Chapter 1716 Consciously Manufactured Emotions
?1716 Consciously Manufactured Emotions
Eren was ready to change the way he behaved with everyone around him if it could help grow his divinity significantly.
He remembered how Demonmir was used to behaving with his friends and foes from Anfang. At that time, he thought that Demonmir was just trying to put on an act to make himself feel better and more elite than the rest.
Only now did he understand why Demonmir behaved the way he did. It was so that the Demon Prince of Wrath within him could grow his faith and influence.
Eren didn't think it was shameful to follow Demonmir in his footsteps. In a way, he too was trying to cheat the system by evoking emotions within people in a superficial way. He wanted to see if he could generate Origin Force Points through such means.
"You are stupid, Reen." Eren reiterated while staring at his Spectral Screen from one corner of his eye.
"What's wrong with you, Erni?" Reen looked as if she was angry and confused at the same time. She didn't understand what happened to him after she left him to his devices for only a few minutes.
'Damn it. She's not angry,' Eren thought to himself. He decided to make Reen understand what he wanted to do to see if it could make a difference.
"Reen, feel some form of anger towards me, will you? Don't ask me questions. Just do it." Eren said as he encouraged Reen to double down on the irritation in her heart.
However, Eren's divinity could allow his potential followers to cultivate a range of emotions within their hearts. They could be split according to the emotions they cultivated proficiently and yet they would all be worshiping the same deity.
The multifaceted divinity would be something unique to Eren that even the Demon Princes didn't have the privilege to have. Or rather, he was the only demi-god and potential deity who had such an abominated divinity.
'The demons. They are the key for me to progress further in my divine path. The more I rob the Faustian Rune Fragments from them, the better I would be able to wield my divinity.
It's like the Creation itself is telling me to balance things out before I can claim my divine throne for real. The so-called balance be damned. I'll fucking kill every single one of them that I can kill here in Labh Salem if that's what I'll have to do to succeed,' Eren felt as if his vision for the future had been unblurred as he thought of these things.
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"Haah. Forget it Reen dear. You can't do it."
Eren said while waving off his hand as if he was swatting down a fly. He had been waiting for Reen to cultivate a sense of anger directed at him in her mind. But so far he got a big fat zero on his spectral screen.
He stopped his experiments and slowly walked over to his bed and lay down, looking at the ceiling with blank expression.
"Hey! Don't write me off like that, Erni. I CAN get angry at you, you know. I... I just need some time," Reen said in protest. But by the time she decided to try seriously for the second time, Eren had already closed his eyes.
"Aaah. Wait for me," Reen said. In the next moment, she disappeared from her position and appeared right over Eren's chest in her slime-like form. Reen couldn't sleep like the rest of the living beings.
However, she decided to follow the ritual nonetheless- the ritual Eren and she had between them when she was nothing but a slime-type demon beast.