- Abandoned Creature -

A Benevolent Being

Gothur's, face twitched in pain having been robbed of 200, year's lifespans. The pain was much more painful than when evolving Twin Error, the notifications coming from his soul core, and Twin Error kept ringing.

Twin Error: Creates new skill!

The Embodiment of Unity: Activates, keeping host life span in check, using the aura of the world to Create a body for " The Spirit Book of Devour" Completed.

The Embodiment of unity, and the Twin Error: Are evolving -- The Spirt Book of Devour into Lisa, Completed --

The Evolved Lisa, Enters the new skill, Loyal Servant - Completed

The Embodiment of Unity: Creates an Embodiment for Lisa - Completed

Lisa Evolves from peak 11 to peak 10.

Creating a bond deeper than death - Completed

Host lifespan is replenished,

...

Gothur's, senses started coming back to him as his liquid body started to move around. Sensing something was in the pond, Gothur's guard was up. Inside the pond was a young beautiful angelic girl with zero imperfections, she with her red eyes and long pointy ears. but what stood out more than her silver hair matching her fair skin, was the fact that she was naked.

Being unflustered Gother, asked in a calm demeaning tone." Who the hell are you"? Unsurprised by such a question, she answered calmly " My name is Lisa, The Spirit Book of Devour you named." Gothur paused for a second releasing that did happen. But before he could talk again the woman rain over and hugged him.

Surprised by such an action he asked, "What are you doing?"

The woman replied in a cheerful tone " What do you mean, I'm just helping my lord rest."

"Your lord"?

"Yes, I'm your humble servant Lisa, whom you so gracefully gave life."

Gothur was not that shocked by her In fact, it helped him ask more questions about this world. Seizing this opportunity, Gothur began to ask a series of Questions. " So, I'm your lord, just because I gave your life?" Sensing Gothurs intentions, Lisa relied franticly. "No, my lord, I have always been your servant, even when I was and wasn't inside your soul core". "Being a spirit inside your book devour I was given a chance to guide you and help you get stronger." " But never did I think I would be able to come back alive from a dead spirit into, something as divine as an elf".

" So, my lord, please don't Abandon me."

Gothur, was shocked, seeing her so emotional that she could start crying any minute left him speechless. " I won't abandon you as long as you do as I say," Lisa was surprised as tear drops formed in her eyes, she held Gothur tightly, as she began to stutter as she whispered one sentence " I- I will always follow you and do as you say."

Gothur felt a little, heavy-hearted as he just scammed, Lisa into becoming his servant. " Lisa, you can get off me now." Lisa's, face blushed red as she quickly apologized to her lord, Gothur shrugged it off as he asked her many questions about where he was and the Vestige ranks.

Thanks to Lisa's, great description. Gothur finally realized he was in a dungeon labyrinth, but thankfully, it was a mid-tier dungeon. having gotten used to life alone. Having Lisa around was going to be a challenge. But thanks to her vast knowledge again, he now knows more than just skills but how to control his aura and make it manifest on his body.

In this world, there seem to be great divine beings, such as elves, Beastmen, fairies, giants, and vampires. The world or at least 70% have no idea of soul vestiges or skills, they just live their lives normally and if someone did have a power they tend to believe the church. Lisa says that there are human vestiges, and they have secret organizations, but humans tend to believe the supernatural powers do not exist because to become a vestige you have to drink a point to evolve into a rank 12, forming your soul sea.

Only those born at vestige from birth, or those who have a high-class skill, can consume ingredients raw, like vestige core, and vestige orbs. soul orbs, and soul cores, are different from vestige cores and vestige orbs because a soul core can allow a user to obtain some of the deceased's skills from the core if they destroy the core, but a vestige core is the embodiment of the body and soul core fusing together in making an ingredient used to advance a rank.

Also, the world right now is divided into 3 great nations and small ones. Dragon Empire is the name of the people who worship a dragon as gods. Lisa says that the ancestors are actual dragons that perfected the pathway from vestige 11 to vestige 3 but over the years the pathway was eventually lost. Now they're just a bunch of quacks that believe sacrificing the lives of people and holding rituals, can allow them to obtain the pathway many scholars in the dragon empire are slowly finding a pathway that leads to dragonhood by sacrificing thousands of others and discarding anyone that doesn't resemble a dragon.

The Beast men are in the forest of javelin. And the empire's name is the beast kingdom. The elves live in the peak of the divine land, Exterrozo guarded by the six swords, the weakest name Zho.

Gothur learned so much about what aura was that he had to start from zero to get stronger. He did have a large amount of aura but, had no idea how to manifest it or move it.

Gothur had the embodiment of water but never used it to its full extent. After Lisa explained that, all descriptions and how to use skills were inside the book of Devour Gothur did not hesitate as he delved in deeper.

Vestige rank: Peak of 11

Embodiment skills: Unity (6%)- using your aura to morph reality and create anything as well as delete. Water aura- having Twins of aura, your body itself is Aura. Activating your aura you're allowed to use 100% of your aura outside as the other 100% is always covering your body, never letting the host unprotected.

After Gothur read it, he looked at his other skills and realized his other skills evolved.

Skill: Parasite - can form 10-20 tentacles from space, Disintegration - within a certain range the host can disintegrate it, Doman world, making a mini world that becomes reality, so it fits the hosts' desired advantage helping him boot his aura recovery and limiting aura used to activate skills by half. Loyal servant - naming servants and giving them a portion of your blessing allowing them to hold an embodiment, given by your unity embodiment. Letting them serve you for eternity and grow as you grow protected by your divine benevolence.

Gothur read all the words, and had a deeper understanding of the skills, but lacked the experience to use them so he decided to stop advancing.

Asking Lisa to teach him he that for the next three months, he would train under the guidance of Lisa until he mastered aura control along with unity.

Upon hearing this Lisa was delighted to teach her master as she told him "Master, are you sure, I'm not a great teacher" Gothur laughed as he told her " I'll be the judge of that, so teach me with everything you got." Lisa smiled as she raised her hand and conjured clothes that matched her silver hair, with embedded gold appearing out of thin air. Gothur was stunned, as he realized he had a lot to learn.

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--- 3 Months later ---

In a small kingdom -next to the borders of the dragon empire

"Yō, Helt, how much longer until we get there"? Helt turned around with a grumpy face" How the hell do I know, ask the captain you cunt." Jack was not surprised by such an answer " So grumpy, did Melisa say no to you two?"

Helt's face twitched as, as his face became bright red from anger. " Would you stop bickering already?" A woman in light patched armor, with two daggers grumbled. Helt and Jack, ignored Sophia as they continued their past remarks, Sophia's face contorted as she turned around yelling at the two.

As the three started insulting each other, they all stopped as the captain talked. " we've arrived." all the members of the party looked at the captain and they saw a small city, up ahead. "Finally, we're here, to think it took 5 days to get to this dump of a kingdom." " Sophia, watch your mouth, we're on a mission from the guild hall."

" So, make sure to be on your best behavior, got it." Ya, I got it captain." Oliver looked at the other two delinquents, "I expect the same from you too as well" Helt and Jack, sneered at one another but ultimately gave in as they nodded.

Sophia, could not help but ask " So what is the mission this time?" "The mission this time is finding the anomalies that are making more vestige monsters appear."

"Vestige monsters, are you sure Andrew, In this dump" Sophia quickly stopped her insults at the kingdom as her captain glared at her. "Yes, Vestige monsters, they are appearing more frequently at the Green Oak Forest"! Sophia's face contorted with a smile as she said," So if vestige monsters are at Green Oak Forest, doesn't that mean there's a dungeon?

" The party went silent as she continued " So if a new dungeon happened to be discovered, can't I take some ingredients as rewards?" The party remained silent until the captain spoke," We came here to be getting pained to take care of the runaway vestige monsters if there is a dungeon then this kingdom has the right to ownership."

Sophia, smiled as she said, " That's if we tell them there's a Dungun, can't we just clear it ourselves." " Come on Oliver this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, if we miss an easy dungeon how can we get any stronger."

Oliver's face contorted as he replied." Fine, that's if it's easy Sophia." Sophia smiled as she jumped in around, for the first time in 3 years she had a chance to advance from peak 11 to low 10, something that would have a qualitative change on her skills, aura and most importantly her youth.

potions can increase one's lifespan a great amount if their rank is high enough to accept the change and evolve. But to Sophia, a peak of 11, meant having 30 years added to her life. Sophia was 27 this year her average lifespan would be 80 so having 30 more was better than having none, with the bonus of skills and a chance of getting an embodiment skill was high. After all, she was one step closer to getting divinity, and Godhood.

Sophia was happy about getting close, but first, she needed to hope there was a dungeon or all of this would be a pipe dream.

Oliver and his party arrived at the destination entering a flower shop, but was actional a hidden guild, after signing in at the register he and his party were exported upstairs where the guild leader and the king of this small kingdom lived.

Arriving at a small room, where two men sat there, Oliver and his party sat across them.

" Hello, my name is Mark, I'm the guild master." Oliver was not surprised by the fact the guild master was young around 25, at least he wasn't but his party thought.

" What you're the guild master," Sophia retorted. The young man wasn't all that surprised because who could believe a young man not even in his 30s was not only a guild master but a peak 10 vestige warrior!

Even Oliver a peak 10 vestige warrior was 34, so for him to be 25 and a guild master proved his powers but also questioned it.

A deep but musty voice ranged everyone's attention and looked at an old, bolding-looking man with a blotted belly as he laughed and said:" Ho, look what we have here, isn't it Oliver the warrior, the king of spears and the young master of the fallen noble household."

The man's face smirked as he continued to say, " Oh I forgot to introduce myself, I'm the king of this Captial city, King Layman Vost."

Oliver's face did not twitch as he was used to this. After all, he was a young master from a young noble household that failed from grace, being a street rat to live he barely survived. The constant reminder of his old past left a deeper wound on Oliver than the fact of the people's reminders.

To him, it did not matter what everyone thought of him or his past, his only real goal in life was to obtain divinity, to live for eternity and to regain and bring pride to his family in the afterlife.

Olive was physically strong with the physique of a warrior and the armor of a knight he was at the peak of rank 10 close to breaking the realm of humans and stepping on the path of Rank 9 and obtained his first skill that surpassed his imagination. becoming vestige rank 9 was, equivalent to holding a massive amount of aura to kill thousands just from releasing it.

Having a mortal with no protection skills look at the aura waves and patterns of a vestige rank 9 was asking someone to look at the sun for years and not go blind from the divine light it brings, Aura at rank 9 was so holy and strong that peak 10, would cry from looking at such a being.

That's why every mortal's dream was to become a rank 9 holding divinity and living for at least 500 - 1000 years. Arua was the building blocks of everything in life and death, without protection or high-class skills, who would dare look or belittle Oliver of his past?

As Oliver moved on from his past reflection, he was more determined to obtain divinity. and his hop had finally come, if there was a dungeon this could be a big help to Oliver. The guild master saw the tension as he said," ok now, we did not come here to fight."

Sophia sneered as she said, "Of course not, we came here to keep pulping a pig." Oliver was shocked as he said," Shut up Sophia, quit being rude." Even though Oliver knows she was trying to help him out. It still couldn't do much as it could jeopardize this opportunity. Sophia signed as she said ok.

Mark was shocked, to have someone be so obedient proved his skill as a captain, but it also scared him. It was common knowledge that every soul vestige would kill one another to use them as an ingredient. There greedy for power and would rather kill their own teammates or rogue soul vestige. It was a hard life out there, fighting Moster but also keeping an eye on your teammates was a part of the gig.

Not everyone would work with others but that still would keep you at a disadvantage, getting jumped in your sleep by 5 soul vestiges was terrifying for everyone. No one cares if you are a human or a monster everyone sees you as an ingredient to advance.

So having loyal, people were so rare that it felt almost fake. If your teammate died and you needed one more vestige orb to advance who wouldn't want to advance? After all, why care for someone you hardly know? What's the point of being moral when you're trying to shed morality?

This world is cruel to the weak that's a fact. Without strength, or power who would care for you? what value is your life? Being mortal is Foolish, and being a soul vestige is terrifying, that's why people pry for a skill to keep them alive. A rare skill can make many fear the holder, but it can also make them come for it. Taking a soul orb and breaking it can give you a 50% chance of getting the dead person's skill. a unique rank skill would make the world go hungry for it, but also turn a blind eye if he happened to be at peak rank 9 and above.

Why peak rank 9, because that's when they're at the peak of the rank, and with the fact everyone gets a better skill when reaching rank 9 who would fight them? Who could fight them but a Low-rank 7? The power system changes as one gets a high-class skill.

Mark and the others started talking about how they would kill the weak vestiges that were lurking around. Oliver was, more than ready to kill to get stronger at this point, so he expressionlessly asked, " And what if it's a dungeon?' The king grumbled and yelled at Oliver saying he had no place to question what his kingdom would do with a dungeon.

Even though Oliver knew he was right, he still could not help but get something other than a weak vestige core and money. Oliver sighed as he first planned on finding out if the dungeon existed or not. If the dungeon existed, Oliver did not care for anything he would kill this king and his guards and become a rogue soul vestige at rank 9 if needed. Killing this king is easy after all he's just a weak vestige who ranks mid-11, it would take Oliver 9 seconds with no effort to kill him. Oliver relaxed his eyes, losing his normal luster.

Sensing the killing intent, Mark quickly intervened " If there is a dungeon, we would more than happily give you cores depending on the rank though.” Oliver was shocked, not the fact the guild master was helping them but that he completely forgot the existence of Mark a peak rank 10 soul vestige, probably a prodigy or a skilled murderer.

Layman was confused by the sudden change Mark made, but he ultimately gave in. After all the kingdom was using his rank and power as a protector.

The rest of the negotiations went smoothly. The plan was to get into the Green Oak Forest and kill the vestige's monsters one by one.

As Oliver's party kept on delving deeper, the rain into their first pack of wolves they were ranked 12 and only mid-rank. The team with the support of Andrew killed the wolves and collected the soul core because rank 12 vestige cores were of little to no value in the market.

after doing this for a few hours, they slowly started losing hope in finding a dungeon. Sophia kicked a tree and anger, as all the party members felt disappointment.

Oliver spaced out as he thought of the past. Clutching his fist, he was a little disappointed. But suddenly they sense a large amount of aura coming from behind them. Black fog ran out of from the forest.

Not questioning how the fog of black started appearing, Oliver's face contorted as he smiled, he sensed a breath of a rank 10, dashing over there not waiting for his party he arrived in front of a majestic gold-embedded door with lavish decorations and designs. It was simply Breathtaking the weird symbolic words that hit him in the soul as he craved for the core of the monster that led him here.

Out of the countless weird words, one stands out as Oliver couldn't help but say out, loud " The ruler of Ematith, The Monster Of Benevolence, The Lord, Sin Gothur "

Oliver smiled as he too could feel, his path to divinity open.

...

Inside a small luxurious room, a white cocoon stood at the peak of a throne, next to it was a maiden, a beautiful woman that glowed radiance of pure white. Suddenly the cocoon cracked as a pure white hand slashed it open, stepping out, a holy breath-taking, untextured being stepped out. His body was pure white as he majestically floated in the air, the aura he projected was blinding. His long white hair drooped down as strains of hair flared up again with no facial features.

Rank up completed: New skills required

Vestige rank: peak 10