123 Strong devour the weak

24th Ward, Underground Fortification, One month later

One month was spent from the Raid on the Yasuhisa Mansion and now everything seemed to be very tranquil and peaceful. Commission of Counter Ghoul released the death of several ghoul investigators including the First-Class Ghoul Investigator Kotarou Amon and also, Special Class Ghoul Investigator Kuroiwa Iwao.

Now, they were weakened by a large amount, counting in the losses in the 11th Ward Suppression Operation, or rather 11th Ward Depression Operation where they also lost one Special-Class Ghoul Investigator and several other high-ranking members of the CCG, they laid for low.

After Lucien reported everything to his father he got very important and also disrupting message from him that he only had around one year and something, before they would leave as the situation on the Blood Island, wasn't looking good. Even though they were killing demons more and more effectively, the portal to the Abyss or whatever it was, was constantly expanding and soon there would be stronger demons coming out of it. Fortunately, now only demons coming out were maximally Baron-Ranked ones so it was okay for now.

Construction of the Dreadnaughts, Airships and Magitek Infantry was going very good and smooth, soon there would have rather nice smaller army counting in thousand. This was also, the reason why the killing of demons was an easy matter for now. There weren't any Viscount-Ranked individuals, but as soon as they came in larger numbers it would be a problem because their Empire only had several Viscount-Ranked cultivators.

Lucien looked at the 24th Ward fortifications and was very satisfied with the progress itself. Now ít looked many times better compared to the past, where everything looked like ruins and it was only ruins and nothing more.

After controlling the 24th Ward, he returned to his estate in the 21st Ward and found out there was only a guest waiting for him there. His diligent student girl, Touka was already waiting for him for today's training as usual. She even learned to smile more compared to the past and her usual indifferent cold expression.

After they trained for several hours around two or three per day, she returned to the Anteiku Cafe and Lucien went to Itori for some activities for adults. After spending some innate time with his soon-to-be wife, he returned to the Charles Patricius: Our Transient Glory so he could start the consolidation of his foundation and cultivation.

The first thing needed to do was to eat more blood essences to consolidate the foundation itself. Cultivation for the Sacred Devourer Ghouls using the RC Body Refining Technique was in the large part of the act just the evolution as they were constantly evolving their bodies to the higher level. This fact not applying only to them, but rather body refining techniques were evolution of bodies, they were cultivated mostly by humans as they needed them most, because their bodies were weakest out there, but of course some other races with innately strong bodies also cultivated using the body refining techniques and reached a tremendous level of power.

And thus Lucien started eating his remaining blood essences like candies. One after another they were eaten and absorbed by his RC Cells inside his body. Even though his RC Level wasn't increasing almost at all, his foundation was becoming stronger and stronger by each blood essence absorbed. This also meant, his combat prowess would become stronger as the stable foundation was key to the successful cultivation.

After spending more than one moth stabilizing his foundation he reached a good level, even though it wasn't perfect, he needed more time to reach perfect stabilization of his foundation. Even his RC Level increased from the RC Level: 5,978 to the RC Level: 9,648.

Afterward, Lucien decided to spend most of his time training with his Ukaku Wings to learn how to fly proficiently, because he knew only how to shoot crystalized projectiles at his enemy and nothing more. Learning flying with his wings would be rather hard at the start but he was confident he could learn it soon enough.

He also neede to train in his Kenjutsu to improve his skills with Katana as he felt that soon it would be not enough. Even though his skills could be counted as good, in higher worlds it would be only íordinary. He didn't even comprehend the Sword Qi, which was special energy one could use only through the sword and not talking about the Sword Intent which was leagues above the Sword Qi.

From what Lucien knew that even weakest Sword Intent could tear through space and destroy Low-Grade World like they were nothing than dust. Of course to reach level os using the Sword Intent one must have extremely good comprehension skills and talent in the sword. Things like high body cultivation were the most basic requirement as the body needed to handle the huge amount of power belonging to the Sword Intent otherwise it would kill the swordsman.

And like that Lucien started his long season of constant training, either it was training in the Kenjutsu or training with his Ukaku Wings or Divine Telekinesis. He needed to be prepared for the future, because of the strong devoured weak and became stronger. Sometimes strong devoured other strong if they were a bit stronger.

During the time Lucien ate almost all of his blood essences he had stored and finally stabilized his foundation and his combat prowess reached another new level. He managed to learn how to fly with his Ukaku Wings and it was a wonderful thing to fly in the night sky and admire the stars in the dark sky.

More importantly, he needed to learn to use his wings in the most efficient way available. Especially during flight, he needed to be able to fight at his maximum. This alone would take some time to adapt to the new fighting style.

Next time he came out of his seclusion/training, he would personally slaughter whole Washuu Clan and then return to the Blood Island and finally leave this Low-Grade World so the Holy Niflheim Empire could finally reach its potential.