"You people are annoying and stupid. And apparently know nothing of barriers." Ren sat up agitated. He opened the barrier and let them in. "Stay here while I go and sleep in your barrier." When he moved, he sent a change in the barrier again with his feet. The Crystals in key points changed facing and function.
"Thank.. you." Melinda said. Ren did not stay long enough for her to say more. He went over and plopped into their barrier and went to sleep. "Why risk going into our barrier?" She noticed his face was hidden the moment he got up. 'Why did he hide behind a fan? It felt like he was smiling in a way.'
"Ass.." Valli said lowly.
"That's our Master." Two smiled. She had already recovered and had her hands on her temporary swords. Just in case the princess tried anything. "Sit tight and everything will be ok." She could let out an attack pushing them out of the barrier with ease. Despite the difference in cultivation.
With a good paralysis, the effec
"Huh, you came back to see if they were here? How nice of you." Ren smiled towards the incoming guards. 'Are those guests still on the way?' He thought to Reap. Reap System: Yup. They will come at a decent enough time. Like right now actually. Quest: Protect those who are loyal. Your reward... I am not saying specifically. It will be even better when you get it. Hehehe.. you will like it. A few of the guards were surprised the princesses were not here. The Lan guards assumed they would make it back and try to enforce the barrier with some of their life-saving devices. They would then come in and feign helping but kill them instead. Traveling around asking for help would have given a good alibi with saying the barrier broke when asked later. "So you fixed it. Should have stayed where you were. This will be your grave now." The 1st Lan guard raised his hand. This signaled the others to attack. "What are you talking about? You cannot kill him. He
. -Lan Compound Captial- . An Elder was sitting amongst his peers agitated. He felt the connection break instantly from his life-saving treasure he gave to his grandson. 12 Elders up top at the Peak or at Rank 11 of the Breaking Bonds Realm. These were the Core Elders of the clan. In charge of the various departments, they had control of. Below them were another 50 Elders at the Breaking Bond Realm Rank 5. These were the Inheriting Elders. Beneath them were 1000 Inner Core Elders at the Reformation Realm. Between the Ranks of 5 to 11. Standing behind them were at least 13,000 Outer Elders for day-to-day activities. "Ugh!" A Core Elder grabbed his chest in pain. His temples throbbing ready to burst. "No..." "Brother Torbin!" Another yelled first. The man sent a pill instantly to help his brother. The other Elders acted quickly to help stabilize him. "You will be ok!" "Yes.. yes I will." Torbin said lowly. His body was fine
"Hah!" Ronnaldo exhaled deeply. He failed to go over the final hurdle to breakthrough. But not without effort. He failed from stress. The fact they tried to kill Ren plagued his mind. Even with the pills, he took to help him along, the failure still happened. But he attained something this time to increase his fighting prowess. "Should have taken a Memory Suppression Pill first."Memory Suppression Pill allowed whoever ate it to target a specific memory. No matter how far-reaching and the amount of influence it had over the cultivator. The downside, it made one's Heart Monster grow even stronger when it was over.*Crack!* Gripping his fist, it was not to bad. He was able to refocus and heal old wounds that were in his cultivation base and body. Next time he breaks through, it will be a cinch. Provide he no longer has any doubts in his mind about the Sect Elders. And the fate of his brother and family.*Shush!* With a wave of his hand, the seals were removed and
"Of course! You are only 30 years older!" Elder Mo Yuni hit his chest playfully. "We are still kids compared to those monsters in the "Mainland" and their sick ways." Ronnaldo's eyes flashed dangerously at her mentioning of them. Thoughts going to Ren's mother who came from there."We need to get you to breakthrough. I will not risk anyone coming to bully you in the future." Ronnaldo thought about the Sect points he had. It was time to cash them in and use what he had stored away. The next time he broke through, he wanted to be even furthur in his Rank and not just Rank 1. "The Mainland is trouble and will try to throw their weight around again. It is already their fault the Empire is at war. We need to be ready.""I have a few pills to help expand the mind and increase cognitive thought. I was saving them for when I breakthrough in a few years." Mo Yuni said with worry. "If you think the time to use them is now, then let's use them. I need to increase my fighting powe
.-Reap System-.Reap was going through the memories of the recent bodies obtained. Finding more nuggets of information to create more quests. The more Ren cultivated and peered into different possibilities, the more information it could use to help him."Hmmm, Ren is not gonna be ok with this. I need to keep his thoughts away from that woman we just obtained. She fits his type. I need him to stop falling in love with a regular woman. He needs to marry another Royal member again. But how.." Reap moved its Ion hand across some "windows" that showed visions. He stopped on a few that showed the Royal Family of the current empire. "Her past is something else.. I can definitely use that to my advantage. But she is only a former bit of herself. I need to see what the Empress is like."The Empress was in her chambers looking at a man bedridden. He was her first husband. The 1st Emperor. Behind her another man. Her second husband. The man was just as worr
-At the border of the Shoreline- . Ren and his group stared at the purple water. It was more liquified poison than anything. Mixed with Ion energy so volatile only a few cultivators could survive it. The Ion Storms and smashing Ion waves were over. After a week of further preparation, it was time to move. Ren could not help but step into it. It burned his clothes off in seconds. His body, however, started to consume it as he walked in. Not only did his people look on wide-eyed, but the other cultivators that remained who wanted to enter did so as well. The time spent "sleeping" was to get ready for this. The Vampiric Devil Manual he studded as his Primary was pushed to the limit. Time spent Adjusting the Unlimited Glands to himself more for this specific reason. "The advancement should keep me alive while I absorb this volatile energy." Ren muttered. Happy that it worked so far with only his body tingling in sensitive area
. -Setting out- . For the next few weeks, everyone fixed their cultivation and talked about the goods they picked up. With Mo Lan and Elder Kung giving input on life matters and giving them an education on what Ren did not cover. As well as policy on different kingdom matters to look out for. Ren slept the entire time and never left his part of the tent. Mo Lan and Four fixed up the two cultivators Two had Ren save from the soil earlier. As well as their former sect. The boy Natsu and his brother Setsu were decent enough after clean up. Two spent the time fighting them and forcing them to fight with all they had. They were after all saved for that reason. Elder Kung supervised and gave pointers to the two boys. He gave a few towards Two but she took it only under advisement. Ren was her master. He told her advice is something to take from everyone, but that did not mean you have to listen to it. On week 8, Ren finally did somet
Ren shouted at the Reap System angrily to do something but the process already finished. The young cultivators came out of their trance and stared before blinking.They surprised Ren with their next actions. They opened their souls up to him. Not by choice but in acceptance of what he was to them. Both only half-consciousness and not really understanding they were doing anything oddly."You will. Check inside yourself, you are now connected to it. Never walk that road that you see. Not unless you hate yourself." Ren said to the two. He wanted to say more but couldnt. It to was against the rules. 'There is no such thing as coincidences only what must be.'Ren remembered something his real mother told him one day. The day she sent him on a journey to find out the secrets of the Reaper Palace. But that was millennia ago at this point.'I always hated that phrase.' Ren removed the thoughts away. not wanting to think about those in the past.
"It shouldn't open. They should be dead. But..." He looked far off to where the Mainland Gate was stationed. The long construct over the area was lit up more than it was before. ".. the Mainland will reconnect in one ot two months. I wish you the best of luck." Ren felt his third eye was itching. He didn't try to ask questions of the enemy. He didn't risk more after Valli and the 1st Emperor brought him news of what was going. Nor did he even try to figure out how to use this to his advantage somehow. "I am to old for everything that people have set up and done. I am living my life now. All of my obligations are done after taking care of that problem." Ren felt the power the Eternity Realm wash over him. The remaining of the different Soul promises were completed with the last of his quests as Prince Ren of the Reaper Palace. 'Check again to make sure.' Darkness System: King Ren, everything is finished. The energy from the destroyed souls entering the Tear fu
She was even wanting to persuade the soldiers to stop and have the ruling Empress come down and explain herself. The entire situation was controlled by the presence of one woman speaking out.Ancestor Maleficient ordered them quiet, or she would execute them on the spot. They were giving help to Valli, who was currently preoccupied with the situation topside."Shut your mouths!" Wave after wave of power come down on all of them. A few were way to close to her generation-wise and fell under Blood Compulsion quickly. Those that didnt humbled themselves enough. They only had a few breaths of life left to fight with."Mother..." A woman that looked the spitting image of her but older stepped forward. "..how are you so young still? When did you get back?" As the oldest of the Sleeping Elders, former Empress Soruda the 1st never thought she would lay eyes on her.The feeling was mutual for Malificent. For she thought her daughter was dead and didn
A formation lit up on the ground as he then exploded from the complexity of the Manual and his Soul not even remotely close to deal with the weight of the manual lashed out in every possible way.There was a reason elders and parents prepared for legacies before allowing offspring to take them. Or to pass over to them.A big appetite can get you killed. With Ren delivering the Manual the same way he received, all at once, the Emperor was lucky his soul and mind weren't crushed by the wandering Ion forces that gathered the moment on contact."Father!" Melinda's eyes narrowed thinking the worse as she tried to run to him. Held back by Balli and Valli; she looked at Ren hurt. "Damn it!" Blame, accusation, and widespread doubt that he even tried to spare him from this passed through her mind.This was not about her, it was about this father of hers, and those in the room needed to understand more.Take warnings when given and do
The Empire faced trouble the following weeks. Not from within but from the outside. The West Empire continued to push towards them, engaging in small skirmishes to test their forces.The North Empire people fled towards every corner of the border to enter. The citizens trying to gain entry but were declined. Whether it be from the actions caused by them or the cruelty they committed while fleeing, the guards gave them no quarter and cut them down.Only those who agreed to have a seal placed on them and accepted to have their goods and themselves thoroughly checked were allowed through. Empress Valli refused to allow in possible enemy into the gate.The North Empire people, for the most part, agreed to terms. Those who were part of the trouble and caused the devastation to there country were turned away. They rerouted to the West Empire, joining its forces to reinforce it.The treatment received there was worse by far than any other. The various forc
.Melinda is clued in-.Melinda felt completely agitated as she paced in her quarters at the Palace. Soruda and Valli coming in with a few of the guards. Plus a weary Morticia and Jackson. Both had seen better days than this."Melinda, he couldn't help in that case. Neither did he want to." Soruda said."Why couldn't he?" Melinda didn't understand. "Countless Medicines can help restore burned-away longevity.""He cannot burn longevity any longer." Soruda frowned at her daughter. "He is not a member of the Reaper Clan anymore. His Silver.. ability, it is long since gone." Letting that sink in a little more, the mother reluctantly told her about an instance before. "Ren burned almost his entire longevity and soul once do what you just saw.""It is not something done lightly and without severe cost." Morticia wheezed a little. "One uses their spiritual blood to restore another. It works better for those with close ties such as fam
Once the bright light finished, the destroyed courtyard was full of naked people of all ages. With one or two baby Ion Beasts in the mix. The Lan Clan did have close ties with the creatures afterall.Elder Morgan took note that clan members who were once missing limbs or disfigured were all perfectly normal now. Physically anyway, mentally they looked a little vacant. Assimilation was a hard task after all to come back from."Kuff!" Mei spat out some flesh-colored gunk. To the side of her, was a woman that bared a striking resemblance to herself. With more returned features than when in the beasts' gullet."Mother!" Shaking her, the woman did not wake but she was breathing."At least the situation has ended." Melinda sighed in relief."How silly." Ren rose his fan out and channeled Ion energy into it. "Time to kill them all."Frozen in place, Melinda stared with a few others in protest. The different Lan clan members were still daz
"The Lan clan prepared really well for this. Well, that old monster did anyway." Ren was amazed the generations of the Lan Clan ran so deep. "How many of your people have died all this time? Did Elder Kung even need to save the others?""I do not know. I know I have inherited a nest of worms and snakes." Valli frowned more than smiled. "Haa, my sisters really have the better life if this keeps up."The Royal Guards were embarrassed they fell to the formation. Not much they can do against the blood call. They didn't even know they were related to the Lan family. To be fair, neither did the Royal Family or Ren."I really hate my life!" Elder Rani looked forward disgusted. Ren and Empress Valli looked towards her. "The moment he touched me, the very use of his Ion energy to get me to stop, I could tell..."The Traitor Sword in her hand pulsed before going dim. Ren flicked his fan sealing inside the woman for later use. A small opal appear
Lan Clan was in utter turmoil. For all intents and purposes, a Coup d'état had started without any notice. Mere hours after a joyous occasion from hearing that the new Patriarch had broken through to the Breaking Bonds Realm.It was supposed to be the happiest day for the clan. A Patriarch that was only 18 years with so much power was unheard of. So happy, they didn't even think about the previous Lan Patriarch at all who fled.So goes the rumor after he fought with Elder Kung in secret."These fools!" A Core Elder, Morgan to be exact was pushed into the main hail with a brutal kick. "You think the Empress will take kindly to this!?""Save your words brother!" The elder in charge of Welfare looked on in fury. Body covered in wounds head to toe. "They really sided with another!" Looking at the one leading the rebel forces, he couldn't help but lament the choices from before. "Never thought I see the day!"A s
"I have never really been disappointed by you two. Hope this continues." Playfully, he caressed the face of the two before pulling away as if burned. It was not appropriate with his current thoughts. "Rest, then spend time collecting yourselves with the power in your souls. "Yes, my King." Zia's breath came out huskily. The way Ren touched her was the same as when he hugged her long ago. Her heart beating in excitement at the thought of a kiss. 'I can feel the dragons in my Manual growing. The power inside them is so rich!' "Yes, my King." Suresha felt her body tingle in all the right ways. No doubt of Ren's words previously the day he entered her forge. 'Nothing wrong with being a strong woman. He really doesn't care.' "Elder Tani, plant these with the utmost of care." Delivering the woman the Darkness Seeds. He passed a glance at her belly. "Do be careful in what you eat, do not taste any of these." Blushing she nodded to him. "Ren, I will speak wit