I blinked directly in front of him and he parried my sword only with a light swing of his sword. I attacked again only to be parried again.
“Stop Your Highness. Why are you teleporting in front of me when you can go behind me or other death angles. So try again.”
I blinked directly behind him and tried to cut him but he simply vanished into mist and showed up behind me hitting me in the back.
“You, have to attacks where I am not expecting you. You literally attacked from the direction I expected you from”
“But you told me to teleport behind you...”
“I told you to attack death angle, not that it has to be the most obvious one, you had more choices for it. You could teleport above me, or even under me.”
This time ported above him and attacked from there, only to be blocked again and had my stance out of balance by falling.
“When you fail your first strike teleport to a different position, do not let your enemy breathe, and get used to your position.”
I teleported behind him, my attack was blocked but I teleported again in front of him to strike again and again only to blocked, so I teleported above him tried to strike only for him to dodge me. I wanted to teleport again only to be told “Good job Your Highness this was a good serie of attacks. This time try to incorporate form changing. When I strike you change to your smoke form and split particles of your body to avoid my slash. This way my attack will simply pass through you.”
He swung his sword on, me so I activated my
“Wrong Your Highness, you were supposed to move your particles so my sword will hit none of them.”
“Why, your attack passed through me anyway?”
“This time it was attack only with physical force. If I charged it with celestial energy or even simple electricity, it would hurt you.”
I tried to split my body, but it was much harder than I originally thought. It was possible but not very instinctual. After ten attempts of trying to execute it in combat, Zuro decided to stop his training and let me practice it for a few days until it becomes easier for me to split. After that, I spent few hours splitting my body.
I wanted to train more to become stronger but was stopped by Victoria “Your holiness, it is time to eat something”.
‘I wasn’t eating much in these days when I think about it’
“Alright, I was training long enough for today”
“Do you wish to eat in your quarters or with high priests and priestesses?”
‘I want to be alone while eating, but on another side, I want to know my new servants’
“I will eat with others”
I followed Victoria through corridors to a luxurious room from black marble as everything here. There was one long table with three decorated seats at each site and one throne-like seat at the head of the table. Two of these seats were occupied by masked persons. When I entered the room both of them stood up and bowed to me. I noded on them and sat on a throne-like chair. Soon masked servants brought some soup. Both high priests unmasked themself. One of them was a man in his forties and the second one was a woman in her twenties. A minute passed and we still didn’t start to eat.
Victoria whispered to me “Your holiness as a person of highest rank here, you are supposed to start eating first.”
I put a spoon of unknown soup into my mouth and it was delicious, probably made from first-class ingredients. I was savoring its deep taste on my tongue and hastened my eating.
When we were in the middle of eating soup, a female high priestess said “Your holiness, I would like you to ask to participate during an initiation ceremony for new recruits. Your presence will be highly appreciated”
‘That sounds interesting. I will impress these new recruits with my magnificent being.’
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“I will be there. What will be my role during the ceremony?”
“You will be sitting on the throne while accepting their vow to serve you and Lord Genesis. After that, you will grand them your blessing”
After the meal I went to the throne room I saw when I arrived here. Preparations were already in progress. I ignored them and sat on my throne. Soon, cultists dressed in black, ornamental plated armors with golden decorations and black capes arrived. They had horned full-face helmets. In their hands were some staffs with blades formed from golden plasma. Their equipment looked very impractical but was very intimidating.
New Recruit POV:
Today is a big day. After finishing all trials I was finally invited to be promoted to full Initiate of this cult. In the beginning, I was skeptical about this promise of power, but I continued on my trials because even a small chance that they saying the truth was worth it in my opinion. And finally, before my final trial, I awakened promised power. It was exactly as they said, it was the game-like system. After that final trial of making a sacrifice for Genesis came and I did it without any doubts.
And today I was finally here in the monumental temple in front of massive double doors.
One of the senior members came and said to ten of us who will be accepted today “Go inside, pledge your loyalty to our Lord Genesis and his daughter. Then she will give you your blessing and you will be officially one of us.”
Doors opened, some of us were excited and some were afraid. I personally was very excited about making my dreams true. We went inside, around the room were guards in intricate armors. But most interesting was a beautiful girl sitting on a throne on the other side of the hall. I felt so good in her proximity. We stopped only five meters from the throne. Hight Priest started his speech. When he finished, he handed us a chalice and a knife. Each of us dropped a little bit of our blood inside. The last of us return the chalice back to High Priest which said “Now, is your blood flowing in one place. Now you are one. Now pledge your loyalty.
All of us began to recite our pledge “We will serve Our Supreme Lord Genesis. We will serve the Holy and Unholy Queens of our Supreme Lord Genesis. We will serve the children of Our Supreme Lord Genesis. We will give our lives and our souls to them. We will hold our vow or face eternal torment. We will serve and we will be rewarded.”
Soul System
Congratulation, you successfully pledged to Our Lord.
You gained title [Pledged to Genesis]
Congratulation, you successfully completed quest: Pledge to Genesis
Rewards:
12000XP
Mask of Cult Initiate
5 to all stats
Congratulation you leveled up 3 times
You are now level 7
‘Finally, I finished that quest and...‘
My thoughts were interrupted when that girl on throned stood up and some amazing wings filling me with divine awe appeared on her back as she said “Welcome, I accept your vow and I am giving you my blessing”
Soul System
You gained title [Blessed by Daughter of End]
You gained skill [Blessing of Pentarch Royalty]
‘Wow, nice free bonus. It will definitely help wh my planned build. I guess I should try to identify her to level up my identify skill‘
I activated my identify skill on her and what I saw was.
Soul System
Name: Tiariel Morduine
Specie: Celestial - Pentarch Royalty (Children)
Subspecies: Dragon, Demon, Reaper, Angel, Divine
Aliment: ALL
Faction: Divine Quadrumvirate
Level: NO DATA
Hp: NO DATA / NO DATA
Stats: NO DATA
Titles: [Daughter Of Gods], [Daughter Of End], [Princess of Nether], [Princess of Aether], [Princess of Pentarch Empire], [???], [???], [???], [???], [Bedwetter]
‘How can she have NO DATA on her hp and what about that huge amount of cool-sounding titles... But the weirdest thing is that last tile. Is she really wetting her bed? ‘ I looked at her again ‘She looks young and my skill is saying she’s a child so I guess...’ as I thought about that [Bedwetter] title, I heard someone laughing in my mind.