Chapter 19: Jack and Future Plans

I opened my shop and stared at my remaining SP.

[43,000SP]

Alrighty then, Jack is absolutely poor as fuck right now but that's a story for another day. I took the arm sized syringe from the gates and walked towards an all familiar corpse, crouching down so that I could lean near to it.

White haired, branch Belial, Cleria Belial. A necessary death for this world.

"Can her blood still be used though?"

Hmm, according to my biology skill, blood stays active for 6 to 8 hours after death, she's a Devil so it can be longer or shorter but since it's only been 3 hours or more after her death, she's still usable.

That's right, monster-kouhai would have the Belial blood in it.

I took 2 syringes and filled them with her blood, do I feel anything for this you ask?

Not really, it's not like I'm desecrating her corpse.

Yep, I'm just taking some blood.

She won't use it any time soon after all.

Pat! Pat!

I stood up and dusted my pants, the arm sized syringes were actually no joke a hassle to bring, also, I can't put them inside the gates, stupid gates, same reason as with the Bloodstone.

Next was...

A smirked painted itself unto my lips as I eyed the smart baldy that called me gay, his death wasn't pleasant.

And I'll make sure even his corpse won't be. Jokes.

I respect him, he was smart, and he defeated me fair and square, too bad he's a Devil with their ridiculous weakness for anything holy.

I could've also killed him with assassinate but I was afraid that maybe he set up some traps, better to be cautious.

But, before I even took a single step, something inside me, most probably my remaining conscience whispered.

'That's hell your walking into'

If I do whatever I'm planning to do, then I have to commit down the path of corruption.

That's what my conscience is saying, but.

"What's wrong with needing to cure my loneliness?"

It's not like I WANT to do this, Mr. Tree said I NEED a companion.

And this is the only way I know.

Right. Let's delude myself like this.

This time, I ran towards him, I had to rush a little, considering how it's been quite a bit since the whole mess, a few Devils and churchies would probably arrive soon.

"Mr. Balam, I don't know your name but please be part of my monster"

Same with Belial, I took 2 arm sized syringe worth of blood from him.

Umu.

Now my monster-kouhai, could have both worthlessness or super strength. Oh, and Balam has innate Magic Resistance too don't they?

Even better, I wonder if it's as strong as a Saber class servant's Magic Resistance, monster-kouhai is shaping out to be the front line tank, then doesn't that mean I have to be the back line mage or ranger?

Eww.

Fucking yucky mages.

Mages are pussies, all the fiction I've read and watched said so, even if the MC call themselves mages they learn how to do physical combat all the time.

Contradictory but still serves to make my point true.

Mages are pussies, I'm not a pussy, therefore I will never be a mage. Even Solomon himself can't do shit if it wasn't for his 72 demons, king of pussies indeed.

I'm sorry, it's a slight biased hatred towards that particular class, I know that if you give them enough time then they can be ridiculously over powered.

But so are cultivators, but they aren't pussies, in fact they have too much balls they become psychopaths.

As I was standing up from my crouched position beside Baldlam, pun intended, I noticed something bulging from his pockets.

...

Hol' up!

Chotto a minute.

That's not a boner right?

Biology! Does corpses get a hard on?

...

False alarm, it's not a boner.

And so, curiosity killed the cat, or in this current case, it's more like curiosity doomed the trap.

A purple ball was what I found to be the true identity of the bulge.

[In a year, make yourself known throughout the underworld✓]

"Chrono Burst!"

A soon as I felt it activate, I pulled a holy sword from the gates and destroyed the damned fucking piece of shit.

Grinding it into absolutely fine dust.

All that in a second.

...

"Fuck!"

I didn't spend any longer, holding 4 arm sized syringes, I activated Assassinate and ran away from the open area.

A cool fact is that whatever you hold before activation of Assassinate is then included to the stealth, but if you drop, let's say the Speed Sword and then activated Assassinate before picking it up, you'll get a backlash.

How do I know this?

I used the darn thing for 3 hours straight, on and off, so I'm bound to get some tricks out of it.

It's a cool skill but its disadvantages are enough to balance it out.

Too balanced but since I have my Gaia's Blessings, I can ignore it if need be.

It still hurts, the backlash is reality tearing me apart.

Now that I think about it, I got lucky with that Gaia's Blessings didn't I? And it also means that I'm weaker than I think, why?

Because the regen bit works only in Earth.

Underworld isn't Earth.

Heaven isn't Earth.

Asgard isn't Earth.

Olympus too probably.

You get the problem. Anywhere that's not Earth? I'm dead meat.

I need to be stronger, while also collecting necessary materials for my abominable monster in the making.

For real this time, I'll buy something with my remaining SP.

*

Creeeeeak!

Kablam!

"Ah~ home sweet home"

Ok, I've managed to make a theory as to why not a single Devil has tried to kill me yet.

First, the ball BARELY saw me, I'm 100% sure it was some sort of 2-way video call magic doobie ball. But it barely saw me, therefore he wouldn't immediately know me as me, but he's aware, if the previous task being completed was anything to go by, though I don't know how it considers it "throughout".

Second, the big baddie CAN'T tell others about my identity. Why? Because he'd practically also be admitting that he knows something about the massacre that the others don't, and I don't think the old Satan faction is welcome at the new and improved Underworld.

Third, if he goes after me, finding out all he can, then he has to do it personally. And knowing who that big baddie is, that's a huge waste of time, he would rather let me take all the blame since his original goal has been done anyways.

I made heavy steps to my bed and laid to rest at it's soft embrace.

It's eating me.

"Haa~"

It's sucking me in.

"Hnng~"

My bed is soft as hell, don't you misunderstand it.

But, I suddenly remember that I don't really need to rest physically.

I'm mentally tired though, but I should still make out my future plans, ah, this time I mean an actual future plan to get stronger and not just some random noble phantasm.

I opened the shop again and scrolled for something for whatever catches my eye that I can buy.

I scrolled for a few seconds

For a few minutes.

For an hour.

Ok.

This shop has like a billion shit that I don't even know about. When I said before that SSR and SR has stuff from fiction, maybe I forgot to add EVERY, because the sheer amount of items (and prices) are probably infinite to be honest.

[Gene Purifier]

And that there is buy worth #1.

For only [20,000SP] you can achieve what a few hundreds of Chinese MC takes a few gajabillion chapters to get in a single click.

Bought.

And then a small dial appeared on top of my chest.

...

Huh? Wait, it's not a pill?

Where's the dragon golden markings? Where's the celestial aura that makes the image of a dragon? Where's the irresistible smell that only a Super Mega God Level Alchemist can make? Where's the young master beating me up for having this shit?!

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO SWALLOW THIS AND FEEL THE BLACK IMPURITIES CUMMING OUT OF ME WHILE SMOKE AND MUSCLES BECOME MUCH HIGHER QUALITY?!

"Haha! I have now achieved the 3957392020th rank of the soul nascent stage! Let me beat up random chinese name of the random chinese clan who is courting death because he called my mother a mother but without capital M!"

How am I supposed to say that now?!

Boo! G! Buddha isn't happy with this! Don't cry to me when I reach the immortal grandmaster buddha lotus sword ki invincible emperor stage! Then I'ma whip out my flying sword of the chaotic taoist demonic dragon of the sky cloud universe!

...

Sarcasm aside, let's see what this buy worth does.

[Gene Purifier - It does what it says it does. It purifies your genes, this should be known as a bloodline boost pill or something similar but G doesn't really give a shit about those and just made it with the concept of purification in mind, then placed inside this dial because it's the most efficient and quickest. This is literally 100% more effective than the try hard versions you're familiar with as it picks the strongest or the gene with the most potential for growth, and then multiplies it, so it's actually supposed to be called gene multiplier but the names sucks, this item is in the R window simply because it's so worthless for someone with the system, a Bloodstone is a billion times better than this shit because it literally changes you into that specific whatever with no impurities, that's why that's in the SR to SSR window]

Ah.

So I wasted my SP on this then? Cool.

First, I opened a gate and tossed it inside, it was a dial with a silvery liquid inside, and the gold-silver contrast is worth the SP if anything.

I'm just licking my wounds now, don't mind me. Afterwards, I took it out again.

Gulp!

And drank it in one go, now then, let's see what effects it'll have on me.

[You have obtained Divine Mana]

[Divine Mana - A God has a natural attunement with Mana itself, as a descendent of Shiva, you are given this same authority over Mana. This Skill allows you to be naturally sensitive to Mana, increases your Intelligence to 50 (A), Mana obeys you increasing your control to God-like levels, and as a descendent leaning towards Shiva's aspect of Time, your understanding of the concept of Time is forcibly increased, it is suggested to obtain the Mental Fortitude skill first due to the possibly maddening amount of knowledge]

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[A normal existence cannot understand the truth of time, poor Jack, you will never be the same, consider this your true punishment]

[You have obtained Mad Knowledge (Time)]