raedoPraedo now had three ranks under him, he had the enforcers that were mainly focused on pure brutal combat and now seemed like a good choice for cannon fodder when he was going to proper war with the world. Then there were the dear harvesters that supplied him his Despair Essence by torturing their victims as well as killing, even though straight killing their victim swiftly awarded less despair energy than the good old torture way.

Praedo looked over his shoulder to the grinning monstrosity that was standing at his side. the smiley hasn't been tested yet but it must be good! well, it fucking better be as it was the result of ten thousand enforcers...

Praedo continued playing with the golden ball in his hands, he had been playing around with molding his own mass since he gained the despair energy. and he has made some discoveries! he could eject about a kilo worth of mass off his body without consequence as the golden tendrils regenerated at a frightening pace. and if he ejected despair energy out of his left hand into the ejected mass, he would have something akin to telekinesis! as he could control the ejected essence and make it fuse with the ejected mass. making the ball of golden tendrils into something akin to an extra limb.

the only thing he hadn't tested was the potential range and damage he could do with this, thinking this far, Praedo turned around and looked at a Harvester in the distance, the minion was standing about 100 meters away keeping guard.

The golden wriggling ball floated slowly up above Praedo´s head, then boosted towards the Harvester so fast that a small sonic boom blasted out behind it, as the golden blur almost teleported from Praedo´s hand to the head of the harvester, then slammed into the Harvester, blasting it to a black mist.

upon seeing this Praedo smiled in satisfaction, then willed the ball to transform into a wriggling mess of tendrils and absorb the remains of the harvester.

When the energy of the harvester entered the tendrils, Praedo noticed a rush of strength from His symbol of power, he lifted his hand up to his face, studying the smiley absorbing the crying face emojis, and he noticed that the tendrils in the background were slightly more vivid.

"Seems like I just found a new way to power" Praedo was overjoyed as this also solved his issue of the early army! he immediately willed every single minion of his except 10 harvesters and the smiley to come to him.

needless to say, he brutally killed them all, leaving 10 harvesters and his smiley alive while he was absorbing the Despair essence from his now late minions.

looking down at his symbol of power tattoo, the tendrils had grown about 3 shades blacker and had grown from his palm up to his wrist, coiling like an intricate bracelet,

"well that looks tough, but what is my benefit now?" he started to inspect everything about his body but couldn't seem to find what was different except for the initial rush of strength.

The smiley observed his master´s antic´s then advised with the everlasting grin on his face

"Maybe master needs to check his current true form instead of the human form?"

*Facepalm*

Praedo looked over at smiley with a grateful expression while blood covered his entire face due to his now Voldemort nose and cracked cheekbones.

The golden tendrils sprouted out of his symbol of power and quickly enveloped his entire body as he started growing, but instead of stopping at his normal 5 meters, he went past it and soared to a pleasant 5,5. it doesn't sound like much but Praedo was pretty happy with it.

He then proceeded to test his strength by grabbing onto the nearest Harvester´s head, then proceeded to gently lift it up to eye level, or at least that's what he tried to do as the head sure as fuck got to eye level, but the Harvesters body slumped down onto the ground.

"Well holy fuck! I'm strong as shit!" Praedo started giggling out of control and opened his mouth, eating the head of the harvester as his leg stomped the rest of its body to mist, then consumed that as well.

"Time to have some personal fun!"

Praedo simply stomped the ground and shot off in the distance, leaving behind a crater as well as his minions.

"Master sure is excited " Smiley snickered as he boosted after him followed by the remaining Harvesters.

Praedo swiftly arrived at the neighboring town, he smiled as he slowed down and entered the sleeping town.

*ROOOOAAAAR*

"Ming! get away!"

as soon as Praedo entered he witnessed a group of tigers slaughtering the helpless town people, there were already a ton of dismembered limbs and intestines laying spread all around the city.

"Awh, there are cute kittens here!" Praedo giggled as he started walking towards the most focused group of Tigers.

everything from the screaming and the roaring stopped up, as a 5,5-meter tall golden monster approached them.

The Tigers were horrified as their most primal instincts were screaming at them to run away but they were frozen stiff, the surrounding humans were even more frightened as what was casually walking up to them looked like a monster from their worst nightmare,

then the monster opened its mouth while staring adoringly at the tigers

"Look at all those cute kitty cats! are they your´s? let me pet them! can I pretty pwease pet the kitties???"

the villagers were shocked, this terrifying monster wanted to pet tigers? could he be mentally retarded?

as the villagers were pondering in their hearts, Praedo started walking towards the terrified tigers, he swiftly picked one up and started cooing at it in a baby voice...

"you are such a cute kitty! yes you are! oh yes you are!"

the villagers got even more horrified as the monster had squished the tiger to death, and was now cuddling its mushed corpse...