Nolan walked behind the head maid with his hands in his pockets. He was wearing plain black swag pants, a white t-shirt, red sneakers and a red fox bomber coat with a hoodie. He'd cut off his dreadlocks and currently had a taper fade haircut. Of course he couldn't forget the most important element for his drip, gold. He wore a diamond gold cuban chain, diamond earrings and five titanium rings.
With this, his drip was complete. Of course these weren't clothes from Earth. These clothes were very powerful defensive treasures made from special material, one of their functions was to turn into whatever design the wearer wanted and Nolan had chosen this. They were also waterproof, dust proof, tear proof, fireproof, cold resistance and other hidden features.
The sect vault was actually underground and was heavily guarded by magic formations, traps and hidden guards lurking in the dark.
“Demonic Child, this is as far as I can take you. Please call for someone else to lead you deeper into the place until you reach the vault.”
“Mhm.” nodded Nolan as he continued walking forward. Whatever traps, magic formations or guards never activated or showed up. It was like everything he heard about this place was a lie but nonetheless he continued with his journey. After about fifteen minutes of walking freely, he finally reached the vault with a circular door with an eye scanner, fingerprint scanner, blood scanner and voice recognition functions.
Nolan was about to do all of this but when he was about a meter away from the safe's door, the door opened automatically and the programmed AI even greeted him.
“Mhm.” nodded Nolan as he entered the vault which was very big once inside.
‘Space Magic or Space Manipulation?’ thought Nolan to himself but he didn't know anything about magic or manipulations. Inside the vault, countless treasures were placed on shelves, some on single tables, some were floating in the air and others placed on the vault walls. He didn't know how big the Blazing Forge Guild Shop was but he guessed that it was as big as this place.
There were all kinds of treasures, consumables, weapons, potions, pills, medicine, defensive treasures, plants, fruits, beast eggs, books, everything.
‘Soul!’ said Nolan internally and he was teleported to the Soul Section where Soul related treasures were placed. There were many useful treasures there, especially the Bell Artefact, a defensive treasure that blocks Soul Damage.
There was also the Illusory Daggers that inflict only Soul Damage and Soul Damage is very hard to heal. But Nolan hadn't come for all that, he came for something else. He looked at the fruits and plants and their description on the shelves and something did catch his eyes. It was a plant called Growth Grass.
A kind of grass that takes root in one's Soul, as this grass spreads out and grows, so does the Soul. As for how long these effects last, it's unknown. Nolan didn't waste time and grabbed the Growth Grass, opened his mouth and devoured it. After being swallowed, the Growth Grass appeared directly in his Soul, landed gently on the hundred meters black sphere and took root there.
The black sphere that represented Nolan's Soul began its expansion. From a hundred meters to a hundred and one, a hundred and two, a hundred and three,..., a hundred and fourty. The black sphere stopped expanding when it was about a hundred meters in radius.
With the strengthening and growth of his Soul, Nolan was hit with euphoria the likes of which he'd never experienced before. It was more addictive than the pleasure of eating delicious meat like Tyler's.
“Ahh…” he couldn't help but moan in pleasure. The feeling lasted for a few minutes before it slowly faded away.
“It's time to leave now that I got what I wanted. Wait… maybe I can collect some stuff for Riri's ceremony. Let me look around for a bit.
…
A few hours later, Nolan left the sect vault with a bright smile on his face. He'd gained a lot on this trip so how could he not be happy. Head maid hadn't left this whole time and was waiting patiently for him outside.
“Demonic Child, you're back.”
“Mhm, let's go. Prepare a quiet place for me, there's something I want to do. The place should be secluded and without many people, I don't want to be disturbed during this time, got it?!”
“Yes Demonic Child, I'll prepare it right away.”
…
“Finally I'm done.” said Nolan as he wiped away his sweat. Half a day had passed since he told the head maid to prepare a quiet place for him and this was the place she chose. It was the living quarters of an Inner Elder but was kicked out by the head maid since it met Nolan's requirements.
Nolan was standing on a tall tree and checking if everything was perfect. Below him was a huge pentacle array formation. Each point on the circle had a head of a beast placed there.
A Cyclops head, a cat-like beast head, an elephant-like beast head, a lizard's head and a wolf's head. Pentacle was taught this formation by an old friend of his who liked to perform sacrificial rituals and ceremonies. The formation had to be drawn using the blood of the person who was going to activate it and a tribute for better results had to be placed in each star point.
Riri sat in the middle of the pentacle formation with her neck, wrists and thighs cut wide open but she was still alive. Blood poured from the wounds and into the pentacle formation.
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“Riri, don't disappoint me.” said Nolan coldly, making Riri extremely scared of the future. She held on tightly to Tyler's head and calm her nerves.
“Let us start. Repeat after me.”
[I call upon the devils. I call upon the demons. I call upon the evil spirits. I call upon the ghouls and ghosts. With my offerings, I sacrifice the One and Two in order to awaken the Third. I seek the forgotten path, I seek for a clear vision that sees through falsehoods. I seek for the Enlightened Mind that comprehends all. I seek for the Seen and Unseen, the Clear and Unclear, Clouded and Unclouded. I use the sacrifice in my hands… THIRD EYE OPEN!]
Riri repeated after Nolan and when she finished chanting, the pentacle formation glowed and released a beam of green light that pierced the skies. Dark clouds condensed as the cold winds blew, the temperature dropped drastically and the ground and trees were covered in ice.
In a the sky, an enormous vertical slit pupil appeared, it looked around in interest before locking in on Riri. The heads on the star points were burned by black flames and disappeared. The pressure that Riri was experiencing was heavy, her body barely holding on through her will to succeed.
From afar, many disciples and elders could clearly see the massive eye in the sky and those who stared at it for more than three seconds became idiots, those who stared at it for more than five seconds went insane and those who stared at it for more than ten seconds lost consciousness.
Only those with powerful Souls or higher Star power were able to resist these effects but even they had to avert their gazes. Only people like the Core Elders, Sect Leader and High Elders could look at the huge eyeball without fear but as time went by, their Souls started to feel the suppression.
“What a powerful Soul Power!”
“This must be a wisp of an ancient being!”
“I sense a familiar aura, it's the scent of the Nether Realm!”
Some of the spectators made guesses while resisting the suppression force on their Souls.
…
The head that Riri was holding floated in the air on its own. A message was then sent directly into Riri's mind but what it wanted Riri to do was something no one would be willing to do.
[Decapitate Yourself.] is the message she got.
She utterly and completely didn't want to go ahead with this but thinking of her king's words, she could only greet her teeth and go ahead with it.
Roar!
With a single swipe at her neck, her ugly head fell on the ground. Tyler's head then floated towards her decapitated body and slowly descended on her headless neck.
Boom!
The eye in the sky released green energy that entered Riri's body, after that, numerous blood vessels grew from the neck and attached to Tyler's head. Once the head was completely attached to the neck, it started to deform and change. The milky white skin that glowed turned green, the ears became pointed, it became more feminine but less beautiful.
It wasn't just the human head undergoing the transformation but also the body. Riri grew breasts, her hips wider and her ass became bigger, her skin also became softer and gained more flesh. Her compass star imprint on her forehead emitted black ink that drew tattoos around the neck and chest, back, wrists and ankles.
[OPEN!]
The two compass star shaped eyes glowed together with the star imprint and a line appeared on her forehead.
ROOOAAARRR!!!
The line on her forehead split open and the compass imprint moved to occupy the empty space and turned into the pupil of the empty space. The dark clouds forcefully parted and allowed the innumerable stars to shine in the sky, a unique kind of energy coursed through Riri's body and increased the Star Realm.
From the Seventh Star Warrior to the Ninth Star Warrior. Then, from the Star Warrior Realm, she broke through to the Constellation Realm and awakened her star.
BOOOOM!!!
A searing heat bellowed out from her body and incinerated the ice in the surroundings, in a hundred meter radius, everything was burned to ashes. Riri wasn't finished though, the energy the massive eye was releasing was very beneficial to her and greed grew in her heart. Dark green hair grew from her scalp, glistening in an eerie colour like it was created from an ominous galaxy.
The stars in the sky grew brighter and brighter and emitted Star Energy that wasn't absorbed into her body but circled around the eyeball in the sky, trapping it in place. The eyeball only realised its predicament when it was too late.
[Since you've come, Stay!] said Riri in an eerie and dark voice. The eyeball collided with the barrier, causing cracks to appear but even more stars appeared in the sky and released their energy. The barrier not only healed but also shrank bit by bit.
“She's trying to trap the eyeball!”
“Amazing! Simply amazing!”
“What a greedy goblin, but greed is good, very good!”
Nolan could also tell what Riri was trying to do and he couldn't help bursting out in laughter.
“Hahaha, Riri! Oh Riri! You're bold and I like bold, hahaha!”
The eyeball kept struggling to free itself but its efforts were futile. The amount of stars in the galaxy was just too many and with them working together, the eyeball which was nothing but a wisp didn't stand a chance. She grabbed the eyeball trapped in Star Energy and placed it on her Third Eye. A strong pulling force was released by the Third Eye and completely absorbed the eyeball.
Her strength started to increase by leaps and bounds again, from the First Constellation, it rose all the way to the Ninth Constellation Realm.
BOOM!
She then broke through and advanced to the Celestial Realm but the advancement was still ongoing. She broke through again and again and her advancements only stopped when she reached the peak of the Supernova Realm, a Ninth Star Supernova.
ROOOAAARRR!!!
“Riri, very good! I'm glad you didn't disappoint me, hahaha! I knew that you would succeed but I didn't expect you to exceed all my expectations!” exclaimed Nolan as he approached Riri with enthusiasm. Riri turned around and looked at Nolan with a peculiar gaze. With her current power, she could tell that Nolan wasn't a match for her.
And she'd just subdued the powerful eyeball that helped her not just open her Third Eye but increase her strength by leaps and bounds. It's goblin nature to fear the strong and bully the weak and currently, she was strong and her master was weak.
[Kikikiki]
“Riri…” muttered Nolan as he stopped in his tracks. Riri then appeared in front of Nolan and fully activated her Third Eye, an invisible force flew from the eye and into Nolan's consciousness. It appeared directly inside Nolan's Soul Sea where the invisible light then turned into Riri's appearance. She looked around and saw nothing but murky black water.
[Is this inside Master's Soul Sea, very unique indeed. I'm gonna turn you into my lifelong slave and let you lick my toes, kikiki.] Her hands formed multiple magic circles but before she could even proceed with whatever ploy she was trying to achieve, a fish with rows of ragged and sharp teeth appeared not far from her.
[It seems I was too lenient with you. I hope this will help you to never forget your status as not only a mere goblin but also as a slave, my slave! If you dare pull such a stunt again in the future, I want you to think long and hard about it because… I won't be this merciful.] said the fish in a cold voice filled with Killing Intent. Before Riri could reply, the fish moved at speeds of light that Riri could only watch as she was devoured bit by bit, she experienced the feeling of being eaten alive.
[ARGHHHH!!!]
Back to the real world, Riri's body kept quivering and shaking in fear. She screamed in fear and ran away from Nolan as fast and as far as she could.
[MONSTER! MONSTER! MONSTER!]