After arriving at Astel via teleportation gate that Gwen made, I pull out Jinx's body and returned her soul using
As ordered, Jinx went to Nrowe to assist her on her job to conquer the northern continent. While Alfred went to level up after wearing Hel's bracelet.
Since it is still early for Fera to appear in the base at Desafit, visiting 'her' shouldn't be much of a problem to me right now.
With the assassins corpse that were killed who were sent by Fin Aplora, Ella, Ello, Zoe and Blacky now have a vessel to use.
Me, Nunu and Alister went to the northern pole's mountain, at its peak where the frost wyverns resides.
Since Udo can come out on his own, I summoned Inosi and Nia before going inside of their lair.
The frost wyvern queen appeared in front of us, making all other frost wyverns to stand back.
"What have you come here for, spirit king?"
She knows that I am the spirit king?
[All sacred and divine beasts have the ability to determine whether someone is an apostle or a 'king']
The system gave an answer without me asking. How reliable.
"I came here to form a contract with you, I want you to be my 'Pet' to be exact. And since you know that I am the spirit king, even if you do reject my offer I have ways to use your corpse"
"And why would you go to such lengths just to make sure you can use me?"
"Because I need as much power as I can. I am the hero who was 'force' by the gods after all"
Back then I just went and killed her. This time, let's try a more collaborative approach.
The frost wyvern queen's body glowed. In an instant she shrank taking the form of a human.
She bowed lightly, with long wavy white hair and a light blue dress, "I, ruler of the frost wyverns, Anasstassia, wishes to talk this matter with you in a more appropriate place"
"Then we shall"
I followed her, leaving the others behind. We entered a small room, fitting for a human size individual.
"If I become your 'pet', what will you give to us, to me?"
Of course we are here to negotiate.
"Protection. Food. I will also give you my blessing. Is that enough?"
"It is"
I handed her the contract that Inosi made so that she can become my 'familiar'. Meaning, I can summon her whenever I want the only difference is that there is a time limit of one hour and I can only summon her once a day.
After signing the contract, I establish a warping gate which connects the room that we came from just now all the way back to underground facility in Astel.
The contract states that I will be sending monster carcasses as their food on a weekly basis while they will be the one to work and mine frost magi stones.
Additionally, I casted the grand magic
I drag Anasstassia back to the room where we talk about the contract.
I made her hold the contract with both hands.
"I now use the power of chaos. An undying connection between us two. From now on you are now my spiritual familiar"
[Consuming 1 chaos point]
The contract was set aflame, not even ashes remained.
[The sacred beast Frost Wyvern Queen, Anasstassia, have evolve to a divine beast]
Huh? Was it always this easy to rank up?
[She is now a spiritual being with a physical form]
Now that I take a look at her current stats after evolving she became just a bit weaker in comparison to Gwen. This way she should be able to win a fight with demon lord by herself.
"What did you do?"
"The gambler king has the power to rewind time. Although this is only an assumption based on what I know that is. This way, no matter how many times he rewinds time you'll be able to retain your memories"
I feel like time will be rewinded a lot so I don't want to bother doing the same thing over and over again.
"But I ascended. My rank went up... I'm sure of it"
"Let's not talk about such trivial things now"
We went back outside afterwards.
It looks like the wyvern that took a liking to Alister is still his partner.
...
After going back I started my plan, with all the needed materials in hand.
I made Alfred, Nunu, Zoe, Ella and Ello to be scattered in the place I assign them to.
"Phantom World: World creation"
Using the 'aura' from them the range of "I now use the power of chaos. Let this imaginary dimension take shape into reality!" [Consuming 80 chaos points] Ack! Pandora immediately began to heal Michael. Whew. The imaginary dimension I created from aura became... a reality. Though it is a finite space it is more than enough to counter the gambler king's(?) rewind. [You are second person to ever create another dimension despite being a mortal] [You have earn the title [You have gained 50 chaos points due to your achievements] Well that's nice. I suppose the first one is King Solomon Efuxis since his labyrinth forces all other kings to his imaginary dimension. [You have earned 120 chaos points by greatly entertaining the God of Chaos] [Remaining chaos point: 188] So I can also earn chaos points when he enjoys what I am doing, huh. [The God of Chaos says "This is my little gift for you. Do keep on entertaining me"] Sigh. It's not like I can do anything about it. For the next month I did nothing but to create a dozens of Pandora's while Inosi created a lot of Homunculus, but I let Pandora number 12-18 handle it. Everyday 1,000 homonculus are created. Since they are tiny, to create a human sized homunculus, she'll need to fuse a hundred. All in all ten human sized homonculuses are made everyday. I was the who bring over all the materials needed since I am the only one who can possibly open a way to the dimension I created via world creation. By now it should be the time when May will caught Fera so I should go to Desafit now. Me and Nunu went to Desafit to save Feri before Fera gets caught by May. After saving Feri we waited for a couple of days until Fera appeared here. For this reason I intentionally didn't put a runic barrier. I altered her memories after capturing her. "Master, I can now use the grand magic you taught me!" "That's great show me then" We went to the shore so that I can see what he can do, postponing my plan on going to the duke's mansion. Nunu's growth is by far more important than some duke. He raised his right hand "Grand magic: Plasma burst" Boom! Nunu's grand magic instantaneously evaporated a part of the sea within their sight. By focusing his mana into one point as well as his dragon fire while containing it using aura, he can now create something similar to a plasma cannon. It's not bad considering that he don't know anything about science. When I showed this spell to him, I used my knowledge in science by focusing the oxygen and hydrogen in my surroundings and kept on increasing the temperature by adding a lot of mana. It is commendable that it only took him two minutes to fire it when it took me almost five minutes. "Abyssal world: Null" "Master?" Ever since I left Maigrema after negotiating with Troy, I always had my aura spread out for a hundred meters. Why is he here? Its too damn early for me and him to meet. "Come out already, Maximos!" Maximos came out from the shadows of the trees. "Eh, do I know you for you to know me?" He ask while tossing his dagger into the air. Bounded unique item, Assassin's creed set If I remember correctly Maximos said that the dark blue one is poisonous while the light blue one have lightning effects. I'm not afraid of fighting him now since I am faster than him currently. Plus, I thought him how to wield a dagger better back then so I already know his attack patterns. "You removed mana and restrict the usage of skills? Isn't that stupid to do when you, the spirit king, who relies on mana to summon spirits to suddenly remove it?" "That's because I don't need it" "Huh?" Maximos was thrown sideways by Michael's phantom world. (Mana can't be used because of what he did just now... and yet he was able to control space to throw me?) "Good night" I knocked him out and put his memories back while he was sleeping. I put him in a special prison chamber so that he won't be able to use his skills. His He said back then that he tried to last for a whole hour straight while using transparency with his mana capacity. Then how can he breathe if the air passes right through him? After Maximos woke up he screamed again and again. "What do you want? Do you know how loud you are?" "Let me out!!!" "Sure sign this contract first" He immediately sign the contract. I let him out. "Hahaha! Bye, you-" He stop midway. I already knew he was stupid since he sign the contract back then so quickly without even reading it, but to think the same thing work twice... at this point, I'm surprised he hasn't been scam on something shady. This level of stupidity is making me speechless. He fell down to the ground, holding his head tightly. His memories from the previous timeline poured all at once in his mind. He fainted from the pain. "System, I want my [30 chaos points for each slot for a reserved spell] [Limit: 3 spells] [Whenever you put a reserved spell you will have to pay 1 chaos point] "Let's go with one slot for now then" [Remaining chaos point: 156] After receiving the slot for a reserved spell. I put a forbidden spell and a condition of when it will activate. Meaning that I can't use it unless the condition for activating it has been met. Of course, the target of the spell have already been selected. After Maximos woke up he was confused to the memories that he sees in his mind. Unlike Alfred and Zel's case, all of Maximos' memories were returned by using the power of chaos. "Wakey-wakey~" He look towards Michael. I explained him what happened and told him that from now on whenever time is rewinded he'll be able to retain his memories. Honestly speaking, keeping him in my side is good since he is a king himself despite how stupid is. "You were sent here by the 'Luck King'?" "Yes. He told me that the person I was targeting for is in Astel which is Nunu and someone who have a low mana capacity" So he told Maximos that his target is in Astel. What surprise me most is that he knew, whoever this guy is, that me and Nunu are here when the two of us would always travel by car or teleportation gate. "Hello" A man said. Surprise that someone else was in the room, the two of us quickly went into our battle stance. Above his head is a title, 'Luck King'. "Big bro Roman!" Max said. Big bro? The luck king sit down and Maximos vanish. "I am from the titan race, the apostle of the god of chaos as well as the ruler of karma, the Luck King Roman" One of the books I've red from Gwen's library says that when a titan or giant can freely control their height they are very capable individuals especially in combat. Plus, the apostle of the god who is watching me? "If you are wondering why I am here it is because I need to balance things out" "By balancing things out, you mean..." "Yes. Your force and Kavon's force. Both must be equal" So he sent Maximos here knowing that I will take him into my side then. "I'm sorry but I can't really last any longer anymore, this is only a projection of my thought after all" "Get to the point" "I am the ruler of karma therefore I can't control my own karma. Do you get what I am trying to say?" "..." "Simply put, if you are the ruler of spirits, you can't control your own soul. You may be able to control spirits but that also means that you won't be able to control your soul when you die. The same thing goes for Kavon. As the ruler of destiny, he can change the destiny of others but he can't change his own destiny. This is the price to pay for becoming a king" Roman vanish. As soon as he disappeared Maximos returned. I ask Maximos what he know about 'this guy' and he answered me, "The best word to describe big bro Roman would be 'Omniscient'. Since he somehow always know what would happen. It is also the same reason why I went here, I trust him a lot" With the power of chaos, I am able to retain the memories of other people if time would be rewinded again. It would be correct to assume that he can also do it since he is the apostle of the God of Chaos. No matter how many times I try the system won't answer me if the question is somewhat related to Roman or Kavon. It's giving me a headache. I have limits to what I can predict and I rely on my instincts to gauge the probability of each scenario, but this is more like I am having a three way war with Kavon and Roman while there could be any other third or fourth party joining the fray. Just like what Roman said, I can't control my own soul. Trying to alter my soul is a no go so I can't change the body I am in. Because of urgent matters I sent Nrowe, Zoe, Inosi and Ella to Desafit to save Fera's little sister as well as to take control over the duke so that Nrowe can negotiate with the king. And so I went to Aigreos. Before going I sent out Maximos and May to list all the higher ups or important figures in Catros and to copy all important documents. I change my appearance by synchronizing with Ello. "Familiar summoning: Anasstassia" I made her turn into her big frost wyvern version before going to the holy kingdom. Since there was not enough space for her to land, she turned into her human form instead. "I would like to offer my greetings with the pope and the king of Aigreos" Before the holy knights could even unsheathe their swords, the saintess appeared. The two of us never met back then because she was doing something important which cannot be stopped no matter what. "You are... the ruler of the frost wyverns, Queen Anasstassia, correct?" She ask. Anna look at me and I nod giving her my permission to speak. This world's definition of "master" and "slave/familiar" is quite intense but I've already adjusted on that part. (Note: 'Anasstassia' is a mouthful so her nickname is 'Anna') "That is correct" Anna replied. "I am sorry for my rudeness" She bowed and lift her dress slightly, "I am the saintess of Aigreos, Xamira Aigreos" Right, right. The saintess is also the adoptive child of the king. He adopted her two years before she was blessed and became the saintess she is now. According to the pope it was fate. "I am Anasstassia, ruler of the frost wyverns" Anna pointed her index finger towards me, "And he is my master" All of them were visibly shocked. I removed my glove on my right hand, "I am the hero" "Th, then please come in! I will call the king and-" "There is no need for that. I just want you to give this letter to the pope and the king. Though I want to meet with them many people are dying so I cannot afford to stay any longer" After giving the letter to her, we went back to Astel. -What's wrong Anna? You're giving me some creepy vibes over here. -I am surprised you can say something like "saving people" when you are going to be the cause of why thousands would die for your gain. -It's not like I am not allowed to do it. Besides, after reaching level 75 I obtained a new skill. And it is the perfect time to test it out. The same thing goes for my accursed left eye. ... After several days, Nrowe succeeded in making a connection with the king of Desafit. Inosi also caught Will. Ever since, I made Will to 'breed' animals and monsters everyday for six hours. He's pretty much free to do anything he wants to do in his free time so long as it is within the forest I govern. I'm not going to go easy on a criminal now. And since he needs to 'do it' everyday I made Mel to be his partner. After finishing our business here in the northern continent. We went to sirens' lair. After seeing Udo on my shoulder who is a legendary beast in his snake form, the sirens gave way for me so I went straight to the elder. The fact that I am loved by water spirits is also one of the factors why they were respectful(?) to me. Before negotiating I sent out Udo to find where are the 29 legions of Vepar's as well as for the sea sub dragons. We talk things through and I was able to make her sign a contract with the power of chaos. This way her memories will remained if time is rewinded. This place is still a valuable asset for me since there are a lot of mana stone mines that can be use. -Master, I've found their location. It is roughly ten kilometers northeast from where you are right now. -I got it. I'll be there as soon as I can. After arriving at the location, A huge trench greeted me. There were holes similar to an ant hill where all the monsters live. I guess they were also breeding their own food huh. -Udo, come here. It will be dangerous even for you if you are away from me. -Understood. Let's begin then. "I am the ruler of the spirits, the Spirit King Michael" The sea floor started shaking. The sea monsters have also felt the mana burst which is coming from Michael. "Let all those who disobey my word, my command, to be punish accordingly" The sea monsters came out charging towards Michael but was stop by spirits of water. "King's punishment" Hundreds of water elementals appeared and started to attack the enemies. To make all the water elementals fight would require a huge amount of mana. So Michael took advantage of the fact that there is a mana vein here. Because of this, the water elementals took mana from their surroundings instead from Michael's mana. With this all of the monsters inside should go out on their own. This spell is a one time use a day so I have to save it till all of them gets out. After a while all monsters showed up taking all the space within sight. The elementals vanish. "I am the demon lord Vepar! Who dare to attack us?!" "I am the spirit king and in accordance to my law which you have broken, I now give your sentence. It is execution... the death penalty" "Law? What law?!" "You have greatly disturb the creatures here as well as for the spirits of water. As their king I give out my judgement" Vepar ordered all of her underlings to kill Michael. She knew well that a king would be too much for her so she used all of her weak underlings while trying to escape with the important ones. However, "Soul execution: Annihilation" With the snap of his fingers, all the sea monster with a three kilometer radius died. Their souls were instantly destroyed into nothingness. All except for a couple hundred. Several hundred souls were exempt from it since I have plans for it. As expected, another broken skill was given to me. I can only use on them since Vepar is connecting all of them. Normally, this should only work against one person but the While Udo was gathering all the monster bodies except for the corpse of Vepar Michael was busy collecting the death force energy that was created by killing more than a hundred thousand monsters. He then stored it away in his "My name is Michael Santiago. At this moment, I now open the gate to the spirit world" A magic circle appeared on top of the monster corpses. "With all these corpses. Heed my call to you who spreads terror and chaos with your hunger" The corpses vanish. "I offer a drop of my blood" The magic circle glowed vibrantly. "And here, the Gods shall be the witness of this summoning" The magic circle disappeared and a hydra appeared. The hydra was several times bigger than the gigantic water snake that Udo made when they were onboard with Jade Aplora. "Human... no, Spirit King. You wish to form a contract with me?" Obviously. I wouldn't be calling you otherwise. "Yes. So are we going to fight?" "That is not needed. What I want is for you to give me food whenever you summon me. For my unending hunger is my only motivation to live. You do that, I will swear my loyalty to you until the day you breathe your last breath" "...I accept" Just like that, the contract with the hydra that I thought I was going to fight with ended with a simple vow.