195 Soul Absorption

Rising to their feet, a hundred Demons arose with black tendril shadows wiggling out of their flesh vessels. And just like that, it looked as if they suddenly revived before their once comrades and foes, "Best believe, I'm not like the others that man's fathered, we are... Nothing alike, understood.." I said.

Looking to the outsiders I wanted out of my sight.

"Now, beasts, rip and tear them apart while they're alive"

Knowing what I meant by my intent, some on the ground unable to get up grabbed the girls' feet while the others started grabbing them, clawing and biting them apart.

And in the most cruel way possible, while keeping them alive to the end, that's the most fitting reward for them. A painful and merciless death like the cowards they are. And watching as this was happening, her surprise grew even more.

Standing up straight as there was blood behind spilled all around us, I said, "Now tell me more about these corrupt generals, I really want to meet them now, okie~" but I could tell I made her uncomfortable by the glances all around at the newly undead.

"Huh..." Knowing this awkward situation would be without words for a while, I rolled my eyes and turned around, saying, "Fine, stay quiet, I think I'm going to work out a little until you come back to your senses" turning to my undead army, I ran at them.

Practicing the principles of magic taught to me, I switched my flows of mana and used [Shadow Claws] hacking away at the zombie demons to gather those kills I needed for this challenge, they all have to die by me and I don't know how literal Asmodeus was when he said kill them all, luckily, my undeads are weaker than me.

So releasing every last ounce of blood lust and frustration, clawing, slitting throats, and leaping into the air to channel a [Fire Ball] to explode a grouped batch. This amount of murder only grew my desire to kill, and feast on the one still alive.

Not long after, it was like I went into a maniac trance, killing everything left and right, thinking about how weak I was and needed the power, the experience, and the fight to continue, I kept going for 3 hours, struggling against many yet pushing forward, trying not to push myself to get stabbed in the back by the still alive demon. 

But honestly. Forgetting all about her too as I started having fun as well.

Releasing control after killing what was like one-tenth of them, I began to push myself into pure exhaustion, but now giving them the order to try and kill me so I could push myself further during this training exercise, every kill mattered. And I wasn't about to be the one holding myself back, I need to push more. More...

More. MOre. MORE!

Feeling as a knife stabbed into my side, causing me to wince in pain, I grabbed the zombies throat, and crushing it, black tendrils started coming out of my arms and into the neck of the zombie. Letting go, I tore out their throat in a gory tear and swiped at the zombie on my opposing side. Turning over and side-kicking another as I mixed both [Shadow Armor] absorbing my shadow into my clothes, turning the cloth black, and [Flame Cloak], spreading fire from where my heart was to the rest of my body in a flowing rush, scorching the ground below and burning everything I would touch.

Using two heavily based mana skills, my DP would last for 3 minutes at best if I don't get hit and have to get protected by my shadow armor. Alas meaning I could only train for 3 more minutes, but at the same time, I want blood, I'll kill the girl next.

And wasting away at my mana as insanity began to creep in from every corner and I had no intentions of hiding any of my intents, even from her who still just so happened to be near where I left her, I began uttering more as I killed.

And every time I killed, little black tendrils would enter everything I touched.

And as I was near my wits end and would almost be out of my magic power.

Something snapped inside me and extending my demonic power out into a showering wave as I roared at the top of my lungs, using every bit of power I had left. Suddenly a burst of dark energies ran rampant and a shockwave came out.

All that the tendrils touched, started releasing similar waves around me in a chained reaction, and as I felt my vision fading and I turned to wherever I thought the only living thing was, a zombie near tried getting up, and stomping its skull, I felt a surge.

A surge of electricity pulsed from its head into my leg and then through my body, in a snap, every last one of my shadow zombies being hit by the chained shockwaves released a mass of tendrils that hundreds and hundreds started flying right at me.

Instantly stabbing into my body very painfully, I felt something bearing deep inside of me gulp, and my vision blackened as to then reappear into a blank mind space where almost a thousand colorful convulsing orbs began to suddenly appear.

And looking around to see them all floating up from the ground, and then one after another shoot into the sky, I looked up to what looked like a marble of glowing green fire in the pitch black sky, like a star, suddenly get hit and expand rapidly above me. 

But as it did, I was hit by something unknown, and I felt like something I couldn't even begin to describe was beginning to tear an then instantly heal, only to just expand again, and then it happened rapidly, and I started to lose my mind,.

. . . . .

What felt like days passed, and as the pain and thumping didn't go away as the orbs kept on flying into the green sun, some, one after another getting rejected to only try again, they wouldn't stop until the rapidly expanding sun orb began to take them. 

And going insane from the pain, and curled into a ball as I felt my body exploding to only reform. . .It then suddenly stopped, and after panting for the life of me, I felt something. and looking into the sky as I rolled onto my back, it was now a sun?

Looking at the black sky as if there was nothing in my head but blank now.

The green sun began to release a wave of energy in which revealed an ocean hued in red under me, and a black sky, that felt like it was missing something as there was no stars in its sky. The sun orb then began to decent, and watching at it fell down.

Not feeling pain and only pleasure, it fell on top of me, phasing through the center of my body and causing a ripple in the crimson sea, as if they touched unfazed another.

But then, breathing peacefully to only feel my breath being pulling in by the sun orb, inherent information flooded my brain like an epiphany, "I reached Rank 5" I grinned.

So I guess I did manage to absorb a soul, well, every soul but one.