"I'm no longer human…" Diana thought as she rose from her place, holding two glasses in her hand.
One was red, the other green. She drank them consecutively and continued walking toward her four children.
The potion that completely broke her mind, which had nearly made Cassian give up when he experienced 30% of its effects, had become a mere light drink for her. She had grown accustomed to it, and since her mind had completely shattered, pain was no longer comprehensible to her.
Every part of her body now held pure, immeasurable power. She had given up her humanity, her mind, and her dignity for this power; she could no longer be ordinary.
"I name you Sylvan," Diana said, holding the head of one of her children while her muscles reshaped themselves due to the potion.
Her body had reached its limits, and advancing in rank was no longer possible since her energy core was destroyed.
The feeling of her muscles and bones reshaping had become ordinary to her, and she could even walk through it without any change in her expression.
Her four children looked at her without any emotion, and she didn't hesitate to give them orders.
"Go to the sea through the lower portal. Explore the nearest lands inhabited by humans and return to me with information." After giving her orders, the four of them disappeared, or that's what humans would have seen if they were there.
Their speed easily broke the sound barrier. The status screen indicated that their speed stat was at rank S-, but they were many times faster than humans of the same rank.
"I made sure to give you wings and light bodies at birth; it seems that increased your speed greatly…" Diana laughed lightly, then returned to where she had been sitting.
Hundreds of her children were sitting around her with unwavering loyalty in their eyes, waiting for nothing but her orders. Her next child should be as intelligent as a normal human. Diana placed her hand under her mate's head and laughed mockingly.
"You are the strongest creature on Earth, capable of destroying all beings including demons if given the right time, but you have only the intelligence of an insect!" Diana's laughter echoed around.
"I will use your strength well…" She looked at her status screen for a second before lying down on the ground.
{
Name: Diana Arovan => Diana Sylvan
Title: Queen of the Sylvan
Class: Tank
Legacy Skill: -
Level: S
Condition: Broken Mind / No Further rank Advancement / Unable to Use Mana.
Stats:
Strength: SS+
Speed: SS+
Endurance: SS+
Intelligence: B-
Senses: SS
Wisdom: B-
Luck: S
Charisma: C-
Skills:
-
}
****
A few hours passed, Diana re-tied her mate in his place and walked to where some of her B- rank children had come.
"It seems that old man didn't tell anyone about the secret storage at least," Diana smiled as her children handed her dozens of storage rings.
The entire storage of this society was located in a separate space, known only to the three guardians and old Adam.
Diana knew this information, but the exact location of the storage was unknown to her, which made her send her children to search for more than a month.
With precise instructions, all the information she knew, and hundreds of creatures searching day and night, it was only a matter of time. Over decades since the establishment of this society, all the items possessed by the victims before they became puppets were gathered in one storage.
Items belonging to tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, the budget of entire cities.
"Hundreds of skills here, weapons, one of which is legendary, martial arts, armors, potions, materials, money…" Diana inspected the entire storage, and her smile couldn't help but widen.
"The ultimate creature will come soon…" She couldn't control her smile anymore; everyone on the island heard her laughter…
**
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We finally entered the city… I looked at the street through the windows. Those outside couldn't see us, but we could see them. Many people were looking at the vehicle with funny expressions, quite a number of them holding their phones to take pictures.
It was forbidden to drive a military vehicle like this inside the city, but the guards at the gates allowed me in after verifying my identity. Everything was permitted for princes and kings, who would defy them for something as harmless as this?
But we still slowed the vehicle down to avoid damaging the street structure or accidentally killing some people.
'Just like the twenty-first century…' I thought as I looked at the people and their shops. The villages and towns by the sea were very primitive, but this place was much more developed.
I even saw some flying cars, an achievement made possible by using mana in their manufacture.
"Can you stop?" Jin looked at me then at Killian, I didn't know why but I gave my consent.
I didn't think Jin was stupid enough to do something foolish, so there was no harm in giving him what he wanted. When the vehicle designed like a rhinoceros stopped at one of the side stops, people couldn't help but turn their eyes to it with their phones.
And when the door opened and Jin stepped out, the focus of the cameras turned to him.
'Idiot!' I slapped my forehead with my hand; this idiot forgot to cover his face or even suppress his mana. We had all gotten used to traveling together without suppressing ourselves, but that now would do nothing but harm.
Besides, his appearance, having achieved rank S, made the leaders of that dwarf squad raise their estimation of him. And that's not counting the immense mana he carried with him everywhere, even though he hadn't fully recovered yet.
That's because he refrained from taking an energy recovery potion this time, to ensure he didn't develop an immunity to it.
"He will definitely attract attention, but isn't that beneficial for you?" Killian said, laughing slightly sarcastically.
"I don't want to inform Loana or the other council members of my arrival prematurely… And I can present Jin to the people later in a better light…" I sighed as I spoke and continued to wait for him.
He quickly came out of the library he had entered, and from the satisfied look on his face, it seemed he found what he wanted.
He entered the vehicle in a hurry, and we closed the door. "Remember to suppress your mana next time," Daristan said while lying down.
He was looking at the ceiling lazily, as if he was about to do something unnecessary.
"Ah… about that, the librarian reminded me!" Jin wiped the back of his neck as he spoke shyly, but he quickly recovered.
"What did you bring anyway?" I asked before gesturing for Killian to continue driving the vehicle.
"I thought I was wasting the potential of my skills due to my extreme ignorance of most matters, so I decided to educate myself more!" He smiled as he pulled out dozens of books from his storage ring.
"I found a lot of gold in the exposed guard storages, unfortunately, I didn't find the other."
I grabbed some of the books Jin brought and read their titles.
"Advanced Weapons, Vehicles, Human Body and…" I grabbed one of the books and felt as if my eyes were deceiving me.
Is this for real? But why does he even want it? "Biology of Dogs? Did you bring it by mistake?" I asked Jin, whose face suddenly changed and he immediately snatched the book from my hand.
"I have some plans in mind, don't bother yourself with them." The discussion ended with that sentence, we changed the subject, and started talking about things not worth mentioning.