Chapter 1755 Time To Rest
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"Drake! You did it!"
"That was so bada.s.s!"
"Papa!"
Before I could do anything else, my family came running to my side and hugging me. Thankfully we were all on our humanoid forms, or the disaster would have been greater than this whole fight.
"Yeah, I wouldn"t have been able to do it without your help you, thanks a lot everyone. Especially my daughter Benladra, your abilities were incredible," I said. "That Nebula that connected everyone"s Divinities was something else! How did you figure that out?"
"Aaahh! I don"t know, I just did?" wondered Benladra. "I just thought about it, and it appeared, I"ve been playing around with my abilities for a while now."
So this is how a genius is, huh? She just thinks about it, and it manifests… my daughter really makes me proud.
"Ah, well, if that"s the case then well done," I patted her head. "Anyways, that was more intense than I imagined, I"m exhausted… And Pandemonium is gone. That b.a.s.t.a.r.d… didn"t tried to kill me for some reason."
"Yeah, we saw how he just left after looking at you," nodded Yuki. "What"s his problem?"
"Well, perhaps he was happy you killed Oberon? Maybe he had a beef with him!" Tisha said.
"Yeah, it"s pretty much that… I believe," I said. "But I can"t just start believing he"ll be a good person from now on. If anything, it was an act of respect as a warrior and also pride. He didn"t want to defeat me at my weakest, but once I recovered, in the next stage."
"The last trial…" Benladann said. "I see, I guess that"s what he wanted from the very beginning… Oberon was someone he hated I suppose, now that he"s not there to order him around, is he actually… free?"
"Maybe," said Miranda. "Whatever the case, you ok? Not any soul pain?"
Suddenly, Belle finished her checkup.
"He"s… fine," she said. "It"s strange, I am sure that when we were merged with him, his soul had taken a lot of damage, like it literally was breaking down to pieces! But out of nowhere it"s as healthy as ever…?"
"It"s most likely…" I muttered. "Well, thanks to that new technique. By fusing my body and my soul together, I can regenerate my soul endlessly like my body. I call it [True Immortal Soul], though it consumes Essence like crazy and it exhausts me a lot… I can"t use it for longer than a few seconds."
"Well that explains it, you completely healed yourself like that!" Belle complained.
"D-Did you want my soul to be hurt or something?! It"s good I healed myself!"
"Ah, yeah, I guess so," she shrugged. "Anyways, there"s still like ten hours left, right?"
"Indeed," Rakasha said. "Although I"m quite tired, it would be a waste to sit down and rest right now."
"Perhaps we should continue hunting monsters?" wondered Ruby. "I can sense them appearing from a lot of places… the Labyrinths work like dungeons, constantly making them appear, even when we destroyed two of them."
"If we want to earn EXP, I suppose that"s a good plan," I nodded. "There"s tens of thousands of Rank 10 Divine Monsters… It would be a waste if we don"t hunt them."
I slowly stood up, but quickly summoned my Divine Cooking Domain.
"However, it"s also important to fill one"s belly when we are hungry, and also to celebrate a victory with a good feast," I said, as I used Spirit Creation to materialize hundreds of Cooking Spirits. "So let"s first have a meal!"
"Oooh! Well, I wouldn"t mind eating, I"m so tired and hungry!" Benladann agreed immediately.
"Me too." Kate nodded.
"And me! Let"s eat already!" Miranda agreed.
"Hahh… But we"ll waste precious time we could use hunting, Drake," Pekora said. "I am not saying that we should be forced to do this but, perhaps just eating a small snack for now?"
"Don"t worry, Pekora. As we are in the same Party within the System, we gain shared EXP. I"ll send my Dragon Summons to quickly hunt any Divine Monster they find. Castle Dragon, I"m leaving this up to you."
"GROOOOHHH!"
The giant, crystal-made castle-shaped dragon roared as it nodded, rapidly opening its gates as it summoned dozens of Draconic Beasts, absorbing the corpses of other divine monsters that died to produce them.
The creatures instantly dispersed everywhere, rapidly beginning to hunt for us, we began earning EXP pa.s.sively, a good way to level up, if I say so myself.
"Well, that"s… I guess I didn"t even have to worry," Rakasha sighed. "Sorry, I"m a bit tense."
"It"s fine, man, relax," I laughed. "Let"s sit down and eat… If you"re tense imagine me! I seriously just need to eat something."
I created a domain around us to not be disturbed, while also using my Divine Powers to quickly let the desertic wasteland left behind after the battle to grow back to a beautiful forest surrounding us.
I even added some rivers here and there, they grew as I pleased, the power to simply alert nature and terraform my surroundings by manipulating the elements was one of the incredible yet overlooked abilities of Venerables.
I mostly used ingredients I grew in my Divine Realm, alongside the meat of many Monsters we hunted, there were all kinds of new creatures. Golden Volcanic Crabs, Blue-Furred Vampire Bats, Three-Headed White Light Lions, Azure Frost Deer, and more.
Their meat was neatly cut and roasted after their bodies were bleed out using my Blood Manipulation Abilities. The entire thing was done within minutes, and there was a huge table full of food.
Although I almost died twice, I wanted to eat, and relax.
Even if for a couple of minutes.
I know that what"s yet to come will be even more challenging.
Pandemonium granted me mercy and respected me due to his pride.
But once we face one another in the next trial, that won"t be the case anymore.
It"ll be a battle to the death.
"Daddy, this is really good!" Benladra enjoyed the huge Golden Volcanic Crab claws, which had rich, fatty, and white meat, covered on delicious sauces. "Try it out!"
"Oh? Well, if you insist!"
But before that happens, I need to eat and recover, and enjoy the moments with my family and friends.
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