Years passed, the Order on Axis had returned, The surface level was now ruled by the Country of Nivava or rather by the Hero King Chris, since Nivava was but one of his Domains.
There was a strict order to hunt down any cultist they find and they even sent ambassadors to Ecclesia in an attemp to reopen their temples, even if the dead return with a level of 1, at least they are alive.
Of course there was another target behind those negotiations and that was, the angels.
After the fight with the Archdemon they saw the strategic significance of guardian angels, they were simply invaluable in fighting demonic creatures and if their angels could revive again and again, then there was too much to gain from such an alliance.
Against their expectations however their ambassador couldn't even reach Ecclesia, they had simply migratted to high in the dungeon pillar, in simple words he died.
They had been told that humans are worse than monsters as you ascended the tower but only now they experienced just how tragic the situation up the tower was.
Up to the 50th floor lived rogue countries and alliances, they fought against one another for food and resources, after the chaos the supply from the surface world became scarse and thus the situation became even worse, the higher you travel the more scarse the food and water.
After the 50th floor begin the Allied countries, they are countries allied to Ecclesia, whom provides them with food and Blessings. They enjoy Immortality and resurrection, a combination that no King would say no to.
Problem is that Ecclesia now has some new fetishes, they now enjoy beautiful virgins, and anyone whom can offer a successful sacrifice can enjoy the same benefits as the allied countries.
Of course the people of the surface have no news about this since they are too far away from the Allied countries, divided by the rogue countries that look more like apocalyptic worlds.
Chris had a headache as he looked at the reports, the elves and dwarves wanted some tribute if they wanted them to return to the surface, which was of course stupid.
They fucking saved the surface level from demons and protect them from the monster waves and they have the face to ask them for gifts?
"Simply preposterous!"
He shouted, although his army could become stronger with the dwarven weapon and enchanted robes and staffs, but they weren't enough to make them invincible.
"Father, why don't we just conquer the dwarves and enslave the elves?"
Agamemnon his on asked, he was his successor, but even as he is now around 25, he is still not fit to rule, he is too arrogant and impulsive, 'Just like his father' Amaliana would have added.
"We can't, the dwarves will simply burry us underground and the elves will simply escape like they always do, it's like they say, if you see an elf then don't butt an eye or it will escape"
Chris said, there was truth in his words, but it wasn't the entire truth of the matter. Truth was that he was now in his 40s, as a human he was now middle aged, there were tons of ways to extend ones lifespan, but the Forest Ogres had taken most of them away with themselves as they left Greddor.
The other half were held by the Elves, thus most of the ways to extend one's lifespan had disappeared from the world.
Of course he was still better off than Oxen, Theodore was now an elder in Woodaria, unlike what others had planned, him ruling Woodaria, Theodore made a wiser choice, he created a currency with which everyone could buy and sell food and since the traders couldn't or rather wouldn't cheat him, he bought food in bulks from Runia supplying them with their much wanted gold and materials.
Woodarian lether and snakeskins were still saught out in the civilized world, while in Woodaria they used to be threated like junk.
Of course Slave trade was abolished and instead they are called Serfs. A more civilized way of threating commoners as slaves.
Theodor and his angel now rule over the once Ecclesian territories, also called the Human Country, where only pure humans are considered citizens everyone else is threated no diferent than an animal. Although he himself wanted to call his country Golden Dawn or something, but whom would buy it, the Human country was a thorn in Chris' side for a long time, since they didn't abolish slavery there, they just renamed it, calling slaves as pets.
Another problem was Theo and his brother in law, the bandit king Jack. Those lawless keep trading with the dwarves, by exchanging people for weapons, the people however are villagers of Nivava, meaning that they don't belong to them.
George, well George is probably the only person whom causes him no trouble at all, he simply stays with his wife and children and eats on the country's budget.
Elen and Viki, well after losing their funding they decided to follow the elves and escape, non has seen them since. Dina is also with them, with the elves.
Alexi is in a rather miserable situation as he is now fighting against other clans in a desperate attemp to hold the position of warchief, but he lacks supporters amongst the orks.
Chris had offered to help him, but was rejected as Alexi told him that it was a matter among orks.
Lastly Michael had disappeared, right after the battle there were witnesses that said that they saw him leaving holding his dead wife's corpse.
Chris simply had too many headaches and the monster waves are just getting stonger, meaning that the demon king needs killing again, not that it was something hard for them to do, but as kings and rulers they couldn't simply leave their countries and go defeat the demon king, thus the work fell on the shoulders of the few like Theo, George and Oxen.
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A man carrying a casket had finaly arrived at the 99th floor, he had been stopped hundreds of times, but each time he was left to pass simply by praising Ecclesis.
Michael sincerely believed that Ecclesis could remeby all his suffering, resurrect his wife, angel and give him calm of the mind.
Thus he was heading on a pilgrimage to the 100th floor, there were hundreds and thousands of people whom do this these days, they call it path to redemption, but only a few get what they asked for.
Most of them having rather strange problems to begin with, there are many people saying that Ecclesis is dead, but since Ecclesia still holds that probably isn't true.
Michael though as he begun to walk towards the dungeon pillar.
"Are you here on a pilgrimage?"
The guard at the entrance of the radiant dungeon pillar, decorated with shining while stone asked.
"Yes"
Michael answered.
"You will have to wait for two years, you see there is a huge list of people whom are waiting for their turn"
The guard said, but before he could speak further Michael had already taken his casket over his shoulder and charged into the dungeon pillar.
The guard didn't dare entering inside, the lights begun to shine just as he walked up the luxurious corridor, it was nother like the dungeon pillars seen on the lower floors.
Michael could see light at the end of the path and then, nothing as if he fell to a deep sleep, but it only lasted for a second.
"Wow, I didn't expected to see an old classmate"
A voice woke him up from his dazed state.
"Are you Ecclesis?"
Michael asked surprised as he saw a young man sitting at a desk in a rather luxurious room.
"Here's a secret, I'm not"
The young man's voice made Michael rather irritated, but he wanted to see Ecclesis and since the place looked like an office, maybe he was his secretary or something.
"Well you probably didn't know me so well from school, thus it's understandable that you can't remember me, well I too wouldn't have been able to know whom you were without identifying you first, you have grow, are the others also looking like middle aged versions of themselves?"
Christopher asked him mockingly.
"I came to see Ecclesis, how do I book and appointment or something?"
Michael asked while holding back his temper.
"No need, no need, just tell me what you need and we'll see if you really need me to bother him"
Christopher said with a smile on his face as if holding back to not burst out in laughter.
"I want my wife, my guardian angel and my calm of the mind"
Michael said while panicking, trying to find the casket he used to have with him.
"Cool down, first follow me downstairs and lets have a drink, just tell me your story, maybe I can help you, maybe we will have to ask for some higher powers"
Christopher said while dragging him downstairs against his will, Michael was shocked at just how strong the young man was, but he could not remember whom he was, too many years had passed after all.
Back on the 99th floor...
-Your Holiness! Your Holiness!
-What is it now, so early in the morning?
-Your Holiness a mad pilgrim invaded the holy Pillar
-Again?
-We could do nothing about it, he was too fast, he was probably a hero or a legend!
-I'll go see what's going on, we might need to delay the offerings for a while just make sure they don't all fly away.
-Praised be Ecclesis!
-Yes, yes, now go away.
Ecclesis was having a bad day, lately nothing goes well for him, out of hundreds of offerings only one or two are chosen at most sometimes not even one.
The real problem however is that lately a new fashion has been developing, the pilgrimage, it all begun when a father went to ask his daughter back and the so benevolent god not only gave her back but even blessed him with an extended lifespan, from then one many people try their best to get into the dungeon pillar in an attemp to get their heart's desires.
Problem was that there are 14 entrances, if each entrance sends up 1 man then there would be 14 men going on a pilgrimage, although there were those that for some reason were granted their idiotic wishes, like a man whom wanted to become a woman, a man whom wanted his penis to become smaller and some other strange desires, but most of them had to do with modifications of the "human" body,
in other words he was using them for practice.
Christopher however was tired of this new sort of visitor thus he told him to set some timetables town, so that they can come only on cetrain hours or even better on certain days.
There were however people desperate enough to charge through the guards and into the tower, the guards had been instructed to not go inside, if the person was so desperate to see god, then let them go, it was very simple, they didn't want victims on their hands.
Ecclesis went up the pillar as per usual through the secret door and ended right at the waiting room.
He could hear a sad voice talking in the lounge, someone drowning himself in his own sorrow.
"Would you mind if I intrude?"
Ecclesis asked, he had lots of things to do thus he only wanted to make sure that Christopher hadn't killed the man or something, after all he had a reputation to uphold, Ecclesis never killed people, at least not with his own hands.
"Oh, Ecclesis, we were just talking about you"
Christopher said as the door opened wide and he could see two intoxicated youths.
"I only came to make sure you didn't kill him and I hope you won't make things too difficult for me"
Ecclesis said as he was about to leave.
"Micha..el here wants to know if he can revive his guardian angel, it sort of died and cannot be resummoned"
Christopher said, he had no idea what the angel thingies were or how they worked thus he just asked their creator.
"Righ now Celestials cannot be revived, but you can create a similar one by undergoing the ritual again it will be identical in every way, to begin with each it died the spell would create an identical copy, you must have had over at least a hundred different guardian angels till now so if you want to join Ecclesia just go enlist at the closest temple"
Ecclesis said, making the drunken Michael confused and even more depressed, it was as if he knew nothing about his guardian angel.
"Can I leave now?"
Ecclesis asked rather impatiently.
"Wait, wait, why aren't you made of light?"
The drunken Michael asked as he wanted to get closer to examine him better.
"Easy, now we don't want you to go poking holes in his new robe, by the way nice robe"
Christopher said, making Ecclesis realise that he was still wearing his pajama.
"I'll be going back to sleep, just don't kill him like you did the last one"
Ecclesis said and then quickly left as if hunted by someone.
"Wait aren't you going to revive my wife?"
Michael shouted as he saw the fleeing person disapear out of the door.
"Chill out, it's just an NPC"
Christopher said making Michael even more depressed.
"Don't be like that, didn't I tell you already, she's not realy, Neathan to isn't a real person, it's the system that's trying to teach you something, first of all it's to not be naive, the world has good and bad people, second you must not be overprotective, lastly why didn't you just teach her some self defense art"
The fuck we're not from the middle ages, will you lock her in a cave with a huge boulder each time you leave, If you had talked it over with her, I'm sure the system would have given you a lot of hints"
Christopher's words made Michael confused, he did remember many times that he had not the time to listen to her, but he was late for work most of those times, could it be that it was a warning from the system?
"Well enough with the explainations, I will give you a few days to decide, you can either return to earth and pass it all of as a bad dream, you can live here with your NPC wife, but hands off of my harem or I'll shoo you and lastly you can leave and have a priest resurrect her, as if there's a big difference, she'll probably level up in no time and judging by your stats you don't have any strength control problems so killing her by mistake would be impossible"
These were the three choices Christopher gave him to think over, but Michael had a fourth one.
"Just give me my wife and I'll go join Ecclesia or whatever"
Michael said, this was his trump card, after all he was a proud hero many countries had wanted him to join them.
"Why should I care, after all everything here is fake, even if you joined Ecclesia to me it wouldn't matter at all"
Christopher said but suddenly as he talked everything begun to distort, Christopher didn't know why, but this wasn't the first time this was happening, his own evaluation was that he probably broke something he shouldn't have, but since it was only temporaty he didn't give it much mind.
Michael on the other sidethought that he had drunk too much, seeing things to blur and distort for a few seconds worth wasnt very healthy.
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Christopher led him to a bed and had him sleep, there were some snucks on the table nearby, but no servants were in sight. Something that made Michael very surprised, he had already become accustomed to the world of Axis where even the minor of nobility had some servants.
Michael had a rough night as moans of sexual activity echoed throughout the empty estate, making him feel some mixed emotions.
The next day Christopher said that he had an interview with some new applicants for the position of his love interest. Michael didn't really care what he did, but out of sheer boredom he went to see the interview.
"What are your dreams and aspirations for the future?"
"What would be your hopes and dreams for the world of Axis?"
"Do you hate people whom have multiple partners?"
The same weird ten questions came out, again and again, Michael was shocked at how many beauties were turned down by Christopher. If it was him he would at least have a taste of them, if of course he wasn't already married.
He waited for what seemed hour and none of the girls was chosen, girls as pretty as angel were declined due to some unknown reason.
Michael asked him later why he didn't chose any of them and Christopher said "they didn't click to me" meaning that they didn't birth any emotion in his heart, like love at first time, at most they could do for a one-night stand, which wasn't exactly what he was looking for, but to state his real words "they are generic NPCs", he wanted the special sort of NPC, the arrogant princesses, the upright knight lady, the shy priestess.
"Then why don't you go look for them yourself?"
Michael asked out of sheer curiocity.
"Do you think I have the time to go look for people, I would take ages, this way I'm already saving a lot of time, which I use for my experiments"
Christopher said, but didn't disclose what the experiments included.
Michael then begun to ask questions about where they would stay if they were to stay on the 100th floor, told him about how annoying the moans were last night, in other words he told him that he made for a rather poor host, which Christopher didn't take too well, but still smiled as if he didn't mind.
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While On the higher floors the Ecclesians were spreading all over the floors, on the surface world a new threat rose, just one year after the defeat of the Demon Kings.
A new Failed Demon god experiment appeared this time it was the X28 model, the last they had defeated being the X12 model.
This time it was detected on the 3rd floor, down the dungeon pillar, it was a huge monster that could not fit into the passage up to the pillar, the problem was that it was simply too poweful for them to even think of fighting it.If it had appeared on the surface they would have been goners.
Chris made a rather radical decision, they would migrate everyone to the higher floors, they would join Ecclesia.
Not everyone however agreed to his proposition, His own son Agamemnon refused to leave the surface world, not to speak about others.
In the end Chris and his wife bid the new young King farewell and begun to ascend the pillar with many of the remaining heroes, their targets differed but the most popular was to ask Ecclesis to send them back to earth, most of the heroes remaining were middle aged or old and as their party of six heroes gathered their subordinates in an attemp to reach Ecclesia.
the army of refuges was immidiately harrassed by the rogue countries, but after they rogue countries saw the strength of six heroes, they decided to simply add their own refuges to the group, making it even larger.
Once they reached the 10th floor they faced a two headed giant that tried to eat them, but its strength was just that of the Boss of the 10th floor.
The rogue countries that appeared after the boss were desolate and ruined, full of people whom joined the caravan with no supplies of their own.
Chris at the time wasn't as srewd and merciless that the people of the rogue Countries, thus he accepted everyone and helped them out as they made their pilgrimage to the higher floors, towards the lands of Ecclesis, which in their opinion were no different than paradise.
Ecclesians had no fear of death since they could resurrect the dead, having the inquisition sniffing around for cultists turned out to be less troublesome than having cultists whom create trouble.
Of course before the cultists became recognised as believers of a new religion they weren't able to do mass summonings of demons and countless other horrifying rituals, making them as harmless as flies in the eyes of the countries.
If however the inquisitors' only work was catching cultists, then there wouldn't have been such a big deal, the problem was that inquisitors also worked as spies and assassins, which was a real pain to multiple countries, since people killed by the inquisitors were instantly resurrected and locked in special prisons at god knows where.
The floors from 10-20th were ruined, but they didn't prepare them for what they saw starting from the 21st floor.
There was practically an apocalyptic peissage, an endless dessert, it looked so grim that they turned back and tried another tunnel to the 21st floor, 11 out of the 14 tunnels were ridden with desserts and wastelands. The remaining three were domain of the High elves, Elves and Forest Ogres, whom didn't wellcome humans and mixbloods into their lands, even trading for some food with them was a huge loss to the pilgrims.
In the end the huge sea of people begun to march through a rather plain wasteland, where the temprature wasn't as high as in the dessert and volcanic landscape, meaning that they could survive the long march for a few days.
Without a map only the few mixbloods from the birdmen race and could fly acted as their guides.
They spent most of their time trying to locate the pillar than they had planned for, around the 25th floor their foodstocks begun to run close, they had to lower the ratios and people begun to cause a disturbance about the discrimination between nobles and commoners, some daring people begun to detach from the caravan, but not before stealing some food from the caravan, most of them being the ones whom protected the foodstocks.
It was then that Chris gathered everyone and asked whom wanted to head back and whom wanted to go on, All the heroes of course would go on, but the natives of Axis were divided into three.
There were those whom wanted to head back, there were those whom wanted to go forward and lastly there was those whom were afraid to reveal their own opinion and went with the majority.
In the end 2/3 of the caravan headed back to the surface, all of whom were caught and enslaved by the rogue countries, since they no longer had the mighty heroes with their god like cheat powers. The food given to them to make it back was confiscated by the rogue countries and they themselves were made slaves for the elves and dwarves, whom were the only ones whom could survive even in the middle of a dessert.
The 30th floor's boss was still doable to solo, thus with the six of them together they easily subdued him, once more it was giant whom was trying to eat them.
It was strange how the angels of Ecclesis no longer appeared as guardians of the floors, but they wouldn't go into great thoughts to make out why that happened.
Only thing they knew was that these new floor guardians were the bane of all the higher floors, since they blocked trade between the 28 floors that were connected there.
Once more they begun to visit different tunnels, both to procur food and to begin heading higher. The products from the surface level were well taken by a rogue country and they got enough food for at least a year or more, there were also quite a few people whom wanted to go up, but by their looks they were more after the food rather than going to Ecclesia.
Chris was reluctant whether to take them with them or not, but in the end the majority decided to take them in, the people under them however had different opinions.
They begun to threat them as servants and slaves, discriminating against them and even having fun with many of their women.
The strange thing was that the people from the rogue countries took it as if it was something natural, they were after all people from a different society, where human lives were cheap in contrast to food and water.
A bottle of water on the rogue countries were worth its weight in gold, one normaly wouldn't sell you food nor water.
The reason as to why they stumbled upon someone willing was because the things they carried were much more valuable than gold to the people there. It was like giving them the rulership of their floor on a golden plate, weapons and armors for level 200 classes were simply invaluable, not to speak about skillbooks and spellbooks.
The 31st floors were different, there were no elves there at all, but one would find something terrifying there, people whom had turned into monsters.
They were canibals, humans, beastmen, orks, they ate anyone they could catch, men women, it did no difference to them.
The refuges had to make their way through there in a haste, at times they would capture the natives there and interrogate them in order to find where the pillar was.
Theodor whom used to be an inquisitor had some much needed fun those days, something that the others didn't quite appreciate.
Their losses they suffered from the canibals however were miniscule in contrast with what they suffered from the geniouses whom decided to head back once more, all of whom ended in the bellies of the canibalistic tribes.
Ever since the majority of Heroes left Axis, order on Axis went for a hike, people begun to go mad, old allies had turned against one another and of course the easiest way to destroy a country is by damaging their food supply.
This is how most of the floors begun to turn into the apocalyptic wastelands or into rogue countries where few held all the food and power, as for the Ecclesian territories they all became desserted and later taken over by other floors, some even fought for them.
The 30-40th floors were probably one of their fastest ascends, every refuge wanted to get out of there as fast as humanly possible. The funny thing was that some captured those despicable savages and used them as disposable slaves.
You have to understand that Chris had long dissolved slavery, but he was powerless at the moment to forbid them from doing what they wanted, mostly because of their more crucial problems, which was their foodstocks running low again.
Chris and Amaliana were holding hands as they could hear Theodor's hobby screaming. He was torturing captured canibals just for fun, ever since they arrived on the 40th floor.
The bosses here needed at least two heroes to take them down, but could easily be defeated by the six of them.
They were however beginning to become nervous since they still had 5 bosses in front of them, would they be able to make it through.
You have to understand that if they were alone they would probably be able to bypass the bosses and simply go up, but since they had other people to accompany, thus they had a lot of stress.
the 41t floor was somewhat better, but they were in constant war, here they for the first time met their match, a legendary ruler whom wanted to enslave them and sell them to the higher floors for food.
Of course ther heroes in the end were able to escape with their loved ones, but the people whom followed them were doomed to become slaves.
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Christopher, Michael and his wife were having dinner, they invited him over to discuss a few things, but Christopher still refused.
Michael and his wife wanted to have a child, but for some reason they were unable to have one, it was rather strange, but then Christopher explained that it was because the 100th floor was special.
They begun then to ask him to leave the floor, but there was a good reason he wouldn't let them go, in simple words they knew too much.
That year a new goddess was born, she was called Rosetti and was the goddess of plantan life, of course she was still frozen in time, but she had a few interesting abilities, especialy the one to create life.
In general however she was a rather useless godess, something like a goddess of nature you could call her.
Ecclesis was happy to see some new blessings, but he was disappointed at how useless they were in the end, all it did was help crops grow faster, but Ecclesia didn't need crops and he was still just a Legendary Healer, meaning that he wouldn't be able to defeat the demon God any time sooner and the hero summoning ritual wasn't the greatest of ideas at the moment, since they would all be passing through Christopher's hands first.
While Ecclesis was having his thoughts a message came from the inquisition's headquarters.
6 heroes were making their way towards the 50th floor, He instantly saw his chance to solve all his problems.
He begun to send messages all over, organising a party to go and wellcome them on the 50th floor, kill the boss on the way and receive the heroes with honors, they had to gain their favour, although the Demon God was already dead, but what about 10years from now? or 20years from now or a 100years.
Ecclesis was of course rather outdated when it came to information of what was going on the lower floors.
Now returning to Michael and Ysova, after having the discussion with Christopher, earning nothing, just wasting their time they begun to talk about the future once more.
While on the 100th floor, Christopher had given them eternal youth and life, the problem was that they were bored.
Ysova whom had heard dozens of times that she was something called an NPC had begun to believe it and urged him to return to the real world, but Michael wouldn't believe that she wasn't real.
Their only way to leave the 100th floor however was to either leave her there and he could either go to down or return to earth, or they could try their luck with Ecclesis.
Michael had talked a lot with Ecclesis whom would now and then come up to Christopher's villa and enjoy some well needed rest, non could find him when he did this and he could still send messages down to the 99th floor, only problem was that he would sheldomly would be found by Michael and bombarded with questions.
Ecclesis explained to him that he himself even after centuries couldn't tell whether Axis was a real world or a fiction of their mind, all he knew was that the upper floors didn't use to exist before they had defeated the Demon god and that if they had enough people he wouldn't think twice before stepping on that altar once more.
He was simply hooked up on the idea of being God, after centuries he had come to like it, what Christopher did to him turned to be one of the greatest punishments he had experienced, but he did earn it in a way.
He then begun to explain what he knew about Godly skills and also what he understood of Christopher's power.
In general once one touched the Altar every one of his skills would evolve into a godly skill, unless of course you didn't have 8skills which was simply impossible since you would simply not survive the final boss.
He was a healer with some summoning magic and an ultra rare revive spell he found by sheer luck otherwise he wouldn't even be eligible to go with the others to defeat the God.
Of course the Revive skill was a ritual that needed lots of preparation and the person would lose all of their levels, but he was prepared to use it as a last resort if everything failed he would revive the ones with the most powerful cheat powers, after all there are some cheat powers that don't depend on any of the three stats, like auras, time travel, weapon skills etc.
Now the thing about evolution of skills is that you will be given a huge list of possible evolutions, especialy if you don't have any skill in the slot, since then you can select any skill you like, this he learned from Tanna, whom only had one skill.
In general the Demon god only appeared once every 10years, but since Christopher is farming him, he should be much weaker than the original he had killed long ago or at around as strong.
Which is what brought Michael to the predicament, he could Go become a god and then help the others and himself out, or take Christopher's offer and leave Axis.
Many might think why doesn't Ecclesis revive some dead heroes, like Costas and Jonny. Well there are two reasons for the first one, Ecclesia and Runia were never as close as Allies and for the second, Jonny was a fucking cultist.
As for why Christopher doesn't revive them and sends them back or something, well for first Costas and Him have a crush on the same girl, Alexxa on the real world and Jonny is one of the bullies that made his life worse.
Grudges and love interests, two reasons to not revive them, although he still believes that Axis is not real, thus he is as carefree as a cloud, even his classmates are just a figment of his imagination.
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On the surface level new strifes begun as a new race emerged, they called themselves the half monster race.
They were people whom had somehow gotten ahold of Kurlidandr's evolution potion, which although at an experimental stage still had some success.
The failures lost their sanity, while those that succeeded became the nobles, kings and lords of their monster race.
The most successful potions were those that were based on already intelligent species of monsters, like the demonic fiends, the Werewolves, the dryads, the cyclops, the vampires, the Wild Orks and goblins, the Harpies, the Sea hag and sharkmen, the lizardmen and Drakonians.
In other words races that were considered as monsters, although they could easily be considered as an intelligent species.
The advantage of the potion was that the monster waves didn't consider them as enemies, welll it wasn't always so, but in general it was.
Agamemnon Chris' son was now looking at the potion in front of him, it was potion that could easily be found on the streets Nivava, it would turn any race into a half Geloid monster, allowing him to survive even if the Slimes were to overrun the surface world.
The most popular potion however was that of the Demon race, the reason being that they said that if you took it you wouldn't have to fear the Archdemons that randomly popped up in the lower floors of the dungeon pillar.
Of course Agamemnon didn't believe it at first, but it was easily proved by some adventurer that had consumed the potion. It was the newest trent now for the surface dwellers, especialy for humans, the problem was that there was a chance of the potion being a fraud.
For example you might think that you bought the right potion, but when you drink it simply die because it's a fake, poison that was disguised as the evolution potion.
Agamemnon was told to take the potion, it was a gift from the brilliant alchemist that came with the potion, a dwarf draconian called Kurlidandr.
The potion was said to be able to transform him into a half-Dragon, but was it worth it give up your humanity for safety and power?.
The world however was changing, the other countries had already begun to accept the change, they say that there are now three Half-Dragons whom now rule the surface world, forcing the common people to kneel in respect, even other kings.
The Human country was now ruled by the Half-Demons.
Runia by the Half-Werewolves, a strange race that was nor human nor werewolf.
The former Eolia by the Half-trents and half-Dryads.
The former Neassa by the half-Cyclops giants.
The Munnero mountains by the Half-vampires, a strange undead race.
The Orcs and goblins for some reason remained the same, but they became more violent and now begun crave for the blood of other race, there were even seen Orks eating other orks.
The former Reddor kingdom was now inhabited by the the Half-Volvanoids, a strange race that feeds on the heat that comes out of the ground.
The former Greddor is now domain of the Half-Incectoids.
Winnoria now has become something horrible to see, as strange monstrocities calling themselves the half-harpies emerged, in general they have female breasts protruding out of their heads and a woman's head, even the males and they still have a second bird head, in other words they are now two headed.
Woodaria is full of half-lizardmen,half-drakonian and half-ophidians.
In aquatica the potion wasn't as popular, but there were still meremen and fishmen whom became half-monsters.
In the newly reclaimed forsaken Country, there were the half-elementals.
Agamemnon was given a rare oportunity, he was given the chance to become one of the new ruling class of the floor, he was however reluctant, but he knew full well that in a year at most the rulership of Nivava would end.
One half-Dragon being a dwarf, the second being a gnome and the last being a human woman.
The three of them had already begun to divide the countries, making it unbearable for him, he had to enter the cult in order to gain the chance to hold the potion, but at this moment he was reluctant to use it.
Agamemnon thought about his parents and then reluctantly gulped the potion down.