Chapter 35: Primate Murder Enters the Chat.

Chapter 35: Primate Murder Enters the Chat.

After a session of trolling on the Internet, Yuhao found a clear area in his backyard, ready to create his first Beast.

He already had a clear image of his first beast; the problem was the amount of Energy. Would he be able to sustain the energy consumption of creating the Primate Murder?

"I don't like the look on your face, Yuhao. It usually means trouble," Kiana said to the blond boy with a heavy tone.

Whenever he had that look on his face, it meant something dangerous was about to happen, like magic circuit integration, class implementation, and many more.

Huo Yuhao ignored the tuna's remarks and proceeded to stand in the center of his backyard. He wanted to be done with the whole thing before Usagi dropped by and before Yun'er got back from her shopping trip.

He took a deep breath and summoned his [Monster Slime] martial soul. An aqua-blue blob with two aqua-blue rings appeared surrounding it.

He raised his right arm in front of him; his first energy ring started glowing an eerie blue light as his shadow began expanding in front of him.

『Monster Slime's First Energy Ring.』

『Skill: Cradle of the Beast.』

『Description: Uses Huo Yuhao's imagination and energy reserves to create beasts to serve him.』

『Any creation using this skill can be considered a 'living' beast. Even inanimate objects would be classified as beasts but without 'life.' The only limit is the user's energy reserves and imagination.』

He already had a clear image for his first beast, a hybrid of a cat, a rabbit, and a beast, with pure snow-white fur, ominous yet beautiful violet eyes, and a cute face.

The weather started changing as the clear, sunny sky became covered with clouds, thunder roaring across the world. The world was freaking out about what was happening, so much so that it started 'speaking' with Yuhao.

[The World's consciousness took notice of your actions.]

[The World's consciousness doesn't understand what you are doing.]

[The World's consciousness doesn't know how to handle the situation.]

[The World's consciousness is pleading with you to stop whatever you are doing.]

So, while the World's consciousness was freaking out, Yuhao's shadow started growing out of the ground. A small dark blob was created and began taking shape.

However, as the blob took shape, everyone in the World of Argina felt fear grip their hearts. They thought they were going to die at that moment.

It was as if they were being watched by something that could end them with a mere glance, and that fear crippled their thinking throughout the Beast creation process.

The tuna was also freaking out; after all, she was the main battery used in this Beast creation. "Yuhao, what the f-"

...

In the [Great Devil's Den] forest, Usagi was gasping for air as he lay on the ground, staring in the direction of Yuhao's house.

This feeling was not the regular [Evil] that he was used to fighting and defeating, nor was it irregular monsters whose whole purpose was the annihilation of mankind. It was something wholly different.

A natural predator of all mankind was being born at this moment.

He steeled his heart and used his privilege as a twin saint titleholder to double all of his stats. Whatever was being born in the heart of the [Great Devil's Den] forest was truly a threat to the world as a whole.

And he had to at least buy some time until the other saints arrived, as he was sure they also felt the same heart-wrenching fear that gripped their souls.

"I hope you are alright, kid." He was worried about the blond boy he was meeting today, not knowing that the same kid was the person who started all of this.

...

The dark, shadowy blob finally took shape. It was as small as a regular cat, with a fluffy white tail and rabbit-like ears on top of its head.

It had snowy white fur with violet gem-like eyes that shone with an ominous light over the entire world for a second before disappearing entirely, as if it had judged the entirety of mankind in that brief moment.

It shook its head for a moment before staring at the sweat-soaked blond boy standing in front of it.

Huo Yuhao was getting pretty nervous; he was sure that Ellie's skills would never backfire on him, but it wouldn't hurt if he created a couple of portals beside him for any emergency, right?

The Herrscher of Finality had a serious look on her face. That thing was not normal. And she fueled the creation of that thing with her energy? What kind of blasphemy was this?

She was ready to grill and scold Yuhao to oblivion after wiping that thing from the surface of the planet. She took up her trusty sword and instructed Yuhao, "Yuhao, step back; this is not your fi-"

And before she finished her sentence, the smol (not a typo) cute creature suddenly appeared in Yuhao's embrace, much to his shock and fear, and started cuddling in its creator's embrace.

"Fou."

That single sound melted Yuhao's fears like snow on a hot summer day. He looked down at his hands and saw how the small ball of cuteness was cuddling up in his embrace and looking at him like a docile cat.

『Notice! Creating your first companion +100,000 skill points.』

The tuna in the Stigma space was speechless. 'What was happening?' she wondered as she watched her student and that white monstrosity cuddling with each other.

'So, no fighting?' she wondered to herself, feeling a bit disappointed that she could not show off her cool side to Yuhao.

In the end, she sighed, and her sword disappeared from her hand as her 'armor' changed back to casual clothing. She continued watching the duo play with each other with a soda can in her hand.

The scene was really heartwarming if you ignored the popping veins on the tuna's forehead. It seemed like Yuhao's Herrscher training would increase in brutality.

Meanwhile, Yuhao was having the time of his life, totally oblivious to the seething tuna in the Stigma space. He lifted the white creature, named "Fou," in his hands and started spinning around while laughing.

The scene did not escape the gaze of the World's Consciousness.

[The World's consciousness is speechless.]

[The World's consciousness feels tired and emotionally spent.]

[The World's consciousness politely requests that you keep that thing in control.]

[The World's consciousness says, 'If you ever have time, please visit me at the core of the planet, Huo Yuhao.']

The string of notifications from the planet's status panel ended as Yuhao read the last message while stroking Fou's fluffy head as they lay flat on the ground.

"It seems like we caused a commotion, didn't we?" he said as the panel disappeared. He felt a bit guilty for causing the entire world to fall into a state of fear just for his own selfishness, but looking at Fou, he thought it was worth it; after all, cuteness was justice.

"You think?" the sarcastic remarks of the tuna were like arrows piercing his fragile, glass heart.

"What were you thinking creating that thing? It is a literal predator to all living things." The tuna asked with a sharp tone, and she could not really be blamed for it.

After all, in her world, there was an entity that caused the downfall of humanity multiple times, and now, in front of her, existed a being of similar nature that could end life as though it were nothing.

"I mean, look at it, Kiana. Isn't it cute and fluffy?" he countered her argument by using the cuteness card.

The tuna was really weak toward cute things; after all, he had accidentally seen her collection of cute stuff in the Stigma space and chose to keep silent, afraid that she would go full [Herrscher of Sentience] on him.

He raised Fou into the air so that the tuna could take a good look at him, and Fou understood the assignment as he put on the most innocent look on his face and tilted his head to maximize his cuteness.

The tuna's heart wavered as she observed the white creature in front of her from the Stigma space. And before she could counter, Yuhao also brought his most innocent-looking face closer to Fou.

The two of them attacked the tuna with innocent puppy eyes that broke her defenses like nothing. She lay on the floor in defeat, but not before taking terabytes worth of photos of the duo.

The duo smiled victoriously as Yuhao lay on the ground with Fou lying on his chest and yawning.

It seemed like the duo would have a power nap as both of them were exhausted, though the nap wouldn't last long as a very worried kicking saint was looking for him in the forest.

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"So, you are telling me that you did not feel any beast or monster near this area that seemed to induce fear in the hearts of every living being in the world?" Usagi asked as he looked at the blond boy with a skeptical look on his face.

"Yep, I don't even know what you are talking about." Yuhao lied as naturally as he breathed. He looked at Usagi with an innocent look on his face while patting Fou's head as they sat on the back porch of the house.

Usagi did not believe him one bit, but he decided to drop the matter, certain he would get nothing from the boy, and was already tired at the thought of explaining the situation to the post outside [Great Devil's Den] Forest.

It seemed that no matter how powerful and respected you were, paperwork was truly the enemy of all.

Usagi sighed and decided to get back to the topic of sealing the forest. "So, what is the plan for the [Great Devil's Den] Forest seal?"

"It is pretty simple actually. Try attacking me, right now." Yuhao simply replied to the kicking saint, confusing him.

Usagi was about to refuse, but he remembered how weird this blond boy was, so he got into a kicking stance and threw a simple kick towards Yuhao.

The moment he had the intention of attacking Yuhao, he felt like he was being rejected by the whole world, and he found himself outside of the house premises.

Needless to say, the kicking saint was as confused as he could be. One moment he was in the backyard of the house attacking Yuhao, and the next he was outside the house entirely.

Yuhao, seeing Usagi's confused face, grinned like a Cheshire cat and said to the confused saint, "The barrier around the house was specially designed so that if anyone had the intention of harming the owner, it would expel them without any chance of resistance, as you experienced."

"My plan is simple. Create a similar barrier around the forest preventing anything from going in and out of the barrier," he said as he gestured towards the transparent barrier, causing it to glow with golden light.

"Mankind gains protection from monsters, and I get to keep the forest and its resources for myself. It is a fair deal, is it not? (It was not)" Spoken by a true capitalist in the making.

Usagi tried to keep a stoic face but failed miserably. A magic barrier that blocks intruders based on their intention? Sounds simple, but it was not.

The Magic of the Sage was light-years ahead of the current era's magic. So, this barrier, which sounded simple in Yuhao's words, would cause quite the stir in the magical world.

Yuhao inherited everything from the sage, well, almost everything. The final relic was currently floating aimlessly in space, ready to be claimed by him at any moment.

"Well, I can say that this is more advanced than anything that the magic saint has published in his worthless lifetime," Usagi commented while also throwing a jab at the innocent Magic Saint.

Usagi really could not stand magicians as they were a group of entitled people with a few screws loose in their empty heads. He preferred to fight everything by kicking the living fluff out of it.

Huo Yuhao chose to keep silent. He really did not remember much about the magic saint. He only remembered important characters in the story, like the kicking saint, the bow saint, the desperate sword saint, the fist saint, and the spear saint.

"And I remember you told me you could create it within a week. Is that true?" the kicking saint asked Yuhao, who simply replied with a nod.

"Very well. I can convince (force) the kingdoms to give in, so you can start whenever you want, but I have a request." The kicking saint stated as he sat down on the ground, making himself comfortable.

"Shoot," Yuhao said as he brushed Fou's tail with the magic brush he gained from his massacre- *cough* training exercise.

[King's Brush: A drop item from King Orc. It can nourish any hair or fur. It can even fix severely damaged hair.]

"The kingdoms and guilds will not set foot in the forest, but the saints are quite stubborn and want to have access to the forest." Usagi made his request, and Yuhao's eyebrow started to twitch.

Usagi further explained before the boy said anything, "It is a duty of saints to regularly visit the forest and keep monster numbers in check. You can keep the monster drop items and monster cores; we have no interest in them."

(AN: Before you start getting annoyed, think with me a bit. If the forest is entirely sealed, then how are we going to introduce the desperate sword saint, the bow saint, and her kuudere disciple.)

Yuhao's eyes widened in shock, and his breathing started getting heavier. 'Free labor' was the first thought that came to his mind when he heard Usagi's explanation.

(AN: The constellation [Greatest Estate Developer] is crying tears of joy and clapping his hands knowing your stance.)

Suddenly a gust of wind hit Yuhao square in the face, messing up his neat golden hair, followed by the voice of an annoyed tuna in his head, "Focus."

Yuhao nodded to Usagi, accepting his 'generous' offer with a 'heavy' heart, causing the tuna to roll her eyes at the boy's antics.

"But every saint that wants to enter the forest needs to have a special mark to enter the forest, so you can introduce the saints you are close with first before moving up to the others," Yuhao put a condition of his own too.

(AN: They would enter the barrier of the forest, not the barrier of his house, just pointing that out.)

The barrier would function like a bounded field for the saints, so that Yuhao knows who is currently in the forest and what they are doing while they are in his treasure-trove forest.

What if one of the Saints liked a drop item so much that they decided to take it? Well, Yuhao would go full border control on their necks.

Usagi thought for a moment before finally nodding towards Yuhao. It was a win-win situation for him as he could introduce Yuhao to other lawful good saints and help the boy in training/sparring.

He could also prevent pretentious and reckless saints, like the magic saint and the fist saint respectively, from setting foot inside the forest and negatively affecting the young lad sitting in front of him.

"Very well. Happy cooperation, kicking saint." Yuhao said as he extended his right hand toward the white rabbit sitting in front of him for a handshake.

Usagi stared at the hand in front of him, feeling dark, ominous energy around it. He suddenly felt like he was selling his soul to a black-hearted company, which was weird as the boy in front of him looked very innocent.

Usagi ignored his strange feeling and extended his paw, shaking hands with Yuhao, causing the boy to smile like a Cheshire cat, frightening the kicking saint before returning to a normal smile.

Yuhao brought back his hand and opened his [Item Box] to retrieve one of the items in his inventory. It was a rare drop item he obtained from his training in the forest.

[Morphic Whisperstone: A rare drop item from the monster Echo Golem. It allows communication between two or more nodes set in the Whisperstone regardless of distance.]

[It can take the shape that the holder wants without affecting its functionality.]

Yuhao looked at the gray, marble-sized stone in his hand before handing it to Usagi, who accepted it with his two front paws, looking intrigued by the drop item.

Yuhao already linked Usagi's Whisperstone with his own, so they could communicate easily, meaning Usagi didn't have to traverse to the middle of the forest for simple communication.

"Pretty neat," commented the kicking saint before injecting mana into the Whisperstone, changing its shape to a carrot pin that he stuck on his fluffy chest.

"I will set up pillars at the edges of the forest with relay points scattered in the middle for reinforcing the barrier. And the core would be my house; the barrier would power itself using mana from the atmosphere."

"Though, I will do that tomorrow as today is my day off training, and I would like to spend it doing my favorite thing: nothing," Yuhao added while patting the beast sitting on his lap, and Usagi just nodded to the boy.

"Alright, kid. I have to go now, as I am sure the commotion you caused will take a long time to explain, and I can't gaslight all the kingdoms into thinking the fear they felt was just their imagination." Usagi said as he stood up from his place, giving the duo bombastic side-eyes.

Usagi had no evidence to prove that Yuhao and Fou were the ones responsible for the apocalyptic fear that every person on the planet felt, but he trusted his intuition, and his intuition said the both of them were 99.99% planning something devious.

The duo chose to keep their silence.

Usagi just sighed and bolted out of the house premises after saying, "I will contact you tomorrow, kid. Don't die," leaving Yuhao speechless at the flag raised in front of him.

The duo watched as Usagi vanished into the horizon before staring at each other.

"Nothing bad is going to happen, right, Fou?" asked Yuhao in a nervous tone.

"Fou" was all he got from the adorable killing machine in his arms.

Both of them cursed Usagi's ninth generation for raising a flag on both of them.

(AN: Italic bold text represents new additions and updates to his status, so you don't have to read everything.)

『...』 

『Huo Yuhao』

『Class: Nanomancer』 

『Class Ranking: Tier 3』

『Race: Ascended Human, White Dragon, White Tiger』

『Soul Power: 29』

『Martial Souls: [Eyes of Heaven], [White Dragon of Nihility] 『1+』, [Monster Slime] 『2+』』

『Skill Points: 811,000.』 

『Unique Skills: [Great Sage], [Golden Rule], [True Martial Art: 7], [Super-Growth B], [Increased Skill Point Generation: B], [Honkai Circuits], [Honkai Resistance], [Honkai Energy Manipulation], [Honkai Rotation] 』

『Other Skills: [Appraisal], [Endurance], [Item Box], [Language Comprehension], [Fast Reading], [Thread Manipulation], [Illusion Manipulation], [Pain Resistance], [Check Status], [Cooking: 5], [Taunt C], [Weakness Detection], [Presence Detection], [Environment Assimilation] 』

『Titles: [Master of the Door], [Master of the House], [Otherworlder], [First [Class Holder] to Appear in the World], [The One Who Perplexed the World's Consciousness], [The One Who Gained the Interest of the Entire World], [Slaughterer]』

『...』

(Chapter 35 finished.)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Author's Note: 

Phew, this chapter is about 3.6k words without the author's note. It took longer, as you might have guessed, with the lack of updates. 

Is anybody still reading or following the story at this point? 

The plot was progressing kind of slowly, but it should pick up in the next couple of chapters as there is nothing to do in the new world at the moment. 

A time skip is bound to happen as there is nothing to do in the new world at the moment. The question is, how far are we going to skip:

6 months. (He would have advanced mastery over his skills without adding new ones.)

9 months. (He would have complete mastery in his current class tier and Herrscher of Void powers, but without new skills added to him.)

12 months. (He would have complete control over his skills and start progressing to newer ones. He would also have begun creating his organization and would travel to Douluo again for a short while.)

Let me know your thoughts. I would also try to write some advanced chapters over the weekend so that we can have a somewhat stable update schedule over the week. 

Let's hope that we can keep the upload schedule consistent. Recommend some recent fanfics that are fun to read. 

I'm ready to read all your suggestions in the comments. Share some waifu pics in the comment section to cheer me up a bit. 

Anyhow, don't forget to comment on memes, share your thoughts, and, most importantly, post waifu pics. 

That's all for now. 

Bye.