Just A Poor Little Murderous Demon

" Hmmm I quite like it "

15 Thumbed through the rather thick book, taking his time and pausing to look at the complex diagrams and pictures that were densely packed on each page.

From the first page, the book completely drew in 15.

Every inch of every page was filled with colorful and bright illustrations reminiscent of children's books.

Although contrary to a children's book each picture was meant to convey more information than a 20-page research paper. Surprisingly 15's brain was somehow able to immediately soak up all the information presented to him.

This was the result of overloading the system with more souls than it knew how to work with. Making the information easily absorbable by the person it was custom made for.

" You better like it you twerp, I barely have any souls to work with after you sacrificed a good ninety-five percent of them. "

A grumbling deep voice cut through 15's study session barely drawing his attention from his book.

Although it was to be expected Heins had felt quite drained after the ritual, as many of the souls that had supported his existence were used up.

Although there was still a stockpile of souls left for his personal use, his experience could be compared to staying at a five-star luxury hotel for half a vacation and then spending the rest of it at a dingy motel.

This not only affected Heins's attitude, however, as the blood river had receded a little along with a good portion of the blood curse. The affected area shrunk from a good twenty square kilometers to only five. Although this did not cure any of the affected creatures or plants, instead it just slightly took away some of their boosted strength and limited the area in which Heins could harvest souls.

Of course, over time, this area was gradually expanding at a rapid pace. The blood ritual had stirred up the local wildlife causing many of the corrupted creatures to go into a frenzy contributing to Heins's currently limited soul pool. Within the last three hours over five hundred creatures had died within the area of Heins's blood curse contributing to his personal soul stash.

15's front of boundless positivity quickly cured Heins of his negative attitude.

" Oh Common big guy, Im not starving you or anything. Ill make sure to leave you a few more souls next time, okay ? "

" 30,000 at least... "

" For my new best friend I can spare 50,000"

The river of blood rippled a bit before finally calming down.

Heins felt quite happy, although he was unaware the only reason 15 was willing to save up so many souls for him was make sure the blood river continued to stretch over a large area. After all 15 was slightly concerned after he had noticed the blood river receding from a twenty-foot wide waterway with a fast current to something comparable to a ten-meter wide stream.

After all the blood river was his main means of transportation and he was honestly too lazy to walk back to the ruins of the Kakazumi village.

And so 15 gently rocked along on his humble raft as he continued his previously interrupted study session. And when it finally started to get a little dark Heins made sure that the blood river glowed bright enough for 15 to read in comfort. He didn't want his newest friend to strain his eyes reading in the dark or anything...

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It was only three days later upon the remnants of the Kakazumi village did 15 actually do anything worthy of watching. He had spent the last three days in idle bliss, floating around on his cozy raft and reading his newfound book. Occasionally make a trip or two into the corrupted jungle to grab a few glowing fruits to snack on from a tree that learned the hard way that trying to eat the small boy was a horribly stupid idea.

-Ancient Palace Area Fragments-

- Material - ?????

- F - grade

- Can be used in conjunction with other "Ancient Palace Area Fragments" to summon certain buildings from an Ancient Palace

- Craftsman - System Made

- Comments - A special spatial anomaly containing parts of an ancient palace from the ??????? empire. All useful things have been taken out, only the stone structure remains...

Although 15 found his raft to be quite comfortable, after a few days of dealing with the outdoors 15 was ready to settle down. Although 15 was quite comforted by the gentle rocking of the blood river ( provided by Heins) he was starting to miss sleeping with a roof over his head.

15 had not forgotten any of his spoils of war and after discussing with Heins, 15 decided it was time to make use of the area fragments the system had given him. Taking out the "Area Fragments" from a cute little brown bag, 15 took a moment to admire their beauty.

Within 15's palm rattled three faintly glowing crystal shards. Within each one, a nebula of lights danced that completely mesmerized 15. The glow of the fragments were comforting and evocative. From the depths of 15's mind, warm memories of a loving embrace were dragged up to the surface.

*Crack*

15 immediately crushed all three crystals within a split second.

* Ding !!!

-- You have used three -Ancient Palace Area Fragments- Please select an area to initialize. Refusal to do so will result in the waste of all materials used. --

A rather large and bright red system prompt popped up in front of 15 along with a small map of the area surrounding him. After playing with the map function for a little 15 was a little annoyed to find that the map only included areas that he had been to or places where the blood corruption curse was active.

It seemed the system had already dealt with people abusing the area select function of the shards to try to map out an unknown area.

-- Please select the initialization area within thirty-six seconds. --

" Dont rush me !! I need to take my time !!! The map function is hard to use !!! Im just a poor little helpless boy !!!! "

Of course, this was a blatant lie from 15.

He had long ago mastered the use of the system map and was just observing the areas that he had not yet explored but were affected by the blood curse to see if he could find anything interesting, nor was he a helpless boy.

Of course, he had already chosen the area of the Kakazumi village as the place he was going to use the fragments he just wanted to take advantage of the system when he could.

Strangely his cute pouting face managed to draw out some sympathy from subsystem B - 2321 - 4, while Heins made a valiant effort to hold back his booming laughter from the sidelines.

-- Please select the initialization area within five minutes. --

" Thank you <3 "

15 made sure to give the system a cute little bow before turning back to the area map. Giving himself a silent pat on the bat while noting the lack of this specific system defense against a cute face.

Exactly two minutes and thirty-one seconds later 15 had finished pouring over the system map and hadn't found anything interesting that he had not already seen himself.

Sighing in slight disappointment he finally decided that he didn't want to risk angering the system so he quickly just highlighted the large clearing were the Kakazumi village ruins stood and selected

- Done - .

The system prompts quickly disappeared from 15's view and a bright light covered the area of the Kakazumi ruins that he stood in front of.