Ren hauled his exhausted body through numerous corridors that had corpse mountains created by his own hands.
The last week had been maddening, it took him three days to clear out Carleton Place of its Dark Gold, Epic, Ancient mobs and sole Legendary tier Region Boss. Before he could even enter the solo dungeon the Sage tasked him with clearing.
Ren had reached the level 25 cap within less than four hours of his arrival to Carleton Place. After spending the rest of his third day gaining all the rare resources, treasure chests, and a Divine Grandmaster Blacksmith inheritance, Ren entered the solo dungeon.
Now he was slowly trudging his way through the vast corridors, each step that he took leaked an obscene amount of blood from the multiple holes in his body. If it weren't for his staunch Will and strength of mind, Ren would have dropped dead long ago. He had even earned a Title for preserving his life thus far.
[Ding! You have received the Title - Death Defier: As long as there is hope for another day, you trudge along past the corpses that failed to claim your life. One time a day activates a state of complete Invincibility upon receiving a sure-death wound. You have been blessed by the Grim Reaper. Blessing: ??? (Unlocks at the end of Integration Period.)]
Ren made his way into a grand throne room, there was no boss, mini bosses, minions, or casual mobs since he'd already kited and massacred everything.
Ren breathed out a sigh of relief at seeing the still pristine podium that contained the Empyrean Aegis Cultivation Method. Ren walked forward and swiped it into his spatial ring, along with the dozens of varying graded treasure chests.
[Ding! You have successfully cleared the Nightmare Dungeon - Tomb Of Primordial Demons. You have been awarded with a piece of customized God Equipment. Fist Of The Equinox Blade Cape. Set Equipment Piece 1/1]
Ren scanned the contents of his new God Equipment
Fist Of The Equinox Blade Cape
Set Piece 1/1
Health +10,000
Mana +10,000
Stamina +10,000
Strength +50%
Agility +50%
Endurance +40%
Vitality +40%
Intelligence +40%
Passive Effect 1: Increases the power of the equippers Fist, Sword, Fire, Ice Dao by one entire tier.
Passive Effect 2: The equipper gains +500 to all basic and +500 to all advanced attribute points.
Passive Effect 3: Equinox Blade Enhancement - Increases all Fist Of The Equinox Blade Sword Skills by +5.
Passive Effect 4: Equinox Fist Enhancement - Increases all Fist Of The Equinox Blade Pugilist Skills by +5.
Active Effect 1: Equinox Awakening - The equipper has the choice of entering a controlled or destructive state of Equinox Awakening. Controlled Equinox Awakening increases all basic and advanced attributes by 25%. Destructive Equinox Awakening increases all basic and advanced attributes by 60%. (The user can gain insight into Equinox Awakening gaining it as a Exclusive Skill that stacks its effects on top of Active Effect 1)
Active Effect 2: Equinox Emperor Blessing - Grants up to a maximum of 25 Equinox Emperor Blessings. Each blessing awakens the potential within the individual. Each blessing gives +250 basic and +250 advanced attribute points. Each blessing gives a +25% efficiency to basic attributes and +15% efficiency to advanced attributes. Class Evolutions Options are increased based on the innate potential. (Reach Second Class Evolution to gain an additional 25 Equinox Emperor Blessings.)]
Set Effect 1/1 Applies a permanent 2x multiplier to Strength, Agility, Endurance and Vitality.
Ren passed out as his new Cape automatically equipped itself. Without the Cape equipping itself, Ren would have truly died due to all the accumulated injuries and losing 65% of the blood in his body. Death Defier wasn't just for show.
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"Meril, pull your head out from your ass and look alive!" Eril cursed and reprimanded her twin as she came crashing down like a meteor from forty meters high, crushing all of the zombies, in a eight meter radius.
Eril could not blame her twin for falling asleep while in the midst of battle, their Shelter had been under attack by the Alzavarius Empire for the last three days.
After they had gained a total of 1,250 in their little Shelter, the damned Human Aaron Ulbroud arrived on their doorsteps with a 50,000 strong hoard of zombies, and the Undead Apostles of the Alzavarius Empire.
They were not inhabitants or recently evolved zombies due to the apocalypse. But an actual Empire that spanned not just the Multiverse but the entirety of the Omniverse. They were at the bottom of the top 100 Omniverse factions, but they were the most feared across the Omniverse because they could raise the dead.
Karma Rinsing the corpses of all the victims due to their constant crusading to expand their territory and gain resources. The Integration Period stopped outside forces from creating an Incursion Pillar that connects their Empire to Earth. However, if the price was right, even the Omniverse Alpha System would look away while accepting a hefty payment.
Eril never stopped slashing and stabbing her dual katanas for a single second. In the state that Meril was in, Aaron controlled the zombie horde to swarm Meril. The two of them were not the peak of power within the Shelter by any means, but their colossal burst damage and assassination tactics were top notch.
Despite their much lower levels, Eril and Meril had been able to slay a level 250 Gold rated expert from the Alzavarius Empire. It was a feat that was impossible, but made possible due to them having a limiter placed on them to force their levels down to 25 by the OAS.
Even so, with the experts gathered Titles, Class Evolutions, Cultivation and Skills it was not an easy feat to perform. It cost Eril and Meril an incredibly sharp price and three days of being completely out of commission due to their suicide tactic.
However, things were no longer looking so good. Their Shelter was surrounded from all angles, the original 50,000 hoard ballooned up to an insurmountable 400,000 undead, plus the hundreds of Alzavarius Empire elites and experts with limiters.
All around Eril was death, which suited hers and Merils Life and Death Dao's, but at the cost of those she began to call family? It was too much for even her to handle. She had watched a three year old child be cannibalized by a Corpse Lord, revived and then forced to kill her own parents while her sentience was still "present." It was sickening and maddening brutality that was the war for survival, or slaughter depending on the side.
Tears began to roll down from Eril's eyes, both she and her twin were not actually Humans, their race was Gemini and their life was intertwined with one another. After mingling amongst Humans for the last two weeks, Eril had grown attached to the people that treated her like family and those that treated her like they would their own children. "Goddammit! Damn it all to fucking Hell!!" Eril let out a desperate scream of sorrow and despair into the gory sunlit day.
With her twin slung over her shoulders vertically, Eril charged through the masses of zombies, corpse lords, behemoths, specters and eidions. Slashing her crescent moon twin daggers that curved backwards like demonic horns, Eril killed her way through all the mindless and semi-capable elite versions of the basic zombies. Wherever she went it looked no different than a crimson tempest raging through a bunch of defenseless crops. Eril vented her hatred and sadness, saving all of those that she could along the way.
Driven by madness and a thick cloud of fury misguiding her actions, Eril slaughtered her way to where all of the limiter suppressed Alzavarius Empire Elites were gathered. Mana, Dao and a thick blanket of emerald green Qi covered both of her daggers, elongating them to be thirty meters long in length radiating an intense sharpness. Blood trickled out from Eril's eyes, ears, nose and mouth as she leaped into the mass of Elites.
"Twin Blade Harmony - Gale!"
Eril's speed erupted beyond what her body could handle, breaking it down and shattering her own bones in the process to wipe out as many of the undead fucks that she possibly could. Having long since figured out the leader of the Alzavarius Empire troops, Eril's practically teleported behind the woman with such blinding speed that she lost her entire right arm in the process.
In replace of where her right arm was, Eril transferred all of her negative emotions, and absorbed the negative emotions of those that perished and those that were struggling with a rewardless errand to safekeep their lives.
"Gemini Forbidden Technique - Terminus Sun Of Annihilation!"
Eril bellowed out with all of the force that her broken and tattered body would allow her, and when it began breaking down at an even faster pace, she threw Meril off of her shoulders as she ripped into her own chest, ripped her heart out and crushed it within the Sphere of her Forbidden Technique.
"I'm sorry Ren, I won't be able to give you my heart anymore."
The Terminus Sun Of Annihilation turned into a crimson-black sun that devoured and sucked in all of the light within the surrounding 400 meter radius, causing it to turn into a Domain of absolute blackness. All of the senses, Domain Skills, Sensory Skills and more were completely "silenced" within this Domain of destruction.
Eril's remaining hand tore into the bottom layer of the Alzavarius Empire Leaders back, gripping onto the spine and forcefully ripping it out in a shower of flesh, blood, muscle and gore. Covering herself head to toe from the splash zone. Then with her missing right arm where the Sphere Of Annihilation was, she swung down her body with all that she could with the force of her Will as she brought the crimson-black sun down upon her nemesis.
"This is for all the lives that you have taken! This is so that my family can fight to survive another day!"
Eril shed no more tears, accepting her fate completely before she realized that her world was now "spinning" as the originator of this Domain, she still had all of her senses and more. She then realized with sheer terror, a midnight black katana beheaded her before she could obliterate the undead woman.
"A for effort, child. But you're too wet behind the ears to realize you fell right into our Illusion Magic, all of the Elites that you "killed" gehehehehe, what an utter joke. Look around you girl, are those your enemies or your allies you just slaughtered in cold blood?"
A bony arm reached down picking up the severed head, the Domain was gone and all that remained were limbless corpses of the people that Eril considered to be friends and family. Blood tears poured out from her eyes, Eril combusted her own eyes so she wouldn't see the destruction and mayhem she caused to her own people and not the enemies.
"Foolish girl, but at least with your Soul I can awaken you and your twin with a combined and unnatural life-death mix that would not suit an undead being. You will forever live and be forced to never forget the lives you've take-"
The leader of the Alzavarius Empire snapped her head to the opposite direction of herself and her group. "Well, it is not wrong when the elders said newly integrated worlds awakened the sleeping monsters their civilization had hidden."
Fenrich activated Metamorphosis and Abyssal Weapon Enhancement right off the bat, followed up with Abyssal Blade Factory, Abyssal Swords and the Mana Blade Factory version. Flashing forward, Fenrich clashed with the Alzavarius Empire leader, coming face to face as both people were like bulls smashing their heads into each other. Sparks flew between their eyes and even more sparked from their weapons grinding against each other.
With gritted teeth Fenrich greeted the Alzavarius Empire Leader, "It's been a while hasn't it Irainia?"
"And you're still as handsome as ever, but why do you smell like blood and cunt? Have you fucked Alarune already, my prince?" Irainia pecked Fenrich on the lips as her eyes stared into his.
"Why not change and become an undead? Or at least learn the Eidions Soul Spirit Avatar. At least that way you could create a separate Soul to be split and embedded into a new body. The elders have already agreed to give you a body of the Iranu Ancestral Bloodline descendants. You'd have to put in a lot of work to gain the power from the Iranu, at that time our marriage can be made official within the Alzavarius Empire. We can have lots of children, imagine it, all the cute little monsters running around."
Irainia used Black White Fist stealing Fenrich's momentum and pulling it forward, with her left hand around his waist and her right hand stabbing the Firmament Defiance Greatsword into the ground. Iranian stared with intense interest into Fenrich's eyes. "Your eyes have changed quite a bit. It adds more to your unique charm, my prince."
Fenrich struggled to fight back and regain control of the momentum.
"Would you stop making things so difficult? I will make you a peace offering, my prince. You come back to the Alzavarius Empire, learn the Soul Spirit Avatar and I will even kill that Aaron Ulbroud that invited us here. This Shelter and all the humans will remain safe until they inevitably die. I will even help you escape back to Earth, and I will keep the Iranu side of you, while you can go back to that Vampiress whore." Irainia said as she pulled Fenrich's head into her breasts, smothering him within her embrace.
"ENOUGH!
"Firmaments Wrath!"
"Open. Gate Of Purgatory."
"Remove Limiter Level 5"
"It's a pleasure to meet your acquaintance once more, Irainia. Don't let this brute sully the romance you can both still have in the future. Let me make you a counter offer, you can back off right now and when the time is right, WE will come to serenade you at a later date. There's much WE have left to do, there is no time for romance in our current schedule." Fenrich's voice turned dark, emotionless and demonic as the air around him began twisting due to the chaotic rippling of the released limiter.
"Can you make a Soul Oath with your exact words, if you do I would be more willing to agree, as well as add my own conditions." Irainia said as she began to think of the future and their children happily running around.
[Sadly, a Soul Oath is not acceptable for either of US. You will have to take OUR word for heart, and I promise to guide him to you in the not so near future. If you leave Earth in its entirety with directions to your Alzavarius Empire or where WE can meet for a date.]
"Well…. I'd like to take your word for it, but you both have a horrible track record. You chose to take Alarune over me due to the Vampires having far lesser restrictions and demands of their people. Can I trust that you will not break my heart a second time?" Irainia's eyes sharpened and the joviality quickly disappeared from her voice. "A woman is most fearsome when her heart and emotions have been trampled upon." Irainia took a step closer to Fenrich, with her halberd she rested it upon his right shoulder with the blade resting upon the carotid artery.
"No more games now, prince. Make your choice. NOW." Irainias' aura began blasting out of her pushing all of the zombies and her people away from the Humans. "I have shown you my mercy and the depths to which I am willing to sacrifice even when it is a highly unlikely chance you choose me.
[Your foreplay is as tantalizing as ever, Irainia. Is it the both of US or only Fenrich that you desire?]
"It is only Fenrich that I desire. Stop. Wasting. My. Patience."
[Sigh. And so we must do this the hard way after all.]
Irainias' halberd failed to pierce through the barriers placed under the skin of Fenrich's neck keeping his carotid arteries protected.
Holy demonic white aura blasted out of Fenrich's body and his crimson-black Emperor Aura began intermingling with each other, braiding together and empowering the sum of their parts beyond a simple 1 plus 1.
"You've entered the Emperor's Path, you really would have been the most perfect husband to me and father to our children."
[Not completely, but it is close enough to count the both of US as a pseudo-Emperor.]
Fenrich deflected Irainia's halberd as he performed a reverse hook kick, snapping his right left down onto the shin bone of Irainias' left leg, causing her to drop her stance. With an open palm, the holy demonic aura blasted Irainia as she skidded backwards dozens of feet. The armour covering her abdomen was melted completely through, leaving slight burn marks on her fit and athletic body.
"You could have dealt a devastating amount of damage to me there, prince. Your words say otherwise, but you're not being true to your own emotions, are you?
[It is not OUR, but MY own emotions that make me hold you dear, Irainia. When HE experienced a Cultivation deviation and became a Demon, it was ME that was in control for all of those years, surviving, fighting, thriving, falling in love with you and the lifestyle of the Alzavarius Empire. Don't make me cross this line, Irainia. For OUR greater goals. I will be forced to act against MY wishes.]
"It's a pity, Demons, I have never fancied. Living humans on the other hand, someone from my very own origins before I was also turned into this form now, is the only way I can control my own 'fate.' You do not understand what it is like to be turned, have the forced propaganda and the compulsions to serve the Alzavarius Empire, never betraying the entirety of the Undead Empire, yet still having your own humanity imprisoned within this grotesque form of life that I live through now. Be a good little boy, and find the happiness within being a side character experiencing the love I and Fenrich will share with one another. After I bring your mutilated human body back to be turned just like me!"
Irainia exploded forward, her speed causing sonic booms to erupt and rattle the eardrums of the humans and her own people nearby.
[I see.] A single blood tear trickled down sounding like thunder as it landed on the crimson covered earth below.
[Holy River Demonic Art - Holy Demon Awakening]
[Holy River Demonic Art - Enexervious Nexus]
[Goodbye, MY love.]
Fenrich's body flashed forward, even in her enhanced state Irainia could not see how Fenrich's body moved or where his figure was. What was even worse, her Perception was now working against her.
A sudden suction pulled Irainia towards her left, she twisted her hips and pivoted off with her right foot as she pierced her halberd out with her left arm, an undead flood dragon pierced through the scores of zombies, the Alzavarius Empires Elites that were sent with her on this expedition to claim bodies and Fenrich.
[This is my peace offering to you, MY love. Instantaneous death where you will feel no agony or pain.]
In the sky above, another more sinister sun was present, with planets, blackholes and stars twinkling within its nebulae expanse.
[I see the beauty before my eyes, all the lies in the eyes of the sky. Listen to my whispers; and within the darkness, you will see the spark that is MY eternal love. Goodbye.]
The nebulae expanse came crashing down like a meteor, swallowing up Irainia and the Alzavarius Empire claiming all of their lives within a single second. No screams could be heard from the sentient raised. Tens of thousands of zombies were incinerated within a single second.
[Switch. Do not rely on me anymore in the future. Die for all that I care. Enjoy the happiness you will one day share with Alarune once more. I swear to all the entities that are Holy and Unholy. If you ever take it for granted, I will take it all away from YOU!]
The sorrow and hatred filled clap of thunder shook Fenrich to his core, a new Oath had been formed and answered from an unknown Demonic entity. Just comprehending that being had even gazed at him for less than a millisecond was enough to cause his body to nearly disintegrate into ashes.
[I have taken her life with MY own hands today. Protect and treasure Alarune well so it will not be MY hands wrapped around YOUR fiancé's neck snuffing out the light of life from her tomorrow.]