Chapter 169 - Peculiar Guests (part 1)

Emery already felt strange again, that power... Was that what he got from the Death God item?

Death was really astonishing, but was it safe?

He won't die, right?

Emery shook the negative thought away for reason... Well, he couldn't do anything, for now, luckily not much had happened to his body, just that the seed of death looked very alive and was golden...

Which was pretty weird.

"You don't need to be nervous, okay? We want to avoid hurting anyone here, so, calm down, please" Emery said helplessly helping Mattias to his feet and making sure the young man didn't have any injuries.

"I'm fine, Bishop Darcy. I better check him out," Mattias said, a little depressed, indicating Bryan with a shake of his head.

Bryan, who was still surprised that his powers had returned, hadn't noticed Mattias's hurt look and only realized he had hurt his new friend when Emery was already beside him.

Bryan's body tensed at the feel of Emery's hand on his shoulder, but looking at his serious face and Mattias' calm gaze, he didn't move and tried to relax his defenses.

"What is it?" Emery thought as he felt dark energy in Bryan's chest.

Memories of the original body pointed to a slave imprint made of dark energy.

The dark energy of Shadow Lord Morrise, also known as the god of darkness who was different from the goddess of night Nix, was often used as food for dark and forbidden spells, in some places being equated with demonic energy.

A demon couldn't enslave a human, of course, the human could choose to be enslaved by the demon to gain power, but it was still a choice. The power of darkness was brainwashing, creating slave marks and could separate the soul from the body to be enslaved.

The demons looked so much cuter compared to the Dark Sorcerers, who enslaved children's souls and sacrificed baby souls for them to gain more power.

Not that the demons couldn't do that, but they would need an intermediary who in this case is a human being, and the human in question had to be heartless and perverted to reap power with such a method.

Or just become too detached from one's species.

So, the question arises whether that human would still be a human after all that.

Anyone could become a Dark Sorcerer, but one would imagine that such people were hunted to death by the temples and by the government itself.

Emery felt something terrible in that small core of dark energy, but with some holy energy, the dark power was obliterated.

The sacred energy grew a little stronger inside Emery, which caused the other energies to stir within him, poor young Darcy looked at everything helplessly.

Fortunately, the other three seeds surrounded the seed with light and seemed to contain the seed's agitation.

Bryan felt as light as a feather, he hadn't felt that way for several months, and the comfort of the sacred energy made his body feel much more relaxed.

The sacred energy was not opposed to the energy of nature, in light doses, they could be strengthened, the big problem was in cases like Emery's where the two energies compete for dominance.

Complete this with the death energy and the demonic energy Emery's body couldn't even be considered more human because of the conflict between the energies, any other human would have already exploded with so much opposing energy inside him.

"You guys look very excited," a man said coming down the stairs, behind him were the other guests who were looking with curiosity at Emery's strange pose holding Bryan's shoulders and Mattias leaning on Naill.

Of course, Bryan's ecstatic look and Mattias' pale face couldn't go unnoticed, which created a funny scene, as if the group were in a love triangle.

The dark-skinned man looked at everyone with a peculiar expression, as if he was judging children who had drunk too much and were now excited enough to be caught with some intimacy.

"Ash, don't embarrass them," a man standing behind him said with a gentle smile and a warm look at Ash.

The man was shorter than Ash and had skin that was peculiarly a reddish hue like cherry wood, brown eyes as light as black tea, and features pretty, but Emery found it rather exotic.

The man's dark eyelashes framed that gentle look which made his look even more attractive, of course, the pearl earrings drew even more attention from Emery as they were a very strange color.

"Pearl Earrings from the Sea of ​​Galieu... quite rare, I thought this type of stone had disappeared a few years ago with the death of the last red-skinned mermaids" Anael commented a little surprised.

Pearls of the Sea of ​​Galieu was a legendary place for spirits like Anael, as there were many minerals there that strengthened spiritual powers, but it was guarded by an incredible leviathan.

It is said that Leviathan was once a marine god, but that he was defeated by the current God of the Oceans and had some powers stolen by the God of Water, who is now known as the Spiritual King of Water.

Since the God of the Oceans and the Lord of the Rivers were too petty to share power with the God of Water, even though they were gentle gods and loved living beings, they didn't like other gods.

Well, except for Nix, the goddess of the night.

Ah, the God of the Ocean and the God of the Rivers are half-brothers, so they thought selfish with the other gods they can share the power of the waters together.

The Leviathan that lost its powers can only isolate itself in the Sea of ​​Galieu which had been a place that the God Aillil, the god of nature, had exchanged with these two selfish gods so that life could exist within the waters.

After all, there was an ecosystem of plants to feed the descendants and creations of these two gods, plus Aillil was Nix's best friend, so the two gods had to be good to the god of nature.

Aillil wasn't concerned about Leviathan, in fact, he just took that piece of water just because he wanted to make those selfish gods grind their teeth, then he didn't care anymore.

Leviathan still had a small part of his divine powers but tired after the terrible battle he fell asleep and spent a century sleeping, his powers leaked into the minerals around that great body and became precious minerals with great spiritual power.

When Leviathan woke up again, there was an underwater city with red-skinned mermaids and jet-black hair that had taken root there.

They were born of the blood of the wounded Leviathan and technically were his sons, which left him in doubt whether to kill such a daring race that did not fear him and even made a city near him.

Anyway, the Leviathan let them live, and the legends said that the red-skinned mermaids were the only ones that could take the ores saved by the Leviathan and that they exchanged with the other gods who protected the city and the Leviathan.

Unfortunately, one day, the city just disappeared.

The Leviathan became desolate and violent as if it had gone mad and thrown a barrier over the Sea of ​​Galieu the place became forbidden even to the gods.

It was such a long story that Emery had no idea about it but just stared at the man's black hair, which was wavy and short, and molded his face into a heart shape.

"Everyone looks like that when Sarin comes," a man with paler skin commented with some sarcasm, hugging Ash and sending Sarin a hostile look.

"And you get jealous, Uriel," Sarin said, nudging his friend, who gave him an annoyed look.

Uriel was the opposite of Sarin with very light skin, blond hair, and blue eyes, unlike his friend the man had large hoop earrings of an unknown material that looked like silver but darker.

"An ice nymphs article... Very rare, which became expensive after the Unigando catastrophe" Anael muttered to himself, watching Uriel more closely.

Emery, who felt embarrassed at being drawn to attention, almost hid behind Bryan, but he resisted, and with his serious face of an immortal level he just seemed indifferent to Uriel's comment and Sarin's laugh.

"Don't call them. They just like to tease others," George said with a friendly smile, his tail wagging like a good dog.

For some reason, George felt very close to Emery, he seemed to have an energy that attracted him in some way.

Bao: (...) *tail wagging*

Author: Did we find a boyfriend for Bao? *Thinking*

Bao: (!!!)  *scared*

"Don't wag your tail too much, George. It'll scare them away," Sarin said with acid in his voice.

"Do I scare you?" George asked, genuinely concerned. He well knew that there were people who hated other species just for being different. Humans were masters of diplomacy with other races, but there were many who thought other races were evil things.

Beings that brought diseases and stole jobs from other humans, which was pretty absurd since diseases had always existed and many diseases of other races were rarely transmitted to humans, furthermore, jobs weren't stolen as they had to have ratings to can be hired.