Look at death, isn't he handsome?

Walking inside the building that had suspiciously low amounts of energy considering the amount of cultivators he'd seen enter, Aki counted one, and threw the hand grenade he'd taken the pin from.

Four kill notifications later he started shooting arcane rays through the wall.

Three more, one being at pawn stage.

Already absorbing the energy on the corpses while getting in the room, Aki shoot the one guy pretending to be dead.

Shooting the warm plasma towards the corridor, Aki was unable to kill then, but mostly everyone coming at him had it fairly hard with dodging energy attacks coming through walls.

"I fucking need to play CoD again! Their salt will be my, oh fuck." As Aki boasted, he noticed there was this one guy coming directly towards him, completely ignoring the walls. Though he was unable to tell if he was phasing through them or simply crushing then like paper, he was most definitely not ready for a direct confrontation with this guy, so he just threw a grenade to the ground of where he was supposed to pass through and ran back the way he came.

Hearing the boom behind him, Aki decided to look behind himself, noticing that now there was a blot of blood coming his way with human splattering speed. That ment it was someone likely to be close or at soldier stage breaking through walls to break him.

Turning around an alley, he put yet another house between then before trying to control his energy signature.

He was not going to try and develop shadow affinity right now mind you.

The moment that person broke into the house Aki began to charge his sword with arcane, blood, yin an yang energies. When they passed the second wall, Aki had already began his swing to the core of said mass of muscles.

With the flat size of his sword. Like it was a metal bat.

Doing so sent his pursuer blazing through a couple more buildings before their charge was stopped. Plus breaking his sword.

A katana was simply not made to be used like that.

Putting his sword back through their link and getting his revolvers back, he ran all the way towards the man he'd hit without letting go of the arcane and blood enhancements on his body.

It wasn't long before he literally crashed into the man trying to get all the debris out of his back and started shooting his neck with continuous lasers while doing his best to suck or disrupt his energy while ignoring the relative weak attacks to his side and face until the system gave him a kill notification for a rank 8 pawn.

Finding himself heaving for breath with a broken nose and jaw, Aki didn't shy away from shoving his blade into the man's chest and opening a big gash before reaching for his still beating heart.

He didn't have any kind of vampirism skill that asked him to eat it or something, he was just trying to make an easier pathway for absorbing the corpse's energy.

He'd already used an amount equal to two and and a half of his actual capacity, so he was actually quite tired. Most of it being used to kill this guy, it was a good thing he hadn't been given the chance to use his energy.

After fixing his injuries, Aki had a bit more than his max, but that didn't seem to be going away. He had an idea why, but no real way to actually work it out.

He was just going to try and snipe some people for the rest of the battle if no one else but this rogue showed up.

Holding a gun by his neck to try and soften the blow and shooting with the other, the assassin decided to forego the uncertain killing blow and dodge the 'bullet'.

With Aki following with a barrage of shots, it was quite easy to finish the fight since 1, arcane is generally great at Dps, and 2, the guy was so afraid of close combat he didn't even seem to notice Aki could see and shoot through cover.

Getting more energy out of this rank 6 guy too, Aki decided he was about to explode already, so fuck cleaning.

Entering a nearby house and taking off his bloodied clothes, Aki started his double breakthrough.

*****

Aki would have liked to question the man who ran this place after it had been taken from the gang, but by the time he'd cleaned the dark matter released from his body and got dressed again, there was already a line of corpses from the men that tried to take on such people.

There had been plenty of casualties and Ben was almost dead, but Aki easily took him from the brink of death since he'd long refiled his energy with corpses on the way.

Besides...

Blood Lv 4

Titan's blood IV: Body regeneration increased by a factor of 4. Healing is 200% more effective.

Blood manipulation III: Blood and related biological matter are easier to understand and manipulate to you.

Bloody sight II: Allows for the better understanding of your opponent's movements through intrinsic knowledge of blood flow.

Vampir I: You can survive injuries that would otherwise instantly kill you for a time. Once a week while in this state, any healing directed at your body will be 50% more effective.

Arcane Lv 4:

Body of stars IV: Energy regeneration increased by a factor of 4. Any use of energy is 100% more effective.

Arcane manipulation III: Arcane and related energies are easier to understand and manipulate to you.

Arcane sight II: Allows for the better understanding of your surroundings through intrinsic knowledge of the movement of natural energies.

Overcharge I: You can overperform in any mastered art through the use of more energy for more efficiency with the rate of 100% per 50% improvement.

Yeah, a crushed lung and fucked up intestines on a normal human were not hard to heal. Maybe if it was a fellow cultivator, he'd have a harder time, but unless he was in the pawn stage, there would be no doubt he'd be able to properly fix such injuries.

Mind you, while cultivators were harder to kill, even if they weren't trolls by nature, their own energy fluxes were something that greatly inconvenienced any and all doctors of the martial world.

Now, since the situation is already fixed, than it would be obvious to go away and begin training again while being happy to have some status increases during the debacle plus the mortal essences, right? Good to see we are all sensible and smart people here.

So Aki imediatly went towards the cultivation resources, and with the storage amulets, he tested then one by one and found the right ones, he pocketed a lot of shit for alchemy. He'd have gotten the manuals that were still in good enough conditions, but those both useless for him as cultivation material and low grade even by earth standarts. Not to say he didn't learn then though, he did. They are free and might come in the form of a patient later, so of course he'd need to be prepared, nevermind that it is free and instantaneous. There was also a pouch with basic enchanting equipment, Aki's official reward since no one even thought he had robbed a room clean of things they didn't know how to use when there were only splotches of nothingness in the middle of the rappidly evacuated storage facilities.

The situation was indeed so good that he even directly went to Melissa's so they could start plo, organizing their new comercial interprise through the newly obtained resources instated by the generosity of a mutual friend. Plus the alchemy station obtained through a quest.

"But what do you use that pouch for?" Asked the woman who no one ever saw as a day older than thirty.

"This is for imitating these amulets, but making their powers permanents." He imediatly answered with some pride.

"You want to make spacial rings? Don't you need to forge one that can sustain the enchantments though?" She asked, confused.

"I'll solve that problem tomorrow. Even have a plan already." He sagely said with a nod.

"And that includes trying to act misterious." She concluded.

"If you say so. Wanna karaoke?"

"As long as you don't bitch about loosing." She grinned.

*****

Having finished the batch of cream even before his friend woke up, Aki decided to be proactive and try to embarass her by blatanly making her breakfast in bed while all smiles. It'd look like he was a young man in love, and truth be told he wished, but he literraly knew nothing about her but what he'd seen and he was not even close to having a stable base to simply be flipant about matters of the heart. Last night they'd sang, drunk and slept, with him getting a good night kiss, but that was it.

Today was going to be a special day, so he decided to begin it smilling though.

After being berated over a simple and refreshing breakfast, Aki spent his day mostly training alchemy, but he also went to the gym to train, he was paying after all, then went back and meditated to increase his mental attributes.

Nothing special happened.

Then midnight came a bit after he'd improved his Ash affinity through the use of the cultivation method he'd most recently received.

[Daily quest: preparation

Requirement: Complete exercise course

Failure condition: Failure to satisfy the time limit ( 0:00:00)

Reward: +1 to STR and VIT

Penalty: Penalty quest]

Aki was teleported away grinning.

*****

"Yo." Said a horned pale man with lushing black hair running through his long black and blue robes.

Looking around, Aki found himself in a normal office filled with books and documents. Looking back towards the man in front of him, who seemed awfully patient with all this, he made a guess. "Aidoneus?"

"That's my name. Good thing you guessed it without more hints, it's a bother to reffer to yourself in such rundabout ways." Nodded the pale man.

"Before anything else, i really need to ask, is your mother in law still living with you?" That made the man frown and nod. "My condolences. I don't have to take care of her for an eternity of distorted time, right?" He said with some fear.

"No, that is for my children to handle. Your punishment is much laxxer, you just have to try to deal with the cerberus outhouses." He non-chalantly explained. Now Aki was the one frowing.

"Just to confirm, can i pet the dogs after i wash myself?" He inquired, because there definetly wasn't only one cerberus. If this fuck face of a god passed through even half the things he knew, than there should be a dog for each time he hanged out with his brothers, fucked his sister in law, or broke up with his ex. Maybe a combination of the three events. He didn't know much for after he got married though.

"You do notice that if i could hear what you just thought i'd probably would have sent you to death's door to be the one reporting tanathos complains, right?"

"Hey, i just though that you have a lot of dogs, a beautiful wife and shitty brothers. Any of those wrong?" He stated with confidence.

"Touche." They both nodded and he went out to deal with shit.

It was literraly two doors away with all the space munbo jumbo. Danm was that thing big and ugly. Aki imediatly started turning the fecal mather into ash. This revelaved that said poo pile was somewhat resistant to foreign energy, though it only took him a minute to figure out how to deal with all of it.

Then came the insects. They were gross, long, hairy, filled with legs and not really insects by the definition of the word. They were practically everywhere he cleaned the enclosed room. It was impossible for him to burn then with his meager affinity to fire too, so instead he began eletrocuting the whole room.

By the way, he can't feel the smell because he turned off his olfative organs. All parts of them. That was part of the inate ability of the death attribute.

This, somehow, got him two hundred mortal essences. Add to all those he'd gotten from killing humans and from side quest completion, he now had 654 MS. That was enough to buy a lot of things he wanted, but not all of them.

Looking back towards the path he'd came from, Aki couldn't help but remenber that Jupiter, or whatever was the roman version of his patron, was also the god of jewels and the one that kept all mortal possesions under the ground. Suddenly, having him as a patron wasn't that bad anymore.