Blood Angel

The world grew blurry. His body felt wretched, his mind fractured, disoriented.

He felt such pain from that simple, almost cliche word: abomination.

Why?

His ears rang with a dissonant whistle. His eyes made him see scenes from his past, people he had met. Things he had done flashed past his mind, how people had thim reated in his past life. And how some of them will in the future.

The void always lurking in his chest made itself known with force. A chill spread goosebump on his skin.

the felt dizzy, the world was blurry. His eyes were moist with tears he couldn't control.

He thought he was at least past that.

But as something snapped yet again inside him, it seemed he was wrong.

He screamed, weakly at first, but as it grew, it reached such a manic and wrathful baritone pitch that even Volcanica recoiled. It wasn't all, as blood erupted from between the feathers of his wings, tainting them a bright red.

His eyes and hair now red too, Julian scream came to a stop. He coughed and grinned a bloody and manic smile at the dragon, very much unlike his usual ones.

His eyes curved into sadistic crescents, a certain wildness to them.

He simply chuckled and raised one hand above his head.

The eyes of the divine dragon narrowed into slits, and Julian exploded into a mist of blood, simply to instantly reform from his still intact blood red wings.

Then, Volcanica reared back and tried to launch its breath attack.

Tried, because the very next instant. A red light blade as high as the sky saturated with dark red cracks and crackling with yellow lightnings fell silently from the heaven and bisected him in two.

However, the dragon was far from finished.

But in the end, it didn't matter.

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Julian came to be to a massive headache, and to a heavy sent of Iron. Inspecting his surrounding revealed that he was standing up among a sea of black and red blood.

He felt odd, and really weak. But despite that, internally, he felt rather good.

He remembered vaguely what had happened. He, quite simply, lost his sanity to anger and battled Volcanica. And now, after analysing his own state, well, he was thinking that something of the sort was inevitable sooner or later.

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Essence of: Julian Håberjorgen-Marquis.

Race: Premature-Newborn (1 pair of wings) Second-Order Nephalem.

EMBODIMENTS

VIRTUES:

–Kindness (Minor): You are a weak personification of the virtue of kindness.

Abilities:

~No good deed go unrewarded: Facing your kindness, people are both less likely to betray you and more driven to reciprocate. (Integral, at will)

–Patience (minor): You are a weak personification of the virtue of patience.

Abilities:

~ Coiling mountain: You have an instinctive sense of seizing the right timing and when to just let things flow. (Integral, at will)

SINS:

–Greed (Minor): You are a weak personification of the sin of greed.

Abilities:

~One of mind and Desires: Your wants become needs, motivation fill you and make you hunger for more. (Passive, Core)

~Treasury (Minor): Grant a small personal space to hide ones valuables. (Active)

~Don't even try (Minor): Make people feel subtly ominous if they were to ever yearn for what is yours. (Passive)

–Wrath (major): You are a consequent personification of the sin of wrath.

Abilities:

~Anger empowerment (major): You find strength in anger to a consequent degree, your own or the one of those in your immediate surrounding.(Passive)

~Anger inducement (Major): You can induce supernatural anger to a consequent degree and provoke anger more easily if you so wish. (Active)

~Controled Wrath: Less chance of losing control when angry. (Passive, Core)

~Blood Angel (Wrathful form, early): When your anger surpass a certain degree, your wings bleed from rage, and so shall your enemies. Provide a consequent boost to destructive abilities. (Passive, unmastered.)

–Lust (Minor): You are a weak personification of the sin of lust.

Abilities:

~Veiled Mind: Allow the masking of one's intentions. (Passive, Core)

~Lust manipulation (Minor): Allow the manipulation of Lust to a small degree. (Passive)

~Lust Reading (Minor): Make possible to read the Lustful thoughts of weaker beings. (Active)

–Three sparks Impossibility (Extremely lesser): You create a ripple around you. Far from anathema yet, but you should be prepared. You are noticed.

Abilities:

~Lucky time: Allow the manipulation of causality to a lesser extent. Shifting the odds of a situation in one's favor. (Active)

~ Mind: It's impossible for you to be unable to learn anything related to the mind. (Passive, Set)

~Imbue: You can now actively manipulate the sparks you possess.

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"I knew it was too good to be true." He grunted while taking a look at his strangely intact surrounding. He felt afraid for a bit that he had destroyed Volcanica heart's during the battle, but he quickly relaxed his furrowed brows as he saw a white, pristine heart the size of his head perfectly preserved in a pile of black flesh nearby.

Upon taking it, he idly deduced that his bout of insanity and the hallucinations he had recently was tied to being an 'artificial' teenager. Then he further elaborated that while his body was older, and as such still quite more powerful than before his time lapsed training, his mind had not endured the same growth and didn't have the same maturity. As such, he was ultimately unbalanced, and he got slingshoted back to a newborn Nephalem.

At least, besides his still improved body, it seemed his wrath embodiment evolve a whole tier? It passed from minor to major at least, and he got a new form out of it. So in the end, it wasn't so bad a consequence.

In fact, its possible his new powers was precisely what made him able to defeat Volcanica.

Storing the heart in his greed dimensional storage, he lifted his head and squinted at the sun.

Yep, he had no idea where he was.

Fortunately, he could fly.

As for the ominous change to his embodiment of impossibility. He tried to not think about it. Because soon, he will be able to erase one of the condition of his foolish wish.

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~Somewhere in existence

"This is... Sooner than I expected." The pink-haired goddess admitted calmly.

"This is bad, while it's not too noticeable yet. His presence can clearly be felt if you search for it." Zoi said, a frown on her face.

"..."

"He'll need to stop progressing soon, or he'll attract attention of those he can't deal with and who are too far below us to kill without repercution. No world he will go in person from now on will allow him to use Gate Overflow. He needs to reach infant stage at least before he'd be able to protect himself from those dimension travellers who could become curious about this ripple."

"He needs a last spark to cancel his father wish-imposed infertility. We'll see after that." Kass idly said, before her expression suddenly turned amused as Julian arrived back to Lugnica and he promptly came to learn that Volcanica's roars and his fight had been heard by the population of the entire kingdom. "Besides, Re-zero is an outsider in term of powerscaling and location. Not even a greater god could conquer one of its standard itteration, only destroy it outright. And unless they can manipulate time to a greater extent than the witch of Envy, Julian is safe there."

"Oh, I see why you'd choose that as his first world then." Zoi answered with a sly grins.

"Julian was the one to make that choice." Kass replied, an annoyed expression on her face.

"Whatever you say." Zoi replied, shrugging.

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Somewhat annoyed at his current predicament, Julian sighed.

Given his sudden lack of power, he had been unable to resurect Volcanica, even with Gate Overflow. Quite a sad turn of event, but maybe it was for the best. The old lizard had been but a shell of his former self at this point after all.

As for Shaula and the pleiades tower, he would probably have a chat with the former and come back later for the latter. After all, his deal with Reid didn't specify a time period he had to bring him back to life.

Leaning back against the wall in the exact same position he had been earlier today, he allowed himself to grins. After all, he had finished his quests and gained precious knowledge and ressources on his endeavor.

As for the royal selection, he had single-handedly assured Emilia victory. After all, Priscilla being married to her knight made her claim Emilia's own.

A vicious smile on his face, he chuckled as he used his physical position as an anchor to visualize priscilla past image and followed it. With his eyes filled with EC and glowing in various shades of yellow and orange, the current of time held not secrets for him.

It was becoming late, and light was waning. And as he followed the ethereal form of past Priscilla through the city, he soon found himself in the noble district of the city.

After a while, her alter descended from what he assumed was a carriage and went past a fence and into one of the most luxurious mansion he had seen yet.

Guards stood before the fence, looking bored out of their mind in this late hours. But they immediatly perked up and tensed as he approached them.

"Can we help you, sir?" One of the guard addressed him. Given that he was taller than them by quite a bit, as well as dressed and equiped lavishly. They probably took him for some noble.

"Yes, in fact. You can." He smiled at them. "I take it your lady is not asleep yet and seemingly waiting for something? If that's the case, please take me to her."

The two men looked at each other with apprehension before one of them nodded at him and opened the fence, the other told him to follow him and led the way to the main entrance of the mansion.

Opening the door for them both to a ostentiatous and luxurious vestibule, in the color of red and gold.

The guard turned toward him and said succinctly. "Please wait, my lord, as I inform my lady of your presence."

Upon giving him a nod and the guard leaving, Julian smiled vanished as he wondered what he should do with his future wife. He didn't care much for a marriage with her. And the big thing it will inevitably turn out to be was seriously a bother.

Her attitude and personality was another problem, she certainly wasn't wifey material. Priscilla would need to be 'tamed' by one mean or another. Hopefully, it would be through her own fulfillment, but he doubted a woman like her could ever truly be satisfied. As such, some part of her would probably need to be broken or subverted. Thankfully, he had the mean to make her see what lay beyond mortal pleasures. Both physically and mentally. He would just have to bring out his A-game. As he was now, anyway. If he had been an artificial teens, it would have been all too easy.

As for all of her husbands dying in mysterious ways. Well, good luck getting rid of him with Return by Death. And seriously, he would be laughing his ass off if he was to be assasinated or die of some mysterious disease.

That's not even considering that with Gate Overflow and a bit of practice he would be able to shift timeline.

Speaking of timeline... He hadn't forgotten the promise he made to the Emilia of his first timeline...

Taking upon a somber expression at this train of thought, the guard who came back turned pale as sheet as his gaze came to rest upon him.

"M-My lord, Lady Barielle is ready to see you."

Standing up, he nodded and strode past the man who seemed too weak in the knees to move. His spatial sense had already mapped the place thoroughly, so he didn't need a guide.

He knew it was rude, he just didn't care.

This mansion and all its people would belong to him soon anyway.

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Essence of: Julian Håberjorgen-Marquis.

Race: Premature-Newborn (1 pair of wings) Second-Order Nephalem.

EMBODIMENTS

VIRTUES:

–Kindness (Minor): You are a weak personification of the virtue of kindness.

Abilities:

~No good deed go unrewarded: Facing your kindness, people are both less likely to betray you and more driven to reciprocate. (Integral, at will)

–Patience (minor): You are a weak personification of the virtue of patience.

Abilities:

~ Coiling mountain: You have an instinctive sense of seizing the right timing and when to just let things flow. (Integral, at will)

SINS:

–Greed (Minor): You are a weak personification of the sin of greed.

Abilities:

~One of mind and Desires: Your wants become needs, motivation fill you and make you hunger for more. (Passive, Core)

~Treasury (Minor): Grant a small personal space to hide ones valuables. (Active)

~Don't even try (Minor): Make people feel subtly ominous if they were to ever yearn for what is yours. (Passive)

–Wrath (major): You are a consequent personification of the sin of wrath.

Abilities:

~Anger empowerment (major): You find strength in anger to a consequent degree, your own or the one of those in your immediate surrounding.(Passive)

~Anger inducement (Major): You can induce supernatural anger to a consequent degree and provoke anger more easily if you so wish. (Active)

~Controled Wrath: Less chance of losing control when angry. (Passive, Core)

~Blood Angel (Wrathful form, early): When your anger surpass a certain degree, your wings bleed from rage, and so shall your enemies. Provide a consequent boost to destructive abilities. (Passive, unmastered.)

–Lust (Minor): You are a weak personification of the sin of lust.

Abilities:

~Veiled Mind: Allow the masking of one's intentions. (Passive, Core)

~Lust manipulation (Minor): Allow the manipulation of Lust to a small degree. (Passive)

~Lust Reading (Minor): Make possible to read the Lustful thoughts of weaker beings. (Active)

–Three spark Impossibility (Extremely lesser): You create a ripple around you. Far from anathema yet, but you should be prepared. You are noticed.

Abilities:

~Lucky time: Allow the manipulation of causality to an almost non-existent extent. Shifting the odds of a situation in one's favor. (Active)

~ Mind: It's impossible for you to be unable to learn anything related to the mind. (Passive, Set)

~Imbue: You can now actively manipulate the sparks you possess.

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