Countdown: 6208 days left to.....

Ever since he left his village Aku has been on the road traveling with only his most important items on him for a day now with no villages in sight the cause Is unknown last he heard there were plenty of other villages near his every day when he came to his training grounds he could see villages in the distance, now it was as though they just went up and disappeared adding onto that the burning hot sun hanging over him he's been tempted to head back home but has resisted due to not wanting to be responsible for any of those he lived with these couple of years to die, of course if it came down to his life or theirs he would sacrifice them in a heartbeat in his eyes it was like comparing an animal to a humans life his was worth much more, still he would rather not have that karma to bite him in the ass later, he learned that from his old life when that woman killed him.

'*sigh* This journey is such a bore unlike what those disgusting Otakus in my old world lead you to believe a world filled with magic isn't as wonderful and special as they make it out to be, it smells like shit and there are man eating beasts all over the place, I was hoping to enjoy the comfort of my village for a couple more years into I slept with every beautiful woman in the village unfortunately that demon attacked good fortune just refuses to last, well no point in crying over it I might as try to enjoy the warm air a bit.'

With that Aku rested near a tree opening the book filled with secrets about the demons race, as he was reading he saw some words that surprised him.

'It can't be....to think that such an easy way to increase the limit of spiritual essence exists, it seems that demons are given a way to increase their limit of spiritual essence given to them by birth through a contract, it works like this the more limitations placed upon oneself is the more spiritual essence one can gain still there are penalties to using such a method as this, I'll give one example let's say a demon puts a limitation upon themselves if someone were to learn their true name then they would have to obey any orders given to them it may offer a good reward but the risks are too great if such a thing happened you would be unable to gain your freedom forced to live the rest of your life as a slave.'

'It seems tempting but I would rather not have such a weakness to worry about, it may take more time but with the black heart I should be able to absorb more than enough souls that this method could offer me.'

After scanning through the book a bit more seeing nothing noteworthy expect useless information about some demon named The World Eater he decided to take a nap.

While he was starting to drift to the world of darkness he could feel that Red Energy from Caladbolg invading his body it was closing in on his heart burning his insides more and more, in response he sent his blue orbs directly towards it due to the two energies conflicting with each other he found out who this energy that invaded his body belonged to, it was linked to that Overlord Somo who he killed his best guest was he gained it when he sliced open the Serpent, yet he felt this energy invade his body before he passed out therefore piecing together that the Serpent said the words he was finally free and The Priest from his village telling him that it came out of the newly gained Tattoo on his body, Overlord Somo was sealed in Caladbolg the reason most likely involves The Black Heart as for the threat this Red Energy poses it should be harmless as long as he absorbs The Red Energy completely.

It took him 2 hours to drain that energy completely of any influence Overlord Somo had over it the finished result was sparking green energy orbs giving off the feeling of deadly poison, within a minute a blue window popped up in his face.

New Skill Gained: Soul Venom.

'Inspect.'

Those weaker than the User affected by this Deadly Poison will have their soul erased in an instant otherwise weaken or paralysis targets nerves. (2 minute cool-down.)

'Hmm, interesting a poison that affects the soul huh? Must be the reason all those priests were killed without that Overlord moving the poison probably isn't viable to the naked eye as it targets the soul itself well no better way to find out than to test it for myself.'

Within minutes he was wide awake ready to satisfy his curiosity he went deeper into the forests searching for a wide animal or monster to test this new skill of his on, so far he wasn't lucky finding no beasts nor monsters in sight, this carried on for 10 minutes or so into he heard a scream the high pitched voice most likely belonged to a female.

From his calculations the shout could be heard from the north, thinking this was the perfect chance to test his new skill and to potentially meet a beauty he went towards the scream immediately dashing through the forest as fast as possible he stopped as he heard voices, hiding himself quickly behind a rock he saw old men in white and blue robes chanting with a beautiful snow white haired youth with ice blue eyes in the center of some magic circle one after another the priest would drop blood onto the magic circle and it would glow brighter and brighter, Aku not wanting to find out the result of this spell decided to test the waters with Soul Venom if they died then that was a good result otherwise he would know what to expect out of their strength.

His eyes like Overlord Somo became filled with blood lust sending his attack towards the priest about to stab his hand it shattered his soul into thousands of pieces the priests eyes went completely white as his lifeless body crashed onto the ground, the other priest weren't even able to react as Aku speed made him too fast to counter against slicing through them one after another Caladbolg draining them of their blood, Aku of course made sure to leave one alive to question still in the back of his mind he was surprised by his sudden increase of speed since yesterday.

'Hm it seems that I can only target a single person at once anymore and it lowers in power I'll have to experiment some more with Soul Venom later, for now I should tie this priest up with cloth and speak to that lady over there from what I can tell she should be a bit younger than me.'

Just as he was about to tie the priest up the moment he touched him he had a headache he kept having images flash in his eyes there was an angel with a heavenly smile and long white hair standing over top of a devilish red haired demon preparing to finish him off with a sword attack suddenly before the attack hit everything turned white and he was back in the forest, having no idea what he saw he decided now was not the time to go over the images he saw and to quickly tie this man up before he wakes.

Checking that the man was wrapped tight in the ropes he went to the girl who was in that magic circle, the girl had long eyelashes, and pink lips that sucked you in even with the small amounts of dirt on her face it didn't lower her beauty a bit under it you could even see a mole on her cheek compared to some of the other girls he met in this life she was one of the prettiest.

Forcing himself to stop looking at her he gathered firewood immediately starting a fire putting her near it to keep her warm after finishing with that he went towards that priest with a long beard slapping him into he woke up the priest slowly bought his face up and looked at the young boy with taints of red in his hair, the priest staring at the boy almost had a heart attack looking into those golden eyes of his.

“Who are you? And what were you planning to do with that girl over there?”

The priest didn't answer only staring at him.

*punch*

“Argh!”

Aku with a merciless expression on his face kept punching the priest into he felt like answering him.

“Please....stop I'll answer you.”

Aku stopped punching him with a pleased expression on his face this priest was quite lucky if he didn't answer within the next two minutes Aku would have started to remove fingers doing this got him to remember back to how he got information out of gangsters who were sent to teach him a lesson in his old life of course they only walked away with a missing nose or ear.

“Then....what are you waiting for get to it.”

After the priest calmed himself down he told Aku what he and the others with him were trying to do with the child.

“I and my fellow priests belong to The Cult of Rotrazen ruled by The All Knowing Emperor himself we were ordered to use the spell taught to us 2 years ago on this child here by our superior.”

'Aku inwardly wondered why would a Cult ruled by an Emperor go through all this effort to use a spell on a mere child younger than himself and who gave the order exactly?'

“Who gave you the order? And what does the spell do?”

“It was...”

As the priest was about to give the name his body suddenly exploded with blood and guts going all over the place.

'Damn, I should have knew that the one who gave the order would have a spell encase this foolish priest spilled the beans still I wonder if that girl knows anything about why these priests came after her.'

Changing back to normal his eyes returned to their normal color while his horns disappeared, resting his eyes for a bit he drifted to the realm of darkness.

15 hours later

Countdown: 6207 days left to.....

Waking up he noticed that the girl who was laying near the fire disappeared as he was about to go searching he could hear the sound of someone moving around in water going near the source he saw a lake in the middle was a snow white haired youth cleaning their body and hair Aku would usually be excited seeing a naked lady yet....something was wrong here.

'Impossible it can't be.....that's a boy!'

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