Sorry for not updating yesterday I had other things to do and didn't have time.
enjoy the chapter.
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These two months of waiting were not as bad as I imagined. I thought that I would need to cause some mayhem to satiate my hunger.
But I found a way to not kill and torture thousands of innocents each time I want a little snack. It happened one week after I took control of Manelas. I was going to exterminate some village in a neighboring country when I ran into one of the idiots.
Now that would normally not be a problem, but he started to praise me to death, saying that there was no equal to my strength and beauty. The final straw was when he said even the true dragon should bow down to me. I immediately killed him.
But the idiot's death wasn't for nothing, I discovered that when I kill someone directly, I get their soul. But the true incredible thing is that I also get much more emotion than what I normally get since I get the emotion directly from the soul.
With this method I can get around a hundred times the amount I get by simply eating the surface emotion of someone, and that was one soul of a person I controlled, so with emotions tainted, the emotions of someone that I don't control should be even better.
So I tested, and bingo, I could be satisfied by killing around fifty people each week. These sacrifices gave me around the same amount as the extermination of two villages by a third party. Not as much as a fight against Luminous, but still satisfactory.
So that got me thinking. Can't I collect the souls of the dead during the war? I passed the two months waiting, creating a method to collect all the souls of the fight, and found a method.
By applying the effect of my aura and unique skill in a magic circle, I can make all the souls in the battlefield naturally converge toward it. So I will get all the souls in war, and they will strengthen me. I may even be able to evolve like that.
But enough reminiscing about the past. The armies of the three kingdoms are preparing to charge each other. I am currently standing above the battlefield in the magic circle that will attract all the souls. The succubus are also here, they are dispatched around to get all the residual emotion of the battle, and for my daughters to also take in maximum emotions for eating later.
The method to eat emotion directly from the soul doesn't work with the other succubus. They get the soul from the one they kill, but they can't suck out the emotion out of them. When I tested her, the one who did it started to go mad and attacked everyone around her. I was forced to use "Eternal Bliss" to suck the excess emotion out of her.
It seems that they can only eat emotion of the soul gradually, so the safest method for them is to eat the residual emotion and just stockpile emotion of the soul if they need it one day.
""""WAAAHHH!!!""""
Well, it seems the battle has begun. They are really going at it. It's only the first wave that is constituted of the cannon fodder. People are already dying. The cries of rage of the people in the battlefield are delicious.
I may have found that I can get far more emotion with their dead souls, but the state in which a person died is important. It's best if the person dies in a moment of intense emotions, like in a war.
As I reveal in the emotion of the dead souls, the humans on the ground seem to be getting serious. The mages on all sides have finished their spells and are now hurling them at each other.
"BOOM!"
Both sides take enormous damage, and the neatly formed lines of attack have transformed into disorganized groups of people who attack everyone that does look like an enemy.
The generals of each army are trying to reform the lines, but it doesn't seem to work. The battlefield is now transformed into a giant brawl. I honestly don't care, it is even better like this. The humans are dying with even more rage and desperation.
But it seemed that both sides had had enough, it had been three hours since the start of the battle, and 40% of the soldiers had died, with no victor in sight.
So to conclude the battle, each army ordered their stronger fighter. From my side it is the otherworlder, he is honestly not bad. He even has a unique skill called radiance. Apparently it permits him to give his attack the holy element and to use some holy magic even without worshipping a god.
But honestly, he is not really impressive. He has around the same level of strength as Shiro. But like practically all other otherworlders, he relies only on his unique skill and never bothers to train it, so Shiro would be able to easily defeat him.
The strongest in the other army are also advancing, they at least seem to have some real training. But they don't have as much energy as the otherworlder or a unique skill, so the two sides are evenly matched.
As they start to fight, the stray attacks they launch left and right are hitting the soldiers, especially the guy on our side seems to only know how to launch massive slashes of holy light left and right, killing people of each army without distinction.
Their fight goes on for one hour, in the meantime, the soldiers have decided that it was a good idea to retreat even against the direct order of their superior. Good thinking honestly, being dead is worse than disobeying someone, and if everyone does it, they can't really punish everyone.
In the meantime, the fight of the three strong ones is coming to an end. The two from the other side are bleeding everywhere. The otherworlder, on the other hand, is exhausted, but he can heal himself with holy magic, so he has no injury.
The battle seems to have come to an end now there probably be negotiations to decide on a ceasefire and what the territory that will be given to the victor is.
But that won't be fun, and I just need a little push to evolve, I can sense it.
So I decide to reveal myself to everyone. I dispel the magic that was hiding me and blast a part of my magic aura just enough to get everyone's attention and spook them a little.
It seems to work, as everyone is looking at me now, the soldier trembling in their boot, and the three guys that were battling just a moment ago are on edge and preparing to fight me.
"I need to thank you all, the meal you provided was quite exquisite. But all good things come to an end, so you will all die today."
"What do you mean!? Were you the one behind this war!? You demon! Do you really think you can kill us all!?"
"Yes and yes. Honestly, I normally don't lower myself to kill you. I will ask one of my subordinates to do it, but I need to do it myself for reasons that don't concern you. And Will, I am here. Attention to all succubus get away from me, around 4 kilometers should be good."
"You are taking your desire for reality! I am Ken Tsugochi! The radiant swordsman prepared to meet your creator, you evil demon!"
As the guy with a hero complex was trying to attack me with Flying Slash, he didn't even manage to hit me with the barrier I have placed on me. I thought of the perfect spell to kill them all.
You see, during my training I have come across the perfect magic for me. Powerful, deadly, and capable of doing damage to even the strongest person in this world if you pump enough magic into it and they aren't protected by a barrier. A little problem taken care of by my unique skill. Nuclear magic.
It is a truly fascinating form of magic. I mean, who wouldn't want to launch a nuke at people? But it is also extremely complicated to use. The basic spell nuclear cannon was easy, but even I, with my absurd mana control, had to train for a week to master the other magic, like death streak or gravity collapse. I didn't even learn the advanced version, Abyss Annihilation.
As I was thinking of the perfect spell to kill them all, it seemed that the others had decided to follow in the steps of the hero and attack me. I don't mind the barrier surrounding me can only be breached by someone that is of equal power to me or has better magic control. It's a very basic barrier, but with my control, it basically means that, apart from people on my level, no one can touch me, except the one that has a skill permitting them to ignore it.
The look of despair as they realize they can't even touch me is almost cute, but I need to put them down. It is for the general good, and by that I mean my good.
So, Death Streak is a no-go, as it could damage their souls, Gravity Collapse would be fun but would be overkill, and Nuclear Cannon is too basic and inefficient when killing many people.
As I look at my options, I find the perfect one. A large zone of death, flashy in its preparation to make everyone more afraid, and the human knows what it is, so even more despair.
I raise my hand above me and start to create an Abyss core inside it. The humans sensing the massive energy that I am gathering start running away, but it's too late. I point my hand down, and I launch the abyss core before igniting it as it touches the ground. All humans are engulfed in the nuclear flame.
I can feel their souls rushing toward me and their emotion completing me as I feel myself being enveloped in purple energy like the first time I evolved.
Reforming the host into a spiritual lifeform...
Successful.
Acquired natural effect resistance.
Thermal fluctuation resistance has been combined with natural effect resistance.
Acquired pain immunity.
Acquired physical attack immunity.
Evolving ultra-speed regeneration into godspeed regeneration.
Evolving Unique skill: joy into
unique skill: happiness.
Evolution from great succubus to high succubus successful.
When I opened my eyes, I felt that my body was different, like I no longer needed it to survive and could think with only my soul.
It is truly a bizarre sensation, like I was a prisoner of something before and I didn't even realize it. Not to say I will leave my body. I very much like it, and with all the evolution, it has become incredibly resistant, not to mention the compatibility that it has with me as the original body.
I looked around. The ground was black for four kilometers, the air had been totally burned, and there was no sign of the bodies of the humans, as they had been reduced to ashes.
All the succubi were coming toward me now that they no longer risked being vaporized.
"Lady Lilith, congratulations on your evolution. You are even more beautiful than before." I looked at myself, my body had some changes. The first one was my wing. I got another pair on my lower back, just on top of my first pair.
I also had gained a few centimeters. I was 1 meter 75 (5 feet 9), and now I am 1 meter 80 (5 feet 11), but apart from that, nothing really changed. The changes were more in my abilities.
First, I have gained natural effect resistance, the superior resistance to all elemental resistance. It procures a global resistance to all elements under a certain threshold.
Pain nullification permits me to ignore all the effects of physical pain. Now only a direct attack to the soul, like the one of Luminous, can cause me pain.
There is also physical attack resistance. With all these resistances, I guess that my barrier had become obsolete. My resistance will take care of all the attacks better than my barrier. I guess that I will need to upgrade it.
But more important is my unique skill. Joy has evolved into happiness. Its capabilities had been upgraded. Joyful boosts have become happiness boosts. It can now raise my strength up to 70 percent and my regeneration even more. In combination with godspeed regeneration, I can basically regenerate instantly from any attack.
The other two had been strengthened too, but the better boost is my new ability, desire for happiness. It permits me to establish a connection to all my subordinates that are happy with serving me and to take the energy of their happiness to empower me or to give them energy to empower them.
It is basically a faith system based on happiness. The more my subjects are happy the more I become powerful. But it has some inconveniences, like even if it resembles a faith system, it is not one, so there is no holy magic by just being in the connection.
I would need to set up a whole worship system for that, and honestly, it is too much work for a magic I bet I could learn without becoming the goddess of a cult.
The succubus were bombarding me with questions like, "What is your new race?"
"How much did your power augment compared to before?" Or even. "Are you the one who has caused this war in the humans kingdom?"
'...Uhh... Wait a minute. Who is asking this question? And why didn't I feel his presence when he was literally just behind?'
I turn my head and see a man. He has a chiseled body that can be seen through the opening in his jacket. He has a handsome visage that radiates pride, but most notable is his long hair that is a deep red, even crimson.