The next morning after making breakfast, and waking the girls up. Sin went to Icarus' shop and placed in a order for staggering amounts of weapons, tools, traps, bombs, and so forth.
After seeing the list, and all the blue prints Icarus' eyes shot out of their sockets, and then his interested in them burned.
"Holy fucking christ are you trying to supply a goddamn army!?"
Sin smiled "I don't expect you to prepare all of it, get as much of it done as you can." Sin then left a pouch with 750,000 gold coins on the counter.
"I hear becoming a Grand Master Blacksmith requires many rare and precious materials, as well as a profound knowledge of various formation arrays and runes. The Vermilion Bird Clan is a very important ally to me. The stronger foundation you gain, the better it will be all around. Purchase the highest quality materials, runes and array formation books."
Sin left the shop, before leaving Icarus called put in zeal.
"Thank you Grand Warrior Sin! I swear on my ancestors I will not let you down."
Sin waved his hand in the air. "Don't worry yourself about that, do your best for the Vermilion Bird Clan. That is more than enough thanks."
Sin left Icarus' shop and returned to the the alchemy association. Sin walked towards the front desk, and placed 10 gold coins on it.
"Let your father know I'm here to bulk buy. This here is for you to spend as you like."
The boys eyes sparkled, but in the end he still pushed them away back into Sins hand.
"Thank you but I cannot take from my father."
"Would you take it if I said I needed you to run some errands and you kept the change?"
The young boy nodded his head, he ran to his father to let him know, and then began his hunt for Sins grocery list.
The man came up to Sin and asked something that he didn't have the chance to the last time.
"Are you Grand Warrior Sin by any chance?"
Sin nodded "That is me."
The man bowed in respect. "Thank you for your contributions to the human race. With the added stats, and refinement armour. I have been able to breakthrough to the Saint Rank in Alchemy. I have also gained enlightenment and created many new concoctions."
Sin smiled widely. "I am honoured you were able to gain such benefits from my deeds. But there is no need to bow before me, the stronger the human race can become the better it will be all around."
Sin then got to the main point, he made a hand gesture towards the cellar. "Shall we?"
The man hurriedly raised his posture and said in hurry. "Yes, sorry to keep you waiting."
The man flipped the switch, and began making his way down to the cellar. Sin followed the man in shortly after, the sight that greeted his eyes was shocking. The cellar had become a much bigger 100 by 100 room, there were lines of shelves with price tags, descriptions, traps, arrays and many more.
Sins Mana expanded out, and shortly after he got a headache from overs thousands of different names, and millions of words flooding his mind. Sin however, took out a pouch with 350,000 gold coins and said. "I am buying all the product."
The mans eyes shot out of his eye sockets, then the strings attached pulled the eyes back in. This time he had giant $ signs within his pupils.
"Sir, there's only 200,000 Gold Coins worth of product here. I do not want to take your hard earned money.
Sin waved his hand as his Dimensional Bag had absorbed all of the products. "Expand your shop, or expand your business. The choice is yours, just know I do not take back what I give out. Unless of course you would want to insult me?"
The man swiftly came to a realization. "Thank you Grand Warrior Sin. I will do all that I can to support the Vermilion Bird Clan from now on."
"Thank you, that is all the assurance I need to hear."
Sin returned to the Vermilion Bird Clan, after that he went right to his compound and decided to finally open up the Merit Point Shop.
He had a whopping 4 millions points, and what did that mean? It meant a shopping spree was due!
After scouring the first 3 nodes for 4 hours, Sin had made his choices. And then he realized, he wasn't as rich as he had thought he was.
First he bought the seed of a Master Rank Dungeon. Planting this in the Wolf Gods Clans territory would give birth to a dungeon. This dungeon was specially tailored to the surrounding, meaning it would become a replica of the area it is planted. However, it was also chalk full of dangers. Sin spent 650,000 Merit points on this, but the best had yet to arrive. With this Master Rank Dungeon Seed, the Wolf God Clan just had to feed it materials, such as copper, silver, gold coins, medicines of various ranks, weapons, technique manuals, and so on. When killing the monsters residing within the dungeon, there will be a chance of all these items dropping. The stronger the enemy, the higher the reward, the weaker, the lesser. After the dungeon had leveled up over time, from being fed lives that were sacrificed to it, materials, mutant beasts, nucleolus and etc, it will eventually connect with the Arcane Rift, the originator of all dungeons. After certain chances and depending on the overall luck of the Wolf God Clan. The dungeon itself would develop specially catered rooms to Chefs, Tailors, Alchemist, Carpenters, Cultivators, Scribes and many other professions.
Next Sin spent 250,000 Merit Points each buying 3 Saint grade protective formations for the Wolf God Clan, Phoenix Heart Clan, and Vermilion Bird Clan.
Thirdly Sin bought the Soulless Body Container for 275,000 Merit Points, it could preserve the souls of 2 people at once, and has a separate space inside to preserve the body of the host.
Then Sin spent his remaining points on buying a Master Rank Martial Hall. It could hold over 35,000,000 bodies within, it has 850,000 specialized rooms, and 425,000 Major rooms. These rooms double, and triple the progress speed of all that are within. Even the base room of the Martial Hall for example, if someone were cultivating a Grand Master rank refinement method, it would take said person on average 5-8 years to condense their Refinement Armour outside. However, if that person were inside. It would take 1-3 years worth of time, and also enhance the foundation of said person from the richer condensed energy within the Martial Hall.
After Sin spent his 4.6 million Merit Points, a new log had appeared in his vision.
[You have made decisions to protect the lives of others, instead of being selfish and thinking only of yourself. You have been given 1 free pass to purchase any item you want. However, you must make the choice quick. You only have 3 seconds.]
"What the hell am I supposed to choose in 3 mother fucking seconds!" Sin thought to himself
[2 seconds left]
"Holy fuck this is serious. Come on brain work! Don't shit on me now baby!"
[1 Second Left]
Then Sins eyes lit up after he remembered browsing a certain item. The item allowed him to let a spirit enter the body, it will incubate the wandering spirit into a physical body with it's own will and mind. Then Sin thought about Midnight Reaper. It would be perfect, Midnight Reaper was a extension of his own mentality, thoughts, hobbies, and actions.
"I choose the [Soulless Body Formation!"
[You have successfully made your decision within the time span. The difficulty of your Hell's Gate punishment has been reduced. Your Life and Death chances have balanced out to a even 50%. Remember Grand Warrior, your words, and deeds hold power and have severe consequences, just as they have many boons. Kill because you MUST kill to protect, not because you CRAVE the kill!]
After getting the Soulless Body Formation, Sin sent it into his Heart World and sucked the sleeping Midnight Reaper into it. Before Midnight Reaper had become fully absorbed he shouted out his complaints.
"Don't you dare trap me and give me a body of my own you mother fucker! I know why you're doing this! I will fuck your wife, kill your daughter I shit you not, I-" Before Midnight Reaper could finish his series of curses. The Soulless Body Formation had done its magic, Midnight Reaper was now contained within and his looks were preset as a perfect clone of Sin.
Sin looked at Midnight Reaper and his emotion surged. "I am sorry my brother, I cannot allow you to die with me. Alannah, Samara, Merala, and Jasmine do not deserve to be lonely like that in this world. At least you'll be able to mend and play my role in my place if I truly do die."
After Sin had finished all of his preparations before the coming calamity, he had gone and prepared supper. After that was done, and all the dishes. Sin had gathered all the elders of the Vermilion Bird Clan.
"I will not lie to any of you here present. I am cultivating a God Rank Refinement Method, to develop my refinement method, I need 750 scales to be formed. After all my boons, and the help of higher beings, I am short 40 scales. I need all of you to come at me as if you were trying to kill me!"
Everyone was shocked, not because of Sins ridiculous reasoning. But because he had a God Tier Refinement Method, it's massive amount of energy was astronomical. As all of them were elders, they have access to the Saint, and Divine ranks of Refinement Methods. They have all produced their Refinement Armours, and it had only taken them 60% of what Sins required.
Alannah who was created from Sins own essence blood, knew there were troubles on her Papas mind that he couldn't explain, or didn't want to explain. And so she was the most supportive of all.
"Prepare yourselves people, you heard what papa has to say! We don't have time to waste"
Ariya also nodded her head. "What Alannah says is true, we have to give it everything we have to help the Wolf King!"
And just like that, Sin began a rotation of crazed cultivation, sparring against multiple King and Queens, practicing in the Mystic Tree branches of Sorcery, Combat Techniques, and Spirit Tempering.
While this was ongoing, Ariya sent women to the King asking for the powerhouses of various clans to partake in Sins training. The reward, was a lofty amount of gold coins, materials, and whatever requests they had.
In the blink of an eye, eight days passed by. On the night of the eighth day, Sin had a log appear in his vision.
[You have been granted permission to enter and leave Desolate Kingdom as you wish. You have been given a interstellar map with the coordinates of Desolate Kingdom marked. You have 24 hours until the foreign forces invade Desolate Kingdom!]
The next morning, Sin spent his entire time glued with Alannah and Jasmine, they had gone to the fair, done plenty of shopping, and had eaten many delicacies. Sin didn't forget his promise, he had gathered many souvenirs for Midnight Reaper to send his family when the portal would re open between worlds in 2 weeks time.
During the day Alannah and Jasmine had gotten a bad premonition. Both knew their papa, and big brother long enough to catch something was amiss. Alannah who would normally switch between Jasmine and Sin, had stuck to Sin all day. Her cheerfulness had vanished as if a bucket of ice water was poured over top.
When they were eating supper that night, Alannah could stay quiet no longer.
"Papa why does it feel you're treating today as your last?"
Jasmines eyes widened in shock she had her premonitions, but none of her guesses were this severe.
"Big brother answer your daughter!" Jasmines voice was heavy, and her eyes were full of unconcealed worry.
Sin smiled but to anybody who knew him, this smile said it all. Sin ruffled Alannahs hair, and controlled his voice to the best of his capabilities.
"I have felt the urgency to form my own Refinement Armour, after eight days of hard training, I decided today would be the perfect day to relax and spend time with my girls."
Jasmine sighed in relief after hearing Sins reply, but Alannah knew deep down there was much hidden under the surface of what her papa had said.
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Later that night, after bathing Alannah, Sin had tucked her into bed. Sin had remembered the stories his parents would tell him as a child until he fell a sleep. And so Sin began reciting what he could remember.
After Alannah had a peaceful look on her face, and yawned the last time. She had fallen a sleep, imagining the fairytale and the beauty Sin described it to be.
During the days of crazed training, Sin had fallen short of a single Wolf Scale before he could generate his refinement armour. He sighed to himself, but it is what it is. He had done everything he could possibly think of, planned for the future and created a foundation for the Wolf God Clan. If he had to fall while fighting to protect the millions of lives on his shoulders. It would be done so without any regrets.
Sin had completely geared himself up, his Dimensional Bag was full to the brim with weapons, poisons, traps, formations, and many more. Sin had mastered all the Mystic Sorcery he could within this time frame, then he vanished into the night.
Alannahs eyes shot open the moment Sins aura vanished, she too vanished from her spot waiting at the weakest point in the sky above Desolate Kingdom. She would not let her papa face the danger alone.
When Sin arrived, his eyes were opened wide. Alannahs wings were flapping tirelessly as she had her arms stretched out. She locked her eyes with Sin and simply said.
"You are not going anywhere papa!"
Sin had a myriad of questions, but he was too stunned.
"Alannah what are you doing here?"
Alannahs eyes narrowed as she angrily glared at Sin.
"What does it look like to you papa?"
"Alannah my princess, be a good girl and come to papa."
Alannah spat out in frustration.
"No I will not fall for your lies!"
Sin took out all of Alannahs favourite snacks and candy.
"Come and have some snacks with papa Alannah."
Sin took out a carpet and delicately placed many plates on it with the snacks. Then he opened his palm and tapped the carpet beside himself. "Come princess, let's look at the stars and have some snacks."
Alannah stayed still not willing to budge, she hatefully stared at Sin as if he had become her nemesis.
Time was ticking, and Sins patience were starting to grow thin. "Alannah sweetheart, do not force your papas hand."
Alannah had a smug look on her face. "What do you think you can do to me anyway?"
Sin flashed out of existence, father and daughter were evading and chasing after each other as if their lives were dependent on it.
Over a hour had passed, Sin now had 3 hours of time remaining, and ever since his and Meralas unison and their bloodline merged together. Sin could feel that Merala was getting closer at break neck speeds.
Alannah was infuriated her papa was bullying her. "Papas a bad man! How can you just up and leave in the middle of the night? What about mom!? What about me!? Do you not care that we will be sad without you!?"
Alannahs words struck a cord in Sins heart, but now was not the time to soften up. Despite Alannahs having a complete High God Godhood, she was still a 5 year old child and was tiring out. Sin had finally caught her by back of her pajamas.
Alannah was like a little ball of fire, her eyes became golden and clocks appeared within her eyes. Time and motion had come to grinding halt. she was hissing, scratching and yelling at Sin with a hateful wrath contained in her eyes. Sin had purposely let Alannahs scratch his face, tearing deep marks into his face. When the blood had touched her finger tips, Alannah came back to her normal self and finally burst out into pleas."Papa i'm sorry I didn't mean it! Don't leave me and mom please!"
Sin hugged Alannah tightly into his embrace. His eyes became emotionless after Alannah had calmed down. Alannah cried continuously, and her body shook vigorously as she thought of her papa leaving her alone in this world. Sins hand chopped the back of Alannahs neck rendering her unconscious. Sin could feel the mixed bloodline shared between him and Merala, and it was speedily approaching. Sin covered Alannah in a ball of Mystic Energy and left a note. He had written out all of his emotions, his final wish and profusely apologized to Merala.
After taking one last look at Alannah and wiping his eyes, Sin hardened his heart and did what he must do. Sin tore open a whole in the sky and stepped through it. He laid down a Divine Ranked protection Array in place behind him. The Mystic Blade Empress had did what Sin does, and snuck it into his pocket without him realizing it at the time he left her palace to return to Desolate Kingdom.
This would cut off Meralas attempts from trying to cross over, and hopefully impede the Rage Gods forces from entering into Desolate Kingdom.
The moment after Sin placed the formation down, it began rippling, trembling, and booming as if a deity was striking it with all its might. Sin ignored it within the vast outer sky, and began placing various traps, formations, and even deadlier traps within the trap. It was the perfect ambush. It was like you were checking out a hot girl from the back end, then she turned around and it was actually a man!
Sin had listened to the booming of the Divine Formation for over 2 hours straight, by the time he was done and had checked the remaining durability on it he was stunned. Meralas anger had fueled her to take out more than 175 million points of durability, dropping it down to 96/100%
Finally, Sin sat down mid-air with his back up against the formation. Sin and Merala shared a deep connection, their words couldn't meet each other. But they knew both were sitting back to back separated by the formation. Sin could imagine Alannah was awake by now, crying her heart out in Meralas embrace. Samara was wrapped on Meralas shoulders, cursing every single curse imaginable to mankind at Sin.
Sin took this time and he let his emotions run wild. On the other side was his wife and his daughters, Sins eyes went out of focus as he numbly stared at the clock counting down in his vision. When there was 10 minutes left, Merala felt her connection with Sin had disappeared.
For the next 10 minutes, Sin thought about the consequences of his failure. His wife would die, his daughters would die. Jasmine would die, the Blood Dragon Mercenary Team Members who were his brothers, and sisters in arms would die. Sin had purposely worked himself up into a frenzy, there was no room to sit down and talk over the past with tea and crumpets. It was time to nut up or shut up!
Within the distance, Sin could see a speck of dust moving at high speed. Sin unsheathed Kaiser and moved forward chopping that person in half. He roared out all his grievances and pain into the vast universe.
"ALL OF THOSE WHO DARE TO STEP FORWARD WILL DIE!"
Unknown to him, across the entire universe, cosmos, and various worlds. A giant screen had formed in mid air, showcasing Sin. Within Sins vision, he saw the spiraling lights of hundreds and hundreds of thousands, and millions of invaders. Sins Bloody Battlefield Totem appeared behind him.
"COME ONE AND COME ALL YOU MOTHER FUCKERS, NONE OF YOU SHALL PASS!"
Sin stabbed Kaiser down as he fueled all three of his Sacred Flames. Sin had the Midnight Reaper Mask equipped, the Sacred Flames turned into black-white, golden-red and white-blue dragons that devoured hundreds of invaders in a instant.