Chapter 117 - 114 : Departure (1/2)

You have absorbed Book of the Damned (Part 2)

You have fully absorbed The Book of the Damned

Faster than Death: Range increased from 50 to 150 meters.

Death Binding: The effect is now increased by 5 seconds.

Death Touch: absorbing corpses in the Immortal Realm or above will allow you to gain 1% from their Mental Power

You gained a new skill(passive) : Death Manipulation: Summon The Book of the Damned and used it as a mean to attack or defend.

Can only use 10% of the book's capacity.

To unlock more functions of the Book of the Damned, the user(Arthur) have to be in a higher-Realm.

It's to be expected that the results of absorbing the book would be like this but Arthur felt a bit disappointed as he only gained one skill.

With a thought, the dark and ancient book appeared in front of him, floating. He didn't know how Lissandra controlled her book but after hearing some of her answers, he found it rather easy to control the book in such way.

All he had to do is open the book and in its pages, there are pictures of certain creatures and some details about them, for example, their attacks, weaknesses and so.

In total, Arthur was able to use 3 creatures. One was a creepy and zombie-looking hand which is mainly to absorb incoming attacks and store it as temporary Energy. That temporary Energy can be used with 'Radiun', it's also a monster that can be summoned from the book. It's a two-headed bone lizard with a black flaming tail. The stored energy would make him 20% more powerful.

Moreover, Raduin is an attack-monster and is at the peak of the Immortal Realm at the very least, its power will increase when the user is at a higher-Realm.

The monster lasts forever until Arthur falls unconscious, dies or his connection with the monster is cut-off forcefully by an exterior pressure or anything of the sort.

Last but not least, 'Death Golem', its strength is unusually weak, to the point of not matching even a Deity Realm person but its defense is almost unpenetrable by any individual at the Divine Realm or less.

Seeing the new strong creatures, Arthur was absolutely sure that under the God Realm, he's the strongest albeit not reaching the Divine Realm yet.

After a couple of minutes checking the new skills and such, Arthur heard a ting and knew it was a signal. It was unknown why it occurred now and even he was hella confused but he didn't think too much about it.

With a wave of his hand, a blue lightning fog formed in the room and after only a few seconds. A huge wolf's figure was created from the blue fog, unlike his previous appearance, Astrith was bigger and looked more domineering.

With two pointed fangs coming out of his upper mouth and a surprisingly smooth blue fur, he looked like a legendary beast and not just a lightning beast.

”This one greets master.”

Astrith performed a bow with his huge bow and dropped his head toward Arthur to show his respect. His body was made of out of lightning but unlike last time, there was now blue fur.

”Is this your new cover?”

”This one doesn't know exactly, however, this one isn't using anything. This one thinks that he evolved after master grew stronger.”

”Um! Good to have you back.”

Arthur nodded and checked Astrith with his appraisal only to be wide eyes from astonishment. He was supposed to be Astrith's master but the blue wolf was at the peak of the Divine Realm. He even checked multiple times but the result remained the same.

Logically, his Realm is not a bug or mistakes it's just that a servant's power is based on his master's. Arthur may be an Immortal 4th Grade but his strength is of a God Realm, even Lucy.

With Rizaki, he could even reach the peak of the God Realm but that move is too dangerous, he hoped not to be forced to use it a second time. Death Binding could have saved him if he activated at the moment of death but what of Lucy was nearby? If he lived and she died because of him then he would rather die with her.

With Randuin, Astrith, Delia and the Death Golem, Arthur pretty much has his own squad that has godly strength.

He is confident that if all of them ganged up on Jizung or Meyzu, they would probably be able to kill him, especially if he and Lucy prepare the Heavenly Arrow before fighting. Albeit wanting to try that, he wasn't going to as it was almost time to depart.

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Saly woke up and was overjoyed to see Astrith, she jumped on him and wanted to ride him outside but was strictly forbidden by Lucy but Delia, fortunately, stepped in and proposed to join them so Lucy could only sigh and accept after seeing Saly's puppy eyes.

”Seriously, I can't reject her when she does that to me...”

As Lucy was sitting on Arthur's lap and getting her hair combed by him, she complained about Saly's puppy eyes that made her heart unable to be strict.

”Hahaha, It's okay to let her play once in a while, she's been through a lot after all.”

Unlike Lucy, Arthur was easy-going with Saly and always let her do whatever she wants if it's not dangerous. Seeing Astrith going with her, he knew it would be safe and the God Realm individuals won't find this place today or tomorrow as it's filled with illusion techniques laid by Delia and some old talismans of Zodiak.

However, after seeing Lucy refuse, he couldn't speak up as gave up his own rights the moment he married her. If it's about decision-making, he would make all of them but if it's about Saly or simple things, Lucy was the ruler. He couldn't even retort or he will be ditched for a day or two or she would pinch him very hard THEN ditch him for a week.

Between ditching or not ditching, of course, he would pick the latter so he shut his mouth and agreed with Lucy.

”Hmpf! You're always easy with her, as her father, you should be stricter. What if she comes back with a man someday, you'll still accept him like that? Hmpf!”

Arthur laughed it off and heartily replied

”Hahaha, she's still young, how would she bring a man home, moreover. Where would she bring it from? We're in the middle of nowhere....”

Lucy didn't speak and merely snorted and remained silent. She liked having her hear caressed and combed by him so she just laid on her back on his chest and relaxed. They were still not out of the danger but they are temporarily safe so she wanted to enjoy her time with him. Having all the important and serious matters sorted out, she felt extremely relaxed and happy.

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