Chapter 7 - Empowerment

I woke up slowly. The last fight was very hard for me. Despite the transience, this fight was very dangerous, and I was literally on the brink. But the reward is also good, and now I can finally see what I got with Naoki.

Name: Daniel Gaap Darkness

Races: Fallen Angel (4 wings); Phoenix (limited); Supreme demon, head of the Gaap clan (6 wings);

Sacred Gears: Eye of Insight

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Mana: 167500/167500/7450 per hour

Prana: 25360/25360/1268 per hour

Mental energy: 70240/70240/3512 per hour

Soul Energy: 85800/85800/4290 per hour

Demonic Energy: 93200/93200/4620 per hour

Divine Energy: 58740/58740/2750 per hour

Elemental Energy: 0/0/0

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Body: 634

Mind: 1756

Soul: 2145

Was he a higher demon? Or was he a hybrid? But the most surprising thing is that he was the head of the Gaap house? This explains his ability to spatial magic. It was not a Sacred Gear, but its Ancestral Magic. And now I own it too. Fine.

This power will help me kill my next targets. In addition, he gave me quite a lot of body, soul and mind points. Great, now I will be on the level of a strong 8-winged or weak 10-winged angel in strength. But already now I have more demonic power than divine. My style consists mainly of dark magic attacks, sometimes supplemented by angelic light magic. But I can't use my demonic powers yet. I think before going for my next opponents, I should practice a bit and add fire and space attacks to my style. And the apostate demons will gladly help me with this. There have been too many of them lately. In addition, it will help me strengthen my body a bit, because most renegade demons use physical strength, and rarely magic.

But first, I'll go to the training ground and practice my newfound magic, along with...

"Brother, are you going to have breakfast," Tosca asked me, abruptly bursting into the room.

And she burst into the room at the wrong time. I had not yet had time to clean up the aftermath of yesterday's battle, and therefore now a pile of bloody clothes was piled in the middle of my room. Yes, and I myself was covered in dried blood.

- W-what happened? she screamed as she ran towards me.

- Are you okay? Do you have blood? Have you been hurt? What…

- Tosca, calm down, everything is all right with me. No need to worry. Yesterday I underestimated my opponent a little, for which I paid the price, but as you can see, everything is in order with me, I am alive and well, - I interrupted her, calmly explaining the situation.

- You will tell me everything. And where you've been And what happened to you. And then ... - Tosca began to tell me, but I interrupted her again.

Why should I tell you something? These are my affairs, and they do not concern you, - I stated categorically.

Toska, in response, simply looked at me and ... burst into tears. It was too unexpected for me. I hugged her and started stroking her back consolingly.

- Brother, whimper, I just want, whimper, that you are all right. You, whine, you don't have to tell me everything, but please promise me not to risk your life, - Tosca told me gradually calming down.

I can't promise, but I'll try. I risk my life against my will. I just want to survive. No one ever asked me if I was willing to risk my life for power, I replied. And in saying this, I risk my life for power precisely because I want to. If I didn't want this, I could have been hiding for a long time and living a normal life with the rest of the children. But why do I need an ordinary life? Ordinary people live no more than 100 years, unlike demons, angels, gods and other supernatural beings. Even now I can live more than 10,000 years. And I don't plan to stop there. I will continue to improve my powers and someday I will become a god. And then nothing will be a problem for me, and my life will be perfect.

- Well, if you promise. And brother, make me stronger, I don't want to be a burden to you. I want to be with you forever. I don't want to ever leave you. I don't want you to leave me, - said Tosca, snuggling closer to me and looking straight into my eyes. And not to say that I did not expect what just happened. Tosca had been in love with me for a long time, but she was afraid of being rejected. But it seems that now she finally decided to confess to me.

- I love you too, Tosca, - I looked at her tenderly, and kissed her.

After a couple of minutes of kissing, we broke off because Tosca ran out of air. She looked into my eyes again, and even without empathy, I could understand that now she is very happy. What a pity that I have to dampen her joy a little.

- But I have to tell you something. I am sure that you will not be my only girlfriend. Maybe in the future I will have about 5 or 6 wives, I honestly said, although I am not entirely sure about the number of girls.

- It doesn't matter, Brother. As long as there is a piece for me in your heart, I will not mind, - Tosca said absolutely sincerely, completely to me trusting. And it was completely unexpected. I seem to have greatly underestimated how much Tosca loves me.

- Don't be afraid, dear. There will always be a place in my heart for you, no matter what happens, and now let's go to breakfast, - I said.

After that, we went to the kitchen, where we quietly had breakfast. Then I decided to go to the training ground, as I wanted before, but now not alone, but with Tosca. I decided to take her request seriously and start training her seriously. My first action was one ritual that will slightly enhance the magic of Tosca. It was an old ritual from my family. In theory, it was something like a magical marriage that united the souls of lovers, strengthening them at the expense of each other.

But in reality, everything was both simpler and more complicated. The ritual did not unite the souls, but simply pulled out pieces and swapped them. And he, however, is able to strengthen partners. But in our case, the ritual will only strengthen Longing, because I surpass it many times in strength. Also after that, Tosca will become a full-fledged member of my family and her magic circle will have the seal of my family.

I, after absorbing Naoki, could now make my magic circle look not only like the seal of my house, but also like the coat of arms of the Gaap family.

The ritual was quite simple and went quickly. We just exchanged blood and magical power. After the ritual itself, Tosca plunged into an artificial coma, in which she was supposed to stay for about 5 days.

I went hunting. All new moves have been harmoniously added to my fighting style. It remains only to hone them in practice.

Walking down the night street, I thought. What do I want from this life? Of course, I have a global goal in the form of becoming a god, but after today's events, I began to think about my other desires. Since I started building a harem for myself, I need strength to protect my family. Already twice I was too weak, and my life changed dramatically.

The first time, I didn't lose anyone particularly dear to me. For the second time, I broke up with Laura and Isaiah, though not forever. And if I was lucky twice, the next time could be fatal for someone close to me. And to prevent this from happening, I need strength, and not only me. I must also strengthen my loved ones, because I will not be able to be with them absolutely always. And I even know what to do - I need to unravel the secret of extracting the sacred mechanisms that the fallen angels own. But for this I need power, which is easy to get - you just need to absorb as many souls as possible.

Right now, I'm too weak to even kill my next targets. Valerie is the princess of a vampire clan, and in order to kill her, I will have to fight in battle with this clan. Walburga is the owner of one of the 12 Longinus, which puts her at the bar of strength next to a strong 10-winged angel. I'm a stretch to pull on a very weak 10-winged, so I can't compete with her.

Well, that's why I went hunting. And judging by my magical perception, not far from me are about a dozen demons fighting against a priest or an angel.

I quickly ran to this place and saw a beautiful blue-haired girl about my age fighting with a dozen wandering demons. And, apparently, she can't handle it.

"Careful," I called out as I saw the demon approaching the clergywoman. She heard me and even began to dodge, but I realized that she would not have time.

"Arrrhhhya-ya-ah," the demon uttered a half-whee-half-wheeze after I hit him with a dark spear.

Deciding not to mess with the demons, I just threw a dark blast at them, which destroyed all but two of them. And then the latter survived only because they were close to us.

But the cleric quickly finished off these two and turned in my direction. There were several rather dangerous wounds on her body. She herself lowered her sword to the floor, but did not remove it, but only looked at me suspiciously.

"Umm, hi, my name is Daniel," I said, breaking the awkward silence.

"My name is Xenovia, I'm an exorcist, but who are you and what are you doing here?" - after a couple of minutes of silence, she nevertheless introduced herself, at the same time asking me a few questions. Her style of speech reminds me more of a KGB man than a teenage girl.

"I'd love to talk to you, pretty girl, but I think you could use some help with your wounds. I'm afraid if you don't get help soon, your condition may worsen," I said, and I was actually a little worried about her. Only now can I recognize her. It was Xenovia Quarta, one of my favorite characters in the DxD universe. Even when I was an ordinary person, I always liked this girl, but now having met her in reality, I understand that I like her even more. I am literally drawn to her.

- You're right. But don't worry, my comrades will be here soon and help me heal my wounds. And…thank you for your help." Xenovia answered me with a little embarrassment at the end. Perhaps now she has not hardened yet as much as in the canon.

- Since your comrades will arrive here, everything is in order. And by the way, I'm a mage and a mercenary. In free time I clean our world from wandering demons, vampires, fallen angels and other evil spirits. And to be honest, in my entire career, I've never met such sweet exorcists as you. – I told her, at the end of the phrase, winking.

"Nice to meet you," Xenovia told me, blushing a little more.

I already wanted to keep sticking to her when I felt two sources of divine energy moving towards us at great speed, which are most likely Xenovia's comrades.

"Xenoooooovia, are you okay?" yelled another girl, jumping off a nearby building and flying in our direction.

- Irina, be careful. And yes, I'm fine, thanks to Daniel. He intervened in my fight in time and helped me." Xenovia said towards the fallen girl.

- Daniel? Irina asked, tilting her head to the side questioningly.

- Irina, meet Daniel, a magician and mercenary who saved me from wandering demons. And this is Irina, my partner." Xenovia introduced us to each other.

"Nice to meet you," Irina said enthusiastically, standing in front of me.

- Mutually, - I answered, becoming more attentive to Irina.

At that moment, the last source of divine energy that I felt approached us. It was a middle-aged man dressed as an exorcist. He was clearly not as simple and naive as Xenovia and Irina.

"Xenovia, Irina, didn't I teach you not to trust the first person you meet. You should have at least checked him out to see if he really is a demon or a fallen angel," he said, looking in my direction suspiciously.

- Dad, I could tell a person from a demon or a fallen angel, - Irina shouted, apparently to her father.

And it was unexpected. I thought her father retired after killing Masaomi and Cleria. Interesting.

"I'm sorry, Daniel, but could you…" Irina turned in my direction and tried to somehow delicately tell me to pass the test that I was a person.

- Nothing, everything is in order, I understand everything. I think I will just need to touch the cross and pour holy water on it? I asked.

"Yes," Xenovia answered me already, who seemed to be a little embarrassed because of this as well. She seemed a little uncomfortable forcing the person who had saved her life to undergo such checks.

After that, she quickly read some kind of prayer and splashed water on my face. After the initial check, she came close to me and, after reading the prayer again, touched me with the cross.

Now I understand Xenovia's character a little more. And what at first seemed to me the habits of a KGB officer turned out to be just ordinary shyness. And it's clear that Xenovia was really worried about me when she checked and if she could help me.

- Well, you see, father, but I said that he is a man. We need to trust people a little more, instead of trying to check everyone we meet." Irina told her father when Xenovia and I finished.

- Okay, boy, you're not a demon or a fallen angel, but I still don't trust you. But since you helped Xenovia, then so be it, you have a minimum credibility. But why did you come here in the first place? the still suspicious exorcist asked me.

I was about to answer him when I felt a huge amount of sources of demonic energy on the verge of my sensitivity. I instantly became serious and looked in the direction from which these sources were approaching. And the others noticed my strange behavior.

- Something happened? Xenovia asked while looking at me carefully. I paid attention to her and immediately remembered that she was still wounded. Apparently, there are no healers in their squad. Looks like I'll have to treat her myself. Of course, revealing the presence of divine energy in oneself is not the best idea, but nothing can be done about it. If I don't heal Xenovia now, then in the coming battle, she might not even survive, and I can't afford it. And the point here is not my sharply revived mercy and philanthropy. No, it's just that I won't let this girl go for anything now, although it's better to say these girls. I liked Irina and Xenovia too much while watching the anime, and now my attitude towards anime characters is superimposed on my attitude towards them.

- I have bad news. From the southeast, a huge number of demons are moving right in our direction, about two hundred, although not strong. This can become quite dangerous for us, and for someone even fatal. Do any of you own healing? If Xenovia is not cured, she will probably not survive." I told them.

- No, we are all combat exorcists and do not own the treatment, - Irina's father said with obvious annoyance.

- As I thought. Hmmm… Okay, I'll help Xenovia, but you should keep quiet about everything you see now," I told them, remembering all the healing spells I know.

- What do you have in... What??? Xenovia wanted to ask me a question, but in the end, she just stared dumbfounded at the light pouring from my hands and pouring into her.

- The light of God. But only Angels and Fallen Angels can use it. Who are you? Irina's father asked me, forgetting that we are now under a horde of demons.

"I don't think this is the right time to talk," I said. And as if to confirm my words, there was a loud howl of hundreds of throats.

We finally spotted the demons. And unexpectedly for me, these were not renegade demons, but wild demons. Wild demons are basically just animals altered by demonic energy, so most of them don't have a mind. Some demons can take control of them, but do not really practice it, because wild demons do not stay under control for long, and after a certain time they can attack the one who tried to control them.

At the head of this horde was a renegade demon that looked like a normal demon, but its specific taste of mana told me that it was a renegade. And judging by the fact that he stopped the wild demons and looked at us with superiority, he decided to make a typical villain speech before killing us.

"Shido Touji, after so many years, we finally meet again." 7 years ago, you killed my master and most of his servants, but I managed to survive. All these years I have been gaining strength and looking for information about you. And now, I will kill not only you, but also your daughter and student. If you… kha… what… khkhee…" the demon was saying his speech, but was suddenly interrupted by an extra piece of metal in his body. The moment he arrived here and drew all the attention to himself, I went into invisibility and stealthily approached him. Due to the fact that he could feel the fluctuations of magic, I decided to kill him not with magic, but in the old fashioned way, with a dagger. One to the throat, one to the heart, and one to the temple. Everything is simple. Now we just have to deal with a crowd of uncontrolled wild demons.

- Quickly move away before they completely get out of control. I use one mass spell, but if you get too close, then I can hurt you, - I shouted at the exorcists, seeing how they began to move away, I focused on magic.

Since they already know about my mastery of angelic magic, it is better to attack the demons with light. But before that, they need to be somehow immobilized so that they do not run away. And I had one spell that would perfectly cope with this task. Dark Lake is a dark magic spell that creates a huge lake of darkness that binds enemies and damages them with a miasma of darkness. Against strong opponents, this spell is almost useless, but against a crowd of weaklings, it is ideal. Especially if you then destroy this crowd with another spell.

My reasoning did not take more than a second. I immediately began to create a lake of darkness, which instantly immobilized the wild demons. After that, I just used the simplest light spell - an arrow of light. But instead of one arrow, I created about a thousand. He spent almost half of the reserve of divine energy on this, but he greatly surprised his observers. Even without empathy, I felt their shock. I think Touji understood that all these checks seemed ridiculous to me, because if I wanted to, I could kill them all with one spell.

- Are you okay? I asked as I teleported close to the exorcists. My words brought them out of their stupor and they looked at me with completely different eyes. Touji now looked with fear and apprehension, Irina with admiration, and Xenovia looked at me with an incomprehensible look, but clearly with sympathy.

- Is that what it was? You don't tell us that you are such a strong mage. And you can also use the light of God, which only angels can use. So cool, - Irina said enthusiastically, running up to me almost close.

Touji and Xenovia also came closer but were silent. They were obviously waiting for answers to the questions that Irina asked. And I will even give them these answers, but only slightly adjusted.

Well, I'm not that strong of a mage. Well, as for the light, then everything is pretty gloomy. When I was still a child, my parents died and I began to live as a sister in a church orphanage. But it turned out that it was not just an orphanage, but a laboratory for experiments to increase compatibility with holy swords. But after a while this laboratory was attacked, and my friends and my sister and I had a chance to escape. But during the escape we were attacked by a fallen angel, and I stayed to detain him, giving the rest a chance to escape. The fallen angel did not kill me, but kidnapped me and also began to conduct some experiments on me. During one of the experiments, there was some kind of failure and I got the opportunity to use angelic mana and the amount of ordinary mana increased. With the help of my new powers, I was able to kill that fallen one and get out of the laboratory. After that, I managed to find some of my friends, but I never found my sister. Now I have become a mercenary and make a living doing it, - I told them a story I invented a couple of years ago. I told a similar story to my friends from the shelter, but I only told them that the meeting with the fallen angel happened after we got out of the shelter and lasted several days

Now they all had pity for me in their eyes. Even Touji's face softened a little after I told him.

- I heard something about it. Valper Galilei, an apostate, experimented on orphans, but ended up being attacked by demons. He managed to survive, but the church was able to find out about his crimes and declared him an apostate. After that, he began to serve the fallen angels, - said Touji, looking into my eyes.

- Okay, let's not talk about it. How about having a snack? I asked them, translating a topic that was really a bit unpleasant for me.

"Good idea, I'm just a little hungry" Xenovia said looking at me.

"Then stand around me, I'll teleport us to a nice cafe in Italy," I suggested to them, and surprisingly, they obediently stood around me, even Touji.

After that, I took them to a cafe in Rome, where the food was quite good. Now it was about 6 pm there, so the cafe was still open. We sat and chatted for a bit, getting to know each other better. Touji just sat off to the side, obviously letting us talk to each other. We mostly talked about me since Irina and Xenovia lived in a church and they didn't have a lot of life stories. Although most likely they were just very interested in hearing about my life. After that, we said our goodbyes, but before leaving, I gave Irina and Xenovia each a simple amulet that they could use to call for my help.

Hell and wild demons awaited me. After that skirmish, I realized that they can greatly increase their strength by killing them. There are many of them in hell, no one will be surprised at their mass deaths, and besides, their three characteristics were almost uniform, although there was a slight bias in the body.

* * * * *

It's been about a month since I started my wild demon hunt. And as I thought, it was very productive. Although I did not get any special abilities from them, there were a lot of characteristics. This was my status after only a month of hunting for them.

Name: Daniel Gaap Darkness

Races: Fallen Angel (4 wings); Phoenix (limited); Supreme demon, head of the Gaap clan (6 wings);

Sacred Gears: Eye of Insight

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Mana: 167500/167500/7450 per hour

Prana: 151520/151520/7576 per hour

Mental energy: 158240/158240/7912 per hour

Soul Energy: 173040/173040/8652 per hour

Demonic Energy: 248900/248900/12560 per hour

Divine Energy: 58740/58740/2750 per hour

Elemental Energy: 0/0/0

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Body: 3788

Mind: 3956

Soul: 4326

All my characteristics have increased by about two times, and the body in general, almost 6 times. But due to the rapid rise in power, my control over this power has slightly decreased. I have a lot of demonic energy right now. I mix it with normal mana and get dark fire, which does more damage than fire or darkness alone. Of course, not Amaterasu from Naruto, but in a couple of years the strength will not be very different from him.

And now I was finally ready for the battle with Walburga. Although she is the owner of Longinus, she has not yet mastered it perfectly and does not wield a Balance Breaker. But her fire is still very dangerous. But now my strength was at the level of a peak ten-winged angel, like Kokabiel. Although Kokabiel himself would most likely be able to defeat me simply with the help of experience, Azazel could not kill me either. The space magic of the Gaap family is just a solid cheat, but only if you have a lot of energy. Naoki had too little demonic energy, which caused his death. And he didn't think to leave at the very beginning of the battle, if he had done so, I would not have caught him.

I put on my suit and got ready. All my energy reserves were full, and I myself am full of strength. It's time to finally go up against a truly strong opponent, the owner of Longinus, an artifact capable of killing gods.

At the moment, Walburga was on a mission in Norway, where she was supposed to destroy one clan of magicians. I teleported there, and immediately noticed a huge burning mansion. And the one who set it on fire also noticed me.

- And who is this here? Ooooh, yes, it's Gilles de Ré, the famous killer of magicians. And it looks like you came here for my soul, - said a pretty pretty girl of about twenty years old, looking at me.

I decided not to talk to the future corpse and immediately attack. He just created a huge ball of dark flame and launched it into her.

- Are you serious? Decided to attack me with fire? Ahahahaah, how cute," she said as she easily dodged my attack and sent a huge shaft of fire at me.

It was already serious. I created a shield of light to protect myself from her attack, but I spent too much divine energy on it.

Having decided not to trifle, I create a huge phoenix from a dark flame and launch it into it. It wasn't that easy to dodge, and she seemed to understand that, too. She created a small cocoon of flames for protection, but it did not fully protect her.

- YOU! I will kill you, creature, you have found yourself the wrong enemy, - she shouted when the flame dissipated. I saw that my attack set her clothes a little on fire, and left burns on her hands, which, due to dark miasma, should have brought her just hellish pain. And it seems because of this she became furious and began to use all her strength

The entire nearby area was instantly covered with a huge amount of flames. And although I protected myself with a shield, this flame was much stronger than the previous one, because of which my shield absorbed a huge amount of divine energy. It will only last for a minute to maintain the shield, and then it will simply disappear. So I need to hurry up with her murder.

I immediately created about ten dark flame phoenixes, but I did not stop there and created in addition to this several beams of light and spatial blades, with which I attacked my opponent. This attack hurt her even more and left her without one arm, which was successfully cut off by the dimensional blade.

"Aaaaah, I hate it, I hate it, die already," she screamed again, and this time she focused all the fire in the area on me.

"Fuck," I said as my barrier of light collapsed. The fire had already begun to cover me, causing me terrible pain, as I abruptly created a shockwave of dark flames that knocked my opponent's fire away from me and gave me the ability to teleport behind the caster's back.

After that, I did not waste my chance and concentrated a huge amount of mana and almost half of my reserve of soul energy into a spear of darkness, which I directed at her.

The speed of the spear was enormous and almost impossible to dodge, but Walburga at the last moment still slightly deflected her body and the spear hit her not in the chest, but in the stomach. But only this did not save her life, but only prolonged her torment.

"I hope you die very painfully, ugh, scum," she said, turning to me and spitting out some of her blood.

After that, she fell to the ground, but still remained alive. What an amazing will to live. I went down to her and walked closer. Walburga no longer cursed me, but only cried, spitting up her blood along the way. But after another half a minute, she still could not stand it and died.

A very pitiful death for such a powerful mage. Until a few hours ago, she was a powerful witch and the owner of one of the strongest artifacts in the world. She could decide who lives and who dies. Caused in millions of people admiration and fear. And now she just died like a miserable mongrel, choking in blood and tears. ironic

But it only tells me that no matter how strong you are, there will always be someone stronger. You need to live knowing this, and never forget about it.

"That is why I am striving for strength. I just don't want to die, choking on blood and tears, just like she did. And the methods of achieving strength do not excite me. I will achieve power, no matter what it costs me, - I said, looking at the corpse of Walburga, and proceeded to absorb her soul and mechanism.

I quickly devoured her soul, which takes me 4 days to digest. And these four will pass quickly for me.

* * * * *

I lay in my bed and waited for the end of the digestion of Walburga's soul. There were only a few seconds left. Why do I need it? It's simple, I want to absorb her artifact before it passes to another person. The Sizzling Anthem is an artifact with a will of its own, capable of choosing its own owner. That is why I want to try to absorb it, but not completely, but only the mental part of it, the mind and will of the artifact itself. Only in this way can I use it without fear of loss.

And so, the report ended and I felt a new sacred mechanism inside myself. I immediately directed my absorption power towards him and focused on his mind. I didn't want to absorb all of it, I wanted to absorb only a part of it, and my power responded to that. She consumed it, leaving the artifact itself intact. And I saw how long it should be digested - 3 months and 8 days. This is less than I expected. Wonderful. I got stronger again.

* * * * *

I decided to spend these three months on vacation and spend more time with Tosca. We traveled all over the world with her. Were in Egypt, America, England, Italy, China and even Brazil. The last point of our trip I chose Russia, where we visited a couple of friends and spent a little more time. Also, Tosca and I were in the same cafe in Italy where I had lunch with Xenovia and Irina. And we met young exorcists there.

Tosca and I decided to have dinner and I teleported us to one of my favorite cafes. This was only the beginning of our journey, and we ourselves had just arrived in America.

When we entered the cafe, I asked the waiter to prepare a table for us when I heard a familiar voice.

"Daniel, hello," someone shouted to me from the other end of the cafe.

Turning around, I saw Irina and Xenovia who also seemed to have come to have dinner here after the mission. I think the food here is obviously better than in the church. I gave a sign to the waiter and, taking Tosca by the hand, went to them.

- Hello, girls, long time no see, - I immediately said, going up to them.

- Hey, who's with you? Xenovia greeted me as she pointed to Tosca.

- Oh yeah, you don't know each other. Tosca, meet Irina and Xenovia, the exorcists I once saved their lives. But this is Tosca, my… uh, girl, - I introduced each other's girls, hesitating a little at the end. Still, I didn't want to tell them yet that I have a girlfriend. This will make it a little more difficult to seduce them.

- Do you have a girlfriend? You didn't tell us about it." Xenovia said with a little frown as she looked at Tosca.

- Yes, I have. However, if you also apply for Daniel, then I will not be against it. Daniel originally planned to create a harem, so I was always ready for the fact that I would have to share it with someone else, - said Tosca, who had been silent before, plunging everyone else into shock with her words. Even I was shocked, she, of course, said that she would not be against the harem, but I did not think that she would almost invite girls to it herself.

- N-no, what are you talking about! We are the servants of God, so we never thought about it, so stop talking about it. Let me tell you a funny story that happened to us on the last mission…" Xenovia was confused and immediately changed the subject. Irina also blushed and looked at me. While Xenovia was telling various stories, there was a rather awkward atmosphere around the table.

And only when they brought us food, we started talking again. After Xenovia, we also decided to tell our stories. I told how Tosca and I traveled, and Tosca talked about her school and hobbies.

We talked like that for about an hour, and then parted ways. After that, Tosca and I met Irina and Xenovia several times in this cafe, and each time we became closer to each other, and our relationship was already quite drawn to close friends.

But, everything ends someday, just as our journey ended, and with it the digestion of the soul of the artifact.

I sat back on my bed. Half an hour ago, the artifact was digested to the end, and I decided to test my new characteristics.

Name: Daniel Gaap Darkness

Races: Fallen Angel (4 wings); Phoenix (limited); Supreme demon, head of the Gaap clan (6 wings);

Sacred Gears: Eye of Insight; Sizzling Anthem

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Mana: 357800/357800/17300 per hour

Prana: 169560/169560/8478 per hour

Mental energy: 453840/453840/22692 per hour

Soul Energy: 261880/261880/13094 per hour

Demonic Energy: 248900/248900/12560 per hour

Divine Energy: 58740/58740/2750 per hour

Elemental Energy: 0/0/0

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Body: 4239

Intelligence: 11346

Soul: 6547

It's just beyond reality. For Walburga, I got quite a lot of characteristics, but from the absorption of the mind of the artifact, I received a lot of points, it's a pity that it was only the mind, and it felt like I absorbed only about 50 percent of its mind points.

But this is already a huge boost. And now, I can start killing the last target. Perhaps her murder and the absorption of the soul delayed the last remnants of my conscience. But you can't wait any longer. For the sake of strength, I must suppress all pity and mercy in myself.

I opened the closet and took out my suit and put it on. After that, I put on a hood and put a black mask on my face. Taking my dagger from the table, I attached it to my belt. After preparing, I left the house and flew a short distance on my wings before teleporting to Transylvania.

This time I decided to use all my skills to the maximum. Despite the fact that I mostly possess powers sharpened for destruction, I also have the ability to stealth. Namely, the magic of illusions and the magic of space. Vampires could easily uncover ordinary illusion magic, but in conjunction with space magic, I am almost elusive.

I easily felt Login's aura and immediately followed her. She was in the underground floors of the vampire castle. And what is strange, there was not even a guard near the room of the princess of vampires and the owner of Longinus. But it's just in my favor. I carefully entered the room and saw a sleeping girl of my age. Without hesitation, I instantly cut off her head and absorb her soul. After that, I quickly burned her body and also quietly left.

It was even too easy. Much easier than I expected. And until the end of the digestion of her soul, I need eleven days. Weird. Walburga needed less time, although she was stronger.

While digestion lasted, I hunted fallen angels. I needed a Sacred Gear extraction ritual. Still, you need to make your allies stronger.

Even though I cleared about 5 Fallen Angel bases, I couldn't get the Extraction Ritual. But here I was interrupted due to the fact that the time of digestion of the soul has passed. It's time to check your status.

Name: Daniel Gaap Darkness

Races: Fallen Angel (6 wings); Phoenix (limited); Supreme demon, head of the Gaap clan (8 wings); Supreme Vampire

Sacred Gears: Eye of Insight; Sizzling anthem; holy grail

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Mana: 357800/357800/17300 per hour

Prana: 182680/182680/9134 per hour

Mental energy: 456640/456640/22832 per hour

Soul Energy: 269360/269360/13468 per hour

Demonic Energy: 248900/248900/12560 per hour

Divine Energy: 58740/58740/2750 per hour

Elemental Energy: 0/0/0

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Body: 4567

Intelligence: 11416

Soul: 6734

That's all. The stats haven't improved much, but now I have two Longinus. This means that the preparation for the main dish is over. It's time to absorb Ddraig, one of the strongest dragons in this world.