“As you wish my lord well then please follow me.” said Dahlia
Dahlia and Zero then started to walk deeper into the temple passing countless doors. They walked all the to Dahlia’s room and up to her bed when Zero said, “I pretty sure I didn’t ask to see your bedroom.”
Dahlia said nothing as she walked past her bed to the back of the room. She then poured mana into the wall and a door appeared. The door looked exactly the same as the door that lead to her room. Dahlia then touched the black metal door with an engraving of a winged woman kneeling and praying and poured even more mana into and it began to open. She then turned and said, “You’ll find her within my lord. Do you need me to accompany you or shall I wait here?”
“You can come along I might need your help.” said Zero to which Dahlia nodded and followed behind,
They entered the room and found the aeon Sophia still sealed but Zero noticed that the crack area had grown although only by a minuscule amount. Zero walked over to her and placed his hand on Sophia’s chest. He then turned his hand in a dark ethereal hand and reached deep into Sophia’s body to pull out her soul.
Sophia’s body glow a bright white and repelled Zero’s hand which turned back to normal and had some burn marks. Dahlia ran over and held Zero burned hand and worriedly asked, “Are you okay?”
Zero had noticed that souls were weightless things that popped out of bodies upon death. A soul attached to a body however had weight to it as in the case of Sophia he felt as if he were trying to grab the very sun. Her soul burned his hand as it approached it and repelled his hand by unconsciously coating her body with aether.
Zero smiled and said, “I’m fine I expected it so it’s nothing to worry about. My hand should heal in an hour or so.”
“You tried to remove her soul why?” asked Dahlia
“I learned of a way to change an angel which requires me removing her soul.” said Zero
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“So you wish to make her fall. If you’re able to that would be wonderful my lord but it seems impossible now.” said Dahlia
“No I never expected it to succeed but now I know what I need to do first.” said Zero as he looked at Sophia 1 more time before turning away to leave the room followed by Dahlia.
When they exited the room the black gate shut behind them automatically and disappeared. Dahlia then walked ahead of Zero to lead him back to the throne room. Zero then walked out of the temple and opened a portal back to the lobby. After appearing in the lobby he called over Mina and Yoko with the excuse of studying and they came over gladly to assist him since he was taking school seriously.
Zero had never told anybody about his ability to copy power from others. Yoko and the other knew he could devour souls like Soma but he kept this skill a secret because he knew it always pays off to keep a secret or 2 from others. He needed to keep this ability under raps especially since Hel was here and Loki and the rest of his family would be joining them at some point.
‘System you know the skills I want from them right what’s your estimation?’
ESTIMATED TIME UNTIL ALL SKILLS ACQUIRE 110 HOURS
‘That's about 5 days. So how close do I have to be near them?’
Due to the skill evolving the host must now remain within 300 meters of the target
Zero was elated by the news since he simply just had to sit in the school and the hotel and the skills would copy. He ordered the system to begin. So for the next 10 days, Zero asked Azalea to take Nova to school and apologized to the little girl since he would be busy for the next few days. Nova shook her head and smiled saying, “It’s okay papa we’ll play when you’re less busy. Nova promises to be a good girl so go do what you need to do.”
‘I’m a bad father.’ thought Zero as he hugged the little girl
Zero then went to Hikaru and informed her that he was going to leave the excavation and rebuilding of The Meath Empire to her and Yoko. Hikaru then asked, “Why are you leaving it to us?”
“A problem happened with Valna and I need to watch over her.” said Zero
“Why do you need to handle it? Is she okay?” asked Hikaru
“I don’t know but let’s just say if things go wrong I might need to kill her. That’s why I need to handle it personally.” explained Zero
Hikaru looked at Zero for a few seconds before nodding and saying, “Okay, I understand sometimes life hands us tough decisions however don’t try to handle everything on your own if you need help be sure to ask for help. You can also come to me if you need any advice.”
“Thanks, big sis I’ll be sure to ask for help if I need it.” said Zero as he opened up a portal to his dimension.
Zero appeared in the familiar white space that seemed to go on forever and summoned 5 souls with 3 being valkyrie souls and the rest being Erinys souls. Zero then summon a soulless body of each of these lesser angels and activated life and death manipulation skill and fused these 2 bodies into his own. The process was quite painful as Zero was shaking in pain when he called forth 2 of each soul and activated his divine assimilation dominance skill.
2 LESSER VALKYRIE SOULS AND 2 GREATER VALKYRIE SOULS CONSUMED
CONFIRMED
DUE TO STATS BEING UNABLE TO INCREASE FURTHER THE STAT INCREASE SHALL BE CONVERTED INTO SOUL RANK
SOUL RANK INCREASED FROM A TO S-
HOLY RESISTANCE, HOLY MAGIC MASTERY, FIRE RESISTANCE, WIND RESISTANCE, WIND MAGIC MASTERY ACQUIRED
GREATER VALKYRIE PHYSIOLOGY AND LESSER VALKYRIE PHYSIOLOGY OBTAINED
INCORPORATE PHYSIOLOGY YES/NO
‘No, save them for now’
ACKNOWLEDGED