Sacrifice is bad, but without any sacrifice, a person would never grow, especially any male.
With any pain, they receive, they gain something from it and learn to grow even further.
Every pain and loss is a lesson for them to succeed to grow even more.
Even if it means the pain is unbearable...
[ Inside the Black Shadow Cocoon ]
" Eurgghh!!! " Ragna growled in pain while inside the cocoon he was injected by some Black Shadow tentacles that injects him with any Material needed for the ritual.
< Item: [Arch-Deviant Fruit (S)] Injected >
< [Arch-Deviant Fruit (S)] obtained from some dead Deviant corpses on the 12th Floor.* >
< Item: [Legendary Ki Pill (S)] Injected >
< [Stinger Clan's Legendary Ki Cultivation Pill (S)] obtained from Subject Galen, he gave Player Ragna this item in order for Ragna to attain more heights in his Ki cultivation, he gave this before even leaving the 6th Floor. >
" Galen... " Ragna cries, his mouth was given a [Black Shadow Bamboo Stick] so he can bite during the intense pain of the injection.
" Grrhhh ( The Ki and the Deviant Power!!! )" Ragna feels the two items begin to give him the effects in some way.
< Player Ragna receiving the items effects >
< Player Ragna receiving the items effects >
< Player Ragna receiving the items effects >
Ragna grunts as his body was shaken, it was hot, and he can feel the pain spread all over his body sadly, the two were just his first injections.
" Keurrkhh!!! "
< Item: [Holy-Divine Gift Core (S)] Injected >
< [Holy-Divine Gift Core (S)] obtained from Aphrodite since Ragna Twelve asked it. >
The Holy-Divine Gift Core, it's a Gift Core that Aphrodite created with her Divine Powers per Ragna Twelve's request in the System Space for some reason. Probably since he also knew that Aphrodite will meet her demise afterward with his [Twelve Eye of Time] so Ragna Twelve takes the initiative to ask her to create the most powerful Gift Core she could make at that time.
...
" I see, I can see your point, I acknowledged it... " Aphrodite says at that time as she created it personally for Ragna.
" This Core is filled with around 69.50% of my power. "
" Even if I die, I'll make sure that this very Core will still exist for the long term. "
" Absorbed it all, for I fear it would be gone in some way, I can't guarantee if I somehow died. " Aphrodite says at that very time, she probably felt her death is coming at that moment, entrusting her final creation to Twelve.
" Thank you, you've been our greatest help... " Twelve says to her in a sad tone.
" I know... " Aphrodite says to Twelve as he closes her eyes and smiles.
...
< (!) Message (!) >
< Ragna 69: Please hold on, Ragna... >
< Ragna 69: There's more >
As Ragna 69 says, Ragna begins to be injected with something else.
"( What the hell is this, it even hurts more than the previous injections!? )" Ragna grunts while seeing what is the thing that entered him right now.
< Item: [Unorthodox Magic Increase Potion (S)] Injected >
< [Unorthodox Magic Increase Potion (S)] is an item from Ragna 69, this is an item that Player Ragna obtained at level 69 while talking with Ragna 69. >
< (!) Message (!) >
< Ragna 69: The [Unorthodox Magic Increase Potion (S)] is a potion to pump the Mana Increase inside your body, while it has to fight the Divine and the Deviant power inside you... >
< Ragna 69: But don't worry, the Aether and Ki will help the Potion's own work inside your body. >
< Ragna 69: Please bear it with me... >
< Ragna 69: Have some HP Potions in order to ease it up a little bit. >
< Large HP Potions Injected >
Ragna sees it as if he can feel his body getting better for a sec before he gets another injection, but this time it's from Ragna Twelve, Ragna 69, Ragna 100, and Dainsleif Spirit's powers as they transfer their energies for the purpose for this ritual.
< Receiving Power from Ragna Twelve >
< Receiving Power from Ragna 69 >
< Receiving Power from Ragna 100 >
< Receiving Power from Dainsleif Spirit >
< The Black Shadows had entered inside the Cocoon. >
" Master Ragna... " Rachina says as Ragna then sees her.
" Rachina... " Ragna says as he sees the Black Shadow Abyss Eaters, Feeders, and Feasters beside her. Not only just that, but he also sees the Black Shadow Abyss Brawlers and Crawlers too.
" Master Ragna... " they all say and kneel in his presence, inside this realm of the Black Shadow Cocoon.
" All... of you... " Ragna says as he realized that the [Twelve Eye of Time], his left eye is already being healed by 25.50%.
< Rec##ving... Vis##ion >
As he receives the vision while also receiving more injections from the outside.
" I see... " Ragna says as he knew what's next.
" We're sorry our dear master... "
" But we must do it for the sake of this... "
" It's alright, Rachina... " Ragna says.
" Please proceed. " Ragna orders Rachina and the other Black Shadows to do what must be done, he can see them crying as they had to do this for they're biting him, giving him great pain.
" Grhh!!! " Ragna grunts and bites the [Black Shadow Bamboo] to stay on as he experiences the pain.
During the pain, he sees what the 'Twelve Eye of Time' had to offer and suddenly.
< [System Chat]: >
< (!) Message (!) >
< (!) Message (!) >
< (!) Message (!) >
< (!) Mes..bztt bzttt (!) >
< ####: How could you be like this? >
An unknown message, unlike any other, that Ragna had received before.
"( Was it Twelve, 69, and 100...? )" Ragna wonders as the Twelve Eye then shines, showing him more.
"( Huh!? )" Ragna realized something.
< ####: Oh, you realized it now...? >
< ####: How can you didn't noticed me after every time you saw me seeing you too? >
< ####: Look at you, despite every asset you had inside you, you still lose... >
< ####: You've been attached too much to your compatriots, you invest so much in them even before yourself, but despite that, you still lose them with less return from them. >
< ####: When will you understand that you must think about yourself before thinking of others, idiot!? >
As Ragna sees it, he begins to reply using the System's Messaging.
< Ragna Current: Of course, I think so much about them, I need them to survive...! >
< Ragna Current: If you had shown me the clues, I could... "
< ####: But I did, right? >
< ####: The clues were given but you still suck! >
< ####: This defeat is what you deserve, for dragging things for too long because of your stupid sympathy... >
< Ragna Current: SHUT UP! >
< Ragna Current: You know nothing! >
< ####: 'I know nothing' you said? >
< ####: Then f*k you, you miserable idiot! >
< ####: Let me tell you this, this is your last chance to make things right. >
< ####: In order to do that, you must stop regretting or feeling sorry for any mistakes you've made or just happened outside your accord! >
< ####: Remember that! >
< ####: For I want you to make this very moment... >
< ####: The last time you ever feel sorry for anything ever again! >
< '####' left the chat >
"( Shit! )" Ragna says as the person he talks to leaves the very chat, giving him a hard reality check for everything.
"( I'm sorry, my dear comrades... )"
"( Even to you, Maiden... )"
"( I'm sorry if I did spare you out of your desire too. )"
"( I'm sorry, I'm sorry... )" Ragna says as the receives more pain as the powers and the things injected into him combined and began to take effect, thus resulting in changing his body in the process.
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Extra:
* < [Arch-Deviant Fruit (S)] obtained from some dead Deviant corpses on the 12th Floor. >
From Adrian's Followers that eat the [Arch-Deviant Fruit] and turned into Demonic Beings in 'Son of Waters Chapters' in Chapters 142-148.