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1% Void Evolution System / Chapter 19: Apeiron [3]

Kapitel 19: Apeiron [3]

As Damien scoured the bookshelves, he found that there truly was knowledge about everything, from the history and powers structure of the world to the various occupations that people followed.

Another section of the bookshelves was wholly devoted to spatial affinity and the different methods of its utilization.

As Damien scoured the bookshelves, he noticed a section focused on beast taming. Looking at the wolf that was still peacefully sleeping on the floor, Damien thought it wouldn't be a bad idea to study up on this field.

Although most of the information he found was useless to him, who had no interest in taking beast taming as a profession, he found a certain ritual titled the 'Equal Blood Pact'.

This pact seemed to be perfect to use later, so he set it aside before he went on to read the information he found to be the most crucial.

As he read, Damien was pleasantly surprised. The world Damien is stranded in is called Apeiron and it's what could be considered a typical fantasy world.

Apparently, they had titled the system as the [Apeiron Records] and had changed the name of the world to match. Since he thought this name was cooler than just calling it 'the system', he decided to use it from now on.

This world awakened mana thousands of years ago and is ruled by 5 massive empires, the strongest of which is the Adelaire Empire, with around 1/3 of the land being a forested beast domain ruled by 4th class beasts who gained their human form.

There was also a plethora of other races inhabiting the world. Mainly elves, dwarves, and beastmen.

Each race had their own specialty and tended to seclude themselves from each other, but surprisingly, there wasn't a huge amount of racism between them.

There are also other peak powers like the adventurers guild, auxiliary guilds like the alchemist and forge master guilds and multiple merchant associations. Out of these powers, the adventurers guild is rumored to be the strongest, with a half-step demigod at its head.

As mentioned before, this world has several 4th class beings and they are considered the top tier of the world.

Ordinary civilians which make up a majority of the world's population hadn't achieved even their first-class yet, while 1st classes are the most common. Second-class individuals are usually considered around A and the lowest tier of S rank adventurers and third-class accounts for the S and SS rank.

There currently aren't any 5th class beings alive on the planet, but it's been said that there were one or two of them who resided here in the past.

5th class is considered as the demigod level, and the method of advancement to god level is only known by them. It's also fabled that most demigods choose to travel to the "Heavenly World" where all peak experts reside.

Reading this far, Damien decided to take a break before his head exploded from too much information. He found that the customs of this world aren't that different from Earth, but its hierarchy and strength were vastly different.

After all, even if he went back to Earth right now, Damien would be one of the strongest humans, but here, he was just another ant. Damien grinned at this thought.

Stronger opponents, better fights, and much more fun. This is what Damien had understood from the power scaling of the world.

Damien also found out through his reading that he was currently on the 39th floor, making the dragonoid beast, which he had now discovered was a wyvern, the 40th-floor boss.

'Damn! Did I climb to the 40th floor already? I swear the goblin king was the 10th-floor boss, but I guess it was the 20th. It seems the only reason it was so easy was because of the intense strengthening I got from my rampage.'

When he put some thought into it, started to make sense. The goblin king's physical trait that he had stolen was extremely useful against those on or lower than the level of the user. Even in his fight against the beast tide earlier, this ability alone had led to the deaths of a few beasts.

Now that another mystery was solved, the main question he had was about how much time had passed. After he entered the blood world, his sense of time had completely derailed. Putting this to the side, for now, Damien continued.

As Damien switched to reading about the auxiliary occupations, the wolf slowly woke up. When she did, she immediately jumped back and got into a battle-ready stance.

She didn't understand why she had allowed herself to fall asleep after everything that had been going on these past few days, but she wasn't ready to die yet.

Glancing around, she found herself in a strange environment, and soon, she saw a bipedal creature leisurely sitting in the distance. With this, her memory started flooding back to her.

From the events leading up to her meeting with Damien, all the way to the appearance of the wyvern and her passing out in his arm, she remembered it all. After receiving all the information, she lowered her guard ever so slightly.

After all, this being could have killed her multiple times over as she slept, but she could feel that she had barely even been touched.

Damien was so absorbed in his reading that he didn't notice any of this happening, but he soon finished his book and looked up, only to see another pair of eyes looking back at him.

"Oh, you're up?" Damien said in surprise. "Well, first things first, can you understand me?"

The wolf slowly nodded in acknowledgment.

Although Damien was a bit surprised by her intelligence, he didn't think it was crazy, after all, he had just learned of the existence of an entire nation of beasts whose leaders had even taken on human form.

Damien pondered for a bit and decided to be blunt. "This might be a bit sudden, but I want to for a pact with you. This pact will connect us and we will become companions from this day forth. So, what do you say?"

The wolf was a bit confused about some of the words Damien used, but she got the gist of the situation. Hearing that she would have to form some kind of bond with this creature she didn't know, she vehemently shook her head no.

"Okay, I understand your aversion, but hear me out. You have a plethora of beasts and that giant wyvern chasing you, and my goal is to kill that wyvern and the beasts stronger than it before leaving this dungeon." Damien coaxed.

"If we form this pact, we both have better chances of survival. Plus, when I go to the surface, I can take you with me. Haven't you ever been curious about what it looks like outside of these dreary cavern walls?"

Seeing that the wolf was still hesitant, Damien was even more convinced to take it as his beast companion. After all, this kind of cautious attitude is exactly what had helped him survive after his fall into the abyss.

Thinking this far, Damien continued to coax the wolf and attempt to persuade it.

The wolf fell into thought. She knew she couldn't survive alone due to the wyvern sensing her bloodline aura, so it would be best to gain help.

Plus, she was interested in what the bipedal beast had told her about a world outside of this cavern. Slowly, she nodded her head, expressing her agreement to the pact.

"Great!" Damien exclaimed as he grabbed the sheet of paper outlining the blood pact. After reading it over one more time, Damien spoke,

"It looks like all we have to do is take a drop of blood each and express our consent. The rest will be done by the system."

As they both did as he said, a system message popped up in front of Damien's eyes.

[Congratulations. You have formed a pact with an unnamed level 40 Fallen Wolf. As the first individual from the world [Earth] to accomplish such a feat, you have been awarded experience. Your legend has been enhanced.]

Along with this message, Damien felt a wave of foreign emotions. Uncertainty, doubt, curiosity, and most prominent, an intense will to survive.

The wolf felt a similar rush of emotions. From Damien, she felt worry, anxiety, determination, and an intense flame that shone with heat surpassing any sun that represented his will to survive.

As they shared emotions, Damien smiled. "Well, I guess it's time for introductions. My name is Damien Void, and it's a pleasure working with you."

The wolf felt a bit dazzled by this smile but was confused about what to say. Although she couldn't talk yet, she could convey her feelings to Damien through their pact.

Feeling her confusion, Damien shook his head in amusement and asked, "So, do you want me to name you, or do you want to do it yourself?"

The wolf's eyes brightened as she nodded, conveying her desire for a name unique to her.

Damien smiled once again. "Okay then, from this moment forth, you'll be called Zara."

Zara wagged her tail, conveying her satisfaction towards her new name as she walked forward and nuzzled up to Damien. Now that she could feel his emotions clearly, she had no reservations towards him.

Damien ran his hand through her soft fur as he fell into thought.

'Well then, I guess it's time for me to have my very first proper training montage.'


Kapitel 20: Elena [1]

Earth, within an unknown dungeon.

A girl with dark blue hair and matching eyes stood before a giant snake-like beast. Her eyes shone with a vicious light as she charged to face it head-on.

The snake held the human in contempt. She had come to his layer alone and expected to defeat him? He couldn't help but look down on her. As it opened its mouth, a stream of green gaseous substance poured out, heading straight for the girl.

However, she didn't stop her charge. A faint blue hue surrounded her body and she sped straight into the snake's breath. Before the snake could celebrate its easy victory, however, the girl emerged from the cloud and jumped towards the snake's head.

"Haa!"

With a spirited shout, she raised her sword, which was now covered in a blood-red hue, and swung.

"SKREE!"

The snake let out a shrill screech as a deep gash appeared on its body. However, it had lost its chance to do anything. The girl's speed suddenly multiplied as she moved around the snake's huge body and cut various gashes in its flesh.

After many minutes of this, with the snake being unable to even escape from this girl who had seemingly infinite stamina, a sword was plunged directly between its eyes. The snake, whose eyes were filled with unwillingness, slumped to the floor lifeless.

"Haa…haa…" The girl panted as she wiped the blood off her sword. Feeling the new levels of power coursing through her body, she checked her status

'Status'

[Status]

[Elena Pierce]

Human

Female - Age 18

Level 65 - [War Maiden]

Experience value: 20,100/68,000

Title(s): [N/A]

Affinities: Light, Life

Physique: None

Magic Power: 1200

STR: 180

AGI: 190

DEF: 175

INT: 195

DEX: 185

Skills: [Recovery Level 4], [Holy Magic Level 1], [Regeneration Level 5], [Sword Mastery Level 5], [Judgement Level 6]

Although she was satisfied with her strength, she thought she wasn't improving fast enough.

'It's been one and a half years since Damien disappeared, and in this time I've only gained around 30 levels. While this speed is extraordinary in comparison to the other 'geniuses' I've seen, it doesn't feel like it's enough.'

Although she couldn't explain it, she had always had a feeling that she should be leveling up faster. This feeling was similar to the one that told her Damien was alive.

She may have been hallucinating, but she truly felt as if there was a faint link between them, allowing her to know if she could keep up or not.

Around 5 days after Damien's disappearance, she felt an intense stinging sensation in her heart, and when it vanished, she felt like she could no longer sit still. She started covertly going to any available gates that could make her stronger and leveling up like crazy.

Her guild also became a problem due to this. She spent all of her time either inside of a dungeon or visiting Damien's mother, so she became relatively unreachable, and the guild began berating her for it.

They had also begun pressuring her to partner with Jin in various publicity stunts and dungeon raids, but she vehemently refused. It seemed that the guild itself had been bought out by the Horten conglomerate and had become their dogs.

With Jin's active pursuit of her never ceasing, and even getting worse once he had her guild's backing, Elena decided she'd had enough. She entirely left the guild and acted solo.

Luckily, anyone could earn money through hunting beasts, and their corpses could be sold in various subsidiaries of the Guild Association, which had long cemented its reputation and status that was above any other organization in the world.

Elena was pissed, but she couldn't do anything about it, so she hid her strength and continued to level up. In the world's eye, however, she had stopped her action as a hunter due to the grief of her friend's death.

Elena put her hood up to hide her face and stealthily exited the dungeon, heading to the hospital once again to have idle talk with Damien's mother.

Although she was unresponsive, her presence was enough to remind Elena of Damien. As Elena entered the hospital room that looked just the same as it always did, one of the clerks at the front desk subtly grabbed her phone and made a call.

"Yes sir," she said, "the woman you were talking about has just entered the hospital."

On the other side of the line was a relatively handsome man, whose twisted expression completely ruined his face. After ending the call, Jin smashed his phone on the floor.

'Dammit! That slut is still over there taking care of that bastard's mom! How does she even get the money for it? Hmph, she's probably selling her body like the whore she is!'

Jin's expression became more and more menacing as time passed, and his aura began to leak, forcing his assistants and bodyguards to make distance.

'Well, it doesn't matter anymore then. If she's already letting others have a taste, it doesn't matter if I get a little forceful. Hehe, yes she hadn't even leveled up since she left the guild, she'll be easy prey.'

Jin smiled wickedly and stood up. "All of you, don't follow me. This young master is going to have some fun tonight."

Stuck in his delusions of tasting Elena's body, which he had been chasing for the past year and a half, Jin failed to notice the ominous air that was revolving around him.

Back in the hospital room, Elena was making idle talk to Damien's mother, telling her of the events that were taking place in the world.

"Stronger gates have been showing up recently, and some are even so strong that only our peak experts can close them. Luckily for me though, these gates are the ones that help me level up the fastest." Elena said before switching the topic.

"Oh, I also heard that the guy with raisin manipulation has become a multi-millionaire through reality tv. Isn't it crazy that even a power as stupid as raisin manipulation can make you rich? I guess the world will always love its comedy and stupidity."

The "Raisin Game", as it was titled, was one of the most popular shows on the internet at the moment. As the threat of gates and monsters started to become more serious, the common populace turned to shows like this to negate their worries.

After all, it was a man who had been stuck with the sad fate of having useless powers but had been creative enough to raise his fame and status until he was at the top. Humans will always love a good underdog story.

However, this was only entertainment for the common populace. Among those who sought power, the most trending topic was about a certain Japanese man named Fujimura Ryutaro.

Even before the World Awakening, Ryutaro was a famous swordsman who had practiced throughout his life. Once mana was introduced, he had continued on this path.

He had risen to prominence and become one of Japan's most talented hunters, and now, after six and a half years, he had achieved a groundbreaking feat.

Ryutaro had raised his Sword Mastery skill, which was common among those who had even slight attainments in swordsmanship, to level 10 and unlocked something he called 'Sword Aura'.

Sword Aura was a widely known concept to those who had ever been engrossed in the fantasy genre, and its discovery had rocked the world.

After all, if concepts that were only prominent in fiction turned out to be real, did that mean that humanity on Earth had already been in contact with mana before, or was the human psyche already prepped by the system to adapt to mana beforehand?

Many scientific studies had been started due to this discovery, and humanity was starting to enter a new age.

After getting this far, Elena decided it was time for her to leave. She had already been ranting for many hours and felt that any more would be embarrassing.

After Elena left, the shadows that lurked in the corners of the room converged into the form of a man.

The man, whose features were obscured behind a veil of shadows, had a mystifying presence. It was as if he both existed and didn't exist in reality. He walked up to the bed and stared at Damien's mother for a few long minutes before heaving a sigh.

"Claire, I'm sorry you had to end up in this condition. If his birth didn't sap all the mana in your body you'd be living comfortably, but I know that neither of us would want it that way. Even if I can't be there to watch over him, he's my pride and joy." As he spoke, the man's body began to fade.

"Just wait a bit longer. I can feel his presence in a world nearby. I believe he'll return soon and wake you up. As long as that stupid brat listened to the things I taught him when he was young, he'll be fine."

Suddenly, a nurse entered the room.

"Hello? Is anyone there?" She had thought she heard voices through the door, but visiting hours were long past over.

However, when she entered, she saw nothing but a sleeping patient and curtains blowing softly in the wind.

The shadowy figure had vanished as if it never existed in the first place.


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