Chapter 17

『The integration process was successful! Due to the integration of death energy, the host's level has increased to 135.』

Seal felt his strength increase by several folds after the integration process. Something was flowing throughout his whole body, which he guessed was death energy.

Suddenly, he felt something tremble in his hand. Unknowingly his [Black Void] dagger had appeared in his hand and greedily absorbed the black mist coming from his body.

After a while, the dagger stopped trembling and started transforming. While that was happening, he heard the system voice in his head.

『Warning!!! The dagger [Black Void] has reacted to the Law of Death that the host has.』

'What?!' Seal eyes widened in shock. Was that why the dagger was absorbing the dark mist?

Moments later, the black dagger stopped transforming, and now it was lying still in his hand. There were not a lot of changes to the dagger's appearance. The pitch-black sun wasn't there but instead replaced with a small serpent.

A large influx of information appeared in Seal's mind as he held his head in pain. After a moment, he felt better, and the splitting headache started disappearing.

It took a second for Seal's headache to disappear completely. Then, he went through the new information he had received.

While reading the new information, Seal was shocked, and his shock kept increasing as he continued reading.

Minutes later, Seal closed his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief. He had finished going over all the new information.

According to the new information, there were many things he didn't know. His two daggers were in a sealed state and couldn't be used to their fullest potential. They needed a different catalyst to be able to unseal themselves.

His [Black Void] needed death energy to feed on death energy to able to unseal itself. Albeit it was could only unseal up to 5% due to his comprehension of the Law of Death.

While the [White Moon] required a different catalyst which he did not know, but he guessed that it would be the Law of Life because of the Second Chance ability.

The rest was about how to unseal the daggers completely, which was just by comprehending more of the Laws.

A system interface appeared and showed Seal the new dagger information.

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Name: Aetherius, Piercer of The Empty Void

Type: Dagger

Power Level:〈Tier 5〉

Abilities:

𝐏𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞: Able to pierce through any defensive capability no matter how tough it is.

𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 (𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞): Once activated, send continuous slashes 5 meters around the user that deal massive damage to anything the way. The skill lasts for 25 seconds and requires a 4 minutes cooldown.

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The first thing Seal noticed was the name. It was not Black Void anymore but instead Aetherius. And why was it called Piercer of The Empty Void?

The system chimed in and answered,

『Aetherius is an unknown weapon created when the host first entered the Void. At max strength, it could destroy the Void that was supposedly indestructible. Hence why its name is Piercer of The Empty Void. Because of this, it was labeled a forbidden item and sealed by the Void. Aetherius's power was so great that it took the Void 50% of its power to contain it. But even so, Aetherius was not completely sealed. It still had 5% of its strength left. When the host came in contact with Aetherius in the Void, it reacted abnormally and escaped from the Void's grasp to follow to the host.』

It took Seal a few minutes to completely process what he had just heard. He had heard many shocking things before, but this was on a completely different level. His weapons had the power to destroy the entire Void, the same Void that created his system! But wait, Seal noticed something was wrong!

'Wait, a weapon like that couldn't have taken mere seconds and minutes to be created, right?' Seal knew something was wrong when he heard that his dagger appeared after he entered the Void. And he was right.

『The host is indeed wise. Aetherius's creation time was 100 million years.』

'And did I leave the Void after Aetherius' creation process finished?'

『Yes.』

'Doesn't that mean I spent 100 million years unconscious in the Void?!?!!?'

『Yes.』

'Guh!' Seal spat out blood after hearing the system's monotonous answer.

『The host does not have to worry. The time flow barely exists inside the Void realm. Although the host has spent 100 million years inside the Void realm, only around one month has passed in the outside world.』

'That could be counted as a good thing.' Seal sigh in relief, but he couldn't accept the fact that he spent 100 million years sleeping inside the Void. He felt he could've spent those 100 million years doing something better in the Void.

'Oh well, I'll leave it for later and focus on leaving the illusion.'

*CRACK!*

The illusion that Seal was cracked and crumbled down.

"What?!" The dragon who was watching Seal's dream widened its eyes in horror.

It was very afraid of the person in front of it. Not only did the human escape from its illusions, but he seemed to have gotten stronger!

"H-how did you escape my illusions?!" Diva asked while pointing his trembling claws at Seal.

"You don't need to know." Seal grinned at the dragon.

"W-wait!" The dragon saw Seal rushing toward it with his fists.

*BANG!* A punch landed on the dragon's body.

"Please wait!"

*BANG!* Another punch landed on the dragon's head.

"I'm sorry!"

*BANG!* And another...

"Help..."

Minutes later, the dragon laid on the ground with both of its wings missing, and blood covered its body from top to bottom.

It went without saying that Seal used the new Pierce ability of Aetherius to cut through the dragon's hard scales.

"...Kill me, please." Diva no longer resisted and accepted its fate.

"I will do you that favor." Seal said while still maintaining his grin from earlier.

The dragon wanted to say, "It was you who made me want to kill myself." but Seal ended its life before it could.

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〈𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭: 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐝𝐮𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧〉

Objective: Kill Diva, The Illusionist.

Status: Completed

Rewards: +10% to Bloodline, 30x lottery tickets, 5 level increase, 1 million system points

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Seal didn't get a chance to read the quest completion prompt when it appeared because he lost consciousness a second later.

『Integrating 10% into the bloodline...』

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『Integration completed.』

『Current bloodline percentage: 15%』

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"Nngh.." Seal woke up and found that he was back in the labyrinth. He was lying on a white bed with the covers over him.

"Hm? Yue?" Seal noticed that someone was sucking his blood from his neck and saw that it was Yue.

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Lemon chapter next?

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