With the matter of divergence settled, Kai had no choice but to wait.
"It wouldn't do good to make the girls report to me every week now," he told himself. "Once a month sounds better."
So with one last ritual, Kai sent two more letters to his servants, mentioning the new timing at the end of July, and cleared away all the traces.
Only some 15 minutes were left to his Identity Period, Kai observed.
Plenty of time to take care of a few things.
On his right, Petyr went to the bathroom window and was now looking out in the darkness. Okabe was still mumbling to himself, the time difference calculations in his hand.
Kai sat down on the floor, leaning against the wall. He had 10 unassigned Attribute Points. He tapped his fingers on the floor, thinking about what to do with them.
Suddenly, Eon Soul Dew popped in Kai's mind, along with a demonic grin on his face.
Calculating all his possible Buffs, he added 5 points to Breath, bringing it to 16. Then, he added 3 points to Correspondence, recalling the Chief Bishop's warning regarding the Stat's threshold. With his Stamina dictating his HP and HP Regeneration Rate, he added 1 point to it. The last point he added to Perception, leaving both Strength and Agility; these two always got boosted through Buffs, anyway.
Suddenly, as if getting a cue from unknown origins, Kai felt an aura coursing through is veins. It was like blood, but then the more he felt it, the more he realized it was scattered throughout his body, pulsing along with his heartbeats.
Mana!
So this is perceiving Mana within, Kai realized, taking a deep breath. I wonder what other Stats would let me feel once I reach their thresholds.
Now only the matter of the Title Status Points left.
And this was something Kai had been waiting for for some time.
Two Titles would upgrade if he were to allot these points into them — Adulterer and…
Outer One, Kai thought, his breathing quickening.
Outer One needed only two points to upgrade from its beginning stage, and yet, Kai could tell that it was just too easy.
No harm in trying, though, Kai told himself and added two points in the Outer One Title.
The notification seemed to be just waiting for him to try this.
…
[Title Status Points can not be added to Outer One]
…
Sigh! Kai wasn't disappointed. Not too much.
Adulterer would give him a Skill, but Kai decided against assigning points to it. Instead, he assigned the entire 5 points to his Title Novice Collector, bringing the count to 9. Now, he needed only 1 Artifact to get his sweet Luck points. Not to mention, the sooner he unlocked the next stage of this Title, the better it would be.
Petyr's voice reached his ears then, bringing him out of his reverie. "Now that you have a library, my lord," he said, turning around to face him, "are you planning to visit Professor Elm for equipment?"
Kai didn't answer him outright. He took out the Pokedex and opened its New Data Storage option.
…
[
Mode: New Data Storage
Slots Available: (8/50)
Latest Magical Creature: Queen Xenomorph
]
…
"The Pokedex considered all Xenomorph's stages as 6 different magical creatures and the Yautja as a standalone species regardless of the 3 ritualistic stages," Kai mumbled, narrowing his eyes. "What I don't understand is why the Pokedex considered these species on the island T009 as magical creatures, but the Royal Facehugger I got is a non-magical creature?"
After brooding over it for some time, Kai ultimately put the question in the back of his mind. He looked at Petyr then. "A visit to Professor Elm is on my mind, yes," he told him. "But I don't have the Mission Credits to know the Time Difference between our timelines. Nor do I have the place to store the equipment yet. Once I have dealt with these situations, I will hop to Random World of Pokemon and grab whatever equipment I can before ordering more to his place for the next visit."
"Reasonable," Petyr nodded and then smiled. "I have one more doubt."
"Eureka!"
Kai and Petyr's head snapped toward Okabe suddenly and saw him standing up. In the very next second, the insane scientist sat back, looking at Kai apologetically. "Never mind. I misread…"
Kai frowned, his fingers throbbing to choke the Character's neck.
"As I was saying," Petyr continued, holding back his laugh, "I have one more doubt. Why are you making Darcie a center of attention, my lord? That girl, Daphne, I could understand. But revealing non-verbal magic to family, and then manipulating the minister of magic, of all the witches, makes little sense to me.
"I know how beneficial it would be for Darcie to have a friendship with an unmarried woman, transcending the age gap. You have played with her feelings of not having children of her own, true enough. But that's a card you can't play every time."
Kai almost laughed. Even Okabe looked interested, losing interest in the pages in his hands.
"Between me and Darcie, one was bound to be a pillar of light," Kai told them, grinning like the demon he was. "Keeping both Darcie and Kai Stormborn in the darkness would be futile. Not to mention, impossible. Let's not forget, my dear Items, that leaving behind a legacy of Death, Destruction, Madness, and Doom is Kai Stormborn's objective, not Darcie's.
"I will let her flame blaze through the entire Magical World of Harry Potter. Darcie will be an unprecedented talent, a figure of admiration, awe, and envy for many. Her name will be mentioned on the same terms as that of the ancient wizards.
"And when this pillar of light, named Darcie Malfoy, will be at its brightest and its greatest height, she would cast the faintest shadow under it. I will wait for that time, sitting on my throne of shadows, with all preparations done.
"Under the noses of these supreme wizards and witches, I will sweep through this entire timeline, spreading such hideous things that, for decades to come, they will beg for peace and prosperity. Hahaha! HAHAHA!"
Okabe ran to him and put his hand over his mouth, even though Kai had controlled his voice. With one push, Kai threw him off and spat out the salty taste of sweat that had gone in his mouth.
"And what preparations they might be, my lord?" Petyr asked, behaving as if he saw nothing.
Kai coughed, and then his grin returned, thinking of something. He flicked his both hands, and two objects appeared in his hands.
One was a small vial containing Yautja genes. The other had the Royal Facehugger, suspended in green-yellow solution.
Both objects hovered over his palms, rotating, revolving, looking as menacing as anything could be. Kai's chuckle escaped his throat like the snarl of a beast. He looked at Petyr and barked.
"Oh, I have a plan in my mind."
There was something too ominous about the way Kai had uttered those words. Yes. They reeked of blood… of death…
… of demonic savageness.
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