Chapter 31: I Will Give You Opportunities, But I Will Not Be Your Support

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Ding!

[You have slain thousands of Evil Cult Members.]

[You used {Extraction} on the corpses of your foes, gaining additional EXP!]

[Level Up!]

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[Your Level has increased from Level 864 to Level 887/999!]

[All your Stats have increased. You gained bonus Stat Points and Skill Points.]

[Several Skills have Leveled Up! Some Skills have reached Max Level.]

[After having massacred the Evil Cult of the {Lord Of Deep Darkness}, you have acquired the [Destroyer of the Evil Cult Of Deep Darkness] Title!]

[Your ruthless and monstrous massacre of countless lives has earned you the Classless Skill: [Bloodthirsty Warlord of the Battlefield: Lv1]!]

A new Title and a new skill—interesting, I suppose? I haven’t checked the new Titles in a long while, and I have an ever-growing disinterest in doing so. They feel more like dumb achievements. Though sometimes, they’ll carry incredible abilities, nonetheless.

And about Skills, this one seems rather long named, though if it’ll help me slay more foes more easily, it won’t really be of use because I can already do that, won't it?

As always, the system is such a hit-and-miss, most of the time giving me redundant abilities I already have.

Nonetheless, my special Class at least never disappoints.

[The Skill: [God Predator (SSS): Lv6] Skill effects have been activated. You have devoured the Divinity Fragments of five Avatars of the {Lord Of Deep Darkness}!]

[All your Stats have increased by +15.000]

[You gained +8.000 Divinity.]

[You learned the Magic Skill: [Demonic Abyssal Grimoire Of Deadly Curses (SS): Lv1]!]

[The Skill: [Divine Class Absorption: Lv5 (SSS)] Skill effects have been activated. You have devoured the Divine Classes of the Avatars of the {Lord Of Deep Darkness}!]

[You devoured the [Evil Cult Supreme Leader] Divine Class!]

[You devoured the [Dark Priest Of Shadows And Blood] Divine Class!]

[You have earned +5.000 Skill Points!]

[For having slain several Avatars of a Tower God, you gained +5.000.000 Credits.]

“Not bad.”

I felt my Divinity continuously grow larger; the tiny golden sphere was now several times larger than before. I could already feel it—this developing Divinity, and the Mana I am constantly gaining and absorbing—it'll definitely help me break through my bottleneck as a Primordial Immemorial Venerable.

I just need to keep amassing more of this Divine Power and Mana, and it’ll be completely possible to finally ascend into the Immemorial Void Realm! And thankfully, these Gods' followers are full of this juicy energy, which they seem so stupidly eager to give to me by offering themselves on a silver plate.

And about the Divine Classes, I now had quite a huge sum of them.

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Stored Divine Classes: [Radiant Light Divine Archbishop] [Brilliant Mother Of Light Holy Saintess] [Divine Radiant Templar Of Holy Light] [Abyssal Dark Sorcerer] [Dark Enslaver of the Deep] [Evil Abyssal Torturer] [Divine Chronomancer] [Apocalypse Knight of Conquest] [Apocalypse Knight of Death] [Apocalypse Knight of Pestilence] [Apocalypse Knight of War] [Great Undead Servant] [Corrupted Necromancer] [Evil Cult Supreme Leader] [Dark Priest Of Shadows And Blood]

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I should combine them into stronger Classes and give them to my mates at the very least. Or maybe I should make something really powerful for little Hekita, who should be able to soon awaken as well?

Well, there’s something else bothering me right now, though.

“T-Thank you so much for saving us from the tyranny of the Evil Cult!”

A beautiful woman with long, cascading silvery-white hair, dark purple skin, long ears, and sharp yet humble red eyes kneeled before me. She was wearing ragged, worn-down clothes, showing her skin in several parts. Despite how she looked, she was a former Queen.

“Well, I’m glad you’re alright,” I said. “Although I didn’t really come here to save you, I had come here to kill the evil cult completely. It seems that they still had a few thousand prisoners within their headquarters, though. So what was your name again?”

“I-I am Queen Grayrose; I used to rule the Queendom of Dark Elves here a few years ago. However, my own negligence ended up allowing the Evil Cult to... capture us all and use my nation as a mere reserve for sacrifices.” Sighed the dark elf woman. “A-And that’s why you found us here… My population, I…”

“It’s alright; first, let's get you washed out.” I waved my hands as a wave of refreshing light encompassed her entire body, healing her wounds, cleaning her body, and repairing her clothes.

“Ahh!” She gasped in surprise. “I-I am completely recovered?! E-Even my clothes! Could you be some great sorceress?”

“No, I am not a sorceress; I am a Primordial Immemorial Venerable,” I said with a firm tone of voice. “It wasn’t in my plans to take care of people, though, and it isn’t now either. I’ve already healed your people, repaired their clothes, remade their capital, and left enough money and food for you to survive for at least a year. It’ll be up to you how you recover, though; I’ve done enough, I believe.”

“Y-You’ve done so much, even after saving us?!” The Queen gasped. “Please, wait, don’t go yet!” She started chasing me as I began floating into the sky. “Stay, at least for a day; it is the least we could do to show you our sincerity and hospitality!”

“I can’t. I have important issues of my own.” I spoke. “But I might come to visit you again in the future. I could stay here and protect you using my abilities as well, but that would defeat the purpose of wanting to see you grow on your own. At the very least, I’ve left a barrier, so wild creatures shouldn’t be able to attack you at the very least.”

“A barrier?” The Queen wondered. “What do you mean by a barrier- Ah! Wait!”

However, I ignored her pleas and quickly disappeared from the scene. The continent of Umbral was rather interesting, much darker and lugubrious compared to the continent of Radiant. It was a place where humans were non-existent and where mostly Beast People and Dark Elves lived.

The Evil Cult has been growing endlessly within these lawless lands, devouring every single village and nation they could find and using the people here as sacrifices for their dark god for hundreds of years by now.

And all of such injustices were ignored by the Goddess of Light, easily showing how these two gods were cooperating together behind the scenes while making their believers think they were rivals.

I had seen this situation myself a couple of times back in Murim too: two factions clashing against one another, generating conflict and gaining from such conflicts while actually being allies in the end.

The people of Umbral and their struggles are something I can’t worry about right now. The tower has over a hundred worlds; if I were to stop and worry about each and every single person there, I wouldn’t get the time to do much else.

Unfortunately, my priority is protecting my own world. That means that, although I will free these worlds from their insane gods, I will not work towards guiding them, saving them, or helping them. I might give them some passive protection and some resources, so they start well enough, but the rest of their future will be left in their own hands. This is how I mostly handled mortals back in Murim as well.

It was a gigantic world, and to care for every single mortal in existence was insanity. As much as I wanted justice to prevail, evil would always brew somewhere, and it would emerge again. I can’t endlessly protect everyone, even if I can live endlessly. If I babysit them for eternity, there will never be space for these mortals to grow on their own.

I might sound selfish with such words, but that’s what I chose to do. And I’ve already decided to live as I please and do whatever I want. Whether my decisions are wrong or not, it doesn’t really matter.

“I’m back.” I smiled faintly as I descended towards the village once more.

Well, this was, of course, an outliner. Because it was the village of the people connected to my lovers, I was giving them some extra privileges. Maybe if that Queen had become one of my lovers, perhaps I would have put more effort into helping her Queendom. And maybe that’s why I decided to leave quickly before a beauty like her were to seduce me…

Although her words were honest and filled with gratitude, I also felt a slight sense of cunningness. She didn’t have malicious intentions, but she clearly wanted me to stay with her to protect her and was willing to do things to get to that point.

Unfortunately for her, I left before she could do anything.

I can’t blame her for that; people in any world will do anything to survive. I have to admit, I also did many things I am ashamed of to survive back in Murim.

Although I never went to the extent of selling my own body, I did steal and kill from those more unfortunate than me at the beginning of my journey.

Yes, it was the darkest years of my life, when I had become nothing but a thief and a bandit.

“Katherine! Welcome back.”

“You’re here! It didn't take that long, actually.”

My train of thoughts was quickly interrupted. To not thread into darker territories, the adorable twins greeted me with happy expressions on their faces.

“Ah, yes, I’m back.” I smiled. “Sorry for taking a bit too long, though; I was busy dealing with things. With this, both the Church of Light and the Cult of Darkness are gone. The gods should be in their weakest state.”

“Did you really do that?” Urbosa asked as we walked inside their house.

“I am shocked…” Merkite muttered. “W-Will the Umbral continent be alright?”

“It should; I left them some help. If they end up wasting what I gave them, then it’ll be their fault that they perish.” I sighed. “I won’t help them anymore. I already found a second home here anyway.” I caressed their heads as I hugged them both. “With you at my side.”

“Bing Xue…” Urbosa felt slightly embarrassed. “Well, if that’s what you want, then I will make sure to not leave your side.”

“You’re acting so corny after having done something insane…” Merkite laughed. “I guess it is hard to even guess what’s happening inside of your head.”

“My head is a bit damaged; you see. My mind, my thoughts, and my emotions. They’re a mess after having lived for so long in such a hostile world.” I sighed. “But slowly, I feel like it is healing. And I owe a lot of that to my mother and sister, as well as to you two. Thank you for showing me love for the first time.” I kissed their foreheads.

“It’s fine… Really.” Urbosa smiled. “Come on, let’s go rest; you must be very tired.”

“Yeah, let me prepare you some herbal tea from my grandma’s recipes for fatigue.” Merkite wagged her tail happily.

“Fufu, thank you.” I walked inside their house as Urbosa spoiled me by letting me rest over her thighs on our bed, and Merkite brought me a delicious herbal concoction, which calmed me down slightly.

I ended up spending the rest of the day chatting and then napping, trying to simply not worry about things for once. I talked more about my past life to the twins as they learned about the hardships I went through. At some point, they started to cry, pitying the things I had to do to survive.

When the night came, there was nothing lewd, they only hugged and kissed me, embracing me with their innocent love. I felt so loved and happy that I fell asleep instantly. I don’t remember ever sleeping so calmly and comfortably as tonight.

It also helped that they were very fluffy~!

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