Devil Encounter

[A/N - Sorry for no chapters the past two days as I have been very busy, I'll try to work on some advance chapters so this doesn't happen again, thanks for understanding.]

I stayed outside for three more days, the first day I stayed, I watched the village from the outskirts, I looked for any weird details but everything was fine I mostly took the time to memorize the layout.

The second day I had a hunch about something but couldn't confirm it until the next day, I began to note certain conversations and mentally memorize them.

The third day my hunch was proven correct.

Everything is repeating, like the village is in a time loop. Every conversation, interaction and schedule was exactly the same.

I found this extremely wrong so I decided after the three days of seeing no changes to once again venture inside the village.

This time, I still turned on the runes engraved in my cloak and ventured everywhere without care, I further inspected all the buildings and places in town.

I also decided to check on the 'people' I tried to interact with them and nothing happened it's as if they were put on autopilot.

I gripped their fingers and checked for a pulse, none.

These people were dead.

What the hell....?

Everyone in this town was dead.

I explored more and was unable to find anything else, It seems who ever was controlling them isn't here anymore.

I decide to stay a while longer camping out near the town because this 'ritual' must consume a large amount of mana.

Whoever has set it up, must be coming back soon, at least all is calm for now.

I stayed for another night while keeping lookout every so often for any changes in the area, other than that I trained my skills and sacred gears, for the telos karma it is hard for me to manipulate probability for things I want, for now I am only able to increase or decrease luck.

I can manipulate some probabilities but I still need more time to train it, other than that I have been focusing on control for the Zenith Tempest. The best use of the Zenith Tempest is storms, very destructive storms.

This causes it to be very difficult to control. In Highschool DxD it's wielder, Dulio, in Balance Breaker mode was able to trap individuals in large bubbles in which he could manipulate the climate inside, which would kill his enemies by making the inside of the bubbles into things like blazing flames or large tornadoes. It was also stated by Azazel that he had abnormal control of the Zenith Tempest compared to others.

I think this a stupid way to use it.

I understand if you want to trap them in individual bubbles to target certain people, but to make that your Balance Breaker? Laughable.

Why would I say that?

Because that's not what the Zenith Tempest is all about. The Zenith Tempest is all about storms. It's not a pistol, it's a bazooka. It's strongest point is humongous area of effect damage. You can destroy countries with this thing. Want to wipe something off the map, send it tornadoes, not bubbles.

But because of it's frightening power, it's very difficult to control and if I do make large storms it's still very difficult to use on the intended target without damaging myself or allies especially without a Balance Breaker available for myself.

So instead of miniaturizing storms, I'll use it's other proficiency instead, elemental control. The storms are for when it's time to wreck havoc, but the elemental control is there to defeat individuals.

I want to focus on elemental control as it won't only help control storms later on but it's very useful for now.

I am focusing on buffing my physical attributes or techniques with it. Like Burst Step, which uses wind to accelerate my speed. I want to develop more techniques that focus on me being able to fight not just with storms but physically as well.

I don't want to be another Cao Cao who in the show was a glass canon. Sure he was the strongest human and had immense physical prowess and combat technique, but if he was hit really hard he is done for.

I want to become more powerful than just human.

I need to train more.

I should unlock Touki to increase my physical prowess and maybe even Senjutsu as well, even without an affinity to it, I might still be able to do it.

In this world strength is need to live soundly, not because it's some dog eat dog wuxia world, but because unfortunately, there is some batshit crazy people here who are much stronger than me.

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I stayed still watching the village on lookout when suddenly a purple glow radiated from the forest nearby.

I quickly changed the direction of the wind to give me an advantage whether in scent or sight and slowly crept up into them.

I listen in to their conversations while they steadily approached the town,

"Young Master, it's necessary!"

"Tch, that old bastard made me come here just to watch these plebeian corpses."

"Young Master, Lord Naberius ordered us to assist you!"

"Assist me?! Haha, like you wastrels are anything but dogs in my family, I not want nor need you to guard me."

....fuck sakes, the first devil I encounter would be some self entitled spoiled young master.

"But Lord Lazarus, intends to have us use these corpses as raids towards that new kingdom those humans set up."

"Waste of my time, I can just go and wipe out those lowborns myself."

"Ah, of course young master, but we don't want to alert the heaven faction anymore than we already have."

"Tsk."

The conversation ended there as they continued to enter the town, I gleaned some new information from them consisting of their clan being called, Naberius and that that boy is the heir to a noble clan.

I decide to continue to observe them before moving further.