Chapter 53

  Daiki POV

  I had woken up feeling rather lethargic and utterly exhausted, also there was some sort of bugging sensation and tingling all over my body.

  I heard the girls speak and I made sure that I will be back to speak to them later, I was feeling a bit uneasy as my mental state began deteriorating.

  How did I know that? Simple, the damn world was spinning and I could see the ground trying to engulf me whole while monsters from the underworld began to emerge trying to gobble me up.

  I checked some of my current debuffs to know what was wrong and instantly understood the reason behind these hallucinations.

  Yep I am in a shitty situation, these debuffs will render me useless for the time being. I need to get away from these girls lest I do something I will regret.

  I headed towards the caravan that took us and gave the hooded person that drove it here some instructions.

  I was still wondering how he never tired or felt any need to leave his seat since the day we took off, but he listened to my instructions and headed back.

  I needed him to tell the demon king that I will take more time to come back.

  Looking at the notifications that were still shining I began going through them.

  What a nice merge of ability and even more… too many items…and most interestingly black dragon egg…it can’t be…

  I then popped it out to existence by willing it out from my inventory.

  It was the size of a boulder and had black scales all over it, they looked to be alive.

  I then inspected it to only have this appear in front of me.

  Curse? Probably this black thing on my body

  Yea…this needs to be removed…

  I then willed my status screen to show up only to be amazed at the current changes.

  I am less than useless now, the curse and the weakened state combined themselves to weaken my combat ability even further…I need to remove this, probably Redemption will work it out by removing the debuffs but I don’t know if it would work against this curse…

  Even so, redemption is on a 24 hours Cooldown, and I need to remain in this state for a whole day anyway…quite problematic…if I were to be attacked by any monster I will be easy prey, though I can revive, probably they will probably be cursed so it will mostly be alright…as for the girls however, that is a different story, they will be needing to fight for their own survival. Something they should be capable of if they were going to follow me…

  I have been having these thoughts for a long time, I truly want to leave this place and this world yet at the same time I want to see more of it, I want to not be burdened by this liability and this quest upon me, but still I want to know how it all ends, and surly want to see the faces of these so called divine once I bring hell to them…

  Looking at the current state of affairs, Lilith had promised that she was going to present the spell to take us back to our world…though I have this gut feeling that it will somehow not work, or something bad will happen…I have no idea why though…I just can’t fathom how it would be possible for us to leave this place while I have been told that I will be the one to bring down the divine…what a mess.

  I went deeper in the woods and far away from the girls. Resting on top of a boulder and quite close to a body of water I meditated. I needed to prepare some things first.

  Closing my eyes I began feeling the torrent of souls within me, they were weakened, probably due to me using all of my soul energy before but it doesn’t matter, I need something from them.

  First thing first.

  Saida I said and the soul of the sacrilegious king appeared in front of me, back in his ethereal yet mostly human looking appearance he looked at me and said few words.

  “You have ascended, quite impressive young lad, though I hate to admit it. You still betrayed me once…”

  “The circumstances demanded that of me”

  Well they certainly didn’t and I could have just left him there but look at the help I got from him, I managed to beat Ravana thanks to him and also got to survive against the black dragon, so entrapping him was a wise decision…

  “What do you know about that black dragon?” I asked

  “Pretty much everything one needs to know, their scales are strong against most weapons, even Godsteel without sufficient strength to back it can barely dent or damage it, the blood of these beasts can be used in various rituals and to make potent and extremely strong concoctions, their bones could be grinded as powder for alchemy, or outright smelted, the fangs can be changed to weapons or decorations, as for the eyes they could be used to craft strong staffs, it is a magical beast with enormous benefits, and the one you slain has many to offer…”

  “Very well, the information you gave will be taken in consideration, you seem to be quite knowledgeable about magic, what did you do to make the dragon materialize?”

  “It is simple, that dragon is a black one, and they can easily fit into the vile of the dark and night, just making a strong light is enough to force it back to its normal nature, though you defeated it, I can assure you that you had the most luck, these begins are normally quite smart, and would use many ways to protect or fight against other opponents, the fact that you accelerated its growth had increased its corruption and made it unable to properly think, so you defeated it. Though it got stronger, it got dumber as well…”

  So that was due to luck huh?

  “What about the magic to take people to another world? You know of that?”

  “I do…” he said

  I waited for him to speak but he didn’t…do I really need to ask before I am answered?

  “What do you know of that?” I asked

  “I was one of the creators of that magic…” the king had said while shrugging this information as if it was trivial

  Quite the revelation…

  “So you know about it then? Can you tell me what you know?”

  “You should find that out yourself…” said the king, then he disappeared

  God damn it why do you have to make things hard…sigh.

  Well he is right, I can find that out in time…

  The second thing to do was to call upon two souls I have already consumed

  The first being the soul of the necromancer Therai. And he appeared instantly

  I looked at his physique, he, unlike before didn’t have that flame like hair, o he looked to be about twenty to twenty five years of age, wearing noble attire and a smug look on his face, he was…how to say it, defiant…it seems that he never got to see me go berserk against these souls and would probably need me to teach him a lesson to show some respect…fear is a strong emotion and one I will make sure to use to its fullest, perhaps I am cruel, but I know that what I do I do for my own reasons…we do what we must…

  I revealed the chains on me and before I could even move the man said with a trembling voice

  “Please! Release me!”

  “You shall not be released, you will be used consumed and used again. Such is the fate of the weak. You dared cross me that day, and if you so want to do again you will only receive pain…so much of it you will wish you were never born.” I said in a threatening way

  “Why are you doing this? What did I ever do to you?”

  “Didn’t I make it clear, you crossed me, and that is enough to earn you an eternity of torment if you do not do what I command”.

  The man knelt down almost immediately and said

  “What is it that you wish me to do your lordship?”

  All signs of defiance are gone and only and meek and obedient man is left…the illusion of pain is much stronger than pain itself it seems…

  “Share with me the knowledge of resurrecting the dead…I want to learn necromancy I said”

  The man the stood and placed his hand on my forehead.

  Huh, only no option, I figured as much…

  I pressed no and inspected the new ability

  Good.

  “You can now leave”

  I said then the man disappeared.

  I looked at the other one then asked them to approach, he was a bald man, about the age of thirty

  He looked to be wearing rags yet his body was that of someone that was buffed, the muscles on his arms and chest were indicating that he was a hard laborer, and the profession he held was most impressive.

  “So you are a blacksmith?” I said

  The man then nodded meekly.

  “Good, how about going back to the world of the living? I could use someone with your prows for now.”

  The man looked a bit shocked but he nodded as if happy that he will get to see the daylight once again.

  I then dismissed him and woke back up.

  Surprisingly the time period of 1 day had already ended

  And now all my abilities have been unsealed, yet the ichor was still eating away at my body and the pain was not going anywhere.

  I didn’t want to cast redemption yet, as I needed a target to damage or I might just end up dead…so I had to restrain myself.

  Looking around I noticed that the stag of that other day was standing at the other side of the pond where I was resting

  “I had warned you from entering that beast’s lair, yet you still did, though I hate to admit it, I was surprised that you actually managed to slay such a being, the forest thank you…”

  Impressive, good at least I can use my abilities to their fullest, I was going to even ask the elf for that salve but this deer solved the problem…yet the curse is only suspended and not lifted, it seems that the trip to the elven kingdom is inescapable.

  “Can you do this to the other girl?” I asked

  “My strength only enables me to do this once, I cannot”

  “Well, I wasn’t counting on it anyway…”

  I didn’t even want to thank him…he was acting all high and mighty anyway.

  The stag then left the place.

  I stood up and scanned my surrounding, feeling the link of the herald’s hunt I noticed that the girls had barely even moved from where I left them, very well, this should be better this way.

  I don’t want them to see this anyway…

  Time to raise some corpses…

  I would like to share in something with you...I work two jobs, shop keeping and in a call center, i do shifts in between just to get by, and if i ever get enough to be able to make a living with but the patreon/paypal donnations i will quite the shop keeping and will probably fully pledge myself to writing, and releasing mroe chapts...its time that i don't have, if i ever did i would be releasing chapters like crazy, this my dear readers is not me trying to have you pay anything, no, i will still be releasing regularely and do another marathon week with bonuses at that too, it is just a promise i made to myself that if i ever got to make a real living, i will make sure to write more and do it the best i could.

  )

  Divine law (A xianxia without the cliches of xianxias probably)

  .