Riding throughout the whole day, Vernox and Minova finally got to their next stopping point. It was a small village owned by letchers, they are demons similar to elves but they have purple skin, sharp teeth and claws.
While coming to this village they only encountered low levelled corrupted which Vernox dealt with easily.
Any Corrupted above the dark warrior level that they encountered Vernox had no choice but to ride the horse faster, using a rune to boost its speed and escape them.
Riding inside the Letchers village they went to the stable that was beside the gates.
The gates were surprisingly big but they still were made of wood.
"I need him taken care of." Vernox said as he handed the reign to the Letcher demon there.
"Ten charol per day."
Vernox's brows furrowed as he put his hand in his waist bag and gave the demon the charol, to which he smiled.
"Come on, let's find a place to stay."
Minova followed behind Vernox with her mask still on. She removed her hood as there was no demon here that would recognise her face.
And like that they explored this village, mostly because of Vernox as he fed his eyes with everything he saw.
Vernox then noticed that the letchers village was even more developed than the lich village they were at.
After some time they finally found an inn and rented a room there.
"This seems like a nice place." Vernox said as he collapsed on the bed.
"Come on, don't hesitate. Get some rest too."
Minova, who has been looking at Vernox weirdly finally moved and sat on the bed.
Vernox then opened the system screen as he didn't check his notifications that he got when he saved the lich village.
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[Mission completed.]
[Kill the 15 corrupted that are heading towards the lich village. 15/15]
[Rewards: One Mystery box]
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[You saved a total of 583 demons]
[You get one soul emperor crystal]
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Vernox smiled as he looked at the rewards. His eyes shone as he saw that he got a soul emperor crystal.
Soul crystals are gotten from any creature above soul hunter level. They contain the total amount of energy that the creature had.
The amount of energy in a soul king couldn't get Vernox to a main higher level quickly but it could increase his sub level as a soul king.
"Minova! Why don't you use the bath first."
"Um... Okay." Minova said and then went to the bathroom that was inside the room.
Unfortunately the lich village didn't have a bath for their customers as they wouldn't expect them to stay long. Meanwhile in this Letchers village, there was a bathroom and toilet in every room.
Immediately minova was gone Vernox pressed the claim button on the screen and two objects appeared in his hand.
One of them was a glowing blue crystal that was filled with soul energy, the other was a fist sized golden pouch.
"I didn't get any skills from the mystery box? Instead I got this. What's this supposed to be?"
As if hearing his words a system screen came up in front of him.
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[Sleeping dust - C grade item
- A dust meant to put annoying people to sleep. Will make the victim fall unconscious for 2 days.]
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The description wasn't too long and was straight forward. Vernox was surprised as he thought that he was going to get another skill, maybe a spell this time but the system gave him... A sleeping drug.
"Ariel, what do you expect me to do with this?" Vernox asked, holding himself from throwing a tantrum
[Why ask me? I'm not the system. The system selects skill and items at random so you can't possibly be getting good things all the time.] Ariel said in a quite harsh tone.
"I thought the system was supposed to be my advantage in this world." Vernox said in a sad tone.
[*Sigh* The system was designed to fit what you are used to which is your computer screen. You can't expect HIM to give you a treasure vomiting system]
Vernox got sad more, knowing that he'll have to work harder in this world to achieve things.
"At least I have this soul emperor crystal," he said with a slight smile.
Vernox then sat crossed legs on his bed. He opened his soul vortex which was a glowing blue horizontal Tornado connected to his abdomen.
"I hope this will be enough to reach soul emperor level."
Vernox then put the crystal in the vortex. As he did that, the crystal immediately dissipated into dust and got absorbed by the vortex.
Vernox silently waited for changes in his body but after thirty seconds, nothing happened.
"What happ– arghh."
Vernox gritted his teeth as he felt pain from his soul. Deep within him was a little red cube. The cube was vibrating as it released energy into his body which spread around, refining Vernox's body more.
In a few minutes, Vernox stood up from the ground. It seems like he rolled off the bed when he was in the process of evolution.
The pain within him had stopped already and he felt a new strength within him.
"Am I actually...?"
To confirm, Vernox brought up the system screen to check what level he was at.
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[Name: Vernox Raphael]
[Title: Demon prince]
[Race: Dragon kin demon]
[Level: Basic soul Emperor]
[Companions: Ariel(Heavenly guide), Minova]
[Bloodline: Not awakened]
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[Stats]
[Soul energy - 500,000/500,000]
[Strength - 170
Speed - 120
Agility - 117 ]
[Points - 189]
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[Skills]
[Swordsmanship (secondary level)]
[Rune master]
[Demon transformation]
[Eyes of dominion]
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Seems like the status screen was updated.
Vernox was surprised when he saw that he has reached the soul emperor level just by absorbing that crystal.
Soul crystals were by no means easy to get as not every creature will choose to condense their energy into a soul crystal. This crystal that he got now will probably be worth a hundreds of millions of charol in the market. Even in the demon kingdom, soul crystals are highly coveted by almost all the warriors.
It seems that he didn't get a lot of points to distribute too.
"But it's still something. I noticed I couldn't dodge attacks from that vampire corrupted so my agility is very important."
His running and jumping were greatly boosted by [Speed] and [Strength]. But what about sudden maneuvers and turns. Without enough agility points, even if his eye sight is very fast, he may not be able to move very swiftly while being fast also.
And [Agility] was also important to unleash sword skills at a very rapid rate so he decided to add... eighty points to agility, fifty nine points to strength and fifty points to speed.
[Strength - 170 >> 229]
[Speed - 120 >> 170]
[Agility - 117 >> 197]
Vernox smiled as he felt a cold wave wash over his body. Like he was poured a bucket of cold water.
He decided to distribute the points now as he doesn't want to make the same mistake of meeting an enemy and not being prepared. He wanted to be prepared for anything.
Also, he has a few skills that he can use his holy light runes to perform. Actually they are not much.
"Let me see if..."
[Rune master - Due to wanting to be strong you have studied the holy light runes Grimoire that was forgotten in the demon castle's armory.]
[Holy light rune: When mastered, the user can use the element of light. Duration depends on the user's soul energy.
Skills:
- Absolute slash: Summon the element of light into your weapon, making it sharper and stronger.
It has higher effect on enemies who wield the darkness element. Can only use this when the user is at the soul specialist level to avoid backslash.
- Holy ray: At this level, the element of light flows through your body. You can shoot a light ray from any part of your body.
It has higher effect on enemies who possess the darkness element.
Can only use this when at the soul emperor level to avoid backslashes.]
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"Wow. Looks like the system records everything." Vernox said with a smile.
After studying the holy light runes and the skills he can use he has been stuck at using a limited amount of light energy due to how low his level was.
But now was a different case.
*Creak*
Vernox turned to see a young beautiful black haired girl come out of the bathroom tying a towel.
Seeing his gaze Minova blushed a little.
"Aren't you going to take a bath too?"
"Oh, yeah. Of course." He had almost forgotten himself as he didn't notice how beautiful minova was, even with short hair.
She had curves but not too much. He can't say much about her breasts but her ass looked soft as it vibrated when she walked out of the bathroom.
Once again, Vernox has never in his life, been so happy to be alive.