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  Ding!

  [You have chosen the Rank Up Css: [Are Vampire Prince of the Crimson Moon: ★★] sponsored by the {Goddess of the Crimson Moon}!]

  [Your [Blood Power] has increased by +5.000!]

  [Your [Soul Ether] has increased by +3.000!]

  [Your [Ara] and [Dexterity] has increased by +2.500!]

  [Your [Strength] and [Vitality] has increased by +1.500!]

  [Your Css Skills Slots have increased by +1!]

  [You learhe Css Skill: [Crimson Moon Are Arts (B): Lv1]!]

  [You received the Character Trait: [Blessing of Achlys, the Goddess of the Crimson Moon (Epic Grade)]!]

  [With the new [Crimson Moon Are Arts (B)] Skill you will be able to el the power of your Divine Blessing of the Goddess of the Crimson Moon, unleashing her Divinity temporarily to create all sorts of special effects. The higher the level of the Skill and also of your devotion to the goddess, the more Spells bee avaible.]

  After Vd felt the growth that his new Css gave to him, in both stats and his new divine prote, eg him to a powerful yet benevolent divinity that might help him from now on, he quickly looked at his subcss.

  What he had initially believed to be the simple yet useful Farmer Css, which he assumed could help him give him borowth, produ, and quality, ended ging into something he couldn’t believe.

  Mostly due to the mischievous Heavenly Demon’s intervention!

  Ding!

  [You have chosen the Subcss: [Farmer: ★]!]

  [Because of the interference of the Mysterious Divinity: {Great Demon of the Nine Heavens}, the Subcss has been modified!]

  [The Subcss: [Farmer: ★] has evolved into the [Spirit Ki Farmer: ★★]!]

  “Spirit Ki Farmer?!”

  Paul couldn’t really uand what he just read. Not only the Subcss went from oar to two stars, but it suddenly was given a pletely different name.

  Now, it possessed Spirit and Ki as words added to it! The possibilities of what this meant were practically and virtually endless…

  Ding!

  [Due to having taken upon the Subcss [Spirit Ki Farmer: ★★] all your Stats have increased, and you learned new Skills!]

  [Your [Blood Power] has increased by +2.000!]

  [Your [Soul Ether] has increased by +5.000!]

  [Your [Ara] and [Dexterity] has increased by +3.000!]

  [Your [Strength] and [Vitality] has increased by +1.500!]

  “Those are iat bonuses for a mere subcss…!”

  They were indeed worth a two-star css of stats bonuses, but even then, it still felt very high! It was most likely because it was enhahanks to the Heavenly Demon’s divinity.

  [Your Subcss Skills Slots have increased by +2!]

  [You learhe Subcss Skill: [Spiritual Ki Farmer Agricultural Arts (A): Lv1]!]

  [You learhe Subcss Skill: [Blessing of the Martial Spirits of Harvest (A): Lv1]!]

  “This is… two new skills too!”

  Vd couldn’t help but feel slightly fasated about everything, even though his sister and Chris were just staring at him w if he was actually fine or not.

  One sed he was about to get his soul eaten by Outer Ones, and the other he was back, obsessing ame meics.

  Well, it was a video game so it couldn’t be helped anyways.

  The skills themselves also had weird hey weren’t just the farmer’s Agricultural Arts or the Blessing of Harvest either, they had been modified into weird things.

  “Hey Heavenly Demon, what did you do to the farmer css? Not like I am pining but it feels weird…” Vd said. “I hope it at least still do what I wa for!”

  [“HAHAHAHA! Fear not foolish reination! It does possess the same base abilities, but further amplified! I noticed how this little Subcss had great potential! If you ’t cultivate Ki within your body, then why don’t we cultivate it in the nd itself?”]

  “What? You’re not making any seh that, isn’t Ki an energy of the body?”

  [“Certainly, Ki is an energy of the body, but also of life itself, vitality, and strength. In my Realm, Murim, this energy coursed in every inch of the world. There was no such thing as Ara or Blood Energy or whatever! Everything was Ki. The nd was Ki, the rivers was Ki, the heavens was Ki!”]

  “Okaaay…?”

  Paul really thought the whole Ki thing was just Martial Arts, but it ended being more spiritual and mystical than he had inally believed.

  [“Once you begin doing the farmwork itself, you’ll realize its unique power. Such as, for example, how about creating crops that tain rge quantities of Ki? So once you eat them, you temporarily wield Ki and reinforce your body.”]

  “Oh?! I didn’t think about that…”

  [“Not only could these special foods that will be very simir to my Realm’s food help you temporarily wield Ki, which would enhance your physical prowess a lot, but it will also, slowly, heal your body as you both satiate Gluttony and also reinforce it.”]

  “But didn’t you say it was impossible to recluttony is the only way, but that’s not something you knew beforehand…”

  [“I did say that, but only because it wasn’t within the possibilities of my Realm. If you could fill yourself with Spiritual Ki Fruits, Vegetables, and many delicious preparations with them, your body will grow healthier! You vampires are all skinny and pale! You need more nutrition in your life! Vegetables, fruits, roots, beans, and rice are necessary for you to grow strong and big!”]

  “You’re treating me like I’m a kid still growing up, old man…”

  As Vd sighed, he noticed Camil and Chris gring at him dumbfounded.

  “A-Ah! Well, it all went… well, at the end,” he sighed in relief. “Anyways, shall we get going for now? Camil ’t really ge csses yet, though I let her inside because leaving her outside ireets wouldn’t have been safe.”

  “O-Okay then,” nodded Chris. “You ok, dude?”

  “I’m fine… Just… trying to process a lot of things that happened,” Paul sighed.

  At the end, the trio walked back to Vd’s family house, where they were able to finally rest.

  “Hahhh… I finally rex.”

  Vd rested over his bed, and so did his sister, who immediately fell asleep after that.

  “So we’re finally done?” wondered Chris. “So what happehere? Will we see the gods try to fight us every time we choose a Css?”

  “I hope not; it would be so damn troublesome and annoying... terrible game design, if so,” said Paul. “I think that- Hm?”

  “What?”

  Ding!

  Suddenly, in front of the two, a new message appeared.

  [gratutions! You have pleted {Backgrou}: [Defend Elderbridge from the Bck Fang Bandits]

  [Not only have you defended your city from this attack, but you have mao discover the true minds behind this raid: your brother Asthartez Hector Von Sange and his mother, your aunt Helena Silver Moon.]

  [Although the battles were arduous for both you and your family, you’ve mao pull through by the skin of your teeth, while also unc a clue behind their sudden growth in power and their strange, cursed abilities.]

  [Something to do with a stray not from your Realm known as the {Desecrated Shadow King}, you begin to uncover what could possibly be a greater scheme than you could have ever expected.]

  [For pleting this Backgrou, you and your Party Member received the following Achievement Rewards]: [+100.000 Credits] [Skill Evolution Grimoire (S Grade)] x2 [Equipment Enha Magic Hammer (S Grade)] x2 [Curse Magic for Budding Sorcerers Grimoire (S Grade)] x1]

  “Oh, what’s this?! We got rewards!” Chris celebrated.

  “It seems so…” nodded Paul. “An achievement, huh? e to think of it, I think we fot about the draic beast. Let’s hurry to see how it’s doing before things get chaotic.”

  “R-Right, well, it was so weak it might die on its own if not treated,” said Chris. “But let’s see if I tame that thing with my new Subcss or not!”

  “Alright.”

  As the two left Camil sleeping in Vd’s room, they moved he walls, oskirts, where the draic beast ced for obvious reasons. It was too huge for them to risk staying inside and suddenly waking up and terrorizing citizens after all.

  “It’s here…”

  Both easily flew over the sky, desding as they nded he creature, whose glistening, dark purple scales shone brightly below the moonlight ing from the night sky.

  “What was your new Subcss?” wondered Vd, looking at Alitheus' face as his eyes suddenly turned silver-colored, resembling the moon itself.

  “Moonshine tractor…” Alitheus slowly flew to the side of the sleeping, unscious draic beast aly touched its scales. “Now shut up; I have to trate… I don’t even know if it’ll work.”

  [Moonshine tractor] was the new Subcss of Chris’ Avatar, Alitheus. By eling the power of the Silver Moon Goddess, it ossible for Chris to create tracts with beasts and tame them.

  However, these tracts were limited, and currently, he could only create two until his Css Rank up. The bes outweigh the limits, though, as this tract would essentially evolve the tracted creature into some sort of Moo.

  Though Chris was still nervous, he had no idea how such a strong monster as the Tier 6 Draic Beast would react towards his oar subcss Skill…

  But he had also received the blessing of the Silver Moon Goddess, so he hoped he could receive her divine powers to help him.

  Hopefully…

  “Let’s see… {Moonshine tract}”

  FLASH!

  The Silver Moon just happeo be the one shining right now, allowing him to activate this ability, whily activated below Silver Moonlight.

  His body rapidly absorbed the Moonlight, creating a silver and gray-colored aura of silver moonlight, which he then imbued into the creature.

  Slowly, resembling a small hand, the divine power reached the draic beast’s soul.

  FLUOSH!

  And then Chris was suddenly sent elsewhere.

  His eyes opened, realizing he was within a pletely bck space.

  And in that space, a rge creature was slowly fading away.

  It was the draic beast.

  No, it wasn’t just that.

  “It’s the draic beast’s soul?”

  Chris walked towards it as he began hearing a voiing from it.

  “It hurts…”

  “Hm?”

  “My body hurts… so much…”

  “…”

  The closer he got, the more he heard the beast’s agony.

  “Someone, please end my suffering…”

  “Please…”

  “Please kill me… already…”

  “You’re in pain? Is it the curse? I’m fairly sure it came undone ohe staff was destroyed,” the incubus spoke, trying to caress the draic beast’s soul. “I’ll help you.”

  “Hmm…” the draic beast’s soul slowly opened his eyes, shining bright blue.

  This creature wasn’t a feral beast or some random monster; Chris immediately realized this being was intelligent—very intelligent.

  “You… are you part of my nightmares?”

  “I’m not a nightmare! I came here to… save you, I suppose. Let’s make a tract! Bey… err, familiar? And I’ll heal you, I think.”

  “A Familiar you say… I was captured by them, tortured, humiliated, and cursed… They made me into a berserk, a beast without mind… And now you wao serve you? What does that ge? I would rather die now… let me die…”

  “Y-You’re not a simple beast, aren’t you? From where did you e from? And I don’t want you to serve me; just help me, and I will help you back—a retionship with mutual bes!”

  Chris was doing his best to vihe creature; although it seemed very depressed, he wao keep trying to vi to live.

  “Hah… I’m known as the Tenebrous Ss’ Guardian… I am the desdant of A Venons… Perhaps the st of my kind… I’ve lived alone for almost two hundred years…”

  “Oh… And… what happened? Who cursed you and ensved you then?”

  “They… the… ugh… The Knights of the Desecrated… Shadow… King…”

  “That thing has knights?!”

  “They call themselves like that… but they’re nothing but a group of crazed… cultists. They’ve been amassing power… for a long time… Those orcs, those vampires… all of them were their new recruits. Tempted by the power of the malevolent king’s curses, which make you stronger based on your own hatred aive feelings… yet it corrupts you, it turns you into the worst version of yourself… A damned, cursed power… I became what I didn’t want to be… a beast… a monster…”

  “A cult…” muttered Chris. “Then don’t you want revenge? I help you! I am not alone; I got a friend, and also… a few other people; we could work into helping you take revehen!”

  Chris figured out that if the dragon wasn’t going to be h him, he would tempt him with something he simply couldn’t deny.

  Would a prideful dragon prefer to die or to take revenge first?

  “Hmm…”

  The Guardian of the Tenebrous Ss immediately opened his eyes with i.

  “We slew the vampires and the orcs trolling you, and you’re free now! But you’ll die at this pace. So make a tract with me so the Silver Moon Goddess heals your body and soul!”

  “There’s such a thing…?”

  The dragon’s eyes began shining brightly.

  “The Silver Moon Goddess… I didn’t realize!”

  He slowly stood up, gng at the small figure of Alitheus.

  “This presence… You’re… Are you her divinely blessed?”

  “I… guess so?”

  “I… apologize for doubting you; what is your name?”

  Suddenly, the dragon ged pletely, notig the presence of the goddess.

  “Alitheus... Chris,” the incubus said. “So? How about it?”

  “I... very well, if you’re someone who has been blessed by the maiden of silver, then you’re probably someone of pure heart and trustworthy!”

  “Ah?! Ahem! I mean, yeeah, totally!”

  “The me give you my strength… And in exge, you will heal me a me have my revenge, right?”

  “Yes, those are the terms of this tract!”

  “Very well.”

  The dragon’s head approached Chris, toug his forehead.

  FLASH!

  And their souls were ected, f a Moonshine tract.

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