Well, a fight now seemed unavoidable.
The elders were more stubborn than I thought. I knew they hated me, it was not just the gem but also the high elves I killed in the cave, I had killed someone from their family after all, that alone would have given them enough reason to kill me rather than save the elves; also the one who knew I was a replica was only the king, only he knew it was pointless to kill me, but even if he revealed the fact now, it would not change much, they still would not change their mind and let me walk out of here with the gem.
Well, I guess I have no way to take the divine gem with me, but that did not mean I would return it to them.
The decision was made, they choose to attack me, one of the elders pointed a sword at me, another came from behind, after that they could hear the sound of an explosion coming from their kingdom, but they ignored it. The king was there just watching.
He could have chosen to save his own daughter. He was a king, suppressing others with his own power, would not have been difficult at all, but rather than being a tyrant, he listened to others, in the end, what was the value of being a benevolent ruler? If it was you and your loved ones that suffered in the future.
I was now surrounded by the three elders, their swords were emitting light that burned my skin, being a darkness user, I was at an absolute disadvantage.
I separated the gem from the crown and tried to merge it with my hand with the only choice left.
[Initiating Deconstruct and Reconstruct]
"You fool, what do you think you are doing?"
"Stop it now!!!!!"
"Don't you dare and try to taint our divine gem by merging it with your flesh."
Fool!!!! What do you think is going to happen if a person with a darkness attribute tries to use a divine item."
[Deconstruct and Reconstruct Completed]
When I merged the gem in my hand, I could feel divine power flow within my body, it was destroying my body, but I was also able to convert some of it into my own mana and keep my body together for some time, I could also feel the Fruit slowly feeding on the gem.
"Humm, why are you guys so worried? It's my body I will do whatever I want with it or are you worried that I might not only destroy my body but also your divine gem."
"Hurry up, and kill him before he destroys the gem."
All of them rushed towards me, but I could use some high-tier spell with the mana from the gem.
"Red Moon"
I Created a red moon between my arms. The elders who had just attacked me received back the damage they inflicted, but as their attacks, were made from light, they did not receive much damage.
The king finally started to take action. Rather than directly attacking, he used purification, my red moon was incomplete, I could not dodge it, and the flow of Magic within my body had stopped.
"I am afraid I am going to have to end you now."
He then created 7 divine swords within the air, using telekinesis he pointed the swords at me and attacked me with it.
Without Magic, I was unable to dodge, the swords had penetrated my body, from my arms, including the heart, the replica was nearly destroyed.
"This is the end," said the king of the elves.
I used soul puppetry to stand up one last time, I started to flow all of my mana towards the gem.
"Yes, this is the end."
"Well, it's unfortunate that I won't be able to take this stone, but I have completed my task. Now, I am about to be destroyed, but mark my words, I will return, and next time when I return I won't be alone, and I also won't be in such a weak state, SO, It might not be soon but, I will return, await the day, the day I bring destruction upon your kingdom."
"Also, Since I was moved by your actions, I left a gift for you, the king of elves."
The mana from my body and mana from the gem, collided and both of them got destroyed in an explosive manner
"No, the gem, it's destroyed."
"We failed to protect it."
"Your majesty,��� other elders arrived in the scene
"Yes, we have suffered a loss, but it's not a loss we cannot repair from, go to the city of elves, and begin healing them."
"No, that's not it, your majesty, the elves know, they know we sacrificed them for the gem someone must have spread the news."
"What?"
"The remaining elves won't stay quite knowing this, the elves will revolt against the high elves."
"So, this is what he meant when he said he completed his task, wait, the shrine? What happened to the shrine?"
"The shrine? Nothing has happened over there, your majesty."
"What? Was there no explosion, and what about the princess?"
"Everything is fine in there, your majesty, so is the princess, she is fine."
"Ha ha ha, that bastard, a gift, huh."
I woke up in my original body.
[The replica has been destroyed]
It was unfortunate that I had to destroy the gem, and my replica got damaged. But I also found out how the Fruit worked.
Now, I needed to create a new replica.
[New Body Replica Model Has Been Formed]
Race: Hybrid
Body structure made form the model of Alric Edward contains both human cells and high elf cells. Also contains few fragments of the divine gem of the high elves.
Unique Trait: Can contain both light and dark attribute
The Fruit, took my own cells, the cells of the elves, and even the fragments of the gem. It would devour things that contained unique powers like such evolved light attribute of the high elf and the divine mana of the gem and stored it within itself, and when my replica would get recreated, it would give those abilities to me.
[Initiating New Body Replica Creation]
From my original body, the fruit got out of the mark. It floated midair, soon a projection of my new replica could be seen around it.
The Replica external structure was not significantly different.
The face seemed brighter. The eyes were shining like a divine gem.
The muscles were denser. The height was around 6 feet. In the middle of my chest, there was a gem with a similar color to my eyes. It was what remained of the divine treasure of the elves. The fruit seemed to have consumed more than half of the total gem. No wonder it was so easily destroyed.
Now it just remained in the middle of my chest. Some parts of it could be seen from the outside. It had merged with my replica cells, and now would serve as an additional mana pool for me, as it was a divine gem, it would refill once it was entirely consumed, thus making it a part of my body from now.
The projection soon started to get filled with the fruit's tissues, the tissues were made up of my previous body cells and the high elves cells.
[The Blessings placed on the High Elf's Body are Being Active]
[The Curses placed on the Human Body are Being Active]
[The Vessel is Undergoing Purification {1%}]
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[The Vessel is Undergoing Purification {10%}]
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[The Vessel is Undergoing Purification {20%}]
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[The Vessel is Undergoing Purification {30%}]
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[The Vessel is Undergoing Purification {60%}]
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[The Vessel is Undergoing Purification {99%}]
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[The Vessel is Undergoing Purification {100%}]
[Vessel Purification Complete]
[The Curses Placed on By the Gods Have Been Removed]
[You Have Obtained a Vessel That is Blessed by the Gods]
[The New Vessel Possesses Some Traces of Divinity]
New title [He Who Got Blessed by the Gods] acquired
[New Body Replica Creation Successful]
Name: Aamon Azrael
Title: [Dungeon Seeker] [Dungeon Explorer] [Sage] [Merciless] [Tactician] [Wolf Slayer] [Tyrant][Overlord] [Dungeon Master] [He Who Broke Natural Order] [SINNER] [He Who Got Blessed by the Gods][***********] [***********][***********]
Gender: Male
Race: Hybrid {Half Human and Half High Elf}
Class: Necromancer
Level: 1
HP: 15000/15000
MP: 20000/20000
Strength: 2000
Defense: 1700
Agility: 1700
Intelligence:3000
Luck: 500
Charisma: 300
Skills:
God-tier
[Resurrection] [*********]
Legendary-tier
[Sage Senses] [Sage Wisdom] [*********] [*********]
Unique-tier
[Darkness Attribute] [Absorption] [Benevolent Heart] [Spatial Magic] [Red Moon] [Deconstruct and Reconstruct] [Stoic] [Body Replica] [Contamination] [*********] [*********][*********] [*********][*********] [*********][*********]
Epic-tier
[Persistence] [Appraisal] [Dark Fire Control] [Regeneration] [Stealth] [Dark Amplification][Dark Fire Piercer][Sense of smell level Max] [Lost Swordsmanship] [Benevolent Heart] [Communication] [Turn Undead] [Water Manipulation][Enraged][Gravity Manipulation level] [Shockwave][Weather Control][Ice Creation] [Foresight][Acid Rain][Bow Mastery][Arrow Manipulation][More]
Rare-tier
[Night vision] [Physical Damage Resistance] [Fire Damage Resistance] [Heart of a Human] [Cold Resistance] [Liquid Resistance] [Close Combat] [More]
The status was nothing compared to my original body, but it was a huge improvement compared with my previous body replica.
Now, I could even use high-tier spells. More importantly, this body could use light attribute meaning; unlike before, how light attributes could completely destroy my body, it would now be harmless to me.
It was time to make use of the new body.
[Initiating Soul Contract with the Replica]
[Forming a Soul Link]
[Some parts of Soul are getting transferred to Replica]
[In case the replica is destroyed, the soul would be sent back to Original Body]
[Original body would receive no damage]
[Contact between Original Body and Body Replica Successfully formed]
I slowly opened my eyes. The first sight I saw was my original body sitting on the throne.
I Touched my face with my hand to see my skin's texture, then I felt a metallic sensation touching my face.
I looked at my hands, I saw a ring. It was the cursed ring.
When my previous body got destroyed, I thought all of the belongings on the vessel also got destroyed, the divine gem remained as it was consumed by the fruit, but the ring, the fruit had not consumed the ring, yet now it was here.
The distance between the dungeon and the elf kingdom was very far. Inside this dungeon, no living or nonliving being could enter without my permission, yet the ring somehow managed to get here.
When I used appraisal, I had found out that the ring would not leave the wearer side until the wearer's death, so when my replica got destroyed, it should have gone to my original body, yet I am sure there was no sign of the ring on my actual body.
Could only the replica be considered the wearer, but even when the replica was created, it was not wearing any ring; the ring only appeared after the soul link was formed.
Was it because the replica was considered dead until a soul was placed inside?
Whatever I don't care.
I was practically naked, but luckily, I had left some spare clothes in the room.
I got out of the room
"Ahh, master, you have returned."
Dracula greeted me.
"So, you have returned," Lazarus was beside him, he also greeted me.
"What are you two doing here?"
"Ahh, nothing, we were discussing how tragic our lives were as fellow vampires."
"Tragic? You have a son and a wife, what else can you want from your life?"
"My son is entering a rebellious phase, and I have a complaining wife, it's a tragic situation, but of course, you would not understand such things, master."
"I should have never revived you."
Lazarus was there just standing with an empty look on his face, listening to us, his eyes were like a deep well that had no end; he was lost in his thoughts. Since I had this new vessel, I could feel the emotions and thoughts that one had been through. I could feel, once he had ambitions like a boat on the endless river that kept sailing ahead, then, a thirst that could be fulfilled only by the one thing that he could not obtain, and now, even when he regained his powers, all he had was an empty void inside.
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