Chapter 98: Snow Covered Spire

[Day 36]

Today I woke up relatively refreshed even though the sun hadn't even risen yet. Slowly getting out of Kumo's embrace was the hardest task of this morning. Her strength was weaker than mine, but I had to slowly get out of it, making sure to not wake up Kumo.

After about 5 minutes of wiggling, I finally got out of her tight hug and went to take a bath. It was another lonely bath, but I wanted to try and kill or negotiate with the dragon today. It lived at the top of the [Mountain of Twilight].

Whenever I looked near the peak, there was always a snowstorm circling the tip. It was probably made by the dragon or something else since the snowstorm was abnormally large.

After coming up with a simple plan, I got out of the bath and my maids changed me into the casual set of clothes that Aimi made for me. It felt much more comfortable than the dress I wore yesterday.

As I was about to leave the castle once I picked my newly made scythe, I saw somebody who looked familiar.

『Status』

[Name: Sophia]

[Race: Lesser Spirit of the Forest]

[Status: Servant]

[Level: 1/110]

[Spirit Power: 2500/2500]

[Strength: 150]

[Defense: 150]

[Magic: 150]

[Speed: 150]

[Luck: 2]

[Charisma: 50]

[Skills: [Body Enhancement] [Contortion] [Berserk] [Intense Focus] [Forest Magic] [Earth Shattering Blows] [Plant Manipulation] [Plant Growth] [Wind Magic] [Summon: Trent] [Summon: Flower Dryad] [Ethereal Weapon Coating] [Weak Spirit Manipulation] [Snake Manipulation] [All Language Perception] [Language of the Spirits] [Physical Immunity (Partial)]

[Mastered Weapons: [Plants] [Whips (Partial)]

[Soul Equipment: [Emerald Snake Sleeve]

[Body Modification: [Forest Spirit Marking]

[Titles: [Chiefs Daughter] [Servant]

…

Woah. Now that is a lot of new things I haven't seen before. First, her health, mana, and stamina were all replaced by a spirit power stat. Next, she is probably the only other person in my kingdom to have 2 luck. Finally, some new skills that are unique to her new race.

She doesn't look any different than her previous form. Same markings, the same snake wrapped around her arm, same hair, same skin color, and same height.

"Good morning master," Sophia greets.

"Good morning. I'll be out for today and maybe tomorrow so make sure to work hard," I reply.

"As you wish," Sophia says, bowing and only lifting her head as I finished walking past her.

I took in a deep breath of the moonlight-filled air and activated my feathered wings. As I was going in the direction of the massive snow-covered spire, I scrolled through my status and decided to activate the body modifications I haven't used yet.

『Status』

[Name: Arpious]

[Race: Lamassu of Ancient Fires]

[Status: None]

[Servants: 6]

[Subordinates: 7]

[Pets: 1]

[Level: 39/100]

[HP: 700/700 MP: 500/500 SP: 500/500]

[Strength: 170 (+5) (+25) (+25) (+25) (+60)]

[Defense: 170 (+5)]

[Magic: 170 (+25) (+25) (+25) (+40)]

[Speed: 170 (+5) (+25) (+25) (+25) (+40)]

[Luck: 2]

[Charisma: 50]

[Skills: [******] [Forbidden Magic: Zeus's Nimbus] [Mind Magic] [Poison Immunity] [Disease Immunity] [Virus] [Forbidden Magic: Medusa] [Fire Immunity] [Lightning Resistance] [Inspect] [Gluttons Stomach] [Concentration] [Evolution Switch] [Gold Manipulation] [Concentration] [Assimilation] [Lavas Will] [Heightened 5 Senses and More] [Summon: Blood Minion] [Forbidden Magic: Hermes] [Blood Devouring Army Enhancement] [Tangible Bloodthirsty Aura] [Vampiric Blood Mist] [Pain Immunity] [Invisible Grand Flying Sense] [Ancient Reproduction Art] [Summon: Slime Weapon] [Mystic Arm and Leg] [Summon: Phoenix] [Body Modification: Deer Overlords Antlers] [Body Modification: Bloodline of the Overlord Deer] [Body Modification: Wolf Overlords Teeth] [Body Modification: Bloodline of the Overlord Wolf] [Queen Overlords Dominating Presence] [Domain of the Dark Garden] [Summon: Walking Jungle Hydra] [Twilight Magic] [Night and Day Enhancement] [Weather Manipulation: Wind, Rain, and Sun] [Summon: Overlord Deer] [Summon: Overlord Wolf]

[Body Modification: [Mark of a Berserker] [Great Wings of the Cursed and Blessed Lamassu] [Cursed and Blessed Tattoos] [Incinerating Tail of the Cursed and Blessed Lamassu] [Piranhas Spiny Fin Wings] [Bat Wings] [Dark Phoenix Bloodline with Increased Vitality] [Aquatic Body] [Monster of Monsters Body]

[Mastered Weapons: [Scythe]

[Soul Equipment: [Fire of Deaths Sword: Raiu] [Fire of Deaths Armour: Araes Dress]

[Equipment: [Queens Crown] [Green Ring of Twilight] [Purple Ring of Twilight] [Blue Ring of Twilight] [Shark Scythe]

[Titles: [Blessed by the ********* Spirit of *************] [Savage Assassin] [Heartless] [Blessed by a Star] [Chief of the Fire Harpies] [Blessed by the Overlord Spirit of Curses] [Blessed by the Phoenix Mountain Guardian] [Blessed by the Overlord Spirit of Blessings] [Strong Willed] [Savage Monster (Humans Killed (0/200)] [Cursed by Mother Nature] [Blessed by the Moon]

…

[Body Modification: Deer Overlords Antlers]

[Body Modification: Bloodline of the Overlord Deer]

[Body Modification: Wolf Overlords Teeth]

[Body Modification: Bloodline of the Overlord Wolf]

A warm feeling spread through my body as I flew through the air. It only lasted a couple of seconds before I assimilated the new body modifications.

[Bloodline of the Overlord Wolf] + [Bloodline of the Overlord Deer] + [Dark Phoenix Bloodline with Increased Vitality] = [Legendary Overlord Beast Bloodline]

[Wolf Overlords Teeth] + [Deer Overlords Antlers] + [Monster of Monsters Body] = [Monster of Monsters Body]

I had this suspicion for a while, but it just got confirmed. The [Monster of Monsters Body], body modification is a type of passive skill like my tail and wings. If I activate it, I should have all the body modifications that I assimilated into it.

If it wasn't passive like my bloodline, then antlers would've been protruding from my head by now.

After another 2 hours of flying, I finally arrived at the base of the spire. From afar it didn't look that wide, just tall… but boy was it big and even taller than I imagined. All vegetation had shriveled up with only rocks insight. The terrain was extremely rough and mountainous but I cheated and just flew up.

The only monsters that I saw roaming on the rough terrain were monsters that look like white dragons, but they didn't have wings.

[Snow Drake]

[This monster is extremely powerful and only one evolution behind a dragon. This type of drake coats its body in a thin layer of dense snow that is almost as hard as its scales. The claws are also coated in the snow with little ridges, causing anybody to be hit by it, have the wind knocked out of them and tiny cuts appear all over them.]

Just a few swings with my scythe was enough to end them. Their defense did live up to the description since I had to continuously cut in one specific spot to get any damage in. Of course, I ate the meat as well so I can get the skills. Also, assimilating the scales onto my body did absolutely nothing.

[2400 XP gained]

[Gained the following skills]

[Snow Manipulation]

[Double Claw Slash]

I kept flying up towards the peak but I hadn't even reached the storm when I started to feel extremely cold. Even though my bloodline has warm elements it couldn't withstand the extreme cold that wrapped the peak of the mountain.

[Summon: Phoenix]

Since I didn't have Ichimei, I just got my phoenix to wrap me in white flames before I continued up the mountain, killing any snow drakes that I found.

…

"Damn the wind is practically howling in my ears," I say, trying my best to resist the strong icy wind.

I was currently inside the snowstorm that wrapped around the peak of the mountain. The wind made it hard to fly so I was forced to climb up it. I wasn't even the least bit cold, but the wind made it extremely hard to grip on the icy rocks.

I continued to climb and climb until I felt the wind die down. I arrived at the top where I saw… bears roaming free? The bears were slaughtering drakes like it was a sport.

"Fuck, is she here?"

I saw a massive broken stone structure in front of me, but I was stopped by thousands of Golden Mountain Bears. I gripped my scythe and built up momentum by swinging it around my wrists and neck until I let out one big strike that sliced all of them in half.

I then decided to just fly over to it since the bears kept coming. But suddenly the bears formed a wall in front of the broken entrance which I was forced to cut down. No matter how many times I killed the bears, more would just replace them so I was fed up and decided to just use my skills.

[Forbidden Magic: Zeus's Nimbus]

A nimbus cloud appeared in my hand and as I raised it, it grew in size. I snapped my fingers and a massive lightning bolt cracked and vibrated through the air. The bears below me had all disintegrated while I was flooded with thousands of notifications.

tsk

"They keep coming back,"

I activated [Summon: Overlord Deer], [Summon: Overlord Wolf], and [Summon: Walking Jungle Hydra], which was to keep the bears busy. The guardian summons all grew in size and destroyed or trampled the bears below them.

The walking jungle hydra looked like a hydra from the stories, but the heads and bodies were made from plants. It was pretty simple, devouring and trampling any bear that tried to get in its way.

I used the massive distractions to slip into the broken stone building and…

"*sigh* I knew it,"