- chapter 9 -
[Unlocked]
[Hidden Class Set]:
[Ice Prince Cape]
[Ice Prince Shoulder Guard]
[Ice Prince Clothes]
[Ice Prince Trouser]
[Ice Prince Belts]
[Ice Prince Boots]
[Additional 10pts to all stats]
[The Hidden Class set grows along with you.]
[Because you have already a weapon, the System decide to strengthen your weapon]
[Added feature:
Name: κρύο(previous Crystal Ice-Bone Halberd)
Growth: grows along with you.
Additional 10% ice elemental damage.]
[Image]
Then he remembers his family which is on another place. 'we need to go there immediately." he thought.
Lumi's appearance is, black hair, blue eyes, sword like eyebrows, cold expression with his handsome visage. Lean but powerful body and cold-mist coming out from his body obscuring their sight, which add a mysterious aura on his demeanor.
"We need to take a plane to minimize our travel time. But also to avoid powerful monster, there isn't much monster in the air unlike in the ground and sea."
"Then we'll have to go to airport and buy a skill for piloting." Jessica said to Lumi.
"Yes an-" Lumi suddenly stopped, and Jessica also raise her guard.
Summon Spirit Weapon:κρύο|
Lumi summons his weapon, the κρύο halberd.
"What do you want?" He coldly asked in particular no one.
Then suddenly in the tree a branch jump a man. He bowed and said. "I came here to invite you to the meeting that will happen in 3days."
"What kind of meeting then?" He ask is still cold and you could see his eyes glowing for a second that send a shiver down the spine of the messenger. Visible sweat on his forehead. 'damn, I'm so unlucky. If I piss this guy off, i might die here. What luck.'
The man hurriedly said. "Of course related to the worldly affairs, like the resources etc."
"Really? Then who sent you here?"
"George The Warlord."
"George huh. Heh. I'll be coming then. Tell him, his old friend is coming."
"Yes, I'll convey your message,sir. The meeting will be 3days from now. In America, Pentagon, at 5pm. Sir."
"Okay."
And the man hurriedly run.
"Hm. A meeting huh. An obvious reason, George...." His eyes shining blue.
"George? The meeting is in America? Then won't be that one of your rival back then?" She asked, finding out who the man was. "He is, that cockroach is still alive."
1hour later. They reach the airport easily. With their newfound strength, they can easily cross the road.
They board the plane and no disturbance happen.
[Warning, @#$$*¥® is interested in you.]
[@#$$*¥® granted access to her name.]
[Hela is interested in you.]
[Message: Do you want power?]
'I can feel it. Someone is watching me.'
"No." He said.
[Message: why?]
"With the help of system and the awakening of mana, I can do it myself."
[Message: Then I can give you my Authority.]
"I'll think about it."
[You cut her channel off]
'The lingering gaze is gone...'
"Lumi, what was that pressure? That pressure is cold and feels like death." She asked. And Lumi answer her in a joked way.
"Maybe, a god."
"Wh-what?"
"Never mind that. Let's go."
In Helheim.
A castle made of black bones, inside a throne where a woman was sitting.
"Interesting. This human, his different. He's still calm, unlike others that will get excited or feel fear. Hehe, maybe they're talking about you?"
Underworld.
"Hm. That was a surprise. Hela was ignored, or maybe because she's just the goddess of death that's why he ignores her? Hm...." Hades muttered, surprised by Lumi's action.
Back on Earth.
They reach Iloilo 1 hour later.
Then they travel by going on a car.
They reach they're destination. A mansion, but the mansion is in a mess. Rotting bodies, no they're not monster bodies but humans.
Trepidation and fear surge in his mind.
[The trait [Cold-Blooded] keeps your emotion check.]
[The trait [Cold-Blooded] keeps your emotion check.]
[The trait [Cold-Blooded] keeps your emotion check.]
His emotions were in turmoil. His trait calm him. Cold light shine in his eyes. The mist coming out from his body is getting thicker but also had a tinge of black color in it. An aura of bloodlust.
Even, Jessica is getting suffocated by his aura. Her fair face pale every second, losing blood, and cold sweat on her back and forehead. She wants to talk. She wants to calm him down. She wants to tell him that hope isn't lost. But she can't.
Lumi kept walking to the hall. Rotten smell, and bodies everywhere. He's accustomed to it. But he is still getting nervous, because.... If it is real. Then he don't know anymore.
He hope. He sincerely hope. That everything is just....
Then he came to a halt. Even his thoughts came to a halt. Everything came to a halt. As if the scenery sympathizes with him.
[Hela is watching]
[Hades is watching]
But he ignores it. No. He can't process it. He doesn't have time.
The pressure he emmited a while ago that was full of bloodlust and coldness was replace with despairing cold and hopelessness. She feels it. And she persevere. She run to the fullest of her ability. She summon her weapon, a staff.
She counter the pressure by using her skills.
She doesn't care about mana or anything else, what she only cared about is, his wellbeing. She run. She reached him. But what she saw shocked her also.
Lumi, standing, frozen in his place. Moist forming on his eyes.
She saw. Her benefactor and her daughter. She treat her like a daughter. She gave her food, shelter, and job and most importantly they showed love to her. But she saw her.
Obscene liquid drips from her private part, wounds all over her body, tortured. Even her daughter is the same. She treated her like a real sibling. The eyes that previously had hope and dreams. Now replace with despair and desolation.
The tear forming on Lumi falls. He regained his usual cold demeanor. But something has changed. The back of his now look lonely.
[Acquired Trait [Ice Heart] ]
[Hela frowns at the scene]
[Hades raise an eyebrow]
He felt a hug in his back. He heard. "I'm still here. Your not lonely. In this world, I'm with you, I'm yours, even if you want to destroy the world, I'll standby with you. So let it all out. Don't hold back."
But Lumi didn't answer her and break free from her hug. He walk calmly to her mother and sister corpse, he carry her mother first to the backyard, and then her sister too.
He gets a shovel and start digging without the use of his powers. Jessica didn't talk. She's sad. She's sad because she can't do anything. She can't do help him ease out his anger. She knows his angry. But he doesn't want to mourn for them. Because they might get angry in the after life. He doesn't want that.
So she just help him by picking flowers, and cleaning their bodies.
He lay them, on their own pit, he place flowers on them. "I'm sorry. I'm not there accompany you."
"Hela." He said. And the overwhelming pressure appear once again.
[Message: are you considering it now?]
"What is the price?"
[Message: nothing]
"Then what do you want?"
""You"""
Hela's voice reverberated.
And Jessica frowns at their conversation. Her eyes darkly glow for a moment.
"Deal."
[Ting!]
[Hela gives you her authority]
[Darkness manipulation acquired]
[Wings Of Despair], [Black Hole],[Sinister eyes], [Transformation], [Devour], [Six-Extreme of Emotion], [Death Scythe]
Dark affinity+
Void affinity+
Death affinity+
[Pure mana transferred to you.]
[+5 Levels]
[Level reached]
[Transferring Knowledge]
[The Path]
[Lev 16>> 30 - pillar forming stage:
-your stats will be visualize in your mind as pillars, depending on high the number is will be the height of the pillars. 5pts. of stats will be equivalent to 10ft. height. In the late stage once you want to ascend to higher tier, then you need to combine all of your pillars. The higher the pillar that you can form the higher your combat power, energy reserves, stamina, mental energy, and it will also decide how far you can go in the future.]
"I hope you won't get disappointed in our deal."
A tattoo form on his upper left chest.
[Just because we have a deal doesn't mean I will save you if you are in a predicament. Remember that.]
"I know from the start that immediately." he answers back.
"Let's go, Jessica, travelling from Philippines to America by boat is long." He said to her. "Yes, Lumi." still bothered by the death over his family and the deal with Hela.
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Title: A Deal with the Devil.