《Paradise World: The Vampire God》 -1 Ranks, Quality and Types Credits to the writers of Monster Paradise and Reincarnation of the Strongest Sword God for inspiration and concepts. Combat Rankings: ? Lowest to Highest - Unranked (Average human level and below) - Iron (I to III) - Bronze (I to III) - Silver (I to III) - Gold (I to III) - Perfected Gold - Apex (White, Red, Blue, Purple, Gold) - Immortal (I to X) - Eternal (I to XII) - Legendary (Silver, Gold, Red Gold, Blue Gold, Dark Gold, Purple Gold, White Gold, Imperial) - Demi-God (1 star Bronze, 2 star Silver, 3 star Gold, 4 star Black Gold, 5 star White Gold, 6 star Imperial, 7 star Legendary) - Mythical (Sacred Silver, Sacred Gold, Imperial, Jade, Azure, Skyfire, 1 star Heavenly, 2 star Heavenly, 3 star Heavenly, 4 star Heavenly, 5 star Heavenly, Deified) - Divine (1 star White Yellow, 2 star Bronze, 3 star Silver, 4 star Sacred Silver, 5 star Gold, 6 star Dark Gold, 7 star Sacred Gold, 8 star Azure Gold, 9 star Imperial, 10 star Legendary) - Pseudo God (1 to 9) - False God (Bronze Immortal, Silver Immortal, Gold Immortal, Imperial Immortal, Epic Immortal, Legendary Immortal, Mythical Immortal) - True God (1 to 12) - Major God (1 to 10) - Supreme God (Commander, Chief, Elder, Monarch, King, Emperor, Alpha, Almighty, Transcendant) - Primordial (Ancient, Archaic, Lesser, Pure, Greater, True, Preeminent, Ultra, Firstborn) ? Rarity Rankings: Lowest to Highest - Common - Uncommon - Rare - Bronze - Silver - Gold - Dark Gold - White Gold - Platinum - Epic - Imperial - Pseudo Legendary - Legendary - Pseudo Mythical - Mythical - Pseudo Divine - Divine - Supreme God - Primal - Primordial ? Nobility and Title Ranks: Lowest to Highest - Foreigner - Citizen - Honorary Citizen - Baronet ? Nobility - Baron (can purchase any land within any city and have half of the nobility benefits) - Viscount (can purchase land in the capital''s outskirts, have full nobility benefits and can establish a village) - Count (can purchase land inside of the capital, establish organizations, have full nobility benefits and can govern & establish a small town) - Earl (can purchase land in the middle circles of the capital, establish organizations, conduct militaristic operations, participate in political events, have full nobility benefits and can fully govern & establish a medium or large town) - Marquis (can purchase land in the inner circles of the capital, establish organizations, conduct trade and diplomatic missions, conduct militaristic operations, participate in political events, can establish new kingdoms, have full nobility benefits and can fully govern & establish a small or medium city.) - Prince/Princess - Duke - Grand Duke - Archduke/King - Emperor ? Alignment: - Good + Pure + Chaotic + Neutral + Lawful - Neutral + True + Chaotic + Lawful - Evil + Pure + Chaotic + Neutral + Lawful ? Currency: Lowest to Highest - Iron coins - Bronze coins (100 Iron coins) - Silver coins (100 Bronze coins) - Gold coins (100 Silver coins) 1 Reincarnation Sebastian James Scarbrough is an 18 year old teenager living in Oxford. He is a highschool student with passing marks, spending most of his time playing the popular game Paradise: the Infinite world. He is short with a height only about 5 feet 5 inches tall, with black hair, small eyes, a fat nose, slightly bulging lips and an unathletic physique. Sebastian is a british-chinese with 2 siblings, a younger brother and an older sister who''s mother had died of lung cancer when he was only 6 years old. The three were abused by their british father who raped his sister and killed her. He was then sent to jail after a neighbor reported strange noises coming from the next door. He was then adopted by the Child Protection Agency at the age of 12 alongside his younger brother and lived in a dormitory provided by the agency at his school. He was quickly bullied by seniors for his bad academic performance, small eyes, unattractive physique and his gaming addiction, only having 3 friends who are also bullied for similar reasons. At the age of 15, he could not withstand the bullying any longer and made a pact with the seniors to watch porn in exchange for being accepted. When he watched it, the seniors secretly recorded him watching it and framed him causing the school to punish him heavily. After watching those scenes, he was cursed with a porn addiction and became a pervert, disliked by any students. His gaming addiction increased as more pressure was placed on him using the online world to escape his predicament. To add to his problems, his friends started to disappear one by one and loneliness quickly crept into his mind. Without friends, he has barely any reason to live. His little brother also disappeared and he had no one to talk to anymore. He then decided to commit suicide right after his 18th birthday that he would usually celebrate with his now gone friends. It was a full moon night, the pale rays of the moon crept through the window. His room was a mess, like a typhoon had just past. There are books littered around his bed and table. The moonlight shone on him as he played his last game in this world. He prepared his suicide by stealing a cyanide pill from the hospital a few days before. His in game character is ranked no. 4 in the game, being far more capable and powerful than he is also being far more attractive than him. Sebastian was always jealous of his character and others in his school who were both smart and handsome. He believed that they were the luckiest of all people who are both smart and attractive, but he hated them because they abused their gifts. After playing for 3 hours, he was about to log off but he suddenly recieved a prompt on his phone''s screen. The prompt is rectangular with a gold outline and a black background, the prompt covered only a medium portion of the screen floating in the middle. The text was gold and it read, "Would you like to enter a new world?" He thought that it was just another game prompt and quickly pressed no. However, another prompt appeared with a different text, "You sure? You can leave this world for real, not to mention that if you accept, all you problems will go away." Sebastian simply dismissed the prompt as a bug but agreed anyway because he was desperate and he had nothing to lose. As he pressed the button, a prompt appeared and a young female voice spoke, "Congratulations on your new life!" After the message ended, he was dumbstruck and then his vision turned black completely and he panicked. ''Is this really the end?'' he thought. Then, a white glowing text appeared from the infinite darkness followed by a welcome spoken by a young female voice. He looked at the white text that formed a welcome. It then transformed into ''Initializing'' 10%¡­ 20%¡­ 30%¡­ 50%¡­ 99%¡­ 100%¡­ System loading complete. Initializing welcoming sequence Welcome player no. 11286! Suddenly, a wooden domed room formed around him. 12 colored windows depict twelve different figures on the dome''s inner surface. The wood formed a circle at the brink of the dome and another circle forms 3m below it with 12 wooden arches supporting the lower circle. The welcome text stayed afloat before transforming into a large colorless transparent screen floating 1m off the ground and 1m below the brink of the dome measuring 7m in height and twice in length. The screen covered most of his vision. The screen displayed ''beginning character creation'' in white at the same time as the young female voice heralded the message. Sebastian tried to look around but his gaze was fixed. Suddenly a character data sheet appeared on the screen. Basic Information: Name: ??? Age: ??? Gender: ??? Race: ??? Title: ??? Sexuality: ??? Active Skills: ??? Passive Skills: ??? Power Rank: ??? A realistic hologram of a beautiful young woman with long black hair wearing a white dress appeared out from the screen like a dividing cell. She looked at Sebastian and flashed a smile, "My name is Hirani, I am the Valkyrie tasked with helping you explore and live in this world. If you have any questions, please ask or would you like to proceed to creating your form?" Sebastian forced a smile and is completely dumbfounded with the amount of knowledge he is supposed to process. ''Am I dead or is this a dream?'' He thought. 2 Skills I Wanna Have ''It''s not a dream. I can assure that.'' Hirani mentally replied. He had chills and shouted, "Wait, you can read my mind!" The hologram chuckled and nodded, amused by the panicking human. ''Oh no, she can see my secrets!'' The hologram chuckled and spoke with a hint of laughter, "Relax, I can only read questions you have in your mind. Nothing more than that." He slowly calmed down but held some suspicions on her words. A few seconds of silence lingered before Hirani asked, "So, do you want to start the character creation?" "Yes." The screen then displayedthe basic information and a computerized voice rang inside his head. ''Please fill in the basic information sheet. Take your time.'' Then, Hirani added, "After that, we have some deals and premium packages to offer that you won''t want to miss." The screen then occupied his whole vision and he mentally filled in the sheet. He gave a good thought on his new name. He''d like to keep his first name and threw away the rest, he resolved to become the strongest of this new world and pamper himself with all of the things that he could have never reach in his old life. He resolved for power, wealth and women. He renamed himself as Sebastian Adrian Cain. Adrian coming from the most handsome and intelligent student in his school he envied the most. Cain coming from the biblical cain who is believed by some to be the first vampire as he decides his race to be a vampire. After a few more minutes of filling the information done, he asked the aditer, "Why can''t I fill in the title, active skills, passive skills and power rank?" "The four of them will be decided before you shape how you look. That''s what our offers are about." "So are you done?" She continued. "Yes." His character sheet has been updated and a final confirmation prompt appears. He mentally picks yes and an overview of his basic information appears on the screen. Basic Information: Name: Sebastian Adrian Cain Age: 18 Gender: Male Race: Vampire (specifics will follow) Title: (specifics will follow) Sexuality: Heterosexual Active Skills: (specifics will follow) Passive Skills: (specifics will follow) Power Rank: (specifics will follow) His view is then readjusted and the screen shrinks to only cover about 3/4 of his vision. Then, 3 offers appear in the screen. Offer 1: Adventurer''s Package Perks: player will be given an intermediate guide book on the world, player will be able to choose starting point and player can add/replace 1 intermediate active and passive skill. Cost: must stay in this world for at least 1 reincarnation or 200 years. Offer 2: Nobility Package Perks: player will be given an advanced guide book on the world, an intermediate book about monsters existing in the world, 1 advanced weapon of choosing, 3 titles of nobility, backstory can moderately alter the world, player will own a mansion at any location of choosing within the world, player has 3 extra skill slots for both active and passive, player will gain 5 intermediate servants of choosing and player can add/replace 3 advanced active and passive skill. Cost: must stay in this world for at least 4 reincarnations or 500 years and a 5% memory wipe. Offer 3: God Package Perks: player will be given a near-omniscient guide book on the world, an advanced book on monsters & potential threats existing in the world, 5 advanced equipment of choosing, 2 divine equipment of choosing, 5 titles of nobility, backstory can significantly alter the world, player will own a customized castle at any location of choosing within the world, player has 3 extra skill slots for both active and passive, player will gain 7 advanced servants of choosing and player can add/replace 4 advanced and 1 semi-divine active and passive skill. Cost: must stay in this world for at least 99 reincarnations or 10,000 years and a 25% memory wipe. He quickly purchased the God package without thinking twice, not wanting to return to Earth at any given moment in the future. He pressed the confirm button and pressed it again when a confirmation prompt appears. Then, the screen shifts to a list of skills that he can choose from. The computerized voice appears and explains, "Please choose 10 skills, 5 from passive and 5 from active. You may only possess 2 semi-divine skills in total. Press confirm once you have chosen your skills to proceed with the next screen." Active Skills: - Sleeper Victims Effect: The user''s victim contains a blood parasite that can be activated to control the victim''s every action. Victims will age twice as slow and will not decompose upon death until 100 years after. Limits: - Targets with a 50% or more concentration of divinity are illegible for this skill. - Only 6 can be activated at a time. - Victims that have died for more than 100 years are illegible for use. - Dance of Swords Effect: The user performs a set of 69 blade techniques within 4.6 seconds covering a radius of 13m in all directions from the user. Attacks that hit clones will harm the caster by 10% of damage received by the clones. Limits: - User cannot stop the skill while performing it. - Sanguine Slaughter Effect: The user summons 13 chains made of very dense blood to tie the target and constrict it before summoning 72 blood spirits that will attack each target once in a period of 3 seconds. Limits: - The limit of targets is 78 - The skill can only be used if the user has consumed fresh blood 3 days at maximum prior to using the skill. - Target must be visible to caster - Crippling Thorns Effect: The user summons rose vines from the ground to constrict the target and absorb the target''s stamina. After it absorbs the target''s stamina, the rose thorns pierce into the target''s body to kill. Limits: - Thorns cannot be summoned on sand, water or from underground rocks. - Targets cannot be more than 60km away. - Only 10000 targets at once - Vines can be poisoned and withered like normal plants - Vines cannot exceed 100m in thickness - Vampire Spirits Effect: The user summons dense demon blood to be formed into weapons and attacks. User can control the target''s blood at will. Limit: - Targets cannot exceed 100 (blood manipulation) at a time - Manipulated Constructs cannot exceed 10000 at once - Summoned blood is 13 times more durable than the user - The skill can only be used if the user has consumed fresh blood 3 days at maximum prior to using the skill - Call of the Progenitor Effect: Summons evil spirits of the nearby area to attack, empower or possess targets. Limit: - Only evil spirits of a lower rank can be called - The spirits summoned cannot be from more than 13km away. - Unsealed Abyss Effect: Opens a large chasm in he ground and release controllable hellfire to strike the target. Dragons are not immune to the flames Limit: - Chasm & Flame size depends on the user''s rank - Flame Density depends on the user''s rank - Rosen Rune Effect: Carves a giant rose on the ground with the user''s current weapon in 3.2 seconds before releasing blood tentacles from the intersection of the lines to attack the targets or form a barrier. Limit: - Roses are always 13m in length Passive Skills: - Dominant Charm Effect: Gives the user an aura that subtly influences sentient minds to be attracted to the user. When the user talks, the user''s words can easily influence any sentient mind, bypassing advanced degrees of mental and spiritual defenses without being noticed. Deities are significantly resistant. Other users of higher degrees will be immune. - Minor Divine Regeneration Effect: The user can regenerate from physical, mental and spiritual wounds caused by minor deities and under in miliseconds. Attacks by higher entities will take more time to heal to are incapable of being healed. - Colossal Might Effect: The user''s strength and stamina is multiplied a million fold. - Shadowlord''s Authority Effect: User becomes immune to darkness related attacks and magic and can freely manipulate it. User can also create sentient entities from it and conjure it even during the presence of light. User also becomes resistant to void and physical elements. - Blessed Darkness Effect: User is highly resistant to Holy magic and artifacts, can walk in daylight and are resistant to earth, fire and water elements. - Mark of Cain Effect: Curses inflicted on user is reflected on the caster tenfold. Does not apply to higher deities rank or above. - Greater Intelligence Effect: User''s IQ is increased by 65, user can remember things 65 times better and user can think of 3 things simultaneously. - Lord of the Abyss Effect: Evil creatures, summons, constructs and entities of lower rank will obey 90% of the user''s commands and interests. "Woah, so much skills. I don''t think that I''ll be leaving this world at all. It''s so generous." He fawned at the selections. Looking down at the overpowered skills he can choose. 3 My New Skills Sebastian carefully read the effects of each skill, They are all useful making it hard to decide what to pick. To help make his choices, he asked Hirani, "How many people die because of not having good survival skills in their first life?" She looked up, poking her right cheek with her index finger and replied, "Around 64.5% of people, I suggest choosing the Mark of Cain, Blessed Darkness but you should have Minor Divine Regeneration cause it''s a must if you wanna stay alive." He took her advice and choose Mark of Cain, Blessed Darkness, Minor Divine Regeneration and took Greater Intelligence so he would make better decisions, learn faster and so that he won''t be tricked by other people unlike in his old life. As for his fifth passive skill, he decides on Dominant Charm. The skill allows him to easily make girls agree to his advances and to make people do whatever he wants. After finishing his passive skill choices, he scrolls up the screen and takes another thorough look on the choices of attacking skills. He wanted to take the Lord of the Abyss passive but isn''t sure if it can replace any of the passives he chose. To replace it, he took Call of the Progenitor so he could control demons and can make use of it later on for other things. He then chose Vampire Spirits and Dance of Swords as offensive skills to quickly overwhelm enemies but also to counter any enemy tactics. He then looked at the remaining skills, quickly taking Crippling Thorns so he can wipe out armies and empty places up more quickly with less effort. For his final skill, he is struggling between Sanguine Slaughter and Unsealed Abyss. He compared each other finding both skills to be very useful. After a few minutes of not reaching a decision, he decides to ask for Hirani''s advice one more time. "Hey Hirani, which one do you think is better Sanguine Slaughter or Unsealed Abyss?" "I''d say Unsealed Abyss. It has many uses and can easily cover tracks, burn away illusions or clones. It can also hurt dragons which Sanguine Slaughter cannot do unless your combat rank increases." She suggested. He replied with an Oh and selected Unsealed Abyss, scrolling down and pressing confirm. A prompt appears urging another confirmation. He just ignored it and pressed confirm again. Then, the system updated his profile and Hirani spoke, "In your profile, you will see your skills and your race''s default skills unless replaced by the advanced skills you have. Also, since you are the first of your race, your default skills are upgraded by one grade and your physique multiplied tenfold." Basic Information: Name: Sebastian Adrian Cain Age: 18 Gender: Male Race: Vampire (Progenitor) Title: (specifics will follow) Sexuality: Heterosexual Active Skills: - Vampire Spirits Effect: The user summons dense demon blood to be formed into weapons and attacks. User can control the target''s blood at will. Limit: - Targets cannot exceed 100 (blood manipulation) at a time - Manipulated Constructs cannot exceed 10000 at once - Summoned blood is 13 times more durable than the user - The skill can only be used if the user has consumed fresh blood 3 days at maximum prior to using the skill - Call of the Progenitor Effect: Summons evil spirits of the nearby area to attack, empower or possess targets. Limit: - Only evil spirits of a lower rank can be called - The spirits summoned cannot be from more than 13km away. - Unsealed Abyss Effect: Opens a large chasm in he ground and release controllable hellfire to strike the target. Dragons are not immune to the flames Limit: - Chasm & Flame size depends on the user''s rank - Flame Density depends on the user''s rank - Crippling Thorns Effect: The user summons rose vines from the ground to constrict the target and absorb the target''s stamina. After it absorbs the target''s stamina, the rose thorns pierce into the target''s body to kill. Limits: - Thorns cannot be summoned on sand, water or from underground rocks. - Targets cannot be more than 60km away. - Only 10000 targets at once - Vines can be poisoned and withered like normal plants - Vines cannot exceed 100m in thickness - Dance of Swords Effect: The user performs a set of 69 blade techniques within 4.6 seconds covering a radius of 13m in all directions from the user. Attacks that hit clones will harm the caster by 10% of damage received by the clones. Limits: - User cannot stop the skill while performing it. - Sensual Bite Effect: User will use fangs to drink a target''s blood through physical contact. Fangs will release oxytocin to the target to calm and allow more blood to be taken. - Dark Shapeshifting Effect: User can shapeshift into a wolf, a cloud of bats or mist with a maximum of 10 times the user''s mass. Passive Skills: - Dominant Charm Effect: Gives the user an aura that subtly influences sentient minds to be attracted to the user. When the user talks, the user''s words can easily influence any sentient mind, bypassing advanced degrees of mental and spiritual defenses without being noticed. Deities are significantly resistant. Other users of higher degrees will be immune. - Minor Divine Regeneration Effect: The user can regenerate from physical, mental and spiritual wounds caused by minor deities and under in miliseconds. Attacks by higher entities will take more time to heal to are incapable of being healed. - Blessed Darkness Effect: User is highly resistant to Holy magic and artifacts, can walk in daylight and are resistant to earth, fire and water elements. - Mark of Cain Effect: Curses inflicted on user is reflected on the caster tenfold. Does not apply to higher deities rank or above. - Greater Intelligence Effect: User''s IQ is increased by 65, user can remember things 65 times better and user can think of 3 things simultaneously. - Advanced Vampirism Effect: User needs to consume at least 600ml of virgin''s blood once a week for user to continue having this passive effect to activate. User has 10 times more strength and stamina, user does not need oxygen to function, user can resist hunger and water requirements for a month, user has 10 times more agility and user can fly at will. Power Rank: Silver III, Tier 4 Pureblood Vampire (Tier 7 Vampire Progenitor) 4 My new Equipmen "Now that you''re done with your combat stuff, you can now get your equipment first." She then started tracing 12 golden hebrew runes before waving her right arm causing the runes to be blown like leaves. Each rune then flies towards its spot on the ground like the numbers to a clock and each fired golden strings at each other to form a david''s star shaped magic array. The array began to pulse and the monitor once again filled his field of vision. Now, a whole list of equipment appears before him. - Moloch''s Furnace Rank: Advanced - Durandal Rank: Advanced - Spear of Longinus Rank: Advanced - Leviathan''s Fang Rank: Advanced - Sacred Silver Breastplate Rank: Advanced - Seraphim''s Guard Rank: Divine - Philosopher''s Stone Rank: Advanced - Cloak of Eternal Night Rank: Divine ... "Now, please pick 2 divine ranked equipment and 5 advanced ranked equipment. All equipment in this world is present, even ones destroyed, sealed or hidden." Hirani''s voice echoed. He scrolled up and down and when he found things with interesting names, he checked their details by pressing their names. Inside each details page, he found all of the equipments'' attributes including an in depth explanation on its history, advantages and disadvantages and their overall ranking and why. He was impressed by the benefits he got by purchasing the God Package, he felt even more happy for taking the right choice. The equipment choosing took much longer than expected, consuming around 6 hours of time. Hirani explained to him some things about the world he would soon live in like the fact that every 6 minutes spent here is already a year over there. She also revealed that every minute brings a new player that is currently doing the same introductory activities as he is. After choosing his equipments, the system displays his choices one by one. The first equipment is the Philosopher''s Stone. Philosopher''s Stone (Golden Relic, Legendary Rank Item) Abilities: ? Transforms any object(s) with 10% divinity or less into another object(s) with 10% divinity or less with the same mass. - Cooldown: None ? Resurrects or heals up to 3 targets to their peaks simultaneously. - Cooldown: 1 hour A golden mist appears and transforms into a floating stone. The stone appears to be a small, 10cm tall crimson sphere radiating a faint red glow. The stone then flies quickly to the left and softly lands on a recently materialized purple pillow with a golden lining. The next one is Death''s Origin. Death''s Origin (Divine Relic, Divine Ranked Weapon) [Tier 0/7] Attack Power +(Strength * 6) All attributes +174% (Tier 0) Hidden attributes +60% (Tier 0) Attack Speed +92% (Tier 0) Reaction Speed +48% (Tier 0) Critical Rate +13% (Tier 0) Critical Damage +90% (Tier 0) Increase Dark resistance by 130 (Tier 0) - Passive Abilities: ? 65% chance to summon an afterimage attack ? 35% chance to summon a double afterimage attack ? 10% chance to summon a triple afterimage attack ? Death Immunity (Advanced) Has a 5% chance to avoid death and be granted 6 seconds of immortality. ? Darkness Eye (Advanced) Can see hidden attacks and traps that are hidden by less than 4 layers or 16 m of material within a range of 3 km. ? 60% chance to deal 230% damage ? 30% chance to deal 345% damage and increase attack speed by 45% for 2 seconds ? 10% chance of summoning a doppelganger with 60% attributes for 30 seconds with each successful attack - Active Abilities: ? Eternal Death Inflicts 390% darkness damage on one target 3 times. If target dies, target will be absorbed into the sword. Channeling time: none Cooldown: 3 minutes Active Period: 1.5 seconds ? Summon Phantom Summon a phantom of someone that has been absorbed by the sword to fight with 90% of their fully recovered pre-death attributes and skills. Phantoms are only visible to targets and summoner. Channeling time: none Cooldown: 5 hours Active Period: Until certain events ? Curse of Wrath Increase all attributes by 600% for 46 seconds. All skill cooldowns are halved. After 46 seconds, user''s stamina, hunger and thirst will be halved. Channeling Time: 1 second Cooldown: 1 hour Active Period: 46 seconds ? Sword Tomb Summon black swords from the ground up to 23m from the caster for 3 seconds. Each sword inflicts 345% darkness damage and has a 30% chance to cause poison for 3 seconds. Swords will dissipate after 30 minutes. Channeling Time: none Cooldown: 6 minutes Active Period: 3 seconds, 30 minutes (swords) ? Whirlwind of Death Spins around to slice all enemies within a range of 3.9m dealing 300% damage per second and firing a black sword at a random direction every second dealing 150% damage and can pierce up to 4 targets. Channeling Time: None Cooldown: 4 minutes Active Period: 30 seconds ? Black Sword Reaper Choose up to 13 targets within a radius of 230m to be stabbed by a black sword through their hearts 3 times dealing a total of 1300% damage. Channeling: 0.1-1.3 seconds Cooldown: 13 minutes Active Period: 2.5 seconds The sword is materialized from a black fog that formed out of the magic array. The fog quickly gathered to form a 1.69m long sword. The sword had a black hilt patterned with the black figures of dragons, demons and mortals all with red eyes. The hilt''s top had one demon wing on one side of the blade while one angel wing on another. The wings are quite small and it''s edge only managed to reach one third of the blade''s length on their respective side. The blade is of silver color with red runes written in demon language decorating the blade''s center on each side. The blade exuded an extremely fearsome aura like being approached by death that made even Hirani shudder for a moment before it flew and landed beside the philosopher''s stone. The third item is the Cloak of Eternal Night. Cloak of Eternal Night (Sacred Relic, Mythical Ranked Cloak) [Tier 0/6] Defense +113% (Tier 0) Magic Defense +113% (Tier 0) Movement Speed +113% (Tier 0) Intelligence +113% (Tier 0) Detection Range +66% (Tier 0) Enemy Detection Range -23% (Tier 0) Perception +23% (Tier 0) Reaction Speed +33% (Tier 0) Movement Speed +69% (Tier 0) Stealth +13m (Tier 0) Passive Abilities: ? Eternal Night User can choose up to an area of 6 km by 6 km to be shrouded in darkness by clouds. User can summon winds, chills and thunder within the area of the clouds. ? Seductive Air (Advanced) All sentient entities of the opposite gender within 72m from the user is quickly aroused by just the user''s presence and is 300% more likely to do what the user wants. ? Cover of Darkness (Advanced) User''s form completely melds with the darkness if viewed from more than (user''s height * 13)m away. Night vision users will only see a figure. Advanced and higher detection abilities can see more than a figure. ? Demon Lord''s Will Evil entities of lower tiers are at least 100% more loyal to the user after at least looking at the user for at least 1 minute. Loyalty increase depends on the willpower and effects last for 13 days since last encounter. Effects stack by other skills and favourable actions. ? Vampire''s Invulnerability Damage and effects received from attacks and curses from entities of one rank or tier above andbelow are reduced by 99%. Holy and Divine abilities are exceptions. ? Dominant Aura Entities of the same social rank and below hold 100% more respect and admiration towards the user. Kings and above are exceptions. ? Blood Berserk The more health the user loses, the higher the user''s attributes rise. Up to 120% ? Vampire''s Curse Non vampire users will become a pureblood vampire after 3 seconds of wearing the cape. Effects will dissappear after taking the cape off. ? Flight User can fly at will up to a speed of Mach 1.3 - Active Abilities: ? Metamorphosis Transforms the user into a bat, a black wolf, a cloud of bats, a mist or snake possessing 130% of the user''s attributes up to a maximum mass of up to 13 times the user''s mass. Channeling Time: 3.9 seconds Cooldown: None Active Period: 69 hours ? Hellfire Cape Waves the cloak to summon a 3m tall, 1m wide and (distance of cape waved ^ 2 * 6)m long wall of hellfire. Hellfire deals 130% fire & darkness damage per second. Channeling Time: 1-3 seconds Cooldown: 6 minutes Active Period: 13 hours ? Domain of Bats Summons cursed black bats from under the cloak with 30% attributes (up to Tier 3) to swarm enemies and drain their blood. Upon death, the bats explode dealing 230% darkness damage. Summons up to 24 bats per second. Other skills can be casted alongside. Channeling Time: 2-4 seconds Cooldown: 10 minutes Active Period: up to 6 minutes ? Cursed Army Summon undead monsters from the corpses of enemies and allies with 60% of their previous attributes and 200 of their health. All corpses within a radius of 600m are affected (higher tiered or ranked enemies and allies are unaffected). Channeling Time: 6 seconds Cooldown: 13 hours Active Period: Until undead are killed ? Shadow Snare Summon shadow hands from the ground to trap, slow down and attack enemies within range. Up to a radius of 23m from the user, each attack deals 35% darkness damage and every 6 seconds there is a 30% chance of summoning a lower tier demon. User can only move within the area of the skill while the skill is in effect. Channeling Time: 5 seconds Cooldown: 15 minutes Active Period: 13 minutes The cloak is formed by black mist that appears from the center of the array. The mist quickly formed the cloak. A faceless model of a man is used to support the cloak, donning it. Hirani tells him that the model used is 6"2 with a head to body ratio of 1 : 6.5. The cloak is black with a crimson interior and appears to be made of silk woven into satin. It had an upturned collar slightly bent outwards, the collar covers up the ears completely despite being bent. The cloak has two silver clamps on each side of the collar''s bottom slightly further away from the collarbone''s outer edge. The two circular clamps depict a crescent moon with a wolf and a bat, both clamps are connected by a thin silver chain. The cloak exuded a sinister aura, like a hungry wolf about to devour its prey. He examined the cloak''s form and found nothing too eye-catching about the cloak, he wanted to make sure he would not attract unwanted attention. After 20 seconds, the mannequin is then teleported beside the philosopher''s stone in a flash. The next item then starts to materialize. The item is a sword, it''s hilt is a black dragon with red eyes. The black blade extends from the mouth of the black dragon with fiery inscriptions on its lower half. On the sword''s butt is a miniature head of a white dragon with golden linings that contrasts with the black dragon above the black gold handle. He examined the sword and mentally applauded whoever created this fine blade. After examining the sword, he felt powerful and imagined himself wielding it later on. Twilight of the Dragon Kings (Sublime Relic, Pseudo Mythical Ranked Weapon) [Tier 0/5] Attack Power +(Strength * 4) Strength +100% (Tier 0) Agility +100% (Tier 0) Intelligence +90% (Tier 0) Endurance +125% (Tier 0) Movement Speed +50% (Tier 0) Attack Speed +75% (Tier 0) Increase Fire Resistance by 100 (Tier 0) Passive Abilities: ? Authority of the Dragon Kings Dragons, Drakes, Serpents and Dragon spawn of lower tiers hold at least 200% more loyalty and respect towards the user upon sensing the user''s aura or more. Effects last for a month since last encounter. ? Dragon''s Physique User becomes 100% more resistant to physical damage and fire, possesses 75% more stamina and recovery and negates 50% fall damage. ? Extreme Body User tolerates 50% more higher and lower temperatures, dehydrates and starves 50% slower and loses 50% less stamina. ? Indomitable Will User can handle 100% more mental stress, tire 50% slower and processes things 25% faster. ? Lightweight Form User can jump 5 times higher and falls 25% slower. ? Every attack increases damage dealt by 3% up to a maximum of 45% ? Every attack increases attack speed by 4% up to a maximum of 80% Active Abilities: ? Infernal Domain Transforms the area around the user into a scorched land burning everything within a radius of 130m with a 55¡ãc temperature and burning cracks all around the area. Enemies within the domain lose stamina and dehydrate 50% faster. Channeling Time: 2.8 seconds Cooldown: 35 minutes Active Period: Until user is more than 7km away ? Dragonfire Blade Summon 4 pillars of lava from the ground. The pillars reach up to 400m above ground and have a radius of 4m. Lava deals 200% fire damage per second and has a 15% chance to inflict burn. Channeling Time: None Cooldown: 8 minutes Active Period: 16 seconds ? Draconic Familiar: Black Destroyer Summon a black dragon 3 times the summoner''s size with 70% of the summoner''s attributes, 200% of the summoner''s strength and defense, 1400% of the summoner''s hp and 7 dragon skills. Channeling Time: 7 seconds Cooldown: 24 hours Active Period: Until user is killed, unsummoned or dragon is killed ? Alter: White Guardian/Black Destroyer Switches the blade''s nature to its alternate nature. The white dragon switches with the black dragon and vice versa. All cooldowns are not carried on. Channeling Time: 0.5 seconds Cooldown: None Active Period: Until another switch occurs The blade floats quickly towards the other items at the left and lays right beside Death''s Origin. The next item summoned from the array is a black coffin with golden linings. On the coffin sides depict 7 demonic figures with blood red inscriptions in demon language just beneath the figures. On the lid, a bat is depicted flying from a large castle on a hill during a full moon. Tomb of Darkness (Sublime Relic, Legendary Rank Item) [Tier 0/4] Passive Abilities: ? Heals all of the injuries and curses sustained by the user after sleeping for at least 6 hours within. Injuries cause by more than 10% divinity is incurable. ? Teleports the user within when critically injured ? Untraceable ? Can shrink into 1/100 of its size and be carried ? Protects the user with a dark shield possessing 13 times the user''s Hp and defense ? Cannot be opened from outside Active Abilities: ? Darkness Blink When user enters the coffin, the user can teleport to any place the coffin has been brought to before. Channeling Time: 1 second Cooldown: 30 minutes Active Period: 1 second ? Demonic Guards User can summon 3 random evil entities of lower tiers and ranks from the coffin to fight until their deaths. Channeling Time: 0.5 seconds Cooldown: 1 hour Active Period: until summoned entities deaths The coffin then floats and settles beside the cape wearing mannequin. Then, a grey fog emerges and forms a three piece suit. A white collared shirt with a black bowtie, covered by a pitch black waistcoat, a black tailcoat with a fresh red rose right above where the heart would be when worn and a red cummerbund. Sebastian gazed admirably at the suit and felt happy that he could be the envy of others in the new world. Regal Temptation (Sublime Relic, Pseudo-Mythical Ranked Cloth Armor) HP +((Agility + Defense) * 3) Defense +123% Magic Defense +123% Agility +90% Intelligence +90% Reaction Speed +35% Coordination +45% Attack Speed +69% Damage Absorb +13% Passive Abilities: ? Mysterious Gentleman User cannot be recognized by others upon glancing unless the user permits it. ? Afterimaging Every attack or evasion done has a 60% chance of forming an afterimage 0.1 seconds later. Afterimage inflicts 60% of the initial damage. ? Sensual Appeal User''s form becomes 50% more attractive towards the opposite sex and cause affected targets to be 200% more likely to follow commands. Ugly users will have physical transformation. ? Major Noble User will be recognized as either a viscount, count or earl at any human settlement that has relations to any kingdom or empire. ? Magic resistance +75% ? Physical resistance +75% Active Abilities: ? Impenetrable Regalia The waistcoat turns white and increases Health, Defense, Magic Defense, Stamina and Stamina Recovery of the user by 300% and provides immunity to all negative effects for 3 minutes. Channeling Time: 2 seconds Cooldown: 90 minutes Active Period: 3 minutes ? Sultry Awakening The tailcoat, waistcoat and bowtie dissappear, the white shirt becomes half buttoned. User''s Strength, Attack Speed, Movement Speed, Intelligence and Attack Power increases by 300% and provides immunity to all negative effects for 3 minutes. Channeling Time: 2 seconds Cooldown: 90 minutes Active Period: 3 minutes ? Shield of Roses User becomes immune to 16 hits of damage. Stacks up to 75 hits. Channeling Time: None Cooldown: 5 minutes Active Period: 15 hits received ? Power Purity Reduces all skill cooldown by 2 minutes. Remove all negative effects of self and allies within a 5m radius. Channeling Time: None Cooldown: 7 minutes Active Period: None The suit rotates twice in a slow manner before floating towards the mannequin. Then, it teleports in a flash and becomes worn by the mannequin. The final item emerges from array. World Crystal (Sublime Relic, Pseudo Mythical Ranked item) Passive Abilities: ? Hidden World User will have a hidden space within the crystal that expands as it absorbs more energy. Anything can be brought within the space as long as they are permitted or not larger than the space. Current Space: 1000 m^3 ? Time flow User''s world''s timeflow can be edited to speed up time in comparison to the user''s current world. Up to 1 year per second. ? Worldwalker''s Authority Hidden, Sealed or Private worlds with intermediate defenses or lower can be entered by the user. Active Abilities: ? World Gate Opens a portal for the user and permitted entities to teleport to any position within a range of 600 km. Up to 3 portals present at a time Channeling Time: none Cooldown: 30 seconds Active Period: until user passes through ? Enter World Teleports the user to the user''s world. Channeling Time: none Cooldown: none Active Period: 1 second ? Collection Gate Teleport anything with a size less than 10% of the user''s world''s space to any position within the user''s world. Channeling Time: none Cooldown: 5 minutes Active Period: 2 seconds A clear crystal emerges with a rainbow colored spherical core. The crystal emits rainbow light and a calming aura. His mind felt more clear and he felt a calm he never had. "Fun fact, the crystal emits a very dense amounts of mana into the atmosphere. So it might be hard to hide." Hirani told. Nevermind the cons of his last item, he checked all the attributes of his chosen equipment one last time before mentally pushing the complete button. A prompt appears but he quickly pressed complete and continued to the next part of the character customization. 5 Companions Hirani waved her hands and dispersed the magic array from the ground. She then changed the contents of the screen into the images of multiple beings. Some were humans, animals, spirits, angels and even demons. Their names are written beneath their three dimensional images. Hirani then explained, "These servants are of Epic, Legendary and Mythical Ranks. Unlike equipment, advanced servants includes Mythicals and Pseudo Divine ranked servants. So don''t be surprised if you encounter young deities here." After she explained, his eyes lit up. He couldn''t believe it, he can hire deities! ''Damn, the system''s so generous.'' "Also, to help you find servants more easily, you can use the filter button. It filters from Race, Bloodline, Group, Alphabetical Letter, Rarity, Gender and Age." She continued. He was relieved of the filter feature, it will help him save much time in searching. After she finished her explanation, Sebastian immediately used filter for Valkyrie Race with Pseudo Divine rarity. He pushed the search button and found only one result. Skadia (Valkyrie Prodigy) Rank: Pseudo Divine Race: Valkyrie (Valkyrja) Combat Power: Immortal III (???), Tier 6 Valkyrja "Huh, who''s this?" He pressed on Skadia''s profile and a hologram of her appeared before him. She appeared to be a teenage viking girl with long blonde hair styled in curls near its end. She had a warm, innocent smile on her soft face, vast sky blue eyes and held a golden hilted silver sword with runes and nordic figures inscribed, its edge pointed at the floor. She wore a golden battle armor, it consists of 7 pieces. Her footwear are golden, knee height boots. The boots have nordic runes and patterns on it and white fur on its upper end. Her chestpiece consists of a golden breastplate with a silver colored region on the sides lined in black. Beneath it, is a white dress that extends down to her knees. She equips two brick shaped golden pauldrons lined in white fur on the sides. On her arms are two golden braces with white fur lining. Her whole armor is full with nordic symbols and patterns decorating it in depictions of past battles. Her back sprouted 6 white, angelic wings with golden plates covering its upper surfaces. Her background is projected beside her form. She is said to have been a Valkyrja and the second oldest to date. She has perished for at least 3 millenniums, struck down by three demon gods during the Infernal Incursions that lasted for decades around 3000 years ago. Her biography explains that Valkyrjas are Valkyries with abnormal amounts of divinity present within their bodies. In short, Valkyrjas are Valkyries that can become deities later on in their life. Sebastian is impressed by her performances mention by her biography. She was able to contend against three powerhouses of a higher rank on equal footing, she easily defeated all the other valkyries simultaneously during a combat practice and has survived against an army of powerful demons and evil spirits. He viewed her skills, he is generally impressed in her capabilities. She becomes his first pick and her hologram materializes into her true form. The materialization took a few seconds and she quickly kneels after glancing at her transparent master. "Thank you for choosing me as your servant! I will not disappoint you my Lord!" He was surprised at her instant display of loyalty and respect, he expected higher beings to have more pride. This action shattered his stereotypical views on them. He immediately replied, "Rise my servant. You may stand." She looks up and then stands. She was slightly taller than him. Hirani then walks up to her and directs her to Sebastian''s right, opposite to his recently acquired equipment. Next, he searches for a demon servant and picks Gusion. Gusion (Great Infernal Duke) Rank: Pseudo Divine Race: Demon (Demon King) Combat Power: Immortal III (???), Tier 6 Demon King Gusion appears as a young, handsome, light skinnedman in his twenties. He is about 9 inches taller than Sebastian, standing casually at 6 foot 2 inches tall and has a sexy, unapologetically naughty face. He has deep blue eyes and blue-black hair parted to the left in a messy fashion. He sports a black, unbuttoned, leather trenchcoat with its collars upturned and wears a black t-shirt underneath. His lower parts consists of a long, black pants, a black, silver kneecap with his sigil imprinted in blue on each of his two legs. On his waist, partially hidden by his trench coat are two books. The book on the left is pitch black in color, with demonic figures with red eyes depicted on it. The book on the right is silver colored with golden runes written on it and heroic figures painted on its surface. It was of great contrast towards the other book the demon possessed. He reviewed his appearance and abilities, Gusion isgreat for solving riddles, diplomacy and politics. He also has impressive abilities for escaping, infiltration and assassination. He receives a good impression on Gusion''s ability and chooses him as his second servant. The hologram materializes into the real Gusion and he offers his hand. Speaking in a casual tone he spoke, "So, you''re my new master then. Nice to meet you." He gave a smirk and shook Sebastian''s incorporeal right hand with a short yet lively handshake. He then walked casually towards Skadia and stood to left of her. Sebastian hurriedly searched for more servants, he did not want to waste too much time. If he continued at this rate, other players that entered around his time would surpass him by leaps and bounds. After only 15 minutes, he had chosen 3 more servants. One is a Mythical Rank while the other two are Pseudo Divine Ranked. Crystalline Titan (Creator Titan) Rank: Mythical Race: Titan (Earth Titan) Combat Power: Immortal II (???), Tier 5 Titan Hailyn (Ancient Forest Spirit) Rank: Pseudo Divine Race: Spirit (Ancient Spirit) Combat Power: Immortal III (???), Tier 6 Ancient Spirit Azure Dragon King (Azure Dragon of the East) Rank: Pseudo Divine Race: Dragon (Dragon King) Combat Power: Immortal III (???), Tier 6 Dragon King The Crystalline Titan is an enormous being. Its height easily exceeds 40 story buildings on earth, everything but the dragon king is an ant compared to it. The titan''s form is that of a muscular man composed of individual boulders with each boulder being at least the size of an average man. The boulders are predominantly limestone but there are small patches of other rocks occasionally present. The titan had large crystals of different colors sprout out from its back and smaller crystals the size of a child all over its body. Hailyn the Ancient Forest Spirit appears as a young human woman in her 20s with long, partially braided black hair and is 3 inches shorter than Gusion. She has small branches grow from behind her ears like horns and wears a living wooden crown adorned with green, healthy leaves and a myriad of flowers. Her outfit is simple, consisting of a green cloth decorated with elemental patterns and inscriptions covering her breasts and a branch of mystical wood circling her waist with willow vines growing from it, acting as a knee length skirt. The Azure Dragon King is only an eighth of the titan''s height however, its length reaches over 225m. The dragon had four legs, each with 5 talons and when it stood supported by its legs, it will reach around 75m in height. The dragon had azure scales, two golden eyes, 6 horns and had 5 golden orbs floating above its head like a crown. It had a pale blue beard measuring only 3m tall about one fifth of its head in height. A 1m wide, 1.5m tall line of pale blue hair stretches from its head until its tail accompanied by a line of divine, golden runes on each side. The three servants gave short introductions to him, they all were generally respectful of him. With only 2 slots left, he quickly found 2 servants within a span of 20 minutes. Lilith (Firstborn Succubi) Rank: Pseudo Divine Race: Demon (Succubus) Combat Rank: Immortal III, Tier 6 Ancestral Succubus Theresa Ariel (Demigod Saintess) Rank: Pseudo Divine Race: Human Combat Rank: Immortal III, Tier 6 Prophet The last two servants had opposite demeanors, but both showed respect and loyalty towards him. Lilith appeared to be a young, flirtatious woman in her twenties with a voluptuous figure. She has long, black hair, red eyes, a small, red demon wings behind each ear and she was around Hailyn''s height. She wore a revealing black dress with demonic art and patterns, two long, sharp clawed gloves that covered half of her arm and black high heels. She walked seductively and flirted with him on her introduction. Theresa is of the same height as lilith, she has innocent blue eyes and long, pale blond hair. She has a beautiful, pure face. There is no hint of evil in her form and her aura gave off a calm feeling. She wears a white, sleeveless dress with 8 faint lines stretching from top to bottom, pink and black patterns decorating her waist and sides and golden runes decorating her sleeves with 4 of them above her waist, one facing each cardinal direction. She equips small, golden pauldrons with divine images on it with one on each shoulder. She wields a golden staff with depictions of holy angels and a golden crystal on its upper edge. After they gathered and stood alongside the other servants, Hirani dispersed the monitor with a flick of her wrist and floated to the center of the room. She glanced at the servants before speaking to Sebastian, explaining, "So you''re probably wondering how servants work, correct?" He nodded and she continued, "Well, servants are like pets. They are loyal to your orders but they can resist orders to a certain extent. If they disagree, they would at first attempt to convince you but if they fail, the best they can do is to hesitate. They may not like you, but they will carry out all of your orders unconditionally but they might be lazier or reluctant in doing so. Also, they have to be summoned to be present." "What happens when they are not being summoned?" He asked. "They will be in a state of suspended animation but since you have a world crystal, they''ll be inside of it, active until they are summoned outside. However, since your world crystal can''t fit all of them, I''ll supply some energy." Hirani fired a white beam of energy towards the rainbow cored crystal. For a few seconds, the beam released an overwhelming pressure but it becomes absorbed by the crystal and negated. After 10 seconds, Hirani stopped and showed Sebastian its upgraded attributes. World Crystal (Sublime Relic, Pseudo Mythical Ranked item) Passive Abilities: ? Hidden World User will have a hidden space within the crystal that expands as it absorbs more energy. Anything can be brought within the space as long as they are permitted or not larger than the space. Current Space: 8 Hm^3 ? Time flow User''s world''s timeflow can be edited to speed up time in comparison to the user''s current world. Up to 1 year per second. ? Worldwalker''s Authority Hidden, Sealed or Private worlds with intermediate defenses or lower can be entered by the user. Active Abilities: ? World Gate Opens a portal for the user and permitted entities to teleport to any position within a range of 600 km. Up to 3 portals present at a time Channeling Time: none Cooldown: 30 seconds Active Period: until user passes through ? Enter World Teleports the user to the user''s world. Channeling Time: none Cooldown: none Active Period: 1 second ? Collection Gate Teleport anything with a size less than 10% of the user''s world''s space to any position within the user''s world. Channeling Time: none Cooldown: 5 minutes Active Period: 2 seconds "Woah, its space was multiplied by 8,000 times!" He exclaimed. "Consider it a little gift for purchasing the God''s Package." "Now, let''s start the final part of your character customization, your new body." She announced. Upon hearing those long awaited words, he instantly become excited with building a new body, and so, Hirani summoned a customization tab within his field of vision and thus, the customization begins. 6 My New Self "Ok then, let''s start the body creation process." Tabs with multiple stats appear. Height: Head to body ratio: Leg to body ratio: Arm to body ratio: Hand to arm ratio: Muscularity: Weight: Body Shape: Hairstyle: Hair color: Eye color: Eye shape: Eyebrows: Nose: Mouth: Lip size: He tested them out one by one and got familiarized with them. Soon after, he started the formation of his body. He made 6 tries within a period of 33 minutes before finally coming up with the perfect look. He wanted to outdid Gusion''s handsome looks by editing different factors. In the end, he made his new body a half inch taller than Gusion, with blood red eyes and black hair. The body had short hair with a slightly asymmetrical cut swept to the right, appearing to be in his early twenties. Its face was that of a handsome, youthful badboy, a naughty smirk on his face. It had an athletic build, well toned muscles and an 8 eight pack. By looks alone, it is beyond qualified to be a babe magnet. It has soft, slightly pale skin, and due to its currently naked form, Hirani covered the form''s lower half with long black pants. "Okay, so would you like to edit your new self''s personality before we link you?" He was perplexed, wondering what it meant. Looking at his confused face she explained, "I mean that you''ll have some changes to your personality by editing some of your aspects. So its like your personality stays but some of your traits are larger or smaller so that you''ll be more like this or that. Here, let me summon the tab." A tab appears before him containing the list of personality traits. Gaudiness/Arrogance: Confidence/Pride: Rationalism: Optimism: Sex Drive: Greed: Appetite: Self Control: Compassion: ¡­. He looked at them and quickly made changes and told Hirani, "I''d like to increase my confidence, arrogance, rationalism, self control and my sex drive. Leave everything else as what it is." She nodded and started editing it. After a 3 minute processing time, she asked, "Ready for the sync?" He nodded and his vision turned black. A completion bar with the words Syncing above it appeared. 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Sync Complete Mental Integration Initiated.... Mental Integration Complete.... Awakening Host¡­.. He opened his eyes, blinking a few times. He looked down at his hands, they were now that of his new body''s. Fuck Yes it worked! He felt a surge of confidence like never before. He feels like he is a thousand times greater than the person he used to be, he is no longer shy, weak or stupid anymore. His thoughts are clear and he could think faster. Lilith shot flirtatious glances at him and even showed some of her cleavage before Theresa stopped her and started arguing with her. He ignored their quarreling and walked towards his equipment, noticing that he had no shirt on and his eight pack exposed. While walking, he noticed that his movements felt light and easy, no longer heavy and constricting like in his old body. He undressed the mannequin first and equipped the Regal Temptation before unclamping the Cloak of Eternal Night and donning it. Then, he grabbed the two swords and placed them on his waist one on each side. The swords instantly formed a sheath around them corresponding to their styles, a black sheath for Death''s Origin and a black gold, dragon styled sheath for the Twilight of the Dragon Kings. When he is about to grab the other 3 items, they instantly turned into a flash of light and entered him through his chest. He turned to the Valkyrie and asked "What was that?" "The items are stored in your inventory, you can access it by just thinking." She continued, "Well, now since you are done dressing, I''ll bind the servants to you and you can decide on your city''s location and your background story." He clearly remembered that he was given a castle not a city and asked, "What do you mean by my city? I thought it was just a castle." She then explained, "When you place your castle, you are given a large city both of which you will design. They will be half populated on your arrival and you can link up to 5 merchant roads to your city. Call this a hidden benefit of having five nobility titles." He couldn''t help but thank the generous system for the hidden benefits. Hirani waves her left hand and all the servants transform into a ray of light that shot towards Sebastian''s heart and dissipated upon contact, as if it never happened. He then felt a surge of power go through him and he opened his attributes. Name: Sebastian Adrian Cain Age: 18 Gender: Male Race: Vampire (Progenitor) Title: Baron, Viscount, Count, Earl, Marquis Sexuality: Heterosexual Servants: Skadia, Gusion, Crystalline Titan, Hailyn, Azulong, Lilith, Theresa Alignment: Unknown Occupation: Marquis Active Skills: - Vampire Spirits - Call of the Progenitor - Unsealed Abyss - Crippling Thorns - Dance of Swords - Sensual Bite - Dark Shapeshifting Passive Skills: - Dominant Charm - Minor Divine Regeneration - Blessed Darkness - Mark of Cain - Greater Intelligence - Advanced Vampirism Power Rank: Immortal VI, Tier 3 Pureblood Vampire (Tier 7 Vampire Progenitor) 7 Bloodthorn City "Woah, my power just skyrocketed!" He was excited by his sudden power boost. Now, he didn''t feel so worried anymore about being surpassed by fellow new players and relaxed a bit. "So Sebastian, want to start the construction of your new city?" He turned to face her and nodded. She walked to his right side and waved her right hand, summoning an iron, circular table in front of them. The world''s map appears. "The main world all player spawn into is Elbenon, its map is before you. Now, please choose the location of your castle and city." A vague map with ten continents appear. Norheim A continent shaped like the combination of Norway, Sweden and Finland. About 70% of its surface is covered in ice, it was as large as 200 times the earth''s surface and it had a medium concentration of mountains with one in the center being the largest. It is located on the north east side with the continent of Terradeus located south west of it. Despite its size, it is the smallest of the ten. Terradeus A continent shaped like a jagged Australia combined with antarctica, Australia being on the west side while antarctica blending 30% of its length on the east side. It is mostly covered in green with small patches of ice on the north and a small strip of desert on the south. It has many hills but had only 75% concentration of mountains compared to Norheim. It''s size is 850 times the earth''s surface and it is located slightly more west & south than where europe stood in the world map. Terradeus is connected to the continent of Anansha by land on its eastern side. It is the fourth largest continent Anansha A continent shaped like Asia but without Indonesia and the Middle East, the Korean peninsula being thrice its previous size, Asia''s having twice its length while the western chinese provinces retain their previous size and the western chinese provinces and western russia''s form becomes more jagged. It is mostly green with high concentrations of mountains in the central, western and southern areas, the western areas having only three fourths of its previous desert and a large desert covering southern mongolia and a fourth of the west chinese province of Xinjiang. It is land connected to the Khefrata continent on its southwest and its size is that of 3600 times the earth''s area. It is the largest continent. .... He eyed the continents, they were to big to judge properly so he selected each one to get a better look. Based on his judgement, he chose the Terradeus continent. After choosing so the map zoomed on the continent and Hirani gave a detailed explanation on its condition, "The continent of Terradeus houses 16 empires and 63 kingdoms. Now please look at the map and choose your starting kingdom." The continent''s land becomes divided into 89 uneven pieces. He looked at each kingdom and empire, finding a suitable area for his city. Thanks to the God Package, he had all information about the area including resources, political events and hidden secrets. In the whole continent he found 66 possible spots mostly situated near the continents central regions. Thanks to his passive skill, he then assessed each possible spot he found by amount of resources, strategic advantage, remoteness, nearby population and dispensability. While assessing them, Hirani gave him the guide book to help him make his choice. After using the guide book, the assessing speed doubled and he managed to narrow it down to 13 spots. To narrow it down further, he looked for areas that had benevolent rulers. The number narrows down to 11. Then he narrowed it down further to 9 by finding areas with more sexy girls. Then finally six by filtering in areas with monsters and beings around his ranks, the strongest person in that area is not stronger than him and a generally prosperous area. 5 minutes passed like a second in choosing which of the 6 spots he would choose, seeing his predicament Hirani gave a suggestion. "Of the six, I suggest taking the spot on the west of the Agareth Kingdom. That area has no one of higher nobility status so you won''t have to use much hypnosis to remove any problems, it has many powerful beasts in the forest making your castle safe if it lies on the hills in the forest and there is already a preexisting trade route nearby that the kingdom overlooked. Building there would boost your relationship with the kingdom." Taking her advice, he chose the Agareth kingdom''s west side, Regarus forest. He decided his city to be a medium city named Bloodthorn located near the intersection of two rivers where land is fertile and it''s only a short distance from a cave system within the cliffs containing an abundant supply of rare ores and materials. While for his castle, he placed it not too far away from the city, about 37 km away so that no one would notice the castle or the dark cloud. "Now, do you want to design your city or castle first?" He quickly replied, "I''ll go with my city first." Then Hirani started explaining. "Due to being a medium sized city, the city''s maximum area is only 100km^2. Based on a distribution I did, There will be a 20m thick wall surrounding the city. It''s up to you what you want to do with it but after deducting that and road plots, I got you 100 massive plots, 500 very large plots, 1000 large plots, 2000 medium plots, 4000 small plots. Also you have 6.3 hm^2 worth of land left behind that you can develop into anything." A holographic image of an empty city appears on the table. The plots are all labeled inside the of the image and the wall area is clearly outlined. With his upgraded intelligence, he recalled some things he learned during history class about how ancient people built cities and their countermeasures against threats. For defense, he used up 16 large plots to build mana surveillance towers. These towers can detect enemy presences within a 100 km radius. Then, 84 large plots for barrier towers to defend against monsters and threats from beyond the city walls. 200 large plots are then used for building mage towers of four different elements distributed evenly among the four quadrants of the city. 100 large plots for ballista towers and another 100 large plots for golem arrays to summon stone constructs to protect the city. He planned to allocate half of the available large plots for defense, a fourth of the medium plots for defense and a fifth of the very large plots for defense. For the medium plots, he allocated 200 of them for archer towers, 200 of them for a guardian beast summoning array and the last 100 of them for magic cannon platforms. As for the very large plots, he allocated 20 of them for barracks, another 20 for magic research facilities, another 20 for alchemical research facilities and while rest is for training grounds. After sorting out the defenses, he asked Hirani to move 12 massive plots at the center to the north and combine them into 3 enormous plots. He used the plot in the middle of the three as the city hall, he then moved the other enormous plots more further away from each other. He set the western plot as the teleportation hall while the other plot becomes the city''s battle colloseum. As for the rest, he told Hirani to manage it herself and used the remaining land to construct a graveyard and a statue of him to be erected in front of the city hall. Then, a holographic prompt appears and he selected confirm. The realistic hologram depicts the city''s possible form before transforming into the empty hill where Sebastian plans to build his castle on. 8 Hiranis Warning The hologram depicts an empty hill with a chasm behind it. It was dark there due to the creatures of Regarus forest causing the clouds to block the sun during the day allowing the growing moon lilac to emit its pale blue shine. The hill is surrounded by dense forests and is not that steep. He chose this place due to it having the highest mana density and resources within the outer rim of the forest. The hill is quite large, its surface enough to have an emperor''s castle with gardens built on it. As for the castle''s design, a large, metallic platform is built on the cliffs of the hill, overseeing the great chasm. The platform is planned to be used for doing summoning rituals and dangerous magic experiments. Behind it leads towards a large garden about 17m wide with 4 lavender bushes circling a fountain with a stone statue of Sebastian standing at the fountain''s center. The lavender bushes have a gap between them to allow 2 people to pass at once forming a four way path of white pavings. The rest of the castle is simply a large circular wall surrounding many towers with 3 large towers at the center. All three towers are differently sized with each other with one measuring the highest at 20 stories while the other two being only 16 and 13 stories tall. Other towers do not reach more than 10 stories tall. There were tens of these towers, they are made of polished stone giving it a slightly metallic color. The architecture is a mix of gothic and renaissance castles. When it touches daylight, it has a majestic appearance fit for a king''s castle but when the night begins, it appears as the lair of ancient evils long forgotten. He took 3 hours to handle the specifics and furniture of his castle. She told him that the maids working there will be of lilith''s kind. Succubus maids! He inwardly jumped at the mention, they were the most sexiest of demons and would not resist if he were to **** them at any time. He imagined his time of losing his virginity and his little friend started to grow up to 7 inches. Noticing his little friend, Hirani told him to stop daydreaming and to start the backstory making process. "Since you purchased the God package, your backstory can alter the memories of all beings except for supreme deities. So, don''t hesitate making crazy shit go on." She casually explained. Instantly, he come up with multiple backstories and edited them to his liking. A cycle of creating a backstory, editing it and combining/erasing it starts. An hour quickly passes and the cycle has repeated for 3 whole times. After another cycle, he finally stayed with this one. "A mysterious young man of unknown origin. He appears at the age of 17 in the kingdom of Agareth as a Marquis and established the city of Bloodthorn. His title of marquis is bestowed upon him by the royal family after defeating the south king of the monsters of Regarus forest. He oversees the area of Regarus forest by building his residence within its southern region and replaced its previous king, becoming the south forest''s ruler." "I''m done with the backstory, where do I write it at?" Answering his question, she immediately summoned a holographic prompt that requested him to write it down and then press confirm to continue. He wrote down his backstory on the prompt and pressed confirm. The prompt disappears and Hirani leads him towards a larger room. The room is as large as the colosseum''s battlefield. The room appears as a large pavilion supported by 11 marble pillars, each pillar had a statue of a figure in front of it. He looked at the realistic statues with a fascinated look and she told him, "These statues depict the 11 strongest entities within the worlds including Elbenon. All of them are primordials except for the young lady in front of us. Her name is Lauria, she created it all and personally tasked each Valkyrie to become the partner of travelers like you." She lead him to the center of the room. He looked up to see the hemispherical marble roof with realistic paintings of the 11 figures he saw. It depicted 10 of them within a heavenly plane sitting in front of the lady named Lauria who appears to be teaching them something with strange symbols. "Before you go." He turned back to Hirani and replied, " yes?". "Remember to not die too quickly. One of the eleven here likes you." Hirani then summons 6 golden magic arrays, forming a cube around Sebastian. His vision began to fade slowly. Before it all went dark, the statue of Lauria winked its pink eye at him. It was the last thing he saw before it all melded with complete darkness. After a few moments, light broke through and a progress bar appears. Editing world by user''s background¡­. 10%.. 25%.. 45%.. 70%.. 100%¡­ Complete¡­ Integrating fake memories¡­. 5%¡­ 15%¡­ 30%¡­ 50%¡­ 75%¡­ 100%¡­ Complete¡­ Teleporting User¡­ 99%¡­. 100%¡­. Complete.... Local Date: 13th October 6069 Post-Diluvium Integration Completed¡­.. The sun sets on a dense forest of trees. Its light fading away from the majestic castle in the distance. Its light hue fades away like flowing water and a dark hue replaces it. From its previously majestic form, it has now appeared like the lair of a great demon. As the light fades away from its largest and tallest tower, the candles within a room at its top begin to light up with demon fire. The dim lights reveal a black super king sized bed with blood red satin sheets. It had 3 white pillows and four black poles supporting canopy curtains on top of it. The curtains are pale crimson in color and there are two beside each pole, each covering a third of the gap between their respective poles. In front of the bed is a black coffin with rose petals on its lid. As the light fully fades away, the red eyes of its owner began to open and the bats fly up into the sky from the forest. Welcoming their king as he awakens. 9 Getting a bite He woke up inside a velvet interior encasing his body. He realised having night vision because there was no light inside of the coffin. He could tell that the sun has set and he felt very thirsty. He pushed open the coffin lid and rose up from the coffin like the vampires from old movies. He walked out of the coffin and walked towards the closed balcony door in front of him. He unlocked the door with his shadow manipulation and walked until he reached large balcony''s stone fence. He placed his hands on the smooth surface of the stone and looked down at his castle. Even though he had designed it, he still couldn''t help but awe at his creation. He pulled his gaze up on the sky, it is a full moon with barely any clouds. An ideal night to see the stars shine brightly above. Hearing his stomach rumble, he muttered, "I think it''s time to get a meal." Then, he grabbed a spot on the right side of his cloak and flipped it. Red mist began appearing and in less than a second, Sebastian had turned into a large black bat with blood red eyes. The bat flew high up into the clouds at the speed of mach 6. In a few seconds, he had passed through his almost completed city. Looking down at the city, he thought of plans of creating a vampire coven or clan for himself. After travelling for 32 seconds from where his city stood, he arrived at a much smaller settlement. He stopped moving at those speeds and slowed down to the speed of an eagle. He dived down and got a clearer image on the place. It was quite large but only had an eighth of the area Bloodthorn City. It was quite lit up and people still roamed the streets especially near the large town''s square. Considering that it was only around seven, the city''s activities should not die out that quickly. The town had mostly wooden buildings but there were some made of stone, primarily ones that are used as barracks or for the city''s ruling noble''s castle. Seeing as he would have to wait for an hour before getting a meal and the fact that he is getting more hungry for every passing moment, he quickly dived down to a dark alley and planned to search for a brothel. After transforming back to his human form, he walked out of the alley in a casual manner as to not attract too much attention. As he walked down the stone paved roads, he came across the night market. The market is brightly lit and noisy, it was crowded. There are so many people walking around, eating or buying equipment sold by the stalls in the market. While looking around, he noticed many girls who would turn to look at him or would wink at him. Some even tried approaching him to get a better look at his handsome form. He was a little annoyed at the flirtatious gazes from especially very pretty or very ugly women. Very pretty women would get him aroused, he constantly held back his sexual predatory instincts so he would not just randomly bite girls and suck their blood in public. It would give birth to a massive commotion and it could possibly lead to his death, he wouldn''t dare to take the risk. After all, the benefits are mostly only on his first life, so he would use it as much as he could. Very ugly women just disgusted him immediately, he could barf but he had not drank blood yet. Around the market, he had not found anyone that he presumed would casually talk about brothels, so he had no leads. He resorted to hypnotizing a group of three rich looking girls and asked them where to find the brothel. While under hypnosis, they revealed that they were nobles of the countess rank and that the town is established by an earl. They gave directions to the town''s best brothel disguised as a restaurant for nobility. After gaining the directions, he undid the hypnosis and gave them a simple thanks and a charming smile. The three girls blushed and asked each other, who is that mysterious, handsome young man they just met and why did he thank them. He noticed their reactions and walked away at a normal pace. He felt proud that he could easily dominate pretty girls who would have laughed or mocked him back then for being dumb and ugly. He walked out of the market''s north entrance and entered a wide paved road with houses and shops lining up beside it. According to the girls, the brothel should be a straight walk down this path before turning around into a torch lit alley on the left. After a 3 minute walk, he reached the alley and saw a large wooden building whose size easily dwarfed the size of the households and shops around it. It''s doors are made of metal far harder than steel with a rectangular hole on its upper part. The door had traces of mana circulating around it, it seemed to have a defensive spell on it. ''Woah, the nobles are really strict on the no commoners policy.'' He thought. He walked up to the metal door and knocked it, noticed a large, faint crack on a transparent barrier around it. ''It seems that the barrier is not too high on quality.'' A loud, low pitched voice rumbled from behind the door and a pair of dark brown eyes appeared from the rectangular hole. "Who are you? If you are a noble please present your badge. If your a commoner, get lost! I don''t have time for you." ,The voice boomed. Sebastian remembered from the book that all nobles get badges from their respective kingdoms and empires to identify themselves. He reached down on his pockets and found the marquis badge. The badge was shaped like a shield, there are four swords colliding at its center with a red castle behind it, the badge had a red background, it had a crimson gold lining around it and the word Marquis written beneath the sword in gold. He showed the pin to the guard and the guard opened the door. Inside the ground floor was just like a normal tavern but with more exclusive and comfortable appearing furniture. However, the floor is empty but moans and groans can be heard from above the wooden ceiling. Behind the counter, is a brown haired woman in a revealing red dress. She has an hourglass figure and a seductive face, she was cleaning the counter before noticing the handsome youth that had just entered her establishment. She called him out to the bar. He walked to the bar and sat down on its comfortable, soft chair closest to the bartender. She asked him in a friendly tone, "Hey handsome, what can I get for you?" He gave a her a smirk and ordered, "Well, I heard that you run a brothel. Can I get 15 minutes with any of your most beautiful prostitutes?" She noticed that he didn''t try to flirt with her, she was relieved due to having almost every nobleman that came her tried to flirt with her before making an order, but she also felt a hint of disappointment that a handsome guy like him won''t try to woo her first, she had met handsome guys before him but they can''t compare to his looks. Nevertheless, she quickly put it aside and told him the price, "Your 15 minute session costs 20 gold with our premium prostitute." He took out 20 gold coins from his pocket and placed it on the table. She gathered the coins and wrapped them in a leather pouch. Then, she walked out of the counter and lead him to his room upstairs. After reaching the second floor through the stone stairs, they entered a long corridor with wooden doors on both sides. Both sides had moans and groans coming out of it, sexual noises echoed down the halls. They walked further into the halls, taking a left turn and walked further until a minute or so before stopping in front of a wooden door on the left. The door had a small metal sign on it with the numbers 213 written on it in gold. She faced back to him and told him, "Please wait in the room, the prostitute will arrive in a minute." She then headed back towards the stairs. He entered the room, closing the door. The room is fully carpeted in red fur that felt soft on his toes, to his left is a red, king sized bed. He sat down on the bed and quietly waited for his meal. After about a minute, a knock came from the door and a lady''s voice is heard, "Excuse me, may I come in?" He replied, "Come in." A beautiful, blond lady seemingly in her late twenties entered. Her figure is like a supermodel''s and she only has a black bra and bikini on. She walked up to him in a very provocative manner and asked in a seductive tone, "So handsome, wanna start?" Sebastian stopped suppressing his desires and stood up. He took of his tail coat and waist coat before unbuttoning his shirt until only 2 buttons are left. His eight pack clearly seen. He then gazed at her with a predatory look, prompting her to take 2 steps back. Then, in the blink of an eye, he pinned her to the door. He gestured his left hand to her buttocks, he gently went into the bikini and touched her butt. He rubbed and squished it slowly, savoring the smooth surface of her large butt. He raised his right hand to her right cheeks and gently caressed it. He checked out her figure from close up before quickly kissing her. His tongue playfully fought her tongue in their kiss and his fangs slightly grew. He drew his head back from the kiss and leaned on her neck, kissing it a few times. He then grazed his fangs along her neck, looking for a soft spot to bite. While he grazed his fangs along her neck, she let out moans of pleasure and managed to mutter more a few times. His fangs quickly found the perfect stop and bit down into her neck. At first, she felt a prick on her neck before the pain turned into pleasure. He sucked her blood out slowly as he''d like to savor the sweet taste of her blood. She had an orgasm as he sucked her blood and felt like she just entered a sexual fantasy. The adrenaline in her blood rises, keeping her still strong despite her blood being drained. After half a minute of drinking her blood, he stopped and pulled his head away. She became weak after he let go and almost collapsed, but he held her in a bridal style and lay her on the bed. He wiped of the blood around his mouth and felt stronger than before. The thirst that burned his throat before had dissappeared and he could act and think more quickly and clearly just like before he had been teleported to his coffin. He left a 3 gold tip on the bed, began buttoning up his shirt and wear his waistcoat and tailcoat before leaving the room. He walked downstairs after traversing through the corridors and bid a goodbye added by a charming smile before leaving from the brothel. After getting a meal, he decided to return back to his castle and sort things out about the city''s completion. Based on his memory, the city should be completed in 2 days and that the Agareth royal family would visit in a week''s time. He waved his cloak up and transformed back into a black bat, flying up onto the night sky. 10 Assigning Tasks and Catching Up He travelled back towards his castle within the southern region of Regarus forest. He transformed back to his human form at his balcony and entered his room, he opened the wooden door to the right of his bed that led to a spiraling stone staircase leading downstairs. He walked down to the tower''s bottom and entered his throne room from the right through a hidden entrance shaped as a 3m tall bookshelf. The throne room is quite lit up with torches and a floating wisp of fire in front of each of the ten pillars that line up before the throne, 5 on each side. On each side of the wall are bookshelves stacked on top of another, the total height completely covering the stone wall behind them. The throne is made of a black material, it stood over 2m tall and its crimson cushion between the crimson armrests can only accomodate one person at a time. As a vampire, he would not ever grow fat and he did not plan to have any fat snob sit on his throne. He walked away from the throne to exit the room through the two massive, wooden doors. He walked down the dark corridors and walked towards the command room. In his command room, there is a large, polished stone table at its center with a large black chair facing the door. Opposite to it are two golden chairs with red cushions appearing like the seats that only royals can sit on. On the remaining two sides, are 4 silver chairs on each side with blue cushions. The room had a stone ceiling shaped as a dome with an artistic painting depicting a war. The walls are made of light colored mahogany and supported metal lanterns that gave off light for the room. He summoned Lilith, Gusion and Skadia from the world crystal. He told them to sit down on the sides, Gusion and Lilith sat side by side while Skadia sat alone on the left side. "I''ve summoned you three here because you three will be managing errands and duties for me. All of you will be permanently summoned. As long as you do the tasks required, you may do anything you want at your freetime. Just come to me when I call for you.", he explained. Sebastian then begin dividing tasks. "Skadia and Gusion, you both will handle city affairs. Gusion will handle the city''s diplomatic and economic affairs while Skadia will handle the city''s development and defense. For the city''s political aspects, I task you both to handle it. Now off you go." He dismissed the Valkyrie and the Demon Duke, commanding them to oversee the town. Both of them exited the castle and travelled by flight towards the near completed city. Seeing that she is all alone, Lilith flirted with Sebastian and asked seductively, "Master, what do you want me to do? If you want to taste me just say the word and I''ll give you a memorable night." He immediately rejected her offer and replied, "No my dear Lilith, you will be managing the castle. Now, please call your daughters and assign them their tasks." She simply nodded, accepting her master''s rejection and left the room. When she left, he summoned Hailyn and Theresa. "What do you need me to do master?" Theresa asked. He told them to take a seat before telling her task, "Theresa, your job is to handle the religious affairs of Bloodthorn city and to become my personal assistant when I handle royal related duties. Since Bloodthorn city has not been completely built, I will not set you off to handle its current affairs. You will be helping Lilith manage the castle for now." Theresa replied helpless, "If it is the will of my lord, I will happily oblige." She wanted to give more of a help than just do housekeeping. However, she could only ask at a later date as the master is still assigning tasks. He then gave Hailyn her task, "Hailyn, you are to become the ruler of Regarus forest so that it will become a part of my domain. You will simply guard my castle from the shadows and grow stronger, before you challenge any of the kings of the forest." Hailyn stood up, smiled and bowed before disappearing into a pile of leaves blown by the wind. Monsters may be mostly unintelligent animals, but they form a hierarchy. Normal monsters are under the command of alphas, alphas are under the command of chieftains, chieftains are under the command of generals and generals are under the command of kings. There is emperor monsters that rule over king monsters, but those existences are very few due to the abundance of powerful king monsters. The change in hierarchy is usually following the law of survival of the fittest whereby the strongest or the one who kills the one on that position will replace it. He needed her to become the forest''s ruler so that he could build another city within it for his future kingdom. He sent Theresa away to help Lilith while he went over to his library upstairs. While designing it, he made sure to place all the contents within his near omniscient guide book inside the library in different books so he could explore different content one by one. The library is 3 floors above the Throne room but this time, he used his main stairs instead of any secret passages. The library''s large wooden doors are located at the end of a roofed stone bridge from the main tower to a shorter tower that contains the massive library. The bridge is not long, it only took less than a minute to walk to the other end. The bridge is wide enough to allow six people to walk through side by side with only a small gap between them and its height is tall enough to even allow 9 foot tall beings to walk through it. It had stone pillars supporting its arched roof, there is no lighting on the bridge and the only illumination it received is either from the moon or from the sun. Upon reaching the entrance of the library, the doors immediately opened themselves inwards, allowing their master through. When he walked it, his face grew an awed expression. While he did design it, he didn''t expect it to be so huge. As he observed, he became more awestrucked as he realized that the library is so tall that the whole tower itself is only the library. He also felt grateful of the system who was so generous that it gave him a whole ocean of knowledge in trade of some memories and his life. For him it is a massive profit, he hated is previous, f***ed up life so he couldn''t care less if he is permanently trapped here. Anywhere is better than his old life, not to mention that with his powers, immortality and looks he would have an amazing eternity here. The world is far more vast and he could have an endless adventure here, it''s pretty much a gamer''s heaven. The stairs split into two paths, on leading to the library''s floor while one leading to another staircase that continued spiraling up until a platform below the domed ceiling. The stairs are made of ancient, immortal wood with peach like colors. Along the side of the stairs are runes written in gold. The library is illuminated by flying wisps of fire that floated stationary beside the stairs. While inside, he felt his mind being more clear and calm. He attributed this due to the high density of mana and spiritual energy of the castle''s location. He turned right and went down the stairs. The stairway to the entrance is only seven steps which is half of what the other stairs had. The floor is fully carpeted in red with 3 golden sofas with red cushions leaning towards the wall. There is four circular wooden tables with golden linings around the floor and each one had four to six golden lined wooden chairs around it. In the library, he planned to spend all night and day until he has to feed tomorrow evening, learning more about the world. With his IQ of 180, three times faster processing speed and hundreds of times better memory, he can learn most things about the Terradeus continent as he planned on establishing a kingdom. By getting accustomed, he can blend in easily and handle problems easily instead of resorting on using his hypnosis abilities as a vampire. To help him find the correct books easily, each rack contained tens of books of similar or same topics with a sign above the rack''s mid section that told what topic(s) the books are about and their continent of origin. With this system, he would minimize the time needed to locate similar books so he can easily relate one topic to another, increasing his understanding and efficiency. For his first topic, he searched the history of the Terradeus continent. He took out his first book, a red book with the word History of the Agareth Kingdom from the shelf at the bottom and started reading. With his fast comprehension and his Greater Intelligence skill, he can finish a whole 300 page book in a minute. And so, he continues to read for a whole day, millions of facts populating his mind in a matter of hours. 11 The Second Day The sun sets yet another time. Its light fades away like a dimming fire as darkness begins to descend like a growing shadow. As the sun disappears from the sky, the moon takes its spot and the king of the sky. Inside a vast library, a handsome youth with red eyes and black hair closed a red book with intricate golden designs that he had just recently finished. He whispered softly under his breath, "It''s time to feed." He placed the book back on to its empty spot in the rack and turned towards the wooden staircase. After reading inside the library for a whole day, he had gained vast amounts of knowledge about the Terradeus continent and this world. He had gained many advanced skills and techniques in the multiple realms of Alchemy, Combat, Cooking, Sorcery, Forging and Diplomacy. With the skills and techniques he memorized and understood, he would easily achieve the highest rank of each realm among mortals. Within the books about those topics, there are multiple techniques and skills forged by the Gods themselves. These techniques and skills may be simple but they are an amazing help to any who would use it. The techniques are easy to learn and replicate, only 3 of them required his current intelligence to understand and yet it still took him an hour each on them. From the books he read, he had gained an understanding on things he previously were oblivious to like his Combat Rank and how to increase it. He discovered the multiple cultivation methods that existed and their pros and cons, he had learned ways to combine them in a way that would maximize their pros and minimize their cons. In short, all of his time in the library had been worthwhile and he felt forever grateful at the system that has given him an OP boost in his new life. He walked up the polished wooden stairs and walked out of the library through the large wooden doors as they open for their master. The youth walked upon the dark stone bridge, a great contrast to the brightly lit library that he had just exited from. His throat burned with a thirst for blood, a vampire''s curse. However, the pain is not that painful in comparison to his first. Tonight, he would not need to rush on his hunt for blood. Despite so, he wanted to take a bite as quick as he can so he could see the progress his servants have done in a day. A blood red mist emerges from his cloak and envelops him, a large black bat then emerges from the mist and flies up into the night sky. For this night, he''d like to try if there is a difference between virgin blood and non-virgin blood. According to the complete map of the Terradeus continent, the nearest city is 87km north east from his castle. He plans to ambush his victim and drink her blood from the shadows, as to conceal his presence. He flew at Mach speed towards the neighboring city of Falgrad. According to the near omniscient books of the library, Falgrad is a major city of the empire despite only being a small city. Falgrad is located within the Fallhena Mountains. The mountains are filled with ice and earth affinity monsters and are very rich in rare ores. Precious metals and gemstones within the kingdom are mainly gained from Falgrad. The city has many high ranking nobles and wealthy people within its walls, while the workers live closer to the mines outside the city walls. Unlike most slums, the slums are not filthy and the houses there are well built. Unlike other low class workers, their salary is on par with middle class citizens resulting in a growing population of miners. Within 15 minutes, the city of Falgrad comes to sight. The city is lively tonight, as there are many night markets on the city squares. He suddenly stopped his movement mid air and immediately dived down into a dark alley near to a night market. From above, he has spotted 3 potential victims, all young girls that appear to be around their early twenties or have just reached adulthood. Upon reaching the ground, he immediately transformed back into his handsome human form. He used his shadow manipulation to conceal him deeper in the darkness. He peeped on the quiet road and spotted a young lady with long brown hair and blue eyes walking down the road. He backed away deeper into the alley and waited for her to walk by. When he saw her passing around the alley, he immediately used his hypnotic gaze to draw her to him. Using hypnosis, he made her walk up to him and upon being face to face with his victim, he bit down her neck. He held the victim''s waist as he drains her blood away. When she starts to turn pale, he pulled his head up from her neck and let her waist go. She collapses to the ground but she has enough blood to recover. He wipes the blood his lips and quickly leaves by using the world crystal''s teleportation gate. A blue tear opens within a large city square within Bloodthorn city. A figure emerged from it, ahandsome youth with black hair and red eyes. He stood in the square, in front of a large castle like building while his back leaned on the stone base of the youth''s statue. Sebastian used his mental link and contacted all of his summoned servants, "Come here, I need to know what you all have done within the last day." Almost immediately, Gusion emerges from a dark alley on his left with his usual smirk on his face. He walked closer to his master and stood a few feet away, his arms in his pockets. In a few seconds, Skadia appeared in a brilliant flash of light with Theresa standing on her right side. A mound of dirt emerged from the gap between the stone pavements and quickly molded into Hailyn''s figure. Lilith is the last to appear, she emerged out from a shadow that crept along the buildings like a snake. With all of his summoned servants here, he began to ask them. As Gusion manages the city alongside Skadia, he asked them how the city''s been developing so far. Gusion tells him about the people with potential that he invited to the city via a red envelope with a letter and 10 gold coins inside. The people he invited are all low class citizens who had great potential but could not increase in wealth and status due to what he called as a spoiled system because of its lack of meritocracy. He managed to invite exactly 4876 people whose age are below 40, both men and women. Within the letter, he told them to invite their families to move towards the city and because of that, the city will gain 26,818 new citizens. They will all be transported here through a portal that he built connecting the invited''s town or village to a larger gate in front of the city connecting them all. According to his calculations there will be 92,000 people inhabiting the city by the time it becomes finished on tomorrow morning. It included the workers who built the city, the people he invited, the possible influx of villagers and the succubi Lilith had called with her power. He is simply just very impressed of Gusion''s abilities, his intelligence added by his good looks is a frightening combination. He may look slightly more handsome than Gusion but his intelligence still lagged behind that of Gusion''s. As Gusion ended his explanation, Skadia continued it by announcing that she hired a 2000 men army of mercenaries to act as the city''s security. They will be personally trained by her to guard the city and patrol. The army will arrive in the morning alongside most of the other citizens and the succubi. It will arrive through a large temporary teleportation gate that connects to another temporary gate inside the mercenary''s camp. With the number added up, there will be a total of around 94,000 people inhabiting the city. Sadly, the mercenaries she hired are considered strong yet each of them have not even reach the bronze rank, stuck just below it at Iron III rank. Then he asked Hailyn, "So Hailyn, have you ruled any regions of the forest yet?" She nodded and then in a combined voice of a young woman and that of a mature woman she spoke, "I have elevated to the same rank as you, Master. I have reached the Immortal-6 rank by slaying the 3 kings of the east, west and south region. You are now the uncontested ruler of these regions. I have yet to conquer the north but I will achieve it soon." He gave her a proud smile and replied her with a good job before telling her that she is dismissed so that she could conquer the remaining north and central region. As usual, she fades away into leaves blown by the wind. Next, Theresa and Lilith spoke together like a team about the improvements they did on the castle. They spoke in turns, explaining each of them in detail before letting the other speak. They apparently got along, despite being enemies in a spiritual sense, a saint and a demon. Lilith summoned more of her kin to help populate the city and chose the 200 strongest succubi within her call''s range to become maids in the castle. Theresa created a large garden of rare magical herbs around the chasm to absorb its abyssal energies to nurture the herbs and even modify them to produce better effects. She told her intent in making a blood substitute to Sebastian so that he would not descend into madness if he travelled to lands where there is no blood to feed on. He is fine with that but tells her that it should not be too addicting, as he enjoys the sensation of dominating his victims and hearing their pleasurable moans. Theresa looked at him with disgust but decided to not argue against her perverted master. Unlike Theresa, Lilith jiggled her breasts when he told them about the sensation before Theresa used her golden staff to chain her hands with a quick spell. Her breast jiggling took Sebastian''s attention and he sent a mental message to Lilith, ''If you want to help me lose my virginity, then wait for 3 weeks and I''ll push you to the bed.'' Lilith smiled happily as she recieved her master''s invitation. Theresa couldn''t help but roll her eyes at her horny friend and master. After knowing their improvements, he decided to head into the central region of Regarus Forest to increase his combat rank. After all, he wants to become the strongest among them anyways. Before he turned to left, Gusion tapped him on the shoulder and asked him, "Master, to finalize the city and establish it, you will need to sign on this document to approve its opening." Gusion took out a scroll with the Agareth kingdom''s royal seal upon it and unrolled it before handing it over to Sebastian. He read all of the scrolls contents, checking that there is nothing that can be used against him within the agreement contained within. Upon finding no mistakes, he used shadow manipulation to create a pen and signed on the bottom of the scroll. Sebastian bid a simple goodbye and left towards the cliffs separating the forest and the city. 12 Tyrant of the Fores While he was reading the books within the library, he learned how the monster hunting cultivation worked and how the ranks have different ways of advancing. Pre Apex levels requires one to kill non-Apex monsters of the same rank or above. Then, the monster''s core will be absorbed by the cultivator in a process that may take up to an hour at most, depending on one''s affinity and similarities to the defeated monster. However, the process can be sped up by being in high energy areas. To reach Apex level and advance in its ranks, the cultivator must hunt apex level or above monsters with the same rank or above to advance. The cultivator then must absorb the essence of the defeated monster to advance. The essence absorption requires the hunter to collect the monster''s essence from its carcass, the essence will try to escape in the form of the monster''s element. Like wisps of fire that fly away from the dead monster''s body if the monster is of the fire element. The essence has to be stored within a container for a certain amount of time depending on the hunter''s compatibility with the defeated monster. For immortals like Sebastian and his servants, they would need to defeat immortal level monsters of higher ranks and above. Immortal level rank will be the gap that separates the weak and strong, the lazy and the diligent, the gifted and the ungifted. Immortals are not allowed to be helped by beings of the previous level and above to defeat the monster. After the monster''s death, they are to defeat the monster''s remaining will and absorb the creature''s soul. The larger the remaining will, the more power and inheritance given from its soul. The inheritance it gives will allow the hunter to know all things within the monster''s mind regardless of if the memory or skill is forgotten by the monster before its demise. He headed towards the forest because its central region housed a powerful monster with a great inheritance. The monster had many large AoE skills that he needed because he lacked a powerful arsenal of those type of skills. The monster''s name is the Tyrant Beast King and its rank is Eternal-1. Its power is leaps and bounds above what Sebastian had but this could push him to become stronger and possibly reach an awakening. Originally, he planned to use the north king of the forest as his advancement monster but after knowing about potentially achieving awakening if one pushed their limits he immediately set off to the hardest challenge nearby. If he successfully achieved his first awakening, his powers would increase by leaps and bounds. He would easily surpass Hailyn if he achieved an awakening before her. Using his vampiric speed, he ran towards the cliff with a speed like that of a bullet train. Within four and a half minutes, he had reached before the tall cliffs that separated the sparse forest where Bloodthorn city stood in and the dark, dense forests of Regarus. The cliff stood at a towering height of 20 stories, Sebastian is but an insect compared to its size. To enter the forest, he transformed into a large wolf around twice his original size and jumped on the cliff. In 6 jumps, he went over the cliff and landed on a medium patch of grass before a dense line of trees. Suddenly, red eyes appear on the darkness between the trees. Sebastian took out his draconic sword and executed a defensive stance, brandishing his sword. Four black figures leap out of the darkness and pounced on him. He executed nine slashes towards the pouncing figures and upon tasting the blade, the figures are shredded into many pieces of dark chunks. The multitude of eyes that previously wanted to devour him vanished upon witnessing the scene before them. Despite their unknown numbers and their terrain advantages they would be easily killed if he had any other techniques or skills equal to or stronger than what they have seen. The eyes began to fade and Sebastian looked down at the black chunky remains of his attackers. He observed their characteristics and determined what they are. These shadowy creatures are Shadow Ghouls. Shadow Ghouls appear as large, jet black humanoid creatures with a hunched back and sharp claws on their hands and feet. These creatures have a deformed face like an acid attack victim and their mouths are abnormally large and lined with black shark like teeth. These creatures are considered elite monsters among the forest but are not strong enough to generally be an alpha. Their ranks vary between Gold I to Apex I. Only mutated ones would reach Apex level. The creatures exuded Apex auras when they appeared and it was confirmed that they are of Apex I rank due to the speed in which they pounced at. A normal human would barely notice anything before they suddenly died. The creatures seemed to be single mutated and hardly worth his time. He walked into the darkness of forest and continued his journey. He had managed to travel into the the outskirts of the central region within three hours. Most of the monsters he encountered either ignored him, ran away or watched from a distance with their glowing eyes. As he ventured deeper, he had been attacked more frequently by single and double mutated monsters of the Apex Level. But being an immortal level and a powerhouse of his rank, a single, light slash would be enough to kill if not mortally wound them. As he crossed the border into the central region, the forest became significantly less dense. The trees did not block all the moonlight anymore, scorch marks are occasionally present around fallen tree trunks. After just a few seconds of walking through, he is greeted by three monsters. One is a massive black snake with burning blue eyes and a dark blue belly and tail. Its height easily surpassed the 2 stories tall trees. It stood on the left side, appearing from a hole between the trees. The creature from the left is a large, 8 feet tall stone gargoyles with purple demonic runes inscribed throughout its body. The creature appeared from the canopy as it fell down onto the forest floor, standing idly on the right side. The possible leader of this trio is a dragon shaped skeleton with flaming green eyes and green wings supported by its skeleton. He immediately checked on them and recognized them all as immortal level monsters. They are all general rank monsters, double mutated and of the Immortal-5 rank. They are only one rank inferior to the kings of the surrounding regions. Sebastian got a little excited as they could possibly entertain him and also get the whereabouts of the Tyrant Beast King that they serve. The bone dragon known as the Immortal Skeleton Dragon spoke in a loud, thunder like voice that echoed, "Tresspassers of the Forest, LEAVE or DIE!" The skeleton dragon then breathed out a river of cursed, green fire from its fleshless mouth, seeking to devour the intruder in demonic fire. Sebastian did not dodge the attack but smiled as he walked towards it, as if welcoming it. As the fires reached him, the fires did not burn him but instead it just stopped upon touching him, like it was being blocked by a wall. As he walked through the fire, the dragon started to panic as his attacks seem useless upon this intruder. He closed his mouth and gestured to his allies to attack immediately. The three generals of the central region charged onto Sebastian with all their might. As they are about to make contact with his body, they dispersed. The gargoyle jumped behind him, the runes on his body growing brighter as he grew larger until he becomes thrice his previous size. The snake slithered towards his left and an eerie blue aura emerged from its dark form. While the dragon jumped and glided towards his right and formed a black ball or energy with green pulses on its mouth mid air. He unsheated Death''s Origin and pointed it at the skeleton dragon. A black flash sliced through the undead dragon and in a second, the undead beast fell down from the air and exploded in dark flames. In less than a second, Sebastian had killed the dragon and stood back in his place, leaving behind only a short afterimage. The gargoyle and snake is shocked by what they saw, the dragon''s powers and abilities are on par with theirs. If it''s killed in a slash, how would they fare any better. Their hesitation to strike gave Sebastian a three second window to slaughter them. Two flashes of black tore through their bodies and before even realising it, the two monsters dropped dead. He used his cloak''s skill, Cursed Army to reanimate the gargoyle and the black snake. He turned them into his new puppets and asked them the whereabouts of the Tyrant Beast King. The reanimated corpses replied monotonously, "The Emperor of the forest is sleeping within a crater just a 15 miles ahead." He then walked ahead, with the two undead puppets he had with him, the monsters kept a distance away as he walked briskly. Without any disturbances, he took only an hour to reach a hill where the crater lies ahead. From above the grassy hill, a massive crater lies in front. The crater formed a small lake at its bottom. Red crystals with red sparks on it grew from the ground. In the crater''s center, a massive black godzilla like beast is sleeping. It size is so massive that despite it sleeping like a curled up cat, the lake''s surface did not even reach its nostrils and its body covered over half of the crater. The godzilla like beast had a rhino horn with buffalo horns on its head slightly behind its eyes. The beast had eight more horns on its back, red crystals like the ones growing on the crater formed a line along its back between the horns and it had four pairs of muscular arms with long, sharp claws. He inspected the beast with the near omniscient guide book and a profile of it appears. Tyrant Beast King Rank: Eternal-1 Mutation: 2 Awakening: None Element: Fire, Lightning, Darkness Weak point: Horns 13 Tyrants Power After analyzing its weakness from the book, he commanded his two puppets to attack the horns on its head first. As the puppets approach, the beast opened its black eyes and red lightning bolts appeared from the beast''s back. Before the puppets could lay a finger at it, the lightning bolts had reduced them to ash. Sebastian is not surprised at the outcome of his little experiment. After assessing the strength that each lightning bolt possessed, he should only be able to withstand only forty hits before being killed. However, with his minor divine regeneration, he should be able to recover a few hits in less than a second. This should allow him to tank some attacks instead of wasting his stamina on dodging them all. While he stood and thought of a plan, the massive, dark beast stood up from its sleeping position and glared its black eyes at Sebastian. "Human, how dare you challenge me, the emperor of the forest. You will pay for your trespasses!" The Tyrant Beast King''s voice boomed, echoing through the forest. Red lightning bolts appeared in tens from the crystals on its back and shot towards Sebastian. He immediately dodged before countering with a rapid barrage of slashes using his black sword. Despite its powerful slashes, the attacks only left scratches on it black scales. The beast countered by using its tail like a spear, trying to impale its opponent. Sebastian then took out the Twilight of the Dragon Kings and wielded it on his left hand. After dodging attacks for two minutes straight, he noticed an attack pattern. The beast would use its tail to attack for thirty seconds straight before taking a stop of about ten seconds. While it took a stop, the number of bolts emerging from its crystals doubled. He waited for thirty seconds for the tail to take a rest and when the tail retreated, he rushed towards its back, attacking the crystals on it. He used Dance of Swords on its back and jumped around while executing it, causing many dents and scratches along its back. Becoming annoyed, the beast huffed in anger and increased the lightning bolts strength twice. Each lightning bolt used to be relatively easy to block but after it increased its power, the bolts knocked him a few centimeters back. Normally, this would be negligible but having to dodge hundreds more of the same attack would slowly overwhelm him. He jumped off its back towards the hill and tested out some of his other skills. He opened his cape wide like a bat''s wings and groups of large, red runed bats appeared from the cloak. The bats flew at fast speeds towards the Tyrant Beast, upon impacting, they would explode and slowly form small wounds. As the beast released lightning bolts to attack him, the bats would take the hit and explode alongside the bolts of lightning. He then jumped high up and floated above the beast before using Sword Tomb to summon a rain of black swords. The swords corroded some of the scales, weakening its defense. Upon touching cracked ones, the swords would create wounds. As he started to have wounds, the beast decided to become serious. A black aura emanated from the massive beast and its claws turned blood red in color. It looked up at the floating enemy above it and jumped up. The force of the jump caused the trees around it to become completely flattened. Upon jumping, it started to spin like a tornado and pointed its sharp claws at him. It planned to rip him to shreds using strength alone. Sebastian quickly casted Sword Reaper on it. A black sword penetrated the flesh near its heart three times until a slightly pulsating tissue is exposed. The pain in that area caused the beast to lose its momentum and went off course. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he flew towards its exposed belly and used Whirlwind of Death. As its defense has weakened, the spin of his blades quickly tore through its scales. A scratch shaped wound formed on its belly and it fell down to the ground. Upon falling down to the ground its body lying on the crater, it gave a short chuckle and spoke, "You are the first to witness my true strength. You should be proud to DIE HERE!" The red crystals around the crater started transforming into red flashes of light. The crystals are being absorbed by the beast. The red crystals on its back started to grow, all of its horns and claws turned a menacing purple. Before Sebastian could react, hundreds of lightning bolts shot towards him at near Mach speeds. With his two blades, he managed to block most of the attacks. However, due to being slowly overwhelmed he is struck by four simultaneously after a minute of blocking and dodging attacks. The lightning bolts that struck him forced him to fall from the sky and landed hard on the ground. Not giving Sebastian time to recover, the Tyrant Beast King jumped high up into the air and crashed down on him like a meteor. The force of the impact is so great that even Bloodthorn city that''s around 60 miles away received a 5.6 richter scale earthquake for 3 seconds. Around the crater, all the trees in a 12 mile radius are completely flattened. Even the hills shattered and are blown away by the shockwave caused by the attack. All monsters within a mile are either severely injured or completely flattened. Regardless of whether they are Immortal rank or not. Not giving its enemy time to recover or dodge, the beast used its eight arms to shred him. A flurry of sharp claws descended on Sebastian. If not for his minor divine regeneration, he would have been shredded to tiny chunks of flesh. While in immense pain, he focused himself to use a skill. Using his draconic blade, he used the skill Draconic Familliar: Black Destroyer. He summoned a black dragon around thrice his size. The black dragon had the same rank as Sebastian and possessed 70% of his attributes except for his health in which the black dragon had 14 times more. With its own mind, the dragon saw its master under attack and charges a large black sphere pulsing with red energy. It distanced itself from the distracted Tyrant Beast and continued charging its powerful attack. After 12 agonizing seconds for Sebastian, the black sphere of energy is fired towards the beast by his dragon familliar. Upon touching the scales of the Tyrant Beast King, the black ball of energy bursted into a large explosion, sending the Tyrant Beast King flying hundreds of yards away. The dragon waited for its master to recover and stand back up before asking for a command. Using telepathy, he commanded it, "Black Destroyer, use that attack whenever you have the chance. For now, just use your other skills and always aim at its horns." The dragon nodded before forming twenty four spears of black fire around it. Upon recovering, the Tyrant Beast King instantly charged at the duo with full power. Its aura began to rise and its body started to be coated with dense red sparks. It roared loudly and sent hundreds of lightning bolts towards the duo. Not wasting any time, Sebastian activated the Curse of Wrath and prepared to dodge and block the incoming lightning bolts. When the lightning bolts started to reach within 100m from them, the black dragon mobilized the spears of dark fire to counter the lightning. Sebastian used Dragonfire Blades and summoned 4 pillars of fire to scorch the incoming Tyrant Beast. The pillars of fire managed to scorch the beast surface, injuring it and weakening its defense. As the beast arrives, the duo almost failed to dodge the incoming charge, only dodging by a few feet. Not wasting any time, the beast stood back up and summoned condensed versions of its lightning bolts. These condensed rods of red lightning caused craters to appear whenever they strike. In a span of less than ten seconds, the central region had been bombarded to the point where craters are almost everywhere. All monsters in the region had been reduced to ashes in this full powered attack. Sebastian''s familiar had died within this attack, holes present all over its body. Without his minor divine regeneration, Sebastian would have been dismembered, parts of his body would have been ashes. The beast kneeled down in exhaustion. That very attack had drained much of its stamina so much that it could not even stand. Fully regenerating in a split second, Sebastian attacked the weakened beast with an immensely fast whirlwind of attacks. Without its strong scales to dampen the effects of Sebastian''s rapid attacks, the beast''s body becomes quickly littered in large gaping wounds. To land the finishing blow, Sebastian executed Eternal Death to transform the beast into its puppet. A large black flash pierced through its brain, heart before appearing at the other end of its body. At last, the beast dropped dead. 14 My Valkyries Back! On its carcass, a faint black aura still remained. ''It seems that I''m lucky, most of its will is still here.'' Monster carcasses that have auras are a sign that over 85% of their soul remains in their bodies. This would mean that he would receive a great amount of inheritance. He felt happy too that thanks to Eternal Death, its remaining will is already controlled by the sword. He does not need to fight any remaining will to absorb its soul. According to the books he read, for one to absorb a soul, one must be not more than a meter away from the target''s carcass. He walked closer to the carcass and sat down crosslegged two feet away from the monster''s black form. As he sat down, the black aura started rushing towards him like a river. The black aura dissappeared into his body upon contact and power started to flow inside of him. His mind is suddenly filled with clips of memories coming from the beast. Millions of pictures and clips of memory flooded his mind. His once clear mind is filled with a surge of memories. He learned from the memories that the monster has almost broken through triple mutation but failed due to the lack of energy from its surroundings to absorb. It explained why it was so oddly powerful because Sebastian is a powerhouse capable of defeating Immortal-10 rank beings. He should only be subpar compared to Eternal-1 ranked beings but not easily overwhelmed. Even with double mutation, it shouldn''t be that powerful. The memories also gave him an insight of all the things that it had witnessed and controlled in the Regarus forest. Treasures, resources and even hidden locations are covered in its memories. The process of memory addition and power absorption took only five minutes of his time. His compatibility with it is unexpectedly high. ''Well that''s unexpected.'' He thought. He originally guessed that it should take around twenty minutes or more to fully absorb its soul. ''I think it might be Death''s Origin.'' He looked down at the black sword on his right hand with curiosity. ''This sword appears to have hidden functions. I should use it more often. Who knows what I''ll find.'' When the black aura has been fully absorbed, a brilliant golden glow appeared from his chest, brightening the dark, silent night. The glow quickly disappeared and 4 prompts appear in his head. Congratiulations! You have received the skill, "Corruption Thunder" ? Corruption Thunder Effect: Coats the user''s weapon(s) with red lightning, every time the user blocks an attack, 1-3 bolts of red lightning will strike out from the blade and attack the enemy. Lightning bolts deal 120% lightning and dark damage, 25% chance to spread to other enemies within a 3m range. Channeling Time: None Cooldown: 3 minutes Active Period: 1 minute Congratulations! You have received the skill, "Earthquake Stomp" ? Earthquake Stomp Effect: User stomps the ground to deal 70% damage to all enemies within a 3 mile radius. All targets hit have a 35% chance to being disoriented for 3 seconds. Channeling Time: 1 second Cooldown: 4 minutes Active Period: 3 seconds Congratulations! You have received the skill, "Tyrant Thunder Frenzy" ? Tyrant Thunder Frenzy Effect: Summons 7-14 red lightning bolts from the user every second for 5-8 seconds to strike targets and cause 60% lightning and darkness damage for every lightning bolt. Channeling Time: 4 seconds Cooldown: 9 minutes Active Period: 5-8 seconds Congratulations! You have received the skill, "Slaughtering Rush" ? Slaughtering Rush Effect: User dashes for up to 60m at any direction within a split second, hitting all enemies that are up to 4m away from the user. All enemies hit will receive 200% damage and be knocked back by at least 1m. Channeling Time: None Cooldown: 6 minutes Active Period: 0.5 seconds He checked out the skills and felt rather happy of the skills he got. They would be useful against any enemy he faced that would use zerg tactics or numbers to overwhelm him. After he closed the skill prompt, another prompt appears. Congratulations! You have elevated your rank for the first time. Services by your Valkyrie will now be available. ''Services by my Valkyrie?'' He had only dirty thoughts of Hirani giving him certain "services" to him for a few seconds before a familiar voice echoed in his head, ''Hey pervert, did you forget that I can read minds?'' He is startled and managed to laugh nervously before asking, ''Hirani, that''s you right?'' The voice replied with an annoyed tone, ''Yes its me pervert.'' He is more afraid as she might set a trap to get revenge. ''Oh Crap, she saw my thoughts. Is there any way to keep her from reading all of my mind. I hope she doesn''t plan revenge.'' The voice chuckled in his head and replied in an amused tone, "Relax, I won''t plan any revenge. It''s against the rules for Valkyries to plot revenge or traps against their hosts no matter how much of an as*hole they are. Also, since you are one of the people with common sense, yes you can block some parts of your brain from my access.'' He felt a slight relief hearing that and instantly asked her to block most parts of his mind from her access. ''So how''s your city?'' She asked. ''It''s about to finish soon in about 3 hours. I''ll be back before then.'' He replied. Due to his duties as the city''s ruler, he is to attend its opening and give a few remarks to the new citizens. He jogged back towards the city, but since he''s a vampire and also the first one, his jogging easily matched the speed of cars. In an hour, he had jogged back to the cliffs separating the forest and the city. He jumped down and entered the city, he walked his way towards the city hall and found all of his servants waiting there. "Hello Master, you''ve finally arrived." Theresa greeted. The other servants turned to look at him and said their simple greetings before Gusion approached him and explained, "Since you''re the city''s ruler, you will have to do an opening remark to the people. Just something simple, I, Skadia and Theresa will be doing the rest for you." He nodded and Gusion left back to the group to continue the discussion. Theresa invited him to join but he politely declined to see how his city turned out to be, he had only 2 hours to do sightseeing undisturbed. He walked around the city in a slow manner, admiring all the buildings within the city. The city still had thousands of empty plots, he had told Hirani to save them so he could sell them to organizations, nobles or kings from within or beyond the country. He planned to make this city as the starting point of his kingdom, so he planned to attract as much attention as possible because attention meant profits. Since the city is still a part of the Agareth kingdom, 20% of its profit went to the royal family of the kingdom. If the city becomes highly profitable, he would earn much money and favorability with the royal family. With their favorability towards him, he would easily be elevated to a Duke, a status only second to the royal family''s members. With the title of Duke, he would be able to establish a large city that could support up to 1 million people. A big upgrade from the current 500,000 people limit. As a Duke, he could upgrade the current Bloodthorn city to twice its size and earn at least 4 times more profit. With this, accumulating enough money to form a kingdom won''t take much time. After 2 hours of sightseeing and formulating his long term plans, Gusion alerted him that it''s time for the city''s opening and he told him to head to the entrance. Sebastian used his vampiric speed and arrived in the entrance in just a few seconds. His servants arrived one by one three seconds later. As the sun rises from the horizon, three stone gates, tens of yards away, glowing blue runes started appearing on the gates. The surrounding mana rushed in between the arched gates and a tear in space expanded until it touched the inner surface of the arched stone gates. As the tear faded to near transparency, various people started to emerge. The first citizens of his city and soon, his kingdom. 15 First Day of Bloodthorn City Various people arrived, walking out from the large portals. Some rode on horses, walked on foot and sat on caravans. Most of the people invited are poor, being a citizen in a new city is a massive opportunity to gain enough money to sustain themselves. The first wave of people are from poor villages that Gusion built a teleportation gate at. Their overall abilities are quite good according to Gusion. When the number of caravans and villagers that emerged started to dwindle, mercenaries with leather armor marched out of the gates in legions of 100. Ten legions emerged from the gates and walked towards the city''s gate with the villagers. After 15 minutes, most of the estimated 150,000 people had arrived and gathered in front of the city gate. A large stone platform started emerging from the ground, shaking the nearby area. The villagers are amazed while the mercenaries are on guard as this might be a monster''s doing. The shaking stopped and a handsome youth in black attire donning a black, high collared cape appeared on the stone, standing. Looking at his handsome face, most of the girls were attracted to him immediately, some moving to the front of the crowd just to get a better look at his perfect features. As the girls stared at him like they had just met their Mr. Perfect, he welcomed them with a warm tone, "Welcome new citizens of Bloodthorn City. My name is Sebastian Adrian Cain, a marquis and the ruler of this city. All of you are chosen to be here and will all have fair competition. In here, your background will not determine your rank in the city, but instead your hardwork, talent and perseverance will make you succeed here. As for the rules and other affairs, I will leave them to my subordinates." The audience, mostly the villagers and the poor rejoiced at this promise of fair competition, clapping and cheering. Even though they don''t know whether the young man is telling the truth or not, they''d rather to cling on any hope they can find as they are quite desperate. However, some of the invited lesser nobles are not quite happy with that statement as they are spoiled brats who only relied on their status to get whatever they want. Sebastian turned away from the crowd and walked down from the stone platform. After a few seconds, 3 figures appeared on stage. One man and two women. The man is wearing a black leather trenchcoat, but due to their technology and fashion not reaching near modern, they saw it as an odd attire. However, the man appears around the youth''s age and is almost as handsome as the young marquis that had welcomed them. The woman on the right drew their attention as she wore a foreign golden battle armor and also had 3 pairs of white, angel wings sprouting from her back. Pious men and women in the crowd praised the Lord for being given the chance to be in the presence of a angel. Her stunning wings also attracted the eyes of the non pious people who gained more respect and admiration for the young marquis as recruiting or taming angels as servants are feats that are unheard of even in empires. The third person appeared very holy, beautiful and innocence, the people felt a great feeling of calm around her. After a few seconds of looking at the trio, the young man spoke and explained them the rules of the city. The rules are basically the same as other cities but a rule is added where in only nobles of the earl rank and above can use money to avoid arrest, as to prevent the more numerous lower nobles from taking advantage of the common folk. Another rule is added that states that the salaries of all servants must not be lower than a certain amount and a last rule is added that states that servants that receive injuries from their masters can report it as a crime of abuse. These rules have been added to prevent nobles from exploiting the common folk and has caused the majority of the crowd to rejoice even more. Next, the young man explains that the city''s extra plots of land can be purchased by anyone as long as they possessed enough money. The first person to pay will be the owner of the plot of land. He also told them of the facilities and jobs present and instructed them to go to the city hall after the orientation immediately to get their chosen jobs. First come first serve, the slots may empty if they did not get ready. Next, the saintly figure spoke about the legal religions that are allowed to be practiced within the city. She also spoke about a place where the children can learn, it is called a school. Schools in that world are a secret only nobles of the count rank and above know of. These nobles are allowed to enroll their children into schools for nobles where they can learn to become whatever they want. Since the nobles present are only viscounts and below, they are not aware of what a school is but plans to enroll their children in immediately to gain an edge. After she explains more about the curriculums and the city''s religious affairs, she gestured towards the valkyrie to start explaining her part. Skadia told them of the training facilities she will provide to those who apply in the barracks as the city''s sworn protectors. She explains to them that they will be given field trips to different locations to increase their rank and to learn different ways of defeating different types of monsters. The mercenaries are excited on this because they never had the chance to fight monsters to increase their rank. They considered that a luxury as they had trained rigorously since childhood just to increase their power and rank, while they just needed to slay a monster of choice and absorb its core to become stronger. As she finished explaining, she announced that the orientation had ended and the three stepped down from the stone platform before it sinks down into the ground. The people immediately rushed to the city gates only a few hundred yards away. Using Skadia''s skill, they teleported to the town hall and began doing their own assignments. Gusion went inside the city hall to handle the job slots and anyone who would like to buy the plots in the city. Theresa used her own teleportation ability to teleport to a large building made of wood and stone, this is the school she built and she will act as the headmistress of that school. It''s the most elite school in the city, the number one of the ten schools that are in the city. She will be overseeing all of the education for the city''s citizens. The fee for each school is only a few gold coins per year which is around fifty times cheaper than noble schools but the curriculum is comparable to that of the noble schools. Skadia flew away from the town hall square towards the barracks. She will be awaiting the mercenaries and will train them to protect the city. Hailyn then went to one of the very large plots that remained to construct a teleportation gate towards different areas filled with monsters. When she was dismissed yesterday, she used her passive ability to teleport around the different areas around the Agareth empire. She had managed to mark around 257 out of 382 areas within the kingdom''s border with neutral territories. The sentient races of the world divided areas throughout the world in ranks based on the strongest monster within the area. Coordinated areas may be raised to a higher rank by a power estimate of the coordination between monsters. There are a total of 6 levels known to the public. The lowest level are known as common lands, these areas have no monsters that reach the Bronze I rank. Common lands are rare due to the large amount of powerful monsters that exist. These powerful monsters would usually quickly claim common lands as their territoryas they will have no problems defeating their alphas. Next are known as Common Wildlands, these areas have no monsters that reach the Silver I rank. Common Wildlands are more abundant than common lands due to having stronger alphas and possibly a chieftain monster. Powerful monsters would usually take more time taking these places to judge its advantages and disadvantages of claiming territory instead of immediately sending subordinates to attack as these areas are usually far from the territories of powerful monsters. A level higher would be the Intermediate Wildlands, these areas have no Gold ranked monsters. These areas are same in abundance as Common Wildlands but have slightly smaller areas. These wildlands are usually the neutral areas or the outer territories of powerful monsters. Intermediate Wildlands are usually abundant in materials and is a gold mine for materials. Monsters of these areas get replenished by creation gates once the monster count is below 500. Next is the Advanced Wildlands. These strongest monsters of these areas are of the Perfected Gold rank. Double mutated monsters may spawn or live in these areas and mutated monsters become more common compared to previous wildlands. These areas are usually either the middle or the inner territories of powerful monsters. Chieftain monsters number more than 3 in these areas and a general being present is not too unlikely. Creation gates replenish these areas with monsters once a few centuries or when the monster count reaches below 1000. These areas are the most abundant but are the third largest in area. The other two levels have not been entered in by Hailyn except for Regarus forest which is classified as the 6th level but the major nobles know that the forest is actually a 7th level area due to the monster emperor at its central region that was repelled back into the forest by a joint attack with the neighboring kingdoms around 300 years in the past. Of the 257 areas she explored and marked, 38 of the are common lands, 53 of them are common wildlands, 68 of them are intermediate wildlands while the remaining 99 are advanced wildlands. Thanks to her being a servant, Sebastian knew everything that she knew. Servants cannot hide anything from their masters unless their master chooses to ignore it or if a greater being erases or blocks certain memories from the master through the servant. Sebastian limits his knowledge of them only towards information as he doesn''t want to get involved in their personal life. He simply gives them orders and as long as they are obeyed, he would be fine if they were to have fun or do their other interests. Lilith melded with the shadows and went to a rendezvous point where she would meet her daughters and assign them to become the castle''s maids or to remain in the city. As they all rushed to do their activities, Sebastian just strolled around the town, finding that once people received a job, they would immediately come to work. The city quickly turned from the quiet ghost like town into a lively city within a few hours since dawn. More people have traveled through the teleportation gates especially merchants who traveled to the nearest villages with these gates upon hearing the news of the portals. The portals reduced their spendings by around 70% as they do not need to hire mercenaries to protect them from monsters or raiders. The city quickly crowded and development started at a relatively fast rate. The job slots declined steadily which will soon make opportunities for new jobs to appear and allow a higher amount of development to occur. After a long day of lazing around and sightseeing throughout the city, he went towards the brothel to get a meal. The brothel is run by Lilith''s daughters, they possess demon blood which will sustain him for 3 days instead of the usual one day when he consumed human blood. They also brought him a fantastic experience, but he did not use his sword as he planned to find the perfect girl to use it on and lose his virginity. As he had nothing better to do, he decided to rest in his coffin. As the lid closed, darkness overtook his vision as he closed his eyes and entered the realm of sleep. An endless, short dark void. 16 Empress Hailyn of Regarus The sun rises, its radiant shine entered the dark room where a black coffin lay. As the rays of light touched the lid of the black coffin, the coffin''s lid slowly opened. Inside the coffin is a handsome, slightly pale youth with black hair. When the lid fully opens, the youth opened his blood red eyes and he pulled up his back to sit. While he sat, he felt a little tired. Most likely due to sleeping for around 12 hours straight made him want to sleep more. Suddenly a notification from Hailyn rang in his head. In Hailyn''s joyful voice it spoke, "Master, I''ve defeated the remaining monster king. I''m officially the empress of Regarus forest and I managed to reached Immortal-7 rank just like you Master!" He''s surprised at Hailyn''s joyful tone, she usually used near emotionless tones when talking but still managed to make it look normal with her smile. He spoke to her through the link and gave her a simple congrats. She is currently at the teleportation tower she is building. The tower had a polished stone dome as its roof, the walls are made of hard, ancient wood that he had never seen before, forming the tower''s tall cylindrical shape. There are many stone gates with near transparent images of their respective destinations on the wall. There are circular wooden balconies every 2.5m from the last or the floor. Each floor can be reached through wooden stairs situated on the east quadrant of the tower, one stair with 12 steps on each floor. Each floor had a total of 26 portals except for the first and last which only had 24, 25 gates respectively. The gates are wide enough to allow 7 people to enter at once without having to touch each other involuntarily. Hailyn was standing near the tower''s center at its bottom floor. She looked up towards the upper floors while communicating with her master. After remembering that she had conquered Regarus forest, she thought of an ambitious plan. She kept it hidden for now and gave back a simple thank you to him. He noticed that she hid something after thinking of it immediately. Out of curiosity, he peered into her thoughts secretly and what he found is something of greatness and revealed a very interested expression. Hailyn took notice of this and mentally replied shyly, "You saw it didn''t you master. Is it too ambitious?" Sebastian smiled sweetly and shooked his head. He replied in an encouraging tone, "No Hailyn. Your plan is amazing, even I didn''t think about it at all. Adding monsters as a member of society may be hard and ambitious but it has an unlimited potential." Hailyn''s eyes sparkled and happily replied, "What? Even I didn''t think it would have that much potential. I thought that it would just make things better." After receiving the feedback from her master, she decided to aim for the monster integration plan and conquer most of the non human areas within Agareth kingdom. Sebastian only smiled at her servant''s new plan and felt that he started to care about her. After the conversation, he lazily stood up and walked out of the coffin. He did some rounds of exercise before heading downstairs. He walked around the castle to the library, he wanted to slay another eternal monster so he could reach immortal rank-8 within this week. He wanted to appear as an invaluable ally for the royal family by showcasing his combat rank on their visit. When they see that his rank is 7 ranks higher than their strongest man, the general, they would immediately promote him to a duke or even give him their full support on his actions. An Immortal rank-8 is the average rank for the emperors who rule an empire. With someone that strong on their side, they would surely want to do anything to keep Sebastian close to them. This would be a stepping stone to the creation of his kingdom. As he entered the library, he found a succubus maid flying around the room with her small devil wings, sorting out the books and dusting. She had long, straight black hair and deep blue eyes. Unlike Lilith, her face is mostly innocent and had some similarities to Theresa. All succubi are beautiful for all humanoid races, if they are to be ranked in beauty, most of them would qualify being a model even without makeup. She looked down and noticed the handsome black haired youth with red eyes clad in black. Upon noticing, she immediately flew down to the stairways in front of him and bowed. She greeted him in a young, sweet voice, "Welcome Lord Sebastian, I have cleaned and managed this library recently. If my Lord needs anything, please tell me and I will get if for you immediately." He flashed her a smile and walked past her towards the rack of books. He searched for the rack that had the words ''Monster Distribution List'' inscribed on it in bold. Seeing that her master is searching for something, she rushed to help. However, she stopped midair after finding her master disappear and reappear with a book on his hand at one of the circular balconies above. She resumed to looking for things to clean and when she found nothing to clean, she took out a book and read, increasing her knowledge. While reading a book on eternal monsters, he discovered that there are other eternals in the kingdom, however they were few and far between. Else than the Tyrant Beast King, there are only 3 other eternal ranked monsters in the kingdom. The first is the elusive Sacred Griffin, it is an evolved monster of the Eternal-3 rank. Evolved monsters are monsters that have awakened the bloodlines within them that are gained through their ancestry. There are many bloodlines, older bloodlines are far stronger than younger bloodlines. Triple or Tetra mutation may naturally trigger an evolution. The Sacred Griffin is a triple mutated monster that had awakened the Cherubim Beast bloodline, a powerful ancient bloodline. Based on its mutation and blood line, it should be an Eternal-3 ranked powerhouse with the power of a mutated Eternal-6 rank. The second is the powerful Metallic Earth Dragon, it is also an evolved monster but of a higher degree of evolution. It had awakened the Draconic bloodline and the Earth Titan bloodline. It''s rank is of Eternal-6 and it is a tetra mutated monster. Its strength is already beyond his reach so he immediately turned to the next page. The third remaining eternal within the kingdom is theKeratin Armored Tarrasque. It is the only non evolved monster within the list but it''s a double mutated of the Eternal-5 rank. With its double mutation it should be a stronger Eternal-6 rank. After assessing his strength after his elevation, gaining new skills and inheritance from the Tyrant Beast King, he should only be able to defeat a single mutated Eternal-4 rank. Since none of the Eternal monsters here are able to be defeated by him, he placed the book back into the shelf and drew out another book on immortal rank monsters. He filtered them so that only Immortal-9 and Immortal-10 ranks would appear. Then, he filtered them further with only triple mutated and above. Finally, he filtered them to only show ones with an awakened bloodline. From the 159 Immortal-9 and 10 monsters within the kingdom, only 2 of them qualified for the filter. The first one is the Blackwater Serpent, an Immortal-10 rank triple mutated monster with the Abyssal Boa bloodline. The second is the Shadowfire Phoenix, an Immortal-9 rank triple mutated monster with the Dark Immortal Phoenix bloodline. The Blackwater Serpent had a total combat strength of an Eternal-2 rank, he won''t have to use his berserk skill to kill it quickly. While the Shadowfire Phoenix only had a total combat strength of an Eternal-1 rank. He chose the phoenix without hesitation due to its close location. The phoenix had its own nest in the eastern region of Regarus forest. Killing it is a quick rank up because before his elevation, he had managed to kill the Tyrant Beast King whose power almost reached the Eternal-3 threshold. With the 3 new skills, he should be capable of combatting an Eternal-3 rank and a weak Eternal-4 rank with his berserk skill. The Shadowfire Phoenix can inherit 3 skills, 1 passive while the rest are active skills. ? Flaming Form Effect: User has a 10% chance to absorb fire and use it to heal the user by 40% of the fire''s power. ? Brimstone Shower Effect: Summon 3 waves of 7-11 fireballs with a radius of 6-15m over an area. Each fireball explodes 3 times its size and each will deal 150% fire damage on impact. Channeling Time: 4 seconds Cooldown: 8 minutes Duration: 9 seconds ? Flame Spirit Effect: Summon a flame spirit with 65% of the user''s attributes and abilities and 150% of the user''s health and attack to fight. Only one spirit max. Channeling Time: None Cooldown: 5 minutes Duration: Until spirit dies. He evaluated these skills and found all of them to be quite decent. As he did not want to waste much time being a picky cultivator, he immediately exited the room and flew towards the east region of the dense, dark forest. As he flies through the forest, he noticed that the monsters no longer eyed him with their glowing red eyes, waiting to strike. He noticed that they all seemed to ignore him as if he is a fellow monster. While figuring out what caused this oddity, he recalled that Hailyn said that she had conquered the forest, all of the kings were defeated by her. Since she is a non-human, she was easily accepted as their new uncontested ruler. Thus making her the empress of Regarus forest. With their mind link, she would''ve known that Sebastian is going out to elevate his rank and would have commanded all the monsters to ignore him or treat him like a fellow inhabitant of the forest. The phoenix''s nest is only a 10 minute flight at Mach 1 speed, he was able to notice this oddity by using his massively enhanced senses due to being a vampire. The Shadowfire Phoenix nested atop a large stone hill. There were no trees or grass on it, only glowing dark purple embers, bones of various creatures and ashes. The phoenix is sleeping peacefully, its slow breaths releasing embers of shadowfire. As it seems to be in a deep sleep, it''s a perfect opportunity to kill it in one blow. With his normal attack being able to easily injure mutated Eternal-2 ranks, he could just send a few hits to end it. However, he planned to use eternal death on it so it could become its phantom, the phantoms he gained could be useful in the future to fight against other monsters or decimate enemy attacks. Although phantoms cannot get stronger, they could be fed to summoning monsters or his servants to increase their rank once they have become obsolete. He activated Curse of Wrath, all of his attributes and abilities increasing to that of a mutated Eternal-4 rank for 46 seconds. He turned into a black flash and used Eternal Death upon making contact with the monster''s dark feathers. The monster opened its eyes for a split second before noticing that it had died in a flash. The monster''s purplish black aura began to surge towards Sebastian and in a minute''s time, all of it had been absorbed into Sebastian. A blood red aura emanated from him immediately after, the aura started to grow until it met its climax after expanding to a 6m radius and shrinked rapidly until it disappeared. A notification rang inside his head congratulating him for reaching Immortal-8 rank. Another notification rang and congratulated him for killing a monster in one hit, gaining him a 99% inheritance and all three skills. After this upgrade, he could now challenge mutated Eternal-3 ranked monsters. As the skills finished their integration to him, a mysterious notification appeared on his head. 17 A System Update The mysterious notification appears to be a black letter lined in gold with a red seal of unknown symbols. ''What is this?'' He thought. He never saw any notifications that appeared in letter form. All of them either appeared as bright letters only he could see or as a bunch of words floating in mid air. He pressed the notification seal and it unraveled into light. Hello Sebastian, congratulations for being the 500th person to break through to the Immortal-8 rank. Due to that, the system will undergo a massive update that will be completed in 3 days. The upcoming features will be a leaderboard to see who''s currently the strongest traveler present. A trading and shopping system so travelers can trade monster bodies, souls, essences or other things for merit points. The merit points will allow one to purchase items, weapons, servants and monsters at the marketplace. Completing quests and reaching an achievement is another way of earning merits and special privileges and items. Thank You, System Creator After reading the notification, he got excited. With a leaderboard, he could easily see how strong he really is so he''d avoid overestimating or underestimating himself and easily recognize other travelers. The shop and the trading system would allow him to easily gather very rare materials, choose cultivation monsters freely, get new equipment or servants and maybe a few handy items. As he closed the notification, another one rang. Congratulations for killing your first bloodline monster. You are awarded with 10,000 merit points and 1 basic bloodline summoning monster contract. ''Nice, I got 10,000 merit points.'' He mentally exclaimed. He felt happy about the merit points and the summoning monster contract as he barely did any effort but received quite a bountiful reward. Regarding the summoning monster contract, he called out to Hirani in his mind. "You got a bloodline summoning monster contract?" She replied with amazement evident in her voice. ''I don''t get what''s the big deal about that?'' He replied. He didn''t understand why she was amazed by the summoning monster contract, he thought that it was just for summoning a random bloodline elevation monster, perhaps there is more? She happily explained to her naive host, "A summoning monster contract allows you to summon a monster to become somewhat like a servant for you. The differences are that monsters have less free will than servants as they can only persuade but not rebel even in the slightest. These summoning monsters can be summoned at will and they will not be counted as another entity when killing monsters for cultivation. Also, they get stronger as you get stronger." After the quick explanation, he understood why it was so amazing that even his Valkyrie would awe at it. Even though it is just able to summon a free monster, the monster would be a great help when cultivating. Since it is not counted as another entity, he could bring as much as he could and easily kill higher ranked beings. Also as it grows stronger alongside him, its combat abilities should be similar to his and would be an immense help to him when fighting. Since it is a bloodline monster, it should be at least a triple mutated one. He discovered that he could access his inventory mentally now. He went in and retrieved it, materializing it into reality. A gold scroll with a silver seal on it appeared on his right hand. He did not know how to use it but Hirani quickly told him to simply press the seal, and so he did. The seal dissipated into bits of data and the golden scroll floated up until it reached 10m above the ground. The scroll then quickly flew forward before coming to a halt in a few seconds. The golden scroll slowly unraveled into a silver, heptagonal magic array with a golden aura. The array floated in the air for a few seconds, showing no activity before hundreds of golden strands appear from it, forming a silver pillar with golden runes inscribed on it. Suddenly, a notification rang in his head. The Basic Bloodline Summoning Monster Contract has been activated. Please choose the monster to be summoned and bind to. Petal Fairy Rarity: Imperial Mutation: Triple Mutation Bloodline: Flower Goddess bloodline Combat Rank: Eternal-2 (Eternal-6 Rank) Active Skills: 7 Passive Skills: 5 Corrosive Haze Dragon Rarity: Imperial Mutation: Triple Mutation Bloodline: God of Decay bloodline Combat Rank: Eternal-2 (Eternal-6 Rank) Active Skills: 8 Passive Skills: 4 Great Sandstorm Efreet Rarity: Imperial Mutation: Triple Mutation Bloodline: Pazuzu bloodline Combat Rank: Eternal-2 (Eternal-6 Rank) Active Skills: 6 Passive Skills: 6 He analyzed the 3 monsters, with his immense intelligence, rapid learning abilities and perfect memory, he completely analyzed the choices in less than 5 minutes. He had checked all their skills, appearance and bloodlines, they all are completely equal to each other overall. The three of them have different specialties for each. The petal fairy is an expert at illusions and seductions, her powerful attack skills make her very useful for ambushes and assassinations as her petal manipulation skills depend on overwhelming enemies with sheer numbers to kill them immediately. Her illusions and seductions also make her the best informant as she can force any man to tell her all they knew. The corrosive haze dragon is a very durable and destructive being. It breathes out a large amount of corrosive haze to melt its enemies to sludge, all things that touch its haze would have its defense severely weakened. Its thick scales also provide it an impenetrable defense that only eternals of its rank and above can actually harm it at all. However, it has a major weakness. It is easily provoked and because of that, luring it into traps are very easy as its attention isn''t easily distracted when it is angered. While the corrosive haze dragon and the petal fairy had very specific specialties, the Great Sandstorm Efreet is a little combination of both. It could create illusions that only appear to certain people and could drive people mad by manipulating their 5 senses. However, unlike the petal fairy, he could not get information but could only drive people insane in battle through illusions and its illusions are less compelling than the petal fairy''s. The efreet has a balanced arsenal of single target and multi target attacks, it has also a passive skill that makes it impervious to physical attacks by anything that is below its rank. It would be most useful against stronger enemies or zerg tactics. He looked at each of their origins, bloodline, abilities and combat techniques one more time and reassessed them. He still found no edges that any of them have over each other. Even 5 minutes later, he did not find any advantages until he felt that his sword started to grow as he looked at the petal fairy''s seductive figure. He thought of using her as a substitute when he felt horny. She definitely ranked around Lilith in terms of sexiness and their unnatural beauty. He chose the petal fairy and pressed confirm twice as a confirmation prompt appears. After choosing and confirming the petal fairy, almost immediately, the golden aura around the magic array turned into a bright magenta. The silver pillar''s golden inscriptions immediately transformed into a pinkish hue and the pillar cracked. As seconds past, the pillar cracked and brilliant pink light radiated through the increasingly large cracks. After a few seconds, the pillar collapse inwards and the light began to form a figure. The figure formed into the Petal Fairy. She appears to be a young, sexy chinese woman with long black hair, pink eyes and an hourglass figure. She had a seductive face on and wore a pink dress that ancient chinese princesses would wear. She walked slowly towards her new master in a seductive manner and giggled before stopping a few feet in front of him. She is about a feet shorter than him and stood a little like a drunkard. She then introduced herself in a sensual voice, "Hello Master. I''m a petal fairy, it''s nice to meet such a handsome boy." Upon her introduction, he simply smirked before replying, "You don''t have a name do you?" She nodded her head and replied, "I don''t have one that Master can pronounce." He thought of a fitting name by recalling the names of his female friends and relatives in his old life. Who knows that they might have a fitting name. After some recollection, he came up with a fitting name, ''Li Yao''. The name translated into beautiful demon, his enhanced memory allowed him to recall all the things he forgot in the past including when his mother taught him mandarin as a toddler and when he learned some other mandarin words and phrases from his chinese friends. He casually replied, "How about Li Yao." She nodded and immediately excepted the new name her master gave her. He walked back to the palace with her and decided to keep reading in the library with her so she could help him in a few things while also helping him combat wise. They took a 30 minute walk towards the castle and he learned that she was from the Anansha continent, a larger neighboring continent that connected with Terradeus from the smaller continent''s east. She had also passed on some knowledge about the situation there and how she died. She explains that when monsters and ancient beings perished or are sealed, they would either be copied or taken to become servants or summoning monsters. She told him that she had died 300 years prior and the knowledge she had might not be relevant anymore due to her absence from the living world. When they went into the library, he noticed that the young succubus he met earlier is not here dusting or arranging the books. Since the library is still clean, he did not pay much attention to that. Despite already reading for around a total of 18 hours, he didn''t even read 0.1% of the books in the library yet. As it is still daytime, he could spend the whole day reading until midnight where he has to return to his coffin. As a vampire, they are instinctually forced to remain in coffins after midnight if they have already fed. Since he is still a Tier 3 Pureblood Vampire, he could not do anything about that. Before taking any books out and reading anything, he commanded Li Yao to read all the things about combat techniques and skills while he read about history, politics and the various monsters within the region. They started reading and it lasted for 14 hours before Sebastian went out and entered his black coffin. Before he left, he told her to keep reading and tell him what she had learned by the time that he came back to the library. 18 Training in Dreamworld Sebastian shuts his eyes as his mind enters the void of sleep. Unexpectedly, a dim white light began to appear in the endless abyss. The white speck of light began to expand rapidly until the whole void turned into an empty dimension of white. He was never a believer of prophetic dreams or visions so he just considered this very normal. Suddenly, he stopped floating and realized that his feet could step on an invisible floor. A dual voice of a young woman and a young man spoke, creating loud echoes, "Sebastian Adrian Cain, player number 11286. For becoming an Immortal-8 rank and activating the system update, you have been favored and will be trained to become far stronger than you are now." A notification appeared in front of him. You have been given the Fragment System. Player can now train skills and techniques to gain fragments and combine them to produce the skills or techniques or produce a new one through combination. Another one then appeared immediately after. Your Fragment System has been elevated from iron rank to silver rank for possessing a bloodline monster. Now player can get monster and item fragments from killing monsters, using items or gaining items. Hybrid monsters can be produced from the complete fragments of different monsters and user will create a new monster species with a 10% chance of possessing a bloodline. ''Whoa, is this real?'' He thought. He expected the system to be harsh and unforgiving like other games he used to play. Then again, it was probably because he purchased the God Package. He never wanted to return to the hell of his old life ever again anyways, so it''s a massive profit for him. After closing the notification, the dual voice spoke, "You are now under training. You may not use any of your skills. This training is aimed to push your techniques to an expert''s level which will push your combat ability up to 2 ranks and give you free skill fragments." The voice paused momentarily before it continued, "Stage 1, Basic Apprentice. Defeat all enemies with your sword." A human like wooden puppet appeared a few yards in front. It held an iron sword and an offensive stance with the blade pointed at Sebastian. ''This shouldn''t be too hard.'' A basic apprentice''s skills should be very simple, his experience on watching sword wielding anime characters should at least give him some insight on how to fight. An iron prompt appeared before him, asking him if he is ready. He quickly pressed the ready button and a mechanized voice coming from the puppet''s head spoke, "Challenger is ready. Initiating Basic Apprentice techniques. 3 offensive techniques and 1 defense technique." The puppet then charged towards Sebastian, pointing it sword at its combatant. When it arrived, it swung its sword, aiming at his head. The puppet moved at an average person''s speed, due to his upgraded intelligence and reaction speed, he quickly blocked the hit and pushed it sideways. Since it was training, he purposefully only blocked the hits. Since its opponent is a basic swordsman apprentice, he could learn the basics from its attack patterns. Even though he had overpowered swords, it would eventually require him to add techniques onto those swords to reach the higher levels. It wouldn''t hurt to learn the basics. After a 5 minute span of blocking attacks, he observed that the puppet only performed a horizontal slash, a vertical slash and a stabbing attack at random order. After observing its stances and the way it executed each technique, he copied it and started to fight on the offensive. The dummy only dodged the attacks. After another half minute of observing its dodging patterns, he immediately countered it and slashed it into 4 pieces. The moment its butchered, wooden body touched the invisible floor, its body faded into nothingness. "Congratulations for defeating the Stage 1, Basic Apprentice training. Your techniques have officially reached the Basic Apprentice rank. You have received the passive technique skill, Sword Apprentice (Basic) and 100 fragments of the double slash technique." A notification rang and spoke in Hirani''s voice. You have received the passive skill, Sword Apprentice (Basic) Sword Apprentice (Basic) [Common Rank] Effect: Slashes and Stabs deal 25% more damage. Another one followed after he closed the previous. You possess 100 fragments of the double slash technique. Would you like to synthesize it into a technique? He pressed the confirm button without hesitation. He would take all the benefits he received in order to complete the training and get stronger. A third one then rang after a second from pressing confirm. You have received the technique, Double Slash. Double Slash (Common Rank) Type: Technique Effect: When user executes a slash, a second slash of a random angle will be executed automatically if the user executes the slash with a certain degree of technique. Second slash damage depends on the degree of technique executed. As the notification ended, the voice immediately spoke, "Stage 2, Intermediate Apprentice. Defeat all enemies with your sword." The wooden puppet returned, all of its features seemed the same. The prompt appeared again, however the prompt had a bronze lining. He quickly confirmed and it spoke its slightly different line, "Challenger is ready. Initiating Intermediate Apprentice techniques. 5 offensive techniques and 2 defense technique." The puppet repeated its previous counterpart''s charge with 25% more speed. Upon being 2 to 3 yards from him, it slashed horizontally twice and instantly summoned a vertical air blade hurling at him. He blocked it but it pushed him back by an inch. ''Whew, that was strong. Could I possibly learn that?'' He then went on the offensive, the puppets attacks are pretty much the same and he prevented it from summoning the wind blade. Although the puppet could dodge, he would do a double slash to repel it and expose its weakness. He could easily strike and end it, but he wanted to know what the 5th offensive technique is. After a minute of this cycle, it started to use double slash to its random attack order. Disappointed by the technique used, he immediately executed it with double slash. After its death, he had gained an upgrade of his sword apprentice from basic to intermediate. All of its effects rising to 50% and an extra effect that increases sword combo damage by 25%. He had gained 300 fragments for the wind slash and a combo technique called Slithering Strike. Wind Slash (Rare rank) Type: Technique Effect: If user executes 2 consecutive slashes with a certain degree of technique, there is a 50% chance of summoning a wind blade that deals damage based on the degree of technique executed. Slithering Strike (Rare rank) Type: Combo Effect: if the user does a minimum of 2 slashes of opposite directions consecutively and ends with a stab or a thrust, the damage of the stab or thrust will be tripled and the enemy will be weakened by 20% for 3 seconds. Combos do not need degrees of techniques to be executed. However, they are very rare and to obtain them are immensely hard. One must replicate the combo with techniques almost perfectly in order to gain fragments of it and synthesize it. Sword masters are revered because in their lifetimes, they would gain tens of combos while the average swordsman would already be lucky just to have 1 or 2 over the 80 years of their lives. After reading their descriptions, he immediately converted them into a technique and combo and started challenging the next levels of training. Within half a day, he managed to defeat all of the puppets and become an Advanced Swordsman. He had lost at least four times during the swordsman tests and training as he needed to hone his skills to finally best the puppets. Over the whole training session, he had gained 4 skills, 17 techniques and 3 combos. His total combat abilties without using his berserk skills could now rival a mutated Eternal-5 rank monster. The whole day had been well spent in increasing his overall abilities by 2 ranks. His current abilties could now let him fight the top generals of the empires of Terradeus who are Eternal-1 powerhouses. With a rank of Immortal-8, he could now defeat Eternal-5 ranks. This made him eligible to be called a great genius. Powerhouses have certain ranks. Someone who could defeat at least 2 ranks above him/her/itself is considered a powerhouse. Those who could defeat 2 ranks and above, is a normal powerhouse. 4 ranks and above are considered a genius. 5 ranks and above are considered a prodigy. While 7 ranks and above like Sebastian are considered as great geniuses. After the training, the dual voice spoke for its last time, "You have completed the rigorous training. The integration of the system, skills, combos and techniques acquired will take 3 days." After it spoke so, his vision transformed back into darkness for a minute. Three days later, he opened his blood red eyes and quickly opened the lid to his coffin. He had starved for a day and needed blood fast before he would succumb to madness. His throat felt very sore and dry, like it had just been roasted a minute ago. He hurriedly transformed into a bat and flew towards the city''s brothel. 19 Preparations for the Kings Visi At the brothel, he ordered the most ready succubus prostitute. In the room, he quickly seduced her to the bed and let his vampire instincts overtake him. Due to being very thirsty, he drained almost all of her demonic blood. Demonic blood tastes like wine for vampires, it will taste bad at first but if you keep taking it, it will start to taste amazing. Her body paled and she lost all of her power, she had only enough blood remaining to keep her alive. If he had not held back near the last moments, he would''ve accidentally killed her. Despite her being no more than a servant for him, each one of them are important for him to get blood without spreading his existence as a vampire to the public. They don''t need to know that one of their major nobles is the first of a race of bloodsucking demons. After buttoning up his clothes, he checked his mind for any messages. There were hundreds of messages. Gusion sent almost a hundred alone talking about his idea of the celebration that will occur on the king''s visit. Skadia had done reports on the advancements on the city''s defense. The mercenaries did bad at first but they proved very persistent and managed to elevate to Bronze III rank and some reaching Silver I rank. They had become at least 10 times stronger than they were before she trained her. Theresa reported on the expansion of the herb garden and a renovation on the magic research rooms in the castle. She had also told him that she will become the city''s bishop when the king arrives. Hailyn reported that she managed to mark all the kingdom''s monster areas in the tower and managed to expand her territory south. She had also started educating the more sentient monsters so they could eventually integrate into society. Lilith left mostly flirtatious messages. She asked when they can have a date and when he''ll lose his boyhood to her. The only serious message she sent is about her elevation to Immortal-5 and that all of the castle''s succubi have been elevated to Gold I rank. ''So that''s why she wasn''t there. I hope the rest improved while I was asleep.'' After reading the messages, he traveled back to his castle as a bat. He turned back to his human form in front of the large wooden gates of the library. As he entered, he noticed that Li Yao is still reading books. He also noticed that she sat on a floating lotus that hovered slightly above the ground, elevating her to a height where the 5th rack books are easy to reach. As he stepped down the wooden stairs and touched the carpeted floor, Li Yao flew up from her lotus and flew down towards Sebastian like she is swimming in water. As she touched the floor gracefully, he asked her softly, "So, what did you learn in those 3 days." She made a playful thinking gesture before answering, "I learned much about the technology and about the monsters here. My old continent had less advanced technologies overall but they are stronger. The man who killed me was the vice leader of a demon hunter sect. He had a rank of Eternal-4, in your continent, he would rival the stronger emperor''s power." She continued, "An emperor or the strongest in an empire on my previous continent would have an average rank of Eternal-8 and a power that could combat mutated Eternal-12 ranks." Originally, he planned to head to the Anansha continent. After hearing what she said, he decided not to go there just yet. He is not strong enough to combat any sects or imperial forces if they were to hunt him down there. Imperial forces from the kingdoms and empires of Terradeus could still be defeated by him, their ranks should be in the immortal or apex range. He then asked her to help plan and build for the upcoming feast. He contacted Gusion and Hailyn to tell them that he and his new monster Li Yao, will help set up the feast. Gusion reported that the preparation just lacked some monster meat and spices. Hailyn is hunting the spices down throughout the kingdom, Gusion tasks them to hunt down massive monsters. Seeking to give more aid, Li Yao told Sebastian, "I have a recipe for 3 delicious and exotic meals from my continent. The meat and herbs are easy to find here, may I add my ancestral dishes?" He nodded and replied, "We can get the herbs and meat while monster hunting. So what do you need?" She flew up to retrieve a monster distribution book and an herb book from the terradeus section of the library. She opened the monster distribution book and flipped the pages until she stopped at he image of a large pig with 4 tusks. She flew down to his side and showed him the contents of the page. The monster she needed is the Boar Behemoth. It is a non mutated monster of the Apex-2 rank. It appeared as a boar with 4 large tusks. According to the book, it''s as large as a two floored medium house and if one was killed, its meat could feed a medium town for a week. He only needed to kill five, four of them for the people of the city and the fifth one for the king. Seeing the monster''s form, he wanted to ask if its cookable but quickly crossed that out because Li Yao is an intelligent monster and she would have her own ways to prepare it. The book revealed that the beast lived in groups situated around Behemoth valley. Behemoth valley isa massive valley far from Bloodthorn, the valley''s width is 300km in length. It''s the location of the Keratin Armored Tarrasque. The creature is easily angered and despite the fact they both could defeat it, he wanted to see the petal fairy''s cooking skills before sleeping. Li Yao placed the two, silver lined leather books on a bag made of petals that she quickly conjured. Then, she flew up in the air together with Sebastian towards Hailyn''s teleportation tower. After entering through its wooden doors, they walked up to the tenth floor and entered the portal right next to the stairs. At night in a windy grassland with not much trees around, an arch shaped stone gate stood between two large intertwining oak trees. Near invisible blue mana flowed towards the stone gate''s empty center, forming a barely visible window that stretches until it touches the stone gate''s interior. Two figures emerged from the gate, a youth in black that donned a jet black high collared cape like a vampire''s cape and a beautiful, seductive lady of chinese descent, wearing a long pink dress that ancient chinese princesses would wear. The duo instantly flew at the speed out sound, using their supernatural five senses to find a group of Boar Behemoths. With their excellent senses and speed, they quickly found a group of five within a minute of flying. They instantly stopped above the herd of Boar Behemoths that are eating grass under the moonlight. Sebastian used Eternal Death on one of them before using Sword Reaper to kill the rest. In a second, they all drop dead, not a single drop of blood stained their rough hide or the grass beneath them. He turned his head to the petal fairy and asked, "Is this enough?" She happily nodded and proceeded to fly down towards the carcasses. She inspected the carcasses for a few seconds before suddenly becoming ecstatic. She then turned to face him and spoke, "Master, can you harvest these ingredients for me?" She took out a silver lined leather book and threw it up to the levitating youth. He easily catched it and nodded before leaving at mach speed. The ingredients requested by the petal fairy were century honey, found in the nests of golden striped hornets, salty garlic, a rare plant that only grows at night and flame chilli, a rare plant that only grows near volcanoes. Thanks to the herb garden Theresa built for him, he just went back to the castle and brought many of them. He had also discovered that the garden''s plants regenerated at a speed visible by the naked eye, allowing him to retrieve 1 ton of salty garlic and flame chilli in only 15 minutes. As for the century honey, the book told him that there is a nest of golden striped hornets in the south region. With his very fast flying speed, he got there in only half a minute. Since the hornets are only Gold I to Gold II ranks, he easily snuck in and stored a large amount of honey into the world crystal. With the short scavenger hunt completed, he went back through the portal from the tower into Behemoth valley. As he flew back, he noticed her already ready with a large camp fire and the sliced bodies of the boar behemoths. He flew down behind her and tapped her shoulder, saying, "Hey, I got the stuff you need." He summoned them all from the world crystal and Li Yao jumped at excitement and replied, "Thanks Master, now I have enough for more than 200,000 people." She then summoned large amounts of petal to gather water and aid her in distributing the ingredients to form her three dishes. The petals softened the boar''s meat so it would be similar to their tamed cousin''s. She is making honey sauced pork, pork soup and spicy cooked porkchops. As he had nothing else to do, he helped her cook the dishes until 9 at night. With Sebastian''s help, they manage to cook two of the five boar behemoths. At nine, he contacted Gusion and asked about the event''s rundown and when did it start. According to him, the royal family and the dukes of Agareth will arrive at 10 in the morning through a teleportation gate at the city''s center that the kingdom''s 5 advanced wizards built while Sebastian was sleeping. The first two hours will be introductions and a tour on the city. The city wide banquet will last for 2 hours and entertainment will be provided in the form of a battle between Skadia and any challengers. He also added that the royal family will stay for four hours after that before leaving to do any extra activities and or affairs. Before ending the transmission, he told him that they all had elevated to the Immortal-6 rank during recently and that the princes of the royal family had managed to reach the immortal-1 rank with the crown prince reaching immortal-2. The princes reaching immortal rank are not much of a problem because they are just geniuses, not prodigies. If they tried to show off or challenge any of his servants or him, defeating him would only need a single weak strike. As he left the valley and reentered the tower, he found Hailyn waiting for him in front of the portal. She looked at him with quite an excited look. "What''s making you so excited Hailyn?" He asked. She suddenly smiled and became more ecstatic as seconds past. His face slowly revealed a slightly perplexed look and after a few seconds of awkward silence, she finally spoke, "I finally did it Master!" "Did what?" He replied. ''Does she expect that I would always read her mind and constantly monitor her life?'' A second later she exclaimed happily, "I''ve managed to teach 2 monsters complete human ethics, culture and technology!" He smiled and replied, "Well that''s a great achievement." "Also, may I introduce them to the royal family during the visit tomorrow?" He was sure that he saw some stars in her eyes when she said that. He never thought the quiet Hailyn acted like a little girl sometimes. The monsters becoming smart could be a problem as suspicions could arise. After thinking for a minute, he had a plan in mind. With a seemingly carefree tone he replied, "Why not, but, you must only reveal them after the king had given his remarks after the feast. Give them hooded cloaks to cover their appearance." She nodded before giving a short salute and disappearing into leaves. The monsters that she will bring are probably very intelligent or hidden prodigies who''s existence as a monster prevented it from developing its great skills. One of the phases of his plan will be to seduce and marry the royal family''s most favored princess. He did not need to turn her into a vampire like him but just needed her as a bride so that he would earn the Agareth kingdom''s support in starting a kingdom. As kingdoms and empires did not even occupy 0.001% of Terradeus'' total area, finding the location for starting a kingdom would be easy. He could already see his kingdom''s start in around a year or two. He walked down the wooden stairs and transformed into a large black bat as he exited the tower through its large wooden doors. In the sky, he could clearly see the preparations being built as the city''s lanterns and torches are still lit despite it starting to get late at night. As he enters his room through the large balcony, he assumes his human form and enters the coffin, sleeping till dawn arrives. 20 Hailyns Top Students Sunlight had downed on the lid of the black coffin for an hour. It''s an odd occasion since he would be awake by 6 in the morning. The coffin''s lid had finally began to open up as a slightly pale hand pushed it in an anti clockwise motion. He pulled himself up and stood before walking out of his coffin in quite a tired manner. He did some stretches before flying out through the window and floating down to the grassy hill in front of his castle. He did a series of exercises that are meant to push his reaction speed and techniques for 30 minutes until Hailyn suddenly appeared from a large nearby tree. He stopped at the sight of her appearance and asked, "So Hailyn, what''s the occasion?" She walked up towards him until she was only a few meters away and then spoke, "I never told you of the monsters who managed to learn the human customs, technology and combat techniques in three days. So here they are." She clapped her hands twice and two large figures in hooded cloaks jumped out from the trees and landed two meters behind Hailyn. The figure on the left had an imposing height of 3 and a half meters, it radiated a chilling aura that caused the temperature to considerably drop. The figure on the right is slightly taller than Hailyn, it radiated an evil aura like that of a demonspawn. After a few idling seconds she continued, "These two are the only ones who I consider ready for today. They are top students in my small school for general monsters and above. They scored full marks in the whole school within these three days and are comparable to human prodigies in their own right. So go and introduce yourselves to my master." The figure on the left removed its cloak and revealed its form. The figure is a dragon with diamond blue scales, it stood almost upright. The dragon had a muscular thighs and triceps, sharp claws and talons and blue wings with ice blue feathers. A thin blue aura can be seen on the dragon''s surface. It spoke in a human like masculine voice, "I am a Diamondscale Phoenix Dragon, a triple mutated monster of the Immortal-7 rank. I possess the Immortal Cocytus Bird bloodline and the Eternal Winter Dragon bloodline. Thanks to lady Hailyn severely wounding the eastern king, I was able to attain triple mutation and my bloodlines by dealing the last blow." "I am an Intermediate master rank on forging, alchemy, combat and engineering. Thanks to Lady Hailyn, I have managed to master technology that will not be achieved until half a millenia." He is delighted, Hailyn''s teaching abilities must be great. It was not mentioned when I chose her but it''s nice to see that he can have modern comforts in the near future. "I apologise, I forgot to mention my name. You may call me Svorak." He bowed. ''This is great, the dragon has good manners. Introducing it to the nobles and the royal family would be easier.'' A few moments after the dragon ended its bow, the figure on right removed its cloak. The second monster is a knight in dark, metallic armor. It had a red scarf on its neck and held a shield on his left hand and a double bladed runic sword on its right. It had red feathers on the inner edge of its pauldrons, its armor covering all of its humanoid features. Its helmet had a very medieval fantasy design with a wing design covering the area around where the ears would be. The helmet also had a long sharp horn in the middle of where the forehead would be at. After letting Sebastian view its form for a few seconds, it spoke in a mature, heroic voice, "My name is Urin, an Undying Sword General. I am a triple mutated monster of the Immortal-8 rank with Immortal Sword Emperor bloodline. I am an advanced master on combat and military tactics. It is nice to meet lady Hailyn''s master." It offered to shake hands. Its handshake felt warm and sincere, he couldn''t help but smiled at the gesture. ''Urin seems to be the most civilized. His knightly manners and loyalty could be a very useful asset to the kingdom.'' His smile gave a sense of pride to Hailyn and like adding fuel to fire, her excitement increased to the point where she can''t stand still. Seeing as she couldn''t stay still, he sighed with a smile. After being introduced to them, they took their cloaks and wore it back on to disguise themselves. Only he and Hailyn knew about introducing the monsters, they walked towards the city to help preparations and tell the others of her plan. To arrive faster, Hailyn suggested them to fly instead. With their flight abilities, they arrived at Bloodthorn city at 9 a.m as they spent their flight chatting with each other. In the flight''s duration he discovered that Hailyn has elevated to Immortal-8 by slaying the king of the Corroded Graveyard and she had expanded her territory to the point where 26 areas are under her command. 24 of these areas are near Regarus forest while the other two are close to the north and west borders of the kingdom respectively. From Urin, he learned how inter kingdom affairs are managed. To transfer goods or visit quickly over a very long distance, the mages of each kingdom build teleportation gates at the kingdoms borders. Each kingdom is at least 1000km away from each other''s borders as human settlements didn''t even occupy 0.01% of Terradeus'' land. Travelling requires these mages to contact each other through telepathy and use magic to make maps. Also, the existence of monster tamers allowed some talented people to wield the power of summoning monsters to locate different places and travel there. However, monster tamers are something quite recent and because of that there are not many of them. But still empires and kingdoms treated them very highly as the monsters they tamed had many uses that could help the kingdom or empire greatly. Upon entering the city, they went towards the city square and met Gusion and Theresa who were using magic to set up the venue and the decoration. The city''s square is between the king''s teleportation gate and the city hall. It''s a 30 minute walk from the teleportation gate at the city''s center to the massive city square. There, Theresa had set up a small battle arena, the kingdom''s banners around the square and a wooden stage where announcements and entertainment will occur at. As for Gusion, he summoned little imps to build the chairs and tables for the coming 100+ guests. All of the nobilities of marquis and above will be attending the event. When Gusion saw the four coming he called out to them and asked, "Are there any other surprises?" ''Oh, Li Yao must''ve told him about her dishes.'' He checked out his memory in secret and found out that once she finished making the dishes, she went back to the city and told Gusion about it. Seeing as he needed to know he replied, "Well, Hailyn''s plan had succeeded beyond expectations and the intelligent monsters are already ready." He looked at the two cloaked figures that his master brought with him. Even though monsters being inside cities could stir up much fear, Gusion had the ability to pacify and even turn the most hated enemy to a best friend. Since he had those abilities he let Hailyn do her plan as even if he rejected it, his master would support Hailyn''s ideas anyways. She then began to explain her plan and Gusion quickly allotted the time for her monster''s introductions after the feast. He then asked her to change to more appropriate clothing because her skirt was too short and her torso is exposed. She immediately grew her attire into a long dress like Theresa''s but a slightly more revealing version of it with floral patterns and colors. Since the preparations are almost complete they gathered together with Theresa and contacted Skadia to head towards the king''s teleportation gate with her army of bronze and silver rank mercenaries. To keep their abilities a surprise until the arrival of the royals, they simply ran at quick speeds and arrived in five minutes. The royals will arrive in 20 minutes time. As 10 minutes have passed, the portal started to open and carriages with families of major nobles within them emerged from the 4m tall portal. In the 5 minutes that followed, over 20 carriages had emerged and parked near the portal. As the final five minutes end, 6 men in red and gold outfits emerge and form a line. A long roll of red gold carpet emerge and as a larger carriage appears, the men play their fanfares to welcome the royal family. After an hour long wait, the guests of the day had finally arrived to the young Bloodthorn city. 21 One Hit Win! As the fanfares play their cheerful melody, a red, golden lined chariot pulled by a large white horse with a golden rune on its forehead emerged from the portal. The other parked carriages open their doors as nobles in red garments emerge and walk towards the end of the golden lined red carpet, forming a crowd to welcome the royal family of Agareth. The Agareth royal family had 3 princes and 4 princesses. The carriage that emerged quickly turned sideways and stopped. All the entrances towards the city''s center is blocked by Skadia''s army of mercenaries. The commoners who would like to see the king formed massive crowds behind the city''s guards that covered the whole street behind them. If not for the mercenaries being bronze and silver ranked cultivators, they would have been easily trampled by the massive crowd. The crowds are excited to be able to stand in the same area as the king. As commoners, even meeting nobles are considered a great achievement, what more of being present around the king. Only nobles knew how the king appeared like as the king would organize a yearly banquet with the nobles of the kingdom to discuss many affairs. Emergency summons are sometimes held, allowing nobles to see the king else than the yearly banquets. As excitement built up for 3 seconds, the golden lined door of the large royal carriage opened slowly. A man in his early forties with blonde hair like a lion''s mane emerged. The man wore shining, silver armor with a red cape on his back and the kingdom''s red sigil on where his heart would be. A runed sheath is found attached to his waist, according to its size, a greatsword should be what it held. According to his appearance, the man should be the general, Ulrich Swordwind. He appeared young for his age as the books record that he is currently 50 years old. His aura is that of an Immortal-1 rank powerhouse. The middle aged man proceeded to step out of the carriage and hold the door for the royals. The first to emerge are the princesses. They all wore similar red dresses with different golden patterns on it. The eldest princess is the only one without a golden crown on her head, the youngest one had a blue pendant while the other two princesses one had golden bracelets while the other had a golden ring. The princesses are all teenagers, the eldest one is till 19 years of age while the youngest is only 14 years of age. They were all beautiful, blonde haired girls who''s beauties could rival supermodels. When the princesses have walked halfway, the kingdom''s princes started to emerge. The youngest prince emerged first, the youngest prince is only 15 years old. The books describe him as an energetic and kind prince. He is slightly taller than the average height of men of his age. The second oldest prince wore a red, gold lined jacket similar to Gusion''s black trench coat but it had short sleeves. He is a bespectacled boy that had just recently reach 17 years of age. The books say that he is a patient youth who is a prodigy in magic arts. The eldest of the brothers is Julian John Agareth. He is 21 years old and the current strongest in the kingdom. He is a sword prodigy with a rank of Immortal-2 and he has never been defeated in an official duel with anyone else in the kingdom. Sebastian hid stood behind Skadia and Gusion, he told Li Yao to cast an illusory mask on his face so that no one could see his appearance until the king is being greeted. He knows that his handsome appearance would easily cause a commotion as most of the girls would either faint, flirt or nosebleed. As the princesses reach the end of the carpet, Skadia and Gusion came to greet them and shook their hands. Skadia hid her angelic wings within her armor using magic so she wouldn''t attract too much attention. The princesses and the daughters of the major noble families here have taken some interest and even crushes on Gusion due to his handsome looks. After the princes had reached halfway, the long awaited king and queen walked out of the carriage. Their emergence from the large red carriage is met by very loud cheers coming from all directions. The commoners cheered the king in admiration and thankfulness as they are in the presence of the ruler of their land. The king appeared to be in his late thirties but he''s very handsome for his age. His body is in good shape like his sons, it seems that he is not the typical lazy and drunkard king you would always see. The queen also appeared very beautiful in her age. She may appear to be in her early forties but her beautiful appearance made it quite hard to judge. In reality, the couple are not too far younger than the general. They are actually in their mid forties but they have successfully maintained some of their youth while ruling a large kingdom. As they walked down the carpet towards the four of them, the cheers remained persistent. The cheering only died down when the king had arrived before the four. To show his respect, he removed the illusory mask through a quick spell he learned from the library. He is the first to welcome the king. He went up to him and bowed. With a respective tone he welcomed him and said, "Welcome my Lord to Bloodthorn City. I am Sebastian Adrian Cain, the town''s ruler and If my Lord wishes for anything, it will be done wholeheartedly." The king patted his back and told him to rise. Before returning back to where the the three are, he kissed the queen''s hand and bowed respectfully once more. When the princesses saw his very handsome face, they all felt weak in their knees. They felt intoxicated by how he looked. The daughters of the various major nobles fared much worse. They either fainted into their erotic fantasies, had nosebleeds or immediately started to crush on him, HARD. The princes who were slightly jealous of Gusion are now starting to hate Sebastian. While the younger princes quickly lost their jealousy because their prides are in other things, the crown prince''s jealousy started to burn greater. He comforted himself by saying to himself mentally, ''He may be more attractive but there''s no way he''d be stronger than me.'' Skadia and Gusion then started their introductions to the king. The demon duke explained the activities that they''ll be doing and lead him through a tour around the city. The royal guards and Skadia''s mercenary army worked together to keep the king''s crowd safe and satisfied. The four of them kept their combat ranks hidden. The general kept his guard up the whole time because he could not see their combat ranks. Those who did are usually there for bad intentions like infiltration or assassination. When the tour ended and they had arrived at the town square, the general wanted to ask what their combat ranks were but it was interrupted by Theresa''s introduction as the Archbishop of the city. As she was about to guide them to their seats alongside Skadia, the general asked his long awaited question, "Before this banquet can start, may I know what your combat rank is sir Sebastian?" He had expected the general to ask that as he hid his aura and that the general would definitely need to know that as it is related to the royal family''s safety. Without hesitation he replied, "My combat rank is at Immortal-8." The general raised his eyebrow, in his mind he thought, ''How could his combat rank be so high? He must be joking.'' The crown prince simply laughed maniacally and taunted him, "Hey, if you''re really an Immortal-8 rank, not some faker, I issue you a challenge. I refuse to believe that you''re stronger than me." The crown prince looked down on the nobility. He is a prodigy, nobody in the kingdom had ever defeated him in combat. Anyone who claims to be of a higher rank than him in the kingdom else than from his own family he considers a joke. That very claim is a huge offence to his pride and he would mercilessly defeatwhoever that person is. Since the crown prince had issued a challenge even if Sebastian is a duke, he had no right to refuse. He simply replied, "Very well then your highness. Let us battle in a small arena we have prepared in advance." He led the blonde crown prince towards the small stone arena. The arena only had the capacity to hold 200 people and the battlefield at its center had a diameter of 10 yards, enough for a one on one combat. His servants led the nobles and the royal family to their seats while Sebastian and prince Julian walked into the arena''s battlefield. The major nobles started making bets. Most of the nobles had their bets on prince Julian as they have seen him fight against other talented youths and veterans and win. Some of them placed bets on Sebastian as a precaution because even though they doubted that he''s an immortal-8 rank, they can''t rule the possibility of that out. Sebastian and the prince parted ways at the arena''s center and distanced themselves till they almost touch the opposite walls of the arena. The king''s herald started to announce the terms of the duel. The winner will be determined by the first one to admit defeat or by being crippled. The prince is determined to beat up Sebastian and admit that he lied, he will never allow anyone to boast about themselves in front of him. The king''s herald took out a golden fanfare and blowed, the loud sound of the fanfare signals the beginning of the duel. As the duel begins, prince Julian attacked first by running in a zig zag motion. Since he didn''t know what his opponent''s abilities are, he will constantly dodge until he got a chance to strike. The prince quickly closed in the distance in just 2 seconds. In a blink of an eye, 3 flashes of light strikes through Sebastian''s body. When he thought that his opponent had been sliced to pieces, he realized it to be an afterimage. He felt a cold chill down his spine and turned his head to his back. He saw his opponent with a smirk on his face, before he is able to swing his sword and attack. His body felt numb as he quickly collapsed, only his eyes would obey his command. His face is in shock, he couldn''t believe that he had been defeated in just one move. Once the crowd saw the crown prince''s motionless body, they gasped in shock. Fear and admiration flowed into the hearts of all those who witnessed the match. The crown prince is the strongest in the kingdom, even the king is not as strong as his eldest son. All of them had extremely shocked faces, the young girls of nobility''s and the princesses'' admiration towards this handsome youth skyrocketed. From just crushing on him for his looks, they now started to idolize him as their prince charming. The royal family couldn''t help but gasp, after years of nurturing the prince who was the only prodigy in kingdom, the prince they nurtured with all their resources is instantly defeated with a single blow. The general instantly lost his will to challenge him, he expected the prince to win. He never expected that when he said that he''s an Immortal-8 rank he was telling the truth. The nobles who betted on prince Julian had lost some of their prized possessions. While those who betted on Sebastian had gained more than what they had lost. The noble families who had won the bet cheered him on while the paralyzed crown prince could only watch his opponent be praised while he suffered an instant defeat. This is the greatest shame he ever faced, in his mind he cursed, ''Damn You! Just wait, someday I''ll beat you and on that day, I''ll torture you to Death!!'' The royal family applauded Sebastian''s great performance and even thought of adopting him as a prince. However, that idea is quickly dismissed as this was only one battle, if he could earn a win streak of at least 20 in the inter kingdom competition, they would offer to adopt him as a part of the royal family. As the cheers and claps had went on for 15 seconds, he interrupted them, "Your highnesses, would you like to start the banquet or shall we postpone it?" The king then announced the start of the banquet and they all exited the arena, walking towards the reserved seats, guided by the royal guards or by Sebastian''s servants. The opening prayer is led by Theresa. Sebastian is an agnostic, he doesn''t believe in any religion but he prays anyways as a sign of respect to whoever made this system and this new world that he enjoyed. 22 They Can Talk!!! After Theresa led the prayer, Sebastian stepped up to the wooden stage and announced the food that will be served. "Thank you for allowing us to serve you lunch. Today, this feast will be opened by three exotic dishes from the Anansha continent." When the nobles heard that it from those continent, they grew interested. Even as major nobles in the kingdom, they have only heard rumors about the other continents. Getting to taste food from unknown and unreachable places is a large privilege on its own. With this, the major nobles have bragging rights towards the nobles of the other kingdoms. Their admiration and respect towards the young marquis grew. After a few seconds, he clapped his hands and a hundred servants in nobility like garments emerge, carrying a silver plate with the three dishes on it. When most of the tables have been served with the silver plate, he started the feast with a simple bon apetit. He went down and walked to his seat, once the nobles had tasted the pork dishes, their face become with delight. The nobles praise the taste and texture of the dishes. The honey sauced pork tasted very sweet, the younger nobles like it the most. The spicy porkchops had a very crispy texture and its taste easily defeated the taste of chicken wings by a mile. The pork soup is just the perfect dish to push down the other dishes down their satisfied throats. Even the royal family had to admit that the chefs in their palace could not cook something this delightful. Most of the nobles demanded for another portion, this dish is so good that they could eat more than ever. He had 2 more backup portions for the nobles, the rest of the meat is given to the city''s various meat vendors to be sold. Despite having tasted some of the pork and sauce while helping Li Yao, he couldn''t help but be very surprised at her cooking abilities. He didn''t expect monsters to know how to cook at all as they usually ate raw food. Anyways, he did not order the extra portions. As a vampire, he could eat normal food like humans but he had a weekly limit. If he had become a Tier 5 vampire, this limit would disappear completely and he can enjoy human foods again. The feast ended an hour early as the nobles practically stuffed the very tasty pork dishes into their mouths and their stomachs are already full of food. For the entertainment, the royal family brought in the royal fool. The jokes of the fool are very out of age for him since they are from different centuries. While the major nobles laughed at the jokes, he left the square to meet Hailyn and the two. When he is about to leave, the eldest princess noticed him and followed in secret. She gave the excuse of wanting to get a little fresh air to her parents and siblings. Sebastian contacted Hailyn upon leaving the square. She told him that she''ll be in the closest guardian beast summoning array. He did not rush while walking there, instead took a stroll and did sightseeing, taking twice the time to travel there. The eldest princess followed in suit, she walked behind him quietly. The king''s visit made it hard to find much people in the streets therefore the sound of her footsteps could not be masked by the footsteps of others. Once he had reached the summoning array, he is met with an idle Hailyn observing the fight between her top students in cloaks. For a normal human, all they can observe are just sounds of metal clashing and circular airwaves appearing in the air. The scene is similar to how dragon ball fights happen. As Sebastian approached her, she turned at him and greeted him. He asked in return, "How strong are they?" She replied, "They''re both equal in their abilities. Despite both being triple mutated, Svarok covered the gap in combat rank by having two bloodlines instead of one. Both of them are on mutated Eternal-1 rank overall." The eldest princess had just arrived at the scene, hiding behind one of the buildings. She sensed a great amount of power coming from above the duo. She could immediately sense that there are two beings clashing and their power seems to be on the eternal rank. When she sensed that, she became alert. She suspected that Sebastian wanted to assassinate her father and usurp the throne and the eternals are an insurance for that plan. She immediately ran to call her father but her body suddenly stopped following her commands and she froze in place. ''Why can''t I move?'' A chill swept past her shoulder and a soft whisper entered her left ear. "So, you think that I am trying to kill your father." A slight chuckle escaped his mouth before he continues, "For a fact, I am stronger than the ones you saw." A cold sweat formed on her forehead and flowed down her perfect face. If what he said is true, killing everyone there would be a piece of cake for him. Then again, that meant that things don''t add up and she couldn''t help but try to understand her accusations. "Realise it huh? Why would I get my subordinates to assassinate them if I am closer and stronger than they are." She started to shiver as she had realised that he read her mind. ''Just who is he?'' He leaned closer to her neck, causing her to feel a tingling sensation on her neck. "For your information, I don''t have any reason to kill your father or your family at all. I want them as allies not as enemies. Now your highness, please stop following me everywhere." Her muscles started to warm up again and in an instant, she could move her muscles. She turned back to where Sebastian was but found him 30 yards away with the black haired lady, talking to two large cloaked figures. Not wanting to try her luck on him, she left. However, that encounter with him gave her a sexy impression on him instead of a fearful one. In all of her life, no man had been able to dominate her. Now that she had found one, she found it as something sexy and crushed on him harder, although she wouldn''t admit it. The feast''s duration should end in 10 minutes. In the 10 minutes of talking to Hailyn, she had brought tribute for the king and taught the monsters the etiquette of respect for the king. Hailyn revealed that the tribute will be a pile of enchanted golden jewelry and special stones that will allow one to not be attacked by any monster from Regarus forest. "Wow, that''s very generous of you Hailyn." These items are priceless, things that will prevent monster attacks are ultra useful items that even empires coveted but could barely even find let alone have. For Hailyn, these items are easy to manufacture. As the empress of Regarus forest and the areas around it, she could put some of her power inside of it to command the monsters of her territory to stay away or be killed. Since the feast''s duration is about to end, Sebastian, Hailyn and the two monsters went back to the town square. As the two are still cloaked, their appearance is still concealed. While on his way there, he had purchased 6 logs of wood from a nearby shop and stored it inside the wood crystal before entering the town square. As the feast ended, the king stepped up to the stage and gave a thank you speech. Thanks to Sebastian''s new city, the other kingdoms plan to make new trading routes through this city. This will increase the kingdom''s economy and allow it to prosper. Also, with Sebastian''s power and abilities, they can retake more neutral land from monsters and expand further. He ended the speech with an encouraging statement that they will soon become an empire. As a gift to Sebastian, he made him a duke of the kingdom and gave him a special ring that allows him to speak to the king at any time. Even though the presents he received are very precious things that even the other dukes do not have, they do not harbor any hate towards him because if not for him, they could have tasted such fine dishes. As the king stepped down from the wooden stage, Hailyn walked up to the stage with two cloaked figures behind her. The general and the royal guard stood on guard just in case they are hostile. Without wasting any time, Hailyn then started to speak, "Your highnesses. My name is Hailyn, a servant of Lord Sebastian. My presence on the stage is for me to unveil a recent plan my Lord and I have devised." She commanded, "Svarok, Urin, take off your cloaks!" The two figures removed their cloaks and reveal their forms. One of them is a diamond blue dragon with eagle like blue wings. The other is a knight in dark silver armor. "They''re monsters!", "Aaah! We''re gonna die!" The nobility instantly panicked. The cultivators of the nobility prepared their weapons, spears, staffs, swords, axes, bows and any other medieval weapon that they could carry. They all immediately took a defensive stance, the royal guards protecting the royal family. Hailyn simply chuckled at the sight and spoke, "Svarok, Urin, introduce yourselves to the human nobility." This time Urin started first and spoke with his mature, heroic voice, "I am Urin, a triple mutated monster of the Immortal-8 rank. It is a pleasure to meet your highnesses." He did a knightly bow before Svarok introduced himself in his human like reptilian voice, "I am Svarok, a triple mutated monster of the Immortal-7 rank. It is a pleasure to meet your lordships." He also did a polite bow. Almost all at the same time, the nobles exclaimed in surprise, their mouths agape. "They can Talk!!!" Sebastian merely smiled at their response, he didn''t expect the kingdom''s nobility to not be aware of smart monsters. 23 Becoming a Prince "Sir Sebastian, who are they?" The king asked. The sudden appearance of these intelligent monsters have baffled the king and the major nobles. If they were invaders, shouldn''t they have been attacked immediately? Their closest guess is that only Sebastian knows why they''re here. He turned to the king and the weapon holding nobles and calmly replied, "I''d like to introduce them to all of you. As Hailyn had become the ruler of the nearby Regarus forest, she had started a school for intelligent monsters so they can be integrated with society." "Wait, so the lady on the stage is a monster?" A noble asked. "Well, not exactly." She replied. "The two monsters beside her are masters at their own specialties after being taught by her." A jealous crown prince asked loudly, "So if they are masters, prove it!!" The prince cannot lose more of his pride. He cannot stand to believe that someone had achieved a feat that even he considered as impossible. ''Wow, he''s such a sore loser.'' Sebastian didn''t like how the crown prince tries to rebuild his pride by constantly finding a way to slander or break his reputation. To annoy him further, he calmly tossed the wood he took out from the world crystal to the blue phoenix dragon and commanded, "Svorak, make a sword from it." The dragon nodded and began the forging by burning the logs of wood with frostfire. After 5 minutes of burning the wood, he applied immense pressure to them by squeezing pieces of them on his hands. After a half minute of squeezing, the logs have turned into pieces of diamond. The royal forgers of the palace who watched the process is in awe. The diamonds the dragon produced had a very high purity and radiated a small cold aura despite being only shards. Some of them even lowered their guards and ran until they reached in front of the stage to see the process firsthand. The dragon then used its chilling breath to meld the glistening shards together. Using it claws, it took the spare log of wood and carved out a small piece of it for the hilt. It then used its claws to carve glowing blue runes on it. The process is so fast that even the apex ranked advanced blacksmiths could only see flashes of diamond blue light. The runes emitted a blue aura around the wooden hilt it was inscribed on. The dragon took the merged shards and used its claws to refine the blade''s shape. The friction between the dragon''s claws and the blade caused light blue sparks to appear. The dragon soon refined the blade to perfection in just 10 seconds, the refined blade had blue lines around it and its color had transformed into a silvery hue. Svarok breathed out frostfire as he held the hilt and the blade together. After a minute of merging the blade and hilt through frost fire, he abruptly stopped and then swings the sword. The sword''s lightness allowed it move at great speeds, as it swings, afterimages form. The major nobles and royalty looked at the sword in awe. Even the envious crown prince had to admit that he wants the blade for himself. "I shall name this blade the silver frost." He handed the sword down to the royal blacksmiths in front of the stage. They examined the sword like inspecting a diamond''s authenticity. They traced the sword''s patterns with their fingers and discussed what techniques they needed to reproduce this. One of the royal forgers asked, "Sir Svarok, what is your rank of mastery?" The dragon replied with a little grunt, "I should be an Intermediate Master Blacksmith." "What!!!" The forgers had very surprised expressions on their faces, some of them had their mouths wide open in shock. Even the other nobles who did not see much of the blade felt disbelief. Master blacksmiths are very rare, even empires only had one or two and they''re all basic master blacksmiths. Only the top seven empires of Terradeus have an intermediate master blacksmith, yet they are in the presence of one. The royals and the nobles had greater respect and admiration of Sebastian and his servants. They had actually reeled in an intermediate master blacksmith for the kingdom. With Svarok as the chief royal blacksmith, the kingdom would have better weaponry and expansion would be easier. Adding the economic factor from bloodthorn city''s placement as an intersection of five trading routes and the aid of an intermediate master blacksmith, reaching the status of an empire would not take longer than a few years. He need not to question Svarok''s words as he knows that even if he questioned it, the royal blacksmiths seem to have a way to verify the dragon''s words. "Sir Svarok, I am willing to give you the title of duke and the position as the kingdom''s chief forger. Do you except this offer?" The king''s words stunned the nobility but his royal blacksmiths had excited looks on their faces. A master blacksmith, even a basic one can impart techniques that could make their processes much easier and increase their creation''s strength. For an advanced blacksmith to reach the master rank, they have to invent at least 3 of their own techniques and create 3 epic ranked items using these techniques. Only 1 in a few hundred advanced blacksmith would actually achieve this. It took talent, hardwork and inspiration to achieve, any knowledge from people who achieved this is treated like an empire''s crown prince, almost irreplaceable. The dragon found the king''s offer interesting but had his own condition in mind. With a respectful tone, he replied to the king, "My king, I have a condition to your offer." The king is intrigued. ''What condition would this dragon offer.'' He felt that he had given it all the best treatment with this offer. However, it is better that the dragon propose a condition than disagree, as long as its reasonable. "What condition would that be?" The king asked. Svarok did not wish to leave the city as this place is the closest to his place of birth and to his teacher, Hailyn who had yet to give him his complete training yet. The dragon then spoke, "My king, I wish to remain in bloodthorn city only. I can forge anything you''d like from here. As dragons, we hold our birthplace as sacred ground and those who live around it are under our service and protection." The king quickly accepted his condition as it''s not to hard to fulfil. He expected the dragon to be greedy as most dragons are reported to be. To be exact, only dragon kings are greedy while the rest have various human like personality. He had some respect for this dragon as he did not try to take any of his wealth and wanted to protect his people. As the king approached the dragon, it flew down the stage gracefully. The king brought forth a scroll to act as the dragon''s royal contract. The dragon used a pen a royal herald gave to him on a red pillow. With the dragon''s contract completed, the nobility clapped and cheered to thank Sebastian and his servants for the wonderful gifts and opportunities they provided that will raise the kingdom into a great empire soon. The day''s activities ended with the king congratulating Sebastian and increased his reward. He now bestows him the title as a prince, he will now become a friend of the royals that can only be outranked by the royal family themselves. As for the silver frost, the royal blacksmiths brought it in a silver sheath back to the palace to examine and hopefully find inspiration for a breakthrough. The noble girls and the princesses chatted and flirted with Gusion and Sebastian before leaving. The eldest princess left a kiss on the cheek to Sebastian before leaving with blushes on her face. The kiss left him dumbfounded for a moment before making him smile and gain a newfound attraction for the eldest princess. ''She sure is something.'' As the king leaves, Sebastian and his servants start cleaning up the town square. With magic, they finished cleaning in less than half a minute. Hailyn and her monsters left in a gust of wind and teleported back to their hidden academy within the depths of the dark Regarus forest. He then met up with Li Yao at the town hall, cooking. She is delighted that her ancestral recipe and her cooking is loved by the royal community. She started to dream of becoming a great chef of the world one day. He recalled that Hirani mentioned about a system update that should be done by the time the sun sets today. He spent his remaining 2 hours studying in his library to improve his forging and engineering standards to master rank so that he could start building modern comforts in this less advanced but more interesting world. 24 Update Complete! In the library''s bottom floor, Sebastian sat down on a wooden throne like chair behind a wooden circular table with purple pulsating runes around its edges. He is reading an advanced master''s forging history and experience. The techniques and terms is quickly absorbed by his heavily augmented brain allowing him to reach an advanced blacksmith''s level of understanding. However, he had never forged any items so he only had an edge in knowledge and theory. As the two hours quickly passed by, a system notification popped up. System Update Complete. All players may use the merit system, fragment system, leaderboard system and player identification features. "System''s complete, you got 10,000 merits. What do you want to buy?" A familliar voice rang in his head. ''I''d rather conserve them for later Hirani.'' A short pause ensued before the valkyrie''s voice came again. "You sure? You should really see what they sell. That might convince you to buy something." He gave it some thought and agreed to trying out the new store. All he needed to access there is by simply pressing a mental button which allows him to see the store. The store''s form is similar to e-bay but it had a medieval and ancient theme to it. The categories there are Cultivation, Mastery, Tools, Currency, Skills, Equipment, Monsters, Servants, Materials and Creation Gates. He explored the store by clicking each of the categories. These major categories have even more categories within them and are very diverse but specific. ''The filters here are so accurate.'' The divisions are so many that people would get results at least quintuple times as accurate as what any modern search engine could provide. The things that the store provided are very complete. They even have divine items, equipments and even elevation monsters. With this new feature, one could use much merit points to purchase any monsters that they want to elevate with. With this, they would get a high chance of obtaining complete inheritances and skills instead or just receiving a handful. The monsters here are sold at a price range depending on their mutation and awakening stages. Iron monsters and below cost 1 merit point to purchase 2. Bronze monsters cost 1 merit point to purchase. Silver monsters cost 2 merit point to purchase. Gold monsters cost 5 merit points to purchase. Apex monsters cost 20 merit points to purchase. Low Immortal monsters cost 50 merit points. Mid Immortal monsters cost 100 merit points. High Immortal monsters cost 200 merit points. Lower Eternal monsters cost 400 merit points. Higher Eternal monsters cost 1000 merit points. Lower Legendary monsters cost 5000 merit points and all the higher combat rank monsters are too expensive for him to purchase now. He looked up at the equipment section to find an endless list of all types of equipment. ''Woah, that''s a crap ton of stuff to choose from.'' They had swords to plasma guns, shields to brain implants. They had pretty much everything. There are no common ranks at all. The prices between every 3 ranks are multiplied by 10. Uncommon equipment sold for 1 merit point while Imperial equipment sold for 1000 merit points. With the merit points he had now, he could purchase one Pseudo Mythical piece of equipment. However, he is not interested in upgrading his equipment anytime soon since his equipment are still in Tier 0. He''d like to judge his equipment''s true power once they have reached their fully awakened Tier. He is particularly interested to the skills sections. When he entered it for his first time, his body almost jumped at joy. The skills allowed him to gain very useful skills that he would only need to purchase instead of inventing or inheriting it which could take months or years for anyone to achieve. While he originally planned on saving his merit points for later, he stumbled upon an amazing skill. Advanced Combat Domain (Imperial Rank) Type: Passive Skill Effect: All things that occur within a 50m radius from the user is completely and clearly perceived by the user. With the combat domain, he could see all of his enemies'' actions within this range. It makes most melee and single target skills ineffective against him because it pushes his five senses to beyond supernatural levels. It literally makes everything within that range completely clear, it allows one to dodge and execute counter attacks like they know their enemy''s next move like they are reading a children''s book. As an Imperial ranked skill, it costed 1000 merit points. Considering its advantage, 1000 merits could be called a very cheap price. He instantly bought the skill and and it becomes integrated immediately. Since he is still within the store, he cannot use his new skill until he returns back into reality. He continued exploring the store for hours. In real time, it is already 11.30 p.m. The store left him a great impression, ''It has pretty much anything you need.'' Before returning into reality, he looked at the leaderboards. The number one player is Abraxia, a female Tier 5 Sacred Dragonkin. She is a Grand Genius of the Imperial Legendary rank from the Khefrata continet. Her age is already in her three hundreds, her other personal information is not present in the system but it reported that she is a Chaotic Neutral person. He then looked at the other members of the top ten. They were all either high ranked prodigies or great geniuses of the demigod ranks. He searched for his rank and it''s a surprisingly short scroll down. ''I''m in the top 100?!!'' He ranked an astounding 82 and is the only immortal ranked person in the top 100. He couldn''t believe it, he didn''t try too hard on anything so far but somehow made it to the top 100 out of a current 12,000 players in the game. The people near his rank are either geniuses or prodigies, he guessed that they did not buy the God Package that''s why they are not great geniuses or above. There is even an Eternal-3 ranked person behind his rank. ''Whoever that is must be pissed because a measly immortal level like me is actually stronger than him.'' He inwardly laughed. After a short check on the leaderboard, he checked out of the place with his domain skill. Before he snapped back to reality, his valkyrie gave him a simple but useful advice, "I know that you''re trying to improve by reading right? But you can''t study beyond the midnight limit. Tell you what, drink half of a person''s blood to extend that limit by 2 hours it should help a lot." He thanked Hirani for her great advice, he just needed to drink more blood. For a vampire, blood tastes like the best delicacy and one could never get enough of it. Even a person who had no taste during his/her life would instantly be addicted to drinking blood. Even having the best sex pales in comparison to the tastes and pleasure of drinking blood. To get more blood, he recalled the obviously nose bleeding fan girls who admired him like their prince charming. To help himself and give a little pleasure to them, he decided to seduce them and drink their blood. It will give him and her an immense sense of pleasure and they will simply remember it like a dream as he can simply wipe her memory with a simple kiss to the lips. He then went back into reality and began his nightly hunt. Due to his increased rank, he flew at the capital where most of them lived at Mach 18 speeds. It took him less than 3 minutes to arrive at the 500km away capital of the kingdom. He landed on the roof and reverted to his handsome human form. Like a dark shadow, he jumped from roof to roof in a flash, not making even a slight creak of sound. He manipulated shadows to find these girls and adjust them to his liking. He transferred his mind reading powers to the slithering shadows to make sure that his victims are virgins and not rich horny b****es. The shadows moved at great speeds, they appeared like a black flash. Moving from wall to wall like a fast bolt being shot across the street. It took only five minutes to find his targets. There were all 18 year olds, virgins and they have supermodel beauty. He took the closest one to him, she slept on a white bed surrounded by holy artifacts around the room. Since he had the passive skill Blessed Darkness, holy artifacts are almost harmless to him. He used his mist form to enter the closed window, he moved through the cracks in the wood that made up the clear window''s frame. He commanded the shadows to surround the room and prevent any sound from escaping. He awakened her by using his telepathic powers. She opened her innocent blue eyes and instantly spotted Sebastian. "Sebastian, is that you?" She felt very sleepy and she thought she is hallucinating. His glowing red eyes penetrated the dark room and entered into her. She felt weak on her knees, he did not even have to use hypnosis to dominate her. He walked slowly to her bed and unbuttoned his shirt on the way. Her face immediately grew flustered, blushes appearing on her cheeks and she started to sweat due to sexual arousal. When he arrived at the foot of her bed, his abs glistened in the moonlight. ''Damn, why is he so hot?'' She started to sweat harder and used her hand like a fan. Sebastian crawled on her bed like a wolf sizing up its prey. His glowing red eyes penetrated her soul and filled her with both fear and pleasure. As he arrives in front of her, her face fills up with excitement. A few seconds of silence filled the place, she stared at him with longing eyes before he suddenly kissed her. She kisses back harder and they had a pleasurable minute long kiss. After that minute, he pulled away and whispered on her ear, "Have a nice night my sweet princess." Upon hearing that, her heartbeat went faster before she suddenly feels a prick on her neck and quickly falls asleep. He drained half of her blood, her body began to slightly pale until he stopped and gently let her down in her bed. He went out and repeated the seduction in different ways to the other 2 girls. They all ended up sleeping with satisfied expressions on their faces. The 3 girls gave him a 6 hour extension to his reading. Not wanting to waste anymore time, he immediately flew back to his castle''s library at maximum speed. In the short flight, he started to plan making a hot tub. Despite being a vampire, he started to stink. If not for being able to shapeshift into mist constantly, he would smell like a rotting corpse by now. When he arrived, he took out a book on engineering that is copied from his old world. It contained complete instructions, theory and material requirements of the things he would want to make. In the six ensuing hours, he stayed cooped up in the library, reading. The 6 hours gave him Intermediate Master rank in knowledge and theory for forging and engineering. All he needed to truly become an intermediate master would be 7 new techniques and 7 epic ranked equipment that he has to forge on his own. 25 Hot Tub With the 9000 merit point he had on him, he decided to go shopping for materials on the market. Each piece of material is counted as 1 kg of it. Common materials cost 1 point for 10 pieces, uncommon materials cost 1 point for 5 pieces, rare materials cost 1 point for 2 pieces and bronze materials cost 1 point each. Silver materials cost 2 points, gold materials 5 points, dark gold materials 20 points, white gold materials 50 points, epic materials 100 points and imperial materials 200 points. He planned to stick to a 1000 point budget, to stick to that budget, he only purchased white gold and epic materials to be forged. He bought 5 kg of Advanced Thunder Iron, an epic ranked material that can easily amplify electrical currents flowing through it and 10 kg of Mithril, a white gold ranked material that is strong, lightweight and can conduct mana. These materials would make the most effective materials for making electrical equipment. The mana conduction could be a back up if the electrical generators are failing or without fuel. After he re-entered reality with the materials in tow, he immediately headed to the castle''s forging room. There are many rooms in his castle that he never used before, take the forging room as an example. The forging room is in pristine condition and it had many benefits within it like the default magic arrays within it. The forging room had multiple magic arrays within it, one that increased mana flow in the area to increase effect of spells and techniques involving small amounts of mana, one that sealed heat and pressure to one specific area to minimize heat loss and one that prevented smoke and steam from escaping so that the room does not become suffocating due to steam and smoke. The room''s entrance is two elegant stone doors with multiple runes lined on its edges. It had a half oval like shape and it had a metal handlebar on each of the two doors. Inside the room, the walls are stone bricks and the floor is made of stones blocks. The ceiling however is wood, a blue hexagonal magic array appears on its surface. It is the mana density array that gathers nearby mana or converts other similar energies into mana. The room is rectangular in shape and appears like a long corridor that ends with a large stone furnace. Unlike the usual red embers that would be inside a normal furnace, the embers and the flame are water blue. The fire used here is mana fire, this type of fire is at least 4 times more hot than the common flames. Unlike fire that rapidly exhausts oxygen, mana fire consumes mana more efficiently. There are 2 anvils in the room, lined up beside each other on the room''s left closest to the stone brick furnace. The rest of the room is filled with a deep blue water well at the opposite of the anvils and carefully placed stone tables with forging tools on them. He planned on using the whole day to practice and use the techniques. He aimed on achieving one new technique by the day''s end. First, he tried forging gears and pipes. He first used apprentice techniques which he observed had a 10% success rate and took half an hour to forge a 1m long pipe. The gears fared better with a 25% success rate and took only 5 minutes each. To get more useful tools, he practiced using advance techniques to make a wrench for connecting the pipes. After using 3 hours, he had managed to perfect the apprentice techniques and had made one mythril pipe after much difficulty. He managed to also make 3 gears with the 25% chance he had. Then, he shifted to blacksmith techniques. They increased his chances from 10% to 20% and 25% to 45%. He alloted 9 hours to perfecting those techniques and practicing it. The failed items from the forging are scrapped and reused since he didn''t plan to use up his merit points just to make a hot tub and a modern stove. I mean who would? Gathering merit points is hard. It can only be gained completing active and hidden quests, submitting monster carcasses or cultivation items or by submitting weapons and items. Even so, the rate of exchange is low, monster carcasses are the best trade. Although an apex monster would give only 1 merit point per carcass, a strong cultivator could get tons of merit points by killing eternal and legendary rank monsters. He started practicing and applying basic master techniques, thanks to his greater intelligence abilities he finished in 36 hours which is 4 times faster than what prodigies of forging would take. Thanks to the extra blood he took 2 days ago, he won''t lust for blood until 3 days later. The intermediate master blacksmith techniques surprisingly took half a week to complete. His throat started to feel dry but his determination on building a large hot tub room is greater than a little thirst. Staying awake is kind of a problem until he purchased the gold ranked passive skill, Basic Sleep Resistance. It helped his body by suppressing his vampire nature of having to sleep in coffins for at least 6 hours a day. He spent 6 hours creating new techniques and applying it to make a generator and a heater out of epic ranked parts. He placed the generator near the chasm by flying as due to having a mythril turbine, the generator will provide electricity by using the abyssal energy being emitted from the chasm. He forged a long, thin wire of advanced thunder iron which should amplify the flowing current strength and speed. The wire connects to a mythril heater which amplify the heat produced allowing him to cover up to a circular area with a 3m radius. To assemble the items to these, he bought their designs from the store and bought an epic ranked telekinesis skill, "Intermediate Precise Telekinesis." The skill allowed him to control up to 1000 objects with each not being any heavier than 10 tonnes. The things he use telekinesis on also can move up to mach speed and they are precise up to millimetres. With the high precision, it took him only 10 minutes to assemble the items and perfectly forge the wire as his skill is slightly more accurate than his own hands. Knowing that he sighed, "I should really train more using my swords." He then payed the system 100 merit points to instantly build the 6m long hot tube near his bedroom and the 189 guest bedrooms. He did the finishing touches by inserting the heater and completing the circuitry. It''s all done in a matter of 20 minutes. As for the water, he got it from the castle''s massive well in the basement. As mana is rich in these areas, the water is clean and had a high mana density compared to normal water. The mana infused water would bring calmness and clarity to those that submerge at least half of their body in it. He set the temperature to 45¡ãc and it resembled the saunas in japan albeit more modern and fantasy looking. After stripping off his top and leaving himself completely naked, he entered the pool and bathed himself in its cleansing, warm waters. "Aaaaaaahhhhhh." The water made him more sleepy and relaxed as his pores open due to the hot water. His sexy abs sparkles every time he resurfaces and leans on the stone walls of the tub. "This is just the best." The water made him feel less burdened, he could think of his plans more clearly. First, he needed great power, check. Second he needed a harem. He contemplated on his harem, he could tell that Lilith is the first to sign up as she is the horniest woman alive. He wanted to get hot girls that he would need to fight or dominate, something a little more of a challenge. If he managed to seduce someone like that, he would treat her more than just like a member of his harem but maybe even as a girlfriend. He pondered more about his plans on his future empire, a kingdom now sounded a little less interesting then before after finding out that he could slaughter the whole Agareth kingdom and its neighbors in just a few weeks. After the 30 minute long hot bath, he now smelled like roses and he went up to his bedroom after changing to his usual attire. Instead of sleeping on his coffin, he slept on his bed as he never tried sleeping on it. When he dropped down onto the velvet sheets of the bed, he felt a very soft surface under him and he quickly slept. ''Why did I never try using my bed while I was in here?'' 26 Talent and Job System As Sebastian closes his blood red eyes, he wanders off into the darkness of sleep. Suddenly, a white glow appeared in his peripherals and expanded, turning the whole empty dream world into a white emptiness like when he was given dream training. He opened his eyes to find him laying on an invisible floor, ''Why am I here again?'' He looked around as he entered back into the dream training world. He stood up and suddenly a divine, masculine robotic voice boomed, "Welcome back, Mortal!" 20 yards in front of him, a purple space tear appeared and a great being emerged. The being is a humanoid being in golden armor standing at 3m tall. The being''s body is so black that only a black hole''s darkness could compare to its color. Its face radiated black light with a few faint stars within the darkness of its form. The being had 6 white wings with faint purple tips and it radiated a holy aura. "I am Saphraim, the void treader." He felt heavy pressure weighing on him, it feels like having 4 times gravity pushing on you. The being retracted its divine aura and continued to speak, "Future God, since you have gained much power too quickly, you have not gained any of the talents you should have acquired. As your teacher, I will be imparting you the talents of your choice and train you within the timeless dimension." Sebastian then asked it a question, "Sephraim, what do you mean by Future God and my teacher?" The being replied, "As a god package player, you will be given the resources needed to nurture you into a God. A powerful and ancient god is always appointed to these players as their teachers. As 100 of you Future Gods have appeared, the job system has been activated for you Future Gods and I shall give you a warning. The Armaggedon Invasion shall start in seven years time, the clock will start on the eve of the new year." ''The Armaggedon invasion?'' From the name itself, Sebastian could feel that it would be something extremely major. He wanted to ask his new teacher about it but decided to postpone it to see what talents and the job system is all about. "Teacher, how do I get these talents?" The being replied, "I shall send you a list of talents that you can choose and the monster you must slay to gain them. You can choose up to a total of 7 talents that you have accumulated up to your rank. The monsters of choice can be up to 1 level above. As an Immortal-8 rank, you can choose any monster from iron rank to Eternal-8 rank." A long list materialized in front of him, he could see the form and the talents each monster can give. From the tens of thousand monster species, he had managed to choose 6, all of Immortal rank and Eternal rank. ? Vampire King Rank: Eternal-6 Talent: - Vampire King Spirits User receives 75% less damage from blood related attacks and deal 225% more damage using blood attacks. User can control up to 1000 separate blood constructs and hurl them at mach 6 speed. - Blood Corruption Targets that consume user''s blood will be overtaken by the user''s blood, erasing their will to rebel against user. Normally takes 1 minute, higher ranks take twice as long per rank above user and beings of 6 ranks and above are unaffected. ? Medusakin Witch Rank: Immortal-4 Talent: - Gorgon''s Touch User''s attacks will petrify targets upon contact for 10 seconds at most. Petrification is permanent on targets with at least 6 ranks below and enemies that are 6 ranks or above are immune. ? Fallen Sword Sage Rank: Eternal-3 Talent: - Sword Summoner The user would summon 10 to 100 illusory swords when executing any skill. Each sword will deal 70% of the skill''s damage on one hit. - Sword Scripture: Stage II, Form User will receive a 50% increase in all combat attributes when using any sword as a weapon. ? Cursed Scholar Rank: Eternal-8 Talent: - Akashic Mind User gains 50% more IQ, 50% more perception, 50% faster reaction speed and photographic memory. User''s mental resistance and stamina is increased by 150%. - Spellmaster User casts spells 100% faster and can cast 3 spells at once. ? Demonic War Fiend Rank: Eternal-7 Talent: - Six Armed Master User''s dexterity, movement speed and accuracy increased by 100%. ? Holy Vessel Rank: Immortal-4 Talent: - Hierarchy of Light User will receive 90% less damage from light and thunder attacks from enemies of the same rank and lower. Higher ranked enemies deal 25% more damage using light attacks. - Restoration Aura All allies around the user will regain 5% of the user''s stats as health and stamina per second. Up to a range of 100m. He pressed the confirm button and his teacher spoke, "You have selected a total of six monsters, however the total talents that can be accumulated are 10 instead of 7. Please choose what you need the most." Sebastian wanted to keep all of these talents, as they had many uses. Even though he''s not a mage or a healer, he''d rather have those skills to aid his allies in a team fight because even if he is the strongest, having allies to help fight won''t hurt his pride either. The spellcasting could be useful when he wants to use spells to strengthen his own prowess or distract enemies. He became interested to that since finding out about time magic. To train and become stronger rapidly or to study things very quickly, he could just use time magic to make some kind of hyperbolic time chamber. Since he''s not a master mage, he can only speed up time in the area by just up to 10 times and it''ll last only a day at most. Thinking of a great idea he asked, "Teacher, can I combine the talents together when I get them?" The void treader nodded and announced to its student, "Now you will fight all of these monsters and slay them here. I will give you a few skill fusion cards that will automatically activate when it senses two talents. Also, before you start, all of the eternal monsters and above in the world''s overall abilities are improved by at least 56.25%, and so it is here too so be careful. Begin!" The being then vanished as it ended its announcement and a beautiful, young naked lady with slit pupils stood in its place. She had a seductive form and a green anaconda slithering along her torso and arms. His first opponent is the medusakin witch whose magic attacks can cause her enemy''s bodyparts to turn to stone temporarily. She looked at Sebastian in a rather predatory way and licked her lips with her serpentine tongue. "My my what a handsome young man you are, why don''t you come-Aaargh!" Before she could finish her sentence and enchant him, a red flash pierced through her body and she dropped dead, her body sliced cleanly in half. Upon her death, a notification appeared. You have received the talent, Gorgon''s Touch. You have killed a gorgon without suffering any injuries, poison element acquired. ''Poison element?'' He had never heard of elements else than from skill descriptions and monster descriptions. All he knew are that elements increased the effects of element based skills and increased those skills effects on weaker elements. According to the void treader''s words, he could guess that he had no elements at all. When this session ended, he planned to take a visit to the library. After acquiring his first element, he continued his fight until he defeated all six of them. Due to the 56.25% increase in overall abilities, he could barely contend against his eternal level enemies. If he had not gained the Gorgon''s Touch and Archangel''s Grace which was created by combining the Hierarchy of Light and Restoration Aura, he would not have been able to defeat the intelligent, triple mutated Sword Sage who''s sword mastery had reached the Advanced Master Rank. Not to mention factoring the overall increase that made it 56.25% more faster and stronger than it should be. After gaining the Fallen Sword Sage''s talents they are combined into the talent, Sword Sage. The sword scripture is actually a mastery and because of that, the merged talent had only half of what the scripture had but Sebastian gained a free sword mastery but of the first stage, Flowing instead of the second. The new talent is of unimaginable help, he could now feel that the swords he used in combat felt immensely lighter and his movements become more flexible, allowing sudden changes and dodging more complex attacks. Despite having a rank of Eternal-6, the Vampire King is the last and the hardest. His own vampire spirits are incomparably weak compared to the vampire king''s. He had lost miserably to it twice. Luckily, when he died here, he would respawn immediately and the fight would restart, allowing him to train without worrying that he''ll suddenly perish. His combat standards and technique had improved overall and with his new talents, his power skyrocketed. However, due to the increased strength of monsters, his power is only equal to that of an Eternal-6 rank. His teacher also explained that the genius scale had been altered. Now the scale is using power instead of ranks to calculate. A genius is at least 4 times stronger than people of the same rank, they generally are equal to opponents that are two ranks above. A prodigy is twice of that of a genius being either two or three ranks above depending on the rank multiplier. A great genius is twice of a prodigy with a combat power equal to around three or four ranks above. A super genius or peak genius is at least 64 times stronger than the average of the same rank. They are capable of combatting beings of at least five or six ranks above them. With his new abilities, he would easily qualify as a peak genius as he could fight equally with a being that is 8 ranks above him. After gaining all the seven talents, Saphraim started explaining about the job system. "The job system is a new update that is about to be released in 3 years. Due to your existence that will become a future God, you have been graced alongside 100 others to use this system starting from this moment in time. The job system allows you to get skills and enhancements to your abilities by acquiring and changing into the chosen job. Jobs give both combat and non combat abilities so it has universal uses." It continued, "You will be given a job. You have three choices, sword squire, martial student or dark acolyte." He instantly picked sword squire as he plans to increase his sword mastery quickly into stage II. The void treader explained that jobs require a minimum of 100 job mastery which is gained by performing certain feats. Higher values of job mastery like 200, 300, 500 or 1000 will allow the user to access more advanced jobs much earlier and give hidden benefits. Combat jobs require the user to kill monsters. Same rank monsters give 1 point while the points multiply by 2 per 2 ranks. Odd ranks just give 50% more points than the last. After changing jobs, he checked his status again. Name: Sebastian Adrian Cain Age: 18 Gender: Male Race: Vampire (Progenitor) Title: Duke (and below) Sexuality: Heterosexual Servants: Skadia, Gusion, Crystalline Titan, Hailyn, Azulong, Lilith, Theresa Alignment: Unknown Occupation: Duke Job: Sword Squire (0) Element: Poison, Light, Holy, Dark, Blood Talents: - Gorgon''s Touch - Archangel''s Grace - Sword Sage - Six Armed Master - Akashic Mind - Spellmaster - True Vampire''s Blood Mastery: - Sword Scripture: Stage I, Flowing Active Skills: - Vampire Spirits - Call of the Progenitor - Unsealed Abyss - Crippling Thorns - Dance of Swords - Sensual Bite - Dark Shapeshifting Passive Skills: - Dominant Charm - Minor Divine Regeneration - Blessed Darkness - Mark of Cain - Greater Intelligence - Advanced Vampirism Power Rank: Immortal-8 (Eternal-6) ''Wow, I''ve improved a lot.'' After checking out his status, Saphraim vanished and he returned to his body. The mechanical voice linking his changes to his body. Once he had returned, he felt something sleeping next to him, cuddling him. He opened his eyes and found a sleeping lilith cuddling him like a pillow. He found out that she had tried to **** him in his sleep when he noticed stains on the bedsheet. Using shadow manipulation, he checked out what those stains are. He sighed in relief when none of them are semen stains, he wanted to stay a virgin until his harem had six girls already. He looked towards his body and found that his shirt is unbuttoned and found that Lilith''s hand is rubbing his abs. He got turned on when she started to touch his ''little friend'' but held back and woke her up with a little pinch on her neck. She opened her purple eyes and greeted him with a seductive face, "Morning Handsome." 27 Terradeus Grand Tournamen After handling Lilith by commanding her to never try to **** him when he''s asleep, he went to the library to do some reading. While in the library, he spent half of the day reading about the sword scripture he received, about the job system and the elements he received. The 12 hours of reading managed to enlighten him on these subjects and add more knowledge. About the sword scripture, it is a special path of sword users that are handed down by sword and war deities of the past. The ones he received are the complete scripture which contains all the wisdom instead of the Gods of Anansha continents''. The sword scripture is similar to the Sword Dao that sword wielding cultivators of the Anansha continent use but it''s more complete and there are 7 stages instead of 6. The first stage is flowing, this stage is where one manages to wield the sword in a way like flowing water. Their movements are smooth and more efficient, allowing their techniques and actions to be executed more quickly and effectively. The second stage would be form. This stage is where one must treat and use their sword like its a part of your own body. By using the sword like it''s a part of you, you will move it in a more flexible manner and see it as something elastic, not rigid. This level of mastery allows one to attack with erratic patterns and switch tactics and attack rhythms 3 times faster and without much inefficient or rigid movements. The third stage is known as dimension. This stage is where one must know the exact location of their own sword and the location of the enemy''s. One must rely on their 5 senses fully and cultivate their instinct as their 6th sense. At this stage, one can tell the future position of the enemy''s sword up to a second before it is done. This allows the third stage sword wielder to see the enemy''s next move and plan ahead. For people of the third stage, half a second is more than what they new to quickly overwhelm and cripple their opponents with strikes and slashes. Third stage mastery is usually attained when one is at least an advanced grandmaster swordsman. Usually only sword kings would have this stage of mastery. Even the top 10 swordsman of Terradeus, not including players are only stage 2s. A stage 3 master had not appeared in a decade, even more so a stage 4 which have not appeared in 2 generations and a stage 5 which had not appeared in centuries. Although he had a super genius level processing and understanding, the theory could not propel him into the second stage. He trained hard for 3 hours in the library but barely made any progress. Despite using all of the techniques from the sword masteries of all 10 continents, he did not even complete the basics. He found out that even a prodigy took 4 years just to reach this level with daily practices lasting at least 6 hours. Even though he may be a high level peak genius, it would take him at least a month or two to reach that level. Luckily, his research on time magic is doing well. With the extra increase from the Akashic Mind talent, he easily learned some time magic within a six hour span. The time magic he learned and practice allowed him to create a circular area with a 3m radius where he can speed up or slow down time up to 50¡Á but it could only last an hour at most. At around 4 in the afternoon, a knock is heard from the library door. Sebastian immediately placed the book into a nearby shelf before shouting, "Come in!!" The large wooden door opened and a red haired succubus in a maid outfit entered. She quickly closed the door and floated elegantly through the air, landing a few feet in front of her master. She bowed politely and greeted, "My Lord, I am Laylah. I bring anurgent message from the king of this human kingdom." After finishing her long bow, she continued, "The king would like to meet you as fast as possible. The best would be today." ''It''s only been 4 days, what does he want from me?'' He dismissed her and looked at her boobs while doing so. She had c cup boobs and her cleavage is quite exposed. ''Maybe I can taste her later on after dominating my harem on the bed.'' After she left, he transformed into a bat and flew away towards the capital at mach 30 speed. Since the capital is only 500km away from his place, it took almost a minute to arrive there at that speed. He transformed back inside of a dark corner at an empty street. After making sure that no one saw him, he walked towards the palace. The palace had silver armored guards with the royal insignias holding their red cape together. Before they could halt him, he flashed them his duke insignia and went in undisturbed. He asked the nearest servant, a maid where the king is at. He explains that he was summoned by the king and his glowing duke insignia proved it. When nobility or royals are summoned by the king, their insignias will glow a certain hue, depending on their kingdom or empire''s royal color. The maid told Sebastian that the king is at the royal garden with the general and the kingdom''s top wizard, Helion. He quickly made his way to the large garden. The orange and red flowers and shrubbery makes a great addition to the orange turning blue sky. He walked around the clean stone paved path, strolling around the garden until he found them together in a stone pavillion, deep in discussion. "My Lords, I am here." He bowed politely. They immediately turned their attention towards the raven haired youth in front of them clad in black, bowing. "Sebastian, we were just talking about you." The general said. "So this is the youth who will replace my apprentice for the Terradeus Grand Tournament." The kingdom''s archmage said. Helion is a young archmage who''s very gifted in magic. At the age of only 29, he had managed to become the kingdom''s top mage in all categories. As of now he is 32 years old, he had defended his position as an archmage for 3 years. He had blonde hair, a clean shave and fiery eyes. The archmage wore a red and white robe with golden pauldrons, gauntlets and boots. If one is sensitive enough, they can sense mana swirling around the archmage like an invisible tornado. "Terradeus Grand Tournament?" He asked with a perplexed face. Sebastian is surprised that he didn''t know anything about this. Considering his rapid reading speed and photographic memory, he should know something about this. "Oh you don''t know yet. Hohohoho!" The king merrily continued, "The Terradeus Grand Tournament is a special tournament between all kingdoms and empires of the continent to decide who has the strongest people. Each kingdom and empire will only be given three slots. Originally it was my eldest son, the general''s son and Helion''s top apprentice. But since you easily defeated my son, I switched Helion''s apprentice with you." After the king''s explanation, archmage stood up and asked Sebastian, "The King said that you easily defeated the crown prince and claimed to be an Immortal-8 rank. May I spar with you to see whether the king is telling the truth or exaggerating." Sebastian nodded and calmly replied, "Where will we be sparring at?" The archmage pointed up and said, "Let''s fight in the air. I will cast a spell to minimise damage to the garden." A gust of air propelled the archmage up and he floated mid air, gesturing Sebastian to come up and fight. He flew up and stood a few yards away from the archmage. He asked Hirani to determine Helion''s rank. "He''s an Immortal-4 rank prodigy. He should not be a threat at all." She replied. The archmage announced the start of the spar by firing a large fireball into the air. As it explodes like a firework, the archmage begin chanting. Fiery runes begin appearing around him and he concentrated them towards Sebastian. Fiery magic arrays appeared around Sebastian in a flash, the archmage ended his chant and exclaimed, "Smite!" The magic arrays release golden blades of the light and holy element. Since he is a creature of darkness, he would take twice the damage. The instant before the blades managed to touch his form, he had instantly teleported in front of the archmage and punched him lightly in the gut. Before he knew it, he had fallen down to the garden, a great pain erupted from his abdomen. If the punch is serious, Sebastian could have accidentally broken his ribcage and disturb his internal mana flow, crippling him permanently. After seeing his opponent unharmed, he smiled and admitted defeat. He made a short apology to the king for doubting his choices. He is very intrigued of Sebastian. He had never been defeated by a person younger than him yet, even more so a teenager. "So Sebastian, will you accept the honor as a representative of this kingdom for the tournament." The general asked. He nodded and politely replied, "Yes I accept my Lords." "Very well, the tournament will happen in two weeks. Keep preparing until then, we''re all counting on you." And with that, the king dismissed Sebastian. ''This tournament is a great way to garner fame.'' He planned to train hard for the next two weeks. If he is lucky, he might be able to construct the hyperbolic time chamber so he can achieve stage 2 by the start of the tournament. He flies back to his castle after transforming in a dark corner of the garden. After returning to his castle, he finds Theresa waiting for him in front of the library. 28 Kingdom League As he flew down onto the stone bridge, he saw Theresa waiting for him in front of the library''s doors. After transforming back into his human form, Theresa spoke, "My Lord, have you been researching time magic lately?" He replied, "Yes I have, why did you ask?. "I was thinking of helping you in whatever you''re planning since I don''t have much things to sort out. I don''t want to be useless." She replied with a slightly sad tone. ''Well she isn''t a saint for nothing.'' Theresa''s initiative in helping and lack of laziness makes her the perfect person to aid him in many affairs. He plans to make her his personal assistant and advisor. "Well, since you want to help. Can you study time magic and create runes that speed up time over a certain area?" She replied, "Yes my Lord, but what for, if I may ask?" "It''s for all of us and the city''s mercenaries and knights so we can train. I''ll fill you in on the details later. For now, let''s go in the library and start reading." He patted her on her right shoulder before open the door and walking past her. She then quickly entered inside and flew towards the magic section at the higher shelves of the tall, massive cylindrical library. In the two weeks, his training plan involves learning more sword techniques and skills. He took out all the books that spoke about sword techniques, sword skills, skills, bloodromancy and vampire abilities. Apparently, he may be the first vampire, but vampire monsters existed but as ugly ghouls. The vampire king he fought at the dream dimension will be released 100 years in the future once he had started to transform others into sentient vampires. He also went to the store to purchase function passes. Function passes allow him to merge skills together. Despite being a future God, he can only have 50 skills due to being a tier 3. 30 active skills and 200 passive skills, also only up to 10 techniques and combos he can possess for now. Luckily the prices of the skill fusion tickets are not that expensive and he bought 50 of them that costed him 1000 merits. He also took a book that contains the complete map of Terradeus and all of its areas and zones. He wants to push himself by going to the neutral zones. Since most of the land in the continent are non human territories, he could find areas with many mid eternal level monsters. He told Li Yao telepathically to meet him at the area. He transformed into a bat and flew up to the sky, heading south towards the Belial Lands. The Belial Lands is a large neutral zone which is closest to the Berian Empire. The Belial Lands are home to undead, demon and elemental monsters of the fire, darkness, blood, metal and strength elements. It is the fourth most dangerous area and the seventh largest one in Terradeus. Its area is slightly larger than the earth''s total area and it''s a Forbidden Zone. Forbidden zones have mid-legendary monsters as the strongest and are mostly comprised of high immortal, low eternal and mid eternal level monsters. The Belial Lands is a great place to train as gravity and mana density there increase the deeper in a person goes. The gravity upon entry is easily 10 times the earth''s gravity and every 10km in, 1 times is added to the total gravity. By reaching the 100km mark the gravity becomes 20 times that of earth''s. The mana density increases the same way but the monster distribution is very random. The only certainties are that immortal levels are never at the middle regions and that the mid eternal levels are never in the central region, else than that, all things are possible. The monster hordes there usually number in the thousands once a person reaches the middle regions and the gravity limit stops at 400 times the earth''s gravity which is equal to Elbenon''s normal gravity. Temperatures there are usually high and only apex level cultivators can withstand the air temperature and the poisonous environment. These rigorous trials make it a good place for Sebastian to do sword training. Add the dangers, the toxicity of the environment and the high mana density, he would constantly improve and easily master different techniques. The area is approximately 400,000 km away from his castle and despite flying at mach 600 speed, it still took him almost 34 minutes to arrive. While on the flight, he had chosen dozens of skills and techniques well suited for his battle style. Since some of his skills cannot be merged using the skill fusion tickets, he decided to use it on the weaker skills he chose. When one purchases skills, they can either buy the skill for integration or buy its method. The method costs 10 times less than what an integration would as it only provides how to perform the skill and memories about it, whether the buyer can learn it or not depends, that''s why its cheaper. The first day in there, he trained by fighting a hundred strong horde of mutated and double mutated immortal-9 and 10 monsters. They took an hour to beat as their sheer number makes up for their individual combat abilities which are vastly inferior to Sebastian''s. The monsters were mostly fire affinity with some dark and he managed to increase his dark affinity by a rank. His sword squire job earned a total of 200 mastery points and it unlocked the swordsman and the sword knight jobs. He switched jobs to the sword knight and gained an upgrade on his slash technique and gained a bronze ranked sword skill. He merged it with a silver ranked skill to create a powerful gold ranked skill called the 7 Sword Shredder. The second day is mostly hunting eternal monster to learn the skill methods and train his sword abilities. The next five days are just basically practicing and learning the new skills and their methods. He moved into the middle regions to fight and train his abilities against only low and mid eternal level monsters. Li Yao also trained with him and cooked good meals for him. She can now fight equally with a mutated eternal-6 rank and she gained a new active skill, her combat techniques also improved. To satisfy is thirst for human blood, he submitted many monster corpses to the system and gained thousands of merit points. He is basically gaining over ten thousand after a day of killing. He traded them for 2 epic ranked summoning monsters, legendary and pseudo mythical skills, combos and techniques methods and 7 vials of pure demon blood to enhance himself and keep his bloodlust in check. Apparently demon, dragon or ancient non human blood that is pure or high in concentration slightly enhances his physique, satisfy his bloodlust for two days and reduce any effects of arousal from the scent of blood. At the first week''s end, he had managed to gain 21 active skills, 17 passive skills, 8 techniques and 2 combos. His total combat power had increased by half a rank. His two new summoning monsters are the dandelion parasite, a triple mutated monster that appears like a larger version of a dandelion but its roots look like green stems that it uses to move around. The dandelion parasite produces small, airborne seeds that can easily enters its target and kills it from the inside before controlling it as a puppet. His second new summoning monster is the cursed fire dragon, a triple mutated monster with a 23% dragon''s blood. It looks like a large black dragon with some red patterns around its body. It had a wingspan of 15m and a length of 18m. Its claws are colored like fiery embers and black flames around it. They are both eternal-2 ranks like Li Yao but they could only battle against mutated eternal-5 ranks. At the last day, Theresa told him that she had already completed her research in time magic and is heading there. When she arrived and found them, he sensed that she had elevated to the Immortal-10 rank. Her true combat power is equal to that of an Eternal-7 rank, she is on par with Li Yao. As a pseudo divine rank servant, even if she didn''t train, she would already be considered a formidable peak genius by talent alone. He commanded her to build a small enclosed stone arena where he would train at. The arena had adiameter of 20 yards, enough for him to move freely. According to Theresa, she can make runes to speed up time inside by up to 10 times only as the area is large. The runes would only last 3 days at most so it would be a month inside. Enough for him to reach stage two of the sword scripture. Before coming inside and training, he commanded Theresa and his summoning monsters to collect as much carcasses as they can and to avoid all high level eternal monsters. Once inside, he practiced all forms of sword techniques and used shadow manipulation to create powerful sparring partners. To increase his rate of training, he shut off his sense of sight by closing his eyes. Three days past. Inside, he had been training ceaselessly for a month. Thanks to the vials of blood, he could last throughout the month inside. From the 3 days that passed his monsters and Theresa managed to get a few dozen eternal level monster carcasses. He submitted them all to the system and gained around a hundred thousand merit points. He planned on saving them on later before looking up any skill methods, summoning monsters, materials or cultivation objects. The four days are just going to Horizon City, the tournament''s location. He went sightseeing, registered himself and read the rulebook. According to the rulebook, the tournament is held in 12 large arenas. The tournament is divided into 2 leagues, the kingdom leagues and the empire leagues. The kingdom leagues occur a week before the empire leagues and the champion of the kingdom league is given the chance to participate in the empire leagues. At the day of the tournament, Sebastian is looking at the people who would participate and who he would fight first. His first opponent is someone named Bryan from the Sunstreak kingdom. "Hmmm, Bryan huh?" A young man who appeared slightly older than him spoke from behind. He walked to his side and more of his form is revealed. He wore a white red trench coat with silver armor beneath it. He had slicked back blonde hair like a lion''s mane and blue eyes. He had quite a handsome face and he introduced himself, "My name''s Stefan Starfall of the Starburst kingdom. What''s yours my friend?" "Sebastian Adrian Cain, from the Agareth Kingdom." Sebastian replied. "I''ve never heard about you before. You new here?" Sebastian nodded. Stefan patted him on the back and wished him, "Good Luck." Before he turned away and walked towards another arena. Sebastian''s match is in arena 8, the same arena he is standing in and it''s about to start in the next 15 minutes. A tournament official escorted him towards the battlefield''s entrance. 5 minutes before the match started, the royal family payed him a visit before his match. They wished him luck while the eldest princess stayed an extra second or two to give him a short kiss on the cheeks before blushing and leaving. ''I think I''ve just found a potential girl for my harem.'' So far he had only 3 candidates for his harem. Lilith, The Eldest Princess and Theresa. He had second thoughts on Theresa because he doesn''t want to spoil her innocence and holyness. When the fanfare is blown, the entrance to the battlefield opens and he enters. His opponent is around his age. He has blond hair with white streaks, yellow eyes and a handsome but cocky looking face. He seems to be a sword wielder like him as his opponent has 2 swords behind his back forming an x. He wears silver plated armor with blue and yellow lightning patterns decorating it. When they both entered, the crowds cheered for the first fight of the day. Betting has started but the crowds are not on favor of Sebastian. The Agareth nobility took this opportunity to bet on Sebastian as they have seen first hand what he could do. Bryan may be a powerful foe but he is just an immortal-3 rank, nothing in comparison to an immortal-8 rank. While the rest of the audience pitied him and cheered Bryan on, the trumpets are blown, signaling the start of the match. He gloated to Sebastian, "I''ll make quick work of youu¡­" Before he could finish his gloat, he had been punched in the abdomen and is flung away to the wall, a hole in his armor. The once cheering crowd is silenced. In a blink of an eye, their favorite champion has been defeated and his armor broken in an attack they didn''t even see. The agareth nobility and the royal family simply had smug faces, they reaped massive profits by utilizing Sebastian''s newbie position. After Bryan''s defeat, his other competitors became more careful when facing him. Even so, they did not last more than a hit and didn''t even see anything happen. All they can remember is being ready with the battle before feeling excruciating pain in their abdomen and waking up in the infirmary. Due to his consecutive wins and very attractive features, he became known as the Dark Prince upon defeating his last opponents of the kingdom league. The last match in the kingdom league involves the 4 remaining participants to duke it out in a free for all battle. He easily defeated them all with one punch each and after ending it he sighed, "I''m gonna become the next Saitama at this rate." After leaving the arena in a legendary victory, the royals and the nobles congratulated him and presented gifts to him. Despite them being things he could purchase in the store, any gift is always a benefit, so he received them all with a sincere and charming smile. After the short 5 minute session, he is swarmed by a hundred girls who confessed their love to him almost simultaneously. Even though he liked the feeling of having many girls surround him and fawn over him, he sometimes found it annoying so he announced to them, "If you want to become my princess, become the smartest and the strongest. Once you''ve become both, come to me and I will give you the pleasure of becoming my beloved princess." All of the girls swooned at his words and made many vows in becoming stronger and smarter. At the end of the day, he preyed on the three weakest girls from the hundred who surrounded him and confessed. He gave them a fantasy that many craved by only some received. Their orgasms and vagina fluids made their blood and scent more intoxicating. It addicted him to the point where it took 3 girls and 20 minutes each with them to satisfy himself. To go into sleep, he went to a noble''s crypt in the city''s graveyard and slept in the black casket. Unbeknownst to him, a demon hunter had followed him into the graveyard searching for him as she had followed the powerful demon scent emitted by Sebastian''s presence. 29 Empire Leagues In the morning, he woke up with more power than before. ''Is it just me, I feel more energized.'' A familiar voice he hadn''t met in weeks spoke, "It''s because of your nature as a vampire my perverted host." He retorted, "Just because I give them what they want doesn''t make me a pervert Hirani." Although he could not see her, he could tell that she rolled her eyes. Not wanting to talk about her host''s ''problem'', she warned him, "Last night, a demon hunter followed you here to the graveyard. Your wish granting night caused you to release much of your essence. She detected the essence and followed you here. Luckily, the demon hunters association called her back." ''Demon hunters association?'' Despite knowing much about Terradeus, he didn''t know much of this mysterious group. All he knew is that they were at least a millenia old and that they consist of the most powerful demon hunters and angelic entities including the nephilims, human angel hybrids. Based on what he had read, there were not much occasions where they would intervene. According to their history, they would only appear if the threat is capable of making mankind extinct or enslaved in Terradeus. ''What''s the demon hunters association doing here?'' It seems odd that they made an appearance here. Even one hunter sent is already an omen to what dangers lurk nearby. ''Anyways, I still have a tournament to win in a week''s time.'' Apparently, he could bind sword skills to himself instead of learning it. Doing this will allow him to have many skills and that he can execute the skill using different swords without having to relearn parts of the skill. However, binding is not easily accomplished. He has to refine the skills and practice it over and over again despite already learning it. Binding requires one to gain fragments of the skill by training it. Only active skills need binding, passive skills do not. However, only weapon based skills need binding, ones that can be done by chanting or by willing it cannot be binded and will take up active skill slots. Common skills require 100 pieces while every 2 ranks up will have that number multiplied tenfold. Since many of his skills are Platinum, Epic, Imperial and Pseudo Legendary skills, he would need to get 1,000,000 skill fragments for his platinum skills, 2,500,000 fragments for his epic skills, 10,000,000 fragments for his imperial skills and 25,000,000 fragments for his pseudo legendary skills. To start training up and binding his sword skills, he went back to The Belial Lands. Back there, he found Theresa building a white chapel, engraving runes on the two pillars that support a balcony above the entrance. He quickly asked her to activate the hyperbolic time chamber and he commanded all three of his summoning monsters to enter the enclosed stone arena for training. He asked her to set it at maximum time difference of 10¡Á and for it to last 6 days. Before entering in, he noticed that there are more time runes and arrays present around the domed arena. ''Wow, she really is dedicated.'' He had to admit that she would be the best assistant to anybody. She took an initiative to upgrade the arena''s time field. Not to mention, some of the runes there are so advanced that even Sebastian didn''t know what they are. Originally, he chose her because she''s a saint and a powerful healer and white magic user. He would need her to keep his future empire''s stability and to ward off evil enemies. He now knows that pseudo divine rank servants are always more useful than they seem. Then again, they are all beings who were once almost gods. As he enters the arena with his summoning monsters, the door slammed shut and the air turned a faint green for a few seconds as the time separation spell is casted. Inside, he trained using blindfolds as his night vision will allow him to see in the dark. Without blindfolds, he would only only receive 1-4 fragments per succesful skill execution. For every 5 senses that are dulled when training and executing the skill, the fragments earned would multiply by certain numbers. He also asked his dandelion monster to imprint a parasite on him to block his taste and smell senses. The total multiplier would allow him to receive 20 to 400 fragments per successful execution of his skills. Using his fast reflexes and extremely accurate muscle memories, he trained his sword skills for binding but not before telling all three of his monsters to spar against each other and train their combat standards. With his fast reflexes and multipliers for being an Immortal-8 rank in his cultivation, he can easily execute skills in 0.2 seconds. At this rate, he easily earned 500 fragments of a skill in a second and binded a platinum ranked skill every 33 minutes. After a week''s time inside the stone time chamber, he had managed to bind 17 Platinum skills, 15 Epic skills, 11 Imperial skills and 3 Pseudo Legendary skills. Over the week, he only had a total of 11 hours of rest as the rest of the time is spent gathering fragments for his skills. He also found out that his skills could evolve to those of higher ranks by gathering 5¡Á its previous amount of fragments required. So, he planned to evolve them all once. The evolution took 5¡Á the normal amount of fragments and it took 5 weeks to evolve them all. He now had 17 Epic skills, 15 Imperial skills, 11 Pseudo Legendary skills and 3 Legendary skills. Like a robot, he spent the last 2 weeks within the arena training and binding a mythical skill he bought which required 9 days for him to bind called Void Maelstrom. When he executes it, he summons a giant maelstrom made of void energy and solar wind from a black hole. All enemies outside are dragged onto it. Only enemies of 1 rank below and above can escape its pull and not be absorbed but instead repulsed. The maelstrom''s rotating winds require an attack 100¡Á times stronger than the user in order to break through and disperse it. Inside the maelstrom, the enemy''s power is slowly drained to grow the maelstrom and temporarily strengthen the user while summoning 2 to 4 void spears every 10 seconds to attack the enemy. The skill he learned helped him defeat all his summoning monsters in the few sparring matches they have. His swordplay also increased quite greatly. He had a 5% increase in his accuracy and some of his attacks managed to reach 100% on the milimetre accuracy scale. He could also feel that he is getting closer to reaching stage 3 of the sword scripture, Dimension. After the spell ended its duration signaled by glowing green runes illuminating the dark chamber, the stone door opens and he along with his summoning monsters exit the chamber. When he went out, he became surprised when he felt that the ground it soft through his shoes. He looked down to the ground and saw grass. ''Grass? Shouldn''t I be inside the Belial Lands?'' The ground beneath him should be red or littered in ashes with spiderweb like cracks appearing occasionally, but instead it is green with grass and when he looked around, he saw a valley of green with white flowers, grass, trees and houses. He looked up to see a blue sky but its edges had a sinister red that expanded even further beyond the blue sky that only covered the peaceful looking valley. ''The sky is still red beyond the valley which means I''m still inside the Belial Lands. Could I be in the far future?!'' He felt a little anger and fear mixed up. What if he really is warped into the future. All of his plans would collapse and he would have a far harder time because he could be transported to the time when Armaggedon occured. He went towards the town situated around half a mile from where he is. Before walking at his super fast vampire speed, the familiar voice of Theresa called out to him from behind. "Master, where are you going?" She asked. He looked back to see Theresa guarded by two tall knights in silver armor with a pair of angel wings on their backs. He then asked her with a slightly perplexed expression, "Theresa, why is the valley green and who are they?" She replied with a smile before replying respectfully, "While my lord is training in the time dome, I came across a group of lost adventurers attacked by monsters. They were a large caravan numbering a few hundred who were heading towards the Fallen Citadel for treasure hunting before being attacked. I saved them and built a habitable space for them here to help lost people recover and live. I hope that''s okay." ''You are always filled with wonders aren''t you Theresa?'' He inwardly smiled, grateful at Theresa''s initiative to help and serve better instead of being forced to act on her master''s commands. He replied in a friendly tone, "Well, you did an amazing job. By the way, have you elevated again?" She nodded. He could already feel that her aura had jumped a rank from before, she is now an eternal ranked. Eternal ranks can live for up to 10 millenia and can stay youthful until their natural deaths. Eternals also have heightened senses and an awoken 6th sense. Some could even have 7th sense and immortality, the difference in power is also great. ''Well that''s quick.'' He thought. All of his servants just rapidly elevated, he felt the need to catch up and began to plan ahead in his mind. After a quick minute long conversation with the demigod saintess, he left back towards Horizon city to register for the empire leagues. The registration is carried out in front of a large colloseum shaped arena on a long medium sized wooden tables with nobility like men carrying out the registration with the participants. As he registered himself, he felt patting from his back and turned his head to see a familiar young man with golden hair and blue eyes. "Congrats on your overwhelming victory, Dark Prince Sebastian." He spoke. "Oh Stefan, good to meet your acquaintance again. Here to watch?" Sebastian asked. Stefan replied, "Well, since your stronger than me, It''s helpful that we both see each others strengths and flaws. Watching you fight can help me and help you, since those empire kids could probably fight equally with you I can help you with this." In a sudden, his voice is heard reverberating inside Sebastian''s mind saying, ''I have telepathy. I''ll give you hints during your fight if I see any difficulties.'' He replied with a hint of annoyance, ''Isn''t that cheating?'' ''Well since you don''t want it, I''ll just give you some briefing on your enemies. After all those empire guys could probably give you a hard time.'' Sebastian replied, ''Very well then.'' Upon finishing his registration, the official handed him a tournament token to be shown when purchasing anything in the city and when the match is about to start to participate. Stefan asked to have some breakfast together at the best place in the city. Before they went there, he checked the updated arena board to find that his first match is in 3 hours and most of the participants are not registered yet. Since Sebastian is a registered participant of the tournament, he is given a 50% discount on any meal he orders and a line cutting privilege. He just needs to show his golden token to any of the restaurant''s workers. He took him to Sundrop, the top restaurant on breakfast and desserts in the city. Sebastian just order some red wine while Stefan ordered cakes and chocolate desserts. When they are all served, most of the table is full with sweet desserts and Stefan quickly wolfed down and devoured all of the cakes and dessert like a black hole. "You are a sweet tooth aren''t you?" Stefan nodded and continued devouring all of the desserts like an endless expanding abyss while Sebastian savored the taste of the red wine. Apparently, red wine tasted somewhat like blood for vampires. After finishing the desserts, Stefan ordered another batch of desserts and devoured it as quickly as the first. Sebastian wonders how he doesn''t get bloated despite eating tons and tons of sugary meals. Since they didn''t take much time at all on their breakfast, they waited the rest of their 3 hours by walking around and getting to know each other. In their 3 hours, Stefan revealed himself as a prodigy of his kingdom under the ageing king''s tutelage. His kingdom had no princes and so the king had chosen him to be his successor upon his death. He also managed to win a bronze medal in the tournament''s kingdom leagues. They went back to the arena board to find out his first opponent. His first opponent is an assassin named Kilsa, an immortal-6 rank from the Augur Empire. The general, king and archmage meet up with him and Stefan before the match to wish him luck before going to their respective seats in the arena. When the fanfare is blown, the arena gates open and both of them entered the arena. Kilsa had an hourglass figure with pink hair and green eyes. She wore a black bodysuit with some silver patterns and held two silver daggers with a faint emerald glow. Suddenly, Hirani''s voice spoke into his mind, "Sebastian, your opponent is another player." After she told him, a green arrow shaped marker appeared on her head. Her valkyrie Jinra also alerted her of Sebastian being a player and a green marker also appeared above his head. "Another one like me, I think it''s the first time we met. Hi, I''m Sebastian." He extended a hand to her and a warm expression on his face. Despite her being his current enemy, he hadn''t met anyone like him yet so why not try to know each other before fighting. She let out a short chuckle before shaking his hand with a smile and replying, "My name''s Kilsa, it''s also nice to see ya." Upon seeing him smile, she had to hold back a blush. She had to admit, he is just too hot and can''t help feeling weak in her knees. However, she needed to fight him after this short talk. She needed to protect someone. As their short handshake ends, the fight begins. Sebastian quickly dashed towards her in a blurry flash and punched her straight in the abdomen. She flew away and crashed into a wall. This time, he just released a suppressed assault as his normal punch would break her whole form permanently. Her mind went blank for a second before her valkyrie used a healing token to awaken her. Even though she had been healed, it did not remove the sharp pain on her abdomen. She could even feel that her body leaked blood from the inside but it slowly healed, albeit painfully. ''Why is he so strong?'' Her valkyrie replied, "Kilsa, Sebastian is one of the top 100 in the leaderboard. Don''t continue fighting him." She gritted her teeth at the pain and replied in quite a raspy voice, ''So What! I can still beat him.'' "If he were serious, you would''ve been dead!" She and her valkyrie kept arguing in her head, leaving a confused audience and Sebastian looking at the silent but clearly angry assassin. ''Should I end it?'' He asked. "Hurry up and finish it." She replied. Hirani didn''t want to wait, she had recently developed a liking to watching fights. At her suggestion, he punched her with more force as to place her in a coma. He concentrated his blow so she would collapse in place. Before she could even notice, she had collapsed and entered unconsciousness. "Sebastian wins the first match!" The crowds cheer at the announcement while Kilsa''s figure is placed on a stretcher and escorted to the arena''s clinic. The rest of his matches ended in a similar manner except that he waited for them to attack. When they attacked, he saw them as if time slowed down. They were easily defeated by being struck once or twice. The only one managing to put up somewhat of a fight is an Eternal-1 rank named Elfred, an elf who used magic charged arrows to fight. He lasted half a minute with Sebastian before he inflicted him with a gash using the Twilight of the Dragon King''s blade. As he won many overwhelming victories, his name became more famous throughout Terradeus. More girls would flock to him while he rested before his next match. He marked some of them to be his victims for the night with a kiss to the neck when he calls his chosen to speak privately with. Then, he erased their memories of their private moment. His final opponent would be Lucius from the Morning Star Empire. "You''re going up against him huh?" Stefan is very aware that Lucius is easily the strongest of the empires. Lucius had won for the past 6 consecutive years and is an Eternal-3 rank powerhouse. They say that his power is equal to an Eternal-6, a Great Genius of Terradeus. As powerful as his friend is, there is no way that he could defeat an Eternal-6 rank. Only a Peak genius can, an peak geniuses only appear once a few decades or even centuries. Not to mention that they would be considered a threat and executed if the royal family is an evil or conceited one. The climax of the tournament is between the newcomer Sebastian the Dark Prince of Agareth and Lucius the Dominator of the Morning Star Empire. His victories in the empire leagues has brought a good amount of attention to the agareth kingdom with trade deals and collaborations being discussed. Of course the king couldn''t attend this match as he has to handle the rest, so he sent his daughter to watch for him. The general, the archmage and the princess had a little debate on the victor. With the princess and the archmage betting on Sebastian and the general siding with Lucius. The spectators of this match had surpassed the arena limit of 100,000 people. The respective archmages of the kingdoms and empires present used their magic to broadcast the upcoming fight to their respective countries. The fanfare is blown and the dark prince and his opponent the dominator enter the medium barren battlefield. The battlefield had a 100m radius and the blue sky above it is filled with mana crystals designed to record and broadcast. Upon their entries into the arena, the crowds went wild and cheered on the two combatants. The spectators are broken into Sebastian''s fans and Lucius''. Lucius had short golden hair like that of a prince, prideful orange eyes and a prince charming like face that could easily win most girls over. He wore medium golden armor and used a holy silver lance with a golden handle. He appeared to be in his early twenties and towered a few cm taller than Sebastian, their eyes locking on each other with interest. Breaking the staring game Lucius commented, "So this is the dark prince, I am interested." Sebastian stayed quiet as he sensed a very faint dark aura emanating from his opponent. One that felt more sinister than a demon''s, he cautioned himself by drawing out both of his swords and stanced himself offensively. Then, the fanfare is blown once more and he fight begins. Sebastian charged at him at speeds only the empire cultivators could see yet blurry. A shockwave formed when he clashed against a surprised Lucius who expected a weaker opponent. Sebastian didn''t push forwards but instead jumped backwards and used the Imperial Skill Darkness Break. He charged at Lucius, transforming into a large flash of black light. Upon meeting the lance, cracks started to spread from it and dark energies begin to push back the defending Lucius. After a few moments of defending from the strike, Lucius is pushed back from the resultant force. He is pushed back a few yards and almost lost balance. Sebastian actively attacked him with a barrage of slashes, stabs and combo moves. He could barely react against the barrage of attacks he received and most of them managed to penetrate his defenses. Getting dead serious, he activated his berserk skill and began overwhelming Sebastian. His combo moves and attacks didn''t effect him as much as before and he could barely parry against his enemy''s attacks. In a moment of weakness, Lucius used his own combos and skills to destroy Sebastian. After noticing that his opponent heals up every time he lands a lethal blow, he starts to become frustrated and used more powerful skills to erase him completely. He paralyzed him before flying up and charging an attack similar to frieza''s supernova, albeit brighter. Unbeknownst to him, Sebastian has immunity to paralysis thanks to his regeneration and poison element and regains a pocket of time to think and react in. He activated death''s origin''s berserk skill and used sword reaper to stab his opponent thrice in a second. Lucius loses his concentration from the pain spreading from his dying heart and clutches it, leaving a massive ball of fiery energy floating in front of him. Using his time advantage, Sebastian pushed the ball towards the dominator. Slowly but surely, the ball started to drift towards the dominator''s direction. When he notices that his attack seemed to be hurled at him, he attempted to stop it with his hands. Unfortunately, Sebastian slashed his stomach in half with a powerful slash that left his hands numb. He turned his head towards Sebastian who shakes his hands rapidly to dispel the numbness and glared at him with contempt at his defeat by an unknown newbie. Before being eradicated by the fiery ball of pure destructive energy, he let out an angry groan at his enemy before a massive burst of fiery light illuminates the whole city, surpassing the day''s brightness. All monsters and people in a 5 mile radius turned to look at the light''s direction and gazed in awe. Meanwhile, a beautiful black haired woman with very pale blue skin, sharp black nails wearing a torn black dress snapped in pain as she sits on a throne of stone. In front of her is a throne room like chamber in ruins. Cracks all around the ground letting ominous pale blue mist seep out and royal carpets and flags with scratches and mouth like holes all over it. The woman let out a pained groan and asked herself in annoyance, "Who dares to kill my champion!" She commands the abyssal mist to form a mirror and saw her champion''s killer. She commanded the mist to move into the magical mirror with killing intent. "Now to watch my enemy''s painful demise." She laughed evilly as her voice echoes throughout the empty, cursed stone walls of her prison. 30 Fallen Champion As the fiery ball begins to vaporize the dying Lucius'' body, abyssal mist begins to appear out of thin air. The mist slithers in mid air towards his orifices. When the blonde haired knight saw the mist, he smiled wickedly as they enter his body and begins to disperse the ball of flames. When the ball of flames starts to dissipate, Sebastian notices that everything around him froze. The cheering audience simply froze with many of them about to clap hands or open their mouths. All things suddenly fall to silence as the flames disperse. Suddenly, the ground shook and a divine masculine voice announced, "God Mission 1 Activated!" A notification appeared and its rewards brought a smile unto the future god''s face. ======= God Mission 1 ======= Difficulty: Very Hard (Extreme) Objective: ? Slay the Abyssal Witch''s Champion (Main) The Abyssal Witch has revived and strengthened her champion with abyssal mist. Slay the champion to prevent her escape. Enemy Combat Rank: Eternal-3 (???) ? Slay/Seal the Abyssal Witch (Side) Slay or Seal the Abyssal Witch to prevent her corruption from entering Elbenon. Enemy Combat Rank: Silver Legendary Time Limit: 30 minutes Rewards: - Dark Element Mythical Skill - Tier 4 Rank Up Materials - 50,000 merits - ???? (Side) - ???? (Side) - ???? (Side) ''The rewards are just the best!'' He could finally have a mythical skill and become a tier 4 entity. His development would stagnate at a peak genius'' level if he did not raise his tier. Tiers multiply power based on their numbers. A tier 1 would double the user''s power while every tier above would add 1 to the tier number. Ascending to Tier 4 would bring him a great boost as it multiplies his power by 5 times. His current multiplier from tiers are only 24, tier 4 would bring him 120. This alone is enough for him to defeat a mutated Eternal-8 rank. Seeing the fact that his enemy''s strength now significantly surpasses his, he activated all of his power enhancing skills. He summons the Black Destroyer and used both Impenetrable Regalia and Sultry Awakening. His tuxedo lost its waistcoat and blazer, only a half buttoned white shirt remained, showing off Sebastian''s chiseled abs. His aura also grew as his power increased by a rank and a half, becoming equal to his opponent''s. When the ball of fire dissipates into a large puff of smoke, red eyes looked down towards Sebastian from the cloud of smoke. When the cloud quickly dissipates, a corrupted Lucius floated mid air. He did not appear like a golden knight anymore. His armor turned into a dark shade of silver, his head had a helmet on with pale blue smoke escaping from his eyes. His eyes are black like the abyss, half of his face only had bones remaining while the other half turned pale blue with sharp teeth penetrating his lips as he smiled wickedly. An aura of evil started to emanate from his form and his lance lost its holy appearance and is replaced by a black lance with a handle seemingly made of personified human agony in dark coloured silver. Sebastian stared at him seriously, watching his form for any sudden attacks. The corrupted Lucius then charged at Sebastian with all his might. With his augmented strength, Lucius managed to flung Sebastian away by a few yards before moving in to attack. ''Why is he so strong!'' Lucius'' strength has apparently increased more than what he had expected. Before he could recover and attack, the corrupted knight delivered a hailstorm slashes, stabs and punches. He mercilessly tore Sebastian''s body apart by sheer force until he became dismembered. He grinded Sebastian into splattered meat paste that stained the white wall of the battlefield in a bloody red. The knight turned its head away from his destroyed opponent and walked towards the arena''s center. While he walked away, Sebastian regenerated and summoned his monsters, commanding them to hide. He is delighted at the knight''s lack of caution against his opponents. He could tell that Lucius believes himself invincible and that will allow him to kill him while he is distracted. When Lucius reaches the arena''s center, abyssal mist seeps through an opening on the dry ground. The mist lingered around the crack while an ancient female voice spoke from it, "You have succeeded my champion. Now, I shall enter you and be free from my prison." While watching this scene unfold, he activated power purity and sneaked up on him. The mist starts to enter the knight and his aura started to rise by ranks. ''I have to stop him, now!'' He used the legendary skill Soul Slayer and stabbed the knight right at his chest. When his blade is about a few cm from the corrupted one''s chest, he felt something grab his sword. When he looked towards the knight, he is no longer kneeling. His face held a perplexed look with a hint of worry and Sebastian saw the knight stop his sword with his palm. The knight smiled evilly as a female voice sneered, "Nice try, too bad that now you will die for your insolence!" The knight grabbed onto death''s origin and tightened his grip, attempting to shatter it. After a few unsuccessful tries, the knight''s face turned in frustration and groaned, "Why won''t it break!!!" Seeing the possessed knight focusing on breaking his sword, he mentally contacted his familiar and monster to charge at him with their strongest attacks. Li Yao summoned a torrent of petals that caught the knight by surprised. The petals did little but managed to whittle his armor down slowly as they attempt to shred its foe. Being annoyed at the disturbance, the knight turned its gaze towards Li Yao and let go of Sebastian''s blade. As it starts to walk towards Li Yao, a large purple ball exploded on his back and dented his armor. The knight turned towards the large black dragon and is then bombarded by a concentrated river of dragon fire from his left. He turned his attention to the larger black dragon who then spewed another river of fire to drown his opponent. The fire did not harm him much but managed to soften his armor when the dandelion parasite summoned dandelions to secrete a weakness toxin unto the corrupted knight. Not sensing any danger from behind it, the dandelions manage to burrow under his skin and secrete the weakness poison into his bloodstream. He slowly felt that the river of fire is getting stronger as he had a harder time holding it back. His armor began to soften just enough for Sebastian to attack. Commanding Li Yao to summon more petals, he executed dark whirlwind and attacked Lucius alongside the swarm of sharp pink petals. As he started to be incapacitated with the combined forces of dragon fire, blade petals and a flurry of blades, he began to draw out more abyssal mist from his heart. Seeing him getting stronger, Sebastian used his shadow manipulation to determine the source of his power. As the shadows report to him the location of the corrupted knight''s core, he ended dark whirlwind and executed sword reaper. As the swords penetrate his heart, the knight screamed in agony, "AAAAGAGSGGHHHHHHAAGHH!" The knight entered a weak stage and to end the knight, he executed eternal death and absorbed the knight. The attacks cease as the knight is being absorbed into the death''s origin blade. The witch took possession of the knight as its eyes turned blue and it glared at Sebastian with fury. "How DARE YOU!!!!!" It attempted to kill Sebastian by chanting a spell but when it did, black chains appear from the sword and dragged the witch and her host inside, screaming a long no as she becomes a part of the sword. A notification rings as they become one with the blade. "Mission accomplished!!!!" God Mission 1 Completed!!! Evaluation: S Objectives: - Main (Completed) - Side (Completed) Rewards: - Asmodeus Thorns (Mythical Ranked) - Tier 4 Vampire Lord materials (3 Undying Roses, 1 Bottle of Ancient Virgin Blood and 6000 Demon Petals) - 50,000 merits - 5 Basic Epiphany Token - Legendary Summoning Token - 3 Training Space Token Before he could inspect the rewards he received, time began to flow around the space and everything have started to move again. The crowds cheered louder as they see the figure of Lucius fall onto the ground as Sebastian stands where he is, sweating. He then saw many women suddenly nose bleeding and collapsing on their seats and didn''t understand why until he looked down. He saw some of his sexy abs exposed and his shirt still half buttoned while sweat drops flow around it, making it sparkle a little. He quickly buttoned up his shirt and donned back his vest and waistcoat. "Sebastian wins the match!! Sebastian is now the winner of the Terradeus Grand Tournament!!!" The herald announced. The crowd cheers and claps as the tournament has been won. Some of the empire representatives who expected that empires are always superior to kingdoms have begun to reconsider their opinion and applaud the newcomer. To the morning star empire, they now have something to watch out as winning won''t be as easy anymore with this newcomer. As the winner, the name of Sebastian Adrian Cain the Dark Prince becomes known throughout Terradeus as the first person to have defeat a 7 time defending champion. Thanks to that, the Agareth Kingdom has started to prosper and empires have begun to take them more seriously. However, they have other plans for this super newcomer and have started their scheming. 31 Tournament Rewards A minute after the announcement, the high ranking officials of the tournament came up to him and awarded him a golden medallion with the words 67th Grand Champion of Terradeus inscribed on it. The palm sized medal hanged on crimson gold cloth. An official gestured to Sebastian for him to duck his head a little for him to place the medallion around his neck. When the official hung it around his neck, he could sense something powerful nearby. Using the system''s identification skills, he tracked the powerful aura to the medallion and inspected it with the system. Terradeus Tournament Medallion (Gold Relic, Epic Ranked Medallion) +25% all attributes - Skills: ? Greater Status Type: Passive Effect: All humans affiliated with any organisation with at least 10,000 others within a range of 1km from the user''s presence will show great respect and humility towards user. User''s authority will be almost equal to that of the emperor or the queen. - History: A medallion forged by the best blacksmiths of all empires in Terradeus for the purpose of being given to the champion of the Empire Leagues of the Terradeus Grand Tournament. However, the Void God Saphraim imbued an infinitesimal amount of his power to enhance the medallion''s abilities. ''Must be an extra gift from Saphraim for completing the God Mission.'' The medallion has good attributes which would make him considerably stronger and equipped it upon having it hung around his neck. The medal itself should be quite heavy but his cultivation level and augmented vampire physique allows it to feel as light as a feather. While he is being crowned the champion, what he presumed to be the morning star empire''s royal family and healers bringing a stretcher and carrying him away. The dark aura he felt in Lucius had disappeared but other dark auras emanated from the royal family. A feeling starts to emerge telling himself that this won''t be the last them he saw of them. He thought of it as something cliche but since he isn''t exactly a hero, he''ll just ignore it till a later date. After all, he still has an empire to raise and a harem to build. Right after the medallion is hung around his neck, something slightly smaller than him crashed onto him. Looking forward, he saw an eldest princess hugging him while shouting out congratulations. "Princess, what are you doing?" He asked. After the princess heard his question, she immediately jumped backwards with a blushing face. ''Idiot! hard to get! Don''t let him see that you need him make him feel like he needs you.'' After meeting Sebastian for the first time and returning home to the castle, she asked her friend from another kingdom about guys. She told her about the fact that he managed to make her feel weak in her knees and made her heart pump faster by just being around him. She also asks her how to make him like her. Like most girls, she advised her to play hard to get because dominant guys like him would definitely chase after anyone who resisted him because most girls would just give themselves to him anyway. As per that logic, he plans to make her look uninterested so he''ll fall for her instead. However, Sebastian isn''t the average handsome guy but a future god and not to mention a cheat system. After jumping away, emotion starts to die down in her voice as she congratulates him once more, trying to sound uninterested. Sebastian shot her a perplexed look before ignoring it and started thanking the rest of the royal family, the general, the archmage and stefan for congratulating him on his victory. The king invited him to joining them for a victory feast at the palace in 3 days. ''This is ridiculous! How does he magically win the empire leagues!'' He thought. The eldest prince julian is clearly jealous at his victory and a celebration in his honor. He didn''t even manage to pass the semifinals at the kingdom leagues and somehow an unheard of noble from his own kingdom managed to win the empire leagues, something no kingdom has ever even come close to achieving. He believed that it''s impossible that there is anyone greater in the kingdom else than his father. He spent his whole life under an endless torrent of training and yet he could not even hold a candle to this newcomer''s achievement. He wanted to complain and say no. However, considering his current status, he is no position to reject and begrudgingly stayed silent. ''One day, I''ll find a way to become greater and I''ll become the center of attention once more!'' He declared mentally. The agareth kingdom higher ups then left him and went back to the capital using a teleportation gate reserved for guests from the agareth kingdom. When they left, they are soon followed by stefan who said that he needed to run some errands in his kingdom and headed home. Since it''s still mid day, he decided to visit kilsa at the infirmary. Considering that he finally met another player, he wanted to clear out any grudges and hopefully make a friend. After all, doing everything alone is never a good idea. With allies, all of his adventures would become much easier and with every ally comes one less enemy. Coming into this world had altered this impatient, gullible boy into a patient, intelligent man. In his previous life, he could only dream of reaching such a level of power and intelligence that he possesses now. While on his way to the infirmary, he checked out the spoils of his first God mission. Asmodeus Thorns (Mythical ranked skill) Type: Active Effect: Spread a faint reddish pink mist up to a range of 6 miles in half a second. All enemies inside will have their visibility reduced by 90%, their movement speed by 70% and their reaction speed by 50%. Enemies will take 270% darkness damage per second and their willpower will be drained by the user for healing, reducing their willpower by 5% of the user''s willpower per second. Allies within the mist will gain 30% visibility, 20% movement speed and 10% reaction speed. Enemy carcasses can be chosen to be transformed into user''s lust demons with a maximum tier of 1 tier below the user. (Max. Tier 6) Channeling Time: 0.5 second Cooldown: 72 minutes Active Period: 36 minutes ''Woaaah! That''s just awesome!'' When he compared this mythical skill to his pseudo mythical skill, the comparison is like coal and diamond. Although pseudo mythical skills are top tier skills, their potential is very limited compared to their mythical ranked counterparts. ''Why is the system so generous?'' He thought, an intention of thanking. Suddenly, Hirani''s amused voice rang, "Well, you''ll need all the generosity you can get. After all, it only gets harder from here on." He didn''t take Hirani''s words too seriously but still kept that in mind. Remembering that the amount of benefits he received are probably equal to the suffering he''ll have to endure one day. After all, most of the world follows the rule of karma. An eye for an eye they say. Since that will happen one day, he swears to exploit all of the benefits and plan ahead so that when disaster strikes, he will be ready. Next would be his materials to ascend into Tier 4. For a vampire to ascend onto a Tier 4, the vampire must first create a bride/groom for him/herself before having the bride/groom perform the ritual. The items he posses are enough for him to perform the ritual but he just lacks the perfect girl to do it for him. ? Undying Roses (Pseudo Legendary ranked item) Quantity: 3 Effects: Advancement item to become a Tier 4 and Tier 5 for vampires, white witches, dark witches, succubi and incubi History: A rose that grows on areas which much tragedy and death energy. It feeds on the undying love of beings who wish to revive deceased loved once. Places like the grave of great heroes or the grave of true lovers will have one or two stems grow from it. Bushes and groves of this plant can only be found in the inferno of lust. ? Ancient Virgin Blood (Epic ranked item) Quantity: 6 liters Effects: Advancement item to become Tier 3 and Tier 4 for vampires, blood demons, blood elves and cultists History: A blood of a virgin that has stayed fresh over a course of at least 300 years due to constantly absorbing the ambient mana and energies around it. Has a high mana density even greater than that of demon blood. ? Demon Petals (Epic ranked item) Quantity: 6000 Effect: Advancement item to become Tier 3, Tier 4 and Tier 5 for vampires, succubi and incubi History: Petals belonging to a plant with 6 red petals on each flower. The plant grows in areas where there are many demon remains. The plant is quite elusive as it produces demonic mist that could create illusions to Tier 2 entities and below. Seeing how to acquire it, he is quite relieved that he doesn''t have to acquire it on his own. The greatest challenge would be ancient virgin blood because he''s very sure that there would be almost none of it because only high cultivation nuns would possess it due to their lengthened lifespan. Kidnapping one would also be a problem as older nuns would be very experienced demon slayers so there''s the off chance that he would be captured and purified. Before he could finish reviewing all of his rewards, he had arrived at the infirmary. Walking into the large wooden building, he went up to the receptionist. She is currently reviewing a clear crystal that seems to contain all information about the patients here. She is quite a beauty with pink hair and blue eyes dressed in a saintly garb. She doesn''t notice his presence until he called out to her politely, "Miss?" "Yes, what do you neeaaa!" When she looked up and saw the black haired youth before him, her jaw dropped and she could feel her knees becoming weak. She had never seen a more handsome youth in front of him, leaving her in a daze. Looking at her awed expression, he sighed mentally, ''Being handsome does have its drawbacks doesn''t it?'' To end her daze, he used his blood manipulation to suppress her hormone production so she would start talking to him. Luckily, the suppression work but it still took another 10 seconds to push her out of her daze. Once he got her attention, he wasted no time and quickly asked her where to find kilsa of the Augur Empire. He showed her his participation token and gained clearance to her location. She''s on the 5th floor in the room 511 of the VIP section. After giving her a simple thank you and a charming smile, he goes towards her room while leaving a blushing receptionist. After walking up a flight of stairs towards the 5th floor, he followed the signs on the wall and turned left to the VIP section before turning left once more and walking down the corridor until he reached the room. Before entering, he knocked at the door thrice. Inside the room, Kilsa lay in her bed completely healed up while a large green turtle with miniature stone monuments and trees on its back beside her. The turtle is an Immortal-9 rank Thousand Year Turtle, a double mutated monster. The Thousand Year Turtle is a very wise monster with powerful defensive abilities, a good contrast to its assassin master who possesses powerful offensive abilities instead. The turtle alerted ots master of someone at the door with its sage like voice, "Kilsa, someone''s at the door." At her summoning monster''s alert, she opened her green eyes, awakening from her short nap. Thanks to her valkyrie Jinra using healing tokens on her, she came back up to full health. She stood up from her cozy, plain white bed and walked herself over to the wooden door, past her now resting turtle monster. When she arrived at the door, she asked, "Who is it?" A teenage male voice replied, "Sorry about knocking you out." She opened the door to find the handsome raven haired youth clad in black who defeated her in a single attack. "I got you a gift, I hope that there is no enmity between us." He handed her 2 basic epiphany tokens. For non players, it would seem like he is handing nothing over. However, kilsa''s previously almost expressionless face immediately turned into a surprised one. ''An Epiphany Token!!!'' Kilsa had been here in this world for around 5 years. She had purchased the noble package, her base power rank being that of a Gold Apex rank upon her entry. Unlike God Package users, she didn''t progress that quickly and had to wait for her physique to handle the instant power increase albeit its duration only an eighth of a normal human''s. When people elevated, they have to wait until the new energy received from the monster to fully merge with the person''s body. The more compatible the monster, the more faster they can elevate again. That''s why going multi element is not suggested because the elevation rates would be significantly reduced. However, the noble package allows people to have the merging process 8 times faster. Getting an Epiphany token is one of the greatest things she could receive. The epiphany token would remove the elevation limit for 6 hours and increase her learning, improvement and memory by 900% for also 6 hours. With this, she could easily bind and learn skills in just a day without having weeks or months of constant training. However, as an assassin, she knows very well that when there are gifts there must be a request. He looked up at him with suspicion written all over her face. Clearly seeing suspicion towards him, Sebastian spoke in a friendly tone, "Relax, I don''t want much from you. I only need your contact. That way, I can help you if you need me to without having to look around for me." With an irritated tone she replied, "What, do you think that I''m not strong enough to take care of myself." Kilsa doesn''t like being offered help, she doesn''t want anyone''s pity on her. In her previous life, people who offered her help just turned their backs away from her. People she considers as her friends and now he expects that she''ll just trust him completely. Not to mention, he is a stranger to her. "No it''s not that, isn''t it better to have each other''s backs in case anything happens. After all, the universe could be quite an asshole." Still, kilsa won''t surrender but her valkyrie managed to convince her just to add his contact. After a short chat, he left and spent the rest of the day buying rare and exotic items from the city. There are many epic and imperial ranked items within the city. With the tournament prize money, he purchased many rare items and relics before storing them into his world crystal. In the dead of night, he prowled the streets following the scent of his marked victims. He gave each of them 3 minutes of heaven before sending them back to sleep with a blood draining bite. He returned back to the noble''s coffin in the graveyard and slept there till daytime when a problem surfaces. 32 Demon Hunters Three demon hunters each dressed in holy garments or armor jumped around the graveyard of Horizon city early in the morning. The sky is still dark and only the sounds of crows can be heard from within the graveyard. Mist covered the graveyard as the demon hunters silently jump from one tombstone over to another. A blonde short haired demon huntress suddenly stopped and alerted, "I can sense the trace of abyssal energy coming from the building." She stood in front of a large stone mausoleum. Some parts of the old mausoleum had cracks and moss growing on it. In the light of day, it would appear like an old shrine but in the dead of night, it appeared like a haunted house. Mist seemed to be spewing out of the entrance. The demon hunters came to an abrupt stop upon their comrade''s warning. A young, white haired demon hunter with black eyes stepped forward and begun tracing golden runes with his index finger. An invisible spiritual barrier appeared, encasing everything within a 200m radius. The barrier is an epic ranked spell named ''Holy Ground'', it is a spell designed to prevent any evil or dark entity from escaping in any way. Only Tier 4 evil/dark entities and above can escape the barrier. After a few seconds, the barrier is complete and a gong sound booms as the barrier completely seals the area. The gong noise is enough to awaken Sebastian who opens his red eyes. Immediately, he asked his valkyrie of what''s going on. The valkyrie replied, "A bunch of demon hunters are near the mausoleum. They seem to be following the very faint traces of abyssal energy around you after your fight with the Abyssal Witch." While fighting Lucius, some of the abyssal energy from the mist and from his blade remains in his body. His body is slowly absorbing the evil energy but it will take a few more hours before it is fully absorbed. He guessed that the demon hunter from the other day is probably looking for the abyssal witch''s champion too and that they must be from the demon hunters association. He immediately walked out of the black coffin and walked down the old hallway before walking up 30 steps of stairs. The blonde haired demon huntress sensed him approaching and spoke, "Brother, Sister, the abyssal demon is approaching. Get ready!" She took out a silver mace with fiery runes engraved on it. Her blonde, two winged comrade took out an enchanted silver whip while her white haired comrade took out 12 silver telekinetic daggers. They all stanced for a fight, they prepared to subdue and capture the demon for the Holy Church''s Inquisition. The association is one of the three main factions of the church but remains neutral on any forms of internal conflict unless demonic or malevolent entities are involved in the situation. The association only has 10,000 members and they only accept Eternal ranked powerhouses of at least the prodigy rank. When Sebastian walked out of the crypt, his pale face slightly glimmers in the moonlight and his arms raised up to show a gesture of non aggression. Upon seeing his full human figure, the blonde demon huntress pointed her silver mace at him and aggressively asked, "Who are you?" Sebastian put his hands down and replied, "I am Sebastian Adrian Cain from the kingdom of Agareth. I mean you no harm." He noticed that his drop dead gorgeous appearance did not effect the girls as much as usual. His appearance had reached the maximum amount of human male sexiness and most girls would either immediately nosebleed or pass out on sight. It appears that they have a defensive charm because he only saw them blush for a few seconds. When the girls looked at him, they become entranced for a few seconds while blushing. They are only snapped out of the trance by their white haired ally who commanded all of his telekinetic daggers to attack. Sebastian could make out that the speed and force of eacg dagger is on par with an Eternal-5 rank''s normal attack. Due to him having the power of an Eternal-6 rank, he managed to dodge all of the daggers with slight difficulty. Seeing that their ally is attacking, the girls headed straight towards him and attacked with their weapons. The winged huntress used her whip in an attempt to restrain him while the other huntress placed most of her power in the mace and headed straight towards him to knock him out. Thanks to his immensely upgraded brain, he managed to trick them into having their attacks hit each other. The whip tied them up together while the full powered mace struck them both and flung them towards their white haired telekinetic ally. The young telekinetic hunter didn''t manage to react as he was immersed in controlling the movements of all 12 daggers. Once they crashed onto each other, Sebastian almost immediately casted crippling thorns and drained their stamina quickly. He stopped so that they would have enough to talk but not enough to fight. Thanks to their pain resistance training, they become active quickly and begun struggling but quickly stopped as they panted for air. "Why did you attack me?" Sebastian didn''t show any gesture of hostility or danger previously, he wanted to know why they attacked out of nowhere. The white haired hunter furiously replied, "You attacked us with a charm spell first!" The young hunter believed that the girls are charmed with an attack. As a hunter, he knew that demons would employ a variety of tactics to fight, even ones that used charm first before seducing them into becoming the demon''s pawns. So it was only natural that he attacked because he thought that his allies are being attacked. Sebastian replied calmly, "No I didn''t, check the mana in the air. Does it show any changes with my traces in it." The white haired youth looked at the air. People who learn magic are capable of seeing mana fluctuations in the air with the naked eye. They could determine whether someone used magic or not by seeing if there are any changes in the air''s ambient mana. Seeing as there is no changes in the air, the white haired youth felt embarrassed but he quickly justified his actions, "I may have attacked you without reason but you are a demon. Demons are the enemy of the Church of God, if I didn''t attack you will." Most demons that exist are in opposition to the church due to them being the allies of God and that they persecute the whole race. People who are born as demons are persecuted by the church which cause them to grow up in opposition. Due to this, demons and hunters will almost always kill each other on sight. As Sebastian had an almost human apperance except for the sharp fangs and the slightly pointed ears, it would be hard to prove he is a demon from looks alone. As the first vampire, he had reflections on mirrors, immunity to sunlight, silver and garlic and a reduced weakness to holy objects. However, he had no intentions on intervening in this war. "Do you think that I care about this war or would''ve immediately attacked you?", He asked. The youth replied, "Of course you would, you must be lying if you had no evil intentions towards us." The youth held firm is belief that all demons are spawns of evil as his family was killed by a demon. Seeing his refusal to admit his mistake, he challenged, "Then use a truth spell on me." Seeing this as a way to prove his righteousness, he casted the stronger truth spell and binded it with a powerful smite skill. If Sebastian lied even in the slightest, he will be smitten with a powerful attack that can severely injure an Eternal-5 rank. Once the youth stopped chanting, Sebastian spoke aloud, "I do not wish to attack any members of the church or be involved in their stupid war." The golden runes did not flicker or change even in the slightest. This clearly meant that Sebastian is not lying even in the slightest. The hunters made a short apology except for the white haired youth who just stayed silent and admitted defeat. Seeing not much of a threat, he let them go by retracting the thorns where they immediately escaped. With his advanced combat domain, he could tell that the demon hunters are still watching him in the forest from 40 miles away. He chose to ignore it and transformed into a bat, returning to his castle. Seeing his transformation, the demon hunters asked one another, "What type of demon is he?" The short haired lady decided to record their findings and report to the church about a new type of demon they have discovered. Unbeknownst to Sebastian, his identity as a vampire has begun to be revealed. Feeling a little horny, he went to the brothel and purchased their two best female prostitutes. Even when they noticed that he sucked their blood and didn''t have sex with them during their 1 hour session, they didn''t complain or panic. Having a youth this handsome is already enough to make them moan in pleasure and release their vaginal fluids. They all lost control and collapsed as Sebastian drains their blood from their breasts until they fall asleep with their clothes ripped off and bite marks all over their supermodel grade bodies. -1 Cultivation Levels & Powerhouse System This list contains the multipliers of power that comes with elevating to a higher rank. Also, the level of power here is shown as if an average person cultivated to that level. Example, an average person of the Yellow White Divine rank would only be a Multi Galaxy Level being while a powerhouse or a talented person would obviously be much stronger. The level of a powerhouse is measured this way by comparing their personal powers to the average of their ranks. Like a person of Iron I capable of defeating and Iron III would be called a powerhouse, albeit the lowest leveled type. To be considered a powerhouse, one must be capable of defeating at least one enemy that is two ranks above or defeat one of a higher rank with a multiplier of at least five. ? Mortal Realms Unranked to Iron I - 2.5¡Á Unranked = Average Human Level Iron I to Iron III - 2¡Á every rank up Wall Level Iron III to Bronze I - 2.5¡Á Bronze I to Bronze III - 2¡Á every rank up Room to Small Building Level Bronze III to Silver I - 2.5¡Á Silver I to Silver III - 2¡Á every rank up House Level Silver III to Gold I - 2.5¡Á Gold I to Gold III - 2¡Á every rank up Large Building Level Gold III to Perfected Gold - 2¡Á Multi City Block Level ? Ascension Realm Perfected Gold to Apex I - 5¡Á Small Town Level Apex I to Apex IV - 2¡Á every rank up Apex IV to Apex V - 2.5¡Á rank up Small City Level Apex V to Apex VII - 2¡Á per rank up City Level ? Transcended Realms Apex VII to Immortal-1 - 2.5¡Á rank up Large City Level Immortal-1 to Immortal-8 - 2¡Á every rank up Island Level Immortal-8 to Immortal-9 - 2¡Á Immortal-9 to Immortal-10 - 1.5625¡Á Large Island Level Immortal-10 to Eternal-1 - 2.5¡Á Country Level Eternal-1 to Eternal-5 - 2¡Á every rank up Large Country Level Eternal-5 to Eternal-8 - 2¡Á every rank up Continent Level+ Eternal-8 to Eternal-9 - 1.5625¡Á Multi Continent Level Eternal-9 to Eternal-11 - 2¡Á per rank up Moon Level Eternal-11 to Eternal-12 - 2.5¡Á Small Planet Level Eternal-12 to Silver Legendary- 10¡Á Planet Level+ Silver Legendary to Dark Gold Legendary - 3¡Á per rank up Large Planet Level Dark Gold Legendary to Imperial Legendary - 3.33¡Á per rank up Large Planet Level+ ? Divine Realms Imperial Legendary to Bronze Demigod - 33.33¡Á Dwarf Star Level Bronze Demigod to Black Gold Demigod - 3¡Á per rank up Star Level Black Gold Demigod to Imperial Demigod - 3.33¡Á per rank up Large Star Level Imperial Demigod to Sacred Silver Mythical - 100¡Á Solar System Level+ Sacred Silver Mythical to Heavenly Mythical - 3¡Á per rank up Multi Solar System Level Heavenly Mythical to Deified Mythical - 3.33¡Á per rank up Galaxy Level Deified Mythical to Yellow White Divine - 100¡Á Multi Galaxy Level Yellow White Divine to Legendary Divine - 10¡Á per rank up Multi Cosmos Level ? Godhood Realms ??? ? Powerhouse Titles - Elite Cross ranking kill of two ranks - Experienced/Genius Cross ranking kill of three ranks or eight times multiplier - Veteran/Prodigy Cross ranking kill of four ranks or sixteen times multiplier - Champion/Great Genius Cross ranking kill of five ranks or thirty two times multiplier - Great Champion/Peak Genius Cross ranking kill of seven ranks or one hundred and twenty eight times multiplier - Legend/Super Genius Cross ranking kill of eight ranks or 256 times multiplier - Mythical/Legendary Genius Cross ranking kill of ten ranks or 1024 times multiplier - ??? 1 A Bad Day and a New Beginning "But I didn''t do anything!" Exclaimed an overweight teen inside the principal''s office. Sebastian James Scarbrough is an 18 year old teenager living in Oxford. He is a highschool student with passing marks, spending most of his time playing the popular game Paradise: the Infinite world, watching anime, reading manga and web novels. He is short teen being only 5 feet 5 inches tall, with black hair, small eyes, a fat nose, slightly bulging lips and an unathletic physique. He is a british-chinese with 2 siblings, a younger brother and an older sister. His mother had died of lung cancer when he was only 6 years old. The three were abused by their british father who raped his sister and killed her. He was then sent to jail after a neighbor reported strange noises coming from the next door. He was then adopted by the Child Protection Agency at the age of 12 alongside his younger brother and lived in a dormitory provided by the agency at his school. He was quickly bullied by seniors for his bad academic performance, small eyes, unattractive physique and his gaming addiction, only having 3 friends who are also bullied for similar reasons. At the age of 15, he could not withstand the bullying any longer and made a pact with the seniors to watch porn in exchange for being accepted. When he watched it, the seniors secretly recorded him watching it and masturbating, spreading it around the students and causing them to be disgusted at him. After watching those scenes, he was cursed with a porn addiction and became a pervert. Thanks to being that and an otaku in his school, his fellow classmates would stay away or mock him for it. Even though he did not treat them badly at all, they would bully him. Even the seniors would set him up and cause trouble for him. Despite the seniors already moving on to their respective colleges, trouble seemed to follow him everywhere. "Nonsense, there were tens of witnesses who reported with the same account. I''m sorry Mr. Scarborough but you are expelled from this institute!" Said the principal. Sebastian huffed in anger at this fate. First he was tricked into watching porn and being labeled a pervert, and now, he was framed for beating up an alumni who clearly attacked him out of the blue and caused him a few bruises. Now, he couldn''t even apply to a decent job thanks to this. If only this didn''t happen, he could get a diploma and maybe work in a company. If he''s lucky, he could climb the ranks and get a girlfriend since most girls are disgusted at him. His brother was also killed yesterday and he attended the funeral causing him to be tardy. The principal left the room to do the necessary calls and paperwork. While he did, the teen cried his heart out. First, he saw his only friend and family in a coffin and buried in the ground. One more reason to live was stripped away from him. If not for his hobbies, he would committed suicide a while ago. However now, he had no more reason. He''d rather die through his own means than starve to death with a dead end job. In his mind, he thought of ways to end his life and hopefully, his next would be like those lucky Isekai protagonists who got a system. ''I wish I could be like those protagonists. Getting a system, building a harem and ruling the world. Sadly, this is real life and real life sucks!'' While he thought that, a white feather dropped on his head and turned into smoke. Since it happened in a second, he did not notice this white feather. While in thought, he recalled on how it all began and remembered the first day of seventh grade. He was walking down the hallway as the first day of school started. He is until now, a great fan of anime and in the recent years, hentai. While thinking about his favourite anime, he accidentally bumped on a senior. "I''m sorry, I wasn''t looking." He helped to stack the fallen books of the senior and she thanked him. For some reason, he absentmindedly stared at her and suddenly, her boyfriend nearby shouted at him. "Stay away from my girl!" He stood up and ignored the angry senior. The senior had a perfect face, a girl would easily be charmed by such a face and using that, he could get any girl he wants. Although his girlfriend told him to calm down and she explained the situation, her words fell on deaf ears as he grabbed Sebastian by the collar. He then started mocking and punching him as Sebastian struggles to escape his grip. He begged and apologized for a mistake he never made. Thankfully, a teacher came and saved him from the petty monster. He was punished with suspension and it entered his permanent record. He would later know that this senior had a perfect record and grades, this record would reduce or even ruin his chances of joining Harvard or Stanford. As a result, he used his popularity to frame, persecute and torture him endlessly as a form of revenge. Amounting to the suffering he received now due to his temporary return. While crying he mumbled, "What did I do wrong? I was too stupid, too weak to fight for myself." When he heard the principal''s footsteps coming closer, he quickly looked for tissue and wiped his face to not look weak. After that, the child protection agency took him back to his apartment. His ''mother'' in the agency spoke out her mind while Sebastian did nothing to rebuke. He could tell that if he rebuked and told her the truth, the senior would try and silence him or take revenge afterwards. He had not much reason to live anymore, so why push it. Even if he won the case and the senior was sent to jail, it won''t change that he''s hated. It won''t change his grades or his social life. All of his otaku friends disappeared over the last few months so why bother. To good thing about death is that he believed he had a chance to reincarnate. Maybe, he could get lucky and get a system like his favourite novels. He could grow a harem, travel between worlds and rule a great empire. After the agency left him alone, he played Paradise: The Infinite World for one last time. His character had the same name as him but he was far better than his creator. He was handsome beyond compare and one of the top 3 strongest beings in the game thanks to Sebastian''s dedication to the game. Many tried to hire him to join esports for this famous game but he declined as his brother was still there with him. He thought of joining but decided not to since he was too tired of living anyway. It was a full moon night, the pale rays of the moon crept through the window. His room was a mess, like a typhoon had just past. There are books littered around his bed and table. The moonlight shone on him as he played his last game in this world. He prepared to die through bleeding himself to death. His knife''s blade glittered under the moonlight, ready to slash the otaku''s flesh when he finished playing for the last time. After a four hour gaming session, it was midnight, the perfect time for him to die, he thought. He then grabbed the knife and prepared to puncture his head to end it quickly. Although he placed the knife between his eyes, he staggered while doing so. His instincts as a living being causes him to fear certain death which is an obstacle for him to conquer. He reminisces his whole terrible life and directs all of his anger at the knife. With great determination and a will for death, he punctured his skull with the knife. Its metal blade caused a short cracking noise as it took a short moment to break into the skull and kill the brain. Not even a second in, his vision quickly faded to black as the knife penetrates the front area of his brain. A small river of blood gushes out of his head as his body falls down dead with a knife on his forehead. An endless darkness descends on him as he enters the embrace of death. In an endless void, a white orb shines brightly amidst the endless darkness. It seemed like it''s the only thing within the darkness. This is Sebastian''s soul who had entered the temporary state of death while his consciousness is asleep within this inactive state. Upon death, he really hoped that some God would just appear and grant him a new life and a system because that God would be sorry about his bad life or something. ''How disappointing'' He thought. Death looked like a dreamless sleep where you feel absolutely nothing at all. No emotions, no pain and no sense, it is truly the opposite of life. Then suddenly, a brilliant flash of light appeared before him. When the light died down, a monitor appeared while a message rang in his mind. [Hello, poor soul. Would you like to go on an adventure? Would you like to go and conquer the world? Would you like to achieve godhood or start a harem? If you do, please touch the monitor in front of you.] ''What?'' Is the first question he asked. This isn''t exactly the usual thing that happens during transmigration. Usually the system would automatically input itself into the host and not even ask for permission. Wait, why did it even have to ask? If you''re dead, why remain in an empty space for God knows how long. ''Wait, how am I supposed to touch the monitor? I have no hands or feet.'' Just as he asked, a large glow bursted from within his body and his form had shifted from an orb into his body''s albeit without the knife or the small fountain of blood spewing out. He then, tried drifting towards the monitor like an astronaut. Apparently, this place is truly nothing as even gravity doesn''t exist here. While drifting, he accidently lost his balance and started to spin. He tried reversing the force but ended up either spinning him in reverse or increasing the speed. In the end, he bumped into the monitor and the monitor turned on. [Processing New Host] [Host Statistics: Name: Sebastian Scarbrough Title: Highschool Pervert Age: 18 Sex: Male Race: Human Mastery: None Active Skills: None Passive Skills: None Combat Power: Unranked (Below Average) Summoning Entities: None Remarks: I think dirt is more valuable] "Well that''s cheery." He said with sarcasm. He understood the title but couldn''t help but be annoyed by the remarks. Does the system really have to be so cruel. Just as he thought about that, the system actually replied. [Well, being brutally honest is actually quite helpful you know. Especially if the target is a guy.] "Wait, you can read my mind?" The system gave a bleep in confirmation. He gulped and suppressed all of his thoughts relating to his waifus and his imaginary sex scenes with them. He didn''t want the system to accidentally or purposely see his personal thoughts no matter what benefit he''ll get. After finding the human''s mind mostly empty, the system continued the welcome protocol. [Host is offered Four packages to choose from] [Adventurer Package: Do you simply want an adventure and life a fulfilling life of monster hunting? Then, buy this package for no cost at all! This package includes a free Bronze ranked weapon of choice, a Bronze ranked skill of choice, a basic guidebook on the world and an Iron level cultivation.] [Regal Package: Do you want an adventure but also become a noble, a king or even an emperor? Then, this package is the perfect match for you! However, it comes with a cost. Your next reincarnation will be restricted to the paradise world only. This package includes 5 free pieces of Dark Gold ranked equipment of choice, a hereditary title below king of choice, 2 Gold ranked skills of choice, a free backstory that can slightly alter the world, a free custom made small castle to be placed at any spot and a Bronze level cultivation.] [Legend Package: Do you want to become a legend? A person who''s name would go down through the annals of history forever? If you do, then this package will equip you with all you need to become a legend! However, this package will cost you to stay within the paradise world for 5 reincarnations or for 500 years. This package includes 7 free pieces of Legendary ranked equipment of choice, a hereditary title below emperor of choice, 10 Pseudo Legendary skills of choice, a free backstory that can considerably alter the world, a free custom made large castle to be placed at any spot, a Legendary ranked Companion and a Gold level cultivation.] [Future God Package: For those of you who are uninterested in the packages before you, this is your package. If you yearn to be more than a legend, something truly immortal, something that mortals can never hope to compare to then you have done the right choice is choosing this package. With a simple price of your inability to reincarnate beyond the paradise world, you will be given the opportunity to ascend to Godhood. This package includes 7 free pieces of Mythical ranked equipment of choice, 3 free pieces of Pseudo Divine ranked equipment of choice, 20 Mythical ranked skills of choice, a hereditary title of choice, a free backstory that can alter the world at any degree, a free custom made castle to be placed at any spot, two Pseudo Divine ranked companions and an Eternal level cultivation.] "Whoa, these packages are amazing!" Even though he didn''t understand the rarity levels of the place that he''s coming to, his experience in gaming always says that a bronze rarity is never the bottom rarity. It''ll be quite a decent equipment to gain however, he stayed away from the adventurer package because he''d like to live as a king instead of as the typical everyday loser. If he is king, all of his perverted actions would be justified and any lady would be tempted by the offer of wealth. He decided not to pick the Regal package because he could not straight up be king of a country of his own choice or creation. ''Maybe I should be a God instead.'' The Future God package interested him the most because it gives him Mythical and even Pseudo Divine ranked things from the beginning. In most games, Mythical items would be at the top or if not the second or third highest rarity in the game. Gaining one of them from the start is an immense boon not to mention having several of them. But, he will never reincarnate beyond the world. He gave it a deep thought, ''One on hand, I would be given a shot at becoming a God and I won''t have any worries for all eternity while on the other hand, If I die I can reincarnate in another world and maybe in my favourite animes.'' He thought about it again before he reached a stalemate. Until, he realized something. If he died without a system or something like it, he would end up forgetting everything about himself in the next life. Realizing this, his opinion is undisputedly on becoming a God. Maybe, if he truly ascends to one, he could come and go pick up his girls by going to their respective worlds. A creepy grin formed on his face, like that of a sadist. Excited at the thought of venturing into those worlds, he was ready to choose the Future God package. But, he realized a fatal mistake. How does he select the package exactly? Since the system didn''t give any directions after that, should he ask it? "System? Do I call you that?" [Host may address me as whatever host wishes] "I''ll just call you system, it''s easier. Also, how do I choose the package anyway?" A bleep sounded before it replied. [Host simply mentions the choice] He felt a little stupid that he didn''t figured that out. After all, the only thing he could do is speak and bump into the monitor. Putting his stupidity aside he gave his reply, "Well then, I choose the Future God package." [Is Host sure?] "Yes." [Is Host really sure?] "Yes." [Very sure?] "Yes." [Ultimately sure?] "Yes! Yes, I''m sure!" Sebastian is getting quite impatient on this. I mean who wouldn''t if you''re gonna reincarnate in another world with a cheat system that can make you a God. [Package Confirmed] [Future God System Assigned] [God Mentor Assigned] [Welcome to Elbenon, the Paradise World!] 2 OP stuff part 1 [Welcome to Elbenon, the Paradise World!] As the monitor announced, it began to expand to twice its size. An empty status appeared on the monitor''s surface. Name: N/A Title: Future God Age: N/A Sex: N/A Race: N/A Mastery: N/A Active Skills: N/A Passive Skills: N/A Combat Power: N/A Summoning Entities: N/A [Basic Information Protocol Activated] [Please determine your new name, age, gender and race] [Appearance will be done later on] ''My new name and race. Hmmm.'' He thought of maybe becoming Sebastian from his old game. They share the same name but he could be the base of his new self, the inspiration. So, he thought of his new full name first. After several minutes of coming up with names, he came up with Sebastian Adrian Cain. Sebastian as in his rpg character''s name, Adrian from the personal name of Alucard from Castlevania and Cain from the name of the supposedly first vampire according to some games and people. Yes, he decided to become a vampire. Sebastian thought of surpassing the vampires from anime like Kojou because he sees him as a dumb siscon who has many girls who want him but he''s just too fucking dense to notice that which constantly annoys him on why he has those powers while he got a shitty life instead. Also, like Alucard from Helsing, he could be physically immortal by becoming one and like Kojou, many girls would quickly flock to him and he would actually take care of these poor girls who wanted their pussies to be flooded by his endless torrent of semen. Also, the name already sounded awesome on its own so he easily decided on this. The only problems he''ll face is the bloodsucking part, sunlight, garlic, holy water and staking. Else than that, he won''t have to worry about anything thanks to his super abilities and regeneration as a vampire. Then, he handled his age and gender which is obviously 17 and male. Seventeen so that he could go for the young and handsome look, and obviously male so that he could have future waifus and harems. After checking and sorting his decisions out one more time, he spoke to to the system and told it his choices. Immediately, it started to process and apply the answer. [Affirmative Name: Sebastian Adrian Cain Age: 17 Sex: Male Race: Vampire] [Progenitor detected] [Congratulations, Host is now the Progenitor of Vampires] [Racial Weaknesses Removed] [Racial Traits Enhanced] "Progenitor? Really?!" His smile widened as he received it. He got to become what many fans have dreamed of becoming, a vampire progenitor. He truly hit the jackpot this time and could not hide his joy because he also couldn''t suppress his smile or happy expression. A progenitor vampire had no vampire weaknesses at all. Holy artifacts would not do extra damage on him, he could eat garlic like a normal person, sunlight won''t hurt him and stakes would only immobilize him, not kill him. The system said that his racial traits were enhanced so that means that he''ll be far stronger while having no weaknesses. The progenitor thing also told him that he should be the first vampire then. Now as the progenitor, he won''t have a problem in securing a harem of girls because his charm would definitely be far superior to that of any other vampire. With his new title as the progenitor of vampires in Elbenon he declares, "As the first vampire, I will conquer all!" He felt more confident knowing that he will become such a powerful creature after getting OP stuff. He could only be excited at what a life he would have or maybe, a whole heck of an eternity. Suddenly, the contents of the screen began to shift. [Equipment Protocol Activated] A seemingly endless list of equipment appeared on screen. A small, high quality 3d image of each equipment appeared below its respective name. Its type is stated beside the image that tells whether it is an object, item, armor or weapon. Seeing the object and item category, he could not help but wonder why are they separate things. Aren''t they pretty much the same. Startling him one more, the system explained monotonously. [Objects are incapable of being worn while items are] He jumped in fright, I mean who wouldn''t if someone just read your mind and answered it almost immediately. It''s scary how the system could freely read his mind but from the way it knew all in his mind, the system didn''t seem to have any malicious intent. "System, can I set mental privacy settings?" He doesn''t want the system possibly advising him on some personal content like sending notifications while he had sex like, "Host is suggested to lick her tits first." Even if it is helpful, it''s just weird to have a voice whispering shit like that in mind. [Would Host like to reduce system permissions in Host''s mind] "Yes please." His fear grew larger when he started randomly imagining the system ruining future moments like a first kiss or something by saying shit like, "Host should have sex after." Or "B has bigger boobs than A." [Please State Degree of Blockage] [Personal, Half Personal or Full] "What''s the difference between personal and half personal?" [Personal is for your personal thoughts and memories, Half personal is for all of your memories and your personal thoughts] "I''ll go with the personal one." Although its only my own personal thoughts, I''m pretty sure that much of my thoughts are very personal anyways. I won''t block the system off my other memories and my casual thoughts because it could possibly be of help if it could read them. With the mind reading limitation sorted out, he went back to the list of equipment displayed before him. Each equipment had either Mythical or Pseudo Divine ranked. Even just looking at their names and images made him awestruck. A long glass pane suddenly appeared below his hand with the letters, numbers and other functions written on it, in curiousity he asked, "Is this a keyboard?" [Yes. Host may use it to write down on the search bar] To test the different options for the equipment, he typed down Excalibur to test it out. Once he finished typing, a long list of 486 results appeared with the highest in the list being mythical ranked weapons. Just when he was about to ask about how he''s going to select something, he felt a smooth surface under his ghostly right arm. He turned to see a glass mouse held by his right arm. "Thanks system." First, he looks for a sword, the strongest sword. Tens of pseudo divine ranks appeared when he searched it. Ranging from True Kusanagi to an evil looking sword named Death''s Origin. Using the mouse, he clicked the Death''s Origin to inspect it. A three dimensional hologram of the sword appeared before him. Seeing it from the picture and seeing it in three dimensional form is very different. Even though it''s just a hologram, it leaked a massive aura of death. Unlike most people, the aura did not deter him from the blade. Instead, he examined the hologram in awe muttering, "Cool." He tried touching it several but to no avail as it seems that the hologram is physical while he is still a spirit. Even still, he admired the sword''s hologram floating in front of the monitor. The sword is one and a little more than half yards long, clearly some kind of longsword. Its hilt is pitch black with four black, red eyed skulls under the guard, each facing the direction north, south, east and west respectively. The hilt had silver lined images of seven different seals engraved on the hilt. A faint eerie red glow emanated from all of the seals, instilling fear onto the teen, causing him to keep a distance from the sword. The sword''s guard is a beautiful angel with a pair of white wings and a handsome demon with a pair of black bat wings. Both are situated at the opposite directions and their wings acting as the guard''s respective end each. Between the angel and the demon is a black crystal on each side with a small red light emanating from its core. It had a sharp silver blade that can cause the untrained eye to feel its sharpness. A faint red aura wrapped around the blade, seemingly coming from its edge. An illustration of light and darkness is engraved on the sword''s blade with one in each side. Since the sword''s appearance is already cool, what about its stats. It''s definitely OP, because that''s usually a law. What looks cool is usually very overpowered or broken as fuck. A game like interface shows the weapon''s stats. "I like the format. It looks a lot like a game. Even the typical stats like health and strength are there " Death''s Origin [(Sealed), Pseudo Divine ranked Weapon] [Tier 0/7] +183% Critical Damage +176% Main Attributes [Strength, Speed, Health, Stamina and Defense] +103% Movement Speed +93% Attack Speed +83% Critical Chance +71% Reaction Speed -26% Cooldown Passive Skills: ? Annihilation Flurry Every attack on the same target increases attack speed by 5% and damage by 10% for 3 seconds. Stacks up to 10 times ? Mark of Cain With the power of God by your side, every attack you receive has a 1% chance of being reflected with 700% effects ? Death''s Favour User is immune to True Death and will continue to reincarnate normally ? Seven Shadows For every successful attack, there is a 10% chance of summoning a shadow doppelganger with 65% attributes and three random skills for 30 seconds. Up to seven shadows at a time ? Death''s Lenience User''s death will be immediately undone. Can only be done once a decade ? Cursed Blood User''s blood will curse anything that touches it with bad luck, rapid aging and infertility Active Skills: ? Second Death Deals 310% damage to a target twice. If the target dies, the target will never reincarnate. CD: 130 seconds ? Desecration Frenzy Performs an intricate combo of slashes and strikes that will cleanly dismember a target dealing an overall damage of 3900% damage over 30 moves. CD: 6 minutes ? Death''s Gaze Transforms the area gazed upon the user into a place of death, dealing 50% damage per second for 13 seconds in a radius of 39m. CD: 36 minutes ? Cloud of Death Summons a large cloud of darkness over a radius of 65m for 3 minutes. Every 2 seconds, the cloud summons three dark swords to attack targets within with each sword dealing 90% damage and causing blindness for 2 seconds. Allies within the cloud gain a 15% increase in all attributes for 6 seconds. CD: 45 minutes ? Death''s Edge By infusing the blade with the power of death, each attack''s range will reach 65m for 13 minutes. CD: 26 minutes ? Execution Rush Performs a flurry of 30 strikes in 3 seconds over a range of 3m before gripping a target''s neck, throwing the target up and piledriving the target face down by performing a sharp strike to the target mid air dealing 310% damage and causing the target to fall down at thrice the speed. Each strike deals only 90% damage. CD: 39 minutes ? Envious Rage Using the power of envy trapped within the sword, increase all attributes by 650% for 78 seconds. However, using this will reduce user''s morality and sanity by 50% for 78 minutes. Stacks with other berserk type skills. CD: 1 hour ? Death to All! All targets within a range of 130m will have a random vital organ be stabbed twice by a dark sword dealing 65% damage each. Dark swords ignore conventional durability and stealth. CD: 3 hours Description: A sword created by the first murderer, Cain. This blade is said to have been created from the rock he used to kill his brother Abel and from the bones of his brother Abel. With this sword, he wandered the world aimlessly while killing monsters and demons who threatened his brother''s descendants as a way to atone for his sins. Due to his immortality, he became bored and retired in the Land of Nod, never to be seen. As for his sword, he gave it to Death in hopes of finding someone worthy to wield it. After reading its stats and skills, the rpg loving boy couldn''t help but shout, "Amazing, this sword is OP as hell!" The death''s favour thing is so overpowered. It means that his soul cannot be destroyed, making him effectively spiritually immortal. The other passives also made his jaws dropped, he could reflect damage 7 times back while also have automatic doppelgangers summoned while attacking. If anyone got this in any open world RPG game, many would kill that person for it. The death to all skill is too overpowered, he could literally kill anyone even while in stealth using the skill. Although it said vital organ, the brain or the heart would guarantee instant death. Other vital organs are definitely the liver, kidneys, spinal cord and lungs or gills. So even if the brain or the heart''s not hit almost everything in the list except for kidneys will guarantee quick deaths or long and painful ones due to complications. "System, can I see how the skills are performed?" He read the skill descriptions but he didn''t have a good imagination. So he hoped that the system had a video that showed the skill being performed. [Affirmative. Playing Videos Now] The monitor''s image then shifted to a video depicting a mannequin puppet performing the skills one by one, starting with second death. The puppet held the sword with its right arm and then a black mist covers the sword while the puppet slashed forward twice. When it ended, a few seconds of demonic singing followed. The voices are soft and they sung in what he identified as some kind of latin. Then, it proceeded to perform the other skills. Even though the puppet is not a living thing, its movements are like water, flowing yet unpredictable. Each time it performed a move, he would watch it in awe as the puppet performed flawlessly. After it ended, he picked it as his first item. When he did, the sword disappeared from the list and a ding rang in his head. [You have received Death''s Origin] He wanted to use it right now so badly but the system did not allow him. [All functions locked until Character Creation Protocol Complete] Since he needed to complete that protocol, he hurriedly searched for suitable equipment. Since he set his eyes on death''s origin, it means that he''s going down the swordsman path. So maybe a second sword or a shield would suffice. While he thought of which one of the two is better, he decided to look for armor. But, he enters another problem, which look should he go with. As a vampire he could go with the classical vampire look with a cape or he could go with the typical armored swordsman look. "This is so troublesome." Both choices look great but which one gives a better look for him. But he didn''t rush when he remembers that he''s dead and probably will stay dead until all of this is sorted out. If he went for the shield, he would have extra defense but it won''t quite match without getting a full body armor. But, if he went for the second blade, he could use any of the two looks since it matches. Since having a second sword could be handy, he decides to get one instead. Just as he was about to complain about not having a filter near the search bar, a button saying filter appeared. When he clicked that he asked, "Really system, just now a filter button appears?" [Host doesn''t complain before. System assumes satisfaction when in absence of complain] Back to the second sword, he decided it to be a mythical ranked item since he received 7 while only 3 for pseudo divine ranked equipment and one is already taken. His first sword is a death based sword, why not a life based or a holy one this time. It makes a good contrast between his weapons and their ability difference would make an excellent combination. With death, he could constantly weaken and deliver devastating damage. While with life or holy he could heal himself while delivering damage and strengthen himself too. Since he was looking for something holy, he searched God while filtering out all pseudo divine ranked items. Images of golden armors, weapons, items and object appeared. All of them seemed to slightly emit either a white or golden radiance and possess angelic designs and decorations on them. Finding scrolling down and searching them one by one wasting, he filtered it again to only include swords. Thanks to the filter, not even ten results showed up. Different heavenly swords emerged. There were all swords with holy looking appearances and names like Heaven''s Fury, Judgement Blade, Calamity Eater and the Herald''s Wing. He looked at their stats, skills and stories one by one, taking about half an hour doing so. He lost his sense of time thanks to being so immersed in the skills and appearance of the swords. While checking them out, the sword that interested him most is known as the Hidden Heavens. Hidden Heavens [(Sealed) Mythical Ranked Weapon] [Tier 0/7] +105% Main Attributes +90% Magic Power +70% Willpower +45% Processing Speed +15% Perception Passive Skills: ? Illusory Ambush (1/3) After every 3 consecutive attacks, an illusory angel will almost immediately strike the target with a golden sword from random direction, dealing 110% damage ? Illusory Ambush (2/3) After every 7 consecutive attacks, two illusory angels, one with a golden sword and one with a golden bow will attack once from a random direction, dealing 125% damage each ? Full Illusory Ambush After every 12 consecutive attacks, three illusory angels, one with a golden sword, one with a golden bow and one with a whip will attack twice from a random direction, dealing 150% damage per hit and a 10% chance to cause burn for 5 seconds ? Light Illusion Through the power of light, every attack has a 40% chance to summon an afterimage that deals 5% damage ? Dispersion Through the power of light, every attack has a 30% chance to break illusions as long as the caster is not too much stronger than the user. Grows as user increases in power. Active Skills: ? Multifarious Create 7 doppelgangers with anyone''s appearance that cannot deal and receive damage for 3 minutes. User can switch between doppelgangers in an instant during its duration CD: 10 minutes ? Flash Assault Perform a 7 move attack on one target within 2 seconds with each attack possessing 2 illusions and dealing 70% damage CD: 4 minutes ? Lightspeed Dash Dash 30m to one direction at lightspeed dealing 200% damage to all enemies within 2m from the path. CD: 2 minutes ? Thunder Sniper Summon 2 bolts of lightning from heaven every second for 14 seconds with each bolt dealing 90% damage over a radius of 1m and stunning targets for 0.5 seconds. CD: 6 minutes ? Illusion Warp Summon a doppelganger with 10% attributes in a range of 3km for 5 minutes. User can switch places with the doppelganger twice before it automatically explodes to deal 50% damage over a radius of 3m. CD: 12 minutes Description: A golden lined silver sword with seven blade segments, forged by one of the Seven Heavens, Jophiel. This blade had the ability to detach each segment temporarily to act like a makeshift whip. Its maximum range is 7m and thanks to the function, it allowed short ranged combat without losing the firepower that a sword should have. The sword was crafted by the Archangel by using hellfire and the bodies of intelligent demons, blessing its user with greater intelligence and alertness. Combined by its power to create illusions, this blade is a formidable weapon from the heavenly realms. After its creation, the sword was given to the angel Dumah who guards the realm of the wicked dead as a present from the Archangel. Despite who it was given to, the sword has a heavenly appearance. Its hilt is completely gold with two rings that separate the pommel and the guard from the hilt. Circles and patterns are engraved on the hilt while the guard bent downwards. The blade itself had seven segments with each segment being 0.2 yards long each while the whole blade measured 1.7 yards long, almost 10% longer than Death''s origin. Each segment had a gold edge and hebrew words engraved on it. When elongated, an inch thick silver wire would connect all of the segments. He quickly selected the sword. Not only for its cool look, also because the sword can make illusions and act like a whip. Combined with Death''s Origin, the two blades would easily work in tandem as they confuse and slaughter their enemies. Death''s origin could use its high critical rate and its increasing damage and attack speed to force the enemy to keep dodging. While the Hidden Heavens could use its illusion to make it unblockable, causing the target to eventually falter and be quickly defeated. [You have received Hidden Heavens] With his swords already complete, he went back to think of his appearance. He then recalled a few old vampire movies he watched, especially Dracula 1979. He liked watching those movies when animes went on a hiatus. He recalled on their appearance which enhanced their sex appeal which back then is a man in a regal outfit. Inspiration struck, ''Combine them it is.'' 3 OP stuff part 2 ''Combine them it is.'' He decided to combine the regal vampire style with the modern bad boy look. A gentlemanly and regal appearance save for the hair and probably the face. According to his guess, the vampires of old movies lost their charm because they were mostly middle aged men. The younger actors did not dress up as these old vampires and he thought that combining the look will give him a very young face while added with elegance and the nobility of his attire. It would give a more suave and dangerous charm to his character. Something those old actors sorely lack due to their age. He imagined his new body to look like the typical vampire in a tuxedo with a high collared cape above it. However, its appearance was not of a wrinkly or a cruel old man but of a handsome young devil with black hair and hypnotic red eyes. Out of those reasons, he simply liked dressing up in a halloween costume. Since he was ugly, he felt himself to be disgracing the costume if he wore it. Now with a chance, of course he would wear it. Satisfied with how he would look like, he typed down vampire on the search bar to look for the cloak first. Then, filtered it to only show pseudo divine ranked items. Since the equipment here are all mythical or pseudo divine rank, which is obviously something top tier, cloth armor would probably have stats like plate armor and vice versa, only different through name, appearance and skills. It''s usually that case for top tier armor which allows top tier players to increase the disparsity between average players and top tier players since top tier mages might have considerable defense added by a impenetrable magic defense. So having somekind of pseudo divine ranked tuxedo and vampire cape would most likely reward him with strong defense. After all, vampires are known to be resistant to physical attacks even though they wore what would be classified as cloth armor. After the filter, only a few results appeared. After he read their skills, stats and stories, he was confused. Isn''t he the first vampire? One of the equipment lore said that it was made from the flesh of hundreds of first generation vampires. Didn''t vampires not exist in that world yet? [All equipment in system database exists from the past, present and future of any and all multiverses. Anything that can happen will happen, therefore they are present here.] "So some of the equipment are from other universes where vampires exist?" [Affirmative. However, system sorts or modify the most powerful ones in order to catalog it into the pseudo divine rarity] "System, does that mean that other fictional worlds exist?!" [Correct. All things that can and cannot all exist in translogical harmony] "Translogical what? I don''t think that I''ve ever heard of something like that." [Translogical harmony is the law in which all worlds and realities coexist in perfect harmony despite having differing types of logic, totality and laws] "Can you say it in normal words? I''m already confused." [All worlds and realities can exist together even though they are too different to exist together. Does Host understand?] "Loud and clear." He could clearly tell that the system had to make somekind of dumb dumb version of its original explanation. He had always been terrible in academics and after meeting the system, he starts to think of improving it. After all, if he were smarter, he could avoid all the terrible things in his previous life later on. Whoever said knowledge is power is very much indeed a wise man. After that, he went back to searching for the first piece of his outfit, a vampire''s cloak. After weighing the values of appearance and abilities among the few options, he had decided on this cloak. Cloak of Eternal Night [(Sealed) Pseudo Divine ranked Armor] [Tier 0/7] +300% Senses [Five senses improvement] +123% Reaction Speed +96% Main Attributes +69% Stamina Recovery +46% Charm +23% Luck Passive Skills: ? Hypnotic Words The wearer''s words are very persuasive and would leave strong post hypnotic suggestions ? Blood Whispers All those who wear this cloak are cursed to become vampires for as long as they don it. However, those who are already vampires shall gain 50% heightened senses ? Eyes of Darkness Allows the wearer''s eyes to see someone''s life force and to see at any light condition as if nothing''s changed ? Super Instinct Increase wearer''s instincts to the point where user can sense danger at a specific direction from 5 seconds into the future. Wearer''s body will automatically dodge if no order is received within a second to the attack ? Bat Form When an unexpected or undodgeable attack happens, the wearer has a 10% chance to transform into a massive cloud of bats and completely dodge the attack. ? Lord of the Night The wearer is immune to sleep magic and is 50% more resistant to darkness and wind elements. Active Skills: ? Envious Heist Bite the target to steal a specific skill. Stronger skills will take longer to steal and the time doubles for every rarity after starting with 0.5 seconds for rare skills. If wearer fails to steal skill, the cooldown will quadruple. CD: 15 minutes ? Vampire Mist Summon a blood red mist that encompasses everything in a 69m radius for 5 minutes. All entities that breathe in the mist will transform into bloodthirsty pseudo vampires that can spread the virus with a single bite. Only enemies that are more than 64 times weaker than user can be infected. CD: 30 minutes ? Hellfire Cloak Summons hellfire and its constructs from the cloak for 10 minutes. Waving the cloak will summon a hellfire wave to hit enemies within a 100m path, dealing 150% damage per second for 5 seconds while opening the cloak will summon 3 random hellfire beast with at least 3 stages below for every second. CD: 4 hours ? Chilling Winds Summon cold winds from the cloak to quickly freeze everything within a 100m radius to -46¡ãC for 30 seconds. All enemies will take 10% damage per second and 40% speed reduction for 3 seconds. CD: 1 hour ? Vampiric Rage Increase Strength and Attack Speed by 169% for 3 seconds. Add a 35% Lifesteal effect for 6 minutes. CD: 45 minutes ? Shadow Portal Teleport wearer to any known location through a small vortex of shadow. CD: 10 minutes Description: An ancient cloak made from the night sky as fabric and the blood of Samael as dye. This cloak was created and enchanted by the succubus queen Lilith alongside the Goddess Ishtar as a gift to Cain in an attempt to remove the evils within him. Donning the cloak, all of the evils of jealousy, hatred and lust left him and was instead sealed within the cloak itself. Since it had completed its intended purpose, the Goddess Ishtar had kept it with her. During her visit to the underworld to free her sister Inanna, a mortal servant of hers stole the cloak as it whispered to his ears and corrupted him with a lust for blood. Then, the servant descended to the mortal realm and caused havoc. Drinking the blood of every living thing he saw until only husks remain. Only thanks to the combined effort of the War Goddess Anat, Goddess of Love Ishtar, Queen of Heaven Inanna and Lilith, the servant was slain and the cloak was sealed deep within the domain of Ereshkigal, never to be seen again. Sebastian had chosen the cloak mainly for its appearance but partially due to its ability to sense attacks from five seconds ahead. It''s almost like having ultra instinct from dragon ball except for no strength boost. Also, around half of the passive skill is hypnosis or brainwashing related, if he became king and made deals with other kingdoms, he would definitely be able to secure many deals with other nations. With maximum profit from his side of course. The envious heist skill is also another thing because it would allow him to have the godly skill of copying skills from others. The other cloaks have a similar skill but it''s just memories and parasite planting. It''s nothing compared to skill taking even if it doubles for every rank above. As for its appearance, the cloak measures 56 inches long not including the collar which if it stood straight would be 10.6 inches or 26.9cm tall. The cloak''s exterior is color pitch black like the empty night sky while its interior is colored a bloody crimson. An inch below the neckline is the two silver wolf pins that connects the 10 inch silver cloak chain. Anyone who wears the cloak would appear exactly like a vampire as the cloak itself emits a predatory aura before being placed inside the inventory. [You have gained Cloak of Eternal Night] "Now for the tuxedo." He used the filter function to only show armor and pseudo divine ones while writing tuxedo in the search bar. Not long after, he found what he wanted, a cloth armor named the Regal Temptation. Its skills are what every highschool pervert is looking for. Regal Temptation [(Sublime Relic) Pseudo Divine Ranked Cloth Armor] +400% Hp +280% Stamina +255% Defense +200% Endurance +125% Charm +25% Ailment Resistance Passive Skills: ? Handsome Visage Transforms even the most hideous wearers into a very handsome man. If someone handsome wears it, no mortal woman could every say no twice. No matter what is done, the wearers will remain eternally handsome and athletic. ? Eternal Lust Wearer and the wearer''s companion can never get tired from having sex but instead heal from doing it. Wearer can decided whether a child will be produced or not. ? Charm Immunity Wearer is immune to charm or seduction from others unless the wearer allows. ? Sexual Aura Wearer can pressure certain targets with an aura that gives them a compulsion to strip themselves to nudity. ? Heart Reader Wearer can sense any emotions and intentions in the form of colors within a range of one mile. ? Eternal Youth Wearer gains eternal youth. Active Skills: ? Sultry Awakening Absorbs the jacket, bowtie and waistcoat temporarily while unbuttoning all but two buttons in order to provide an extra 400% strength, speed and attack speed for 4 minutes. CD: 80 minutes ? Gallant Stance Change the jacket, bowtie and waiscoat''s color to white in order to provide an extra 300% defense, magic defense, stamina and regeneration for 4 minutes. CD: 80 minutes ? Lady killer Mark a female target, if the target''s willpower does not exceed the user''s by a large margin. The target will slowly develop strong feelings for the user that can override any other emotion. CD: 1 Week ? Outfit Breaking Gaze Cause all targets within a 700m radius to become completely nude by repelling their clothes away with magic. CD: 7 hours ? Mind Breaker Break the mind and emotional barriers of all targets within a 500m radius. Only targets at least 16 times stronger are unaffected. CD: 5 hours ? Restoration Heal all allies within a 200m radius by 200% damage per second for 5 seconds and reduce all skill cooldowns by 1 hour. CD: 2 hours Description: A tuxedo woven from the best materials in the mortal world by the empress Adma. She created the Regal Temptation to provide her dying husband eternal youth as she herself is an immortal. While she left the tuxedo at her husband''s room, her most arrogant and youngest child stole the suit away, believing that only a ''handsome'' man like him could wear it. While wearing it, he turned much more handsome and used it to gloat and turn strong willed women into his slaves. When his mother got wind of it, it was already too late. Her husband, the emperor had died because of her child''s arrogance. In retaliation, the empress forcefully took the suit away and buried it with the emperor, restoring his youthful appearance as a corpse. As for her child, she exiled him from the country and stripped him bare, never to be seen again. During the battle between several gods in that world, the site was destroyed and the suit was lost forever. This suit is a perfect and improved replica of its destroyed counterpart. The sexual aura immediately drew him to choose the tuxedo. He could force his beautiful foes to strip in front of him and let him **** them, shaming them in front of their followers by using handsome visage to render them helpless to the torrent of lust that invades their minds. Also, he could use the lady killer skill to get any girl he wants, since they would helplessly fall for him by using the mark. "Harem, here I come." Unlike Issei, he could actually become the true harem king. No, a harem emperor with an army of loyal wives that will live, fight and make love with him. With a new life, new goal has emerged. To become the harem emperor! "Long live the harem emperor!" [You have received the Regal Temptation] He still had six more mythical items to claim so first, he searched for the most holiest skill besides harem making. The holy skill that every otaku wishes for, infinite storage. The ability to keep endless amounts of stuff whether a living person or an object. That''s when he stumbled upon the World Crystal. World Crystal [(Fragmented), Mythical Ranked item] [Tier 0/4] Passive Skills: ? Possesses endless space within to store anything ? Provides infinite energy within the space to prevent degradation of any stored items or entities ? Allows formation of internal cycles. Up to 20 currently. Active Skills: ? World Gate Allows instant teleportation to any place as long as the user has an image of it. Up to 100 targets at a time CD: 5 minutes ? Absorption Transports an item or entity into the crystal. Up to 100 targets or an area of 1,000,000m^3 CD: 1 second ? Release Bring out an item or entity from the crystal. Up to 10 targets or an area of 8000m^3 at a time. CD: 1 second ? World Manipulation Tab Summons an interface that allows the creation, modification, replacement and destruction of internal cycles. CD: none Description: A crystal formed from condensing a black hole to the point where its gravity cancels out. This crystal possesses a pocket dimension with infinite space caused by the infinitely dense gravity of the compacted black hole that causes the formation of an internal space. Naturally, these crystals would only be one in a cosmos but deities have learned to artificially replicate such crystals for their own gain. "System, what''s an internal cycle?" Sebastian already received extra abilities that came with unlimited storage but he didn''t know what these internal cycles are. The description says nothing while the passive skills says that the crystal could only hold 20 currently. [An internal cycle is an event that is repeated periodically within the world crystal. Only simple commands can be done through each cycle as only possess three details.] "Come again?" [An internal cycle is when something happens after a certain time again and again. The cycle will only have simple commands of up to three details only.] "Thank you." ''I should really start focusing on becoming smarter.'' He thought. If he couldn''t even understand slight fancy words, how could he even aim to be a king or an emperor, let alone a harem emperor. It would be an embarrassment if he did become the harem emperor but only his wives would be capable of doing anything, while he was no different than a pampered baby. That would kill all of his remaining pride as a man and as future God/lady killer. The world crystal looks like a flawless quartz crystal with a nut sized void black core at its center. Faint blue pulses circulate around the surface and around the core. It seems to be like a crystal shaped heart with blue pulses being pumped from and by the void black core. With the unlimited storage and its extras in hand, he did not think much about his other 5 mythical ranked equipment. He took black armored boots named the Nightwalker''s Steps that allows him to move inside shadows and move through reflective surfaces like mirrors and calm ponds. A soul absorbing gauntlet named the Maw of Sheol with the ability to absorb, release and infuse souls. The gauntlet allowed him to create spirit warriors and strong undead through soul transfer. With necromancy in the list, he decided to search for a well known anime superpower. He settled on alchemy and tried looking for an equip that''ll give him that power. Lucky for him, he found a book named the Origin Shaper. Most of its abilities involve the ability to use natural energy to shatter atoms into subatomic particles and turn them into other elements or atoms. If not for remembering at least something from his chemistry class, he would''ve asked the system for an explanation. "Sigh, I should finish this quickly to get smarter." The book also has abilities that allow different energies to switch places. Like turning mana into kinetic energy or even matter. Thanks to its ability to warp reality to an extent, mana can essentially create things from nothing if it could endlessly regenerate. The description said that this is a form of alchemy only known to beings approaching godhood and a massive upgrade from the one he was while watching some episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist. The book''s description said something about using mana to morph the law of equivalent exchange temporarily. "Alchemy, check. Necromancy, check. Lady Conqueror, check. Vampire powers, check. Infinite Storage, check. Ghostlike powers, check. Huh, my bucket list''s complete and I still have two more equipment left to choose before whatever comes after." With all the ''heavy'' thinking done, he is still left with two more stuff to pick. All of the mythical ranked stuff are overpowered for some reason and he would always have some crazy extra power that comes with the item. Since he can start fooling around again, he tried to look for something that''ll give him super saiyan powers. Sadly, the system told him that no such item could do that. However, it said that it doesn''t mean that it can''t be copied and used. ''There is still hope!'' He chuckled at the thought of having a vampire version of a super saiyan. What would he call them, super vampires? It just sound so uncreative and lazy to him. Maybe put some latin words or some other ancient language to make it sound cooler and add an air of mystery to it. For now, he should look for some other equipment. Although it took quite a while, he decided to get a mask and sunglasses. The mask was black with some red patterns and it was named the Mask of Resurrection. It had the ability to store a part of the wearer''s soul inside and revive he wearer by having another wear it at midnight or until midnight passes. The process will destroy much of the host''s soul or even eliminate it completely. But that depends on how much of the original wearer''s soul is within the mask. The mask also allows him to see through illusions and see the flow of spiritual energy as a river of glowing purple dots. He found it when he thought about getting a mask and black sunglasses. He wanted to see a young dracula in black sunglasses for some reason. When he searched for black sunglasses, he picked a futuristic one since most of his options completely involve magic. The glasses allowed him to have multiple functions such as X ray vision, which he could use for pee-I mean analyzing the threat, Instant Processing, Instant Research and even having a sub brain that operates like a thousand supercomputers combined. Imagining him wearing it like the kingsmen made him feel a little funny about himself. He sometimes forgot that he is going to be the sexiest youth alive and not an overweight teen being hunted down by a person with an extreme case of revenge issues. [Skill Protocol Activated] Back to the monitor, the monitor started to expand into three monitors with one on each side like a metal shield covering three sides. One the left screen an image of a puppet executing the skill was shown while on the right is the skill''s effect, description and type. According to a short explanation that occured before allowing him to search for skills, skills are divided into 3 basic types. Offense, Defense and Support which are self explanatory. "I have twenty mythical skills to choose from a list with possible billions. What should I choose?" He strokes his chin as he enters a deep thought of what skills to have. 4 Chief of Drakkenfall "Is there something like Gasper''s scared gear?" Sebastian had used three of his choices to buy passive skills. One is what the system said was an upgraded version of Saitama''s strength Celestial Strength [Mythical Ranked] Type: Offensive, Passive Effect: Imbues the user with a strength equal to that of a supermassive black hole. Can be suppressed to ten times strength and released to full power. He thought of getting the most overpowered skills he can find. The first being a passive that effectively made him like Saitama, the power to one punch anything. In case he can''t beat anything, he could at least use the skill''s full power and one punch it. Next is a skill that gives him regeneration that''s two steps higher than hellsing''s Alucard. Since he wanted to keep his promise in being the strongest vampire, he must be superior to all of them in every way. Super Nano Regeneration [Mythical Ranked] Type: Support, Passive Effect: User can regenerate completely from a few molecules in just several seconds. Also, he chose a powerful version darkness manipulation since vampires are known to have shadow magic. Shadowlord''s Call [Mythical Ranked] Type: Offensive, Defensive, Active Effect: Summon up to 365 shadow attacks or constructs with each possessing up to 20% attributes or dealing 120% damage and blindness for 2 seconds. CD: 30 minutes When he did, the system warned him that his current brain capacity is probably too low to master the skill. Prompting him to search for some kind of a super brain passive skill. But first, the power to manipulate time in an area. [Yes, as always, it will be much more powerful] After the system replied, the monitor did an auto search and selected the skill. [After reading host''s non private memory, system has recommended a skill] Chronos Bubble [Mythical Ranked] Type: Support, Active Effect: Creates a 1km radius area where the user can manipulate time for up to 30 minutes. Either stop it fo up to 5 minutes at a time, speed it up to 50 times or slow it down up to 50 times. User''s movements are unaffected by the area. CD: 90 minutes "Thanks for the recommend." Unlike Gasper''s gear, the Forbidden Balor''s View, the skill doesn''t require him to have to see his target. He could simply summon the area and start manipulating it freely. Next, he searched for a super brain skill by filtering all active skills out. Akashic Brain [Mythical Ranked] Type: Support, Passive Effect: Maximizes brain functions to the point of improving them by 100 times and increasing the user''s IQ to 300. All information that enters brain is cataloged and permanent, allowing user to perfectly remember everything no matter what. "Well, no need to look any further." He instantly selected the Akashic Brain and quickly moved on to the other skills. He had time manipulation, shadow manipulation, ultra strength, super regeneration and a super brain. As for the rest of his skills, he decided to add a few sword skills and other elemental magics such as lightning, water, wind. Also increasing his fire and darkness magics by a few more skills. In total, he had used up all twenty skill choices. [Character Creation Protocol Activated] "Finally, I can start character creation." Sebastian already had his full image completed. Now, it''s time for him to design it. A invisible force pushed his ethereal body backwards as the monitors began to transform. The central monitor transformed into a circular brick platform with a radius of a yard. While the left and right monitor transformed into game like windows that can change the character''s physical settings. On the platform is an average looking, faceless androgynous human with tan skin. [To create Host''s new body, Host can edit by changing the parameters in the window or by writing down descriptions on a separate monitor] As the system finished its words, a fourth monitor manifested a yard above the blank slate human. Sebastian tried floating closer by flailing his arms around but was met with an invisible wall when he approached a yard from the blank slate. "Ow! Why the hell does it hurt!" The barrier seemed to cause burns around his body parts and a sharp prick on the parts that touched the barrier. Lucky for the teen, the pain quickly subsided. But still, it felt like an army of ants bit your whole body at the same time while the contact points have soldier ants biting instead. [Barrier is designed to deter even beings with the most simplest of intelligence from approaching the interface] "Still! I''m dead! Why can I still feel pain?!" [The barrier is made of spiritual energy which can harm spirits] [Host is advised to continue instead of floating near the barrier] Sebastian drifted a feet away and begun using the keyboard and the mouse to edit the parameters. A physical manifestation of a pointer appears as the mouse is dragged around an invisible mouse pad. If not for the fact that a screen is not present and that he could come closer or farther, anyone would think that this is a computer and a character creation interface is on. A bunch of parameters were editable and so much detail is placed as both windows had three or four pages. Each page had 12 parameters amounting to a total of 84 changeable parameters. Head to height ratio Height Height to legs ratio Hairstyle Hair color Skin tone Eyebrows Nose Eyes Eye color ¡­. There were even options under the different parameters like highlights for hair color and heterochromia for eye color. First, he tried writing down handsome on the upper monitor. However, an error alarm sounded and the system replied. [Error. Not specific] ''How about this.'' He changed what he wrote and made it sound more artsy and specific. He wrote, ''Young and handsome with hypnotic red eyes and messy raven hair parted to the left.'' After clicking enter, the human body immediately transformed to perfectly fit the description. Next, he played with the parameters while exploring each of their functions. Just like anyone, he would make his new body be far more attractive. Being 6 foot 1 inch tall with a lean and athletic build. God chiseled abs, sharp pointed ears and a sly, charming smile. Then, he continued changing more parameters and features since the body''s gender was still genderless. He added an enormous 11 inch dick to penetrate women with and changed the skin tone to ivory white but not pale since the pallor would give away his race as a type of undead too easily. In the end, the body''s appearance had underwent a major change from the blank slate it once was. The body is now of a supernatually handsome youth around 18 years of age with messy raven hair parted to the left, hypnotic red eyes, pointed ears and sharp, white fangs. Three pairs of god crafted abs decorate the torso of the lean, athletic figure. Inspecting his creation, he used the mouse to slowly rotate the body to see if there are any unknown imperfections. Seeing that the design is perfect, he pressed the conveniently placed confirm button. [Body Integration will occur at the end of all protocols] [Initiating Castle, Servant and Title Protocol] The body and the monitors quickly vanished, replaced by a circular metal table with a screen on it. A map of Elbenon is shown on the screen with an ultrarealistic and alive appearance. Sebastian hesitated to come closer, still remembering the painful barrier that he came across earlier. [Barrier has been deactivated, please proceed] Trusting the system, he motioned his hands like he''s swimming to drift towards the map. Once at the edge of the table, he stopped drifting and gained a clear view of the world map. There were 10 continents of impossible sizes. Elbenon appeared much like a massive version of Earth with some of its continents bearing resemblances. After a minute, the system began its explanation. [Elbenon is a habitable planet possessing the highest degree of natural energy and mana density allowing the existence of cultivators and magic users alongside their monster counterparts. There are ten main continents which are Nornit, Terradeus, Anasha, Khefrata, Ceana, Hongu, Navaka, Azya, Dioha and Rahar. Alongside the ten main continents are thousands of mini continents and billions of islands mostly situated near the continents of Ceana, Hongu and Azya. Hundreds of sentient races are present throughout the planet but civilization is generally at the late stages of stone age where tools, cooking and some agriculture had been developed] ''Not good for kingdom building but great for starting a whole civilization from scratch.'' He could imagine becoming a god of sorts with both the system and whatever he remembers from school with his new brain. [Please select title and backstory] A tab appeared above the map showing the current titles present. [Pride: become a community''s pride, possessing power that can only be overruled by elders or people of higher position. This title cannot be passed and can be given to others.] [Elder: become a community''s elder, possessing power only below the chieftain. This title is hereditary in some communities and unable to be taken in others. They are similar to what feudal lords are to kings in feudalism also comparable to major nobles.] [Village Chief: become a community''s chief, the highest position in any existing community. This title can be hereditary but is rarely otherwise. The chief possesses near absolute power over a community but could be overruled or reach a compromise through the opposition of all village elders.] "I pick the village chief." Since it said near absolute power, his decision would be almost impossible to be overruled especially if it''s a small community. He thought of creating a small settlement of a hundred settlers where he could start a civilization. While in the middle of thought, a popup appeared. [Host could choose to enter the future of the world instead of the present. Would host like to emerge in the future instead?] The system''s offer caused him to think of whether he should just start a civilization from scratch or instantly become a king. If he started from scratch, he would build a great reputation over time as the chief. Not to mention, his immortal lifespan would let him become ruler for thousands of years until the medieval age or even the modern age. He would become a living legend for starting and leading a civilization for a long while. Not to mention, there would be not much conflict since the primitive communities would definitely have problems in fending off monsters. If a tribe is attacked it would definitely surrender to survive. On the other hand, the medieval ages would have tons of conspiracy and drama which he is clearly not capable and too lazy to handle. With backstabbing siblings and scheming cousins, he would probably spend most of his time fending them off the throne than actually ruling anything. But, he gets to marry princesses and play knight like in those fantasy animes and stories. While he had a debate on that, the system voiced its opinion. [Host is advised to enter in the present Elbenon. If Host does, Host will gather years of experience and would know much about the world, giving host an advantage against any type of contender in the future.] ''I think I should listen to the system. After all, it probably knows everything about the world that I''ll reincarnate in.'' With the system''s advice in mind, he declined its offer to enter the future. After selecting his title, the system proceeded with activating the castle design protocol. [Castle Design Protocol initiated] [Please design Host''s castle before placement] The title tab is replaced by a floating three dimensional model of the stereotypical medieval castle. Measurement lines and numbers decorate the model as every specification is measured. [Host can design by imagining the palace and visualizing it in the form of a model] He wanted his castle to be an impenetrable place. Using his anime and game knowledge, he recalled each fortress and why they were hard to break into. After three hours of recalling, combining and perfecting the designs, he came up with an idea of a fortress. The walls are made of pompeii concrete and magic self regenerating stone bricks. These walls form three concentric hexagons with each wall being a hundred meters apart from each other. The walls start with being 12m in height and gain another 14m in height for every wall beyond it. The taller inner walls allow allied archers to have an advantage while enemy archers will have a disadvantage. Towers that are each 4m taller than their respective walls are each present at the ends of the hexagonal walls. These towers are for ballistas, catapults and mages to rain mass destruction on invaders. All of the walls are 8m thick while the towers are 10m thick. The system told him that he can use up to 10 magical options to use for anything in the castle while he can add any furniture or object. Of course with unlimited furniture and objects to add, he created a treasure room full of gems and gold of course. I mean who wouldn''t do that if you could add anything to your house? His first magic option is a special magic shield that will get stronger the more it is hit. The only way to destroy the shield is to overwhelm it in one attack. To make sure that the shield is still balanced, the system limited the shield to only have a gold level cultivator''s durability at the start, whatever that meant. The shield''s durability will increase by 120% damage dealt with each attack. Basically increasing the durability without suffering damage but instead improvement. To balance the option, the system made the shield take half a year to recover from being shattered. To add the defense, he made three self repairing magnetic stone gates. These stone gates are half a meter apart from each other to prevent short range teleportation while each gate is 2m thick. He made them have a magnetic surface to repel arrows and battering rams. The innermost wall contains a collection of towers at least twice the height of the wall and at most thrice the height of the wall. Between the second and third walls are a combination gardens, forges and barracks with portals connected to the world crystal by using up a magic option. As for the area behind the first wall, it contains 16 trebuchets that are elevated by 3m and can be rotated but could not face the south direction. This is to prevent enemies from using the trebuchets against him. Then, he used his other magic options to create stone guardians who had a default cultivation of Iron-3. The guardians would get stronger through a leveling system that involves killing enemies. The guardians can only reach a number of 5,000 at a time and regenerate at a rate of 10 guardians a day. Also, he used magic options to create regenerating mana enhanced Ironwood trees and iron, silver, gold and titanium ores at the gardens behind the second wall. In case that the castle is under siege for a long time, there would be an unlimited supply of weapons and ammo. The trees and ores regenerate completely for every 6 hours. For the remaining six, he used one to make 4 rivers of water to flow from the inner towers so that water poisoning is impossible due to gravity. Another to create a library containing earth books since the system said that information from any world is considered a magic option. He had to spend three to create six elemental towers with a 3km attack range and a firing rate of 1 attack for every 6 seconds. The towers are fire, water, lightning, earth, magnetism and sound elemental respectively. Also, a leveling system applies where the towers have to kill more to get stronger. As for the last option, he used it to allow structural regeneration at a rate of 24 tons per second. "Phew, that''s finally complete." He had spent a lot of extra time after those three hours to edit every single corner of the fortress. He had the main theme of the furniture to be royal and medieval. With crimson banners decorating the hallways and a throne room with the statues of his waifus naked and begging for sex lining up like two rows of pillars. He also added many golden hanging lanterns and chandeliers to give it a renaissance air. Also, he had many statues of him and his waifus decorating the long hallways. After a short check, he finalized the design and submitted it to the system. [Location & Backstory Protocol Initiated] Since he''s a vampire, he decides to look for a place around the central terradeus since the continent looked a lot like europe but there''s much more land on the upper area of the continent. The system presented him with a filter and he searched for an area containing a large hill and a large, clear lake nearby. With six results emerging, he chose the most fantasy like setting. With mountain ranges having forests, hills, rivers and lakes in between, with growth plateaus and occasional fields. With a three dimensional design interface, he placed the palace on a hill surrounded by a dense forest of spruce trees. After pushing the confirm button, the system ran the backstory protocol. [As a Future God, your backstory may be written with no limitations] A tab appeared in front of him alongside the glass keyboard and mouse. [Please write down Host''s backstory] Since he wanted to start simple, he took his twenty minutes to write down this backstory. [A revered chief of a settlement of 100 people named Drakkenfall. Most of which are young adults while the rest comprise of a dozen children and four elderly. The settlement had only been recently built a month ago while the chieftain set off to elevate twp weeks after. Only a few people in the village had any cultivation levels, only being Bronze-3 level at most. There are only 2 elders.] He could start with a hundred citizens and with equal numbers of men and women among the young adults. So that they will all come as pairs and breed instead of having a single man take many women for their own. That will be the chieftain''s job. With all the protocols completed, he clicked submit as the system began announcing. [Protocols complete] [Fusing all skills with Host''s body] [Completed!] [Cataloging Host¡­.] [Activating Functions] [Shop - Gacha - Mission - Inventory Activated] [Opening Warp Gate] Sebastian''s vision is suddenly flooded by white light, blinding him. [Merging Body and Soul] Suddenly, an itching and burning sensation erupted throughout his body. A massive, throbbing headache on all sides of his brain emerged. It prevented him from speaking out the excruciating pain of the fusion. All he could do is rant about the pain in his mind. Even his thoughts are rendered incoherent by the shower of pain flowing down from his headache to the blanket of itch covering his now light skin. His handsome face contorted in pain as he passed through a vortex. Suddenly, the pain begins to subside as cool breezes begin to blow onto his skin. Before he could open his eyes, his naked body is greeted by the feeling of water crashing into his back. A soft roar ensued as a small surge of water erupts right after his body crashed onto the lake''s water. He sinks to the bottom as a sudden feeling of drowsiness came over him. Accepting the surge of drowsiness, he surrendered to its siren song and went into the dark land of sleep. 5 Scattered to Highschool Dxd Hey readers! I need your help in building the storyline with some suggestions through voting. As you probably guessed, I am writing this for fun and obviously not for anything else. As you probably guessed, our protagonist is warped into another world thanks to a butterfly yokai named Hokami. As for where he''ll end up, this is where the voting applies. World: - Existing (Readers vote which one) - New (Readers name it) If New: - Technological, Magical or Cultivation (Combinations are possible so please specify) - Races (I''ll add all suggestions) - Technology Age - Add Reader OC (Only OCs with at least 2 votes so please specify about all the stuff I''ll need such as name, age, race, gender, backstory, personality and appearance.) (Doesn''t have to be complex) If Existing: - Alternate Universe or not (please specify) - Add Reader OC (Only OCs with at least 2 votes so please specify about all the stuff I''ll need such as name, age, race, gender, backstory, personality and appearance.) (Doesn''t have to be complex) Please vote as I''ll end this poll and start writing after 3 days. So please expect two or three chapters after a week from now. Thank you! Finish Date: 31st May 2019 Winners and Description: - Highschool DxD: 3 years and 6 months prior to the first events. ============ Story Start ============ A brilliant mix of purple, violet, pink and white colors fill my vision. The last thing I saw was a young japanese woman with vibrant colored butterfly wings shout and caused these beautiful but blinding lights to dominate my vision. Before, everything went black. As black as the first time I died, I wanted to ask again whether I have died but the androgynous voice of the Future God System spoke to me. [Host is not dead] [Host has been sent outside of Elbenon] ''Outside of Elbenon?'' I don''t think that anything is beyond Elbenon and my old world. Back on Earth, we believed space to be the final frontier, the last unexplored world else than the great deep. Seeing and living in Elbenon kind of opened up my perspective as I used to believe that all those animes I watched, mangas and novels I read are complete fantasy and that only the universe existed and nothing more. Seeing as I fought monsters, gain unimaginable strength and felt parts of my wish fullfilled, I begin to believe that my favourite worlds are out there somewhere. If Elbenon existed, why wouldn''t they? After a short while, the system begin beeping and i saw white glowing words floating in my vision like when I died for the first time and entered Elbenon. [Host is being redirected to a nearby world] [For exiting Elbenon, Host has unlocked certain Functions and Sub Systems] ''Functions? Let''s check them out.'' Allowing the system to continue, the list of new functions and sub systems appeared. [Gacha Function Activated!] [Mission Function Activated!] [Quest Function Activated!] [Sub System Store Activated!] [Highschool DxD Sub System Activated!] "Wait, I''m going to Highschool DxD*!" The system gave a ding in approval. "I''ve always wanted to go there! System, how long before I reach there?" After a short moment, the system spoke, "11 Hours, 54 minutes, 58 seconds." [Time to Arrival: 11:54:58] ''Another 11 hours. Good, I''ll have enough time to prepare.'' He first wanted to know why the gacha, mission and quest functions have only appeared now. He thought that they didn''t even exist at all. "System why does the three new functions have just activated?" [Functions are activated due to host gaining three achievements. Two by defeating the two first God Missions issued by myself due to circumstances and one by leaving the world of Elbenon] ''So I needed at least three achievements to activate these functions. Are there others?'' To check whether there are still locked functions, he tried to open the system interface but is unable to. "System, why can''t I open your interface?" [Host is not strong enough to withstand Infinite Speed, so system locks host out to act as a physical barrier until completion] ''At least I''ll have one more reason to get stronger.'' Not minding much about it since he already aimed to become stronger, he asked about the sub system, "System, what does the sub system do?" Although he could probably guessed its functions, he wanted to hear it from the system since it will tell him confirmed facts about it instead of speculation. [Sub System acts as an extension of the Future God System so that Host can gain certain items, skills, methods and entities exclusive to that world. Example, the Highschool DxD Sub System allows Host to possess and equip multiple sacred gears by purchasing them from the store. Host can also create custom sacred gears or give other entities any sacred gear in Host''s possession] "I can have Sacred Gears?! Even make them too?!" Sebastian felt that he hit the jackpot with being sent out from Elbenon. When the system said that it was redirecting him to a nearby world, he thought that he was gonna crash on some random world without any way to come back until reaching Godhood in his cultivation or something. Since he could get Sacred Gears, he could purchase Ddraig''s Boosted Gear from the store or maybe take it from that loser Issei. "System, can I take the Sacred Gear of a non player?" A brief pause ensued before it replied with a slightly more male voice. [Host can extract Sacred Gears from non-Hosts but Host must make direct physical contact with the target''s body for the whole extraction period] ''Hmmm, should I let Issei keep the Boosted Gear or should I just take it from him?'' On one hand, letting him keep it could cause him to lose some if not all of his harem candidates. He already set his eyes on Rias, Akeno, Koneko, Irina, Ophis, Ingvild, Sona and Serafall ever since he saw them in the anime. He can''t have Issei''s dirty hands pollute their bodies and evn pollute Asia. He believes that good girls should stay good and innocent so he plans to stop her from meeting Issei, being reincarnated as a devil and maybe give her something to prevent the fallen angels from killing her. "System, can I give someone without cultivation a cultivation item to increase their combat rank?" [Host can do so but only up to 3 ranks a week because the sudden power increase in the target may cause severe side effects such as broken cultivation, crippling or even death] ''Hmmm, her strength would be Iron-3 rank and should be around 10 times the power of her previous self. This should at least give her a chance to fight and resist. But should I give her more?'' Her tenfold abilities should at least allow her to escape and resist the four fallen angels long enough for Sebastian or Rias'' Peerage to arrive and rescue her. But, there is the chance that the fallen angels would quickly kill her if she resisted. Maybe he could give her a familiar so that she could possibly defeat or even escape from the four fallen angels after her. With that idea in mind, he asked, "System, can I give someone a familiar?" A brief pause occured before the system replied, [Host is able to give the familiar through physical contact. However, familiar being transferred must agree to the transfer or the transfer will fail. Host is suggested to purchase a blank Familiar and cultivate it to influence its abilities and appearance.] He smiled, now Asia won''t be under the threat of fallen angels and won''t become a reincarnated devil. That way, he could befriend her and she could gain a greater power by staying human. Also, without meeting her peerage, she would never have met Issei and fallen for him instead. Her twilight healing could be very helpful, Theresa will get a new friend just like her. However, the system functions are still locked up and he''d like to prepare instead of float here doing nothing. Being a vampire made him far less tired and lazy, he felt that it''s a good choice considering the fact that he won''t feel weak when doing anything anymore. "System, how long until I can use the system functions?" A beeping noise rang for a few seconds before it replied. [Activation Time: 3:45:09] ''Three hours. I''ll try sleeping to wait it out then.'' He closed his eyes and attempted to sleep but found it hard to do so. He tried again by clearing his thoughts, closing his eyes and finding a comfortable position. Even after God knows how long, he still couldn''t sleep, not even lightly. ''Who knew that becoming a vampire would give you insomnia. This is so troublesome. Why can''t I sleep when I want to!'' Since complaining mentally and trying to sleep is useless, he decided to check on the time. [Activation Time: 0:02:13] He sighed, "At least it''ll activate in two minutes." After two minutes of waiting for the system''s function to activate, the awaited system notification appeared. [System Functions have been reactivated. Host is given full system access as physical barrier has been completely formed] Quickly, he opened the interface and headed to the store. He saw the store''s interface change and had more categories added. The design also underwent a change that made it appear more futuristic, simple and practical than its previous form. ''Nice change of theme.'' Now, the summoning category has been added and he selected it. More buttons appear as subcategories with Servants, Summoning Monsters, Contracts and Familiars. After selecting familiar, the blank familiar appeared at the top with a cheap price of 100 merit points. With around two hundred thousand saved up merits, this spending is quite near to nothing. He checked its status and read its description. Familiar - [Blank] Name: [Blank] Job: [Blank] Race: [Blank] Combat Rank: [Blank] Abilities: [Blank] Description: A familiar core created artificially to form new familiars from scratch. Elevation materials will influence appearance and abilities gained. Then, he looked for cultivation items. Familiar cultivation is done by absorbing energy and breakthrough objects, similar to other cultivators. Only that they can only absorb spiritual energy and have an appearance time limit every day. To advance through the pre-Apex levels, he must find monster cores which are organs or monster bodyparts that contain the most power within a monster''s body either prior or after death. So each monster would either have one or two cores. Asia had powerful healing but lacked defensive and offensive capabilities to protect herself. He purchased energy balls containing high density spiritual energy enough for the familiar to grow up to Immortal-1 rank and it costed him a few thousand merits. Then, he search for monster cores, essences and a soul to elevate the familiar. Apparently, he didn''t need to summon it to elevate it and its personality would depend on its first host. After an hour or two of finding the perfect cultivation materials, he purchased them from the parts of five different monsters. After incorporating them on the blank familiar, the familiar shone from within his inventory and quickly transformed in a bath of light. Familiar - Silver Ariel Name: Silver Ariel Job: Guardian Angel Race: Angel Combat Rank: Immortal-1(Immortal-5)/Issei Complete Balance Breaker+ level Abilities: - Advanced Light Spears - 12 Mirrors of Diamond - Silver Cross - 144 Heavenly Feathers - Heavenly Shout The blank slate had transformed into a beautiful light skinned woman a head taller than Asia. Her appearance is like a more mature and slightly more athletic version of her. She wears a silver breastplate and pauldrons over a short sleeved white dress. On her left hand is a bundle of a dozen white light spears. Four white wings sprout from her back and a faint halo is situated above her head. ''Good, it means that she could fight back and I''ll have a chance to save her before that pervert arrives.'' He then searched the shop for the boosted gear and found it with a different currency. Sacred Gear - Boosted Gear Description: A Sacred Gear containing the spirit of the Welsh Dragon, Ddraig. This Sacred Gear is a mid tier Longinus with the ability to double the user''s power every ten seconds and transfer that power to an entity or object. It possesses more abilities that can be unlocked through certain methods. Cost: 1,000,000 pervert points ''Pervert points?'' He raised an eyebrow at that currency. Although he''ll admit that he loves groping boobs, undressing girls and dominating them on bed, he doesn''t like it to be called pervert. It reminds him of the time back on his old world when the seniors got him in trouble via a plan to destroy any remaining sliver of his reputation. Unless a beautiful girl says it, he''ll find it offensive. "System, how do I get pervert points?" [Host can attain it by adding more girls to Host''s harem, getting more girls to crush on Host and by completing missions] "System, any missions then?" A white interface appeared with three missions and their details on them. DxD Mission 1 - Enroll in Kuoh Academy Objective: ? Enroll in Kuoh Academy (Main Objective) Enroll in Kuoh Academy as a Second Year Highschool student. ? Prince of Kuoh Academy (Side Objective) Replace Yuuto Kiba as the Prince of Kuoh Academy. ? Become a member of the ORC (Side Objective) Become a member of the Occult Research Club without being a reincarnated devil. Time Limit: 3 years 3 months (Main), 3 years 5 months (Side) Rewards: - Vampire Progenitor Pieces - 1,000,000 Pervert points (Side 1) - 10 DxD draw tickets (Side 2) DxD Mission 2 - Recruit Raynare Objective: ? Recruit Raynare (Main Objective) Make Raynare a part of Host''s peerage. ? Bishop Raynare (Side Objective) Make Raynare a Bishop in Host''s peerage. Time Limit: 3 years 3 months 1 week Rewards: - Maximum Piece Limit +1 - Bishop Piece (Side) DxD Mission 3 - Rescue Kuroka & Shirone Objective: ? Rescue Kuroka & Shirone (Main Objective) Rescue Kuroka & Shirone from the pursuing Devils. ? Escape Unnoticed (Side Objective) Escape the Underworld without being noticed by any devils. Time Limit: 2 months Rewards: - World Crystal Upgrade piece 1/? (Main Objective) - System Draw ticket (Side) [Host will arrive 3 years prior to the start of Highschool DxD and will appear de-aged by 4 years too.] ''This won''t be too hard to achieve then.'' He then proceeded to spend the next hours until arrival asking the system questions related to the sub system and his plans. Upon reaching ten seconds to arrival, the dark space around him slowly retreated to show the high atmosphere of DxD Earth. His body started to burn through the atmosphere, appearing like a shooting star. [Host will land in an unnamed island south of Japan] After a few moments, a fiery figure burst through the clouds and crashed into a forest, leaving a car sized smoking crater. [Successful landing completed, awakening Host] A torrent of pain surged through his body. He could feel the burning pain coming from all of his body. It felt like he was literally cooked alive. Although he didn''t scream, he cursed repeatedly in his mind, ''Fucking Immortality!'' His body released a burning sensation every time he regenerated from the burns adding to the pain he received. After an hour or so, the pain subsides and he stood up with not much pain anymore. Walking through the forest, he found a quick meal by drinking a deer''s blood and cooking its meat with fire. The night was cloudy and the moon rays could not penetrate the dark clouds above him. He looked up and smirked, "I''m finally here." 6 Saving the Sisters After finishing his cooked deer, he summoned his coffin and went to sleep. He quickly went into deep sleep. After 12 hours to relaxing, dreamless sleep, he awakens as the sun''s rays touch his black coffin. After quickly opening the lid, standing up and storing his black coffin, he searched for a nearby river to see how he looks like. The system said that he de-aged, so he wants to know how he looks like after de-ageing. For once, he activated his advanced combat domain and discovered a nearby river''s location. According to his combat domain, he is on an uninhabited island so he doesn''t need to conceal his abilities. With a speed greater than sound, he ran to the river''s direction, arriving in less than a second with a gust of wind following not too far behind. He looked for a calm pool in the river to serve as his mirror. Being a progenitor meant that he had no weaknesses like most non-progenitor vampires and that he could see himself in reflective surfaces unlike most other vampires. Once he found and saw his reflection in he water, he looked much less mature. Most of his predator and seductive charm has been replaced by a less mature and more innocent charm. He noticed that his height dropped by 15cm which is over half a head. After looking at his less mature appearance, he felt a little weird that he found it no less attractive than his usual self, but he chose to ignore it. With the mission''s time limit being 2 months, he would need to act quickly. Since he''s in a new world, currency from Elbenon would be useless but he decided to keep it in case he''d return. So, his first order of business would be to start a business. Thanks to reading a bunch of books in his spare time, his knowledge on many subjects are easily equal to those who have masters degree in them. With rapid processing, photographic memory and high IQ, he could learn things that would take 10 years in just a matter of 2 hours given that he did not need to get other books at the time and only read a massive book with thousands of pages. As for starting his own company, he needed money first so he thought of selling some of the bars of gold that he had. He planned on selling only several bars of gold because it''ll reduce the average market cost to a noticeable amount and that it''ll raise suspicion about him. Although he had the power of hypnosis and could do a mass memory wipe, he''d rather be perceived as a normal person until the events of Asia''s capture. He quickly ran into the mainland with speeds that would make most people incapable of perceiving him. He also made minimal contact with the surface of the sea so that the ripples from his steps are not noticeable. He used the combat domain to probe for landmasses with many buildings as he attempts to make landfall at Tokyo. Once he made landfall at Tokyo, he went into a corner and looked for concealment skills in the system store. When he looked at their prices, he felt like vomiting blood. Even a rare ranked concealment skill costed 1,000 points. What more of gold ranks or even epic ranks. However, he could only grit his teeth as he purchased an epic ranked concealment skill for 200,000 merits which is over 70% of his current savings. Void Form Rarity: Epic Type: Concealment Effect: User can cause any target to be incapable of perceiving or fully perceiving user by flooding too much information to be processed by target''s mind, forcing their mind to ignore user. If target has high intelligence or rapid processing, users can be seen as a blur or is partially perceived but will require the target to consume much mental stamina and will usually be quickly exhausted. Applies to any amount of targets. ''Even though it''s expensive, at least it''ll be useful for combat, infiltration and escape.'' Using his Void Form on everyone, he walked down the street. Everybody walked by, minding their own business not noticing a handsome youth in clothes similar to the stereotypical vampire including the black cape walking amongst them. He looked around for a place to exchange his gold bars for money but took off his cape and stored it to appear more normal when he deactivated his void form. Upon finding the place, he took out his dozen gold bars, deactivated his void form and used hypnosis to make sure that the exchange is fair and that he''s not cheated. Thanks to his hypnosis, the employees did not react much to the gold bars and caused a commotion and quickly paid him the money. He had earned a total of almost 32,000,000 yen which is around $300,000. Looking at the bag of money in front of him he commented, "This should be enough." He took the money and undid the hypnosis after using void form and leaving. After a few seconds, the employees are dazed and shocked at finding 7 bars of gold at the counter. To maintain their integrity, they waited for its owner to come but even after a week, no one ever came and so they took it, storing it. After leaving, he directly went to the first bank he encountered to store his newly earned money, create an account and get a credit card. He stored over 90% of his money while he kept the rest. When offered membership, he immediately accepted to gain extra benefits that came with it. After going to the bank, he went to a nearby mall to buy two black wallets to store his money in else than the crystal and to find an apartment to live in. Since he got used to living in a castle, he wanted to find an apartment that didn''t look too simple or shabby. Something that the upper levels of the middle class would live in. To gain information, he would use hypnosis while in void form to avoid confrontation. Although his act of sneaking around with this skill made him sound anti-social, you''ll never know if any of the three factions are spying on you. Especially if they have green or grey intentions. Upon meeting the apartment rental agent, he quickly requested him to find apartments that are ready within today or tomorrow with rental prices being at least $1,000 which is equal to 108,275 yen per month. Lucky for him, there was one available with $2,000 rent a month. He only needed to pay twice that amount up front to purchase it. Using his credit card, he pays the agent 433,100 yen and gets the apartment''s keys. The reason why the agent did not request his identification is because of hypnosis which allowed him to gain the keys. Since he''s not 17 years old yet, he couldn''t gain an citizen''s ID yet and that would be a problem in obtaining residence & starting a company. But first, he needed to feed as it is just past sundown before getting a good night''s rest at his apartment. For feeding, that is but a simple matter. He could easily find brothels and strip clubs in certain areas in Tokyo. After paying the appropriate price, he would unbutton his shirt and undress the prostitute''s before going with light kisses and licks around her cleavage. He would then grope her boobs and finger her pussy before finding the softest spot on her neck. Quickly biting and slowly sucked her blood as to savor the taste. After rebuttoning his shirt, putting on his jacket and vest, he left the brothel. Unbeknownst to him, a beautiful girl with long black hair looked down at his walking figure from atop a nearby skyscraper. She had 6 pairs of white wings with blue accents and wore a plain white dress. Even while he activated void form, she could see him walk down the sidewalk. Sebastian felt like he was being watched and looked around but the girl was one step ahead and vanished into thin air a second before. Ignoring what just happened, he headed towards the apartment while thinking of what business he would start. As for saving the sisters, he planned to complete it a month later so that he could easily provide for them instead of using mass hypnosis all the time. Although that won''t use too much of his stamina, he felt that it''s unnecessary to use it at every occasion. After all, he already uses it to make certain people to perceive him as his 18 year old self. His apartment room is located on the 31st floor in the building. The apartment building is connected to the mall where he purchased it from the agent. Since he knew where his apartment room is located and already had the keys with him, he didn''t bother turning off his void form except for when he opens his apartment door so it doesn''t look weird in the security camera. After entering the room, he immediately closes it and locks it. His apartment is well lit, the door leads to the living room where a white couch that can fit three people and a white sofa chair surround a short glass table with metal lining. To his left is a kitchen counter with a metal fridge, stove and wooden cupboards already added. His living room is spacious with an area of 70 sq.m while his kitchen measures 5m long and 2.5m wide. To his right is a corridor that leads to two bedrooms and a toilet. A few feet behind the sofa is a wooden dining table with six wooden chairs ready. While two yards behind it is the balcony overlooking the lit city of Tokyo. Walking to his room and calling out his coffin, he goes to sleep. For the next month, he had started and begun developing his business. He spent a week in many libraries throughout Tokyo and with his rapid processing and high intelligence, he managed to read 90% of the books including those from restricted areas such as hidden military installments and government research facilities. Thanks to this, he is very knowledgeable about modern science, business and even politics. By selling another six bars of gold, he bought a few floors of an office building to be the headquarters of his company. In that month, he started Cain industries which started out as a small marketing company. The recruitment of employees went well because of his bewitching looks and also through hypnosis. He managed to start with one hundred employees which he directly supervises. Under his leadership, this startup company has turned from an unknown presence to a pseudo 3rd rate company with over one thousand employees. He has expanded to purchase two floors in Kyoto and two floors in Osaka while expanding the headquarters by two more floors. The reason why his company developed quickly is because of certain things he gave his employees. He would put some cultivation materials into the food when they had a celebration which caused his employees to be Iron-1 or Iron-2 cultivators without noticing. This made them stronger, faster and more durable which causes them to work like they have infinite stamina. Lucky for him, the changes were quite subtle because he would add more work to people with recent breakthroughs to mask their sudden spike in abilities. Now is the time for him to rescue Kuroka and Shirone. As for locating the underworld, the world crystal had an ability to allow him entry to non protected worlds which he had just noticed recently. After getting a good meal and finishing any remaining work, he activated the world crystal''s world gate and entered the underworld. In a forest within the underworld, two girls are running away from pursuing devils. These girls had cat tails and ears, although their body is covered with some bruises and cuts, it didn''t hide their beauty. One of these girls held the smaller other in her arms. They are nekoshous, a rare species of nekomata and possibly the last of their kind as the older one had to kill her master who intended to experiment on her younger sister. They had been running for days, hunted down by devils of the house of Naberius. The elder nekoshou Kuroka, felt that she was at her limit. She could collapse but still had a sister to take care of. Shirone had been injured during their escape and has been mostly unconscious. Jumping over a river, she entered the forest and hid inside of a bush, hoping to be overlooked by her pursuers. Several mid ranked devils and a few high ranked devils entered the forest. "Come out you stray bitch!" A high ranked devil shouted. They wanted to experiment on her too and possibly execute her afterwards for disobedience. Kuroka had used most of her powers to escape and take down her near ultimate level devil master. She shivered in fear under the bush and tears started to stream down from her eyes. In a quiet voice she cried, "Shirone-chan, I''m sorry. I shouldn''t have dragged you into this. You could''ve avoided all of this trouble, I, I, please forgive me Shirone-chan." The sound of footsteps grew louder and louder, she felt her heart beat faster. She hugged Shirone harder as more tears flowed from her eyes. ''This is the end. Goodbye, Shirone-chan.'' After waiting for a few seconds, the end she readied herself for didn''t come. Instead, she turned her head to see a handsome black haired youth extend a hand forward to help her. Noticing his red eyes, she immediately went on guard and looked for a moment to escape. After glancing at him once more, she hesitated to escape. She felt herself to be drawn to this mysterious youth. Shaking her head she thought, ''Stop hesitating, Kuroka. Run! Run!'' But before she could muster enough strength to run, the man quickly took her left hand and dragged them into the large bush. Footsteps are heard coming around the bush, although she still had her suspicions, her guard lowered around him. Sebastian order the system to purchase a quick healing spell method. Quickly learning it, he used the spell to heal most of their wounds. As he whispered a few words, a small ring of green light bathes the sisters. Their bruises and cuts stared to disappear alongside all of the filth. Kuroka felt less drained as the pain from her wounds vanished completely. Shirone''s gold eyes started blinking, she slowly woke up to see her crying sister and a mysterious youth beside her. "Onesan, who''s that beside you?" Hearing her sister talk, Kuroka immediately lunged and hugged her tight. "Shirone-chan!" Shirone, being constricted by her sister softly replied, "Onesan. I I can''t breathe." "Sorry Shirone-chan." After loosening her hug, she turned to Sebastian and thanked him. The footsteps have started to die down and they remained quiet until they heard some devil shout, "Perimeter clear!". A high ranked devil then commanded, "Scour the rest of the forest!" After the sound of footsteps have completely faded, Kuroka sighed in relief and once again thanked him. But before they could leave, he held Kuroka''s hand and offered, "Kuroka, don''t stay in the underworld. Come with me, I have a place back on Earth where you two are safe from the devils." Kuroka felt like she saw this coming. She was suspicious of him but even more so after his offer. ''What if he''s going to trick us just like those devils from the house of Naberius.'' Kuroka is struggling whether to decline or not. On one hand, he could be equal to or worse than the devils from the house of Naberius while on the other, he could protect her and Shirone from the devils. To help her make her decision, she used her senjutsu to read the flow of his spirit and looked into his red eyes. Sebastian did not hide any of his intentions towards her. As the seconds passed looking at his eyes, Kuroka''s gaze softened and a peaceful smile started to form. Finally she spoke, "Thank you. Please take care of us, nya!" Sebastian activated the world gate and a black rectangular portal appeared between the trees in front. Before they left, Kuroka asked, "You never told us your name, nya." Sebastian looked back and smiled, "My name is Sebastian Adrian Cain. Nice to meet you Kuroka, Shirone." Then, the three entered the black portal. Kuroka with Shirone beside her and Sebastian holding the rainbow colored World Crystal. At the other side, the trio entered the lit living room with food ready at the table and a woman waiting for them. "Welcome back master!" 7 Three Years Pas Before leaving to the underworld, Sebastian had Li Yao prepare dinner for the two nekoshous he was about to save. For the last month, he had Li Yao become his secretary. With her beauty and ability to lead made her become the idol of some of the male employees. She had been proposed to three times and quickly declined each. Although shameless, he had also used her to attract employees by promising a date with her for the one who worked the hardest. He attracted around sixty men this way with Li Yao complaining before every date. He had convinced her by going on a date with her too. However, that date is scheduled to be done right after they had become a third rate company within Tokyo. When they had crossed the black portal, they are greeted by the sight of a prepared dinner and a woman who bowed to greet Sebastian and the nekoshou sisters. "Welcome back Master. It''s nice to meet you Kuroka-san, Shirone-san." Although bewildered at how this woman they had just met knew their names, Sebastian calmed them down by telling them that she''s his servant. Hearing that, the two asked if he is a devil. To their relief, he politely answered them that he is not but he also told them that he is not a human either. After that, the dinner went on quite normally. Li Yao''s cooking easily impressed the sisters and made them want more of it despite having large bellies thanks to that. Sebastian told them that they will be sleeping in the other bedroom next to the toilet. After telling them to take a bath, Sebastian went inside his room to gain the mission''s rewards. Although the system had given several notifications, he blocked it off so it won''t become annoying while he was having dinner. DxD Mission 3 - Rescue Kuroka & Shirone (100% Completion) Objective: ? Rescue Kuroka & Shirone (Complete) Rescue Kuroka & Shirone from the pursuing Devils. ? Escape Unnoticed (Complete) Escape the Underworld without being noticed by any devils. Time Limit: 2 months Rewards: - World Crystal Upgrade piece 1/? - System Draw ticket In his inventory, a smaller version of his world crystal appeared along with a system draw ticket. Sebastian selected the system draw ticket and checked the gacha function. The draw function currently had 2 banners, the system banner and the highschool dxd banner. There was even a featured item/entity/function/ability present. The featured draws were True Ame-no-Murakumo, MahaVlitra, Supreme God System and Absolute Creation. The images of each were clearly displayed and their basic information is shown. With every description he read, the more amazed he was with the system. Any of the featured draws would easily make him stronger than a demigod even at his level. With his hopes up at getting anything good, he used the draw ticket. An animation started right after he pressed draw. A large medieval city was gradually built from the ground up. The grassy plains where it emerged from shook as the city was formed building by building. Although the skip button is available, he wanted to see the animation cause that''ll tell what he will get. After the city assembled, the white clouds in the sky begin to swirl. A knight jumped into the sky with his hand looking like it wants to grip the sky. Rays of platinum light emerged from the center of the swirling clouds and then, a platinum energy orb descends as the knight grabbed it with immense precision. After the knight landed on the ground, the knight showed the glowing platinum energy orb whose glow started expanding and quickly engulfing everything. After the glow subsided, platinum letters appeared spelling ''Epic''. Then, his prize''s information was shown on screen. Pervert Powers Max!! [Epic Rank] Effect: User can cause the clothes of any person of the opposite gender to fall out, rendering the targets naked just by thinking about it. Targets must be in the same world, temporary dimensions are considered of the same world. Looking as if he struck gold, he licked his lips in a sexy manner and thought, ''This is truly epic indeed.'' After it was brought to his inventory, he immediately equipped the skill. To try it out, he imagined Li Yao naked. Coincidentally, this same woman is at the front of her master''s bedroom. She was going to ask to sleep there because the sisters are using her bedroom. Just before she could ask her master, her clothes suddenly detached like it''s repelled by her skin. Noticing this, she tried to pull up her dress but she accidentally knocked the door opened and saw her master staring at her with a predator''s eyes. Pulling away from the gaze, she noticed that she was still naked and immediately ran away, closing the door with a loud bang. Seeing her reaction, he chuckled before suppressing his inner vampire instincts to pounce on her and play with her body. Putting his cape back on, he enlarged and entered his black coffin to sleep. After three months, Cain Industries had become a 3rd rate company in the cities of Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto. It quickly rose into the peak of 3rd rate companies within a week and because of this a certain petal fairy''s wish will be granted. On their date, Li Yao had planned for them to sightsee around Japan. Aware that her master has the world gate ability, she used it to plan a 5 hour date around Japan. For the first one and a half hours, they would eat the best food in Tokyo, the second would be spent visiting various shrines and temples while they will spend the last 2 hours watching a horror movie. Why a horror movie? Because she will turn it as an excuse to cuddle with him. Although she wanted to try and ask him to have a private moment under the sheets, she saw it as asking for too much. In these three months, Kuroka had become an employee in the company. She quickly rose to the manager position and was stationed at the kyoto branch. He sent her there due to reasons such as lack of staff and need for expansion, although the true reason is that Kyoto houses the Youkai faction who would help her out if she''s attacked. After all, the faction rules over Kyoto. They can''t have any youkai be bullied or attacked by another race. Shirone was also sent there alongside her sister which has helped to increase the Kyoto branch''s development speed by around 30%. Back to the date, they finished all of their work early and went to a famous buffet. The petal fairy had reserved a spot for them a few days back since she made a prediction on when their date is going to occur on. At the first week of arriving in the dxd world, he taught her how to call delivery and do reservations because he wants to get pizza or sushi without having to come there or even move from the couch where he watches anime. His reasoning is because it''s something important which she highly doubts. Their date went on quite well, they had a buffet lunch at 3 p.m. They ate as much as they could, easily devouring over a stack of plates worth of food without having a big stomach at all. Sebastian would quickly suck the blood out from the raw meat before cooking it. Although they had a master and monster relationship, he decided that the flower fairy''s going to be the first of his harem. Over the past 3 months, he had slowly felt a budding love for her. Although he knew that she only helped him because she is a summoning monster, he largely ignored that. Since she asked him out first, he''ll make his mark on her at the end of the date. After the buffet, Sebastian used the world gate to bring them to the Fushimi Inari shrine in Kyoto. They arrived at a nearby location so that their black portal would not attract attention. While walking through the many red gates of the temple, Li Yao talks about how they were so similar to the ones built by the humans for her people. The people in the surrounding areas worship the petal fairies, giving offerings and constructing temples and shrines for her people. In return, her people would give blessings, boons or protection to these people. However, the Taoist priests were sent to kill her people due to the emperor''s plan to unite the central sector of the continent. She then started taking selfies and pictures around the shrine. After half an hour, they went towards the Kamigamo-jinja shrine and did the same there. The last shrine they visited before they left is the Yasaka shrine. At the shrine, both of them sensed many youkai in the area. Most of them are only comparable to silver level or bronze level cultivators in Elbenon so they did not watch their actions. In this shrine, they acted more carefully and did not talk about Elbenon at all. They also kept their aura suppressed to slightly above human levels so that they won''t identify them as devils or something else. With their second session complete, they went to the movies together to watch a ghost movie. Li Yao got a VIP membership for the both of them so they could watch it in 3D. When he asked how she got the membership, she told him that while she was shopping for clothes, she stumbled upon a special membership deal at the cinema. Since it was a pretty good deal, she quickly signed up and bought the membership for the price of 50,000 yen. The benefits were that they would have a 35% discount on everything in the cinema and that they can reserve one seat per person in any cinema where only they can sit unless they allow other people to take it. When the movie started, Li Yao leaned her head on his shoulder and hugged his right hand. Sebastian replied by briefly kissing her head, making her blush. When a jump scare happened in the movie, Li Yao would hug him even more and bury her head on his chest until Sebastian told her that the scary part''s over. Sebastian loved being hugged by her soft skin and loved her fragrant smell. He would intentionally not tell her that the jump scare''s over just to have her hug him longer. After the movie, the most cliche moment happened while they were walking back to the apartment. "Hey pretty lady, come here so I can give you some fun." Beckoned the leader of three drunk men. A group of drunk young thugs blocked their path while they were walking home. When Li Yao ignored them and simply walked past them, the thug leader grabbed her hand and drunkenly said, "Cccome here, I-I can ggive you what y-you want." She easily shook off the thug leader''s hand and was ready to shred them into pieces of meat with her summoned petals. However, he commanded her to stand down through the link and quickly ran behind the thug leader. With inhumane speed, they saw nothing happen at all as he whispered to each one of them these words, "Turn back or become my meal." After a second past, they heard the voice while Sebastian appeared to not have moved at all. Lucky for them, one of them was smart enough to try and retreat while their leader kept shouting at him, "We are the Yakuza, we fear nothing! Come back or be branded as a traitor!" ''Wow, wasn''t he just drunk a few seconds ago?'' Sebastian is surprised at his sudden coherence when he talked about the Yakuza. But, since the other two did not heed his words, he mercilessly bit down into their necks and sucked out blood violently, causing it to be sprayed all over their bodies and causing Sebastian to have a thick smear of blood around his mouth. If anyone else were to witness this, they would call him a monster. But to Li Yao, this looked sexy. I mean a handsome vampire killing people who would try to **** you would look sexy in any woman''s eyes. Li Yao walked towards him as if in a trance. Soon, she placed her hands around his neck and looked into his deep crimson eyes while he looked into her own. Sebastian activated the world gate and they fell into the bed with Li Yao beneath him like a leopard above its prey. He went off of her and off the bed, standing up. As if on cue, both of them began stripping their clothes. Li Yao started taking off her pink dress slowly while she watched him take off his jacket and vest with lust in her eyes. Sebastian then threw away his bowtie to the floor and started unbuttoning his white collared shirt. Once fully unbuttoned, he waited for Li Yao to fully strip herself. As if enticing him, Li Yao made sexual poses and moves, beckoning him to devour her whole. His little dragon started to expand and his eyes became more crimson as his fangs started to slightly grow. After a few more poses, he surrendered himself to her scantily clad body and pounced on her with his chiseled abs exposed. Once he pinned her down to the white sheets of the bed, he passionately kisses her. Their tongues tease, cuddle and intertwine with each other as both of their faces grew redder as this continued. After a whole two minutes of their passionate kiss, he broke away and began to sexily bite off his white gloves causing Li Yao to secrete some honey out while looking at him like a starved puppy. After the gloves are put of the way, he suddenly ripped her bra out to reveal her large jiggling breasts of c cup size. "Li Yao, become my bride." Nodding at her master statement, Li Yao prepared herself for whatever will happen next. Sebastian took her answer with a sly smile and barred his sharp fangs before biting her right tit. He sucked the blood and milk out of it while Li Yao screamed in pain before slowly changing to pleasurable moaning. Breaking off and letting the bite mark bleed a little he asked, "Do you like it my fairy?" With a blissful expression she replied, "Yes I do master." Then, he bit down on her other tit with a seductive smile giving her more moans of pleasure for him to hear. He then kissed her again with even more passion while fingering her pussy causing the beautiful woman to let out a high pitched moan whenever he broke away from their kiss. After a few more passionate kisses he asked her with seriousness in his voice, "My dear fairy, are you ready?" The black haired fairy unhesitantly nodded her head. To make sure that she truly wants this he asked her once more with his eyes locking and focusing to her and only hers. While doing so, he uses one hand pull down the zipper on his pants and pull down his underwear so that his large 10 inch dragon could be released from its wet and sticky cage. He had ejaculated during their kiss and while he gave her marks. He is a highschool pervert and porn addict after all, not some professional vampire who can control his erections and ejaculations. Li Yao answered the same and showed her agreement by pushing down her last strip of cloth. "Very well." With great strength, he flipped her over and pulled her up by the right hand. Looking at the liquid being secreted, he smiled and barred his fangs, letting a soft hiss escape. First, he leaned on her neck and used his sharp fangs to find the softest spot on her neck. When be pressed them against her neck, she would moan or shiver from it. He also placed his dick ever closer, preparing to strike with both stings from his fang and from his dragon. Once he found the spot, a small drop of blood squeezed out which he quickly licked. He whispered to her ears, "I found it." Grabbing one edge of his cape, he covered her mouth as he leans to bite. With his dragon and fangs ready, he drilled into her. His fangs quickly pierced her skill and slowly drained her blood out. While his dragon entered her tunnel and began spurting out its milk as her tunnels are flooded by the seeds of life. The sweet sugar like taste of blood filled his mouth coupled by the soft, tender surface of her cavern. He put away his hand from her mouth and began to play with her tits while biting. After a few seconds, he started to uncontrollably penetrate further and further causing his fangs to drain more blood away. Even so, both of them felt great bliss and they begged for more. He drilled harder and faster while she squealed and moaned louder as the bliss caused her tongue to dance like a drunkard in her mouth. They drowned in an endless sea of sexual pleasure as their needs are completed. Li Yao then started to tire after fifteen more minutes of heaven which prompted Sebastian to let go of his fangs and straighten his cape. She then fell softly on the bed, facing up with a blissful face as her eyes slowly shut. ''That felt great.'' Sebastian swore to have sex as soon as possible. Feeling it and seeing it is two extremely different things. He only buttoned up three buttons from his shirt, tucking them in, pulling up his underwear and zipping his pants before going to sleep with a happy expression inside the coffin. After a month, Li Yao did a pregnancy test but it resulted in negative which saddened her a little. Sebastian comforted her by saying, "If you don''t have it now, we could always do it again later. As much as we want my fairy." Sebastian started to mature over the first year as the company expands to the country of Taiwan and is recognized as a second rate company. He became more patient and less childish while managing a whole company with over 50,000 employees. In six more months, the company had expanded to Malaysia, China and Singapore, earning a status as a first rate company as the total company shares have reached over 100 million dollars. In that day, Sebastian opened up the department for modeling and science. With his supernaturally handsome appearance, he easily built the modeling department by acting as a model. In the following weeks, he is quickly crowned the sexiest man alive while Li Yao became Miss Japan and the third place for the Miss Universe competition. Thanks to that, the modeling department quickly grew. As for the science department, his high IQ and rapid processing allowed it to grow rapidly as he merged magic and modern medicine to heal many diseases. He almost won the noble peace prize for inventing a drug that painlessly kills cancer in the first two stages and can extend one''s lifespan for up to half a year. He is also regarded as the youngest and most prestigious scientist as the department slowly approaches the key to cheap, renewable energy. After another year, the company had officially grown to a decacorn company with over 62 billion dollars in shares and a candidate for the world''s super companies. At this same time, he had started to encounter the companies made by devils and their attempts to attack his company or weaken it to keep their standing. Thanks to him deploying parasites to all of his employees using the dandelion parasite which is cleverly disguised as a daisy flower in his office, his employees are immune to charm and he would know about everything that his own employees knew. This year is also when he visited Kuroka and Shirone again with the latter having no change in attitude at all. Kuroka had recently joined the youkai faction alongside her sister who had changed into a less shy girl who did not have much problems with being brutally honest to people. He visited them to give them some training as he wanted to make sure that the sisters could become strong additions to his harem. He bought Senjutsu, Touki and Youjutsu manuals from the system for a few thousand merits and told them to train to the max while he gave them cultivation pills and monster cores for them to break through up to the bronze rank. He visited them for a week and helped them train while he also trained his sword skills which are a little rusty due to utilizing magic most of the time for the last two years. He also asked the system on how to elevate into the Eternal rank which the system said that the user must wait for another two years before breaking through since the elevation would leak too much of his aura and that can attract unwanted attention while possibly causing mass genocide by accident. Since he couldn''t develop any further on that part, he simply trained his sword skills and made deadly combos with the combinations of his skills and magic. After 3 months more, he asked Li Yao to register him into Kuoh Academy with the pretext that he is the son of the CEO of Cain Industries whose name is not known. Yes although he is a world famous CEO, he did not give his name so that his enemies are unable to track him or know anything about him. Added by the magic from his summoning monsters and familiars, he is both invincible and invisible. According to his memory, school should start in another 2 months. While he waits, his company had grown even further and has been crowned as one of the twenty super companies of the world with 263 billion dollars in shares thanks to the recently developed medical department and the self charging smartphones powered by the mana in the air. 8 First Day of Kuoh Academy A beeping sound rang inside the room as the alarm said 8:00 a.m. Responding to the alarm, a handsome youth on the bed slowly opened his lazy red eyes. After examining the large room around him, he smiled and muttered under his breath, "It''s just a bad dream." He dreamt of his first life as a human, how he was bullied, abused and finally expelled. To the day he commited suicide and met the system. The dream ended with him waking up to see that he never died and he never met the system. Until, he saw a naked Li Yao in the dream before he woke up. Seeing that he''s still the progenitor of vampires and is inside his apartment in DxD, a vigor suddenly ignited from within as he stood up and cleaned his bed in the speed of light. Today is the day that when he will enter Kuoh Academy and change the story of DxD in the way he always wanted it to be. He went inside the bathroom and started taking a hot shower. Koneko did not enter Kuoh Academy but instead, a prestigious school in Kyoto alongside her sister who is studying in a world renowned university there. The sisters had become much stronger and much smarter, easily earning straight A''s for their tests and assignments. Since they used their abilities to help complete assignments. Once he finished his quick two minute shower, he took the Kuoh Academy uniform and wore it inside his room. While looking in the mirror, he smirked at his handsome looks and praised himself, "Sebastian you handsome devil." Since he regained his 18 year old appearance, his dangerous and suave charm had completely returned. He looked mature and masculine but not in a brutish or rugged way. As for his transportation, he could use the world gate to transport him there. While packing up his bag, he summoned Li Yao. The petal fairy deaged her appearance to enter the academy as a student. Since his summoning monsters are constantly cleaned when out of battle, the petal fairy did not need to take a bath but simply need to put on the academy''s uniform. While waiting for her to finish, he asked the system to show him the current mission. DxD Mission 1 - Enroll in Kuoh Academy Objective: ? Enroll in Kuoh Academy (Main Objective) Enroll in Kuoh Academy as a Second Year Highschool student. ? Prince of Kuoh Academy (Side Objective) Replace Yuuto Kiba as the Prince of Kuoh Academy. ? Become a member of the ORC (Side Objective) Become a member of the Occult Research Club without being a reincarnated devil. Time Limit: 3 years 3 months (Main), 3 years 5 months (Side) Rewards: - Vampire Progenitor Pieces - 1,000,000 Pervert points (Side 1) - 10 DxD draw tickets (Side 2) "Nice, I get to become Kuoh Academy''s new prince. Well this won''t be hard at all." The second mission would basically be a free giveaway given the fact that one, he''s handsome beyond compare and two, he has hypnosis. He thought of completing it faster by smacking the perverted trio away while their spying on the kendo club. As for entering the ORC, that meant that he must quickly reveal his existence to them and gain Rias'' interest. That won''t be too hard considering his blood red eyes and the fact that he won''t suppress his supernatural nature around the devil students. While he thought about how he could seduce Rias and kill Riser during that stupid wedding, Li Yao had finished wearing her uniform. "I''m done! Let''s go master." Sebastian took out the void cored crystal and activated the world gate. A black door shaped portal appeared before them and the two quickly stepped in. In an alleyway just in front of Kuoh Academy, a black door shaped portal opened and from it emerged two Kuoh academy students. One with an extremely handsome face, messy black hair and hypnotic red eyes while the other could not be described as anything but a fairy. Her long black hair and beautiful face could make anyone easily mistake her for a real chinese princess. Emerging casually from the alleyway, the two students brought much attention as they walked through the school gates. A female student asked her friend, "Is he a new student? Why is he so handsome?" The ladies of Kuoh Academy had their eyes fixed on Sebastian''s figure as he walks towards the highschool building. The girls quickly drooled over his figure even though they only saw a part of his face. The more curious and attractive girls who thought they had a chance tried approaching him but backed off when they saw a student beside him that they begrudgingly admit is more beautiful than themselves. Some of the girls began taking pictures of him causing the boys to ask what''s the commotion about. When the girls told them about the new student, the school''s boys decide to scare him so that he''ll stop stealing their girls. A group of half a hundred boys quickly halted his path. A large, intimidating student walked out of the crowd. He clearly looked like the typical school bully. However, Sebastian''s height is at 5 foot 10 inches causing the bully to lose his dominant act upon noticing that he''s three inches shorter. Rias and Kiba had just arrived and noticed the crowd of boys that ganged up on two new students. "Rias-sama, should we help them?" Rias turned her face to look at the unfazed students and replied to her knight, "No need Kiba, it looks like they''re fine." Just before the bully can open his mouth and try to intimidate him, Sebastian leaked a small portion of his aura to his surroundings. He didn''t even try and suppress its range as the whole school felt the pressure. The student crowd in front of them froze in fear, instead of confronting a new student it''s as if that they are offending a powerful beast who could kill them without effort. The weaker willed among the crowd began running away while the others quickly made way while staring at the two in fear. "Did you feel that?" Kiba replied, "Yes, it''s like a high class devil''s full aura. Do you know him?" Rias shook her head. It seems that an unknown supernatural entity had joined the school and whatever it is, it''s definitely at least as strong as a high class devil. "Maybe we should recruit him?" Rias mused. "Are you sure Rias-sama? Don''t you think someone that powerful would want to join a peerage?" Kiba raised a good point, she had just obtained her evil pieces last year. Why would someone that''s at least as strong as her fiance join her peerage? While they walked to class, Rias kept thinking about those two students and how she could recruit them to join. While at the two''s class, they underwent an introduction. "Alright class sit down. We have two new students joining this academy today. Please introduce yourselves." Sebastian walked in first and quickly introduced himself, "My name is Sebastian Adrian Cain. I hope we could all be friends." When he said friends, the sound of girls squealing and the sound of angry boys growling could be heard. Then, Li Yao went in. Her beautiful appearance quickly filled the hearts of the male students with lust and the female students with jealousy and hate because some of them heard that the two walked into school together. After the fairy introduced herself, most of the girls beckoned him to sit next the them while the same happened to Li Yao with the boys. "Sebastian-san sit here!" "No, sit here instead!" When the teacher tried to stop his students, they stared at him with predatory eyes prompting him to simply watch his new students be fought over. Despite the girls tugging him and the boys tugging her to sit beside them, the two used unnatural strength to free themselves and walked unhindered as they sit next to each other at the back, earning both of them jealous stares from most students. Thanks to his Akashic Brain, Sebastian only needed to hear or see information to instantly remember and understand it so he simply stood idly, mentally training his sword skills. When asked a question, he would perfectly answer the question, earning him more jealousy from the boys and more admiration from the girls. After a boring session of class, recess has arrived. The students left talking about the handsome and beautiful new students. Some of the girls began considering on giving the title of Kuoh Academy''s Prince to Sebastian. However, most agree that it''s a little too early to consider. He and Li Yao left class to go to the roof for some quests. Recently, Li Yao had received a quest from the Future God system. Due to being his summoning monster, the Future God system had been activated for her to use. However, the DxD subsystem is only exclusive to him and other players. Li Yao''s quest involved her to enter a pocket dimension where she must complete a quest issued by a being inside of it. Luckily, the time difference is 100 times and only 40 minutes of recess remains. She would spend less than 4000 minutes which is around 66 hours inside of the dimension. When Li Yao accepted the system quest, a dark vortex drags her towards the dimension. Rias sent Kiba to follow them to the roof and catches the sight of Li Yao disappearing, quickly running down to report it to Rias. Sebastian''s combat domain made him completely aware of every action, word and movement done by Rias'' knight but he does not interfere because he''d like to be underestimated first before retaliating and completely shaming the person. Within those three years, he found out that his current abilities are only surpassed by Ophis, Trihexa and Great Red. No other being in DxD can defeat him easily and the stronger deities would take some time themselves. According to the system, each Maou is only equal to Eternal-3 ranked monsters while Ddraig and Albion in their prime are each equal to Red Gold Legendary ranked monsters which would take his berserk abilities for him to defeat them both in a head on confrontation for his current ability is only sub par in comparison to a Silver Legendary monster. While the two dragon gods are at Bronze Demigod for Ophis and Silver Demigod for Great Red. To pass time, he trained his sword skills so he could push his combat techniques to the point where he could rival or even defeat regular silver legendary monsters outside using his main berserk skill. While inside the ORC, a beautiful red haired girl, a handsome blonde teen and a beautiful black haired girl are discussing about the training teen. "What was he doing before you left?" Kiba replied, "He was talking to the other student that was with him, and when she left, he drew out some kind of black sword out of thin air. For some reason, the sword scared the life out of me and I instantly ran back." Seeing that the situation at hand is out of her league, she decides to talk to her brother about it. Of course, she won''t cease to find ways to make him a part of her peerage. For some reason, she felt that their destinies are intertwined. In truth, Sebastian had placed the lady killer spell on her because he decided to let Issei live despite the fact that he might mess a lot of things up. However, he needed Issei to have his Sacred gear to torture him by taking his harem away from him. Something crueler than simply taking away the heavenly dragon from him. He wanted the pervert to suffer for his misdeeds of not giving them the experience they want by wetting their vagina in a torrent of semen. After ten minutes, he decided to check on the perverted Trio since his domain caught them moving towards the peeking hole. His combat domain made him know about everything that happened in this city up to this very point. Helped by his Akashic Brain, he had a 3 year record of all events that occured up to 100km from him. He is completely aware of Rias'' plan on contacting her brother about this. Thanks to his domain, he quickly traversed the hallways and found the perverted trio spying on the girls kendo club. To scare them, he soundlessly snuck up to them and whispered in an amused manner, "What are you three doing?" "Aaah!" "We''ve been caught!" "Escape!" The trio''s screams alerted the girls kendo club and he could hear them marching towards the trio''s location. Not letting them escape, he pulled their shirts back with supernatural might and anchored them to their spot. When they saw who was holding them at place they shouted at him, "Aren''t you new? Why are you attacking us?!" "Let me go!!!" The three tried many ways to escape until Issei started unbuttoning his shirt causing Matsuda to ask in panic, "What are you doing Issei?! This isn''t time for masturbating!!" Understanding what Issei is doing, Motohama started doing the same. "What''s gotten into you two?!" The perverted glasses replied, "Just do it! It will free you." After half a minute, Issei managed to break free from his uniform and started running away with his red shirt on. Sensing his escape, he used world gate in front of him to teleport him down the staircase where he ran into the armed girls kendo club. "Hey, look! It''s one of the perverts!" While another girl shouted, "Get him!!" Issei ran back up the stairs but had his shirt gripped by Sebastian''s left hand. "Where do you think you''re going you little pervert?" Issei then started pleading. Motohama managed to free himself but it was too late. To prevent his escape, Katase threw her kendo which hit him straight at his back and caused him to tumble down, entering the maw of angry kendo girls. Sebastian handed over the pervert Issei and Matsuda to them who were brutally beaten with kendo sticks for peeping on the changing room again. Katase and Murayama thanked him for catching the trio in the act before leaving with the trio being dragged towards the club for further beatings. "No!!!!!" Shouted the perverted trio in unison as they are dragged into their inevitable doom. Sebastian only chuckled at their suffering with a smug on his face before he went back to the room and found Li Yao on the ground with her clothes tattered. Thankfully, the system told him through popups that she is alive and that he gained fifty thousand merit points for the first time in three years. It also said that she needs a day''s rest within the system so he would need to use hypnosis to cover her absence. After that, he spent the rest of the day without any more abnormalities and with knowledge that now 15% of the girls in the academy have started calling him the second prince of Kuoh Academy. Surely the ire of the male students won''t be far behind with this 7% increase. This would be a disaster for a typical highschool student but not if he is both a vampire progenitor and the current 4th strongest being in the world. While he was walking out the school gate, a beautiful young woman with long black hair and purple eyes approached him. She wore the Kuoh Academy uniform and was recognized in a glance. "Senpai, can you go out with me on a date right now?" His mission entitled him to turning her into his bishop piece, but it will mess up the timeline if he did it now. Maybe, he could torture her and pleasure himself with her as punishment to her future deeds before erasing her memory. ''That sounds like a good plan.'' Outside, he replied innocently, "Yeah, sure miss?" In her twisted mind she thought, ''My first prey and it''s a hot one. This will be fun, hehehe.'' Unbeknownst to the fallen angel, she will be tonight''s victim for the vampire progenitor. With a fake smile, the fallen angel replied, "Yuuma Amano. It''s nice to meet you."