90 Blood essence

The evil expression in the thunder devil's eyes created further apprehension in the director's eyes. Earlier although I was imposing, he thought he could escape with his life. But now that my power has more than doubled the fear in his heart wouldn't stop.

He gripped his greatsword and punched himself in the gut. He spits up some concentrated blood essence onto the greatsword giving it a blood light.

"Unending Divide!" He roared with panic as he slashed out with multiple blood red sword beams. The sword beams easily outclassed the ones from before because of the blood essence.

"Hehehe." The thunder devil laughed with a distorted voice, as lightning crackled in its devilish eyes. Then a stream of red lightning shot out with indomitable form! Each lightning bolt met the sword beams and barely defeated it.

But one must remember the lightning bolts were a casual strike, whereas the sword beams were made using blood essence! The director clenched his teeth as he spat out more blood essence darkening his greatsword.

He sent cleave after cleave as the devil casually disregarded each attack sending a further volley of red lightning. The lightning had an incessant quality to it, it would take any form necessary to kill and would continue to haunt the recipient.

Realizing the inevitable nature of his death the director constantly shot out blood essence powered strikes and removed a talisman from his pocket. He instantly crushed it and tried to flee as he fought off the incoming lightning.

"Gaze." I roared as blood red beams came from the devil's eyes. The beams landed on the director's body instantly slamming his body into the ground. The suppressive power making him incapable of moving under the devil's gaze.

"It's too late anyway, I've already sent out a transmission. Soon you will be attacked by the Overseers." The director snickered as he tried to resist the suppression.

I snapped and a matrix of restrictions appeared in the black sand. It formed violet ruins for over 20 meters. At the edge of the restrictions was a pale blue shadow of a talisman attempting to break through the restrictions but failing.

"I didn't just bring you here for fun." I laughed as I pointed at the talisman at the edge of the restriction circle. A lightning bolt shot out obliterating it in seconds and the hope drained out of the director's face.

He released all his blood essence, as his vitality quickly waned. His face started to wrinkle and his hair turned white. But in return, he gained great strength instantly breaking through the suppression and fleeing at supersonic speeds.

"Heh, there's no escape." I laughed, as the distorted laughter of the thunder devil echoed. Red lightning generated all along the demon as the blue lines glowed with intense magical power. A powerful devil qi radiated forming a path of slaughter!

In the devil's palm, the lightning gathered into a massive blood red lightning sword. The distorted laughter turned into the screams of the dead, as it slashed down with the lightning sword. Creating a massive sword beam that moves like lightning!

The director fleed with extreme fear as the sword beam caught up with him. He moved to guard it but before he could even respond, the sword beam struck him. He convulsed as a massive amount of lightning entered his body obliterating his organs.

His cultivation was instantly crippled and in his eyes shined intense lightning. Then his body exploded into a massive lightning pool that obliterated 10 meters all around. From the ashes of the director's body emerged a red lightning bolt that struck my body.

In my mind were flashes of various foreign memories, these were the director's memories. Everything from their suppliers and their various bases, then lastly the identities of the true knights in charge. The Silent Sword's guild was formed by Dante, and Remmie as a way of discretely acquiring humans to experiment on.

The abuse of human rights was looked down upon by the gods and therefore the kingdoms informed such rules strictly. So they formed a crime organization to procure them the best subjects and help with the gathering of various items.

I saw a vision of the director as a guard coming to my unconscious body and drawing blood. He seemed pleased as he later went and tested the blood for magical power. Done with investigating his memories my eyes flashed open as my body separated into two.

Next to me appeared my Kirin avatar, and this was my Devil avatar. Thinking about what I saw I couldn't help but feel wistful. They knew a lot more than I knew back then and had such a huge conspiracy hidden from me.

Even though I have always been intelligent, without power I was just a clever bug. But now with power, I have the potential to be a player and not just a pawn. This is just the first on the path of domination!

As I thought a portal broke open releasing apocalyptic fumes. It was my cue for an avatar to return, and then the Kirin avatar jumped in disappearing into the portal. I felt a spine-tingling sensation on my back as I turned to the north. I started running at subsonic speeds as I realized my avatars were in danger!

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In the sky over a magnificent castle surrounded by a large herbal garden. There was a mighty clash of sword beams, a three-colored serpent's blinding colors fought against a massive earth golem. The golem spat out sword qi's that converged into power sword beams.

The serpent agilely dodged the sword qi's as it released a stream of elemental power trying to obliterate the golem. The golem remained unfazed as ice, fire, and even wood essence tried to infect it. Then the serpent attempted to wrap around the golem but it was smacked away into the ground causing a large crater.

Atop the golem sat an old wrinkly man with declining vitality. But his power was not to be taken lightly, he was a true knight.

He was one of the knights that fought Lewis when I possessed him, Elder Shu! In his hand with a rapier wrapped around with earth energy. It looked more like a massive blunt club rather than a rapier.

On the serpent was a fusion of two of my avatars. My Elemental Sword Avatar, and my Ouroboros Sword avatar. I wore rainbow robes, with a 3 colored serpent on the back of them. There was some blood on the robes that had dried.

"Surrender and return that the herbs or else..." Elder Shu said sternly, he had come to collect the starry ginseng from the garden.

Then he saw me attacking the facility and this fight ensued, I fought him off for a little while but he quickly gained the upper hand. Then I had overdrawn my essence just to keep fighting him, even now my avatar was becoming unstable.

"I promise you will dearly regret wronging me," I said with a cold tone as I looked to the south, I could see a speeding figure quickly approaching with a devil at his back. Elder Shu followed my gaze as he noticed the figure. In almost seconds the figure appeared as he stood close to me.

'Damn it, I had to use spatial laws to speed it up...' I thought with anger, I hadn't been able to make an avatar for my spatial laws. But if I use them then the essence that I used to form these avatars becomes unstable. Noticing this fact Elder Shu couldn't help but laugh.

"So you have an avatar art? Well, too bad the essences of your avatars are so unstable. Otherwise, I might feel threatened." Elder Shu was getting old, even though he was an almost level 40 knight, he only had the power of a peak early stage knight.

"Heh." echoed throughout the sky, as the night sky seemed to darken and a portal opened. Inside of the portal was an unending abyss of darkness, the avatars became beams of various colors as they converged and disappeared into the portal.

Elder Shu stood dumbfounded as he stared at the portal with fear. The golem he was on disintegrated as he turned to flee from the portal.

Inside of it, he felt something familiar it was that evil sword intent Lewis used all those months ago! He rushed towards a nearby mountain hoping to protect himself with the earth energy

"Where are you going? I thought you wanted to see the real me!" A booming voice laughed from inside the portal. The shadows coalesced into a terrifying silhouette, wielding a black longsword that pulsated with shadow force.

The silhouette raised it's sword and slashed down with an unending black sword beam. The sword beam cut the sky apart dispersing any clouds and obstructions and shot Elder Shu out of sight. As soon as the dust settled, and the mountain Elder Shu used was completely crumbled by the sword beam.

All that was left of it were boulders and a corroding shadow intent. The silhouette split apart into 5 different lights, an elemental, an ouroboros, a kirin, a devil, and a black longsword. The longsword returned to the portal and on the ground were the 4 avatars.