Chapter 20
[] Are you sure you want to allocated [401 LE] to your follower [Dhampy] to evolve into a –u003e [Blood Lord]? Y/N?
Picking the obvious choice of yes, Dhampy's body released strands of white light that turned into a coc.o.o.n. Her evolution process was similar to Lilith's. Right now, the initialization in order to become a stronger being will begin.
Dhampy's body will be optimized, Lilith wondered what would come of her evolution that she grew restless from curiosity.
'This feels like unlocking a character.';
Timer: 6:24:59:59
Sadly, the time it would take for Dhampy to get out of her little coc.o.o.n was 7 days. A week, well didn't matter as Dhampy's presence doesn't make a difference.
Under the radiance of the full moon, Lilith turned her attention to Sylva who was standing adjacent to her. She had a revering expression on her face, it was clear that she too wished to evolve into something higher.
"Sylva."
"...Yes, boss head?"
"We're going out, come with me."
"Huh? Where are we going boss head?"
"Just follow, I'll have your level reach 20 tonight."
Sylva stared at the elegant back of Lilith walk away from the front garden. Lilith looked at the darkness that stretches from where she stood to the horizon which no one could peer onto.
Sylva followed her out of the mansion. This is the first time Sylva would be wandering out of the mansion after the incident with the High-Pixies.
Lilith looked around and motioned with her chin for Sylva to closely follow.
Sylva held her daggers which were now two and followed closely behind Lilith as to not get separated. She wished not to get separated from Lilith, it was something she did not wish to happen.
Lilith and Sylva continued to move, they moved forward and stopped after a couple of hours. With their fatigue at 50%, the two of them peered at the clearing from the gaps of the trees.
This was a familiar place, the goblin camp was in front of them and Lilith could see the camp had already been restored to its former gross and chaotic glory.
Watching the goblins keep watch whilst messing around with each other made Lilith sneer. She was now LVL 26, she had improved by leaps and bounds after killing the serpent and the humans two days back.
She had not found any useful prey to hunt the past few weeks, only strong daemons remain and she can't hunt a strong daemon alone. Thus, she resorted to going after the strongest daemon she had seen in the past.
The Hobgoblin would be the perfect target. Also, this should prove to be a good opportunity for Sylva to show off her dagger skills to Lilith and level up at the same time.
'She had already reached Dagger Master (B). She has talents?'
'She is a prodigy in terms of Dagger Mastery, I have seen a lot of dagger wielders in the past but she is the most talented. It would be worth investing in her, boss.'
'Mm, I'll find a suitable place for the both of us to hunt.'
'What about the goblin nest where you found me, boss?'
Lilith's and Dhampy's conversation led them here. Sylva was a prodigy or so it seems. Well, it is very much apparent, after all, she reached Dagger Master (B) 23 days after she started training.
She is now LVL 19, which is weird. She should have reached LVL 20 by now after killing so many daemons.
An hour after their arrival, their fatigue reached 20% and their attack began.
Lilith has two choices when attacking the goblin nest, but Lilith only sees one viable method and that is to silently kill them.
Poison, that is her strongest weapon, it might sound useless, but if her poison was to surround the camp, their movements would slow down or kill them downright.
Thus, Lilith did what she always does, kill from the shadows while letting everyone do the tedious work for her.
Above the goblin camp, Lilith flew. Her Miasmic Expulsion exploded out of her body and it descended onto the goblins.
The poison wafted to the mouth and nose of the goblins and that single sniff of her poison caused them to shriek in pain.
Paralyzed, they were made to twitch on the floor, devoid of strength they failed to function and go against Sylva who fell from above.
Her dagger moved like the pa.s.sing wind. She had little HP, she is no brawler or fighter, she was an a.s.sa.s.sin. It was clear what she was. Her steps were as light as a feather slitting the throat of her opponents like a phantom.
She was fast with her hands, killing the Goblins with so much efficiency that it was terrifying. Lilith had seen a lot of a.s.sa.s.sins before, mostly those aiming for her neck.
This girl before her was but a young one, but she has the making of a G.o.dlike a.s.sa.s.sin.
'It would be for the best to train Sylva, in the way of a.s.sa.s.sination.'
"Skreee!"
'It finally came out, it's stupider than I thought.'
From the biggest dwelling, the angered Hobgoblin came out. The Hobgoblin was still at LVL 26, it had not improved its level at the slightest, it seems Lilith got lucky.
Without thinking much about it, she transformed into a loli to cast Colossal Weight increasing her weight ten times the original.
Although she was small, when she landed on the unawares Hobgoblin, its head was smashed on the ground, turning into a b.l.o.o.d.y pulp, the Hobgoblin died without any useless pretense.
'It seems like a Hobgoblin is weaker than me, it also failed to sense my presence.'
Lilith could now see the innate uselessness of a Hobgoblin. Having killed the Hobgoblin, Lilith left the cleaning of the camp to
Lilith entered the Hobgoblins dwelling and inside, she found bodies of daemons and humans combined. There was even a Pixie who seemed to have been raped, it was still alive but it as good as dead.
"Ah! Help, please help us!"
"I don't want to die. Please, help me get out here!"
There were also some more Pixies, tied to the ground. The ones who were spared from being raped and turning into excrements of the Goblins began begging to be saved.
Their position is similar to Dhampy of the past. Lilith went approached the one that had been raped to death by the Hobgoblin.
'This is pretty brutal. I heard from Dhampy she was spared from this fate because she had no genitalia.' She then turned to the Pixies.
[Low-Pixies LVL 12 (common)]
'They are useless, I should just kill them.'
"Boss head, I have finished them all up. I..."
She was prepared to cast a Fire Ball but Sylva entered the tent and saw Lilith with the Pixies.
"Y-you're."
The Pixies saw her and their faces changed instantaneously. Their pleading eyes turned rabid and sneers emerged.
Lilith did not miss that but she didn't care and simply paid attention to Sylva.
"Good work. We're getting out of here."
"Yes, boss head."
"Rawa! Do you dare ignore us? Know your place and get us out of here!"
"You're the one who ran away right? You useless cur, you better get us out of here now before we tell this to the Lord!"
Sylva heard their words and she began to tremble in fear. It was fear she had towards Pixies and it stuck to her even now.
Anyone could see her trembling and the arrogant Pixies tied to the ground sneered as the shouted their commands.
"You d.a.m.ned Rawa, what are you waiting for? Do it and—"
"Huh?"
Pah*
"Who do you think you are ordering? The only one who can order her is me."
A single slap echoed in the ears of the Pixies. The other two Pixies looked at Lilith and opened their mouth to speak, but...
Pah*
They met a similar fate with the insolent cur.
"Did I tell anyone of you to speak?"
Imposingness can only be attained if you make the move before others do. Lilith had tortured a lot of people to get the information she wanted. And to correctly torture a hostage properly, the torturer must be imposing.
Lilith may look like a child now, she is cute but there are ways to become imposing as a child. That is to instill fear using power, and what you are capable of doing.
"That one over there is one my things, the only one who can talk down to her is me, the only being who is above her. Now, shut up or, you will end up like this."
Lilith cast Fire Ball to the first one she slapped and burnt the b.i.t.c.h to the ground.
"Ahhh! It burns, I'm sorry, I apologize, please spare me!"
With those simple actions, the kid they thought would save them had become the subject of their fear.
She rarely does this kind of thing, but she got annoyed at them. The reason was simple, no one can look down upon her people.
If they look down upon her people, then that only means they are looking down on Lilith. For a common-tier daemon to look down on Lilith, just where did she get the b.a.l.l.s to do so? The b.i.t.c.h wasn't even a man.
The voice of the Pixie who was burnt to death died down and Lilith then turned to the other two Pixies and uttered a single word.
"Apologize."
The two Pixies looked at Lilith with fear and was about to apologize to her, but she lashed out and kicked the last one who had been spared from pain in the face.
"Not to me, bow your heads and lick the ground while apologizing to her. Ignore my orders and I'll kill you like the other one, do what I tell you and I won't kill you."
She pointed at Sylva who flinched at her words. The two faces of the two Pixies darkened but they still did what they were told and bowed their head to the ground. Their foreheads were touching the ground as the words of apology came of their mouths.
"We are sorry, please, don't kill us."
For the first time in her life, Sylva felt her heart tremble from excitement. This is the first time she had seen a Pixie bow their heads to her.
A smile did not blossom on her face, but Lilith could see the joy in her eyes. She was now satisfied.
"Sylva, kill them, we're going back."
"...Yes."
"You said you won't kill us."
"Please, spare us!"
The hammer of judgment fell upon their heads and they lifted their heads to protest against Lilith who had broken her promise. Which Lilith responded with a chortle.
"I won't kill you, she will."
They turned to Sylva who was preparing to cut their heads and screamed something one last time.
"You d.a.m.ned RAWA!"
Slash*
At first, Sylva was hesitant but with one swift motion of her dagger, she killed the two remaining Pixies, and her hands trembled. She let go of her daggers and she laughed. It was as if she was freed from something shackling her.
"Thank you." A single word that weighed mountains was finally uttered. Lilith kept her silence while the System reported:
[] The invincible status [Trauma] has been lifted. Sylva's level will now advance to the limit.
[Sylva Level up]
Finally, Sylva had reached LVL 20.
Silence filled the air as Lilith and Sylva left the camp and burnt everything to the ground. When they left and was just about to reach the mansion, Sylva finally said something.
"Thank you, boss head."
"Why do you thank me so? I just ordered you to kill someone from your kind, aren't I someone evil?"
"They're not my kind! Ah sorry."
Sylva seemed fl.u.s.tered, and as Lilith turned to her, she observed her tremble but said nothing.
" Also, the boss head is a good person, this much I know.
"Yes, you love to kill and bathe in the blood of the hunted daemons just to retrieve a single mana core but you never did anything wrong in my eyes.
"You gave me the chance to live by saving me from the people who saw me nothing beyond disposable item..."
Although she did not want to listen to it, Lilith stood still and accepted every word that flowed out of Sylva's little mouth.
The story of Sylva was rather...unique.
She was born as the younger twin in the Royal line of the Pixie Lord. The Pixie Lord is the one who rules over the Pixies.
But, when she came out she was no Pixie but a Silberofer (Silver Sacrifice), a subspecies of spirits. Just like Fairies, Pixies are beings who originated from fairies.
Pixies wish to become stronger in order to become Spirits. However, Silberofer were beings closest to Spirits, and Pixies who are born as Silberofer are nurtured until they are eight years old and become sacrifices.
While her sister was being groomed as the next Pixie Lord, Sylva was sent to the other Silberofer to be nurtured as a sacrifice. There, the only family she called was the other Silberofer who had already been brainwashed to embrace their fate as a sacrifice.
She was one of the two Silberofer who wished for life. The other one would be her only friend Sela who joined her when she tried to escape out of the domain of the Pixies. Sylva managed to run away, but whilst they were doing so, Sela was caught.
Sylva wished to turn back and save her friend, but Sela screamed, saying she should run, for the two of them.
Live and see the world. Sylva would later receive news from the Low-Pixies that Sela had been sacrificed to become the ingredient to her sister's evolution to become a High-Pixie.
As Sylva told her stories, her body continued to tremble. Her sadness was overwhelming and her regret was seen in her eyes.
"I am a coward; I ran away when I should have turned back and tried to save her. If I at least, Sela would have at least a chance to leave. I am a coward who only knows how to run-away."
Lilith walked towards sylva and turned to a Nightmare Dragonkin. She flapped her little wings and flew close to Sylva's head before using her little legs to give the crying Sylva a headpat.
"You are not running away, child. You are struggling. You are struggling to fulfill your promise to your friend and that is the opposite of running away. Because what you are doing right now is facing fate head-on and going against it."
"Boss head...uwaaa!"
The eight-year-old child cried and wailed as a child would. She grabbed Lilith for a hug and let it all out.
All the while this was happening, Lilith was thinking about something else.
'The Low-Pixies contacted Sylva? Then, why didn't they take her away instead?'
Something was off.