1699 Skill Ownership
"Hmm. My current wealth should be enough to get the Skills I want."
Eren concluded as he looked at the number of naka's Runes on his Spectral Screen. He then sighed at the fact that he had been working hard to earn sothing he couldn't even touch with his own hands.
"This virtual wealth feels like one huge scam to ," he mumbled to himself. He beca kinda hosick as he rembered how wealthy he had been in Anfang.
His howorld had tangible wealth. For all the benefits the sh provided to him, this was sothing Labh Salem couldn't give him. Not really.
Labh Salem liberated his actions. But he felt like this world had trapped his mind sowhere, forcing him to run after sothing he could only see as digits on a Spectral Screen.
"When in Ro do as the Romans do, huh? Instead of fighting it, I better find ways to exploit this system and make it work in my favor. That fat bird surely had so weirdly wise things to say."
Eren smiled as he rembered sothing Argo used to tell him. He wondered if he would get to et him ever again in a different form.
"Maybe the concept of money itself is made up, a fabric of one's imagination. It feels real because we give it value. And as long as we keep on doing that, it is as real as the elents of the world. And that's what matters in the end."
The Skills Eren had used to clear the entire den of demonic entities were his borrowed might. It had been lent to him by the sh because of his special status as the Inheritor of the Elder Ichor Bloodline. It also helped that Beelzebub, the facilitator of these Skills, was on Eren's side.
The Skills that dabbled with the Existential Concepts of the boundless cosmos were not sothing one could use just because they had a buttload of naka's Runes. They broke the common sense and well-established order of the sh. As such, they couldn't be owned permanently by Eren with his current form either.
The sole reason Eren had invested a substantial amount of naka's Runes to borrow these Skills was because he had deed it to be a profitable endeavor should he succeed in clearing the den all by himself. Plus, he wanted to see how the Skills utilized the Existential Concepts through the sh.
The Ishgaar's Templars had already started looking at him as if he was crazy for trying to take one bold mission after another. However, they called him a madman when they learned that he was planning to clear a demonic den all by himself.
Jivem was very happy with Eren's performance. He had offered him an attractive position within the ranks of Ishgaar's Templars. However, Eren seed to be only interested in working for the temple as a rcenary.
Eren had co to realize that there was a reason behind the increased demonic activities all across the continent of Onianum. This was because of a legend that stated that Hvergelmir Springs was about to appear in the world of Labh Salem.
The demonic entities were doing everything they could to prepare for this supposed big event. Most of these demonic entities had been harnessing a demon within their mortal shells– a willful state of being possessed. So of them had managed to awaken the demon within them, rging with the demonic essence and turning into a true demon. However, most had slumbering demonic fragnts within them. It was said that Hvergelmir Springs would allow these demonic entities to rge with the slumbering demon fragnt within themselves, giving them higher benefits.
The demonic entities with awakened demon soul fragnts within themselves could progress further in their respective Paths to Power. Plus their progress would be rapid and hardly have any bottlenecks.
The awakened demon soul fragnt also ant that the demonic entities could finally access the Skills that had remained dormant and locked in their Spectral Screens. There were other benefits of Hvergelmir Springs as well. However, the more Eren learned about these things, the stranger they sounded to him.
He decided to learn more about these things and the validity of this well-known legend. The easiest way to do that was by hunting demonic entities.
Eren started hunting demons one after the other in the past five months, which allowed him to learn more in every aspect. It made him understand the necessary changes he needed to make in his battle style to make him more used to employing the Skills in his possession.
Initially, Eren was a bit downcast to learn the fact that he could not obtain the demons' Skills after devouring them. His targets bought the Skills through naka's Market. They were not the owner of the Skills themselves.
As such, Eren could not claim the targets' Skills after their deaths. The sh just severed the connection with the targets when they died.
Basically, the Skills were the sh's property that was lent to all living beings who had been blessed with the naka's Blessing. The sh would reclaim the Skills it had lent to the patrons in the case of their deaths.
There was no way for Eren to change the rules of the agreent that took place between Goddess naka and those who accepted her Blessing. Not unless he ssed with soone's soul using his divine powers.
'Naah. I should drop that idea. I already have too many gods as my enemies. I don't want to add more to the list. Especially soone like naka.
Plus, I don't know to what extent she could keep tabs on those who she has blessed. Unless I can go off the sh and beco invisible, I should not think about breaking the sh.'
Eren didn't want to ss with the sh or the goddess who supported it at this point. No matter how greedy he was for the acquisition of new Skills, he didn't want to offend a goddess by experinting with soone's soul in order to bypass the restrictions on one's soul.
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