Chapter 179 - Awakening

As they continued to destroy the demon camps, Shiro managed to pseudo level up due to the amount of bosses she killed during this time. This pseudo level also allowed her to gain a rank much like what had happened to her before.

This time, she managed to gain the rank of General which boosted all her stats by 10%.

'Shame that I can't keep this title once I class up.' Shiro thought to herself.

In addition to this, she had also managed to collect a total of 46 C ranked mana stones. While it was still a far cry from the ridiculous target of 1,000, it was still progress.

"Can you take care of the boss?" Shiro asked as she saw Lisandra hold her own pretty well against the boss of this camp.

"I can do it!" Lisandra shouted out as she twisted her body and slashed the boss's wrist tendons, forcing him to drop the sword.

Gritting her teeth, she flicked her sword up before kicking the pommel.

*PUCHI!!!

Her sword stabbed through the boss's mouth and lodged itself tight.

Making a small concentrated orb of mana, Lisandra narrowed her eyes and aimed it at the handle and crushed the orb.

*BANG!!!!!

The force of the orb exploding caused the sword to slash upwards, cleaving the boss's face in half.

Unfortunately, when Lisandra tried to grab the sword, her hand missed the handle. Her eyes widened in shock as she couldn't do anything but watch the sword come closer to her face.

*BANG! PING!!!!

Just before the sword could hit her, Shiro's bullet snapped Lisandra's sword into several pieces.

"Hais…" Shiro sighed as she looked away from the scope. The moment she saw Lisandra gather mana in her palm, she knew what she wanted to do so she quickly simulated the possible travel courses of the sword and prepared to fire the moment the sword killed the boss.

"… Are you angry?" Lisandra asked timidly since she understood the danger she had just put herself in.

"I'm not angry. Just disappointed. Of all the things you could have done, you picked the one that put you in the most risk. You're a fighter, not a clown. Why are you fighting like you're performing in a circus?" Shiro asked.

"But don't you also do it?" Lisandra pouted.

"Yes, because I've literally done it all my life. I'm confident enough in my body control to accomplish that almost perfectly every time. Are you the same?" Shiro frowned.

"…"

"Hais, forget it. Just come back, most of the camp leaders are now almost level 50. Seems like the demons are getting a little impatient." She shook her head and rested her sniper on her shoulders.

Cracking her neck, Shiro threw a D ranked mana stone lollipop in her mouth.

"Well aren't you a sneaky bastard?" She said as she flexed her fingers and created a hand cannon.

*BANG!

Without even turning around, she shot her gun and killed the demon that was creeping up to her.

"Phantis huh?" She muttered seeing the type of demon that tried to kill her.

As a demon that relied on assassination, her hand cannon that dealt armour penetration was lethal for him.

Twirling the hand cannon, she disassembled it along with the sniper and collected the demon's mana stone along with his corpse.

Sitting down on a tree branch, Shiro crossed her legs and closed her eyes as she waited for Lisandra to arrive.

After a short moment, she heard some movement to her left and opened her eyes.

Looking at Lisandra who was stretching her body, Shiro hopped off the branch.

"Want to rest a bit or go to the next camp now?" She asked.

"Can we rest a little?" Lisandra asked.

"Sure. But not here, a Phantis type demon tried to ambush me just now so this place is probably not safe." Shiro shrugged.

While she could take care of them, it would mostly be troublesome since Lisandra needed to rest up.

Nodding her head, Lisandra followed after Shiro.

In the end, they decided to rest in the middle of the forest since the cover the trees provided them would be helpful.

"Since we've ran out of wyvern meat, we'll just eat some of this." Shiro said as she pulled out a few pieces of monster meat that she collected on the way here.

As they were roasting the meat, Shiro paused in surprise when she felt her bag slowly heat up.

Pulling out Yin from her bag, she saw the runes glowing with a purple light.

"Is it about to hatch teach?" Lisandra asked with anticipation.

"I hope so." Shiro smiled as she could feel the runes heat up in her hand. Frowning slightly, she placed it on the ground carefully.

*TSSSS!!!!

The grass started to burn as the runes continued to heat up.

The egg shook slightly as it started to roll towards the fire. Shiro didn't do anything to stop it since she understood that this was probably required.

"Shouldn't we stop it teach? It'll become dinner soon!" Lisandra cried out seeing Yin rolling towards the fire.

"Just watch."

Adjusting herself in the centre of the fire, mana started to roll off her shell and amplified the power of the fire.

"Hmm… maybe she wants it to be hotter?" Shiro muttered in confusion. From what she could see, Yin was actively increasing the temperature of the fire.

"I'll give you a hand." She smiled.

Snapping her fingers, orbs of fire lit up around her as she slowly increased its intensity.

The fire flickered for a few short moments before the colour slowly changed to a bright white.

"SSSS!!!" Gritting her teeth, Shiro resisted the heat and sent the fire towards Yin.

*BOOM!!!!!!

Yin's runes exploded with light the moment it came into contact with the flames.

"Step back!" Shiro shouted out. She could feel Yin holding back the mana from bursting out.

Quickly retreating away from the fire that was growing out of control, Shiro released her Ice aura to make things a little more comfortable for herself.

*BANG!!!!

A pillar of fire suddenly shot into the sky, rendering her ice aura useless.

Quickly glancing down at her hand, Shiro narrowed her eyes when she saw steam being emitted along with her HP ticking away every second.

"Tsk, you're about to kill me at this rate." Shiro clicked her tongue. A blue glow appeared in her eyes as she slammed her hand down and used her Ice Domain skill.

*KRRRRR!!!!

The area surrounding her instantly froze up and started to resist against the heat.

Lisandra, who was spectating all of this, was having a hard time digesting this.

"Wasn't that your pet teach?! Why is it attacking you?" She asked.

"It's not attacking me. This is just a side effect from her evolution." Shiro replied as she noticed a change in the fire.

A streak of black and purple cut the pillar of fire in half and started to contaminate the fire.

*KIIIIIII!!!!!!

An ear rupturing screech rang out as the flames started to morph into the shape of a bird.

Wincing slightly from the cry, Shiro kept her eyes on the bird since she knew it was Yin.

Turning her head over, Yin flapped her wings and flew towards them at astonishing speeds.

"KIII!!!!~

Yin cried out happily as she was finally out of the egg.

Looking at Yin who was many times bigger than her, Shiro smiled wearily since she struggled to pat her head.

"Li- nah I can't call you little Yin anymore can I?" Shiro chuckled.

She wanted to stroke Yin's feathers but decided against it for now since she could see black and purple flames flickering on the tips of her feathers.

[Yin LVL 51 – Dark Star Calamity (Phoenix)]

HP: 2,000,000/2,000,000

MP: 5,000,000/5,000,000

Skills: Dark Star Empowerment (Tier 3), Ice Chain (Tier 3), Shadow Cloak (Tier 3), Dark Star Calamity Magic (Tier 3), Rift Walker (Tier 3), Absorption/Redirection (Tier 2), Shadow Affinity (Tier 3), Dark Star Affinity (Tier 3), Dark Star Seraphim (Tier 3), Morph – Humanoid, ???.

"Dark Star Calamity?" Shiro muttered as she raised her eyebrows. Not only did most of her shadow type skills change into Dark Star versions, Yin was also a part of the Phoenix race.

*KI~!

Yin nodded her head happily.

Unfortunately, a few of her skills weren't shared with her. Morph – Humanoid, Dark Star Calamity Magic, ??? and even Absorption/Redirection was no longer shared with her.

Thankfully, she was still able to use Rift Walker. Plus, she was also able to gain Tier 3 Shadow attunement and Tier 3 Dark Star attunement, which is a branch of fire attunement, from Yin's passive skills.

A single class up with Yin allowed her to progress massively with one of her Class up requirements.

[ 2/4 ] Tier 3 Attunement in 4 elements

"Yin you can become a humanoid?" Shiro asked seeing Yin's skill.

Yin nodded her head again as a purple glow covered her body.

Her form suddenly shrank down into the form of a young girl who was a bit smaller than Shiro.

(In the b.r.e.a.s.t department as well, which brought Shiro great joy.)

She had black hair that was swept to the side and dark purple hair. Her overall facial shape looked like a mix of Shiro and Fei Ling, whom was Shiro's attendant back in the Shadow Temple quest where she received Yin.

She wore a black and purple dress that contrasted with her skin. The dress itself had delicate patterns around the edges which almost made it seem like there were flames dancing in the dress.

"Mom!" She cried out.

"Hold the f*ck up." Shiro replied on impulse.

"Mom?!" Lisandra widened her eyes in shock.

"Why did you call me mom?" Shiro asked as she massaged her eyes.

"Well… You fed me, hatched me and even looked after me." Yin smiled.

"Does mum not want me?" She teared up.

"Urg, you can drop act now you little brat. As if I don't know what you're like from the times you've leached off me." Shiro rolled her eyes.

"But I'm not acting." Yin pouted.

"Hou hou, do you want me to recount the times that you've stolen my kills and ate all the mana stones I gave you in just a day?" Shiro rolled her eyes.

"Fine~ You got me." Yin stuck out her tongue in playfulness.

Jumping on Shiro, she sat on her shoulders and reached out her hand.

"What do you want?" Shiro asked as she tried to pry Yin off her shoulders to no avail.

"Lollipop."

"And the first thing you want from me is food. God you're still the glutton I knew. Kinda wished that part of you changed with your evolution." Shiro rolled her eyes.

"I'm hungry you know? I was stuck in that egg for weeks and you were eating wyvern meat without me!" Yin pouted.

"Fine fine. But I need the C classed mana stones for my class up. You better not eat them all ok?" Shiro sighed and made a mana stone lollipop.

"I won't, don't worry. It's become a snack now that I can gather some mana from the air." Yin replied as she threw the lollipop in her mouth.

Shaking her head, Shiro looked over at the shell shocked Lisandra.

"Lisa, can you hear me?" She called out.

"Ah! Yeah. Did she just call you mum?"

"Don't worry about it. Yin's just messing around." Shiro shrugged.

"Uhuh. Though she might as well be my mum since she treats me well~ " Yin said with the lollipop in her mouth.

"You're just too lazy. Now can you get off my shoulders?" Shiro asked as she looked up at Yin.

"Nope. This was my spot to begin with." Yin replied with a shake of her head.

Ever since she was born, Shiro's head and shoulders had been her territory. She wasn't about to relinquish her spot to others.

"By the way, how do you want me to call you? Shiro-nee like Kanae, Shiro like everyone else, mom~ or master?" She asked.

"Just Shiro I guess?"

"I see I see. I'll call you mom." Yin said with a sh*t eating grin.

"Why did you even ask me to begin with?"

"Why not? It's not like you're ever gonna have a child are you now? Since I'm gonna be with you, why not just adopt me as your daughter?" Yin suggested.

"Then again, even if you say no I'm still gonna call you mom." She continued.

"… Hais." Shiro sighed.

"Mum~, let's head to the next camp. I want to show you what I can do." Yin suggested.

"That's not a bad idea." Shiro nodded.

"Oh but before I forget? Why do you look a bit like Fei Ling?"

"Fei Ling? Hmm… I don't know who that is." Yin furrowed her brows.

"Never mind then. Probably your ancestor or something." Shiro smiled lightly.

Since she had infused Yin with a droplet of her blood before she was even born from the egg, it was only natural that Yin would take some of her features. But for her to also have Fei Ling's features meant that she was part of her bloodline.

Which only led Shiro to ask the question of why that was the case.

She already knew that time was a bit strange inside the dungeons since 1 day in here was only 1 hour out there. It wouldn't be surprising if a dungeon had the time dilation of a few generations.

'If the dungeons had a link to Aria, my old world, it wouldn't be unnatural for it to have connections with other worlds. Which means, there is perhaps a chance for me to make it back to my world and kill the light hero.' Shiro thought with a frown.

"Mum, you might want to lower your killing intent a bit. This baby is sensitive to ice." Yin reminded.

"You're sensitive to ice? What about me? I'm literally weak to fire (because I'm a snow girl right now) and your steamy a** is on my shoulders. Think about how I feel." Shiro retorted with a roll of her eyes.

"It's fine~ you got my Dark Star affinity don't you? You should be more resistant to fire now." Yin dismissed lightly.

…

'Can I disown this unfilial daughter?'