'Ah, kill ! That was too embarrassing! Who talks like that!?'
After dealing with Matthew I was returning to the lake of purity. But the events that occurred in the past few minutes kept replaying in my mind. It made my face burn from sha!
'Speak. I shall decide your fate after listening to your words.'
'Ahhhhh! It would've been fine if I spoke those words jokingly, but I did not! I was serious back then!'
Is this what they call 8th-grade syndro? Just thinking of the words I spoke to Matthew was sending goosebumps across my body.
'I need to find a way to stop the discrepancy between my intentions and my actual words! Or, everything I speak in the future will beco a black history like today!'
It took a few dozen minutes to calm down. With that, I rearranged the order of events in my mind.
'I wasn't able to read Matthew's mind as I could do originally. He was under soone's control.'
Reader attribute didn't give a proper mind-reading ability. It only allowed to read snippets of soone's intentions and thoughts. Also, if a person had good control over their expression, habits, or subconscious actions, they can fool my Reader Attribute.
In the past, I could read Matthew's intentions albeit barely. But today, I couldn't do that at all. It was similar to how I couldn't read Varnish's thoughts yesterday, when he ca to disturb and Lumine over dinner.
'Like I thought, soone had been following my every movent since the beginning. I don't know if I should be happy or sad though.'
'Well, I should be happy right? After all, soone admires so much that they are sacrificing their sleep to watch over . What a good fan, but …sniff sniff… I'm sorry, my fan. I can't answer your love.'
Imaginary tears slid down my cheeks as I realized how heartbroken my fan would be if they knew my thoughts.
As for realizing the existence of my fan, it wasn't really that hard.
After my first baby tarantula died in the Lionel Estate, I was aware that soone might have seen it. Nevertheless, at that point, I couldn't be sure that soone connected the spider with . I wanted an answer to that but I had no chance to do that.
The chance did co, however. It was the spar I had with Matthew. I realized that I could use this chance to see if soone was keeping an eye on .
I could've rejected the spar or lost, but I purposely acted unlike my previous self and won. My actions that were different from my previous self served to make the ones following suspicious.
At the sa ti, 2 baby tarantulas that I used in the town died. This reaffird my doubts about soone monitoring .
Baby tarantula can only be killed by soone of 1st Mortal Awakening or higher. However, knights are rare and baby tarantulas' description explicitly said that they avoid danger.
It was too coincidental that a knight of the Rapthial Town found the baby tarantulas in such a big town and killed them all while the two baby tarantulas were unable to escape.
The one who killed wasn't a knight.
What confird my doubts was Varnish resisting Lumine's charm. It was only possible if the one controlling Varnish had a higher rank than Lumine.
In short, I purposely acted differently in the Raphtial Town to pull those hiding in shadow into the light. And it worked wonders. They took the bait and used the situation I set up to see if I was actually different from my past self.
'The one following has to be soone among those 7: The 5 Daemons in my family, lione, or the one who poisoned during the banquet.'
'If I go through the process of elimination, it can't be lione, Yula, or the one who poisoned .'
Yula, my personal maid, would be busy creating the map I told her to. A map with the requirents I asked for wouldn't be available even in the black market. It had to be done by Yula personally. She won't have ti to follow .
lione was a goddess originally. But after reincarnating with she must've lost her abilities. Of course, I can't be sure until I et her. However, looking at the ti I spent with her, I can confidently say that she isn't bright enough to make a plan to test . She seed like soone who would head first into a problem and think of the solution later.
As for the one who poisoned at the banquet, they should've already killed in this forest. Since I was alive, thus my fan was soone else.
'It is probably Jared who is following alone, or all the daemons have a hand in it.'
Jared was a special case even among the Daemons. He was one of the two direct aides of Solomon. It was possible that he knew more than the other daemons and had reasons for keeping an eye on . As for the 2nd aide, they never appeared in the novel nor was their identity ever revealed.
'Well, they can watch all they want. After all, they can't harm after knowing that I have an ability similar to Solomon.'
My summoning was similar to Life Creation. This was why I had been flaunting my ability inside the forest. The daemons who are fanatics of Solomon will hesitate before harming .
This won't work in the long run, I knew that. The daemons will eventually intervene personally. Nevertheless, it was enough as long as this trick gives a few months of ti.
'That's it about those thoughts! Let's focus on this!'
A screen was flickering in front of .
|| User has eliminated Matthew Gosen, 2nd Mortal Awakening ||
|| 1 Soul Point ||
Back when I killed Matthew I didn't receive Life Points but sothing called Soul Point. This was a first for too, so I was also confused.
'What is a Soul Point?'
The screen before changed as if answering .
|| Soul Points are the currency the user can receive from eliminating survivors. ||
'And what is a survivor?'
|| Survivor: The term used to refer to the residents of the 7 worlds that will serve as the foundation after the Coalescence. ||
'The 7 worlds that will serve as the foundation are the worlds that have yet to fall to the Apocalypse.'
'I don't know the use of Soul Point, but I don't think they would be useless. And I can get Soul Points by killing the residents of the 7 worlds.'
I nodded to myself.
'Is it just or is my ability telling to murder people to get stronger? Isn't that the job of the Apocalypse? Why ?'
Ding!
|| User has t the hidden requirent to unlock the Occupation advancent quest! ||
|| Hidden requirent to unlock Occupation Advancent quest: Soul Point ||
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Occupation Advancent Quest!
Requirent: Destroy the cores of the 7 world spirits that serve as the base worlds. A World Spirit is the governing entity of a world. Your quest to destroy their cores and kill them.
Reward: Occupation - [Demon King of End]
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I took a deep breath and reread the quest.
'Base worlds' was another term for the 7 surviving worlds. World Spirit is the entity that supervises the records of a world. Only the worlds that haven't fallen to an Apocalypse have a World Spirit. If all world spirits died, then the multiverse would also die.
At this mont, only 7 world spirits are remaining. And my quest was to kill them.
'Yep, it is asking to beco an Apocalypse.'
I closed the quest window with a smile. If the multiverse died then where am I supposed to live!? Also, I was a pure soul who couldn't harm an ant, let alone becoming the source of mass genocide. My heart was too fragile for sothing so cruel!
'Sigh, so are Soul Points useless?'
Ding!
|| Detected Soul Point with user ||
"What is this?"
|| Would you like to unlock the hidden avenue [Soul Avenue]? ||
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"He killed Matthew without hesitation~"
A figure was watching over Sol's retreating figure. He was sitting on a branch at the top of the tree hundreds of ters away from Sol. Yet, he could see every movent of Sol clearly.
"It was a good choice to have those two knights target Sol after manipulating them. They helped analyze a good amount of data."
He smacked his lips and a smile blossod on his face.
"Extre change in behavior, no sign of recovering King Solomon's mory, black hair, and an ability similar to life creation or maybe it is life creation. My dear little brother, didn't you change too much too quickly?"
Unlike other Daemons, Jared never once believed that Sol was Solomon. To confirm his doubts, he manipulated Varnish and Matthew into attacking Sol. The two knights, Varnish and Matthew, didn't even know that their thoughts were being influenced by a third party.
It was even easier to get the answers out of Sol. It seed Sol was impatient to grow strong because he knew about the Daemons possessing his family. Or else Sol wouldn't be exposing his ability inside the forest. After all, there was no guarantee that no one was following him.
"He is quick-witted to realize that Matthew would also target him inside the forest. But sadly, he doesn't know about . If not, he wouldn't be showing all his cards out in the open."
Under Jared's gaze, Sol reentered the lake. Sol had recently broken through to the 2nd Mortal Awakening, and he was already trying to advance as much as possible before moving toward the middle section of the forest.
"Everything is happening as King Solomon had predicted~ His soul piece inside that body was destroyed and the body's original owner took control. He also gained his majesty's abilities to an extent."
He stood up and stretched.
"Well, his majesty had prepared a backup plan if those predictions were to co true. I should get going and retrieve the black skeleton before returning to monitor Sol."
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