Vampire Overlord System In The Apocalypse

by Stayrr

Earth is submerged in Chaos. Mutated Beasts roam the globe and Gates that lead to Otherworldly Dungeons appear everyday, bringing great dangers to humanity. However, the Awakened emerged, giving a chance for Humanity to survive. Amidst a vulnerable and crumbling society, a powerless and bullied young man begins to hear the voice of a malicious entity inside of his head... "Do you

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Noah continued with the detailed inspection of his newly awakened Skills, as he was someone that liked to prepare and know his abilities and capabilities in detail, checking these new awakened versions of previously existing Skills was not bothersome but enlightening, as he could discover more of his potential and what he could do now.

Moving on, the [Mist Form: 100 (C)] Skill awakened into the [Elusive Mist: 1 (A)] Skill, which seemed to be an enhanced version of Mist Form.

He was not only able to turn himself into the mist for some time which could help him reduce damage taken and even trespass through very small crevices and other things, but it also removed any sealing that could be exerted over his physical body while also making him immune to any kind of sealing or restraining powers over his physical body as long as this form was maintained.

Alongside this, his speed of movement would increase by around 30%, but he wouldn't be able to heal himself while being made of mist. Additionally, he was unable to use physical attacks, but he could still use magic and Blood Mist.

This power had come in handy a few times and Noah recognized that it was quite good, he was able to sneak into facilities with ease by using it, such as when he used it to enter the Military School and infiltrate right inside of Fernand's room.

The [Blood Core Creation: 100 (C)] Skill awakened into the [Blood Core Soul Creation: 1 (B)] Skill. This Skill seemed to be related to what Noah had thought before, about giving souls to the robots, and what he had done before falling unconscious by giving souls to the three robots, Sakura, Sugar, and Noire.

Through this Skill he might be able to grant souls through the use of Mana and not his very soul though, although the souls would be incredibly small, the possibility of being able to create a small blood core jewel with a soul inside might be beneficial, as such item could be cataloged as high-quality magic material that could be used for the creation of high-tech equipment, although for now, he planned to give souls to every Robot.

The [Crimson Flash: 100 (C)] Skill awakened into the [Crimson Wind Impulse: 1 (B)] Skill, which gave Noah not only a flash of crimson energy to fly faster or move faster for a few seconds but even let him generate crimson winds around him to impulse himself to move faster both on the ground and on midair. Additionally, if he used it and practiced it enough, he could even use it against foes.

And last but not least, the [Crimson Aegis: 100 (C)] Skill awakened into the [Blood Demon Aegis: 1 (A)] Skill, a direct improvement and enhancement to the Crimson Aegis Skill.

Through Blood Demon Aegis Noah was able to expand and manipulate the barriers of crimson blood he was able to generate even better now, which he had used in a variety of ways, such as using them to reinforce his manor before it turned into Scarlet, to generate barriers to defend himself against powerful monsters or foes, or as sound-proof barriers as well, the number of possibilities that this Skill had been very large, and now that it had awakened into an A-Rank Skill, the endurance of such barrier became even greater.

Noah sighed, resting on the bed, and seeing his Attribute Panel.

[Noah Luna Noctem]

[Class(es): Warlock (I)]

[Patron(s): Bloodshot Eye]

[Bloodline: Vampire (Evolved)]

[Blood Core Rank: Level III: Noble-Born Vampire Viscount]

[Vitality: 1010]

[Mind: 1010]

[Force: 1010]

"Hm… four digits now. Two hundred more Attribute Values and I can become A-Rank in strength. If no Dungeons emerge soon, I will be forced to move away from here and find another place that could still have B-Rank Dungeons," thought Noah, deciding to finally jump out of bed.

He began to stretch his body while bathing himself in the warm sunlight. Any fervent fan of Vampires would be utterly shocked to see how he didn't even care about the sunlight, to the point of enjoying its warmness like a cold-blooded reptile would do.

After a few minutes of lazily glancing at the window, Noah noticed that Iris finally woke up, she quickly stretched her entire body and groaned as if she wanted to sleep more, which made Noah naturally curve his lips.

"Hmmm… Oh? Ah… Noah!" she said, quickly realizing that Noah was glancing at her in silence, a bit startled over his gleaming crimson eyes sharply glaring at her, but happy that he seemed to be fine.

Iris quickly jumped out of bed and darted towards Noah, hugging him tightly and kissing him.

"I am glad you are okay…" she said.

"Of course I am okay. Who do you think I am?" asked Noah rather pridefully, although Iris noticed that he was very happy that she was concerned about him.

"Fufu, I knew you would answer like that…" said Iris while kissing Noah again and without letting him go from her embrace.

"I had a weird dream…" she continued, as Noah glanced at her with a bit of concern now.

"I know. As I slept, I think I saw you having such a nightmare. Iris, has this happened before?" asked Noah.

"Ah… So it was really you who showed up… Yeah, it has happened sometimes… But since I began to sleep at your side that these Nightmares had stopped, but they came back last night I guess…" she sighed.

Noah gently held Iris's hands, making her flush.

"Iris. I will always stay with you. I am glad that I managed to help you somehow… It is an ability I acquired, which should already appear in your own Attribute Panel. However, aside from that…" said Noah, moving his face near hers as both of their eyes looked at each other intensively.

"I am here for whatever you need. Feel free to talk to me whenever you have any doubts or anything that you want to get out of your mind. We are partners now, we must open ourselves to each other eventually," said Noah.

"Ah… an ability? And Noah… you… You have really changed a bit, haven't you?" said Iris while smiling warmly.

"No… I have not changed at all… I have always been like this!" said Noah while averting his gaze with a hint of embarrassment on his tone of voice.

Iris caressed his silky white hair as she kissed him again.

"I am not saying that I don't like it. In fact… It makes me so happy…" she said, rubbing her face over Noah's chest.

"Is that… so?" asked Noah.

"Of course…! I… I will do as you say… I will try to speak things up whenever such things might… cloud my mind," said Iris rather shyly, she was also trying to open up to him as she noticed how hard it was for Noah to do this.

"Then… that's good," said Noah, petting Iris.

"And ability… Eh? This… [Self-Strengthening: Guidance]?" asked Iris.

"That must be it… After eating those bastards of yesterday, my power underwent some kind of evolution… Well, you as well should have evolved your abilities, as I shared such power with you and everyone else who seemed weakened," said Noah.

"You are right… I do feel quite stronger now and my Stats… EH?! I have 800 in all?!" asked Iris in surprise, much like Noah, she received a generous boost to her Attribute Values, which also came accompanied by bonus Skill Points.

"Oh, that's good. It is better than I expected. So our difference in power is not so big. I always feel more relieved when those at my side are strong too," said Noah.

As Noah asked Iris to check her Attribute Panel, she was surprised due to the increase in her Stats.

"You are right… I do feel quite stronger now and my Stats… EH?! I have 800 in all?!" asked Iris in surprise, much like Noah, she received a generous boost to her Attribute Values, which also came accompanied by bonus Skill Points.

"Oh, that's good. It is better than I expected. It is also good that you became quite stronger. I always feel more relieved when those at my side are strong too," said Noah.

"But this power… it could have been yours…" said Iris, feeling guilty over having acquired the power that Noah earned, thinking that she didn't truly deserve it. Her devotion to him was to this level.

"But I could have never been able to acquire such power if it weren't because of your help and that of everyone else. You sacrificed large chunks of your very souls to increase my chances of winning against the entity within Excalibur, named The Lady of the Lake. Without you and the others, I would have been sealed again, or perhaps my soul would have ended destroyed," said Noah.

"Really? Did we… helped that much?" asked Iris.

"Indeed. Each of your souls and mana was essential for my triumph… Which I had barely grasped. Also, your souls were weakened too much after I finally woke up, finding out that you had used way too much of your soul. I had no choice but to share the power I acquired, I didn't want to wait months for your recovery. You could also think about it like distributing the goods we all earned evenly," said Noah.

Iris realized that she had helped Noah a great deal to fight back against Excalibur, and it was thanks to her and the others that he managed to win. She wasn't really taking part in the rewards just because, but she had actually earned a part of such power.

"I guess that's how it is then! You can count on me for anything you need, alright? Now… I am pretty hungry…" said Iris.

"I am glad to be able to count in such a reliable wife. And yes, I am rather hungry myself, let's take a quick shower and then go meet with everyone else downstairs to have breakfast with them," said Noah.

"Oooh! A shower, that would really hit the spot~" said Iris, quickly taking away her clothes and getting completely nude, jumping into the large bathtub with her husband.

Iris gently sat down over Noah's legs, as she began to gently rub her back over Noah's penis, which had already awakened after seeing her beautiful nude body.

"Hahh… Iris…"

"Fufu… Do you like it~?"

She already knew what he wanted, and she wanted it as well, quite badly.

"You're such a degenerate…" said Noah while blushing. His breath was rather heavy now and he was getting more and more heated up.

Noah began to kiss Iris neck passionately as if it were an exquisite delicacy.

"Ohh~ Yes, kiss my neck~," said Iris. As a Dhampir, her most sensitive area was the part where Noah bit her once to convert her, which always made her shiver a bit whenever he licked and sucked it with his warm mouth.

Noah quickly moved his hands over Iris's chest, grasping her bouncy and large breasts and squeezing them, making Iris feel a rush of exhilaration which only increased when Noah started to rub her point nipples.

"Aahh~ Oooh~ N-Noah~ You're squeezing them so hard…" she moaned.

"You love it when I squeeze and grasp your body, don't you? You like to feel like I own you…" said Noah, immediately grasping one of Iris's fetishes, which were related to her being "owned" by Noah as if she were her very property.

The warmth of the water and the steamy scene continued, as both of their bodies rubbed with one another while sweating rapidly.

Noah began to suck and lick Iris's breasts gently biting her nipples, making her moan loudly.

As he did this, Noah used his free hand to play around Iris's vaginal lips, his gentle finger started to open up her walls, widening for his penis to fit well inside.

The slimy secretions of Iris's vagina's depths began to cover Noah's hands, as he kept giving her a hand job while sucking viciously on her breasts.

"Oooooh~ W-Wait~! Aha~ I am… Aaah~! I am cumming~!" moaned Iris, quickly giving Noah a deep kiss as she released more of her vaginal liquids, having an orgasm before her husband!

"Such a perverted wife… Having an orgasm before her husband… I have to punish you…" said Noah, acting dominantly as he quickly moved Iris legs upwards, grasping them with his arms and quickly beginning to rub the tip of his penis over Iris's wet pussy, which had already become overly sensitive after her orgasm.

"Hmmm~ Hoohh~" moaned Iris, as she was gasping for air while expectantly waiting for Noah to finally put it in.

"Do you want me to put it in~?" asked Noah teasingly.

"Hahh… Yes~ Please… Noah-sama…" she moaned.

"I cannot reject the request of my beloved wife then…" said Noah with a playful and teasing smile, quickly sliding his hard cock inside of Iris wet and overly sensitive pussy, feeling the warmth of her interior as the wet and slimy walls of Iris vagina pressed against the glands of his cock, the sensation became even more entailing as Noah began to kiss her passionately, their tongues touching each other viciously as their eyes closed and the two vampires let themselves be drowned in the steamy passion of intercourse.

Noah kept pushing deep inside of Iris as she moaned loudly inside of his mouth, without letting her breathe with his dominant kisses and his lips which tightly grasped hers.

She was being completely dominated by the strong Vampire, which only made Iris become more and more excited, she began to grass her vaginal walls to create even greater pleasure, making Noah force himself into her with each stroke of his hips.

Iris quickly sat four-legged over the bathtub as she moved her butt, waiting for Noah to get over her and ram her like a dog in heat.

"Such a needy wife…" said Noah, grasping Iris's thick hips and putting his cock deep inside her already loosened pussy in a mere instant, pushing his member inside with each stroke, opening the depths of her vagina to him.

"Oooooh~! Fuck! Aahh~! Yes~! Harder! Fuck me!" moaned iris, clenching her teeth as Noah fucked her as hard as she asked him to. The sound of their flesh hitting each other resonated through the entire bath, as Iris moans made Noah simply even more excited. He wanted to make her moan even louder.

"Haahh… Iris, you're so tight…!" moaned Noah, feeling the heat take over his mind as he put everything into this, pushing deeper and deeper, with each movement of his hips, Iris would moan louder, orgasming every second.

"Ooooh~! Noah! Noaaaahhh~!" moaned Iris, quickly standing up as she kissed Noah while he kept thrusting his cock from behind, Noah grasped her torso and pushed it to him, their tongues touching each other and sharing their saliva lasciviously until Noah finally felt a jolt of electricity rush through his spine, ad quickly after, he filled Iris womb with his warm seed.

"Aaaaaaaaaahhh~!"

Iris moaned loudly one last time, as she rested over Noah's arms, completely defeated by his powerful lust.

However, the activities continued for another hour, until they finally decided to walk downstairs.

Breakfast in the Noctem Family Manor was nowhere as conventional as the breakfast in other families.

Large amounts of blood, both human and that of monsters, was served to their members, who deliciously drank the sweet nectar.

After what had happened yesterday, everyone ended quite exhausted, and slept for way more than the expected amount, having recently woken up at around 1 PM.

After filling themselves with the panacea of Vampires, blood, the Noctem family finally sighed in relief and Noah, their Progenitor, decided to slowly assess everything that had happened yesterday, the many events, what he learned, and what they earned.

He explained several things, such as how he defeated the Lady of the Lake, how he was now able to eat Souls, how the amount of power he acquired was so much that the System had to seal part of it, how he shared it with them, and how he became a Guider.

Alongside this, the abnormal soul of Noah was addressed as well, as the Vampires noticed that his soul was so enormous and monstrous now that it was even flowing out of his very body.

Any normal person would think of Noah as someone completely aberrant, chaotic, and horrible, but for them, Noah seemed glorious and splendorous.

And Noah also noticed that their souls had grown…

Although not as enormous as his, they were growing bigger, and stronger, and each of their souls was unique in their own splendor too.

Iris's soul was dark-blued colored and flowed like an enormous mass of phantasmal blue flames, it often had many crimson eyes glowing eerily all around as well, alongside large claws, she was the second biggest soul after Noah.

Arthur's soul resembled a vicious worm-like creature covered in purple-colored viscous liquids, it had a gigantic circular mouth filled with razor-sharp teeth which constantly vomited this purple-colored substance, the soul seemed to be always twisting around grotesquely.

Jon's soul resembled an enormous eye. However, at closer inspection, Noah noticed that it was several eyes stitched together by a phantasmal, purple-colored thread. Each eye was of a different color and seemed to be extracted from a different creature, below the mass of eyes there were long, pink-colored tentacles that constantly secreted slime.

Timassa's soul was more "normal" although not less surprising. Her soul resembled a large falcon, or some kind of bird with a very sharp beak, made completely out of black thunder, it seemed proud and powerful, and it was always shielding Arthur's soul.

Adamantine's soul was perhaps the most striking, it resembled an enormous mass of shadows in the shape of some kind of quadrupedal beast, perhaps some kind of wolf, but its head was way too wide and grotesque. The shadows seemed to be constantly changing its appearance slightly, and it possessed a large jaw filled with razor-sharp teeth that were always smiling, it also had two small crimson eyes above such a gigantic and eerie smile.

Clementina's soul was also more "normal", although no less interesting. Her soul resembled an enormous, prideful, and loyal horse made completely out of ice, which also had a large horn in the middle of its forehead, so it could be said to be a unicorn. The horse had six limbs and its eyes gleamed with blue light, it constantly exuded an aura of frost.

Meanwhile, Sakura, Sugar, and Noire's souls were still small and developing, so they didn't have any particular form that Noah could discern yet.

Nonetheless, all of his subordinates had gigantic and monstrous souls, it was as if their very souls had undergone an evolution.

Of course, they were also aware of their own soul's shape, some were surprised, and others seemed indifferent.

"Why is my soul a giant purple worm?!" asked Arthur in surprise.

"Worm or not, I believe it is beautiful, Arthur-sama," said Timassa with a gentle smile.

"You say that because you got a giant falcon! I want that… Why do I get the weird one…" sighed Arthur.

"Arthur stop crying for something like that. Jon's soul is also quite… unique, and yet he doesn't complain," said Iris.

"I have already coped with the idea that I might be in reality a mass of floating eyes with tentacles," said Jon nonchalantly.

"Is it my idea or Jon is talking more fluidly now?" asked Timassa, ignoring Arthur's protest.

"Don't change the subject…" sighed Arthur.

"Is that so?" asked Jon curiously, he didn't realize that he had grown more confident and less timid.

"Oh yeah! I remember that you used to stutter a lot and talk very little…" said Iris with a sweet smile.

"Indeed. You have progressed," said Noah with a mild smile.

Seeing both his master and mistress smile at him like this filled Jon's heart with warmth and even more fervent devotion to them.

He even began to believe that he didn't deserve such good people in his life, completely discarding that they were in fact, insane vampires.

"My lords are too precious, I don't deserve them…" he said while vowing.

"W-Why are you vowing?!" asked Iris.

"My soul is… dark… Shadow?" asked Adamantine, while wondering what her soul really was, she couldn't really see anything else than just the darkness and the shadows.

"Indeed, your soul seems to be covered with shadows, Adamantine," said Noah.

"Cool! I am… strong!" said Adamantine, feeling awesome.

"Anyways, as of now, it would be a good idea to assess more of the truths I have discovered now that we have talked about what had previously transpired within our lives," said Noah.

"Oh yeah…" said Iris.

"You mean… what Merlin said? About a God?" asked Arthur.

"You have a good memory. Indeed. Merlin had said that Excalibur was made by the wishes of humanity and God himself. Well, after eating his soul and then The Lady of the Lake. I can confirm this, God exists," said Noah, his eyes flashing with crimson light.

"God… So there's a hell and heaven and all of that crap? I bet it is pretty filled with people after so many died in the apocalypse," said Iris.

"Wait, will we all go to hell then?" asked Arthur, recognizing that he was truly quite the sinner!

"No, don't worry… There is no heaven or hell. At least not within Earth. This "God" is not the concept of God we know about… It is something different," said Noah.

"Something… different?" asked Timassa.

"Like an… alien?" asked Jon.

"Heh, no. It is not an alien, Jon. It is an entity that humanity created! Yes, it is just as you heard! Humanity created their own God! How ironic! Hahahaha!" laughed Noah, laughing at the very ridiculousness of the origin of "God" an entity of supernatural forces that were… born from humanity itself, who prayed to him as if it was their creator.

It was the mere mortals that it overlooks from the heavens that created him.

Without people, Gods don't exist.

This was one of the truths about this twisted world!

"We… created God?" asked Iris.

"I mean, I get the physiological implications of humanity creating their own figures to worship… But Noah-sama, you mean… literally?" asked Timassa.

"Yes, Timassa. God was created by Humanity. From the very era where Humans began to walk on two feet and stopped being stupid apes," said Noah.

What is a God?

There are many ways to define what is a "God", but in simple terms, a God is a figure of religion and faith that is worshiped by a group of people which they treat as their creator and benefactor.

Gods can take many forms, and often embody different concepts of the world, such as nature, fire, thunder, and the ocean, or sometimes they embody concepts created by humans, such as Love, Lust, War, and more.

However, before the Apocalypse, the God that was most known all around the world belonged to the Christian Monotheistic religion, which was simply named "God".

It was worshiped as the only true God, who had created everything and anything.

However, after the apocalypse, religions took a big hit, most of the population died down, and the world became incredibly harsh, but people had now the power to grow stronger as well.

Even more, a God-like entity named the System Master emerged and granted everyone a System to help them grow even stronger, and people even shifted their beliefs to him instead of the previous worshiped Gods…

There were things such as Churches of the System, where people went to pray and worship the System Master and his holy gift.

However, Noah had finally learned that there was indeed a true God.

An entity born from the amassed Mana accumulated within the sky, formed by the faint mana that every human had.

Each time and human offered their prayers to a God, they would lose a part of their mana, and such mana eventually began to accumulate above the skies, it condensed over the years, until finally, through a qualitative change, this enormous quantity of Mana evolved into Divine Power and finally gained sentience.

That time thousands of years ago, God was born.

God was only one, and it benefited all humans even if they prayed to a "different" God because he was all Gods and yet only one.

This God took the form of any worshipped figure through all these years, the figures that were slowly forgotten through the ages became less prevalent until they disappeared, for new ones to emerge afterward, taking over the old Gods.

It developed many personalities, like a hive-mind, and it was always constantly fighting against itself due to its intricate existence.

Due to always contradicting itself, it was not capable of doing much for humanity, and whenever it tried to do a miracle, it would be stopped by the minds that believed that miracles were bad.

And whenever it tried to punish someone, it was stopped by the minds that believed that punishment was not necessary.

However, on very special cases where the future of humanity was pending on a thread, was when it would sometimes act.

Working together with the Earth's core, which was its own sentient entity that seemed to be the source of mana of earth, it forged Excalibur through the condensation of the wishes of humanity.

King Arthur was one of the first Heroes chosen by God to slay the ancient and rampant evil entities that surged from the mana-rich Earth of the past.

In the past, when humanity's fears were great, is when their mana was drained the most, through their horrors and wishes, monsters began to emerge within the darkness, myths and legends became real, and humanity began to fall to their demise by the hand of their own creation.

Trying to save their creators, the humans, God chose Arthur, a pure-hearted boy with a noble bloodline for the task.

Noah explained all of this in detail, making his subordinates become rather shocked about the truth.

"To think that everything was so simple…" sighed Arthur.

"So humans always could use Mana?" asked Timassa.

"Hm. More or less. Though, I know someone who can explain things more thoughtful than me," said Noah, as he suddenly opened a wound over his left wrist, unleashing a large river of blood, creating a puddle in the floor.

Then, he cut a small piece of his soul and threw it into the blood.

"Rise, Merlin," he said, as the blood began to convulse as if it were alive, the piece of soul began to fuse with it, creating crimson-colored phantom essence.

The blood quickly took the shape of an old and bearded man wearing old and tattered robes, alongside carrying a large staff made of crystallized blood.

"T-That's… the bastard of yesterday!" said Sakura, she thought she would never see Merlin again, yet here he was.

"Noah-sama…You are capable of reviving the death like this?" asked Noire.

"Impressive… But is he someone we can trust?" asked Sugar.

"Rest assured. I had eaten him, and he is my own soul now. With a single thought, I can make his entire existence dissipate into nothingness. He is nothing but a Will now," said Noah.

"It is a pleasure to meet my lord's subordinates and his beloved wife. As you might have already known, I am Merlin, magician extraordinaire," said Merlin.

"Ehh… He's still the same as yesterday," sighed Timassa.

"Merlin, apologize to everyone," said Noah.

"Yes, my lord!" said Merlin, as he began to kneel pathetically as he began to apologize.

"I am very sorry for what I did! I am a stupid, pathetic, nasty, decrepit, and senile old man!" he cried.

"Eh? He's really just doing that…" said Sakura.

"Wasn't he so prideful before?" asked Noire.

"…Indeed, he's now prostrating to us," sighed Sugar.

However, the three robots' crimson eyes gleamed with malice, as they quickly stood up and began to kick Merlin with their hard metallic heels.

"Agh! Uaagh! It hurts! Uuaagghhh…!"

Merlin began to be beaten by their deadly heels over and over again. Noah had made sure to adjust him so he could actually feel pain ten times as much.

He was screaming in agony for about half an hour when the sadistic side of the robots was finally satiated.

"Uuueeggh… Uuggh…" groaned Merlin, his soul had also taken damage with each kick, and Noah made sure to make him feel the tiredness of it, he was not going to heal his soul either.

"Now stand up if you don't want me to crush your Will," said Noah.

"Y-Yes…" muttered Merlin, as he stood up.

Merlin then explained that in the past there were indeed hidden societies of mages, but only those of special castes were able to use magic properly, most of those who couldn't have mana within them, but not the necessary mana circuits within their very bodies to use them properly.

And due to the power of Mana, it was always kept in check by the many public organizations, such as the church.

It seemed that even before the Apocalypse started, there were many of such organizations, but when the enormous waves of miasma hit the world and 80% of the population died, it was now a mystery if more of such people are still alive, and if they are, in what kind of conditions could they be.

"Magic organizations, huh? Things like that really existed… Well, yeah, with my grandfather that was kind of confirmed," sighed Arthur.

"Knowing all of this truth and more, what are our next course of actions?" wondered Iris.

"Nothing changes. For now. We shall continue our plans as we had already done. However, there might be the chance for new things to arise after God itself learns about the fate of the weapon it created…" said Noah.

Although the God of Earth had managed to fend off the powerful Miasma Wave by a large amount, which took a lot of its energy and powers that it stockpiled over thousands of years, it didn't particularly felt the sharp and piercing pain that it felt now.

In fact, God had never felt pain before in their entire life.

It was a being that was too high within the heaves to be damaged by any Human. It existed inside of its own Divine Realm, separated from space.

No matter how much humans explored the outer space around Earth, they were unable to find God, even if it could be hiding right behind their noses.

It never entered into any conflict with any being as strong as it is, and even when it meets the System Master, it was through friendly terms, as the System Master offered God his help.

However, the moment Noah devoured the holy soul of Excalibur, which was a fragment of the Lady of the Lake, which was also born from God, it was when it actually felt pain.

As it was connected to Excalibur, the holy blade itself could be said to be a part of God, a form that God itself had taken on this world.

Excalibur was God's embodiment and unleashed its power to slay the evil beings that threatened their creator's life, the monsters and evils of the past that once almost made humans go extinct.

…Which were also created by Humanity's fears, how ironic.

The moment Noah devoured all of the soul of Excalibur and then completely corrupted the blade was when God felt pain.

A monstrous, sharp, and piercing pain all over its divine soul.

It was so painful that the many minds that composed it began to scream in agony within their Divine Realm.

It truly felt as if a pair of sharp jaws bite right into their flesh and tore apart a large chunk of it, with bone and all.

Many of the minds that made God even fell unconscious after experiencing this pain, and were just waking up, asking what was happening.

They couldn't believe that it was possible for such a being to even experience pain, to begin with, it was utter nonsense.

Yet, it did, and it wasn't even with a direct attack, but an indirect attack.

This was the first time that a mortal has dared to damage God!

The many minds within God felt different emotions.

Some felt fear, they felt like they would soon experience their doom!

Others felt anger, wrathful anger, they wanted to find the one that dared to bite them and crush it like a mere ant!

Some others were curious about who this entity could be, what it wanted, and how was it even possible for it to do such a thing.

And others seemed captivated by its bite, and the slight essence that it left within their divine soul, some small minds even began to see this person with… devotion.

Completely unaware of it, Noah had begun to affect God itself with his Guidance!

However, only a few, little minds were being affected, and the main hive-mind was mostly angered and fearful.

God quickly began to use the power of the System that it had, as it was assigned as some kind of System Administrator, alongside possessing within its Divine Soul a copy of the System Master, the one that was being worshiped in Earth as the original one was nowhere to receive such power, God began to search through the System.

This Copy of the System Master was similar to other copies of living people that were once worshipped as gods, such as pharaohs, and in modern times before the apocalypse, even video game or anime characters were present…

After the Apocalypse, however, the number of such entities lowered a lot, and only the most resilient survived, while new ones, famous Hunters that were worshiped by their strength and heroism around the new Earth began to emerge as copies of these idolized figures within God.

Although it was simply still God, sometimes such copied idolized figures of worship that resembled real-life people could somehow recreate part of their capabilities.

The System Mastermind within God was one of such entities.

Created by the faith over the System Master and its ever-growing and ever-expanding church, it was eventual that such a figure would appear within God itself.

However, it was not the real System Master, nor it really possessed its true nature or personality, nor its origins, nor its ego, but it possessed the personality and origins that people believed it had, alongside a bit more of power over the System itself, which is used to aid the other minds that made up God.

After hours of looking, they finally found the culprit, and it was no one else than the "anomaly" within the System, the one that had the strange "Blood Core", a powerful artifact that was absorbing and assimilating the power of the System at each passing second.

"It as the anomaly!"

"The anomaly, the anomaly…!"

"A Vampire? Blood Core?"

The minds began to glance at the anomaly's status, finding his level of strength and the bunch of weird Skills he had.

"Revoke his powers! He's a dangerous being, he does not deserve the System!"

"Take away his power! Quick, before it grows too strong!"

"It had grown quite strong already, you idiots. He assimilated the soul of Excalibur and corrupted it. Even if we take away whatever power the System is giving him, we cannot take away the Blood Core he has nor Excalibur anymore…"

"Noo! Excalibur!"

"The blade we crafted…"

"Now it is on the hands of this demonic entity who is using the System! It shouldn't be possible for monsters such as Vampire to use the System!"

"Even then, let's revoke its powers!"

A large amount of the minds within God had decided that it was better to take away whatever powers they could from this entity, Noah.

As they were something similar to an Administrator within the System, the deletion of Skills and even Stats was possible by spending an amount of energy.

Through this, although they had never practiced it before, they were able to completely leave Noah without any support from the System, left to fend off by himself.

This opinion grew more and more common within the hive-minded God until it was taking over 70% of all hive-minds!

However, the other 30% were fighting against this, as they had their own thoughts about the anomaly, which they freely shared with the rest of the minds.

"The anomaly is an important element. It possesses a power that could be used to save our world…"

"Although it had committed a grave offense, we should think things through and considerate that he might become a useful piece against whatever might come here…"

"He is advancing at an outstanding pace. The anomaly could become the savior of our world. Leave him be for now."

"The anomaly is… captivating… my mind is filling itself with so many thoughts! Ah~! What is this?! Is this… love?!"

"The anomaly has filled my mind with devotion, let him be, you insane warmongers."

This group kept pushing down the other for some time, buying time for Noah… however, in the end, they were overwhelmed, and God decided to take away Noah's power within the System.

"It is decided!" said God, for the first time in a long time, more than 70% of its minds had decided to do something that they all agreed to!

As Noah decided his next course of action, a sudden wave of strange energy hit him in the middle of their breakfast.

Boom!

"Nnnghh?!"

Noah felt that it came right from the skies themselves. It somehow went through Scarlet without any problem and reached the depths of his soul in an instant!

Iris and the rest quickly realized that something was going on, as Noah was gnashing his teeth while his nails were grasping the wooden table with a lot of strength, his entire body was trembling, and his eyes were completely bloodshot!

"N-Noah, what's happening?" asked Iris, rushing at the side of her husband.

"Something… this is… No…! It is God?!" thought Noah, immediately realizing that the sudden feeling as if an enormous hand grasping his very soul was no one else than the entity they were speaking about just a few minutes ago, God!

Noah closed his eyes as he concentrated his intent into the depths of his soul, reaching where the problem was happening!

He found himself in the dark space inside of his soul, as he saw what seemed to be a glowing, semi-transparent cube floating.

This cube had many circuit-like extensions that reached even to the outside of his soul.

This cube was the representation of his connection with the world's System, which Noah immediately realized due to how obvious it was.

This thing… he had not been able to see it before due to how well hidden it was, even for someone like him, the System was a divine construction of incredibly high complexity, and it was able to easily hide beneath his very nose this entire time.

Alongside that, he saw several crimson red circuits extending out of the cube as if slowly draining whatever energy this cube used.

These red circuits extended deep into the soul and then reached the outside of it, the Blood Core located within his chest!

However, now something was going wrong, God himself had realized that Noah was the culprit behind the corruption of Excalibur, and they were about to revoke the powers he had through the System!

Noah saw… God!

However, it was but an extension of the entity, an enormous hand made entirely out of bright white light, reaching his System Cube, as he called it, slowly yet steadily!

The hand ignored any defenses of his Soul and passed through all of it freely, showing how terrifying was God's power!

Did Noah even have a chance to resist?

If God took away his System Status, all of his Abilities might disappear, alongside his Stats, and he might become incredibly weak afterward!

Perhaps some of his abilities would remain, but without the swiftness of the System, he would still be greatly weakened!

And there was no saying that God wouldn't do the same for the rest of Noah's party afterward.

To survive and win, Noah had to fight and destroy the Lady of the Lake within Excalibur, and also take over Excalibur itself, which resulted to be the embodiment of God as a weapon to slay evil a terrible blasphemy that angered the often neutral and silent God to attack him!

Although God itself had not much power to descend and actually deal any substantial damage to him, as it could actually cause a lot of destruction around Noah, it had the power to revoke his System Status through its authority over the System as a System Administrator of sorts!

Noah couldn't possibly let this arrogant entity do as it pleased!

Even though… the sole thought of fighting God for his power level was utterly ridiculous, he had no choice!

He was not going to let this entity decide his fate nor it was going to let it stripe him from all the powers he had!

Noah furiously began to charge all of his Mana and energy into his very soul, as the white hand was just a few seconds from grasping the System Cute, Noah's soul suddenly reveled against God!

It extended vicious black and red tentacles over the white hand, as it tried to stop it!

The act of complete disobedience and arrogance that Noah showed the moment he tried to stop God only angered the many hive-minds even more!

"How dare that mortal stop us?!"

"Keep pushing, take away his powers!"

"DO IT!"

The many hive-minds roared in anger, as they desired to exert divine punishment over Noah's soul.

The white hand began to glow incredibly brightly, as Noah's tentacles started to be affected by its divine power, beginning to melt and dissipate!

Each time such tentacles dissipated and melted, Noah felt excruciating pain all over his soul!

Just when he had managed to win yesterday, he was already fighting for his life and to maintain the powers he had!

However, Noah was not alone!

"Bring me as much blood as you possibly can! The rest, connect your soul to me! And consume these crystals whenever you feel exhausted!" said Noah in the outside world, as he started to produce Blood Cores with small souls made of just mana, which had the property of healing the soul a bit!

"N-Noah, what is going on?!" asked Iris.

"Iris, trust me! I can't… explain it yet!" said Noah, his eyes glaring directly at Iris.

"Of course! Leave it to us!" said Iris, nodding as she quickly connected her soul to her beloved husband.

Many Blood Servants quickly jumped out of Noah's bloodstream and went to bring large quantities of stored blood from all the monsters they hunted, bringing gallons after gallons!

"This is… Noah is fighting someone through his soul? Just after we did all of that yesterday?!" asked Arthur.

"There's no time to ask questions, Arthur-sama!" said Timassa.

"I will gladly assist my lord," said Jon.

"Fight! Fight!" said Adamantine.

"I don't understand what is going on but please, take my power as well!" said Clementina.

"Us too!" said Sakura.

"Yeah!" said Sugar.

"Noah-sama, take our power as well, even if little," said Noire.

More and more robots began to appear as they connected their tiny artificial souls with Noah while beginning to absorb the large pile of Blood Cores he was constantly producing!

After that, blood finally came in large quantities, and Noah suddenly opened a large wound within his stomach, where a gigantic tentacle of blood emerged, sucking all the blood from the gallons one after another!

Noah was now receiving the power of his subordinates and wife, and quickly found himself strong enough to fight back… even if a little bit more!

He kept pouring his intent into his soul, as he saw the white hand approach once more after it moved back a bit when he attacked it previously!

Suddenly, more than just tentacles emerged, as large Soul Beasts, representing the souls of his subordinates emerged, which also carried their wills with them!

The hand of God felt utterly surprised by this strange turn of events!

What kind of human on Earth was able to have such strange soul-related powers, even more, when the power to manipulate and strengthen the Soul was so underdeveloped on Earth?

God was furious as the soul beasts began to ravage his white hand of pure bright light, as it slowly began to wave and move back, trying to slap these annoying soul beasts as if they were flies annoying it!

However, one of them, Iris's soul beast suddenly managed to bite into the arm!

And that was when God realized that they were no mere flies, but vicious mosquitoes!

The internal fight of God against Noah continued as it intensified even more.

Iris emerged within this black space, quickly realizing that the enemy they needed to defeat or fend off was this enormous white hand emerging from the boundaries of Noah's soul.

This was an invader that was trying to take away a floating, blue-colored cube. If Noah was trying to protect this so much, it was indeed something important.

Even more, as she realized that it had a faint feeling of something, as if it made her think about something, but she couldn't easily connect the dots as fast as Noah could.

Alongside her Soul Beast, which emerged within this black space when she infused her soul inside of Noah's body, which resembled a large quadruped monster with large and thin claws and made completely out of dark blue phantom and nether cold flames, the Soul beasts of everyone else had also appeared.

Arthur's Soul Beast was the giant twisting worm covered on a sticky and slimy poisonous substance with a spiraling mouth possessing many razor-sharp teeth.

The worm began to entangle the hand and it used its corrosive soul poison to melt away a speck of the white hand's ethereal energy while using the sharp teeth to grind and bite through the incredibly hard exterior. Arthur continued to infuse more corrosive poison, while constantly unleashing large amounts of it from the worm's grotesque mouth.

Timassa's Soul Beast was the giant falcon made of black thunder, which flapped its long and thundering wings and attacked the large hand with its sharp talons and powerful beak attacks, alongside strong thunder shocks generated by the falcon's screeches.

Jon's Soul Beast was the large mass of eyes and tentacles, which charged powerful beams from its various eyes, these beams dealt strong curse effects for a few seconds, but the beast continued to attack relentlessly, slowly damaging an area of the large hand and arm!

Adamantine's Soul Beast was the one that was rampaging the most, resembling a giant wolf made of abyssal shadows with two glowing crimson eyes and long claws, the beast howled angrily as it used its gigantic maw to ravage and bite the large enemy!

Clementina's Soul Beast was the beautiful and gigantic unicorn made of ice, galloping through the darkness and reaching the large, white-colored arm made of light, as it used its long spear-shaped horn to pierce through the arm and the hand!

Alongside this, the souls of all the Robots were like small humanoid figures, jumping over the hand and slowly biting it! Although it wasn't much, they were helping a bit!

Sakura, Sugar, and Noire souls were yet to develop into the ones such as Iris and the rest, but they combined their strengths and did great amounts of damage!

Any damage they could do, even if it were to be the smallest of wounds was crucial! Noah needed as much help as possible.

However, it wasn't as if Noah would let his subordinates do all the work!

Fueled by the energy and mana he regained by drinking ridiculous amounts of blood, his soul felt slightly revitalized, and it began to extend its long tentacles, as large jaws opened from them, biting the large hand!

"Soul Devour!"

Noah used the only Skill that could actually work in this situation, Soul Devour!

Soul Devour gave Noah the power to break souls, and also eat them to gain power from them!

Now that there was such a juicy piece of divine soul right in front of him, he was not going to miss the opportunity to take a bite on God himself!

His Soul Tentacles kept extending all around God's hand, breaking apart the hard light skin, and cracking it! Slowly, cracks began to emerge around everywhere he touched, the large arm made of God's Divine Power was being slowly cracked and about to shatter like glass!

Crack… crack!

God's hive-minds roared in pain and anger, as they were being stopped by a mere mortal!

They couldn't believe how weak they were to be reduced to such a point, they had really spent most of their power-saving the world from being completely consumed by the Miasma Wave, and they lacked enough power to directly kill Noah or something, they were already doing a lot by taking away the System from him.

Unless they wanted to waste more energy unnecessarily and end up blasting away an entire Sector filled with strong and innocent people, they wouldn't be able to descend!

Noah kept biting the hand of the divine creator, monstrously like a mad dog!

God and his minds were shaken!

"Stop at once you mortal!"

"How dare you fight against us like this?!"

"We want to protect this world from your menace, yet you dare oppose us?!"

"We are God! You can't oppose God!"

"I told you that we shouldn't have done this!"

"He is someone that could help us, yet you try to take away his powers, of course, he would try to defend himself!"

"Idiots, fools, stop this at once if you don't want to receive even more damage than before!

"B-But Excalibur!"

"Forget about that stupid sword no one cares about!"

"RAAARRGH!"

God's minds became complete chaos!

Some began to change their minds and wanted to back down after getting attacked so much, while others only grew more furious!

Noah, however, kept attacking the large light hand alongside his subordinates, using all the power they could muster!

Crack, crack…!

The hand began to crack, as large pieces of it started to fall over the floor of this black space, being quickly eaten by Noah, who distributed the power to the rest!

Like this, they began to slowly use the power of God against it, even if it was but a mere hand made by a speck of their divine soul!

However, as if furious, the hand continue pushing forward, until it touched the System Cube!

"Nnnnggh…!" groaned Noah, as he felt a sharp pain across his entire being!

The Gods hive-mind laughed, as they managed to reach their goal!

"Hahaha! You fool!"

"Grab his power, quickly!"

"Leave him without anything!"

"And then we'll do the same with all of his subordinates!"

"Know the wrath of God!"

Noah, however, smiled!

"Fools... Did you really think I wouldn't prepare something? …The Cube was just floating there, who would even expose such a glaring weakness like that without having something prepared?" said Noah, as they suddenly realized that the cube quickly turned… completely red!

God was shaken once more!

"What?!"

"Impossible!"

"What… is this?!"

"His Status Cube… it has become completely corrupted?!"

"This System is mine!" laughed Noah, by using his soul and the power he got from eating tiny bits of God, he managed to take over the System Cube! In fact, he was spending most of his power on doing that, and asked his allies to distract god while doing so!

It wasn't anything complicated, and that Noah managed to completely corrupt it was all thanks to God himself, who revealed the exact ubication of the System Cube to Noah!

It was as easy as doing the same thing he did with Excalibur, and infected the cube with his soul, parasitizing it and eating it from the inside out!

The Blood Core glowed brightly, as it took over the System Cube, but it kept greedily and voraciously eating away… suddenly, even God's hand began to slowly turn crimson red!

And this was the second time that God screamed in agony.

This was the second time God screamed in agony, and both times have been provoked by Noah!

"Nnnnnngggggggoooooohhh…!"

"GRRAAAAHHH…!"

"Gyyyyaaaaaahhh…!"

Many of the hive minds within God began to scream in pain, as the hand they were extending inside of Noah was shaking and falling into large chunks of red-colored light, they were being corrupted by the power of Noah's soul alongside his Blood Core!

Even more, now that he had finally managed to take over the System Cube that represented his status, the System he had was now his and only his!

The power of these three elements converged together, alongside Soul Devour, and quickly began to devour the enormous hand the moment it touched the System Cube!

The fingers cracked into bloody pieces, and so did the rest of the hand, the cracks reaching the entire arm as shattered pieces of light tainted in red began to fall over and over, devoured by Noah's soul!

However, within Noah's soul, the Spawn of Azathoth wasn't even helping him. Just as Noah thought, this entity was not really something he could rely on.

Unexpectedly, however, the Blood Progenitor had also helped Noah! Using his strong Will and the masterful ability he had over souls and his own power over the Blood Core, Noah let him go all out, his will had easily been able to corrupt the System Cube, and now he and Noah joined hands to devour God's hand!

"I never thought that things could come to this…! Make sure to give me a body after this, I have helped you a lot already!" said the Blood Progenitor.

"We'll see about that," said Noah.

The rest of Noah's subordinates didn't falter, as they kept attacking and pushing back God's hand!

God's hive-minds quickly grew desperate and decided to finally fall back when it was already way too late.

"What is going on?! Nnnngghh…!"

"It hurts, it hurts so much!"

"Agh! This demon can really eat souls, even divine souls?!"

"Pull back! PULL BACK!"

"I told you… Agh…! We told you that this would happen, stupid idiots!"

"You fools, you get what you deserve! …Although it really hurt us as well!"

"As they say, you reap what you sow, huh? Ouch!"

The hive minds cried in desperation, they had underestimated Noah's true capabilities!

He was truly a demon!

And the ones that were always against this also screamed in agony but were kind of happy how things turned out, so the other minds could actually understand a bit that Noah wasn't someone they should fight against but an ally they needed to rely on due to his powers and capabilities.

If they really wanted to save Earth against the Watchers, fighting, and trying to take away the powers of one of the best candidates to help them was utterly idiotic.

There were many strong Hunters, but none like Noah whose growth speed was utterly ridiculous, alongside that, he had many unique powers that no other Hunters had developed.

He was… perhaps, an ideal "hero" even more with his ability to eat souls! …But the grand majority of God's mind was stupid figures people worshiped, so it was to be expected that it lacked a bit of common sense.

Nonetheless, the language that all living beings understand, even the most stupid of them all is pain.

With pain, they were bound to understand… Or so, these minds that didn't desire to fight Noah thought.

Whatever was left of the arm, which was also a bit tainted in red, quickly fell back, disappearing through a strange distortion on space.

Just as that occurred, all of Noah's subordinates and his wife quickly fell over the ground.

Everyone was way too tired.

Their Soul Beasts dissipated from Noah's soul and Noah also retracted his tentacles while devouring whatever shattered fragments of God's Divine Soul were left.

As everyone was gasping for air, Noah was assimilating an even greater amount of power!

But now, the System he had was his!

Noah's entire body began to flow with an enormous, bright red aura, encompassing everywhere!

It quickly rushed through the entire Manor, as it touched the souls of every being in here, even Scarlet and the Blood Servants, even the robots!

Much like against Merlin and Excalibur, Noah had acquired too much power in exchange for everyone having their soul way weakened again… Now, he was taking parts of it and sharing it with everyone that helped, so he could not bear the burdens of such enormous divine power alone, as he felt like his soul was about to explode like a balloon who had taken way more air than it could contain!

"Nngh…!" groaned Noah, as he fell over the floor and resisted the flow of divine energy, which was literally burning him from the inside out!

"Let me give you a hand…" said the Blood Progenitor.

"You… Aren't you going to betray me if I let you do this though?!" asked Noah, he didn't trust this bastard!

"How can I even betray you anymore? We are one long ago, foolish human…" sighed the Blood Progenitor.

"What? Scram off! I can… do this myself! Agh!" screamed Noah.

"Shut up and let me help you!" The Blood Progenitor decided to aid Noah once more, as he used his powerful Will to manage the power.

Noah used his authority over the System while receiving the Blood Progenitor's help, and used the System itself to assimilate the power and then seal a large part of it as well, so he wouldn't simply explode and die out of overcharge!

His Blood Core began to glow brighter than ever before, as Noah began to instinctively meditate and manipulate these energies correctly… slowly yet steadily, he was repurposing them.

The same happened with everyone around him, although they all seemed to have fallen unconscious.

Alongside the new power, Noah felt a constant rush of information fill his mind.

He gained new memories!

These memories were not normal at all, these memories were from… God itself.

Although they were merely fragmented, he had gained a large amount of knowledge of the past, alongside a lot of the knowledge about the world.

He learned many things, alongside the location of many places known as "inheritances" of old mages and heroes of ancient times… Which Noah decided to mark as his next goal alongside exploring dungeons.

These inheritances were kept hidden by God due to the amazing items and knowledge hidden within them, which God didn't want others to know about, these old ancient mages who had tapped into the unknown and had unveiled many mysteries died while leaving everything they accumulated through their lives in such mystical places, some of them had even become infested with Mutated Beasts, becoming dangerous areas where no one stepped in.

Alongside that, Noah learned about the strange mana crystal meteors, and something about the "Watchers", however, the knowledge he got was very dim due to the memories being all fragmented into pieces.

However, the amount of info was overwhelming as Noah was not equal to God, and his mind was about to explode, he wasn't able to accumulate so much information in this little time.

Due to the constant pain and exhaustion, Noah decided to rest for the time being, as his System slowly settled down this overflowing energy.

Noah opened his eyes.

But instead of the ceiling of his manor or the darkness he often found when he was dreaming, he found himself in a different place, a completely different place, in fact.

It would be normal for him to ask a few questions within his mind.

Such as "What is this?" "Where am I?" "What happened?" "Am I dreaming?"

But instead of that, he already knew where he was.

There was no need for him to ask himself such questions.

He was inside of himself… but not his soul, his body.

Noah glanced at the ceiling as he saw red flesh twisting grotesquely, gibbering, with thousands of veins flowing with red blood.

It was palpitating and alive.

The ground was like this same flesh, but it was covered by small scales, which were in fact something similar to skin, it peeled off when he put some strength into it, and more of these skin pieces revealed below it.

He glanced at the vast area, it seemed to have walls, so it was not endless, but it was perhaps as big as a whole stadium.

This place was nothing but incredibly mysterious.

Although Noah knew that this was his body instinctively, he didn't know how he got to be inside of his own body.

It just didn't make any sense…

"So you have awakened this ability…"

Noah quickly glanced behind him as he heard a familiar voice.

A handsome vampire man was standing in front of him, with long white hair, sharp crimson eyes, long and sharp ears, and tall, perhaps around two meters of height, glaring down at Noah.

He was the-

"Dracula? What are you doing here?" asked Noah.

"MY NAME IS NOT DRACULA!" screamed the Vampire man, he was no one else than the Blood Progenitor, of course.

"Ahem… And I am here because this realm was created when I was assimilating and repurposing your new overflowing power. Really, you just ate that legendary sword and now God came here and decided to take away your powers, but in the end, you took away a bit of it… Two days in a row that you almost die. Do you have a death wish or your luck is utterly terrible?" asked the Blood Progenitor.

"Realm… So this is a realm," said Noah, ignoring the Blood Progenitor's questions because he had nothing to answer about that.

These events happened without him having the power to predict them. He was happy that he survived, and not angered that it has been two days in a row since he almost died. He had been almost dying since he became a Vampire anyways.

Noah was not someone that feared death, nor someone cowardly. He was willing to risk his life to achieve his goals and gain the power he wants to gain true freedom.

"So you're just going to ignore me?" asked the Blood Progenitor.

Noah glanced at him into the eyes. The old Vampire suddenly felt a chilling sensation run through his spine.

"Who gave you the right to talk back at me like that?" asked Noah.

"Sigh… You damn brat. Now that we are cooperating you should be more polite!" said the Blood Progenitor.

"How can you manifest yourself like this?" asked Noah.

"You should already know…" said the Blood Progenitor, as Noah suddenly felt a rush of information of everything the Blood Progenitor had done with the power.

Indeed, he had not tried to betray him or something and used it all in different ways.

It was strange for Noah to think that the Blood Progenitor, an ancient evil had suddenly decided to help him instead of wanting to take over his body as he had promised many times before.

Noah saw that he sealed most of the power within the System itself, which had merged with his Blood Core and Soul.

Alongside that, he used a part of that power into enhancing all of Noah's powers, Attribute Values, Skills, and more.

Afterward, he used another part to nourish his soul and make it a bit stronger.

And later, he used another part to form this Spirit Form of himself, which can show up around Noah like a ghost.

He has no System and is more of a Skill of Noah.

Noah can control him however he wants, but he had given himself the privilege of acquiring this ability, so now he can go to the outside world and perhaps aid Noah.

However, Noah didn't know why he would want to aid him.

"What has gotten into you? Why are you helping me like this?"

"…As I slept, it felt like hundreds of years. At some point, I began to feel empty. Your power, as you awakened it, guided me, and filled this emptiness. And now, I strive to serve you… Although it still feels strange… I suppose your brainwashing has finally affected me," sighed the Blood Progenitor.

It seemed that Guidance had guided the Blood Progenitor, and although he still acted quite pridefully in front of Noah, he had become someone that was devoted to helping him.

Noah squinted his eyes as he began to look at the Blood Progenitor a bit differently.

"As of now, you have unlocked many new powers. Go wake up already, your friends and your wife are waiting for you outside," said the Blood Progenitor.

"I see. Thanks, Griffin," said Noah, as he disappeared from within this strange inner realm.

The Blood Progenitor was a bit startled…

Noah knew about his name for very long already but always called him by the Dracula nickname.

This was the first time he called him by his real name.

The Blood Progenitor sighed.

"I have become soft… To think that I see this brat as something of a son now… Sigh… Perhaps bonds are not a bad thing… I bet you would be smiling at me now, right, Eldia?" he thought, as Griffin began to recall the memories that had been keeping him from being consumed by this loneliness and emptiness for so long… his one and only lover, Eldia.

Due to his own powerlessness, he lost her.

And since that day that he had become cold.

He began to strive to be alone and to use anyone or anything to his advantage.

He didn't have any emotions left but grief.

And he didn't want to ever make any bonds nor experience love ever again.

He became a monster without realizing it.

The thing that Eldia never wanted him to become.

"Eldia…" he sighed, as a few tears began to flow out of his eyes.

The Blood Progenitor clenched his fists, as he closed his eyes and let the tears fall over the floor.

As he thought more, and as he received more of Noah's guidance, he simply started to recall the memories he had hidden deep within his soul.

The memories that Noah himself had told him that he knew about.

Each time the Blood Progenitor told Noah to disregard emotions, Noah made him remember such a past.

Perhaps the Blood Progenitor was seeing himself on Noah, naïve and in love… He didn't want Noah to go through the same suffering he did.

He wanted him to disregard all emotions and to become a senseless husk of a former self, to only remain as a being of darkness and nothing else than that. Someone empties like him.

Was there any point in becoming so empty?

In the end, he died bitterly anyways…

The Blood Progenitor glanced at the gibbering ceiling.

"Noah is really someone interesting… I might as well see how far he goes…" he thought, as he disappeared with a blink.

Noah slowly opened his crimson eyes.

He was atop his bed, but Iris was not at his side.

He quickly sat down, as he felt a sudden rush of power and strength over all his body and soul.

His body, in specific, felt way stronger than before.

He had evolved.

"Don't tell me… I have reached A-Rank already?" thought Noah.

"Indeed," said the voice of the Blood Progenitor, as he emerged at the side of Noah like a crimson-colored and translucent ghost.

"So this is what you wanted to do…" said Noah, glancing at the new form of the Blood Progenitor.

"What I can or not do is dictated by your will… But I can't blame you if you don't trust me yet, I had said quite a few things before," said the Blood Progenitor while smiling bitterly.

"…Nonetheless, check your Status," he continued.

"Have you become something of a System Administrator now?" asked Noah.

"…Perhaps. There is certainly something that binds me to the System and the Blood Core. I can manipulate the System a bit for you," said the Blood Progenitor.

"If you want to, you could simply make me fade away," he said.

"…No, it would be better to keep you close," said Noah, considering that he would be able to always see what he's up to if he were close to him.

…And well, he recognized that he had helped him quite a good amount.

Noah decided to check the many holographic windows.

However, instead of the usual translucent blue colors of the windows, they were now crimson red, glowing brightly while also having a faint phantasmal presence.

It was as if his System had also changed.

He glanced at his Status Panel, which was also red-colored, with the letters being black.

However, before he could see any further, many System Windows pestered his sight.

Ding!

[Overflowing energy successfully sealed, this saved up power will be slowly unlocked as you grow strong enough]

[Residual energy successfully repurposed]

[All of your Attribute Values have increased]

[You gained 500 Vitality, Mind, and Force!]

[You gained extra Skill Points]

[You gained 25.000 Skill Points!]

[You learned the [God Slayer: 1 (S)] Skill!]

[You learned the [Surpass Limits: Soul: 1 (A)] Skill!]

Noah felt a rush of power and triumphant exhilaration as he realized that he had become A-Rank!

And he only needed to eat Excalibur's Divine Soul and then bite God, how easy!

Well, it was not easy at all, such events were not normal at all either, and he almost died in the first one and almost lose most of his power in the second one, but the efforts paid off in the end.

He inspected the two new Skills in detail before going towards the awakened Skills.

[God Slayer: 1 (S)]

The power to defy the Gods and inflict damage against their Divine Existences despite your lowly soul and strength difference.

As a pseudo-mortal, you have acquired the power to damage Gods through your soul, this Skill has emerged due to this.

When activating its effect, you can deal bonus damage against any enemy with Divinity based on Skill proficiency.

Current Bonus damage: 5%.

[Surpass Limits: Soul: 1 (A)]

After pushing your soul to its very limits, breaking it apart, and regenerating it constantly, you have acquired the ability to surpass your own limits through it and be able to exert an extra amount of power through it.

Extends the tenacity of your soul and its resiliency temporarily in exchange for large quantities of Mana, after the effect is deactivated, you feel weakened.

The effects of these Skills were utterly amazing.

Noah was now able to deal extra damage against beings with Divinity! And even more, he was now able to push his soul to its very limits and go even further beyond!

However, after going even further beyond and using all of his mana, his soul would become extremely tired and weakened, and would most likely need to rest for some time.

This was a "last resort" type of Skill, but the more Skills he could use through his soul, the better.

He recalled his fight against The Lady of the Lake and the Hand of God, and in both fights, he was not able to use his Skills properly, but the Skills related to the soul were able to be used, such as Soul Devour against the Hand of God.

After this small analysis, Noah glanced back at the rest of his Skills. Many of them had awakened into powerful and enhanced versions, upgrading their former effects, and even giving them new extra effects to them, making the skills more formidable for his current level of strength.

[All of your Skills gained bonus Proficiency]

[The [Parallel Mind Thought Processing: 100 (A)] Skill has awakened into the [Soul Group Thought Processing: 1 (S)] Skill!]

[The [Unyielding Blood Demon: 100 (B), [Sacrificial Vampiric Veracity: 100 (B), and [Lifeblood Release: 100 (B)] Skills have merged and awakened into the [Veracious Sacrificial Vampiric Tenacity: Lifeblood Exceed: 1 (A)] Skill!]

[The [Vampiric Evil Eyes of Hypnosis and Stupefaction: 100 (B)] Skill has awakened into the [Demonic Vampiric Eyes of Hypnotic Subjugation: 1 (A)] Skill!]

[The [Crimson Vampire Armor: 100 (B)] Skill has awakened into the [Grotesque Vampire Soul Armor: 1 (A)] Skill!]

[The [Blood Storage: 100 (B)] Skill has awakened into the [Inner Blood and Flesh Realm: 1 (S)] Skill!]

[The [Blood Servant: 100 (B)] Skill has awakened into the [Blood Soul Servant: 1 (A)] Skill!]

[The [Blood Pact: 100 (B)] Skill has awakened into the [Bloodline Pact: 1 (A)] Skill!]

[The [Blood Prison: 100 (B)] Skill has awakened into the [Spatial Blood Soul Prison: 1 (A)] Skill!]

[The [Vampiric Drain: 100 (C)] and [Blood Frenzy: 100 (C)] Skills have merged and awakened into the [Frenzied Vampiric Slaughter Heal: 1 (A)] Skill!]

[The [Vampiric Wings: 100 (C)] Skill has awakened into the [Demonic Vampiric Blood Wings: 1 (A)] Skill!]

Noah glanced with wonder at the many Skills that have awakened, realizing that many of them had acquired new effects.

[Soul Group Thought Processing: 1 (S)]

Your soul has evolved, and it has become capable of fragmenting itself into many, all of them are you, and you are all of them.

As a soul who is many and one, your can think many things at the same time, and even be in many places if you can distribute such soul pieces in some sort of way.

As the Skill proficiency increases, the creation of additional Soul minds is possible.

It seemed that Noah's soul had merged with his mind, and now that he had fragmented his soul so much, he was able to cut it into pieces however he liked, creating some sort of hive-mind, enhancing his thought process to greater levels.

[Veracious Sacrificial Vampiric Tenacity: Lifeblood Exceed: 1 (A)]

Unleash the veracity of your very vampiric tenacity.

Increase all of your stats temporarily by making your blood flow incredibly quickly, alongside coating yourself in that energy to enhance your power even further.

The more you stay in this state, the more blood you will lose, but the more strength and additional damage your attacks (of any kind) can deal.

Additionally, you can unleash the entire power you have amassed into an explosive burst of crimson energy to a designed foe, however, your body will weaken afterward.

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The [Veracious Sacrificial Vampiric Tenacity: Lifeblood Exceed: 1 (A)] Skill seemed to fuse many of the effects of Noah's old Skills, such as the ability to sacrifice his blood to enhance his stats, the power to increase his damage dealt the more blood he lost, and even more, with the additional ability to unleash all of the accumulated power into an explosion of crimson energy, although he would be left weakened afterward for a few minutes. Although this didn't weaken his soul.

[Demonic Vampiric Eyes of Hypnotic Subjugation: 1 (A)]

After awakening your eyes to the next level, you have the natural power to subdue anyone with a weak mind who is weaker than you on strength as well, while being able to affect the mind of those that are even equally stronger than you or even stronger than you.

The effect of this mind attack depends on the foe's ability to resist mind-related attacks, but the damage dealt can vary from slight headaches to making them see hallucinations.

Anyone weaker than you that has eye contact with you will be subdued to your will, and although it can be resisted with special skills, you can also exert more dominance over those subdued to you.

The effect of this Skill is not permanent, after a few minutes of not looking the target into the eyes, they will be able to escape your subjugation.

Although some sort of brainwashing can be done at the moment, it will not be permanent either.

This Skill was Noah's eye-related power, which gave him the power to hypnotize foes temporarily which were weaker than him, but now he was finally able to affect those with equal strength or even superior strength! Although their effects were not subjugation, a series of mind-related attacks can be done, such as headaches, hallucinations, changes in their senses, and more.

[Grotesque Vampire Soul Armor: 1 (A)]

Your Armor had evolved, and it is no longer restricted to your blood, but you can also use your very soul and materialize it over your body to offer extra protection in battle.

A Soul Armor can shape the user's will and can take on many forms by merging with different Skills and Magic attributes.

The Soul Armor strength increases as the Skill Proficiency does.

This Skill awakening seemed rather obvious after Noah had been using his soul as armor by turning it into a substitute for blood.

But now, it seemed that he had more liberties with it, and he could directly turn the soul into an armor.

[Inner Blood and Flesh Realm: 1 (S)]

The Blood Storage Space you used to store your blood inside alongside your servants and subordinates has evolved, now becoming a true space of its own within your flesh and blood, it expands and pulsates grotesquely as it invites your kin to reside within it.

The space within this Inner Realm expands as the Skill proficiency increases. Skill Proficiency can be earned by storing things and other mysterious means…

This was the unexpected awakening of the Blood Storage Skill. Noah had really expected this power to be a Skill of its own, but it resulted to be the awakening of an already existing Skill.

This Skill manifested as an inner realm inside of Noah's flesh which was both within the space of his body and also outside of it, even if he were to be born apart, there wouldn't be any damage to it, and he had already inspected the insides of his entire flesh through his soul but wasn't able to find it through other means that weren't by using the Skill itself.

With this Skill, he could be able to move all of his subordinates inside and even the whole territory of Arthur… Like a snail or a turtle, he was now his own home.

Anyone was able to enter here through a blood puddle that Noah could make by cutting a large wound on his wrist.

[Blood Soul Servant: 1 (A)]

The enhanced version of Blood Servants, Blood Soul Servants possess greater strength and resiliency as they develop their own souls into greater beings, acquiring more freedom yet becoming even more efficient in doing whatever their master desires.

Current max amount of servants (souls): 120.

This was the enhanced version of the Blood Servant Skill and served Noah in the purpose of enhancing and making his army of the dead even greater and vast.

He was also not only able to just convert them into soldiers, but Noah was also able to use these Blood Servant's souls to aid him on Soul Battles against entities that could try to attack his soul directly.

Additionally, he was able to control them as if they were part of his body, fuse himself with them to an extent or even fuse them together to form greater beings, such as Scarlet, their Blood Servant Manor.

[Bloodline Pact: 1 (A)]

The enhanced version of Blood Pact, through this power, you can create a pact with an entire bloodline as long as someone that represents it, such as a father, agrees (or is forced to agree through various means).

This pact can be done in many ways and with various supernatural effects. Depending on the effects of such pacts, it could take a large quantity of mana to create them, even a piece of your soul.

With this Skill, Noah could now force an entire bloodline to obey him as long as he subjugated one of their major representatives!

Through the use of this power, Noah could force large families to obey him.

And he was already planning a few targets… Perhaps Clementina's family could be a good start.

[Spatial Blood Soul Prison: 1 (A)]

The enhanced version of Blood Prison, you are now able to generate a spatial cage where a foe is restricted inside for a few seconds (which increase as the Skill Proficiency increase).

This spatial blood soul prison can still be escaped from if the foe has the means to do so, but the user can enhance it through the use of its soul to make it harder to escape from.

The foe can be inflicted with any long-range attack from the user while being trapped.

Cooldown: 10 minutes.

With this Skill Noah was now able to efficiently entrap enemies with more ease, although it only lasted a few seconds, such seconds could be precious to achieve victory, and Noah knew this very well deep down.

[Frenzied Vampiric Slaughter Heal: 1 (A)]

Through the use of your frenzied and insane power as a Vampire, you can enhance your Attribute Values the more you slaughter enemies and bathe on their blood, while also draining the Health Points of such victims.

This was an ideal Skill for Noah's fighting style, as he was now able to grow stronger the more he slaughtered large quantities of enemies which he could find easily within dungeons, alongside having the power to even drain their health with every attack.

And last but not least, the [Demonic Vampiric Blood Wings: 1 (A)] was the awakened version of the Vampiric Wings Skill, which gave Noah the ability to grow large wings made of his own blood, which he could materialize and shape to even serve as weapons, while also enhancing his speed while flying.

Noah was amazed by the new powers he had achieved and was ready to take on the many challenges yet to come…

After finishing to inspect his new powers, Noah decided to glare at his Status, it seemed that he had evolved while resting, the evolution was triggered after he reached the needed Stats, which were acquired from the assimilation and repurposing of the energy he gained from eating a small, tiny bit of God.

[Noah Luna Noctem]

[Class(es): Warlock (I)]

[Patron(s): Bloodshot Eye]

[Bloodline: Vampire (Evolved)]

[Blood Core Rank: Level IV: Noble-Born Vampire Count]

[Vitality: 1510]

[Mind: 1510]

[Force: 1510]

Noah couldn't help but release a smile.

Such power!

He had reached 1500 Attribute Values on all of his Stats and was now at his fourth level of Blood Core Cultivation, Level IV.

He had evolved into a Noble-Born Vampire Count, and its power was indeed outstanding.

Unlike his subordinates who had different Evolutions, often related with classes such as priest, mage, or more, Noah had noble rank evolutions.

Unlike other races, Vampires were seen as the Noble Undead of the dark world of Abyss, all of their evolution was always related wot these ranks of nobility, the stronger they grew, the higher their nobility rank would be.

Vampires in Abyss were a superior race, created from the Blood God himself, the first mortal to have raised to godhood, took over the Moon Goddess as his concubine, and sealed the Sun God, becoming the supreme being above all creation.

He suppressed the sunlight and made his children, born from the Moon Goddess womb, dominate the world, the Vampires.

It couldn't be wrong to say that Noah, after inheriting the bloodline of the Blood Progenitor, had become the descendant of this powerful entity.

The Vampires spread many other races through their powers, the ability that Noah had to convert others into Dhampirs and then Dhampirs to be able to create Ghouls and then Ghouls being able to create Wights was part of such a power.

But the Vampires, as direct descendants of the Blood God and the Moon Goddess held supreme authority over these Undead races.

This is why, instead of having evolutions that simply were named "warrior" "priest" or "knight", they held nobility titles, becoming the supreme leaders of the "families" they created by converting other races into their Undead servants.

Other races such as the scarce Humans of Abyss, Demons, Demi-Humans, and other creatures, born before Vampires but that had become their servants as they had become the supreme race.

In a world of eternal night where the moon always shined brightly atop the night sky, Abyss was the ideal places for Vampires to live, and although the sealed Sun God still had many Humans and Angels, supporters that were named Sun Heralds, their numbers were slowly decreasing each passing year, and Vampires seemed to be able to eventually crush these opposers soon enough.

Indeed, the Vampires of Abyss were a race created by Gods, while in Earth, the Vampires that Noah got to know through the memories of God were different, they were Undead entities born from negative emotions and corrupted mana, who spread viciously through biting their targets and converting them into more Vampires.

Noah began to realize that there could be parallel versions of Vampires in many other worlds, each one had its own strange version of it, although, unlike Earth's extinct Vampires, Vampires in Abyss seemed superior in every aspect.

Noah pondered these things as he glanced at his new title, a Noble-born Vampire Count!

Counts were high figures of nobility right below Dukes, they often owned their own County, a large piece of land that could even compare in size and population to a Duchy, the one that Dukes, above Counts, governed.

However, Noah knew that there were more Ranks after Count.

There was Marquis, Mighty Marquis, Honored Marquis, Vice Duke, Duke, Grand Duke, Prince, Grand Prince, Honored Monarch, Grand Lord, and more…

Clearly, if Noah was advancing through ranks compared to Hunter Ranks, it meant that Abyss had way more Ranks than even SSS-Rank…

It was a world way more chaotic and dangerous than Earth, and through what he learned thanks to the Blood Progenitor's memories, it was perhaps four times as big as Earth, an immense world.

Alongside being immense, it seemed that this strange world was not spherical like a planet, but flat and gigantic, surrounded by the gaping abyss that led to eternal damnation. It is said that the sun is sealed within the depths of this abyss, converting it into a blazing inferno that not many dare to step into.

Abyss was also a world that defied logic and was most likely created through pure magical means instead of natural means such as Earth.

Satisfied with his increase in power, Noah decided to quickly move from the bed, standing up and walking towards the door.

Only for it to be open, as Iris greeted his sight.

"Noah! You are awake!" she said, as she jumped over Noah and hugged him tightly.

Noah embraced her as he caressed her silky hair, kissing her.

He immediately noticed, right after, that she had become stronger…. By glancing at her status, she had indeed evolved as well and became A-Rank.

Thanks to her help fighting God, she and most likely everyone else underwent some evolution after the energy gained by eating God's soul was distributed to everyone else.

"I am glad you are okay, Iris." Said Noah while glancing at Iris's crimson eyes.

"Are you feeling alright? Nothing bad? Are you sure?" asked Iris, like a fluffy phantom fox tail emerged from her back and began to wave around excitedly while she inspected Noah's physique.

"No, I am fine. In fact, I feel even better than before. We have somehow managed to defeat that God attack… Wait, has it tried to revoke your System?" asked Noah concerned.

"Oh? Not really, in fact, we just woke up a few hours ago… Noire said that we all slept for three days… I am quite hungry. Let's go have to breakfast with everyone else, we can discuss everything there," said Iris.

"I see… Three days. Alright, let's go," said Noah, holding Iris's hand as the vampiric couple moved downstairs.

"Noah-sama, you are awake…! How are you feeling?" asked Arthur.

"I am fine, thanks for your concern, Arthur," said Noah.

"Are you sure? I can't believe we slept for three whole days…" sighed Timassa.

"I am sure. In fact, I feel even better than before. And perhaps we slept for so long because our bodies needed to assimilate the energy we acquired…" said Noah.

"That's right, we all evolved through these three days of sleeping…" said Jon, Noah noticed that he and everyone else's auras had increased in size and power, each one had a different color on their auras, and their souls themselves, shaped like beasts, seemed even more ferocious than before.

"Hungry… Sleep too much gave me the hungries…" said Adamantine, as she kept munching into a large piece of meat, it seemed to be a whole Fire Wyrm leg roasted and seasoned…

"I can say that it was an arduous fight, right after one, we got another one… Hopefully, God, or however it is called ca realize the greatness of our Lord and stop harassing us. What a disgusting God," sighed Clementina, she seemed even more dignified and cold after evolving.

"Don't worry. I believe that God has already learned an important lesson… Oh, I am sure of it…" said Noah, sitting on his throne as he was served some blood, drinking it slowly.

Everyone noticed that Noah had done something more than what it seemed like…

Suddenly, one of them recalled how he defeated Excalibur…

"Wait… Don't tell me…" said Arthur, as Noah smiled viciously.

"Indeed…" he said.

God was screaming in agony inside of his Divine Realm.

After his fight against Noah, where it used a fraction of its power trying to take away his System, it ended being bitten by him until it began to bleed, the entire fragment of power it used to extend a white hand towards Noah's soul and steal his powers was shattered and eaten.

Whatever was left wasn't even the hand but a faint white power the returned to God, although it was completely contaminated by crimson red energy, which came from Noah's very Blood Core.

The many minds of God screamed in pain for many hours, until the wound finally closed and the searing pain, which was the pain directly inflicted into the soul, a pain equivalent to x100 times the pain inflicted into a physical body finally faded away…

The crimson-red color also faded away, as the minds finally calmed down… although many of them were negatively affected by Noah.

Most of them had grown fearful of the Vampire, while others seemed to not want to do anything with him ever again.

Some were wrathful, however, although they were very few now. Many of the rather brave minds ended up regretting everything they tried to do, Noah was not someone that they could mess with.

As an entity that needed to take care of Earth and use its energy for that purpose, wasting it in Noah, someone that could potentially help them later on, was a foolish decision.

But due to their stubbornness, they had to experience a lot of pain to understand.

Perhaps they could actually kill Noah if they used more of their power, but they cannot descend to the surface without causing a massive cataclysm that would kill thousands if not millions, ad shooting a ray from the sky would most likely do the same thing, being a divine entity with great quantities of energy made it hard to calculate how much energy they were able to input into their attacks.

A slight mistake on their aim and the entire Sector D would be blasted into ashes.

This is why the best thing they could do against Noah was taking away his System.

But at the end… he managed to bite their divine white hand, infect it, devour it, and even infect his own System Seed (or Cube as he named it), fusing it with his own Blood Core and Soul, and making his Status part of his very being…

Now, God was incapable of taking away this power.

Some of the more wrathful minds had considered at least taking the power away from his subordinates or anyone close to him, but they all shared a deep connection with his soul, if they were to act, Noah would most likely sense it and retaliate, biting them again and gaining even more power.

In the end, they decided to stay away from him.

Noah had already grown particularly stronger after stealing power from them and eating Excalibur, and in fact, he had gained too much power, so he had sealed such power until he could grow stronger to assimilate it and use it better without such overflowing power killing him.

It was thanks to their foolishness that their "enemy" who had eaten their precious Excalibur and corrupted it ended up becoming even stronger and had reached A-Rank strength on their Hunter Rank.

The minds of God seemed conflicted.

Some were still afraid of him, others didn't want to have anything to do with him, and some other minds wanted to contact him and show him that they had no ill intentions anymore and that in fact, they wanted their help to deal with the dangers to come.

Nonetheless, because they were many minds in one God, they were not able to properly decide what to do and kept resting while discussing with themselves.

Although most minds were unaware of this, the minds that had grown devoted to Noah grew in size, and more and more emerged each passing day.

It seemed that his Guidance grew even larger on them as Noah ate a piece of them, funnily enough.

And aside from that…

A strange, blood-red lump of energy kept digging deep into the vast divine soul of God.

It multiplied slowly yet steadily, making more and more of itself, and spreading around the soul.

It quickly reached those encroached by Noah's guidance as these blood-red lumps of energy fused with them…

These minds of God kept this as a secret from the other main minds, as they helped this strange entity multiply…

Soon enough, it might take over the entire soul one day…

Noah smiled maliciously at the question of his subordinates.

What he had done to God was not only biting and shattering a piece of it.

He was way more opportunistic than to simply leave it to go away like that.

He had seen the open soul wound it had after the large hand crumbled into pieces, and had decided to leave a "gift".

What gift?

"You did what you did with the Lady of the Lake? I remember you said something about… parasitizing it with your soul? Like you divided yourself and ate her from the inside out… Fufu, that might have been a nice thing to see~!" said Iris with a smile.

"Indeed, Iris. I simply divided a large piece of my soul and gave God a gift of my gratitude. I can't help but be grateful after he had given us such a good meal. The least I could do is to share a bit of my own… hospitality," said Noah with a pleasant smile.

"Amazing… you managed to parasitize that super strong thing? How is it going? Is it actually working?" asked Arthur.

"It is working, slowly. But there are minds within God that had actually become guided. If I can use them to hide my soul parasites and slowly eat away Soul from the inside out… It could be possible to take over it eventually. Although I am not sure how long that might take…" said Noah.

"Impressive… Our Lord might one day really become a God," said Clementina.

"Amazing, this all was according to Noah-sama's plans!" said Timassa.

"I couldn't expect less from him. Noah-sama has done many fantastical things, I cannot wait for the day that he can take over the world and make it his domain," said Jon as his eyes gleamed with purple light.

As Noah grew stronger, his subordinates also grew stronger at his side by undergoing challenges at his side, and so did their devotion to him, which grew larger and larger. Noah was nothing else than an immensely glorious being to him.

To any ordinary person, their devotion wouldn't be anything else than complete insanity, but this devotion was closely related to their bloodlines and Noah's authority over them, as he had converted them into Undead races through his bite, or the bite of those he bit, they all instinctively saw him as someone great, and through his actually impressive feats, such belief intensified even further, to insane levels.

"Does that means that you can see and heard what it is thinking?" asked Arthur.

"A bit. The minds that were devoted to me and which I had parasitized tell me a bit of what the other minds think. They all seem mostly fearful, and don't want to do anything with me anymore… Although some seem to want to help them in something that is yet to come…" said Noah.

"Something… yet to come?" asked Iris.

Preparing for what was yet to come…

What… was yet to come?

What was something that even God feared?

What kind of mighty foe was approaching this world at a slow pace… that could actually threaten it as a whole?

Noah knew a bit about them.

He knew that they saw this world as a mere material to harvest, a ripe fruit from a tree they found in the road.

Their goal was simple, they didn't even care about the world's surface, they desired what was deep within the planet's tectonic plates.

The Earth's Core.

"Watchers?" asked Iris.

"Earth's… Core?" asked Arthur.

"What? This… This entire world is a mere material to be harvested?" asked Timassa.

The truth about what lied beyond the skies was an immense universe filled with life and threats everywhere.

A large organization of intergalactic entities known as the Watchers had set their sight on Earth and desired to extract its strong and ripening Core, the Origin Core.

"After eating a part of God, I naturally acquired a part of its fragmented memories, of the information it knew about, and more… And the existence of the Watchers was revealed to me, alongside the Mana Crystal Meteors that approached Earth at a fast pace… In fact, some of them had already fallen over the surface…" said Noah.

"Noah-sama, you have indeed learned a lot…" said Arthur.

"More than you could imagine. For starters, the Watchers are entities that live in between the world's Spatial Walls, walls that separated worlds through space. They traversed through them and the many galaxies in between. They are a tyrannic organization of aliens who had attained immense amounts of strength and had advanced into greater Existence Ranks," said Noah.

"So aside from the threat of Gates and Mutated Beasts… there are these aliens?" asked Clementina.

"So aliens exist… Wait, it was obvious seeing the Gates and the monsters…" sighed Arthur.

"The Watchers want to extract the world's core?" asked Jon.

"Indeed. You know what will happen if they do, right? It will simply be the end. The world will collapse and fall into countless pieces, floating through space… all types of life would disappear, and nothing else would remain," said Noah.

"Then… aren't we like ants against entities that can easily destroy the planet?" asked Timassa.

"Ants? We are mere bacteria compared to them. Not even comparable to their might. We are nothing, absolutely nothing," sighed Noah.

As Noah dropped those words, everyone else became paralyzed in fear.

Hearing their own progenitor, the figure they thought was strong, reliable, and the most trusted say that they were hopeless against such entities made them realize how little they were in the great scheme of things.

Was there any point in resisting then? Was there any point at all?

Shouldn't they give up and die then?

Hopeless like an ant, dying squashed by the human's feet.

An ant had not the power to fight against a human, it could bite it, but that bite would not do anything other than cause a slight annoyance, right before being squashed anyways.

Although ants could take down large pretty together, against the might of a titanic being such as a human, even if they were countless ones, humans could still destroy them.

Similarly to them, they were like ants against a titan, the Watchers.

"Is there even any hope then? What will we do?" asked Arthur.

Noah had said things as if there was no hope, but he never actually said that things were hopeless.

"I never said that there was no hope. Hope is the thing that you never lose. No matter the odds, no matter the circumstances, Arthur. You tightly grab hope with all your fangs and claws, pierce it with them and never leave it to go. Hope is the thing that moves us against all odds, is our greatest strength. You never lose hope. And if any of you dare lose hope, I am going to shove it into you until you regain it," said Noah with a sharp look, all of his subordinates, however, didn't felt intimidated but smiled warmly.

Noah was trying to cheer them up, he didn't want to see them hopeless.

Because he knew that there was hope.

"Indeed. We cannot lose hope, everyone… As long as we stick together, there is always hope, no matter what," said Iris while tightly holding Noah's hand.

"You are right… There is always hope." Said Timassa while nodding.

"If we are together, we can always fight against the odds. In numbers there is strength," said Jon.

"As we had done before… we can go through this as well…" said Clementina.

"Hope!" said Adamantine.

Arthur saw everyone else agree with Noah… as he clenched his fists.

"Yeah, I shouldn't have even doubted. I apologize. Hope is not something I will let anyone take away from me… Very well, Noah, what do you have in mind?" asked Arthur, his eyes filled with resolve.

"I said that there we stood no chance against them as we were currently. However, I had already accumulated a lot of sealed power. We have to simply keep growing stronger until I can unlock all of it, and even then, keep going even further beyond. The sky is not the limit, with the memories I acquired, there are many places where we can extract large amounts of power and grow stronger. We will make this world our treasure trove and absorb all the power we possibly can from it… If things are still impossible even after that… we will escape," said Noah.

"So you even had a plan B… leaving Earth? And to where? Space?" asked Timassa.

"Space would be too difficult, we need a place where we will be able to keep forging ourselves. I believe that whenever I can accumulate enough power, the door to Abyss will sooner or later open once more. And then, we will be able to go there. However, this will be our last resort. And I still require more power to even achieve such a feat," said Noah.

"To Abyss… the world of the Blood Progenitor?" asked Iris.

The Blood Progenitor suddenly emerged at Noah's side like a crimson ghost, startling everyone a little.

"Indeed. My world is vast and filled with dangers at every corner. You need to grow as strong as possible in here before you can even fathom standing a chance against the threats that lay beyond the horizon of your world. Abyss is an unwelcoming and chaotic world, where only the strongest survive and the weak are crushed and torn apart into pieces, only to be eaten by the critters that crawl beneath our feet. You may think that Earth is a chaotic place, but compared to Abyss, this world seems like a playground for the young…" said the Blood Progenitor.

"He can show up like that now…?" asked Arthur.

"Sadly, he can," said Noah.

"Nonetheless. It is as he says, we have to grab every possible opportunity to grow stronger here," said Iris.

"Indeed…" said Timassa.

"And I mean not just killing random beasts around the world. I mean seeking ancient treasures and inheritances. Alongside making of the strongest Hunters and their Guilds our servants…" said Noah.

"Like we did with the Crystal Family?" asked Clementina.

"Indeed. Your family, the Silvercrown Family should be next, Clementina. Rejoice, you might be able to finally avenge your mother," said Noah with a smile.

"Oh? I am eager for that moment, my lord…" said Clementina.

Bernard Gold, the Guild Master of the Golden Guardians Guild, the Guild that was #15 in Sector D I in terms of merit and strength rankings glanced the news through his phone.

In there, there was the announcement of a new Guild founded by a large group of B-Rank Hunters out of nowhere, named the Noctem Family.

The old man glanced at the picture of the Guild insignia, as he began to clench his fists in anger.

He clicked his tongue as he threw the phone away.

"So he still made his own guild at the end! Well, now it's official…" he sighed.

Bernard was a scheming old bastard that has survived through the apocalypse solely by extortion, always extorting and using those stronger than him, grabbing ahold of things essential to them, or even capturing their family members as prisoners… he had a dark past.

He used every type of underhanded method such as this to win each fight and used the Hunters to protect him, instead of fighting himself.

Like this, he survived through all of this and even managed to finally establish himself after the Apocalypse, within Sector D.

All the Hunters he always extortion and made into his puppets became his strong guardians, and he ended making a guild with them, the Golden Guardians.

Using underhanded methods, he constantly inspected any new Hunter that could be promising, and extorted them to join his guild, building up his reputation as a good man that always extended a hand to the talented yet unrecognized.

However, when things didn't go his way and other hunters made their own guilds instead of joining his… that's where he showed his true colors.

Perhaps if they joined a strong enough guild he wouldn't bother, but when they made their own guild?

No… that won't happen, he won't let more competence emerge.

This Sector was him to conquer and dominate, he would crush anyone that dared to defy him, or the guilds already established here which were equal or superior to his.

Any Hunter above D-Rank that he offered to join his guild but rejected him and chose to make their own guild ended up getting killed by his strong subordinates.

Not a single one of them has survived ever since then, and due to his authority and that of all the hunters he "owned" within his guild, the government couldn't do much against his actions without causing a total war against him, which would end up not benefiting them, as they held many transactions of items and resources acquired by Bernard's Hunters in high-rank dungeons.

Bernard Gold was a vicious fiend, the likes that Noah despised, not because he was a schemer, but because he manipulated the strong to do his bidding, and something within Noah's mind always found this wrong…

In a world where everyone fought for their lives and to survive, why were there people like him who didn't ever fight or did anything other than taking advantage of the ones that worked hard?

To Noah, Bernard was a pathetic rat.

And the old man himself knew this deep down.

He remembered his gaze.

His eyes suddenly turned crimson red when he glared at him…

The chills that ran through his spine as Noah gazed into him… this was pure bloodthirst.

Being seen like that by a poor street rat like Noah made Bernard incredibly angered.

He couldn't believe that this poor piece of shit that Noah was to his eyes would dare to deny his amazing offer!

And now, his guild was announced publicly, and many Hunters were interested in joining it due to the invitations and vacant being open for literally any Rank.

"He dares to begin recruitment immediately?! Tch! Well, who would even join such a guild without any background anyways?" said Bernard rather angrily.

A servant at his side brought back his phone after cleaning it with a handkerchief, as Bernard kept reading news.

However, as he scrolled upwards, the news suddenly updated, as something appeared that was published just five minutes ago…

"Eh?"

Bernard glared at the news while his entire body began to sweat, his hands were trembling, and his nether regions squeezed themselves as if he were about to piss himself.

His eyes were constantly twitching, and his mouth was wide open. It felt as if his lower jaw was about to fall off his skull, and that his eyes were about to pop out of their sockets.

"W-Wha… Wha… Wha… WHAAAAAAAT?!"

Bernard screamed in surprise and disbelief as he jumped out of his chair and hit himself into the wall, falling unconscious over the floor. His bald head began to bleed over the wound he inflicted on himself in the most ridiculous of ways.

"EH?! Bernard-sama!"

His servant quickly ran towards him, carrying him with his arms as he walked away.

"W-What did you read that made you so surprised?" he sighed, as he grabbed his master's phone and read the news while running downstairs.

"Eh?! T-The Noctem Family… All… B-Rank Hunters… Have… been promoted to A-RANK! What is this?!"

News that shook Sector D quickly spread all around.

The recently made Noctem Family Guild led by a group of B-Rank Hunters had recently promoted all of their B-Rank Members to A-Rank, the news had spread all around because A-Rank Hunters were extremely rare.

And even more… because of the ridiculousness of the notice.

They had registered as B-Rank just a bit over a week ago… and now, they had become A-Rank.

This was simply too insane, there was no way that someone could grow so strong in such little time!

They would have to fight God or something to get so much power so fast or something!

Many of the people and other Hunters had similar opinions, they had initially thought of them being fake news.

But later on, it was confirmed again by the Hunters Association.

Indeed, in these last three days, Noah and his subordinates alongside his wife, Iris, had updated their Hunter identification Cards to A-Rank, and had proven to be A-Rank after the artifacts they used to confirm Stats were used over 20 times with each one of them.

Not even the assistants watching it with their very eyes believed this.

In the end, the artifacts shattered into pieces, and the people had to give up, even as ridiculous as it sounded to become A-Rank after a week of becoming B-Rank, it was true, they had done it.

How?

The question that arose in the minds of everyone.

But Noah and his guild decided to keep the information secret, and due to their strength, people were not able to force their way into them and interrogate them.

Whatever fantastical way they used to raise so fast was kept a complete secret by the family, and now a large group of Hunters was sent from other Guilds as spies, trying to join the Guild, but being left on the waiting list.

Noah read the news while sitting over his throne, a malicious smile blossomed within his flawless lips.

"So it is out…" he said.

"Fufu, I bet everyone is freaking out now…" laughed Iris, who was sitting over his lap.

"Indeed… And the Gates will soon emerge too. We shall be the first ones to clear these B-Rank and A-Rank Gates that will appear soon," said Noah, knowing something that no one else did!

"Oh~? We might even become S-Rank soon enough! I can't wait~!" said Iris, as she drank blood from a glass.

Three days have passed since evolving into a Level IV Vampire, and Noah was currently sitting over his throne with Iris at his lap, as they usually did from time to time.

Two days ago he had gone to the Hunters Association and upgraded his Rank alongside everyone else, surprising the people there.

And just two days ago they had already announced the existence of the Noctem Family Guild, which surprised some people.

However, two days after that, it was announced that a large group of Hunters, all the main members of the Noctem Family had become A-Rank Hunters, shocking the Sector and even the entire world outside of it.

A-Rank Hunters appearing was always a big event all over the world, not only their sectors but many at the same time?! That was simply ridiculous.

Yet Sector D was "blessed" with many talented people, such as Noah and his guild.

Large amounts of people came to the territory to ask many things about how they managed to accomplish the feat of raising to A-Rank in a week, but they were ignored by Noah and then scared away by Adamantine, who barked like a dog against them until they all pissed and shat themselves over her monstrous aura and no more leeches came, the news channel was unable to get any info about Noah aside from a film of Adamantine barking, which didn't really matter to the family, who didn't really care about "reputation" or whatever bullshit.

Through these last three days, Noah has been "upgrading" all of his Blood Servants, fusing them together while constantly making more through the corpses brought from C-Rank and below Dungeons.

Alongside this, he used the Blood Cores with artificial souls to feed the Robots and Blood Servants with, enhancing their capabilities and managing for all of them to acquire powerfully, strengthened souls.

Sadly, robots were not able to get the System even though they had souls, so Noah began to think of a way to share his System with the robots so they can learn Skills and absorb Attribute Value Cores.

Other than that, Noah had also figured a way to force the Mana Cores of his subordinates to devour their own System Status, getting their own personalized Systems belonging to their very souls!

Not just him, but the rest of his subordinates and family were not restricted by things such as God anymore, and held their own power from their own System.

Noah managed to do this by connecting his very soul with his subordinates and Iris and transferring his consciousness inside of their souls by temporarily fusing a part of their souls with them.

Then, he was able to manipulate their souls and Blood Cores, managing for each one to devour their own System Seeds, which Noah named System Cubes.

According to what he learned from God's memories, System Seeds were a special type of System Rune created by the System itself that infected anyone's soul from the moment they were born, and would only sprout when they developed an Ability of any kind.

Using such powers, he easily "hacked" them and then made their subordinate's souls and blood cores quickly assimilate them forcefully by putting his own power into it.

Like this, everyone had their own System!

Aside from this, Noah had been asking for a lot of materials and items from the Crystal Family, alongside Fernand's brother, who was growing weaker and sicker with each day… Anywhere he went to ask for help, it was impossible to heal his condition completely.

And as Noah developed his powers and grew stronger, the curse inflicted on him kept growing and eating him away…

Noah used such magic materials to enhance the robots and also his Blood Servants, alongside upgrading everyone's equipment to the next level, alongside enhancing their Soul Weapons, which all had reached A-Rank by now.

Alongside this, Scarlet had become a Castle.

Indeed, in three days, she was feed with enormous quantities of items and magic materials, and she evolved into a higher rank of Blood Servant, going from General to Great Elite General to Grand Elite General.

And due to this, she gained even more strength, and her soul kept strengthening as Noah kept fusing more Blood Servants into her.

And to please her lord's wishes, she shapeshifted into a giant castle through the use of the many stone materials feed to her, and was perhaps the strongest member of Noah's Blood Servant Army, although she was given the task of giving them a home and serving them.

The castle held over twenty rooms and was over 40 meters tall, with a large tower in the middle of it where Noah and Iris's room was.

The castle looked out of place in the middle of a high-tech city, but the Noctem Family didn't give a damn what people thought about their aesthetic choices.

Nor they cared about people questioning how the heck they got a castle out of nowhere there.

The castle's bricks were all black and gray and also held a shiny luster. Every single brick was B-Rank and above magic materials, Scarlet had become a living fortress at this point.

Noah had even designed ability for Scarlet after practicing with her a bit, and now she could even transform into a humanoid form and fight any intruders… or anything that the Vampire wanted her to decimate into oblivion.

Additionally, Pride was fused with dozens of Fire Wyrm Blood Servants until he evolved into a Grand Blazing Wyrm Hydra, with over 20 heads and even bigger size, he had become Great Elite General Rank and was the second mightiest Blood Servant, his sheer size alone was so big that Noah had to keep him inside of his Inner Realm of Blood and Flesh.

Other notable mentions were Lance and Blade, who Noah decided to fuse together because they were way too weak, alongside fusing tons of other random Blood Servants until they couldn't take any more power and evolved into General Rank, taking the shape of a giant, crimson-colored armored knight wielding a blade and a lance, which Noah renamed Wrath due to his berserk-like attitude after fusing with monster blood servants.

Brain was fused with Merlin for the same thing as Blade and Lance, alongside many Human Blood Servants and a few resources, becoming a tall and intimidating wizard-shaped Blood Servant who wielded a large, crystallized blood staff and a strange sphere of crimson red light that enhanced its capabilities, Noah renamed it Envy, although the main personality was still that of Merlin. Envy was also General Rank.

And lastly, the Blood Servants of the Crystal Family suffered a similar fate than the rest and were fused together alongside many other random Blood Servants until Noah managed to force evolution into them, becoming a tall, three-meter-tall knight covered in shiny armor made of elemental blood gems (which Noah applied to them as materials), of General Rank. Even after this, it still held no ego, but Noah decided to name it Greed.

Alongside these Blood Servants, Noah fused the others who were not as notable and created many Chimera Blood Servants with many monstrous and amorphous shapes.

Aside from this work, which he felt quite proud of, Noah and the entire Noctem Guild had been assessing new member registrations through these last days which had suddenly spiked after their announcement as A-Rank…

Amongst the many hunters that came here to register, Noah and the rest of his subordinates and his wife had undergone specific tests for each person, although they were open for anyone, they only recruited those they deemed able to work hard for them.

A variety of tests were made every day by the members of the Noctem Family, such as magic capacity, ability to respond to act fast, and resilience.

Noah wanted to recruit most of them anyways and quickly convert them into vampiric races, but before that, he decided to train them and see just how willing they were to join him.

Although some gave up and ran away, a large number of Hunters were recruited through these last three days, however, to introduce them to more of the secrets of the Family, Noah personally cursed and enslaved every single Hunter with Bloodline Curse and Bloodline Pact.

The thing was simple, if they were to ever spread information shared in any shape or form, their entire bodies would explode as their blood becomes blood needles and fly out of their flesh.

After this, the Hunters were greeted with the Blood Servants, alongside the truth about the giant castle that could harbor so many people being also a Blood Servant.

After that, all of them were converted into a variety of monsters.

However, Noah didn't bite any of them nor Iris, but Arthur and the rest.

Those that were strong enough were converted into Ghouls and the weaker ones into Wights.

Alongside the other guild members that were already brainwashed, enslaved, and converted such as the Crystal Family Guild, Noah ad over 50 new soldiers ready to obey any order.

And all 50 of them worshiped him as a god, after their "awakening" into Undead, they became fascinated with him, to the extent of doing everything possible to please him, even the most stubborn of hunters became submissive and happy to serve.

Additionally, Arthur's parents became Dhampirs by Noah's grace and were introduced to many things after doing some pacts to keep everything a secret, making things clear for them, and also about the future of the world.

Although they didn't seem to be eager to train, Arthur said that he would take good care of them, and Noah left such responsibility to him.

As a side note, their manor was also converted into a Blood Servant Manor, which many called Scarlet's little sister.

Noah planned to convert it into a castle as he feeds it more materials as well, to harbor even more Vampires in their growing Guild.

But for now, Scarlet was able to harbor all the members of the guild with ease, and even giving them many commodities, although some had their own homes, Noah decided to harbor all Vampires with him so their powers wouldn't spread too much.

Thanks to Scarlet new ability named [Spatial Expansion, she was able to have way more room inside of her than what it truly looked like from the outside, and could actually keep making a few dozens of more. At this point, her interior was so vast that it was like a maze.

The new recruits were put to work almost immediately inside dungeons, as they were of varied Ranks, they began to farm Cores from all Ranks below B-Rank alongside the Blood Servants and Robots, growing stronger while also contributing to the Guild's treasury with a variety of harvested and dropped items.

Noah had also introduced the Contribution Point System, where all guild members were able to earn Contribution Points which they could use to buy a variety of items within what was available, which even included Attribute Value Cores.

Of course, distributing Attribute Value Cores like this was highly illegal, but every single member was fascinated with Noah and was even easily guided, so none of them even opened their mouth about anything, and worked diligently.

As this happened, Noah also planned to convert even more hunters into Undead and Vampires, to make them all his subordinates and grow his influence. The Crystal Family was already the first "awakened" family that he had awakened into becoming Vampiric Undead beings, but the next one on the list was the Silvercrown Family, Clementina's Family!

After glaring at the news about their announcement as A-Rank, many new hunters wanted to join the guild they had ignored, but many of them were in fact spies from other guilds that desired to learn about what kind of beings were the Noctem Family, as many guilds began to become suspicious about what they could do.

The government was also the same, as they learned about the expulsion of these students, which quickly after became A-Rank Hunters… Most of the sergeants felt great regret in losing someone so useful as Noah and his subordinates, which could have become excellent Soldiers.

Many of the students that somehow survived all this time that had met and laughed at Noah were vomiting blood in surprise after knowing everything he had accomplished… Many of them thought that this was some kind of nightmare they were living were something completely impossible was happening, but this was real life.

Although a problem had arisen within Noah's guild when the members became thirsty for blood more than just monster blood, Noah quickly resolved such an issue by giving his own blood. After evolving he became able to produce blood almost endlessly as long as he had calories and mana and had made his own blood bank for everyone to buy blood from… although he also let them hunt weak Hunters in the night from time to time, as long as they did it swiftly.

As all of this unfolded, a person that Noah had converted into a Dhampir long ago in the middle of the streets had finally come back to him and joined the Noctem Family Guild, this man came with a dozen of Ghouls as well, which he had converted, expanding Noah's army eve more.

This man, who used to be some pathetic F-Rank came back as a D-Rank in this little time, surprising Noah.

Due to his loyalty, Noah gave him a contract alongside the other ghouls he bought which he converted, and he was made a Squad Leader with the nickname of Crimson Eyes.

The Crimson Eye Squad, aside from farming materials, was given the task to convert more people into Vampiric Undead for Noah to recruit.

They had decided to start in the poorest areas of the city, beginning to slowly spread their influence and power by converting hopeless people at the border of death and giving them a new life and opportunities, this also included Subhumans and Half-Subhumans that lived like sewer rats within the abandoned area of the city…

Soon enough, Noah would see once more a larger group of fresh recruits, he planned to either eat or convert the entire world into his subordinates and his next target before the Dungeons were to emerge due to the Magic Crystal Meteors was the Silvercrown Family.

He learned about the Magic Crystal Meteors coming to Earth from God's memory fragments, and according to his calculations, they had all arrived and hit Earth, the mana had spread over certain areas, some of the nearby Sector D, and Gates would soon emerge as this miasma disrupts and warps the space.

Due to his calculations, Noah estimated that in about three to four days several Gates would suddenly appear, and he was expectant to go inside them and complete to grab all the prizes for himself.

But first, he wanted to deal with a few other things.

Noah and his main subordinates sat down around a large table as always, after seeing the news about their announcement as A-Rank Hunters, they decided to celebrate with a hearty lunch.

As they enjoyed the feast, Noah and the rest kept discussing and chatting about the progress of everyone.

"How has been the magic training?" asked Noah.

"Oh, in three days we can't really learn that much, but we can more or less make bigger and faster spells now… At least all of us can shape our elements as cannonball-sized projectiles… But to go even further, we would need to practice more," said Arthur.

"It is still easier to simply use our Skills, but magic alone is also interesting, and the unlocked Skill Trees we got from it are special. Such Skills fuse the power of Skills while having a bit of the effect of real spells, which exists outside the System…" said Timassa.

"Although we all have our own System now, it still works within the same "laws" of the system or whatever, so it still restricted by it to an extent… Well, more like it still part of it essentially, but now it is also ours… Well, it's hard to explain…" said Iris.

"No, I understand, Iris. I also am affected by it, but because I got Merlin's memories and also God's memories, magic has become incredibly swift to use for me. Nonetheless, I lack the practice as well, so I am constantly conjuring magic runes and magic circles at the side, proficiency needs to be built even if magic is not necessarily a System Skill, and the repeated use of a certain pattern is a good way to get proficiency and used to conjure them…" said Noah.

It seemed that even after making their own System Status part of their souls, their Systems were still part of some kind of "law" that dictated the System itself.

Due to this, Skills were still not as strong as spells just because their Status were now part of their souls, and Spells still needed to be trained, but training magic was exhausting, and even for Noah who got the memories of a magician expert, he still felt like he needed a ton of practice.

However, similarly to Noah, everyone acquired a Magic Class and had the power to enhance its level through Skill Points, with the addition of Magic Skill Trees that had special Skill and Magic Spell hybrid abilities.

These hybrid abilities had a bit of the power of Spells and could be even more effective against System-users.

However, they were quite expensive Skill Points-wise, and limited in their uses, compared to the strong and more specialized Skill Trees of their Blood Core Races.

The group was desperate about getting stronger at magic because Watchers were obviously not System users, and held their own unique Existence Ranks and power, which came from their amazingly advanced Souls.

To fight a Watcher, Noah and his family needed to go even further than SSS-Rank, and obtain greater levels of power while evolving their souls to their very limits, only to break those limits and evolve them even further.

However, everything had its time, and now the family decided to take a minuscule break in their busy lives of managing the other members of the Guild to grow stronger while training magic and their own Spells as well.

The new Gates where they would train and gain more Cores to break through A-Rank alongside collecting more materials and Skill Points were soon to emerge according to Noah's calculations, but for the meantime, they planned to deal with a few things, one of them was Clementina's family.

"Well, I can see that everyone is working hard. For now, let's discuss our plans for the Silvercrown Family," said Noah.

"Plans? Is there any other plan than going there and wrecking them over?" asked Arthur.

"Aren't the strongest there C-Rank?" asked Jon.

Clementina felt a bit embarrassed, but she nodded.

"I-Indeed. Everyone is rather weak at this point, so we would be able to easily deal with them…" said Clementina.

"Yeah, I don't think there's any need to overwork things…" said Iris.

"No… planning? Well, even if that's the case, I will prepare a few things first. Let's go tonight when we are stronger," said Noah, as everyone nodded.

Joseph Silvercrown Astram was a man who had seen many things in life…

Since the Apocalypse began that he had tried to survive however he could, finding women through such a journey, as he used his powers for good and rescued many people…

However, he never got over C-Rank until now.

After finally having absorbed enough Cores, he upgraded his Status Panel to B-Rank.

The joy he felt was indescribable!

He smiled as he stood up, several metallic fragments forming around his body.

His family was named Silvercrown for a reason, as he possessed a powerful Ability which he awakened when the Apocalypse started, Silver King.

Silver King let Joseph generate Silver at will as long as he spent Mana, he was able to shape it and use it for a variety of purposes.

But because he preferred a peaceful life after suffering so much after the Apocalypse, he had not trained as much and dedicated himself to have wives and many children, expanding his family.

As the fragments of shiny silver emerged around him, Joseph suddenly recalled his daughter, the one that was exiled long ago from the guild… Clementina.

Clementina was the daughter of the first woman he fell in love with after the apocalypse started, Juliette Icespear… She was a masterful use of her Ice-related Abilities, Ice Aura, Ice Materialization, and Ice Manipulation.

Through these three abilities, she carved a path at the side of Joseph for their survival.

But one fateful day, she died bitterly by a mysterious cause, her body found dead and almost torn apart grotesquely within the depths of a dungeon she had gone inside… It was a dungeon she always explored to let some steam out, she had never come back tired, it was her playground.

It was very mysterious how she died so horribly there if she knew so well about that place.

But no culprits were ever found, and investigations ever brought any results.

Joseph was left bitter and frustrated but still kept taking care of the little princess they had together, his dear Clementina.

…But in the end, due to a series of events, Clementina lost her calm and became monstrous and aggressive, wrathful, even…

She tried to kill his other two daughters which he also loved a lot, and after a few manipulative words of his other two wives, he ended being forced to exile her… her powers, which were a powerful Ability that seemed to be an enhanced version of her mother's powers, were too dangerous, and she lacked the finesse of Juliette.

However, up to this day, he still thinks about her and always sends her messages through phone, even letters, and gifts…

But they never reach her, most likely because her wives gave him false numbers and directions to him, which he was completely unaware of.

This entire time he had thought that his daughter was too angered with him and that he didn't accept anything he sent to her… that she didn't answer his messages, nor letters.

Now, he had become a B-Rank, someone that was almost at the pinnacle of humans, yet he felt so empty inside…

"Clementina…" he sighed, glancing at the night sky and the shiny bright moon.

Unaware of this, several shadowy figures ran inside of his property…

Inside of the large property of the Silvercrown Family, within a small hall, four figures sat down around a circular table.

Above the table, there were all types of sweets, pastries, cakes, and more, alongside many types of herbal teas, and the four women sitting around here were enjoying the delicious sweets and the relaxing aromatic tea while chatting leisurely and carefreely…

Their smiles seemed inherently malicious as if they were always like this.

Usually, it would be hard for someone to make an evil smile, but their faces seemed to always have a sadistic smirk to them, which would greatly disturb anyone except themselves… and well, the man of the family, Joseph Silvercrown Astram.

For some reason, he was fine with his two wives and two daughters to always look inherently perverse…

Perhaps he lacked some common sense.

"Fufu, just as we have finally become B-Rank, your father has become B-Rank as well… Now we need to explore more dungeons and finally raise to A-Rank after a few years, we shall become yet another glorious family of A-Rankers," said a silver-haired woman with sharp aquamarine eyes and a beautiful semi-transparent dress, Agatha Windbrand, one of Joseph Silvercrown wives and the mother of their daughter, Anna Silvercrown Windbrand.

"That's right, mother. With the annoying Clementina outside of our family for years, we had never felt this happy before. Just the four of us and daddy… We don't need any wrench like her with us… I hope she's rotting somewhere else…" laughed Anna Silvercrown Windbrand, a beautiful young woman of around 18 years of age, her pale-white skin and beauty was almost unparalleled, and she shared the same features as her mother, but had a long ponytail instead, with silver hair and sharp aquamarine eyes.

"Hm? Clementina? Ah, I had almost forgotten about such a distasteful name… Well, without her things had finally become way better. Daddy gives us more attention and had stopped neglecting us… With her gone, things had really been way better… She was really an annoying little whore…" sighed Julia Silvercrown Luckstrand, the daughter of Guinevere Luckstrand and Joseph Silvercrown, another of Clementina's stepsisters. Her appearance was like her mother, with twin-tailed crimson red hair and glowing emerald eyes. Despite being of a family of high society, she talked rather loosely behind her father's back.

"Fufu, it was so easy to kill Juliette… Really, the imbecile always trusted us so blindly. I guess it was part of the family to be an idiot. That's how her little whore was so easy to deceive… She went so berserk! Julia did amazing work!" laughed Guinevere Luckstrand, a beautiful and mature woman with long crimson hair and bright emerald eyes, wearing a bright red dress, she sipped some tea and kept smiling deviously, as if she were some kind of cliché villain… there were such people in this world.

"Oh yes, it was so delightful to crush her head ad splatter her brains out… Every time I remember that I have a good night. I hated her since the moment she took away the attention from our beloved…" said Agatha.

"Indeed. Although she was there before us, that didn't make her worthy of Joseph… Her screams of agony as I sliced off her legs always brings me a good night's sleep~" said Guinevere.

"Hmmm. Maybe we should have done the same to Clementina?" laughed Julia.

"Oh, that would have been so sweet!" said Anna.

"Oh yes, it would have been lovely, isn't it?"

"Haha! Of course!" said Anna.

"Anna, I didn't say anything…" said Julia.

"Eh?" asked Anna.

Anna suddenly stopped talking, alongside all the three other women around the table, as they felt a chilling presence as if winter itself had entered the room as if the cold winds of the south pole were caressing them with its cold and deadly embrace.

This chilling wind… this horrible, heart-wrenching chilling wind was something they had not felt for a long time… However, unlike that previous time, it was intensified multiple times now.

They felt paralyzed as if the ice had grown a thin layer over their skin and they felt suddenly stuck in place.

A presence which they had not even detected emerged at their side, walking towards them, the lights had suddenly turned off before they moved their eyes towards her, so they could only see the figure of a woman walking through the darkness of the room.

Agatha and Guinevere braced themselves as they began to exert energy into their bodies, quickly shattering the layer of ice over their bodies… they already knew who this was.

"This ice…!" muttered Anna.

"It can't be…! You… How did you get here without us realizing it!?" asked Julia.

"Hm? Can't we have a family reunion from time to time, Anna, Julia? Don't you like to be with your beloved sister?" asked the woman in front of them… a beautiful azure-haired woman with gleaming crimson eyes… her figure was slimmer and even more mature than they remembered as a few years had gone by since they saw her.

But it was undoubtedly her…

"Clementina…" muttered Anna and Julia at the same time.

"Oh my. It seems that my dear sisters remember my name. Come on, where is your strength at? Don't tell me you are going to let me freeze you to death… That wouldn't be fun. And it wouldn't be fulfilling either…" she said coldly, as Anna and Julia began to sweat, although their sweat quickly turned into ice.

The two stepsisters gritted their teeth as they were about to explode and use their powers, however, their mothers were quicker to act!

CRASH!

The two broke their icy prisons, as Guinevere and Agatha confronted Clementina!

"I knew that one day you would come for us, little girl…! Do you have a death wish to dare do such a thing to us?!" roared Agatha, as emerald winds began to flow all around her, like small gusts of slicing airs.

"It is good that you came here for us! We'll crush you as we did to your damn whore of a mother!" roared Guinevere, as several golden strands emerged from below her nails, glowing brightly… these were Golden Strands, the special ability that her family had in many versions.

Clementina's veins suddenly popped up from her forehead and were flowing with blood, as if it were about to explode.

"I always knew it was you who killed her… And since then, since I was exiled, I have been waiting for this moment… And now, I can finally go all out. Don't expect a quick death…" said Clementina, her eyes gleaming with crimson red!

FLASH!

Suddenly, an enormous cold aura emerged out of her body, as she glared coldly at the two women in front of her, and at Anna and Julia who had managed to free themselves from the icy layer keeping them in place.

She kept using her aura until a domain emerged around her, and the entire room was covered in ice!

Guinevere and Agatha were almost blown away by the storm of icy winds and snow, without even understanding how she could have grown so strong in just a few years!

Until they realized that this aura… wasn't even B-Rank like them.

Their eyes almost popping out of their sockets, the two mothers and their daughters would have pissed themselves out of fear if it weren't because their own piss would turn into ice.

"A-Rank?!"

Noah, Iris, Jon, Adamantine, Arthur, and Timassa glared at Clementina confront her past from the sides, through the window, and while floating.

"Noah, is it fine to not help her?" asked Arthur a bit concerned that Clementina might go berserk out of anger and quickly lose her cool.

"It is fine. She personally requested me to deal with all of them, even after she knew that they had just reached B-Rank a few hours ago… She is, after all, A-Rank. If she goes all out, she should be able to crush them all to death," said Noah.

"What about her father?" asked Timassa.

"Her father will be left alive. He will become a Dhampir and join our guild after she deals with her stepsisters and their mothers…" said Noah.

"Sounds good, is her father aware of this?" asked Jon.

"No, it shouldn't. I left a soundproof barrier there, and hypnotized him into sleep, he should be sleeping now…" said Noah.

"Well, let's watch the show for now!" said Iris.

"Indeed, let's see how much she has progressed…" said Noah, as his eyes gleamed with crimson red light.

Meanwhile, inside the hall filled with ice, Clementina showed her Ice Aura to everyone present, scaring them almost to death.

The power she had… it wasn't B-Rank…

It was A-Rank!

Agatha and Guinevere were trembling in fear, Clementina went from a tiny and pathetic whore they despised to an intimidating demon who glared at them from above with scorn.

"This… can't be possible…" said Guinevere.

"No… No…! Clementina… You! You are A-Rank!?" asked Agatha.

Clementina, however, ignored them.

"Ice Soul Armor…" she said, as a sudden armor covered her entire body, her very Icy Soul transformed into an armor themed as her Soul Beast, like a beautiful and slim unicorn made of ice, proud and tremendously intimidating.

A long horn made of ice grew in her forehead over her helmet, and her armor covered her limbs, chest, and more.

Her hands grew long and sharp icy claws, as a long rapier made of this ice appeared as well…

"Mother… Today, I will avenge you…" she said to herself, closing her eyes as she remembered her mother, her smile, her gentleness, her love, her tender, and warm care.

After her death, Clementina's heart completely froze.

But now, it was not frozen, not at all.

It was burning with wrath.

Her eyes gleamed with crimson light, as the armored knightess enhanced her entire body with mana!

Guinevere and Agatha grew more and more fearful until they roared in anger and unleashed their attacks towards her!

An enormous tornado of slicing emerald winds and hundreds of metallic strands flew towards her, seeking to pierce and slash her body into pieces!

"I don't care if you pretend to be an A-Rank with that intimidating aura, there's no way you had become so strong in so little time!" roared Guinevere.

"Yeah…! Do you think you can trick us like that?! Haha! DIE!" laughed Agatha.

Clementina suddenly closed her eyes.

"Ballad of the Cool Fountain…"

Clementina combined her Ice Magic with all her offensive Skills, alongside her own unique technique which she had created, as a sudden surge of icy winds emerged around her… it was as if she was a goddess of ice!

Suddenly, she began to spin with her rapier, rushing towards Agatha and Guinevere, and destroying the golden threads with utmost ease, slicing them into pieces. Meanwhile, the spinning slicing emerald greens began to dissipate by Clementina's sheer strength, as she created a flow of icy winds of her own, which easily overpowered Agatha's.

Clementina reached Agatha and Guinevere but didn't kill them, even though she could have.

Instead, countless slashes, very tiny slashes, showered over their bodies, easily getting through their magic equipment.

Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!

The two women felt a searing pain take over their very minds, as they screamed in agony, which was music for Clementina's ears.

"Nnnngggh… Nnngggrrryaaaaaahhhh…!"

"Nnnnngggaaaggghh…!"

"MOTHER!"

"MOM!"

Julia and Anna screamed over their mother's suffering, as they saw their wounds leak ice, which quickly froze as it fell off their fresh wounds.

Clementina glared at the two as they fell over the icy floor pathetically.

"So these are B-Rank… I guess leaving my humanity aside was for the best. Being a human is so pathetic… filled with weaknesses… Rats… I want to crush you so badly…" sighed Clementina, glaring at the two trembling women as tears began to come out of their eyes.

"P-Please…! Clementina, we are sorry!"

"W-We didn't kill your mother! There were monsters there!"

"We swear!"

"…Do you believe I am a foolish kid? That you can fool me anymore? I am no more the Clementina you knew. I heard you loud and clear as you laughed about how you… did these horrors to her. Your tears are empty, and you are empty…" said Clementina.

"THEN GO FUCK YOURSELF!" roared Agatha, as she unleashed an enormous tornado of slicing winds that she was preparing, hitting Clementina directly with it!

BOOOOOM!

Agatha smiled eerily as she expected to at least have damaged Clementina a bit…

But instead…

"Eh?"

Slash!

The smoke of the explosion was quickly dissipated by a wave of Clementina's Ice Rapier.

She revealed herself to be completely fine.

"Did you think I would have let you do that to me without knowing it wouldn't affect me?" she said, as she cleaned the blood that stained her blade.

A second after, Agatha felt a horrible pain in her left arm, as a fountain of blood exploded out of it, alongside her entire left arm, which fell over the floor, quickly freezing away.

"Nnngh…! Hyyyyaaaaaaaaahhhh!"

Agatha screamed in agony as she tried to stop the enormous fountain of blood coming out of her wound, while Guinevere glared at Clementina in shock.

Indeed, she was not the same as before…

Julia and Anna had tried to run away by their mother's wishes, but they were easily stopped by the icy walls all around the room.

"It's hopeless… Clementina, please… Don't kill our daughters…" cried Guinevere.

"Kill us… but not them…!" groaned Agatha.

"W-We killed your mother, but they are innocent!" said Guinevere.

"I'm glad you admit it…" said Clementina, as she walked near the two trembling girls, glaring at them with her cold eyes, it was as if for her, they were insignificant, nothing at all.

"But it wouldn't be good if you don't get the suffer the same pain I did…" she said, grabbing Julia from the air, and carrying her as if she were an animal.

Whatever attack that Julia used was completely useless against Clementina's armor, and she began to scream in agony as she was being carried by her hair.

"L-Let me goooo! Moooommm! LET ME GOOO!" she screamed.

Guinevere's eyes began to pop out of her sockets as she screamed in desperation.

"LET HER GOOOOOOO!"

All of her golden threads flew out of her body as they reached Clementina, but with a single slash of her Ice Rapier, they were all slashed into pieces, and Guinevere was covered in a thin layer of ice once more.

"Experience the same pain as I did," said Clementina, as she moved her rapier towards the crying Julia, and slowly sliced her neck, blood dripping off it slowly.

The girl began to convulse as she struggled to live, her eyes becoming completely bloodshot, as she cried and glared at her mother's spirit break into pieces.

"Nnngghooghh… Nnaagghh… M-Mom… Gggoghgeeggh…"

"JULIAAAAAAAAAA!"

Clementina smiled, as she dropped the corpse of Julia into the ground.

"That's right. You finally get it, don't you? My pain…" said Clementina.

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Iris and everyone else had been training diligently these last days, alongside enhancing the power of their souls by consuming other souls and also by conjuring magic continuously.

The moment Noah emerged at the side of everyone, mostly everyone kneeled, except her, who simply kissed him lovingly.

"You're finally done, it seems… And look at that…" said Iris, as Noah smiled.

"Everyone should be ready now… It seems that the news had quickly reported the gates, they are all over the city, so it would be too hard for the government to hide them, it seems," laughed Noah, as he and everyone else listened to the news.

A beautiful blonde woman with emerald eyes wearing a blue dress began to speak to a microphone, right in front of an enormous, red-colored gate that twisted continuously in an illusory spectacle that defied the laws of physics.

"It has only been three hours since the Gates have emerged all around the world, an event of catastrophic levels which has not happened since the beginning of the Apocalypse. The most dangerous thing is that all Gates are red-colored, meaning that they are B-Rank and above, and brimming with monsters…"

Suddenly, a man wearing military clothes walked near the woman.

"Go away from here, this site is being closed!"

"Eh? But sir, the people need to know about the dangers that gates can bring! We need to evacuate the people!" said the reporter.

The man, who had a gray mustache and whose Noah immediately recognized as a sergeant that administrated all the Military Schools around Sector D, Ivan Shade.

Ivan Shade, although old-looking, was an A-Rank Hunter himself, and held great authority over the military and also the government of Sector D.

He quickly grabbed the microphone of the woman and began to speak directly at the camera, as his gray eyes flashed with resolve.

"Do not worry, people of Sector D. All Gates will be promptly taken down by the Hunters and the Soldiers we have been nurturing through this time. Don't believe false propaganda, this is not another Era of Chaos!"

"What is he even talking about? All of this is bad…" said Clementina.

"He's trying to control the masses, if Sector D loses most of the people living here, many things will stop functioning and the Sector as a whole would fall apart…" said Noah.

The news was suddenly cut off as the reporter inside the channel continued speaking about the Gates.

"Well… that was something. Anyways, more Gates have been seen not only within Sector D but also all Sectors across the world had reported that there were at least 12 Red-colored Gates around their territories… And additionally, just a few minutes ago, it has been reported that a gate of gargantuan proportions had emerged within central America, within the wild areas of the jungle… It is speculated by experts that this Gate… is of a Rank above SSS-Rank, a Rank that is yet to be given a proper name," said the woman.

After hearing this Noah smiled, as his crimson eyes gleamed with interest.

Noah kept changing channels until he found another channel trying to Livestream the gate while the military was trying to block them, and Noah had an idea…

"How about we increase the reputation of our Guild even more?" he said, as he called upon Noire.

"What do you have in mind?" asked Iris curiously.

"Let's shake the world…" said Noah, as he grabbed Iris's hands and Noire submerged both of them into the shadows, traveling through the shadows of the city within seconds, and suddenly reaching the area where the large, red-colored gate being reported by the cameras were.

Flash.

A sudden mass of shadows appeared right in the middle of the recording, as Noah and Iris appeared right away, alongside a strange, gray-colored robot at their side wearing maid-outfits, Noire!

All the reporters that glanced at this were shocked, they had never seen a Hunter having such an ability before!

However, they easily recognized the man and the woman that emerged, they were the infamous leaders of the Noctem Family Guild, the infamous guild whose members increased to A-Rank in a bit over a week, and that had been steadily recruiting more and more members through this last week, more than any guild around the world!

"Is that…?"

"That's the leader of the Noctem Familiar Guild, the Guild Master, Noah!"

"What? Did he had such an ability?"

"And that woman… it's Iris, another A-Rank hunter from his guild…"

"Such powerful auras… They are really authentic A-Rank Hunters…!"

The reporters all recognized them, and so did the reporters and the military men.

Ivan quickly noticed the large quantities of mana emerging out of nowhere, as he walked towards the commotion, finding Noah and Iris, former students of one of the Military Schools he administrated.

"So they had come…" he said, while slowly walking towards them, he wanted to ask them a few things.

Noah quickly walked towards the nearest reporter, grabbing her microphone forcefully and glaring directly at the camera.

"We, the Noctem Family, will partake in the cleansing of all Gates in Sector D!"

All the people around them, even Ivan, and everyone else around all of Sector D glancing at the TV right now were shocked!

Noah had shamelessly said that his Guild would cleanse all Gates in the Sector!

Even as an A-Rank, there were also S-Rank Gates and above, to even dare say such a thing so shamelessly… who did the think he was?!

Even more, as he had just recently become a popular Hunter… was Noah getting off the rails and becoming too cocky?

"S-Sir Noah… can you repeat what you say?" asked a reporter at his side.

"Did I stutter? I said that we, the Noctem Family, would cleanse all Gates in Sector D. Did you hear anything wrong in my statement?" asked Noah, his pressure was immense to the point that even people watching TV felt it!

"A-Ah… But… what?"

"That's… even as A-Ranks…"

"He's crazy…"

"What is he even saying?"

"These Gates are filled with strong and never-seen-before monsters, many of these Gates are above A-Rank too!"

"Has he gone insane?"

Noah glared at every person questioning him as his sharp eyes made them paralyzed in the spot, chills began to run through all of these people's spines, as they felt their legs trembling in fear, some even pissed themselves right in the spot!

There was even a small man that fell unconscious by his gaze alone!

"It is a good thing that we have been gathering more and more recruits. And it is also my pleasure to announce that more than 20 of my recruits had already become B-Rank yesterday…" said Noah, shocking anyone left standing even more!

"Additionally, we shall cleanse all Gates in less than a week, and show the world the might of our Guild," said Noah.

After stating that, Noah was showered with questions of those bold enough to ask.

"How?!"

"How are you doing that, Noah?!"

"That's… I am sorry for saying this, but you are a delusional man!"

Noah smiled and laughed.

"It is not delusion, it is a fact. I will no longer say anything else. Just watch," said Noah, as Iris glanced at him with admiration.

Suddenly, Noah was about to summon the rest of the Vampiric Undead, Robots, and more, until Ivan walked towards him and confronted him.

"So you are Noah… The infamous weakest human of my school…" he said.

Noah glanced at the man expressionlessly.

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As the night went by, Clementina tortured the women that mercilessly slaughtered her mother out of pure jealously, killing their daughters horribly in front of them and then slowly cutting them into tiny pieces, making sure that they were alive up to the last bit.

After what seemed like an eternity for Clementina, she had exerted her revenge.

And she felt… oddly free.

It was as if bathing in their blood and making them scream in agony until the very last moment of their lives had made her feel incredibly relaxed now.

She felt as if a huge weight were lifted off her shoulders, it was as if she could even fly now.

The feeling of serenity she felt was… surreal.

Any ordinary person would immediately realize that she was probably a psychopath.

But weren't the ones she tortured and killed psychos too anyways? Except for their daughters… but the little whores were probably psychos in training anyways.

So Clementina didn't felt any sort of guilt, she had tortured and slaughtered scum that didn't even deserve to live, so she didn't felt particularly bad about it.

After seeing their frozen corpses for the last time, Noah and the rest finally entered the frozen room.

"How do you feel now, Clementina? Was this fulfilling? Was this what you wanted?" asked Noah.

"I don't really know if this was truly fulfilling nor what I wanted… but I did it anyways and I feel… very calm. Even relaxed," said Clementina.

"Oh, well that's what always happens when we kill assholes," said Noah.

"Indeed, like when I taught little Adamantine here how to be a good little dog," said Iris, petting Adamantine's head.

"Mistress pettings~," said Adamantine as she waved her tail made of shadows around.

"Yes, yes~ Who is the cutest little dog~?" said Iris, as she petted Adamantine as if she was really just the pet of the family…

"O-Oh, I see…" said Clementina.

"Well, I am glad you feel better. And… Oh? Look at that, some Ability Cores too… Here," said Noah, giving the four Ability Cores to Clementina.

"Eh? Me?" asked Clementina.

"Why not? You killed them, so therefore, they're yours, this is your prize, accept it and move on, Clementina. Your father awaits your reunion after so long," said Noah.

"Ah… You are right, Noah-sama…" said Clementina, grabbing the Ability Cores and saving them inside her Interdimensional Storage Ring.

Noah glanced at the frozen corpses, as he tried out if it could work even if the corpses were frozen.

"Rise," he said, activating Blood Soul Servant, as a flash of crimson light fell over the mushed up and frozen corpses.

A sudden burst of crimson light and phantasmal energies converged together, as the frozen corpses began to absorb the ice of the ambient…

"Eh? That's new…" said Iris.

"Oh? Interesting. Perhaps the way they die might affect what they become now… very interesting indeed… Now, merge," said Noah, as he merged the Blood Servants while they were still raising, combining them all into a giant figure…

The figure quickly stood up, resembling a large and tall knight made entirely out of frozen blood, possessing 8 Arms and 8 Legs, alongside 4 Heads that simply resembled statues, and a blade of frozen blood at each arm…

Ding!

[You have raised the [Blood Soul Servant: Multi-Armed Frozen Blood Knight: General Grade]!]

"Oho…" said Noah, rubbing his chin as he admired his new necrotic creation.

"Oh, I guess they can still be useful to you after death, Noah-sama…" said Clementina.

"Indeed they will… Now… How about Lust for a name? After all, they did this to you because they were jealous of your mother… Lusting over your father… A fitting name for the damned" said Noah.

Noah felt a small piece of his soul fuse with the Blood Servant made of Clementina's former stepmothers and stepsisters, giving it a slight boost to their power.

Ding!

[You have named the [Blood Soul Servant: Multi-Armed Frozen Blood Knight: General Grade] as [Lust]!]

"OooOOooOooOOOOoooooOHHHhhh…"

Lust left out a phantasmal and eerie groan, raising its large and upgraded frozen blood blades, it seemed that it didn't have the egos of the corpses and souls it was made of.

"An interesting specimen no less… Another General to the pile," said Noah, as Lust quickly jumped inside of his Inner Realm, stored there for the time being, while also using that time to greet the other Blood Servants.

"I am glad I could help you in the creation of a new General-grade Blood Servant, my lord," said Clementina politely.

"Now let's go see your father, Clementina…" said Noah, as his eyes flashed with crimson red light.

Joseph suddenly woke up dizzy.

He could swear that he had just recently become a B-Rank… and then drank some vodka.

Did he fell asleep while being drunk?

However, it was far from the truth.

He found himself tied by what seemed like slimy red tentacles, ad the stench of blood filled his nostrils, making him even dizzier.

Alongside that, there was a particularly chilly air in the ambient.

He couldn't help but wonder where he heck was…

He suddenly felt a strange itching sensation over his neck, as if something had punctured it, and then rubbed the wound until it infected and made it incredibly itchy…

"Ungh… Where am I?" he wondered, as his eyes seemed to have turned red out of the sudden and he felt as if his senses had sharpened by a tenfold.

"Hello, father…"

Suddenly, Joseph was startled by the voice of someone.

It was a bit different, but it was her…

"Clementina…" he said, as he glared in front of him, finding his daughter which he missed every day more beautiful than ever. She had become a vivid image of her mother and had matured into a fine young woman.

"I bit you because I still hold some concern for you. Albeit very faint, I want you to serve my lord," said Clementina.

"Your… lord?" asked Joseph, still quite dizzy.

"My lord is benevolent and accepts anyone as long as they are willing to work hard, but if you don't want to work hard that is also fine, as I will maintain you, you can live however you please as long as you stay safe and within our territory," said Clementina.

"Eh? What are you…? Clementina, why am I tied? What is going on? Why are your eyes… red?" asked Joseph.

"I have stopped being a human, father. I am now a Dhampir. And you too, are a Ghoul…" said Clementina.

"G-Ghoul…?" asked Joseph, realizing that the weird sensations and sharp senses he felt could be linked to whatever his daughter was speaking about.

"Your two wives and your two other daughters had been killed by me, I did this out of selfishness and without caring about your opinion over the situation… Albeit I know you would have opposed it. I don't care what you think of me, nor how you might feel after realizing that what I am saying is not a dream but reality, but I wish you a good life," said Clementina.

"W-What…?! You… No… My daughter, what nonsense are you talking about? Free me from here…!" said Joseph.

"Goodbye, father," said Clementina, walking away, as a large, red-colored skeletal hand touched Joseph's head from behind, the voice of an old man resonated through his ears.

"Hmm… What a fine brain… Time to parasitize youuuuu…"

"E-Ehh?! A-Aaagh! Aaaggghhh! Clementinaaaaaaaa…!"

The next morning, the Silvercrown Family Guild had become yet another of the Noctem Family Guild associated Guilds, serving them from within the shadows.

Any surviving members were about to be invited into the Noctem Family for a "Transfer", which meant being converted into Vampiric Undead, most likely. Being turned into powerful fiends of the night that also would serve Noah with great loyalty.

Clementina's father, Joseph Silvercrown was turned into a Ghoul by her and then parasitized and brainwashed by Envy (Albert Merlin) and made into a loyal pawn as well, which would handle most of the paperwork of the Guild Alliance, alongside administrating resources to the main house too, much like the Crystal Family Wights.

After all of such events, any ordinary person would think that they deserved a good rest, but the Vampire Family was busier than ever, as they practiced Magic constantly together within the large main hall of the Manor, alongside many new recruits, which Noah picked up from within the dozens they had.

The more talented with magic which he found through his sharp senses and connections with them were brought here, which were a small class of 10.

They varied from D-Rank to C-Rank, with the C-Rank all getting near B-Rank already by farming incessantly inside C-Rank Dungeons, which were still publicly available unlike the rare B-Rank and A-Rank Dungeons.

All of the members present had pale-white skin and crimson eyes, with hair colors that varied a lot, but were all quite colorful.

They were all meditating while Noah and his main subordinates alongside Iris, his wife, were also meditating while doing many magic circles at the same time, this was called "multi-tasking magic training" and it helped them control the influx of Mana around their bodies while also practicing the mental engravement of magic runes over magic circles, which was of vital importance to conjure magic.

While everyone did this, Noah glared at his students.

They were all gathering their mana around their bodies while trying to create the mana circles and the magic runes that he had told them to make with fine detail.

Although all of them here were talented, talents had grades, especially those of magic.

One in a thousand people would be born with an innate magic talent, which could let them use magic outside the system.

But because there was no such thing widespread, everyone used the system anyways.

However, Noah grabbed these people and taught them what was using Mana was all about, and had unlocked their Magic Levels and Classes as well, similarly to how he gave Blood Cores to every new Vampiric Undead Member, giving them the power of having Skill Trees (albeit very weak compared to his Skill Trees or his subordinates Skill Trees).

Grades of Talent went from C to A, although most here were between C and B, there were two with A-Grade Talent, who was managing to get something done quite quickly.

One of them was a muscular man with a scar over his face and short black hair, his name was Rodrigo, and he was a C-Rank Hunter who specialized in using a large blade and fire-attribute skills, after becoming a Ghoul, however, his fire turned into black flames, and he gained greater strength.

However, despite him looking all muscular, he had the exceptional magic talent of A-Grade.

His element? Fire, of course.

Flash.

A small ember suddenly generated in the middle of Rodrigo's hands, alongside a tiny magic circle around it.

"A-Ah! I did it, Noah-sama!" he said rather happily.

"I can see that, well done. Continue for now until you can make the flame the size of your fist. After that, we'll move to projectile training," said Noah, pointing to Rodrigo and everyone else the large wall he had created using Elemental Blood Gem, which was used to test how strong their magic could be.

"I see, very well then! Magic is not so hard as I originally thought, I will do my best for the Family, my lord," said Rodrigo, quickly putting his mind into molding the red ember around a bit more, slowly trying to make it bigger.

However, the other A-Grade Talent in magic wouldn't let Rodrigo get all the praises from their beloved master, as he immediately put all of his intent into his magic until his family worked…

A faint yellow glow, which turned into a tiny seed where a small leaf sprouted from.

This was nature attribute magic, or life attribute, to be precise.

The young man who seemed way younger than Rodrigo smiled warmly and adorably, his appearance was rather effeminate, and he had long pink hair with a face that would be easy to confuse with that of a girl, it didn't help that his body was small, slender, and delicate.

"Ah…! Master, I did it! Look!" he said happily, as Noah nodded.

"Well done, Lumis," said Noah.

The boy, named Lumis, smiled happily after getting Noah's praise, as a long, pink-colored fox-like tail emerged from his back and began to wave around happily… he was a half-subhuman that was rescued from the streets by Noah's group when they were looking for more members through the last days.

Although he wasn't even awakened yet, Noah was able to discern his A-Grade Magic Talent almost immediately, and gave him a hand, alongside carrying many of the other half-subhuman he was with.

He sheltered them and they were converted into Vampiric Undead promptly after, since then he had become a D-Rank Hunter already through dungeon farming with his party, and had been also training magic through these often calm and silent classes of meditation.

Lumis held the attribute affinity with Life and Nature, a very rare one, so Noah saw him as quite valuable, and wanted him to get good at magic as fast as possible… if he could become good at it, wouldn't it be possible for him to fill the world with nature once more?

Although Noah wasn't thinking of the world but to actually use his powers to produce plants for food or to plant inside his flesh and blood inner realm.

Lumis was obedient and loyal, so Noah didn't mind his overly cheerful personality.

The mana training continued as Noah showcased his superiority in the use of mana and the creation of magic circles, as he had inherited Merlin's knowledge of magic, he became amazing at it but needed practice, so he was constantly conjuring dozens of magic circles until his mana was to become zero, wait for it to regenerate and then conjure again.

Flash, flash, flash, flash, flash.

Rodrigo and Lumis alongside the other students glanced at Noah with admiration, as many magic circles appeared and disappeared around him.

Then, he quickly conjured his two magic affinities, darkness, and blood.

A power outside of the system itself appeared through every magic circle, as Noah put all the intent and imagination he could into their creation…

Suddenly, a wave of floating blood appeared, which turned into thin needles, large blades, giant shields, waves of blood, and spheres of blood…

And the darkness also expanded and contracted, sometimes absorbing the light around it, and other types merging with Noah's shadow.

He was still slowly getting through this, but he felt like his Magic ability has increased a lot outside of the System… but this was not near as enough compared to the goals he wanted to reach.

Due to this, Noah needed more than just this, and he decided to see if he could spend the Skill Points he has been saving these last days at last.

In these last days, Noah had been absorbing Skill Points while already having over 40000 from what he acquired eating the Divine Soul of Excalibur and also the fragments of God.

Due to this, he had a large number of new Skill Points, going as far as over 50000!

He quickly checked his Status to see his Stats and correct amount of Skill Points…

[Noah Luna Noctem]

[Class(es): Warlock (I)]

[Patron(s): Bloodshot Eye]

[Bloodline: Vampire (Evolved)]

[Blood Core Rank: Level IV: Noble-Born Vampire Count]

[Vitality: 1510]

[Mind: 1510]

[Force: 1510]

[Skill Points: 58.000]

In the end, Noah ended with 58000 Skill Points, a surprising amount of Skill Points gathered in such a little time, it was really something he was surprised about, which made him instinctively smile.

With this, he was confident that he might be able to max out a Skill Tree right away.

But which one?

Before, he didn't have to choose, but now he had two Skill Trees, his Warlock Skill Tree which he had yet to touch, and then the Vampire Skill Tree.

Skill Trees seemed seemingly endless as long as he could keep progressing and had Skill Points.

He was already a Level IV Vampire, yet he still acquired a new and interesting Skill Tree, and whenever he maxed out the Warlock Skill Tree, he would get even more Skill Trees after that.

However, after considering it for some time, Noah decided to pick the Vampire Skill Tree first, as he would have to wait until hitting S-Rank to finally get the next one, it would be nice to max out the current one, he had already calculated that he had enough Skill Points to completely wreck this Skill Tree.

[Level: IV]

[Noble-Born Vampire Count (0/2000): Spend Skill Points into this branch to unlock more of the innate strength of the Blood Progenitor, such as bonus Attribute Values, Skills, and more.

Additional Abilities can be unlocked after the Branch is Maxed.

Additional Abilities (I): [Lifeblood Exceed: Lunar Slash (0/3000), [Lifeblood Exceed: Execution (0/3500), [Lifeblood Exceed: Vampiric Blast (0/4000)]

Additional Abilities (II): [Noble-Born Vampire: Undeath (0/4500), [Noble-Born Vampire: Bloodline Creation (0/5000), [Noble-Born Vampire: Blood Ritual (0/5500)]

Additional Abilities (III): [Blood Soul Mender: Blood Soul Fusion (0/6000), [Blood Soul Mender: Bloodline Soul (0/6500), [Blood Soul Mender: Vampiric Guider (0/7000)]

Noah immediately noticed that the new Skills seemed tied.

Each row of Additional Abilities seemed to be connected, unlike before.

Lifeblood Exceed had three Skills, Lunar Slash, Execution, and Vampiric Blast.

Noble-Born Vampire had Undeath, Bloodline Creation, and Blood Ritual.

And Blood Soul Mender has Blood Soul Fusion, Bloodline Soul, and Vampiric Guider.

All of them seemed interesting and also strange, Noah wondered why they were connected now, but perhaps it could be meant that each Skill was simply a part of a single Skill made by all three that had three abilities within it?

Noah simply decided to spend the Skill Points and max the Skill Tree right away, seeing for himself what was this all about.

Ding!

[You exchanged 2000 Skill Points!]

[The [Noble-Born Vampire Count] Branch has been maxed!]

[You gained bonus Attribute Values]

[You gained bonus Skill Proficiency]

[You can now exchange Additional Abilities for Skill Points!]

"No bonus Skill? Hmph, though the additional Attribute Values are good…"

Ding!

[You exchanged 3000 Skill Points!]

[You learned the [Lifeblood Exceed: Lunar Slash] Skill]

Ding!

[You exchanged 3500 Skill Points!]

[You learned the [Lifeblood Exceed: Execution] Skill!]

Ding!

[You exchanged 4000 Skill Points!]

[You learned the [Lifeblood Exceed: Vampiric Blast] Skill!]

Ding!

[The [Lifeblood Exceed: Lunar Slash, [Lifeblood Exceed: Execution, and [Lifeblood Exceed: Vampiric Blast] Skills have merged into the complete Skill [Lifeblood Exceed Techniques: 1 (A)] Skill!]

Ding!

[You exchanged 4500 Skill Points!]

[You learned the [Noble-Born Vampire: Undeath] Skill!]

Ding!

[You exchanged 5000 Skill Points!]

[You learned the [Noble-Born Vampire: Bloodline Creation] Skill!]

Ding!

[You exchanged 5500 Skill Points!]

[You learned the [Noble-Born Vampire: Blood Ritual] Skill!]

Ding!

[The [Noble-Born Vampire: Undeath, [Noble-Born Vampire: Bloodline Creation, and [Noble-Born Vampire: Blood Ritual] Skills have merged into the complete Skill [Noble-Born Vampire Capabilities: 1 (A)]!]

Ding!

[You exchanged 6000 Skill Points!]

[You learned the [Blood Soul Mender: Blood Soul Fusion] Skill!]

Ding!

[You exchanged 6500 Skill Points!]

[You learned the [Blood Soul Mender: Bloodline Soul] Skill!]

Ding!

[You exchanged 7000 Skill Points!]

[You learned the [Blood Soul Mender: Vampiric Guider] Skill!]

[The [Blood Soul Mender: Blood Soul Fusion, [Blood Soul Mender: Bloodline Soul, and [Blood Soul Mender: Vampiric Guider] Skills have merged into the complete Skill [Blood Soul Mender Arts: 1 (A)]!]

Ding!

[You have maxed the Skill Tree!]

[To proceed with evolution, complete the following requirement: Have 2400 Stats in all Attribute Values]

"They fused?!" thought Noah in surprise, he had expected that the Skills would come by themselves, but in the end, they all merged together into "Complete Skills".

After maxing an entire Skill Tree, Noah spent 47.000 Skill Points, leaving him at a measly amount of 11.000 Skill points.

With this, he could still get some Skills from the Warlock Skill Tree though, but before deciding on spending Skill Points in that Skill Tree, Noah decided to check the information about his new Skills.

[Lifeblood Exceed Techniques: 1 (A)]

These are the special Techniques that someone capable of using their own Lifeblood as a weapon, pushing themselves to their very limits and using their very vitality as the strongest weapon.

Harness the power of your lifeblood and destroy your enemies with incredibly fast attacks that can decimate anything that stands in your path.

[Lifeblood Exceed: Lunar Slash: Concentrate all your lifeblood into an enormously powerful crimson red and purple slash in the shape of the moon. This attack can ignore 50% of the foe's defenses and drain 100% of the damage dealt as Health.

The power of this technique increases by 50% while fighting below the moonlight.

[Lifeblood Exceed: Execution: While using Lunar Slash, concentrate the innermost of your fury and sacrificial power, and release a strong vertical slash that can even distort space by a small amount, anything that survives such an attack receives a cursed wound that cannot easily heal back.

[Lifeblood Exceed: Vampiric Blast: After using Execution, unleash the entire power of your Blood Core and harness the innermost of your total power into a single blast of Vampiric Power that can ignore defenses and drain 100% of any damage dealt, while also leaving anyone that survives with many curses spread all around their bodies.

After the use of this combo, there is a cooldown of 10 minutes, and the user cannot use any of these Techniques for that time.

Noah glanced at the first Skill, which brought quite the ridiculous amount of abilities and effects.

With this skill he would be able to unleash powerful attacks that used his very lifeblood to activate, which was a combination of his soul, blood, vitality, and mana.

Although the abilities were immensely strong, they also came accompanied by big drawbacks, such as being weakened by using them continuously as they drained all of his power.

However, their strength was ridiculous, and if he managed to unleash all three one after another, he would be able to decimate probably anything that stood before him… although there should be other beings that could resist it, he believed that at least within all A-Rank Monsters and Hunters, nothing would survive this.

But because it would weaken him after a single use of the combo attack, he planned to use it in dire situations.

Noah continued inspecting his new Skills, as he analyzed the ones that had the simplest of names…

[Noble-Born Vampire Capabilities: 1 (A)]

As a Noble-Born Vampire, you possess abilities that easily surpass even other types of Vampiric Undead and Demons, giving you a great advantage against them.

[Noble-Born Vampire: Undeath: As a Vampire, you are a member of a Race of Undead, of the highest grade and strength.

As an Undeath creature, your resilience is simply supernatural, reducing damage taken by up to 50% based on how much Health you are missing.

[Noble-Born Vampire: Bloodline Creation: As a Noble-Born Vampire, you possess amazing control over the Blood Attribute, and your own blood, alongside the ethereal power of Bloodlines, which connects many members that share the same blood as you, an essential power that all types of beings that possess Blood possess.

Now you are capable of creating your own bloodline, automatically giving it to anyone you have ever converted into a Vampiric Undead. Your bloodline effects and abilities will develop further as you grow stronger.

Current Bloodline Effects:

Increased Soul Development and Soul Regeneration.

High Resistance to Curses of any kid.

Natural use of Blood as a weapon, despite not being pure Vampires.

[Noble-Born Vampire: Blood Ritual: As a Noble-Born Vampire, your ability over blood is of the finest kind, giving you the ability to create Blood Rituals where you can transform other living beings into Vampiric Creatures ad customize their powers and races as you infuse more of your Blood, Soul, Mana, and other materials.

"This is amazing!" thought Noah while clenching his fists, just as amazing as the previous Skill, this one possessed a series of incredibly useful effects that brought a lot of new things to the table.

First of all, they were all seemingly passive and didn't need activation, it simply gave him new powers.

The first one gave him the ability to reduce more and more damage as his HP lowered.

HP was a hidden stat calculated by Vitality, similarly to mana and magic calculated by Mind. Most of Noah's attacks, if not all of them, used his own HP, but because of his outstanding regeneration, he was able to use it quite freely, and he could even drain more HP from his enemies, making his fighting style a cycle of sacrificing HP to drain it back from those he slaughters.

This is why Noah can fight against so many monsters at the same time, as fighting against many actually benefits him more than 1v1 fights because there are more targets to drain their HP from.

Afterward came Bloodline Creation, which had already automatically created a Bloodline for him and anyone who has been converted by him (and possibly anyone born from those converted).

Such a Bloodline brought amazing effects to those that had it, although such effects seemed already in effect, after being made into Skills, their effects strengthened to new levels.

The Ability effect stated that to make his bloodline stronger, he simply needed to grow stronger.

And lastly came Blood Ritual, which let him convert anything he wanted (as long as it had blood) into a Vampiric being, and even things such as race and more could be customized, giving him the possibility of even generating new races of beings…

Before he was only able to convert humans, half-subhumans, and subhumans, but perhaps now he could be able to even convert monsters into Vampires… imagining a Vampire Goblin was a bit ridiculous, but it could be possible now…

Noah continued analyzing his abilities, going to the next Skill in the list of Skills that were made by merging with Skills he unlocked from the Skill Tree by exchanging Skill Points, Blood Soul Mender Arts.

This Skill seemed to be related to the control of Souls and Blood, although it seemed to med both together into something akin to necromancy through blood, something that Noah was already doing through Blood Servants and its awakened version, Blood Soul Servant.

Perhaps this means that he now could manipulate souls outside of Blood Servants as long as he converted them into blood souls? He was incredibly curious, and Noah couldn't help but immediately analyze the new Skill with great detail and utmost interest.

[Blood Soul Mender Arts: 1 (A)]

As a Noble-born Vampire, your power over Blood and Souls is immense, being able to connect both and become incredibly talented in the manipulation of the essence of all life, and the true existence of all living and unliving beings, souls.

[Blood Soul Mender: Blood Soul Fusion: Concentrate the power that you have over blood and merge your blood with the souls it touches, giving you total control over them, to the point of being able to control them, create new Blood Soul Servants of all shapes and sizes, and even fusing them together to acquire new soldiers, or even to upgrade your own soul even further beyond.

[Blood Soul Mender: Bloodline Soul: As a Blood Soul Mender, your power over blood and souls is immense, giving you the ability to give your own Bloodline a soul, making it a powerful asset to you and anyone that possess it, by giving your bloodline a soul, this bloodline gains conscience and becomes a great entity that watches over all those before you.

Additionally, you will be able to share your soul power more easily with anyone that possess your bloodline, and through your bloodline servants, you can also gain new power every day through their worship, sacrifices, and a shared amount of the souls and blood they consume, feeding you with constant energy as you progress and break any limits before you.

The more people you recruit within your bloodline, the stronger you will be able to grow.

[Blood Soul Mender: Vampiric Guider: You have the power to mend souls and blood, and anyone that follows your path and beliefs, worshipping your existence, shall become guided by the Vampiric Path.

Anyone guided by you will acquire a greater Soul Strength, alongside rapid Soul Recovery, the ability to Eat Souls, and also the power to develop their Soul into a Soul Beast.

Additionally, a great boost to their growth in all types of proficiency is given, which multiplies as the Skill Proficiency increases.

Noah smiled wickedly as he saw the power he had acquired.

With this, he was able to control souls as long as he infused them his own soul and blood into them, becoming a necromancer of sorts.

The best thing was that he was not simply restricted to the use of the Blood Soul Servant Skill to control Souls, but he could do it completely independently of the Blood Soul Servant Skill, and even do many things with other being souls!

Even to the point of fusing them with himself to increase the power of his soul!

Just as he had done in the fight against The Lady of the Lake, when his soul was blown into bits, he used the souls of his Blood Servants as a sticky, blood substance that helped him stitch his soul pieces back up together!

With this and the other abilities, wasn't he given now an immense amount of new capabilities?

He couldn't help but be excited about his next Dungeon diving!

However, Noah calmed himself as he continued meditating and practicing magic…

Above the skies of Earth, within the boundless space that filled the endless emptiness, God watched over Earth.

Although it has been a bit over a week since it last fought against Noah, the many minds within God were still concerned and fearful of the Vampire.

They had begun to investigate what was he truly, and where did he acquire such powers, many of the minds were obsessed with finding out what he was and if he had a weakness to exploit, but because of their position and conditions, God was not able to do anything more to Noah for the moment.

He had completely cut his connection with the mainframe of the System by converting the System Seed (Or System Cube as he called it) into his own System, fusing it with his Soul and Blood Core and making it his own power.

And even though they had considered targeting those he was close with, he quickly "freed" them from the System's mainframe as well, doing the same thing he did to his System Seed and fusing the System Seeds of his subordinates with their souls and their own Blood Cores, freeing them from the all-powerful System that reigned above Earth, whose God was a System Moderator.

He had even connected his own System with the Systems of all his subordinates through the ethereal connection of his Vampiric Bloodline Soul, which happened a few days ago after he completed yet another Skill Tree and grew exponentially stronger.

A mortal such as him was already delving into the control of souls, something that no mortal in Earth had achieved so fast such as him, and although there might have existed some, they all had perished at this point due to lifespan, but unlike them, Noah had no lifespan and could live indefinitely.

This meant that as long as he kept himself alive, he would sooner or later develop even better abilities regarding the manipulation of souls and his own, which could even end up making him a God.

However, they were completely unaware that Noah had already become something like a pseudo-demi-deity, as he had begun to constantly gain power through the worship and belief of anyone that he converted into his bloodline through the Bloodline Soul that connected his soul to all those who had his bloodline.

And each passing day he found more and more subjects which he trained and then converted into Vampiric Undead, bringing him more power.

In only three days since he acquired Bloodline Soul, he had already recruited 20 more people into his Guild, which was perhaps the Guild that had recruited the most members in the least amount of time in the entire world.

They were also completely unaware of his amazing powers over souls and his blood servants which developed into monsters of their own, each one of them having monstrous capabilities and abilities never seen before, such as Scarlet, who kept developing into a gigantic castle-fortress with the ability to have a larger internal space than it seemed from the outside.

Thanks to Scarlet and her new Sister, the manor that belonged to Arthur and his parents, Noah was able to welcome hundreds of people with ease, although his Guild members had yet to reach 100.

Noah was shamelessly building an immense Empire of Immortal Blood-sucking beings in the middle of a city, where all the people around them were completely unaware of what was happening below their very noses.

At each passing day, Noah kept growing stronger due to the worship too, and his capabilities became ridiculous, even as an A-Rank Hunter if he were to go all out, he would surely have the same strength of a peak S-Rank Hunter…

But Noah had little interest in other Hunters at the moment, as he patiently awaited the Gates to emerge…

God watched over Earth, as it detected that the many Mana Crystal Meteors that fell over Earth, which poured ridiculously immense quantities of mana into the world had already begun to take effect.

The space all around Earth began to distort and warp around, space and time dilated themselves as wormholes that led to different worlds began to slowly emerge all around.

However, unlike previous times, these wormholes were large and glowing with crimson red color, and were many.

So many that keep appearing everywhere, that even God grew fearful and concerned about what was left of humanity and how they would be able to cope and fight against this new menace.

They knew that the Watchers had provoked more Gates to emerge so they would wipe out any annoying life that was still struggling over Earth, alongside that, they wanted to destabilize the System, which was supported by the very Humans it helped, the fewer humans alive, the easier it would be to destabilize and break the planet's connection with the System Master.

If the System Master were to lose its connection with Earth, the Watchers wouldn't have to worry about his intervention as the entity wouldn't be capable of reaching this place of the multi-verse with ease anymore.

God felt sorrow as it began to consider the many lives that would be lost as the Gates were to finally release the constant waves of monsters.

Although there were still many strong Hunters, the number of Gates that had emerged was ridiculous… especially because there were new SS-Rank and SSS-Rank Gates as well…

And something even more terrifying…

In the middle of South America…

Right in the middle of a large jungle filled with mutated beasts, a gigantic gate had emerged.

This was perhaps even bigger than the SSS-Rank Gates size, being about the size of Mount Everest.

It was so immense it covered the entire sky with its deep black color.

This was…

"A Gate of higher Grade than an SSS-Rank Gate…!"

"It can't be…!"

"This is way too soon for that, humanity is yet to reach that level of strength yet!"

"What… will we do?!"

"Humans need to quickly gather and try to destroy that Gate at all costs…! But… eve SS-Rank Hunters would probably die there…!"

"And the only SSS-Rank Hunters that had existed are still disappeared…"

"Not even us who watch over Earth can find them, where did they go?"

God trembled in concern and fear, as it saw the monstrous Gate, so big that one could even see it through space…

This was a Gate of a grade yet to be given a name, a grade that even surpassed SSS-Rank!

Noah was growing strong, but he was still not strong enough to even think about entering such a deadly Dungeon, where monsters that could even shake an entire continent existed!

Soon enough, the beasts within would find a way to enter this world, and the second Era of Chaos would come to Earth…

The faction of God's mind that was guided by Noah and slowly being parasitized by his soul fragment parasites glanced at this with fascination.

"Amazing, a new trial for him…"

"But he is not strong enough yet…"

"Do you think that Noah would stay as an A-Rank for so long? Now that the Gates had emerged all around the world once more, this is the perfect opportunity for him to finally break through all the Ranks quickly!"

"Amazing… Amazing! Noah will be the savior of Earth! The savior of humanity!"

The World's Origin Core was an entity that existed since the creation of Earth through natural causes.

It formed slowly through the over accumulation and pressure of tectonic plates and mana, which the planet's orbit absorbed from space.

The enormous quantities of mana that the gravitational forces absorbed began to quickly crystalize while the world was incredibly young and its surface was still filled with raging volcanoes and lava shaping the world's surface.

However, when the planet developed life was when the Origin Core started to develop and grow bigger.

With every living organism, more and more mana would be given to the Origin Core, which grew its green-colored crystal exterior larger and sturdier.

Similar to God, the Origin Core grew stronger when life came to be, but until God, it didn't require worship or beliefs to come into existence, it always existed since the creation of the planet through natural causes.

Life was originally primitive and devoid of souls, only being bacterial organisms that slowly began to group for greater efficiency in the production of energy to sustain their very lives.

However, a Transmigration God long ago noticed this world's primitive life, and casually connected its Transmigration Cycle with it. As it was a world still developing, no one claimed it, and he decided to spend a bit of power and see what could occur.

The God, Hekaton, left this planet alone for many years until it noticed that life had grown explosively complex as souls were introduced, and kept evolving into a wide array of shapes and forms until humans finally came to be.

After all of that time of absorbing the residual mana from all of these living organisms, alongside residual soul energy from their souls which were introduced, the planet's Origin Core acquired a large amount of power, growing larger and larger, and had gained consciousness in the middle of the Era of Dinosaurs, the Mesozoic Era.

However, although it had acquired consciousness quite late compared to the first time life came to be, it still had registered all the information it acquired since its creation since it was but a mere jewel inside the world's core.

It kept developing and registering information over a large amount of time, slowly yet steadily.

Until its consciousness evolved.

The first thing it asked itself was "Who am I?"

And through its endless source of registered information, it deciphered its own existence and purpose.

"I am the world", was its own answer.

The personification of the world, the one that harbored everything, life, the seas, the continents, sky, clouds, everything.

The Will of the World.

As the will of all the existence within the world, it remained quiet and watched nature grow and develop, while slowly amassing more and more power from life itself without any need of worship.

However, after Humans came to be, there was a destabilization of energy, humans began to concentrate their mana into their selfish beliefs, and after hundreds of years, they created an entity they named… God.

The Origin Core, on its aloofness, ended up without caring, and let things be as they were, as it always did.

However, the world kept being contaminated, and the world slowly deteriorated.

God didn't do anything to guide their creators other than watch, just like the Origin Core.

The Origin Core began to consider countermeasures, which even included destroying all of humanity, as it saw them as a nuisance.

The Origin Core was already able to gain power from any living being, so why did it need humanity anyways?

Although it had cooperated a few times with God and forged the Legendary Sword Excalibur by accumulating the wishes of humanity for peace, Arthur was perhaps the only human it recognized as "good".

But after he died, humanity didn't change, and everything went downhill pretty fast.

Wars, Nuclear Weapons, thousands of people dying.

The World thought that humans might end up killing themselves before they could take action by themselves…

However, before any of such plans could come to fruition, a wave of chaos and miasma hit the world.

God shielded the world, showing its worth to the Origin Core, who quickly changed its perception of it…

However, the miasma still leaked, and the surface was filled with a substance of mutagenic and contaminated mana of high density known as miasma, which also harbored the Chaos Attribute within, warping and making everything over the planet into chaos.

80% of all life died.

Immediately after, the Origin Core grew weaker, without life to sustain it with energy, it became lethargic and was about to fall asleep.

However, out of thin air, an entity from another plane, another world, emerged.

It called itself the System Master.

It offered a way to help the world develop and grow stronger again…

Space itself was warping, and gates that led to otherworldly dungeons also emerged, filling Earth with monsters that didn't give it any energy and only made things worse.

But the System Master offered solutions to all of this.

Through the miraculous System, everything could be resolved while also making the Origin Core stronger again.

The System gave all of humanity who mutated by the Miasma and developed some kind of ability a way to grow stronger through the Origin Cores that would form through the materializations of residual Mana, Vitality, and Soul Energy from anything they defeated.

Monsters would turn into black smoke because they would be converted into Attribute Cores, items, or Ability Cores by the System.

This way, no waste was left over the world, and humans would be able to use any monster they killed to grow stronger.

The strongest they grew, the more they would be able to push back the monsters of the gates and make life prosper again.

Alongside this, a share of any energy absorbed by the humans would be constantly given to the System, which would transfer it to the Origin Core.

This way, the Origin Core began to grow stronger and healthier than ever through these very few years, any human bind to the System would constantly give it energy unknowingly.

It was a solution to everything, and it was also amazingly thought off as if the System Master… was planning something.

However, the Origin Core decided to not question it and continued to acquire power like this, it believed that even if the System Master had bad intentions, it would accumulate so much power that it would be able to fight back against it if he tried anything funny…

But it was not the System Master that would come here, but a group of beings, perhaps even more terrifying.

It saw the Origin Core as another resource to grow stronger, something to be harvested, the Watchers.

The Origin Core, however, was unaware of this until the large maa crystal meteors hit its surface, and filled the world with more mana, warping space itself and summoning more gates...

Amidst these Gates, even more, dangerous beings began to emerge, which put in danger humanity, and earth.

Before, humans were able to somehow control the number of gates over the continents to an extent…

But now, a new Era of Chaos was about to begin.

And the Origin Core already learned about Noah, the anomaly that had unlinked itself from the System, alongside all those that served him…

Such anomalies were dangerous… but now there was no time to deal with them…

Noah sat cross-legged in the middle of a large hall, his gleaming crimson eyes seemed to be concentrated doing something.

Hundreds of floating crimson-red flames of phantasmal nature floated around him, like red-colored will-o-wisps, they surrounded and seemed to move and do whatever he told me to.

This was the power of Blood Soul Mender, after Noah gave a drop of blood to a soul, it would suddenly obey him.

He was able to do whatever he wanted with these Souls, and after having to feed his Soul Weapon excessively with A-Rank Magic Materials he got from the Guilds he had conquered, he began to feed it, Blood Souls.

Noah now didn't simply need to kill monsters to bring forth souls, he had become capable of seeing them float everywhere, the natural souls of all living beings who had died around the area where he lived which had yet to enter the transmigration cycle.

He called upon them with his Aura, captured them, gave them his blood, and then tamed every single Soul.

And then, he mercilessly used them as materials, feeding them to his Soul Weapon, until it finally managed to reach A-Rank.

The large, crimson-colored metallic bone claw-like gauntlet evolved, changing in shape and becoming bigger and monstrous.

Noah glanced at its status as he equipped it, a malicious grin blossoming from his lips.

[Abyssal Blood Demon Bone Claw (A-Rank)] [Soul Weapon]

[Attack Power: 1200]

[Durability: 1200]

[Mana Capacity: 1200]

[Skill(s): [Soul Weapon: - (A), [Consecutive Blood Slash: - (A), [Super Self-Regeneration: - (A), [Blood Domain: - (A), [Soul Devour: - (A), [Monstrous Blood Hydra Emperor: - (A), [Magic Circle Recreation: - (A), [Magic Circle Registration: - (A), [Independent Weapon: - (A)]

After reaching A-Rank, the weapon gained 1200 in all stats, becoming undoubtedly stronger.

Additionally, all Skills evolved as well, reaching A-Rank, matching with the weapon's Rank.

Soul Weapons would usually not have matching grades with their Skills like this, but Noah's weapon was an exception, of course…

Some of its Skills have improved more than others, although the weapon had yet to acquire the Indestructible Skill that Excalibur possesses, any crack or damage that it could have would quickly regenerate as long as Noah infused Mana into the Soul Weapon.

Aside from this, there was the Blood Domain Skill, which let Noah summoned a Domain of Blood 10 meters around him, with this, he was able to receive a large enhancement to all his Blood-related Skills, Spells, and more.

Additionally, the weapon's Soul Eating Skill became Soul Devour, and it had the power to damage souls as well, just like Noah. By coupling such power with Noah's Soul Devour, he was able to effectively increase the power he could exert against souls, and devour them even easier.

The old Sea Snake Emperor Skill that summoned a giant sea snake made of blood evolved many times until it became capable of summoning many hydra heads from each of the bone claw's fingers, which could be released as many snakes made of blood, or to attack at the spot, or even to wrap something with the giant heads, the possibilities were many.

The weapon had also evolved with Noah's new necessities and proficiency in magic, and it gained the ability to recreate previously registered magic circles, being up to 5, which made it so Noah could conjure spells immediately and without creating magic circles beforehand as long as he registered the magic circle.

And lastly, it gained the power of an Independent Weapon, which could attack and cast Skills by itself indecently of Noah's control over it, virtually making it so he could attack automatically in battle, giving him the chance to do other things with his minds.

"It is outstanding. You and I have gone through a lot…" said Noah, seeing the bone claw as his companion.

Afterward, he summoned a large black and red-colored sword, Excalibur, and compared its stats and Skills with the Bone Claw…

[Corrupted Excalibur (S-Rank)] [Soul Weapon]

[Attack Power: 2400]

[Durability: 2400]

[Mana Capacity: 2400]

[Skill(s): [Soul Weapon: - (S), [Corrupted Divine Soul: - (S), [Indestructible: - (S), [Skill Sharing: Wielder: - (S), [Corrupted Holy Light Beam: - (S), [Corrupted Holy Light Barrier: - (S), [Corrupted Holy Light Slash: - (S), [Corrupted Hero's Blessing: - (S), [Independent Weapon: - (S), [Levitation: - (S), [Telekinesis: - (S), [Wielder's Call: - (S), [Corrupted Dark Space Storage: - (S)]

"You still have a long way to go, it seems…" thought Noah, as he admired the blade's power.

Excalibur had several abilities that it included within it, although it was a soul Weapon made before the System Existed, after Noah ate its soul, it quickly became part of his System.

One of such Abilities is being an indestructible blade, incapable of being destroyed nor shattered… However, Noah thought that there could be levels of power above S-Rank that could still damage nonetheless and that this "indestructibility" was only held within the blade's rank.

Additionally, the Blade had the power to think and move independently, alongside sharing all of Noah's Skills but with their strength reduced by 50%, however, it was not as swift and accustomed to his Skills as Noah, it could still use the majority of them quite well, becoming a deadly companion that could easily break through anything.

The blade also had three Attack-type Skills which would unleash whenever Noah moved the blade, depending on the pose and attack, a Slash of corrupted holy light, a barrier, or a beam could be generated, the beam was the strongest attack that Excalibur could do, which had enough power to easily pierce a mountain and leave an enormous hole in the middle… however, it costed exorbitant amounts of Mana and would leave Noah completely emptied of it.

The Blade also granted Noah the Hero's Blessing, which changed to Corrupted Hero's Blessing, giving him greater growth potential, and increasing the speed of development of his magic and all other kinds of abilities, even within the System.

Excalibur was able to fly and hover using Levitate, and it could also use Telekinesis to move objects or its own Aura, forming sharp, spear-shaped projectiles.

And last but not least, Excalibur had the power of storing itself within a different space when it was not needed through the Corrupted Dark Space Storage Skill, and also be summoned to the side of his wielder (Noah) through the "Wilder's Calling" Skill, making it even more convenient as a weapon.

Excalibur still lacked Skills that the Blood Claw didn't have, but because it could use most of Noah's Skills with a 50% reduction into their power, it was even more capable.

Noah equipped each weapon in each of his hands, although he often used Excalibur in midair, controlling it through the weapon's Telekinesis.

It has been three days since Noah maxed his Skill Tree of Level IV Noble-born Vampire Count, and he was getting ready to travel to the new Dungeons with his group.

He quickly flew down below to the large hall where his subordinates greeted him, alongside them, there were dozens of more Vampiric Undead all kneeling before his presence. They were all the members of Noah's Guild, and these were not even all, but a fraction of the total amount, the strongest ones he had gathered here.

Everyone was looking at the news before, over a large led screen in the middle of the hall.

In the news, the reporter spoke about the many Gates that had emerged just a few hours ago all around the world…

Iris and everyone else had been training diligently these last days, alongside enhancing the power of their souls by consuming other souls and also by conjuring magic continuously.

The moment Noah emerged at the side of everyone, mostly everyone kneeled, except her, who simply kissed him lovingly.

"You're finally done, it seems… And look at that…" said Iris, as Noah smiled.

"Everyone should be ready now… It seems that the news had quickly reported the gates, they are all over the city, so it would be too hard for the government to hide them, it seems," laughed Noah, as he and everyone else listened to the news.

A beautiful blonde woman with emerald eyes wearing a blue dress began to speak to a microphone, right in front of an enormous, red-colored gate that twisted continuously in an illusory spectacle that defied the laws of physics.

"It has only been three hours since the Gates have emerged all around the world, an event of catastrophic levels which has not happened since the beginning of the Apocalypse. The most dangerous thing is that all Gates are red-colored, meaning that they are B-Rank and above, and brimming with monsters…"

Suddenly, a man wearing military clothes walked near the woman.

"Go away from here, this site is being closed!"

"Eh? But sir, the people need to know about the dangers that gates can bring! We need to evacuate the people!" said the reporter.

The man, who had a gray mustache and whose Noah immediately recognized as a sergeant that administrated all the Military Schools around Sector D, Ivan Shade.

Ivan Shade, although old-looking, was an A-Rank Hunter himself, and held great authority over the military and also the government of Sector D.

He quickly grabbed the microphone of the woman and began to speak directly at the camera, as his gray eyes flashed with resolve.

"Do not worry, people of Sector D. All Gates will be promptly taken down by the Hunters and the Soldiers we have been nurturing through this time. Don't believe false propaganda, this is not another Era of Chaos!"

"What is he even talking about? All of this is bad…" said Clementina.

"He's trying to control the masses, if Sector D loses most of the people living here, many things will stop functioning and the Sector as a whole would fall apart…" said Noah.

The news was suddenly cut off as the reporter inside the channel continued speaking about the Gates.

"Well… that was something. Anyways, more Gates have been seen not only within Sector D but also all Sectors across the world had reported that there were at least 12 Red-colored Gates around their territories… And additionally, just a few minutes ago, it has been reported that a gate of gargantuan proportions had emerged within central America, within the wild areas of the jungle… It is speculated by experts that this Gate… is of a Rank above SSS-Rank, a Rank that is yet to be given a proper name," said the woman.

After hearing this Noah smiled, as his crimson eyes gleamed with interest.

Noah kept changing channels until he found another channel trying to Livestream the gate while the military was trying to block them, and Noah had an idea…

"How about we increase the reputation of our Guild even more?" he said, as he called upon Noire.

"What do you have in mind?" asked Iris curiously.

"Let's shake the world…" said Noah, as he grabbed Iris's hands and Noire submerged both of them into the shadows, traveling through the shadows of the city within seconds, and suddenly reaching the area where the large, red-colored gate being reported by the cameras were.

Flash.

A sudden mass of shadows appeared right in the middle of the recording, as Noah and Iris appeared right away, alongside a strange, gray-colored robot at their side wearing maid-outfits, Noire!

All the reporters that glanced at this were shocked, they had never seen a Hunter having such an ability before!

However, they easily recognized the man and the woman that emerged, they were the infamous leaders of the Noctem Family Guild, the infamous guild whose members increased to A-Rank in a bit over a week, and that had been steadily recruiting more and more members through this last week, more than any guild around the world!

"Is that…?"

"That's the leader of the Noctem Familiar Guild, the Guild Master, Noah!"

"What? Did he had such an ability?"

"And that woman… it's Iris, another A-Rank hunter from his guild…"

"Such powerful auras… They are really authentic A-Rank Hunters…!"

The reporters all recognized them, and so did the reporters and the military men.

Ivan quickly noticed the large quantities of mana emerging out of nowhere, as he walked towards the commotion, finding Noah and Iris, former students of one of the Military Schools he administrated.

"So they had come…" he said, while slowly walking towards them, he wanted to ask them a few things.

Noah quickly walked towards the nearest reporter, grabbing her microphone forcefully and glaring directly at the camera.

"We, the Noctem Family, will partake in the cleansing of all Gates in Sector D!"

All the people around them, even Ivan, and everyone else around all of Sector D glancing at the TV right now were shocked!

Noah had shamelessly said that his Guild would cleanse all Gates in the Sector!

Even as an A-Rank, there were also S-Rank Gates and above, to even dare say such a thing so shamelessly… who did the think he was?!

Even more, as he had just recently become a popular Hunter… was Noah getting off the rails and becoming too cocky?

"S-Sir Noah… can you repeat what you say?" asked a reporter at his side.

"Did I stutter? I said that we, the Noctem Family, would cleanse all Gates in Sector D. Did you hear anything wrong in my statement?" asked Noah, his pressure was immense to the point that even people watching TV felt it!

"A-Ah… But… what?"

"That's… even as A-Ranks…"

"He's crazy…"

"What is he even saying?"

"These Gates are filled with strong and never-seen-before monsters, many of these Gates are above A-Rank too!"

"Has he gone insane?"

Noah glared at every person questioning him as his sharp eyes made them paralyzed in the spot, chills began to run through all of these people's spines, as they felt their legs trembling in fear, some even pissed themselves right in the spot!

There was even a small man that fell unconscious by his gaze alone!

"It is a good thing that we have been gathering more and more recruits. And it is also my pleasure to announce that more than 20 of my recruits had already become B-Rank yesterday…" said Noah, shocking anyone left standing even more!

"Additionally, we shall cleanse all Gates in less than a week, and show the world the might of our Guild," said Noah.

After stating that, Noah was showered with questions of those bold enough to ask.

"How?!"

"How are you doing that, Noah?!"

"That's… I am sorry for saying this, but you are a delusional man!"

Noah smiled and laughed.

"It is not delusion, it is a fact. I will no longer say anything else. Just watch," said Noah, as Iris glanced at him with admiration.

Suddenly, Noah was about to summon the rest of the Vampiric Undead, Robots, and more, until Ivan walked towards him and confronted him.

"So you are Noah… The infamous weakest human of my school…" he said.

Noah glanced at the man expressionlessly.

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Sergeant Ivan knew very well who Noah was, and had been shocked and surprised many times with every news regarding him.

He regretted that he was not able to notice his talents before he somehow managed to get himself and his group expulsed from school, as he would have done everything he would, even force, to recruit him and make him into a fine soldier.

Even if he would have to brainwash him.

Someone so strong that was able to grow so quickly was an anomaly amongst anomalies, Noah was incredibly special in many ways, alongside all of his subordinates…

If he had managed to catch them beforehand…

But it was useless now.

Noah had grown strong, too strong now, and so did his subordinates… he had achieved the same level of strength as him in less than a month of having become a Vampire.

Of course, that was on the surface.

Noah knew that before him, Ivan was weaker, way weaker.

If he were to go all out, he would surely be able to slaughter him.

Perhaps Ivan might give a slight challenge… but even then, he could use his subordinates and gang on him, tearing him apart into pieces, and then turning him into a strong Blood Soul Servant.

However, Noah still recognized the man as someone strong.

Ivan also recognized him as someone strong, but he had authority even greater than Noah, and so, he saw him as below him, even after his exponential, insane growth.

However, his biggest regret was still not having been aware of his powers in time.

He was way too aloof with the school, as he had to overlook many that were undergoing this "filtering" process. Due to this, he was not able to notice things in time, and when he finally got to know, Noah was already out of school and had made his own Guild.

He was no longer able to control him… at least not to such an extent.

But this was the perfect opportunity for him to ridicule him and lower the impression that the people had for him.

Although Ivan had seen many geniuses through his life, he had never seen one so arrogant as Noah now.

He felt the instinctual desire to crush his delusions immediately, after all, he was going to be the one that would save the sector alongside the military, not this hatchling that hasn't even reached 19 years of age yet.

Noah was a man born in the era of the apocalypse, and never got to see with his eyes what the old society was, but Ivan was well aware of how it worked.

Those that controlled the masses control the world.

And Noah was trying to gain this, but Ivan was going to stop him before that, and ridicule him in front of the entire sector!

No matter what Noah could say, he would not be able to argue against his words, as he had yet to do what he said he would do.

Ivan planned to surpass his guild after this speech and even prohibit his ingression to the new gates due to being so disrespectful with the people, spreading lies to raise the hopes of the people they wanted to protect.

After that, if Noah were such a miserable and poor kid as he thought he was, Noah would become frustrated.

Ivan would continue to suppress him more and more… until Noah would end up kneeling before him as he brainwashed him into a fine soldier for the sector.

Ivan had planned an entire scheme right in the spot, he didn't survive through all of the apocalypses for nothing, he had the skills of both a schemer and an amazing leader and fighter.

Noah might be a genius amongst geniuses, but Ivan was the one who could even suppress these arrogant geniuses, and he was going to enjoy it thoroughly.

Or so he thought.

Noah smiled at Ivan as he knew exactly what he wanted.

He quickly crushed the microphone with his bare hands as Ivan was shocked, standing right there as he glanced at Noah.

A second after, a wave of crimson light crushed all the cameras around him.

Now, no one was recording and everyone around sector D was wondering why did the TVs suddenly stop recording everything…

Noah had simply released his Aura and a bit of his soul power, targeting all the cameras, they were crushed within seconds.

His might was clear, Ivan was left paralyzed.

"So, Sergeant Ivan, what did you wanted to say to me? I am all ears," said Noah.

"Y-You… why did you do that?!" roared Ivan, as he began to unleash his aura, which was golden-brown colored, his eyes glowing with golden light, even a pressuring force emerged around him.

However, Iris, at Noah's side, decided to unleash her Aura, although smaller than Noah, it was… even bigger than Ivan.

"E-Eh?"

A battle of Auras alone was enough to make Ivan begin to doubt what he had just planned…

Were these people really A-Rank?!

"Do you have anything to say to my husband?" asked Iris, her eyes gleaming eerily.

The two Vampires walked towards Ivan, as the old man tried to brace himself, cold sweat dripping from his neck, his eyes began to feel timid, and even his crotch felt like it was sinking… In fact, he was about to piss himself.

Noah and Iris's auras made an A-Rank almost piss himself in front of them…

The two raised their hands, as they touched his shoulder.

"So? What do you want? I made sure to take out the cameras so the people wouldn't look at you so pathetically cowering before us… What's wrong? Did the cat eat your tongue? Say something…" said Noah.

"It useless, my dear, he's completely scared of us… What a lack of manners…" sighed Iris.

"Indeed, these people nowadays… Being in the military doesn't give you the right to be so rude…" sighed Noah, as the two vampires walked away from Ivan.

"A-ah… Ah…"

Ivan kept stuttering something, Noah and Iris already walked away from him and began to summon the Vampires, and Robots in front of the people present, now that there were no cameras, it wouldn't be as widespread… but even if it were to be, they didn't really care.

As a guild with A-Rank Hunters leading it, they didn't fear any people except S-Rank… and all of them were about to be S-Rank soon anyways.

The military men ran towards Ivan who was stiff as a log glancing at the empty air, his eyes seemed sinking over his eye sockets, and his entire body was trembling a bit… he looked pale.

"Sir Ivan! What is going on?"

"Sir Ivan?!"

"Sergeant!"

"W-What happened? They just spoke to him and he just… went… vegetal…"

What they didn't know was that Noah and Iris suppressed his will with their overwhelming Auras and then Noah used his Vampiric Eyes to stupefy him for around an entire hour (his max amount of time he would stupefy someone with weak will), and also cursed his soul, his bloodline, and forcefully put a contract into him which said, "don't ever bother us".

All of that in a few seconds.

No one sane enough would even believe he could do such a thing.

Ivan was taken by the soldiers to an ambulance, where he was hospitalized.

Later on, he would wake up confused about what even happened to him… and every time he tried to remember, a paralyzing curse would hit his soul and he would enter into a vegetative state again.

Ivan had committed the terrible mistake of not having used a body and mind-enhancing skill before Noah, and was wide open for the Vampire to do whatever he pleased with him…

Noah and Iris walked towards an open area, as Noah showcased his power for everyone to see.

Now that he was strong, he did not fear much backlash and calculated that there was enough time for him to become S-Rank or even SS-Rank before any S-Rank Hunter could even come to the Sector.

Before anyone strong enough to put a threat to his current self was to come to the Sector, he would have been already way above them, alongside all of his subordinates.

Some people recorded with phones, however, but he quickly destroyed them. But he was not sure if some people from far away, could still be filming him.

Nonetheless, he raised his hand and said…

"Kin Summon…"

Sergeant Ivan knew very well who Noah was, and had been shocked and surprised many times with every news regarding him.

He regretted that he was not able to notice his talents before he somehow managed to get himself and his group expulsed from school, as he would have done everything he would, even force, to recruit him and make him into a fine soldier.

Even if he would have to brainwash him.

Someone so strong that was able to grow so quickly was an anomaly amongst anomalies, Noah was incredibly special in many ways, alongside all of his subordinates…

If he had managed to catch them beforehand…

But it was useless now.

Noah had grown strong, too strong now, and so did his subordinates… he had achieved the same level of strength as him in less than a month of having become a Vampire.

Of course, that was on the surface.

Noah knew that before him, Ivan was weaker, way weaker.

If he were to go all out, he would surely be able to slaughter him.

Perhaps Ivan might give a slight challenge… but even then, he could use his subordinates and gang on him, tearing him apart into pieces, and then turning him into a strong Blood Soul Servant.

However, Noah still recognized the man as someone strong.

Ivan also recognized him as someone strong, but he had authority even greater than Noah, and so, he saw him as below him, even after his exponential, insane growth.

However, his biggest regret was still not having been aware of his powers in time.

He was way too aloof with the school, as he had to overlook many that were undergoing this "filtering" process. Due to this, he was not able to notice things in time, and when he finally got to know, Noah was already out of school and had made his own Guild.

He was no longer able to control him… at least not to such an extent.

But this was the perfect opportunity for him to ridicule him and lower the impression that the people had for him.

Although Ivan had seen many geniuses through his life, he had never seen one so arrogant as Noah now.

He felt the instinctual desire to crush his delusions immediately, after all, he was going to be the one that would save the sector alongside the military, not this hatchling that hasn't even reached 19 years of age yet.

Noah was a man born in the era of the apocalypse, and never got to see with his eyes what the old society was, but Ivan was well aware of how it worked.

Those that controlled the masses control the world.

And Noah was trying to gain this, but Ivan was going to stop him before that, and ridicule him in front of the entire sector!

No matter what Noah could say, he would not be able to argue against his words, as he had yet to do what he said he would do.

Ivan planned to surpass his guild after this speech and even prohibit his ingression to the new gates due to being so disrespectful with the people, spreading lies to raise the hopes of the people they wanted to protect.

After that, if Noah were such a miserable and poor kid as he thought he was, Noah would become frustrated.

Ivan would continue to suppress him more and more… until Noah would end up kneeling before him as he brainwashed him into a fine soldier for the sector.

Ivan had planned an entire scheme right in the spot, he didn't survive through all of the apocalypses for nothing, he had the skills of both a schemer and an amazing leader and fighter.

Noah might be a genius amongst geniuses, but Ivan was the one who could even suppress these arrogant geniuses, and he was going to enjoy it thoroughly.

Or so he thought.

Noah smiled at Ivan as he knew exactly what he wanted.

He quickly crushed the microphone with his bare hands as Ivan was shocked, standing right there as he glanced at Noah.

A second after, a wave of crimson light crushed all the cameras around him.

Now, no one was recording and everyone around sector D was wondering why did the TVs suddenly stop recording everything…

Noah had simply released his Aura and a bit of his soul power, targeting all the cameras, they were crushed within seconds.

His might was clear, Ivan was left paralyzed.

"So, Sergeant Ivan, what did you wanted to say to me? I am all ears," said Noah.

"Y-You… why did you do that?!" roared Ivan, as he began to unleash his aura, which was golden-brown colored, his eyes glowing with golden light, even a pressuring force emerged around him.

However, Iris, at Noah's side, decided to unleash her Aura, although smaller than Noah, it was… even bigger than Ivan.

"E-Eh?"

A battle of Auras alone was enough to make Ivan begin to doubt what he had just planned…

Were these people really A-Rank?!

"Do you have anything to say to my husband?" asked Iris, her eyes gleaming eerily.

The two Vampires walked towards Ivan, as the old man tried to brace himself, cold sweat dripping from his neck, his eyes began to feel timid, and even his crotch felt like it was sinking… In fact, he was about to piss himself.

Noah and Iris's auras made an A-Rank almost piss himself in front of them…

The two raised their hands, as they touched his shoulder.

"So? What do you want? I made sure to take out the cameras so the people wouldn't look at you so pathetically cowering before us… What's wrong? Did the cat eat your tongue? Say something…" said Noah.

"It useless, my dear, he's completely scared of us… What a lack of manners…" sighed Iris.

"Indeed, these people nowadays… Being in the military doesn't give you the right to be so rude…" sighed Noah, as the two vampires walked away from Ivan.

"A-ah… Ah…"

Ivan kept stuttering something, Noah and Iris already walked away from him and began to summon the Vampires, and Robots in front of the people present, now that there were no cameras, it wouldn't be as widespread… but even if it were to be, they didn't really care.

As a guild with A-Rank Hunters leading it, they didn't fear any people except S-Rank… and all of them were about to be S-Rank soon anyways.

The military men ran towards Ivan who was stiff as a log glancing at the empty air, his eyes seemed sinking over his eye sockets, and his entire body was trembling a bit… he looked pale.

"Sir Ivan! What is going on?"

"Sir Ivan?!"

"Sergeant!"

"W-What happened? They just spoke to him and he just… went… vegetal…"

What they didn't know was that Noah and Iris suppressed his will with their overwhelming Auras and then Noah used his Vampiric Eyes to stupefy him for around an entire hour (his max amount of time he would stupefy someone with weak will), and also cursed his soul, his bloodline, and forcefully put a contract into him which said, "don't ever bother us".

All of that in a few seconds.

No one sane enough would even believe he could do such a thing.

Ivan was taken by the soldiers to an ambulance, where he was hospitalized.

Later on, he would wake up confused about what even happened to him… and every time he tried to remember, a paralyzing curse would hit his soul and he would enter into a vegetative state again.

Ivan had committed the terrible mistake of not having used a body and mind-enhancing skill before Noah, and was wide open for the Vampire to do whatever he pleased with him…

Noah and Iris walked towards an open area, as Noah showcased his power for everyone to see.

Now that he was strong, he did not fear much backlash and calculated that there was enough time for him to become S-Rank or even SS-Rank before any S-Rank Hunter could even come to the Sector.

Before anyone strong enough to put a threat to his current self was to come to the Sector, he would have been already way above them, alongside all of his subordinates.

Some people recorded with phones, however, but he quickly destroyed them. But he was not sure if some people from far away, could still be filming him.

Nonetheless, he raised his hand and said…

"Kin Summon…"

All the people around Noah were admiring his enormous crimson aura, the Master of the Noctem Family Guild had intimidated a Sergeant of the Military that directly served the government with his very gaze and a few words.

The way he used his powers made it seem as if he didn't do anything other than pat the man's shoulder and glared at his eyes… but he had done a dozen of things to him before the eyes of everyone.

Truly, Noah was really someone shrewd!

"I suppose that's that… Well, will you bring everyone else?" asked Iris.

"Yes. Now that the cameras are out, it will be good…" said Noah.

"Will you bring the other Robots, Master?" asked Noire who had been silent this whole time.

"Yes, we'll bring the strongest ones with us. You, Sakura, and Sugar will come with us to the A-Rank Dungeon, the rest will accompany our members to the B-Rank Dungeons," said Noah.

"I see, please proceed," said Noire.

"Kin Summon…" said Noah, raising his hand as a flash of bright light dropped from his hands, hitting the ground as a giant magic circle appeared, startling everyone present!

"W-What is that?!"

"Magic…?"

"A Skill, obviously…"

"But what is he planning to do?"

"As he went insane?"

"Maybe it is a Skill to increase his power before entering the Dungeon?"

The people wondered what the heck was Noah doing a lot, but after they saw all the figures emerging from the magic circle like crimson red blood, they all shut themselves up in complete shock.

Several figures made of blood began to emerge one by one… humanoid figures.

The blood quickly dissipated into red mist, revealing dozens of figures… and more kept emerging over and over again.

This was the power of Noah's Kin Summon!

With this power, wherever he went he would be able to summon his kin, all those he had transformed, and this even included Robots with Blood Core Batteries and Blood Soul Servants!

After a few minutes, everyone greeted Noah… and everyone who watched this from the sides was dropping their lower jaws in surprise.

Some people fell over the ground in disbelief.

They had never seen such a Hunter with an ability like this!

He literally summoned people out of thin air with a Skill!

There hasn't even been someone registered with such an outstanding, and insane ability such as this one ever before!

"He… summoned people?!"

"This is insane!"

"What kind of ability is this?!"

"Noah, explain this!"

"We have to register this…"

Noah, however, ignored the people and unleashed his aura, making everyone instinctively step back and don't bother him.

"Noah, did you had to do that? Was it okay to be so… bold?" asked Arthur, walking near Noah.

"Why not? We need to make a big impression on the people, Arthur," said Noah.

"Yes… Noah-sama is right but… I also believe it was quite a lot," said Timassa.

"It was the greatest display of power and confidence, it was splendorous," said Clementina.

"Indeed, I was captivated," said Jon.

"Killing time?" asked Adamantine.

"Indeed, Adamantine, it is killing time~!" said Iris happily.

"This was necessary to impress the people, we need to make sure to make a big impression. After we do as we say, our reputation will be amongst the greatest in all the world. Which is necessary if we want to take over the entire Sector afterward, and then the rest," said Noah.

"That's right, Arthur, Timassa! We need to impress the bugs below us," said Iris, while nodding, agreeing to anything Noah said.

"Yeah… I understand," said Arthur.

"I believe I do as well," said Timassa.

After this, Noah spoke with all of his subordinates and then built up teams to complete the Dungeons.

These Dungeons needed to be completed, which meant fighting the final boss and then making the entire gate slowly crumble and disappear. Unlike the other dungeons they had been entering, where the boss room was sealed so people could farm continuously, these dungeons were right in the middle of the city and were way too dangerous to be left open even with the boss room somehow sealed.

The amount of B-Rank Dungeons was quite big, with 5 of them spread around the City.

Noah created five groups of Vampires and Robots, with which he sprinkled a lot of Blood Soul Servants, even giving them some of his generals for insurance, such as Lust and Wrath.

He had made sure that they were well prepared, and all of them were at least low B-Rank in stats alone, with many powerful Skills they acquired through their Blood Cores Skill Trees. Although inferior to Noah's Skill Trees, they still offered personalized powers for each Vampire, so they increased their power quite a lot.

Noah also called upon Amber, the B-Rank Hunter from the Granite Family to join a party, she had become a submissive and incredibly loyal Wight, who was rather mind-broken, similar to Adamantine, and acted like a little girl.

There were still some hours before the monsters inside the dungeons would make their way outside, so he instantly sent his troops before any other Guild were to go inside these B-Rank Dungeons, while Noah and his party glanced at the others remaining.

There were 3 A-Rank Dungeons, 2 S-Rank Dungeons, and… one SS-Rank Dungeon high above the sky, right at the peak of one of the biggest skyscrapers of the city, which was part of Axis Corporations to boot, where the manufacturing of robots was made.

Noah planned to complete these Dungeons with his party continuously in less than a week, reaching SS-Rank and even SSS-Rank in that time record, he would shake the world and become the world's strongest!

Noah felt enormous, wind-attribute magic emanating from the SS-Rank Gate from a very large distance, he knew that whatever was there was enormous and deadly, and could bring down the entire city easily… it was a matter of time before it could get out of there and wreak havoc.

If Noah wanted to protect this place which would soon become his domain, he needed to fiercely climb the power levels and quickly enter this Gate when he had reached enough strength…

There was not much time, so Noah and everyone else quickly made their way to the nearest A-Rank Dungeon, as Noah inspected his close subordinates' Status Panels.

[Iris Luna Noctem]

[Class(es): Witch (I)]

[Bloodline: Dhampir/Specter (Evolved)]

[Blood Core Rank: Level IV: Noble-Born Dhampir Spectral Flames Baroness Knight]

[Vitality: 1420]

[Mind: 1330]

[Force: 1423]

[Skill(s): [Nine-tailed Spectral Fox Transformation: 32 (A), [Dhampir: - (S), [Progenitor's Wife: - (S), [Spectral Body: 35 (S), [Venomous Abyssal Specter Claws: 42 (A), [Blood Control: 21 (B), [Venomous Spectral Blood Projectiles: 21 (A), [Abyssal Spectral Soul Beast Mode: 21 (A), [Fartalk: 52 (A), [Spectral Fox Spirit Summon: 32 (A), [Spectral Flight: 42 (A), [Unhealing Spectral Wounds: 25 (A), [Spectral Soul Beast Aura: 12 (S), [Spectral Soul Beast: 22 (S), [Spectral Embodiment: 47 (A), [Spectral Nether Blue Flames Creation and Manipulation: 42 (A), [Spectral Abyssal Tartarus Domain: 28 (A), [Soul Devour: 17 (A), [Specter Creation: 11 (A), [Abyssal Specter Maws: 8 (A)

Iris was the first companion that Noah had since the very beginning, and since that day that she had been growing steadily to this point, where she had become as strong as an A-Rank, but that could easily surpass that if she were to go all out.

Her Abilities had evolved, and all had become incredibly outstanding, additionally, it seems that her Subordinate's Loyalty evolved into the Progenitor's Wife Skill, which gives her many bonuses while fighting with Noah at her side.

All the people around Noah were admiring his enormous crimson aura, the Master of the Noctem Family Guild had intimidated a Sergeant of the Military that directly served the government with his very gaze and a few words.

The way he used his powers made it seem as if he didn't do anything other than pat the man's shoulder and glared at his eyes… but he had done a dozen of things to him before the eyes of everyone.

Truly, Noah was really someone shrewd!

"I suppose that's that… Well, will you bring everyone else?" asked Iris.

"Yes. Now that the cameras are out, it will be good…" said Noah.

"Will you bring the other Robots, Master?" asked Noire who had been silent this whole time.

"Yes, we'll bring the strongest ones with us. You, Sakura, and Sugar will come with us to the A-Rank Dungeon, the rest will accompany our members to the B-Rank Dungeons," said Noah.

"I see, please proceed," said Noire.

"Kin Summon…" said Noah, raising his hand as a flash of bright light dropped from his hands, hitting the ground as a giant magic circle appeared, startling everyone present!

"W-What is that?!"

"Magic…?"

"A Skill, obviously…"

"But what is he planning to do?"

"As he went insane?"

"Maybe it is a Skill to increase his power before entering the Dungeon?"

The people wondered what the heck was Noah doing a lot, but after they saw all the figures emerging from the magic circle like crimson red blood, they all shut themselves up in complete shock.

Several figures made of blood began to emerge one by one… humanoid figures.

The blood quickly dissipated into red mist, revealing dozens of figures… and more kept emerging over and over again.

This was the power of Noah's Kin Summon!

With this power, wherever he went he would be able to summon his kin, all those he had transformed, and this even included Robots with Blood Core Batteries and Blood Soul Servants!

After a few minutes, everyone greeted Noah… and everyone who watched this from the sides was dropping their lower jaws in surprise.

Some people fell over the ground in disbelief.

They had never seen such a Hunter with an ability like this!

He literally summoned people out of thin air with a Skill!

There hasn't even been someone registered with such an outstanding, and insane ability such as this one ever before!

"He… summoned people?!"

"This is insane!"

"What kind of ability is this?!"

"Noah, explain this!"

"We have to register this…"

Noah, however, ignored the people and unleashed his aura, making everyone instinctively step back and don't bother him.

"Noah, did you had to do that? Was it okay to be so… bold?" asked Arthur, walking near Noah.

"Why not? We need to make a big impression on the people, Arthur," said Noah.

"Yes… Noah-sama is right but… I also believe it was quite a lot," said Timassa.

"It was the greatest display of power and confidence, it was splendorous," said Clementina.

"Indeed, I was captivated," said Jon.

"Killing time?" asked Adamantine.

"Indeed, Adamantine, it is killing time~!" said Iris happily.

"This was necessary to impress the people, we need to make sure to make a big impression. After we do as we say, our reputation will be amongst the greatest in all the world. Which is necessary if we want to take over the entire Sector afterward, and then the rest," said Noah.

"That's right, Arthur, Timassa! We need to impress the bugs below us," said Iris, while nodding, agreeing to anything Noah said.

"Yeah… I understand," said Arthur.

"I believe I do as well," said Timassa.

After this, Noah spoke with all of his subordinates and then built up teams to complete the Dungeons.

These Dungeons needed to be completed, which meant fighting the final boss and then making the entire gate slowly crumble and disappear. Unlike the other dungeons they had been entering, where the boss room was sealed so people could farm continuously, these dungeons were right in the middle of the city and were way too dangerous to be left open even with the boss room somehow sealed.

The amount of B-Rank Dungeons was quite big, with 5 of them spread around the City.

Noah created five groups of Vampires and Robots, with which he sprinkled a lot of Blood Soul Servants, even giving them some of his generals for insurance, such as Lust and Wrath.

He had made sure that they were well prepared, and all of them were at least low B-Rank in stats alone, with many powerful Skills they acquired through their Blood Cores Skill Trees. Although inferior to Noah's Skill Trees, they still offered personalized powers for each Vampire, so they increased their power quite a lot.

Noah also called upon Amber, the B-Rank Hunter from the Granite Family to join a party, she had become a submissive and incredibly loyal Wight, who was rather mind-broken, similar to Adamantine, and acted like a little girl.

There were still some hours before the monsters inside the dungeons would make their way outside, so he instantly sent his troops before any other Guild were to go inside these B-Rank Dungeons, while Noah and his party glanced at the others remaining.

There were 3 A-Rank Dungeons, 2 S-Rank Dungeons, and… one SS-Rank Dungeon high above the sky, right at the peak of one of the biggest skyscrapers of the city, which was part of Axis Corporations to boot, where the manufacturing of robots was made.

Noah planned to complete these Dungeons with his party continuously in less than a week, reaching SS-Rank and even SSS-Rank in that time record, he would shake the world and become the world's strongest!

Noah felt enormous, wind-attribute magic emanating from the SS-Rank Gate from a very large distance, he knew that whatever was there was enormous and deadly, and could bring down the entire city easily… it was a matter of time before it could get out of there and wreak havoc.

If Noah wanted to protect this place which would soon become his domain, he needed to fiercely climb the power levels and quickly enter this Gate when he had reached enough strength…

There was not much time, so Noah and everyone else quickly made their way to the nearest A-Rank Dungeon, as Noah inspected his close subordinates' Status Panels.

[Iris Luna Noctem]

[Class(es): Witch (I)]

[Bloodline: Dhampir/Specter (Evolved)]

[Blood Core Rank: Level IV: Noble-Born Dhampir Spectral Flames Baroness Knight]

[Vitality: 1420]

[Mind: 1330]

[Force: 1423]

[Skill(s): [Nine-tailed Spectral Fox Transformation: 32 (A), [Dhampir: - (S), [Progenitor's Wife: - (S), [Spectral Body: 35 (S), [Venomous Abyssal Specter Claws: 42 (A), [Blood Control: 21 (B), [Venomous Spectral Blood Projectiles: 21 (A), [Abyssal Spectral Soul Beast Mode: 21 (A), [Fartalk: 52 (A), [Spectral Fox Spirit Summon: 32 (A), [Spectral Flight: 42 (A), [Unhealing Spectral Wounds: 25 (A), [Spectral Soul Beast Aura: 12 (S), [Spectral Soul Beast: 22 (S), [Spectral Embodiment: 47 (A), [Spectral Nether Blue Flames Creation and Manipulation: 42 (A), [Spectral Abyssal Tartarus Domain: 28 (A), [Soul Devour: 17 (A), [Specter Creation: 11 (A), [Abyssal Specter Maws: 8 (A)

Iris was the first companion that Noah had since the very beginning, and since that day that she had been growing steadily to this point, where she had become as strong as an A-Rank, but that could easily surpass that if she were to go all out.

Her Abilities had evolved, and all had become incredibly outstanding, additionally, it seems that her Subordinate's Loyalty evolved into the Progenitor's Wife Skill, which gives her many bonuses while fighting with Noah at her side.

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Several of Iris abilities had awakened into superior and greater versions of themselves, such as her Undying Body which became Spectral Body, giving her very body the amazing power of being half-specter, as long as she had mana, she could easily regenerate or turn completely into a specter temporarily, becoming immune to physical damage unless it were to be infused with mana.

Additionally, any wound she received would only be made her bleed if she desired, as these wounds would simply be pieces of her spectral being that fell and would easily regenerate.

She was even able to use the wounds caused to her ad generate little spectral foxes that could curse anything that they touched.

She was also able to coat herself with her very Soul and Aura, taking the form of her Soul Beast and becoming a monstrous beast made of blue flames with gigantic maws and poisonous claws, making her even deadlier.

With Specter Embodiment she was even capable of materializing and embodying her very spectral self into physical form and be able to hit physical matter with it rather hard, this one worked very well with her Soul-Beast Transformation.

Additionally, she was able to coat herself in an aura of a spectral nine-tailed fox, which enhanced her speed and could easily be fused with the soul beast transformation abilities for greater strength in battle.

Lastly, she was able to form a domain name Tartarus where any soul flying around would turn into deadly specters and either attack for her, detonating into explosions of spectral force, or becoming her nourishment by fusing with her and giving her more power or healing her. And there was also the Spectral Maws Skill, which she could use to eat literally anything with her spectral soul.

Noah was proud of her progress, Iris had become someone truly worthy of calling herself his wife.

[Arthur]

[Class(es): Sorcerer (I)]

[Bloodline: Dhampir (Evolved)]

[Blood Core Rank: Level IV: Devil Dhampir Venomancer Baron]

[Vitality: 1377]

[Mind: 1470]

[Force: 1394]

[Skill(s): [Soul-Recovering Abyssal Blight: 12 (A), [Dhampir: - (S), [Subordinate's Loyalty: - (A), [Undying Venomous Body: 11 (S), [Blood Control: 23 (b), [Fartalk: 41 (A), [Abyssal Waves of Erosive Venom: 21 (S), [Abyssal Blight Barriers: 75 (A), [Venomancer Domain: 41 (A), [Self-Recovery Crest: 23 (A), [Abyssal Sphere of Erosive Venomous Contamination: 35 (A), [Venomous Blood Weapons: 12 (A), [Venomous Cloud Flight: 11 (A), [Venomous Corrosive Poison Synthesis: 33 (A), [Abyssal Venom Beast Invocation: 22 (A), [Soul Devour: 10 (A), [Venomous Soul Beast: 34 (A), [Abyssal Venom Crystallization: 11 (A), [Parasitic Plague Summon: 9 (A), [Venomous Nether Worm Embodiment: 12 (A)]

Noah noticed how strong Arthur had grown, his development over his own poison had made his skills awaken into new and powerful versions of the previous ones, many of them had even acquired new types of effects to aid him in battle and everyone else as well.

His healing Skill had evolved to the point where it was now able to heal souls to an extent, similarly to Holy but to an even advanced manner, which would aid Noah so he could use his Exceed Skills with more liberty in battle, as long as he had Arthur around.

Additionally, his Undying Body evolved into Undying Venomous Body, and his entire flesh, blood, and bones were poisonous now, although he could control how could his very poison affect those he touched. But for now, he had begun to wear special white gloves which Noah had made for him.

He was also able to fly by generating a large cloud of venomous gases, and also use his own blood to generate poisonous weapons which contained a large variety of edited toxins. Although Noah could do the same, Arthur was completely specializing in it, making his poison unparalleled.

Alongside this, he was able to summon Abyssal Venom Beasts, and even cover himself with his Soul-Beast Aura, crystallizing it into a gigantic, purple-colored beast to fight at close quarters, although Arthur still preferred to be a long-ranged fighter.

Lastly, his Parasitic Plague Summon let him create grotesque worms made of poison that could parasitize other creatures such as monsters, using edited poisonous toxins that could grant the beast higher strength by making them berserk, or nimble by making them fearful, alongside other effects.

Arthur had received the title of "Venomancer" within his new Race, which seemed to indicate that he was becoming a user of venom.

[Timassa]

[Class(es): Witch (I)]

[Bloodline: Ghoul (Evolved)]

[Blood Core Rank: Level IV: Abyssal Ghoul Thunderous Witch Baroness]

[Vitality: 1392]

[Mind: 1510]

[Force: 1390]

[Skill(s): [Abyssal Black Thunder Projectiles: 44 (S), [Ghoul: - (A), [Subordinate's Loyalty: - (A), [Gluttonous Hunger: 85 (B), [Thunderous Body: 21 (S), [Paralyzing Abyssal Dark Lightning Shock: 21 (S), [Abyssal Dark Thunder Armor: 21 (A), [Super-Electrifying Charge: 33 (A), [Abyssal Black Thunder Spirit Form: 21 (A), [Abyssal Dark Thunder Soul Beast: 27 (S), [Berserk Electrifying Cataclysm: 16 (A), [Abyssal Black Thunder Soul Domain: 16 (A), [Deadly Cursed Abyssal Thunder: 23 (A), [Soul Devour: 13 (A), [Abyssal Thunder Soul Embodiment: 1 (A), [Instant Thunderous Movement: 17 (A), [Abyssal Thunderstorm: 1 (A)]

Timassa had also grown particularly stronger, specializing in her powerful black thunder, which had evolved now into Abyssal Dark Thunder, she had many special abilities within her, such as parts of her body being capable of turning into electricity temporarily, amongst many others.

Timassa had truly become one of the strongest subordinates of Noah, her power over her own element was truly outstanding, and Noah couldn't help but praise her diligence in training her Skills every day until she managed to awaken most of them.

All of her Skills were able to summon devastating thunderous attacks to her enemies, and she had become an amazing fighter against large groups of enemies, which she was already planning to wipe out with her strong Skills.

She was also able to summon forth her Soul-Beast over her body and acquire large wings just like her soul beast which resembled some kind of falcon, her thunder armor would also turn into such a fashion, and she could go even further beyond by making it all physical matter through Abyssal Thunder Soul Embodiment.

[Jon]

[Bloodline: Dhampir (Evolved)]

[Blood Core Rank: Level IV: Accursed Abyssal Dhampir Devil Gazer Baron]

[Vitality: 1374]

[Mind: 1420]

[Force: 1392]

[Skill(s): [Panoptic Vision: 25 (S), [Dhampir: - (S), [Subordinate's Loyalty: - (A), [Cursed Abyssal Evil Eye of Soul Drain: 11 (S), [Undying Cursed Body: 15 (S), [Blood Control: 42 (B), [Abyssal Cursed Blood Projectiles: 12 (A), [Fartalk: 21 (A), [Demonic Mana Absorption: 30 (A), [Demonic Life Absorption: 32 (A), [Cursed Abyssal Evil Eye of Spatial Distortion: 14 (S), [Primeval Energy Transfer: 20 (A), [Cursed Abyssal Evil Eye of Horrifying Madness: 11 (S), [Fourth Mystic Eye: 30 (A), [Cursed Evil Eye of Gravity: 65 (A), [Accursed Evil Eye Soul Beast: 21 (A), [Abyssal Accursed Evil Eye Laser Beam: 22 (A), [One Hundred Cursed Eyes of Malice: 1 (A)]

Jon had also advanced a lot since he joined the party, for starters, his eyes had all awakened into powerful S-Rank Skills, having outstanding effects on his enemies.

Even more, his powerful and very useful Skill, Clairvoyance, which let him see anything within a radius around him had awakened into Panoptic Vision, giving him a panoramic vision of an immense amount of distance around him, the moment he entered a Dungeon, he would know its entire structure from the get-go.

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With the amazing Panoptic Vision Skill, Jon was capable of having an immensely great sight over a gargantuan distance around him.

The moment he acquired this Skill, Jon had felt rather startled and dizzy at first, but quickly got used to it after a bit of meditation and training, and after that, he felt as if he were glancing at the entirety of Sector D from above the skies, and he could use such sight to even look across buildings, or anywhere within the ridiculous radius of his vision.

With such an ability, Jon would be able to easily discern almost the entire structure of any dungeon the group entered, as his vision could even go through walls or anything that could get in the way.

It was as if whenever he walked to, he scanned everything and generated a complete 3D recreation inside of his mind, which he was able to see in utmost detail. He was even able to see living beings as they moved and did things.

He could even see people doing private things inside their houses and more!

Thankfully, Jon was a rather innocent and goodhearted boy that only desired to serve his master and mistress, and was not interested in doing anything perverted. In fact, it never crossed his mind.

His Undying Body Skill turned into Cursed Undying Body, which made his entire body shrouded in curse effects of all kinds, whenever an enemy hit him and formed a wound, several small curses would be inflicted on them. Jon was specializing more and more with Curses, although he still could not curse a bloodline such as Noah, his powers were still useful and outstanding, nonetheless.

With the Cursed Evil Eye of Soul Drain, Jon was not only able to drain HP and MP from a target within his vision, but he could even drain it from within their souls, absorbing their soul energy and making the target's souls whiter in pain.

It was a powerful Skill, but the drain was gradual and not instant, so he could not instantly kill a target, but as he was now, he could pretty much kill anyone he wanted that was below A-Rank within the entire of Sector D through his Panoptic Vision, which could be used with his Evil Eyes!

In fact, Noah had already planned with his powers… and was planning to let some flies drop into the ground soon enough without there even having any evidence as to who did it.

For now, Jon would use such abilities on all enemies within his Panoptic Visio range to completely weaken them forehand, and then using Primeval Energy Transfer to redirect the energy he drained from all these enemies to his party, giving them constant Health and Mana Regeneration, and even soul regeneration to an extent.

And with the Demonic Mana Absorption and Demonic Life Absorption Skills, he was able to do this even better, increasing the potency of his drain.

Additionally, he had the Cursed Evil Eye of Horrifying Madness which caused confusion and even insanity to weak-willed enemies, the Cursed Evil Eye of Gravity that could generate small quantities of gravitational forces again enemies, and the evil eye laser to deal direct damage from afar.

Although he was small and was not good at close combat like the others, he was incredibly useful in many ways.

[Adamantine]

[Class(es): Witch]

[Bloodline: Ghoul/Shadow Beast (Evolved)]

[Blood Core Rank: Level IV: Nightmare Ghoul Shadow Berserker Beast Warrior]

[Vitality: 1310]

[Mind: 1273]

[Force: 1612]

[Skill(s): [Nightmarish Abyssal Shadow Aura: 21 (S), [Abyssal Shadow Body: 13 (S), [Horrifying Abyssal Shadow Demon Claws: 25 (S), [Ghoul: - (A), [Progenitor's Loyal Dog: - (S), [Insatiable Gluttony: 15 (S), [Abyssal Shadow Soul Beast Mode: 11 (S), [Abyssal Shadow Travel: 1 (A), [Grotesque Bloodthirsty Madness: 32 (A), [Abyssal Shadow Weaponry: 28 (A), [Abyssal Shadow Beasts Invocation: 18 (A), [Accursed Shadow Wounds: 22 (A), [Fartalk: 1 (B), [Soul Devour: 14 (A), [Abyssal Shadow Soul Beast Embodiment: 21 (A), [Abyssal Shadow Maws: 22 (A)]

Adamantine had become a strong combatant and vital part of the frontlines of the team, who was always at the side of Iris and Noah, who were the ones that did the most physical fighting in the entire party, and loved close combat the most.

Adamantine, following their footsteps, developed her monstrous, ghoulish way of fighting to the very extremes, even being called a berserk warrior by her class itself.

With her Abyssal Shadow Aura, she was able to enhance her entire body and stats, and become a monstrous beast with Abyssal Shadow Soul-Beast Mode, becoming incredibly fast and deadly.

With Abyssal Shadow Travel she was able to travel through shadows, albeit not as accurately as Noire, so Noah used the robot for traveling through shadows as she was way better than the wild Adamantine.

With Grotesque Bloodthirsty Madness, she became completely insane and beastly, devouring and eating anything in her path, which was enhanced with Insatiable Gluttony, making her never satisfied, no matter how much she ate.

It was already normal to see Adamantine eating the monster she fights against while they are still alive…

She was also able to summon a few Abyssal Shadow Beasts to aid her in battle momentarily, which had the shape of wolves and could be summoned up to 3 at the same time.

Lastly, she possessed the Abyssal Shadow Maws Skill, which she could use to eat anything.

And lastly, she acquired the Progenitor's Loyal Dog Skill, an awakening of the Subordinate's Loyalty based on her position as the loyal dog of Noah and Iris, which she took as a serious job, always guarding the territory while she had nothing else to do.

[Clementina]

[Class(es): Witch]

[Bloodline: Dhampir (Evolved)]

[Blood Core Rank: Level IV: Abyssal Dhampir Ice Knightess]

[Vitality: 1310]

[Mind: 1473]

[Force: 1412]

[Skill(s): [Dhampir: - (S), [Subordinate's Loyalty: - (A), [Crimson Ice Empress: 12 (S), [Undying Ice Body: 12 (S), [Freezing Ice Soul Beast Mode: 21 (S), [Winter Aura: 23 (A), [Ice Soul Armor: 21 (A), [Fartalk: 33 (A), [Frozen Blood Control: 12 (A), [Crimson Ice Weapon Projectiles: 22 (A), [Ice Crystal Wings: 23 (A), [Freezing Ice Soul Beast Mount Invocation: 25 (A), [World-Freezing Ice Blade: Niflheim: 35 (A), [Freezing Wounds: 12 (A), [Soul Devour: 11 (A), [Freezing Ice Soul Beast Embodiment: 28 (A)]

Lastly, there was Clementina who had advanced by leaps and bounds in these last weeks since she joined the group, her talent over the manipulation of Ice was outstanding, and she only continued to get better as she specialized over its use even more.

She was similar to Timassa in the regard of having specialized in a single element to the point of being able to do many things with it, such as an Ice Soul-Beast Armor, being able to create a powerful blade which she could use to fight against her enemies (not as powerful as Excalibur), freeze wounds, or her own body which would turn into ice partially.

She could sustain damage and regenerate her wounds by growing ice on them, and her Ice Queen Skill, the one that started everything evolved into the Crimson Ice Empress, giving her the power to generate and control ice even more.

Additionally, she's capable of freezing her own blood and employ it as flying projectiles and even invoke a mount in the shape and form of her soul beast.

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After checking on the Status Panel of everyone, Noah and his party already reached the A-Rank Dungeon Gate that they desired to enter, it was the one with the biggest aura… An aura of darkness and crimson red colors that exuded an air of maliciousness.

Due to having gone all the way to A-Rank after fighting God's Hand, Noah and the rest of his group didn't felt any particular need to go to a B-Rank Dungeon, and went to an A-Rank Dungeon immediately, skipping one Rank.

"Here we are…" said Noah, admiring the gate.

A-Rank Gates were said to be extremely dangerous, any monster that could escape from them could endanger the life of an entire Sector.

It was once reported that within Sector C, an A-Rank Gate had emerged in the middle of the city once. At that time, no A-Rank Hunters were in the city, and it took only a single monster escaping from that gate to massacre over a hundred people in 7 hours.

No modern weaponry worked, and even the most advanced robots at that time were only able to hold back the monster for a few minutes before being crushed.

The beast, in particular, was an Ogre Warrior, and it even took the life of two B-Rank Hunters before going down…

The sole thought of all these A-Rank Gates freeing monsters into Sector D made chills run through the spine of all the people living there…

But Noah was not going to let these monsters take over his dominion.

"So this is an A-Rank Gate…" said Arthur.

"Such an enormous pressure… It runs chills through my entire body… Even after growing this strong… there are still many challenges ahead…" said Timassa.

"Indeed… I will do my best… But I am counting on all of you too…" said Jon, bracing himself to not sound timid.

"I am hungry… Is there any meat there? Let's go already!" said Adamantine, she didn't even felt fear anymore.

"That's right, there are many challenges ahead… And indeed, Adamantine, there's meat inside… Fufu" laughed Iris.

"I will protect your back, my lords," said Clementina with a confident nod, her eyes emanated a cold and strong presence.

"Uwah… Are we allowed to get in here?" wondered Sakura.

"Sakura, we have grown strong enough to be at the side of our Lord, don't get cold feet now," said Noire.

"Yeah, I used to be a repair bot but I am ready to get in!" said Sugar.

"E-Eh? I am not getting ay cold feet!" said Sakura.

"Then follow me," said Noah, as he walked inside the gate without doubting a single second, everyone else quickly ran after him, getting inside the gate one by one.

The military glanced with surprise at how boldly they entered into the gate without asking permission or something, they simply did it and that was it.

Ivan was still in a strange, paralyzed state, and they couldn't get him to give any order.

When another soldier came to replace him, he decided that there wasn't anything they could possibly do to stop such a strong guild as the Noctem Family, although some soldiers wanted to ban their permission to enter the gates due to their arrogance and insolence, they were not able to voice out their opinions due to sheer fear.

After all, they didn't want to even talk with Noah nor Iris, as they feared that they could do whatever they did to Ivan to them.

Noah's perception and senses warped around as he entered through the Gate like it always did when he entered a Dungeon Gate.

All types of colors rushed through his eyes as he saw space and time twist around his entire body.

He felt as if his body was going through many thin membranes that broke at each step.

And then.

Flash.

The scenery completely changed as Noah glanced at his surroundings.

He found… a garden.

In fact, it was rather similar to Arthur's mother's rose garden, but this garden covered the entire place.

Noah glanced at the sky as he saw a beautiful starry night, with two moons resting over the skies, glancing at him as if they were the eyes of a god.

The biggest moon was crimson red, while the second, much smaller one was green.

This Dungeon was probably similar to the Desert Dungeon, which showed the skies and a vast landscape ahead, although there were invisible spatial walls that he could not cross that defined the space within the dungeon.

The rose garden was made in a way that resembled an extensive labyrinth, any normal party of Hunters would have difficulties orienting themselves within this place, but not Noah's party, as they had Jon.

Noah had tried to fly over the large walls made of vines and roses, but there was a strong and invisible ceiling that he was not able to go through, pushing anyone that tried to fly over it.

The rest of the party quickly entered the Gate, as they were amazed by the beautiful scenery.

"Oh… The first time I find a Dungeon beautiful…" said Iris.

"Indeed, this is… eh? It reminds me of my mother's rose garden…" said Arthur.

"Jon…" said Noah, as Jon nodded.

His eyes were closed as his senses quickly began to observe the entire place. Within seconds, the entire dungeon was registered with his Panoptic Vision.

"It's big… goes a bit beyond my Panoptic Vision, which was able to cover the entire Sector D… But I have more or less mapped the Labyrinth. Several monsters are lurking around, they hide as the plants. Additionally, the labyrinth is but the start of the dungeon, afterwards there is a large castle, where an even stronger aura emanates from. If we walk enough, I believe I can map the castle and see what's inside," said Jon.

"Alright then, lead the way, Jon," said Noah.

Noah and everyone else began to wander through the large Rose Garden Labyrinth of the Dungeon, which was so big that Jon was barely able to completely scan.

Thanks to Jon's guidance and his special ability, however, the exploration of such a confusing Dungeon became smother orientation-wise.

Nonetheless, not long after they entered, monsters quickly blocked their path, and in the dozens right away!

"GRRYSSHA…!"

What Jon had said was right, the monsters that emerged from the Rose Garden Labyrinth were the roses of the garden itself, which camouflaged as the labyrinth's walls made of vines and roses.

The beasts resembled masses of spiky and venomous vines covered on roses of different colors, they often took the form of octopus-like monsters, and based on the color of the roses they held, their abilities varied greatly.

The first group they confronted was composed of five Red-colored roses and ten Black-colored roses.

The roses that made up the "head" of the monsters had a large and beady eye, which seemed to be their weak point.

Red-colored roses seemed to specialize in offense and were even able to conjure magic, while the black-colored roses specialized in defense and acted as shields, having harder spikes and vines, perhaps harder than any non-magical metal.

"Oh, what a nice welcoming party we got here…" said Noah, as his claws grew larger and monstrous.

FLASH!

Noah enveloped himself with crimson red energy as he flashed like a scarlet meteor towards the nearby Vine Monster!

The creature hissed at him, as its crimson eye suddenly flashed with an eerie purple light!

"Oh?"

Noah immediately noticed that this monster was not as simple!

The eyes were not just to see, not at all!

Flash!

A powerful essence hit Noah, as he felt a strong pain right into his heart!

Suddenly, his heart inflated, and… exploded!

Boom!

Noah's torso exploded, leaving a hole where his heart was.

"Hah! I couldn't expect less from an A-Rank monster… Amazing!" laughed Noah, as the Vine Monster was suddenly surprised by how Noah was… completely okay!

"What? Did you think that destroying my heart with such an Evil Eye effect would kill me?" he laughed, emerging right at the side of the Vine Monster, as it roared and extend its vines desperately against him!

"Hah!"

Noah swiped his claws as enormous slashes of crimson light came from them, slicing them vines into pieces in a mere instant!

Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!

"Ggyyyy…!"

The Vine Monster tried to inflict Noah once more with its Evil Eye effect!

Flash!

However, Noah has not affected anymore!

This was because…

He had suddenly become red mist!

"Grryyaasshhh?!"

"Heh, I see how it is. Your eyes can inflict a direct curse into an internal organ, making it filled with mana and then forcing it to explode like a balloon… I felt like my lungs were about to explode a millisecond ago, but by becoming pure mist, I am unaffected."

"GRRYAASH!"

More Vines emerged around Noah, they immediately detected him as a powerful being!

All of the plants suddenly charged powerful long-ranged magic attacks, conjuring large spheres of darkness, and firing them against him!

But Noah laughed!

"Hahaha! Good, it wouldn't be a good show if you don't go all out, my fellow plants!" laughed Noah, as he began to take over all the hits while laughing maniacally! He was completely insane!

Not even these simple-minded monsters could even fathom understanding Noah's true strength!

He simply laughed… he laughed at them like nothing!

After they had been guarding this labyrinth for hundreds of years, they found an enemy that defied any sort of logic they knew about…

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Explosions of darkness ensued one after another, as Noah laughed, his crimson mist body began to expand all around, forming enormous mist tentacles, which he used to entangle three Vine Monsters in a row!

Noah began to impregnate the Vine Monsters with his red mist, as they were… covered in blood!

The Vine Monsters were confused… what the heck was he doing?

"Go back to the dirt you came from."

Flash!

Suddenly, the Vine Monsters glowed brightly with crimson light, as they… exploded!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Noah smiled evilly as he glanced at the enormous, intimidating A-Rank Monsters that could easily instantly kill any Hunter without a countermeasure against Curses, as he detonated the blood he covered them with.

A bit of blood was enough for him to kill them!

Several Cores fell over the ground, and even some equipment and dropped items!

"Sadly, you don't have blood… But your souls can directly become Blood Soul Servants with a drop of my blood!" laughed Noah, as he threw blood into the three souls of the Vine Monsters, which flew towards him as if they were fascinated with his existence.

The three Vine Souls fused together with the blood he gave them, as an enormous, crimson-colored phantasmal vine ghost appeared out of thin air, attacking the other Vines!

"GRYYYSSHAAAA!"

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

With enormous phantom tentacles, the beast began to devastate everything!

Noah noticed as the commotion brought more and more Vine Monsters, dozens after dozens, Jon immediately detected over hundreds!

"Good, it wouldn't be a good grind if there weren't enough monsters! Everyone, march!" laughed Noah, as he unleashed his Blood Soul Servants, flying out of his mist body and raising their gigantic crimson weapons, devastating the Vines that came to their sight!

"Gyahahahahaha! GYAHAHAHA!"

A gigantic, six-meter-tall knight-shaped Blood Servant covered in all sorts of jewels of all colors danced around the battlefield while unleashing countless jewel attacks, Red Jewels exploded into fire, Blue Jewels froze the Vine Monsters temporarily, and Green Jewels sliced them with powerful winds at fast speeds!

The Blood Servant was laughing with wicked, feminine laughter, she was Greed, the Blood Servant that came from the former members of the Crystal Family!

"Some vicious plants are nothing for my lord's army! He won't even need to lift a finger! GROOAARR!"

A gigantic multi-headed wyvern began to devastate everything with each of its heads unleashing powerful breath attacks of crimson flames, which resembled gigantic beams that simply decimated anything they touched!

And because they were dozens of heads, they were blasting everything into dust!

This was Pride, of course, whose Noah had brought to finally have some fun in an A-Rank Dungeon!

"After being awakened as a new being by my lord, I have awakened new types of magic, behold! Crimson Nova!"

A tall crimson skeleton wearing long bright red magician clothes and holding a malefic staff made of crystalized blood laughed with the voice of an old man, as his empty eyes flashed with crimson flames, and his staff unleashed a large magic circle!

Suddenly, a gargantuan sphere of crimson red flames appeared out of the magic circle, falling over a large group of dozens of Vine Monsters!

BOOOOOOOOMMM!!!

The enormous explosion blasted a large part of the entire garden, even the resistant walls were decimated within seconds, the entire labyrinth was being vaporized!

Against true might, there was no point in making stupid puzzles!

However, the Dungeon was brimming with Mana, and it kept generating more and more Vine Monsters, which began to appear bigger and bigger.

Some Vine Monsters even fused together, holding many eyes, and even shooting lasers from them!

It seemed that Vine Monsters could develop random Evil Eye effects within their eyes, which was ridiculous to even fathom!

If any other team of Hunters would have entered this place, they would have gotten killed instantly!

But to Noah's party, this was a nice playground to warm up for the Boss!

With each group of Vine Monsters dying, large quantities of A-Rank Attribute Value Cores were dropped, alongside Ability Cores and even Dropped Items, which even included pieces of equipment, such as large rapiers, or armor themed after roses and vines.

Noah even saw items he had never seen before dropped, such as vials filled with red liquid and blue liquid, Health Potions and Mana Potions, incredibly rare items dropped rarely inside Dungeon, however, as he had investigated, it seemed that the drop of such items increased at higher Ranked Dungeons.

This plus the boost in dropped items provoked by the Blood Cores of most people present made the monsters drop piles of valuable items!

But the most precious one was the sphere Noah was holding with his hand, an Attribute Value Core!

With enough of these… he would soon reach S-Rank!

However, he quickly saved it inside his Dimensional Storage Ring, as he kept fighting against the hordes of monsters.

As their group advanced through the labyrinth, decimating the puzzling structure, and leaving enormous craters and wastelands everywhere, larger, and stronger monsters appeared.

Monsters that resembled carnivorous plants appeared, with gigantic gaping mouths, slimy vine tentacles, and sharp teeth.

There were also large Accursed Trees, which were trees that moved on their own and attacked with their sharp wood, which they shaped as large claws or spears.

And alongside them, enormous car-sized, black-colored flying bugs that resembled a mix between a bee and a fly appeared, having sharp stingers and large crimson eyes, coupled with a long mouth that seemed to be able to be filled with spiraling razor-sharp teeth!

And because Noah's party was simply attacking everywhere and devastating anywhere they went, all the monsters hidden within the dungeon were triggered, constantly rushing towards them!

"GROOOOOOHHH!"

A group of twenty Accursed Trees charged together against a beast made of shadows with glowing crimson eyes.

Her sharp teeth formed a demonic, malefic smile that would make anyone that watched her have chills run through their spines.

"You have no meat…! I hate your flavor! GRAAAWR!"

The shadow beast, Adamantine, leaped into the air as she suddenly began to… divide?

No, she was not dividing, she was summoning three wolf-shaped shadow beasts as her companions, following her through the air as if she were their pack leader!

"Awwoooo!"

"Graawr!"

"Rooarr!"

The three Shadow Beasts roared, each one jumping over an Accursed Tree, using their sharp claws to tear apart the hard bark and using their strong jaws to bite and swallow the tender wood inside!

Crunch! Slash! Crash!

"GRRAAWWR!"

Meanwhile, Adamantine was the most beastly of the four, as she leaped over the Accursed Trees while using her gigantic shadow claws and her enormous shadow maw, slicing the enormous monsters whose sizes varied from 7 to 15 meters!

CRASH!

With a single combination attack of her claws in both her feet and hands, Adamantine slashed through the log bodies of the Accursed Trees, tearing them into pieces one by one!

Their motionless bodies fell over the ground one by one, as Adamantine kept pushing through, as she practiced some of the magic her master had taught her!

"Solid Shadow…!!!"

Flash!

Suddenly, her ethereal shadow body became as solid as steel, as she kept expanding her shadows, slashing through things with the gigantic claws she could generate, alongside her monstrous abyssal shadow maw, which ate literally anything she came through!

However, she was quickly pushed back by a larger than usual Accursed Tree, which was an Accursed Tree King, its bark was darker than usual, and it even possessed a human-like face stuck into the center of its body, with glowing crimson eyes!

In fact, it even spoke!

"I won't let you pass any further, shadow demon! I will never let you touch my Lord!"

"GRRAAAWR!"

Adamantine, however, was completely wild, as she began to bite the enormous wooden fist that pushed her into the ground, the Accursed Tree King quickly took a humanoid-like shape, and had two enormous fists and the size of a skyscraper!

CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

Adamantine, however, kept expanding her gigantic shadow maws, as she continued to devour the bark that made the strong fists of the Accursed Tree King!

However…!

"Quite the fierce fighter… But you need thousands of years of knowledge and experience to even match me, shadow demon!"

The prideful Accursed Tree King generated hundreds of magic circles in a split of a second, which generated car-sized, purple-colored fireballs!

Yes, a tree conjuring fire!

"This is my special Magic, Soul Fire! It will burn through your soul and consume your very being! Perish!"

Adamantine kept struggling as she fought against the enormous fists, but the purple-colored fireballs began to shower her entire body!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

"GRAAWRR…!"

Adamantine roared monstrously, devouring the fire itself and surprising the Accursed Tree King!

"Oh? Interesting… But not enough! Soul Fire Whip!"

The Accursed Tree King smiled wickedly, as he generated an enormously long whip made of purple flames, entangling Adamantine with it and then throwing her into the ground!

BOOM!

"NNNGRAAGHH…!"

Adamantine felt her entire body crushed by the enormous force, as she vomited a mouthful of blood, and all of her bones shattered!

Meanwhile, the soul flames began to eat away her soul!

The Accursed Tree King glanced at the struggling Adamantine, who he had given for death already.

"Outstanding, your generation abilities are similar to the Blood Demons… But not even the Blood Demons were able to withstand my flames when they tried to invade my lord! Hah!"

The Accursed Tree King laughed once more, as he raised his Soul Fire Whip into the air, aiming to whip Adamantine until he crushed her into a puddle of blood and consumed her entire soul in the process!

"DIE!"

FLASH!

The whip rushed towards Adamantine, as she was barely standing up while regenerating…! She was not going to be able to evade in time!

However, a sudden burst of blue flames emerged from behind her, clashing against the purple soul fire!

BOOOM!

Both flames negated each other, as they dissipated into nothingness!

The Accursed Tree King was shocked!

"This… Impossible! My Soul Fire has no match!"

"Do you think I would let you kill my dog in front of me?" asked Iris, glancing from above.

As Noah's party kept devastating everything while slowly approaching the immense castle several kilometers away, their group spread far and wide and fought any monsters that came in front of them with utmost ferocity.

However, after killing hundreds of monsters, a Hidden Boss was triggered, the Accursed Tree King.

Referring to the entity that inhabits the castle as his "Lord" he acted like a loyal subordinate, proud of his own strength and showcasing utmost power, managing to overpower Adamantine after a few hits!

Angered by how she ravaged his kin, he intended to end her with a series of whip attacks using his special ability, Soul Fire Whip, which was able to deal direct damage into a foe's soul!

However, it wasn't as if others were not able to notice what was going on, and Iris was the first to come, confronting the powerful Hidden Boss with her Blue-colored nether Flames, which seemed to be able to easily dissipate the Accursed Tree King's purple-colored Soul Flames!

BOOOOM!!!

The Accursed Tree King felt shocked as his powerful Soul Fire Whip was destroyed by the blue flames!

The Soul Flames were his special Ability and Magic, the one he had been born with thousands of years ago, which he had trained since then.

Through his entire life, he had never faced someone that could actually make it dissipate like this!

However, after he and his lord alongside their vast territory were suddenly trapped in a strange space-time disturbance, invaders from another world emerged, which he intended to destroy and survive…

Perhaps if he had confronted conventional Hunters, he would have been able to easily crush them… but against Noah and his subordinates… an easy victory was impossible.

"This… Impossible! My Soul Fire has no match! How…?!" asked the Accursed Tree King, seeing his Soul Fire being destroyed so easily actually shocked him deeply!

After fighting with it for thousands of years, he grew way too confident on it!

To think that this day was the fateful day he would finally meet someone with a flame similar to his…

"Do you think I would let you kill my dog in front of me?" asked Iris, glancing from above, as she floated while being shrouded in blue flames. Atop her head, there were two large fox-like ears and nine fox-like tails growing from her back. Her arms were coated in this phantasmal will-o-wisp, shaped as large claws, and her nails extended sharply while secreting a deadly venom.

Her gleaming crimson eyes shined brightly and eerily, glancing at the Accursed Tree King from above as if she were glancing an insolent animal…

The Accursed Tree King recognized her gaze immediately, as he had fought against many armies in the past and had taken the life of many Demons, he knew the different expressions of cold-hearted people.

But this gaze… was like that of someone that didn't even recognize him as a foe!

What was this?

Didn't he just almost killed her companion?

How could he not be seen as a threat?

Deep within his old soul, the Accursed Tree King felt boiling anger!

His crimson eyes began to flash, blazing with purple Soul Fire, as his arms grew sharper and more malefic!

However, instead of roaring in anger, he laughed as he smiled while frowning, the wrinkles all over his face made him look even more intimidating!

"Gahahaha! Good! It wouldn't be worth it if you weren't strong! Let me tell you that I have taken the lives of over 20 Demon Generals in the past in the name of my Lord Beelzebub!" he said, as his bark was shrouded in purple flames, and his humanoid-like body gained more mass and became even tougher!

Iris glance at him rather expressionlessly, as Adamantine finished healing herself and jumped to her side.

"Mistress, he's strong!" said Adamantine, mildly concerned.

"I know… Let's give my love a good show, alright, Ada?" asked Iris.

"Yes!" said Adamantine, while waving her shadow tails.

"(She recovered incredibly quickly! Just a few seconds ago I had her to my mercy…! And the one that arrived didn't actually do anything to help her… Just how fast do they regenerate? These beings are truly like the Blood Demons!)" thought the Accursed Tree King, as he decided to fight ad surprise them with an unpredictable move!

"Soul Flames Tower!"

The Accursed Tree King pushed his roots into the ground, as he unleashed Soul Flames into it and then generate an enormous tower of purple flames right below Iris and Adamantine a second after!

BOOOM!

Iris and Adamantine were not able to react in time due to his unexpected attack, and they were consumed by the flames!

"Hah! This one never fails to surprise the young folk…!" laughed the Accursed Tree King, he seemed to be experienced in taking away the life of arrogant younglings.

Flash!

As the flames dissipated, the Accursed Tree King's smile dissipated immediately after.

A large sphere of blue flames remained within it, as Iris and Adamantine survived the powerful attack like nothing!

"I knew it, my Phantasmal Flames seem to be able to do well against this purple fire…" analyzed Iris, as she suddenly generated dozens of weapon projectiles in the form of long blades made of phantom blue flames, flashing towards the Accursed Tree King!

FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!

"Unfazed…! This woman is ridiculous!" thought the Accursed Tree King, as he waved his large hands and generated several projectiles made of his own hardened black bark, shaped as giant spears of wood!

FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!

Both projectiles meet in midair, crashing against each other into cloud explosions!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Iris smiled, as she decided to use this opportunity to infuse a lot of mana into her body, darting towards the Accursed Tree King with great speed!

FLASH!

The Accursed Tree King, however, predicted her move and laughed.

"I knew you would try to do that! Soul Flame Black Spear!"

Combining his incredibly hard, black-colored bark with his soul flames, the enormous ancient tree monster unleashed a gigantic, building-sized spear coming directly out of his very body, targeting it towards Iris!

"You may be able to dissipate my Soul Flames, but not my bark!"

As the enormous spear reached Iris, the Accursed Tree King already imagined her getting impaled by it to death!

However, Iris waved her claws.

From the distance, Noah inspected the battlefield.

The first of the many Hidden Bosses he had detected already emerged, the Accursed Tree King.

However, he could feel other presences emerging all around the vast battlefield, which had flattened after the strong long-ranged attacks of everyone burned through all the vines making the large walls of the labyrinth.

Noah had faith in his wife's strength, and let her have her fun for the moment, although if something were to go wrong, he had already made some countermeasures.

The Accursed Tree King had unleashed a powerful tower of Soul Flames against Iris and Adamantine, but after seeing how it was completely useless against her blue flames, Iris quickly flew towards his back!

However, he had guessed such a thing already, as he knew that many younglings always liked sneak attacks, especially on his back!

The old tree monster laughed, as he shapeshifted an area of his wooden body, generating a gigantic building-sized spear of black wood which was harder than any ordinary metal, covered in Soul Flames, directing it towards Iris who had already appeared there a millisecond after!

He had in fact predicted that she would move there through his cunning nature and the many tricks the old man knew about!

As the sharp tip of the spear approached Iris, the Accursed Tree King already imagined Iris dying miserably, impaled by such an attack!

But against his expectations, she waved her claws at a faster speed than the spear he threw at her beforehand, even predicting where she would land!

"Soul-Beast Embodiment!"

FLASH!

Iris's entire aura grew enormously big, her gigantic phantom claws extended several meters, and they quickly materialized, catching the spear in time and then crushing it into pieces with several swipes of Iris claws!

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

CRASH!

The enormous piece of wood fell over the floor, turning into Dropped Items.

Meanwhile, the Accursed Tree King groaned in pain, after all, this was a piece of his very body!

"Unnaggh…! So you can do such a thing! You're indeed faster than this old tree, but can you do this? HAH!"

The Accursed Tree King quickly shapeshifted his entire body, as he twisted it around and opened an enormous snake-like jaw, trying to eat Iris in one single bite!

However, Iris smiled confidently as intercepted the gigantic jaws with her claws, unleashing yet another shower of consecutive swipes, slashing through the wood with ease, and tearing apart a large piece of the Accursed Tree King's body!

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

"Fufu, you're quite entertaining… Do you really think such a thing can-"

However, Iris was surprised by something that happened right after she tore apart the large, shapeshifted snake-like jaws of the Accursed Tree Emperor!

All the pieces of wood that flew into the air after she tore them apart began to move in midair, shaping as gigantic and sharp branches, flying towards her to impale her from all around!

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

Iris was then impaled by countless spears of super-hardened wood!

The Accursed Tree King laughed maliciously, as he smiled devilishly!

"Gahahahaha! Do you really think this old man plays fair?! You really need another thousand of years to even get to my level!" said the Accursed Tree King, as he saw Iris being torn into pieces!

However… something was wrong with this.

Although, because he was delving into his triumphant victory, he didn't realize…

But… Iris was not bleeding.

"Hahaha! And did you think that I was going to play by your script?!" asked Iris, as her pieces of flesh, phantom flesh, made through her Spectral Body Skill began to fall over the Accursed Tree King's body within milliseconds!

Iris's entire body began to expand, freeing herself from the spears of wood as she flew above the Accursed Tree King!

"Nngh…! This is not over- What?!"

The Accursed Tree King had tried to move and confront Iris with a strong punch, but he suddenly realized that.. he had become sluggish!

In fact, he had become way slower than before!

"This is… What?! A curse? But I am… Immune to Curses!"

The Accursed Tree King glanced as the pieces of phantom flesh that fell off Iris "wounds" began to spread over his wooden body, leaving large tattoos all over his bark, which began to slow him down to a greater degree!

He felt like he had become several times heavier than before, he could barely move now!

"Immune to Curses? Perhaps to your world's Curses…" said Iris with a confident smile, although she was smiling through her Soul-Beast form, which resembled a grotesque and formless mass of phantasmal will-o-wisps with a giant jaw filled with sharp teeth that smiled eerily.

"N-Nooo! I won't lose! I have not lost yet, young girl!" roared the Accursed Tree King, as he began to expand his body into large fists, using all of his Mana and directing them towards Iris!

However, Iris smiled even more wickedly, as she generated enormous claws made through the shapeshifting of her soul beast form, turning them into solid mass through the Embodiment Skill, and then confronting his punches with more punches!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Each punch resonated through the battlefield, forming shockwaves all around!

The fight for supremacy continued, as the Accursed Tree King suddenly found a way to surprise Iris once more!

"Heh, you are done for!" he laughed, as he suddenly controlled the several roots he had seeped into the soil beforehand, moving them upwards right below Iris, shaping them as sharp spears and aiming to impale her, while covering the on his Soul Flames to inflict direct damage into her soul!

"Old man, did you think that I would fall for the same trick twice?!" asked Iris, as she shapeshifted her entire body into an enormous, spectral maw, and ate the entire spear of wood alongside the flames with a single bite!

CRUNCH!

"W-WHAT?!"

The Accursed Tree King was surprised, but that shock that Iris caused on him was enough for her to abuse it, flying towards him to finish him off for good!

Flash!

Iris turned into an enormous meteor of blue flames, crushing the surprised Accursed Tree King into the ground, beginning to turn his entire body into ashes as his soul groaned in agony!

"GGGUUUUAAAAAAAAHHHHH…!"

"Die!" roared Iris, as an enormous explosion ensued afterward!

BOOOM!

The Accursed Tree King groaned in pain, as his loud agonizing cry resonated through the entire battlefield!

Iris crushed his entire body into the ground while shrouding her body with her Spectral Soul-Beast Aura, and then turning it into physical matter through Soul-Beast Embodiment, crushing him as if she had turned into an enormous meteor!

BOOOOOM!

"NNNGAAAAAAGGHH…!"

"DIE!"

Iris roared, as she unleashed all of her powers over the resilient bastard of a tree!

Her Spectral Soul shaped into gigantic claws, tearing apart all of his wood into chunks and throwing it away while targeting his soul to deal extra damage!

"NNNNGAAAAAAGGH…! No…! NOT YET! For my lord…! I have to take you down!!!"

Suddenly, several memories crossed through the mind of the Accursed Tree King, remembering his past as he met with his lord, his owner, and his master, Beelzebub.

In their world, The Accursed Tree King was born as a mere sprout that was once tamed by

Beelzebub, he remembered such times with tenderness, as he slowly grew at the side of his young master when he was a mere child, helping him through the many challenges and tragedies that ensued through his life, always being at his side no matter what!

Even after Beelzebub lost everything in his life, even when he wandered the world of Demons and survived however he could, the Accursed Tree King was always with him, helping him survive, sheltering him within his roots, and always giving him encouraging words…

This resolve to help and serve his master filled his mind with determination! He was not going down without doing everything he could to expel these intruders that came from another world to invade his lord's territory, which had been suddenly trapped within a space-time anomaly!

"Noo… NOT ENOUGH! GRUUUUUAAAAAAAHHHH! I will turn your soul into ashes!"

The Accursed Tree King braced himself with blazing resolve to defeat Iris, and Iris herself sensed such enormous willpower, she recognized his power!

"Impressive…! Then go all out, show me how devoted you are to your master!" roared Iris, incentivizing the old tree monster to fight and go all out!

There was something within her, perhaps it was mere selfishness, or the "pride" that Noah always talked about, but for the first time since she began to fight, she felt like she wanted to know what her foe was all about, she wanted him to show her what he was truly made of!

BOOOOM!

An enormous explosion of blue flames and purple flames resonated through the entire battlefield, as Iris and the Accursed Tree King unleashed the power of their abilities!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

As if they were constantly clashing, blue flames and purple flames exploded constantly, both of them had enough power to cancel each other!

The gigantic explosions started to make the entire world shake, as even space itself trembled by the shockwaves!

"HAAAAAH!" roared Iris, unleashing her will and flames against the last bit of the Accursed Tree King, who was unleashing his very soul into the battle, he was no longer a being of wood, but of pure purple flames!

"GRRRUUUOOOOOOHHH!" The Accursed Tree King roared even louder, thinking about his master with all of his might, he needed to suppress this threat at all costs!

Even if it meant his own life!

FLASH!

"Oh? You…!"

Iris quickly realized that the Accursed Tree King suddenly unleashed a strange technique, converting his very soul into a bomb!

His soul began to inflate like a balloon, as his crimson eyes gleamed eerily, Iris could clearly see a smile within his very soul!

"This is it, young lady! DIE WITH ME!" he laughed, as Iris was suddenly engulfed in an enormous explosion!

…Or was she?

"Eh? W-Why… Am I not exploding?!"

Suddenly, he realized that there was an enormous, phantasmal claw grasping the very center of his soul!

She was holding in the innermost of his very soul, the place he was going to use to detonate himself, the Soul Core!

"I see… so in this world, you beings possess these crystals inside your souls…!"

Iris began to absorb all the excess mana the Accursed Tree King was infusing into this strange jewel inside of his soul, and then, she started to grip it tightly, and beginning to use Soul Devour!

Crack, crack!

Instead of inflating and exploding, the Accursed Tree King felt as if his soul was cracking like glass!

Iris had begun to eat his soul!

"No! Agh! Don't you dare! GRRUAAAAHHHHH…!"

"I am sorry but I couldn't resist the urge! You already showed me what you had, now let me show you what I can do! Gyahahahahaha~!"

Iris laughed in the form of a monstrous beast made of phantoms, as she tightly gripped the soul of the Accursed Tree King, and started to devour it bite by bite!

Crunch, crunch, crunch!

"Nnnggggyyyyyyaaaahhhhh…! Lord…! Beelzebub…! MAAAASSTEEEEEEEERRRR…!"

CRASH!

Screaming in agony, the Accursed Tree King, whose body had already turned into ashes had his soul completely shattered and eaten by Iris!

Letting out a last cry for his Master, he was annihilated!

Suddenly, silence took place on the battlefield, as Iris absorbed the power within the soul of this powerful Hidden Boss.

Her Aura grew stronger and bigger, as she smiled devilishly, Adamantine waved her tail in excitement, as she had been destroying dozens of normal Accursed Tree Monsters while letting her master defeat the big boss.

"Fufu, that was a nice meal… Though, now I feel bad… I should have left it for Master to turn into a Blood Soul Servant…" sighed Iris.

"Good work, Iris. However, don't relax!" said Noah through telepathy, as he felt the presence of three powerful entities surging from within the soil of the battlefield!

As they marched forward and annihilated whole armies of monsters that keep emerging, three Hidden Bosses were suddenly triggered after the death of the Accursed Tree King!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Three gigantic figures jumped out of the soil, spiraling around, and falling over the ground!

The first Hidden Boss that emerged after the death of the Accursed Tree King was an enormous mass of sharp and spiky vines coated in poison, it was as big as 10 meters, and it had several tentacles that constantly secreted toxic liquids. Over its vine body, there were over twenty different roses of all colors, each one holding an eye, gleaming with terrifying crimson light.

The second Hidden Boss that emerged seemed to be a bigger version of the giant bugs that looked like a mix between bees and flies, its body was over 7 meters and it held long wings that resembled those of moths, it had two crimson eyes filled with tiny eyes, and a lot of hair covering its limbs and abdomen.

It had a sharp stinger overflowing with poison, and sharp claws in each limb, alongside a bright red jewel in the middle of its two eyes.

And the third Hidden Boss that emerged was different than the others, resembling a gigantic golem made of black ore and colorful crystals, being as tall as 15 meters. Its enormous fists could easily tear down buildings, which were also filled with sharp crystals making them deadlier. It had a single square-shaped purple jewel in the middle of its "head" which seemed to be its eye.

All three of them exuded enormous pressures, making the monsters around tremble in fear…

At the same time as the Accursed Tree King was shattered and eaten by Iris, three Hidden Bosses emerged from the soil deep down, as if triggered by the death of their ally.

Their presences held great magical power, which resonated through the entire battlefield, intimidating anyone that sensed it.

An enormous vine monster covered in several colorful roses, each one holding an eye capable of inflicting a curse, a large bee-fly hybrid beast with a sharp, poisonous stinger, and a giant golem made of black ore and covered with colorful jewels.

As it felt their presences appear, the entity within the large castle sighed, clenching his fists.

"Graddon… Is this the fate that the other Archdemons have decided for us? Trapped within this space-time singularity… And I cannot even move from where I am if they don't open the door? What kind of accursed existence is this? Forced to see as my subordinates are slaughtered one by one…! Curse you, Archdemons!"

As the entity cursed the "Archdemons", Noah and his party prepared for battle.

The three Hidden Bosses unleashed their powerful and thick auras, as they suddenly dominated all the monsters on the battlefield and forced them to obey them.

Noah, through Fartalk, began to plan what to do.

"They would be annoying to fight together, let's separate them, and fight against them. Iris, Adamantine, you come with me, we'll go towards the golem…" said Noah.

Iris and Adamantine quickly answered rather quickly.

"Alright!" said Iris.

"Golem? No meat…" sighed Adamantine.

"There will be meat later. Arthur, Timassa, and Clementina will go against the bug." Said Noah.

Arthur, Timassa, and Clementina nodded in affirmation.

"We'll take it down quickly!" said Arthur.

"Leave it to us, master," said Timassa.

"No problem," said Clementina.

"Noire, Sakura, and Sugar, you three will go with Jon and fight the vine monster. If it possesses a lot of eyes it means a lot of curses. Jon is the best at curses while your robotic bodies should be naturally immune to most curses too," said Noah.

Jon, Sakura, Sugar, Noire all answered almost at the same time.

"Yes, my lord." Said Jon.

"We shall take it down…" said Noire.

"Uwah, we are finally battling a big boss now!" said Sakura.

"I will do my best," said Sugar.

Noah nodded, as he had summoned Iris and Adamantine to his side, and flew directly towards the three Hidden Bosses, who felt his threatening presence right away!

Similarly, Arthur and the rest were summoned at his side as he flew, and all of them formed their groups and separated into three!

The three hidden bosses, similarly to the Accursed Tree King, were able to speak rather easily, ad immediately began to chat as they saw the Vampires' plan before rushing towards them.

"So these fiends are the ones that defeated Graddon!" said the Rose Vine King with an ear-piercing voice, as his tentacles waved around and leaked slimy venomous fluids.

"Damned otherworldly demons… our lord cannot even walk outside of his castle anymore, and we couldn't come earlier because we were forced into strange spaces until certain conditions were fulfilled…! Were those conditions… the death of our friend?!" roared the Bee-Fly King as his wings began to emit loud sounds, his large claws constantly cracking in anger.

"Graddon! We must avenge Graddon! Kill! KILL THEM ALL!" roared the Golem King, as his enormous body began to move, all the jewels over his body started to glow with many magical colors, emitting bright lights!

"Wait, you idiot, we need to do this together!" said the Bee-Fly King, trying to stop the Golem King, as he charged power from his crystals and ran towards the group of vampiric undead, unleashing an enormous colorful beam of light!

FLAAASH!

However, Noah, Iris, and Adamantine intercepted it head-on!

Noah's crimson aura, Iris's phantasmal blue aura, and Adamantine's abyssal shadow aura combined into an enormous mass of energy, clashing against the powerful magic beam generated by the Golem King, and clashing against it as they kept pushing through!

CLASH!

"Guoooh?! You can… resist that?" asked the Golem King in surprise, as Noah answered rather cheekily.

"This is nothing! Lifeblood Exceed, Lunar Slash!" roared Noah, as he charged his entire body with the combination of his Soul, Vitality, and Mana, until darkness and crimson-red energies concentrated into his large Bone Claw and in Excalibur which he held in the other hand!

SLASH!

Noah unleashed a powerful Lunar Slash that clashed against the beam of magic with enormous power, but it seemed that the Golem King was not over yet, as he kept charging magic, as if it were limitless!

FLASH!

"And I am just starting…! Lifeblood Exceed, Execution!"

Noah concentrated the power of his very being, going for a combo attack using Lifeblood Exceed Techniques! Right after Lunar Slash came Execution, which was a vertical slash attack with enough strength to slice a mountain in half!

SLAAAASH!

BOOM!

By receiving additional power from Iris and Adamantine at his side, the enormous vertical slash carried phantasmal flames and abyssal shadows from the two girls, which made Noah's Execution attack even more potent!

An enormous wave of crimson red energy, phantasmal blue flames, and abyssal shadows rushed through the beam of magic, as it sliced it in half!

FLASH!

His beam simply sliced in half… this was something ridiculous!

The other two Hidden Bosses were shocked by Noah and his companion's might, the three of them sliced the powerful Jewel Beam made by the Golem King as if it were absolutely nothing at all!

However, the Execution Slash continued, slicing through the beam and reaching the Golem King, hitting him directly!

BOOOM!

"UNNGGGGAAAGGHH…!"

The Golem King roared in surprise and pain, as he was thrown into the air, despite his size and weight!

However, his enormous body was quickly called back to the ground by gravity's grace, as he fell over the dirt, generating a large crater!

BOOM!

Large chunks of his body began to fall apart, as the Golem King quickly stood up by shape-shifting his body as if he had no defined form, taking the shape of some kind of quadruped beast resembling a bear!

"GRROOOAAAH…!"

He roared once more, as he confronted the trio that came after him, Noah, Iris, and Adamantine all smiled as if this giant pile of ore was a mere prey to them!

The viciousness of the Noctem Family knew no bounds!

Flash! Flash! Flash!

The three quickly separated, aiming at three different directions and areas of the giant Golem King.

Noah knew that the best way to defeat a golem was to crack it from all around and make it crumble into pieces!

"Phantasmal Knives!"

Iris quickly summoned her Soul Weapon, which had evolved into two beautiful knives after reaching A-Rank, dividing themselves in the process! Such division was in fact part of a special Skill of the Soul Weapon, and it let Iris wield it in both of her hands.

The Phantasmal Knives glowed as they were covered in will-o-wisps, and Iris flashed towards the Golem's rear with all of her might, covering herself in her Phantasmal Blue Flames and her Spectral Soul-Beast Form!

CRAAASH!

Iris began to slice through the enormous Golem King with her knives, slicing large chunks of its body apart one by one!

And then, Noah and Adamantine acted!

Noah and Adamantine flew towards the golem's sides, as Iris ravaged its backside with her phantom knife and a series of consecutive attacks. The golem was seriously more resilient than the Accursed Tree King, and the monster was even regenerating all the pieces of rocks it got shattered almost instantly, making it a hard time destroying its rocky exterior.

However, it was nothing that some more little attacks couldn't do!

Noah and Adamantine rushed towards the sides of the Golem King, who had shapeshifted into a bear-like shape, and roared furiously as Iris attacked him, forcing him to constantly regenerate.

Noah's body was shrouded with his crimson-red aura, his aura resembled a beast directly from the depths of the outer void, having countless tentacles, a crimson eye, and an enormous jaw that extended all over the soul, he was truly the most grotesque thing the Golem King had ever seen through his long and arduous life as a guardian of his master!

Meanwhile, Adamantine didn't lose too much against her lord's grotesqueness, as her shadow aura shaped itself as a monstrous, wolf-like creature with a gigantic face and a malicious grin showing off razor-sharp teeth.

Her paws showed sharp claws, which she began to swipe around at great speeds, alongside that, her shadows shapeshifted as large spears of darkness and blades of shadows, flashing towards the entire body of the golem and generating countless impacts that cut off little chunks of the body of the Golem King!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Meanwhile, Noah grinned maliciously as he unleashed Excalibur!

"Attack on your own, Excalibur, go all out for this resilient bastard!" laughed Noah, as the Corrupted Holy Blade glowed with black and crimson-red colors, flashing like an arrow towards the golem's back and slashing through all of it with countless explosions of rocks and jewels!

BOOOOOOM!

Meanwhile, Noah unleashed the power of his Soul Weapon Bone Claw, as a gigantic hydra made of blood emerged out of it, roaring monstrously as its gigantic jaws reached the golem and began to bite through the rocks and jewels while using their long necks to entangle around his front limbs!

"GRUOOOOOHHH… BUGS!" roared the Golem King, opening his bear-shaped head, and the sharp jaws filled with razor-sharp jewels acting as teeth began to tear down the giant hydra made of blood coming from Noah's Bone Claw, however, Noah smiled!

If these Hydra were blood, it was obvious what he was going to do next!

"Hah! Blood Detonation!" roared Noah with a sickening grin that made him look completely insane.

FLASH!

Suddenly, all the Hydra heads entangling the Golem King flashed with the brightest crimson light the Golem King had ever seen!

"W-What?!"

Iris and Adamantine quickly flew away as they smiled back at the Golem King!

And then…

BOOM!!!

The Golem King saw as all the blood making up the Hydras exploded as if they were all bombs!

"NNNNNGRRRUUUOOOOOOOHHH…!"

The explosions continued for every head, his entire body was being torn apart into pieces! He had barely fought, and he was now being utterly defeated by Noah's mercilessness!

The Golem King fazed his demise in the most anti-climactic way possible!

Large chunks of rocks, colorful jewels, and more fell over the ground, as the two other Hidden Bosses glanced at their ally in utter defeat!

However, Noah squinted his eyes, stopping Iris and Adamantine from growing excited, this was definitely not over yet.

"Hah, to be expected of an A-Rank Hidden Boss…!" laughed Noah, as from within the vast smoke, a new figure emerged!

The Golem King had not died, but his true form, which he covered with tons of rocks and jewels appeared!

It was man-made of iridescent rainbow jewels.

His size was only three meters, and his body looked sharp and slim.

In the middle of his forehead, there was a large purple jewel, shining brightly.

"To think that you would get to my core so fast…" muttered the Golem King, changing his demeanor completely!

"Hoh? Is this your "real form" or are there any other transformations you're packing?" asked Noah.

"This is my true form. Only those worthy enough of getting through my outer crust can see my splendor. I am in truth an Earth Spirit, with enough power to move mountains! My power is unparalleled in this form. You're brave but foolish. Now, face my iridescent light!" laughed the Golem King, as he suddenly began to glow incredibly brightly, as if he had suddenly turned into the embodiment of the sun itself!

The light was so immensely bright and hot that Noah, Iris, and Adamantine's skin began to get roasted immediately!

The three Vampires, however, blocked the light by generating barriers using their souls and auras, and Noah used Vampiric Aegis to create shields of blood, although they boiled and exploded the moment they were hit by the light.

"Is he going to just shine brightly?" asked Iris.

"Hahahahah! Perish before my splendor!" laughed the Golem King, as he simply floated in midair and kept unleashing the light reflected from his crystal body.

"Then let's go!" said Noah, as he braced himself and began to fight against the burning light with all of his might!

FLASH!

Adamantine and Iris at his side flew with him, using their phantom flames and shadows to fight off the Golem King's reflection light!

As they kept pushing, they gritted their teeth in anger, baring their fangs!

The Golem King noticed this, as he became surprised.

"What?! You're Blood Demons, how is it possible for you to withstand my light so much?!" he roared.

"To be honest, your light doesn't even compare to the flames of the Wyrm Emperor!" laughed Noah, as he charged his aura and soul into his claws, unleashing a series of consecutive attacks towards the Golem King, crushing his light!

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

"UNNNGH…!"

Flash!

Iris and Adamantine reached his back with bleu phantom flames and darkness, hitting him with a loud explosion of their combined attacks!

BOOOM!

"UNNGAAGGH..!"

Iris smiled, as she unleashed her tattoos all over the damned Earth Spirit, suddenly slowing his slim and sharp body!

"W-What?!"

And then Noah used Cursed Blood, spraying his curses all over his body and making him even slower!

"Unngh…! No!"

And right after that, Adamantine smiled wickedly at his side, as she materialized her shadows and converted them into gigantic spears, flashing them against him as they began to explode consecutively!

And then Noah said the magic words!

"Blood Detonation!"

FLASH!

All the blood that got stuck into his body suddenly flashed brightly, as the Golem King easily recognized this!

"T-This… you can do such an advanced Spell continouslyyyyyyyyy?!"

BOOOM!!!

Another deadly explosion happened, as the Golem King's entire body was engulfed by deadly crimson flames produced by the combustion of Noah's cursed blood!

"NNNNGGREAAGGH…!"

The explosion was so loud it created a large shockwave, and Noah, Iris, and Adamantine flew a few meters away.

As the smoke dissipated, however, the Golem King was still standing (or floating!).

His entire body had cracked a bit, but he seemed to be fine.

"That really took me by surprise. I should be warier of your blood…. But that is as far as you will go! Jewel Spike!"

The Golem King suddenly raised his arms, as his entire body began to shapeshift once more, forming sharp spears all over his body, which flew towards Noah and company!

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