Chapter 196: Souls

Blinking to only see the real world again, I felt all sore and exhausted, definitely in need of some sleep now. I sat up and looked around to make sure the girl wasn't taking advantage of me being unconscious.

While I was fighting I went... A little mad and planned on killing her to take her soul as well, I still plan to kill her eventually, now that I feel like I can harvest souls.

After all, I don't think I can leave until I do kill her.

But at the same time I'm curious about the corruption.

The least I can do is take care of that while I'm sane.

Looking around I saw her sitting over against the wall, and staring at me with her eyes bloodshot and dry like she hadn't let me out of her sight, not even once.

Chuckling as I could sense unsure hostility, I sighed and said, "I don't know if Ashmedia will let me leave if I don't kill you, but I can fulfill a certain request to cleanse the dungeons," I told her the truth.

And I don't feel anything against telling her.

But she just stared at me, and suddenly opening her mouth, "You're really the second one," she said to me, and nodding as bad as it hurt to even move. "Yes, but what's bothering me is you right, so talk to me a little"

Not hesitating, "What do you want me to say, thank you for sparing me to only kill me last," she said and as fair as it sounded, I signed, "We're demons, sure I'm more of a demonid, but you'll just respawn in the abyss if I kill you, if I absorb you you'll live as a part of my power, demons usually prefer serving the strong" I said telling her that simply I'd be giving her an honor.

But she didn't seem like the usual demon right now.

And being silent but not losing eye contact, I spoke again, "Outside the dungeon we're in dealing with a large scale war against the Lich Progenitor Izumi, Asmodeus's childhood friend in which he doesn't want to take any action against seeing as he has her in his dungeon as a guest and some sort of ally. Plus he gave her a human vessel on top of it while she is looking for the keys to unseal him. Seeing as that's an issue for me, I'm preparing for war against her myself, so I have no time for compromise, nor will I take any"

Telling her this, I forced myself to stand, "So pick what you want, I can fullfil your wish or just kill you, choice's yours, I lost interest in talking to you like I had prior," I stated as I felt this selfish desire for power eat at me.

And closing her eyes for the first time since whenever. She opened her mouth and said, "You were a merely a Level 2 when you came here, and now your Level is at 5, I doubt the master believed you'd clear the gate before you'd have to leave, so just adopt me or sum" gate? The hell is she... Wist-... Wait...What?

Looking at her, I sensed something unknown?

But glaring at her, "No, I said I won't take compre-"

"Transfer Mika's ownership to new Haragi, kill vessel" she said robotically, and sensing mana from her words, she turned her nexk- *craack*... Uh

Breaking her own neck, a flair of red aura jumped from out her body and shooting at me, I turned to evade what felt like an attack, but then it honned.

Laching onto my shoulder, I felt a surge of energy.

And startled slightly by this, I felt a breath. Looking at my shoulder, "You've now obtained the heavenly devil Mika, congrats," the dead girls feminine voice spoke tiredly and almost emotionless. The hell is this???

But before I could question or tear her out, a bright light skinned on me and in the blink of an eye, I saw that I appeared in another room, this time, there was a board on it and it said, "Congratulations, you passed the first floor, the floor of unknown rebels of forgotten"

And just looking at it, I felt a little sick, so turning to the bed, I said, "Fuck it, if I die I die, I'm going to sleep," I laid down, and as I heard cracks, I only glanced over to see in front of the board, the floor caved in again.

And I sighed, "He should've just made the whole floor collapse," before turning in for the day, I'm done.

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. Some time later ...

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Waking up fully rested, I sat up looking over at that board, seeing what this "task" was about this time. "Now that you've gotten a feel for soul power, I must warn you against it for gaining power. Outside of it being painful, Devine beings can get threatened by such growth, not to mention your body could blow up if you overdo it. There's a few other things that're sort of scary, and horrifying, and just dangerous... but, you will have to figure that out on your own if you decide not to listen to me. My only advice to you is for you to use your soul power as a method of healing only if needed or to cast advanced spells. I've made many mistakes so I don't want you to," he wrote, but there was another paragraph...?

"Now that you've probably absorbed a soul or two for the first time, swallowing them whole to absorb them. After feeling this new sensation, you won't forget it, so try testing out this new power on a few golems below as well as your newfound strength from those trators. There won't be a board on the next floor, but your goal is to work on developing your support skills or using souls to support your skills during this three day training period. You won't be able to reach floor ten unless your a general at level 10/100 or Rank 10 for what y'all use, I'll summon you when your time runs out, so train as hard as you can, and I'll come get you a day before your time here runs out, also I asked the spirit and he gave you another day for you to rest"

Reading this, how the hell would I be able to read this text if the floor dropped so fast?! Sighing, I hopped down to take the rest of my time here to train. . .

But going down there, there was no use of using my soul powers, they were too weak. So listening to him for a little, I did as told until I found it useless for my skill set. Do souls give my spells a critical boost?

But I'll try more, moving to the next floor after clearing the golems, I couldn't figure out how to incorporate my soul power into buff magic or anything outside of adding it to my attack and defense skills. Maybe that's how I'm supposed to use it, but I don't even know.

Taking my time to get used to the feeling, body still sore but a little warmed up, I ignored what he said and started collecting the souls of everything in here to store, and with no remorse, I greedily stole them all.

Getting to the fifth floor, there was still no board, but when I thought the floor would open up, a strange flow of energy reacted towards mine and opened up a spatial gate, and flinching I felt my power inside of it.

Like another me was pulling me in.

And sensing Mari with slit energies of mine.

Was this a gate to my comrads, is this because of the contract I have with grace that's allowing me to go to them while we're in the same realm??? I'm clueless.

But shaking my head to gather reason, I bit my tounge and it bled, "Sorry, but not now, not yet," I said to myself, and just went to the rooms bed to lay there.

Waiting for this next task to arrive, because I'm not doing this even if it is the task, I still have to help my coven, and my new friends in the dark realm.

I'll l come back when I'm ready.

And when I'm strong enough.

Until then, I'll choose my freedoms in the dark realm.