Death, death everywhere

No one in the crowd, not even Tony or Janet, managed to see when the residing elder left his seat and appeared on the battle field. With his bare finger it stopped the orc sword a hair length away from its opponent neck.

For his whole second life Dean earning for power slowly decreased, at some point it even turned into a secondary objective to being happy. But after he saw the fights in the arena this desire begun to slowly grow again.

Now after almost having his life taken away from him again, the desire begun to grow incredible fast. Unlike before he did not cheer with the crowd he watched silently with his eyes wide open. The sea of blood and darkness that was his soul trembled with his desire, the trees shook with excitement.

Seeing the elder show a power, so much higher than his, so unfathomable to him, enough power to walk like a god between humans, made him remember bad memories that haunted the back of his mind, awaiting for a moment of weakness to attack his mind.

The two giants that tortured and killed for pure pleasure and fun, lunatic demons without any remorse or guilt, free to do as they please. They where biggest example of how much power he could achieve, how much talent he had, they where a big part of the new him.

Darkness filled with demonic intent flowed around Dean, his irises glowed in red while the rest of his eyes where pure black. The ten biggest stones in his ring where brought out by his desire to grow, they floated around him as he rapidly absorbed them and the spirit qi in the air.

Inside his soul a humongous skull of a deer grew right beneath the feet of the demonic him, its horns where made of the black wood, spiked chains of blood wrapped around it and its eyeless socks bled black blood

Above him a blood red waxing moon appeared in the black sky illuminating the nightmarish forest that was now full of fully grown tall black trees, with its pulsating leaves made of flesh, and fruits that there heads hanging by their hair, whispering endlessly.

When the stones where completely drained, Dean finally exited of his trance and instantly passed out, being caught by the elder that just appeared in the room after Dean caught his attention, while Everyone else in the room, especially Eva, Reggie and Mary, where scared of the vileness of his power.

Waking up looking at an unfamiliar ceiling with a tremendous headache Dean thought "Ugh my head, where am I?". Seating up with one hand rubbing his head, Dean looked around the extremely fancy room he was in.

Dean thought "What happened? Did something happened in the fight... Fuck, fuck! I actually just slept normally, I dint go the blood world"

Interrupting his thoughts, Tony the talkative orc entered the room carrying silver tray with some food and a drink. She said "Hey you are up, did you sleep well?".

Dean said "Yeah, what happened to me? I can't remember a thing."

Tony gave Dean the tray then said "Lost of recent memory is a normal side effect of exhausting your mental energy. No one knows what happened to you, You just started releasing a bunch of vile black smoke then you absorbed ten high grade spirit stones and passed out.

You basically ruined the whole thing, those two girl might even be too scared to talk to you anymore, the Reggie guy seems fine though. have any idea what made you do that?"

Hearing what she said, made blurry memories come to his head, he said "Yeah, its a bit blurry but I remembered a bit, I think I had some form of sudden inspiration" hiding the fact that where two demons he was very familiar with that gave him such inspiration.

Tony said "That was a hell of a sudden inspiration, first time I see someone absorb ten high grade spirit stone at the same time not caring for his safety. How did you even get those? Wait where did you taken them from? you have a spatial storage?".

Swallowing the delicious food in his mouth Dean said "Yeah, the patriarch gave it to someone who gave it to me, its invisible, I don't really know how to make it visible. By the way, how expensive is one of this?".

Tony sat at the bed and said "Depends on the size of the space inside of it, but the cheapest ones are worth more than ten thousand in the auctions. Janet made mine, she is such a good friend".

Surprised Dean said "Janet can make them, is her element space?"

Tony nodded and said "Yes, she is the biggest genius from the Golden tree clan. Oh if you treat her different because of this she will stop talking with you, she really hates that".

Dean said "Don't worry I won't I am a genius myself remember, just curious, never seen someone using the space element".

Tony said "Its actually pretty boring, its not showy like a huge ball of fire or a dropping a mountain in someone. She just disappear and appear somewhere else or defend you attack with an invisible barrier. Its Deadly though, cleave you in half without you even seeing what hit you. Oh, good morning Janet".

Looking like she had just woken up, still wearing an expensive pajama, Janet entered the room saying "Good morning, talking about me? hey you are awake, what happened with you? Fried your brains out last night."

Tony took a sip of the juice she brought to Dean then said "Don't be rude Janet, he could have died last night".

Janet shrugged and said "He was the one that completely drained his mental energy"

Surprised and a bit afraid Dean asked "You can die from that?!"

Tony nodded and said "Yes, the part of the soul that has the mental energy is directly connected with the brain, it will try to drain the energy from the brain when its exhausted. The alchemist doctor that took care of you said you where very lucky, most that do that become retard".

Janet said "Almost dying two times in the same day, your luck is quite amazing, can you give some of it to me?." laughing as Tony shook her head to the vile humor of her friend.

Dean dint even hear what she said, being too shocked he almost died again.