Silence, no one in the room spoke for a long time, the surprise added to their ignorance of the Devils made it impossible for them to process what the golden haired woman said.
"Pufff, he's just a devil, we just have to kill him like we kill demons."
The man said with great arrogance, the golden-haired woman shook her head at such a statement.
"Do not compare a demon with a devil, while being a demon does not mean being inherently evil or bloodthirsty but devils are different, they just seek destruction and death no matter what but that is not the most complicated thing, the heck… they can consume the souls of living beings to increase their strength at an incredible speed, while now he may not be a match for all of us let's not know if tomorrow that will be the case."
With those words, everyone present dropped their relaxed attitude and became serious, even the arrogant man was no exception.
"Then how did you get this information?"
"The God I serve gave me this information."
"Didn't your God give you more information by any chance?"
"You, like me, know the reason behind that, they can't interfere too much with us mortals without suffering consequences."
Hearing that, everyone nodded in approval, after a moment of silence, the woman continued speaking.
"But it may also be nothing."
"What do you mean?".
They didn't understand, at one point he was saying that it was dangerous and at the other that it was nothing, they just didn't understand his reasoning.
"The practitioner of the Devil's path is currently trapped in some highly dangerous unknown ruins, it seems that he was teleported to the ruins from the beginning and according to my god he may end up dying due to his low strength, that's why I said it can't happen nothing".
All those present nodded with understanding, they understood that although you have to be prepared, you should not worry too much because it is unknown if that person will ever survive, what they did not know was about the army that was slowly forming together with that immortal being that a day would come to devour them...
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Adolf had a strange dream, in that dream he could see a person who was wearing a silver armor with imposing golden lines that ran through the entire armor, in his hand he was holding a large silver spear with a length greater than his body, the body of the spear it was completely filled with blue runes that shone brightly like little suns.
He could see how that person inside the armor was panting heavily as he knelt on top of him while using his spear to try to hold his ground, even though Adolf couldn't move his body he could see as far as his eye could see.
The sky was dyed red, the ground was arid and hundreds of thousands of corpses adorned it, blood formed seas wherever his eyes rested.
It was at that moment that Adolf's eyes met the gaze of the person in the armor, he couldn't see anything that was inside that helmet but he knew he was looking at him, it was a look that contained pure and unimaginable hatred. that threatened to destroy everything.
It was at that moment that Adolf woke up excited, he was breathing heavily and he put his hand to his chest and felt his heart beating violently but that was not the only thing he felt, his hand was wet with cold sweat, not even when he faced against Keiran felt so afraid, the strangest thing, although the feeling was present, he didn't really remember what he dreamed of.
'What the hell was that dream? it felt too real.'
In the end Adolf couldn't find the answer to his question and as he always ended up with more questions than answers.
When leaving his "home" Adolf found a gentleman from Rhyfel waiting for him outside, seeing how upright he surely knew that he wanted to ask him for something, since there are greater possibilities of obtaining what is desired by showing great confidence than insecurity, although it would also help to give sorry but that's another topic.
"What do you need?".
Adolf asked looking curiously at Rhyfel's knight.
"Sir, we of Rhyfel's knights humbly ask that he revive Sir Keiran just as he did us."
Saying that, the Rhyfel knight knelt down and displayed a totally different submissive posture than his usual imposing posture.
"Impossible".
Adolf replied curtly, the Rhyfel knight froze not knowing what to do, so he knew Adolf would definitely agree since he constantly brought them back from the dead as undead.
"I don't have the abilities or resources to bring Keiran back as an undead, my stats are too low while my manastone supply doesn't have the ability to afford it, I'll just pretend this conversation never happened." .
With those words the place began, as always the path without a fixed direction, just wandering from one side to another in the great and unbreakable cage that was Rhyfel, Adolf looked at the sky and noticed that it was almost noon but that was not the only thing he noticed, changing his Looking at the sky towards his arms, he noticed that the sun made him more and more uncomfortable, he simply did not feel comfortable being in the sunlight.
'Is it because my race is a type of undead that I feel this uneasy feeling or is it something else?' thought Adolf without getting an answer. 'Now that I think about it, I haven't finished checking the system messages.'
[Your class [Nether Mage] has reached the level cap, now you can promote]
[Your logs are reviewed... Your actions are reviewed... The paths the user can travel are selected]
[User-friendly path selection finished, please take your time and choose carefully]
Adolf was surprised and quickly looked at his statistics panel and there it was as indicated by the system.
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[Name: Adolf De'Ath]
Race: Vampire [Pureblood]
Title: Heretic - Fragmented - Dead in life - Wandering soul.
Class: Nether Mage [Level 50]
Strength: 300 / Speed 298 / Stamina 315 / Health 490 / Mana 710 / Regeneration 560
Active Skills: [Call of Death] [Nether Manipulation] [Call of the Abyss] [Sacrifice] [Jester's Mischief] [Devil's Whispers] [Raise Corpse] [Blood Scream] [Vampiric Touch] [Blood Control] [Blood Incarnation] [King of Ravens]
Passive Skills: [Chaos Bugs] [Arm Lord] [Sharp Instincts] [Parallel Thinking] [Demon Body of the Nether] [Mana Devourer] [Baron Rank Authority] [Night Vision] [Contempt] [Weakness to Order] ] [Semi-perfect regeneration]
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Seeing his state, Adolf discovered that his class name glowed with a faint green glow. Adolf guessed that this meant that his class level had reached the limit and it was time to change again.
Although Adolf's stats continued to grow and it became more and more difficult to raise them, also another detail was that he had sacrificed various skills such as [Spear of Darkness] or [Thorns of Hatred] as they fell too far behind with his current style of attack. fight.
'Well, I guess something good had to happen', as a boy opening his Christmas presents Adolf selected the option to promote his class.
[Select the ascension path your class will take]
-[Wizard of death]
-[Great Necromancer]
-[Blood Master]
-[Soulmancer]
Adolf read the options carefully, finding out what each one could mean thanks to his name, he was already quite surprised with options like [Blood Master] or [Great Necromancer] but when he got to the last option he was totally surprised.
"[Soulmancer]..." escaped from Adolf's mouth as he read it.
Still totally unaware of the potential of each class, Adolf for some strange reason felt attracted to the [Soulmancer] class, after considering it for a long time, he finally made his decision.
'Without seeing the potential of this class just from its name I know it's right for me, I'm sorry from the bottom of my soul.'
With that Adolf selected the last option, he selected the [Soulmancer] class and when that happened a large number of messages came to his eyes.
[Souls will be your servants, they will claim you as their great and only ruler, prove yourself worthy of the path you have chosen and proclaim the [Soulmancer] class as yours]
[Requirements for class change]
-Raises the rank of [Resurrect Corpse] skill to the following rank: 0/1.
-Make the four ex-generals of the War Sovereign serve you as their new master: 0/4.
-Raises your health, mana and regeneration stats above 1,000 points: 0/3.
-Gain control over your soul: 0/1.
*There is no time limit to complete the mission*
[After 90 days the user can leave the class change mission and choose a new class again, but if this happens the [Soulmancer] path will be closed forever and they will be able to choose this class again]
Adolf was stunned by these new messages, when he class changed from [Black Magician] to [Nether Magician] he didn't have to go through this, naturally he was totally confused and clueless as to what to do, but as if the system knew what to do. What was he thinking, he got new messages.
[The class change quests are only used after the first ascent, the class change that defines the path is not used to count the number of ascents of the user]
Although Adolf still had several doubts, such as that it was ascension and that it was a path definition, he did not think too much about it since it was not very useful either, since the system will never answer anything unless the question is something truly important, such as the class change. .
With that Adolf began to think about in the class change mission, although the requirements were harsh to say the least, they weren't impossible, just that it would take a long time to complete, especially requirements like making the War Sovereign's four ex-generals serve him, but At least with that I knew where to start, not like the fourth requirement...
'Gain control over my soul? How am I supposed to do that?' Adolf thought.
Gaining control over his soul was truly a strange requirement to say the least, his mind worked hard and no matter what angle he looked at it he couldn't find an answer.
"This is not leading me to anything, I better see the effects of the titles I win."
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[Title: Living Dead]
Though your mind has died, your body refuses to share the same fate.
*Resistance to mental attacks +10%
*Recovery from mental attacks +10%
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Adolf read the information in the title with a pleased look, although he had yet to come across someone capable of using mental attacks that didn't mean he never would, at least with that title he wouldn't be completely defenseless when that happened.
With that Adolf went on to review the last degree he had obtained.
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[Title: Wandering Soul]
"Only those who know it is death do not fear it."
*Soul wound recovery +25%
*Soul wound recovery speed +25%
*Soul Attack Defense +15%
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Although the first title was great, this one was simply indescribable, Adolf knew that although there were several titles, the "quality" of these varied from each other, but it was only now that he truly realized this, the quality of the effects was 5 -10% and although it wasn't much, we must not forget that they were effects for the soul, much rarer and more difficult to obtain than the mental ones.
Taking long, deep breaths, Adolf slowly managed to calm down, his expression of surprise and disbelief gradually turning into his expression, always indifferent to him.
In the end Adolf turned his body 180° and went back on his steps directly to his "home", although it was almost impossible for him to get physically tired, his mind was a completely different case, it got tired and accumulated fatigue like any other person, in the end at getting to his "home" Adolf simply fell to the ground and fell asleep, also thanks to his high stats he did not suffer damage from falling so hard to the ground.