《Evolution God》 1 System Normally when people die, they would go to Heaven or Hell. Well... That''s not entirely true based on my experience. Lucifer was a normal teenage boy at the age of 17 living in modern-day London with his grandmother Miranda. Yes, you heard right, ''Lucifer'' the devils name. The name itself sounded cool, but he would always get bullied for his unusual name and him being slightly overweight. It was always hard to get through the day, and most of the time his lunch money for the cafeteria would be taken by bullies, so he oftentimes wouldn''t get anything to eat until dinner at home with Miranda. Life is hard, he knows that much, but why does it have to be so unfair? He was a little overweight, and because of that, he got bullied a lot compared to others. Just a little weight made others look at him as if he was a fat pig. Because he got bullied a lot, he would always sit alone in a corner of his class, away from everyone else. He never made his homework, because even the teachers bullied and ignored him. But he wouldn''t mind, because he always thought people deserved another chance. That''s why he never told Miranda of him being bullied in school. And then came that one day. That day that changed his entire view of human desire and reason. He had enough of being bullied, so he spoke up, but to his surprise, everyone began to bully and oppress him, even more, making him more depressed. At that day after school ended, he walked toward home looking down at his phone. Not the smartest idea, but he didn''t care at the time. As if his bad luck of being bullied and oppressed wasn''t enough, he got run over by a truck. Of course, that was because he didn''t pay attention to his surroundings and just walked right out on the road. Everything turned black, and he couldn''t feel nor see or hear anything. And it was at that time he was hit he heard the cold and mechanical voice inside his head. ["Host accomplished nothing during the living period of 17 years, 238 days, 12 hours, 23 minutes and 47 seconds."] ''I mean, you didn''t have to be that harsh on me when I was already depressed''. Another message with the same cold and mechanical voice rang inside his head. ["System of the Evolution God will now reprogram Host''s body to fit the climate condition and atmosphere of the planet named ''Zylghen,'' also named as ''The World Of Chaos'' by his Majesty the Evolution God, Bithos."] ''What?'' Who would want to live in a world named The World of Chaos? Just what happened to it for it to get that name. Although the name ''The World Of Chaos'' sounded pretty cool, he wouldn''t want to live there. Not many people would if they had a choice. But because of his bad luck, he couldn''t choose anything else. And what was all that about his ''Majesty,'' and the ''Evolution God''? Did it have something to do with the cold mechanical voice inside his head? He wouldn''t know if he didn''t ask. It was only then, that he noticed he couldn''t speak. Almost as if he was just a thought, a soul maybe? What a bummer, he thought. ["System of the Evolution God has successfully modified and reprogrammed the Host''s body to fit the criteria to survive on the planet Zylghen."] ["The system will now incorporate the ''Evolution System'' into the Host."] ["Successfully incorporated the ''Evolution System'' into the Host. As a result of the Host feeling oppressed and scared in the previous life, the Host has acquired the passive skill ''Fear'' and the skill ''Expand''."] ["Waking up Host in the new modified body."] He could slowly open his eyes from the completely black space he was in before. He looked at his body to see if he had undergone any change that might be visible. He had a pair of wings, a tail and his body was covered in coal-black shiny scales. He was around a meter tall, with the wingspan being two meters in length. He looked like a dragon, which was pretty cool. His chest and claws had a blood-red colour, which shone in the light sunlight. After checking himself, he looked around and saw a bunch of tall trees. They looked to be around 20-25 metes tall which restricted him from seeing anything above that height. Only some light were allowed to come through the leaves. Everything was green around him, almost like a rainforest or jungle. ''This place doesn''t live up to the name of The World Of Chaos''. And what was that skill about? All of this reminded him of some novels he had read when he was still back on earth. Maybe this System worked the same as some of the others in the novels? - "Status?" ________________ [Name: Lucifer][Race: Demon Dragon (Baby: 1/5)][Rank: Earth] - Titles: - HP: 75/75, MP: 75/75 - Total Battlepower (TB): 150/150 - Skills: Expand, Sanguis Dragon Flame, - Unique Skills: Absorb, Combine, Observation, - Passive Skills: Fear, [Advancement Unavailable] [Evolution Unavailable] [Race: Demon Dragon] A species of aggressive dragons, with their own unique dragon flame, the Sanguis Dragon Flame. They''re known to attack other species without reason, and most view them as ''Evil'' beings connected to the demons and devils from the underworld. The Demon Dragon is ranked as an Earth Rank while it has the potential to be as strong as a Lord Rank beast. [Skill: Expand] ''Expand'' allows for the user of the skill to absorb power from nature into the body, which will double the body mass and TB, resulting in a temporary boost in strength and defence. It can only be used 2 times every 24 hours. [Skill: Sanguis Dragon Flame] The unique flame only available to the Demon Dragon race. Its colour is blood red and when used it can only affect and burn blood and flesh, thereby the name Sanguis Dragon Flame (Blood Dragon Flame). [Unique Skill: Absorb] ''Absorb'' allows the user to obtain other races bloodlines a small chance to get a random skill through killing different races and absorbing their dead remains. [Unique Skill: Combine] Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. ''Combine'' allows the user to combine different bloodlines or skills, creating new and unknown bloodlines or skills. [Unique Skill: Observation] ''Observation'' allows the user to roughly see the stats and condition of the target selected. [Passive Skill: Fear] The user releases an intimidating and scary aura. Only works on beings weaker than the user. ________________ Everything looked pretty good, but right now he didn''t know whether he was strong or not. And what did it mean to be an ''Earth Rank''? - "System, what do ranks mean?" ["Ranks is used to identify the threat level and power an animal or beast has. The currently known ranks are Mortal, Earth, Lord, King, Angel, Heaven and God."] He was only an earth rank species. At least his species wasn''t in the Mortal rank. - "Hey System, do you have a name?" ["Loton"] - "Loton how do I get stronger?" ["Because of your Unique Skill: Absorb you can kill and absorb the bloodlines and skills of the specific target inheriting it and can further combine different bloodlines or skills. Each time you kill a living organism, you''ll get Advancement XP. Advancement XP is the XP needed to rank up from your current stage. You can try with ''Advance'' and see the different stages and XP needed to advance. Not all species give the same amount of XP when killed."] - "Advance." ________________ [Advancement][Race: Demon Dragon][Current XP: 0] Baby (Current) Child (50 XP) Young Adult (500 XP) Adult (5,000 XP) Elder (50,000 XP) ________________ So he would first need to get XP from killing other beasts and animals he found. Second, he needed somewhere safe in case a big and strong animal spotted him. Third, he needed to get a lot stronger if he wanted to survive in this new world. - "Can other species evolve like me?" ["Because you have the System of the Evolution God, only you can evolve to a new species that may or may not exist."] Great. So he was a unique being that could evolve, and steal skills and bloodlines of other species just by killing them and absorbing their remains. 2 The First Battle After Lucifer walked around for a bit, he got used to the terrain and the surroundings. Even though the world he was in was called The World Of Chaos, there really wasn''t much about it that seemed to be chaotic. At least where he was located. He began to familiarize himself with his new dragon body since this was his new life anyway. In the start, he barely walked around, since he wasn''t used to having four legs, a pair of wings and a tail that was around three meters long. After walking around for some time he came across a river, but the colour of the water was not bluish like your typical river water. It had a red hue to it and seemed to sparkle under the sun. It even had fish in it, but they were floating on top of the water, dead. Not the prettiest sight, and it was disturbing to look at so he hurriedly walked away and deeper into the jungle to explore, and find some beasts he would be able to kill. After walking for a couple of hours a weird deer, with red antlers, red eyes and black skin with some reddish symbols and carvings ran in front of him a couple of hundred meters away. It looked like it had been fleeing from a battle with another animal as it was covered in wounds and scars. - "Observation!" He almost yelled because he was excited to finally find a beast, that he most likely could kill and get a skill and XP helping him grow stronger. ________________ [Name: None][Race: Demonic Deer (Young adult: 3/5)][Rank: Earth] - HP: 121/500, MP: 64/250 - Total Battlepower (TB): 185/750 - Skills: Demonic Rush, Demon''s Eye - Unique Skills: - Passive Skills: Demon''s Healing, [Race: Demonic Deer] The Demonic Deer is known for its skill Demon''s Healing, which will allow it to Heal through absorbing blood from a living organism. The Demonic Deer is usually a peaceful creature, but it has been recorded to attack other races and beasts stronger than itself. ________________ ''I might have a chance to kill it before it runs and absorbs blood to heal If I attack it now''. Lucifer silently stared at the deer. Even though the deer was weakened it was still stronger than him, so he had to be careful. The ''Demon''s Healing'' skill it had was something he would also need If he wished to survive in this place. It''s got some bad luck since it met Lucifer today because he''s not only going to kill it, but also steal its bloodline and its skills. ''Maybe I should try my dragon flame?'' Lucifer silently walked a little closer, just in case his flame would miss by accident. - "Sanguis Dragon Flame!" Right, when he spat his flame at it, the deer''s eyes turned void black, and it sprinted all it could in the direction he was in, with its antlers pointed at me, completely ignoring my dragon flame. As soon as its eyes turned black, he began to feel fear and pressure. It kept staring at him, while his flame came closer to hitting it for every step it took. The flame hit it, but It just ran straight through without a single new scratch and stared at him with its demonic black eyes. ''It must be it''s skill Demon''s Eye, that makes me feel fear and pressure''. Lucifer thought with a panicked look on his face. - "Loton, how can I kill this deer??" ["Since the Demonic Deer is stronger than the Host, it is recommended to use the skill ''Expand'' which will double the Host''s TB and body mass for a short period of time."] ''How stupid can I be''. Lucifer silently shook his head. He just read through his skills some time ago, but already forgot that he had a skill that could help him in situations like these. ''I guess this shows that I''m not used to being in a battle, where life and death matters''. - "Expand!" Lucifer roared, and the energy of nature around him began to get sucked into his body. His body began to expand in size, while more and more energy got into his body giving him a refreshing feeling. At last, It stopped at two times his original body size, which made him look really intimidating. ________________ [Name: Lucifer] - HP: 150/150, MP: 150/150 (¡ü2x) - Total Battlepower (TB): 300/300 (¡ü2x) ________________ ["Warning, the Host can only maintain the expanded form, for the next 60 seconds, due to the skill putting too much stress on the body."] ''So I can''t use it for a long period of time''. Feeling a little dejected hearing that, he focused on the Demonic Deer running towards him with its almost abyss like black eyes. ''I must not let it hurt me''. Lucifer prepared another round of his dragon flame. - "Sanguis Dragon Flame!" He roared again, but this time with the boost he got from using his ''Expand'' skill. The blood-red flame flew toward the deer at an insane speed, twisting and turning while in the air, looking like it was a living organism. It lightened up the surroundings in red eerie light while roaring like a dragon. The flame hit the Demonic Deer, but this time it actually did some damage. The deer was scorched like coal, just standing a dozen meters in front of him, staring with fear and confusion in its eyes. - "Sanguis Dragon Flame!" He fired his dragon flame again, to kill it. As soon as the deer saw the flame it turned around to flee, but it wasn''t fast enough and got hit by the flame, completely burning up only leaving bones behind. Lucifer undid the skill ''Expand'' as to not give his body too much stress. He deflated back to his normal size again. Then a cold mechanical voice inside his mind began speaking. ["Due to killing a Earth ranked Demonic Deer, the Host has been awarded 750 XP"] ["A dead organism has been spotted within the range to absorb, would the Host like to absorb it?"] ["Yes/No"] -"Yes, YES, I would like to absorb it!" ["Absorbing ''Race: Demonic Deer''."] ["Successfully absorbed ''Race: Demonic Deer'' and obtained 10% of its bloodline and the ''Passive Skill: Demon''s Healing''."] ''Great, now that I''ve killed it I got its skills and some of its bloodline. I even got so much XP for killing it!'' Lucifer had an evil smile plastered on his face. - "Status!" ________________ [Name: Lucifer][Race: Demon Dragon (Baby: 1/5)][Rank: Earth] - Titles: - HP: 75/75, MP: 75/75 - Total Battlepower (TB): 150/150 - Skills: Expand, Sanguis Dragon Flame, - Unique Skills: Absorb, Combine, Observation, - Passive Skills: Fear, Demon''s Healing?????, [Advancement Available] [Evolution Unavailable] [Passive Skill: Demon''s Healing] Due to normal healing skills not working on demons, one of the Demon King''s modified the skill ''Nature''s Healing'', to absorb blood from the wounded and dead to heal, instead of absorbing nature''s energy. ________________ ''I can even rank up now because I got so much XP from killing that deer''. He smiled happily. - "Advance!" [Advancement][Race: Demon Dragon][Rank: Earth][Current XP: 750] Baby (Current) Child (50 XP) (Available) Young Adult (500 XP) (Available) Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. Adult (5,000 XP) Elder (50,000 XP) - "Loton, advance me into a young adult Demon Dragon!" ["Is the Host sure he want to advance now? For the optimal result, while advancing, the Host will automatically shut down, losing all senses for the next 12 hours, due to the System modifying the Host''s body."] ''Shit, so I''ve gotta find somewhere safe before I can advance''. He looked a little nervous. After looking around and double-checking that no beast was around, he began to look for somewhere isolated. After some time walking around he spotted a cave at the bottom of a small mountain. He walked into the cave while being on high alert, in case some beast was the owner of this cave. Luckily nobody seemed to live here or own this cave, which was lucky for him. He laid down in a corner the farthest away from the entrance of the cave. - "Loton, advance me into a young adult Demon Dragon!" ["Extra confirmation needed."] ["Yes/No."] - "Yes!" After saying that Lucifer got sleepy, and began to silently fall asleep, and lose all his senses. 3 Painful Memory While sleeping Lucifer was dreaming about a day back on earth at school, and of how much of a nightmare it was. He was eating breakfast in the morning as usual, and went to the school when the clock showed 07:30. Walking on the sidewalk looking down at his phone, checking the social media. When arriving at school he began to walk to class. When arriving at class, he sat at his usual corner, where nobody would notice- or care about him. The first class started was a History lesson about WW2, and it was then that Lucifer spotted her. A beautiful girl starting in our class today. She had reddish wavy hair, thick eyebrows, green round eyes, almost jade-like white skin wearing long black pants and a black shirt. He kept staring at her with sparkly eyes, without thinking and listening to her while she was talking about her background and where she came from. Her name was Madison, and she was 17 years old. Every time she spoke, it was like an angels voice singing to him. After she was done talking about her background and presenting herself, the teacher said she could sit next to me at the back in the corner of our class. Lucifer got super nervous when the teacher said that and pretended to not see her while researching WW2. She sat down next to him and took out her laptop, and some pencils and a book about WW2. - "Hi, what''s your name? Mine''s Madison!" She said while having a cute smile. Lucifer''s blood began boiling and he was almost cold sweating. A girl had never talked to him before, except for his grandma Miranda. He blushed slightly and looked at her while smiling back. - "I''m Lucifer! Nice to meet you." She smiled back at him and began to greet the other students around her. Lucifer was sitting there next to her feeling extremely excited and happy for the first time in a year or so. Who wouldn''t be happy to have a beautiful girl sit next to you and talk to her? She was nice and had good manners while speaking with others. The clock rang and the class packed our stuff down in our bags to go have the next lesson. On the way to the next lesson, she ran up beside him and began talking to him. They chatted for a while until they came to the next classroom and sat down, having a break. Lucifer took out his phone and began playing some video games, while his heart pounded with happiness. He sometimes took a sneak peek at Madison to see what she was doing. She was drawing on a block of paper. The drawing was of a dragon with black scales, looking like a little demon with an eerie blood-red flame spitting out of its mouth, inside a green forest. - "You''re good at drawing, you know that right?" Lucifer said while smiling at her drawing. - "Oh, this, it''s just some sketches I''ve been doing recently because I''ve been too bored." He nodded with a slight smile at her and took his focus back to the game he was playing. The bell rang and the class sat down waiting for the teacher. This time it was a culture lesson, where they learned about the Australian culture and the Aborigines, the natives of Australia. When the lesson was over the class had another break, where Lucifer chatted with Madison about what activities they did after school, and he told her a little about the school. He spent most of the break showing her around, and while doing so, he became more and more happy and energetic. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. After school, he followed her home to her house and on the way we chatted and laughed together. Although he was a bit overweight, she didn''t seem to mind at all which made his heart pound with happiness he''d never felt before. After saying goodbye to her he began to walk on the sidewalk, back to his home and his grandma, Miranda. When he arrived home, he rang on the door with a bright smile on my face. The door opened and the smell of food came out. When his grandma standing in the door saw his bright smile and face she looked at him in confusion. - "Lucifer, are you sick since you''re smiling like that?" She joked a little while having a little laugh at me. - "A girl talked to me for the first time!" Lucifer excitedly replied to her with sparkling eyes and a smile so wide it went up to my ears. - "I think I''ve fallen in love with her!" He hurriedly said afterwards and began to describe her personality and her beautiful appearance. Lucifer and Miranda sat down and ate Miranda''s homemade lasagna, which was his favourite. After we ate he cleaned off the table and washed the dishes. 20 minutes later he walked up the stairs, and into his room where he sat down at his desk, and began playing some video games while listening to a music playlist. A couple of hours later, the time was 21:36 and Lucifer heard his grandma calling for him downstairs, with an impatient and shocked voice. - "Lucifer, come down here!" He hurriedly stood up and walked out of his room down the wooden stairs and into the living room where his grandma usually sits and watches the news channel. - "You said her name was Madison and she had red wavy hair and green eyes?" She said while looking at me with a weird and complicated look in her eyes. - "Yes, what about it?" - "Come sit down with me and watch the news, it has something to do with her!" Lucifer looked at her in confusion, but gradually his heart began to pound while hoping it wasn''t something bad that had happened to her. He sat down next to his grandma, and she took her arm around his shoulder slightly brushing it. - "Due to a passerby on the train station, pushing Madison Murphy out on the rails in front of the train she was run over, and survived but she was only barely hanging on. She was driven to the hospital and a couple of hours later, the doctors declared her dead." - "The culprit hasn''t been caught yet, but the police are currently searching for him." ''What?!'' Lucifer''s thoughts were instantly stirred around. Sitting on the sofa staring at the TV screen with dead eyes, and tears silently flowing down his cheeks and a heart that pounded and was pained. ["Successfully advanced Host from ''Baby'' to ''Child'' Demon Dragon."] ["Successfully advanced Host from ''Child'' to ''Young Adult'' Demon Dragon."] ["Waking up the Host from sleep."] 4 Advancement & Evolution ["Successfully advanced Host from ''Baby'' to ''Child'' Demon Dragon."] ["Successfully advanced Host from ''Child'' to ''Young Adult'' Demon Dragon."] ["After successfully advancing into a ''Young Adult'', the Host has 200XP left."] ["Due to Host advancing into a ''Young Adult'', the Host has acquired the ''Skill: Flight''."] ["Waking up the Host from sleep."] Lucifer slowly began to open my eyes. The second he woke up, he felt an excruciating pain through his whole body, and he couldn''t even move a single part of his body except his eyelids. - "Status." ________________ [Name: Lucifer][Race: Demon Dragon (Young Adult: 3/5)][Rank: Earth] - Titles: - HP: 300/300, MP: 0/300 - Total Battlepower (TB): 300/600 - Skills: Expand, Sanguis Dragon Flame, - Unique Skills: Absorb, Combine, Observation, - Passive Skills: Fear, Demon''s Healing, [Advancement Unavailable] [Evolution Unavailable] ________________ Apparently the advancing used up all his MP. The reason might have been that he skipped the ''Child'' stage, and jumped straight to ''Young Adult''. ''I''ll have to wait a bit to recover my MP, in case I encounter a beast''. Lucifer thought while having some hint of concern in his eyes. He got the skill ''Flight'' which allows him to fly around and soar into the sky. Flying around is a much faster means of transportation than walking around on 4 legs which will make things much easier for him. ''I should first wait a couple of hours before I leave the cave and try to find some food and XP''. A couple of hours later of rest, Lucifer could begin to move his body again. The first thing he did, was to get a feeling of how big his body had become. His wingspan had increased to 8 meters, while the height of his body had increased to 4. His tail was approximately 10 meters in length and it had gotten a sharp spike at the tip of it, which was white in colour and had some red patterns on it. Looking closer at his wings and body, he spotted that different kind of blood-red symbols and carvings had appeared looking really eerie. After inspecting himself, he noticed the cave he was in was barely big enough to fit him after head advanced into a Young Adult. Looking at the entrance, which now seemed much smaller than before, he barely managed to squeeze himself out. Looking at the surroundings, it all seemed smaller now due to him having grown to a height of 4 meters. - "Let''s try out the new skill flight and see what it feels like!" He spread out his wings and began to fly through the jungle, only barely managing to fit. After flying around for some time underneath the tree''s crowns, he flew over the top of the trees, to find a beautiful sunset, with magical clouds and vibrant colours. Suddenly a smaller dragon came flying toward him several hundred meters away. It had shiny green scales almost resembling nature. On top of its head, sat a little flower quietly blowing in the winds. It had a calm aura and looked like it was a peaceful and friendly race. It didn''t seem to have noticed me, although I was bigger than it, and continued to fly toward me. - "Observation." ________________ [Name: None][Race: Nature''s Dragon (Young adult: 3/5)][Rank: Earth] - HP: 250/250, MP: 250/300 - Total Battlepower (TB): 500/550 - Skills: Recovery, Nature''s Dragon Flame, Acid Spit - Unique Skills: Nature Control, - Passive Skills: Nature''s Healing, [Race: Nature''s Dragon] Nature''s Dragon is known for being a friendly and calm dragon race, the complete opposite of the Demon Dragon''s race like Yin and Yang. It is on friendly terms with humans and most living beings, and sometimes it travels together with caravans, or in small groups of people. They are very shortsighted, while their hearing is some of the best among Earth Rank. It is also known as ''Nature''s Protector''. ________________ ''So that''s why it hasn''t noticed me yet, it''s simply too far away to see me'', Lucifer silently contemplated. ''Wait, there are even humans in this world? Then It''s going to get interesting!'' He happily thought. When the dragon was 100 meters away, it finally noticed him. But sadly as soon as it did, fear could be seen in its eye and it began to shiver ever so slightly, and it hurriedly turned away to flee from him. He ignored it since it wouldn''t hurt him anyway, and he wouldn''t want to hurt something that was of a friendly nature. After thinking for a while on what to do next, he came to the conclusion that it would be best to try and hunt some beasts and get enough XP to advance further. ''Right now, It wouldn''t be too hard to kill those Demonic Deers and they give a lot of XP, and I wanna find out what happens if I combine my bloodline with the Demonic Deers''. He finally decided. ["Bloodline of the ''Demonic Deer'' has successfully achieved 100%."] After a couple of days of hunting around for the ''Demonic Deer'', he successfully gathered it''s bloodline and one more of its skills, the ''Demon''s Eye''. ________________ [Skill: Demon''s Eye] When used, it will send out a pressuring and intimidating aura and it has a small chance to visualise the enemy''s next move. ________________ ''So it''s a form for prediction ability''. Lucifer had a small smile on his face. Almost at the same time another message with the familiar cold and mechanical voice rang inside my mind. ["Due to obtaining the complete bloodline of the ''Demonic Deer'', it is possible to combine the Demon Dragon bloodline and the Demonic Deer bloodline."] ''Since I only have 2 bloodlines, If I mix them I should be going to sleep again, due to my body being modified into whatever it is the combination gives''. He flew up into the sky to try and find a good place he could stay at while undergoing another advancement. Some time after beginning to fly, he found a mountain a couple of kilometres tall with a flat surface on top. When I landed on top of the flat surface, I noticed it looked like the top of the mountain was almost cut clean off, with something sharp. After looking and studying the surface for a bit he laid down while beginning to ponder what kind of beasts the two bloodlines would create. - "Loton, what beast bloodline will be made by combining the Demonic Deer- and Demon Dragon bloodline?" ________________ [Current bloodlines]: - Demon Dragon (100%) - Demonic Deer (100%) [Possible Outcome]: - Dragon Deer (Earth Rank)(TB: 1800) - Giant Demonic Dragon (Lord Rank)(TB: 2400) [Race: Dragon Deer] A race of dragons resembling a deer. It is calm and friendly and doesn''t attack without reason. It is an intelligent and rare race to spot, and it is said that it can be tamed. [Race: Giant Demonic Dragon] A new race of dragons that with its sheer size gives an intimidating and oppressing feeling. It is an intelligent dragon race, while also being violent and sometimes even attacks stronger beasts, due to its physical size and strength. ________________ Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. ''The Giant Demonic Dragon sounds amazing compared to the Dragon Deer and it''s even so much stronger than I am now!''. He looked over the two possibilities with interest. The thing he needed to do right now was to get stronger and survive in case he''d ever run into a strong opponent. - "Loton, combine the Demon Dragon with the Demonic Deer into the Giant Demonic Dragon." ["Combination of the Demon Dragon bloodline with the Demonic Deer bloodline is initiated."] ["Due to the System needing to transform the body of the Host, the Host will need to enter deep sleep, during a duration of 12 hours."] ["Confirmation needed, will the Host combine the 2 bloodlines and transform into the Giant Demonic Dragon?"] [Y/N] - "Yes!" ["Entering deep sleep for the duration of 12 hours."] 5 Human Encounter On the front side of a mountain, a group of people wearing thick animal coats to protect from the coldness in the wind was travelling up along the rocky and bumpy path. The group consisted of 2 men bulging with muscles and a woman looking to be around her twenties. After consistently trying to climb the mountain, to gather some special herbs, only growing at the uttermost top, the group finally managed to climb almost to the top. - "We''ve finally managed to get close to the top. It''s taken us two weeks already. This quest is the worst one, why did we even take it?" Said a man, with a big beard, round glasses and short hair. - "Reves, did you forget, that we''ll get a huge amount of gold for completing this quest?" - "Alright maybe I did forgot it, but that''s because it''s just too dangerous. But you know Hovis, why do you always only care about gold more than your life?" - "You two always keep complaining about the missions we do. First, it''s too dangerous, then it''s too little gold. Do you ever stop complaining." - "Why would you even care?" Said Reves with an irritated expression plastered on his face. - "Because it''s annoy-" Suddenly the sound of a powerful wind came from above the group of 3. They all looked up, and as soon as they noticed what the reason for the powerful wind, their faces turned pale and they began to shiver. It was a gigantic black scaled dragon, with blood-red carvings and patterns around its body. At the tail was a spike, that seemed it could pierce anything without any effort needed - "Antalia, what race is that dragon to be that big?" Said Reves with a quivering voice. - "It seems to be a Demon Dragon, but usually they don''t ever get to grow this big because they attack beasts stronger than themselves." The girl Antalia answered back with fear in her eyes. - "What?! Those dragons that attack any living creature without reason?!" Reves almost yelled. - "Shush, it doesn''t seem to have noticed us. Quiet down!" While the group of 3 talked, the dragon landed on top of the mountain and went out of view of the three of them. - "How are we going to get those herbs, now that the dragon is on top of them??" - "We''ll continue climbing to the top, and wait for the dragon to take off before continuing to gather the herbs in the quest. When we reach the top of the mountain, the dragon should be gone." As soon as Hovis said that, he began to continue climbing up the steep mountain. A couple of hours later the group of three, sat down and took a rest and some food after climbing for most of the day. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. 9 hours later after setting up camp and sleeping, Antalia and the others finally reached the top of the mountain with exhausted looks and sweat drenching down their bodies. But prior to their expectations, the Demon Dragon was still there; sleeping on the flat mountain top leaving only a third of the space available. Antalia, Reves and Hovis noticed something strange though. - "Antalia, why does it seem the dragon has shrunk compared to before..?" Asked Reved with curious eyes. - "Where should I know that from? Although I know a lot about beasts, I''ve never seen such a thing before, but it indeed does seem to have shrunk." - "Maybe it''s weakened, we should try to end it quickly if we want to get the herbs," Hovis revealed a weird expression. Suddenly, the skin and flesh on the dragon began to move around as if it was alive. Sounds of bones breaking could be heard and some of the parts of the dragon began to rip apart and restore at an incredible speed. The scales of the dragon began to slowly change their colour, from coal-black to an eerie red almost representing blood. Spikes began to grow all along the back, and the facial features began to change. Almost devil-like horns began growning on the head, emitting a faint red glow. Although the dragon had shrunk a little, it began to emit a lot more pressure compared to before. - "What''s happening to that dragon?!" The group all whispered while scared and disgusted at the sight in front of them. _________________ ["Host successfully combined the Demon Dragon bloodline with the Demonic Deer bloodline resulting in the race; ''Giant Demonic Dragon''."] ["Beginning to transform and modify the body of the Host to the selected bloodline."] While being asleep, Lucifer couldn''t feel or see his surroundings. The only thing he could do was sleep and dream, completely unaware of the outside world around him. ["Successfully modified the body of the Host into the ''Giant Demonic Dragon''."] ["Waking up Host."] Lucifer slowly opened up his reptile dragon eyes and began to blink uncontrollably due to the sunlight hitting his pupils. He was sore in all his body, just like after the first advancement he made. ["Due to Host reaching ''Lord Rank'' the System will undergo an upgrade and will temporarily be offline for the next couple of hours."] ''Great, so even the system can get upgrades.'' Lucifer pondered over what new features the system upgrade would allow him to get. He already had some useful skills that could give him a huge advantage when battling with his opponents. Because the system was offline for some time, Lucifer wouldn''t be able to check his stats and see if he''d gotten any new- or enhanced skills. While deep in thought, Lucifer, noticed three people looking at him from a distance. Two of them were men with muscular bodies, and the third was a woman looking to be in her early twenties. One of the men looked to be in his forties. He had a thick beard and eyebrows, green eyes and brown spikey hair. The other man, was younger, with a sturdy body, clean-shaved face, blue eyes and a pair of smooth, thin eyebrows. The girl had long blonde hair, grey eyes and little nose. Her body was curved and she looked mature. All their faces and eyes were filled with fear, disgust and confusion. They all had a pale complexion and shivered ever so slightly. Of course, Lucifer wouldn''t know the bizarre changes had taken place. They would obviously think he was an undead since he didn''t die of what just happened under his transformation. ''Maybe I should try to scare them? Or try and talk to them?'' Lucifer had different thoughts appearing one after another in his mind, on how to deal with the current situation. He decided to just ignore them, and begin to explore further in the vast lands of this world. _________________ - "ROAR!" A deafening roar resounded from the dragon, as it looked at the group of three. Blood dripped out of their ears, while Hovis pissed his pants due to being too scared of the dragon. Suddenly the dragon turned away from the group, and flapped its wings and began to fly off into the distance at an incredible speed. - "W-why would i-it let us g-go?" With grim expressions the Antalia and the others looked each other into the eyes, knowing each other''s thoughts with just a single glance. 6 System Upgrade After letting off the humans, Lucifer flew for a couple of hours through the vast sky until it was almost dark. The stars began to show, and one notable star had a red hue to it, almost as if it was a red drop of shiny blood sitting in the night sky. ["System has successfully undergone an upgrade."] ["Due to System undergoing an upgrade, the Host has been granted 50,000 XP and the ''Unique Skill: Blood Control''."] ''I got a skill and a lot of XP''. Lucifer had a surprised expression on his face while listening to the voice of Loton, his Evolution God System. What made him the happiest though, was the feeling of being stronger. It felt as if he had become at least four times stronger when he was still from the Demon Dragon race. - "Status." ________________ [Name: Lucifer][Race: Giant Demonic Dragon (Baby: 1/5)][Rank: Lord] - HP: 1200/1200, MP: 800/1200 - Total Battlepower (TB): 2000/2400 - Skills: Condense, Orcus Dragon Flame?????, - Unique Skills: Absorb, Combine, Observation, Blood Control?????, - Passive Skills: Fear, Demon''s Healing, [Advancemend Unavailable] [Evolution Unavailable] [Skill: Orcus Dragon Flame] A coal-black flame pestered with death. When the flame touches any living creature, it will begin to rot and wither until it becomes a corpse. It is a rare kind of dragon flame, [Unique Skill: Blood Control] A skill related to the high ranks of the demons and devils. It allows the user to control their own or their enemy''s blood, to assist in battle. The blood can be formed into any shape or form, and it doesn''t require any MP. Blood has to be spilt and seen to be able to manipulate blood, which needs puts a lot of concentration on the user making them vulnerable if they''re not aware of the situation around them. ________________ While Lucifer was looking over his new stats, he couldn''t help but suck in a mouthful of cold air when reading the description of his ''Orcus Dragon Flame''. The description already told how wicked and scary the flame was. ["Due to the System being upgraded, the ''Unique Skill: Observation'', has increased in efficiency."] - "Advance." ________________ [Advancement][Race: Giant Demonic Dragon][Rank: Lord][Current XP: 50,200] Baby (Current) Child (250,000 XP) Young Adult (2,500,000 XP) Adult (25,000,000 XP) Elder (250,000,000 XP) ________________ Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. Looking at the towering numbers of XP which was needed to further advance, Lucifer couldn''t help but feel how little the system had actually given him. Prior to this, he had thought it was a huge amount of XP, but sadly he was wrong about that. ''The higher the rank, the more XP I need to advance to another stage of a race''. Lucifer had an unhappy expression on his dragon face, giving him an unsightly appearance. ''The best choice is to hunt prey stronger than me, which would be Lord Ranks at least double my current strength, in which case I can use my ''Condense'' skill in order to gain an advantage.'' A somewhat unsightly smirk appeared on the face of Lucifer after considering for some time. - "Loton, in which direction is there more likely to be strong Lord Ranks?" ["According to the Host''s positioning, 253 kilometres (157 miles) to south contains a large number of individuals with the Lord Rank."] Suddenly sunlight began to shine in the horizon giving an orange hue to the clouds, a beautiful sight that was. ''I should first rest for some time in order to fully charge up my MP in case I encounter an enemy at my level or stronger.'' After looking at the morning sky sucking in the beauty, Lucifer decidedly began looking for a spot that could fit him while also stopping him from being disturbed. After flying around for some minutes, he spotted a large steep mountain while also seemingly having holes everywhere as if someone had dug out small caves. The closer Lucifer got, the bigger the entrances to the holes became. At last, when he arrived in front of one of the smaller holes, with a height of approximately 10 meters, and a width of 8, he looked around outside to see if anything would have followed him. After checking around and confirming that it was clear, Lucifer flew into the cave and landed on the floor. Feeling a little nervous if something else lived in here, Lucifer began to walk further inside. Suddenly cold winds began to blow into the face of Lucifer, and he began to feel curious about what could be the reason for such a phenomenon. After walking further inside for some time the cave began to expand and form into a circle. In the middle, laid a white stone-like hill which emitted terrifyingly cold winds. - "CRACK!" As if sensing an uninvited guest coming into its cave, the white hill began to move making loud crackling noises, almost as if bones kept being broken. - "ROAR!" A bizarre and ear-piercing roar resounded from the hill as it began to unfold itself, slowly but surely turning into a more beast-like figure. After a couple of seconds of crackling noises, a head of a dragon came into sight. It was so white, almost like the divine light from heaven. It''s eyes and fangs we''re icy blue. It was 8 meters tall, and at least triple the length. Its body had icy-blue patterns carved into the almost snow-like skin which emitted an aura of purity and coldness. Looking at Lucifer with annoyance and killing intent in its eyes, it made Lucifer shiver a little, as a terrifying pressure came pressing down on him. - "Observation!" Lucifer quivered slightly. ________________ [Name: None][Race: Snow Dragon (Child: 2/5)][Rank: Lord] - HP: 2000/2000, MP: 1500/1500 - Total Battlepower (TB): 3500/3500 - Skills: Snow Hill, Winter Dragon Flame, Ice Chill Claws, - Unique Skills: Cold Immunity, - Passive Skills: Winter Healing, [Race: Snow Dragon] Thought to be an extinct race of dragons, belonging to the north part of the continent living in freezing cold areas. It has imbued itself with ice and snow, gaining double TB when it''s winter. Although it is considered a Lord Rank beast, they have been discovered to have reached the King Rank, while being an in an Elder stage. It is considered to be aggressive if you intrude its territory. ________________ Looking at its stats and description, it sent a shiver down Lucifers spine and planted a little seed of fear in his heart. Although it was a beautiful dragon it was much stronger compared to him, and with his bad luck, he actually managed to step into its territory. He couldn''t help but virtually slapping himself for being too curious for his own good. - "ROAR! YOU DARE INTRUDE MY TERRITORY YOU IMPUDENT DRAGON?! I''ll LET YOU EXPERIENCE DEATH!" After making an ear-piercing deep roar and threatening Lucifer, it looked at him with killing intent emitted from its eyes as it coldly looked at him. - "ROAR!" After roaring a second time it ran over to Lucifer and began its first attack. 7 Battle With The Snow Dragon The Snow Dragon''s roar sounded inside the cave, and it began to charge towards Lucifer with its head first planning to use raw strength, and its icy-blue and cold eyes radiating strong killing intent. Even the cave began to vibrate slightly as if to say it wouldn''t be able to withstand the shockwaves of the battle. ''Although I could kill it, it would be better to get fighting experience.'' Lucifer stood at the same place as if he wasn''t moved at all by the overwhelming pressure coming charging towards him. Suddenly Lucifer began moving and charged towards the Snow Dragon with all his might. - "BOOM." A loud ear-piercing sound was made when the two dragons clashed together in a fierce charge. The dragon stood as still as a mountain, not moving even an inch, while Lucifer had to move tens of meters back. When he clashed with the Snow Dragon, he got a headache and got the feeling that if he was any weaker he might have been knocked unconscious. ________________ [Name: Lucifer][Race: Giant Demonic Dragon (Baby: 1/5)][Rank: Lord] - HP: 750/1200, MP: 1200/1200 - Total Battlepower (TB): 1950/2400 ________________ ''Just one clash and it already made me lose over 30% of my health?! Why is it so strong??'' Lucifer only imagined it to be a little stronger than himself, but that''s where he got it wrong. A lesson learned, never fully estimate the opponent''s strength, if you haven''t fought them yet. While wondering why the dragon was so strong, it began it''s next attack, with an ice-blue flame sending down a shiver Lucifers spine. The flame roared towards Lucifer with incredible speed, while twisting and turning in the air, giving it a feeling as if it was alive. - "Orcus Dragon Flame!" The ice-blue and abyss-like flame hit each other with massive force, creating an explosion sending shockwaves in all directions. The shockwaves were so powerful, even the cave began to shake and dust and bits of stone came falling. Cracks began spreading along the cave walls, floor and ceiling. The cave began collapsing with the ceiling falling in big chunks of rocks. Lucifer hurriedly avoided a big part of the roof and sought to find the entrance and escape. At the same time, the dragon also began doing the same with a panicked and angry look plastered on its face. It glared at Lucifer, silently ignoring the urge to go at him and kill him. When Lucifer found the entrance, he began escaping as fast as his dragon body could get out, while avoiding pieces of rubble falling. A few seconds later, he safely arrived outside and began flying in the air with only minor injuries from the cave falling apart. The cave entrance had been completely blocked with big chunks of boringly grey stone. - "BOOM!" Suddenly the rocks blocking the entrance to the cave exploded in blue flames, sending them in every direction. The dragon soon came flying out with a murderous glare, looking at Lucifer with its chillingly cold eyes. It charged over to Lucifer, with its mouth agape preparing another round of its flame. Lucifer did the same as it and began preparing another flame of his Orcus Dragon Flame. - "DIE!" The Snow Dragon roared at the top of its lungs while firing a flame even colder than before. - "ORCUS DRAGON FLAME!" Lucifers dragon flame twisted and turned, which made it seem wicked. It made a roar almost representing the sound of an ancient dragon. The two flames clashed together almost like complete opposites, countering each other. An even stronger explosion occurred, shaking the mountain while pushing both dragons a considerable amount of metres before stabilising in mid-air. ''If I want to win, I would need to use my Expand skill, but that would require a large amount of MP and it would put a stress on my body''. Lucifer had a grim expression while also looking intensely at the other dragon to spot its next move. - "Demon''s Eye!" Lucifer used the skill he''d got from killing the Demonic Deers in the hope of it predicting the dragons next move. He knew the intimidating aura it would release, wouldn''t be able to scare the Snow Dragon since it was stronger than him. Almost instantly when he activated the skill, a scene occurred inside his head, where the Snow Dragon charged at him with incredible speed and turning into the hill it once was, crashing into him and seriously injuring him. As soon as the scene inside his head stopped, the Snow Dragon charged at him with incredible speed and turning into a hell smashing towards him. Although he knew what would happen, he wouldn''t be able to dodge in time to escape unscathed. - "Expand!" While roaring out loud, the nearby natural energy was guided into Lucifers body which was rapidly expanding and emitting a much stronger pressure. When he reaches double his normal size, he was 15 meters tall and over double as long with an enormous dragon head that could swallow a couple of men whole. As soon as Lucifer had been given double his previous strength, the Snow Dragon smashed into him. The shockwave from the collision blew away everything within a hundred metres, even clouds weren''t and exception as the shockwave was simply too powerful. Although dizzy and slightly disorientated, Lucifer came out unscathed while the Snow Dragon was heavily injured. Its skin was covered in big wounds and its wings had holes, drenching its snow-white skin with red. It looked at Lucifer with a confused and dazed look in its eyes, but deep inside its heart, a little fear was starting to grow. - "Observation." ________________ [Name: None][Race: Snow Dragon (Child: 2/5)][Rank: Lord] - HP: 435/2000, MP: 765/1500 - Total Battlepower (TB): 1000/3500 ________________ Since Lucifer had become stronger, the Snow Dragon was on the losing side and with another hit, it would be dead. - "Orcus Dragon Flame." Lucifer spewed his deadly black flame at the currently dazed Snow Dragon. The flame flew through the air coiling around itself, moving with incredible speed and hit the Snow Dragon making it begin to wither and rot. The skin began to retract and dry out and with the wounds it made it look like a zombie dragon. With a thump, the dragon fell to the ground as a corpse, completely rotten and a smell of death slowly appeared. He deactivated his skill ''Expand'' due to it putting too much stress on his body. - "Absorb." Lucifer went by its side holding his breath because of the smell coming off the corpse. The Snow Dragon corpse gradually began to dissolve while being sucked into Lucifer. ["Host has successfully killed and absorbed a Snow Dragon. Awarding host with 100,000 XP and a skill."] ["Host successfully obtained the unique skill ''Cold Resistance''."] ________________ [Unique Skill: Cold Resistance] Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. Users with the skill Cold Resistance will take 50% less damage when attacked with cold attributed skills. ________________ ''This will be very helpful in the future''. Lucifer smiled silently while nodding to himself. Although he had won, it had tired him out and he wasn''t in his peak-condition. He flapped his wings creating small whirlwinds and flew back to another entrance to a cave dug into the mountain. While entering, he checked on himself to make sure that he hadn''t gotten a deadly wound. When he made sure he was okay, he walked in further, while closely concentrating on the temperature in case it would lower or raise. When coming at the end of the cave he found that it was empty. Luckily this cave wasn''t inhabited by any beast, compared to the one with a Snow Dragon in it. As he walked into the middle he began to feel dizzy, and a while later he fell on the ground with a loud thud and fell unconscious. 8 Purple Moon Lake After being unconscious for over a day, Lucifer finally began showing signs of waking up. His eyelids began moving, and some times later, he opened his drowsy eye revealing his reptile pupil. After laying like that looking around for some time, he stood up and walked out of the cave with his big body. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. ''After laying unconscious for some time, I feel refreshed, but also dizzy''. After looking around checking if any beasts were nearby, he flapped his wings and began flying towards the south as his destination laid there. - "Loton, how many kilometres more do I have to fly to reach my destination?" ["Approximately 3 hours of flight is needed to reach the targeted location laying 180 kilometres (118 miles) to the south."] Needing some time since he didn''t want to use up too much strength flying, Lucifer began looking down on the ground, to see if he could spot anything that would be worth noticing. Although most of what he could see was green treetops, there were places where trees didn''t grow and allowed for one to look down from upon. Flying like that for around 20 minutes, Lucifer didn''t notice anything he would want to put his attention on. With his bad luck, he probably wouldn''t be able to find anything that had value. Flying half an hour more, evening came, revealing a beautiful orange sky and a completely orange sun almost looking like an orange. Although this world might be chaotic further towards the middle of the continent, the outer region was one of the most beautiful sights Lucifer had ever seen before. Flourishing nature with thousand of different species of plants and animals, and the sun colouring the sky orange when it was morning and evening. After flying for a little longer, the sun was completely gone, and the vast starry sky was revealed while the moon came into sight. The moon of Zulghen was like the biggest a shiniest star sitting in the sky revealing a beautiful pure light that lightened up the land below. Suddenly, a few hundred meters out into the distance, a lake with wavy purple water came into sight, almost completely hidden away behind a natural rock formation and some trees. Piquing his interest, Lucifer flew over and landed by the land of the lake. The water sparkled with a purplish shine when the moon''s light bounced off of it. - "Loton, why is the lakewater purple?" ["When a lake has purple water at, it is a signal of the water containing strong amounts of natural energy, which when bathed in will give nutrition and it will strengthen the physical body increasing defence and HP. Lakes with purple water have been named ''Purple Moon Lakes'' since only the moon''s light can be used to identify if lakes contain enough nutrition for it to be named as a Purple Moon Lake. Purple Moon Lakes are most commonly used by humans or beasts with intelligence."] ["Host is recommended to soak in the lake, due to its amazing benefits. After 6 hours of soaking in the water, the effects will begin to weaken gradually until it will become completely ineffective for the respected creature."] After Loton (Lucifer''s System) summarised what the purple lake was, Lucifer couldn''t help but feel amazed while his mouth stood agape. After standing several minutes like that, he didn''t hesitate to walk into the water and begin to soak in it with his whole body. The lake had a depth of 2 meters which wasn''t much compared to his body that was around 7,5 meters tall. Seeing a Lord ranked dragon laying in a Purple Moon Lake in the night was something you wouldn''t see often, as dragons in the Lord ranks wouldn''t be considered to have intelligence enough to know about the effects of a Purple Moon Lake. While laying down in the lake, Lucifer felt a natural freshness and gradually his eyelids became heavy, and a while later he fell asleep with only his head above the shiny purple water. After approximately 3 hours of soaking in the Purple Moon Lake''s water, Lucifer woke up and took a look around to make sure no creature could harm him during his remaining 3 hours of sleep. After double-checking, his eyelids closed and he fell asleep again. _________________ 5 hours later in a barren land, around 150 kilometres (93 miles) away, a group of three humans had encountered a Lord ranked beast. One of the humans in the group was a muscular male holding a big shield and a longsword. He had brown hair, green eyes and an intense brown beard with some grey and reddish hair threads mixed in. Behind him stood a woman with golden hair, and good facial features and what looked to be her child. The child had a red and a blue eye, each shining with a mysterious light. Her hair was silver-white. The beast the three of them had encountered was a 5-meter tall minotaur with a giant sword. Its fur was a beautiful reddish colour that was almost glowing under the moonlight. Although it''s fur was beautiful, the face was horrendously scarred and it had lost one of its eyes making it look scary. Its face was contorted into an ugly expression somewhat representing anger. Its eyes were locked onto the male and it was filled with rage. - "You damn human, why do you care if I take that woman and let her become mine?!" The minotaur yelled with a deep voice at the muscular man. - "Because I''ve sworn to protect her Highness, and since I''m a Knight it''s my duty to fight even if It means my death. I would never allow you to touch her!" The muscular man had an angered look on his face as he yelled back with disgust at the minotaur. - "Then you can just go DIE!" The minotaur lifted its sword high into the air and a while later it came crashing down toward the muscular man. - "What should we do, what should we do?! We''re going to die!" The woman almost went crazy because of the threat of death right in front of her eyes. Soon her eyes landed on her daughter, which stood at the same spot with an indifferent and relaxed look on her face. - "Thalia my child, why do you have such an indifferent look in your eyes?!" The mother yelled while looking at her daughter with a pained expression plastered on her face. While she was almost going insane, her daughter stood with emitting an air of confidence. Thalia''s different coloured eyes reflected the moonlight. Her blue eye was as calm as water, while her red eye, was burning with flames. Two complete opposites. - "Because we''re not going to die today." Thalia''s face changed slightly into that of a mysterious smile. And that smile somehow managed to calm down her mother as it radiated an air of confidence. - "ROAR!" Right after Thalia''s voice faded, an ear-piercing roar came from the afar. Suddenly the winds began blowing and almost out of nowhere a gigantic dragon landed between the muscular man and the minotaur with a loud ''boom''. It was even bigger than the minotaur and radiated an aura of death. It had red scales which almost made it seem like it was covered in blood. At the tip of its tail sat a giant spike which seemed to be able to pierce anything. It roared once more and spat out a coal-black flame which reeked of the aura of death. 9 Princess Thalia ["The effects of the Purple Moon Lake has begun to decrease dramatically due to host continuously absorbing the nutrition for 6 hours."] Lucifer woke up to the cold mechanical voice of Loton reminding him it was time to move on. He slowly but surely opened his eyelids. He felt a surge of energy constantly flowing through his body, making him feel stronger and sturdier. - "Status." ________________ [Name: Lucifer][Race: Giant Demonic Dragon (Baby: 1/5)][Rank: Lord] - HP: 1500/1500 (¡ü300¡ü), MP: 1500/1500 (¡ü300¡ü) - Total Battlepower (TB): 3000/3000 - Skills: Expand, Orcus Dragon Flame, - Unique Skills: Absorb, Combine, Observation, Blood Control, Cold Resistance?????, - Passive Skills: Fear, Demon''s Healing, [Advancement Unavailable] [Evolution Unavailable] ________________ ''I got 600 more TB from doing nothing but sleeping in the Purple Moon Lake?!'' Lucifer had a feeling that if the lake was spotted by humans, it would be considered a natural treasure worth millions of gold. Looking around him, Lucifer noticed the starry sky. At the middle, a blood-red star was placed, looking down upon the world. It had an almost magical power, that somehow attracted him. After staring at it for a while, he shook his head and began moving out of the lake. A while later he was standing beside the lake and flapped his wings flying towards south. The moon''s light was reflected on Lucifer''s blood-red scales, which made them shine with a beautiful red light. While flying towards south for a while, Lucifer began to ponder what kind of beasts he would meet when arriving at his destination. It could be crossovers of multiple different animals or just a race he wouldn''t have heard about. Although he was excited to find out, he would still have to be extremely careful as to not provoke an extremely strong Lord Rank that even he wouldn''t be able to beat. He would never begin a fight with a beast he didn''t know he could win against, that would just be suicidal. After flying for an hour or so, Lucifer landed back on the ground to take a little break, since he wouldn''t want to be too tired when he had to fight beasts with the same level of strength as him. If he couldn''t utter his peak performance, it would make it much harder for him to survive. Flapping his wings, he continued on his way while looking down on the forest from above. 30 minutes later, the forest ended and a barren land came into sight, with nothing but desert. The temperature dropped a lot, almost as if the two places were in different dimensions. The hills of sand reminded him of pictures of Egypt he had seen while back on Earth. The sandhills had almost wave-like surfaces making it look like dirty water. Sand flew in every direction, making it seem chaotic as if the winds couldn''t decide which direction to blow. Flying through the barren lands, Lucifer didn''t look down since there probably wouldn''t be anything he would need to take notice of. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. Flying another 30 minutes or so, Lucifer heard metal clashing together in the distance. After flying higher into the sky, he noticed a big red being with a muscular build. It had horns on its head and its nostrils spewed out a smoke-like cloud in the cold desert. In front of it, a muscular male with a sword and a shield stood, and behind him stood a lady in fine clothing and what seemed to be her daughter. Although the muscular man could defend against the minotaur''s attacks, he would soon tire out and be unable to raise his shield. - "You damn human, why do you care if I take that woman and let her become mine?!" Suddenly the minotaur yelled at the top of his lungs at the man standing in front of him. - "Observation." ________________ [Name: Mubor][Race: Minotaur (Young Adult: 3/5)][Rank: Lord] - HP: 900/1000, MP: 874/1100 - Total Battlepower (TB): 1774/2100 - Skills: Execution, Recovery - Unique Skills: Enhance, - Passive Skills: Bone Crusher, [Race: Minotaur] The Minotaur race is known for its strong and sturdy bodies. Although they''re strong, they''re usually not very clever, and as a saying goes, ''They think with their balls''. The most notable about minotaurs are their unique skill ''Enhance'' which allows them to double their TB. ________________ For the first time, Lucifer saw a beast with a name. Although that might be because minotaurs can speak just as well as humans do to each other. The only thing worth mentioning was its unique skill which piqued Lucifer''s interest. If he could obtain that skill, his strength could be doubled yet again when he had used his ''Expand'' skill, making him four times stronger when both skills were activated. ''I have got to get that skill!'' Lucifer was determined to the unique skill of the minotaur. It would make him much stronger, and he would be able to fight on equal grounds with beasts at least four times stronger than himself. - "ROAR." Lucifer roared at the top of his lungs to distract the minotaur away from the human male. He hurriedly flapped his wings and landed on the ground between the male and the minotaur. - "Boom!" The sand flew everywhere making it hard for the eye to open up without getting a ton of sand inside. - "ROAR!" Lucifer roared an ear-piercing and deep roar once more, and under a second later, he spat out his ''Orcus Dragon Flame'' which reeked of the aura of death. The coal-black flame twisted and turned around itself as if being a living creature. While he spat out his flame toward the somewhat dazed minotaur, the humans behind him began bleeding out of their ears and their bodies shivered heavily. Except for one little girl with two different eye colours. She stood on the side, looking with a smile filled with mockery toward the minotaur for meeting such a strong opponent. The flame crashed into the Minotaur leaving no space for it to even react at all. After the black flame hit, it almost immediately extinguished as if it wasn''t effective. - "Haha! Do you think such a flame would work against me, Mubor?!" The minotaur laughed loudly as if declaring it was superior to Lucifer. - "Hahahah-" Midway laughing, the minotaur suddenly stopped and look at Lucifer in astonishment and fear, as its body began to shrivel down and wither. The minotaurs flesh began contracting and the fur on its body began changing from reddish to completely grey. All the lifeforce of the minotaur gradually got sucked out, only leaving a shrivelled corpse. You wouldn''t even be able to call it a corpse since it was just skin and bones loosely hanging together. Without noticing the horrified gazes of the muscular knight and the lady, Lucifer stepped beside the skin and bones while stretching out one of his claws and touching it. - "Absorb." With a deep and intimidating voice, the skin and bones began turning into small almost particle-like pieces getting sucked into Lucifer as if it was the most natural thing to occur. ["Host has successfully killed a Minotaur."] ["Rewarding Host with 20,000 XP and the random ''Unique Skill: Enhance'' and 10% of the defeated beasts bloodline."] Lucifer almost exploded from happiness as he heard the voice of Loton confirm that he had luckily gotten the skill he''d wanted the most. He was also happy to get some bloodline of the minotaur since he could use it to combine with his current bloodline, possibly making him stronger. Hiding his happiness and without noticing the gazes of the now ghastly pale man and woman, Lucifer turned towards the little girl standing on the side. She hadn''t changed her expression the whole time, and continued to maintain the mysterious and mocking smile while looking at the place the minotaurs remains was before being absorbed. - "One of the first humans who don''t seem to be scared of me." He spoke with a deep voice and looked at the little girl and looked into her different coloured eyes, one of which was as calm and blue as water, while the other was as wild and red as flames. - "I''m Princess Thalia of the Saithia Dynasty. Thank you for saving us dragon." Her smile changed into a friendly and warm one. - "How would you know if I wouldn''t just kill you all?" Lucifer looked at her with his scary-looking reptile eyes. - "Because I just know it." She replied with a mysterious smirk plastered on her face. ''Observation''. Because Lucifer wanted to know if it was a skill that could determine his intentions or if it was a prediction skill, he silently activated his unique skill Observation. ________________ [Name: Thalia Cheral][Race: Human][Rank: Earth] - HP: 50/50, MP: 160/200 - Total Battlepower (TB): 210/250 - Skills: - Unique Skills: The Eye of Destiny, - Passive Skills: [Unique Skill: The Eye of Destiny] A skill that''s able to predict a certain amount of time into the future. It consumes mana depending on how long into the future the prediction is set. It is impossible to obtain this skill through absorption as it was granted by a God. ________________ - "Ahh, I see. The Eye Of Destiny." The fact that Lucifer couldn''t obtain The Eye of Destiny saddened him a bit. As soon as the words left Lucifer''s mouth, Thalia''s eyes almost popped out of her skull since nobody besides herself knew that she had The Eye Of Destiny. - "How do you know that?!" She finally changed her expression into that of a little fear. - "I just know.." Lucifer smiled mysteriously at her while keeping eye contact. After hearing his reply, her face abruptly turned back to normal, and she pouted her mouth in dissatisfaction. - "Fine, if you don''t want to say it then that''s that. What''s your name then, if you even have one." She sounded as if she knew he didn''t have a name and wanted to name him as if she was his owner. - "I''m Lucifer." 10 XP Farming - "I''m Lucifer." After hearing that the dragon had a name, Thalia was frustrated and disappointed as she had wanted to give it a name. She puffed out her chest while looking at Lucifer with an arrogant look plastered on her face. - "I''ll be taking my leave then." Lucifer flapped his wings, creating powerful winds almost tripping Thalia, her mother and the Knight protecting them. Without giving another glance towards Thalia and the others, the dragon named Lucifer flew off into the distance as if it hadn''t even met them. - "Thalia, what did it mean by ''The Eye Of Destiny''?" After the dragon left, Thalia''s mother asked her out of curiosity. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. - "I''ve never told anybody in my entire life, but since you''ve already heard I have it, it doesn''t matter if you know what it does. ''The Eye Of Destiny'' can be used to look a certain amount of time into the future, which in return will drain the user of their MP." After explaining about The Eye Of Destiny, Thalia looked into the distance after the dragon that was much more different compared to others. She had never seen a race that looked like that, so she was curious if it was a form of hybrid or mutation. ________________ After Lucifer took his leave, he began flying towards south to reach his destination. The place with lots of Lord-ranked beasts that he could kill and get XP to advance. Although it was still dark, the moon''s light lit up almost everything on the ground as if it was another sun. ["Several Lord-ranked beasts have been spotted in front of the Host."] After flying for another hour or so, Lucifer finally reached his destination where another green jungle-like forest was and found some Lord-ranked beasts. Although it was only a couple, it would still amount to a decent amount of XP. Looking a little closer, Lucifer could spot two silhouettes, both of them look like humans, just with much larger bodies. He could already guess that it was two minotaurs since their head was that of a bull. Lucifer sped up, and without even giving them a chance to react, spat out his ''Orcus Dragon Flame'' which reeked of the aura of death towards the on the furthest away. A moment later the flames burned and the minotaur began shrinking as if its muscles were eaten extremely fast. It only left a little shrivelled and rotten corpse. Before the other minotaur could even react, its friend had already been killed. Without wasting any time, Lucifer thrust his tail towards the head of the last minotaur, piercing straight through as if it was a knife cutting butter. ["For killing 2 minotaurs, the Host has been rewarded with 40,000 XP, 20% of the minotaur bloodline, the skill ''Recovery'' and the skill ''Execution''.] - "Status." ________________ [Name: Lucifer][Race: Giant Demonic Dragon (Baby: 1/5)][Rank: Lord] - HP: 1500/1500, MP: 1500/1500 - Total Battlepower (TB): 3000/3000 - Skills: Expand, Orcus Dragon Flame, Execution?????, Recovery?????, - Unique Skills: Absorb, Combine, Observation, Blood Control, Cold Resistance, Enhance?????, - Passive Skills: Fear, Demon''s Healing, [Advancement Unavailable] [Evolution Unavailable] [Skill: Recovery] A healing skill, which many beasts are naturally born with. When used, it will consume 1/10 of the total MP, while giving a full recovery, healing all wounds. Although it will heal wounds, it cannot grow back a lost limb. [Skill: Execution] A skill which has incredible strength and speed, allowing the user to swiftly finish off their opponent by beheading them. ________________ - "Loton, show me the possible outcome for combinations of skills." ________________ [Combine - Skills] Passive Skill: Demon''s Healing + Skill: Recovery = Passive Skill: Nature''s Healing Unique Skill: Blood Control + Passive Skill: Fear = Unique Skill: Bloodlust [Passive Skill: Nature''s Healing] Allows the user when wounded, to absorb nature''s energy to quickly heal and rebuild destroyed tissue. It is possible to recover limbs, but it can take anywhere between a couple of weeks and years, depending on how big the lost limb torn off is. [Unique Skill: Bloodlust] By absorbing blood from slain enemies, the user will gradually begin to create a nightmarish aura which can daze the target and it can even be activated or deactivated at will. If enough blood is absorbed from slain enemies, the aura released can even scare off or daze creatures with at least 1 rank higher then the user. If the enemy is bleeding, the skill will allow the user to immediately absorb 50% of the targets current blood, weakening the target to less than half their total strength. ________________ ''They''ll both be insanely useful. A healing skill which even allows regrowing lost limbs, who wouldn''t want that? And with the ''Bloodlust'' skill I will easily be able to daze my enemies and quickly kill them off.'' Lucifer had a happy expression plastered on his gigantic dragon head. - "Begin the combination of the Demon''s Healing and Recovery skills, while also combining the Blood Control and Fear skills." ["The combination of Demon''s Healing and Recovery and Blood Control and Fear will result in the skill Nature''s Healing and bloodlust. An extra confirmation is needed."] [Y/N] - "Yes." ["The combination for the skills ''Nature''s Healing'' and ''Bloodlust'' has been initiated."] ["Completed the combination for the passive skill Nature''s healing."] ["Completed the combination for the unique skill Bloodlust."] ''That went way too fast. It didn''t even need a specific period of time.'' Lucifer was extremely happy and satisfied that he didn''t have to wait for the skills to combine. ''If I want to absorb the blood of the beasts I kill, I''ll probably have to do it without my dragon flame, since it completely withers everything except bones and skin''. Although Lucifer was happy, it would be more troublesome to not use his dragon flame since it was almost a guaranteed kill. As Lucifer was extremely happy, he walked beside the now dead minotaur he had killed with his tail thrusting straight through its head and activated his Bloodlust skill. The body of the minotaur began shaking uncontrollably, while blood sprayed out of it and got absorbed by Lucifers gigantic dragon body. ''It would probably be best if I first hunted the Minotaurs to complete it''s bloodline, making me able to combine it with my Giant Demonic Bloodline.'' Lucifer was a little excited to see if he''d get a new race. Flapping his wings, leaving behind two shrivelled up corpses of gigantic minotaurs, he flew around the area in hope to find more minotaurs he could kill. Looking around while flying, a lot of big mountains were present, some of which were probably over 20 kilometres (12 miles) in height, with insanely steep sides. Continuing to fly around, Lucifer was enjoying the view of how beautiful nature was. ["Bloodline of the ''Minotaur'' has successfully achieved 100%."] ["Host has successfully killed 7 minotaurs. Rewarding the host with 140,000 XP and the passive skill ''Bone Crusher''."] ["Host can now initiate to the ''Child'' stage of the race ''Giant Demonic Dragon."] Notifications one after another hit Lucifer almost making him dizzy and fall down to the ground. He flapped his wings once more and landed back on the ground in front of a gigantic mountain. During the time he had hunted for minotaurs, he''d looked for somewhere which could keep him safe in case something unexpected happened. He walked towards a cave entrance at the bottom of the mountain, which was at least triple his height and width. It was absolutely massive. Walking for a while, until he reached the end, Lucifer couldn''t help but be excited to first reach the ''Child'' stage and then mix the minotaur bloodline with his own. It would make him incomparably stronger than before. He laid down on the cold rock surface. - "Advance." ________________ [Advancement][Race: Giant Demonic Dragon][Rank: Lord][Current XP: 250,200] Baby (Current) Child (250,000 XP) (Available) Young Adult (2,500,000 XP) Adult (25,000,000 XP) Elder (250,000,000 XP) ________________ - "Loton, initiate the advancement to the ''Child'' stage of the Giant Demonic Dragon." ["Due to the system being upgraded, the time needed to advance will be cut in half, reducing it to 6 hours."] Upon hearing what the cold mechanical voice of Loton notified him on, Lucifer couldn''t help but be extremely happy and satisfied. ["Extra confirmation needed."] ["Y/N."] - "Yes." Upon replying, Lucifer gradually fell asleep and lose his senses of the outside world for the next 6 hours. 11 The Giant Troll 1 While Lucifer was undergoing his advancement, a couple of kilometres away, a gigantic human-like figure was walking. It had droopy eyes, oily and dirty skin, a runny nose and blisters and scars everywhere in its face making it extremely unpleasant to look at even for a second. While looking extremely ugly, it also didn''t have the cleverest appearance. It was around 30 meters tall, and it had clothes made out of hundreds of different beasts and animal skins, which was somehow sown together and barely able to cover its mountain-like body. It had long arms, reaching down to its knees. In its right hand was a giant club made from an enormous tree, and it walked so slow that it could be called ''real life slow-motion''. When smaller animals with less intelligence approached or even attacked it, they were completely ignored or flattened under its massive feet, making some of the intelligent animals that were planning to sneak-attack it back off a considerable amount. It didn''t look like it knew where it was walking off to, and it was just looking towards the horizon, with its giant eyeballs. ["Host has successfully advanced into the ''Child'' stage of the Giant Demonic Race."] Lucifer woke up to the cold mechanical voice of Loton, 6 hours after falling asleep. His body was sore, but he felt at least double as strong as when he was a baby. He checked on his body, and as usual, he had doubled in size, making him 15 metres tall, while his body was around the same. His tail was around 20 metres long, and the spike sitting at the tip had changed colour from white to coal-black. His on his chest, black carvings and patterns had formed, while they radiated an air of death, almost as if he was a God of Death. - "Status." ________________ [Name: Lucifer][Race: Giant Demonic Dragon (Child: 2/5)][Rank: Lord] - HP: 3000/3000, MP: 2000/3000 - Total Battlepower (TB): 5000/6000 - Skills: Expand, Orcus Dragon Flame, Execution, - Unique Skills: Absorb, Combine, Observation, Cold Resistance, Bloodlust, Enhance, - Passive Skills: Nature''s Healing, [Advancement Unavailable] Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. [Evolution Unavailable] ________________ He''d gotten a lot stronger, and although he''d used up 1000 MP, he was still extremely excited with the result. - "Loton, what outcome is possible if I merge the Minotaur bloodline with my own Giant Demonic Dragon bloodline." ["The combination of the Minotaur bloodline and Giant Demonic Dragon bloodline is currently unavailable due to Host being at a too early stage. If the Host wants, the Minotaur bloodline can be exchanged for a permanent increase in TB."] ''So it''s not possible to merge the two right now? Wait... I can even exchange bloodlines I already have, and increase my TB?'' Although Lucifer was feeling down, due to him not being able to merge the two bloodlines, he was happy that he could at least do something to increase his overall strength. ["Do you want to exchange the Minotaur bloodline for a permanent increase in TB?"] ["Y/N"] - "Yes." ["Initiating the exchange between the Minotaur bloodline and the Host''s TB."] After that, there was an awkward silence for a couple of minutes, as Lucifer waited for the changes to take place. Suddenly, he felt a surge of strength rush through him, as if he''d gotten some special type of powerup. Although feeling stronger, Lucifer couldn''t help but feel a little depressed due to him being at a too low-level stage to merge his own bloodline with the Minotaur''s bloodline. ["Because the Host has exchanged the Minotaur bloodline for TB, the Host has fully recovered all MP."] - "Status." ________________ [Name: Lucifer][Race: Giant Demonic Dragon (Child: 2/5)][Rank: Lord] - HP: 3500/3500, MP: 3500/3500 - Total Battlepower (TB): 7000/7000 - Skills: Expand, Orcus Dragon Flame, Execution, - Unique Skills: Absorb, Combine, Observation, Cold Resistance, Bloodlust, Enhance, - Passive Skills: Nature''s Healing, [Advancement Unavailable] [Evolution Unavailable] ________________ ''Damn, even though I only exchanged with one bloodline, it gave me a total of 1000 TB!'' Feeling excited, Lucifer walked out of the cave he found, with a proud expression on his face, and a hint of pride flashed through his eyes. Since he would need to get stronger, he could just continue to hunt beasts with different bloodlines in order to gradually increase his strength. It was now morning, and the big round orange sun was plastered onto the sky. He flapped his wings and soared into the sky, almost as if he didn''t weigh anything. Flying through the sky for a couple of minutes, Lucifer began noticing that some large footprints had been made in the lush green forest. They looked exactly like a humans foot, but just thousands or even tens of thousand times bigger. Trees, rocks, whatever you name, it had been completely crushed. Although it looked like a beast to be extremely strong, maybe even stronger then himself, Lucifer''s interest was piqued and he began following the footprints. ''Maybe it''s a giant?'' Lucifer thought of different kind of possibilities. He thought it would be awesome to meet a giant since in most novels they were friendly creatures which were slow-moving but extremely strong. 10 minutes after Lucifer began following the footprints, a creature which was at least double his size came into sight. It was extremely ugly and had blisters and scars everywhere. Its big round eyes were staring at Lucifer as if it had been waiting for him for a long time. - "Damn that''s one disgusting creature." Even looking at it gave the feeling that Lucifer had to puke. It was simply too ugly to even be recognised as something living. - "Observation." ________________ [Name: Malak][Race: Giant Troll (Child: 2/5)][Rank: Lord] - HP: 7,500/7,500, MP: 7,500/7,500 - Total Battlepower (TB): 15,000/15,000 - Skills: Skull Crusher, Club Thrust, - Unique Skills: - Passive Skills: Constant Regeneration, [Race: Giant Troll] The Giant Troll is oftentimes related to being the ugliest being ever created in this world. It''s also extremely dumb and only knows how to fight, breed and eat. Although it is dumb and ugly, it is extremely strong, and it''s a nightmare to whoever fights it, as it can almost instantly regenerate from any lethal or non-lethal wound. Even in the earliest stages of childhood, they''re extremely strong and ranks among the top races with the strongest battle power. ________________ ''You''ve got to be fucking kidding me.'' As Lucifer read through the information of the Giant Troll, his expression changed drastically when he saw its TB and it''s insanely broken regeneration ability. - "Gulu gi suj ama doek." As it opened its mouth and began talking in a weird language, the birds nearby fell towards the forest below, dead due to the smell of its breath. It missed over half of its teeth, and the ones remaining had gone completely yellow or black. Lucifer stared back into its round eyes with a hint of confusion as to what it was saying. As if noticing that Lucifer didn''t understand it, it began looking extremely frustrated and angry. - "ROAR." As an ear-piercing and extremely ugly scream resounded from its mouth, it pointed its gigantic club at Lucifer as if telling him to fight it head-on. 12 The Giant Troll 2 - "ROAR." As an ear-piercing and extremely ugly scream resounded from the troll''s mouth, it pointed its gigantic club at Lucifer as if telling him to fight it head-on. ''Why would it want to fight me, even though it has over double the strength that I have?'' Having a confused look on his face, Lucifer was kind of upset when he realised what might be the troll''s motive was. ''It probably wants to bully me and show that it''s the strongest creature. It might also want to show off its battle prowess and establish its dominance.'' Feeling frustrated and irritated, Lucifer looked with an angered face back at the troll as if to say that he didn''t like how it was behaving. When it saw Lucifer''s angered look, it''s face changed into that of confusion and it lifted its long arm to silently scratch it''s head as if to say that it didn''t understand. - "ROAR!" Lucifer sounded an even more ear-piercing roar, directly towards the troll. Blood silently rolled out of both of its ears - "BLOODLUST!" Suddenly the blood coming from the Giant Troll was flying through the air, and when it hit Lucifer''s body, it was directly absorbed into it. While doing that, an intimidating and chaotic aura was released from him, as more and more blood was absorbed. It seemed that his ''Bloodlust'' skill countered the Giant Troll''s ''Constant regeneration''. Lucifer was secretly excited, as he proceeded to absorb more and more blood, and the aura he released became more and more chaotic and nightmarish. Because his skill Bloodlust needed a lot of concentration, he knew that the troll would soon attack him, and cut off his use of his skill. - "Gu jui shonk!" The Giant Troll yelled out loud while looking flustered and angrily at Lucifer. Suddenly, it began running towards him, with its club lifted above its head. Lucifer hurriedly stopped using the Bloodlust skill to absorb blood and allowed the troll to heal. Although he stopped absorbing the blood, he didn''t stop releasing the chaotic aura, which seemed to somewhat make the troll wary. As it ran towards Lucifer its eyes became bloodshot, and it began to wildly swing its club against everything it found. When it arrived a little in front of Lucifer it looked at him with a murderous glare, while lifting the gigantic club high above its and swung down directly towards Lucifer. Before it hit though, Lucifer had already dodged with ease, since he was at least twice as fast as the troll. As soon as the club hit the ground, it completely cracked open, and it felt like a massive earthquake had appeared. It felt so powerful, that Lucifer could imagine it to even destroy a whole country. As the troll noticed that it had missed Lucifer, it hurriedly glared at Lucifer and began yet another round of an extremely strong swing towards him. But, since Lucifer was faster, it didn''t mean too much, since it wouldn''t be a problem for him to dodge it with ease anyway. ''It''s better I begin fighting back since it wouldn''t be any fun if I kept dodging.'' As Lucifer began to get closer and closer to the troll while dodging one swing after another, the troll became even more enraged as it almost began to puke up a mouthful of blood. Suddenly, Lucifer flapped his wings and flew a few hundred meters away in the blink of an eye. - "EXPAND!" As Lucifer yelled, the natural energy around him, began to get sucked into his body while he began to expand in size. When he was double his original size, he was as tall as the Giant Troll, and he had gotten double the strength he had before. Right after expanding, Lucifer flapped his wings and flew like a jet directly towards the troll. Without even enough time to react to the changes that had happened, the troll was cut in two as Lucifer''s wings were racer-sharp. The upper body began sliding off and as it turned its face around to look at him, he noticed it had a mocking smile plastered on its extremely ugly face. The skin and flesh began to grow together again, fixing a little percentage of the deathly wound. - "BLOODLUST!" Before it could continue to maintain it''s mocking smile, Lucifer activated his Bloodlust skill and began absorbing huge amounts of the troll''s blood. The aura emitted from Lucifer was so chaotic, it began to affect the surroundings. All plant life around Lucifer began withering, making the lands around him barren. Continuing to absorb tons of troll''s blood, the radius of the withered plants continued to grow until it reached 100 meters in every direction. And because the troll''s skill ''Constant regeneration'' kept on regenerating blood, Lucifer could it exploit it to make his chaotic extremely strong, and because the troll was simply too dumb to understand that the aura released from Lucifer, was actually at the King level, it continued to try and heal its injuries. ["Due to the Host continuously using the unique skill ''Bloodlust'', it has been upgraded to the unique skill ''Blood Strengthening''.] ''Okay, that''s great, but I''ve got to finish this ugly motherfucker off before I can check out my new skill. - "ENHANCE!" As Lucifer used the skill he''d gotten for killing the Minotaur race, his strength doubled once again, giving him a total of 28,000 TB. With almost double the TB as the troll which was now weakened due to Lucifer continuously using Bloodlust. - "Orcus Dragon Flame!" As Lucifer spat out his now gigantic black flame, it completely engulfed the troll in a matter of seconds. It twisted and turned, around the trolls body, and some of it even went inside of its open wound at the waist, beginning to burn it from the inside too. Not long after, the flames went out and the troll stood there looking confused as it had thought it would die since Lucifer had become so strong. But of course, because it was dumb, it thought Lucifer''s attack had failed, and a big and ugly smiled appeared on its face. But before it could even feel the joy that it hadn''t died, it felt it''s lifeforce gradually becoming weaker, while its intestines and muscles began withering at a faster rate than it could regenerate. As it continuously tried to heal itself, it expended a lot of MP, and as soon as its MP reached 0, it would be dead. But its body was withering more and more for each second passing as if the attack wouldn''t end until the opponent was completely dead. - "Orcus Dragon Flame!" Of course, Lucifer wouldn''t give it a chance to regenerate, as he didn''t know how long the effects of his flame would last, so he spat out another enormous black flame towards the troll, completely engulfing it once more. After the flame hit, the rate at which the troll''s lifeforce was being sucked away, instantly doubled. It''s body''s lifeforce was almost empty, and as it drew its last breath, it looked at Lucifer with fear and regret. A couple of seconds later, it fell to the ground as skin and bones. Lucifer cancelled his Expand and Enhance skill respectively, and began shrinking to his original size. After returning to his normal size, he walked beside the now gigantic corpse of skin and bones. - "Absorb." ["The Host has successfully killed and absorbed a Giant Troll. Awarding Host with 1,500,000 XP, the Passive Skill: Constant Regeneration and 10% of the Giant Troll bloodline."] As Loton''s cold mechanical voice sounded within his mind, he couldn''t help but widen his eyes in shock and excitement. He''d gotten the skill which the troll used to keep on regenerating and surviving, even though it had been cut in half! He would be almost invincible as long as he didn''t encounter an enemy much stronger than himself. - "Status." ________________ [Name: Lucifer][Race: Giant Demonic Dragon (Child: 2/5)][Rank: Lord] - HP: 3500/3500, MP: 1348/3500 - Total Battlepower (TB): 4848/7000 - Skills: Expand, Orcus Dragon Flame, Execution, - Unique Skills: Absorb, Combine, Observation, Cold Resistance, Blood Strengthening?????, Enhance, - Passive Skills: Nature''s Healing, Constant Regeneration?????, [Advancement Unavailable] [Evolution Unavailable] [Unique Skill: Blood Strengthening] By continuously absorbing blood, the body of the user will strengthen, increasing their HP. It''s a skill oftentimes related to evil, representing some of the strongest demons and devils. It can be used infinitely, as long as massive amounts of blood and MP are available. It is also able to release the same aura as the ''Bloodlust'' skill. [Passive Skill: Constant Regeneration] Beings with this skill, are usually insanely hard to deal with if you''re on the same level of strength like them, or a little stronger. It can regenerate anything, as long as it has enough time. If it isn''t something as important as the heart or brain, it will almost completely regenerate within 5-10 seconds. ________________ ''Both skills shouldn''t even exist. They''re both way too good.'' Lucifer was extremely excited as he read through the description of both his new skills. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. Because of his passive skill ''Nature''s Healing'', he quickly began to recover his expended MP. 13 Power Of Blood Strengthening Because Lucifer got the Giant Troll''s ''Constant regeneration'' skill, he''d be almost impossible to kill, as long as he didn''t encounter a beast or individual much stronger than himself. And in case he would meet someone like that, he could always try to flee and hope they wouldn''t follow him. ''I should probably wait an hour or so before my MP is back to full.'' Lucifer was contemplating what to do, as he had expended a lot of his MP, and in case he met an opponent as strong as the Giant Troll, chances of losing and dying would be much higher if he hadn''t recovered back to his peak. He didn''t want to find somewhere isolated, as he would still be awake if anything happened, so he laid down next to where the corpse of the Giant Troll had been and waited. - "Status." ________________ [Name: Lucifer][Race: Giant Demonic Dragon (Child: 2/5)][Rank: Lord] Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. - HP: 3500/3500, MP: 3478/3500 - Total Battlepower (TB): 6978/7000 - Skills: Expand, Orcus Dragon Flame, Execution, - Unique Skills: Absorb, Combine, Observation, Cold Resistance, Blood Strengthening, Enhance, - Passive Skills: Nature''s Healing, Constant Regeneration, [Advancement Unavailable] [Evolution Unavailable] ________________ After an hour or so, Lucifer''s MP was almost back to full, which meant he could continue to journey around to try and kill more Lord-ranked beasts. He flapped his wings, creating small whirlwinds, and flew into the now brightly lit sky, leaving behind the barren lands he''d made from using his previous skill ''Bloodlust''. Flying towards the northern part of the outer region of Glorica for a couple of days, Lucifer noticed that the horizon was almost blood-red as if someone had painted it with the blood of gods. Flying closer, Lucifer could hear swords clashing, and screams of pain. It turned out to be an enormous battlefield, stretching thousands of kilometres in each direction, and what seemed to be humans and beasts were clashing together in a fierce battle. The ground was watered with millions of tons of fresh blood, from both beast and man. ''Although it''s sad to see so many die a horrible death, this is a paradise for me right now.'' Lucifer couldn''t help but be extremely excited and happy, as he could finally test out his new skill. - "Blood Strengthening!" As soon as the words left Lucifer''s mouth, the blood within a radius of 1 kilometre (0,62 miles) abruptly began to fly through the air, moving around as if it was alive. Even the blood that had already sunk into the ground, began to gradually come into sight in small puddles. The blood from both beast and man sought to be absorbed by Lucifer as if he was some kind of saviour. Of course, it didn''t go unnoticed, as the blood that was flying through the air towards Lucifer, a gigantic red dragon, was simply massive in quantity. Some beasts began howling happy howls as if to say that a reinforcement had finally come, but what they didn''t know, was that Lucifer didn''t care about whether the blood came from beast or man. It was as if time had stopped, at the moment millions of tons of blood, flew through the air towards Lucifer. No one could help but gape their mouth wide open in shock, and have their eyes bulge out. Those closer to Lucifer began to move away out of concern, that he might also be able to absorb blood from beings that were still alive. When the blood came into contact with Lucifer''s red scales, it was as if it just merged with them, making him look like a dragon made purely out of slain being''s blood. As the blood was absorbed by Lucifer, he instantly felt a surge in strength, and he gradually began to form another chaotic aura, one of which had the same nature that the Bloodlust skill''s aura had. Millions of tons of blood were being directed towards Lucifer, as he continued to absorb the blood as if he was a black hole. Although he''d have to have all his concentration on the ''Blood Strengthening'' skill, it was like nobody dared to even move a single inch. - "Status." ________________ [Name: Lucifer][Race: Giant Demonic Dragon (Child: 2/5)][Rank: Lord] - HP: 5000/5000 (¡ü1500¡ü), MP: 1100/3500 - Total Battlepower (TB): 8500/8500 (¡ü1500¡ü) - Skills: Expand, Orcus Dragon Flame, Execution, - Unique Skills: Absorb, Combine, Observation, Cold Resistance, Blood Strengthening, Enhance, - Passive Skills: Nature''s Healing, Constant Regeneration, [Advancement Unavailable] [Evolution Unavailable] ________________ After continuously using absorbing blood for a couple of minutes, he''d already absorbed hundreds of thousands of litres, and he continued to do so. He''d already gotten an extra 1500 TB increase, over a couple of minutes, which meant that he was much stronger than before. ["Warning, due to continues use of the skill ''Blood Strengthening'' the Host''s MP is draining quickly."] ''Shit, I didn''t think that It''d need so much MP to use.'' Lucifer felt down, as he heard Loton''s voice warn him. He cancelled the use of the skill and all the blood that was flying in the air, abruptly stopped and fell towards the ground once again. As soon as the blood fell to the ground, the once dazed beasts and humans began fighting again, just further away from where Lucifer was since none of them knew where that dragon had come from, or which side it was fighting for. As Lucifer looked around, he noticed that most of the humans and beasts were of mortal and earth rank, the 2 lowest ranks to exist. Since that was the case, it wouldn''t be worth the effort of killing them to gain XP. Lucifer flapped his wings, creating winds that instantly slaughtered the nearby humans and beast. Once more, those that saw it was completely dazed at how strong he was. He flew through the air like a jet, and only after a couple of kilometres into the battlefield, could he see humans and beasts at the Lord rank. Most of them were weaker than himself, but that wouldn''t stop him from killing them and getting tons of XP. Upon spotting a strong Lord-ranked human and beast battling, Lucifer swiftly pierced both on his enormous tail, hanging their bodies to bleed. ["The Host has successfully killed 2 Lord-ranked beings. Awarding with 200,000 XP."] Seeing that he''d gotten a decent amount of XP, he was delighted and swiftly began his slaughtering elsewhere with stronger Lord-ranked humans and beasts. Since he didn''t want too many skills, he''d only absorb those with skills he could use or combine, with some of his own. 14 Devil Snake ["The Host has killed 11 Lord-ranked beings. Awarding with 1,100,000 XP."] After a little while, Lucifer had already killed 11 individuals at the weak end of Lord rank. Seeing the huge amount of XP he''d gotten, he couldn''t help but be happy. Although he wasn''t that strong compared to some of the peak Lord ranks, he was still dominating the battlefield. Flying around and scouting out some of the stronger Lord ranks, Lucifer was pondering what the two sides were fighting about, and whether he should help the humans or beasts. But if he began helping one side, he would be restricted as to how much XP he would be able to get, and that wasn''t something he would want. Ever since he was bullied back on Earth, he''d always wanted to be stronger to not be oppressed and looked down upon. Suddenly while flying around, he spotted a massive snake-like creature. It was around 30 metres long while its scales were a pale-white colour. Small skull-like patterns covered the white scales on its body, making it look like it had small skulls integrated into its skin. - "Observation." ________________ [Name: Uvar][Race: Devil Snake (Adult: 4/5)][Rank: Lord] - HP: 28000/28000 - MP: 8500/10000 - Total Battlepower (TB): 36500/38000 ¡û---¡ú - (Skills): Strangle. Poison Bite. Charge. ¡û---¡ú - (Unique Skills): Poison Immunity. Poison Gas. Corruption. ¡û---¡ú - (Passive Skills): Devil''s Blessing. Corpse Regeneration. ¡û---¡ú [Race: Devil Snake] A snake which is known to be extremely tough to kill when in a battlefield, as it can regenerate infinitely as long as corpses are nearby. It is also extremely dangerous, as it can corrupt the opponent''s mind while also releasing poisonous gasses from its body, that will keep the opponent from getting close to it. ________________ ''That''s something I can''t afford to get into a battle with! It''s even double as strong as that Giant Troll I killed some time ago.'' When Lucifer read of the stats of the snake, he couldn''t help but take in a cold breath and fly further away from it as to not provoke it. ''I''ll have to get stronger if I want to fight with that a win.'' As Lucifer hurriedly flapped his wings to get away from the snake, a few kilometres away he spotted yet another one. it was much smaller, only about half the size of the other. ''I might be able to kill this one if it isn''t too strong.'' - "Observation." ________________ [Name: Fregi][Race: Devil Snake (Child: 2/5)][Rank: Lord] - HP: 6500/8000 - MP: 4500/5000 - Total Battlepower (TB): 11000/13000 ________________ When Lucifer saw it''s stats, he couldn''t help but break into an evil smile. There were two skills he was interested in getting. First, ''Corpse Regeneration''. If he ever ran out of MP to use the Constant Regeneration skill, he''d be able to heal with that skill if there were corpses nearby. Second, ''Corruption''. He could already guess what that skill would do, and it would help him immensely if he could get it since he''d be able to both attack the mind and the physical body of the opponent. He flapped his wings, and flew toward the snake as fast as he could, with no regards as to what happened around him. He was too focused on the snake since it''s skills were like heaven for him. He landed with a loud thud, making the ground crack beneath him as he looked with a murderous glare at the snake that had now put its attention on him. It was only now that Lucifer spotted that its pupils weren''t like other reptiles. They looked exactly like skulls, representing death. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. - "I haven''t seen you before. What are you doing here?" A hoarse and deep voice was released from the snake''s mouth as it kept on staring intensely on Lucifer. - "Just a little snack is all I need." As Lucifer replied with something unexpected, the snake instantly backed off as it''s sixth sense was telling it that the red-scaled dragon in front of it was dangerous. The snake was rather confused as to why it felt danger because when it looked at Lucifer, it could only see a dragon that was much weaker than itself. - "Expand!" As to getting an answer to its confusion, Lucifer''s body rapidly began to expand, while his strength surged immensely. Suddenly he''d grown to have a total of 17,000 TB, a total of 4,000 above the snake''s peak condition. - "Orcus Dragon Flame!" Immediately after Lucifer expanded, he used his strongest skill to try and instantly kill the snake without too much of a hassle. But because the snake had known that he was dangerous, it had quickly gotten out of range of his flame and easily managed to evade the attack. Although it had backed off, it didn''t seem to try and flee from Lucifer, as it had most likely already figured out that it couldn''t run away from him. Suddenly a green gas was emitted from the snake, while its skull-like pupils began changing colour into a reddish one. It stared directly into Lucifer''s eyes as if to try and see through him. Lucifer''s mind became blurry and chaotic as they kept eye contact. As soon as he spotted the changes within his mind, he instantly looked the other way out of instinct that told him what skills the snake had used on him just now. Feeling frustrated that it''s skill ''Corruption'' didn''t work on Lucifer, the snake charged towards him as if it didn''t care about its life. It kept on emitting a green gas out from its body, leaving a trail of green mist behind it. Because Lucifer wasn''t prepared for it to charge towards him after the attack failed, he was caught off guard as the snake instantly bit him and injected some of its poison. As if it had already won, the snake began to curl around his neck and strangle him with a mocking smile on its face. Because it had injected the poison it believed that Lucifer would soon fall unconscious. After a while of him being strangled, Lucifer got tired of waiting and wanted to trick the snake into letting down its guard. The poison from the snake didn''t have much of an effect on Lucifer as he had the Constant Regeneration skill that would constantly heal what the poison would destroy. As Lucifer silently closed his eyes and landed on the ground with a loud thud, the snake let down its guard as it had a hungry look on its face. - "Orcus Dragon Flame." But before it could even think about eating Lucifer, it had already been engulfed in his dragon flame which reeked of the aura of death. The flames died out and it had a confused look on its face as it didn''t understand why the flames hadn''t done anything to it. The confusion was soon replaced with mockery and pride as it looked at Lucifer as if he was too dumb to understand that his attack had failed. Suddenly it''s countenance changed dramatically as it felt it''s lifeforce decrease at a rapid pace. It replaced the mockery and pride with panic and fear of death as it quickly looked around to find some corpses it could use to heal. Absorbing the nearby corpses could barely regenerate the lifeforce it was losing. - "Execution." Before it could calm down, Lucifer used his skill ''Execution'' to cleanly stab through its head with his tail, instantly killing it hanging it to bleed out. - "Absorb." ["The Host has successfully killed and absorbed a Devil Snake. Awarding Host with 1,000,000 XP, the ''Unique Skill: Corruption'', and 10% of the Devil Snake bloodline."] 15 Accidental Slaughter [author]Lucifer might get too strong, too quickly for some peoples liking. I apologize.[/author] ["The Host has successfully killed and absorbed a Devil Snake. Awarding Host with 1,000,000 XP, the ''Unique Skill: Corruption'', and 10% of the Devil Snake bloodline."] Feeling extremely excited to get a ton of XP, a skill he wanted and some of the Devil Snake''s bloodline, Lucifer hurriedly checked out the description of the new skill. ________________ [Unique Skill: Corruption] By continuously keeping eye contact with a target, the target''s mind will gradually become blurry and chaotic, until they reach a state near madness. However, if eye contact is severed before the target is driven near madness, the effects will be cancelled after a while. ________________ - "Status." ________________ Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. [Name: Lucifer][Race: Giant Demonic Dragon (Child: 2/5)][Rank: Lord] - HP: 5000/5000 - MP: 3500/3500 - Total Battlepower (TB): 8500/8500 ¡û---¡ú - (Skills): Expand. Orcus Dragon Flame. Execution. ¡û---¡ú - (Unique Skills): Absorb. Combine. Observation. Cold Resistance. Blood Strengthening. Enhance. Corruption. ¡û---¡ú - (Passive Skills): Nature''s Healing. Constant Regeneration. ¡û---¡ú [Advancement Available] [Evolution Unavailable] ________________ ''Oh, so I can even advance now!'' Lucifer was feeling excited but also dejected at the same time due to him being unable to advance while being on the battlefield. The reason was that Loton his system would need a certain amount of time to modify his body to the selected stage, and that would make him fall unconscious. Looking around at the somewhat shocked nearby beast''s and humans Lucifer flapped his wings to continue to hunt for prey that would give him huge amounts of XP, good skills and strong bloodlines. Finding a good spot with many corpses and rivers of blood flowing, Lucifer once more activated his Blood Strengthening skill to become strong enough to fight some of the strong Lord ranks. The blood within a couple of kilometres began to first move gradually, but as a little over a second passed, it began to fly through the air towards Lucifer at an insane speed. Due to the blood flying through the air insanely fast, multiple humans and beasts were cut in half almost as if the blood was a sharp sword cutting through butter. Suddenly all attention within a couple of kilometres was put on Lucifer once again. Nobody could react in time before they were cut in half and killed by the flying blood. Although the blood hurt others, as soon as it came into contact with Lucifer, it mysteriously disappeared and was completely absorbed. This stunned many and put the attention onto him. As Lucifer had put his concentration on absorbing blood, he didn''t know what was going on around him and therefore didn''t stop. Suddenly, a human charged towards Lucifer with a murderous glare in his eyes. But before he could even get close to him, he''d already been cut in half by the blood, and his blood was flying towards Lucifer to be absorbed. More and more were killed by the blood, with no regards to them being humans or beasts. Everything that came into contact with the blood was killed in a cruel way that left many of the spectators with their mouth wide open and fear in their eyes. ["Warning, due to continues use of the skill ''Blood Strengthening'' the Host''s MP is draining quickly."] After continuously using the Blood Strengthening skill for some time, Lucifer''s MP had gone down immensely, but he had in return become much stronger than before. He stopped using the skill, and the blood flying towards him once again fell to the ground as if it was completely harmless. Many heaved a sigh of relief as they didn''t want to die to an unknown but extremely powerful dragon, that had come out of nowhere. - "Status." ________________ [Name: Lucifer][Race: Giant Demonic Dragon (Child: 2/5)][Rank: Lord] - HP: 6500/6500 (¡ü1500¡ü) - MP: 1200/3500 - Total Battlepower (TB): 7700/10000 (¡ü1500¡ü) ________________ His HP had gone up the same amount as last time, probably due to him not having gotten more MP to work with. As he looked around, with his reptile eyes, a cold shiver went down his back, as he noticed that almost 70% of all living beings within a couple of kilometres around him had been cut in half, completely killing them. He was standing in the middle like a God of Death, completely controlling life and death of the humans and beasts that surrounded him. The surviving couldn''t help but feel extreme fear as they looked at the mysterious dragon, which now emitted a stronger pressure than before, making them feel extremely uncomfortable. Lucifer flapped his wings and flew into the air, to further explore the enormous battlefield that stretched thousands of kilometres in each direction. He''d already gotten much stronger in just a short amount of time, and he was wondering what kind of luck and treasure he would be able to find. A while later, Lucifer stopped in midair as a thought came across his mind. ''If I''m able to find more of the Devil Snakes, I might just be able to complete its bloodline and merge it with my own, increasing my strength once more.'' Deciding what to do, Lucifer began looking around him at his surroundings to stop more of the Devil Snakes. Flying around for a couple of hours, he didn''t even find a single one that he would easily be able to kill. Most of the ones he''d found were at the peak of Lord rank and he wouldn''t be able to kill those. The only choice was for him to fly in a large circle around. After a couple of days of flying around, Lucifer had finally found another one of the Devil Snakes, which increased his mood. A few minutes later, the Devil Snake fell to the ground, dead. It wasn''t a hard-fought battle, but it made Lucifer happy as he had thought that there weren''t any Devil Snakes that he could kill, without too much of a hassle. He walked to its side and stared at it with a hint of mockery but also excitement. - "Absorb." ["The Host has successfully killed and absorbed a Devil Snake. Awarding Host with 500,000 XP, the ''Passive Skill: Corpse Regeneration'', and 10% of the Devil Snake bloodline." ''Now that I''ve gotten the Corpse Regeneration skill, I''ll be able to use my Blood Strengthening skill a lot more often.'' Feeling extremely excited, Lucifer quickly began to scout for more of the Devil Snakes. 16 Continuous Advancement 1 ["The Host has successfully killed and absorbed 10 Devil Snake. Awarding Host with 5,000,000 XP, the ''Unique Skill: Poison Gas'', ''Unique Skill: Poison Immunity'', and the ''Skill: Poison Bite''."] ["The Host has completed the bloodline for the Devil Snake."] Finally, after a week of hunting around for devil snakes, had Lucifer found enough to complete its bloodline. He''d also gotten skills. The one the least useful was the Poison Immunity since he had the Constant Regeneration skill, that made him immune towards poison. He''d also gotten a ton of XP. Suddenly Loton''s voice resounded throughout his mind. ["Due to continuous use of the unique skill ''Absorb'', it is now possible to only absorb the selected out of bloodline, XP and a skill."] When Loton finished his sentence, he couldn''t help but be extremely excited, as that would allow him to mass-kill and earn a ton of XP without him even having to obtain all sorts of useless skills. But before he could rejoice, another message resounded. ["Due to continuous use of the unique skill ''Absorb'', it has been upgraded to the ''Unique Skill: Wide Range Absorption''."] Lucifer''s eyes began to almost bulge out as he got one surprise after another. Because of all the surprises, he couldn''t help but be extremely happy. - "Advance." [Advancement][Race: Giant Demonic Dragon][Rank: Lord][Current XP: 10,300,200] - Baby (Unavailable) - Child (Current) - Young Adult (2,500,000 XP) (Available) - Adult (25,000,000 XP) - Elder (250,000,000 XP) Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. It would be best if he would be able to directly advance to the Adult stage since that would allow him to directly become a peak Lord rank, which would make him almost invincible amongst the Lord-ranks. He wouldn''t even need to fear early-stage King ranks since he had a couple of skills allowing him to fight opponents much stronger than himself. Having decided that he would need to get 15 million more XP, he quickly scouted the spot with most humans and beasts, as well as corpses since that would help him get XP. He flapped his wings and flew like a jet towards them, and landed with a loud thud forming cracks on the ground. Since they were at war, they were going to die anyway, so why not give them a quick death? - "Blood Strengthening." Blood began flying through the air like blades and whenever somebody came into contact with the blood, they immediately released an ear-piercing scream as they were cut in half. The now dead, individual''s blood began flowing through the air towards Lucifer as well. Blood flooded towards Lucifer as he felt himself getting stronger and stronger, but this time, he would only do it to clear out the closest area around him. A couple of minutes later, he''d cleared out a 100-meter radius around him, leaving only corpses and some leftover blood he didn''t absorb. ________________ [Name: Lucifer][Race: Giant Demonic Dragon (Child: 2/5)][Rank: Lord] - HP: 7500/6500 - MP: 2500/3500 - Total Battlepower (TB): 10000/11000 ________________ - "Loton, activate Wide Range Absorption, but only let me absorb XP." ["Absorbing all XP from defeated individuals within a 100-meter radius of the Host."] Immediately after Lucifer activated his new skill, the corpses around him quickly began to turn into what seemed to be dust, that silently flowed towards him and when it touched his skin, it was like it integrated into him. ["The Host has successfully absorbed 157 individuals at the Lord rank, 589 at the Earth rank, and 36 at the Mortal rank. Awarding Host with 21,626,000? XP."] As Lucifer heard Loton''s voice inside his head, his mouth went wide agape in disbelief. If he could get that much XP, by just doing that, he could quickly reach the Elder stage of his Giant Demonic Dragon race, without much trouble. He flapped his wings once more and had a decisive look on his face, as he was determined to quickly gather enough XP to advance to the Elder stage of his race. If someone could see how fast Lucifer was getting stronger and advancing, they would immediately spit out a mouthful of blood due to anger and have envious and greedy looks plastered on their faces. ''This god damn system is such a cheat.'' Being thankful as to how lucky he was to get picked to inherit this system, he couldn''t help but feel that he had won some kind of hidden jackpot. ["Host has successfully absorbed 1886 individuals at the Lord rank, 6781 at the Earth rank, and 367 at the Mortal rank. Awarding Host with 256,777,000."] ["The Host has completed the bloodline for the Giant Troll."] ["The Host has completed the bloodline for the Spirit Wolf."] ________________ [Race: Spirit Wolf] A type of wolf that has a spirit body, making it almost impossible to kill with any sort of physical attacks. It is extremely hard to kill if the user doesn''t have any mind or soul related attacking skills or techniques. ________________ After a couple of hours, Lucifer had gotten the amount of XP he needed to advance thrice in succession. During the time he had hunted for XP he had encountered many Giant Trolls which he needed to finish its bloodline. He''d also encountered some Spirit Wolf''s which sounded pretty amazing. Since he had absorbed a massive amount of blood with his Blood Strengthening skill, the aura he released could instantly kill the Spirit Wolve''s as if they weren''t even a challenge to kill. He had also gotten another 2000 in TB which would allow him to enter the early stages of King rank. First, though, he had to find a nice and quiet place that he could use to advance. Since he was on a battlefield, it wasn''t a place that he could find such a place at, so he decided it would be best to leave the battlefield for the time being. After flying for a whole week, he had finally reached the edge of the battlefield and could spot green forests and misty mountains instead of pure red. Landing on top of one of the tallest mountains he could spot, he began to check his surroundings for any creatures that could threaten him while he was unconscious. After checking he sighed in relief as he came to the conclusion that he was alone. - "Loton, advance me to the Elder stage of the Giant Demonic Dragon race." ["The advancement from the Child stage to the Elder stage of the Giant Demonic Dragon race will come out at a cost of 277,500,000 XP. Due to the Host''s lack of MP, the time required will be approximately 72 hours to fully modify and construct the Host to fit the criteria of an Elder."] ["Extra confirmation is needed from the Host."] ["Y/N"] ''Damn, I didn''t think Loton would need 3 full days to complete my advancement when it was only 6 hours last time.'' Feeling a little wary, and uncomfortable, Lucifer began to discuss with himself if he was brave enough. After a couple of minutes, he showed a determined face. - "Yes." ["Received confirmation from Host. Beginning the modification of the Host''s body."] As soon as Loton reminded him, his eyelids got heavy, and he fell into a deep sleep, and he lost all his senses of the outside world for the next 72 hours. 17 Continuous Advancement 2 While asleep, Lucifer was dreaming. But this time, it was an unusual dream. It felt real, but at the same time, it didn''t. As if he was some type of ghost. There was a girl with a blue- and red eye. Lucifer recognized her as Thalia, which he had met by saving her from a weak minotaur. What amazed Lucifer back then was that she could predict the future with her special eye, called ''The Eye Of Destiny''. In front of her was a portal which seemed to be hundreds of metres tall and wide. It was like a gigantic whirlpool of molten lava, with all the different colours of red, orange, yellow and some white. Sometimes it was as if the portal spewed out flames, that could burn anything it got into contact with. She was just standing there, as if nothing was in front of her, almost as if she was in some sort of trance. As Lucifer watched from the sidelines, he looked at his surroundings. Lands painted in red with blood, and corpses everywhere. It looked the same as the battlefield Lucifer had encountered and had left to advance. The sky was red as well as if the blood from the gods had drenched it. Everything in sight was completely blood-red. Trees, rocks, the ground, the sky, you name it. The only thing standing out was Thalias sapphire-blue eye that was staring directly at the portal as if to challenge it. A few minutes passed by as she kept staring directly into the portal, without moving a single inch or taking her eyes off of it. It seemed as if nothing could distract her. Suddenly, her head shifted, bit by bit, as it turned around to look in the direction where Lucifer was standing. As his eyes met with hers, a chill went down his spine as he saw both an eye as calm as water, and an eye filled with destruction and movement. She looked at him as if she knew that he was there, although he wasn''t in physical form. - "I knew you were a special one. I can see why she liked you." As she said that, she smiled with a mysterious smile, that was the same as when Lucifer had saved her back then. Another chill went down Lucifer''s spine as he was filled with shock. Who was Thalia talking about? He hadn''t met any other girls inside this world, except for Thalia and an adventurer that he scared. He couldn''t help but feel weird and confused at the same time. What girl could she be referring to? He should''ve been sleeping at the moment, but it all felt way too real for him to think of it as a dream. Feeling extremely uncomfortable, Lucifer tried to ignore her gaze as he once again looked at the portal with wary. - "I''ll see you soon when you enter." As she said that with her mysterious smile, her gaze fell upon the portal once again as she began to walk towards it with steady and agile steps. It was almost as if they had just met face to face, but yet at the same time, it was as if it had never happened. ["Successfully advanced Host from ''Child'' to ''Young Adult'' Giant Demonic Dragon."] ["Successfully advanced Host from ''Young Adult'' to ''Adult'' Giant Demonic Dragon."] ["Successfully advanced Host from ''Adult'' to ''Elder'' Giant Demonic Dragon."] ["After the Host successfully advanced from the Child stage of the Giant Demonic Dragon race to the Elder stage, Host has a remnant of 11,203,200? ''Advance XP''."] ["Due to the Host exceeding 50001 points in TB, the Host is now ranked as a King ranked beast."] As Lucifer woke up from his extremely weird and realistic dream, he almost got a headache at how many messages he''d gotten from advancing three stages in one go. After the three consecutive advancements, he felt so much stronger. He felt as if he was a mountain that couldn''t be destroyed. Suddenly an excruciating pain went through his whole body as if all of his bones were broken, and thousands of extremely sharp knives were thrown into his body over and over again. He could n''t even move, as if he didn''t have any strength that could be used. ''It''s probably due to my body being modified while advancing too many times in one go.'' As Lucifer had already guessed what might be the cause of it, he didn''t panic as he had been in a situation like that before. When it happened before, he just had to wait a couple of hours to be able to move properly again. When he tried to fall asleep again, it would be extremely hard due to him sleeping for so long already. An hour later, Lucifer finally went to sleep after consecutively trying time after time. As if sleeping for 72 hours weren''t enough he had to sleep even more to recover some of his lost MP. A couple of hours later, Lucifer woke up as he felt his body''s pain was almost gone and he could move properly now. - "Status." ________________ [Name: Lucifer][Race: Giant Demonic Dragon (Elder: 5/5)][Rank: King] - HP: 76000/76000 - MP: 12845/28000 - Total Battlepower (TB): 88845/104000 ¡û---¡ú - (Skills): Expand. Orcus Dragon Flame. Execution. Poison Bite. ¡û---¡ú - (Unique Skills): Wide Range Absorption. Combine. Observation. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. Cold Resistance. Blood Strengthening. Enhance. Poison Immunity. Poison Gas. ¡û---¡ú - (Passive Skills): Nature''s Healing. Constant Regeneration. Corpse Regeneration. ¡û---¡ú [Advancement Unavailable] [Evolution Unavailable] ________________ ''104000 TB...''. Lucifer''s mouth was wide open as his eyes instantly locked onto his TB. What was written, nearly gave him a heart attack from shock. Although Loton had said that he had exceeded the amount tolerated for a Lord rank, he didn''t expect his TB to be a little over double, of what Loton had said was the minimum. Lucifer''s heart began to pound with excitement as he couldn''t help but laugh loudly as if he was a mad man. His whole face was twisted in a weird expression that somewhat represented a smile. He carefully examined himself, as he was curious about what changed had occurred to him while he was asleep. The most notable change was his scales. They had changed colour from blood-red to a somewhat pearl-white, giving an extremely beautiful shine when the sunlight hit it. All sorts of colours could be seen as if he was some kind of rainbow-coloured dragon. He had grown to double the size he was before. He was around 30 metres tall, with a wingspan of around 40 metres, and his tail seemed to be around 50 metres in length as it looked like a gigantic snake, slithering around. On the tip of his tail, the now gigantic spike had was now coal-black. While his body emitted an aura of divine power and innocence, his tail emitted a strong aura of death and bloodlust, as if his tail and body represented Yin and Yang. Two complete opposites. As Lucifer felt he was invincible he immediately flapped his wings, which created small tornados that destroyed the surroundings and lifted both rocks and trees into the air, launching them off the side of the mountain. As Lucifer watched that, he felt surprised as to how powerful he had become, as he didn''t expect that just a flap of a wing would create a small tornado, that could instantly lift trees and big rocks high into the air. As Lucifer flew in the direction towards the battlefield, he noticed that he was insanely fast. It was as if he was flying at a couple of times the speed of sound. Suddenly he remembered something. The realistic and creepy dream he had, seemed to be somewhere inside the battlefield. Maybe he could also find the portal and enter it to find out what was on the other side of it? 18 The Prince Flying for around 5 minutes, Lucifer arrived at the edge of the battlefield once again. As soon as he got near any of the surrounding humans and beasts, it was as if all air had been sucked away, as an enormous pressure was emitted from Lucifer''s gigantic pearl-like dragon body. It felt as if a mountain was on top of them, and some of the weaker ones spat out a mouthful of blood or died as soon as he flew over them. Small whirlwinds and tornados were created each time Lucifer flapped his wings, instantly killing multiple of those that were closer to him. Since Lucifer advanced he didn''t care about those that were killed or injured since they were simply too weak for him to put his attention on. Even if he were to try and help them, they would most likely die from pressure or shock, or even try to run for their lives. Although humans and beasts were killed, everywhere, the survivors seemed to be too dazed at the sight of Lucifer, with his extremely beautiful scales. Flying in the direction that seemed to lead towards the middle of the battlefield, Lucifer kept on bringing death towards those that he passed by. He had flown for some time, and he completely ignored his surroundings to focus on the dream he had when he was asleep. It was too mysterious for him to fully understand, and it confused him of who Thalia was saying that like him. Not even more than an hour later, news of a dragon, so beautiful that it seemed to come directly from the most beautiful dream was spread. Along with that news, it was told that if someone was to spot it, they had to immediately flee, as only death awaited for almost everyone that saw it. And it wasn''t a death that would be painless or would be worthy of a warrior. Around an hour later, Lucifer had left a trail of death towards the middle of the battlefield, and continued to do so, without blinking an eye, or giving it another glance. He was simply too focused to find the portal that he had seen in his dream, and wondering what was on the other side of it. ________________________________ In the outer region of the middle of the battlefield, there was nothing but chaos. Blood and corpses were everywhere, while the ground was cracked and lava spewed up all around. Nothing seemed to be able to survive in a place such as that, but the middle of the battlefield was where the higher echelons of each side were fighting a hard fight that seemed to twist nature''s rules. Everything logical seemed to not exist, as chaos roamed throughout the centre of the battlefield. Suddenly, what seemed to be a giant, ran towards a golem with lava floating around inside of it. Every time the giant took a step, the earth shook violently and a crack would open while leaving an enormous footprint behind. - "DOR! I''M GOING TO KILL YOU, YOU FILTHY DUMB ROCK!!" As the giant ran towards the golem, he shouted angrily with an extremely deep voice at the golem with bloodshot eyes. It was as if the two of them had been rivals for millennia, but neither of them could finish each other off. - "Abrog, you already had your chance, over 10 times to finish me off, but every time you''ve been hesitating at the critical moment, allowing me to survive." Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. As a form of counter, Dor replied in an even deeper voice, that seemed it came directly from the earth itself. Right after the words left Dor''s mouth, Abrog the giant, instantly froze and he began to shake violently. Dor had hit an extremely sensitive spot that Abrog didn''t seem to cherish in any way. As their eyes locked onto each other, Abrog''s whole body was shaking extremely violently due to his anger for the words said by Dor. - "You''re going to regret it when he arrives, you know that." The words silently left his mouth as he stared deeply into the lava-filled eyesockets of Dor. Instantly a change seemed to occur with the movements of Dor, as his rock body began to shake slightly, sounding loud crackling noises. - "You know you can''t always rely on him whenever you want to threaten someone!" Even though Dor sounded fearless, it could be seen that he was somewhat afraid of the person that was mentioned. Seeing this Abrog couldn''t help but feel a hint of joy and pride, as his confidence instantly rose another level or two. He stopped shaking and forgot his anger, as if the only thing that mattered was that he could keep Dor scared and afraid, giving him a chance to finish him off... after over 10 times of trying to kill him. - "You know he will come soon, and he''s even an early King rank. None from your side would be able to fight on equal ground with him." Keeping the flow, Abrog used ''him'' as a bargaining chip for Dor to lose his focus on the battle between them. ''It isn''t worth it for King ranks to go to the outer region of Glorica, as it doesn''t have much natural energy within the atmosphere.'' Silently snickering to himself, Abrog couldn''t help but feel he''d pushed Dor into a corner which he couldn''t escape from. As time went on, Abrog''s confidence and pride kept on rising as he felt that Dor was getting warier and more afraid of ''him'' actually arriving on the battlefield. As Dor seemed to be confused and unfocused, Abrog instantly took the chance to pounce towards him. Only when he arrived in front of him, did it seem that Dor noticed him, but it was already too late as Abrog had silently swung out his fist from above, down towards his head. When the gigantic fist hit the golem, it instantly exploded into thousands of pieces, that flew everywhere. The fist continued to move down through Dor''s body without losing any momentum. As the fist was swung from above with an enormous force, and Dor being unfocused, it went straight through his body as if it was a knife cutting butter. Lava spewed out of what seemed to be the golem''s ''veins''. Instead of containing blood, it seemed that the golem was living off of lava, to supply it with energy. - "Finally you''re dead you god damn piece of filthy rock." As Abrog sighed in relief, he was also filled with happiness that he had finally killed his archenemy after hundreds of years of battling with him. Suddenly, white light flew with incredible speed towards Abrog''s direction. It split the clouds in two, and as it landed, the ground was immediately shattered into pieces, while lava was flung in every direction. The light dissipated, and what was left standing in the middle was another giant. He was a youth with long black hair, completely white clothes with what seemed to be gold embroidering creating beautiful patterns. His eyes were blue, and they radiated an aura of wisdom and strength. - "Your Majesty!" As soon as Abrog recognized who it was that had come, he instantly knelt respectfully, showing extreme joy but also confusion on his face. What would bring one of the Prince''s to such a desolate region? - "Your Majesty, what brings you here, if this servant may be allowed to ask." Abrog respectfully sounded his voice, with a question towards the newly arrived Prince. He silently sweated, as he was extremely nervous. - "It seems there''s an interesting existence somewhere on the battlefield. I''ll have to wait for it to arrive." As soon as the words left the Prince''s mouth, a chill went down Abrog''s spine. What kind of existence could get the Third Prince to personally seek it out, and even wait for it?! 19 Centre Of The Battlefield After flying for 6 continuous hours, Lucifer had finally seemed to enter somewhere with somewhat stronger humans and beasts. More of them was in the middle of the Lord rank (20000-25000 TB) and few were in the peak of Lord rank. Most of them were ignored by Lucifer, as he didn''t mind about them as long as they didn''t attack him without reason. As soon as Lucifer was spotted up in the air, it was as if a path was formed by everyone as they had all heard the rumours about that terrifying and beautiful dragon, that left nothing but death in its path. Wherever he flew, a path would open up down on the ground to try and avoid the whirlwinds and tornadoes created when he flapped his wings. Some of those that were unlucky, didn''t get enough time to move and were instantly sucked into a tornado, being torn into pieces as if they weren''t anything special. Lucifer kept flying forward in search of the portal that he had seen in his dream, as he felt it contained some kind of important secret that could somehow help him. It was as if he knew that it would worth it to look around for it. As Lucifer had flown for another 5 hours, the ground underwent a change. It was still filled with blood and corpses, but it had enormous cracks filled with lava, that spewed up everywhere. It was as if thousands of volcanos had been placed in one spot to make the place completely uninhabitable. The light emitted from the lava The natural energy in the air was much denser, which was probably the cause of the thousands of mid-stage Lord ranks, and hundreds of peak-stage Lord ranks. The energy was so dense that Lucifer couldn''t help but feel shocked, as he had never experienced such a feeling before. It felt as if he had entered a whole new realm, where natural energy was everywhere in an unlimited amount. Feeling excited that he could find strong bloodlines and skills, Lucifer immediately began to check the humans and beasts still standing alive. - "Observation." ________________ [Name: Edward][Race: Human][Rank: Lord] - HP: 3400/5000 - MP: 15000/18000 - Total Battlepower (TB): 18400/23000 ¡û---¡ú - (Skills): Molten Arrow. Blazing Sun. Hellfire Missiles. Dragon Blaze. ¡û---¡ú - (Unique Skills): Death Beam. ¡û---¡ú - (Passive Skills): Rapid Healing. Automatic Mana Recovery. Chant Revocation. ________________ Already one of the first ones Lucifer used Observation on, had a lot of skills that mildly interested Lucifer. Especially the passive skill ''Automatic Mana Recovery'', since Lucifer only had skills that regenerated his body. The unique skill also seemed like something that Lucifer could use, but he wasn''t sure about it, as he didn''t know what it did. Looking at the skills, it seemed as if ''Edward'' was good with the fire attribute, as he had a lot of skills related to that. As quick as lightning, Lucifer landed on the ground, creating enormous cracks and thrust his tail towards Edward who was looking at Lucifer with wary and awe. But before he could even react, he had already been pierced through by Lucifer''s tail, that lifted him into the air to hang him and bleed out. It all went by before any of the surrounding humans or beasts could react, but when they finally noticed what had happened, they instantly began to cold sweat. They had already somewhat been wary of the pearl-like dragon that they had heard rumours about, but they hadn''t thought it would be as strong as to instantly kill a mid-tier Lord rank without any hassle. - "Absorb." Although Lucifer only whispered it silently, it was as if his deep and intimidating voice were transmitted into everyone'' minds. They watched as the now dead human silently turned into what seemed to be dust, that got sucked into Lucifer''s body. Without even a second passing by, Edward''s body had completely disappeared leaving no trace of him existing. Instantly a chill went down everyone''s spine, as they looked extremely uncomfortable and wary towards Lucifer who was now looking at every one of them with his reptile eyes. He was silently using his observation to scout out those with skills that could pique his interest. ["The Host has successfully killed and absorbed 1 Lord-ranked Human. Awarding Host with 50,000XP, the ''Unique Skill: Death Beam'', and 10% of the Human bloodline."] ________________ [Unique Skill: Death Beam] Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. The user will instantly accumulate massive amounts of heat, sending a beam of light towards the target with incredible speed, instantly pulverizing anything it comes into contact with. ________________ He was silently happy as to what he had gotten while looking extremely mysterious with no facial features changing as he was still scouting out more. ["The Host has successfully killed and absorbed 2 Lord-ranked Human. Awarding Host with 100,000XP, the ''Passive Skill: Automatic Mana Recovery'', the ''Unique Skill: Hell Flame Curse'' and 20% of the Human bloodline."] After a while, Lucifer had found a couple of other humans that had some interesting skills that he might need in the future. ________________ [Passive Skill: Automatic Mana Recovery] A skill that allows the user to continuously regenerate spent MP at 10% of the total amount of the user pr. 10 minutes. --- [Unique Skill: Hell Flame Curse] A flame curse that is almost impossible to extinguish without holy light. It will slowly erode the target while keeping them immobile and suppressing their every move, allowing them to do nothing but be in the position they were caught in. It will use 10% of the total MP the user has. If it is used on someone stronger than the user, a percentage according to the gap of strength will be used with each minute passing. ________________ For someone like Lucifer, the centre of the battlefield was just one big treasure that was just waiting to be harvested. Even if someone was double as strong as Lucifer, it wouldn''t be too much of a hassle, as he had skills that could easily help him win against someone like that. It was almost impossible to even feel threatened with everyone present. Although Lucifer didn''t feel threatened, he didn''t let down his guard, as someone strong could pop up out of nowhere. And he was also extremely interested in the Hell Flame Curse, as it sounded terrifying, brutal and insanely good. Although a price had to be paid on spending 10% of one''s MP, it was still extremely good. ________________________________ Around 100 kilometres away, stood an enormous youth with black hair and in white robes. Beside him stood another giant. - "Your Majesty, it has almost been a day and the existence his Majesty was talking about hasn''t shown up yet?" If an existence could pique the interest of the Third Prince, then wouldn''t they be extremely strong and fast? Why would it take so long for it to show up in the centre of the battlefield? Abrog couldn''t help but sound his question out loud, in hope of an answer. - "Don''t worry, it''s almost time." With a mysterious yet all-knowing smile plastered on his face, the Third Prince of the Giants, silently closed his eyes as if concentrating on something. 20 Fighting The Third Prince Of The Giants 1 As Lucifer flapped his gigantic wings, he instantly shot through the air in search of the portal, that seemed to hold onto a mystery that could somehow help him. He just felt like it had something to do with his previous life, but he still couldn''t be sure, as he couldn''t prove it until he found it. He had a feeling that in the complete centre of the battlefield was where the portal was, and he was extremely excited to find out what was on the other side. When looking behind him, a trail of death could be found, where nearly nothing had survived. Seeing this, he couldn''t help but feel pity for those that were killed, but he also couldn''t care. They would die anyway, so it wouldn''t matter how they died. After flying for another 3 hours, Lucifer suddenly spotted someone that emitted an aura that seemed way too strong for a Lord rank. It was a gigantic youth with black hair and in white robes, looking extremely wise and unfathomable. He had closed his eyes as if he was concentrating on listening. Besides him stood another giant in less elegant clothing, and he emitted an aura many times weaker than what Lucifer found interesting. Suddenly, the youth''s eyes opened and they instantly locked onto Lucifer, as if he had known that he would arrive at that exact moment. His eyes seemed to contain infinite knowledge and wisdom, and they were as calm as water, with no emotion. ________________________________ As Abrog was getting more and more confused as to what could get the Third Prince to wait for an entire day, he was also getting increasingly nervous. - "Your Majesty, this servant finds it confusing as to why this existence has caught his Majesty''s interest." Since he could ask the man beside him for an answer, then why wouldn''t he? Although he didn''t expect to get a reply since he was just a lowly Knight compared to the Third Prince, he was still extremely curious. - "It''ll arrive soon." As Abrog had guessed, he didn''t get a direct answer, since he wasn''t someone of a higher rank. In the Giant''s race, Knight''s weren''t considered to be a high rank in society, as over 80% of the Giants had the strength of a Giant Knight. Suddenly, Abrog felt an enormous amount of pressure, as if a huge mountain had been placed on his shoulder. Only a couple of minutes had passed by since the prediction of the Third Prince, so he hadn''t prepared himself enough. He couldn''t move a single inch, even when he tried with all his power, it was all in vain. Almost out of nowhere came an enormous dragon, with pearl-like scales making it look extremely beautiful. It was at least twice the height of Abrog, not to mention its tail seemed to be almost thrice as long as Abrog was tall. Its wingspan was extremely huge, and every time it flapped its wings, whirlwinds and tornadoes would be created, exterminating anyone too weak. - "What the fuck is that?!" As soon as the dragon came into sight, Abrog almost forgot to breathe under the pressure it emitted. The Third Prince opened his eyes, as he looked at the newly arrived dragon. - "You''ve finally arrived." Although the Third Prince''s words didn''t contain any power behind them, it was as if everyone on the battlefield could hear what he said. ________________________________ - "You''ve finally arrived." Lucifer could hear those words as if they were inside his mind. He could guess who it was since the youth Giant had begun to stare at him and move his mouth in sync with the words in his mind. It somehow managed to send a slight shiver down Lucifer''s spine, as he hadn''t expected it. Although the words contained no power behind them, it was as if they alone could go against the heavens. Lucifer looked back at the youth which seemed to have predicted that he would arrive at that exact moment. As he flapped his wings, he landed with a loud thud a hundred metres in front of the youth. Instantly the ground cracked open, and lava spewed up everywhere as if an active volcano had appeared. As Lucifer looked at the youth, he couldn''t help but feel pressure coming from him. It was as if the youth in front of him was many times stronger than Lucifer, but at the same time, it felt as if the youth was simply just extremely fragile. - "Observation." ________________ [Name: Darog][Race: Giant (Young Adult: 3/5)][Rank: King] - HP: ??? - MP: ??? - Total Battlepower (TB): ??? ¡û---¡ú - (Skills): ??? ¡û---¡ú - (Unique Skills): ??? ¡û---¡ú Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. - (Passive Skills): ??? ________________ ''WHAT?!'' Why couldn''t Lucifer observe this person''s stats? A hint of confusion and fear could be seen in Lucifer''s eyes. Was that giant youth simply too strong, or was it something else? Maybe it was a form of concealment skill that he could use to hide his stats? Feeling extremely confused and also uncomfortable, about not being able to see the enemy''s battle prowess, Lucifer, became wary. Although he was bigger than the person in front of him, it didn''t necessarily mean that he was stronger in any way. - "You''re a weird one, Darog." Putting up a facade to hide his confusion, Lucifer sounded his deep and intimidating voice towards Darog. Immediately after saying that, pride and arrogance could be spotted in the eyes and on the face of Darog. - "So even a measly dragon knows my name, I didn''t think I was that known." ''You''ve misunderstood, I don''t even know who you are''. With pained expression and a forced smile, Lucifer silently cursed himself for activating the other party''s arrogance and pride. Lucifer hated people the most that only knew how to be arrogant or prideful since they would always look down on others no matter who they were. - "Anyway, I''m the Third Prince of the Giant race. May I know this dragon''s name..?" Instantly all the pride and arrogance was wiped off Darog''s face, as he asked what Lucifer was named. - "Lucifer." Without much respect, even though Lucifer knew that the guy was the Third Prince of the Giant race, he told him his name. Since Lucifer didn''t care who the opponent or target was, as long as they had an interesting bloodline or skill, he would kill. Lucifer noticed that the Giant besides Darog seemed to be extremely frustrated as if he was cursing Lucifer for not showing any form for respect for the Third Prince. It could also be seen that the giant didn''t dare to say it out loud as it was too afraid of it being killed without mercy. - "Why have you been waiting for me here?" As Lucifer could see that the Third Prince had been waiting for him, he had wanted to ask him, why? Why would a Prince personally come and wait for Lucifer? He didn''t even know this giant, only his name and his title. - "I''ll take you as my pet. You should feel honoured. It''s not every day that you get to be a Prince''s pet." With a sweet smile plastered on his face, the Prince sounded his voice, as if it was the most natural thing that could occur. It was as if the Prince thought that every living being would naturally choose to become a pet or slave without any hesitation, as long as he said it. ''Who would want to willingly become a pet of a prince with extreme arrogance and pride?!'' Lucifer felt extremely disgusted, as the Prince didn''t take any of his feelings into consideration. The thing Lucifer hated the most, was prideful and arrogant and spoiled brats, not knowing how the world is put together. - "Who would want to be a pet of someone like you?!" As soon as the words left Lucifer''s mouth, he spat out his Orcus Dragon Flame, that reeked of the aura of death. It was a weird sight to behold. A heavenly like dragon releasing a flame that symbolised death. 21 Fighting The Third Prince Of The Giants 2 - "I''ll take you as my pet. You should feel honoured. It''s not every day that you get to be a Prince''s pet." - "Who would want to be a pet of someone like you?!" As soon as the words left Lucifer''s mouth, he spat out his Orcus Dragon Flame, that reeked of the aura of death. It was a weird sight to behold. A heavenly like dragon releasing a flame that symbolised death. The flame twisted and turned in weird patterns, almost looking like it was alive and had its own consciousness and soul. - "It''s futile." When the flame was a couple of metres in front of the Prince, it miraculously disappeared as if it had never existed. Suddenly the Prince''s body flickered and he disappeared as well. Without enough time to react, Lucifer could instantly feel a pain in his leg. As he looked down, he saw that his leg had been cut in half. Blood streamed out of his leg out at a continuous rate, but it soon stopped as it was possible to see with the naked eye, the flesh was recovering at a rapid rate. In no time, his leg had already been healed back to normal, as if it had never been cut. No scar could be seen, and the scales on his leg didn''t even have a single scratch. Although it had completely healed, he could still feel the pain when he had been cut, and it was extremely excruciating. Lucifer looked at the Prince that was now behind him with angry eyes. - "So you''re an interesting one, I see." The Prince looked back at Lucifer with extreme interest and greed. He had a look that told Lucifer that he was just another object that was worth collecting for the Prince. Since that was the case, Lucifer became even more angered and frustrated at how arrogant the Prince was. No matter how he looked at it, the Prince in front of him was just one piece of shit, that didn''t deserve to live. Looking at other living beings as if they were just another object that was worth owning. The Prince made yet another move that Lucifer''s eyes couldn''t perceive. A pain so bad Lucifer would rather die suddenly came from all his body. Before he could even react his legs had been cut off while his wings had been poked full of holes. The once beautiful dragon that he was was now covered in blood already looking like a corpse. - "Constant Regeneration, Corpse Regeneration!" Lucifer uttered some words that could hardly be heard, as the surrounding corpses turned into white sparkles that instantly got sucked into his body. Withing no more than a couple of seconds, the severed legs and wings poked full of holes had been completely regenerated. With bloodshot eyes, Lucifer looked at the Prince that now had an arrogant yet surprised look plastered on his young face. - "I like you more and more!" With an evil smile filled with greed, the Prince seemed to be even more determined to make Lucifer his servant pet. - "Enhance!" Instantly the surrounding energy within the air got sucked into Lucifer''s body has he rapidly began to explode in strength. Although he didn''t get any bigger he got twice as strong as before. - "Loton, show me the possible outcome for combinations of my current skills." As Lucifer was fighting with someone much stronger than him, maybe he could get some combinations of skills that he could use to kill that Prince without too much of a hassle. And since he had already gotten cut up by the Prince, he would have to kill him no matter the cost. ________________ [Combine - Skills] Passive Skill: Corpse Regeneration + Passive Skill: Constant Regeneration + Passive Skill: Nature''s Healing + Passive Skill: Automatic Mana Recovery = Passive Skill: Gaia''s Immortal Body ¡û---¡ú Skill: Expand + Unique Skill: Enhance + Unique Skill: Hell Flame = Unique Skill: Hell Flame Enhancement --- [Passive Skill: Gaia''s Immortal Body] A body that will automatically heal or cure all injuries, diseases and poisons without the use of MP in a matter of seconds. It will also reduce pain by 50%. [Unique Skill: Hell Flame Enhancement] By enveloping oneself with Hell Flame it will instantly multiply the user''s MP by 5 times, while also making the body immune to any flame as the Hell Flame surrounding the body can devour flames. Can be used every 12 hours. ________________ Lucifer''s mouth was wide open and his eyes were filled with shock. Within his heart, a seed of extreme happiness was planted. - "I see, you think I''m the strongest? You don''t need to flatter me." ''Why does he always have to ruin my mood by saying such fucking arrogant things?'' Instantly the mood of Lucifer took a 90-degree turn. That Prince mistook everything and thought that everyone was filled with happiness and awe when looking at him. - "You just have to ruin my mood all the time, god damn arrogant prick." Instantly the countenance of the Prince turned grim as he overheard the words that left Lucifer''s mouth. Nobody would dare to talk behind the back of a Prince, yet this dragon had done exactly that, right in the face of a Prince?! - "How dare you!" With an ugly expression and a murderous look in his eyes, the once prideful and beautiful Prince had turned into what seemed like a true nightmare. - "Loton, combine the passive skills needed to create ''Gaia''s Immortal Body'' immediately." ["The combination for the ''Passive Skill: Gaia''s Immortal Body'' has been initiated."] ["Completed the combination for the ''Passive Skill: Gaia''s Immortal Body''."] Instantly Lucifer felt that his body was stronger than before. Although he had lost skills, it was more than worth it to use them to combine Gaia''s Immortal Body. He wouldn''t need to worry about any damage received, and he wouldn''t feel as much pain as when his legs were cut off before. Lucifer was extremely happy since this new skill would allow him to ignore all physical damage. Now the only thing he should be wary of was attacks directed at the soul or mind. Since he didn''t have a very good defence for those two, it would be a fatal mistake to attack head-on when the opponent specialized in those attacks. Although Lucifer had used his ''Enhance'' skill, it didn''t even seem that the Prince had noticed since he was simply too occupied with him being stronger them Lucifer. - "Poison Gas." As swift as lighting, Lucifer arrived in front of the Prince and emitted a poisonous gas while also thrusting his tail towards the heart. When the tail of Lucifer was right in front of the Prince it somehow bounced off of something like an invisible barrier and was directed into the air. The gas didn''t seem to do any damage as well, which made Lucifer anxious. - "As I already said, It''s futile. You won''t be able to harm me even if you have skills that will make you stronger than you are now." Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. With an arrogant and mocking smile plastered on his face, he loudly declared it as if he was invincible. The Prince suddenly took out a sword out of thin air and pointed it directly at Lucifer. - "Either you become my pet, or I''ll kill you right now." Those words instantly angered Lucifer, as he didn''t want either of them. Of course, only he knew that he couldn''t be killed with physical attacks due to his new skill. But he probably couldn''t kill the Prince either if he were to use his other skill ''Expand'' and get another boost in strength. - "Expand!" But since he couldn''t do anything else, he might as well give it his all. And if he used another boost, he might be able to see how strong the Prince in actuality was. At least it was worth a try. - "Observation." .... ''What the fuck is this cheat..?!'' 22 Divine Blessing - "Observation." ________________ [Name: Darog][Race: Giant (Young Adult: 3/5)][Rank: Early King] - HP: 314,000/314,000 -(¡ü2x¡ü)- Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. - MP: 115,000/120,000 -(¡ü2x¡ü)- - Total Battlepower (TB): 429,000/434,000 -(¡ü2x¡ü)- ¡û---¡ú - (Skills): Charge. Execution. Sword Of Glorica. ¡û---¡ú - (Unique Skills): Pain Nullify. Physical Damage Reduction. Mental Damage Reduction. Divine Barrier. ¡û---¡ú - (Passive Skills): God Of Giant''s Divine Blessing. Sword God''s Divine Blessing. Sword God''s Body. ________________ ''What the fuck is this cheat..?!'' Just as the Prince said, it would be completely impossible to kill him as Lucifer was right now. There was simply no way for him to get through the barrier, deal enough damage, and kill him in a short period of time. He even had 2 god''s divine blessing. What kind of shitty cheat was that?! Why would they ever give a divine blessing to someone like the Third Prince? - "You can''t win against me, haha! Come on now, will you die, or become my pet?" Trying with a sweet smile to lure Lucifer to accept the proposal of being a pet, the Third Prince stood opposite still pointing the sword at Lucifer. - "I would never in my entire life want to be a pet of someone as arrogant and prideful as you." Instantly the countenance of the Prince changed into an extremely ugly one, making him look like some sort of boogeyman. - "Then you can just go DIE!" Without even finishing his words before moving, he shot as fast as lightning towards Lucifer with a murderous glare in his eyes. Without even a seconds passing, the sword of the Prince had already cut through every possible spot of Lucifer, making him look like a gigantic meat sack. - "Why would you even want to fight me? I''ve already killed you, HAHA!" Roaring with laughter while holding his stomach and looking at the meat sack that was now Lucifer, he had a smile so big it went all the way up to his ears. Suddenly his countenance changed though, as the so-called meat sack began to regenerate. It could be seen with the naked eye that flesh and bones were connecting back together and the blood that had leaked out, got sucked towards to heart. - "What the fuck kind of monster are you..?" The Prince said with a slightly shivering voice and a confused expression on his face. How could someone not die when even their brain and heart were cut up into hundreds of pieces? The meat sack returned to its original form in no time. Lucifer looked towards the Prince with a smile filled with mockery and pity, for not knowing that Lucifer was immortal towards physical attacks. - "I''m Lucifer, a dragon." With a mysterious smile and mockery showing in his eyes, Lucifer looked towards the Prince which now was all too dazed that he could even move his mouth. Although Lucifer looked to be okay, behind his facade he was silently cursing at the extreme pain. Even with the 50% pain reduction, it still felt extremely painful to be cut into pieces. He couldn''t imagine how painful it would be if he hadn''t had Gaia''s Immortal Body. With a swift yet soft movement, Lucifer spat out his flame while also thrusting his spike-like tail towards the head of the Prince. Of course, Lucifer knew it wouldn''t do much damage, but it would maybe allow him to get up close to the Prince. Before that though, he had forgotten to use his ''Blood Strengthening'' skill, which would allow him to not only get stronger by absorbing blood but also release an extremely intimidating aura. And since he had gotten a lot more MP, it would allow him to absorb blood for much longer. - "Blood Strengthening." Silently whispering the words, the blood within a couple of kilometres began to move all of a sudden. First, it waved back and forth slightly, and after a while, it flew through the air silently. Suddenly screams could be heard all around as they were cut in half by the blood that was flying at lightning speed towards Lucifer, with no regards to anything standing in the way. As soon as the blood hit Lucifer he could feel himself getting strengthened, and he felt that killing had become the most natural thing that he could do. Even if people were innocent, at that moment, Lucifer didn''t care, as he just wanted to strengthen himself. Although he had an immortal body, it didn''t mean that he couldn''t get killed. Opponents much stronger than Lucifer, could probably somehow manage to kill him, even when using physical attacks. Thousands of litres were getting absorbed by Lucifer, as the Prince was still dazed at the sudden attacks that had come towards him. - "Loton is it possible to convert the strengthening of the body to strengthening of the mind using the skill ''Blood Strengthening''?" ["As of now, It is possible. However, 50% of the blood will be lost to convert the rest to strengthen the mind."] - "Convert it immediately." ["Initiating conversion of body strengthening to mind strengthening using the skill ''Blood Strengthening."] ["Successfully started converting to mind strengthening."] Almost instantly, Lucifer felt that his mind was getting stronger towards attacks. It felt like someone was building a castle wall that surrounded his mind to fend off attacks. - "You''ll regret not agreeing to become my pet!" Realising that he couldn''t kill Lucifer, he planned on fleeing the scene, as if he had never been there. He began to chant something in a language that Lucifer couldn''t understand, nor did he want to. He had already guessed what the Prince was trying to do. - "Oh no, you don''t. Who said that you could leave without my permission?" Instantly the Prince was surrounded in black flames that reeked of death, while green gas could be spotted surrounding him aswell. Instantly the Prince was disrupted. Although he had physical attack reduction, he wasn''t immune to poison. Even though he had the Divine Barrier, there was always a chance that some of it would slip through, as he didn''t have full control over the skill, since he had been granted it recently. He hurriedly moved away from the flames and poison gas, as he glared at Lucifer with a frustrated and angered look. - "Get away from me you filthy dragon!" He instantly arrived at a spot several hundred metres away from Lucifer, as if that was something extremely normal to him. He once again began to chant what seemed to be the same as before. Although he knew it wouldn''t give him much time, it should be enough for Lucifer to fail to stop him from escaping. Suddenly, a white light pillar at the speed of light engulfed Lucifer. It emitted the aura of divine power as if coming directly from a god. It instantly blinded the Prince and all those looking at it. Within the light, Lucifer saw scenes from when he was back at Earth. Most of them were with the girl that he had like, Madison. She had red hair and were extremely beautiful. All of the scenes he watched again and again, were scenes that had been the happiest moments of his life. White sparkly light began to search towards Lucifer''s body, and when they touched him, they instantly merged with his already pearl-like scales on his body. He instantly felt a warmth current flow throughout his whole body, in every corner. Through his veins, through his vital organs, bones, flesh, everything. He felt a warmth similar to when being hugged by his grandmother. A warmth that made him feel safe, and loved. Suddenly, the warmth completely disappeared and an extreme coldness enveloped Lucifer as if he was solid frozen from the inside out. The cold ran through his entire body just like the warmth, and instantly Lucifer felt that his body had become stronger. Although he didn''t know why he felt stronger, he couldn''t be happier as he really wanted to kill the Prince. But what if the Prince had already escaped? Extreme pain went through Lucifer''s body as if trying to temper it in some weird manner. The pain was so extreme that he would rather die than continue. But he endured as he thought that it might have some sort of benefit for him. As quick as the pain had come, it left without a trace that it had been there. The warm current once again flowed through Lucifer''s entire body. ["Host has received the Divine Blessing of the Goddess of Creation and Life."] 23 Goddess of Creation and Life & Victory ["Host has received the Divine Blessing of the Goddess of Creation and Life."] ["Due to the Host receiving the Divine Blessing of the Goddess of Creation and Life, the Host received the ''Unique Skill: Create'' and a permanent boost in TB."] ________________ [Divine Blessing of the Goddess of Creation and Life] The divine blessing of the God of Creation and Life is the second strongest divine blessing possible to be granted. In the course of history, no more than 4 people have received it, as the Goddess of Creation and Life, only pick those she holds dear. Since it is a divine blessing from a Goddess of Life, it will be almost impossible to completely kill the soul, allowing one to reincarnate with memories and the previous power''s intact, within a short amount of time. Although if the attack comes from a rank above God Rank, nothing will remain. --- [Unique Skill: Create] A skill only allowed for those favoured by the Goddess of Creation and Life. It will allow the user to create anything as long the image inside their mind is clear. Although everything can be created, it costs huge amounts of MP. ________________ ''There''s a rank above God Rank?! And what the fuck is with this divine blessing and the skill?! WHY IS IT SO OVERPOWERED?!?!'' Lucifer''s heart began to pound extremely fast, as he felt like he had won the lottery, making him extremely dumbstruck and happy at the same time. But who was this Goddess that would give him a divine blessing, at that exact moment? Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. ''Madison..?'' A hint of suspicion rose in Lucifer''s heart, as he could only think of one person. Since he had killed a lot, it wouldn''t make sense for a Goddess of Creation and Life to give him their divine blessing. The description also told him a lot, as only those that the god held dear, would be able to receive their divine blessing. Although Lucifer could only think of one person, it didn''t make sense. If, Madison was a goddess of Zylghen, why would she even need to go to Earth and pick him to reincarnate here? What was the motive behind it all? - "Loton, show me the possible ranks achievable." ["The currently known ranks are as follows: Mortal, Earth, Lord, King, Angel, Heaven and God."] ''If there''s a rank above God, why won''t Loton tell me? Doesn''t Loton know?'' With a little frustrated look on his face, Lucifer once more placed his attention on the surroundings. The memories that had been playing around him like on a TV, were now gone and replaced with white. Everything within sight was white radiating an aura of purity and innocence. Suddenly, something flickered in the air in front of Lucifer''s gigantic dragon body. It seemed as if space was twisted in which looked like a whirlpool. A calming sound emitted from the whirlpool of twisted space, as the whirlpool began to grow bigger. Looking closer, it almost seemed as if the whirlpool contained stars and planets... life. It looked like exactly like a galaxy, that Lucifer had seen. A memory suddenly came into the mind of Lucifer as he looked at the small galaxy in front of him. He remembered, that it looked the same as one he had seen before. And that one was shown by Madison when she researched space instead of WW2, back at school on earth. The picture of the galaxy inside Lucifer''s head was so clear, that he could see everything was the same as the galaxy in front of him. Every little star and planet represented each other, with no exception. They hadn''t even moved. A slight flicker occurred in the galaxy, and suddenly a pulling force pulled Lucifer towards it. Without any power to resist the pulling force, Lucifer gradually came closer, while the galaxy seemed to become larger. Within a second, Lucifer was inside the galaxy as yet another little life with the size of a grain of sand inside a sandpit. He saw hundreds of stars, and planets up close, while moving forward at a speed he couldn''t even seem to guess. It felt as if he went through the entire galaxy within only a small matter of time, yet it also felt like years had passed by. Without a warning, Lucifer stopped in front of a planet, with a single continent placed on it. It was a continent almost filling all the space available on the planet. Lucifer could see forests, lakes, deserts, and also in the middle of the continent, everything was red. Nothing was an exception, as even trees, rocks, lakes and skies were the same colour. Red. ''Is this the world of Zylghen?'' Somehow Lucifer felt like the planet he was looking at was the world he was in. Suddenly, space warped once more and he flew back the way he had come. Within a couple of seconds, he was back at the area where everything was white with a radiance of divine power. Nothing but white could be seen in the white space he once again arrived in. - "I''ll be waiting." Suddenly a voice of a woman seemed to come from every corner of the white space. As soon as the words were said, Lucifer felt another pulling force, that seemed to tear through space itself. Suddenly, Lucifer felt his eyes burn, and as he closed them, he suddenly heard sounds of battle once more. Within the white space, no sound could be found except for the three words spoken by the voice of a woman. ''That voice...'' Lucifer was getting more and more suspicious about the identity of who his crush, Madison was. First, she drew a dragon that seemed to be of him when he first arrived on Zylghen, and now even the picture she showed during class, contained the planet he was on. As he opened his eyes, the divine white light was long gone, and replaced with the scene that he had left, as if time had stood still. The Prince that now stood away with a dazed expression and closed eyes, began to move his mouth hurriedly. Without even thinking, and only listening to his instincts, Lucifer flapped his wings and shot through the air at incredible speeds. As natural as it seemed, when he got close, he once more released the poison gas, his Orcus Dragon Flame and he thrust his tail towards the heart of the Prince with his closed eyes. Lucifer instantly broke through the barrier like a knife cutting butter. The barrier that had seemed so tough and had protected the Prince from all of Lucifer''s attacks, now seemed way too weak for it to even be called a barrier. Without much resistance at all, Lucifer''s tail pierced through the Prince''s chest, and straight through his heart coming out his back. The Prince looked at Lucifer with eyes filled with fear and confusion. - "H-how...?" A slight whisper left the mouth of the Prince, as his look changed from fear and confusion to that of regret. - "Because I''m stronger than you." A reply with an intimidating and deep voice left Lucifer''s mouth as he glared at the Prince with hate. Lucifer hated arrogant and prideful people, that only thought of themselves, and not about others. - "Y-y-you''ll regret m-making an enemy out o-of the Giants...!" 24 Evolution 1 - "Y-y-you''ll regret m-making an enemy out o-of the Giants...!" With his last breath, the Prince managed to utter a few threatening words at Lucifer, before his body became lifeless, showing no sign of moving again. - "And they''ll regret making an enemy of me!" Although Lucifer knew the Prince was dead, he still uttered those words as if hoping they would go to the afterlife together with the Prince, to haunt him for eternity. Lucifer cancelled his boosting skills since they would just make his body tired if used for too long. ["Due to the Host becoming stronger than the unique skill ''Enhance'' allows, the skill will be lost."] ''What?!'' Why would a skill that he had used so much, just be lost because he got too strong?! What kind of bullshit rule was that?! - "ROAR!" Lucifer roared towards heaven with his ear-piercing dragon''s roar filled with anger and frustration. Soon, blood slowly rolled out the ears of those nearby, as they had most likely gone deaf due to how loud the roar was. He smashed his claws into the ground, instantly making enormous cracks that spewed up tons of magma. Lucifer began to destroy most of his surroundings due to him being too angry. Who would want one of their trump cards to be instantly taken away? Nobody, that was why Lucifer couldn''t exactly stop feeling anger. A couple of minutes passed by, and he managed to somewhat calm down. Since destroying his surroundings wouldn''t give him the skill back, why would he continue anyway? Because Lucifer had been too focused on the Third Prince of the Giants and the anger that had been planted inside his heart, he had forgotten about the other giant that had stood beside the Prince when he first arrived. A couple of hundred metres away stood the Giant, completely motionless, as if not daring to move. As soon as Lucifer''s eyes looked towards the Giant, a shiver could be spotted, while drops of cold sweat rolled down his forehead. Flapping his wings, Lucifer arrived in front of the Giant in less than a couple of seconds, landing on the ground and making huge cracks. As if finally understanding the situation he was in, the Giant reacted with retracting in fear. - "P-please d-don''t kill m-m-me..." Stuttering the words out and holding his hands in front of him, the Giant seemed to be too scared of Lucifer, as the second strongest Prince of the Giants had been killed right in front of his own eyes. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. - "Then tell me why I should not?" Staring intensely at the Giant, with his reptile eyes, Lucifer sounded a question. - "I-I w-won''t tell t-the higherups i-if you let m-me go." Silently face-palming inside his mind, Lucifer couldn''t believe that the only thing the Giant had to stay was that. - "But if I kill you now, you won''t be able to tell them either." Lucifer replied with a cruel smile and a hint of pity in his eyes. Why let the Giant go if he could just kill him right there? Instantly the countenance of the Giant turned extremely pale. His face twisted into that of fear, as he lowered his head, not daring to look Lucifer into the eyes. - "Besides, they''ll know it whether I kill you or not, so I don''t see what use I have for you except if you tell me information." As soon as the words left Lucifer''s mouth, the face of the Giant instantly got more colour as if he were hoping of a way out of the current situation. A couple of minutes passed by as the Giant explained in detail about their race. There was a hierarchy in the inner region of the continent Glorica and the Giant race was only ranked as the 20th strongest race out of 50 races. The races in the top 3 were all a mystery to the Giant, as information about them was completely erased from every book, paper or scroll. All those somehow obtaining information died a tragic death almost right after. Lucifer also asked why the Giant''s were all the way out in the outer region of Glorica, as there were thousands of kilometres between them. - "It''s b-because the higherups t-told us to." Feeling a little dejected as to not getting an answer on such an important question, Lucifer continued to listen to the Giant that hurriedly revealed a lot of information. - "W-will you l-let me go...?" After finishing, the Giant finally looked into the eyes of Lucifer, as hope could be seen deep within. Lucifer somewhat felt that he wanted to let the Giant go, but he also knew that it would bring more risks than benefits. ''It''s the law of the jungle, sorry.'' Lucifer swiftly moved his claws, which instantly sliced off the head of the Giant. Without enough time to even blink an eye the Giant''s head had fallen to the ground, and his body was motionlessly lying beside it. - "Wide Range Absorption." Hundreds of corpses turned into dust and got sucked into Lucifer''s body, completely disappearing. ["Host successfully absorbed 1 King rank, 553 Lord ranks and 120 Earth rank. Awarding Host with 56,500,000 XP and the ''Unique Skill: Pain Nullify''."] ''YES!'' As Lucifer had absorbed the Prince he got the skill that he wanted the most, since his body was immortal. The only problem was that he could still feel pain at that time, but now it would be possible to completely ignore it! ''I wonder how strong I''ve become?'' Being curious as to how strong he had become, Lucifer''s heart began to pound with excitement. - "Status." ________________ [Name: Lucifer][Race: Giant Demonic Dragon (Elder: 5/5)][Rank: King] - HP: 152.000/152.000 -(¡ü2x¡ü)- - MP: 113.000/123.000 -(¡ü3x¡ü)- - Total Battlepower (TB): 265.000/275.000 ¡û---¡ú - (Skills): Expand. Orcus Dragon Flame. Execution. Poison Bite. Death Beam. ¡û---¡ú - (Unique Skills): Wide Range Absorption. Combine. Observation. Cold Resistance. Blood Strengthening. Poison Immunity. Poison Gas. Hell Flame. Pain Nullify. ????? Create. ????? ¡û---¡ú - (Passive Skills): Gaia''s Immortal Body. ¡û---¡ú [Advancement Unavailable] [Evolution Available] ________________ [Unique Skill: Pain Nullify] Completely nullifies pain. It is a useful skill when the body of the user has incredible regenerative abilities. ________________ ''WHAT?! THE BLESSING HELPED THIS MUCH?!?!'' A blessing making his soul almost immortal, double the HP and triple the MP. What kind of cheat was that? How was that even allowed? And what about the strongest blessing, how strong would that be, if the second one gave that much? ''I should probably check out my possibilities of evolvement.'' After some time Lucifer had calmed down again. - "Loton, show me my current bloodlines acquired and the possible outcome." ________________ [Combine]: Complete bloodlines: Giant Demonic Dragon (100%) Devil Snake (100%) Giant Troll (100%) Spirit Wolf (100%) ¡û---¡ú Incomplete bloodlines: Human (30%) Giant (20%) ¡û---¡ú [Possible Outcome]: Giant Demonic Dragon + Spirit Wolf = Demonic Spirit Dragon. (King rank)(TB: 202.000)(Baby: 1/5) Giant Troll + Devil Snake = Troll Snake. (King rank)(TB: 164.000)(Baby: 1/5) Giant Troll + Spirit Wolf = Spirit Troll. (King rank)(TB: 134.000)(Baby: 1/5) Giant Demonic Dragon + Devil Snake = Demonic Devil. (King rank)(TB: 205.000)(Baby: 1/5) ¡û---¡ú [Race: Demonic Spirit Dragon] A dragon in spirit form, allowing it to automatically negate any physical damage. Although it can negate physical damage, it is extremely vulnerable towards soul and mind attacks. ¡û---¡ú [Race: Troll Snake] A snake with the traits of a troll. It is extremely dumb, but also extremely ferocious. It is hard to kill, as it has regeneration abilities of much higher quality than trolls. ¡û---¡ú [Race: Spirit Troll] A troll in spirit form. As always, it is extremely dumb, but it will be able to negate any physical attacks. It is extremely vulnerable towards soul and mind attacks. ¡û---¡ú [Race: Demonic Devil] A high ranked Devil, that is extremely tough and hard to kill, as it''s skin, bones and flesh are all as hard as steel, while it''s lifeforce can be replenished by fear and despair. It is oftentimes spotted on the battlefield as it can easily replenish its lifeforce. ________________ 25 Evolution 2 ________________ [Combine]: Complete bloodlines: Giant Demonic Dragon (100%) Devil Snake (100%) Giant Troll (100%) Spirit Wolf (100%) ¡û---¡ú Incomplete bloodlines: Human (30%) Giant (20%) ¡û---¡ú [Possible Outcome]: Giant Demonic Dragon + Spirit Wolf = Demonic Spirit Dragon. (King rank)(TB: 202.000)(Baby: 1/5) Giant Troll + Devil Snake = Troll Snake. (King rank)(TB: 164.000)(Baby: 1/5) Giant Troll + Spirit Wolf = Spirit Troll. (King rank)(TB: 134.000)(Baby: 1/5) Giant Demonic Dragon + Devil Snake = Demonic Devil. (King rank)(TB: 205.000)(Baby: 1/5) ¡û---¡ú [Race: Demonic Spirit Dragon] A dragon in spirit form, allowing it to automatically negate any physical damage. Although it can negate physical damage, it is extremely vulnerable towards soul and mind attacks. ¡û---¡ú [Race: Troll Snake] A snake with the traits of a troll. It is extremely dumb, but also extremely ferocious. It is hard to kill, as it has regeneration abilities of much higher quality than trolls. ¡û---¡ú [Race: Spirit Troll] A troll in spirit form. As always, it is extremely dumb, but it will be able to negate any physical attacks. It is extremely vulnerable towards soul and mind attacks. ¡û---¡ú [Race: Demonic Devil] A high ranked Devil, that is extremely tough and hard to kill, as it''s skin, bones and flesh are all as hard as steel, while it''s lifeforce can be replenished by fear and despair. It is oftentimes spotted on the battlefield as it can easily replenish its lifeforce. ________________ ''There are not any interesting ones right now...'' Feeling dejected at the results that he got, Lucifer began to ponder. Why would the system only allow him to evolve to something weaker than the current him? But if he didn''t evolve now, he wouldn''t be able to become much stronger then he was. And although a lot of humans and beasts were on the battlefield, he didn''t especially want to kill and absorb humans, since he quite enjoyed to be in his dragon form. ''Oh well... I might as well evolve into something to grow stronger.'' But what should he pick? The spirit and troll races were all excluded, leaving him with the Demonic Devil. The spirit races didn''t have much use for him as his body was already immortal, and since he didn''t want to become extremely dumb, the troll races were a no-go as well. But what use could the Demonic Devil give him instead of his current race? ''Although it is weaker, that''s because I''m in an elder stage, while it''s only at the baby stage. That will allow it to reach early Saint Rank.'' Although Lucifer wasn''t too happy about the choices he got, he knew that he couldn''t wait since he wanted to know who Madison was and why he had been chosen to reincarnate in the world Zylghen. - "Loton, begin the combination for the Demonic Devil bloodline, but don''t evolve me yet." ["Initiating the process of combining the Giant Demonic Dragon and Devil Snake into the Demonic Devil bloodline."] Lucifer had to find a place he could be safe during the time he was undergoing an evolvement. Although he didn''t believe that anyone on the battlefield would be able to harm him, it was always better to take precautions. Especially now that he had killed a Prince of a pretty strong race. He wouldn''t be able to fend them off if he were as strong as he was now, as the Giant race probably had connections with even stronger races. If that were the case, they could probably somehow manage to get someone to get rid of Lucifer within a short amount of time. But where could he possibly be safe for the time he underwent evolvement? ''I''ll probably be able to hide in the magma below the ground on the battlefield. Since I''m a dragon I should be immune to high temperatures, and I already have an immortal body so it''ll probably be the safest place for me to reside.'' Pondering for a while, Lucifer got a conclusion that could probably work out. He flapped his wings flying into the air at incredible speeds. A couple of seconds later when Lucifer was a couple of hundred metres above the ground he plummeted down into the magma. - "Loton initiate the evolution to the Demonic Devil." ["Extra confirmation needed."] Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. ["Y/N."] - "Yes!" ["Due to unexpected interference, a mutation has taken place, and the Host will evolve into an Abyssal Dragon. Initiating evolution. Estimated time: 5 years, 214 days, 17 hours, 54 minutes, 36 seconds and 12 milliseconds."] ''Wait... wha-'' Before Lucifer could barely react, he had already fallen into a deep sleep that he couldn''t awake from before he had evolved. ________________________________ - "YOUR MAJESTY! YOUR MAJESTY!!!!" A guard could be seen running through the corridors of the palace, panting for his breath and running at his fastest speed. - "YOUR MAJESTY!" The guard ran towards a huge double-door that had carvings of many mythical beings. It was beautifully decorated with all sorts of symbols as it almost represented a gate to heaven. *Creak* As the guard opened the door while heavily sweating and panting, he looked inside the hall. In the middle of the hall was a golden table, with tens of people sitting around it. At one of its ends sat three people on golden thrones, one bigger than the others. Two other thrones were besides those but they were empty. - "Your Majesty! Lords!" Bowing respectfully towards the people inside the hall the guard out of breath and sweating kneeled on the ground. - "What is it? We don''t have all day for trivial matters." An arrogant and prideful voice came from one of the smaller gold thrones. On the throne, sat a somewhat fat youth with a mocking smirk plastered on his face. The other people in the hall had frustrated and irritated looks while looking at the guard that had disturbed their meeting. - "Your Majesty! The mana stone representing the Third Prince has crumbled!" Instantly the countenance of everyone present in the room turned into that of disbelief and confusion. - "What nonsense are you speaking?!" Suddenly one of the people present shouted at the guard making him extremely uncomfortable. He had grey hair long hair, sharp blue eyes, and an extremely old-looking face. His voice was hoarse and his movements were stiff. Right after shouting at the guard, the elderly man began to cough violently. - "Calm down Elder, your body is too weak right now." A youth that sat beside the elder tried to comfort the old man as he looked at the guard in disgust. - "Tell me everything." Suddenly a voice came from the biggest of the gold thrones at the end of the table. Sitting on top was a middleaged man with long black hair rolled into a bun at the back of his head. His features were elegant, while his eyes emitted a sense of comfort. - "A couple of days ago, the Third Prince, His Majesty, told us he would go to the battlefield in search of something and left. He didn''t tell us what it was." Continuing with the explanation, beads of sweat could be seen rolling down on the guard''s forehead as he were extremely nervous about the reactions the people in the hall would have. - "IT''S YOUR FAULT! YOU COULD''VE PREVENTED IT! SOMEBODY KILL THIS TRAITOR!!!" The elderly man that had just calmed down once again yelled up and instantly began to cough violently. While coughing he spat out a mouthful of blood he fainted and fell to the floor. - "Quick get a doctor!" The youth that sat beside the elderly man quickly yelled at a nearby guard. While nobody was paying attention, a small and creepy smile crept up on the middleaged man''s face. - "Whoever you are, I''ll make you regret killing my son!" 26 5 Years Later 1 - "Whoever you are, I''ll make you regret killing my son!" ____________ -5 years later- -"Come on Sylfiel! Where are you? We''ve gotta hurry." -"I''m coming, grandma Edea!" A girl looking to be 7 years old, stepped out of her room. She had pointy ears, and different coloured eyes, one blue, and one green. She wore a beautiful white silk dress, embroidered with gold. Her hair was silver, and it hung down to her elbows. She lived in a little hut, created with what seemed to represent bamboo. The girl named Sylfiel ran out her room, ran through the corridor out to the entrance of the house where her grandma, Monda, was waiting for her. Her grandma didn''t look old at all, compared to her age. She looked beautiful, with smooth skin, good curves and beautiful hair and eyes. She wore a warm smile, looking at the little Sylfiel that came running down the corridor of the house. -"We''ve got to hurry now, or else we''ll be late!" -"I know, I know grandma." -"Don''t you ''I know'' me you little runt." Edea looked at Sylfiel with impatient eyes and a harsh tone could be heard when her voice sounded. -"We''ll be going to the palace today. It''s the first time in years it''s been opened to the public." A hint of curiosity could be seen drift through the eyes of Edea, while she looked up into the sky as if remembering her old days back when she was young. While the two walked down the pathway, surrounded by the beautiful scenery of nature, a couple of shadows could be spotted up in the treetops, that were over 30 metres in height. -"Grandma, do you know why the palace is suddenly open for everyone?" -"I''m not entirely sure, but one of my old friends told me the royal family found some sort of treasure when they came back from the battlefield. They''ll probably be showing it when we arrive." Walking up the pathway, they soon arrived at ladders that took them into the treetops. They crawled up to find themselves in a city build in trees. Hundreds of treehouses were connected using bridges made from wood and string. At the middle with the largest tree, windows could be spotted placed in the bark. The tree had been hollowed, allowing the palace of the royal family to settle down in the middle of the Elven Kingdom''s capital city, Afrenthas. Walking along the bridges were hundreds if not thousands of elves, each representing extreme beauty and wisdom. Each had different hair colours, eyes and clothing. After a walk of a couple of minutes, Edea and Sylfiel arrived in front of the palace entrance in the centre tree. The entrance was extremely white, dazzling anyone looking at it. Different patterns had been carved into the front door while gold could be spotted decorating it. The area in front of the palace doors was overcrowded with people, leaving almost no space for the ones still on the way. *CREAK* The doors of the palace opened, and the people flooded inside, without thinking about letting others come first. Since it had been over a century since the doors had last been opened, the people were eager to see the reason for this time it opened. Hundreds of statues, made from the purest of marble, were placed on each side of the corridor leading towards the hall. Each of the statues represented one of the emperors that had lived throughout the ages. The doors leading to the hall were already open, and inside sat the royal family. Hundreds of pillars that seemed to be over 70 metres tall, held onto the roof of the palace, that had been built inside the biggest tree. Behind the current emperor of the elves sat an extremely huge crystal that seemed to contain magma, moving around without an end. It almost reached the roof of the palace, only going a few metres short. On the outside of the crystal, were different patterns and carvings, that seemed to represent fire, dragons and strength. The magma kept moving on the inside of the crystal as if the temperature inside of it didn''t change at all. In the middle could be spotted a slight shadow of something that represented a dragon, curled into a ball. -"Woah, what''s that?" Almost all of the elves gasped at the same time when they set their sight on the red magma crystal. Thousands of elves entered the hall, and some went up the stairs to the second floor, to be able to make enough space for everyone. Every elf represented beauty, humans could never dream to obtain. A couple of minutes went by as hundreds of gasps and bewildered faces could be spotted amongst the crowds of elves that kept on entering into the palace. *CREAK* When another 15 minutes passed by, and the doors of the hall closed, with yet another long creak. As soon as the doors closed, silence spread throughout the hall as every elf present placed their attention on their emperor. The emperor, although old, had smooth skin and looked like a youth. He had black hair, reaching down his back and his eyes seemed to contain all sorts of different knowledge only available to the royals. He radiated an aura of purity and dignity, and he had a calm expression in his crystal-blue eyes. Suddenly, the emperor moved and he stood up, instantly making everyone watch his every move. -"As you all know, 5 years ago, the third Prince of the Giants was cruelly murdered out on the battlefield in the outer region of Glorica. Although the Giants initiated a thorough search, nothing was found throughout these 5 years. Except, for this magma crystal behind me. It was given to us elves as a betrothal gift for the marriage between their Crown Prince and Princess Elora." Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. Shifting his sight towards a seemingly young woman standing beside him, the emperor explained their current situation. Multiple gasps could be heard from the crowd, coming from young boys feeling dazzled at the beauty of their princess. -"Because of their generous gift, and the love between the Princess and the Crown Prince, the marriage will be held in a couple of months." After finishing his sentence, the emperor once again sat down on his throne, while wearing a warm smile and happiness could be spotted within his eyes. Because he was extremely old and wise, he was also extremely respected, but also hated by some. Suddenly, Princess Elora stood up and walked up to the magma crystal standing behind them. She gently touched it with her hand, and her sweet smile changed to that of confusion. She turned around and whispered in her father''s ear. -"I can sense life inside the crystal. It''s in perfect condition." 27 5 Years Later 2 -"I can sense life inside the crystal. It''s in perfect condition." Instantly the countenance of the emperor changed as he turned his head to look at the magma crystal behind him. Although no one besides him heard the Princess, everyone''s gaze fell upon the magma crystal. The emperor looked intensely at the magma crystal for a couple of minutes as if in a daze, before his gaze departed from the crystal and once again landed on the elves in front of him. He had quickly changed his bewildered countenance and instead a warm smile had been placed on his face. ''Why can''t I sense any life coming from the crystal when Elora can? I''m much more powerful than her, but I still can''t seem to find any sign of life?'' After the emperor had smiled back at the elves surrounding them he had left his seat to try and feel the crystal in case something was living inside of it. As he sat back down he calmly began an explanation on the wedding that we''re going to be held in a couple of months. -"Grandma Edea, what just happened. Why did the emperor look like that?" Although not many noticed the countenance of the emperor changing due to their focus being on the Princess and the crystal, Sylfiel still managed to catch a glimpse of it. -"I''m not sure, I couldn''t hear what Princess Elora whispered, even with my enhanced hearing, but it didn''t look to be anything good." ''What''s this feeling. I feel so warm.'' As Lucifer''s eyes slowly began to open, he spotted that he was swimming in magma. Although he was swimming in magma, he didn''t feel scared, he felt safe as if he was held in his grandmother''s arms. Feeling the warmth that kept on surrounding him, Lucifer couldn''t help but feel extremely satisfied as it had been a long time since he felt such warmth. Last time he evolved, he slept as heavy as a stone. But this time, it was a different experience. Although sleeping he felt like he had waited, and waited, and waited. For more than five years he hadn''t dreamt and had instead been inside a black space with no other living creature or person to converse with. It had almost made him go crazy, as there was nothin but complete silence, and he had thought that he had been punished by the gods. Staying in complete silence for 5 continues years was a feat that many people wouldn''t be able to complete. And because of that, Lucifer felt that his mind was stronger, but at the same time, he felt as if he had lost something. ["Host successfully combined the Giant Demonic Dragon bloodline and Devil Snake bloodline resulting in the race; ''Abyssal Dragon'' due to unknown interference."] ["Successfully modified the body of the Host into the ''Abyssal Dragon''."] ["Due to unknown interference, the Host will not be able to break out of the protection layer for another 2 months."] ''I''ve already waited 5 years now, are you fucking kidding me? How much longer does this fucking ''Unknown'' entity want me to wait?'' As anger rose up within Lucifer, he couldn''t help but curse at the unknown entity that just fucked up everything. But he was also thankful at the same time since he probably wouldn''t be able to escape without help if the Giants tried to track him down. ''I might as well check out my status.'' -"Status." [Name: Lucifer][Race: Abyssal Dragon (Baby: 1/5)][Rank: King] - HP: 152.000/152.000 -(¡ü2x¡ü)- - MP: 35.000/135.000 -(¡ü3x¡ü)- - Total Battlepower (TB): 187.000/287.000 ¡û---¡ú - (Skills): Expand. Abyssal Flame. ????? Execution. Poison Bite. Death Beam. ¡û---¡ú - (Unique Skills): Abyssal Teleportation. ????? Wide Range Absorption. Combine. Observation. Cold Resistance. Blood Strengthening. Poison Immunity. Poison Gas. Hell Flame. Pain Nullify. Create. ¡û---¡ú - (Passive Skills): Gaia''s Immortal Body. ¡û---¡ú Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. [Advancement Unavailable] [Evolution Unavailable] ¡û---¡ú [Skill: Abyssal Flame] A flame directly connected to the abyss, meaning it will absorb anything it hits and automatically transport it into the abyss while burning it to ashes. If the target is stronger than the user, the effect of being absorbed into the abyss will be negated, while another flame that will burn the target until death will take effect. Although if the user is hit, the effects will be negated. [Unique Skill: Abyssal Teleportation] A skill allowing the user to temporarily enter into the Abyss realm without side effects of insanity or mental destruction. It will use up 25% of the total MP of the user for each use, and if used for a prolonged period of time, the sanity of the user will gradually grow corrupt. ''It''s actually not a too bad thing to have to wait since I''ll be able to recover my MP reaching my peak condition in no time. -"And because of the marriage, we as the elves will host the celebration ceremony, while inviting the Giants as our honoured guests. And due to that, we''ll have to prepare in time, as this might be one of the most important decisions of the future of the elves. You are dismissed." Instantly discussion broke out as the elves left the palace. Many began to decorate, while some even began to prepare presents. Thousands of elves began to intensively search for the perfect decorations and gifts to give the Princess and the Crown Prince of the Giants. (1 Month Later) ''LET ME OUT FOR GOD SAKE, IT FEELS LIKE I''VE BEEN HERE FOR ANOTHER FUCKING 5 YEARS!'' -(Another Month Later, Elven Kingdom)- *Thud, thud* Loud thuds and slight shivers were sent through the ground at the edge of the elven kingdom. The Giants had been travelling for the past couple of weeks as to not get late for the wedding. Arriving at the entrance of the capital city, Afrenthas, the King of the Giants was personally met with the Emperor of the elves. Behind the King of Giants, was an extremely handsome youth with sharp coal-black eyes, long silver hair, black clothing and an extremely comforting and friendly smile plastered on his face. -"Good to see you, Nubos, the King of Giants!" Wearing a friendly and warm smile as always, the emperor of the Elves greeted the King of Giants with extreme respect as he bowed down. -"The pleasure is all mine, Cyran!" Replying in a friendly manner the King of Giants bowed slightly towards Cyran the Emperor of the Elves. -"Everything is prepared for the ceremony, while everyone''s prepared gifts for the Princess and the Crown Prince." -"Oh, right there might not be space if you''re that big right now." Cyran, the emperor of the Elves, looked a little awkward as he reminded the giants of their size. -"Oh, we almost forgot. The pill masters actually managed to create a pill exactly for such an event. It will only allow us to temporarily shrink in size, but it was the best we could do." With a wide grin plastered on his face and a proud look in his eyes Nubos, the King of Giants took out a pill and swallowed it. The other Giants soon followed behind they gradually began to shrink in size. Although they were still 3 metres tall, it was nothing compared to their actual height as some of them were over 20 metres tall. Entering the hall that was prepared for the marriage, some of the Giants gasped at how majestic it looked. Pure white marble everywhere and decorated with gold. But what was most eye-catching was still the insanely huge crystal placed behind the seat of the emperor. -"You really placed it a perfect place, didn''t you?" As Nubos looked at the magma crystal, he couldn''t help but slightly regret giving it as a betrothal gift for the elves. It was simply majestic and heavenly to look at. A couple of hours into the ceremony without anyone noticing, a slight crack appeared on the surface of the magma crystal. 28 Ruining The Marriage Ceremony The crack got bigger and bigger, but it was as if everyone present didn''t pay any attention to the magma crystal, as the Princess and Crown Prince were currently undergoing the ceremony. -"Why''s the magma crystal cracking?" Finally, someone noticed the crack that became bigger and bigger, and immediately everyone''s gaze landed upon the magma crystal out of curiosity. The crack twisted and turned like a snake, as it gradually began to grown in size reaching over 30 metres in a matter of seconds. The eyes of the Elves and Giants widened in shock as they stared at the growing crack in the betrothal gift. Suddenly as the crack grew too deep, magma began to pour out in large quantity''s. -"What the fuck is happening?" -"AH!" Someone screamed and as the eyes of the many people present landed on a Giant laid down on the ground burning with extremely hot flames and magma on his back. Instantly the countenance of everyone changed as they began panicking and screaming while running as far away from the extremely hot magma, pouring out of the crystal. The crack grew bigger and more and more magma poured out and forced the people present up onto the second floor of the hall, as the entrance to the hall had been closed and locked to keep out disturbances. Magma now filled an entire metre in height everywhere of the first floor, while some screams of the unlucky ones that died a horrible death could be heard for a short amount of time. -"CALM DOWN EVERYONE!" The Emperor of the Elves calmly spoke, but it instantly calmed down everyone present as if the words had sneaked their way into the ears of everyone. The look on the Emperor''s face had turned extremely grim as his gaze swept towards the King of Giants. -"Are you trying to kill us all?!" With an expression twisted in anger, the Emperor yelled at the King of Giants at the top of his lungs instantly ruining the picture of him being calm. -"Who are you to accuse us? You must have fiddled with the magma gem!" Instantly 2 aura''s rose up clashing towards each other violently. -"What the fuck is this? Why do I feel so much weaker?" The countenance of the King of Giants showed confusion and doubt as he had noted that he felt much weaker compared to before. *BOOM* A loud explosion came from the direction of the magma crystal as thousands of bits of small crystal and magma flew in every direction instantly killing or injuring hundreds of Elves and Giants. Screams filled the air as the thousands remaining instantly backed off as much as possible. -"I knew I could feel life." The look in Princess Elora''s eyes brightened as if she was happy about her discovery, but she instantly changed her countenance as she would probably look like a madman if she smiled under such situation. As the dust disappeared what remained was an insanely huge dragon, lying on the ground as if sleeping. It was huge. Its scales were darker than the darkest night, while blue vein-like patterns ran from its head all the way down to its tail. The blue vein-like patterns gave off a slight glow, giving it an extremely eerie look. On top of its head sat a pair of huge coal-black horns almost representing a devil, leaving anyone scared after witnessing it. -"What kind of dragon race is that?" The Emperor, King of Giants, Princess Elora and the Crown Prince all spoke out loud at the same time as if their minds were connected. Although the dragon in front of them looked evil and eerie, they still couldn''t take their gaze off of it, as if it was the most beautiful and unique dragon they had ever seen. Suddenly the eyes of the dragon opened, and they gave of the same eerie blue light emitted from the vein-like patterns on its body. Its reptile eyes looked around with a confused and shocked look in it, but as soon as it gazed upon the Emperor, King of Giants, Princess Elora and the Crown Prince it instantly turned into that of greed and murder. As Lucifer opened his eyes, he was shocked to behold the scene in front of him. Magma was spread out as if he were inside of a volcano, but pillars held up what seemed to be a second floor with thousands of extremely beautiful people standing on. He secretly used his ''Observation'' skill to find out their strength and what race they were. ''They''re either Elves or Giants. But why are the Giants so small and weak compared to before?'' Since fighting the Third Prince of the Giants, Lucifer had been scared of the Giants since the Third Prince wasn''t even near the strongest. He had heard that the Crown Prince were the strongest, but upon looking at what seemed to be the Crown prince, the stats didn''t look that special. The strength was less than the Third Prince? [Name: Ragdor][Race: Giant (Young Adult: 3/5)][Rank King:] - HP: 221.000/221.000 -(¡ü2x¡ü)- - MP: 200.000/200.000 -(¡ü2x¡ü)- - Total Battlepower (TB): 421.000/421.000 -(¡ü2x¡ü)- ¡û---¡ú - (Skills): Sword of Glorica. Charge. Doomsday Slash. ¡û---¡ú - (Unique Skills): Divine Barrier. Pain Nullify. Instant Recovery. ¡û---¡ú Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. - (Passive Skills): God Of Giant''s Divine Blessing. ¡û---¡ú State: Weakened. ''Oh? This is new... He''s WEAKENED?!'' Lucifer''s eyes almost bulged out of his skull as he looked at the new section he had gotten when using observation. ''Then how damn strong is he when he''s in perfect condition?'' Feeling curious but also extremely scared, Lucifer looked over the skills with not much interest. The only thing that interested him was the amount of XP he could probably get by killing the Crown and also the other King ranks. [Name: Nubos][Race: Giant (Adult: 4/5)][Rank King:] - HP: 150.000/150.000 -(¡ü2x¡ü)- - MP: 200.000/200.000 -(¡ü2x¡ü)- - Total Battlepower (TB): 350.000/350.000 -(¡ü2x¡ü)- ¡û---¡ú - (Skills): Sword of Glorica. Charge. ¡û---¡ú - (Unique Skills): Divine Barrier. Pain Nullify. Instant Recovery. ¡û---¡ú - (Passive Skills): God Of Giant''s Divine Blessing. ¡û---¡ú State: Weakened. [Name: Cyran][Race: Elf (Elder: 5/5)][Rank King:] - HP: 108.000/108.000 -(¡ü1.5x¡ü)- - MP: 232.000/232.000 -(¡ü1.5x¡ü)- - Total Battlepower (TB): 340.000/340.000 -(¡ü1.5x¡ü)- ¡û---¡ú - (Skills): Sword of Nature. Whirlwinds of Nature. Breath of Nature. ¡û---¡ú - (Unique Skills): Nature Control. Pain Nullify. Instant Recovery. ¡û---¡ú - (Passive Skills): God of Nature''s Divine Blessing ¡û---¡ú State: Perfect. [Name: Elora][Race: Elf (Young Adult: 3/5)][Rank King:] - HP: 50.000/50.000 -(¡ü1.5x¡ü)- - MP: 200.000/200.000 -(¡ü1.5x¡ü)- - Total Battlepower (TB): 250.000/250.000 -(¡ü1.5x¡ü)- ¡û---¡ú - (Skills): Nature''s Will. Cycle of Nature. Breath of Nature. ¡û---¡ú - (Unique Skills): Nature Control. Pain Nullify. Instant Recovery. Wide Range Recovery. ¡û---¡ú - (Passive Skills): God of Nature''s Divine Blessing ¡û---¡ú State: Perfect. Greed filled Lucifer''s eyes as his viewpoint of the people present changed to that of XP instead of living organisms. He stood up shocking the people present once more as he could look down from above even on the second floor. ''I might as well try out my new flame skill.'' It was as if Lucifer was blinded with greed as he looked towards everyone present. -"Abyssal Flame." The flame was pitch black and it gave the feeling of being able to absorb everything that got in its way. It twisted and turned towards the elves and giants that were at the Lord rank since they wouldn''t have any time to resist. Instantly screams could be heard everywhere and the King-ranks looked on in horror as they saw that their people were being absorbed by the flame, completely removing them from existence. 29 Fighting King Ranks 1 The flame was pitch black and it gave the feeling of being able to absorb everything that got in its way. It twisted and turned towards the elves and giants that were at the Lord rank since they wouldn''t have any time to resist. Instantly screams could be heard everywhere and the King-ranks looked on in horror as they saw that their people were being absorbed by the flame, completely removing them from existence. -"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!" The youth looking to be the Crown Prince instantly went into a rage as he quickly tried to get in front of the flame that seemed to absorb everything it touched. He quickly ran in front of the flame and blocked, hurriedly telling everyone to get away from the dragon. To his surprise, he didn''t seem to get absorbed by the flame but instead the flame kept on burning on him as if it was completely impossible to put out. -"Fuck this flame." As he couldn''t put it out, he decided to ignore it as it didn''t seem to do much damage at all, as if it was just decorative and ineffective. -"What the fuck are you guys doing just standing there?! HELP ME!" As he looked towards the other three King ranks that just stood and watched, he couldn''t help but curse out loud as an enemy threatening the lives of thousands of people had appeared in front of them. As soon as the words left his mouth it was as if the others went out of their daze of looking at the dragon. -"Bunar, do you feel weak as well?" As Nubos was curious as to if his son the Crown Prince felt weak like he did, it could pose an incredible problem. He also held the suspicion that the reason for him feeling weak was the pill that they had taken to shrink in size. Either that or the dragon had some kind of skill used to seal most of the opponents battle power. -"Now that I think about it, yes. It feels like my powers have been restricted by something." As the Crown Prince quickly did a thorough search throughout his whole body, he noticed that in the middle of his abdomen most of his powers were gathered by a spheric object. ''Those damn pill masters. They didn''t tell us about any side effects.'' Silently cursing within his mind Bunar (Crown Prince), once again paid attention to the dragon in front of him. ["Host successfully absorbed 231 Lord-ranks through the abyss. Awarding with 23,100,000 XP."] ''That''s new. Now that I think about it, how much does it cost to advance?'' Since Lucifer had evolved, he didn''t check what the new cost of the advancements to the future stages would cost. Lucifer silently checked. [Advancement][Race: Abyssal Dragon][Rank: King][Current XP: 90,803,200??] - Baby (Current) - Child (2,5 Billion, XP) - Young Adult (25 Billion, XP) - Adult (2,5 Trillion, XP) - Elder (25 Trillion, XP) ''WHAT?! Why so much????'' Looking at the insanely large numbers, Lucifer almost couldn''t breathe and nearly fainted. The last advancement upgrade he bought with XP only cost him around 250,000,000. He also only got XP in the millions if he killed hundreds if not thousands of Lord-ranks, so what he needed to kill was lots and lots of King-ranks in order to advance. Sadly, present were only 4 King-ranks. But they were still enough to grant him a lot of XP. And although it was nowhere near enough for him to advance, it would still mean less XP were needed. ''Because the space inside the hall is too small to use my Expand skill in, I''ll have to break out if I want to win against those King-ranks. And although I have a teleportation skill, it will hinder me from killing the King-ranks.'' As Lucifer looked towards the door of the hall, he flapped his wings instantly generating hundreds of small whirlwinds that stirred up his surroundings. Flying at almost the speed of sound, Lucifer knocked into the door with his head first, instantly shattering it without much effort. Dust and rubble flew in every direction and even hit some of the people on the second floor, injuring or killing them. Screams could be heard and the hearts of the King-ranks dropped once more, as they thought Lucifer intentionally killed the innocent people present and tried to escape. Therefore they quickly got out of their daze and hurriedly followed suit with him, as it would be an embarrassment to let him escape without getting proper revenge. -"We can''t let it escape!" With bloodshot eyes, the Crown Prince was the first to react and follow suit with Lucifer, as hate and rage had begun to show on his beautiful and elegant face. Veins could be seen on his neck and his temple pulsating out of frustration. He swiftly arrived in front of Lucifer that had landed in front of the palace, enjoying the scenery, seemingly ignoring their pursuit. -"WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM FILTHY DRAGON?!" Instantly Lucifer turned his head towards the Crown Prince full of disgust. But soon after a gleam of mockery and pity could be spotted within his reptile eyes as he looked directly into the eyes of the Crown Prince. The other 3 King ranks arrived behind the Crown Prince and asked the same with equally bloodshot or eyes full of tears. -"Something like that also left your brother''s vile mouth." Instantly Lucifer''s face broke into a scary grin while his eyes were filled with pity and mockery as he looked directly at the Crown Prince, completely ignoring the other''s existence. As soon as the words left his mouth, a cough was heard and a mouthful of blood was thrown up by the Crown Prince and also the King of Giants. If their eyes were bloodshot before, they more or less looked like they were a pair of freshly plucked tomatoes. Veins bulged out under the skin everywhere as their faces contorted in anger making them look extremely hideous. -"You BASTARD!" Instantly it seemed as if the Crown Prince had lost all sense of reasoning and swiftly ran towards Lucifer at incredible speeds preparing to attack. Although the King of Giants were also extremely angry, he still held back and tried to stop the Crown Prince since he felt something was off. His senses told him it would be wrong to attack Lucifer alone, as they had never seen such race before nor did they know how powerful it was. -"Expand." A deep voice resounded from Lucifer, as his body began to twist and turn while growing in size, creating an extremely bizarre scene. As he grew in size, the energy within the air, began to seek towards his body and were getting absorbed at an incredible rate. His size doubled as well as his strength and instantly the King of Giants could understand why he felt something was wrong. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. -"Ragdor get ba-" Before the King of Giants could finish his sentence, the Crown Prince (Ragdor) had arrived in front of Lucifer, while Lucifer had already swung his now even bigger claw at him. 30 Fighting King Ranks 2 The claws of Lucifer was swung down at the Crown Prince without mercy. The Crown Prince didn''t have any time to dodge, so he had put his arms in front of him to try and defend against the incoming attack. But of course, that wouldn''t help much as he weren''t ready for it to begin with. The claws of Lucifer instantly slashed through the Crown Prince, cutting him into 3 pieces as smooth as when a knife cuts butter. The now dissected Crown Prince fell to the ground, as blood gushed out everywhere. ''I''ll have to kill the other King-ranks before I''ll be able to absorb everything.'' As Lucifer had killed the Crown Prince without much trouble at all, the other 3 King-ranks immediately began to retreat a couple of steps. Looking at each other, and nodding, it almost seemed as if they telepathically planned out their counter-attack within a second. Princess Elora stood remained at a distance while the King of Giants, Nubos, and Cyran the Emperor of the Elves began their attacks from each side of Lucifer. Although not much time had passed, the teamwork of the 3 King-ranks was top-notch making it hard for Lucifer to decide which one he should target. -"Sword of Nature!" -"Sword of Glorica! As Cyran and Nubos were on the left and right side respectively, they unsheathed their sword and used skills which nicely complimented each other. Hundreds of sword slashes rained down towards Lucifer without stop. The slashes were both green and white, one representing the Will of Nature, while the other represented the Will of Glorica. As they hit Lucifer''s scales they cut through them like butter as if it didn''t matter whether they were there or not. Within a couple of seconds, Lucifer''s body had been cut into hundreds of pieces, leaving him unrecognizable. A strong smell of iron radiated from Lucifer who was no more than a pile of bloody meat at that moment. The remaining elves and giants within the hall were barely able to see what was happening outside, and as soon as they saw the nightmarish dragon being cut into pieces multiple of them began to cry due to happiness of their survival. -"Is it dead?" Nubos looked towards the Elora and Cyran as to confirm if it was dead since he wasn''t accepted by nature the same way the Elves were. Elves were capable of identifying if a creature or plant were alive by just a simple touch. -"Elora, stay back. I''ll check it out." Since Cyran felt that something was wrong with the dragon being killed so fast, he didn''t want to put his daughter at risk if anything unexpected were to happen. He approached the meat, as gently touched with a finger. Instantly his countenance changed into an extremely worried and grim one. -"Back off. NOW!" He hurriedly backed off while warning Elora and Nubos. He was simply too stunned since nothing should be able to survive such a thing. But when he touched the meat, he still felt a lifeforce as if the dragon wasn''t dead. ''Did I hallucinate?'' A couple of seconds went by, without anything happening, making Cyran anxious and confused. He felt that the dragon had an extremely strong lifeforce, even though it were cut up hundreds of times. Suddenly, as if time reverted, the meat began to move while putting itself back together. The blood that had leaked out was sucked in again, and slowly the meat and blood began to form the dragon once more. Flesh and tissue could be seen regenerating with the naked eye, which horrified everyone that would see it. After a couple of seconds, the bloody meat had turned back into the Abyssal Dragon that Lucifer was. No scars could be seen as if his body had never been cut. Instantly the countenance of the 3 King-ranks turned extremely grim, almost making them completely unrecognizable. Inside the hall where the Elves and Giants were, the ones that had cried out of joy now cried out of fear. -"What the fuck is that...?" A silent whisper left Nubos''s mouth, as he looked with on Lucifer with a hint of fear and surprise. Cyran and Elora didn''t look as surprised but fear could still be spotted inside their eyes. -"Could that dragon have an immortal body..?" A thought had appeared in the mind of Cyran, as he had watched the scene before him unfold. But he would''ve never expected for the dragon to be alive. Although immortal bodies weren''t unheard of, they were still rare, since most creatures that had it had been either killed by a soul-attack or been locked up using secret methods. Those that had been locked up, was usually used to harvest energy or food since their bodies could always regenerate. What was scary though, was that those with immortal bodies wouldn''t need to get nutritions nor proteins to regrow their bodies, giving them the option of not eating their whole life. -"Poison Gas." A deep and intimidating voice left Lucifer''s mouth, and soon, green gas was released from his body enshrouding him completely. This sight immediately rendered the King-ranks speechless as they recognized the skill he had used. -"How can that dragon use a skill from the Devil Snake? Just what the fuck is that dragon?!" Nubos became even warier of Lucifer since if he could use the skill of the Devil Snake, he could probably use skills of other extremely dangerous creatures. Just what kind of monster would be able to copy skills from other beasts and even use them that proficiently as if they were born with them. Because of the poisonous gas, the King-ranks didn''t dare move too close without holding their breath, in case the poison could hurt them. Although they could heal, it would still be extremely dangerous. As the King-ranks were in a daze of sorts, Lucifer flapped his wings and almost instantly arrived in front of Nubos who were unprepared for such a sudden attack. Out of pure reaction, he activated his Divine Barrier to block Lucifer''s upcoming attack. -"Death Beam." Lucifer used an attack he had gotten when he killed and absorbed what seemed to be a human sage. Although he had acquired it, he had never used it once, and since it wouldn''t take much time to kill the remaining King-ranks, Lucifer thought that he might as well try it out. A beam of light was shot out of Lucifer''s mouth towards Nubos, as it twisted and turned while making crackling noises almost representing thunder. It was extremely beautiful, but also extremely deadly. It crashed together with the Divine Barrier of Nubos, and beads of sweat could be seen rolling down the forehead of the King of Giants. Cracks began to form on the divine barrier, a panicked expression slowly appeared on the face of Nubos. His face began to turn pale as if the lifeforce supporting him began to slowly erode. -"Instant Recovery!" -"Instant Recovery!" Cyran and Elora used the same skill on Nubos, instantly recharging him with MP and the Divine Barrier slowly began to repair itself, while under the attack of Lucifer. His now jade-white face began to slowly regain its colour. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. A smile of joy and mockery appeared on the face of Nubos as if to tell Lucifer that he couldn''t be killed that easily. Since he had recovered, he wouldn''t just sit still. The Death Beam stopped, and the countenance of Lucifer changed into that of annoyance and surprise. He didn''t expect Nubos to be able to survive his attack, and even though he did get help from the 2 other King-ranks, it was still a feat that was plausible and unexpected. 31 Unexpected Turn Of Events The smile of mockery grew bigger as if the confidence of Nubos grew for every second. Although it might''ve not been intentional, Nubos''s smile widened to the point of reaching his ears, making him look like some kind of devil, with an insane smile. He quickly backed off to prepare for the next attack, but what he didn''t expect was that Lucifer''s reptile eye''s had changed target. They now looked towards Cyran and Elora, and without much time passing by he almost instantly arrived in front of them. Although he could kill them more easily with his Abyssal Flame, it wouldn''t be as much fun, while he wouldn''t get much battle experience. And since he would have to battle his way towards higher ranks, he had to have some sort of knowledge about battles. Since this would give him experience, he wouldn''t want to let it go so easily. He swiftly swung his claws towards Cyran, while spitting out another Death Beam towards Elora, as to end them both in the span of a couple of seconds. What he didn''t expect though, was that a sudden change ruined that idea. He suddenly felt an extreme pressure coming from his back as if a mountain was weighing down upon his shoulders. The pressure suddenly vanished, and before the attacks even hit Cyran and Elora, something blocked the Death Beam while Lucifer''s claw was cut clean off. In front of Lucifer now stood a Nubos much taller than before. He seemed to have become at least thrice as powerful as if he had gotten a sudden boost in strength. His height had reached over 15 metres making him extremely tall, while he was also extremely sturdy, allowing him to easily block the attacks from Lucifer directed at the others. White steam seemed to be released from his pores as if his blood was boiling. He slowly raised his head, and an aura of bloodlust and murder began to seep out of him. As he slowly raised his head, a smile so scary it would make anyone die of fear was plastered on the face of Nubos, as his eyes were filled with hatred and mockery. -"Status." Because Lucifer felt something were off, he quickly looked at the status of Nubos, The King of Giants, to check if he had overlooked something important. [Name: Nubos][Race: Giant (Adult: 4/5)][Rank King:] - HP: 600.000/700.000 -(¡ü2x¡ü)- - MP: 400.000/400.000 -(¡ü2x¡ü)- - Total Battlepower (TB): 1.000.000/1.100.000 -(¡ü2x¡ü)- ¡û---¡ú Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. - (Skills): Sword of Glorica. Charge. ¡û---¡ú - (Unique Skills): Divine Barrier. Pain Nullify. Instant Recovery. ¡û---¡ú - (Passive Skills): God Of Giant''s Divine Blessing. ¡û---¡ú Condition: Perfect ''What the fuck happened? How could he be this strong?! Why did his condition change so abruptly...?'' Lucifer instantly began to cold sweat while overlooking the stats of Nubos and spotting the new little surprise that caught him off guard. -"Finally that damn pill''s effect wore off..." As Nubos straightened out his back, he began to draw his extremely huge sword. The sword itself represented beauty, as the edges were extremely sharp, while hundreds of different patterns were carefully carved in its blade. Lucifer instantly backed off as fast as he could, while his claw was healing at an insanely fast pace. Although Lucifer knew he wouldn''t be able to die under the blade of Nubos due to his immortal body, he was still scared as Nubos probably had other methods to torture or kill him. Due to that, Lucifer wouldn''t want to be caught or get in unnecessary trouble. He knew he wouldn''t be able to kill Nubos in the state he was in at the moment. Nubos probably would also seek out Lucifer to get revenge for his son, if he managed to escape unscathed. ''Since this twist of events won''t allow me to kill and absorb the other Lord-ranks, I might aswell absorb the Crown Prince to get a skill that might suit me.'' Although Lucifer knew it would make Nubos extremely angry if he were to absorb the Crown Prince, he also knew that if he didn''t do it now, he probably wouldn''t be allowed to in the future, making him miss an important chance to get tons of XP while a pretty good skill. -"Wide Range Absorption." A slight whisper left Lucifer''s mouth, and a wave of wind was shot out from him as if it was controlled by his will. The wind couldn''t be stopped, and when it hit the other King-ranks, they didn''t think much of it as it didn''t seem to do much harm at all. But as soon as they laid their eyes on the corpse of the Crown Prince, they soon came to realise that the attack didn''t seem to target living creatures at all. The Prince''s corpse slowly began to turn into dust that flew towards Lucifer and when it touched his scales, it got completely absorbed, erasing the existence of the Crown Prince. ["The Host has successfully killed and absorbed a King Rank Giant. Awarding Host with 10,000,000 XP, the ''Skill: Doomsday Slash'', and 10% of the Giant bloodline."] Due to Lucifer already absorbing those he killed with the Abyssal Flame, he wouldn''t be able to get anything else. But he was still surprised to see the amount of XP he got from killing a single King-rank. When Nubos saw this scene play before his eyes, they instantly turned bloodshot, and he puked up a mouthful of blood out of anger and hatred that had built up. -"First, you kill my youngest son. Then you kill the future King of Giants, and now, you won''t even leave his corpse for a proper burial!!!" Nubos swiftly moved towards Lucifer, since he wouldn''t allow someone to just kill 2 of his sons, and get away without paying the price for offending the Giants. Although Giants were usually nice. But when they were in war with another race or they got angered, they were true beasts that almost no one wanted to challenge, due to their ferociousness. He raised his majestic sword high into the air and was just about to slash down at Lucifer when something unbelievable happened right before his eyes. -"Abyssal Teleportation." Instantly Lucifer felt a force pulling him backwards. As he looked back, he saw a gigantic void-black portal that was only barely able to fit him. When looking at it, he almost fell into a daze, and it felt like somebody was staring right into his soul, which send a shiver down his spine. He quickly shook his head, closed his eyes, and let the pulling force pull him inside the portal, while Nubos barely managed to hit his chest. The portal closed, and instantly Lucifer felt an excruciating pain in the chest. Although he had Pain Nullify, the sword of Nubos somehow managed to make him feel pain. As he opened his eyes, he spotted he was in a completely black space, which felt extremely weird. As he looked down he only barely managed to spot the wound that Nubos had made, due to the weak blue hue that the body of Lucifer emitted. Red blood flushed out of the wound, but for some reason even after a couple of minutes of silence, the wound didn''t seem to heal even one tiny bit. ''That sword is not normal!'' As Lucifer felt more and more blood left his body into the endless abyss, he also felt himself getting dizzier. His immortal body couldn''t keep up the blood flow nor blood production. Although he wouldn''t die no matter what, the pain was worse than death, and the dizziness just added oil to the fire. He felt that he began to slowly lose consciousness and without control of his body, he collapsed on the ground. 32 God Of The Abyss As Lucifer had collapsed and fell unconscious he wasn''t able to spot a mysterious scene that happened right in front of his eyes. A girl, with red hair and a blurry face, appeared in front of his collapsed body and slowly descended. Her skin was extremely white, and she emitted light while an aura of holiness could be felt. It was as if gravity didn''t work, and Lucifer and the girl were out in space, gently flying around. But compared to space, the abyss was full of nothing. No stars, no planets. Nothing. Only darkness. She silently arrived in front of Lucifer''s huge wound that was cut by Nubos and gently touched it. As if the flesh and tissue were given a command, it slowly began to twist and turn as if it was alive. The wound slowly closed together, while the girl kept standing in front of Lucifer as if to check upon him. -"You''re too reckless." A sweet voice left the girl''s mouth, while she turned around and began to gently fly away as if led by a stream of water. Her figure disappeared bit by bit as if she had never existed while the aura of holiness and the light she was emitting, completely disappeared. Everything turned dark once again, except for the blue hue that Lucifer''s dragon body was emitting non-stop. The open wound was closing up at a rapid speed, and not even a minute passed by, and the wound had healed. Although it had healed, it now left a gigantic scar all across Lucifer''s chest, looking extremely horrible and intimidating. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. A couple of hours went by where Lucifer was lying unconscious, and without moving a single muscle. Suddenly something began to move in the dark abyss as if a creature had spotted Lucifer. It was almost transparent, revealing all the organs and skeleton as if it was some sort of hybrid jellyfish. It was extremely huge, reaching many times the size of Lucifer. A strange aura was released from its transparent body. It felt like it could somehow control the abyss as if it could do whatever it wanted. It slowly but surely moved towards Lucifer, bouncing up and down like jelly. As it got close to Lucifer, something looking to be an arm grew out of its side and gently touched Lucifer. A warm current rushed through Lucifer''s body instantly waking him up. -"What the fuck are you...?" Instantly when his eyes landed on the entity he couldn''t help but be surprised and feel extremely uncomfortable. The entity before his eyes didn''t look like something living, and he didn''t think that something could live inside of the abyss. But he had been speculating about life in the abyss since his race was named the ''Abyssal Dragon''. He felt like Loton his system didn''t know much about the abyss and therefore told him that no life could be found inside. As Lucifer looked at the entity before his reptile eyes, he suddenly felt an insane pressure as if he had hundreds of mountains on his back, trying to carry them. He couldn''t even move, and he was barely able to breathe properly. As if sensing the immense pressure it put on Lucifer, the entity backed off to release some of it. ''What is that thing...?'' As Lucifer looked closer, he became more and more curious about the creature since he had never seen anything like it before. It was bizarre to look at, yet also extremely interesting. -"Observation." [Name ???:][Race: ??? (???)][Rank: ???] - HP: ??? - MP: ??? - Total Battlepower (TB): ??? ¡û---¡ú - (Skills): ??? ¡û---¡ú - (Unique Skills): ??? ¡û---¡ú - (Passive Skills): ??? ¡û---¡ú - (Condition: Perfect) - ''What the fuck is this..?'' Instantly Lucifer became wary, and a shiver was sent down his spine as he quickly discovered he couldn''t find out anything about the entity before his eyes. And he knew that if a creature was much stronger than him, his skill wouldn''t allow him to view its information. Since he couldn''t see any of the information, Lucifer got scared and extremely curious as to how strong the weird entity was. Suddenly without notice, the weird creature began to extend itself towards Lucifer, while holding him in place with its pressure. It''s weird jelly-like skin and flesh touched Lucifer and instantly Lucifer somehow felt stronger. As soon as it came into contact with Lucifer, he felt a warmth run through his body as if restoring his vitality and MP. It was a warmth that reminded Lucifer of being loved and cared for as if he was being hugged by his grandmother. Ever since Lucifer could remember, he had never seen his mom nor dad, and his grandmother would never talk about it even if he asked. It was as if she didn''t hear him at all, and just went on with whatever she was doing. He had always felt extremely weird about it, be he could never do anything since even if he shook her a bit while asking, it was as if she never felt or heard anything, which creeped him out sometimes. The warm current flowed through every vein and all tissue, instantly relaxing Lucifer. Although he felt weird that the one that made him feel like that was such a weird creature, he couldn''t do much to prevent it either way. The jelly-like flesh and tissue slowly retracted itself back to the creature. It was extremely weird to be able to see its internal organs, and Lucifer spotted something that seemed to give off an extremely powerful aura of holiness. Instantly Lucifer had an idea of what kind of entity the creature in front of him was since not many living beings could possess such pure holy power. The creature in front of him was most likely some sort of god or a creature on the verge of reaching godhood. Instantly cold sweat rolled down Lucifer''s body since he had never actually met a god in person. -"You remind me of him." A voice seemed to come from the creature, as it departed into the distance, gradually fading into the abyss. ["Host has received the Blessing of the God of the Abyss."] 33 ??? ["Host has received the Blessing of the God of the Abyss."] ''Yet another blessing, what is going on? Am I that special...?'' As Lucifer was shocked over getting yet another blessing, he couldn''t help but wonder, why he would get two blessings from two gods. He felt like there was something about himself he didn''t know as if there was a big secret hidden deep within his soul. He also wondered why the blessing he got this time wasn''t a ''Divine Blessing'' like the one he''d gotten from the Goddess of Creation and Life. Since he''d gotten a blessing from a god, it should be divine, but why wasn''t the blessing he got from the God of the Abyss a Divine one? Although Lucifer was extremely perplexed, he noticed that he wasn''t feeling any pain in his chest anymore, where the cut from Nubos''s sword had been. Instead, an extremely huge scar could be seen, going all the way down his chest. Lucifer felt that something was special about that sword the King of Giants used. it didn''t seem to belong to mortals such as him and Lucifer, and it felt like it had hundreds of millions of personalities, or even billions of personalities, each representing a unique existence. -"Status." [Name: Lucifer][Race: Abyssal Dragon (Baby: 1/5)][Rank: King] - HP: 152.000/152.000 -(¡ü2x¡ü)- - MP: 135.000/135.000 -(¡ü3x¡ü)- - Total Battlepower (TB): 287.000/287.000 ¡û---¡ú - (Skills): Expand. Abyssal Flame. Execution. Poison Bite. Death Beam. ¡û---¡ú - (Unique Skills): Abyssal Teleportation. Wide Range Absorption. Combine. Observation. Cold Resistance. Blood Strengthening. Poison Immunity. Poison Gas. Hell Flame. Pain Nullify. Create. ¡û---¡ú - (Passive Skills): Gaia''s Immortal Body. Divine Blessing of the Goddess of Creation and Life. ???. ????? ¡û---¡ú - (Condition: Perfect) - ¡û---¡ú [Advancement Unavailable] [Evolution Unavailable] [Passive Skill: ???] ??? ????? ???????? ?? ??? ???? ?????????? ????????. ?????? ??? ???? ???? ???? ?? ??????? ???? ? ????????, ??? ??????? ?? ????? ????? ??, ????? ??? ??? ?? ??? ?????, ??? ????? ?????? ??? ????? ?? ???????. ''Why does the blessing not show up and what is this description...? It didn''t even do anything? Is it because I''m too weak to be able to activate the blessing? But if I can''t even activate this blessing, how come the Divine Blessing instantly activated?'' As Lucifer looked over his status, he noticed that everything was still the same, even after he''d gotten the blessing from the God of the Abyss. He was extremely confused, and he had a perplexed look plastered on his face. Since he''d gotten an insane buff from the Divine Blessing, he couldn''t understand that the blessing from the God of the Abyss, didn''t even show up, nor did it give him any buffs. What could such a mysterious blessing give Lucifer? And in the first place, why would the God of the Abyss even give it to Lucifer? Lucifer also felt like he had missed something since he felt that he was stronger than before, but when looking at his stats, he couldn''t see any change whatsoever, instantly perplexing him. He couldn''t figure out what had happened at that moment where he felt the warm current flow through his entire body. It was as if it was just a dream, but it just felt too real for it to be a dream at the same time. It made Lucifer frustrated, while it also made him extremely curious as to what was happening behind the scenes. ''Now that I look at my status, I do have a lot of skills... Should I combine them?'' Moving on to the next topic, Lucifer contemplated what he was going to do next. Since he''d gotten some skills, he might as well combine them, but at the same time, he hadn''t even tried them before. Would it just be a waste to combine them, or would it be exciting? -"Combine." [Combine - Skills] ??? + ??? = ??? ??? + ??? = ??? ??? + ??? = ??? ''What the fuck is going on with this?! Why is it that Combining skills also turned into question marks???'' Lucifer felt even more perplexed and confused as he found out that every skill that could be combined had turned into question marks, leaving him with no choice but to not combine any skills, since he wouldn''t know what he combined and what he got. It was as if something was wrong with everything as if someone had intervened with Loton, Lucifer''s System. But who could that be? Was it the God of the Abyss, or that unknown entity that also intervened when he evolved? Or was it something different, maybe someone or something else? Lucifer simply couldn''t figure out why his stats were messed up since it didn''t make any sense whatsoever. He''d used different commands multiple times, but never had it been like that. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. ''Then what about the other commands?'' Since Lucifer couldn''t use combine, he thought that there was a possibility that some other commands had turned to question marks as well. -"Advance." [Advancement][Race: ???][Rank: ???][Current XP: ???] ??? (???) ??? (???) ??? (???) ??? (???) ??? (???) ''What is going on...?'' Was it because he was inside of the abyss that something had intervened with Loton, or could it be when that God of the Abyss sent a surge of warmth through his body? -"Abyssal Teleportation." Instantly, Lucifer felt a pulling force from behind his back, the same feeling as when he had gotten into the Abyss. Since his skills worked fine, he let himself be pulled through the portal. As he was pulled into the portal, all sorts of colours could be seen flashing by insanely fast. It was an extremely beautiful sight to behold, and Lucifer couldn''t help but have his eyes glued onto the different colours. Soon, Lucifer arrived in another place that was completely different from the forest with the elves he was in before. Instead, it was all extremely familiar. The colour red was everywhere, reaching out into the horizon as if it had no end to it. Corpses, skeletons and blood everywhere, as if it was a massive graveyard where millions were killed without being buried. And in front of Lucifer was what he had been searching for while being on that massive battlefield. 34 A Truth Lucifer had finally found what he had been looking for all the time while being on the insanely huge battlefield where he killed the Third Prince of the Giants. The battlefield was also where he began his evolution to the Demonic Devil, but due to some unknown entity interfering with his evolution he evolved into the Abyssal Dragon, maintaining his dragon form instead of changing. Back when he was on the battlefield, it was like a gigantic XP farm for Lucifer and because he didn''t utilize it to the fullest he felt a slight hint of regret since it would''ve helped him Advancing to the later staged quicker. The portal in front of Lucifer looked extremely intimidating. It was round, with ancient runes and patterns engraved in the material that didn''t seem to be something mortals could touch. The material itself gave off a shine that almost blinded anyone standing in front of it. The runes and patterns looked extremely profound while it emitted an aura of precision. It seemed as if the ones that had engraved the runes and patterns had put their life and soul into them, making them emit a weak aura of life. The portal itself had all the different shades of red, orange and yellow mixed together. The different colours moved in and out of each other while twisting and turning as if it was possessed by a soul. It looked extremely beautiful as it gave off an aura of warmth and wisdom. ''Such a thing could''ve only been forged by gods...'' As Lucifer looked over everything he felt that it was extremely hard to move his gaze away from it. When he first saw it in the dream he had where Thalia walked into it, the runes and patterns couldn''t be spotted as if they were hiding from something. The feeling the portal emitted was ordinary, and it felt like there was nothing extraordinary about it. But now that Lucifer was here in person, he couldn''t help but be extremely surprised. It was simply too well crafted that Lucifer found it hard to believe that someone could create something like that. But what also struck Lucifer was that it would simply be too weird if nobody spotted the portal before him. It was extremely huge, so it would be almost impossible to miss it unless one''s eyes were missing. As he looked around he also noted that there wasn''t a single corpse within a couple of hundred metres in diameter of the portal as if they had all got sucked into it. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting. Since Lucifer wouldn''t want to stall any longer, he slowly walked into the portal, and he instantly felt like he was in another place. The smell of blood couldn''t be spotted, while the space surrounding him was completely white. In front of him stood a girl. A girl smiling at him, with a blue and red eye. One eye was extremely violent while the other eye was calm as water. Even though there was no wind, her silver-like hair fluttered resembling silver fire. She stood in front of Lucifer and looked up at him as if she''d been waiting for a long time. -"You''re finally here." She smiled at Lucifer with a friendly smile, that reminded Lucifer of when he was little and his grandmother would smile at him when he got home from school every day. A warmth rose in his heart as he looked at the girl in front of him. -"Just who are you..?" Lucifer had felt that something was different with Thalia, as she couldn''t possibly meet him in such a place since she was so weak when he last met her. She shouldn''t even have been able to get to the portal since it was likely that it was in the middle of the battlefield where the strongest of the armies fought each other. -"She''s my sister." A sweet and mild voice sounded out behind Lucifer, making him turn around to see the one that had been the nicest to him on earth ever since he started in school. It was Madison. Her red hair fluttered making it look like extremely beautiful flames, almost giving it a life of its own. Her skin was so extremely smooth, while it was as white as white jade, making her look like a goddess. She wore a white dress that fluttered even without wind, giving her an extremely intimidating and mysterious look. A tear rolled down from one of Lucifers eyes as he looked at Madison. He had always felt that there was something special about her, and as if he had known her way before he met her at school. This had always puzzled him. -"I wanted to bring you here from the start, but I weren''t allowed to do so according to the rules." She smiled at him while explaining some stuff about what had happened. She told Lucifer that she was a Goddess of the world Zylghen, and she had travelled through time and space to meet him, and get him into this world. -"But why would you do that?" Lucifer felt extremely puzzled now that he heard an explanation from Madison. He had always wondered why he would be reborn in the world Zylghen as he didn''t know much about it. But now that he got some information, it just put more questions into his head that he already had. -"I can''t tell you everything now since it''ll hinder your growth, but I''ll answer that one question of yours. The reason for me going through all the hardships to bring you to this world is because your soul is made out of many. It is made out of 8 souls, each of which came from a god that had been killed, as for why they were killed, you''ll know once you get enough strength." Instantly Lucifer was dumbfounded and didn''t know what to say as the information he had gotten, simply didn''t make much sense at all. It didn''t feel real, but at the same time, he didn''t doubt Madison''s words.