados. After ten minutes of dodging Xenados has successfully engraved all magic formations on the swords. If any blacksmith were to see the iron swords now they would gasp in surprise as the swords are already artifact class. Xenados used his knowledge to continuously surpass his limits, along with his training in mana control and infinite mana supply he made weapons that would be useful to him when fighting this dragon. He placed a different effect on each of the ten swords making them able to attack in many ways sparing the dragon no time to asses his own condition. The ten enchants he placed on the swords are as follows; . There are six swords with varying enchants and four with the same enchants. Corrosion would destroy the defense, devour would slowly suck up the mana of the dragon in every strike. Possession would slowly destroy the dragons self control and when that happens the sword corruption would make the dragon more mad and make it less focused on Xenados giving more openings. Parasite would inflict void parasites that would break the dragon from the inside out, the four destruction swords on the other hand would slowly break the dragons hard scales. These ten swords with their enchants is Xenados¡¯ weapons against this dragon, but there is one problem, the swords would only last an hour. After which they would turn to dust. With these thoughts Xenados got a fallen scale and used it as a board to make him fly. He charged towards the dragon with ten sword floating around him. Chapter 13: Young Dhampir(Naive youngster) vs Old Dragon(Old Monster) Part 2 Xenados was like a war god as he charged floating on the scale of the dragon with ten swords floating around him. The elves and Antonia as well as the three beast were staring dumbfoundedly at the three year old who is currently squaring off with a dragon. While they were watching the battle from a distant peak a young girl is staring at the battle between the 3 year old half-breed and the black dragon. With red long, straight flowing hair the young girl having the body of a 15 to 16 year old teen watched the battle with great interest and a smile on her face. [Swoosh][swoosh][swoosh][clang] The four swords of destruction moved in unison, watching the swords attack one would not think that these swords are being controlled by one 3 year old child. The four no ten swords moved and attack the black dragon at specific intervals and timings that would greatly increase the effectiveness of the ten blades. Each of the 7 types of blades has their own objectives and targets. The blades with the magic formation of destruction would attack the parts where the sword with corrosion has previously slashed through. The magic barrier would not be forever broken, they would regenerate and at a face pace nonetheless. In this case the ten swords would act in unison as a group to be able to deal significant damage to the black dragon. Of course if the handling of the swords is sloppy the power that they posses would only be useless. But with Xenados using telekinesis to control the the ten swords simultaneously he was able to pull of the impossible. Nothing is needed to be said about how he is able to control multiple swords with one mind, he has enough experience and knowledge to do that. With his unlimited mana pool he is able to pull of the seemingly impossible task of parallel thinking. Though he is unable to move his body as he wants it to due to the 3 year old body being to weak and lacking battle experience that it hasn¡¯t been honed to even dodge killing intent, Xenados is using his mana and soul to fight having the body be a container is the only thing he could do right now. But as useless as the body may be it still serves as the only way he is able to release the mana from his soul, and his intent to be able to affect the environment it would first go through the mortal body. Especially as the world he is in is very peculiar at that his soul is unable to directly manipulate the laws and use magic. In fact if it were in the past manipulation using his soul is an easy act. But in this world the restrictions on souls is much more intense. (I guess only gods could do those things with a soul in this world...) Xenados¡¯ way of thought is actually right, the world he is in is [Primal Chaos] a world in the center of the void and all other worlds. In this world even gods could become mortals and mortals could become gods. In fact most of the gods originated from this world. But Xenados not knowing this only thinks of the restriction being caused by a powerful god in tune with the world of the dead more specifically a god of death manages this world, those are his thoughts. In this way he¡¯s using the body as a catalyst to fight, in which his body becomes his greatest weakness as such having to fight a dragon while protecting the fragile body of his from being destroyed is not an easy task. But because Xenados has the knowledge of multiple lives he is able to use multiple types of swordsmanship. The four swords of destruction came slashing down but the attack was a faint to allow the corrosive blade to strike the black dragon from behind. Having it¡¯s magical barrier once again broken the dragon shifts his position to guard the hole in his defenses only taking this chance the parasite sword rushed forth along with the corruption sword. Seeing the frightening type of swords rushing towards his defenseless scales the dragon bends his body but this opens another area on his large body. In the split second that the defenses on another part of the dragon''s body was slack the corrosion blacde charged in.The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings. The dragon didn¡¯t fail to notice this as he used his tail to deflect it, the four destruction blades that were following behind also struck the tail. The four blades had stronger force behind them coupled with the destruction magic formation cause an explosion. The dragon flew but the parasite blade didn¡¯t waste this opportunity to go in the hole and land a small scratch. The scratch may seem insignificant but that small scratch would start releasing void worms that would dig into anything and destroy the dragon from the inside out. Seeing as he can¡¯t fight the dhampir at close quarters the black dragon began charging his breath but that was a stupid move for him. The dragon may be intelligent but it¡¯s not able to think properly right now especially that it¡¯s under the effects of berserk that many flaws, openings and mistakes would gradually appear in the dragon''s way of fighting. This breath attack is one of those mistakes. The dragon only thought that this is a good strategy since he is unable to fight in close quarters but he failed to notice the sword of dispersion. Just when the breath attack was 90% complete the sword flew straight into the dragon''s mouth. The effect of dispersion causes the magic that the blade touches turn into a chaotic state that would disperse into the air. Though to small scale magics it would be just a headache to see one''s spell fail to condense and shoot out but when the scale reaches that of a strategic level dragon breath¡­ [boom!] The charging breath became a bomb that imploded the mouth of the black dragon, though the mouth was not destroyed dozens of huge dragon fangs flew out. The large debris would be able to destroy the body of Xenados as such he focused his attention more to dodging the flying debri than attacking. The swords surrounded him once again blocking and deflecting the one which he couldn¡¯t dodge. The black dragon could have used this chance to attack but with it¡¯s breath failing and implogin on himself the force vigorously shakes his head. He may not have escaped the berserk stat but the force is enough to cause the huge black dragon to get knocked out for a few seconds. When the dragon came to the debri were settling and Xenados¡¯ blades were nowhere to be seen. The dragon charged towards where he last saw Xenados¡¯ figure as he thought that the dhampir had fallen and is now thinking of brutally destroying the corpse of the dhampir. But just as he made the smoke disappear ten swords charged at him and this time his own scales floated towards him. The scales were the ones that had fallen during the battle and numbered six in all. The scales floated around Xenados and acted like shields. Seeing his own body parts being used against him the dragon felt more rage as he charged towards the dhampir. Just as the dragon charged the six scales dispersed in floated in some sort of circular pattern but the next moment, a white line of light extended from each of the scales, bouncing off one another and forming an intricate pattern. The final pattern that appeared is a six pointed star, the lines of it had countless words that looked ancient and profound. Inside the pattern are various ancient words the give of a dusty and profound ancient aura. This is one of the many types of formations that Xenados has in his mind but the reason he chose to use this is because he has the materials to use it and also the target is large enough to show the formations true potential. ¡°Devils Star: Soul Destroying Formation!¡± Screaming out the name of his formation is a stupid thing to do is what Xenaods is thinking but with the enemy and his allies not knowing a single thing about formations he fears nothing about doing such. Instead he felt proud¡­ (Finally the Legendary, ¡°Completely Obvious and stupid way of fighting Protagonist Special move screaming!¡± the stupid move that every protagonist does. With this I already put up the protagonist or hero flag! hahaha) Laughing internally Xenados was proud of himself, why? This is just what he wants to do, it¡¯s not normal for little kids to have such power. But if he says that he has a soul companion or that he has memories from another world his companions even his mother would not believe him. As such doing something as flashy as defeating a dragon is just the beginning. When he uses a technique that no one knows about then they would have to believe him after all how could a 3 year old be able to learn such a complicated technique as magic formations. And in the scenario where magic formations does exist something as complicated as this would not be used that easily by a three year old boy who didn¡¯t even learn the basics of magic formations. Forget about the ten swords the formation that appeared before the dragon is enough to prove his story. And using the dragons obvious charge he created the formations. Currently the dragon is charging but as it touched the formation it felt it¡¯s whole body lose strength and following that the formation moved and passed through him before turning into a series of runes that embedded itself onto the dragon''s body. [gauuu!] Letting out a pained roar the dragon came crashing down onto the ground, the soul destroying formation is proving it¡¯s effects but the dragon being stubborn was still alive. Xenados seeing the state of the dragon then made the ten blades attack the dragon. The four swords of destruction flew and destroyed the dragon''s scales on it¡¯s head and continued to break it¡¯s skull until it;s brain appeared. [grauuuuu!] Another pained roar came out of the dragon''s mouth, not minding the grotesque scene in front of him Xenados made the ten blades simultaneously attack the exposed brain of the dragon. [grauu...] And with the last wail of the dragon it lost the light in it¡¯s eyes. (As expected of a dragon, to think that even with it¡¯s skull broken and it¡¯s brain exposed it¡¯s still able to struggle. Sadly having it¡¯s soul attacked and being destroyed by the second would undoubtedly cause it to die either way.) Xenados no minding the gut wrenching stench and the disgusting sight of brain matter scattered about made his way to the dragon''s body. He removed the curse of the soul destroying formation and also made the parasites exit the body and return to the void. [clang] [clang] [clang] [clang] [clang] [clang] [clang] [clang] [clang] [clang] Ten swords fell on the ground and turned to dust, Xenados then picked up a nearby fang and stabbed it on the dragon''s chest area. Using his telekinesis he was able to open a hole on the dragon¡¯s back and what appeared is the huge heart of the black dragon. Without further ado, Xenados used telekinesis to bring out the gigantic heart and devoured it. Xendos looked like a beast but after a few seconds the whole heart was devoured, the gigantic heart was so big that is was large enough to be the same size as Xenados but the heart disappeared somewhere into the little dhampirs body. [Evolution is possible, do you want to undergo evolution? (Yes) (No)] Before having his conscience disappear Xenados chose yes and his vision went black. Chapter 14: The Truth behind the cheat system In the dark void a single soul was floating stationarily. The soul is pitch black but that deep dark color of it separated the soul from the void. If any god were to see this soul right now they would shiver in fear as the soul already proves its vile darkness and evil nature by being darker than the void. At that moment the soul opened it''s eyes, one was red the other white. It can''t show any emotion but the aura that surrounds him shows confusion and lack of understanding. Still confused a silhouette of a young dhampir appears before him. [Evolution Requirements have been met, Please choose your evolution path] These words did not echo in his head but in the void space he was currently at. But instead of understanding more confusion showed around the soul, and even the two glowing eyes contorted to a frown. ¡°Where is this?!¡± He shouted out as he looked towards the body and thought of what reason could this be happening and then a thought came. (Could the evolution have failed and I¡­ died?) Although he didn''t want to believe it the facts show that he''s dead. The void is a space where only bodiless souls can wander, here there¡¯s no such thing as gods or goddesses, there are only souls. And yet he was here, just right after he did something he really wanted to do, slay a dragon. The dream of every young man. (And just as I got a satisfying life, although that life made me cautious of my surroundings especially those perverts¡­ it was still fun to have someone love you, treasure you and care for you. Sadly¡­ this may be the effect of that curse¡­ *sigh* am I now supposed to wander in the void aimlessly? But why did this projection appear?) Just as he was about to give up on everything a familiar voice once again echoed throughout the space. [Nay, you are currently suspended in your own spirit world. And here is the space where you will be choosing your evolution path] Xenados was confused the voice would occasionally answer his queries but not all. Then again it did so he wanted to confirm it. ¡°Are you the void?¡± To his question the reply was immediate and without hesitation. [Nay] ¡°Then what are you?¡± The next question was already thought of by Xenados, he didn''t mind if the voice didn''t actually belong to the void. He was shocked but that''s all, the next moment after he asked the second question a pure white silhouette appeared beside him. The silhouette was similar to Xenados¡¯ soul only that the colors were inverted, it''s body is a pure white while its right eye is crimson red and left eye is pitch black. If there was anything Xendaos could say about this is an inverted copy of him. And just as he was about to say something the soul talked to him.This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version. [I am neither a god nor the void. I am thy servant, a crystallization of all the knowledge that thee had accumulated throughout the hundred years of hell] Speechless Xenados could only blankly stare at the soul. ¡°Could you be a better version of¡­ me?¡± To Xendos¡¯ question the soul once again answered without emotion. [I am neither a copy nor a version of thee. I am but an extension a part of you that will never rebel against thee] ¡°That loyalty¡­ there is no way that it¡¯s that simple, for me to have a seconds soul that has the ability to think, that would be like having a seconds soul without a will¡­ tell the truth what are you?¡± The soul hesitated, from the whole conversation since the first time he heard the voice this is the first time that the soul hesitated. The head made a sighing motion as it replied. [We really can¡¯t hide anything from thee-] ¡°Could you please stop it with those thee and thy, It feels like I¡¯m listening to a weeb, if you can¡¯t use it properly then use regular speech!¡± [Yes mi-] ¡°And don¡¯t go saying milord or my liege either! Just talk to me in the most normal way you can!¡± [got it¡­ then back to the topic at hand. Your thoughts about me being not normal is indeed correct but the fact that I will never betray you is also a fact] ¡°So you¡¯re saying that we are simply one entity¡± With that answer from Xenados, the white soul nodded it¡¯s head but it continued¡­ [Yes we are one entity, if we had to say it in some other terms I am like a second brain but I¡¯m still your brain nonetheless. And the thing about having my own train of thoughts...] The white soul hesitated before continuing¡­ [I am a part of you but not only am I a crystallization of your knowledge I am also a crystallization of all the souls that you have devoured] The words shocked Xenados as he asked, ¡°Devoured? Souls?¡±. Of course Xenados has the right to be shocked after all he never had memory of devouring souls but the white soul, his extension, secondary brain dropped a bomb that would shock him even more than he already is. [That is, you may have not noticed but every time you take over the identity of another¡­ you don¡¯t simply become a part of them or them become a part of you¡­ you eat them that is, they will become nothing but nourishment to your soul] Xenados was speechless why? Until now he thinks that he¡¯s been becoming a part of the person he takes over then after getting his vengeance the person would then rest in peace as Xenados disappears from the world. But that thinking was not right, the second brain of his said that he¡¯s been eating other people in other words cannibalism¡­ in a sense something more deeper but it¡¯s a fact that he did eat them. The geniuses of multiple worlds, have all served as nourishment for him and are R.I.P in his belly. ¡°But¡­ then why did I still feel something like they were with me¡­ and then wait¡­ this body¡­ Xenados didn¡¯t give me even a hint of his presence could I have become a...¡± Just when Xenados was about to break into insanity he was saved by the second brain. [No that¡¯s not it, you should have devoured them and what I said a while ago should have been the result but that isn¡¯t the case] Xenados¡¯ eyes shone and he looked at the white soul with eyes filled with expectation. [When you devour instead of taking over you simply store them in you stomach. Using that I show them your goal and with that the souls that you have devoured all turned to-] ¡°Wait before that how about my first other world? Where you already there?¡± Xenados asked the question that bothered him the most after he shook away the guilt of devouring others in a similar situation as him. [I was here even before you were taken by Vincentius, and was awakened as you were reincarnated into another world] ¡°Wait if that¡¯s the case then your not a crystallization are you?¡± [I am a crystallization but the reason that I was present even before you were taken by Vincentius is a question even I cannot answer] Xenados can¡¯t force his second brain to answer a question that it can¡¯t answer. After all his second brain may have will but that doesn¡¯t change the fact that it¡¯s still an extension of him that acts based on logic and it¡¯s knowledge but¡­ ¡°Will?¡± Xenados asked the question about will, the biggest reason a soul could live past it¡¯s body¡¯s mortal life is due to it¡¯s will. If his second brain is indeed a crystallization of not only the countless soul¡¯s knowledge and memories but also their wills then¡­ ¡°Is there a chance that you will go against me if you are a crystallization of their wills as well?¡± This thought came up after all a will can lead to the development of a greater conscience that doesn¡¯t act based only on logic but also emotion, etc¡­ if that were the case the chances of Xenados losing his control over his own soul is not something that can be ruled out but the answer of his second brain answered it all. [The souls were given the reason why you took over after which seeing that you have the same goal he accepts your encroachment. After you finish your job(which is mostly revenge) the soul would leave one will and that is, ¡°I only wish to serve him until this soul of mine is destroyed¡±. With that kind of will they become shades and roam your space in the void as well as give all their knowledge, memories and experience to me for you to be able to use] [Did you think that managing thousands of memories is something you are able to do? The very fact that you are able to keep your own personality before you were taken proves my capabilities] [Finally to be able to make life easier for you and to finish the clean up or everything I even made this system which is the type of system that you understand the most] ¡°With those words I feel useless¡± [Enough of that instead now that you atleast understand a bit let¡¯s start the evolution, what? You want to know more than a bit? You don¡¯t have the luxury of that, I may be able to help you but I am unable to control your body. As such I am forever a system of support, aren¡¯t you happy? Even gods don¡¯t have a soul extension as great as me!] Chapter 15: Evolution [Enough of that instead now that you atleast understand a bit let¡¯s start the evolution, what? You want to know more than a bit? You don¡¯t have the luxury of that, I may be able to help you but I am unable to control your body. As such I am forever a system of support, aren¡¯t you happy? Even gods don¡¯t have a soul extension as great as me!] After those words I can¡¯t do anything else but look at the projection of my current body and my stats.
Name: Xenados Void Age:3
Race: Dhampir Title:[Void Master][Dark Soul][Ruined Man]
Strength: 69
Agility: 55
Intelligence: 120
Dexterity: 150
Mana: -------
Unique Skills:
Skills: Vampirism Lv.1 Enhanced Senses(smell,touch,taste,hearing ,sight, vestibular,proprioception)Lv.1 Enhanced strength Lv.1 Mental Fortitude Lv.10 Pain Resistance Lv.10 Status Effect Resistance Lv.10 Mana Control Lv.5 Mana Perception Lv.7 Elemental Magic[Electric, Ice, Fire Lv.1, Water Lv.1, Earth Lv.1, Nature Lv.1, Metal Lv.1]
Curses:
State: Eligible for Evolution
Okay now he adds that eligible for evolution mark at the bottom, not only that three skills have leveled up! It may be because of the battle and eating the dragon heart at the end but¡­ ¡°How did I finish the requirements for evolution?¡± That question is what pops up in my head now, after all, the only thing I did was defeat a dragon and eat it¡¯s heart and drink it¡¯s lifeblood. It may sound like a normal thing to evolve now but to evolve doesn¡¯t that mean to change races? But my second brain¡­ no calling it that sounds weird how about¡­ yeah I¡¯ll call it system now instead. Anyway the system answered me and not only that it went back to it¡¯s cold emotionless tone *sigh* well all I want is for it to be no, I am not a pervert, dirty thoughts¡­ dirty thoughts begone! [The evolution requirements are¡­ nonexistent] What do you mean nonexistent? Wait this really is a question that I have been pondering over for a while now¡­ ¡°Is evolution even possible?¡± The answer to my question is more unbelievable than I thought. [¡°God is alive, evolution is a myth!¡± that is what I would like to say but it is the truth but through the knowledge of multiple worlds and the power of the void and being half-vampire causing such a phenomena is possible] Wait does that mean that if¡­ [If you were not born as a vampire then you would have most likely died oh almost forgot to add it there, ¡°Congratulations on learning the unique skill and with these two titles and being able to eat a dragon(it¡¯s heart) and drink it¡¯s lifeblood(both are poisonous and could kill demi-gods) you have received the title [Otherworldly Glutton]!¡±] ¡°So I did almost die!¡± [It doesn¡¯t matter, if you did really die do you think that you would normally receive? At least you would have to restart life in the womb of a mother and at that point you will not return to a mindless baby but be like you are now. Also if you didn¡¯t want to revive that way you could always live in your void space] ¡°I won¡¯t think of anything else anymore I¡¯ll just finish this evolution then go back to mother¡± [Also this evolution path will decide weather you will become a god powerful enough to exact revenge or not. The souls have seen your life as such all of them will support you to become a god and kill the Vincentius that caused not only your happiness but also theirs, do you want to know how that happened?] So even the souls know how twisted Vincentius is, if that¡¯s the case I have thousands of lives behind me¡­ I guess I need to focus and be serious now! If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. [Reminder: Do not overdo it, we may all have forever but if you make rash decisions and restart from the bottom we may not mind but you will have to hold onto the responsibility for longer - From all the Souls that have become your servants] ¡° *sigh * alright I¡¯ll do my best!¡± This is not gonna be an easy life but I did want to kill Vincentius and also if I make the right decision then not only will I be able to get a higher chance of killing that asshole but I will also be able to become a god! I might even be able to clean the gods of all the people like Vincentius! Haha! That is my life goal to restore the gods to become better! ¡°Alright then what are the possible evolution paths?¡± [Analyzing...] [Analyzing...] [Analyzing...] [Analization complete showing results of possible evolution paths: A dhampir with the characteristics of dragons, base stat increase and unique skills and will be added.] With the first one I saw the stats and honestly I wanted to choose it but when I saw the image of what I would become I had second thoughts. A dhampir with small dragon wings and a dragon tail with some black scales all over it¡¯s body. I only have one reaction to this evolution. ¡°I will not be able to get a wife if I look like this, I know I have a few perverts on my tail but¡­ as long as I get a wife when I have this look it would undoubtedly be a pervert! ¡± [ A dhampir who has an extreme thirst for blood, needs to drink at least a liter of blood everyday if not they would wither and turn to dust. But if they did drink blood everyday their power would be strong enough to become rulers of the vampires] This is also tempting but to drink that much blood everyday¡­ I would murder a LOT of beings in just one month! No! I¡¯d rather get the first one than this but the image¡­ white hair, pale skin everything is the same except that the body became thinner and those soulless eyes that still have the change in color due to my eye powers¡­ nope anything but this! [ a new race, a specific race that Xenados has created(the system) has the power of both a vampire and demon but has race specific skills that belong to the dragon bloodline. Higher strength than normal dhampirs even vampires in fact. Also has a higher rate at learning, stamina and also access to the powerful dragon magic] ¡°Thi-this is it! I want this!¡± I screamed and then, [Affirmative, prepare to return to body in 10,9,(goodbye)] ¡°Where¡¯d the others go!¡± ----Change of POV----- On the huge crater where Xenados battled the dragon is a small camp. There three beast, ten elves and one demoness are roasting ducks that the beast and the elves hunted. All of them had grim expressions and that has been their state for three days now. Ever since Xenados ate the dragon heart and drank its lifeblood the dragon¡¯s body turned into a pile of flesh and covered Xenados. The huge meatball was pulsating as if it were a gigantic beating heart. The reason that these people and beast were grim and silent is since the person who is in the middle of that pulsating ball of flesh is Xenados, to the beast he¡¯s their great master, to the elves he¡¯s their savior and lord and to the demoness Antonia, he¡¯s her little angel. How could they not feel that way? The person that they love, respect and follow is in the middle of that meatball and who knows what happened to him. As the people were going to take a last look at the meatball before sleeping the huge meatball pulsated stronger and stronger. The beating was like the heart of someone full of excitement, then before anyone can check what was going on the meatball exploded! The flesh that flee all turned to ashes in the air and were carried away by the wind. The explosion made the people around all cover their eyes and when they opened them what they saw was clouds of smoke that came from the meat burning and turning into ashes. ¡°SON!¡± Antonia screamed as she charged towards the silhouette at the center of the blast, when the elves were able to see clearly and the smoke cleared what they saw was Xenados being hugged by Antonia. Only now Xenados didn¡¯t look like the three year old he used to be, he still had the same features but his pale skin became even paler like he was a bloodless corpse and his long white hair reached his shoulders but they seem to glow in the night no they were actually glowing. It was faint but his hair was glowing, it was reflecting the light of the moon, his eyes held some sort of charm to them but the greatest change is probably his body. He should be a three year old dhampir and yet his body, it grew. From his figure of a three year old he became much like a six to seven year old child. Though it was still small it was enough for him to start training the sword. He may not be ten but his body has muscles that of were developed the elves even Antonia was shocked. The muscles are well developed like that of a 14 year old who has been training for years, they were not hard but they at least proved that he had gotten stonger. But the most shocked about the changes would be Xenados himself. ¡°Status!¡±
Name: Xenados Void Age:3
Race:Xais Title:[Void Master][Dark Soul][Ruined Man]
Strength: 100
Agility: 100
Intelligence: 120
Dexterity: 150
Mana: -------
Unique Skills:
Skills: Vampirism Lv.4 Enhanced Senses(smell,touch,taste,hearing ,sight, vestibular,proprioception)Lv.1 Enhanced strength Lv.3 Mental Fortitude Lv.10 Pain Resistance Lv.10 Status Effect Resistance Lv.10 Mana Control Lv.6 Mana Perception Lv.7 Elemental Magic[Electric, Ice, Fire Lv.1, Water Lv.1, Earth Lv.1, Nature Lv.1, Metal Lv.1] Dragon Magic Lv.1
Curses:
With a smile after seeing his monstrous increase in strength Xenados smiled at them all but instead of happy cheers everyone even the three beast ran towards the mother and son pair and began to cry. (Well a joyful reunion without tears is impossible considering my state for the past few days¡­ how long have I been evolving by the way? Well I¡¯ll just have to ask them after they¡¯ve gotten over this¡­ haaa~) Although exhaustion can be seen in Xenados¡¯ face he is still happy and he even had a bright smile on his face. Chapter 16: Starting a Town and The problems of kingdom building When Xenados successfully evolved he was mobbed by everyone, and when everything were slowly calming down he was about to discuss about what to do next but then he was attacked by a question. ¡°How were you able to defeat the dragon?¡± Xenados can¡¯t lie, if there were really any excuses that he could use at this moment he would pay anyone as much as they wanted but he had no escape. Just realized that I could do that¡­ how? Magic formations are¡­ are what? Where did you learn them? How did those swords move like that?! Are you really a three year old? What happened those three days? In the end they spent the whole night asking questions and the next day due to his fatigue Xenados fell asleep. ¡°Do you really believe his words?¡± ¡°About being a world traveller?¡± ¡°Uhum¡± ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter does it? He still my dear little Xenados no matter what!¡± The conversation between a demoness and a dark elf went this was as they gazed affectionately at the six to seven year old kid sleeping on the demoness¡¯ lap. The elves all accepted what Xenados revealed to them but the problem was what is the reaction of Antonia. The elves feared that she would disown the child who is not fully her son but she surprisingly didn¡¯t mind. ¡°Is there something wrong with his soul being that containing not only my son but also many other souls? It doesn¡¯t matter, the fact is that right now you are my son right? You¡¯ve gone through many lives but in this life you are my son and will be forever my son until you reincarnate!¡± Those were the words she said to Xenados before the dhampir fell asleep, it¡¯s not wrong to say that due to her words he was able to sleep soundly. After taking a few hours to sleep Xenados woke up and everyone didn¡¯t mind, the time he woke up it was already evening, so to make sure his biological clock stays the same he ate dinner then once again fell asleep. Too much sleep is bad for the body but it¡¯s good to have more than enough from time to time¡­ And with those thoughts he once again fell into the dimension of dreams. The next day everyone woke up early as well as Xenados, the whole 12 people and 3 beast were seating in a circle around a small fire. ¡°So what do you all suggest we do?¡± The first one to speak up was Xenados, he planned to get out of the forest and then think when they get there but this event cause him to be more cautious. They have a legend class and a mythical class beast with them but their numbers are obviously too much for the beast to protect. With this in mind he wanted to know what the others are thinking. And that is when the most enthusiastic of all the elves Ytha waved her hands calling out ¡°me! Me! Me!¡±, like a little kid. While letting out a sigh Xenados signalled Ytha to speak her piece. Standing up she started giving her suggestion. ¡°Uhem, okay I think it would be wise for us to start a village! Okay before you all stop listening listen first to what I have to say!¡± (And with that Ytha started to discuss about her plans and what benefits there are for strating a village. And in her speech there are five main reason to start a village¡­)
  1. A stable place to stay, where they could safely train and grow
  2. If they were to be attacked by beast they would be able to defend easily.
  3. Scouting will be done by one of the two powerful beast, since they could share their sight with Xenados scouting and finding out what¡¯s beyond the forest would be easier.
  4. Having a place to call home is always better than being a wanderer.
  5. Since we have only one male we need to make a plan on who goes first!( Okay the last one was removed for reasons that made me uncomfortable)
Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon. (In the end everyone accepted the reasons and were continuously nodding their heads in agreement. Is it just me or did they accept it all after they heard the last line? It must be my imagination right? Mo-mom what are you laughing about¡­ I have a bad feeling about this¡­) As Xenados was sweating of what is about to befall him on top of a certain peak a beauty was watching the scene unfolding. After she saw the scene of the huge meatball formed from dragon flesh covering the dhampir after it ate the dragon heart and drank the dragons lifeblood she, out of curiousity watched and waited for what is to happen. When she saw that the dhampir had some sort of change occur she then made a thought, ¡°Could he have evolved to a different species?¡±. The beauty didn¡¯t think that something like evolution was impossible, in fact she is one of the many who wish to evolve. This with a smile murmured something before disappearing from the area. On the small crater the Xenados was busy using earth magic to make the land flat, he didn¡¯t simply summon dirt from somewhere instead he manipulated the land under the crater to rise. This kind of action may seem like a mana consuming one but instead of forcing dirt to appear making use of underground volcanic movement he use the flow of magma under the crust to slightly push up making the earth rise. There might have been a small earthquake due to that but he was able to use less mana than summoning earth from somewhere. And the greatest thing that he was happy about was the mana rich soil of the battlefield between him and the dragon could be a good place to start the village. ¡°Okay let¡¯s start building the village!¡± Xenados already found out about his powers, he didn¡¯t want to use it too much and become dependent on it but building a village with the assistance of shades is not bad right? But it seems that help from the shades which are the souls of multiple different souls from different worlds and living conditions would cause a great culture shock, to the elves that is. The houses were all made of stone that the shades possessed to move towards the clearing. The shades didn¡¯t only possess living beings but also non-living ones. With this the shades were able to uproot trees and move huge boulders to become part of the construction. When the elves saw the floating boulders and trees they were scared but when Xenados explained how it occurred to them they slowly began accepting that they won¡¯t be living a normal life from the day they followed the young dhampir. But right now they were already informed of his evolution, of course they were all celebrating. Xenados even feared that he would be disowned since he kinda became less demon but his mother was the most happy for him. In fact it seems that evolution is really impossible in this world thus him being able to evolve is already a great achievement, paving his way to a bright and unseen future. Though it might not be stable but everyone knew that Xenados is destined for greatness. At the present Xenados was directing shades that were constructing an town hall or village hall? Anyway while he was doing so he can¡¯t help but to hear numerous praises. When Xenados looked towards where those voices came he found that a shade given a golem body was instructing a few elves on how to work¡­ a stove. What¡¯s this? How does this work? Oh amazing! I couldn¡¯t believe something like this is possible. Xenados felt bad about propagating stoves and other appliances but these appliances were powered not by magic cores or the such, it was powered by magic formations. Well the stove still needed the occasional refueling of coal, though coal may be a scarce commodity in many other world but Xenados using the system is able to create a formation for that. The process is amazing as it has a lot of science to it, though Xenados knows that many concepts were used but all of those sciency stuff were done by the system. But Xenados at least knew how it works, In an empty plot of land using nature magic plant seeds and accelerate growth > using magic the plants would be subjected to an increase in air pressure and heat > speeding up the process using magic would cause the plants to slowly darken and become clumps of coal. Though there is a lot of chemistry, physics and even biology in the process the system with it¡¯s thousands of lives worth of knowledge did all the work for him, this made Xenados mad with joy much that the whole day he made coal he was skipping. Now the stoves needed the coal to fuel the stoves but what shocked Xenados is that the coals are a hundred times greater in quality than the fossil fuels in the other worlds. When he asked the system how it managed to do it he received one answer. [Science + Magic = OP baby!] When the voice said those words it lacked so much emotion that Xenados felt sad for it instead. Though he clearly understands what it was saying, anyone would but he still can¡¯t help but laugh at the way those words were uttered in an emotionless voice. The building of the town went on for a few more days and in a week the town was made, if people ask the reason it became a town was due to the modern touches the shades put. At first Xenados was still screaming, ¡°Where is the village vibe!¡± but at the same time the shades made their master bow his head and allow them to do whatever they wanted with the village. The shades he called were all past architects or people who had some knowledge in building houses. The reason Xenados bowed his heads to his servants? Easy¡­ ¡°Do you want plumbing or not?¡± Those words cause Xenados to think of a life where he had to dig a hole on the ground and cover it up. He even remembered a certain lesson from a certain world where the class were taught of the importance of hygiene. And to make it worse the way they were forced to have a proper hygiene is to tell them a frightening tale, a tale about an age where people were shameless enough to throw their feces¡­ out their window. Since then Xenados simply helped in how the town should look, and after a week twenty houses a town hall and a house of the town head were made. Also they should not forget about the sewage network that the shades created, in fact since the shades had the power to move underground they made a line where all the feces would eventually be dropped in a magma river. When Xenados heard of what they did as well as their proud faces when they did so Xenados felt a chill when he thought of what would happen if he brought an army of past hero shades to fight and clear monsters then make these architect shades start building a kingdom. When Xenados asked the system what would happen if he made the shades do so the answer of the system was frightening. [A great kingdom will be born with the most idiotic king in history, the kingdom was beautiful but war eventually destroyed it and the king, who is still a six to seven year old was easily killed by a passing assassin. Thus the fast rise of a kingdom was followed by its immediate demise. Kingdom population when it rose¡­ 12 people 3 beast, when it fell 1 beast 10 slaves*wink*] (Are you able to predict the future?!) [No but that is what¡¯s bound to happen, oh and even if you did manage to get many people. The end will still be the same, a new nameless and lonely(friendless) kingdom dares to grow so rapidly? Not a single king would let the chance to show their might slip by also who would fear a little kid? Hey there little king want some candy? If you become our vassal state we would provide you candy forever!] Hearing the systems reply Xenados was speechless but he understood it¡¯s point. Though he could theoretically build a kingdom making sure it won¡¯t fall the next day harder. Chapter 17: The Hardships of Kingdom(Town) Building ¡°Is it alright now!¡± The questioning voice echoed through the cave, the voice came from Xenados who was at the bottom of the cave. If you are curious as to how it came to this, it all started the day before. ¡°What?¡± Xenados¡¯ voice was loud as he stared angrily at the shade. Seeing it¡¯s master in a fit of rage the shade recounted what he just said. After which Xenados calmed down and sat as he processed the events. ¡°The drainage led pass the crust and dump all the filth to a magma chamber that you all just happen to come by. But the plan you did backfired since due to the magma chamber being part of the convection current the magma made it¡¯s way up the pipes, before it could cause damage you all sealed the pipes¡± (yes...) ¡°But then you realized that the pipes would soon be filled with filth and the whole city smelling like shit would happen in less than two weeks, am I right?¡± (yes...) ¡°*sigh* and now you want me to think of a way to fix it?¡± (No no no, we wish for you to create a transportation formation, we made and empty cavern and there we plan to place all the filth but if that were only it we would have to empty it every few years. To make the system better we thought that it would be possible for you to make the transportation magic formation to lead to the magma chamber...) In the end Xenados¡¯ for his beloved plumbing decided to create the formation. He had a few problems but the biggest is that he can¡¯t engrave a pattern in a magma chamber. ¡°How do you expect me to survive being even near the magma chamber!¡± Those were his words but the great shade architects and engineers already thought of a solution for that. After the transportation formation was made all they needed now is for the destination. The coordinates were placed to be a certain pillar that was erected in the magma chamber. The shades are unable to directly control mana thus they are not able to create magic formations as well as use magic other than void magic but that didn¡¯t matter. Possessing certain rocks and metals in the chamber they were able to create an indestructible pillar that won¡¯t melt no matter how hot it is and also impervious to the force of the convection current. The pillar would be the destination but the problem that Xenados had is that he won¡¯t be able to place it on the pillar. But that¡¯s where the ingenuity of the shades comes in. Who said that Xenados had to personally be the one to place the formation, first the formation would be placed on a shade, the shade would then assimilate into the pillar in the chamber. When the shade assimilates it would transfer the formation to the pillar. A shade is like a ghost so it could pass through anything as well as not be affected by any physical attack. But they are unable to dodge the magic attacks but when Xenados placed the formation he made it simply stay on the shade similar to how armor stays on mortals. If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. Then all the shade had to do is remove his armor and leave it there. Of course Xenados put an additional property the formation, after it is separated from the shade the formation would attach itself to anything with a physical body. As such even if the ¡°indestructible¡± pillar were to break the formation would still stay in the chamber even in the convection current causing the filth to always end up getting burned. After Xenados finished this work the shades escorted him out of the cave and after which the entrance was forever sealed with boulders, and soil. ¡°Now that that¡¯s over I guess it¡¯s time to train¡± Just as Xenados was thinking of what kind of training he would do for the time being the screaming voice of a woman entered his ears. ¡°LORD!¡± Turning around Xenados notices the person is a dark elf, more than that it¡¯s not any normal dark elf. ¡°Ytha if it¡¯s about ¡°who¡¯ll be first?¡± again just give up¡± Yes Xenados was troubled not by the plumbing the most but by this perverted dark elf. For some reason she would always come running to him but her words would always be the same, ¡°Who¡¯ll be first?¡±. How could he not realize what the words actually meant? Xenados simply ignored her or called Antonia to shoo her away but she would always come back. ¡°No that¡¯s not it!¡± The legal loli dark elf said so as she explained the situation hearing her words Xenados was shocked and returned with her to the town. There in front of the gates is a group of demi-humans, no demi-beastmen? Anyways from their appearance one could already guess what they are. ¡°Half-bloods?¡± When Xenados muttered these words one of the ten half human half beastmen stood up and angrily retorted. ¡°We¡¯re not half-bloods!¡± When the elves saw who the person directed his words to they pulled out their blades made of dragon fangs and pointed it towards the newcomers. Of course the person who stood up sat down immediately. They didn¡¯t need to think twice when they saw the blades, it may not have the shine of metal but the aura it releases proves how powerful it is. ¡°Dragon fang...¡± One of the people from the group muttered, Xenados knew that he made a mistake when he muttered the words ¡°Half-blood¡±. He knows how hard it is to be called such especially since these people look like they were in the same condition as the elves. Brushing of his mutter Xenados threw them a question. ¡°Were you all thrown out of your respective villages?¡± The people lowered their heads and recounted their story. The group of people all were from the same village and they pretty much had the same circumstances as the elves. But unlike the elves these beastmen had 5 males and 7 females in their group. It appears that the people thrown are the weak ones who have sinned, in this case their sin is being born, of course they had more leeway. Beastmen society focuses on strength, if you have beastman blood then you must have strength, man or woman would be subjected in a fight. These group of half-blood beastmen were already sinners when they were born thus they needed to show their worth every single day. Of course the women were all thrown away, in fact the village would find even the smallest flaws in what they did to throw them out. The women were 3 cat girls, 2 dog girls, a rabbit girl and a lamia. The reason that there were more women than men is because of their appearance. The aesthetics of beauty to beastmen are furries. They are called beastmen but it¡¯s not wrong to call them furries as well, they look like overgrown animals who have some sort of human shape. When Xenados got a description of how regular beastmen look his face paled¡­ the reason. ¡°Frightening, this world is frightening! To think that they did not develop much technology but their development in fetishes have reached this point¡­.¡± Those were his thoughts, why? When he got a description he couldn¡¯t believe it so he asked the shade to look through the memories of one beastman and show it to him when he saw the memories he unintentionally vomitted. Of course no one was sure why he vomited but the meeting was concluded and the beastmen were given their own houses. While Antonia and the elves were trying their best to make the half beastmen calm and be able to live in peace with each other Xenados was in his room. Lying on his bed he stared blankly at the ceiling as he muttered silently, ¡°To think that humans still have that kind of fetish¡­ it seems humans¡¯ no matter what time or world it is they would always be the demons of lust...¡±. Xenados simply wanted to not think of what kind of human would have weird fetish to go through life and death only to rape a beastman¡­ no they traversed far and wide and went deep in the dark forest only to rape animals! Xenados went to sleep but before he did he kept a mental reminder and made sure that the system would not forget the reminder read, ¡°Beware of humans, until you reach the proper age of 16 and have a normal build will you go there. Remember if there are humans in this world with a furry fetish already there are bound to be ones who are into little boys...¡± -------- ¡°Haaaa...haaa¡± In the dead of the night a woman was silently panting behind a stone house. Her fingers were digging in somewhere and her other hand was fondling her chest. ¡°What are you doing here?!¡± ¡°Oh no- kyaa!¡± That night a woman was caught doing something indecent outside the house of Xenados, the elves as well as Antonia gave her a punishment. ¡°No please, I¡¯ll accept anything but that!¡± ¡°Sinners will be punished accordingly!¡± From that day onward for one month Ytha would never be within 10 meters of Xenados of course the one who would come running to Xenados about problems would either be Antonia, Kaylin or some shades. Xenados was curious what happened but payed it no heed instead thought it was a blessing for him. Chapter 18: The Original Plan ¡°Head!¡± ¡°Boss!¡± ¡°Master~¡± Xenados was simply strolling around the town but whenever someone see¡¯s him he is greeted or called. The people would either wave or bow towards him. He may only look to be a kid but the people in this small town all respect him. ¡°Seriously they should not be that respectful towards me¡­ it¡¯s not like I will be staying here forever¡± Those were his thoughts that he said out loud, it¡¯s a good thing that no one heard it because if any of the people living in the town did they would be devastated. But next to Xenados is Antionia, it¡¯s been three months since they took the beastmen in and in those three months nothing significant occurred. Everyday they would fix problems and small fights and quarrels, while managing the other important parts of the town such as the farms and the plumbing. There were a few problems about plumbing especially when the beastmen humans came. Most of the beastmen had trouble with the toilets that Xenados introduced as such the shades were made to create new brilliant idea¡¯s for their toilets. Of course the farms were also a problem, with the increase of the towns population the job of the town head is to ensure that his people are well fed. The job is easier said than done especially since Xenados would have to extend the town to accommodate farmlands. The crater made by the dragon had enough space to create a town. But Xenados had to start farming to support his people. Hunting is indeed a good source of food, but that has its demerits as well. To be able to support that many people hunting 2 to 3 beast is done every day. Although that may seem to be an insignificant amount Xenados knew very well that that amount would slowly pile up and soon he might cause the destruction of the ecosystem. To counter this problem he had to extend the land and to d so he had to clear forest. The job was done fairly easy, with the help of his ¡°trusted¡± system he managed to gain a hectare of farmland. Well that hectare of land was divided into two. Half is for farms the other is for grazing animals. He had to have a field for both, hunting is important and is great and all but to manage his ever growing town he¡¯d have to make a stable source of food. The land had to have protection of course, with that for one month he and the architect shades built a wall to surround the village and the farms. The jobs were done efficiently and by one month a twenty feet or two storey tall wall which is ten meters thick was erected. At first Xenados thought it was too much but when he thought about the dragon he fought he decided it was the right decision. Of course many of the elves wanted to correct his way of thinking some even wanted to tell him to not use the dragon as reference but when they thought about it. ¡°It¡¯s safer this way right?¡± ¡°Yeah and we could easily protect the city in case some sort of invasion arrives¡± ¡°Hahaha! We¡¯ll show them what we halfs could do!¡±The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation. Of course the people all had varying responses but in the end they were happy that they didn¡¯t have to live in constant fear of monster attacks. Now Xenados was looking down on the farms, the seeds that were cultured using magic and the assistance of the system as well as some ¡°farmer¡± shades(which are actually mages excelling in nature magic) the town is able to grow potatoes and a few fruit bearing trees. ¡°Seriously to be able to engineer potatoes that only need a month to grow and apple, peach and banana tree that could grow here and even take only a month to grow fruits¡­.¡± [This is the result of nature magic and science mixing together, as well as my and the shades expertise] ¡°Yeah if it weren¡¯t for m-¡± [Your beloved system and shades...] Xenados was silent as he stared at space but in truth he was making an expression as if glaring at the system. [The truth is after all without me and the shades you wouldn¡¯t be able to even build a house, much less a wall and farmlands] To the systems reply Xenados could only stay silent he had nothing else to say. The fact may be that they are his servants or whatnot but it¡¯s the undeniable truth that all this town has become is due to the system and the shades. In fact the current state of affairs the logistics and all the other managerial stuff that needs to be done is being accomplished by a shade. [But you would need not worry, I am a part of you that will assist you in your plans, also it¡¯s not like you are useless, in fact you have the greatest talent that I will never have] ¡°What is it?¡± [If I told you then wouldn¡¯t that only hinder your growth? Instead of asking the answers from someone isn¡¯t it far better to find the answers yourself?] Xenados could only sigh to the system. ¡°But¡­ even if I did successfully make a safe haven I still want to find out the truth about that father of mine and how do I destroy that god¡± [The answer is simply, you only need to become a god yourself] To the answer of the system Xenados once again let out a long sigh. ¡°Well since that¡¯s it I have a question, what do you think of my father?¡± [...] The system didn¡¯t answer, Xenados knew very well that this was the sign that it can¡¯t give out an answer to. But just as he was about to give up the system did answer him and the answer left him speechless. [Sabien¡­ a noble vampire and your father¡­ if anything he would be a target] Xenados was shocked, target? He knew something was wrong with his father but he can¡¯t properly point it out. But for the system to place him as a target, Xenados could not help but shiver when he thought of what the reason may be. ¡°Could you specify the reason for this?¡± Although he didn¡¯t want to know not for him but for his mother. Antonia loves Sabien very much but if Xenados were to tell her that he intends to kill him¡­ he could not imagine what his mother would do. But before he could think of retracting his question the answer already came. [Sabien the noble vampire and your father, his emotions ever since your birth have been nothing but fake. Even his emotions and his love for your mother is fake, through the various life experiences in more than a thousand worlds immortals, beings that have an almost infinite lifespan would love playing with races that have shorter lived lives than them. A prime example of this is the god Vincentius.] [To this the vampire Sabien has most likely took your mother the demoness Antonia to bear a child and toy with her, if not for this why else would a Noble Vampire with so much power marry a demoness who doesn¡¯t have any redeeming trait] [Also as your memory suggest your father should be the highest ranking vampire in this continent. If that is placed into perspective the other vampires would never dare to attack his beloved family] Xenados was continuously shocked and he was shifting from shock and rage the whole while. Shocked at how cunning and manipulative Sabien is and rage at how he dared to toy with his beloved mothers innocent heart. [In this scenario it is easy to perceive that Sabien has plotted to play with you guys till your death but for him to throw away his ¡°toys¡± this may prove top show something.] ¡°What is it?¡± Xenados of course didn¡¯t let his anger consume him and fail to notice this, he realized that there was something wrong with the statements and the conclusions that the system has made. If he and his mother were really just toys to that Vampire then why would he throw us before getting to the good part, it can¡¯t be that he simply wanted to play house now, can it? [The reason is varied but among all the various conclusion but among them all one would be most likely, and that is, a powerful enemy has made him to do so] ¡°Then that would mean¡± [That there is a power that even an immortal Vampire ruling over his race in an entire continent would fear] ¡°And a power like that...¡± [Would be one that can or already attain godhood] ¡°But...¡± [That possibility can¡¯t b e ruled out and to make an immortal powerhouse fearful his enemy would more or less likely be god] Those words put Xenados deep into contemplation, it is true that a god could make his father do that but why would a god do so? No his thoughts are, what does the god intend to do by helping me? With this Xenados instead of fearing for the future looked up and a smile showed on his face. ¡°If that¡¯s the case then all I need to do is increase my strength much that I could go against god!¡±