Chapter 20: Quick Business

Tallon pov:

After a few years I finally have control over the Watet Stele again.

The reason why I had originally given up on that region and allowed the Empire to occupy it was simple.

I wanted them to find at least one trace of a Divine Being.

In the original story, the Papral and Utra Nation had also found trace of Divine Beings as well but I needed the Empire to discover it first.

That's because the other factions would notice the sudden influx of heroic cultivators from Empire to the New Continent.

The other nations would pick up on this and would give more ficus on the colonization of the New Continent since at that time they were having doubts if any of the exploration was worth it.

But those chain of events I ensured did indeed happen and now I have no need to worry about it, thus I had given free will to my forces to conqour the region.

But it suprised me that Jade, Ariel, Shiraori and Ciri had gone to do it all by themselves.

If those girls fought together then it would perfect, though Jade's technique to transfer the injury Shiraori received to all the other cultivators had limits.

One of which is a being can resist it if they tried, that's why the initial suprise attack succeeded since they weren't aware of what it was.

The Empire tried taking control of the region again but I saw that Ranni had sent Morgott to be the ruler of that area along with a two hundred Frost Order Kinghs while the rest was in Eleum Loyce or occupying other regions close to the Water Stele so that they can also use the Stele to enhance their Enlightenment in the Water Aptitude.

While the various battles was going on foe the territories across the New Continent, I had the help of Alecto and many Black Knife Assassins to conceal my presence and find a way to enter the Dark Gourge stealthy.

The Dark Gourge was within the territory of the Utra Nation.

Fortunately, I had been able to sneak inside and found some Cultivators examining the area close to the entrance.

I went right past them while remaining hidden, despite them being Rank 4, I wasn't taking any risks of King Elbas learning someone had invadef this place in his colonized territory on the New Continent.

I went deeper and deeper inside and at last I had encountered my targets.

Rank 6 Darkness Night-Blade Pterodactyls.

If I remember correctly, Noah had came here and said there was around 313 Rank 6 Darkness Night-Blade Pterodactyls in this place along with the imprisoned Rank 7 specimen.

Noah would one day make the Rank 7 specimen into his Blood Companion and call it Night.

I could care less about Night, he wasn't something I desired, my Blood Companions all have their uses which would be far more valuable than even a Rank 8 Magical Beast.

Furthermore, I would need to subdue their will and it was a risk I wasn't going to take, especially since I have so many Blood Companions already.

I summoned my Light Kitsune Fox Empress Blood Companion, Inari.

I also summoned the Earth Forest Dahaka, Aka.

Both were the same level as I was, Rank 6 Gaseous stage.

Together these two Blood Companions were a lethal force against the Night-Blade Pterodactyls within the underground space.

Aka manipulated the Earth around him and of the walls of the large caves to strike and kill the Pterodactyls from all directions.

The ones that didn't die soon did as Inari would send beams of light from each of her tails through their heads.

As for me, I used my Destined Death sword and my Rank 6 Deprivation Sword Kingdom Martial Art to instantly counter attack and kill the enimies that entered the Spatial field of the technique.

(A/n think of Brain's Field skill from Overlord anime, Deprivation Sword Kingdom technique of Water Sword God Reida of Mushoku Tensei or Judgement Cut End skill of Vergil from Devil May Cry series.)

I would normally use my Vahdrak's Ring to phase through their attacks and evade harm while leisurely killing them.

These Night-Blade Pterodactyls were nothing more than simple Magical Beasts, they didn't have many special features to them unlike the Winged Beasts or other Magical Beast Species.

All the Pterodactyls targeted Inari since she had a Light element aptitude and the Night-Blade Pterodactyls devoured the "Light" which is one of the reasons why Night and the Darkness Night-Blade Pterodactyls were all imprisoned by Heaven and Earth within the Dark Gourge.

I hunted and hunted more and more Pterodactyls until I had either killed or subdued 144 out of the 313 specimens.

The Dantians of the dead specimens were immediately stored within a small cube.

This cube acts like a Storage Space and a crafting item, yes I had created the Horadric Cube from the Diablo 2 Game.

As for what modifications I did to the cube, that's for later, as of now all that's needed to know is that the Horadric Cube, I made, can purify, maintain, refine and store the Dantians I placed within it or other items.

This way I can give the Rank 6 Dantians and bodies to my subordinates to help them to progress, I might even be able to make Ranni and Melina into Rank 6 beings.

Those two are the most fearsome amongst the forces of Forossa.

Melina is the Gloam-Eyed Queen, the rival Empyreon of Queen Marika Long ago and the original Wielder of the Rune of Death/Destined Death.

Ranni needs to reminder to her world shattering achievements.

As for the subdued Pterodactyls, I used my Hybrid status to intimidate the weaker Species of the many I had encountered while I displayed the dead bodies of their kin.

They were difficult to subdue and command, however, my unique Hybrid Bloodline was a Primeval Crucible Elden Dragon I created with the Elden Ring. It was essentially a God in its own right and I had merged with it to become a Hybrid.

My authority over Magical Beasts were nearly absolute.

Successful completing my objective within the Dark Gourge, I created a portal using the Moonlight Bridge Formation, I obtained from the Death Inheritance a lomg time ago, to transport all the Darkness Pterodactyl to Forossa, while the corpses were stored within my Divine Storage Ring.

Once I returned to Forossa, I dealt with the Magical Beasts and their corpses before I left once again.

This time I brought 70 Rank 5 Black Knife Assassins and many Rank 4 Giant Golems.

The Giant Golems were stored within my Divine Storage Ring and would be used to transport my captives.

I headed towards the sea bed near the Coral Archipelago of the Hive and the New Continent alongside the Black Knife Assassins and my mother Lilith who I had asked for help.

After we reached the sea bed, I had found the Lava/Magma entrance.

Passing through the molten Magma, Lilith and I created a barrier to defend the Black Knife Assassins form it.

After we continued travelling for quite some time, we came across a large Rank 6 Lizard Aligator.

I urged us to stealthily move past it, this was so that when Noah came here he would run past it out of fear like he did originally and would meet Skully down here.

Skully is a Rank 6 nameless female Inscription Master Cultivator that had been trapped down here along with many enslaved Cultivators.

"So why are we here? Definitely not the mother-son outing I was thinking of when you asked for me to come with you." Lilith said as she walked beside me.

"I'm hurt! I went through all this just to ask my mother for ulterior reasons than to simply spend some time with my mother."

"Don't fake it!"

"Fine fine! I want to capture the last living specimens of the Keiser Ape species alive!"

Lilith's eyes had gone wide at the sudden revelation that the once thought Keiser Ape species, of which the Keiser Runes were harvested from their backs were done a unknown time ago.

They were hunted to extinction but the last of them survived down here while they enslaved the humans that once tried to hunt them.

Additionally, when the race was at risk of going extinct, many of the species had merged together as a survival trait/instinct of their race and became a singular being.

This merged Keiser Ape was a Rank 7 God!

One of it's Runes is in possession of Skully since it had lost it when creating this domain for the rest of the Keiser Apes.

Because of that, the Keiser Ape was weakened greatly and is technically weaker than Shandal, the God of the Empire at this very moment.

After explaining this to Lilith, we had found one of the Rank 5 Keiser Apes.

We all launched a suprise attack and ambushed the Magical Beast, it was easy and effortless to do.

We continued to capture the Keiser Apes of various Ranks be them Rank 5 or Rank 6 species.

In the end we ended up capturing 9 Keiser Apes of the 6th Rank and 12 specimens of the 5th Rank.

I created a Moonlight Bridge Formation and had the Giant Golems transport the gigantic Keiser Apes into Forossa.

Now that I had captured them I can successfully begin the mass reproduction of Keiser Apes within Forossa.

Using the Horadric Cube and killing one of the Keiser Apes of the 6th Rank, I used the Horadric Cube to absorb its corpse, Dantian and the Keiser Runes on its back and refine them inside it.

It didn't take long since the Horadric Cube opened up to reveal a Rung with a Keiser Rune as its signit.

Approaching two Magical Beasts in cages nearby, each one of the 4th Rank, I aimed my Keiser Rune Ring at them and I wasn't disappointed since their bodies merged together by force under the influence of the Keiser Rune Ring and made the two Rank 4 Fire Wolves into a singular Rank 5 fire Wolf!

It worked!

I smiled wickedly as I planned to create a Rank 7 Keiser Ape to harvest.

Though I'd need to make preparations for such a dangerous plan, but I think I might have a solution to solve that problem.

It was then that I had received a message in my Inscribed Notebook, looking at it I was suprised for a moment before smiling.

"Mother, you'll be coming with me once again."

"What is it this time, if you're going to give me another suprise today I'd rather stay in my room..."

"God's Right Hand of the Empire has just sent a message inviting the Powerhouses of the other organisations to meet- oi oi oi! Where are you going! You're coming with me! You're a Rank 6 too!" I called out as I spotted Lilith running away from me at full speed.

"Go away! I'm just a orinary Human Cultivator! Lilith said as she put on a black Cloak with the unique feature that can hide one's real strength.

"Human Cultivator my ass! Besides, I made that Cloak!"

"I bought it!"

"I made it!"

"I own it, it's mine now, go away!"