What is your relationship to that little fella, I think he said his name was... ah yes"..
"
Regulus... Regulus Von Draken, who is he to you?"
The question struck me like a freight train, my mind stalling for a few seconds....
"You...you knew my father?"....
I was shocked..
The last thing I expected when coming into this test was to hear anything about my old..
Much less from what shouldâve essentially been a dungeon monster...
"How...??"
"Bahahahahahahaha..."the hulking knight laughed..
I was too shocked to be bothered with whatever was going on within me..
Let
<Chaotic Denial>
handle that, for now, I needed answers..
"Knew him? Boy... we trained that little fella..."
Okay... pause...
Trained? My dad? These death contraptions? What?
Hell, since when were dungeon monsters even supposed to be autonomous enough to have wills, unless Iâd been thinking too one dimensional about the
tower of ascension..
"I can hear the gears in your head turning boy... and I wouldâve loved to enlighten you, but unfortunately, our time is limited" the dullahan spoke up..
"So before we continue this little task of ours, a proper introduction is due, no?" The knight straightened itself, raising his massive sword and resting it on his shoulder..
"I am
Mormon Du Mont, First sword of Death...."
"I am,
Omari Du Mont, First rider of Death..."
They introduced themselves...
Yet before I could wrap my head around everything, they said something even more absurd than everything else Iâd heard today..
"But you little fella .." the knight pointed the massive great sword at me, "you can call us
Grandpa".....
My brain short circuited...
"Wha..what??" Just what the fuck was I hearing right now?
First my old man seemed to be acquainted with dungeon monsters..
Then I hear they trained him..
Now theyâre telling me to call them grandpa?
"Like fuck hell I will!" I blurted out before I could stop myself..
"Bahahahaha..." they laughed...
"I can understand your confusion little one.. but unfortunately, I cannot clear them for you" the dullahan, Omari, spoke up..
"If youâre able to survive this and arrive at the real tower, I am sure weâll meet again, by then, all will be made clear" he concluded..
"But for now, little one, try to survive" the moment those words landed...
A gigantic lance tore through my midsection before my brain could even register the motion. it was like the concept of distance didnât exist..
My lower body disintegrated, my upper body blasting backwards as
<Chaotic Denial>
screamed into action, rejecting my fate, another
30,000CE
being consumed...
"Shit..." I hadnât even gotten the words out before a massive greatsword had already severed my newly acquired body into two, the severed parts blasting outwards in two different directions..
Another
30,000CE
saw me reforming instantly, the consumption showing just how much inevitability I had been rejecting..
Now, the sequence of events seemed to take a lot of time to describe, but they all happened in less than an instant...
Iâd always been proud of my speed, claiming to "manifest" before those who couldnât comprehend the speeds I moved at..
It wasnât until now that I realized just how foolish Iâd been..
The two stopped after that, they merely "looked" at me..
"Shit..." my
CE
was dangerously low, I couldnât afford another hit like that...
"Youâre going to die if you continue trying to hold back" the knight said gravely..
"I know that goddamit"
I knew I was going to lose if I didnât do something quick..
Iâd already lost the chance to take advantage of my
<Abyssal Firmament Dominion>
with the amount of
CE
I had now, I wouldnât be able to cause significant damage before running out..
And I very much doubted I could actually cause that much damage without something extreme...
There was only one way out...
Devour...
A familiar black miasma drifted out of me..
The darkness of
Chaos
being inherently different from that of death, mine was an
IRREFUTABLE DARKNESS..
It was
ALL CONSUMING!!
<<DEVOURING IN PROGRESS>>
<<Process failed....>>
<<insufficient understanding of the <SUPREME> law of <DEATH>...
"Screw devouring death, I just need the energy converted from it.."
<<DEVOURING IN PROGRESS...>>
<<Energy converted.. +5,000CE....>>
<<Energy converted.. +5,000CE....>>
<<Energy converted.. +5,000CE....>>
....
Once I stopped trying to devour the concept of
death
itself, the ability finally kicked in..
I could feel my energy reserves rising...
"Ohh? Interesting... very interesting.." the dullahan mused..
I wasnât listening..
These..I had no idea what to call them.. seemed intent on giving me a way out..
Maybe they were right about being close to my old man..
âHeh..dungeon monsters for grandparents? Old man just what did you get up to during your youth?â
I scraped the thought away, now wasnât the time..
They were giving me an opportunity, Iâd be damned if I didnât take it...
So for the first time since I got it, I finally used the ability Iâd probably been most excited about..
<SOLAR EMPOWERMENT(SSS)>....
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<Solar Empowerment(SSS)>>:
Description:-
The user becomes a living vessel for the primordial essence of the Sun. Your body no longer simply exists within the world; it becomes a gravitational anchor for solar radiation, converting light into absolute, unrefined power.
[PASSIVE STATE: Helios Resonance]
⢠Condition
: Activates automatically when the user is exposed to natural sunlight or high-intensity stellar radiation.
⢠Effect:
⢠Infinite Kinetic Stacking
. For every second the user remains in the sun, their physical stats (Strength, Agility, Endurance) and mana density increase by 1%
⢠Limitless
: There is no conceptual upper limit to this growth. As long as the userâs physical vessel (Physique) can withstand the heat and internal pressure, the power will continue to climb toward infinity.
[ACTIVE STATE: Sovereign Solarium]
⢠Condition
: Activated manually when the sun is obstructed, absent, or during night-tim..
⢠Effect
:
⢠Artificial Dawn
: The user forcibly manifests a miniature, high-density sun in the local atmosphere. This "Second Sun" acts as a catalyst, triggering the [Helios Resonance] passive at 5x the normal speed.
⢠Solar Dominion
: While the Sovereign Solarium is active, all "
Darkness
" based laws in the surrounding 500 meters are forcibly suppressed or incinerated.
Cost:
Maintaining a literal star requires a terrifying amount of energy.It drains
100,000 MP
per second, increasing exponentially the longer it is held. If the userâs energy hits zero, the star collapses, causing a localized supernova that damages the user..
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Yes, it was absolutely broken.
It was an ability that made one a menace during the day and even at Night, so long as you could bear the costs...
Now, against someone like me with an unfair talent like
<Abyssal Firmament Dominion>
it hadnât had the opportunity to shine when Micheal tried to use it in its passive state, as for its active state?I doubted he very much could with those absurd costs..
But now? Now I was going to make it proud..
A miniature sun bloomed in what wouldâve passed as the sky of the room..
Itâs brilliant golden rays shining down, chasing the gloomy darkness away...
A
hissing
sound ringing out as the aura of death seemed to have met its nemesis..
The moment the sunâs rays touched my body, I could feel my blood roar in excitement..
My body took on a golden sheen, my white hair gaining a rich golden tint..
My already tall and imposing figure grew, taller, more muscular, more compact..
I didnât stop growing until I was standing at a towering 10ft tall, no longer needing to look up when conversing with the monsters before me..
My eyes were a pool of liquid magma, the fiery aura surrounding me burning away the gloomy death fog that had been clinging to me all this while...
I could feel the drain on my
CE,
but devour made sure I recovered everything lost and more.....
Oh.. but I was far from done..
Far be it from me to make the same mistake twice..
I had learned my lesson about overconfidence. If I was going to hit these "Grandfathers" of mine, I was going to hit them with the weight of a dying star and the fury of a shattered sky.
Ruuuuumbllleee....
<Stormâs Descent!!>>
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A/N: seems Dante has stopped fooling around, but will it be enough??
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