15 Accumulating Treasures (1/2)
[True Energy has reached 100 percent, Soul of Purity has been formed]
[Grudge Energy has reached 100 percent, Soul of Impurity has been formed]
[Wrath Energy has reached 100 percent, Soul of Rage has been formed]
[Zen Energy has reached 100 percent, Host can now develop a breakthrough]
[System has recognized, Brunhilda has been recognized as a familiar]
A stream of notification specifying all the energy that he had absorbed, had shot from a minuscule amount to being completed out of nowhere.
Especially Grudge and Wrath Energy, when he was using 'Soul Eater' it did absorb the energy, but the amount gain was like a grain of rice, which would have taken forever for him if he had stayed here.
Grudge energy made him feel annoyed from the constant whispers entering in his head , while the Wrath energy made him gain high blood pressure and a fever.
Which made his headache even worse. But the True Energy was alleviating his pain as he absorbed it, while the Zen energy was like a cold breeze entering him, and before he knew it, both were also completed along with the Grudge and Wrath.
He then gained another familiar, in a form of a sentient object, with knowledge in fighting, cultivation and some rare secrets.
The thought of her having some motives completely disappeared, Bell told him that when a nameless monster has accepted the name, an imprint will be embedded to their soul swearing their infidelity to their master never harming or betraying them, and they would sacrifice themselves just to protect their master.
So he deduced that souls living in object are categorized as monster.
By the way, Brunhilda or Hilda for short, had told him that monsters he was preferring to, had different names during its time; Beast of the Gods, the weapons of nature, the descendants of the Great Beast.
But the general term that all used was Heavenly Beast or Evolved beast.
Since they all have the natural ability to cultivate but lack a developing mindset to help them get stronger, hence all know by instinct to devour others to get from eating the corpses and evolve, but the higher rank beast have a chance to have human feature, like speaking in the dialect and creating their own society.
Even Bell was not sure how many species were there, since generations will give birth new variant, that are born under strange conditions.
However, Heavenly Beast are not the only ones that have that ability to evolve.
There was once a flower that absorbed abundant Heavenly beast corpses in its surroundings, then it developed into a vibrant forest, other times an ocean using a large core that was formed ,had breed a powerful sea beast that caused typhoons for decades.
However, after a variant is born its rare to find a similar one, hence many try to hunt them down, if not, then it's kin will spread and others of its species will be born from different evolution routes and an unimaginable force will be born.
There has not been a sighting of variants after armies started ravaging the lands, even Hilda only saw about several at most and they killed majority of her masters before, so she wasn't sure if any of them exist anymore since it had been buried.
It was a shame, all the he heard was useful but with how Hilda dictated it, had happened a long time ago, so it would only be grasping, a thin rope in the darkness just to find the treasure.
All in all, the trip wasn't a waste anymore, he gained a lot from digging and found an unbelievable treasure.
When the naming was done Stigma was dead tired, so he ordered Dusk to turn into a large canopy covering him and Hilda to the surface, afterwards he passed out only find himself back to the small hole he climbed into with the sun still down and his headache gone.
Hilda informed him, that Dusk kept on transforming to different forms afterwards, assuming it was its nature.
Then it guarded the entrance, what had happened next was not long after, about three wolves started appearing only to be killed by Dusk, and then a tiger started coming from the scent of blood, although it took a long time for Dusk to kill it not long after it perished.
About four more wolves showed and tried to steal the corpses but Dusk took care of them all. The corpses are piled outside by the entrance and Dusk was guarding it as it switched forms.
Stigma climbed out of the cave to stretch only to have his vision blocked by bodies piled into a small hill.
It made him feel useless, he became independent since then, so having others doing this type of accomplishment felt empty.
After he gets stronger he will stand in front of the Beast not behind a group of men.
”Thank you for the hard work Dusk.” Even if the ghost could not respond, he felt like he should at least congratulate its effort.
Dusk didn't respond only shifting his form one after another. Out of curiosity he checked Dusk status, along with Hilda's stats.
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Name: Dusk
Species: Wraith
Rank: Unique (I)
Skills: Mimicry (II), Invisibility(II), Assimilation(I)
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Mimicry (II) 65%
*A skill unique to Poltergeists, for as long their body mass allows them, they can change their body parts to any form. Each level will increase their body mass.
Invisibility (II) 45%
*A skill that obscure presence for 5 minutes. Each level increases the time by five minutes and further fades one's presence.
Assimilation (I) 80%
*A skill that absorbs and stores energy inside its body to increase its strength and sends to its master's vessel when ordered and vice versa, its range of absorption depends physical contact. Each level gained will increase speed of absorption, and increases strength.
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Name: Brunhilda
Species: Demon Sword
Rank: Unique (I)
Skills:Erode(IV), Possession(II), Curse Body (I)
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Erode (IV) 64%
*A skill that absorbs the stored energy and weakening the structure upon contact, as well increase self-healing. Each level gained will increase speed of absorption, and increases weakening effect.
Possession (II) 24%
*A skill that possesses the body of its user and increases physical abilities depending on the level. Each level increase will affect more of the body.
Curse Body (I) 10%
*A skill that uses the body as a vessel and control Grudge energy stored in the body. Abilities of curses when used will increase.
”Good Weapon!!!”
Stigma was surprised no wonder many experts tried various methods to gain Hilda, she was considered a cheat when a powerful fighter held it. Her skill seem to have weakened greatly after having no owner.
But from her constant stubbornness she was able to increase the level of the 'Erode' skill to dig, but why are the other skill like this? He asked Hilda about it.
”The reason was that, unlike before, only my ability to absorbed was constantly used my other abilities were ignored, hence no one new how to use it. And most of the energy was cultivate to that specific ability, hence it was the only one to have regressed.”
When she explained the cause, it made sense after all, she did try to help her owner but they only assumed the sword had one ability, and it was the work of reflex or instinct.
He turned his head away to inspect the new corpses, the majority had the same skills from before, except two new one showed up.
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Species: Great Dire Wolf
Ranks: Unique (II)
Skills: Howling (III), Blood Lust(IV), Alpha Male (III)
Howling(III) 46%