Chapter 1527 New Demonic Ability
I decided to prepare a feast for everyone to enjoy, celebrating our victory yesterday. Not only did we completed that Dream Dungeon and gained many rewards out of it, we uncovered some secrets that could potentially explain the origin of this entire world, while also giving us a thousand more questions without answers.
The origin of Jonathan, the Demon of Technomancy was one of tragedy and mystery, his original world made me wonder if he truly came from my own Earth, but in the future. It seemed to make little sense though, seeing how he came several thousands of years before I did.
And my world wasn't certainly as advanced as his, it was just the good ol' plain modern Earth in the year 2020. There were some new technologies developing, but nothing as futuristic as his world. Even less anything regarding something called the Quantum Gate Project or the Yggdrasil Project.
The majority of what we truly learned without leaving so many questions in our heads were the origins of the Plant Monsters we fought, made as experimentations to cleanse Yggdrasil from the Miasma of the Chaotic Plane. Made out by fusing Pandemonium's Lung with Yggdrasil's Materials.
The project was a success, but the original test subjects never saw the light of day, as Jonathan simply needed the information to clone the perfected model, cleansing the world from Miasma. The other experiments were left behind to rot down here.
Only one survived at the end, the creature we fought as the Boss of the Dream Dungeon, the one carrying Pandemonium's Lung and that had even devoured the Dungeon Spirit left behind by Takeshi as the Inheritance of the Demon of Dungeons.
And right after slaying it, the lung attacked us and well, that's where our greatest battle so far happened. I had to truly go beyond my own capabilities to defeat a mere piece of that monster, but I managed to devour it and absorb its powers.
Most of such power is sealed within my own soul, as the Demonic Energy threatened to destroy my soul, I had to quickly shape my soul as holy chains, restraining the Demonic Energy and slowly freeing it as I grew stronger and accustomed to wielding this dangerous power.
I have to slowly absorb and devour this power to become stronger, but for that I need to practice, demonic energy can't be understood and refined with just meditation- I need to fight with as much savagery and rage as I can to let it all out, and in the process, assimilate it.
And also, to properly absorb this power, I need to strengthen my soul through the Soul Ether Stat, which I suppose will revolve around Meditation through Soul Refining Techniques.
As of now, there's a few other rewards I got after defeating Marchosias and eating him completely, the Sin of Gluttony was the strongest without a doubt, allowing me to virtually devour and absorb anything, eventually.
Ding!
[You have devoured the [Demon Lord of Rampaging Fire: Infernal Flying Wolf Marchosias] Body and Soul!]
[You gained +400.000.000 Demonic Energy.]
[You acquired the Demonic Ability: [Infernal Wolf's Blazing Rampage (SS)]!]
[Infernal Wolf's Blazing Rampage (SS)]
A Demonic Ability that belonged to Marchosias, the powerful Demon Lord capable of transforming into a gigantic blazing wolf, known for his madness and rampaging attacks.
Harness all Fire-type Abilities and Divinities into your body at the same time, combining them perfectly and harmoniously, and use your soul to fuel their power, Increasing your Attack Power and Movement Speed by +300%, alongside Increasing the Power of all Fire-type Abilities and Magic by +500% while on flames, however, you take -1% of your HP as Damage every second. While unleashing a Blazing Rampage, any foe you attack as your body is on flames will receive tremendous consecutive damage from both physical blows and flames, dealing up to +800% Damage, while ignoring -30% of a foe's resistances to the Fire Attribute and setting them ablaze, draining their strength and vitality. -----
I even acquired a new Demonic Ability out of him, interesting. This one synergizes really well with all the Fire-type Abilities I've harnessed so far. And if I can combine it with Heavenly Demon Flames, then I can also add up my Primordial Ice Element.
It is certainly ideal when fighting very powerful foes, so I'll be using it happily, though it drains a lot of demonic energy, so I can't use it too carefreely. The health drain per second doesn't matter, my body can regenerate it instantly anyways.
Ding!
[Due to the influx of Demonic Energy the user has Refined, the {Demon King's Seed} Rank has finally increased to {Awakened Rank}!]
[To enhance the power of your Demon King's Seed, you can now utilize Demonic Energy to feed it with Power and help its growth increase.]
[Demong King Seed]: [Primordial Sin Of Gluttony (Awakened Rank)] (Requires 250.000.000 DE)
[Demonic Energy]: [1.157.440.700]
Oh?! Now this is amazing! It seems my Demon King Seed can be quite literally cultivated with Demonic Energy, pretty much like a Divine Core. This is a nice way to dump all the Demonic Energy I've accumulated, though getting Demonic Abilities is also essential.
However, there's an innate risk to upgrading the Demon King's Seed, and that's the uncontrollable power of the Sin itself, if I make it grow stronger, it'll have an even bigger grasp on my mind and sanity.
With the newer Skills I've acquired; I have grown both used to Demonic Energy and also my mind has become much stronger against mind-encroaching abilities.
But even then, I can't really say I am too confident on that. [Do not worry about the Demon King's Seed control over you. As you just mentioned, thanks to all these things you've learned, it has lost as much power as it had over you as before.]
[Empowering it with Demonic Energy won't simply make its grasp over you stronger, but you'll still need to go through some rather excruciating pain to help the seed germinate.]
[If you can keep up with the Sin's power by growing stronger yourself, then a balance can be found…]
Is that so? Then maybe I should give it a try, later though. Now's time for a big feast!
"Alright everyone! Tell me anything you want, and I'll cook it!"
