Slamming against his hastily made protection. Bedalika and Yaya watched from safety far away. They couldnt believe Ren's bad luck. All the planning and other protection were so completely outdone by this storm.
As soon as the storm cleared, they would rescue Ren.
*Bzzztt!* Lightning raged against the shield. Several arcs went around and stabbed into Ren. The lightning was alive from the Ion energy added in. Ren was the closest threat that it found. Instincts drove the energy to kill him to obtain the fire.
"You.. are.. him!" The Lightning spoke. The memories pouring as the voice matched someone from the Lightning Palace of old. "Revenge.. you.. butcher!"
"Ahhhhhh!" Ren screamed as his body contained the lightning. If it wished to kill him, it would learn he is not easy prey. "Thanks for the meal!" Dismissing the shield, the lightning hit him full-on. It wrapped around trying to enter every part of him.
Ren sucked his fangs into the tangible energy.
Ren got up and moved to the kitchen. He started eating whatever he could get his hands on. In his mouth, he sucked on an Ice Petal. His body was already heating up from the circulation of his body technique. The cooling effect works better than previous.Reap System: To be fair.. it is not like you lost a lot. All the Ion Energy you had was used. You just did Cultivation Swallowing. All the realms to give you a better boost for the future.'Ugh. This was due to the Ion Water from before. I knew I should not have given you the idea of swallowing an entire cultivation base. Realms and methods are not that difficult.. bu this..' Ren said it as a joke before but to think Reap would loop quests into it... 'I should devour you again for this!'Reap System: Prince Ren.. I..'Stop calling me that! I have enough nightmares as it is!' Ren shook in agitation. The time he recovered was not pleasant at all. Assault with failures was not the problem, assault with the l
Ren spent most of his time on the mountain peak with the Snow People and answered a few more questions and talked with them. He missed the next day of the tournament as well.Spent the entire making Elixer's and improving Formation's to return his cultivation to before. Right as he finished the last of his mixing, someone wanted to visit him."Ahhhh so sleepy." Ren yawned as he turned over. A presence at his door caused him to sit up immediately. "Come In."Princess Melinda and Princess Balli came inside. Both had a strange look on their faces."Ren... I need to return to the capital for a bit." Melinda said. "A few of the plans I made need a finer touch. I will stay till the tournament ends at least.""Ok." Ren said. Their shocked faces bothered him a little. "What!? It is not like you are a prisoner here. You can come and go as you please.""Right. Just felt... I do not know actually." Melinda said embarrassed. "It will only be for a few d
It was a quick execution of his movement technique. Moving through short distances was all he could do currently. Ren was at the Warpgate. With a touch, he activated it and appeared at the central area. Elder Kung and a few others were there. "What is so important Elder Kung?" Ren asked. He did not open his eyes as he started to doze back off. "It is so late in the.. day .. night?" He was unsure as he rocked on his feet. His head leaned back as he started to lightly snore. "Zz zz.." "Well..." Elder Kung knew he was tired but, not this tired. "How unsightly!" Someone yelled. "Get dressed you filthy heathen!" "Grr shut up." Ren growled at the person. His attention did not last long. His head cocked back as he started to lightly snore again. "Mee meee." A few were impressed he could fall asleep so easily. "Did he just tell me to shut up!?" "He seems to be tired." 1st Elder said. "Maybe let him go back for now?"
- Next Day at the Ranking Matches- . Ren was antsy and wanted to get a few rewards for himself. Re going through the cultivation realms revealed to much about the Vampiric Devil Manual. Secrets that the previous Manual's never even had were available. The manual actually combined with his Reaper powers on a higher level. But also was incomplete which made no sense whatsoever. He just needs to take some of an individual's Ion energy and he would be able to track them no matter where they went. He could also visit their Ion Sea more effectively and tamper with the memory in ways that were originally against the rules. Something every member of the Reaper clan could not do was available to him. Sitting in the stands contemplating what else was inside the Manual to discover, he missed all the talking going on the stage. Zia nudged his side to get his attention. "Hmmm?" Ren focused ahead staring at the disciple down below. "What the
"I accept." Ren stepped up and tucked his fan away again after some thought. This time, Mo Lan beat them all to the punch."Do my manual!" Mo Lan said excitied. Ren gave her a nod and moved into the arena. "Yes!" She gave a little cheer to herself."Your manual is almost all female only. For a man to cultivate it, is twice as hard I heard." Melinda said. She was very informed about the manual and those who studied it. One of the female cultivators she looked up to study it exclusively. 'Wait a minute, didn't Ren summon something like it before already when we travelled?'"Ren was able to repair some of the problems in the manual. He also knows the male equivalent for it." Mo Lan said excitied. "He told me it has a lot of secrets. I cannot wait to see some of them more.""Hmm, you are not like the rest of your sorry excuse of a clan. How interesting." Ren mumbled. "To kill... or not to kill?""Fight!" 1st Elder said. Sitting back, the Elder could no
.-Ren's Back Courtyard, a few minutes later-.Right now, checks were getting done on the woman. First for any type of booby trap as well as inscriptions. Once that was cleared by Ren & Reap, it was time to start the other work."So pathetic. Ren held the woman by the mouth and checked her teeth. "You have been.. used quite a bit. Very manhandled at that." He removed her blouse and checked over the broken bones and torn muscles. "You have a parasite inside you as well.""Do you have to do this now?" Melinda asked. She was visibly uncomfortable with what Ren was doing."Yes." Mo Lan answered. "You can leave if you do not like it. Only medical personnel need to stay here. That is why Elder Tani, Jackson, Felicity, and myself are here. The others were sent away.""Could it not just be done by one of you?" Melinda asked. She did not like seeing Ren handle the woman in this way."Ren, has more understanding in medicine and pois
"What? No Master Ren, I am sure that Zia, Zero, or Balli won't kill him." Jackson said. He was only a little bit worried that would happen. Thinking it over, he could see problem forming a bit. In regards to Lan upbringing."He just needs to.. actually, you are right. Not piss any of them off. Oh, to survive a fight against Zia mostly. Maybe Five as well.""I can do it." Lan Childe said."That's the spirit." Mo Lan said encouraging him."So what will my tasks entail?" Tali asked. The treatment Ren gave her already had her good to go to move a little. Not wanting to be a burden or cause her son more grief, she was willing to do anything she needed."Maid. Just keep things clean and help make sure they remember to eat. I swear if Zia goes another week without eating, I will put her over my knee and give her a spanking." Ren said seriously. "Why does she not remember, is beyond me. That is my standing order really""Maybe ke
-Ren's study-.The next morning found everyone slightly off. Mei was the happiest with Lan Childe having recovered. Even more so, now that he was with them. Elder Kung took the role of teaching him happily.As for Tali, Melinda, Mo Lan, and Yaya, they spent time togethor talking with her. Yaya needed the break from training from Bedalika. They went over the departure for the Empire's Capital for Melinda soon.Setsu and Five would go to accompany her as appointed personal bodyguards set by Ren. As her betrothed, he was allowed to do so. Mo Lan was going as additional protection and as a "Noble Lady" appointed by Ren. Lan Childe to act as her guard. She represented Ren's affairs and would also purchase some things on his behalf.Unknown to all of them, Zero would also follow along. Tucked away hidden inside Lan Childe for observation. Lan Su wanted to go as well, but Ren had assigned another task for her to execute.Ren gave him a set of orde
"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