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Chapter 24 - Reminiscing

I stood still and focused as the wind blew around me. I felt my Aura core and accelerated the Aura within to the peak and made it rage and condense further until it reached its max capacity and then I struck my abdomen to break the balance of my core and reverse the flow of the Aura within it.

'Now, to finish this!'

And then by using Taoist teachings, I motioned with my palms in the path of the ancient ascension until I found it, the void within the Aura.

'Within the void, all is null.'

The flow of my Aura reversed and its color turned pitch black with a white accent.

[You have regained your unique [Anti Aura]! +50 points!]

'A few more to go."

I unleashed my crimson Mana into the air and slowly condensed it and shaped it into the appearance of a sword, one last touch was left. I opened my left hand and made a small cut into my palm and dripped the blood onto the Mana sword.

"RULER OF ALL, THE WATER OF LIFE, THE DIVINE LIE, NO ILLUSION IS SAFE, NO LIE IS TRUER. BLOOD DIVINE, CONDENSE, AND LET ALL BOW IN AWE!"

I chanted until the blood flowed into the Mana sword and fully condensed it. Once condensed I felt a soul link with the sword and could freely manipulate it through the air as I saw fit and when I needed to store it, it went into my blood.

I repeated the process nine more times until I couldn't do it anymore.

[You have regained your [Divine Blood]! +50 points!]

Divine blood allowed me to manipulate my blood freely and even the blood of my enemies after I came into contact with it and marked it. The swords of condensed blood were simply a medium I came up with for efficiency after using Divine Blood for an extended period.

I stepped out of my room through the window and summoned one of the blood swords into my hands.

Once upon a time, in a realm only gods were meant to roam, I snuck in and usurped a spot in their death festival. I was on the edge of ascension and needed only a tiny push to achieve godhood, so I grabbed my sword and cut a path through Pandemonium until I reached the 6th Heaven and 4th Hell, gods fell, demons bled out, fairies and witch idols were cut to shreds.

Yet, I still did not pass the great gate and achieve ascension, until an old witch gave me a word of advice.

She said: 'When the moon is at its fullest peak, unsheathe your sword and follow the moon's guidance.'

I climbed the tallest peak in Pandemonium and reached the moon pavilion and waited until the moon was at its fullest. I stood on the stage and gazed at the moon's brilliance as if it was only a step away from me and then I unsheathed my sword.

No guidance came, yet the moon's light seemed to stick to the edge of my sword. If I moved in a certain way it remained on the sword and if I made the wrong move it went away. I understood and focused and soon I was dancing with the moonlight.

The movements were smooth, deadly, harmless, soft and hard, light and heavy, based on my intent, for as long as I danced, my Aura was replaced with the Moonlight and I achieved a new stage of the sword.

[You have remembered your [Moonlight Dance]! +25 points!]

After finishing my dance, I looked down at the ground and noticed my feet had left a mark on the ground, in the shape of a full moon, its craters and all.

"It's not the same when she's not here to dance with me…"

I sat down cross-legged on the ground and took a deep breath before releasing my Prana and condensing it in my hands until it formed a thick, pulsing orb.

I focused further and poured my intent into the Prana until the orb transformed into a six-triangle white sigil.

[You have regained your [Holy Sigil]! +50 points!]

'One more and I won't have to reminisce for a while. It's going to hurt though,'

I relaxed fully and then tensed every cell in my body, I focused my memories and recalled every single kill I had ever witnessed or committed, from my first to the most recent one, I recalled every single one in as great a detail as I could.

Once I could see all of the horrific at once, I let my Prana flow in and become corrupted from its white brilliance into crimson-black dreadful energy. Unconsciously it exploded and spread all around me.

Anyone, conscious and versed in the sensing of energy would sense it and shiver in fear and be put on edge. It was so powerful and dreadful it caused the air around me to appear like it was thin, giving a sort of crimson-black heat haze all around me.

Suddenly, countless members of the [Black Chapter] appeared all around me with their swords at my throat. They simply looked at me silently until I retracted my [Deicide].

[You have regained your [Deicide]! +50 points!]

They simply disappeared after seeing I had things under control.

'That should do it for a while, but the [Black Chapter]..an interesting bunch,'

I got some sleep and woke up well-rested the next day.

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Midway through breakfast with the others, I remembered something interesting.

'I had a lucky draw, right?'

[Would you like to use your Special-Rank lucky draw?]

"So you went through classes to act like a woman?!" Alexander laughed aloud.

"Stop laughing! It was hard!" Damian couldn't handle the teasing.

"Lower your voices, it's too early."

'Yes.'