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Chapter 5 - Progression

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BUZZZ!!!

A buzzing noise was heard as Iziul and her children hightailed out from their not-so hidden location.

Hiding on an expanse of overgrown roots of the tall trees, Iziul and her children stuffed themselves under the covers of the barks as they awaited the approach of what they assume insects.

Soon, a large shadow of a winged creature with slim body parts over them as three more shadows of the same kind followed after the first one.

Shivering from panic and distress, Iziul saw how her children shivered with unsightly expressions as she decided to comfort them.

Since only Bits can hear then through what seemed like an innate telepathy, Iziul wasn't worried about speaking up.

"Kiddos... calm down, mum's here... Everything's gonna be alright.. " She comforted them through patting their backs gently using three of her hands, one she created through the new skill, Cell Manipulation.

Being comforted, the three calmed their minds as they watched the shadows of winged creatures leave their range sight.

buzzz...

With the buzzing sounds disappearing, Iziul decided to scooched over out as she checked the surroundings through the hairlike accessory on top of her head, quite similar to Curro's but shorter.

Exuding a faint wave of mental energy to five kilometers, Iziul sighed in relief after knowing that the coast was clear.

Calling them over, she decided to leave the area and find a better place to stay the night in as Iziul could see the light inside the dungeon was getting dimmer and dimmer.

Asking Curro to spread his own mental wave to search for a burrow or hole that they can hide in, Acer and Edur decided to stay in front of their mother and smallest brother and guarded them.

Iziul saw this and smiled inwardly while feeling nostalgic, this was very similar to her personality when she was a kid. Iziul was very protective and caring to her friends, especially since most of her childhood friends were physically weak and quite nerdier.

Sadly, her childhood friends disowned her when they moved up to high school since Iziul wasn't smart enough to be one of them. During those times, Iziul became uncaring towards people's opinion about her and decided to not care about education anymore.

Sighing softly, Iziul felt a heavy feeling weighted on her shoulders as the painful experience of being betrayed resurfaced like oil on water.

But seeing her children, Iziul smiled inwardly as she felt the burden of the past was slowly being lifted bit by bit.

'I feel warm...' Iziul thought with a smile but her train of thoughts were cut rather shortly as a shadow came down from above, gliding down towards them.

Her peripherals saw a sharp needle-like stingers pointed directly towards her son, Acer, as the green wasp rushed its way to land a hit on its target.

With an aghast expression on her face, Iziul's vibrant blue body paled and turned to a shade of ghostly azure as she saw the wasp approached them like a flash of lightning, she felt the world around her moved in slow motion when the needle was ten inches away from her son.

Without thinking, Iziul plunged directly to take the hit, but she was too far away from Acer.

The stingers was only five inches away as Iziul remembered a memory that flashed right in front of her.

A memory of her subordinates taking a bullet for her.

'No...NO...NONONO!!!' Iziul widened her eyes as bluish fluid fell from her eyes like tears.

The needle was two inches away from hitting its target and Iziul knew that she couldn't make it and block the hit on time.

'no...' she cried inwardly as she felt her world turning black and white until her battle instincts kicked in, and she swiped her hands out of the blue, as if throwing something, throwing a knife.

Her Cell Manipulation skill was activated with a slight mutation. Her cells grew from her hand as it reformed into a thin sheet of cells, a sharp blade.

The blade disengaged from her hand as it flew towards the wasp and sliced it in to two.

Collapsing on the floor, green fluid washed over the shocked face of Acer and his brethren as Iziul hugged them all tightly while crying softly.

"Do-Don't leave m-me... not again... "

Being silent for a moment, the trio couldn't help but cry alongside Iziul as they knew why their mum felt that way.

They received a few snippets of her memories and one of them was when Iziul lose someone during her battles and that was indeed a heartbreaking moment since it happened right in front of Iziul. Those were the memories of her subordinates that defended and protected her along their journey, from twenty cadets, they dwindled to fifteen then ten until five were left. Iziul felt her heart broken every time a cadet fell for her sake. She felt guilt and anger, guilty for not being able to save them and anger since she wasn't strong enough to do anything.

Hugging Iziul tightly, the trio said together, "We're not leaving you mum..."

Iziul looked at them and saw another painful memory flashed in front of her.

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"We're not leaving you General! Who would leave a beautiful general???" a cadet said while smiling.

"Yeah right! Our General is the most beautiful and greatest general in the entire galaxy!!!" another cadet said.

"Hahahahaha"

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Those were the happy memories Iziul had with her subordinates.

Smiling, Iziul wiped her tears that formed and swallowed them back since those tears were actually Geno Points. Looking at her children, Iziul patted them and said.

"I'll train you next time so that no accidents will happen again."

"Yes mum!(..yes mum)(YESSSS MUM!!)"

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"And she finally mutated the Skill. Finally!" The scientist cheered as they drank their wine and clinked their wine glasses.

Jessica on the other side knitted her eyebrows as she thought of something.

'Why are they acting so... humanly... hmm...'

"Hey Doc, didn't you use a low level monster's Soul? Why are they acting intelligently?" Jessica asked as Doc looked at her amusingly.

"You're being delusional Jessica, of course I used a low level monster's soul to craft the Bit race just to make sure we can control them. Hmm... Are you depressed again that Bruttos didn't compromise your love for him?" Doc asked while grinning.

"Yeah old pervert! Why not jerk off on the sex doll you bought last night." Jessica grumpily replied.

"H-How did you... you... Are you stalking this old man?!?!" Doc couldn't help but asked.

"Hahaha, let's just say that I have my connections... I'm an informant for a reason, noh? Huehue..." Jessica said then walked out of the room.

Exiting the room, she sighed and pondered about her conjecture.

"Might as well observe them carefully from now on..." She muttered softly.

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Arriving at a mansion, Alfonso and Catriona walked towards a large compound filled with beautiful sculptures of women and perfect landscapes.

On top of the compound, Catriona saw a 9th Sky rate Grand Runic Formation just hanging around above them. As a human, her class was that of a mage that's why she can see the formation, albeit faintly.

Alfonso saw her amused expression and couldn't help but hold her tight around her waist and whispered on her ears softly, "Do you want to learn how to create formations?"

Widening her eyes, Catriona shyly said and blushed. "If that will allow me to assist you in the future even better, then I'd like to study formations..."

"Arghh... you're really driving me insane, Catty." He said and gave Catriona a light kiss on the lips.

"M-Master... we're outside..." She blushed while looking around if someone saw them.

"Eh, let them be. At least they know who owns you." Alfonso said.

"Hmm... I'm your property." she obediently said.

"Arghh... I really want to kiss you right now..." Alfonso said without removing his gaze from her.

Holding his coat lightly, Catriona bowed her head in silence and smiled softly while relishing the moment.

"You are really cute, Catty..." Alfonso whispered then escorted her to sit beside him as he lifted his head and looked at the elders sitting on platforms in front of him.

Both of them are inside a large hall with a profound architecture design. Around them, clan elders wearing robes were sitting on top of platforms while looking at the couple with unsightly expressions.

"What do you want, oldies?" Alfonso asked as he flared his Sky Domain.

Sword intent swept the area as illusory silver swords were formed that circled around Alfonso and Catriona. The Sword mana being radiated by Alfonso was so thick that the elders felt suffocated. Meanwhile, Catriona was sitting on the chair, worrying about Alfonso.

She was not affected by the sword mana as Alfonso made sure that his illusory swords would protect her from the suffocating pressure.

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Name: Alfonso Gabriel X

Class: Sword Saint SSS

Level: 99 [MAX LEVEL CAP]

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"We want you to marry the Sword Saintess from the Divine Temple of the Eastern region of China." An elder with a high position said.

"Like I said. No." Alfonso responded as a wave of sword mana radiated from him.

"You don't understand, your Level cap is one of the highest level cap there is. We need you to--" Before the elder finish what he was about to say, Alfonso cut him short.

"What? Create babies for you to use? Create soldiers that you can use to invade more dungeons to quench your greed for money and power? Is that what this is about? Use me like a factory?" Alfonso coldly said.

"Its not like that--"

"It is indeed like that. You want to use me to create 'children' to be used for war consumption. There are billions of humans on Earth-terra and you want to use the higher level Humans as meat shield to protect your low level butts? I'm sorry. I don't approve of this. My pride doesn't allow it." Alfonso said and called Catriona over.

"Are you not afraid of the upcoming War of dungeons?" An elder asked as she stood up in annoyance.

Alfonso paused his steps and turned around to look at the elder who spoke.

"Me? Afraid? I'm a level 99 Sword Saint, why should I be afraid. Oh, or maybe you're the one who is afraid. Afraid of dying and losing your money and power?" Alfonso grinned and left the hall.

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"I think we can allow him to marry that woman, she's a Level 80 Mage anyways." An elder said that sparked a battle of discussions.

"No! It's a waste, we need him to mate with Level 99 warriors to create more elite warriors with great potentials." Another said.

"I agree..."

"I disagree.."

"We already heard him. He doesn't want to marry anyone other than that girl. Forcing him would be reckless and forcing the pressure on the girl is useless since there's a Chaos binding spell between them." Another elder wearing red robes said.

"..." The elders were silent for a minute.

"Alas, whoever is that Chaos Mage Saint that bound those two, I hope he or she dies. What that heretic person did is simply a disaster. There are only two males who have Level 99 level cap, One is with us and is very stubborn while other one... is married to a... guy..."

"..." A long sigh was heard, as the elders fell silent.

"We can create a Chaos Mage---" someone suggested that was bombarded by numerous disagreements.

"Preposterous!"

"A disaster, you hear me! A DISASTER!"

"We can't do that. A Chaos Class requires a wicked mind and High intelligence stat. Having a wicked mind will corrupt an individual. Creating a Chaos Class warrior would bring more harm than good to us."

"Well... we don't have a choice..."

"Let the two of them marry then."

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Meanwhile, inside an extravagant bedroom, Catriona was seen naked while humping above Alfonso while moaning softly.

"Hmm... I think the elders are going to approve our marriage soon... now you'll call me master no more, Catty..." Alfonso grinned with a devilish glint on his eyes while massaging Catriona's breasts as she rode his rod.

"Hmm... ugmm... w-what do y-you want me t-to call you t-then..." She asked while suppressing her moans.

"How about Sweetie."

"Y-Yes sweetie..." She moaned seductively.

"Honey?"

"Y-yes...H-Honey..." She moaned again.

"What about Baby?" Alfonso asked while grinning.

"N-Not... B-baby..." She responded while still suppressing her moans.

"Oh? Being disobedient now aren't we? A punishment will be given to disobedient girls like you. Come here." Alfonso pulled Catriona to his embrace as her bouncy breasts were pressed on his hard chest. Raising her lower body up, Alfonso rammed his rod deeply inside Catriona as she couldn't suppress her moans anymore and moaned loudly.

"Oh... Cumming so early? Hehe..." Alfonso grinned as they continued their session from afternoon till midnight.

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When the moon was round and radiant, a naked woman with fiery red hair used her hand as a comb to brush the black silky hair of a handsome man who was soundlessly sleeping on the bed.

When the moon was at its peak, red runic formations hstarted to glow on her skin as it hungrily consumed the radiant of the Luna.

On the young man's tanned skin, a similar runic formations appeared as both formations resonated with each other under the glow of the moon.

On the woman's face, her red pulp lips flashed into a smile as her irises gleamed with a dark ominous crimson glow.

Looking directly into her eyes, a chaotic and bloody galaxy was contained inside those deep red pools as they swirled rapidly like two red typhoons.

These set of eyes are a trait only Chaos Class owners can possess.

That girl with fiery red hair was Catriona.

She was the one who cast the binding spell on her and Alfonso

"My plans are starting to work perfectly." She said while humming a tune and gently caressing the face of Alfonso.

"Soon... you'll fall and become just like me... both of us will reign above everyone else... hihi... Like kings and queens."