Time passed and both Haakon and the mass of meat that was once Adolf remained totally immobile, in the end an unknown amount of time had to pass for any change to happen, the mass of meat began to move and generate an arm that was followed by a torso to finish creating a full body.
It took Adolf a couple of seconds to sort out his memories and thoughts of what had happened, rejoining Adolf noticed the cold night wind but even with the low temperatures and his completely naked body he didn't feel the slightest sign of cold.
His long snow white hair swayed slightly in the wind, his purple eyes stared at the moon with complete indifference as he thought of his next moves.
'The few resources that were left in this city are almost at an end, both the water and the food that I have will last a couple more years if I ration it wisely but it cannot be said of the mana stones, you are only able to get them from the goblins but their population has already been almost completely eradicated by me.
Heaving a big sigh, Adolf thought aloud, "Really annoying..." .
With that he rose to his feet and with soft but firm steps made his way to the base of him, leaving behind only the footprints of his feet created with his own blood.
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At the top of the great wall a figure looked at the place where Adolf and Haakon had fought, his eyes watched as Adolf's figure disappeared on the horizon with the passing of time, a slight smile spread on his face as his eyes looked at a distant past.
"He can fulfill my dream... he can end my insufferable existence"
His voice was tinged with happiness, relief, but most of all unimaginable sadness and longing.
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Adolf woke up on the hard floor of a ruined house, his eyes gradually cleared back to normal, his mind felt slow and heavy but he couldn't do anything about it as this was a side effect of his regeneration. at its best, since the mind is not as strong as the body.
Looking at the sky he noticed that the sun was just rising on the horizon hidden behind the walls, Adolf touched his body and noticed that he was incredibly thin, there was little meat on his bones so his outline was quite noticeable to the naked eye, he sighed. since this was obvious and unavoidable.
'The [Chaos Bugs] can grant me high survivability, aging slowdown, and pseudo-immortality by being able to regenerate my body regardless of its state, but the only thing they are unable to do is create muscle mass, to heal me. they devour my flesh and the bigger the wound, the greater the amount they consume, that's my weakness, that's my Achilles heel'.
Adolf's eyes shone madly as he thought about his weakness, he knew that nothing and no one could be perfect, everyone in the universe had something they were good at and what they weren't too, that's the universal law, that's it what the universe dictates.
But his thoughts were interrupted by a sudden but severe feeling of weakness, Adolf knelt on his left knee while he held his head, the confusion lasted very little as the system quickly clarified all his doubts.
[Your mind and body have lost their natural harmony, you have entered the state of [Discord] while the condition is not resolved]
[Discord: The time it takes for the body to receive and execute orders from the mind has been increased by 15%]
[The user is recommended to seek a solution as soon as possible]
Adolf's eyes narrowed as his gaze grew sharper, his senses expanded looking for someone or something near his location but it seems he was alone as always, heaving a sigh Adolf stood up again and tried to walk. a few meters forward.
When walking Adolf noticed that the time it took his body to receive and execute the order from his mind was around 10 to 15 seconds depending on the complexity of the desired action to be performed, but this was not what surprised Adolf but rather I had experienced something similar before.
'This... this feeling is very similar to the drug I was taking before, only with the only difference that this cannot leave me in a vegetative state at the slightest carelessness.'
Like the good hunting dog that Adolf was before, he enjoyed various carnal pleasures that ranged from alcohol, food, sex and drugs.
Because? It was because hunting dogs had an extremely high mortality rate and they never knew when their last day would be alive, but when it was time to fight they enjoyed three different kinds of drugs.
The first one was simply a placebo to relieve the stress and fear of death that arises before a mission, it was something that everyone the hunting dogs consumed and Adolf was no exception.
The second drug decreased the pain felt by those who ingested it by 90%, this allowed them to fight with greater intensity and for longer if the situation warranted it, it was one of the pillars for any hunting dog along with its detachment from its life.
The third and last drug was only used at crucial moments and compared to the previous ones it had a mortality rate of 80% for those who consumed it carelessly, even those who knew how to consume it would have a high probability of dying.
This drug had a name but everyone called it the "mother's kiss" since after ingesting it you would almost definitely reach the silent embrace of death in the best of cases, in the worst case you would be brain dead and in a better situation would leave you with slight damage.
His body and mind felt strange and unknown to him at this moment, Adolf felt as if instead of his body and mind being just one entity they were now two, the sensations that both transmitted was something strange and wonderful, for every action he took. he will perform his mind and body interpreted and executed it separately, it was like doing something twice but one of them was never actually executed and it was only the feeling of having performed said action that remained.
While Adolf was thinking and marveling at such discoveries, a series of messages from the system came before him, but upon seeing them his eyes turned cold and contained undisguised annoyance.
[The [Ruler of the Underworld] congratulates you on your splendid victory and offers you to be his servant]
[The [Light of Eternal Glory] asks that you shed the darkness in yourself and serve under him in the name of justice and goodness]
As time passed, most of the Gods stopped watching him all day and only appeared from time to time, only at relevant moments did they return to delight in his misfortunes, but those two Gods were the exception to the rule.
Adolf didn't even know what it meant to be a God, let alone the influence over the masses they possessed, the only thing he was sure of was for some strange reason both the [Ruler of the Underworld] and the [Light of Eternal Glory]. ] they wanted him to be their vassal.
Although for the Gods it could have a different meaning Adolf knew what being a vassal entails, in exchange for protection Adolf would go on to serve one of the two Gods if he wanted to, although that didn't give much information either.
What would he have to do as a vassal of a God?
What would he lose in exchange for protection from said God? Her freedom from him? His life from him? Or maybe something else...? Adolf did not know.
Slowly Adolf walked towards a certain place, his steps were slow and wobbly, it was as if he were going to fall at any moment, they were not the steps of a young person like him but of an old person at the end of his life.
Little by little and with each step that Adolf took he progressively got used to the state of body and mind, after a couple of minutes and a few meters later his steps were no longer weak and lazy as before but they weren't strong firm like those of a person either. his age but at least he was somewhere in the middle.
Time passed and the sun rose in the sky seeking to reach its maximum point, in the end Adolf managed to reach his destination, a structure in ruins, it was 50 meters wide and 75 meters long and in its splendor at At least it had two floors, or at least it seemed that way due to the amount of rubble that was around it.
Adolf pushed his way through the rubble, his feet touching the cold chunks of rock of unknown origin as he got closer and closer to his destination.
Upon reaching a certain part, Adolf began to remove rubble, some of it was large, the size of a watermelon but others were small, the size of a pebble, several tens of minutes passed in which Adolf dedicated himself to removing the rubble for no apparent reason, but later After removing some rubbish, everything made sense.
Beneath that recently removed rubble was what looked like a hatch made of an unknown mineral, Adolf looked at the hatch and then looked at some statistic of his.
[Strength: 340]
Adolf's strength had increased thanks to pushing his body over the limits against Haakon, and although it was ten points and it didn't seem like much to Adolf it was a lot and always welcome since it was better than nothing, everything was better than nothing.
Looking at his strength stat and then at the hatch Adolf felt his desire to know that he was below her increased greatly.
Months ago Adolf found this hatch and tried to lift it but his weak strength could not lift it, now Adolf was stronger and felt that he had a chance to open it.
His body crouched as his fingers gripped the edge of the hatch with great force taking a deep breath, Adolf began to try to pull her up, the veins in his arms and legs bulging as his muscles tensed to their maximum capacity.
The hatch trembled under Adolf's force in an attempt to lift it but it continued without significant change, Adolf tried harder and harder and with that the hatch progressively showed more change in regards to its state, each time it rose more and more but that had a big impact on Adolf's resistance.
Adolf's body began to shake from the force he was using, his grip on the hatch never loosened one bit as he slowly lifted it up, even though it was barely 40 x 40 centimeters with 10 centimeters thick it was incredibly heavy, as there are to consider with Adolf's current strength he could easily break through a steel plate twice as thick.
With great effort Adolf managed to open the hatch, his arms and legs trembled strongly as sweat ran through his body, his chest rose and fell at irregular intervals and Adolf could not control the rhythm of his breathing while his heart beat with great intensity. , in the end he had to use magic to calm his heartbeat and normalize his breathing.
Fatigue quickly left his body and Adolf looked again at what was under the hatch, it was a hole and its bottom was hidden under a thick and impenetrable veil of darkness, there were a couple of fragments of the same mineral stuck to the wall, Adolf deduced that they were the remains of the stairs that once led down.
Adolf took half a step forward and his foot dangled in nothingness about to fall before the unknown, without fear he jumped into the void, his body was quickly engulfed by the darkness, disappearing into it.