[You know you are crazy right?]
Vernox's brows became uneven as his face showed a look of confusion.
"What do you mean?"
[You are crazy absorbing the crystal like that. It's not supposed to be possible.]
"I still don't understand."
Ariel sighed as she began explaining.
[The normal way of absorbing the crystals is that you put it in front of the vortex and the vortex will absorb the energy from the crystal at a stable pace. What you just did now... I have never heard of it before.] Ariel explained in an agitated tone.
"Are you saying it's dangerous to just absorb it that way?"
[No! I'm saying you're not supposed to be alive after that but your soul managed to swallow the energy it needed and evolve. The remaining energy were then used to build up your body constitution]
Vernox was just staring at the walls of the bathroom in horror. He just risked his life without even knowing it.
"Ariel let's calm down."
[The lowest amount of time taken to absorb a soul emperor crystal is one week. And you just did it in a few seconds and you want me to calm down.]
Ariel's tone then changed as she said, [You could have died]
"Don't worry, nothing happened to me, I'll make sure to be more careful in the future."
Vernox then proceeded to take his bath.
...
Vernox didn't take long to have his bath. He and Minova then cleared their things and were about to have some rest.
As if fate didn't want them to rest they started hearing loud bell sounds from the village outside.
*Dang Dang Dang*
"What is it this time?" Vernox sprung out of the bed and went to the window to see the letchers and some other demons running around panickly.
Vernox knew that he wouldn't get any sleep if this noise is going on so he decided to go and check it out.
"Wait for me okay? Let me see what is going on."
Minova nodded with a smile. With Vernox's strength which she witnessed for herself, none of these Letchers could be his enemy.
Vernox walked out of the inn and saw all the demons running around and entering their houses.
Vernox turned and saw one of the letchers running towards him. He grabbed the demon's arm and shouted, "What's going on?!!"
"Th... they're coming, the orcs are coming, let me go."
The man looked so scared and terrified so Vernox just let him go.
*Ding*
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[New mission]
[Defend the letchers village]
[Rewards: One mystery box]
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Vernox walked towards the village entrance where people were running from. As he reached a certain point he started seeing some weird monsters. They were orcs but they were huge.
Actually they were always big but now that he's seen them for real, they were truly big.
They held large maces and there was three of them coming into the village like they owned the place.
Vernox walked towards them as they were making a lot of noise smashing things that they saw around.
"Hey!"
The orcs, hearing a small creature shouting all turned and looked at the little creature in front of them. Feeling the demonic energy that was being emitted by Vernox they attacked him.
The one in the middle swung his mace at Vernox downwards. Vernox saw this and put his hand towards the left and that's when he noticed that he left his sword at the inn.
'Ahh...whatever'
He swung his fist upwards to clash with the mace that was coming down to him.
Some villagers were peeping out of their windows and watching the fight that just started.
*Bang*
Vernox punched the mace and he overpowered it causing the orc to stumble and lose balance a little.
For some reason he wasn't scared of them, infact since he came to this world...he has not felt true fear, only excitement.
With tremendous speed, Vernox rushed to the unbalanced orc and punched it's stomach with all his strength. The tremendous force bursted a hole in it's body.
Seeing their fellow orc fall the other two charged at him with angry faces and swung their maces. With accuracy he dodged the mace and jumped forward grabbing one of the orcs' legs, swinging it into the air.
'It's not even that heavy' Vernox thought as he proceeded to the last target.
All the people were wondering who this person was to have such strength. The orcs have been terrorising their village and stealing their food for years. The orcs were too strong and nobody could do anything about it. But this young demon that they were watching was making defeating them look so easy.
"Hah"
Vernox kicked the leg of the orc and it fell to the ground dropping it's mace. Vernox quickly grabbed the large mace by the handle and swung it at the last orc's face. The orc could only watch as the mace smashed it's head and killed it.
Vernox was surprised really. Defeating these large orcs were easy for him. Was it because of he was now a soul emperor?
All the people there couldn't believe it. This demon actually singlehandedly killed the orcs... with his bare hands. All the people there came out, all with shocked expressions.
*Pa Pa Pa*
Soon all the villagers started clapping as they went to him.
"Huh?"
Vernox looked at the villagers coming towards him and was surprised that they came outside.
Out of the crowd an old letcher came out and went towards Vernox.
"Dear boy, I'm the village leader. I thank you on behalf of the entire village for getting rid of the Orcs." the man said wholeheartedly.
"It's no problem, they were just making too much noise and I silenced them."
'Yess...classic overpowered character line. Now they shall fear me'
"You're funny my boy, We... SHALL CELEBRATE THIS YOUNG HERO WHO HAS SAVED OUR VILLAGE FROM ITS DOWNFALL." the old man shouted.
*Whooo..yeah*
The air was filled with cheers. Everyone was shocked, relieved and happy, but no one was more shocked than Minova who watched the entire thing.
'He's so powerful....I also want to have power like him'
Now she was convinced that she followed the right person.
A while later Vernox came back to the room only to find Minova swinging his sword around. He only chuckled at her.
"It's not a play thing. You don't need to worry about your power that you can't use, I know of a way to help you but it's going to take a while."
After all he needed to take the throne from his brother and restore order to the demon kingdom.
Hearing his words, Minova smiled a smile of hope.
"Come on, they're holding a feast. Might as well enjoy our stay here." Vernox said as he went out of the room.
Minova was inwardly shocked to see Vernox so unfazed, even after fighting those scary monsters.
She was now more frustrated by her weakness. She began to worship Vernox inwardly.
...
Inside a bar in the village cheers and shouting were echoing and Vernox was being entertained by some letcher ladies.
Minova then entered the place and walked towards him.
"Minova my dear. Come, take a seat"
He pulled a chair for her and she sat beside him.
"You seem to be enjoying yourself," she said as she saw him eating a large piece of meat which was on the table.
"Here have some. It's good."
He gave her a plate of the delicious looking meat and...well...she ate it.
"All right all right. settle down!"
The whole place seemed to quiet down as the old village leader climbed on a table there, not afraid that he might fall.
"Today...we celebrate our freedom. And our hero, the demon prince of Azure. CHEERS!!"
"CHEERS!!"
Everybody chorused as the celebrations began again. It was a long feast and when Vernox started feeling dizzy Minova took him back to the room and he fell asleep immediately.