Chapter 821: An Ambitious Project. 3
Nyx blinked twice and simply nodded. “Fine, leave it to me.” Nyx looked at the sky, her gaze extended beyond the planet and reached into space. She began searching for the largest rock she could see.
“I found it… And this asteroid has several interesting materials too.”
Victor looked in the direction Nyx was pointing and saw what she had grabbed.
“Perfect.” He smiled satisfactorily and looked at Natalia.
“Natalia! Touch Nyx, she will instruct you.”
“Yes!” Natalia touched Nyx’s shoulder, and in the next moment, her senses spread out ridiculously. She was looking at the universe, and it seemed so small…
“This stone here, use your power.”
“Yes…!” Natalia snapped out of her stupor and focused on the image Nyx had provided. In the next moment, a gigantic portal appeared in front of the asteroid.
“Place the portal above the planet, not too close to avoid getting caught in the atmosphere,” Victor said.
“Okay.”
“Done.”
Victor used his hand and pulled the asteroid into the portal. In the next moment, everyone on the planet saw the stone in the sky.
Consequently, some people began to panic.
“… Are we really safe with this?” Violet swallowed hard.
“Darling wouldn’t do anything that puts us in danger,” Sasha said, but even she was a bit afraid.
“So this is how the extras in the war felt facing Madara…” Ruby spoke.
“It’s not a pleasant feeling.” Pepper added.
“I feel sorry for them.” Ruby nodded.
“I definitely wouldn’t want to be there.” Lacus said.
As the stone in the sky started to grow, even Ruby, Lacus, and Pepper began to break out in a cold sweat.
“Is this really safe!?” Lacus exclaimed.
“Just trust Darling! He knows what he’s doing… Probably!” Violet said.
“That doesn’t inspire much confidence.” Hestia sighed. Even as a goddess, if that stone falls on the planet, she will die! Not just her, the entire planet will.
“Gaia, your turn.”
“I’m on it!” Gaia controlled the chunks of earth she took from the planet and hurled them towards the asteroid.
Everyone could see the lands of the planet merging completely with the asteroid.
Meanwhile, Victor said:
“Bruna, come here!”
“Y-Yes!” Bruna quickly flew and stood near Victor.
“Touch me, I will instruct you.”
“Yes!” She didn’t waste time asking what she should do, she just did as ordered.
Soon, she felt as if she were observing from Victor’s point of view, and she saw hundreds of beings.
“Take all the belongings of these beings, and the beings themselves. Just leave their homes.”
Bruna swallowed hard, but she nodded strongly. “Yes!”
A wave of telekinesis erupted with Bruna at the center, and soon, all the vampires present in the territories of Fulger, Snow, and Adrasteia started floating in the sky.
“Whoaa… Whoaaa. This is weird.” Nero said with a strange expression as he felt his sense of gravity being messed up.
“Don’t resist, it will make Bruna’s job easier.” Natashia said.
“Okay… Ophis, hold onto me.” Nero said.
“Mm.” Ophis quickly hopped onto Nero and held onto him.
Victor frowned and controlled all these lands, tossing them onto the asteroid. As the lands left the stratosphere, he felt his control being taken over by Gaia.
Seeing that everything worked perfectly, he said.
“Seal.” Soon, all these properties were covered by a force field that prevented them from being destroyed.
Then he said:
“Nyx!”
Understanding what she needed to do, Nyx clapped her hands, and the starry night covered the entire asteroid.
“Roxanne, Jeanne!”
Roxanne exited Victor’s body and appeared in the sky. Jeanne let go of Victor’s shoulder and also flew close to Roxanne. Both women then pointed their hands at the planet. A burst of red and green energy flew towards the asteroid.
Roxanne’s negative energy was enriching the asteroid, creating a conducive environment for life.
Jeanne’s primordial energy was accelerating the entire process and isolating the environment.
Thanks to the combination of the two, the visible effect of the ‘green’ being created was seen by all. This process took the longest, lasting for three hours.
After all, it wasn’t just randomly channeling energy. They needed to create ‘veins’ that nourish the asteroid, similar to what existed on Earth and all planets with a World Tree.
Normally, the World Tree does this passively, but Victor didn’t want to wait that long. He was forcing it artificially.
During this time, Bruna gathered all the living beings from these territories and brought them to the outskirts of the Snow Clan.
“Good job, Bruna. Rest now.”
“Yes…” Bruna didn’t argue. She was very tired; she never thought she’d use telekinesis on such a large scale, but this experience gave her many ideas, ideas that would terrify her enemies in the future.
“Done.” Roxanne and Jeanne said simultaneously.
Then Roxanne disappeared and returned inside Victor.
Victor wiped his face a bit and said to Gaia, Natalia, and Nyx. “It’s our turn.”
“Just follow Nyx, Natalia. You’ll know what to do.”
“Yes.”
And so, it began. Nyx started compressing the planet with the starry night, isolating everything to prevent energy leakage. Yes, it was no longer just a very large asteroid.
Gaia began reshaping its interior, creating functional continents, forming ecosystems that would be used by living beings in the future.
Regions of pure ice and snow, areas where volcanoes would be more active, and most importantly, water… Lots of water.
Throughout this process, Victor assisted Gaia with his power of creation manipulation.
Gaia couldn’t help glancing at Victor’s serious expression as they both worked on this magnificent endeavor. She blushed slightly.
As the goddess of the earth, the act of creating a place entirely made of nature and free from the influence of living beings was extremely pleasurable for her.
‘I should advise him not to establish a civilization on this planet, and just leave it for his family to use…’ She didn’t want this ‘green’ planet to be contaminated like Earth.
Natalia used her space power in conjunction with Nyx to ensure everything remained isolated and nothing leaked out, though even with Nyx’s support, this proved quite challenging for Natalia.
“Ugh, this is tough…”
“You can do it. Don’t lose focus,” Victor said.
“Yes.” Natalia bit her lip and pushed the energy out even harder.
Victor looked at Natalia and narrowed his eyes when he saw her body struggling.
“Jeanne, stabilize her,” Victor ordered.
“Okay.” Jeanne approached Natalia and touched her body. Soon, her body was forcibly stabilized by Jeanne.
What was happening was that Jeanne was taking on the burden for her own body, preventing her from collapsing. After all, the task she was performing wasn’t something an ordinary human should be doing.
For Natalia, it felt like a weight was lifted from her body, allowing her to work more efficiently.
30 minutes passed, and the planet was stabilized. Now, only the finishing touch remained.
Gaia controlled the planet’s earth, creating a massive hole in the middle of the planet.
“Your turn, Victor.”
“Okay… Jeanne, take over.”
“Leave it to me.” Jeanne released Natalia.
This gesture made Natalia deeply exhale, completely exhausted.
“Very well done. For a mortal, an ordinary human, to be able to work with the gods is already a great achievement,” Nyx sighed. “I should have kidnapped your ancestor when I had the chance.” She added, stroking Natalia’s back.
Natalia looked at Nyx strangely but still said, “Thank you, I guess…”
“What’s left now?” She asked.
“Just the planet’s core… And knowing Victor, what he’s about to do will be ridiculous,” Nyx said while looking at Victor.
Natalia looked at Victor as well, waiting to see what he would do.
Jeanne touched Victor and took on his burden. At that same moment, Victor took a deep breath, and a violet glow began to appear in his belly.
“Wait, are you sure about this!? Using the dragon’s flames as the planet’s core?” Gaia asked.
“Is there a problem?”
“… No, actually, this is very good. As this will be fueled by the dragon’s fire, the entire system will be even richer in materials never seen before… But it will attract the greed of the gods.”
“Let them come…” Victor scoffed.
“I guarantee I won’t be as kind as I was to the Greek pantheon.”
“… If you’re that confident, I won’t say anything.” Gaia said.
Victor didn’t respond; he just opened his mouth and let out a deafening roar that made everyone cover their ears.
Pure violet fire spewed from his mouth, like a massive beam of energy that completely obscured everyone’s vision and perfectly entered the hole created by Gaia.
Unlike before, this process was faster; after all, it was just channeling energy to create a hot core.
The entire process lasted only 30 seconds, 30 seconds that made all beings almost kiss each other as they felt so much energy emanating from the man.
If this attack were aimed at a person and not the sky, what would happen? Everyone couldn’t help but think about it. And the answer to that question was obvious.
“Gaia.”
“Yes.” Gaia controlled the planet and sealed the hole.
Jeanne separated from Victor, and he immediately felt the weight return to his body.
He sighed a little; it might not seem like it, but mentally keeping everything under control was quite exhausting. After all, this planet needed to be registered in the system to prevent an ‘anomaly’ from occurring, with primordial beings intervening and undoing all of his work.
Victor raised both hands towards the planet as if he were holding it with his own hands.
He opened his mouth and spoke the same incomprehensible words that only he and Jeanne understood:
“As the king of the dimension, I declare… Olympus shall cease to exist, and a new pantheon shall rise from the ashes, a pantheon led by me.”
Suddenly, Victor heard in his mind.
[Request acknowledged. Analyzing structure. Planet suitable for life.]
For a moment, Victor was surprised by this robotic voice, but he didn’t dwell on it. He knew this was the voice of the system.
Even the primordial beings couldn’t spend 24 hours dealing with the system; because of this, automation was necessary.
What he was hearing now was the voice of the Akashic Record itself.
[Analyzing dimension structure… Damaged. Using the principle of equivalent exchange. Owner’s energy, Victor Walker, will be used.]
“Ugh…” Victor stumbled a bit, feeling his energy reserves depleting at an alarming rate.
“Victor!” Jeanne supported him.
“What’s happening!?” Scathach asked.
But Jeanne didn’t have time to answer; she just touched Victor, and pure green energy flowed out of her and into Victor.
[95% of energy has been drawn and used to restore and expand the dimension to accommodate the planet.]
[Conditions met. Greek Pantheon will be renamed to Pantheon 7475909777. Name will be changed in the future by the owner.]
Cold sweat formed on Victor’s forehead; perhaps choosing such a large asteroid was a mistake, but luckily Jeanne was there, or he would be very debilitated now.
“Thank you, Jeanne.” Victor lifted his head, and everyone was surprised to see a golden circle in his eyes.
“Just focus on using my energy.”
Victor nodded.
Scathach opened her mouth, she was about to say something, but she held back. Now wasn’t the time for that, she realized.
Victor looked upward toward the planet, and soon, he saw the planet being ‘covered’ by a thin layer of space.
[Process complete. Dimension created, and planet attached… Administrator intervention highlighted, corrective actions will be taken.]
Suddenly, time froze, literally, everything stopped.
The only ones unaffected were Jeanne and Victor.
A dilation occurred around Victor, and The Universal Tree, the entity responsible for maintaining and existing in the universe, appeared—the being also known as the one who oversees all life.
“You seem to be doing something quite significant, Victor.”
“Brother!” Jeanne smiled.
“Hey, Jeanne. You’re more beautiful than ever. I see that your relationship is doing wonders for you.”
“Mm.” Jeanne nodded bashfully.
Chapter 822: A Whole New World.
Looking at Jeanne’s features, the pure white and golden figure smiled.
“Staying in this form is not suitable…” Slowly, the figure’s body began to change, and in less than a few moments, a middle-aged man with blond hair and green eyes appeared. He was wearing quite the elegant suit.
“This is better.” He smiled contentedly.
The reason for his choice of form was his position as Jeanne’s ‘Older Brother’. Even though Jeanne was older than him, he was still the ‘older brother’, so the image of a middle-aged man was appropriate.
“I’m glad to see you, Jeanne.”
“Mm!” Jeanne just smiled and hugged him.
The Universal Tree caressed Jeanne’s head and looked at her Soul. He then nodded with satisfaction.
‘Good, the Being I sent is still protecting her.’ He thought.
Next, he looked at the newly formed planet which, despite being smaller than Nightingale, had a lot of potential.
‘Doing things as I normally do isn’t possible with this planet, after all, it was artificially created by a Mortal.’
The Universal Tree was quite surprised by these events. After all, it was the first time a ‘Mortal’ had created a planet. Sure, he had help from some Primordial Gods, and from his sister, but he was the one who initiated the whole process. He was the one who accessed The System and made everything possible.
Many Beings had the ability to create a planet, but few understood the means to do so ‘correctly’ through The System. Without meeting those requirements, nothing that fell under the jurisdiction of ‘Life’ could be created on those planets.
Creating something as significant as an entire planet required direct approval from The Primordial Entities. After all, the planet needed to be registered within The System.
It was like the process of building a massive structure in the Human World – you needed government approval before the project began, and you also needed their ‘assistance’.
In this specific case, where a planet had been formed through the proper channels, The Universal Tree would specifically assign one of his daughters or create a new daughter to manage the planet.
After all, without a World Tree, a planet cannot sustain itself.
The Gods of Creation instinctively understood this whole process, but the same didn’t apply to other Gods.
The Universal Tree looked toward Victor.
“You’re really doing this, huh?”
“Yes.” Victor nodded seriously.
“Do you know the consequences of creating a new Pantheon? A new planet? As a God King, you’ll have responsibilities to fulfill within The Astral Plane. Not only that, as the owner of a new planet, you will also be responsible for the Material Plane. You’ll need to ensure that ‘Life’ and ‘Soul’ function properly. How will you do that without a complete World Tree?”
“Roxanne alone won’t be enough to manage everything,” The Universal Tree stated.
“I clearly understand all of that. Roxanne won’t take on all the work; I will help her along with the Faeries and Gaia. For a new planet, Gaia is more than sufficient to take care of everything alongside me and Roxanne.”
“… That’s true, but what about the future?”
“I’ll leave that problem for my future self to solve.”
“How irresponsible.”
“It’s not irresponsibility.” Victor shook his head from side to side, denying the man’s words.
“Oh? Then what is it?”
“Trust.” He spoke with a neutral voice that carried a magnetic confidence capable of altering even the Space around him.
The Universal Tree raised an eyebrow. “Trust?”
“Indeed.” He raised both hands as if to display his whole self: “Look at me. My history speaks for itself. I went from an ordinary Human to one of the most powerful Beings in less than a thousand years.”
“I am better.” He smiled broadly: “Better than all those Gods who wasted eons doing nothing.”
“How can I not be confident?”
The Universal Tree smiled upon hearing what he said. The man’s confidence was overflowing and oppressive. Many would think it was arrogance, but it wasn’t. It was simply the truth.
“The responsibility will be great, you know? You’ll have two Hells to manage, and you’ll need to ensure that everything functions properly.”
“No matter. I can handle it. After all, I won’t be alone.” He looked at Jeanne with a gentle smile.
“My Family and I will take care of everything.”
“That’s true, I don’t see why my sister couldn’t take care of something so simple.” The Universal Tree laughed. Jeanne was the one who had protected him when he was just a sapling; taking care of a planet was even easier than that.
Jeanne blushed a bit and turned her face away when she felt her brother’s gaze, and Victor’s.
The Universal Tree continued: “Very well… If you’re that confident, allow me to help a bit more.” He looked into space as if searching for something, then spoke again.
“You three, come here now. This is important!”
As soon as he said that, Space distorted again, and three Beings appeared nearby.
Three Beings that Victor didn’t know, but judging by their humanoid appearance, it wasn’t hard to guess.
The Judges of The Abyss were present.
“What’s the problem? We were busy… Oh.” The three spoke simultaneously and fell silent as they looked at the planet, then they spoke in the next moment.
“So, it’s happening, huh?”
“He doesn’t waste any time.”
“As expected from the former anomaly.”
As triplets, they completed each other’s sentences.
‘Former anomaly?’ Victor didn’t miss that detail but decided to save that information for later.
“Help me here. I want to make a change in this sector of Hell, I need your approval.” The Universal Tree spoke.
The Judges of The Abyss looked at the man. “What are you planning?”
“I will merge The Greek Hell with The Biblical Hell and incorporate it into The Norse Hell.”
“Ridiculous.”
“Non-sense.”
“That will disrupt The Balance.”
“The resultant Hell of the former anomaly will be immeasurable, this cannot be allowed.”
“That Hell will be too vast, and if a failure occurs, a disaster of immeasurable proportions would be inevitable.”
“Such a thing cannot be allowed.”
“Hey, I understand what you’re saying, but he said he can handle it, right? So, why not let him take care of the largest Hell in this Sector?” The Universal Tree explained.
An odd silence fell upon the area, but it was soon broken by the middle Judge of The Abyss:
“… The Universal Tree, do you intend to make him an Overlord?”
“… Oops?” Jeanne’s older brother just awkwardly laughed.
“We refuse!”
“Leaving such a task in the hands of someone who isn’t even a God, let alone someone as young as him, is a significant risk!”
“You’re spoiling him just because he’s your brother-in-law!”
“In that case, how about reducing the number of Hells in this Sector to three, with them being the Biblical, Hindu, and Norse Hells?”
This time, they didn’t immediately respond and thought for a moment. “Hmm… How would that work?”
The Universal Tree displayed a small smile. “The Biblical Hell will merge with The Greek, and The Hindu Hell will merge with the ancient lifeless Hell that Diablo purged.”
“Finally, The Norse Hell will merge with the remaining ones.”
“This way, it will create a trinity with the same level of importance.”
“Hmm… That is acceptable.”
“Actually, it is a rather good idea.”
“In case of a catastrophic failure in one, the other two Hells can handle the responsibilities while we fix everything.”
“Let’s do that.”
‘This old man… He was after this from the beginning.’ Victor, as a manipulator, could easily see through Jeanne’s brother.
What would now occur was that The Judges of The Abyss would reduce the number of Hells and Paradises to three: Biblical, Hindu, and Norse.
The Universal Tree and The Judges of The Abyss looked at the newly formed planet and opened their mouths.
In the next moment, words were spoken, but neither Victor nor Jeanne understood anything that was said.
They were proving why they were The Administrators of the entire System.
In the blink of an eye, Victor felt a deep connection within him; his Hell had just grown several hundred times larger.
‘… They’re on another level.’ Victor laughed internally, but he wasn’t discouraged. It was always good to see that there was someone stronger – it meant he still had room to grow stronger!
“Done.” The three Judges of The Abyss spoke simultaneously.
“We’ll be watching your work, Primogenitor of The Blood Dragons.” Then the three disappeared.
‘Blood Dragons?… They really like to name my Race with anything, huh? Well, that doesn’t matter much. After all, I haven’t even found a suitable name for my Race.’ Victor shrugged internally.
“Due to your Hell growing to its current size, three Rulers will be required to manage the Souls that pass through. Choose well, Victor.” The Universal Tree spoke.
“Yes… I already have someone in mind for the other Ruler.” Victor wasn’t planning on removing Aline or Persephone from their positions; after all, they were already perfect at what they did. He just needed to choose someone else to take up the mantle and fill the remaining spot.
The man nodded, then asked, “Can I talk to my daughter?”
“…Sure.”
Roxanne emerged from Victor’s Soul and looked at the man with a slightly upturned gaze. “Hmm… I… I’m sorry!”
“Hmm? Why are you apologizing?”
“I didn’t fulfill my duty as The World Tree of Nightingale and ended up merging with Victor’s Soul. Because of that, this planet will be filled with problems in the future.”
“Oh…” He now understood the problem. “About that, it’s okay.”
“Eh?”
“You just have to go get your sister and place her inside his Soul, right? That way, this planet will also fall under your jurisdiction, becoming part of Victor.”
Roxanne’s face distorted. ‘I don’t want to share my space with that Thot!’ She wanted to scream so much right now, but she knew it would be inappropriate, so she could only nod in confirmation.
“Yes…”
Victor squinted his eyes at this. “You speak as if I have a world inside me.”
“But you do,” He spoke as if it were obvious.
“… Huh?”
“You can bring other Beings besides Roxanne inside you.”
“Your evolution has changed a lot about you, Victor.”
“Even this newly created planet is linked within you.” The Universal Tree snapped his fingers, and in the next moment, the planet slowly began to disappear in a golden light and entered Victor’s body.
Roxanne wore a thoughtful expression as she felt the world within her grow once again; she now had two planets! And these two planets were starting to merge into a mega planet several hundred times the size of Earth.
‘Ugh, managing this is going to be a hassle. I need someone else to share the burden… Maybe I’ll ask Victor to kidnap nature-related Goddesses like Gaia. Tiamat is a good choice.’ Roxanne refused to consider her sister as an option.
“… I suspect that this ability to have a planet within my Soul is because of Roxanne?”
“Correct. The World Trees were created to perform my work on a smaller scale, while I manage The Universe. The fact that you have a World Tree in your Soul just means that the ‘planet’ that The World Tree was supposed to attend has changed, and as it is a ‘planet’, it will still exist and be capable of hosting life.”
“… That makes absolutely no sense, but at the same time, it does.” Victor chuckled. He couldn’t quite grasp the logistics of it. Does a planet not need to exist within the Universe? Huh? How does this work?
He had no idea.
“You’ll get used to it with time. Many things won’t make sense for now, but they will over time. All you need to do is learn more about The System, and my Blessing will help you with that.”
Victor just nodded; this conversation was proving quite enlightening for him.
“I understand that Hell is also a part of my Soul now, right?”
“Yes, indeed it is.”
“Just how does that work…? I’m referring to the Souls of the deceased.”
“A deceased Soul will enter within another’s Soul? Someone dies and their Soul will automatically go into my Soul? Huh?”
“As I said, you’ll understand with time.” He smiled.
“But to put it simply, these worlds aren’t inside your Soul specifically; they’re within a separate dimension, and that dimension is within your Soul. So, any of the problems you’re thinking of won’t actually happen.”
“Hmm… I get it and at the same time, I don’t…” Victor spoke. ‘I need to investigate this in the future.’
“Just think of it like those cultivators who have an Inner World within their Soul.” He gestured with his hand, and three platforms appeared in front of him.
“The First Platform, or Foundation if you like, is your Soul, which holds your entire existence together. Due to your recent Evolution, this Foundation has become much stronger, reaching ridiculous levels.”
“The Second Platform, or Foundation, is the new dimension where the planet resides.”
A connection then appeared between the Second and Last Platform, and he spoke: “And this second dimension, or the Third Platform/Foundation is connected to The Biblical Hell.”
“… I understand.” With illustrations and a good explanation, Victor understood. What he didn’t understand was how this was possible. He wanted to know all the intricate details of how this became possible, but apparently, he would only learn that by studying more about The System.
With a wave of his hand, The Universal Tree made the illustration disappear and said, “A word of warning. Be careful with this planet; since it’s connected to your Soul through Roxanne, any damage to the planet will feel as if you’re causing damage within yourself.”
“… That’s a problem.” Victor frowned.
“Hmm?” Seeing Victor’s look, The Universal Tree immediately understood the problem: “Oh, you’re thinking that if someone cuts down a tree, you’ll feel it or something?”
“… Isn’t that how it works?”
“Hahahaha, that’s not how it works.” He laughed in amusem*nt. “If that were the case, my daughters would have gone insane from the pain already.”
“What I meant was, if you unleashed, let’s say, a Breath on the planet, and that attack hit an important section of the planet’s function, like the Leylines carrying Energy, or The Core, you’ll feel it.”
“Apocalyptic-level damage, huh?” Victor spoke.
‘I presume that if the planet gets poisoned, I’ll feel that too.’ Victor narrowed his eyes even more at this information; he didn’t like it one bit.
‘It seems like I’ll have to use my planet only for my subordinates and my Family. If I keep the population small, I can control them better.’ Victor thought.
This thought was already in his mind; he only ever had the intention of making this planet for his Family and his subordinates. Knowing the information that the Universal Tree shared, this determination grew even stronger.
‘Maybe I’ll bring my Faithful as well, but only those who are truly fanatical and will follow all my orders without the risk of betrayal. My planet can be the ‘Paradise’ for these people.’ As he was going to be a Pantheon’s ‘God-
King’, he needed to create a ‘Paradise’ too, right?
Although, there was already a Biblical Paradise, so this Paradise would be a private ‘Heaven’ only for those Victor chose.
‘Hmm, that might work.’
“Yes, you got it.” He nodded. “Only truly catastrophic damage will cause you to feel something.”
“Seeing the size of your planet and how resilient it is, you won’t have these problems for a long time, but it’s good to stay informed for the future.”
Victor nodded in agreement.
“Do your job well, Guardian. Millions of Souls are counting on you.”
‘Guardian, huh? They really like giving me Titles, don’t they? First, I was an anomaly. Next, I was a Blood Dragon, and now a Guardian, huh…? Can’t they just decide and stick with one already?’ Victor thought.
“Are you leaving already?” Jeanne asked.
“Yeah, I’ll visit you in the future; I want to see your children.”
“But I only have one child?”
“Well, it won’t be just one forever, right?”
Jeanne blushed a bit and nodded.
Jeanne’s brother looked at Victor seriously: “Take care of my sister, Victor.”
“You don’t even need to tell me; I’m already going to do that.”
“Good… But also take care of yourself.”
“Oh?”
“You not only carry the weight of several Hells within you but also carry my sister’s heart. If you die… I don’t even want to think about what she’ll do.”
“So, get stronger.”
Victor just nodded; he didn’t need to be reminded of that. Seeing the feat these Primordial Entities just pulled off, he wouldn’t stop training and seeking strength.
“One more thing…” The Universal Tree looked around as if searching for someone. Seeing that no one was there,
“Go after The Ruler of The Norse Hell; that way, you’ll have control over 2/3 of the Hells in this Sector, fufufufu.”
“…” Victor looked at the man with a deadpan expression, but he just nodded.
“That was already in my plans.” He would have to talk to Hela anyway, so when he ventured there eventually, he’d see how things would unfold.
“Good… Very Good.” The Universal Tree nodded several times, satisfied, completely ignoring Jeanne’s lifeless stare at him, a gaze that sent shivers down his spine.
‘Honestly, that look scares me a little bit. She wasn’t like this before; just what happened to my sister?’ The Universal Tree was a busy man, and he was not a weirdo who’d spend 24 hours a day spying on his sister; he usually just checked in from time to time to see if she was okay.
The Universal Tree gently tapped Victor’s shoulder. “Here, some help.”
Roxanne’s eyes widened when she felt the entire planet merging at high speed.
‘As expected from Dad, he’s efficient.’ She observed with curiosity, hoping to learn something.
But her eyes widened even more when she saw a sun forming within the Dimension; she also noticed that the Dimension grew a bit to accommodate the size of the sun.
‘My God, he’s too efficient! This is ridiculous!’ Roxanne couldn’t help but think.
“I’ll see you in the future. Take care, Victor, my daughter, and Jeanne.” The Universal Tree spoke.
Time returned to normal.
“… Well, that was enlightening… I didn’t get a flying island, but I have an Inner World now. I guess that’s good?”
“What are you talking about, Victor? And where did the planet go!?” Scathach spoke.
“I’ll explain later, before that, I need your help, both of you.”
Victor landed on the ground, as the girls were about to start asking about the planet, Victor repeated:
“I’ll explain later.”
Soon, he snapped his fingers, and a Gate emerged from the ground. On the other side, they could clearly see a green forest and a blue sky.
“Blue sky?”
“The moment he touched you, he created a Sun within the Dimension,” Roxanne explained.
“… Just with that casual gesture…?” Victor asked incredulously.
“Yes.”
“Primordial Entities are broken.”
“Well, yes… They are,” Roxanne nodded.
Victor just sighed, then assumed a serious expression.
“Come, this is our new Dimension. Scathach, Zaladrac, and I will fly around the planet and place down various Runes. Meanwhile, you can do whatever you want.”
“Just a heads up, only those of you who are here are allowed to enter. If anyone else tries to enter, well, they’ll be disintegrated.”
Victor spread his wings and flew through the Gate along with Zaladrac and Scathach.
Seeing Victor passing through the Gate, a feeling of uncertainty hung around. Would they go or not?
This feeling was broken when Agnes, Violet, Natashia, Sasha, and Ruby entered the Gate without much thought.
The girls looked at each other and shrugged, then entered as well.
Chapter 823: A Whole New World. 2
As the group ventured further into this world beyond the Gate, the wonder of the paradisiacal scenery unfolded before their eyes, enveloping them in an aura of beauty and serenity that seemed to transcend Nature itself.
The grand trees, covered in foliage of intricate shapes resembling works of art sculpted by Mother Nature, created a natural canopy over the forest. Sunbeams, filtered through the leaves, fell in soft beams, creating patterns of light and shadow that danced upon the trees and the ground in an enchanting waltz.
The grass beneath their feet was soft and lush, a carpet of green that invited barefoot walks and a direct connection with the earth. Small flowers, some with iridescent petals, dotted the grass like precious jewels scattered across a celestial rug. Their scents, sweet and enveloping, filled the air with a fragrance that seemed to heal not only the senses but also the Soul.
The undulating terrain was like a three-dimensional work of art, with gentle hills and serene valleys. Waterfalls of crystal-clear water flowed gracefully, producing soft sounds that harmoniously blended with the melodies of hidden birds that filled the atmosphere with their celestial tunes.
The sky above was a vast expanse of pure, immaculate blue without a single cloud in sight. The sun shone with a gentle golden light, warming the land with tenderness and casting an ethereal glow upon everything it touched. It was as if the very sky smiled upon the land, flooding it with revitalizing Energy.
In this paradisiacal setting, time seemed to flow differently, slower, and more serene. Every sigh of the wind and every sound of nature echoed like a symphony of tranquility and enchantment. The group felt enveloped by a profound and wondrous sense of peace as if they had found a refuge of timeless beauty that existed beyond the boundaries of the world they knew.
“This is… This is… A paradise…” Ruby deeply inhaled the pure air.
“This planet is so full of vitality… It’s beautiful…” Sasha murmured as she closed her eyes and felt the wind against her body, her long golden hair fluttering in the breeze.
“Heh heh, of course! I helped create the planet, so of course it would be a paradise!” Gaia spoke proudly, patting her chest.
Nyx rolled her eyes. “You talk as if you did everything by yourself.”
“I mean, I did most of it, so yes.” Gaia nodded arrogantly. To be honest, even she was surprised—she expected good work, of course, considering she was helping, and if there was one thing she took pride in, it was matters related to Nature and the planet. BUT! She never anticipated such… excellence.
She had never felt so close to Nature before; this planet truly was like paradise.
“Hmm, my Husband will be pleased to hear what you said.”
And with just those words from Natalia, Gaia’s arrogance was swept away by the wind.
“W-Wait, don’t say anything! I didn’t do it all by myself, okay! Nyx, and even you helped!”
“Don’t forget about me,” Jeanne spoke with narrowed eyes.
“Y-Yeah, you too… Actually, who are you? Why do I shiver just looking at you?”
Jeanne just smiled. “Who knows?”
“Kuroka, what are you doing!? Get up!” Haruna snapped at a cat on a tree. Before she even realized it, her commander had turned into a two-tailed cat and gone to sleep.
Kuroka shivered and opened her eyes, her big cat eyes looking at Haruna with visible fear. “B-But, it’s so comfy-nya!”
Hearing the ‘nya’ at the end, Haruna narrowed her eyes even more at the woman.
Literal tears came out of Kuroka’s eyes, and the next moment, she transformed into her Humanoid Form and stood up.
“Behave properly.”
“Yes…”
“Why did you go to sleep anyway? Didn’t you do that before?”
“… This place… It’s just too comfortable…”
Violet spoke. “I agree. This place should only be for us.”
“I agree with you, too!” Gaia raised her hand.
Agnes and Violet looked at Gaia with a look that said, ‘Who asked for your opinion?’
But Gaia herself didn’t mind that look and voiced her thoughts. “This is the purest place I’ve ever seen. I don’t want to taint it with the hands of Humanoids, so I suggest keeping this place private.”
These words coming from a Primordial Goddess connected to the planet were quite impressive. Despite being in this state due to Victor, the fact that this woman still held prestige was undeniable… Even though most of the time she had felt vengeful and bitter.
But what woman wasn’t like that?
“On this specific matter, I agree too. I would feel terrible defiling this place, but we should discuss this with Victor.” Aphrodite spoke.
“That’s true… After all, he’s the owner of this place.” Eleonor added. “Not to mention, this planet will become small once we evolve.”
Hearing Eleonor’s words, the girls widened their eyes; they had completely forgotten about that!
“A Dragon, huh… I wonder how it feels.” Sasha mused.
“Seeing how calm and composed Scathach was acting, I think it’ll be amazing.” Natashia chuckled.
“You’re ignoring something obvious.” Ruby suddenly spoke.
The girls next to her looked at Ruby.
“Becoming a Dragon means we’ll acquire a weakness to Anti-Dragon Weapons.”
“… So what?” Violet suddenly spoke.
“Huh?”
“Ruby, this isn’t a DC Comic where someone as strong as Superman loses to Batman.”
“Do you think if Superman truly tried, Batman could fight him? The only reason Batman could win is because Superman is a Boy Scout.”
“The same applies here. As a Dragon, we’d simply breathe on whoever wielded the weapon, and they’d die.”
“… Arrogance…” Ruby narrowed her eyes. “Don’t underestimate your opponents, Violet.”
“I’m not. That’s why we should focus on acquiring all the Anti-Dragon-Type Artifacts and destroying them. So that no one can harm us.” Violet spoke.
“Batman’s caution can give us knowledge too.” She chuckled.
Ruby looked at Violet for a few seconds, blinked twice as if those words coming from Violet had struggled to register in her mind, and then smiled. “… I like that idea.”
“Regarding the population of the planet… This planet is truly vast; it would take thousands of Dragons to fully inhabit it, and I doubt that’s possible.” Gaia explained.
“Why isn’t that possible?” Haruna asked.
“Remember one of the Rules of The Balance: the stronger you are, the harder it is to have children,” Gaia said.
“That’s true, but I don’t think this rule applies to Victor. After all, he’s a Progenitor and someone who likes to defy common sense.”
“If that were true, why aren’t any of you pregnant yet? After all, you do it whenever possible, and I heard you recently had a year-long battle.”
The girls narrowed their eyes when they heard Gaia’s words.
“… Where did you hear that?” Aphrodite asked.
“Nyx told me.” Gaia pointed at Nyx.
“… Huh?” Nyx spoke bewildered, wondering why her name was suddenly brought into the conversation.
“W-Wait, I didn’t say anything to Gaia!” Nyx exclaimed.
“She must have eavesdropped on me or something. After all, she’s Nature herself, so she can hear everything as long as it’s within Nature.”
“Is that true?” Rose asked curiously.
Gaia simply turned her face and started whistling, clearly unwilling to take the blame.
“It was because of this that Zeus didn’t have plants on Mount Olympus. He feared that Gaia would overhear his conversations.”
“… That’s messed up,” Eleonor couldn’t help but say.
The girls nodded in agreement.
“Now that I think about it, these Goddesses are quite the voyeurs, aren’t they?” Sasha began speaking without giving it much thought.
“Nyx can hide from everyone, observe everything and everyone without anyone knowing. Gaia can use her plants to listen and see everything… It’s no wonder they turned out like this.”
The girls looked at Gaia and Nyx, who seemed scandalized by what they heard.
How did these two Primordial Goddesses end up reduced to mere voyeurs!?
‘Well, she’s not wrong about the observation part, but it’s not like I have fetishes about it!’ Nyx thought.
“Whoaaaa! I just realized! Even though I’m in the sun, I’m not getting burned! Amazing!” Pepper suddenly shouted.
Hearing what Pepper said, the Vampire girls in the group widened their eyes.
“That’s true!” Sasha exclaimed, looking at the sun with a puzzled expression. ‘Why am I not burning?’
“Is that an Artificial Sun?”
“No, it’s not,” Hestia, who was sitting on the grass, suddenly spoke up. Her eyes gleamed faintly, and with her Divine Senses, she could see beyond the planet.
“That sun is 100% genuine.”
“Then why aren’t we burning!?” Pepper spoke.
The Goddesses looked at the Vampires and started speaking after a while.
“Interesting… I didn’t expect this…” Hestia tapped her chin.
“What? What happened? Quit with the drama and spill already,” Violet said.
“You’re not getting burned because the Dimension itself is protecting you,” Nike said. With their Divine Senses, all the Goddesses here could easily see what was happening to Pepper and all the Vampires.
“Not just them, we’re also under this protection…” Gaia spoke, looking at her hand.
“That’s true… I wonder if it’s Victor doing this or if it’s an act of the Dimension itself.”
“Victor is the Ruler of this place. Just like Zeus could do in the past on Olympus, he should be able to do the same on a larger scale here. After all, this place is more connected to him than the Olympus Dimension was to Zeus.”
Despite being The Ruler of Olympus, Zeus didn’t attain this privilege by himself; he ‘usurped’ it, but he never knew how to properly use these privileges.
Victor might have done the same, but the situation was completely different. He not only usurped this Authority but also reshaped and changed it to his liking.
“Let’s walk; we can’t just stand around here. We need to build a shelter, and what if powerful beasts appear?” Rose suddenly spoke.
The girls rolled their eyes. What kind of beast would dare approach them? The group present here consisted of Goddesses and powerful warriors; Rose herself could easily dispatch any beast with her Martial Arts.
“No need to worry; this planet doesn’t have any wildlife yet,” Gaia suddenly spoke.
The girls looked at Gaia with interest.
“That’s true; I can’t sense any wildlife on the planet,” Jeanne suddenly said.
“… You guys don’t feel it?” Morgana, who had been silent, suddenly spoke.
The girls looked at Morgana.
“What are you talking about?”
“Look in that direction. Don’t you feel discomfort?” Morgana suddenly spoke.
“I thought it was just me feeling that…” Mizuki said.
“That strange feeling… It’s like being with my Master, but at the same time, not.” Kaguya spoke.
They all looked in the direction Morgana pointed, and indeed, they felt a similar discomfort.
“What is this? What is that place…?” Gaia murmured in disbelief. How could this paradise have such an infernal spot?
What Gaia was looking at was a massive piece of land made entirely of Rivers of Blood, red sand terrain, and red storms—the word ‘Hell’ qualified the place completely.
“Balance… Huh.” Nyx suddenly spoke, catching everyone’s attention.
Unlike the girls, she was quite familiar with that place.
“Where there’s Life, there’s Death. If this is Paradise, that’s Hell over there. Dualities exist even in this place, and it seems that place represents Victor’s ‘bad’ side.”
“Hmm… I don’t think so,” Violet said.
Sasha and Ruby nodded in agreement.
“That place seems a lot like Victor, right?” Ruby said.
“Yeah, it even has his characteristics,” Sasha added.
Hearing the three of them say that, the girls looked at that place again and tried to match it with Victor’s personality.
And they realized they were right.
That place was chaotic, infernal, and monstrous, but at the same time, it was welcoming to those who understood it.
A roar in the air was heard, and suddenly, Victor, Scathach, and Zaladrac appeared.
“We’re back,” Victor said.
Chapter 824: A Whole New World. 3
That place was chaotic, infernal, and monstrous, but at the same time, it was welcoming to those who understood it.
A rumble in the air was heard, and suddenly, Victor, Scathach, and Zaladrac appeared.
“We’re back,” Victor said.
“Where were you guys?” Sasha asked as she threw herself at Victor, causing several to click their tongues at the girl.
‘She’s certainly fast,’ they thought.
“Going around the whole planet and placing various Draconic Runes,” Victor said while stroking Sasha’s head.
“Security measures, huh,” Ruby said.
“Yes. I’ll place more in the future, but it’s good enough for now,” Victor explained.
“… How did you go around the entire planet? This place is huge, you know!?” Gaia said.
“I can go anywhere on this planet, Gaia. I just need to wish it,” Victor said.
“… Oh.”
“And even if I went the normal way, I could do it fast too. After all, I am the fastest man alive,” Victor displayed a sly smile.
Rumble, Rumble.
Natashia appeared by Victor’s side.
“And I am the fastest woman alive… But we can decide who the fastest ‘Being’ alive is now if you want,” she smiled.
“Heh…? How about we have a race then?”
“Why not? We have this whole planet to play on.” Natashia’s eyes gleamed with excitement.
“I’m in too. I want to know how far behind I am from you guys,” Sasha said.
“Fufufu.” Victor and Natashia’s eyes gleamed with amusem*nt when they heard what Sasha said.
Sasha narrowed her eyes; somehow, she felt like she had fallen into a trap… A trap that would make her feel very good.
“Before that! Explain what that is?” Morgana said.
“Hmm?” Victor looked at Morgana, then looked where Morgana was pointing. Using his senses, he saw the ‘infernal’ land.
“Oh… Why is this here?”
“Do you know what it is?” Morgana asked.
“Yes, it’s a physical representation of my Powers. I have a similar setting in my Inner World. Why is this here?” He wondered at the end.
‘This shouldn’t have merged with the planet like the rest of the world,’ Victor thought. The trip he took around the planet was quite enlightening, and it can be said that this planet was truly ‘his’. After all, this planet had all his characteristics imbued in it.
“As my father said… This place is quite connected to you, Darling.”
Roxanne emerged from Victor’s body.
“No. It’s more accurate to say that it’s connected to us.” She smiled gently.
“What do you mean?” Victor asked, pretending to be innocent, but his smile clearly showed that he understood what she was talking about.
“I’m here too, you know? Although it’s just a part of me and not my true body.” Roxanne decided to play along with Victor.
“Oh?” Victor looked around, using his eyes fully this time, and he smiled when he saw the sight before him.
“Reveal yourself. Let everyone see your splendor.” The goal of this whole game was for this scene.
Roxanne smiled and said, “Of course.” She snapped her fingers, and suddenly, the ‘illusion’ began to unravel.
On the distant horizon, a monumental sight captured everyone’s gaze: a colossal Tree, majestic in its stature and scope, rose towards the heavens. Its long branches extended like the tentacles of an Ancient Being, lovingly embracing the Planet in a display of strength and harmony. From where they were to as far as the eye could see, the branches intertwined with the landscape, giving the Tree an imposing and encompassing presence.
The branches of the giant Tree were true wonders of Nature. They extended with an almost ethereal grace, like the fingers of a skilled pianist playing a cosmic melody. Each branch was a journey in itself, branching out and reuniting, forming a complex network reminiscent of intricate corridors in an enchanted forest. At the ends of these branches, large and lush leaves swayed gently in the breeze, creating a soft and constant symphony that echoed in the atmosphere.
Even from afar, they couldn’t see where the Tree began or ended; it just existed there. They didn’t even know if they could actually approach it. It seemed that only the ‘chosen’ ones could have the privilege of getting close to it.
“Incredible…! Was this right in front of us the whole time!?” Lacus’ eyes gleamed.
“Of all the Seven Hells! Was this inside you all along, Victor?!” Morgana spoke.
“She’s still within me, and initially, she wasn’t this large,” Victor replied.
“Incredible…”
Faced with the display of disbelief from the girls, Victor just laughed happily. He had always wanted to show this sight to everyone, and now he had achieved it.
“This… even with my senses, I hadn’t realized,” Scathach murmured, looking at the horizon. She could see similarities with that small tree she had found in the territory of Clan Fulger one day, but the similarities ended there; it was entirely different.
Zaladrac simply nodded in agreement as she looked at The World Tree. As a Dragon, a True Dragon created alongside Dragons, it could be said that she, like the Faeries, had a slight reverence for The World Tree. After all, she knew very well the role of its existence on the planet.
Without The World Tree, Life cannot be created. Because of this, when it was threatened, the Dragons of the past put aside their differences and would fight against the invaders.
“Of course not. Our ability to hide was given directly by our Father. If we want to hide, no one will find us,” Roxanne huffed proudly.
“That only applies to the older World Trees, Roxanne.” Jeanne suddenly spoke with a neutral look. For a woman who had seen her brother’s True Form that encompassed the entire Universe, this sight wasn’t as impressive.
Roxanne pouted when she heard her ‘aunt’ speaking. Couldn’t she have her moment of glory? Petty!
“Have fun; the planet is completely safe. There is no natural life here yet, so everywhere is safe as long as I’m protecting you.”
“… Wait, this way of speaking… Are you saying that without this protection, this planet would be hostile to us?” Bruna spoke. As someone who was always with Victor, she understood him very well.
“Hmm, hostile isn’t the right word… It would be better to say that few have achieved withstanding it.”
“Do you want to try?” Victor smiled.
The girls had a bad feeling about Victor’s smile, but they were curious, and they knew that with Victor here, almost no danger would befall them.
“Okay, I’ll try!” Pepper was faster than everyone.
“Come here.”
“Mm!” Pepper stopped in front of Victor.
“Get ready,” Victor said seriously, and the next moment, he said, “Now.”
Victor removed the protection that prevented the planet’s atmosphere from interfering with Pepper, not the sun’s protection.
Suddenly, Pepper fell face-first to the ground.
“…!?”
“Pepper!?” Ruby, Lacus, and Siena exclaimed simultaneously.
“W-W-What.” Pepper couldn’t even speak properly.
The veil of protection covered Pepper again, and she let out a relieved sigh.
“What on earth was that!?” Pepper asked in shock. It was just for a few seconds, but she really felt like she was going to die.
Victor just laughed playfully and explained:
“The gravity on this planet is several times stronger than Earth’s. In some places, it can be up to 1000 times stronger than Earth’s gravity, and in deeper places, it can even reach 50,000 times.”
“On the surface, gravity is around 100 to 300 times stronger than Earth’s, depending on the location. And not only that, just like that place you mentioned, this whole planet represents a part of me.”
“The deepest volcanoes are made with my Dragon Fire. The Icy Biomes of the planet are created with my Ice Powers, with some areas even reaching temperatures close to Absolute Zero. Some parts of the forest represent my Powers related to Nature. The Ocean can reach depths that make Earth’s ocean seem like child’s play.”
“….”
“Be careful when swimming so you don’t get caught in the currents,” Victor commented, laughing.
“…..”
“You could say that this entire planet is a complete representation of my Powers and personality.”
“…..”
“It’s cruel, kind, chaotic, but at the same time, it offers everyone the opportunity to grow. Isn’t it incredible? It’s the perfect place for training.”
“….” They didn’t find it funny.
“… I knew it!” Siena suddenly spoke. “I knew nothing with him would be normal! This place might seem like Paradise, but it’s just a more sad*stic form of training!”
“Really? I quite like it, my daughter,” Scathach said.
“That’s because you’re just like him!” Siena huffed.
“Now, now, don’t get upset. As I said, with my protection, you won’t feel the effects of the planet. And you can have fun as much as you want,” Victor explained.
“I just said that so you would understand that this is a Megaplanet. It really is as big as Gaia said. And despite not having wild animals yet, it’s quite hostile to those who venture it unprepared.”
“… You’re saying there are no animals ‘yet.’ Are you planning to bring animals?” Hestia asked.
“Nah, I will create the animals. I was thinking of making some dinosaurs and fantasy creatures like the Basilisk, giant spiders, etc.”
“If I get Goddesses related to Life and Animals, I can create some interesting species.”
“…….”
“For god’s sake, Victor. Can’t you make things cuter and gentler? Like a rabbit or something?”
“A killer rabbit, huh. That’s a good idea.”
Pepper and Ruby shivered as PTSD flashbacks crossed their minds… Yes, they still remembered that anime where the protagonist was killed by rabbits. Poor guy… Not that he didn’t deserve it, of course, but the sight was disturbing.
“NOOO!” Lacus exclaimed. “I mean gentle and herbivorous animals!”
“Hmm… So, a koala that can kill you with a strong hug?”
“No! Something normal and harmless!”
“Hmm…”
“You could make a unicorn, too,” Sasha said. “I’ve always wanted to see one.”
“Of course, I’ll make a unicorn. It may look pure and gentle on the outside, but when provoked, it will eat your flesh… That’s called Gap moe, right?”
“No, it’s not!!” Several girls shouted at the same time.
This is bad; they all realized that if they let Victor run wild, this planet would really become a death trap.
The girls looked at each other and nodded as an alliance was formed. They would do EVERYTHING to change his mind for their own good.
“I’m still saying his idea isn’t bad,” Scathach supported.
“I agree,” Eleonor and Haruna said.
“Hmm, these creatures seem interesting. I want to see them too,” Rose said.
The girls narrowed their eyes. It was at this moment that they decided not to listen to these women’s suggestions anymore; after all, their tastes were questionable.
“Speaking of which, Darling. Where is Hell?” Jeanne asked.
“Come to think of it, I haven’t seen Hell yet,” Morgana said.
“Hmm, Hell is in a separate Dimension within this planet. I’ll create a portal to it later.” Victor walked towards a spot, and soon, a large tree began to form in front of him.
He turned around, sat down, and then laid down.
“I’ll rest for a bit. Wake me up if something happens.” The moment he closed his eyes… He fell asleep.
“… Did he fall asleep already!?” Lacus opened her eyes in shock.
“Is he a character from an anime?” Pepper asked as she approached him and touched his cheek.
“Let him sleep. What he did exhausted him completely,” Jeanne said.
“Not to mention, he’s hardly rested since he evolved into a Dragon,” Roxanne added in support.
“Hmm…” Violet surreptitiously approached Victor and lay down on his right side.
Ruby and Sasha did the same, taking their spots for themselves.
The girls looked expressionlessly at this scene but soon shook their heads and laughed.
“Let’s leave them alone. Help me with something, girls. While I find the idea of living in Nature attractive, I still want to sleep in a bed.”
“I’ll work on the structure,” Roxanne said as she walked ahead.
“I’ll work on the underground,” Eleonor said.
“Why the underground?” Roberta asked.
“It’s for prisoners. This place is perfect for torture. Gravity will torture them slowly, and the deeper we go underground, the stronger the gravity becomes.”
“… You’re sad*stic.” Roberta laughed. “I like it.”
Lacus just rolled her eyes. ‘What kind of brain looks at this situation and thinks about using it for torture?’
“I want to make a garden,” Mizuki said.
“A tower!” Maria said.
“A boxing ring!” Leona said.
“A game room…” Eve said.
“A room for the Maids is necessary,” Kaguya said.
“Of course, a giant room for our Husband, and a massive bed as well, and several rooms where the girls can change clothes, as well as an enormous bathtub,” Natashia said.
“A dungeon!” Aphrodite said.
“Why on earth do you want a dungeon!?” Agnes asked.
“I mean, why not?” Aphrodite shrugged.
“A big fireplace would be nice…” Hestia murmured.
“Hmm… A waterfall would be nice too.” Thetis said.
“You don’t have a say here, Thetis!” Aphrodite said.
“Why…?” Thetis pouted.
“You’re not Hestia.” Aphrodite said as if it were obvious: “After all, Hestia is Bestia.”
“That doesn’t explain anything!” Thetis grumbled about the clear favoritism.
“Why don’t we make a flying island?” Pepper said. “Or have you given up on that idea?”
“… I mean, why? We don’t need it, right?” Scathach said.
“Mother-Baka, having a flying island fortress is every otaku’s dream! Help me make one! I want to go Pew Pew when we encounter an enemy! I want to see them explode into dust particles! HAHAHAHA!”
Scathach wisely didn’t comment on Pepper’s laughter, which clearly resembled her own.
“… Okay… We’ll discuss it when Victor wakes up. He’s interested in this project too.” Scathach said.
“Umu!”
Chapter 825: A Time with My Three Beautiful Vampire Wives
A beautiful and paradisiacal place, almost straight out of a fantasy book. The scent, although slightly different from what she was used to, was still the same scent she knew.
Violet nestled against Victor’s body. “I missed this…”
“Indeed,” Sasha nodded as she hugged him even tighter.
“Mm,” Ruby simply nodded as she listened to Victor’s heartbeat, which, despite being much slower compared to a normal Human’s, was truly powerful. She could feel his essence bubbling with Energy.
It was not that Victor hadn’t been paying attention to them; he was not like that. He always paid attention to them. After all, they were his first Wives, and as the first ones, they always received more attention than the others, especially Violet, who ‘changed’ Victor’s life.
The problem was that there were usually other women around. Rarely did they get a chance to be with the original members.
“And to think that just a few years ago, he was just a normal Human…” Ruby murmured with a satisfied sigh. The position she was in now was very comfortable. Even though his body was rigid and impenetrable, [Literally] there was still a softness to his skin that was quite pleasant to touch.
“Yes… He’s been through so much, huh?” Violet spoke. She was the one who ‘observed’ him the most, so it was even stranger for her, but at the same time, it made sense. After all, it was Victor. Since his transformation into a Vampire, he was never normal.
Instead of becoming a Vampire Slave as she thought he would, he ascended straight to the status of a Progenitor, although no one knew that would happen in the past.
From someone who could barely handle his school matters to someone who could bring an entire Pantheon to their knees. The transition from one status to the other was ridiculous, like comparing the distance between Heaven and Earth.
The incredible thing was that even through this ridiculous change, his essence remained the same. He was still the same Victor as in the beginning. A Family Man, an obsessive man, and a man who enjoyed fighting, the last being a trait he acquired later under the influence of Scathach Scarlett, another woman with a significant influence on his life.
“… We should have more meetings with just the three of us,” Sasha suddenly said.
“I agree,” Ruby fully supported this idea.
Their intention wasn’t to assert their positions or anything like that. Their positions were already established. Their intention was to have more fun with the original ‘group.’
Now that Victor had conquered a Pantheon and created a planet [literally], he’d be quieter for a while, right?… Right?
For some reason, they highly doubted that he would stay still for long. He was like a seeker of adventure, always moving forward, and since Fate was a bitch to him, he was destined to find trouble wherever he went.
“Seriously, can’t that woman [Fate] leave him alone for a bit?” Ruby sighed.
She was sure Fate was a woman. After all, only a promiscuous woman would be capable of causing so much trouble for someone like him.
“Hmm, that can be arranged, but it all depends on Darling. After all, he’s just accomplished so much, and he needs to show dominance, you know? All that old boring bureaucracy, he needs to establish it again.”
Sasha stood up and looked at Violet. “Woman, he just made an entire Pantheon bow their heads in submission. Politics? What’s that in front of Victor, who holds superior power?” She scoffed.
“Not to mention that most of these Gods are basically suicidal slaves until ordered otherwise,” she added at the end.
“… Now that you mention it, that’s true. The situation is different from before,” Violet said after some thought.
“Arrogant Gods who treat all Mortals like cattle as suicidal slaves, huh… Heh, it feels pretty good, fufufufu,” Ruby laughed.
“I wonder if I can experiment on them. I’ll talk to Medusa later; she probably won’t mind if I experiment on Athena.”
Sasha and Violet just looked at Ruby with a complex expression.
“… What?” Ruby asked after seeing their looks.
“It’s nothing… I’m just not used to seeing you play the role of an evil scientist,” Violet said.
“Umu, umu,” Sasha nodded several times. “It’s quite disturbing, honestly. You’re too engrossed in your lab, Ruby.”
“….” Ruby’s face turned slightly red in embarrassment, and then she hid her face in Victor’s chest as she spoke:
“It’s not my fault, okay? It’s just so interesting…”
“Just what’s so interesting about it?” Sasha tilted her head from side to side; she couldn’t understand, so she didn’t think too much about it and went to hug Victor.
“Not to mention that I haven’t seen any of your projects yet. Are you really doing good work?” Violet asked as she rested her chin on Victor’s shoulder.
“Well, about that, it’s not my fault. My field is more in genetics, and it’s not that easy to tinker with genetics, you know? This isn’t the Marvel Universe, where everyone’s making clones from a strand of hair. The DNA of powerful Beings is hard to decipher, especially someone unique like my Husband.” Ruby grumbled.
“Although, I’m getting close to a breakthrough. Soon, I’ll have various dolls at my disposal…”
“Dolls?”
“Beings similar to Nightingale’s monsters. I received several samples of them and managed to decipher their genetic code. I can create those monsters too now.”
“…. Really?” Violet and Sasha asked incredulously.
“Yeah.” Ruby smiled. “Along with those materials I got from the base we infiltrated… It’s quite easy to recreate everything.”
The two women stared at Ruby in a long moment of silence until they smiled and spoke.
“Good job, Ruby!”
“Umu.” Ruby nodded while blushing a bit, unaccustomed to such praise.
“Sigh… Violet will become an Empress, and Ruby will become a Mad Scientist. I wonder what I should do.” Sasha said with a bit of depression as if she were the only one with nothing to do.
“Hey, that Mad part is nonsense. I’m not crazy!” Ruby protested.
Violet and Sasha completely ignored Ruby’s statement; after all, they were all a bit crazy in their own ways.
“Hmm… Darling needs a bit of ‘kindness’ in his Faction, and you’ve always been that in our relationship. He even admitted that there are certain actions he doesn’t take because he’s a little afraid you won’t approve.”
“Yeah, I remember that…” Sasha thought about the past.
Unlike Ruby and Violet, Sasha was the most ‘noble’ of the group, and she was genuinely good. Her actions were only ‘bad’ or drastic when someone confronted her, but other than that, her actions were usually directed towards ‘good.’
Perhaps Julia’s influence on Sasha’s life was the reason for this; after all, given the environment she grew up in, she could have become emotionally unbalanced.
But thanks to Julia, who acted as a cornerstone in Sasha’s childhood, she didn’t stray too far. She was still good by Supernatural standards.
“So why don’t you create a Knights’ Order?” Violet suggested.
“… Knights’ Order?” Sasha raised an eyebrow.
Ruby’s eyes sparkled as her otaku side wanted to make several comments, but she wisely decided to stay quiet.
“Yeah. Think about it: I’m the Empress.” Violet pointed at herself. “Ruby is the Mad Scientist.”
“Hey! I’m not Mad!”
Once again, they ignored her.
“And you’ll be the Leader of The Knights’ Order.”
“… I see. So you’re the neutral woman, Ruby is the bad woman, and I’m the good woman, huh…” Sasha said.
“Balance, right?” Violet smiled.
“Again, I take offense at that. I’m not bad! Why can’t Violet have that position? I refuse!” Ruby growled.
“Not to mention, this way, you’re reviving a legacy of your grandmother. After all, she was a ‘Knight,’ right?”
“And with The Knights’ Order, you can attract Wives with good character to your group, like Mizuki, Hestia, Jeanne, Pepper, Lacus, Leona, Bruna, etc.,” Violet explained.
The mentioned women might be a bit unbalanced, but their actions were mostly good, so they could be classified as ‘good’ women. They just had to do bad things in relation to those they had issues with or because they were deceived or mistaken about certain matters.
Very different from women like Agnes, Natashia, Violet, Roberta, and Morgana, who would set the world on fire with a smile on their faces.
… Well, all of them would set the world on fire with a smile on their faces if it were for Victor, but the good women would still have some reservations about it… But that didn’t mean they wouldn’t set the world on fire.
… In any case, the world would be set on fire.
Continuing, women with ‘good’ character would join this Order and do the ‘right’ thing for the Faction. This would balance out the ‘bad’ actions they would commit in the future.
Now that Violet thought about it, she wondered where Beings like Kaguya, Eve, Victor himself, and Scathach fit in?
They weren’t exactly good or bad; you could say they were chaotic neutral. They had their goals and pursued them.
But from what she knew about Victor, if he saw an old man in need on the streets and he was nearby, he would genuinely help.
He was not a psychopath who killed innocents. Even in the massacre he committed with Supernatural Beings in Japan, he made sure to separate the innocent from the guilty.
But can that be called kindness? Or goodness? Hmm…
‘Ugh, all this morality thinking disgusts me. I feel like vomiting.’ Violet put her hand over her mouth with a slightly green face and snuggled even closer to Victor.
‘It doesn’t matter. As long as I have my Darling, the world can go to hell.’ She thought as she tried to merge with Victor’s body.
With Victor’s current height [2 meters], they had enough space to enjoy his body.
One thing they noticed was that no matter what they did, he didn’t move… In fact, he even seemed to be sinking a bit into the ground…
Out of curiosity, Violet tried to move Victor’s white attire with all her Supernatural strength, but she couldn’t.
‘That’s ridiculous, just how heavy is he?’ Violet thought.
Seeing Violet’s effort, only now did Sasha and Ruby realize that he really was VERY heavy.
‘Well, he’s a Dragon, right?’ Violet thought of Zaladrac. Even though she was in ‘Humanoid’ Form, it’s not like her weight magically disappeared. Her body was just condensed into a smaller form.
Because of this, Zaladrac didn’t walk around. She just floated around, her feet several inches off the ground.
An action Violet noticed that Victor started to do as well.
‘If I can’t even lift Darling’s arm… Just how heavy is he in his True Form?’ She thought curiously. As a Dragon, she knew that the Form he was in now was not his ‘real’ Form but just a representation of what he would look like in a Humanoid Form.
As a Dragon, his form was more… Well, a Draconic. He was like Zaladrac. When Violet thought about it, she got curious.
‘Just how big is he? After all, as a Progenitor, he can’t be normal, right?’
Violet’s eyes went to Ruby’s voluptuous body, specifically, the area near her crotch… When she saw the small movement of Ruby’s hips, and her neutral face a little flushed, and her breathing a little heavy,
She narrowed her eyes. “Ruby! What are you doing!?”
Ruby shuddered. “N-Nothing.”
Sasha also raised herself up and narrowed her eyes at Ruby. Like a baby, she crawled to Ruby’s hips and lifted her skirt abruptly.
“Kyaaa! Sasha!? What are you-.”
“You Thot! You couldn’t even wait!?” Sasha slapped Ruby’s fat ass when she saw the sight in front of her. Victor’s entire co*ck was entirely inside the woman! She could see that even her belly looked a little wider than usual. This was because Victor hadn’t adjusted his size so as not to hurt the girl.
Vampires were basically shape shifting Beings. They could assume any size they wanted as long as they were proficient at it, and Victor, as Progenitor, was very good at it.
One thing that Violet and Sasha noticed was that the woman had the audacity to freeze her liquids so the smell wouldn’t be sensed! She was very diligent.
“Ugh, I was horny, okay?” Ruby grumbled, and then she started bouncing up and down more willingly. Now that she’d been discovered, she didn’t care anymore.
She let out a long, hot breath from her mouth, and hearts formed in her eyes.
“His domineering appearance that enslaved all those arrogant Gods… His new scent… His new everything! I want him so much!”
“…” Sasha and Violet narrowed their eyes when they saw Ruby’s eyes.
Now, this is not an anime, okay? This is real life! The only woman who could have literal ‘hearts’ in her eyes, like in anime, was Aphrodite, but that was because of her Divinity of Love… I mean.
“Is this Aphrodite’s influence?”
“Probably…?” Violet didn’t care. She just cared about what she was seeing now.
She took a deep breath, and her hand unconsciously went to her private parts.
“Don’t be Horny, Violet!”
“Ugh, I’m sorry, okay? But I was also like Ruby, but I was holding back because Victor said we couldn’t have sex because we’re too weak, but seeing Ruby now, I realized that-.”
“Those words weren’t just a warning.”
Victor’s sudden voice made everyone jump a little in surprise.
“D-Darling! You’re awake?”
“Of course.”
“Since when?”
“From the start.” Victor smiled. “I didn’t really ‘black out’ completely. I was awake having an internal conversation with Roxanne about my changes.” Victor sat up and placed his hands on Ruby’s hips.
Ruby blushed even more when she saw Victor’s playful gaze.
“Can you get off the top for a bit?”
“Y-Yeah?” Ruby replied, confused, but she did as he asked and got off him. The obscene sound of his member coming out of her was heard, but nobody paid attention to it. The reason for that?
It was Victor’s ‘awesome’ member.
“Is he like this normally? Is it not greater than before?” Ruby swallowed hard. ‘Good thing I modified my interior, or I would be split in half.’
“Well, I am a Progenitor of Dragons.” He said something that seemed to answer every question.
His member twitched, and in the next moment, ‘something’ came out of his member and exploded towards the sky, causing several sonic booms. If there were clouds in the sky now, a hole would definitely have been made.
“… Holy Jesus Christ… Was that it?” Sasha was speechless.
“My Cum.”
“……” An awkward silence fell over the place.
“Superman Body, remember?” Victor laughed.
“I never understood how Clark managed to impregnate Lois. I think it’s the script’s fault. After all, with his body, even a normal and intimate act could be deadly for someone as weak as Lois.”
“…”
“Or maybe it’s that red sun bullsh*t? Hmm…” Victor tapped his chin thoughtfully.
‘The body and applied force can be controlled. Eventually, I’ll be able to do that too, but controlling your own biology? Could he do that too?’ Victor thought.
Victor’s recent demonstration was enough to understand that everything inside him was ‘super’, even his liquids. He believed that the same must apply to The Man of Steel as well.
“Now, I understand what you meant when you said it was dangerous for us,” Violet sighed. Vampire or not, if she got that shot into her womb, she was going to be pierced from the inside out. [literally speaking.]
“Mm.” Victor nodded.
“Until I find a way to ‘lower the level’ of my biological processes and strength, the only option we have is for you to get stronger.”
‘Well, I have the option of having ABSOLUTE control over my entire body, but that’s easier said than done,’ He thought. Having complete control over his body meant that he consciously controlled every part of his body, and that was something extremely difficult to do for a ‘huge’ Being like him.
“So, no sex?” Ruby muttered.
“Yeah…”
“Ugh,” Ruby grumbled, dissatisfied.
Victor laughed. “Don’t worry, there are other ‘interesting’ ways to do this act.”
Seeing the crimson-hued violet gaze of Victor, Ruby, Violet, and Sasha shuddered.
“W-Wait.” Ruby tried to say something, but it was too late.
Victor spoke several words in the Draconic Language.
“Vanish. Constraint. Levitation.”
The next moment, Ruby was floating in front of Victor. Her whole body was tied together in the shape of a perfect turtle.
“HMMhmmh!?” Ruby tried to say something, but her mouth was covered by a toy.
“Using Draconic Runes to do this… Your Ancestors will be ashamed, young man!” Sasha commented, embarrassed.
“My Ancestors can turn over in their graves for all I care. I will do as I please… For now, I will punish my naughty Wife who took advantage of her unconscious Husband.”
“HmmmhMM!” Despite looking indignant and resentful, the glint of amusem*nt in Ruby’s eyes was visible.
“… I wonder if Scathach is like this too…” Violet spoke as she watched with a flushed look at what Victor was doing with Ruby.
“Probably. After all, she had to have inherited it from somewhere, right?” Sasha commented.
Seeing what was happening in front of them, they couldn’t help but think. ‘Should I try too?’
…
In another place.
“Hmm?”
“What is it, Mother?” Siena asked.
“Victor’s presence has disappeared,” Scathach spoke.
“Don’t worry. He’s just spending time with his Wives.” Aphrodite displayed an innocent smile. As the Goddess related to Sexuality, she could feel someone doing the act from miles away.
Of course, she could block this feeling if she wanted to, but she didn’t see the need to, seeing that there weren’t any people other than their group on this planet. It’d been a long time since she felt this ‘free’.
Seeing the ‘innocent’ smile that they ALL knew so well on Aphrodite, they couldn’t help but roll their eyes.
“Oh…” That was Siena and Scathach’s reaction, and then they shrugged and looked back at the building in front of them.
Their whole new house was being made with the girls’ combined Powers, and making it as strong as possible.
“I just hope he doesn’t kill them,” Scathach muttered, but Aphrodite could pick out a trace of anger, jealousy, and possession in the woman’s tone.
‘Heh. This new form made her really honest, huh.’ She thought.
Even for someone as experienced in controlling herself as Scathach, she was having a hard time acting like she used to, as if she didn’t care about anything. After all, Dragons were very honest Beings when it came to their desires, especially a ‘newborn’ like Scathach.
Chapter 826: The True God.
While Victor and his faction were reorganizing.
The world was in chaos. Literally speaking.
The news that the Greek pantheon had been conquered by the now Progenitor of blood dragons, Victor Alucard. Sent shockwaves throughout the entire community of supernatural beings.
The news was like a literal bomb that exploded in everyone’s face, some clever individuals tried to suppress the news to control everyone’s reaction and gain advantages, but… It was literally impossible. After all, all the God Kings felt the Greek pantheon ‘disappear’.
As pantheon leaders, they have an exact understanding of how the system works, and because of that, when they saw that the pantheon whose name was ‘Greek’ was now just a number.
The conclusion was obvious.
Combining this fact with the news that spread in the next moment, with the fact that the ‘hells’ literally underwent a drastic change, decreasing from 7 to 3 major hells… Yes, it was literally impossible to suppress the news.
Victor Alucard did something grand again, this time something that caught everyone’s attention without exception.
He not only evolved into something ridiculous but also fought against three primordial gods at the same time, there’s even a short video of him battling Erebus, the son of Erebus, and Tartarus.
Of course, the ‘ease’ with which the information spread made some clever people narrow their eyes in suspicion. Wasn’t it too easy? How could someone receive information so quickly?
Thoughts like these filled the heads of these individuals, but… They didn’t have time to think, because while they were wasting time thinking, trying to discern this situation, or even looking for who was spreading the information.
Victor Alucard’s influence was growing.
Demons, Angels, Youkais, Werewolves, Vampires, and even hidden dragons were looking for him.
The shift in power was literally shattered by the sudden rise of the new high-
level ‘player,’ once again, Victor Alucard exceeded the expectations of the ‘wisest’ beings.
One of these beings is Odin himself, who predicted that in the future, Victor Alucard would be something like the new Vlad, but… He was completely wrong, he had never felt so foolish before.
To be honest, it was difficult to even predict Victor’s actions, let alone what he would become in the future.
How does someone go from being a Progenitor of vampires to a Progenitor of dragons? What’s with this sudden promotion? It doesn’t make sense!
Regardless of the world’s reaction, it was a fact that a new high-level player had entered the international scene, and this time, everyone is watching him.
Being a Progenitor of vampires is cool and all… But that doesn’t catch the attention of the gods, after all, what is a Progenitor to a god like Odin, Ra, or Indra?
But, this scenario changes completely when that individual is a Progenitor of dragons.
The young gods may not know, but the old gods know very well how terrifying the progenitor of dragons can be.
Despite being mortal, this creature has divine powers, it can control creation. A feat only gods of creation are capable of.
Not to mention that as a Progenitor, he can create other beings of the same kind, and all these beings will be under his command.
If one dragon was already problematic and required one or two high-level gods… Imagine multiple dragons being commanded like an army?
The pantheons trembled in fear when this thought crossed their minds.
“Contact the Dwarves, from today onward, focus weapon production on anti-
dragon attribute weapons!” Odin’s voice reverberated through Valhalla.
As one of the factions that had the famous ‘dwarves,’ it was easy for them to meet their needs with this turn of events.
The same couldn’t be said for the other factions that lacked legendary blacksmiths.
“… We can profit from this…!” Amaterasu’s eyes were the symbol of money.
As one of the factions that had one of the best blacksmiths around, it wouldn’t be difficult for them to make anti-dragon type weapons. Of course, they wouldn’t have the same quality as the dwarves’ weapons, made by Hephaestus, but it would be good enough to fill the pantheon’s pockets with wealth.
“….” Susanoo looked at his sister with neutral eyes, and the next moment, he looked at his phone.
He never thought he would thank Aphrodite for inviting him to this chat group, he had direct contact with Victor Alucard!
“Sister, control your greed!” Susanoo quickly spoke as he saw Amaterasu leaving.
“Do you want to turn this place into a nest of dragons!?”
“….” Amaterasu stopped walking, and the symbol of money left her eyes.
“… Ugh, for a moment, I almost let myself be carried away by my greed.” She grumbled.
Susanoo rolled his eyes. “Control yourself and think about the initial plan, this is the best opportunity for an alliance!”
“That’s true… But what can we offer for an alliance other than myself?”
Susanoo’s face twitched a bit. “Can you please stop talking as if you’re a bargaining chip?”
“Nonsense, I am a God Queen, I must put my people’s survival at stake.”
“….” Was it his impression, or did his sister seem VERY eager to submit to Victor?
While Susanoo thought about this, a raven entered Amaterasu’s palace, and soon this raven transformed into a humanoid being.
“Amaterasu-Sama, a letter sent directly by the representative of the supernatural beings has just arrived!”
“… They reacted very quickly.” Amaterasu whispered.
“This reeks of conspiracy…” Susanoo said.
Amaterasu spoke. “Fufufu, it’s always a conspiracy when it involves the gods, my dear brother.”
“One week, huh. The meeting will happen sooner than expected.” Susanoo said.
“Let’s prepare ourselves, we must be presentable to our ‘colleague’ gods.” She spoke disdainfully.
…
Three days later.
The news of the fall of Olympus was also received by the mortal organizations that had the most influence in the supernatural world.
Mainly the two organizations that had the most popular religions in the current world, the angels who commanded The Inquisition.
It’s the religion of the blood god that’s commanded by the Supreme Priestess, Valeria Alekerth.
Although the latter received direct orders from one of her god’s generals, so it can be said that she was more in the know about the subject than the other factions, she had privileged information.
In Valeria’s private chambers, two women were talking.
“I understand… He created a paradise, huh.”
Aline nodded: “Yes, but only those directly chosen by him can enter this paradise. Currently, only you as his disciple have the privilege to go to that place.”
“…” Valeria’s eyes gleamed a bit, and she felt quite satisfied and happy, her dedication was being valued, how could she not be happy?
Although her expression didn’t change much and remained cold.
Aline doesn’t care about the woman’s reaction, she came here just to deliver a message, she raised her hand, and soon a black staff with golden details, and various runes written on it appeared in her hand, but what caught the most attention on the staff was the violet gem floating on top of it.
“… Take it.”
“What is this?”
“With the acquisition of the pagan gods’ pantheon, one of the current domains that my King acquired was death itself.” Aline spoke seriously. “With this staff, you can wield a fraction of that power.”
“The moment you touch it, you’ll become a medium and can directly speak with the dead and interact with them. If you wish, you can also ‘deliver’ death to any being connected with the blood god’s religion.”
“The person who dies will go directly into the hands of my King.”
“….” Valeria’s eyes widened.
“This… This…” Her hands trembled, she completely lost her composure, a very rare sight.
Aline had hardly ever seen this woman lose composure, but it was understandable, after all, she was facing an artifact of great power, an artifact that would be coveted even among the gods; after all, it was made directly in collaboration with Thanatos, Victor, and Hephaestus.
The moment Valeria touched the staff, her eyes glowed with neon violet, and she could ‘see’ much better. One of the attributes of the artifact was to give the bearer a spiritual vision that had the effect of making the bearer see the world as it was. The effect wasn’t as ridiculous as divine vision or even the dragons’ vision, but it could make a mortal see the ‘soul,’ something exclusive to certain beings.
An intoxicating sensation of power overcame the woman.
“Control yourself, don’t lose yourself in the power.”
“… Y-Yes…” Valeria stuttered, but with a deep breath, energy started flowing back into the staff, and her eyes began returning to normal.
“The power of the staff isn’t limited to just that, it can also summon the dead to fight for you. Look at this gem, there are several souls within this gem. If you desire, the souls contained within this gem can be summoned as minions that you can use as your own senses.”
“The gem itself also absorbs the souls of those you kill.”
“The staff will also be used as a medium for you to summon demons from hell more easily. Of course, this staff cannot be lost.”
Aline took the staff from Valeria’s hand, but the next moment, the staff disappeared and returned to Valeria’s hand.
“Understand that the enchantment isn’t invincible; some powerful beings can prevent the runes from working, so be careful.”
‘Although I doubt there’s anyone who can counter the runes of a Progenitor dragon, it doesn’t hurt to warn; after all, caution is necessary.’ Aline thought.
“… Yes.” That’s all Valeria could say in the face of the onslaught of information she was receiving.
Her brain was working as hard as possible to absorb everything, but it was all just too shocking.
When she balanced everything, she was basically immortal now. She could control the dead, speak with the dead, summon demons from hell, her body was stronger than an ordinary human’s, and many more things she probably didn’t even know.
“I will go now. Soon, you will be invited to go to the ‘paradise’.” Aline said as she turned around.
Suddenly, a thought crossed Valeria’s mind. “Wait.”
“Hmm?”
“You said he controls death… My God, huh…” She bit her lip, she felt very presumptuous to ask this question, after all, she had already received so much from him, but now that she thought about it, she couldn’t stop thinking about it.
“He controls death… So is it possible for him to revive someone… To permanently bring them back and not something like ‘summoning’ the dead?” She asked.
Aline looked at Valeria for a long minute. A long minute that left Valeria very nervous; she was already thinking she had overstepped her authority by asking this question. Before she could apologize or say anything else, she heard.
“Yes, it’s possible.”
“…..” Valeria’s eyes widened.
“T-Then, my daughter…?”
“Yes, he can bring her back.”
Valeria’s lifeless eyes shone with the light of life, and hope filled her being.
“So…”
“But are you worthy?” Aline suddenly spoke.
“… Eh?”
“Bringing someone back to life completely is a task that few gods can accomplish. I can count on one hand how many gods can do that.” Aline raised a finger.
“Only one person.”
“Only my King can do it.”
“No one else in the entire supernatural world can do it without side effects.”
This wasn’t a lie. Due to being a dragon dealing with existence, a Progenitor vampire dealing with souls and having hundreds of souls within him, and having a connection to the system as a God King and Demon King, only Victor had the necessary requirements to ‘negotiate’ with the judges of the abyss.
Negotiation wouldn’t be necessary if the person had died recently, but for Valeria’s daughter who died a long time ago, her soul had already been recycled and moved on to another place, so she was already under the jurisdiction of the abyss judges.
And if there’s one being that can reverse the irreversible process of soul recycling, it’s the Abyss Judges themselves. Such a thing wouldn’t be possible if it were a very strong supernatural being.
But as the soul belongs to a normal and ordinary human, there shouldn’t be too many problems.
One soul for another soul, an equivalent exchange; Victor would just have to give up some of the useless souls he has within him.
If Diablo can negotiate with them, why can’t Victor?
Unlike a certain universe of caped heroes, death here is truly permanent, and few beings could ‘cheat death’ like Metis, whose soul was divided, and only survived because she was a goddess.
Not to mention that few beings could directly negotiate with the Abyss Judges, who rule over the control of all souls, in exchange for a perfect resurrection.
No matter what method is used, bringing someone back who has already died will undoubtedly have side effects; after all, the ‘soul’ of the person who has been dead for a long time has already been passed on by the system.
As Ruler, Aline understood very well the requirements for bringing a soul back, so she spoke these words to Valeria.
“Knowing this, do you think you’re worthy?”
“… I…” Valeria bit her lip, she didn’t think she was; it was already too presumptuous of her to ask for this after receiving so much.
Aline smiled slightly. “You don’t need to depreciate yourself so much. You’re my King’s disciple, you have a pact with him, just for that, your position is different from this common rabble.”
“Privileges can be granted to you.”
Valeria’s eyes shone even brighter with excitement.
“… But… You have to deserve it.”
Valeria’s face fell into despair again.
Aline was playing with the woman’s emotions, sending her from heaven to hell with just words.
‘Fufufu, it’s really fun to play with human hearts.’ Aline was a demon sometimes too, despite mostly being a scientist.
“Did you forget my King’s teachings?” She spoke very seriously now; after all, their current society was based on those teachings.
“… If you deserve it… Prove it to me… Work for it until you deserve it… There’s no such thing as a free lunch in this world.” She muttered.
Everything that’s given easily is also easily devalued; beings in general only care about what they’ve sweated and suffered to obtain.
A poor man who’s never had a car in his life would be 1000x more satisfied with the car he bought after saving money for years than a second-generation wealthy person who can have any car in the world.
Effort, struggle, conquest, all of this makes beings value what they achieve.
As someone who lived as a human and dreamed of having full health, Victor understood this very well, and he never forgot it, even after undergoing various evolutions.
And it was this personality, along with Scathach’s influences, that led him to create a society like the current hell; the teachings of the blood god’s religion are similar to the rules in hell.
“… What should I…” Valerie’s face becomes cold and determined. “What should I do?”
“That’s for you to figure out, after all, you’re the supreme priestess…” Valeria smiled as she opened a portal.
“Just know that… He’s always watching you.”
A silence fell over the place as Aline left, and in this silence, only the cold face of a woman is seen.
Valeria tightened her grip on the staff. “… Very well… For my daughter… For my god… I will start conquering the shadow world. Everything will bear the influence of my god.”
Her lifeless eyes now shone with life and determination. A determination that burned like violet flames in her eyes.
She struck the staff on the ground, and violet flames erupted from the ground. Soon, two humanoid beings made of pure flame emerged from the ground, beings made only of souls, existing in this plane thanks to the dragon’s flames.
Although the flame was mostly used for destruction, that wasn’t its initial meaning.
The flame also symbolizes rebirth and life.
The Progenitor dragon’s flames, the most powerful flames in existence, have enough power to summon souls as minions.
“Order…”
Valeria smiled widely; the violet flame eyes of the creature perfectly reflected her current eyes, a subtle change she hadn’t even noticed and probably wouldn’t care about.
“Let’s start the cleansing. First, cleanse the influence of these false gods.” She looked at the world map hanging on the wall, and her eyes glowed with even more intense flames as she looked north.
She never dared to enter another god’s territory; after all, they were just growing. But inhibitions were no longer necessary. With this power and her influence, she could do it.
She could expel these false gods.
“Only he is the true one; pagan gods who just want to take advantage of mortals aren’t needed.” Valeria knew very well about the other ‘organizations’ that started to appear after the gods descended, especially Valhalla, which doesn’t give any benefits to mortals, only using them with the promise of entering Valhalla and becoming an immortal warrior.
What they don’t know is that these immortal warriors are just Odin’s puppets; they won’t even have their free will. Isn’t that the same as dying?
By doing this, she’ll probably anger another ‘god,’ but… Valeria doesn’t care.
The reason?
Her god is the strongest.
Chapter 827: He’s a Demon.
Victor’s planet, in a newly created mansion, three bodies were lying on the bed.
“Ugh…” Three defeated moans were heard from the bed, and this caused a woman with long golden hair to laugh.
“You were too greedy and suffered from it,” Natashia commented.
“Shut up, Mother,” Sasha growled.
“How long have I been out?”
“Two days,” Natashia replied with the same mischievous smile on her face.
“… Ugh, why is my body still hurting? Is my regeneration not working?” Ruby grumbled as she looked up at the ceiling.
“Bedding the progenitor of dragons is different, especially the Progenitor who is both dragon and vampire, the perfect blend of both,” Aphrodite spoke as she tucked her legs in.
“…Can you be more specific please? Stop talking in riddles.” Violet spoke.
“I’m saying he f*cked you body and soul, literally speaking, of course.”
“……” The three didn’t know how to react to those words.
“Because of that, your body is aching… In fact, the correct thing to say would be that your soul is sick, and this is reflected in your physical body.”
“Ugh, it’s been a while since I heard so much bullsh*t in one sentence.” Violet groaned.
“… Where is Darling?” Ruby asked as she looked at Natashia and Aphrodite.
“He is making a Staff that will be given to Valeria.”
“…A Staff?” Violet asked with a strange look. In the meantime, she touched her belly and felt the emptiness inside her; normally, when she passed out and woke up the next day, her husband’s fluids were still inside her.
But as expected, this time, it was not possible.
The very act of them doing the ‘act’ was quite dangerous as well. Luckily, Victor didn’t need to move for the nightly battle; by standing still and controlling the girls’ bodies with his telekinetic power, he could do the act. It was strange to do the act like that, but at the same time, it was a new experience.
“Yeah, he wants to give the power of death to the High Priestess of his religion,” Aphrodite spoke.
“Ugh, I already foresee what this woman will become with so much pampering,” Sasha grumbled.
“Well, from the moment she became High Priestess, that woman became Victor’s, both in body and soul,” Ruby said.
“Helloooo? Is there someone here?”
“Where are the people in this mansion? And why can’t I feel anything? Are my senses failing?”
“Ugh, why is this place so big?”
“HELLO!!??”
The door suddenly opened, and a tall, voluptuous woman with long black hair and demonic features like horns, wings, and a tail entered.
“…” The girls in the room looked at the woman with a neutral gaze.
The woman returned their gazes neutrally as she looked at each woman, noting her features, but her eye landed on Aphrodite.
“Geh, Aphrodite.” The woman’s face distorted as if she saw something rotten.
“…Lilith, why are you here?”
“The Demon King called me. The question is, why are you here?”
“Ara, didn’t you know? I’m his wife, you know?” Aphrodite gave a smug smile to Lilith.
A smile that made Lilith’s veins pop in her head, she really didn’t like this woman.
“You sure know everyone, Aphrodite,” Natashia said.
“Well… That’s true.” She was going to try to refute Natashia’s words, but when she thought about knowing all the bigshots in the supernatural world, she let that go; after all, it wasn’t a lie that she knew a lot of people.
Some beings she saw once every hundred years, others she saw more frequently, but it was a fact that as an ancient goddess and quite a social one, she knew many people.
Lilith was one of those people, even though, due to her natural antipathy towards demons, they never got along, despite having no real reason to dislike each other.
It was a relationship like water and fire; they just couldn’t get along.
A red portal appeared in the room, and soon Aline appeared.
“Finally, I found you, Lilith. Where were you? Did you get lost?”
“Of course not. I was exploring.” Lilith lied as easily as she breathed, never admitting she got lost.
“I see… Anyway, come. The Demon King is summoning you.”
“Okay… But before that, how come you can use your powers?”
“Because the Demon King allowed it.”
“… Excuse me? What do you mean by the Demon King ‘allowed’?”
“Exactly what I mean. In this place, the Demon King has full control of the dimension. If he wants, no one can use their powers here.”
“… That’s nonsense,” Lilith muttered to herself. She had seen similar things happen in the territory of primordial beings, but they were primordial beings! Such power was understandable and even expected.
But, the Demon King doing this? Especially sealing her power as the progenitor of demons? Lilith couldn’t believe it.
“You’ll get used to it.” Violet, Sasha, Ruby, Aphrodite, and Natashia all said at the same time.
Lilith looked at the women saying this with an empty expression on their faces, and then she just sighed.
“Just take me to him. I want to finish my work quickly to go have some fun.”
“… Hmm…” Aline looked at Lilith thoughtfully, she seemed to want to say something, but soon she decided it wasn’t worth it, so she just nodded:
“Okay.”
A portal appeared behind Lilith, and soon the two demons entered.
“She’s about to have her reality shattered, isn’t she?” Sasha commented.
“Yes.” They all spoke at the same time.
…
“… W-W-W-W.” Lilith pointed at Victor tremulously while stuttering.
Victor displayed a small smile when he saw Lilith’s expression.
“She’s completely broken,” Jeanne spoke.
“Well, it’s understandable. After all, the change is quite significant.” Morgana spoke while looking neutrally at Lilith.
“Aline, come here, please.”
“Yes, Demon King.” Aline approached Victor.
“You too, Persephone.”
“Mm.” Persephone, who was sitting in a chair, nodded and then stood up and walked towards Victor, who was standing in front of a large table filled with various types of weapons.
When the two women stood in front of Victor, he placed his finger on their foreheads.
A white power gleamed on his finger, and soon they felt their authority as ‘Ruler’ becoming stronger.
“Done. From now on, you two are the Rulers of my hell.”
“… Wasn’t I the Ruler before?” Persephone asked, confused. “How did I become the Ruler again?”
“Yes, you both were the Ruler… But you were the Ruler of the biblical hell and the Greek hell.”
“These two hells no longer exist since they merged into a new hell, and what I just did was declare you two as Rulers of the new hell that was born from this mixture.”
“Oh…” Persephone understood now.
Aline didn’t listen to their conversation, more focused on trying to understand her new abilities.
“Wait, wait, wait. You can’t just ignore me!” Lilith suddenly shouted, grabbing everyone’s attention.
“Just what happened to you, Demon King!?”
“How did you become… all this!?” She spoke while making an exaggerated gesture, pointing at Victor.
“I happened, and I became it,” Victor said as if it explained everything.
“….” Lilith waited, expecting to hear more explanations, but no matter how much she waited, she didn’t hear any more words! He even diverted his attention from her and looked at the two women in front of him.
“Wait, wait! Don’t ignore me!” She spoke again.
“Just how did you become this!? How did you go from being a Vampire to a DRAGON!?”
“You’re mistaken.”
“I’m not a dragon.”
“… Huh? You’re not?”
“No, I’m not just a dragon. I’m the perfect blend of a Progenitor vampire with the Progenitor dragon.”
He smiled. “I’m a vampiric dragon… By the way, that name is still up for debate. Personally, I think it’s good, but it sounds a bit cliché… Hmm, I was thinking of going with Blood Dragon. Decisions. Decisions.” He murmured at the end.
“…..” Lilith was just speechless. Somehow, hearing that he was a mix of the two was even more surprising than if he were just a normal dragon.
‘Wait… PROGENITOR?!’ Only now did she realize an important detail.
The door to the room opened, and a 150cm tall woman entered, floating with her feet a few cm off the ground.
“Fath – Progenitor, the coliseum is ready.”
“… You’d call me Father, huh?” Victor smiled.
Metis blushed slightly, and she looked away. Although it had only been two days, Metis’s recovery was quite impressive as her height was returning rapidly. She went from the size of a fairy to the height of a teenager in just two days.
Victor predicted that within a week, she would be fully recovered.
Lilith’s eyes widened as she looked at Metis. She knew the woman very well, the tragic first wife of Zeus, but she wasn’t shocked about that, but rather her draconic features!
‘Another dragon!’ Lilith thought. It was already rare to see one dragon, now having two dragons together? It was even more unbelievable.
Supernatural beings sometimes spend millions of years and never get a chance to see a real dragon; they’re just that rare. But in less than a few minutes, she had already seen two!
“I apologize, it’s just a bad habit. For some reason, I can’t stop.”
“It’s fine. The more you recover, and most of your memories return, you’ll eventually stop.” Victor spoke while looking at the ‘nothingness’. Although it seemed like he was just observing the wall, the truth was that he was looking at Valeria.
“Mm.” Metis nodded.
A smile appeared on Victor’s face as he saw Valeria’s decision. ‘Hmm, I can combine her actions with my visit to Hela…’ He began to plan his next steps.
But he was making these plans with another part of his mind as the main part was focused on something else.
“Now that the coliseum is ready, it’s time for both of you to undergo the transformation.”
“… Are you really going to do this?” Jeanne asked.
“Of course.” Victor smiled.
“All my wives will become dragons.”
“… Can you really handle that, Victor?” Persephone asked with some concern.
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, vampire women are already insane… Dragon women, especially a new breed of dragons that is a mix of the two… I just see trouble.”
“Seriously? I only see opportunities.” Victor laughed.
Persephone widened her eyes and just shook her head, sighing.
“Fufufu, Persephone, don’t you understand that the more insane, obsessive, and crazy the woman is, the more he’ll like it? For Victor, this situation has no downside.” Jeanne pointed out.
“I already knew that… Now, I’m reminded of how crazy he is.”
“Hey, I take offense at that. I’m not crazy, I just have good taste.” Victor huffed.
Persephone just rolled her eyes.
“Anyway, shut up Lilith, and come closer.”
“W-What – Wait! Are you planning to make more dragons!?”
“Of course.”
“Are you mad!? Dragons are extremely powerful beings, and this will break the balance! The primordial beings will interfere.”
“I know. That’s why only my family will transform into dragons, while my subordinates will remain as they are.”
“… Oh.”
Victor knew very well that he couldn’t overdo it. He couldn’t go around creating dragons like he did with noble vampires. If he went too far, it was 100% certain that the primordial beings would interfere to preserve the balance.
That wasn’t his intention either, and this power, the power of his new race, would only be obtained by his family.
The rest, he would just turn into Noble Vampires.
Yes, he could still create Noble Vampires.
Victor is a perfect blend of a dragon and a vampire, and because of that, he didn’t lose any of his abilities; they just merged and became something better.
For example, his ability to see, manipulate, and shape the soul became much stronger than when he was a Progenitor vampire. Due to his vampire characteristics, he can change a being to be both a Noble Vampire or just a simple dragon without his blood.
Not only that, he can even create dragon and vampire subspecies if he desires.
Beings like Ghouls, Wyverns, Basilisks, sea serpents, etc. He can create all of them.
To say he was at the top of vampires and dragons wasn’t an exaggeration. As a Progenitor, he truly was at the top of these two species, even controlling the sub-species of these two races.
Therefore, he wasn’t lacking in strength, and all he needed was time to gather his army.
As the Demon King, he had the entirety of hell at his disposal, and over time, he would have an army of monsters at his disposal.
There is a limit to how many true dragons can exist to avoid breaking the balance. After all, true dragons are forces of nature, but there’s no limit to how many dragon and vampire subspecies he can create.
Therefore, keeping only his wives and family as true dragons was the right way to proceed.
Putting aside those thoughts, Victor looked at Lilith and said:
“Do you know why I called you here?”
“No…?”
Victor smiled lightly and then asked, “I want you to become the Ruler of my hell.”
“… Hell no! I refuse! I deny it! There’s no way I’m committing to such exhausting work! I just want to be free from it!”
Now that she had experienced freedom, Lilith never wanted to take on a position of power again! Being free and worry-free is the best thing!
‘I love FREEDOM!’
Instead of getting irritated, Victor just smiled sweetly, a smile that somehow made Lilith shudder as if something bad was going to happen to her.
“Aline, please.”
“Yes.” Expecting this, Aline took a document from her bag and handed it to Victor.
“1,305,340,466 Knull has been spent by Lilith since she arrived in hell.”
“…” Sweat began to form on Lilith’s face.
“Not only that, I have here a dozen complaints from my subordinates [mostly from Lily] regarding your bad behavior and spoiled attitude.”
“The list doesn’t end there. Many times, when you would drink and get drunk, you would destroy private property that didn’t belong to you, leading to the government spending even more money to keep you.”
“Adding it all up, Lilith’s debt is over 3 billion Knull.”
Victor closed the document and just looked at Lilith, who was utterly incredulous as if she had seen a ghost.
With the same sweet smile on his face, he gently asked:
“You said what just now, Lilith?”
“… Please let me be the Ruler.”
Lilith wasn’t stupid. She could see the size of the problem she was in. Normally, she would fight back and pretend this conversation never happened, but… could she do that with Victor? The answer was no. She couldn’t. So, she swallowed her pride and agreed to work to pay off her debts.
“Mm, I’m glad you accepted my proposal gracefully.” Victor raised his hand for a handshake, which Lilith cautiously touched and shook his hand.
“I’ll count on you from now on, Lilith.”
‘… He’s a demon!’ Lilith really wanted to cry now.
Chapter 828: Dragon Over There, Dragon Here, Dragon Everywhere!
4 hours later.
Sorrowful sounds of a goddess resounded through the halls.
“Ugh… Why…? Why is this happening to me? Ugh…”
“Stop complaining already, you are being annoying.”
“B-But! My freedom!”
Lily rolled her eyes. “Did you really think you would forever be a leech to the Demon King?”
“Yes?”
“….” Veins popped on Lily’s head.
“I-I mean, I am loved by everyone, right? I thought he would take care of me!”
Lily had just realized that her mother had been completely spoiled by the population of hell.
“The Demon King is impartial. Lilith or not, you have no privileges.”
That’s a lie, precisely because Lilith is who she is, Victor made many exceptions.
There were several political reasons behind it, but the main one was that she’s Lilith, the Progenitor of demons, the goddess of demons. Seeing this woman ‘working’ for the current Demon King gives him a lot of credibility.
He will be seen by the masses as a ruler even Lilith accepted.
Did Victor need this? Of course not, his prestige and achievements are unparalleled.
But! It’s always good to quell the flames of rebellion. The Demon King rules over demons, and demons by nature are beings that seek conflict, seek to gain more; they are beings of desires.
Victor working alongside Lilith’s existence is crucial for the Demon King’s long rule. This was a problem that couldn’t be solved with force; intelligence and cunning were necessary.
The demons have to understand that going against Victor is simply foolish.
Of course, Lily wouldn’t tell Lilith all of this; it’s part of the internal politics of the government, and only a few know about these plans.
‘Well, with His Majesty’s recent evolution, I don’t think there’s a demon foolish enough to challenge him.’ Lily thought.
“Ugh…”
Veins popped on Lily’s head. “Stop complaining already. It’s past time for you to move that fat ass and work. Rejoice, Lilith. You’ve taken on one of the most important positions in hell. You should be happy.”
“But…! I don’t want to work! I’ve spent thousands of years ruling already!”
Lily really wondered where her mother, who used to be arrogant, powerful, and cunning, had gone. It seems her brain completely melted after enjoying the ‘normal life’ that Victor had carefully planned for her.
“What are you talking about?”
“Eh…?”
“You won’t rule anything. You’ll just manage the souls that enter hell, a job you’ll do in conjunction with Persephone and Aline.”
“…..”
“Plus, you’ll be paid.”
“… Eh? I’ll be paid!?”
“Didn’t you hear what I was saying?”
“I mean…” Lilith just smiled and scratched her head a bit.
“Haaah…” Lily let out a long sigh. ‘Please, Your Majesty, grant me patience to deal with this woman… Because I’m really one step away from slapping her.’
“Listen, I’ll say it again. You’ll be working in one of the most important positions in hell, and, of course, the reward will be substantial.”
“How many Knulls are we talking about?” Lilith asked curiously.
Lily raised her hands.
“Seven thousand?” Lilith asked.
“Seven digits.”
“Holy…”
“Monthly.”
Lilith swallowed hard.
“Of course, that’s not all; extra benefits are promised if you do a good job.”
“I predict that if you work properly, you’ll pay off your debt in less than two years.”
‘That is if you don’t spend your money on the new projects that Aline, Ruby, and Metis will launch in the future.’ Lily thought to herself; she was really enjoying seeing Lilith falling into the simplest trap of the capitalist world.
Excessive, unnecessary consumption.
As a woman who had always been in leadership, she never really needed to buy anything; everything she wanted would be given to her.
But that was no longer her reality; she had to be like everyone else now and buy the things she needed for herself. And that’s where the trap lies – even though Lilith knows the ‘trap,’ she will still fall into it.
The reason is simple… Only controlled beings can avoid falling into the trap of capitalism… And Lilith definitely isn’t one of them.
‘Fufufu, if it were a few years ago, she wouldn’t have this problem; after all, she was full of treasures.’ Due to the war with Diablo, Lilith literally lost everything: her treasure, her castle, her subordinates.
“Not to mention, you’ll be working directly alongside the Demon King…” A cunning smile appeared on Lily’s face; the daughter approached the mother and held her shoulder.
“You want it, don’t you?”
“Want what…?” Lilith asked.
“Don’t lie to yourself… I’ve seen it in your eyes…” She approached Lilith’s ear.
“You want him inside you; you want him for yourself; you desire him…~” She stepped back from Lilith and smiled smugly:
“Am I wrong?”
Lilith narrowed her eyes, she looked at her daughter, and just huffed; she thought she would fall for this trick? She’s the literal queen of succubi; this seduction game, she had been playing it even before she was born!
“Of course, I desire him. The demoness who doesn’t desire him is a fool, but unlike those women, I’m not in a hurry.”
“Oh?”
“I have eternity for myself. Why should I rush into his arms? I can do it today or in 200 years; it doesn’t matter.”
“All I want now is to enjoy this new freedom.”
“… Hmm, I really didn’t think you were that foolish.”
“… What?”
“Tell me, Mother.”
Lilith narrowed her eyes a bit; she knew very well that her daughter only called her ‘mother’ when she wanted to make a point.
“The last time you saw Victor, how was he?”
Question marks appeared in her head for a few seconds until Lilith opened her eyes in realization when she understood what she was mentioning.
“He was a Vampire Progenitor.”
“And not long after that, he became a being capable of challenging an entire pantheon alone.”
“…..”
“Do you understand now? Unlike those old gods who are stagnant and can’t raise their strength levels, such a thing doesn’t seem to exist for the Demon King.”
“700 years ago, he invaded HELL ALONE and conquered it.”
Of course, he had the help of the current generals, but… Their involvement was minimal; in the conquest war, Victor did most of the work.
He defeated the four horsem*n of the apocalypse; he destroyed cities ruled by demon pillars; he forced everyone to submit. This war was practically a dominance show that demonstrated how powerful the current Demon King is.
And the strength he showed back then doesn’t even compare to what it is now.
“And today, he did something similar with the Greek pantheon. An entire PAN-THEON of gods.”
“…..”
“Could you do something like that? Could your father?”
“….” Lilith fell silent. Conquering their hell at that time, she probably could have done it with Lucifer’s support, but she couldn’t do the same with the pantheon of gods.
Of course, Lily is being unfair with her words; in both cases, something was happening that divided the strengths of these places.
In the war of hell, the main elites of hell were in the human world.
In the Greek pantheon, the gods were divided into three factions.
This simple fact made this conquest much ‘easier,’ but… It was still a conquest, after all, very few beings could fight and press three primordial gods while being a mortal.
Similarly, very few beings could fight against the four horsem*n of death and subdue them.
“While we speak, he’s already planning his next steps with his most important allies. While we speak, his most qualified wives are turning into dragons.”
“A DAMN DRAGON.”
“And it’s not just any shameful reptile out there. They will be TRUE dragons.”
“…”
“Even after I’ve said all this, do you still want to wait 200 years?”
Lily’s disdainful expression was quite infuriating for Lilith.
What she was pointing out was obvious.
If Victor is this powerful now, how will he be in 200 years? What kind of influence will he have? Who will he be? He’s an extremely hard individual to predict, but one thing is correct.
He will be even stronger.
That’s a fact that Lily will never doubt.
“Fine.” She answered brusquely. “I agree that I was being a bit foolish.”
“A little?” Lily displayed a smile.
“… Very foolish.” Lilith replied as she stomped her foot on the ground in frustration. She was a bit surprised that the floor didn’t break, but she didn’t think much of it and just spoke.
“But what should we do?”
“We?” Lily laughed. “There is no ‘we’ here, my dear mother.”
“I already know what I’m going to do; I’ve been working towards that goal for a while, and I’m already accepted in his inner circle. Do you know what that means?”
“Let me explain to you.”
“To ensure there are no problems in the governance of hell, all positions of power in hell are occupied by the Demon King’s inner circle. In other words, all the women who are his lovers.”
“Which means that I, Helena, Vepar, Vine, and Aline are all his lovers.”
“Depending on how things go from here, even Persephone herself won’t be spared, although I’ve noticed clearly that it’s something she desires a lot.” Lily scoffed.
“….” Lilith just realized that while she was starting the game, her daughter had already conquered and platinumed the whole game. She was way behind!
“You, my dear mother, are far behind; even Persephone is ahead of you.”
“… Huh? How’s that possible?”
“You really don’t understand?” Lily asked incredulously.
“Explain!” Lilith ordered.
“Fine, I’ll explain as if I were explaining to a child.”
Lilith’s eyes lit up at this comment, and for a few seconds, a fluctuation appeared in her hand.
Lily sweat a little internally when she saw that her dear mother was about to summon Genesis, a God-Slayer weapon, just because of this small provocation.
‘She still has a short fuse… Good to know.’ Lily chuckled.
“Do you think Persephone and Aline receive only money and minor benefits to do the Ruler’s job?”
“… They don’t?”
“Of course not, they get something more.”
“Trust and a more active role in his plans. In Aline’s case, who’s been with Victor longer, her privilege is even greater than Persephone’s. Since she wants to, she can spend the government’s savings however she wants, after all, she alone propelled the technology of hell forward by several eras.”
Lilith opened her eyes widely.
Frankly, Aline could be called the fifth phantom general of hell; after all, she did the work of one. Her position is just as a ‘commander’ to hide the fact that she is the Ruler.
Aline had a lot of power in her hands; she was the most capable of it. She was indeed a genius in her field.
And Victor highly valued capable people like her, so he made sure to keep her close.
“Of course, this kind of privilege also applies to the generals.”
As long as it was for the benefit of the government, as long as the Demon King was notified and approved, the generals had complete freedom to do whatever they wanted.
Was Victor concerned about possible betrayal? Of course not. The reason is that he had ‘completely’ conquered his generals, be it through their strength, character, or beauty.
They already belonged to him body and soul, and just like his wives, they would do everything for his benefit and for the benefit of hell.
“Meanwhile, you’ll only receive a salary and extra benefits. Will you take on an important role? Yes, but if you don’t do a good job, you can easily be replaced.”
The main reason Lilith was chosen was that Victor could control her, because it was an emergency, and because she suited the role as the queen of demons. If not for that, he would have chosen someone else.
But it was an obvious fact for all the generals that if someone more suitable and ‘loyal’ to the King appeared, she would be chosen for the role.
As for giving this role to his wives? Victor didn’t want that, for the simple reason that he wanted to keep them away from soul-related work.
Judging souls changes a person, after all, you’ll see the entire life of the soul to make a more accurate judgment, and he knows very well how detrimental it is if they’re not prepared for it. Not to mention, they wouldn’t be able to be impartial about the matter.
Therefore, leaving this work to people like Aline, Persephone, and Lilith is more appropriate; even if they see the memories of a soul, they will remain indifferent and neutral. A requirement for this job.
Lilith gritted her teeth; her wings fluttered in irritation, and her tail swayed. She didn’t like the way her daughter talked at all. It’s as if she were an object that could be discarded. This feeling reminded her a lot of when she was trapped with Diablo.
“Fufufu, this is unexpected from you, Lily. To think you would help your mother.” Hearing the sudden voice, the two women looked in the direction of the voice and widened their eyes in shock.
“Morgana…” She narrowed her eyes when she saw the red eyes of the woman who now looked more like a reptile. This wasn’t the only visible change; the woman’s wings and horns had completely changed and taken on a scale-like dragon hue.
“You’ve transformed completely already?”
“Mm!” Morgana smiled widely, a smile that showed all her teeth.
“Because I didn’t feel anything?”
“Please, do you think Darling wouldn’t prevent the power from leaking? After all, he cares about his wives’ beauty sleep.” Morgana huffed.
“… As expected of him, even in these little details, he cares for them.” Lily’s eyes shone with appreciation, the kind of ‘glow’ that Victor liked the most.
Lilith just rolled her eyes when she saw her daughter’s loving expression. ‘She’s completely crazy about him, isn’t she?’
“Mm!” Morgana nodded.
Lilith controlled the urge to scoff when she saw the similar expression on both women and just asked.
“So, what then? What attribute did you awaken? What kind of dragon are you?”
“My domain is radiation and dreams; it completely fused my old attributes and made them stronger.”
“… A dream dragon…” Lilith blinked several times when she heard those words. She never thought she would hear the words “dragon” and “dream” in the same sentence; after all, this domain was territory for spiritual beings like succubi!
“And radiation, don’t forget that.”
“….”
“I wonder how these attributes are awakened.” Lily spoke.
“I don’t know~. Darling said that the awakening of the dragon attribute depends on the individual’s personality and potential.”
“In Scathach’s case, it’s obvious; despite controlling ice, her personality is like fire.”
“In my case… It’s hard to tell, but I probably just inherited what I had before, or I have another power that I’m not aware of.” Morgana touched her chin while she thought.
“That’s because your personality is as toxic as a succubus, Morgana.”
Morgana growled and looked towards the voice; then she saw a woman with long golden hair, white horns with golden tones, and wings of the same color as the horns.
“My personality isn’t toxic, Jeanne!”
“Uh-huh, and I’m still a saint.” Jeanne scoffed.
‘Another one… This place is the downfall of the pantheons.’ Having so many dragons so close to each other was absolutely maddening for Lilith.
Before the conversation could continue, a distortion appeared, and another dragon appeared.
“Zaladrac, you showed up.” Morgana spoke in surprise.
“Two more…” Zaladrac growled, then she looked towards a spot and disappeared again.
“… Hmm, what was that?” Morgana asked.
“She’s feeling competitive; after all, unlike us, she’s a dragon that grew up as a dragon, her instincts are strong.” Jeanne explained.
“Oh… Looks like she’s going on the offensive, huh.”
“Indeed.” Jeanne nodded.
A moment of silence fell over the area until Lily asked:
“So, what then? What’s your attribute?”
“I am the Holy Light and wind.”
“… Holy Light?” Morgana raised an eyebrow.
“Yes, I was surprised too.” Jeanne made a gesture with her hand, and soon the ‘divine light’ appeared in her hand, and she began to control it.
“It seems I stole the power of the Heavenly Father and added it to my affinity; this light is completely sacred and lethal to demons and creatures of the night.”
The proof of these words was Lilith and Lily themselves, who were far away from Jeanne and looking at her with an almost hostile gaze.
“I’m sorry.” Jeanne gave an apologetic smile as she stopped controlling the light.
“… Just keep it away from us.” Lily said.
“Mm.” Jeanne nodded.
Despite being a dragon now, this was just her physical body; she wasn’t really a dragon soul like the others. After all, her soul is ‘larger’ than that of a dragon.
Although when she changed into this form, she realized that it became much easier to control her primordial energy. She could even see more parts of souls now, something she couldn’t do before.
‘Dragons are more aligned with creation than I thought…’ For a moment, she thought of Victor, who was the Progenitor of this race, and thought that he must really have a unique view of the world now.
‘Hmm, Light, wind, and nature, huh… It seems my guardian abilities are returning to their peak. This is a surprise; I thought I would have to physically ‘die’ to regain my old power.’ Jeanne began to evaluate herself more and realized that slowly, her spirit was merging with the current vessel, something that had never happened before.
‘… Now, this is a surprise…’ She opened her eyes widely. ‘If this continues, this will truly be my true body and not just a shell… Interesting, I wonder if this is the effect of my brother’s blessing or something original from Victor?’
She also noticed something; even though she had the divine light as her attribute, she didn’t have weaknesses in the darkness like beings usually did.
‘Hmm… Why aren’t the primordial beings coming here and shouting that Victor is breaking the balance or something?’ She looked around confused. ‘I am clearly a being on the positive side of the balance, but I don’t have the weakness of someone on the positive side.’
She had many questions, but she didn’t care about them now. She was just happy that even slowly, she was returning to her old self.
‘This way, I can help Darling better.’
Even though she was as strong as she was, she couldn’t exert all her power, or her body would literally explode.
“I’ll find Victor; I need to tell him some things.”
“Hmm? Okay, take care, and try not to destroy anything.”
“I’m not you, Morgana.”
“Bleh.” Morgana just stuck her tongue out at her.
Jeanne rolled her eyes at that childish gesture.
As Jeanne left, Morgana looked at Lilith and said, “Lilith, we need to talk about the contract I made with you.”
“… Okay, bring Elizabeth too.”
“You know about her?” Morgana narrowed her eyes.
A simple gesture that made Lilith go into full guard, the wild pressure of a dragon was truly unnerving.
“I’ve always known, Morgana.”
“… So… Why…”
“Because it was senseless… My reign was ending, and I knew it. I just didn’t want to admit it. Bringing Elizabeth to that place would’ve only killed her or had an even worse fate.”
“… Call her; she needs to know about her origins.” Lilith spoke.
“Yes, I will.”
Chapter 829: Ready to watch a show with an eccentric Witch.
Victor sighed as he leaned against the headboard of the bed, and lying in the bed around him were Zaladrac, Jeanne, Scathach, Morgana, and Aphrodite.
While Scathach, Morgana, and Aphrodite were sprawled across the ridiculously large bed,
Zaladrac and Jeanne, who were calm sleepers and didn’t move much, were glued to Victor as if they wanted to merge with him.
After working non-stop, he finally managed to organize everything he wanted.
Along with Hephaestus and Thanatos, he created a staff capable of controlling an Aspect of Death. In fact, he went beyond the initial plan. Initially, he had only planned to give a small amount of Power, but… He changed his mind.
If he was going to strengthen his allies, he would do it properly, so he went further and used an Aspect of himself.
Using his Flames, along with the Powers of Blood and Soul, he managed to create a Technique that summoned deceased Beings.
You could even call them summonings since the creatures that the staff summoned were the Souls that were inside Victor.
The best thing about this staff was that the creatures it summoned could share their senses with Victor.
In other words… He could always watch whoever used the staff, and not only that, with the connection he had with the staff, he could even influence the user.
Although such an act was not necessary for his Disciple, it was always good to take precautions in case an arrogant God or any other individual tried to steal the staff. Thus, he made sure to put enough security in place for that individual to suffer greatly.
Indeed, it was a Divine Artifact worthy of a God’s gift.
But that was just the beginning of his long, seemingly endless day of work. He needed to organize his army, strengthen his defenses, and, most importantly, create a floating island that would act as a fortress and base for his subordinates.
The place where all his subordinates would gather was a fairly simple pyramid scheme to understand.
First was Victor and his family on his planet; they were the True Leaders of everything.
Next came the flying island that would serve as a base for Victor himself when needed. This place would also be where all the Leaders of their respective groups, such as the Youkais, Vampires, Faeries, Goddesses, etc., would hold meetings. [Most of these Leaders were his Wives.]
And at the bottom of the pyramid was his Blood God Religion, which was controlled by Valeria, his direct Disciple, who would participate in these meetings as the representative of the Religion in the future.
It was a general consensus among his Family that the planet Victor created should be kept private. This place was their own personal ‘Paradise.’ A place where they could let their guard down and relax, a place where they didn’t need to stress about the events of the world.
After organizing everything, he had to give a purpose to the Gods he had captured, and that was what he did.
He used them as slaves, forcing them to do all sorts of manual labor and more complex tasks. All these Gods were under Aphrodite’s direct supervision.
It was worth noting that the Goddess quite liked this arrangement. Though, she had many complaints about these Gods. Thankfully, Persephone volunteered to help her.
Victor never thought he would see Persephone and Aphrodite working together on something, which also surprised his Goddess friends, who came from the original group that Aphrodite rescued.
That wasn’t all. He also had to increase his war potential by transforming the most compatible women in his Family into Dragons… Something that was relatively easy, complex, and enlightening at the same time.
Honestly, this subject gave Victor a bit of a headache; after all, the transformation didn’t follow a specific ‘pattern.’
For example, Scathach turned into a Dragon and acquired a High Affinity with the Fire Element. Victor thought this pattern would continue… But he was completely wrong.
Evidence of this is Morgana herself, who turned into a type of Dream and Radiation Dragon. Instead of acquiring new characteristics like Scathach, she merged with the ones she already had and became even more proficient in them.
Another surprise was Jeanne herself, who turned into something like a Dragon but wasn’t a Dragon in her own right. Why was she not a Dragon in her own right? Well, she didn’t have the Soul of a Dragon, only the body of one.
You could say she was in the same stage that Victor was before evolving into a True Dragon… But that’s where he was mistaken.
As Jeanne’s Spirit was of the highest possible level, unexpected changes occurred. First, all the influences she had on her material body were merged into one, and she acquired the Power of Holy Light and Wind, effectively becoming a Dragon of Light and Wind.
But it didn’t stop there, as due to the influence of her Soul, she acquired an absurd Affinity with Nature.
After Victor, Jeanne was the only one capable of altering Creation as effectively as he could.
Jeanne’s case was a complete surprise to Victor since he never thought that the ‘sister’ of a Primordial Entity would be so special.
He was even more surprised when she said the phrase.
“I feel my old Power returning… Now, I can help you more, Darling.”
She was so lovely when she spoke those words that he had no choice but to pour all his liquids into her.
In summary, it was not that the Dragon Transformation gave her this ability; Jeanne could do it from the beginning. However, she lost those abilities because her material body couldn’t handle that much Power.
Now, with the superior body of a Dragon, this was something completely different.
Victor sighed, “Well… I should have thought of that. After all, she came into existence even before The Universal Tree itself.”
Honestly, if someone asked Jeanne, “Jeanne, how old are you?”
Jeanne would just answer, “Yes.”
If you asked who came first, the egg, the chicken, or Jeanne?
The answer, without a doubt, was Jeanne; she was the oldest woman in existence.
Victor smiled gently as he stroked Jeanne’s head.
“Hmm~.” A smile appeared on Jeanne’s face, and she snuggled even closer to Victor.
Victor just smiled and curiously touched her Dragon Horns.
“Vlad was a fool; he didn’t realize the gem he had in his hands.”
She wasn’t just very kind and extremely loyal, but she was also very strong, and thanks to Victor’s ‘influence,’ she became even more obsessive. She was perfect.
Just like all his Wives.
Victor laughed as he made plans in his head to make the girls even more obsessed and possessive.
While ordinary men ran away from a Yandere, Victor went around making more of them and even perfecting them.
Another surprise was Aphrodite’s transformation.
He thought something like Metis would happen, but again, he was wrong. But this time, he wasn’t shocked since Metis’ case was also very specific.
Anyways, Aphrodite changed when she transformed into a Dragon, and he wasn’t talking about her appearance, which gained new features like Horns and Wings.
He was talking about the very Essence of the woman changing… Or should he say Evolving?
For some reason, which he completely ignored, Aphrodite lost all her Minor Divinities… And a new Divinity was created by combining her Major Divinities.
Precursor of Love and Beauty.
Yes, the Concept she had now was no longer a simple word like ‘Love,’ ‘War,’ or ‘Beauty.’
She had a whole phrase that encompassed the entire Concept of her Divinity.
What was a Precursor of Love and Beauty? Just as the name suggested, she was the one at the top of the pyramid in these two Concepts.
In other words, due to her recent Evolution, she went from being a High-
Level Goddess of Love and Beauty to the woman at the top of this Concept.
It might seem like a useless change, considering that she was already at the top before, but it’s not that simple.
While Aphrodite was at the top before, she was still in that ‘sphere’ of influence where another God or Goddess could gain more Authority than her.
Now, that was no longer possible. She had completely stepped out of that sphere of influence and Evolved into something more.
If she so wished, she could even prevent the Gods of Love and Beauty from other Pantheons from using their own Concept! It was ridiculous.
Victor thought this was the stage Kali was in now, the woman who was one step away from becoming a Primordial Entity of Destruction.
While Kali was nearing the end of her journey, Aphrodite was just starting hers now.
She had reached the pinnacle of her Divinity, and to evolve to the next ‘stage’ to become a Primordial Entity of Love and Beauty, she needed to take the Concept itself into herself and embed it in her Soul.
An achievement that was much easier said than done; even Aphrodite herself had no idea how to do it.
She was also surprised to have lost her Minor Divinities, but she didn’t complain much. After all, her Major Divinities became even stronger.
Victor couldn’t say whether this situation was similar to Kali’s or not, as he hadn’t contacted the woman yet.
Perhaps Aphrodite’s situation was completely different from Kali’s, or maybe it wasn’t; he couldn’t say yet.
Honestly, this Evolution caught him completely off guard. With just these Dragons, his war potential had increased ridiculously.
Currently, he had seven True Dragons, including himself, and these seven Dragons were completely overpowered.
“No wonder the Gods are so afraid of Dragons,” Victor chuckled.
Yes, he was well aware of the ‘gathering’ of Supernatural Beings, all thanks to the Host himself.
The Owner of Limbo contacted him and gave him a heads-up; it seemed he had become his ‘new’ friend.
“Probably, he wants to keep an eye on me,” Victor thought. That was understandable, given that Victor’s Faction was Evolving to compete with the Major Pantheons of the world.
They not only had Vampires, Werewolves, Youkai, Demons, Gods, and various other Races from the Mortal World, but they also had True Dragons, Beings said to be walking natural disasters.
As the man who worked the hardest to maintain The Balance, it was natural that he would keep an eye on them.
“Don’t worry, I know very well how not to disrupt The Balance,” Victor’s eyes gleamed as he looked at The ‘System.’
A truly magnificent work that spanned the cosmos.
“Hmm?” Victor narrowed his eyes, and he saw a small ‘bug’ in The System, so small and insignificant that The System itself would soon correct it, but since this ‘bug’ came from the direction of Earth, Victor was curious.
He directed his gaze to this small ‘thread,’ and soon his vision was in Australia, specifically in Arcane.
“… What is this woman doing?” Victor thought.
Victor’s Dragon Eyes easily pierced the defenses of the Witches and fell upon a room.
In that room, he saw Evie with eight women beside her; even her ‘blood’ daughter was there. And they weren’t the only ones. In the midst of all the girls, he saw a woman with long white hair, a witch’s hat, black sclera eyes with red irises, and sharp teeth like fangs.
Although the woman stood in front of everyone, no one seemed to be paying attention to her.
Suddenly, the face of this woman turned in his direction.
“Ara… Watching without permission is offensive, you know? Progenitor.”
Chapter 830: Ready to watch a show with an eccentric Witch. 2
Although the woman stood in front of everyone, no one seemed to be watching her.
Suddenly, this woman’s face turned in his direction,
“Ara… Watching without permission is offensive, you know? Progenitor.”
A smile appeared on Victor’s face, and in the next moment, an ‘image’ began to form in front of the woman.
Soon, his point of view shifted to the image he had created.
As a Being with total control over the Soul and its Aspects, sending a ‘projection’ of himself was as easy as breathing.
Victor, dressed in an entirely black suit, looked at the ‘portal’ that the women were opening.
His eyes narrowed, and he saw a ‘thread’ of the portal connecting to an entirely different Universe.
“They have no idea what they’re doing, huh.”
“Yes. Unfortunately, they don’t.” The woman sighed as she shook her head, but Victor noticed that this ‘action’ was merely an ‘act’ of feigning emotions.
The woman clearly didn’t care about anything and viewed everything with more ‘curious’ eyes, which could even be called the eyes of a researcher.
She had that hunger for ‘knowledge’ that he saw in women like Aline and Ruby, although hers were more ‘crazy’ and obsessive.
With just one exchange, he deeply understood the woman’s psyche.
“In their quest to acquire a planet of their own, they’ve just done something extremely foolish.”
“I wonder why ‘they’ haven’t interfered yet,” Victor asked this question aloud, even though he already knew the answer.
“It’s because I’m here.” The woman smiled.
“But again, you already knew that, didn’t you?”
Victor smiled faintly, neither confirming nor denying, but his silence and expression were a response that left the woman satisfied.
Victor looked at the portal again and followed the ‘thread’ to where the portal was heading, and even with his current abilities, he couldn’t ‘see’ so far… It was as if something was blocking him.
Victor squinted his eyes.
“Don’t force it.”
“… Oh?”
“There are things that only Beings with a certain level of Authority can see.”
Although that did not explain much, Victor understood. The Authority the woman was talking about was ‘Divinity’. The higher your Divinity, the more ‘small resources’ of The System were available to those who could see and understand it.
… But… That was the rule of the world, and it didn’t mean the rule should be followed.
And breaking the rules was something Victor had been doing from the beginning.
Victor’s projection began to become more erratic, and soon two Dragon Wings appeared behind him, and the next moment, the wings began to glow with Pure Negative Energy.
“Heh…” The woman observed everything with a curious and evaluative look, and an expression of surprise appeared on her face when the natural blockage of The System was lifted, and she could see beyond what was ‘normally’ allowed.
‘Fufufufu, as expected of an Anomaly. I really want to study him~’ She smiled widely as her eyes gleamed.
Victor ignored the ‘charming’ woman beside him and observed the place.
“… This is unexpected.”
“Indeed, it’s unexpected… I didn’t think you could surpass the Authority. As expected of the greatest genius of the millennium.”
Victor shook his head. “I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about this.” He pointed to a location.
And this made the woman’s delusions subside a bit. She then looked to where Victor had pointed; specifically, she looked at The ‘System’ since, just like him, she could also observe and interact with it.
“A World of Magic…” The woman’s eyes widened.
“Not just that. This is the world where the Special Beings known as ‘witches’ originally came from… The place from which the Energy known as ‘Witch’s Magic’ originates.”
The woman was clearly speechless at what she was witnessing.
“Your daughter tried to acquire an unknown planet, but she ended up finding her way back home… A way back to her Origins, The Origin of ‘Magic.’ Do you call it luck or twisted fate, Albedo Moriarty?”
“… Do you know me?” By her shocked expression, it was evident that she didn’t expect him to know her.
“You’re not the only one with access to good information.”
She opened her mouth to speak but fell silent, thinking for a few seconds before speaking again: “… The Predation of The Vampire Progenitor, huh.” As a researcher, she immediately understood where Victor had obtained this information.
She didn’t want to boast, but she was very reclusive, and she could count on one hand how many times she had left her home, and those times she left were simply to obtain something she wanted.
The last time that happened was when she found one of the 72 Pillars of Demons.
And knowing that most of the Original Pillars of Hell had served as Victor’s meal, it would not be a surprise if he knew about her. The woman couldn’t help but wonder how much information about various types of Beings he had.
She breathed a bit heavily, her pale face turning slightly red. ‘I wonder how much Ancient Knowledge I’ve yet to discover he has inside him.’
Memories of millions, or even billions of Beings were in front of her now, knowledge of Beings who had lived since The Beginning of Time…
She wanted it…! That knowledge! Those memories! She wanted to research the greatest ‘genius’ of the Supernatural World, the Being who broke all the rules and Ascended to a level that no one had ever thought of in such a short time!
Of course, the research she spoke of didn’t mean putting Victor on a laboratory table. Although she found the idea appealing, she wasn’t foolish enough to think she had the Power to do that. And even if she had the Power, she wouldn’t have that interest. After all, she valued her peace very much, and kidnapping a man loved by so many dangerous women was asking for a headache for several millennia.
“You’re drooling,” Victor spoke with amusem*nt in his eyes.
“… Ah.” She had the decency to blush a little and turn her head.
‘Control yourself, Albedo! Maintain your graceful attitude… Yes! Graceful attitude.’
“I apologize for that sight.”
“It’s okay, I’m used to it.” Victor shrugged and looked back at the slowly forming portal.
A confused expression appeared on Albedo’s face: ‘Used to it? Used to what?’ Despite her apparent confusion, she didn’t inquire further.
“Haah… What a waste of Energy.” Victor sighed as he looked ahead.
The problem wasn’t with Evie or even her daughter. Both of them had perfect control over Energy, but the same couldn’t be said for the other women.
Their control was good, but not on the level of Evie or her daughter, and that was the problem.
“… I agree. But even with so many flaws in this project, they would have succeeded… Although, I really wonder if letting her open that portal is a good idea.” She spoke thoughtfully.
“It’s not like you care,” Victor said.
“Oh…? That’s a bold statement. Although I haven’t seen them in a long time, they’re my daughter and granddaughter. Of course, I want their well-being.”
“….” Victor just looked at the woman with a look that said: Really? Are you saying this nonsense to me?
Albedo pouted and crossed her arms over her ample bosom.
“I can be sentimental sometimes, okay? Don’t look at me like that.”
“Uhum, and I’m a good person. Look at me. I’m the embodiment of the Purest Angel in the sky.” The sarcasm in his words was so obvious that Albedo felt a little burned.
“Ugh, I hate dealing with people like you.”
“Oh? Are there others like me out there? As far as I know, I’m quite unique.”
Albedo rolled her eyes at his arrogant words, although he wasn’t wrong.
“… I’m talking about Beings who have special eyes or an ability to read someone very easily. I can’t keep up my act as a worried mother with these Beings.”
“Well, you acting like a kind grandmother somehow doesn’t suit you.”
“Oh?” Albedo’s red irises gleamed slightly, and a smile that showed all her sharp teeth appeared.
“For me, you’re better this way. It’s good to be honest with yourself, right? It’s bad not to act in accordance with your own nature.”
“Fufufufu~. Now, I understand a little how a woman feels when courted. It’s quite interesting, worth researching.”
Victor rolled his eyes. “Who’s courting you, woman? Wake up to reality.”
Instead of getting irritated by his comment, she took it as a learning topic. “I see… So, you’re just naturally like this, huh… As expected of a Being made to impregnate women. You know very well how to attract the opposite sex.”
Victor fell silent, feeling a bit… Strange and intrigued at the same time. It was the first time he had interacted with someone so ‘unique’.
She was clearly the cliché of a mad scientist, but he could see that this was not all there was to her.
“Although this is strange, according to my research, Vlad Tepes doesn’t have these womanizing traits, even though he’s a Progenitor… Is he a failure? Well, who cares? He’s uninteresting.”
“Actually, I wonder what the ideal attitude of a Progenitor is? Do they have a role like that of Gods? Hmm, but then again, he broke all the rules… Speaking of which, he also has a business partner like the Progenitor of Demons. I wonder what will come out of the union of two Progenitors of different Species. Will a new Progenitor combining the two species be born? Or will The Balance act again and declare this child an Anomaly?”
Albedo began talking to herself. Clearly, her mouth couldn’t keep up with her thought process, and because of that, her speech became flawed and broken, as if something was missing, a habit that Victor noticed she had acquired from spending too much time researching.
‘She’s completely lost in her own world,’ Victor thought.
“This process is quite interesting. Two Progenitors of different Species having a child… I don’t think something like this has ever happened.”
“I wonder if it’s the same as me raising my own daughter.”
“And then? What are you going to do about this situation?” Victor asked, not failing to file away what she said at the end about herself.
The way she spoke led him to understand that through her own study, she had ‘created’ her current daughter, something that honestly wouldn’t surprise him if it happened, considering the personality he had seen so far.
She seemed like an alien completely disconnected from the world, just doing whatever she wanted.
‘But… I can respect her attitude of being true to herself.’ He thought. Very few were able to remain true to themselves regardless of the situation.
Albedo snapped out of her trance and looked at Victor, then looked at what was happening before she responded.
“I will let it happen; I am interested in their efforts.” Since Victor already knew her personality, she saw no need to lie. She was more interested in what would happen than her own daughter and granddaughter.
‘A world where Magic originated, huh… A fascinating topic indeed. If I research this, I will likely be able to answer some questions I’ve had for a long time,’ she thought.
Victor nodded, having expected these words.
…
Back to his room.
Victor looked at Zaladrac, who was practically trying to merge with his body. Being his first Dragon, he wasted no time and made Zaladrac part of his Family, changing the Dragon’s Lineage to his own. Now, she was truly his ‘daughter’.
This was a similar process to what happened with Violet and the girls when he was just the Progenitor of Vampires.
Victor removed the influence of the Ancient Progenitor and changed Zaladrac’s Race to a Blood Dragon, making her even stronger due to the direct connection she had with him.
He caressed her head, sending a piece of his intent to the Dragon in his arms, and soon he felt her waking up.
Zaladrac opened her eyes lazily. “… I’ll be back soon, likely in a few hours. Take care of everything.”
“Mm.” Zaladrac nodded. When Victor disappeared, she went back to sleep. Clearly, she didn’t want to get out of bed right now as she caressed her belly and smiled slightly when she felt so ‘full’.
As a Dragon, she could easily receive Victor’s ‘milk,’ a fact that made the other girls who were used to his ‘milk’ extremely competitive, leading to a new hype for training.
As they say, with the right motivation, Beings could accomplish great things.
“Hmm…~? Darling, gone…?” Jeanne opened her eyes somewhat sleepily as she looked around.
“He went to take care of something… He’ll be back soon…” Zaladrac said.
“Mmhmmm…” Jeanne nodded and then closed her eyes, covering her naked body with the blanket.
…
Back at Arcane.
Victor’s image became a bit clearer, and soon, he created two chairs and two bags of popcorn.
He clearly came with the intention of watching a movie.
“Popcorn?”
Albedo looked at Victor, realizing that, unlike before, he was really present here. Seeing his relaxed state, she spoke with a smile.
“… I accept.” Albedo realized that she could get along very well with this Progenitor. He didn’t seem as ‘stiff’ as she had thought.
Chapter 831: Ready to watch a show with an eccentric Witch. 3
“… Mother, I still think we shouldn’t do this,” Emilly Moriarthy, Evie’s daughter, said as she focused her magic on the portal.
“It’s too late to talk about it now, Emilly. Focus on your work,” Evie replied.
“We both know that if we want to stop the ritual now, we can. The connection to the other side has not been fully established,” Emilly explained.
“Why are you hesitating now, my daughter? You’ve been ready for the ritual from the beginning, haven’t you?” Instead of treating Emilly like a ‘child,’ Evie respected her daughter’s opinion, after all, in the entire realm, she was the only woman she saw as an ‘equal’ in matters of magic.
After all, just like herself, her daughter was a genius.
“Yes, I have been,” Emilly nodded. “But when the ritual started, I began to have a bad feeling,” she voiced her thoughts.
“Whatever is behind this portal, it’s not our home… At least, that’s what I feel.”
“…” Evie narrowed her eyes as she looked at the portal.
While the Witch Queen continued with her ritual and talked with her daughter, Victor and Albedo sat watching everything while eating popcorn, as if they were at the cinema watching a very interesting drama.
“Hmm, this girl has good instincts,” Victor praised.
“I agree,” Albedo nodded.
A compliment that was not easy to come by was earned by this little girl.
Albedo Moriarthy is the goddess of research and alchemy, not only that, she is an extremely proficient magic user.
And Victor… Well, everyone knows Victor, and everyone knows how demanding he is with ‘talents.’
Receiving praise from these two beings is not something easily achieved.
“So? Do you think she’ll stop now?” Victor asked while munching on popcorn.
‘Hmm~, it’s not as delicious as the blood of my wives, but it’s a different texture… I really missed this.’ Victor thought as he savored the greasy popcorn with sweet sauce.
“Nah, she helped in a war, stole resources from another pantheon, prepared all these girls present here for this feat. After going this far, she won’t stop now,” Albedo said.
Victor nodded, agreeing with Albedo. As he has Diablo’s memories, he knows very well what ‘participation’ the witches had in the war. Well, not the ‘witches,’ but only ‘Evie.’ The woman did everything alone with her daughter; it seemed she couldn’t entrust this matter to her ‘daughters.’
‘As expected, blood always speaks louder, huh,’ Victor chuckled.
No matter if all the women present here were loyal to Evie or not, at the end of the day, Evie would always choose her own blood for the most important matters.
“I’m curious, can you answer a question of mine?” Victor asked.
“Hmm? What is it? If it’s possible to satisfy your curiosity, I will answer.”
“When I ascended to this form, I realized that the ‘magic’ your blessing allowed me to wield is nothing more than a completely different energy with ‘requirements’ to be met.”
“Just as miasma can only be used by demons that came into existence in hell or beings that have some connection to demons. Magic can only be used by women who have the ‘blood’ of an ‘outsider.'”
“But despite this absolute rule, Merlin still used the magic of the witches… Why?”
“Fufufufu, that’s a very easy question to answer,” Albedo smiled. “That’s because I blessed Merlin.”
“… As expected,” Victor nodded. ‘This woman is older than I thought,’ he thought.
“The boy’s theory about ‘energy’ interested me immensely. Therefore, I gave him a ‘boost,’ and as expected, he was a great research material.”
“What he said, that there is no Magic, miasma, divine energy, but only ‘energy,’ was completely correct.”
Albedo pointed her finger upward, and five small magic circles of different colors appeared on her finger, and soon five small spheres of opposing energy appeared.
Demon energy known as [miasma]. Holy energy wielded only by light beings like angels. A green nature energy that Victor knew well. A blue energy called ‘magic,’ and an unknown colorless energy that Victor couldn’t identify… But he was sure he had felt it before.
Victor narrowed his eyes and focused on that energy; he soon ‘saw’ the property of a god, namely the divine energy that only gods use.
Victor opened his eyes a little wider. “Why is this energy colorless? I thought it was golden and had a light attribute.”
“Unlike the other energies, the energy produced by the gods is colorless, attributeless. The user itself gives attribute to that energy.”
“If a god of death uses that energy, it becomes part of the ‘negative’ side of the balance.” The demon energy grew as a sense of negativity took hold of Albedo.
“If a god of life uses that energy, it becomes part of the ‘positive’ side of the balance.” The miasma sphere shrank, and the sacred light sphere grew.
“Energies like nature produced by a world tree and divine energy are neutral energies that change depending on the user.”
“Beings like you who are connected to a world tree of negativity in theory can use neutral energy and negative energy, but you cannot use positive energy because you have no connection to any beings on that side of the balance.”
“In a way, the energy known as ‘magic’ is the same as divine energy and nature energy. Magic is a neutral energy, but much weaker than the other two energies.”
“In terms of the power pyramid ranking, it would go like this: negative and positive energy are at the top as the duality that controls everything, they are the main energies that govern everything in the universe. Then comes the gods’ energy, which is ‘neutral’ and can draw power from these two main energies depending on the individual.”
“After that come ‘mortal’ energies that are flexible like Youki, Magic, etc.”
“… I see… The energy of angels and demons, I assume they are directly connected to positive and negative energy.”
“Correct, after all, demons use the ‘miasma’ of hell produced by the world tree of negativity of the Earth.”
“The same applies to angels, with the only difference being that they draw this power from the divinity of the Heavenly Father, after all, he is the god of creation, and creation is deeply connected to the positive side of the balance.”
Victor fell silent as he thought about what Albedo had said.
Albedo didn’t mind the silence; she just chuckled in satisfaction. “Fufufufu, thanks to that boy, I managed to understand more about how existence works. He was the best investment I ever made; I don’t regret blessing him.”
“He was talented enough that he only needed a push to spread his wings; it’s no wonder that in less than a few years, he no longer needed my blessing, and with his own discernment, he learned to wield magic.” Albedo commented more to herself than to Victor, although she spoke loud enough for him to hear as well.
“… I see…” Victor said. “It’s like a prerequisite, huh… The being will wield the energy depending on their background.” Victor touched his chin and raised his palm, and in the next moment.
“Merlin can’t use magic because he lacks something that connects him to the witches. I presume this connection is more metaphysical, coming from the soul, and not from blood or something like that…”
“Something like that, I guess.”
Five spheres appeared in his hand, similar to what Albedo is using.
Albedo’s smile didn’t leave her face; in fact, it grew even more when she saw this man absorbing the casually spoken knowledge from her.
“I understand more now what it means to ‘control existence’…” Victor spoke with a solemn voice; his expression was neutral, but only he knew how his ‘mind’ opened up with this brief explanation.
‘Enlightenment, huh…’ He came to understand this concept more now; the phenomenon of enlightenment was not just about discovering oneself or having one’s own journey; it was also about understanding one’s world and reality.
Looking at the colorless energy that began to grow at a considerable pace, Victor felt that the ‘wall’ that had been blocking his progress was slowly being torn down.
“Thank you for answering my question, Albedo Moriarthy.”
“Heh~.” Albedo’s smile grew. ‘Even with so much power, even being the progenitor of dragons, a race known for its pride and arrogance, he didn’t let himself be consumed by those feelings.’
Albedo was quite shocked; she expected a completely different behavior from him, but she didn’t expect him to react like this.
‘Although, he has always been like this, huh? Always breaking everyone’s expectations.’
‘I’m really curious about which deity he will awaken… There are so many possibilities that it’s pretty useless to speculate.’ Albedo thought.
“We will continue,” Evie suddenly spoke, grabbing the attention of Victor, Albedo, and Emilly herself.
“I’ve come a long way. Whatever is on the other side, I can handle it.”
“Famous last words of an arrogant adventurer who entered the goblin’s lair,” Victor rolled his eyes.
“… Fearing the unknown is not wrong… What’s wrong is not making enough preparations to deal with the unknown. Even if the preparations fail, it’s better than jumping into the unknown like a fool.”
In summary, Evie Moriarthy should have taken more countermeasures in case of failure or an unforeseeable situation.
God favors the cautious and despises fools. What kind of idiot creates a portal to another dimension/planet/universe without at least 100 countermeasures in case of failure?
They’re asking for a universal terror to invade their own planet.
“It’s at times like these that the Batman mentality is needed,” Victor muttered.
“Indeed.”
“…” Victor looked at Albedo with a slightly surprised face; he didn’t expect her to understand the reference.
“What? Even I have some downtime, okay? I don’t spend 100% of my time doing research.”
“Really?”
“Yes. I only spend 99% of the time, the other 1% I use for leisure and consuming human world content,” she said proudly.
“…” Victor naturally looked at Albedo, then glanced at her voluptuous body.
‘If she weren’t a goddess, a witch who can do magic… Ewwww.’ Victor’s brow twitched a bit.
Even though Ruby is a research and experiment enthusiast like Albedo, she still takes 30 minutes to an hour a day for a good bath.
“… Somehow, I feel like you’re thinking something extremely rude about me,” Albedo narrowed her eyes.
“It’s your imagination.”
“These are the words of someone who was having bad thoughts about someone else.”
“As I said, it’s your imagination; I was just admiring your figure.”
Albedo didn’t buy that nonsense; if it were another man saying that, she might believe it, but this man was the husband of the goddess of beauty.
He wouldn’t be ‘admiring’ her body when he literally has the most beautiful woman by his side!
Suddenly, a massive surge of energy was felt by everyone. This made Albedo put the matter aside and look at the portal.
“… What’s happening? Where is this energy coming from?” Albedo narrowed her eyes while creating several magic circles in front of her.
Chapter 832: A being beyond the cosmos.
“… What’s happening? Where is this energy coming from?” Albedo narrowed her eyes as she created several magical circles in front of her.
She looked curiously at the portal as her magic picked up several alerts.
“It seems that one of the scenarios I envisioned is coming true,” Albedo thought. “Someone on the other side is also powering the portal.”
Just as Albedo sensed this change, Evie wasn’t far behind.
“In formation! Don’t lose track of the energy flow!” Evie quickly ordered.
“Yes!”
“Reduce energy production and prepare to use countermeasures if necessary!” Evie slammed her staff on the ground, and several magical circles began to appear throughout the room.
“Yes!”
“Emilly, you know what to do.”
“Yes, Mother,” the little girl nodded as her eyes took on a pattern of various magical circles, spinning as if coming to life.
“This is the heart of Arcane; no one, not even the gods, can invade here. Whoever it is, they will regret it,” Evie growled.
“…” Victor and Albedo watched. Victor looked at Albedo and pointed at Evie with a look that said, ‘Is this woman serious?’
Albedo simply nodded naturally, agreeing with him.
Victor rolled his eyes. With just a thought, he could count five beings who could invade this place without being detected.
Among them were Agares, Nyx, Albedo, Victor himself, and Erebus.
Not to mention the primordial beings who could go anywhere they pleased.
The portal suddenly stabilized, revealing a green landscape on the other side, but no one had time to contemplate this beauty when a man emerged from the portal.
He had long golden hair that reached his waist, green eyes, a square face, and he was dressed in a complete suit of silver and gold armor. The cape behind him was pure white with a crest in the shape of a circle with an X in the middle and a sword piercing the circle.
The man stood 2 meters tall, carrying a large shield with the same symbol as his cape, and a golden sword that radiated divine light. The man’s expression was clearly hostile.
The moment the man spotted everyone, his reaction was instantaneous.
“!@$%!*” He shouted something completely unknown and raised the hand holding the sword. Suddenly, the sword in his hand began to glow with divine light.
This scenario… these clothes, Victor knew them well.
“Damn, a paladin! This movie is getting interesting!” Victor laughed as he began to eat his popcorn and sip his drink.
“Hey, make drinks for me too!” Albedo grumbled.
Victor simply snapped his fingers, and a 2-liter glass of juice appeared in the woman’s hand.
She soon returned to watching the ‘movie’ in which several witches created magical shields to protect themselves, but the ‘paladin’ cut through them as if they were made of paper.
“That sword is clearly not normal,” Albedo said. “To cut through ‘magic,’ especially such dense magic like that of the witches around, the man’s energy clearly isn’t enough for that, or it has properties for it, so it’s fair to assume it’s the sword’s work.”
“Mm. The sword is of divine origin… The material is quite interesting,” Victor smiled.
Albedo narrowed her eyes and then created other magical circles to examine the sword.
“Unknown material… Properties: absorption.” She opened her eyes wide when she saw a material capable of doing something so ridiculous. This kind of material didn’t exist on Earth or even in the pantheon.
Yes, a god could enchant an item to do something similar, but that’s an enchantment, not an inherent property of the material itself.
The man charged toward the women, clearly intending to kill them all.
“Tempest!” Evie created a magical circle, and a pure storm burst out of it, pushing the man backward…
At least for a few seconds. Soon, a golden shield enveloped the man, and he placed it in front of him.
“!@#$%!*” Speaking something strange, his eyes glowed with pure gold, and the next moment, a burst of golden energy erupted from him, pushing everything around.
“Damn, this guy is loaded with hacks,” Victor adjusted his 3D glasses, which had almost flown off in the gust of wind.
“1… 4… 7… 10… 20… Holy… How many blessings does he have?” Albedo exclaimed.
“Hmm?” Victor looked more closely at the man and saw several thick different strands connected to him.
“Meh, he still has fewer than me,” he snorted.
With his body superior to that of a dragon, he could receive as many blessings as he wanted, and that’s what happened when all the goddesses and gods of the Olympian pantheon gave their blessings to Victor.
The effect of the blessing was so great that Victor felt a bit stupid for thinking of destroying the pantheon. Clearly, subjugation was much better; after all, he could accumulate blessings.
But to be fair, it wasn’t something he knew before; he never thought it was possible.
The best part of this situation was that as a dragon, he was immune to the ‘manipulation’ of the gods, and even if they wanted to, no one would dare try to manipulate Victor because they valued their lives.
“You’re an anomaly. That man is clearly a human… or a race close to a human,” Albedo said.
“Cough…” A pale woman coughed up blood on the floor. “This pure energy is annoying,” she complained viciously, then slammed her hand on the ground.
The next moment, a giant magical circle appeared in the area, and creatures began to emerge from the circle.
“Oh? Necromancy.”
“A disgusting art. But interesting, albeit limited,” Albedo’s opinion on the matter.
“Oh? I thought you didn’t care about the aspects of necromancy, after all, it’s magic too?”
“I don’t. Dealing with corpses is quite unpleasant; they stink, and even with magic, it takes a while to get rid of the smell.”
“I see… So you’re quite clean, huh.”
“Yes, I like to stay clean.”
“…” Albedo narrowed her eyes at Victor; somehow, she felt that he was thinking something bad about her.
When the man saw the corpses, skeletons, and other beings emerging from the magical circle, his expression turned absolutely disgusted.
He pointed his sword at the corpses.
But the girls around didn’t stand still; they started casting magic at him, mainly curses to weaken him, but… All the offensive magic just bounced off the golden shield and ricocheted.
“That armor is clearly another divine artifact…”
“His power is influencing it too; he doesn’t have as much power as the witches, but he has enough ‘quality’ to push them… Oh? The armor’s material is the opposite of the sword,” Victor analyzed.
Albedo analyzed again with her magical spells and saw that the armor had ‘repelling’ properties.
“I understand… The set works in synergy; the sword absorbs, the armor repels, and the man acts as the intermediary.”
“He can control this phenomenon too, with so many blessings, I wouldn’t doubt he has other tricks up his sleeve… Dangerous tricks.”
Hearing what Victor said, Albedo’s head started spinning, and she soon realized. ‘Suicidal tricks… Huh.’
“!##$!!*” He shouted something with the sword pointed at the corpses, and the next moment, a dark red energy burst from his body.
And in the next moment, the corpses stopped moving, and their lifeless eyes glowed with a red light, then they turned to look at the witches.
“… Heh, duality. He has powers of the negative side too,” Victor commented.
“Although unlike you, he can’t use both together; he has to alternate the ‘modes.'”
Proof of Albedo’s words came next when the man’s dark aura changed to the lighter aura.
“This situation… He’s clearly a world champion.”
“World champion?” Albedo raised an eyebrow at this unfamiliar adjective.
“Think about it; the man came through the portal alone, and he has the blessings of various gods, even gods from the dark side,” Victor said and then stopped explaining.
But he didn’t need to explain much; after all, he was dealing with a competent woman, and a few words were enough to make her understand.
“I see… The other side saw the portal suddenly appear as an invasion and took countermeasures,” Albedo said. She ate some popcorn and commented, “It seems like the other side is more united than our side.”
“Or… on the other side, there aren’t as many gods as on our side,” Victor said.
“… Just one pantheon that controls the entire planet, huh.”
“Yes.”
When the corpses started attacking the witches, Evie finally had enough and couldn’t control herself anymore.
“Enough!” Her eyes glowed, and the next moment, several magical circles appeared all over the place.
The corpses summoned by the pale woman disappeared like dust, and various chains appeared in the air and held the man’s body.
“Wow, so many light shows.” Victor laughed.
“She’s gotten stronger,” Albedo commented. “It seems her research has deepened.”
“It looks like she’s going to try to capture him,” Victor commented.
“A foolish move,” Albedo sighed.
“Indeed.” Victor simply nodded. You don’t capture a powerful enemy without means to suppress, restrain, or completely erase their power.
“Speaking of which, Albedo. Did you notice?”
“… Of course…” Albedo rolled her eyes. Did he think she wouldn’t notice that?
“That man is using magic too.”
“Fufufu, isn’t that interesting? A human wielding a divine artifact, using magic, and using powers from the dark and light sides of the scale.”
“As you said before, he may look like a human, but he could be a completely different species from what we have. After all, a human growing up in such an energy-rich environment will clearly have more ‘potential’ than ours,” Victor reminded Albedo.
“That’s true… It’s not good to make assumptions without thorough research,” Albedo agreed.
The man gritted his teeth and let out a horrible scream that once again filled the area with golden energy.
“Tsk.” Evie began to control the environment around her; several magical circles were created.
Curses, environmental control, individual control, suggestions.
She was using all the magic in her arsenal except for strategic-class, and it wasn’t affecting the man… It was as if he was made to fight beings like her.
“Mother, you can’t capture him! Expel him!” Emilly spoke after recovering from the previous explosion.
“10 points to Ravenclaw for the correct analysis, the helpful hint,” Victor laughed.
Albedo rolled her eyes but also chuckled at Victor’s comment; she clearly understood the reference.
Evie heard her daughter’s advice, and the next moment, she stopped casting other spells and created a magical circle in front of her.
“Tempest multiplox!” A gust of wind blew out of the circle, and although it didn’t damage the man, it was strong enough to push him back toward the portal.
“@$#!!!*” The man said something, but no one understood what he said.
Seeing that he passed through the portal, Evie, not wanting to take any more risks, ordered, “Close the portal now!”
“No, you can’t close the portal.” Suddenly, two voices echoed around.
Surprised by the sudden voice, everyone looked toward the source and saw a man and a woman whom Evie knew very well, sitting and eating popcorn.
“What the-…” Evie was left speechless, but she couldn’t even finish speaking when she heard Victor say, “Yo, ‘Master.’ That was a great movie; I really enjoyed it.”
“Me too, it was quite fun,” the woman smiled satisfactorily.
For some reason, Evie felt like she wanted to cough up blood, just like those young masters she had encountered in the past. Instead, her face twitched and turned red, and for a moment, she saw stars.
“M-Mother!”
“Aya… She fainted; it seems the shock of seeing us here completely caught her off guard, huh,” Victor laughed.
“Fufufufu, I’ll try to do more things like this in the future; it’s quite interesting,” Albedo laughed too. Then she commented, “But, ‘Master,’ huh? Why did you call her that?”
“Well, she promised [was threatened] to teach me magic, so she’s my magic master, even though I never had time to study with her.”
“Hmm… As a dragon, isn’t it useless to study magic? After all, you control existence.”
“It’s never bad to have extra knowledge,” Victor said.
And Albedo liked these thoughts very much; she agreed completely with Victor. Despite being a goddess, she never stopped seeking knowledge; after all, that was her obsession and also the way she thought.
Knowledge is power.
On this, the two could agree.
“Please stop talking and help my mother!” Evie exclaimed.
“Hmm?” Albedo and Victor looked at Evie and Emilly. Then they both sighed at the same time and said, “No.”
Emilly was speechless at their attitude.
“She’s so weak just for fainting due to an unexpected situation; she clearly isn’t my daughter. She should know that there are beings out there who are capable of ignoring all defenses, no matter how good those defenses are. I am proof of that fact.”
When Albedo said this, a strange silence fell around Evie’s ‘daughters,’ who were tense because of the sudden intruders.
The man, they could easily recognize, after all, despite a few changes and new features on his face, he was quite familiar. And precisely because they knew them, they didn’t dare to do anything; they still valued their lives.
But the strange woman who was clearly a witch? They had no idea who she was, but hearing what she just said, they all thought, ‘It can’t be… Albedo Moriarty!? The creator of Arcane!?’ The witch’s eyes shone with enthusiasm.
“Oh… You’re quite famous here, huh.”
“Of course, I created this country after all,” Albedo boasted with pride.
“Hmm, it makes sense.” Victor nodded as he got up from where he was sitting and floated toward the portal; halfway there, his two dragon wings appeared, shocking all the women around who didn’t know about his evolution.
He floated in front of the portal, and the next moment, the man was back again.
He came with determination on his face, but that determination wavered when he saw an unknown man floating in front of him.
Looking at the man’s wings, horns, and his dragon-like eyes that looked like violet flames with shades of crimson.
The man’s determined face was replaced by horror.
Victor didn’t even have the opportunity to say anything. The reason for that?
The man in front of him simply turned around and ran back to the portal.
“… Uh… I must commend him for making a quick and correct decision.”
“He clearly has sharp senses; he easily perceived the threat, even though you didn’t release any energy.”
“Hah, he was quite amazed by my elegance.”
“I don’t know. He seemed pretty horrified to me,” Albedo laughed, and then she floated toward her daughter and gave her two slaps, one on her right cheek and one on her left cheek.
“Wake up, it’s not time to act like a Disney princess.”
Evie suddenly wakes up while holding her face and points to Evie and Victor.
“H-How long have you guys been here!?”
“Since the beginning,” Albedo replied indifferently, her eyes gleaming with amusem*nt.
Evie had the decency to blush a little when she remembered her arrogant words declaring that no one could come here. She had completely forgotten about her mother’s existence.
Threads of energy began to emanate from Victor’s ten fingers and moved towards the portal.
Seeing this change, Albedo focused on the dragon in front of her with obvious interest in her eyes.
“W-Wait, Demon King! What are you doing!?”
“Changing the portal’s position,” Victor spoke neutrally, as if it were very easy to do.
“Huh…?” Albedo didn’t know how to react to these words.
“You really have the devil’s luck. The first ritual you perform to search on a planet, you discover your species’ homeworld and also open a portal in the middle of their civilization.”
“Heh, can you sense where the portal was opened?” Albedo asked curiously.
“I can see, not just sense. Now that the connection is established, the image is much clearer to me.”
“Don’t be fooled by the landscape in front of you; it’s just an illusion created by the beings on the other side. They were clearly expecting invaders.”
“… That’s interesting.” Victor’s words might seem meaningless, but to someone like Albedo, she could easily understand what he meant.
‘If they were expecting invaders, it means that somehow the other side is accustomed to invasions or received some kind of warning.’ For a moment, her thoughts turned to the primordial beings.
She could see them doing this, after all, clearly, the other side was a ‘weaker’ planet than ours, with few supernatural beings.
To give an advantage to the weaker side and ‘balance’ this unexpected situation, they gave a warning to the ‘administrators’ of that planet, namely the gods.
Although she thought this, she knew it was just an assumption and shouldn’t rush to judgment.
“Hmm, I can’t remove the portal… Someone is interfering. Wait here.” Victor steps through the portal.
…
In a medieval city, the citizens looked up at the sky and saw a blue portal emanating overwhelming energy.
Near the portal, a group of individuals covered in golden armor floated in a battle-ready position.
“Alfey, what’s wrong!? Why did you flee from the battle!?” A woman wearing armor similar to the man’s, of the same height, with golden hair and green eyes, asked.
“On the other side…” The golden-haired man swallowed hard, took a deep breath, and calmed his breathing.
“There is a-” He didn’t have time to report because the portal vibrated, and a man emerged from it.
The man’s wings spread out, casting a giant shadow over the city. Pure red energy silently overflowed from his body, sending chills down everyone’s spine.
“Oh? Interesting, so there’s a battalion of beings like you?” Although the man was saying something, no one understood his words.
The woman who had asked what happened to the man opened her eyes in shock when she saw this being. She clearly understood the state her companion was in now. She never thought that such beings existed on the other side.
Beings they thought were extinct, a Drakyo.
But it wasn’t just the existence of this being that stunned her, it was… how incredibly beautiful he was. Even though she had encountered the Gods in the past, she had never seen anyone as beautiful as this man.
The man looked around, checking each individual, and then his gaze went to another place, specifically to the sky.
The man’s eyes narrowed with power, and the next moment, he opened his mouth to say something unknown to them.
“Break. Contain. Disable.”
The words spoken by the man seemed to carry a power capable of shaping creation because the next moment, he said this:
The portal became much more stable and appeared to be under the man’s complete control.
Ripples began to appear in front of the group, and several beings started to materialize.
The ‘Gods’ were here, and they clearly didn’t look happy.
But this appearance only made the man’s smile grow, and the next moment… an explosion of pure red energy burst from the man’s body.
It was as if the world was crashing down on everyone.
“S-So much power.”
She didn’t know who said that, and she didn’t care because she was feeling the same way as them.
Even though they were all in the sky, it was extremely difficult to stay afloat. Some even fell to the ground as if gravity had increased hundreds of times.
And to think all of this happened just because of the power emanating from the creature’s body.
If there were any doubts that he was a Drakyo, those doubts were completely evaporated now. Only these beings had such power. Who were these invaders!? And what did they want on these lands?!
The man’s mocking smile grew, and he said something as if he were disappointed about something.
“Weak.”
Although no one understood his words, everyone understood their meaning, and it infuriated all the beings present. But what could they do?
The next moment, as if he had finished something, he pointed to the black- haired man.
“Get stronger; I will return.”
Again, they didn’t understand what he said, but the meaning of his actions was worth more than a thousand words.
That arrogant smile, that disdain in his eyes, that pointing gesture, his words
—everything clearly was a challenge! They didn’t understand each other, but as warriors, they could tell what he wanted.
The man turned and entered the portal. Not even seconds later, the portal disappeared, allowing everyone present to breathe again.
The man left behind a group of stunned gods and mortals, an experience that impacted many powerful beings who thought they were invincible.
Chapter 833: The Singularity.
“So? How was the other side?”
“Weak, but strong enough to easily kill them all.” Victor declared.
“Heh… You sure are a monster, Progenitor.”
He went alone against an entire planet and came back. If that isn’t called being a monster, what else should she call it?
Victor didn’t care about Albedo as he looked at Evie with a serious gaze. “You’re lucky I’m here, Evie.”
“If I weren’t here, this place would probably have been conquered, and you would have been killed.”
“… Is the other side really that strong?” After a moment of hesitation, she asked.
“Yes, but their strength isn’t individual. It’s in their unity.”
“Unity?”
“Yes. The whole planet is united under a pantheon. I looked at each of those gods, and although they aren’t great individually, they’re just below Zeus in terms of individual strength.”
“They are united, they act together, and clearly, unlike our lazy gods, they’ve trained in the art of war.”
“Even though the mortal world is backward, their gods are more competent than the ones I know.” With just a glance at the world, Victor could see many things.
Mainly, that world seemed to be a fantasy world.
“That’s interesting. The entire planet has only one flag, huh.” Albedo spoke. “The planet must be quite young.”
Victor simply nodded at Albedo’s words, but he didn’t stop looking at Evie, and then he continued his words:
“What’s more dangerous, a spoiled Zeus with strong but uncontrollable power, or a group of nerfed versions of Zeus with trained power, and acting together like an army?”
Evie, and no one else, answered him because the answer was obvious.
The army was stronger. Although quality was an important factor, the power of numbers couldn’t be ignored.
Look at the demons; they are a perfect example. Despite there being few really strong beings, demons are a threat to everyone because of their high number of individuals.
And that’s what makes Victor dangerous. After all, as Demon King, all those demons need only a few words to go to war.
“… Regardless of what happened, we could have handled our problem on our own. We don’t need your help, Demon King.”
“The reason I said you would have been conquered or killed is because there was an annoying being on the other side.” Victor floated back to his chair and sat down, crossing his legs, resting his body against the chair, and resting his face on his hand.
“An annoying being?” Albedo asked.
“The leader of the other gods, the God King of that planet, is a god who controls space,” Victor replied.
Evie shuddered slightly when she understood the implications of Victor’s words.
“Well, damn, that explains a lot.” Albedo sighed and looked at her daughter. “This time, you were very careless.”
Evie bit her lip and looked at her daughter, who had warned her about her ‘bad feeling.’
For a moment, the thought that she should have listened to her daughter crossed her mind, but she shook her head. How could she stop years of effort just because of a ‘feeling’? It was simply ridiculous.
In other words, she almost killed her entire species due to her haste.
A strange atmosphere fell around them as Evie’s daughters just looked at their mother, who seemed like a child who had just been scolded by her parents.
A sight they had never seen before from their queen.
Victor observed this situation with neutral eyes while conversing with Roxanne inside.
[Darling, why didn’t you absorb some individuals from the other side? That way, we could have a better understanding of these beings.]
[That’s not necessary… not yet, at least.]
[Why not?]
[Because this is not my problem. It’s the witches’ problem.]
[… Still, I think you should have observed some individuals.] Roxanne felt that Victor was being naive but didn’t comment on it. After all, she knew her husband well, and he was anything but naive.
[No problem; we can do that whenever we want. For now, I’ll let the witches handle their own problem, and in case of a dangerous situation… I’ll offer them a deal.] Victor smiled.
[A deal with the devil… Fufufufu, I understand what you want to do now.] Roxanne laughed when she heard Victor’s thoughts on the matter.
“Hmm?” Victor suddenly narrowed his eyes when he felt a change in the portal. He abruptly stood up from where he was sitting and floated toward the portal.
“This…” He opened his eyes wide in shock.
Albedo looked curiously at the portal with her senses, and just like Victor, she also opened her eyes wide in shock.
“Impossible!” They both exclaimed at the same time.
[Natalia, come to my location now and bring Zaladrac and Jeanne.]
[Y-Yes! I’ll do that now!] Natalia was startled by the sudden voice in her head, but when she recognized the voice, she wasted no time and went to do as ordered.
Victor looked up, specifically at the shield surrounding Arcane, as his eyes glowed faintly.
And then he spoke in the draconic language.
“Open.”
Evie opened her eyes wide when she felt a breach in her defenses.
“Demon King, what are you—”
“I opened a path for my group to enter this place.”
Did Victor need to do this? No, he didn’t need to. After all, his wives were inside a dimension in his soul, and he could simply create a portal here. But by doing so, they would know that Victor could bypass the defenses of this place.
Normally, this wouldn’t be a problem since they were just witches, a ‘weak’ faction from his perspective.
But… the situation changes when there are powerful gods watching this place.
Victor frowned for a few seconds when he felt two ravens several kilometers away, observing this location.
Because of these beings, Victor had to keep his trump card hidden. The trump card that allowed him to invade a pantheon alone and open a portal in the middle of the pantheon, summoning all the forces of hell and his own world.
“You can’t do this!”
“This is my territory! I—.” When Evie was about to say more, she was suddenly silenced forcibly.
“Silence,” Victor spoke in the draconic language.
“Mmmmmhmmm!?”
“You have no idea what kind of mess you’ve just opened, do you?” An overwhelming pressure emanated from Victor’s body.
Evie shuddered when she felt the gaze and pressure from that man.
When she tried to say something again, she saw her mother floating in the air as hundreds of magic circles began to appear around her. The woman’s face was completely serious, very different from her usual self.
Emilly, Selena, and Evie’s daughters opened their eyes wide when they saw how many magic circles the woman was creating.
It was all so complex, so well-structured, and each magic circle was perfectly connected to the others. Instead of magic, it was more like a work of art.
“Beautiful…” Emilly murmured as she followed her eyes in this spectacle.
Albedo’s magic circle surrounded the entire castle and increased the defense several times.
“She took my territory by force…” Evie was speechless; she never thought the difference between her and her mother was so great.
“Progenitor.”
“Yes, leave it to me.” Victor spread his wings, and soon, a red power with hints of black began to emanate from his body.
They didn’t need to talk much since they had the same idea.
They needed to reduce the influence of the portal in this place.
In the next moment-
The world was painted red.
“This… This… This is ridiculous!” Evie exclaimed as she fell to her knees on the ground, not even realizing she could speak again.
“Just how much energy does he have!?” Emilly asked incredulously.
This oppressive sensation lasted only a few seconds because Victor soon spoke in the draconic language.
“Block. Control.”
Soon, all that red energy focused on the portal, creating a dome around it.
Using Victor’s energy as the central piece, Albedo began to move her hands, and like a conductor, she started creating various magic circles of different sizes.
10… 100… 1000… 10,000… 1,000,000!
One million magic circles were created in just a few seconds!
The witches could only watch this phenomenon in disbelief, with a sense of admiration and a bit of inferiority.
“My grandmother… She’s on a completely different level,” Emilly couldn’t help but think.
Creating so many magic circles that intricately connect to each other was simply a divine feat.
When all the magic circles merged with the red energy like a puzzle fitting together, the woman spoke:
“Here I proclaim. You Must Protect Me, Because You Are My Knight. Heroic Class Magic: Rho Aias.”
The spirit of a muscular man wearing only a helmet, shield, and spear emerged from Albedo’s body. He roared around with a war cry, and in the next moment, he flew toward the front of the portal and took a defensive position. Soon after, the spirit began to petrify.
This phenomenon wasn’t isolated as several other spirits, whether men or women, emerged from Albedo’s body and circled the portal in a defensive line, and just like the first one, they turned into stone.
In the next moment, the red energy and the magic circle began to merge with the statues, and the entire area was isolated.
Not just isolated, the entire place was enclosed in its own dimension. What Victor and Albedo had just created was a separate, isolated dimension.
Evie, Selena, and Emilly had many questions in their minds, especially about the magic Albedo had used, but they couldn’t say anything because Victor spoke.
“It’s starting.”
Soon, the witches watched in horror as the ‘time’ in that isolated space began to pass extremely quickly.
The ground visibly started to age and decay; it was as if time had passed hundreds of times faster.
“What on earth is happening!?” Evie couldn’t take it anymore and asked. As someone who liked to be in control, this entire situation was incredibly stressful for her.
But… unfortunately, no one answered her question. Albedo and Victor just looked seriously at the portal.
“Will the Golems hold?” Victor asked. With his gaze, he could clearly tell that those beings weren’t souls or spirits but simply golems.
As a Soul Master, he clearly understood that the woman wasn’t summoning spirits; she projected a past image through magic and used it as golems. She used the ‘myth’ recorded in the Akashic Records to create the magic that everyone had just witnessed.
“I don’t know. This is the first time I’ve dealt with this.”
“Hmm…” Victor pointed his palm towards the golems, and in the next moment, the stone golems began to change. Starting slowly from their feet, their stone bodies began to be covered by something.
“Divine Iron…” Albedo pursed her lips; this man had just created a massive pile of wealth with a wave of his hand!
Albedo just shook her head, sighing; she clearly underestimated Victor’s abilities. Yes, she thought he could do many things, but not even in her wildest dreams did she think he could create materials that only existed in the pantheons!
‘Control over creation, huh…’ She truly came to understand the implications of those words now.
[Victor, what’s the matter? Why did you suddenly summon everyone?] Zaladrac asked.
[There’s a situation here. You’ll understand when you get here…]
[Mm.] Zaladrac just made a confirming sound.
[Don’t forget what we discussed; protect Jeanne’s evolution with your powers.]
[I know.] Zaladrac wouldn’t forget that. After all, it was necessary for Victor’s plans to hide his current war potential.
Suddenly, a portal appeared around the group, and in the next moment, Zaladrac, Jeanne, and Natalia emerged.
Jeanne was fully armed from head to toe, and only Zaladrac was in her dress, but compared to Jeanne, she had all her dragon ‘features’ on display.
She was clearly showcasing her power as a dragon, a power that had grown even stronger when Victor adopted her into his lineage.
Jeanne looked around, and when she saw the witches, her face twitched for a few seconds, but she soon returned to normal. She didn’t have a good impression of witches, but she wouldn’t let her biases cloud her judgment.
“I brought them, Master!”
“Mm, thank you very much, Natalia. You can go back and rest now.”
Natalia smiled kindly when she heard Victor’s words. Even after becoming one of the most arrogant races out there, she was still humble.
“Yes.” Natalia nodded, looking around only to store the information in her head, and in the next moment, she left through the portal.
Zaladrac spread her wings and flew toward Victor. “Victor, what’s the matter?”
“This is the problem.” Victor pointed to the portal.
“The flow of time is completely messed up. What’s happening here?”
“I don’t know… not yet… Can you identify anything?”
“I have a feeling I’ve seen something similar in the past, but I can’t remember.” Despite having awakened most of her memories with her recent evolution…
She was still trying to adjust because it wasn’t just one dragon’s memory but all her ancestors’ memories.
“I see…” Victor nodded.
If Zaladrac, with all the memories of her dragon lineage, couldn’t identify the problem, Jeanne, as the oldest woman in the universe, might know something.
“This energy…” Jeanne narrowed her eyes.
Just with her body language, Victor understood that she knew something.
Without wasting time, Victor probed Jeanne’s mind and connected her mind to his.
[What do you know?]
[Victor…?]
[Yes, I’m developing this to communicate from a distance.] Victor could easily communicate with those who had a deep connection with him, like Zaladrac and Roxanne. Since evolving as a dragon, he had been trying to do something similar to use with any being he wanted, regardless of distance. As long as they were on the same plane, he could reach that person’s mind.
It wasn’t as deep a connection as with Roxanne or Zaladrac, who could talk even across dimensions, but it was good enough for giving orders and managing his people without relying on equipment.
Jeanne nodded internally. [This energy, I felt it in the past when my brother was creating the planets.]
[This strange change must have been caused by him or the Abyss Judges, maybe both. After all, as the one who manages life and the continuation of life and the one who manages souls, they work together.] Jeanne explained.
[So it’s the Primordials, huh…]
[Yes.]
Victor thought for a moment and then looked at Albedo, who was still staring at the portal. She didn’t even care about the arrival of new faces; her gaze was like that of a scientist seeing a new test subject.
“Albedo, let’s isolate this place.”
Albedo blinked and shifted her attention to Victor while her brain registered his words, and a few seconds later, she spoke.
“Okay… Yes… Let’s isolate everything.” Just a few seconds after she understood Victor’s hidden words.
“Zaladrac, cover the areas I’m not paying attention to… And.” Victor suddenly turned, his eyes shining in deep violet, while his chest started glowing violet as the atmosphere became oppressive, and no one could breathe properly.
In the next moment, an overwhelming roar echoed throughout Arcane, followed by a beam of red flames that shot into the sky.
ROOOOOOOOOAR!
The two ravens didn’t even have time to react before they were engulfed by the flames.
And they weren’t the only ones hit as Victor suddenly turned his gaze toward two gods who were observing from a distance.
“What-”
“Gaaahhhh!”
…
Nordic Pantheon.
The Allfather opened his eyes, with killing intent and pure anger evident in them. He didn’t like that his family members had been eliminated.
“All Father! Your face!” One of the guarding Valkyries suddenly spoke.
“….” Odin touched his eyes and saw golden blood.
Seeing this blood, the gods’ eyes shone even more with murderous intent.
“Valkyrie, call Thor and Freya.”
“Yes, A-All-Father”
“Frigga, tell me about the meeting of supernatural beings.”
“You’re finally showing interest?” Frigga, a woman with long brown hair and vibrant green eyes, commented.
“Yes. I will go in person.”
“Mm… Just don’t start a war, Odin. We need to assess this individual first.”
“I don’t start wars, Frigga. I finish them.”
An energy rippled in front of the man, and soon, a towering woman of five meters in height appeared.
She had long light blue hair and blue eyes and was wearing a tight-fitting suit that seemed to come from a Sci-fi robot pilot’s outfit.
“God-King.”
“What do you want, Outsider?”
“So much time has passed. Have you considered my proposal?”
“…..” Odin fell silent.
And that silence was the answer the woman needed to her question.
“I see… It seems I judged you wrongly.”
“… What do you mean, Outsider?”
“Initially, I thought that a wise and powerful god like you could help me.”
“But I forgot that despite being a wise god, you are a coward.”
An explosion of power emanated from Odin’s body.
“Did you dare to call me a coward!? I, Odin!?”
But the tall woman remained indifferent as a barrier formed in front of her.
“Then help me.” The woman spoke indifferently.
“…..”
Odin’s power drained, and he looked at the woman with complicated eyes. The proposal she made was very tempting; she would give him anything he wanted, but in return, he had to help her.
Despite the proposal being very enticing, he couldn’t accept it… After all, it was too risky.
To make matters worse, in this specific agreement, he couldn’t be ‘dishonest’ because they would be making a promise with an artifact that could erase the soul of a being, whether a god or not.
It was an artifact with the same effect as the witches’ contracts but much more lethal.
He couldn’t accept the agreement, but he also couldn’t let the woman go and offer this agreement to another group, which was why he was ‘delaying’ this meeting.
“… As expected, a coward,” she commented neutrally, and in the next moment, she turned away.
“Where are you going?”
“To find another suitor, I’ve wasted too much time in this place, and your attempts to make me ‘attached’ to this place are laughable.”
“You don’t-” Odin was about to say something, but Frigga just held him back while shaking her head.
Odin bit his lip and just sighed.
In the next moment, the woman simply disappeared with the same blue energy she came with.
“Haah…” Odin let out a long sigh.
“… Who do you think she will seek help from?” Frigga asked after a moment of silence.
“The Hindu pantheon. After all, there are many powerful beings there.”
“But they are not as united as we are, and the truly powerful beings of that pantheon won’t move unless their land is in danger.”
“A group as united as ours can’t help her.”
“The Celts?”
“Too weak.”
“Shinto?”
“Weak.”
“Greek?”
“No longer exist.”
“……”
“So, there’s only…” Odin’s face twisted a bit, “That boy again… Haah.”
“He really has the luck of the devil,” Odin grumbled.
“Well, he is the Devil himself,” Frigga said naturally, a slight blush appearing on her face.
Odin narrowed his eyes when he saw his wife’s reaction, and he became even more irritated.
“You have more pictures of him, don’t you?”
“Of course not. You took the liberty of erasing everything.”
“Frigga!”
“Stop being paranoid; it’s just a picture.”
“It doesn’t matter if it’s one picture or three! I won’t allow it!”
“Odin, you’re overreacting again. We’ve already discussed this.” Frigga narrowed her eyes.
Due to the recent rise of the Blood God’s religion, updated photos of the ‘Blood God’ with his new dragon form began circulating in the Nordic territory, and it turned out that these photos fell into the hands of the queen and many goddesses of the Nordic pantheon.
This situation left many male gods with a strong dislike for Victor.
Chapter 834: The Singularity. 2
“f*cking Gods.” Victor grunted in annoyance when he felt that they hadn’t all left.
His eyes gleamed, and he stared directly into the faces of these Gods.
“Leave.”
“Victor Alucard, you can’t-”
“I can’t what? I can’t do this? I can’t kill the Gods?”
Victor’s suit tie began to change, and in the next moment, an odachi appeared in his hand.
The Gods watching broke into a cold sweat when they felt the aura of that sword.
This creature was dangerous! It couldn’t be reasoned with!
Albedo looked in the direction where Victor was speaking and saw the appearance of the Gods.
‘Thoth and Khons, huh.’ She knew the duo from the Egyptian Pantheon, especially Thoth, who represented an area similar to hers. Unlike her, who was the Goddess of Research and Alchemy,
He was The God of Knowledge.
“This won’t end here, Progenitor. You can’t be an enemy of the Gods and continue to live,” Khons spoke.
“Tell that to the entire Greek Pantheon, you vermin.”
Despite being so far away, they seemed to be conversing as if they were face to face.
The faces of the two Gods darkened when they heard what he said.
“Now, Leave. Or I will send you back to your King… Piece by piece.”
They both swallowed hard and quickly disappeared. They didn’t want to test his patience!
When he felt that all the Gods had left, Victor’s expression relaxed.
“[… You couldn’t act as if you didn’t sense their presence, could you?]” Roxanne asked.
“Screw that, their looks were irritating, especially Odin’s; I could feel his sense of superiority and arrogance from here, disgusting bastard,” Victor grumbled.
“[Victor… Control your temper,]” Roxanne spoke seriously.
“[I know, Roxanne. I know.]” Victor was not foolish; he knew he shouldn’t act like an irrational beast.
He had been trained by Scathach; ‘control’ had been etched into his Soul from the beginning. After all, he always needed control with so much Power in his hands.
But… But… It was just annoying that these Gods were invading his ‘territory’ and looking at a ‘treasure’ he coveted so greedily. It was irritating and disgusting.
He felt like flaying them alive and tossing their pieces into a shredder.
Victor had been possessive even before Evolving. Now? That possessiveness had exceeded numerically possible limits and had become unknown.
To him, it was absurdly annoying to have someone invading his ‘territory’ and looking at his ‘treasures and lovers’ with greed.
To be honest, Victor was quite rational; after all, Gods killed for less, just look at Mythology.
They were all irrational creatures.
So, for him, being above the Gods was normal for him to act like this, right?
“[Victor, control your temper,]” Roxanne warned him again.
Victor sighed deeply and looked at the girls who were silently staring at him with incredulous eyes.
“What?” He asked the Witches.
“N-Nothing.” Evie quickly spoke, stuttering. She seemed quite meek; she had many things she wanted to say, but she didn’t have the courage now.
Seeing the Dragon’s Roar that casually killed two Gods up close had a significant effect on her.
Not just on her, but on all the Witches present.
“Evie, control your Witches,” Albedo reminded.
“… Oh!” Evie opened her eyes and looked at her daughters.
“Tell them not to panic, say it was a test of some weapon or something.”
“Uh… Mother, no one will believe that.”
“… It doesn’t matter, just make something up and keep them calm!” Evie snapped.
“Y-Yes!”
Meanwhile, Albedo spoke.
“Is everything okay? You just rudely expelled two Egyptian Gods, and knowing them, they won’t let it slide.”
“Hah, it wasn’t just those two idiots; Odin’s ravens and two other unknown Gods were here too.”
“… So that Breath.” Albedo opened her eyes wide when she understood what happened.
“Yes.” Victor’s odachi changed back into a tie.
“You’re crazy. Killing the All Father’s family members, such an act is equivalent to asking for war.”
“If Odin wants war, he’ll get war,” Victor said disdainfully.
“I’m looking forward to unleashing my cute Wolf on him.”
Victor didn’t fear war or conflict; in fact, he even liked it. But he was trying his best not to provoke unnecessary conflicts, but it was just too difficult considering how the Gods acted.
Therefore, the best way to achieve ‘peace’ was through conquest or diplomacy, the latter being possible only when Victor was ‘worthy’ enough to be on the same level as them.
Something he had achieved after evolving into a Progenitor of The Dragons.
Before Victor’s existence, he didn’t matter much to the Pantheons. But now that he was a Progenitor of an entirely new Race of Dragons, they became eager. After all, they were witnessing a new Faction composed entirely of Dragons growing.
How could they not be excited?
Taking advantage of this fact, Victor would try diplomacy.
Yes… He would try, but Victor knew the Gods well; he knew how troublesome they could be, and he wouldn’t bow down to them either.
‘Well, due to my actions, I highly doubt I can form an alliance with the Egyptian and Norse Pantheons… But maybe the Celtic and Shinto Pantheons are possible,’ Victor thought.
“…” Albedo blinked her eyes twice, then she smiled with amusem*nt. She clearly understood what the ‘cute Wolf’ he was talking about meant.
“It seems that… It’s not you who should fear Odin, but Odin who should fear you, huh,” Albedo reflected, and then she spoke.
“The roles have completely reversed.”
She felt a sense of amusem*nt, and she couldn’t help herself: “Hahahahaha, this is interesting, very interesting indeed. I really want to see their faces when you unleash your ‘cute Wolf’ on him.”
“I not only have a cute Wolf, but I also have a monster… And soon, I will have a Dragon,” he smiled internally, wondering how long he needed to wait for his plan to succeed.
‘I never thought I’d come up with a plan that involves using my beauty… Sigh, sometimes I hate Adonis’s memories,’ Victor thought.
This ‘beauty’ strategy was clearly something Adonis and Aphrodite would think of.
Unlike the two of them, Victor preferred to do things more ‘militantly’ rather than ‘subtly’.
Even though he thought about it, Victor clearly understood the effects of this strategy, and he wouldn’t give it up just because he wasn’t comfortable with it. After all, a similar strategy had been used by his Wives to make their Religion grow so much.
Whether they were men or women, Beings liked ‘beautiful’ things.
In Victor’s case, he was ‘handsomely beautiful,’ and he would use that to attract more people to ally with him… Of course, to also annoy the Gods.
Want to annoy a God? Capture the attention of their wife, and they will definitely get very irritated.
Jeanne hugged Victor, making him look at the woman.
“What’s wrong, Jeanne?”
“… It’s nothing… I just feel a little hot,” she spoke naturally as she let out a warm sigh.
Victor observed with amusem*nt. “Oh? My dear Jeanne is acting like this? What happened?”
It was worth noting that Jeanne was not Agnes, Natashia, or Violet, who were known for being more ‘honest’ with their feelings.
“These damn Dragon genes… Ugh,” Jeanne grumbled as she hugged him tighter.
Victor just stroked her head and said, “Let’s isolate this place; I don’t want anyone else watching this.”
“… That sounds like a good idea,” Albedo said in a strange tone that made Victor look at her.
Seeing the woman’s face looking at Jeanne and him with interest, Victor rolled his eyes. Unlike other women, Albedo wasn’t looking at this with excitement or envy, but with academic interest. After all, Jeanne was no longer in her Vampire appearance; her horns and wings were clearly showing due to her excitement.
Victor looked at Zaladrac, who was supposed to maintain the disguise of Jeanne, and he saw only Zaladrac’s fixed and passionate gaze on him.
Clearly, she had lost complete focus just like Jeanne.
“… How can you lose control like this? It’s not like you haven’t been a Dragon for a long time,”
“You’re the Progenitor and my mate; being close to you shakes my instincts. That display was enough to excite-.”
“Okay, I get it.” Victor cut off Zaladrac; the woman was talking too much already. He didn’t want private information to fall into strangers’ ears.
“Control yourself and help me isolate the area. When you’re done, I’ll pamper you.”
“Mm!”
The Primordials who witnessed the events of Victor entering another planet.
“…This man, does he have some sixth sense to sniff out trouble or something? Because he’s in that place! He shouldn’t be there!” The Judges of The Abyss growled in unison.
They looked at The Universal Tree. “It was you, right? Did you warn him?” They accused him.
“Do you think I have time to babysit a brat? I have work to do, this was 100% his doing. I have nothing to do with it.” The Universal Tree rolled its eyes.
It looked at the planet where Victor was, specifically at his ‘daughter.’ “Hmm… She seems very frightened, huh.”
Unlike the other planets, this Sector was not fully developed yet; his ‘daughter,’ the World Tree of Positivity, was still in the ‘adolescent’ phase here. This place didn’t even have a World Tree of Negativity yet.
“Of course she is. The Power that man unleashed was clearly the antithesis of her existence; she probably doesn’t even know what it is yet.”
Since she was not fully matured, the memories imbued in her existence had not been awakened yet. After all, this whole situation was abnormal; such a strong Sector like Earth should not have made contact with a weaker one.
The Sector itself that the Witches opened the portal to was abnormal too; the planet was more enveloped in the ‘Positive’ side than the ‘Negative’.
This meant that the Beings themselves were more likely to be ‘good’ people. This didn’t mean there were no bad people; it just meant they were the minority, and because of that, many deaths of ‘hate’ and negative feelings did not occur.
As a result, Negativity couldn’t grow, leading to the state where the planet already had a World Tree of Positivity, but it was not mature enough for its Negative counterpart to come into existence.
There wasn’t even a Hell in that place yet! This was indeed a much younger Sector than Earth.
“Haah…” The Universal Tree just sighed.
“This shouldn’t have happened; that Dragon shouldn’t have been there. The encounter between the Witches and their Ancestors should have happened, an initial conflict should have occurred, and casualties would have happened with the Witches.”
“That annoying Witch would have intervened to Balance the game, so both sides would clash. And in the near future, a ceasefire would occur. The Witches would migrate from Earth to the other planet and begin to develop them… But now all these events have gone down the drain!”
“Shouldn’t that man be preparing for the gathering of Supernatural Beings!? What is he doing there!?” They complained and grumbled more.
They felt that they had recently started to complain more all because of the existence of this Being.
Everything that the Judges of The Abyss spoke of would be everything that would happen ‘normally’ if someone as powerful as Victor weren’t there; it would be a situation similar to what happened in Human History when a country tried to invade another, was repelled, and both sides lost strength, leading to a peace agreement that would develop both.
“What are we going to do now!? He is your son-in-law, solve this!”
The Universal Tree narrowed its eyes. “…Are you always going to play that card now when you don’t want to deal with work?”
“Yes.” The three of them shamelessly said in unison.
A vein throbbed in the man’s head; for a moment, he almost felt like punching the three through multiple Galaxies’ distance, but that would only cause unnecessary destruction and more work for him, so he just sighed again.
“I have an idea.”
“…Oh? Explain.”
“Let Victor handle this and move on.” He gave an innocent smile; he really didn’t want to deal with this work.
“…….”
Just by the look of the three, he could tell they were not satisfied with this statement.
“Fine, let’s isolate that Sector and make Time pass faster. That way, they can develop to at least have some high-level God King existences.”
“This will give time for my daughter to mature, and The World Tree of Negativity to grow, Balancing things.”
“…So what will be the Time ratio?”
“30 minutes on Earth, 100,000 years in that Sector,” The Universal Tree said.
“100,000 years, huh… Isn’t that too long? They might forget about this incident if it’s that long.”
“They won’t forget; after all, the portal will still exist. And unlike Earth’s Humans, the Humans in that place have much longer lifespans than normal. Plus, the Gods will still exist.”
“…Not to mention, I think the impact of my son-in-law’s existence is significant enough for them not to forget.”
If the Judges had Humanoid Forms, they would definitely be rolling their eyes now.
“100,000 years then, and then we go back to normal time, right?”
“Yes.” The Universal Tree nodded.
Using their Powers together, the two began their work.
…
30 minutes later, Earth time.
“Huuh… What’s happening?” The Universal Tree asked as it looked at the planet in front of them.
“…” The Abyss Judges just trembled in unison.
The ancient medieval era was completely gone, and now they were in an almost futuristic modern era; the incident that happened that day with Victor was in the past, but no one forgot it. The planet’s history books told the story of the ‘very handsome’ ‘invader’ who suddenly appeared, also mentioning that this invader was a Dragoy.
There were even various cults worshiping the invader, and some minor Gods were part of this cult.
“What the hell is this?” They exclaimed in unison.
Due to the past incident, Humanity became even more united, leading to a joint effort to better themselves.
Yes, there was more Negativity now, and Beings who wanted to do evil or profit above all else appeared. After all, that was normal, it was the nature of all Beings.
But compared to Earth, this place had very few of these Beings, the reason being that the Gods were ruling wisely here.
Another fact that contributed to this tranquility was the discovered portal.
Everyone understood that the invasion that happened the first time would happen again in the future; the existence of the portal was proof of that. The portal was like an alarm telling the Beings that things were not over yet, just postponed.
“…By the Primordial Chaos, this was very effective! My son-in-law’s existence was very effective! This Sector went from an undeveloped state to a state similar to Earth in just 100,000 years!”
Not even Earth was that fast, the reason being several catastrophic events that happened on Earth and the greed of the Gods.
The Gods of Earth had always leaned more towards ‘exploring’ than ‘guiding’ Mortals; it was because of this experience that the Primordial Entities thought that 100,000 years wouldn’t be a big deal. But they forgot to take into account several situations, the main one being the impact of Victor’s existence on these Beings.
Instead of following the same path as Earth, these Gods assumed the posture of guiding their people, and the fact that there was only one Pantheon also helped in this development.
The Judges of The Abyss just waved their hands, and several screens appeared in front of them.
“This Sector already has a functional Hell, and The System is working correctly… Hmm, the Ruler does not exist here yet. Despite that, there have been no problems because the Gods are taking the reins to ‘Judge’ the dead, thus doing the Ruler’s work… They are quite competent.”
“Not only that, this place has a lot of Life…” The Universal Tree narrowed its eyes. “Holy… Abyss, look at this.”
The Judges of the Abyss looked where The Universal Tree was pointing.
“…99% of the Mortal population has The Essence of a God…”
“This… This is ridiculous; this kind of situation is not normal; it can already be called an abnormality.”
“Not necessarily, after all, it’s not causing a bug in The System, right?”
“Are you blind? 99% of the population has The Essence of a God, and that Essence is thicker than normal; they are basically Beings progressing toward becoming Gods!”
The current population of the world was 20 billion Beings, and 99% of these Beings had The Essence of a God. If all these Beings become Gods… An unprecedented anomaly would occur.
After all, excess of anything was not good; Balance was always necessary.
“This won’t happen; look.” The Universal Tree showed an image to The Judges of The Abyss.
In this image, they saw The Council of Gods on this planet discussing this problem and the decision they made to control who will become a God and who will not.
“…They are policing themselves.”
“It’s more like they don’t want too many Gods to not lose Power, but this greed is being effective in ensuring a Balance.”
As Victor said, existence had strange ways of balancing itself.
“They even created Environmental Artifacts so that these semi-Gods don’t reach Enlightenment and become Gods.”
“…Haah, I’ll think about this problem later. For now, let’s discuss something… What should we do now?”
The Universal Tree fell silent. “…That’s a good question indeed.”
The situation was so abnormal that they pondered what to do next.
“This is your fault.”
“What!? How is this my fault!?” He was indignant now.
“He’s your son-in-law, so it’s your fault.”
“Ugh,” The Universal Tree grumbled.
“Wait a sec, if Victor’s existence is so effective, why don’t we just send him to a less developed Sector and have him flex his Power a bit to see if it achieves the same result?”
“Hell no! This situation is clearly an exception to the rule; don’t use what happened here as the standard.”
Usually, when a powerful alien Being from another Dimension invades, the normal reaction of Beings is to panic and start killing each other, not unite under one banner and become more efficient.
This Sector was clearly abnormal, and because it encountered an even greater abnormality known as Victor, somehow this happened.
“Are you sure? You can’t know if you don’t try, you know?”
“… We’ll think about it later. Now, don’t change the subject!”
“Ugh. Just let the Beings resolve their problems; if something goes wrong, we intervene.”
“In the end, we won’t do anything.”
“We’ve already done too much. It’s up to the Beings to sort it out now. As Regulators of Existence, our job is done. This Sector has been Balanced, and it’s capable of dealing with an existence like the Pantheons of Earth.”
“…Didn’t you say they can handle Victor?”
“Do you think anyone besides the strongest Beings can handle him?”
“…. Fair enough.” Despite this Sector having developed significantly, no Being of the same level as the strongest beings like Kali, Shiva, Victor, Odin, Ra, etc., had appeared yet.
The Powers of these Beings were as strong as the ‘Emperors’ of older Sectors.
To be honest, Earth hadn’t evolved into an older Sector simply because of internal conflict; after all, there were many powerful Beings there. But evolving into an older Sector required everyone to unite under one banner, something challenging to achieve on Earth with so many abnormal Beings. In only that place, there were three Apocalyptic Beasts!
No Sector had three Apocalyptic Beasts!
Not even this developed Sector has Apocalyptic Beasts.
Earth’s Sector was clearly abnormal, and that’s why the Primordial Entities kept a closer eye on that place.
Chapter 835: What will you choose? The Devil or The Crazy Witch?
“Abyss, we have a problem.”
“What is it now?” The three spoke at the same time.
“The effects of the passage of Time have passed through the portal,” The Universal Tree spoke.
“What!?” The three looked in the direction of the portal in Arcane and saw the state of the room around it.
As they focused their eyes on the portal, they saw that it was connecting the two planets in a rather direct way.
In other words, because of their action of increasing Time on that planet, some traces of that Time passage had passed through the portal.
“How did we miss this…?” Incredulity was evident in their tone of voice.
“Standing by this man is diminishing our intelligence.”
“He’s a nuisance.”
The Judges of The Abyss were quite dissatisfied; it was not common for them to miss such small ‘details.’
But in this specific situation, they had no choice but to blame themselves. After all, they had merely focused on the one planet and didn’t pay closer attention to the portal and Earth.
The Universal Tree just rolled his eyes and didn’t comment on Abyss’s words, already accustomed to the perfection the three expected in their work.
“Anyway, we’ve finished our work here. The Balance has been achieved, and we should not interfere further with the Beings.”
“Are you really going to ignore this situation?”
The Universal Tree shrugged. “My son-in-law and that Witch prevented the effects of Time from passing and spreading further; we have nothing more to do.”
Their job was to maintain The Balance of The Universe, but that didn’t mean they didn’t have their own personal responsibilities.
Take The Universal Tree, for example: he was responsible for the continuation of Life, Existence, and The Maintenance of The Universe.
A Sector with stronger Supernatural Beings coming into contact with a Sector that hadn’t even had a chance to develop yet?
He wouldn’t allow that to happen; as the Primordial One dealing with Life, he wouldn’t let the new ‘plants’ be uprooted before they could show their own potential.
Despite his bias towards Jeanne, The Universal Tree took his work very seriously.
A sentiment that the three Judges of The Abyss also shared: they were responsible for Souls and The Spiritual Side of Existence, and it was essential for Souls to progress and grow, which couldn’t be done without ‘Life’. Because of this, the two Entities often worked together since their jobs complemented each other.
This was the reason they intervened in this situation; after all, this situation was not ‘normal.’ Normally, an existence from a Higher Sector couldn’t go to an underdeveloped Sector. It was a rule they themselves had created, but due to the ‘connection’ that the Witches had with this planet, they managed to open a portal to this place.
Because of this abnormality, they had to intervene and make a decision.
They could have simply blocked off this Sector entirely, but the damage was already done, and Victor had already entered the portal and announced his presence, causing many changes that they couldn’t predict completely.
Since the milk had already been spilled, they chose to ‘Balance’ the game.
This time, even if a Pantheon from Earth decided to invade this place, they wouldn’t be completely defenseless.
“I will go to The Nexus; I need to reinforce The System. I’m concerned about the ‘anomalies’ that have been appearing frequently,” Abyss suddenly said.
“I will call Death and Infinity. We will be there too.”
“Okay.”
When the three disappeared from the scene, The Universal Tree looked toward the planet, specifically at his daughter, who was holding the hand of a young teenager who was her Negative counterpart.
“She has completely awakened her memory… Good, with this, she is safe,” he touched his chin, contemplating a specific matter.
“Despite going through an ‘abnormal’ situation, she didn’t take the same path as Roxanne. She didn’t attempt to merge with the Soul of another Being…”
The Universal Tree was sure that when he created his daughters, their instincts would be to preserve the planet and their own existence.
Merging one’s Soul with another and nurturing that Soul as if it were the planet itself was clearly an abnormality.
He thought about it for a moment, evaluating the situation, but then shrugged.
‘Well, he’s the man who willingly decided to help my sister because he wanted to see a woman at her best; I guess charisma must have been one of the factors that led Roxanne to make that decision.’
Even in an underdeveloped state, Roxanne found Victor, but she still had her instincts implanted by The Universal Tree. She wouldn’t make a decision that could endanger the planet so lightly. The proof of these thoughts was that when Roxanne encountered The Universal Tree, she quickly apologized for failing in her existential duty.
“Hmm…” The Universal Tree made a hand gesture, and soon, a green Energy flew from his hands toward his two daughters.
“With this, if an unforeseen event occurs, she will be safe.”
The Universal Tree was clearly biased towards his daughters, often intervening to prevent their destruction or protect them.
Well, that’s what a normal father would do when his daughter was in danger, right?
…
“The portal has stabilized,” Albedo said.
“…Not only that. It has changed,” Victor added.
“As I thought. A ‘Balance’ has occurred, huh?” Albedo spoke.
“Is it because of me?”
“Probably. Your entry into the portal and demonstrating your Powers to the entire planet must have greatly shocked that weaker Sector.”
“…Sector?”
“Oh, you don’t know, do you?”
“Yes.” He was honest and had no shame in admitting he didn’t have knowledge. It would be more embarrassing to pretend to know and act foolish.
“Sectors are how the Primordial Entities categorize the Cosmos. Underdeveloped Sectors are regions of The Universe with intelligent life, but have yet to fully develop.”
“Sectors are divided into Inhospitable, Low, Medium, and High levels.”
“Inhospitable Sectors, as you can guess, are regions of the Cosmos where Life either hasn’t occurred or hasn’t fully developed. They are chaotic places with no intelligent life.”
“Low Sectors are regions of The Universe with planets that have intelligent life. These planets have their own cultures and Species.”
“Samar and Nightingale are classified at this level.”
“Samar and Nightingale… I presume they are classified like that because of the actions of the Werewolves and Noble Vampires, right?”
Albedo smiled slightly and nodded. “Correct. If Vlad hadn’t invaded Nightingale, the ‘wild’ Beings on that planet wouldn’t have evolved so quickly.”
“…The Primordial Entities again, huh.”
“Balance is necessary, and the Primordial Entities don’t take these matters lightly.”
“Vlad invaded a weaker Sector with hostile intentions, and there are consequences to that.”
“The thing is, all the low-level Sectors are under the protection of the Primordial Entities, specifically The Universal Tree. The reason for this is to give Beings a ‘chance’ to generate Life. Attacking when they are underdeveloped is like stripping the potential from an entire newborn Sector, and they want to avoid that.”
Victor fell silent for a few seconds. These were things that not even he, with the memories of various Beings, knew. He quickly understood this information and its consequences for Beings in general, so he spoke:
“…It’s like a protection that prevents a level 100 Demon King from going to the level 1 Starting Village, huh.”
“Yes. Without this protection, Beings from Higher Universes would conquer the entire Cosmos recklessly,” Albedo said.
Victor nodded. Unlike the comic book stories he read, here it seemed that the Primordial Entities took their work very seriously.
“So, in the case of Samar, the Progenitor of The Werewolves got lucky. He found a new Sector that was about to begin its transition from an inhospitable Sector to a living one, so the intervention of the Primordial Entities wasn’t necessary,” Albedo explained.
Victor nodded as he commented, “You seem to know a lot about this, Albedo.”
“Of course,” she smiled with a sickly smile. “It’s fascinating, isn’t it? Discovering the ‘Truths’ of the world.”
“Well, I can’t say I don’t like it.” Victor chuckled lightly when he saw the woman’s crazed look. She truly lived up to her Titles.
“What level is Earth at?” Victor asked.
“…At the top of the Medium Level. We would only be considered High-Level if we were united under a single Overlord… But even I’m unsure whether I’m correct or not.”
“Oh? Why?” Victor asked curiously as he stored that information in his head.
“Because of anomalies like you, Kali, The Apocalyptic Beasts, and even Diablo.”
“…”
“You’re a Human who became the Progenitor of Vampires and somehow became the Progenitor of Blood Dragons, a Race that is the perfect mix of Noble Vampires and Dragons.”
“Kali, a Goddess of Destruction who is heading towards becoming the very Essence of Destruction, a Primordial Entity.”
“Diablo, a Demon who disrupted The Balance and became a Nephalem, a Being on both sides of the scale.”
“And, of course, the three Beasts of The Apocalypse, embodying The Concept of The END.”
“In a normal Sector, there would only be one Beast of The Apocalypse. In a normal Sector, a Progenitor shouldn’t be born while another Progenitor of the same Species is still alive. In a Sector that follows The System’s Laws, all these situations mentioned should have been avoided.”
“But… Somehow, the Beings on this planet achieved it,” Albedo finished the explanation, hiding the fact that Victor himself was an even greater anomaly than the three.
After all, he wasn’t just a Blood Dragon; he had within himself a World Tree that sustained his entire Soul, something that, according to her research, had never happened before in all of existence.
World Trees were meant to nurture the Life of a planet, not the Soul of a Mortal.
Not to mention that the man himself had two END Beasts as pets on a leash.
After absorbing all the knowledge that Albedo had so bluntly shared, Victor pondered for a few seconds.
‘An Overlord, huh.’ Although he knew this specific part of the information she mentioned, as it was told by Samar’s own World Tree,
Victor didn’t think that this would be the requirement for a Sector to become High-Level.
‘The stronger I become, the more I discover about existence, and I realize how small we truly are in the eyes of the ‘Primordials.” Victor couldn’t help but glance at Jeanne, who was watching the golems.
The oldest woman in the Universe was there. ‘I wonder how she, as one of the oldest Beings, someone that even a Primordial called his sister, sees our world.’
“Hmm?” Feeling Victor’s gaze, Jeanne looked at him and then smiled sweetly.
Seeing that smile, Victor thought, ‘… It doesn’t matter. After all, she is my Wife. In the end, all this information doesn’t matter either. In the end, the situation hasn’t changed much. The strong speak louder. The strong are right. The strong are the law. So, my goal hasn’t changed… I will become even stronger.’
Victor returned her smile with a gentle one, made a gentle hand gesture as if beckoning, and then turned towards the exit.
Jeanne quickly flew towards Victor with her wings, and Zaladrac, who had been observing the Magic Circle, stopped what she was doing and flew towards Victor as well.
“Where are you going?” Albedo asked curiously.
“To spend time with my Wives.”
“…And what about the portal?”
“That’s not my problem,” Victor said casually.
“…”
He stopped walking and looked at Evie, who was watching him.
“Evie Moriarty was the one who initiated this Ritual. You and I, Albedo, are just meddlers who got involved out of curiosity.”
“Well, that’s true…” She didn’t deny it.
From the beginning, Victor didn’t do anything here. He didn’t initiate the Ritual, didn’t make plans; the protagonist was Evie Moriarty, who even aided Diablo in the Demon War for this purpose.
Yes, he may have gotten a little too involved and even gone to another planet for a few seconds,
But these actions were just Victor being Victor. He was a man who had always done what he wanted from the start, and that wouldn’t change now.
“Evie Moriarty, my dear ‘Magic Master.'”
“…What?” For some reason, Evie had a bad feeling about Victor’s next words.
“You opened a rift in space that was felt by all the strong Beings on the planet. Due to my and Albedo’s intervention, they were expelled, and you didn’t suffer as many consequences, but… will it stay that way?”
“…”
“When I walk through that door and return to the embrace of my beloved Wives, the barrier that I created with Albedo will dissipate because I will stop feeding it.”
Evie looked at her mother, who nodded in agreement with his words.
“I wonder what you will do when the greedy Gods of all the Pantheons come knocking on your door. Unlike before, I’m sure that they will not come with the intention of talking. They won’t acknowledge your existence because currently, you no longer have the ‘status quo’ you had in the past.”
“Like a bunch of hooligans, these Gods will invade and take whatever they want.”
“Your home will be burned, your Witches will be killed, and your people will suffer because of your decision.”
Evie’s face began to lose color as she heard Victor’s vivid description; for some reason, she could completely imagine that scene.
“In this moment of despair, will you ask for help from your ‘beloved’ and ‘kind’ mother?”
Albedo snorted when she heard Victor’s description of her.
“Will you surrender to the Pantheons in exchange for benefits?”
Victor smiled ‘kindly’ at her, a smile that, to Evie, was just a smile of pure malice. Those violet-crimson eyes were tainted with pure evil!
“…Or will you call upon The Devil and offer yourself entirely?”
Violet fire enveloped Victor, Jeanne, and Zaladrac, and then the three disappeared, leaving Victor’s voice echoing around.
“I will be watching, Evie Moriarty. I wonder what kind of choice you will make.”
Silence fell around them until Albedo spoke, snapping them all out of their stupor.
“Well, isn’t he charming? It seems I made the right bet by giving him my Blessing.”
Evie really wanted to unleash a Strategic-Class Spell on that woman right now; she was simply too irritating.
Chapter 836: Determination to Get Stronger.
“Darling, you’re back!” Violet jumped into Victor’s arms as she hugged him.
“Mm, I’m back,” Victor nodded as he embraced Violet.
He looked at Sasha and Ruby, who were still lazily lying in bed.
“So, what happened that made you leave so suddenly?” Sasha asked, looking at Victor with laziness.
Victor kissed Violet’s neck.
“Hehehe, that tickles.”
“The Witches…” Victor replied to Sasha as he picked up Violet like a princess and walked towards the bed. Along the way, his clothes began to slowly disappear, and soon he was only in shorts.
Ruby and Sasha swallowed dryly when they saw their Husband’s body. No matter how many times they had seen or experienced it, he always looked too delicious.
Speaking of delicious…
‘I’m thirsty,’ Ruby thought.
“They created a damn hole in Space and connected it to another planet.”
Victor’s words made Ruby and Sasha’s thirst vanish completely.
“… Huh?”
“Yeah, that was my reaction, too, when I found out.”
“….” Silence fell in the room as the two women pondered Victor’s words. Knowing their Husband well, they knew that the situation was not as ‘simple’ as he made it sound. Probably, he had also stirred up trouble there.
“Fortunately, I was nearby, as was Albedo Moriarty, so no major problems occurred… Well, except that I killed some Gods and Odin’s Ravens.”
“That’s a big problem!” Ruby exclaimed as she sat up on the bed. She knew that nothing would be simple when Victor was around.
“Ugh, he leaves for just a few hours, and this happens?” Ruby grumbled.
“… Well, we should be used to it by now; he’s always been like this,” Sasha commented after some late reflection.
Victor just laughed in amusem*nt. He always enjoyed seeing these expressions on his Wives.
“Don’t laugh! We just came out of one war; we shouldn’t be heading into another!” Ruby growled.
All Victor did was pull Ruby into an embrace and kiss her neck, which melted her stern expression with tenderness.
“Hmm~, W-Wait, Darling, ahh~.”
“No need to worry, dear, I know exactly what I’m doing… Not to mention, who we are now?”
“… A Faction?” Sasha replied as she crawled toward Victor along with Violet.
“You’re not wrong, but you’re also not 100% right.”
Victor leaned against the wall and let Ruby lie on his chest.
Violet lay on his right side. Sasha lay on his left side.
“We’re one of the most powerful Factions on this planet.”
“Literally, no one will dare to fight against us without thinking twice.”
“But no one knows that yet, Darling,” Ruby pointed out.
Victor smiled. “But they will. At the gathering of Supernatural Beings, everyone will know the consequences of getting in Victor Alucard’s way.”
A subtle smile appeared on the faces of the three.
“… What should we do, Darling?” Sasha asked.
“Yes, we don’t just want to handle logistics. We want to fight as well and be at the forefront of everything you do, just like Scathach, Jeanne, and Aphrodite are.”
It was simply too difficult to compete with experienced women like Aphrodite, Scathach, and Jeanne. They had been alive for thousands of years, knew many things, and were strong.
That was a gap that couldn’t be filled without training and time—unless you were Victor, of course.
An abnormal Being who, in less than 1,000 years, had become one of the most powerful Beings in the world, surpassing even the Gods.
“Get stronger, not just in Power but in mindset.”
“The problem is that our progress is too slow,” Violet grumbled.
If the Noble Vampires heard what Violet had just said, they would spit blood. After all, Violet, Ruby, and Sasha were already as strong as Elder Vampires, and they could even fight against the Former Pillars of Hell now and win.
It’s not that they were weak or less talented; it’s just that compared to others, especially Victor, they fell far behind.
But considering their age, barely reaching 30, they were already among the strongest Beings out there—a feat no Noble Vampire except Victor had achieved so early.
However, making this comparison was unfair to Violet, Sasha, Ruby, and the younger girls. After all, Scathach, Aphrodite, and Jeanne had plenty of time to develop.
By the world’s standards, they were already considered geniuses and even monsters, but… they weren’t satisfied with that.
They wanted more! They wanted to help Victor more, as The First Three Wives. Whether they liked it or not, they would be in the forefront of everything Victor wanted to do, and they had to be prepared for that.
Victor fell silent, quietly looking at his Wives, feeling their determination.
“Are you ABSOLUTELY sure you want this?” Victor asked extremely seriously, his face showing no hint of fun or playfulness.
The response from the three was instant.
“Yes.” Determination and resolve were evident in their words.
“… Very well.” Victor closed his eyes and then disappeared from where he was, reappearing in front of the bed.
“Follow me.”
Victor started walking in a direction, and the girls looked at each other and nodded. They followed him, not caring that they were in their sleepwear. After all, there were only women here, and they were all Victor’s Wives.
The mansion was divided into two complexes. On one side, only Victor’s Wives could go, while the other side was for people like Anna, Kuroka, and the Goddesses who didn’t have ‘deep’ relationships with Victor.
Although, being who she was, Anna could go wherever she pleased.
As they walked, the girls noticed that Victor’s wings had appeared and were faintly glowing with red and violet hues. It was clear that Victor was using his Power to do something, but they had no idea what that ‘something’ was.
Suddenly, earthquakes began happening around them, making the girls a little concerned.
‘Just what is he doing?’ they wondered internally, though they didn’t express these thoughts. He seemed very focused on his work.
While walking down the hallways, they came across a woman with long black hair dressed in a black and red gown. She was looking out the window with a curious and worried expression.
Sensing the presence of people, she turned her face.
“Ara, Victor—.” She stopped speaking and swallowed hard when she saw her son’s condition. She bit her lips with desire but quickly regained her composure and returned to her noble posture.
“Mother.”
“… What’s with this earthquake? Is it you?”
“Yeah.”
“I see. I’m glad; I thought it was a normal occurrence around here.”
“Nah, this planet won’t experience such phenomena without my permission.”
“… Okay.” Even though she had quite a bit of contact with the Supernatural World, she still found the idea of someone controlling the entire planet ridiculous. After all, it was Nature, and no one could control Nature. That was her thinking when she was Human. Now? Her own son could control Nature.
The phrase, “This planet won’t experience such phenomena without my permission,” said a lot about her son’s current Power.
“Come with me too, Mother. What I’m doing will benefit you as well,” Victor said, and then he continued walking down the corridors.
“… Okay.” Anna nodded and began following Victor with his Wives.
Feeling the gaze of the three girls on her, she asked:
“… What?”
“It’s nothing. I just now understood where Victor got his beauty from,” Sasha diverted the topic, although it was not untrue.
“Indeed, with that dress, you even look like a Queen.”
“Thank you.” Anna smiled gently, creating a warm and familiar atmosphere.
An atmosphere that was completely shattered by one person.
“So you were longing for your son.” Violet, as always, had no filter. “Did you want him to f*ck you? Did you want him to pour his seeds into your womb? Did you want to make a baby with your own child? f*ck that’s hot.”
Anna blushed deeply and lowered her head.
“Violet!!” Sasha and Ruby exclaimed, scandalized.
“Yes, I’m Violet?” Violet asked innocently.
“You… Woman… You have no shame! Control your mouth!” Ruby snapped, completely exasperated. She thought that Violet had grown up, but this woman remained the same!
“You shouldn’t say that to our Husband’s mother, Violet!”
Violet rolled her eyes. “She should stop lying to herself. She’s not Human anymore, and soon, she’ll be a Dragon. I guarantee a Dragon’s desires are much stronger than a Vampire’s. Just look at your mother, Ruby. Even she can’t control herself completely now.”
Scathach and Jeanne were known for their self-control and were very disciplined women. However, even they couldn’t completely suppress their own desires since becoming Dragons.
And this action was quite normal. After all, their ‘Progenitor’ was a man with The Essence of a Vampire, Demon, and Dragon—Beings known for following their own desires.
“Enough! We won’t discuss this further!” Sasha exclaimed, knowing that if they continued, Violet wouldn’t stop, and the situation would get even stranger.
“Humpf,” Violet huffed.
Anna was now extremely embarrassed and couldn’t even say anything in her defense because, for a moment, she had entertained those thoughts.
She sneakily glanced at Victor, who was walking as if he hadn’t heard anything behind him, which was impossible since the three women were not being discreet.
Victor’s lack of response left Anna completely puzzled. He should probably react to something, right?
“Anna.” Victor’s sudden voice startled Anna immensely. After all, he only called her ‘Anna’ when he wanted to make his position as the Progenitor clear.
“Y-Yes?”
“Do as you please.”
These words surprised not only Anna but also Ruby, Violet, and Sasha.
“Just don’t forget who you are, what you represent, and your current reality.” Victor stopped walking and looked at Anna.
Anna felt her heart in her throat as she felt his gaze. “Regardless of your decision, I will support you, just as I always have.”
Then Victor turned and started walking again.
Despite Victor’s brief words, they contained many hidden meanings that only those close to him understood.
Feeling someone touching her shoulder, Anna looked and saw Violet’s face. “Stop lying to yourself, face your own reality, and think… What do you desire?”
Ruby and Sasha were about to speak up but fell silent because, in fact, Violet had given good advice!
Arriving in the yard, Jeanne, Zaladrac, Scathach, Roxanne, Gaia, Nyx, and Natalia were there.
“Is everything ready?” Victor asked them all.
“Yes, you just need to give the final touch,” Scathach said.
“Okay.”
“… Haah, to think you would do all this just for them.”
“What a foolish question, Nyx. I will do everything for them, and none of my actions are useless or foolish.”
Nyx displayed a small, kind smile. “I know.”
Gaia looked at this interaction with solemn eyes. No one knew what was going through her mind.
“Roxanne, my love. Let’s begin.”
“Mm!” Roxanne held Victor’s hand.
“Zaladrac, Scathatch, Jeanne.”
“Get ready to use the Runes.”
“Yes, Darling/Victor.”
As Dragons, the Draconic Language came naturally to them.
A red Power began emanating from Roxanne’s body, and in the next moment, tremors could be felt throughout the area.
“W-What!? What’s happening!?” Pepper’s scream could be heard in the distance, and the next moment, the mansion’s residents began to gather.
“Quiet, girls. Just watch. No harm will come to you with Victor here,” Scathach growled.
“…..” A silence fell around until Natashia spoke.
“Hmm, are you sure she’s a Dragon and not some kind of monster with premenstrual tension?”
Scathach’s wings spread, and she glared at Natashia with a promise of pain.
A tense smile appeared on Natashia’s face: “Hehehehe~, you wouldn’t attack me, would you?”
The girls rolled their eyes at this scene; Natashia just never learned.
“Girls.” Zaladrac’s neutral and heavy voice came.
“Focus.” These simple words made the playful atmosphere disappear, and they looked at Victor seriously.
Pillars of earth began to rise, and a structure began to form.
In the span of a minute, they all watched a gigantic tower rising into the sky.
Upon seeing this sight, the group’s silence was broken by Pepper.
“… I think Victor’s been reading too much Korean Manhwa…”
Chapter 837: Nightmare Tower.
“How many Souls should we use, Darling?” Roxanne asked.
“We’ll start with 500 million.” With so many Souls stored within him, 500 million was nothing.
“Okay.” Roxanne made a hand gesture, and soon, hundreds of thousands of Souls began to leave Victor’s body and head toward the Tower.
“Holy…” Gaia, Aphrodite, Persephone, and Beings with Divine Senses who could see the Souls, opened their eyes in shock at the sheer number leaving Victor’s body.
“Done,” Roxanne said.
Victor nodded satisfactorily and then turned to the girls.
“Welcome to The Tower of Nightmares.”
“…Tower of Nightmares?” Violet swallowed; that name was definitely not intimidating at all.
Don’t get it wrong, Violet wasn’t afraid of the name; she was worried about the meaning behind it. She knew very well that despite her Husband’s bad naming sense, he tended to be quite truthful, oftentimes literal, with the names he gave. If he said it was a Tower of Nightmares, then it definitely is a Tower of Nightmares. Now, the lingering question for Violet was just how ‘terrifying’ this tower was.
“Heheheheh, Victor, did you make a Hyperbolic Chamber for us to train in!? That’s amazing!” Pepper asked
“….”
“Victor, why are you silent and giving me that pitying smile?”
“….”
“This is a Hyperbolic Chamber, right?”
“….” Victor just continued to smile gently at her.
“… Right?”
Instead of answering Pepper, he just approached her and ruffled her head.
“Hehehe.” As if by Magic, her turbulent thoughts were completely erased, and she just enjoyed the sensation on her head.
“Father…!” Ophis and Nero exclaimed in a low tone as they watched this scene.
Victor just looked at the two of them and smiled gently, but he didn’t say anything. It wasn’t the time to pamper them, so he just looked at Violet, Sasha, and Ruby with a very serious expression.
“Are you ABSOLUTELY sure you want to get stronger quickly?”
“… Yes!” Even though it took a while to answer, they still replied determinedly.
With all this ‘seriousness’ from Victor, it was making them a bit scared.
“… Haah, very well, I won’t doubt your determination any longer, and I’ll just explain how the Tower of Nightmares works.”
“There are 777 floors in this Tower.”
Some of the girls wanted to ask why specifically 777 floors, but they remained silent, waiting for Victor to finish speaking.
“On each floor, the level of opponents gets stronger, to the point that from the 700th floor onwards, only High-Level God-Class Beings will appear.”
“The final floors will be composed of Primordial Gods that I absorbed.”
Gaia and Nyx nodded in understanding at what Victor meant. It seemed that even in death, Thanatos, Erebus, and Erebus’s son would not rest.
“Setting aside the difficulty scale, the Tower’s System is simple.”
“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”
Victor’s words caused a deafening silence all around.
Victor looked at the Tower. “Only when the Soul is near its end will it demonstrate its true potential.”
“Using this Concept, I created this Tower.”
“You will face my old enemies, those of whom I had killed, and Souls I’d absorbed.”
“Monsters, Vampires, Werewolves, Demons, Gods, Youkai, Humans – all the Beings I’ve killed are present in that Tower.”
“With each fight, victory, and defeat, you will grow stronger. Time in The Tower passes faster than outside. Using The Principles of Time that I stole from Kronos, I made 6 months inside The Tower equal to 3 days outside.”
“You will spend all that time there, and you will only be allowed to leave after six months.”
“… So it’s like a Hyperbolic Chamber. I wonder why you made such a mystery about it!” Pepper huffed.
Victor just smiled gently at the girl. How could he say that the real purpose of this Tower was not training but ‘death’? And the whole process involving ‘death.’
It was only when they were on the brink of death that the Energy of the Souls and The Tower would nurture the girls’ own Souls, advancing their Power even further, a process that Victor had to personally oversee to ensure no problems occurred.
After all, they weren’t Victor, who had ridiculous potential. Despite being geniuses, it would take them hundreds of years to reach the High Level of Power, the level of Gods.
Fight, die, absorb traces of Souls, drink Victor’s stored blood in that Tower, and repeat.
This was the most efficient and cruel process.
Victor couldn’t say all of this, not now; they first had to experience the Tower to understand for themselves.
Aphrodite, Roberta, and Zaladrac, who could deeply sense Victor’s feelings, narrowed their eyes slightly when they felt Victor’s ‘pain.’
It was as if he didn’t want them to go to that place, and it was at that moment that they understood that there were more things in that Tower than he had mentioned. If it were only the ‘death’ of the girls, he shouldn’t be feeling so much pain.
While Zaladrac had helped Victor create The Tower, she didn’t know exactly how it functioned since she left all of that in Victor’s hands.
Victor sighed internally. He didn’t want them to do this. He didn’t want them to go through this suffering, but he wouldn’t step on their determination; he would respect them and help them.
“And so, will you go?”
“Yes!”
“Okay.” Victor floated in the sky, his face as hard as stone.
“A warning. Do not underestimate your opponents.”
Victor snapped his fingers, and in the next moment, Violet, Ruby, and Sasha disappeared.
Three screens appeared in front of the group, showing the three women. Unlike their previous clothes, they were now fully armed, but it wasn’t the High-Level equipment Victor had made for them; it was standard leather gear.
…
With Ruby.
The girl looked around and saw various iron weapons of different types. She also noticed that there was a bed and a door with the symbol of a woman on top, clearly indicating a bathroom. She saw a refrigerator with a sign on the side that read ‘blood supply’; it was clear that this place was designed for people to spend a lot of time.
For a moment, she looked at her clothes and realized she was no longer wearing sleepwear but rather simple leather armor.
‘And to think that with just a snap of his fingers, he would do so many things.’ Once again, she realized how ‘divine’ her Husband had become.
And this thought strengthened her resolve to get stronger. Without even thinking, Ruby picked up the spear that was nearby and walked toward the door.
The moment she passed through the door, her world changed, and she found herself in a narrow cave so tight that if she spread her hands completely, she could touch both walls.
Ruby narrowed her eyes, immediately realizing that the spear would hinder her in such a narrow space. So she dropped the spear and created two simple ice daggers.
Walking through the narrow corridors, the lack of light didn’t impair her vision; as a Creature of The Night, she could see in the dark.
Suddenly, she stopped walking when she smelled something strange. Focusing her attention more on her eyes, she saw a huge creature that looked like a white wolf.
…
“An Ice Demon… Seriously, Victor?” Scathach asked.
“They need to understand that they can’t always use their specialties in a fight.”
“Humph, don’t underestimate my daughter. Who do you think trained her?”
“It’s precisely because I know who trained her that I didn’t underestimate her.”
Involuntarily, Scathach displayed a sweet smile. “Good.”
Pepper, Lacus, and Siena just rolled their eyes when they saw how their mother reacted.
“Hmm, I don’t think this is as simple as it seems,” Haruna commented.
“Yes… This whole situation is making me uneasy,” Mizuki nodded.
“Agreed.” Maria, Bruna, and Kaguya nodded together.
The girls looked at Victor, searching for something, but they only saw his stone cold face. Realizing they wouldn’t get anything from him, they turned their attention back to Ruby.
…
‘An Ice Demon, huh.’ As a researcher, Ruby knew very well what kind of creature that was. After all, she often met Aline, a Commander who belonged to the Ice Demon Race.
‘Darling is underestimating me. Does he think a low-level creature like this will defeat me?’ The weaknesses of the Ice Demon flashed through Ruby’s mind.
‘It will be easy to kill it.’
The moment Ruby took a step forward, the creature’s eyes opened, and suddenly, an overwhelming bloodthirst was felt by Ruby.
“W-What?”
In the next moment, the Ice Wolf vanished in a burst of Lightning, and Ruby felt her world spin.
Ruby’s head fell to the ground, and it was at that moment that something went through her skull, piercing both her head and her heart at the same time.
The next moment, Ruby was back in the room.
“AAHHH!”
…
“… As expected, she let her guard down. Sometimes being so smart leads to arrogance,” Victor shook his head in disappointment. He had even warned them not to underestimate their opponents.
Roxanne simply squeezed Victor’s hand when she felt the pain in his heart as he saw Ruby’s head fall to the ground. Even though she wouldn’t ‘die’ permanently, it was still a challenge for Victor’s own heart.
A deafening silence fell around the group.
“… V-Victor, I don’t recall an Ice Demon having Lightning abilities,” Aline, who had just arrived with Helena, Lilith, Lily, Vine, and Vepar, spoke.
Victor briefly looked at his Demon ladies and then turned his gaze back to his three Wives. “As I said, never underestimate your opponents.”
…
“What… just happened?” Ruby asked, a bit shaken, as she touched her neck, not even having time to activate her defenses.
She sat on the floor, reviewing the memories of the recent encounter.
Suddenly, Victor’s words echoed in her head.
“I see… I got arrogant.” Ruby closed her eyes, and in the next moment, she opened them again.
Pure determination was visible on her face.
Ruby took two iron daggers and covered them with the Power of Ice, and in the next moment, her entire body visibly grew paler as she used her Ice Powers to create natural armor from how proficient she was.
Soon, she opened the door again to go back to that narrow corridor… Only to find that now, she was in an open space like a mansion… An open mansion that let the sunlight through.
Ruby squinted and put her finger in the sunlight, and in the next moment, she pulled her finger back when she realized that it was the actual sunlight and not a projection.
…
“What happened to the corridor?” Natashia asked.
“Randomness, unpredictability, uncertainties. The Tower simulates all Aspects of Combat. You won’t always fight in a favorable territory, so you must be prepared for everything,” Victor said.
Scathach nodded in agreement with what Victor said.
The group watched Ruby covering the entire area with her Ice Power, effectively blocking out the sunlight.
“Smart, she eliminated her disadvantage… But…” Agnes spoke.
“She alerted the enemy,” Eleonor finished.
…
Various noises were heard, and in the next moment, three Ice Wolves appeared with a burst of Lightning.
Despite being surprised by the number of enemies, Ruby was not helpless this time.
She defended against the attacks with her Ice powers, and in the next moment, she created a spear and pierced the first wolf in the head.
Taking advantage of this moment, the second wolf tried to bite her leg, but Ruby’s defense was impenetrable now.
Soon, the outcome was obvious, and the three Demons were killed.
“… I did it…”
At that moment, a shadowy claw pierced her heart.
Cough.
Ruby spat blood and looked behind her, seeing a Creature of Shadows… Not just one, but hundreds of them.
Soon, her entire body was pierced by the shadows, and she died.
Ruby woke up in her room again. “What the f*ck is this place!”
…
“… Letting your guard down just because the enemy died… My daughter… Do I really need to train you again?” Scathach spoke disapprovingly.
Even if it was just for a few seconds, Ruby had let her guard down, and to Scathach, that was unforgivable. Her daughter was in hostile territory, and just because she killed the first threat, she lowered her guard, a mistake only an amateur would make.
“Victor… Is this only the first level? Aren’t you being too harsh?” Hestia asked.
And all she got was Victor’s serious gaze directed at her.
“They wanted Power. They wanted to get stronger quickly. And Power like that doesn’t come without consequences.”
Chapter 838: Nightmare Tower. 2
“Victor… Is this just the first level? You’re not being too harsh, are you?” Hestia asked.
All she received was Victor’s serious gaze in response.
“They wanted Power. They wanted to get stronger quickly. And Power like that doesn’t come without consequences.”
“But…” Hestia was about to say more, but Victor interrupted her.
“Keep your senses sharp, keep your guard up, assess the environment, assess the people, always be ready to grab your weapon and kill the enemy.”
“Always be ready for possible betrayal.”
“Always be ready for anything.”
“That’s the mindset of a warrior, and that’s how I’ve lived to this day. That’s how I became so strong.”
Non-stop training? Victor did it. Always seeking stronger opponents? Victor did it. Almost dying multiple times? Victor did it.
Yes, his talents greatly aided him on this path, as did his luck, but that wasn’t all – the discipline instilled in him by Scathach was always with him.
And it was that same discipline that helped him.
Ruby’s situation might seem precarious, but that’s far from the truth. If she had kept her guard up, if she had assessed the situation better, if she had the mindset of someone going to war, this wouldn’t have happened.
The Tower exists not only to make the girls stronger but also to sharpen their mindset as warriors.
If they couldn’t have the advantage Victor had of absorbing Souls and gaining his combat experience, they must acquire it another way.
Victor could give them the ‘memories’ of the warriors he absorbed, but that would be ineffective; they would just feel like they were watching a movie and not really ‘experiencing’ it as Victor did.
“They desire to become strong. So, don’t step on their determination; that would be an insult to their determination.”
“….” Hestia had no other words but nodded in agreement. She couldn’t understand much about the mindset Victor was talking about; after all, she wasn’t a warrior. But she could understand the feeling of not crushing someone else’s determination.
…
Ruby stood up from the ground, looking at the door with an extremely serious and irritated expression.
Was she angry at the enemies? Yes, but she was more angry with herself.
“Have I truly spent too much time in my laboratory? Have my instincts dulled so much?” She stomped the ground, causing a thunderous noise, frustration evident all around.
“I am the daughter of Scathach Scarlett. I am the woman The Strongest Female Vampire herself said would surpass her one day. How can I perform so shamefully!?”
Ruby tied her long red hair into a ponytail and walked to the door.
Without picking up any weapons.
Weapon? She didn’t need that; she was the weapon herself.
Ruby kicked the door open and entered.
…
“Whoa, it’s been a while since I’ve seen her so angry,” Siena commented.
“Combining a Kuudere with a Yandere in such an angry state is a recipe for disaster. I pity her daughters who will inherit their mother’s dark side,” Pepper remarked, and as always, only the more ‘cultured’ individuals could understand her words.
Once again, the scenery changed, this time she was in the middle of a cave with various holes.
“Ugh, please don’t let them be spiders, please don’t let them be spiders,” Eve began to mutter rapidly.
A notion Pepper also shared with her.
An Ice explosion occurred, and suddenly the entire cave was frozen, and in the next moment, spiders, hundreds of giant spiders, began to appear.
“FUUU-”
“Language.” Lacus covered Pepper’s mouth.
“Ugh…” Eve just averted her eyes, something many women around her also did.
It wasn’t that they had arachnophobia or anything; it was just that… those hairy legs, those eyes, it was all just creepy!
Ruby assumed a Martial Arts stance with her spear in front.
Victor smiled faintly when he saw the Martial Arts pose she was using. It was something they had trained together when they were stranded on Earth.
“Is this a Youkai?” Mizuki asked.
“Yes, but it looks different,” Haruna said.
The proof of their words came when the spiders began to spew fire from their mouths and create tree branches.
“…..” Haruna, Mizuki, Kuroka, and Kaguya just looked at Victor neutrally.
“… As I said, never underestimate your enemies,” Victor said again. “Just because these creatures look like spiders doesn’t mean they will only use webs, poisons, or their legs to fight. Expect the unexpected; thinking this way, you won’t be surprised in 90% of situations.”
Although there were many things they wanted to say, they couldn’t argue with this logic.
…
Unlike the first few times, Ruby didn’t let her guard down; she fought as she had been trained to be – fast, efficient, and deadly.
She wielded the spear, and monsters died, holes appearing in their bodies with a wave of her hand. With a step, she disappeared and reappeared somewhere else.
Slowly, her battle instincts were coming back in full force. By adopting the right mindset, her body responded to her will, shifting from ‘scientist’ mode to ‘warrior’ mode.
When the number of spiders started to dwindle, wolves appeared in a burst of Lightning.
This time, Ruby didn’t lower her guard or get surprised.
She tossed her spear into the air, and it began to spin. In the next moment, Water began to pour from the spear and fall like rain, and Ruby’s eyes glinted faintly. The Water droplets crystallized, piercing through all the creatures around.
The Ice spikes were so thin and deadly that even the Ice Wolves, resistant to that Element, were pierced.
With this attack, more than half of the monsters were killed, and only two wolves remained.
The spear fell back into Ruby’s hand, and in the next moment, she disappeared and reappeared in front of the wolves.
As she was about to swing the spear to kill the wolf, she suddenly stopped; her instincts screamed danger. Her whole body was covered in Ice, forming a protective structure.
A Shadow Demon tried to pierce Ruby, but it couldn’t. She grabbed the shadowy creature with her hands and squeezed, killing it.
When she killed the creature, her vision was obscured. She immediately understood that this was the work of the creatures and not because she had been blinded.
Closing her eyes and keeping her defenses up, she sensed several Shadow Demons coming from the darkness. She began to ‘dance’ on the battlefield, wielding the spear.
The movements and Techniques were all very familiar to everyone; it was as if they were watching Scathach herself in battle.
…
“Incredible… To think she became so strong,” Siena commented.
“Hahahaha, that’s what I’m talking about. Finally, she’s acting as she normally does,” Scathach laughed with satisfaction, but then her eyes narrowed. “Although she still thinks too much.”
“This annoying habit of thinking before acting slows everything down; you must act on instinct! Instinct! Not with your mind!” Scathach growled as her wings flapped furiously.
“… This woman’s mood has become even more unstable. It’s like she has bipolar disorder! And they call me crazy,” Natashia commented.
“In the early levels, it’s okay for her to act this way… But the higher the level, the more she will realize that there won’t be time to think in a high-level fight,” Victor thought.
In a battle where every millisecond can determine life and death, the body must act before the mind. That’s why Scathach emphasized this point so much.
The enemies began to diminish, and soon… No one was left, only Ruby standing, and several disappearing corpses.
In the next moment, a portal appeared.
Ruby took a deep breath, and walked towards the portal. “Finally…” Just as she was about to go through the portal, she suddenly stopped, and attacked the ‘air’ behind her.
“Humpf, I won’t let my guard down twice, maggot.”
When she finished speaking those words, the creature’s invisibility began to undo, and a creature appeared, a Hunter, monsters created by the Elder Gods.
Ruby cut the creature’s body into pieces, and without waiting, she jumped straight into the portal.
Seeing the familiar atmosphere of her room, Ruby sighed but didn’t let her guard down. After experiencing everything that had happened so far, she suspected that even this room was not 100% safe.
…
“Heh~. In the end, did you realize, Scathach?” Victor smiled.
“Of course, she acted on instinct… This Tower is magnificent, Victor,” Scathach complimented. After so many years of telling her daughter to stop overthinking and act, it had resulted in nothing. But by pushing her to the limit, she had been able to evolve.
Victor simply nodded neutrally, showing no emotion.
Scathach looked at Victor and sighed. She could understand his feelings, but she also thought he was overreacting. The girls were not fragile flowers that needed to be protected 100% of the time.
Scathach wanted to say this to Victor, but she knew it was futile. She had made this comment in the past, and it hadn’t changed anything. Victor’s essence wouldn’t change just because of a few words.
Even with Scathach herself being a very strong woman, Victor still worried about her.
Honestly, she was impressed that Victor had done something like this and let the girls enter this place. Even though they wouldn’t truly die, the experience was still very real—pain, cuts, feelings, everything was real.
‘What a complex man, and yet so simple at the same time.’ She smiled sweetly.
[Darling, it’s working.] Roxanne spoke.
[What was the result?]
[Both times Ruby died, her Soul was nourished by the Beings, and some Essence of The Souls was absorbed, enhancing the quality of her own Soul.]
Victor nodded. Unlike him, the girls couldn’t absorb Souls into their own Souls, but… that didn’t mean they couldn’t absorb traces of it. This Tower had that effect.
With each death on both sides, the Souls of the monsters would slowly nourish the girls’ Souls, thus increasing their potential and Power.
Victor was essentially exploring his manipulation of Souls, not to ‘alter’ them as he normally did, but to ‘add’ something, something that should be impossible for him because he couldn’t ‘add’ anything to a Soul that wasn’t his own ‘Essence.’
The task of adding ‘something’ to someone’s Soul was exclusive to the Primordial Entities, especially those who dealt with Life and Soul.
… But despite being a task exclusive to the Primordial Entities, Victor was still doing it on a smaller scale; he was venturing into a realm that only the Beings who controlled this Universe could enter.
Ruby had killed hundreds of monsters on that floor, and 0.2% of the Souls of those creatures had entered Ruby’s Soul.
Yes, the number was very small, almost insignificant, but… if this was done thousands of times? In all those times, the owner of the Soul experiencing the ‘end’ of life and receiving this boost?
Their Souls would increase in quality, consequently, their Powers, and latent potential would also flourish.
Victor was exploiting The System; he was taking advantage of the nature of Souls.
When an individual was about to die, the Soul showed its true potential and became more ‘open’ to interference, and that moment was when Victor would ‘add’ some percentages of the Souls he had to nourish the girls.
During those seconds, Victor would experience everything the ‘girls’ were feeling in their final moments.
It was an exhausting job that tore at his heart, but Victor didn’t mind doing it.
After all, as The Head of The Family, it was his responsibility to take care of his Family… Even if it meant causing his own Family to suffer to become stronger.
Feeling two hands touch his shoulder, Victor saw the faces of Aphrodite and Roberta.
“… Darling, you’re pushing yourself too hard.” Concern was evident in the Goddess’s eyes; she clearly sensed his inner turmoil.
“Rest for a bit, Darling. You need it,” Roberta said.
Victor smiled gently at both of them.
“This is nothing.”
Zaladrac bit her lip as she witnessed this exchange, and she had the same feeling she had when Victor was battling those Gods but he didn’t call her because he wanted to protect this place.
“You… Haah…” Roberta sighed and simply hugged him, enveloping him in her ample bosom that was only a few centimeters smaller than Aphrodite’s.
The Goddess just shook her head and sighed.
Victor chuckled softly and stroked Roberta’s long hair; among his women, she had the longest hair.
Watching this exchange, Scathach, Natashia, Agnes, Eleonor, and Leona narrowed their eyes. They felt like they were missing something, but they didn’t know what.
Leona looked at Kaguya, who had a solemn look in her eyes as she gazed at Victor.
“Do you know something?”
“I don’t. But I can imagine. He has the same look as he did when he was in the Human World back then…” Kaguya spoke incomprehensible words to Leona, but not to the Maids around her.
“I understand. That’s why Roberta is acting like this,” Maria opened her eyes in understanding.
“We need to do something… Shall we talk to him later?” Bruna suggested to the girls.
“I’ll arrange it,” Kaguya nodded in agreement with Bruna.
“We’re really fortunate, huh…” Alter Eve spoke to Eve.
“Since that day in that dark room, I’ve never regretted accepting his hand…” She said solemnly.
“…” Eve remained silent and simply nodded in agreement with Alter.
Those who were not connected to him couldn’t ‘exactly’ understand what he was going through, but they knew the man they called Husband. It only took a suggestion here and there, and they soon fully understood that Victor was doing something more painful than letting the girls die.
“We need to talk, Scathach,” Aphrodite spoke sternly.
“Huh?”
“Now.” Aphrodite pulled Scathach and looked at Jeanne and Morgana with a look that told them to follow.
Victor heard everything that was happening around him and understood what was going on, but he didn’t do anything and simply focused on the three women in The Tower.
“It looks like Violet and Sasha have stopped exploring. It’s their turn now,” he thought as he stroked Roberta, whose hair began to come to life and enveloped her completely as if it were alive.
Chapter 839: Nightmare Tower 3.
Upon entering the room similar to Ruby’s, Violet began to explore. Unlike Ruby, who went straight for the door, Violet looked into every corner of the room. She even pressed her ear against the wall and started tapping as if she were searching for a hidden door or something of the sort.
To everyone’s surprise, she actually found one.
A complete room with equipment of better quality than the main room.
“… Victor, what is this?” Scathach asked after returning from a very serious conversation with Aphrodite, Morgana, and Jeanne.
“The tower values the curious,” Victor shrugged and didn’t provide many details.
“Although, as they say… Curiosity killed the cat.”
The moment Violet touched a steel sword, the sword transformed into a tentacle monster.
“FU—!” Violet quickly ignited her body. “I’ve seen enough Hentai to know where this is going, and I won’t be your victim!”
“…..” The girls looked at Victor.
“It wasn’t my plan to create tentacle monsters,” Victor looked at Nyx and Gaia, who assisted him in creating the tower’s challenges.
Gaia just glanced at Nyx since she was in charge of managing the ‘mimic’ soulless beings that were essentially golems.
“In my defense, I wanted a monster like Cthulhu or something, not this little creature!” Nyx exclaimed.
“….” Instead of being impressed, everyone looked at her horrified. Why on earth would she want a cosmic horror? Is she tired of living?
If such beings existed, the scale of nonsense that would be thrown at them wouldn’t even be funny.
“Anyway, setting aside the monster’s design, they are just mimics. Violet was lucky to encounter a mimic with a water-based monster; if it were another element, she’d have had a bit of trouble.”
“Why the heck would you create a secret room in the safe area? Isn’t that against the rules?” Pepper grumbled.
“… Who said that room is a safe area?” Victor smiled kindly at Pepper.
Pepper swallowed hard when she saw Victor’s kind smile; for some reason, that smile now seemed very sad*stic to her.
“There’s no such thing as rules. Nowhere in this tower is safe; the safe area has its own built-in trap that will test the girls.”
“Although there are no rules, the tower has a pattern; it will react depending on the actions of the beings within it,” Victor said but didn’t elaborate further.
“… Yes, I shouldn’t have expected anything different. We’re talking about Victor here, a man obsessed with training; he definitely planned some sort of nonsense in that room,” Siena pointed out.
“You’ve misunderstood, my daughter,” Scathach began to speak.
“… What?”
“Everything.”
“Huh?”
“Just watch; you’ll understand eventually. And if you don’t understand, you’ll learn when you enter the tower.”
“… Since when did I say I was going to enter the tower?” Siena pursed her lips.
“Eh~? Do you think you had a choice from the beginning?” Scathach ‘kindly’ smiled at Siena.
Siena was old enough to understand what that smile meant; from the beginning, she never had a choice!
“…f*ck.”
“Give it up Siena, you know how our family works, and tell me honestly, do you really not want to enter this tower?” Lacus asked.
Siena looked at Ruby, who was evidently getting ‘stronger,’ even if slowly. With each confrontation and situation she faced, Ruby’s senses sharpened, making her even deadlier.
For some girls like Ruby, Sasha, Violet, Pepper, Lacus, and Siena, they only need combat experience to blossom into something deadlier.
There is a limit to how much training can help you get stronger, which is why this tower is essential for all.
Victor remained silent as he listened to this discussion. To him, whether the other girls entered or not didn’t make a difference; he would still do his job, but…
“I won’t let anyone enter the tower until I judge them strong enough and determined enough.”
These words awakened the girls from their illusions, and they looked at Victor.
“Why, Victor?” Agnes asked.
“Seeking strength without motivation or determination will only weaken your mindset and make you vulnerable. The tower is not a kind place for those who are not resolute.”
The proof of Victor’s words happened in the next scene when Violet stopped exploring and walked toward the room’s door, holding a steel sword.
Upon entering the door, Violet found herself in an ice cavern with eight different passages leading to unknown places.
“Hmm, an ice environment…” Violet looked around at the passages, then looked up, checking the icy ceiling. She licked her finger and pointed it upward.
“… To the left.”
“…..” Some girls were left speechless by what they had just witnessed. Wasn’t she being too random? How did she make that decision based on something so absurd?
“Hahahaha, she’s really something else, isn’t she?” Scathach remarked.
“Indeed.”
“Comparing the three girls among themselves, Violet seems to be someone who follows her instincts more,” Helena said.
“She’s the opposite of Ruby, who seems to overthink things,” Lily added.
“It’s not that she blindly follows her instincts; there’s a bit of logical thinking behind her actions,” Victor began to explain.
“You’re stuck in a location that is clearly an ice cavern; how do you find the exit if you don’t have eyes like mine?”
“… Look for an air current and follow it,” Helena answered.
“And that’s what she did,” Victor nodded. “In an environment where you know nothing, the best way to get out of that situation is to assess the surroundings and make a decision based on that assessment.”
“Will that be the correct answer? Probably not, but it’s better to act than to stand still waiting for death,” Victor concluded his explanation.
And then Scathach chimed in:
“Of course, the answer to this situation can vary greatly depending on who is in the cavern currently. If it were Eleonor instead of Violet, she would just need to ‘read’ the earth to understand her surroundings like a sonar.”
“If it were Victor, he would just see everything around with my eyes.”
“If it were my former self, I would simply use my runes.”
Victor suddenly said, “… If it were Pepper, she would carve a new path without thinking much.”
“Oyy! You make it sound like I’m a fool who only thinks about punching things… I mean, you’re not wrong about the theory you mentioned, but the way you put it is wrong!”
Victor just laughed and patted Pepper’s head, which brought a big smile to the red-haired girl, and she hugged him even tighter.
At that moment, something began to happen to Violet.
The ground started shaking as if there was an earthquake, and in the next moment, roars were heard.
Hearing this roar, Violet didn’t waste any time. She jumped into the air, and her whole body burst into flames. A pillar of fire shot into the sky, piercing the cave in the middle.
Soon, Violet appeared in her Level 2 Vampire Count form. She didn’t even bother looking down; she just flew into the hole her transformation had caused.
When she exited the cave, she found herself in a snowy world with snowstorms raging. In this vast whiteness, Violet looked like a tiny fire particle.
Suddenly, giant blue eyes began to open on the horizon, followed by various noises that cleared the snowstorm. Soon, five giant creatures appeared on the horizon.
These giants were unlike anything she had ever seen. For a moment, she even thought it might be a Yeti on steroids or something, but the creatures’ tails and reptilian eyes indicated otherwise.
“What the hell are these!?”
That was indeed a valid question, and being a valid question, the girls looked at Victor.
Instead of answering again, he said, “Violet has a peculiarity when hunting or killing an enemy.”
“If possible, she will use all her power from the start.”
“Unlike Ruby, who thinks more about conserving her energy and managing it correctly.”
“Violet doesn’t care… She will burn everything.”
“Therefore, the tower sent her to a higher-level location than where Ruby currently is.”
“What floor is she on now?” Agnes asked.
“21.”
“Wait… The ‘tower’ sent her?” Haruna narrowed her eyes. “Are you saying that this tower is sentient?”
Victor smiled a bit. “Something like that, but at the same time, different.”
“Ugh, why don’t you just tell us, Victor?” Pepper grumbled.
“If I tell you, you will lose the value of surprise, which is quite essential for growth. Explore this place and discover your own secrets; I guarantee you will be completely different when you leave the tower.”
“….” They had no words to refute these statements; what he said made a lot of sense, after all.
Victor looked back at Violet.
She began to exert more power and flew toward the monsters.
‘She’s going to die,’ he thought.
Those monsters were far beyond Violet’s current capabilities.
That didn’t mean the monster was stronger than Violet; in fact, Violet’s firepower was stronger than the monsters. However, there was a small problem.
By altering the souls within them, Victor created a subspecies of dragons and gave them a rather problematic ability.
This ability was inherited from Sasha, specifically from Sasha’s father’s clan.
An ability that allowed the individual to be more ‘resilient.’ It was a simple ability, but when combined with the dragon-like skin of those creatures, well…
Tink!
The sound of two metals colliding was heard, and in the next moment, Violet’s steel sword shattered. She couldn’t cut through the monster’s skin, nor could she burn it.
The last reason was quite simple: even though they were only a subspecies and not true dragons, they still had a high resistance to flames because they were ‘descendants’ of Victor, a being whose primary attribute was the violet dragon aspect flames, which were much stronger than common flames.
Therefore… the result of the creatures taking a deep breath and ‘blowing’ a beam of ice, freezing Violet to death, was quite predictable for Victor.
“Just what are these creatures, Victor?” Agnes asked seriously. “They are clearly a subspecies of dragon, but the other characteristics…” She looked at the creature’s ‘humanoid’ form.
This monster looked like a bizarre fusion of various species.
“A species native to Nightingale, altered into a dragon subspecies,” Victor’s response was simple, and it caused a stir in the group, especially in Eleonor and Rose.
“You used an Alpha…?” Rose asked.
“Wrong, I used those above them,” Victor said. The main ‘ingredient’ he used to create those creatures were the ‘natives’ of Nightingale, especially those beings that ambushed him.
He never thought that this combination of dragons and those beings, along with some humanoid monsters Roxanne had in possession of souls, would be so deadly.
…
“Whoaaa!” Violet woke up back in her room.
“… I died, didn’t I…?” She touched her entire body, shuddering as she remembered the sensation of ‘dying.’
‘This is not cool. I don’t want to experience that again.’
Little did she know that she would indeed experience it again, in several different ways.
Violet clenched her fist in determination and got out of bed. She walked over to the secret area and picked up another steel weapon. She looked at the weapon and tried to cover it with her fire.
Slowly, her fire began to completely envelop the sword.
Unlike before when she randomly infused her power into the sword, this time she was shaping the steel to create a sword of fire. She was perfectly controlling her power.
“Let’s try again.” Violet’s spirit wouldn’t break just because she ‘died.’
The moment she passed through the door, something unexpected happened.
The scenery changed to something completely different. It was no longer the ice cavern, but rather a mansion described as green liquids dripped from the ceiling.
“Ugh, that stench.” She covered her nose and looked at the liquid in front of her. Without thinking too much, she was about to burn the entire place to make the smell disappear, but… she stopped when her instincts warned her of danger in taking that action.
“… What?”
Despite her instincts warning her, she didn’t really know what to do. It’s not like her instincts were telling her what was wrong. But for now, she decided not to risk it and continued walking through the mansion.
While walking through the mansion, doing her best to ignore the smell, the ‘fire’ of Violet’s blade touched the green liquid.
“Shi-”
BOOOOOOOM!
A green explosion engulfed the entire screen.
…
“She died.” Haruna, Mizuki, Helena, and Natalia all spoke at the same time.
“… Why is Violet’s challenge harder than Ruby’s?” Natashia asked.
“It’s not that it’s harder, but rather the dungeon is highlighting a significant flaw in Violet and Agnes.”
“Huh?” Agnes blinked in surprise when her name was suddenly mentioned.
“They rely too much on their flames.”
“Since that’s their strongest and most frequently used point, the tower will create scenarios where those flames can’t be fully utilized without caution.”
“Variety is necessary in a warrior. Being a master of one thing is good, but even that master needs to know other things to avoid being predictable.”
“Predictability kills, we all know that… Just look at what happened to Michael and Gabriel.”
“…..” Silence fell around the group, and they couldn’t help but think of the vision of Gabriel and Michael being killed in the war.
Diablo knew that no matter how much time passed, their enemies would never ‘evolve’ beyond what he ‘predicted’ because that’s how angels were – beings with brains but not using them.
“Ahhhh!… What the f*ck! I died again! I didn’t even see what happened!” Violet growled.
Chapter 840: Nightmare Tower. 4
Unlike Ruby, Violet couldn’t make progress on her second attempt. After all, unlike Ruby, Violet hadn’t been trained by Scathach Scarlett, and her ‘foundation’ wasn’t as solid as Ruby’s.
And just as Victor had said, she relied more on her flames for most things, which was why she was struggling so much in the tower.
Her mistakes were being exposed blatantly, and even though Violet wanted to deny it, she had to acknowledge that what she was doing was wrong.
Because of that, on her sixth attempt, she tried something different.
Instead of relying on her flames, she would rely on her basic vampire powers… and her special eyes.
Standing in the middle of a green forest, Violet sighed.
She instinctively realized that this place was dangerous to use her power in. The leaves seemed normal, but she was sure that just a spark of fire could make this whole place explode.
Due to her previous attempts, she had become quite paranoid in this tower. She didn’t trust anything anymore, not even the ‘rest’ area where she woke up when she died.
This feeling of never being able to let her guard down… Honestly, it was quite stressful.
With the steel sword in her hand, Violet crouched a bit and dashed forward.
She began running through the forest, using the agility of vampires to her advantage.
ROOOOOOOOAR!
Several loud noises echoed around, proving that whatever these animals were, they had just woken up.
But even though she heard it, she didn’t stop running. Jumping through the trees, using the trunks for support, Violet was doing parkour in the forest.
At one point, she saw a large tree and used its branch to support herself and took a huge leap upwards.
When she was above the trees, Violet’s violet eyes began to glow slightly. In that moment, she could see 5 seconds into the future.
…
“Victor… This is…” Agnes held Victor’s arms.
“Yes. She’s using that,” Victor nodded.
“This girl… She really doesn’t listen,” Agnes sighed.
“Well, if she listened, she wouldn’t be Violet,” Victor smiled.
“… The way she’s using that power, can you do it too?” Natashia asked.
“Yes, I can, but I don’t,” Victor replied.
“Why?”
“Because it hinders me,” Victor stared at Violet’s screen for a few seconds. “With my reaction time, with my speed, predicting 5 seconds into the future is irrelevant when I can react to almost everything at extreme speed.”
In the 1 second that Victor would spend ‘looking’ into the future, he could use that time to close the gap with the opponent and kill them.
People underestimate how broken speed can be.
But for someone like Violet who doesn’t have that advantage, this tool was very useful.
Proof of that was the next scene that just happened. In mid-air, Violet turned her shoulder to the left, and a moment later, a four-legged animal appeared, biting at the ‘air’ instead of her shoulder.
This animal looked like a canine race of humans, but its entire skin was covered in plants, making it look more like a monster than an actual animal.
Instead of attacking the wolf, Violet’s entire body turned into a swarm of bats, and she flew away.
In the next moment, 5 more plant wolves appeared, biting at the air.
“… Huh? Since when can she do that?” Agnes asked.
“That was something she learned while playing with Ruby and Pepper in the past,” Siena answered Agnes.
“… She could shape-shift from a young age?” Once again, Agnes was surprised.
“Yes…? I thought you knew that? I mean, she’s your daughter, right?” Siena spoke.
“….” Agnes obviously didn’t know. What Violet had just done was a racial ability, but despite being a racial ability, you had to fully master your shape-
shifting to do this.
“Not to mention it wouldn’t be surprising if they knew how to do this, after all, they are the women who have been drinking Victor’s blood from the beginning,” Kaguya pointed out.
Agnes blinked twice…
“That’s true…” Agnes knew how powerful her husband’s blood was; one proof of this was Natashia, who overcame her lightning weakness just by evolving after drinking his blood.
The swarm of bats that was flying above the trees suddenly began to descend towards the ground, they started to gather, and in the next moment, Violet appeared.
A loud crash was heard, and the ground beneath Violet shattered, giving her the momentum to fly towards the wolves.
Sensing danger, the wolves scattered, leaving only one in the middle, surrounding Violet, and attacking in a pincer formation.
Two on each side, and one in the middle.
Violet didn’t stop her attack; she kept advancing. When the wolves were about to bite her, she turned into a swarm of bats again and appeared behind the first wolf, effectively putting them all in her line of sight.
With a horizontal swing, she slashed all the wolves, killing them instantly.
Proving that the wolves were easy to kill, but complicated due to their unique composition and abilities that ‘countered’ Violet’s ‘main’ abilities.
A portal appeared near the group of wolves.
Violet looked at the portal and began walking towards it. When she was about to reach the gate, she suddenly crouched.
A wolf emerged from the ground and bit at the air where Violet’s neck would be.
“You f*cker, did you think I would let my guard down with such an obvious trap?” Violet growled as she used her sword to pierce the wolf.
“…..” Pepper, Lacus, Siena, and Scathach watched this.
“… Well, at least she didn’t make the same mistake as Ruby,” Lacus scratched her head.
“Unlike Ruby, she failed more times, so she was more on guard,” Scathach said.
“Humpf, Scathach’s ‘powerful’ daughter who is more ‘capable’ than my daughter let her guard down twice, so I can say that my ‘incapable’ daughter has surpassed her,” Agnes snorted.
A vein popped on Scathach’s head, but she didn’t say anything because Agnes was right; Ruby letting her guard down was against everything Scathach had taught.
“See? Even you—” When Agnes was about to say more to Scathach, her mouth was covered by Siena, Pepper, and Lacus.
“Agnes, you idiot. Stop provoking my mom; it will only backfire on us!” Siena whispered strongly with blood-red eyes.
“Don’t you know her mood is chaotic because of her transformation? Do you want to be turned into ashes!?” Lacus whispered. “Or better yet, do you want to turn us into ashes!?”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah!” Pepper strongly supported.
“HmmhHmmm!” Agnes tried to say something, but nothing was understood because her mouth was covered.
“It’s my daughter’s turn now,” Natashia smiled.
“Are you confident?” Hestia asked.
“Of course, unlike Violet and Ruby, I’ve been training with my daughter a lot lately. I bet she won’t give a shameful performance,” Natashia said.
Victor just shook his head while stroking Roberta’s long hair. He wondered when this had become a competition for these ‘mothers.’
“As I said, Darling, you don’t need to worry; they’re not in any danger,” Roxanne spoke.
Victor sighed. “I know, but it’s hard to control these feelings.”
Roxanne just smiled; she knew very well that it was impossible not to make him worry. After all, that was his nature.
The screen changed, and soon a blonde woman appeared, sitting on the ground with 30 daggers in front of her.
“Hmm… These daggers are very subpar; there are visible imperfections.” She picked up a dagger and examined it.
Rumble, Rumble.
The dagger was covered in golden lightning.
“Although they are quite sensitive to energy… Hmm.”
“Maybe it’s the properties of the metal? After all, iron is a conductor… or something my husband added?” Sasha touched her chin while thinking.
“Speaking of which, I haven’t checked this room yet.” A static field began to be created with Sasha at the center, spreading throughout the room.
“A bed, a bathroom, a fridge, hmm?” Sasha picked up a dagger and threw it towards a wall.
But instead of piercing it, it got stuck.
“Oh?”
Sasha approached the wall and gave it a strong kick, breaking the wall.
Soon, Sasha saw a whole new room with better weapons.
“Hmm…” The static field entered the room, and she looked at the weapons. “I can use this.” She smiled.
“Static field? What’s that?” Agnes asked.
“It’s something that Sasha and I developed recently. We realized that compared to Victor, our spatial senses are quite limited, so we use our lightning to create a field where we can sense everything within it,” Natashia explained.
“… Isn’t that too overpowered?” Agnes said.
Those words only made Natashia smile. “Of course it is.” She looked back at her daughter.
“Seeing Victor use our lightning better than us made me realize that I was limiting my way of thinking too much. Originally, my family was of lightning spirits; our power comes from that ancestry, so it’s understandable that our mastery of lightning can be equal to or even surpass that of the spirit, depending on our own development.”
“So my daughter and I spent hours trying to improve our ability.” Natashia finished.
“… And you didn’t invite me.” Victoria suddenly spoke.
“…..” Natashia choked.
“To be fair, you only awakened your lightning recently when you finally stopped being annoying and decided to follow my advice.”
“….” These words didn’t make Victoria’s gaze lose its coldness. In fact, they made her look even colder.
“… But doesn’t this fit the same problem as Violet and me?” Agnes spoke after thinking for a moment.
Finding an opportunity to escape her younger sister’s gaze, Natashia looked at Agnes and said:
“Not exactly.”
“Unlike your fire, the use of our lightning is more versatile.”