Ahko sets off from Ken's mansion, unlike last time, when she tried to rush things out. This time, she goes normally. If it were a month ago, she would've sprinted very fast, but now she's a month late, and her slaves are probably gone, not just their lives but their bodies. She had used [Human Shapeshift] to hide her demon appearance and [Clothes] with a hood on to conceal herself even further, because of Lydia and other people, when they saw her human appearance back when she got out of the Ghost Forest. She's technically not wanted anymore because she's dead, but Lydia can easily report her again if she gets spotted.
First thing, Ahko goes to the Lopia Forest. The first thing she noticed when she stepped into the forest was that few guards were patrolling the area, because of the possibility that a 3rd party resurrected Ahko the first time she got resurrected. The forest was packed with guards, seers, and Haru's party investigating the forest, but they found nothing.
No sign of some kind of resurrection spell in the forest, but what they did find was a dagger in the cave that the seers never checked. A guard held it for a few seconds, and then he started getting confused about his surroundings, bumped into the cave wall, and didn't recognize his guardmates. Another guard held it when that confused guard started acting up. He, too, becomes confused by the dagger. He quickly put it down after expecting the cause of this was the dagger he held. The seer confirms it's The Dagger of Mischief's fragment. A dagger, when held, will cause confusion and maybe even death if someone holds it long enough, and the effect continues even if they don't hold it anymore. The effect will get worse day by day until that person is dead. So far, they have found 3 of these fragments across the world, from the North Continent and the Central Continent.
The 2 guards that have held the dagger were quickly let go by the chief of the guards in Priya City for medical incapacity and were paid half of their monthly salary per month until they died. After finding the dagger, it is quickly wrapped in a thick cloth so it can be held with no effect. It is brought to Priya City and onto the Central Continent. After the dagger, there is nothing left to be found, and so day by day, the investigation wore off, and Haru's party also moved on from that, since Ahko is truly dead.
Ahko changed her human appearance to a male version of her and used [Doppelganger] and created a double of her/himself? Then she changed back to herself. Her doppelganger doesn't do anything, he just stands there since her [Doppelganger] is still level one. She can't control it, nor can it move by itself. She goes to the outskirts of the forest, not far enough to be seen on the outside. She lays the body and grabs a nearby stone and smashes it on its head. Until she realized the body doesn't bleed blood but bleeds black mist, and it slowly dissipated. Ahko turned it on its stomach and made it seems like he tripped and hit his head. Then she gathered all the air to her lungs.
"HELP!!!!"
The guards in the forest and people in the Yotein Village heard the scream, some quickly ran to where the scream came from, while there was a big commotion going on. Ahko quietly sneaks right past the guards who are running to the scream, the guards didn't notice her because they are too focused on trying to save someone. The guards who didn't join in the commotion and were still patroling quickly subdued by Ahko with a single neck chop to each guard she encountered, and they believed they would see her.
Once past them, she goes to the cave to try to find the Hornet Queen egg. The thing about the Hornet Queen egg is that it's extremely small, smaller than a normal Killer Hornet egg, but Ahko can sense it, she can sense something powerful in the crevices at the end of the cave. It didn't get found out, probably because it's too deep, and the seers thought something powerful came from the dagger. The reason it ended up there is that when Ahko evolved, a small shockwave came out and sent the egg flying. With the help of the thunderous wind from outside, it settled itself at the end of the cave.
Ahko grabbed the egg and quickly fled the forest and into the village, where she saw her doppelganger's body being dragged to the middle of the village with a big commotion going on. She slips right past the unsuspecting guards and villagers. She has finally retrieved her soon to be slave. It was the first time ever that her slave lived for this long.
"Yue, I'd like to buy her."
"Finally, I thought you were going to forget about it again."
"Do you want to buy this Killer Hornet Queen for 70000 coins?"
"Huh... It's cheaper than Martha?"
"Because it's in its egg state with 1 on all stats."
"Then wouldn't it be cheaper?"
"Look at her passive ability yourself..."
- Killer Hornet Enchantment [Uniquely Killer Hornets]
Gained 30 on all stats.
- Queen's Seed [Rare/Uniquely Insect]
Gained 100 on all stats.
- Egg [Common/Uniquely Insect]
Lose 9999 on all stats
"I see... Welp, I'm buying this."
"Accept"
DING!!
User has gained the following abilities from buying slave(s):
- Passive Abilities
Killer Hornet Enchantment [Uniquely Killer Hornets]
Gained 30 on all stats.
"Nice. Now your name will be Verixa."
The egg moves a bit as if it's accepting its name and swore to Ahko.
"Well then, how do I make this egg become like those Killer Hornets?"
"You need to take care of it. I'd recommend you buy another slave to take care of it. You can put the egg in the system's world, you have that, remember?"
"Oh? Does it have that? Take me there then."
"Go somewhere private first, you wouldn't want people to see."
"Oh, right."
Ahko put the egg in her pocket and walked on the pathways until she reached the Trica Forest and went inside.
"Alright, I think this is private enough."
Slowly, a portal appeared in front of her, a blueish sky that doesn't look menacing at all. She steps inside, and the bright sky blinds her eyes for a few seconds before she adjusts to it, but then, when all her hopes were high, it goes down.
"... Yue?"
"Yes?"
"Why is there literally nothing but just sky?"
"You think the system's world is going to fill with a palace ready for you? Oh no, you have work for it, and I mean building everything from scratch."
"Wait, what?"
"Yes, you can bring your slaves to work on building whatever you want."
"... Shouldn't be too hard, right?"
"Depends on the project. Don't worry, in this world, the time is different from the real world."
"By how much?"
"The time here moves 5 times slower than the real world, meaning if you spend 1 second here, 5 second has passed in the real world."
"Huh... Okay... So, I just put this egg here?"
"Yep. Although I'm surprised that the egg still survives with no eating for a month."
"Maybe it's a hidden ability or something..."
"You should quickly buy some slaves to take care of it, it probably won't last that long anymore."
"I guess... Perfect timing, we're in the Trica Forest right now."
[Meanwhile in Umbraxis]
The 4 sinner gods watching Ahko were in shock as a blue portal came out from thin air.
"W-What the fuck?" Cassie blurted out.
"What is that portal? I never saw anything like that before..." Merphos said, confused.
"It's blue? So it's not a dungeon portal..."
"Did it come from her? I swear, every day I see more and more absurd things coming from her. What's next? 50 slaves come out of the portal?" Cassie muttered, overwhelmed.
The moment Ahko stepped inside the portal, the screen recording of Ahko suddenly went black.
"What the hell?" Cassie reacted again.
"Oh no~ What happened~?" Eros said, half curious, half amused.
"The screen malfunctioned when she went into that portal? It didn't happen when she went to a dungeon portal." Arwen said.
"I guess that pink haired girl must've prevented us from stalking her more." Merphos guessed.
"To be honest, she doesn't really have any privacy until now." Arwen commented.
"But I wanna stalk her more... She's so interesting~~~." Eros complained playfully.
"I guess we can't whenever she goes into that portal."
"Whatever, that's fine. I think that portal led her to her own world or something."
"How do you know that?" Merphos asked.
"It's right on your face, idiot. We can't do anything, that means it's out of this world. We can't see anything outside of this world, you know how many worlds there are?"
"I guess..."
[Back to Ahko]
She goes back to the real world and walks calmly with a map panel opened in front of her, guiding her to the 2 glowing gray dots. Until she reached an empty grass field in the middle of the forest, there was nothing except many mounds of dirt, some of which looked new while others looked old, and grass started covering them.
"What is this, a graveyard?"
"Probably."
"Can I resurrect them?"
"Unless you have a resurrection spell, you can't."
"... Okay... How can I know who the culprit is?"
"Well, you guess."
"Fuck you."
"You can wait until maybe they go to this burial site to bury another body."
"Oh, brilliant."
Ahko quietly goes to the border where the grass field and the forest meet and hides in one of the bushes. Then she waited, minutes, then hours, until it was nighttime. At this point, she's getting a little frustrated and impatient until rustling sounds came across the grass field. 2 men walking to the burial site, one is carrying a dead body, and the other carrying 2 shovels. It's very difficult to see at night, but Ahko has [Darkness Sight], she can perfectly see in the dark. The men were carrying a dead body that looked like a girl, the girl didn't even look older than 8.
They throw her to the ground and start shoveling the ground, and cover the girl up with a dirt mound. Ahko took the time while they were distracted and talking to each other to sneak ups to the direction where they came from and waited behind a tree. Once they finished, they went back in the direction, and Ahko slowly and quietly walks couple of feet behind them.
Until she saw it, another bandit base, in the middle of the Trica Forest. The whole place is lit up, and she can hear the sound of moaning, screaming, and laughing. She can feel she's right back to the base in the Damrin Mountain Range, which she had destroyed from the inside.
She used [Dark Mist], and she disintegrated and covered the place from every single angle. The bandits barely noticed the darkness slowly swallowing the whole place, most of them thought it was because they were drunk and continued drinking. Until suddenly, thin long spikes pierce every single being in the base, it doesn't matter if they are in a tent or a guard tower, most of them gets pierce from every angle. Their hearts, brains, and all organs get pierced through with no problem.
The [Dark Spikes] don't spare anybody, even slaves get into it and die. Some more tough guys survived the attack and quickly got on guard. Even the leader of the bandit base, Brock, was sleeping in his cubicle until suddenly everything on his body hurt, he woke up to find thousands of needle like spikes everywhere and had been pierced and killed 2 of his favorite slaves who were sleeping beside him. He and the other bandits who survived the attack quickly broke all the spikes.
Then they see the mist all retreating and clumped up in the middle of the base. Brock and others quickly check it as it form to a human girl.
"... Who the hell are you?" Brock asked.
"Oh, it's nothing, I just want to take my revenge..." Ahko replied.
"Revenge? On what?"
"Wait, are you that demon who killed William?" Brock questioned.
"Mhm."
"Oh, be careful, boss. She's someone you couldn't mess with." One of the bandit warned quickly.
"I see now... So you want to take revenge... Because you were once a slave?"
"I was... But that isn't the only thing."
"Hm?"
"Have you guys ever seen 3 girls? Arctic Fox, Twin Tail cat, and a human?"
"Huh? Hmm... Do you guys remember those girls?" Brock
"Nope" "No" "I don't think so..."
"Wait, I think I remembered them.." one suddenly said.
"What happened to them?" Ahko asked.
"Not me, but one of the lower guys, I think they said they killed 2 girls, one a fox and one a cat..."
"And why's that?"
"I think it's because they thought the girls were spying on them?"
"Well, they are my slaves."
"How would you know that? And how did you know they were dead?" Brock questioned.
"I have my ways, and what about the human girl?"
"To be honest, we got a lot of human people who wandered too far off and ended up near this base, so we can't say much. She's probably dead." one explained.
"Does Layla ring a bell?"
The bandits looked at each other and shook their heads, either the culprit is dead or doesn't remember.
"... Welp, whatever, you guys gonna die anyway."
The bandits and Brock put on their stance, ready to fight her 30v1.
"[Void Crescent]."
A sharp crescent blade made out of her own mist appeared on her palm. In a single second, using [Single Strike]. She dashed forward and slashed 3 bandits on the ribs since her height is too short. Blood pouring from their wounds, their lungs sticking out and having been sliced clean on the lower half, they fall, unable to move from the shock and the pain, as they drown in their own blood.
"3 Down."
[Single Strike] was used to deplete 10 stamina, but since her stamina has increased a lot from the last time she used it, it didn't deplete any stamina. Within the next minute, all the bandits who survived [Dark Spikes] are dead. Leaving only her and Brock.
"How cruel..."
They both locked eyes.
"Don't you have a human heart?" Brock mocked, hands on his pocket while smirking.
"No, it was taken from me."
Brock suddenly disappears in front of her, then appears behind her and stabs her heart with a knife. Ahko failed to dodge it, and her hp started depleting. Though she did push him off before he got any deeper with his knife.
"WARNING! Your life is in danger!
Hp: 3352/3740 [Depleting 20 hp every second]"
"Tch."
"Heh, don't worry, I've got more up my sleeve."
He disappears again, this time Ahko anticipated he would be behind her and turned around and slashed behind her, except he isn't there. She realized he had tricked and he's now behind her, the knife that was still in her heart, yanked out, and he stabbed her back multiple times in a quick succession. She quickly kicks him back and casts [Darkness Engulf] on him. The darkness mist quickly surrounds him, and he couldn't see anything.
"Your Mp is depleting very fast."
"I know!!"
But then she was caught in surprise, seeing the darkness surrounding him suddenly approach her.
"You thought you could blind me?"
He's already behind her and ready to stab her head, but then she quickly acts up and jumps really high and lands on the guard tower.
"What are you, scared?"
Brock smirked at her retreat, but then the darkness mist that tries to surround him comes back to him. Just as Ahko thought, this time he couldn't see anything, the mist moved on to another area where Brock is now across the place.
"He isn't disappearing, he's just too fast for me to catch up."
"What are you going to do?"
"... Hey!"
"Hm?"
Ahko looked at his eyes intently for a couple second, then nothing happened.
"Were you trying to use another ability or something?"
"Of course it didn't work, why would I think it would work!?"
"Did you really use [Terror Stare] on him? It's too weak to do it to him, he's at least rank B."
"Oi..."
"Hmm?"
"If I can't beat you like this, then so be it. [Darkness Bind]."
"Hm?"
He sensed something below him. He tried to move away, but then many hands appeared from the ground and wrapped him around.
"The hell?"
The bind isn't too strong, so Brock starts breaking them one by one, but it's enough to distract him. The [Darkness Engulf] also contributes to his distraction. Ahko cast [Heart Fangs], small orbs appeared beside her and charge towards him and attached themselves to him, [Ecstasy Nove], a small shockwave comes out of her body which shook the tower and makes Brock who is still trying to break free, comes to his sense and look at Ahko in confusion, then [Heat Ray], she pointed towards his back where he couldn't see or feel, then beam of light shines from her fingertip. Then Brock started to feel it, he could feel himself getting aroused, way too fast, faster than any slaves that he ever fucked or even tried to make him aroused. He can feel his dick getting hard, and his mind starts to go cloudy.
Ahko continues using [Heat Ray] on him until her Mp is depleted. Her [Darkness Bind], [Darkness Engulf], [Void Crescent], and [Heat Ray] faded. She fell from the tower and landed on her feet, then quickly ran to Brock, who is a little exhausted, his mind is a little cloudy, all he could think of is sex. Ahko grabs his face and kisses him hard. Using [Love touch] and [Crimson Kiss], his vitality is slowly depleting. He is fast, but he is weak and relies on his speed to build force. He tried to push her off, but her strength is far higher than his. Minutes went by until he lost consciousness, his skin looked dried up, and he died.