557 Fated Encounters: Nyzzets Labyrinth Conquest 19/?: Serious Punch (1/2)
Begudhur had planned his moves carefully. As he took over hosts and absorbed their power and ate their souls, he also controlled them to gather more pawns that he could parasitize.
His powers seemed more complex than one would seem. Begudhur, the Demon Demigod of Parasites could parasitize hosts that were weakened enough beforehand. Due to this, he could not simply jump into new hosts one after another and needed to beat a new host so he could take over it.
Each time he took over a host, he would slowly devour the Soul and its Soul Energy and the body's Life Energy and Magic Energy.
Meaning that each time he finished his 'meal', he would acquire a bit of extra stats and sometimes, even inherited skills that he was capable of carrying over a new host… However, if he were to be too greedy and consumed his host too fast, he would be left defenseless once again, without a proper body to showcase his powers, he was not as strong.
Begudhur was a parasite, and parasites would never fight by themselves, they take over hosts and nourish themselves by sucking on their life slowly but steadily.
Although he inherited skills and stats that he could carry over most of the time, he could only showcase them by taking over another host.
His soul alone, even as a demigod, was subpart to even some mortal Heroes by itself… this is why the Hero of many years ago managed to destroy his feeble physical body and seal his soul.
Although weak by himself, as long as he was parasitizing something through his divinity effect, his power would become outstanding. His powers had limitless potential, even if it had such a condition… the gods in the past feared that whenever he managed to parasitize a god, things would go into a downward spiral where the gods wouldn't be capable of stopping in time.
This is why he was stopped before things went too out of control and they began to affect the gods directly.
Begudhur knew well enough why he was sealed, it was as if the gods were recognizing his greatness, greatly increasing his ego.
Now, thanks to Kireina's overwhelming divine aura, his seal weakened, and he was freed from his seal, slowly planning his next course of action.
Begudhur got himself familiar with his powers once again, parasitizing a very weak host and slowly rising through the food chain over again. After a few days, he had already raised into a Thunder Dragon.
As he did, he rediscovered some of his very few Divine Techniques, one of such was named 'Parasite Legion', which cost a large amount of Divine Energy but let him divide himself into many little Soul Clones to parasitize many hosts at the same time, it was a power similar to Geggoron's, but at the same time very different.
Begudhur has not yet discovered the truest potential of his power but was slowly unveiling the nature and
For now, he divided himself into many smaller parasite souls, taking over many hosts that he overpowered and weakened, generating a large army that could even fight against the Elder Dragons, mostly because the hosts of his split parasite souls came with all the power he accumulated through his parasitizing journey.
”With this power… even that being that weakened my seal wouldn't be able to fight against me!”
Begudhur began to plan his next course of actions according to the best ways to gain a larger army while strengthening himself by jumping into Thunder Dragon targets or those of similar strength over and over to slowly gather more power.
”Those tribes of Lizardmen… and the Elder Dragons in there! They must be mine! Such powerful beings as those Elder Dragons will greatly enhance my power… I will divide my troops and quickly take over them before that being comes down here!” said Begudhur, without much time to plan things in detail, he decided quite rashly his next plans.
”No matter how strong it is an Elder Dragon, my parasitized army is even stronger as it is charged with the powers I've accumulated and also my Divine Energy if things go out of control! There is no way that I can possibly lose!” thought Begudhur, revealing a devil smile in the Thunder Dragon's jaws that he was parasitizing.
Begudhur then divided his large army of giant monsters, the ones he had parasitized in the lowest floors of the dungeon, and then sent them in large armies towards each tribe of Lizardmen, which was being guarded by an Elder Dragon each.
There were exactly four of such tribes, all led by a specific Elder Dragon.
The tribe that Goghesdum led, the city of the High Thunder Lizardmen was perhaps one of the biggest and oldest of the four, as it was led by the first Elder Dragon to have ever been born in this dungeon.
The other three tribes were scattered around the last floors, but Begudhur had already stationed many of its Parasite Soul Clones in the 81-90 floors, so the first group reached this legendary city quicker than the other three.
Each of Begudhur's Parasite Soul Clones shared mind and part of his consciousness but could develop alter egos of their own, similarly to Geggoron.
The group of over fifty monsters found in the last floors, such as Lesser Thunder Dragons, Giant Thunder Wyverns, Giant Thunder Leviathan Tyrants, Giant Thunder Wyrm Overlords, Thunderstorm Tyrannosaur Emperors, and Lightning Pterodactyl Tyrants moved at a fast pace towards the tribe, seeking to devour the lesser and weaker Lizardmen there and to weaken and parasitize the Elder Dragon protecting them.
Clashing their giant feet and claws over the vast, yellow-colored electric grass plains and destroying the vast forests that they came across, the gigantic creatures approached at a great pace, each one filled with Begudhur's soul, consciousness, and alter egos.
”I can't wait to devour these feeble creatures!”
”The best part of living is to see those weaker than us perish in our hands!”
”Crushed like flies!”
”I will devour them alive! I want to hear their screams! Their delicious screams!”
”I can't wait to parasitize that Elder Dragon; the main body will be greatly pleased by our feats!”
Begudhur was never born as a human and never developed the emotions that a person has. He was a merciless monster born from the lowest of all, raising from that point into godhood, it was obvious that he had a lecherous, selfish, and sadistic personality.
He enjoyed triumphing, trampling, and devouring the weak, it was part of his own divinity to take over other beings' powers and eat them from the inside by parasitizing them. He found great joy in doing so, each time he did so, he felt an exhilarating sense of pleasure and superiority, better than any drug in existence. He was intoxicated with his own actions of aberrant consequences.
He was born in aberration, thrived in aberration, and was an aberration himself, there was nothing else on his mind... all the emotions he developed after gaining sentience were those of love to do what he always did best.
He was never entailed in love, affection, or anything of the sorts, his entire existence and purpose in life was that of parasitizing and growing infinitely stronger, expanding limitlessly, and thriving for eternity.
There was someone very similar to him but had ended up being entailed in emotions, love, and affection.
For the better or the worst, this made her grow stronger than anything else, and by being motivated by protecting her beloved ones, she became something even more frightful than Begudhur… and he was about to meet her.